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of days without blinkers, after which he may 

 be driven, with the addition of a cart bridle, 

 with bhnkers, when he will be ready for a few 

 lessons in pulling. Three or four rails or 

 planks should be tied together, and attached 

 by chains to the harness, of course having a 

 stretcher or cross-bar between them. The colt 

 is then to be led about a field with them, and 

 after he is found to drag them tolerably quietly 

 he should be driven instead of being led. You 

 may keep him at this work for an hour, after 

 which he must be unharnessed, and his shoul- 

 ders bathed with an astringent cooling lotion. 

 This should be repeated on the following day, 

 and after that the weight of rails or timber may 

 be gradually increased ; of course this hour's 

 work daily is not sufficient, so besides this he 

 may be driven about the roads in his harness 

 for an hour or two as well, or ridden. When 

 he has drawn light loads of timber for a week, 

 he should be harnessed to an empty cart and 

 taken on to a road ; he may be taken two or 

 three miles — of course at a walk — and then 



