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at the same time repeating the word " Back." I have often been 

 able in this way to take horses that seem to be very bad, and lift 

 them bodily from the ground backward in a few minutes. This will 

 usually work well with warm-blooded horses. If the case is of a 

 cold-blooded nature, eye small, eyelid thick, long from eye to ear, 

 the eye well into the head, if a large boned, strong horse, you have 

 one that will fight like a bulldog. If possible, the point is to get 

 him off his feet the first time. Should he become a little warm, stop 

 and repeat ; at any rate, keep on until successful. There should be 

 no exception — we never had one. We had cases that would resist 

 very hard, and required two or three lessons, but we never found a 

 case that we could not break. Be careful not to' cut or bruise the 

 tongue. 



This is the point I forgot to mention before. When the horse will 

 sullenly resist the bit, you can easily bruise or cut the mouth without 

 his feeling it. The treatment for bruises, should you have trouble 

 in this way, is dousing heavily with cold water ; bathing with callen- 

 dula is probably the most effective treatment. This remedy has 

 the best effect in removing swelling, etc., that the writer has ever 

 used. It seems to have the best healing effect. 



During 1869, when I was in Painesville, Ohio, a man brought in. 

 a runaway horse of the worst character. He stated that he would 

 wager fifty dollars, that if excited he could not be Jield by the reins, 

 and wished the trial made. The Breaking Bit I then used had short 

 bars, with square, twisted corners. With this in his mouth the horse 

 resisted six men, or three to a rein'. Upon examination of the 

 mouth, I found the tongue to be very badly cut. Using callendula, 

 which was given me a short time before by a practitioner in Cleve- 

 land, Ohio, cured the tongue in three days. We had no trouble in 

 breaking the horse with the usual treatment of the Breaking Bit. 



