232 HANDLING AND BREAKING. 



asked except water. The best way, of course, 

 to get them to face this dreaded element 

 is to turn them out for a few hours daily, 

 when one has the chance, in a water meadow, 

 or any field across which runs a brook or 

 a wet ditch; when they will soon learn to 

 jump it, and henceforth cease to fear the 

 glint of water, which will stop many an 

 otherwise good one in his stride. 



Colts are still broken to harness mostly 

 by the professional horse-breaker, though 

 farmers Avill often break their own by putting 

 them in trace harness between two steady 

 old horses, when they cannot do very much 

 damage, and soon learn to go up into the 

 collar. But horses broken in this way, if 

 they are ever to be nice to drive, require 

 also " mouthing " by being driven with long 

 reins about the roads ; and it often happens 

 that there is no one on a farm with the time, 

 patience, or hands requisite for this. By far 

 the better plan is to have the colt regularly 



