TRAINING OF HORSES. 128 
GENERAL HINTS. 
Match horses. with reference to size. and motion par- 
ticularly—to color if you can, and have the other re- 
quisites. 
Always have inside lines on double team quite ones 
and ‘back-strap short. - 3 
. Never check a horse if you wish to have him last long, 
except while.training. 
Feed in low mangers—water and oats to be given 
Jirst, hay afterward. 
If worked, very little water.to be given in the night. 
Stop at the top of a hill, and let your horse. get 
breath. 
The -shoe should fit the foot—not the foot fit the shoe. 
Never cut the bars or frogs. ve 
Wet the Aay and not the oats for a coughing horse. 
Never Ict a horse stand long facing a cold wind. ; 
Feed light when changing feed. 
When training ina building, have carriages, etc., re- 
moved. 
Always approach a strange horse near the shoulder. 
Use but a few words with a horse, but have them, un- 
derstood. 
Be earnest and prompt, but not harsh, 
Teach before whipping, and when whipping do it to 
frighten, not to enrage. 
Never jump from a wagon when your horse is run- 
ning away. More lives and limbs are lost in that way 
than by remaining in the wagon. 
