APPENDIX. 



One thing which I have forgotten and which I think is 

 important enough to add an appendix, is in case of a stiff- 

 kneed horse, as we term it when one has not enough knee 

 action and does not get his front feet out of the way of his 

 hind ones, goes stubbing along and sometimes forges. Many 

 times in these cases a string of bone rattles buckled loosely 

 above the pastern or fetterlock joint will make them pick up 

 quicker and get their feet out of the way. 



If this does not have the desired effect, use a loaded roll 

 made of four-ply buckskin, the upper and lower ply one-third 

 larger than the two middle ones, and fill them with deer's 

 hair so they will be soft and won't chafe. Fill the two 

 middle ones with flax-seed and small shot until you get the 

 weight desired, which is usually six ounces each, but I have 

 used as high as eight. Have four buckles and billets attached 

 with a tongue to lap by where the roll comes together, so as 

 to prevent the ends of the roll from chafing. 



They should be buckled up to fit the ankle, for if there is 

 much play to them they will chafe the skin. I used a pair of 

 these rolls this morning for the first time on a horse that had 

 never trotted a quarter better than forty seconds without 

 them. He just stepped me off a quarter in thirty-seven sec- 

 onds. That was what refreshed my memory in omitting this 

 point. I have used them for several years, and the more I 

 use them the better I like them. 



