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started and driven easily from his balk he would 

 soon have learned to forget the habit, perhaps 

 entirely. Driving your balky horse as hard as 

 he can be driven only wears him out and makes 

 him more contrary in this respect. Kindness and 

 easy driving is the secret of breaking a horse of 

 this habit and getting the best service out of him. 

 Put yourself in the place of the horse, and after 

 you had refused to do something and then agreed 

 to try it have some one over you with a whip or 

 other means of persuasion to keep you at the job. 

 How much longer you would work if you were 

 treated with kindness. The same applies in the 

 case of the horse. 



How to Break Balky Horses. 



There are quite a number of different meth- 

 ods of training balky horses. There are many 

 kinds of balky horses. Some will stand and turn 

 the head around to one side as much as to say, 

 "I absolutely refuse to pull the weight of your 

 hat if you command me to." When you have a 

 horse of that disposition, take both lines in one 

 hand, but keep a firm grip on that line on the side 

 that the horse's head is turned towards you and 

 make him bring his head back to his side as far 

 as possible. After you have your horse's head as 

 far back as you can draw it, pick up your whip 

 and tap him on the end of his nostrils very light 

 ly, at the same moment ask him what he wants or 

 how he likes it. Keep him in that position and 

 tap his nostril until you think he has enough. 

 Then slacken the line that you are holding with 

 a firm grip and pull his head around to the other 

 side a little. The moment you pull his head 

 around with the other line say to him, "Get up, 

 sir!" with a firm voice. Sometimes a crack of 



