Gleason's horse book The only authorized work by America's king of horse tamers, comprising history, breeding, training, breaking, buying, feeding, grooming, shoeing, doctoring, telling age and general care of the horse . Question. Can you give me any rule to buy a family horse by P Answer. Your horse should stand sixteen hands high, the earivery small, pointed and furry inside, ver, wide between the ear3; »large bright hazel eye standing out prominently; the nostrils mustbe large and thin ; neck long and well cut up under the jaw; heavymuscle on top. The withers must always be higher than the
Gleason's horse book The only authorized work by America's king of horse tamers, comprising history, breeding, training, breaking, buying, feeding, grooming, shoeing, doctoring, telling age and general care of the horse . Question. Can you give me any rule to buy a family horse by P Answer. Your horse should stand sixteen hands high, the earivery small, pointed and furry inside, ver, wide between the ear3; »large bright hazel eye standing out prominently; the nostrils mustbe large and thin ; neck long and well cut up under the jaw; heavymuscle on top. The withers must always be higher than the hips;back broad and long hips, and closo ,ointed. For durability always buy a close-jointed horse, and one with fine,short hair. The finer the hair the longer-lived the horse. For agood road horse, he should measure exactly as much from betweenhis ears and his withers as from withers to the coupling of the hip;that is, the withers should be exactly midway between his ears *u4 -Wie-the coupling of the hip. From the point of the withers to th«shoulder should be just as long as from the coupling of the hip tothe point of hip by tail. The horse should measure from the point. of his withers to the bottom of his front foot fifty-seven inches, andfrom the point of the shoulder to the point of the hip; length ofhorse, sixty-two inches. Parties buying by thi3 rule will find it in-variable. The Way to Shoe a Vicious Horse. Take a strap and buckle around the hind foot below the fetlockjoint, and take a rope ten feet long and place it through the ringupon this strap; take a wooden pin four inches long and an inch indiameter, lay directly across the hair of the horses tail—doublingthe hair over the pin makes a loop—then tie a slip-knot in one endof the rope and pass it over the end of the tail and the pin; nowreach down and take hold of the rope, stepping directly behind thecolt, and say to him take up your foot, sir, and pull the rope at ithe same time. After picking up his foot fou
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