The art of taming and educating the horse : with details of management in the subjection of over forty representative vicious horses, and the story of the author's personal experience : together with chapters on feeding, stabling, shoeing, and the practical treatment for sickness, lameness, etc: with a large number of recipes . plicity of what may appear difficult, itis worthy of mention that at the same place, a party of threemen—a father and two sons—were employed over threehours in trying to lead asix-year-old colt, pulling,pushing, and backing himby main force, to the placeof exhibition, a
The art of taming and educating the horse : with details of management in the subjection of over forty representative vicious horses, and the story of the author's personal experience : together with chapters on feeding, stabling, shoeing, and the practical treatment for sickness, lameness, etc: with a large number of recipes . plicity of what may appear difficult, itis worthy of mention that at the same place, a party of threemen—a father and two sons—were employed over threehours in trying to lead asix-year-old colt, pulling,pushing, and backing himby main force, to the placeof exhibition, a distance ofnot over one-fourth of amile. The conditions werethat I must make him fol-low me freely across thebarn floor. A few sharppulls with the War Bridlewere sufficient to make thehorse run after me, not re-quiring in all more thantwo minutes, proving so conclusively the ignorance and badmanagement of the parties that they were laughed at and ridiculed by the entireclass. (See cut 106 ; alsoCase 4, in Subjection.) Confirmed in the Habit. As the main object inthe management of most cases is to make themsubmit to be shod withthe least trouble, I willfi r s t give the simplesttreatment for doing , this simple treat-ment, with a little care, will often be sufficient for the con-trol of even very bad Fig. 184.—Method of putting on the cordwhen the horse proves very stubborn. 230 BAD TO SHOE.
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