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 . of prevent-ing this is to have the smith make a mouth-piece, as repre-sented in the cut below,which is seen to be bent up,and comes so high in themouth that the horse cannotget the tongue over; thisworks perfectly, and is notinconvenient to drive should be bent
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 . of prevent-ing this is to have the smith make a mouth-piece, as repre-sented in the cut below,which is seen to be bent up,and comes so high in themouth that the horse cannotget the tongue over; thisworks perfectly, and is notinconvenient to drive should be bent up atleast 21 to 3 inches, comewell out to the cheek-pieces,and be filed smooth to pre-vent cutting or chafing themouth. The tongue is some-times, but not often, put out under the bit. For such casesthe following treatment will work well:— Get three medium-sized bullets, and hammer themout to about an inchand a half in a small holethrough the end ofeach. Tie one to thecenter of the bit by alittle piece of wirethrough the the others tothe bit about an inchfrom the center (one on each side), so as to play loosely.(See cuts.) When this bit is in the mouth, these extra arrange-ments will so disconcert the horse that in his struggles toget them out of the way, he will forget to put the tongue Fig. 223. PAWING IN STALL. S2l The next best way is to buckle a strap around the noseso that the mouth cannot be opened. This, of course, pre-vents the tongue being put out, and in a short time thehabit will be broken up. Pawixg in Stall. A horse will not paw much unless he can hear the noise; so a good method of prevent-ing this habit is to muffle the foot by tying apiece of blanket around it. Next, by attaching a piece of chain or clog to the foot, as follows: Get a piece of chain about ten inches in length, run a short strap through one of the end links, and buckleit around the footabove the fetlock;or a piece of lightchain can be fastenedto a small block, a
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