. Biggle horse book : a concise and practical treatise on the horse : adopted to the needs of farmers and others who have a kindly regard for this noble servitor of man. Horses. 52 WHIMS AND To prevent a horse from tearing the blanket with his teeth, a leather shield, as shown in the picture, is sewed to the halter which does not interfere with the animal eating, but does with its habit of tearing its blanket. The shield should extend four inches below the nose. The habit of shying may come from timidity or defective eye- sight. If the latter, it cannot be entirely cured; if the former
. Biggle horse book : a concise and practical treatise on the horse : adopted to the needs of farmers and others who have a kindly regard for this noble servitor of man. Horses. 52 WHIMS AND To prevent a horse from tearing the blanket with his teeth, a leather shield, as shown in the picture, is sewed to the halter which does not interfere with the animal eating, but does with its habit of tearing its blanket. The shield should extend four inches below the nose. The habit of shying may come from timidity or defective eye- sight. If the latter, it cannot be entirely cured; if the former, gentleness and good sense in the driver will in a great meas- ure overcome the difficulty. Never whip a shying horse past the object which frightens it. This only confirms the habit. Go slow ; let the horse have time to see the object and learn that it will not hurt him. A very bad habit in a horse is that of sudden starting when harnessed, and often leads to broken traces, swingle- trees, and to runaways and smashups. The fault is usually taught the horse by a fool driver who cuts him with the whip unexpectedly. A vice of this kind, in a horse that is afraid of the whip, is rarely cured, but may be mitigated by gen- tleness. Running aivay is the worst of vices. Carelessness is the mother of the runaway horse. \Vhen the fault is once established it is difficult of cure. All runaways, or horses hard to hold, should be only used with a safety bit, one that will be severe enough to make it painful to attempt to run. By the careful use of such a bit some horses may be grad- ually cured c' the habit of running Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Biggle, Jacob. Philadelphia : W. Atkinson
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