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BARTOW, on the District es of the United States for the Eastern District of Michigan sy i ie o oc Pat. pee Aord 1914. , \/ INTRODUCTION. —_—_-——= Tur Author of this book was born in the town of Lyons, Ionia County, Michigan, in the year of our Lord 1841, and when at the age of twelve years he lived neighbor to a man who had a span of very ugly colts ; in fact, they were so bad there was scarcely any one in the town who would go into the yard where they were. Boy as he was, he made up his mind to break these colts; and he used to go some half a mile back in the field to an old barn where the colts ran, and, all alone by himself, he would get them into the barn and train them. After he had trained them abouta month, one day he was standing by when the owner of the colts remarked to one of his neighbors that “he would give twen- ty-five dollars if he could get some one to break his colts, and would board them while they were doingit.” The boy spoke up and said ‘‘what will you give me to break your colts for you?’ The man laughed at him, and told him that he would ‘‘give him a silver dollar if he would just go into the old barn and drive them out.” ‘Done!’ said the boy. They started for the barn, and when they got there the boy got over into the yard and spoke to the colts; they both came up to him and he took one of them by the foretop, led him into the barn and the other followed immediately after. On entering the barn he raised a board from the floor, took out his father’s old plough-harness and put it upon the colts and drove them all around the yard and from there to the house. He then hitched them to a sleigh and invited the owner to have aride. “No,” said he, “they will run away and break my neck and yours too. “I will risk that,” said the boy. “I have driven them every day all winter, up in the back lot; and I have drawn six and seven rails at a time with them, around in the edge of the woods where you could not see me.” ‘Well,” said the man, “if that is the case, I will get in and see how they go.” ‘The man rode one mile and back, and then he told the boy that ‘the would give him the twenty-five dollars and ten dollars beside, if he would drive them two weeks.’ He did so, and before that time had expired the women could drive them as well as any one. From that day on, he was always training and handling horses and studying the nature of that noble animal, the horse, and try- _ ing to find out what was the most natural for him. Ugly horses were lis favorites ; but within the past few years he has given up traveling or training horses, and has deemed it best to write a small pamphlet for the use of horse dealers and the public in general. B. = ) TO THE READER. Iam well aware that many persons have formed the erroneous idea that a small book cannot be worth as much as a large one. They seem to have overlooked the simple, but very important fact, that genuine value consists in merit and not in bulk. In these pages, brief- ness has been kept strictly in view, in order to give as much information as possible in a small compass. Probably no particular class will be as much interested or benefit- ed by this work, as farmers and owners of horses. The system of horse- training, as taught in this work, will supersede all others, inasmuch as it is the best and only true system. Never before, has there been such a vast amount of valuable information, in reference to this noble ani- mal, concentrated and published in any one volume for the benefit of the community at large. . THE AUTHOR. EVERY MAN HIS OWN HORSE DOCTOR. Tuis Book contains a full and complete Essay on the proper treatment of that noble animal, the horse. How to train and educate, how to keep him in the best condition, also how to prevent and cure the numerous diseases to which he is liable. And now I present this book to the community at large, with the most earnest wish and hope, that its great importance and true value will be fully appreciated. The True Way to Break Horses. The first, and most important thing to be accomplished, is to win the horse’s confidence; which may be done by uniform actions of a kindly disposition in his management. He takes man for what he proves himself by actions. By kind treatment, he learns to associate with man’s feelings of protection and security, and he can have no fear or doubt, because never taught to doubt by deception. The child has confidence in his parents in proportion to the fidelity of the parents, in inculeating and practicing those principles of truth in his early train- ing. But once finding them unmindful of their promises, confidence in them is correspondingly impaired. If you are faithful in fulfilling veur promises to the child, he will expect exactly what you promise.— Here proof becomes faith; because he has never been deceived by the want of performance. Even among men, the princip!e is the same—that that man who is always found truthful, and who performs exactly as he promises, becomes a standard of public confidence and trust—but he who disregards truth and principles of honor, becomes an object of suspicion to all knowing him. As the child, then, is the reflex of the love and truth of the parents in confidence and the public in him of un- doubted integrity, so we are forced to believe, the horse becomes in the character of his habits, what he is, in exact proportion to the teach- ing and example to which he may have been subject. How to Feed, Water, and Drive Horses. Do not feed or water heavy just before driving, filling the stomach with water and food. Water destroys the juices of the stomach, weakening digestion; the grain becomes swollen and generates a gas, 6 EVERY MAN HIS OWN HORSE DOCTOR. filling the stomach with wind; the stomach becoming diseased the bot will work his head into the coating of the stomach. All grain will di- gest best while the horse is standing still, and all food that passes off without digestion, weakens the action of the stomach and bowels, and in many cases will scour the horse. The less you feed just before dri- ving the better. Then again, you should water very little on the road, and feed mostly at night; the food will then digest and make flesh and blood. Tshould advise not more than two quarts in the morning and the same at noon. I do not feed in the morning, neither do I water.— If I was going to make a long and fast drive, I should feed twelve quarts the night before, then my horse would feel strong, light and ac- tive, and do his work easy. By giving him a little water, the horse will fully digest what he has eaten; if you weaken the juices, of course you weaken digestion. A horse should only be fed what he can easily digest. I think by so doing you will save one third of the grain form- erly given. Diseases are caused by too much food and water. Water destroys the juices and disables digestion. By feeding most of the grain while the horse is at rest, it will digest and, leave the horse strong and able to do his work; giving a great amount of water diseases the blood and diseases the hair, the water having to pass in some way; it cannot all pass in the urine, and therefore passes off through the pores of the skin and causes the hair to become gummed and makes the horse very hard to clean. So much water passing off through the pores of the flesh, de- stroys the roots of the hair and causes it to look dull and faded. Then again, you should be cautious not to drive your horse into cold water or throw water on him when warm; so doing chills the blood and sep- arates it from the watery substance that the blood forms from, and causes diseases. The skin will become full of small tumors and the hair fall off. By avoiding too much water on the road, and too much food before driving, and by keeping the horse warm after driving, you avoid disease, ed Special Advice in Reference to Feeding Horses. Never give a horse whole grain. By bruising and wetting it, you save thirty per cent. of its nutritious effect. Steam it in preference to wetting if you have the facilities for so doing. Feed your horse two hours before he begins his day’s work; give him the largest feed at night. Never tie him toa rack; it is cruel to thus prevent a horse from lying down when he is tired. The best way, is to take away your rack altogether, and arrange your stable so as to make it unnecessary to tie him at all. The stable shouid always be dry and well littered. Never give your horse hard water if soft water can be obtained ; if you cannot get soft water, draw the hard water from the well two honrs be- fore you let him drink it. Beans should be full a year old before they are fit to feed to horses, and they should be bruised the same as grain, not ground. EVERY MAN HIS OWN HORSE DOCTOR. ? ’ Horse-Feed Mixture. Youatt recommends the following mixture for horse feed: Of cut hay two parts, cut straw three parts, add to this a quantity of bruised beans, oats or other grain; wet the whole with soft water and mix it well. Do not feed your horse too much hay, as it is not only a waste of provender, but when he is put to work with an overloaded stomach it endangers his wind. If left to pull hay out of arack at pleasure, a horse will eat, or waste some thirty pounds a day, whereas by cutting the hay and mixing it with other feed as above described, ten pounds is an abundance for twenty-four hours. Horses when worked should be fed three times a day, with a mixture of hay, straw and grain, as above described. Give them their food in the manger, and be careful that it is sweet and clean. By following these rules, horses will then always be in good condition, will not have that swelled belly so pecu- liar to animals who are allowed to fill their stomachs with hay, and will usually enjoy good health. How to get a Colt from Pasture. Go to the pasture and walk quietly around the whole herd, at such a distance as not to cause them to scare or run, then approach them slowly. If they raise up their heads and seem to be frightened, hold on till they become quiet again, so as not to run them before you are close enough to drive them in the directiou you want them to go. When you begin to drive do not begin to flourish your arms nor halloo, but gently follow them off, leaving the direction clear which you wish them to take, thus taking advantage of their ignorance, you will be able to get them in the pound as easily as the hunter does the quails into his net; for if they have always run in the pasture, uncared for, as many horses do in prairie countries and on large plantations, there is no rea- son. why they should not be as wild as the sportsman’s birds, and require the same gentle treatmant if you want to get them without trouble.— The horse in his natural state, is as wild as any of the undomesticated animals, though more easily tamed than most of them. How to Stable a Colt. The next step will be to get the horse into a stable or shed. This should be done as quietly as pessible, so as not to excite any suspicion in the horse of any danger befalling him. The best way to do this, is to lead a broken horse into the stable first, and hitch him; then quietly walk around the colt and let him go in of his own accord; be deliber- ate and slow in your movements, for one wrong movement may fright- en your horse and make him think it necessary to escape at all hazards, for the safety of his life, and thus make two hour’s work of a ten min- 8 EVERY MAN HIS OWN HORSE DOCTOR. utes job, which would be all your own fault and entirely unnecessary, for he will not run unless you run after him; nor will try to break away unless you try to force him into measures; if he does not see the way at once, and is a little fretful about going in, do not undertake to drive him, but give him a little less room outside by gently closing in around him. Do not raise your arms, but let them hang at your side, for you might as well raise a club. The horse has never studied anatomy, and does not know but they will unhinge themselves and fly at him. If he attempts to turn back, walk before him, but do not run; and if he gets past you, encircle him again in the same quiet manner, and he will soon learn that you are not going to hurt him; then you can walk so close around him that he will walk into the stable for more room, and to get farther out of your way. As soon as ne is in, remove the quiet horse and shut the door. This will be his first notion of confinement, not knowing how he got into such a place, nor how to get out of it, that he may take it as quietly as possible, see that the shed is entirely free of dogs, chickens or anything that would have a tendency to annoy him ; then give him a few ears of corn and let him remain aione for about half an hour, until he has examined his apartment and become recon- ciled to his confinement. Now while your horse is eating, see that your halter is all ready, and reflect upon the best mode of operation for in horse-breaking, it is highly important that you should be governed by some system. The Object of Fear—How to Prevent Kear in a Horse. Whatever the horse understands to be harmless he does not fear— consequently, great pains should be taken in causing him to examine aud smell such things as are likety to frighten him in after life. This should be attended to in his early education, since early impressions are strong in the horse. A log or stump by the roadside, if regarded with suspicion, should be approached slowly and cautiously. To the iinagination of the horse, such things are supposed to be some great beast that may spring upon him, but which he will soon comprehend to be harmless if obliged to examine its nature in his own way, by ad- yancing to the object quietly and allowing him to understand it fully, by smelling and breathing with the nose. The boy frightened by a false tace, will care nothing about it after he takes it in his hands and examines it. The principle is the same in familiarizing horses to ob- jects of fear. If your horse is frightened at an umbrella you can soon learn him to be used to that. Go into the stable, first let him look at the umbrella before it is opened; let him touch it with his nose; open it a little way and let him see it, and finally open it wide before him.— By ordinary patience, yon can soon learn the horse to have the umbrel- la opened sudenly in his face, without his being afraid of it. By simi- lar treatment you can break any horse from scaring at almost anything EVERY MAN HIS OWN HORSE DOCTOR, Q that may look frightful to him. If you wish to make a trial of this theory, just take a horse into the stable and let him examine the fright- ful objects a few minutes, after his own mode of examining things ‘and you will be perfectly satisfied. There is a singular fact connected with taming the horse, that I would never have believed it if I had not tried it. If you accustom him to any particular object, by showing it to him on one side only, he will not be afraid when he sees it with the eye on that side, but he will be afraid if you approach him with it on the oth- er side. It is therefore necessary to pacify him on both sides in all ca- ses. Aiter you have accustomed him to the umbrella, or whatever you may wish to make him familiar with on his right side, repeat the op- eration on the left side in the same manner, as if you had not approach- ed him at all. The Kind of Haiter to Use, and how to Use tt. Never use a rope halter; the cords of the rope are hard, and ap- pear to aggravate and excite distrust rather than confidence; but by all means procure a leather halter, made of bridle-leather, so it will feel soft and pliable to the touch, and to fit rather tightly on the head, so as not to feel uncomfortable. Before putting a halter on the colt, he must be rendered familiar with it, by caressing him and permitting him to examine the article with his nose, then place a portion of it over his head, occasionally giving it a slight pull, and in a few minutes he will be accustomed to these liberties, and then the halter may be fasten- ed on properly. To teach him to lead, is another difficulty. Stand a lit- tle on one side, rub his nose and forehead, take hold of the strap and pull it gently, and the same time touch him lightly with a long whip across his hind legs. This will make him advance a step; repeat the operation several times, and he will soon iearn to follow you by simply pulling the halter. The mouth of the colt should be frequently han- died; after which, introduce a plain snaffle bit between his teeth and hold it there with one hand, while you caress him with the other.— After a time he will allow the bridle to be placed upon him, when the saddle may be brought in and rubbed against his nose, neck and legs. Next hang the stirrup strap across his back and gradually place the saddie in its proper position upon the horse. The first time the girth is buckled, it should be done so loosely as not to attract his attention— subsequently it can be tightened without inspiring him with fear, which if fastened immediately would most certainly do. In this’ manner the wildest colt can be effectually subjugated by such imperceptible de- grees, that he gives tacit: obedience, before he is aware of his altered condition. —Sa To Break a Horse to Harness. Take him into a tight stable, take the harness and go through the 10 EVERY MAN HIS OWN HORSE DOCTOR. same process as you would with the saddle, until you get him familiar with it, so you can put iton bis back and rattle it around without his caring for them. As soon ashewill bear them, put on the lines, caressing him as you draw them over him, and drive hira about in the stable till he will bear them over his hips. The lines are a great aggravation to ' some colts, and often frighten them as much as if you were to raise a whip over them. As soon as he is familiar with the lines and harness, take him ont and put him by theside of a gentle horse and go through the same process thut you did with the blinds. When you are breaking a horse to harness, atter fixing the lines, hitch the horse to a small log that he can craw very easy, with long traces, frequently turning him so that the traces will draw lightly against his legs, frequently stopping and petting him. Then hitch him to something heavier, and get behind him and drive him. By thus working with him you will make a strict- ly trne horse of him. He also gets so that he ts not afraid of the traces or harness, and then you can proceed to hitch him to a wagon. Per- sons should not drive fast at first. In first hitching a colt in harness he should be handled very careful. In handling colts in this way, you will have no trouble with them, but vou will havea much better broke horse; and one that will be much safer for the family. A horse broken in this way, is not half so easily spoiled as one that is broken by any other process. In breaking horses to ride, they should be handled in very much the same way as I havespoken of. After bitting them suffi- ciently, you may proceed to saddle them; then ride them two or three miles at a time, very slowly, not far enough to tire them. ees To Break Horses to Stand the Lore of a Gun. You commence by administering the three articles first mentioned, in the nostrils ; this will prevent his smelling the powder. Then load your pistol, but very light, so as to make the report as light as possible. Every time you fire give him a small piece of an apple with some pow- der on it at the same time rubbing and patting him on the head and neck. When you first commence firing stand close to the horse’s shoul- ders. and rest your arm on his withers. After you have fired a sufficient number of times, mount the horse and shoot from his back. Keeping up this practice for a short time, the horse will get so that he will not care anything about the firing of a gun at any time or place. Necessity of a Thorough Traming. The horse must be convinced, by reveated proofs of being over- matched, that resistance is useless ; for, since his willingness and rebel- lion are based upon the limited reasoning of his experience, he must be thoroughly convinced by experience that unconditional sabmission is EVERY MAN HIS OWN HORSE DOCTOR. 11 the only alternative. This you cannot prove to the understanding of the horse without repeating your lessons until he submits uncondition- ally; but, as nursing and care is to the patient over the force of dis- ease, so is the subjugation of the horse. His submission should be en- couraged and rewarded by kindness and feeling from the hand, with little presents of such things as he likes. That master is supreme in his control, and submission to his commands becomes a pleasure, who has the power to enforce his will, but who exercises with the sweeten- ing encouragement of love. While force is necessary and you have the means of making your horse almost a plaything in your hands, let the silken chord of love be the cement that fixes and secures this submis- sion. A good natured, clever man, it is admitted, can teach a horse al- most anything; and it has become a proverb, that ‘‘kindness will lead an elephant by a hair.’ Show your horse exactly what you want him to do, and endeavor to use the patience and reason in teaching and con- troling him you would believe necessary for yourself to understand, if placed in like circumstances, ignorant of the language and intentions of such a teacher, who even preserved his patience and refrained from abuse, what progress would you make as a pupil, gifted as you are, with all your intelligence? If possible, ennoble and elevate your feel- ings by realizing your responsibility to yourself, to the community, and to the noble animal committed to your charge. Make your horse a friend by kindness and good treatment. Bea kind master, and not a tyrant. Make your horse a willing servant and not a slave. How to Proceed with a Colt after Haltering. The first time you halter a colt, you should stand on the left side, pretty well back to his shoulder, taking hold of that part of the halter which goes around his neck. Then with your two hands about his neck, you can hold his head to you, and raise the halter on without mak- ing him dodge, as he would by putting your hands about his nose. You should have a long rope or strap ready, and as soon as you have the halter on attach this to it, so that you can let him walk the length of the stable without letting go the strap, or without making him pull on the halter ; for, if you only let him feel the weight of your hand on the halter, and give him more rope when he runs from you, he will never rear, pull, or throw himself; yet you will be holding him all the time, and doing more towards gentling him, than if you had the power to snub him right up and hold him to one spot; because he knows nothing about his strength, and if you do not do anything to make him pull, he will never know what he can do in that way. In a few minutes you can begin to control him with the halter. Then shorten the distance between yourself and the horse, by taking up the strap in your hand. As soon a she will allow you to hold him by a tolerably short strap, and to step up to him without flying back, you can begin to give him 12 EVERY MAN HIS OWN HORSE DOCTOR, some idea about leading. But to do this, do not go before and attempt to pull him after you, but commence by pulling him very quietly to one side. He has nothing to brace either side of his neck, therefore will soon yield to a steady, gradual pull of the halter. As soon as you have polled him a step or two to one side, step up and caress him, then pull him again; repeating this operation until you can pull him in any direction, and walk about the stable with him. This you can do in a few minutes, for he will soon think, when you have made him step to the right or left a few times, that he is compelled to follow the pull oR the halter, not knowing that he has the power to resist your pulling. Besides you have handled him so gently that he is not afraid of you, but rather likes you. After you have given him a few lessons of this kind at proper intervals, he will be so tame that if you turn him out to pasture he will come up to you to be caressed every oportunity he has, While training him in the stable you should lead him about some time befcre you take him out, opening the door so that he can see out, lead- ing him up to it and back again, and then past it. See that there is nothing on the outside to make him jump when you lead him out, and as you go out with him try to make him go very slowly, catching hold of the halter close to the jaw with your left hand, while the right is resting on the top of his neck holding to his mane. Do not allow any one to be present, or in sight, during your operations, either in or out- side the stable. If you are entirely alone, and manage your colt right- ly, you will soon be able to lead and hold him as easily as you could a horse already broken. Do not fry to force the colt if excited. When excited, the colt is not in a condition to understand what you require of him, or to be submissive. You should also be careful not to train the colt so long that he will become heated and confused. But little should be required at a time, and hold to that point until you gain it thoroughly, before you undertake to do more. For example, in making a colt follow, if he submits ever so little, caress and reward him for it; so continug and you will have no trouble. When you resort to force, do it sharply, so as to impress him as much as possible with your power. | How to Proceed if a Colt vs Stubborn. If the animal you are operating upon, seems to be of stubborn or mulish disposition, rather than wild, if he lay back his ears as you ap- proach him, or turn his heels to kick you, he has not that regard or tear of man that he should have to enable you to handle him quickly and easily; and it might do well to give him a few cuts with the whip about the legs, pretty close to the body. It will crack keen‘as it plies about the legs, and crack of the whip wili effect him as much as the stroke. Besides one sharp cut about the legs will be of more effect than two or three over the back, the skin on the inner part of the legs EVERY MAN HIS OWN HORSE DOCTOR, —--_—:sa or about the flanks being thiner and more tender than on his back, Do not whip him much, only just enough to seare him, It is not to hurt the horse that we whip him ; we do it to scare a bad disposition out of him. But whatever vou do, do quickiy, sharply, and with a good deal of fire; but always without anger. If you scare him at all, you must do it at once. Never go into a pitched battle with your horse, and whip him unt he is mad, and will fight you. You had better not touch him at all; for you will establish, instead of fear and reason, feelings of resentment, hatred and ill will. It will do him no good, but harm, to strike him, unless you frighten him. If you succeed in frightening him, you can whip him without making him mad, for fear and anger never exist together in the horse, and as soon as one is visible you will find the other has disappeared. As soon as you have frightened him so that he will stand up straight and pay some attention to you, approach bim and caress him a good deal more than you whipped him; thus you will excite the two controling passions of his nature, love and fear. He will love you and fear you too, and as soon as he learns what you require, he will obey quickly. If the colt if is of too malish a disposition to yield to careful and gentle treatment, you must resort to the several measures recommended for taming vicious horses. To Make a Colt Follow Under the Whip. : After the colt comes around to you readily by pulling a little on the halter, and follows freely, take your whip in the right hand, pull up- on the halter a little saying ‘‘come here, sir,’’ and at the same time tap lightly with the whip over the hips; he will come to you mainly be- cause you have taught him to yield to a slight pull upon the head, and will come to you at this signal, because he wishes to get away from the touch of the whip behind. As soon as he comes to you carress him and feed from your hand with something he likes. Repeat this, each time pulling upon the halter until he will come to you as readily b tapping with the whip as he did at first to the halter. Now instead of hitting him with the whip, commence by snapping it behind him ; if he come, caress and encourage him as before, and so repeat; at each time increasing the distance from him, until he wiil follow or come to you quickly by cracking the whip. out Tor use, * is contraction of the muscles, caused by a. fo _ wnhg standing. Springhalt comes from these vuuses. Sprung knee is invariably caused by a strain, which contracts the musele of the arm. By the contraction of the muscle, it draws the cord, and causes the knee to get weak and crooked. ‘he cords are swollen, which causes persons to doctor the cords. This will do no good, for it is impossible to relax a cord. In tact, the cord itself is not contracted, it is the contraction of the muscle which draws the cord. So by relaxing the muscle, it would drop the cords to their proper places, and give relief. Springhalt is the same. It is the con- traction of the inside muscle of the thighs. By relaxing the muscle you cure the disease. Take the common land turtle and try them down, and use the oil by rubbing on the muscle. This will relax and cure the disease. Blistering. The most effectual blister is to make a blister ointment, as follows ; One drachm of flies, one drachm of resin, four oz. lard; melt the resin and lard together, then add the flies. Rub the parts with the hand until you create a heat, then apply the blister. This is good for strain in the pastern. The best liquid blister is eantharides and turpentine, equal parts. Thumps in the Horse. This disease is caused by too much food and water, and fast driv- ing. By filling the stomach with food and water, then driving fast, the stomach becomes distressed with undigested food, which prevents the inflating of the Inngs. The muscles of the lungs become sore and weak, and cause them to thump. If this disease is of dong standing, it will be incurable ; but by a moderate quantity of water, and a reason- able quantity of grain, you will prevent this disease. It is brought on entirely by heavy feeding and watering, with fast driving. Big Head and Big Jaw. These diseases are something the same as sprain. The bony sub- EVERY MAN H18 OWN HORSE DOCTOR. 69 — stances form a deposit and become ossified. Whilst this disease is in a gristly substance; it can be cured; but after it becomes ossified, it will be incurable. Two oz. gum euphorbium, fine; one oz. spanish fiies, fine ; ‘two oz. corrosive sublimate, two oz. iodine, three oz. white pine turpentine, three oz. lard. Melt the lard and turpentine together, then add the others. This, if a cure is possible, will effect it. The horse shonld be kept dry, and not fed very hearty. Use bran mashes with one tablespoonful of saltpeter, twice a week. Give one pint of linseed oil the first week. This will be all you can do. Cribbing. This disease originates from a sour stomach, first caused by habit in biting the crib whilst eating; and in so doing, the horse swallows wind which causes the stomach to become sour. Cver-eating and drink- ing. would aid in this disease. A horse with this disease is the same as a person that belches, and in the end, the same as a dyspeptic. Take one tablespoonful puly. charcoal, and one tablespoonful sal soda, every other day until a cure is effected. The horse should be fastened in some place where he cannot get hold of anything to bite. Fasten in the middle of the floor, and feed him from a basket fastened on the head. By this means he will forget the habit of biting his trough. To Recruit a Horse that is Hidebound, or otherwise out of order. Saltpeter, four oz.; crude antimony, one oz.; sulphur, three oz.— The saltpeter and antimony should be finely pulverized, then add the sulphurand mix the whole well together. Dose, one tablespoonf! in a bran mash, daily. How Horses can be taught to perform tricks. Many of the readers of this book may desire to learn something of the mode of teaching horses such tricks as they may be able to accom- plish. It will gratify me, therefore, if I afford them such informa- tion on this head as will prove interesting and usefu!, recommending to them that no horse should have more than two lessons per diem, of not less than half, not to exceed three-quarters of an hour in length. To make him bow.—Take a pin in your right hand, between the thumb and fore finger, and stand before, but a little to the leit of your horse; then prick on the breast very lightly, as if a fly was biting; which, to relieve, he will bring down his head, which you will accept as yes, and for which you will reward in the usual manner by caressing and feeding. Then repeat, and so continue until he brings down the head the moment he sees the least motion of your hand towards his sasiae or substitute some signal whlch he will understand readily. 70 asain MAN HI8 OWN HORSE DOCTOR — To make ee say, “No. Stand by your horse near r the aaa: holding the pin in your hand, with which prick-him lightly on the withers. To drive it away, he will shake his head. You then caress as before, and so repeating until he will shake his head at the least indica- ticn of your tonching him witha pin. You ean train your horse so nicely in this way, in a short time, as to cause him to shake his head, or bow, by merely turning the hand a little, or moving it towards him. To teach him to kiss you.n—Teach him first to take an apple out of your hand; when gradually raise the hand nearer the mouth, at each repetition, until you require him to take it from your mouth; holding it with the hand, telling him at the same time to kiss you. He wiil soon learn to reach his nose up to your mouth; first, to get his apple, but finally, because commanded to do so. Simply repeat until perfect. To shake hands.—Tie a short strap to the forward foot, below the fetlock. Stand directly behind the horse, holding the end of the strap in your hand. Then say, “shake hands, sir ;” and immediately after commanding him to do so, puil upon the strap, which will bring his foot up, and which you are to accept as shaking hands; thanking him for it by caressing and feeding. By alittle practice, a horse may be easily trained to approach, make a bow, shake hands, lie down, sit up, follow like a dog, etc. To make him sit up— When your horse will lie down readily, you can then teach him to sit up like a dog, easily. If young, not very heavy, or strong, you can easily prevent his getting up without tying him down. First, cause him to lie down, having on him a common bri- dle with the reins over his neck. Then step behind him and place the right foot firmly upon the tail, the reins in your hand. Then say, ‘‘Get up, sir.’ Your standing on his tail will prevent his raising any further than on his fore feet. Repeat a few times. Use good judgment, caress, reward, and you will soon have the trick taught perfectly. To make a Foundered and Spavined Horse go off linber.—Take one 02. tinct. cayenne, two oz. Jaudanum, one pint alcohol. Rub the shoulders well with warm water, then rub the above on his shoulders and back- bone. Give him one oz. of Jaundanum and one pint of gin. Put it down his throat with a pint bottle. Put his feet in warm water as hot as he can bear. Take a little spirits of turpentine, rub it on the bottom part of his feet with a sponge, after taking them out of the water. Drive him about half a mile, or a mile, until he comes out as limber as a rag. If he does not surrender to his pain, tie a thin cord around the end of his tongue. To make old Horses appear young.—Take one oz. tinct. of asafoetida, one oz. tinct. cantharides, one oz. oil of cloves, one oz. oil of cinnamon, two oz. antimony, one oz. fenugreek, and one gallon of fourth-proof brandy; let it stand ten days, Dose, ten drops in one gallon of water. A EVERY MAN HIS OWN HORSE DOCTOR a To make a Horse appear as if foundered.—Take a fine wire and fasten it around the pastern joint at night. Smooth the hair down over it nicely, and by morning he will walk as stiff as if foundered. To make a Horse fleshy in a short time.—Feed with buckwheat bran, to which add a little of the shorts. Keep him in a dark stable. Halfa day’s drive will make a horse fatted in this poor way. To make a Horse stand by his feed and not eat it— Grease the front teeth and roof of the mouth with common tallow, and he will not eat until you wash it out. To make a true-pulling Horse baulk.—Take one oz. tinct. of canthar- ides, and one drachm of corrosive sublimate. Mix together and bathe the shoulders at night. How to distinguish between Distemper and Glanders.— The discharge from the nose, if glanders, will sink in water; if distemper, it will not. How to make a Horse appear as if he had the Glanders.— Melt pe butter and pour in his ears. 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