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Title: 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
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Magner, D. (Dennis), b. 1833
Subjects: Horses Horses
Publisher: Battle Creek, Mich. : Review and Herald Pub. House
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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ns were more inter-esting than those of any circus. The performances of BlindBilly were regarded as especially remarkable, from the factof his being totally blind. He is, without question, themost remarkable performing horse that has ever been ex-hibited in this or any other country. I give a very fineportrait of this remarkable horse, sketched by a leadingartist. The details of teaching a few tricks, which I give inthis chapter, will be of special interest to farmer boys, whomay desire to train their colts in this way. A horse seemsmore intelligent and tractable when trained to perform afew simple tricks, such as telling the age, kissing, bowinghis head, kicking up, turning right and left, or followingwith the whip, etc., all of which any intelligent boy caneasily train a colt to do. In training a colt or horse to perform these tricks, thereshould be no hurry, or effort to teach more than one thingat a time. Make the lesson short, and repeat until thor- (332) DETAILS OF TEACHING. 33S
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334 TEACHING THICKS. oughly learned, when another can be taken up, but do not contin horse. continue the lesson long enough to excite or confuse the To Follow by the Wiiie. One of the simi:)lest and most interesting tricks to teacha horse is to follow at the motion of the whip, without bri-dle or halter. It is oven quite useful, as it teaches a horseto follow at command from one part of the barn to another,or to come out of his stall without attempting to get away.Full details of teaching this trick are given in the chapteron Colt Training. To Nod his Head, or Say Yes. To teach a horse to bow, or nod his head, prick himlightly on the back with a pin, and continue until in his ef-fort to avoid the annoyance he drops his head; then in-stantly stop the pricking, and caress him. Repeat thepricking until the head is again dropped, when caress andoive him somethiner of which he is fond. Continue to al-ternate in this way with the pricking and caressing untilat the instant a motion is made t

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