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Show HALTER-BREAECING TlfE WEML5Pfl COLT THERE SHOULD BE NO KIND OF HALTER BREAKING EXCEPT THE SORT THAT TAKES PLACE WHEN THE COLT IS FROM THREE DAYS TO THREE WEEKS' OLD. BY J. M. P.EbI, VIrglnln. A Now York horse dealer came to Virginia twenty-odd years ago and bought a farm for the purpose of raising coIIh In addition to small farming. His method of handling colts Is worthy of Imitation. At thirty-blx hours of ago the colts were haltered and left In tho fetalis one to a stall, of course, as their dams slept there at night. Very soon the colts were perfectly halter-broken (long before they wore weaned) and In being halter-broken, they were taught one of tho most important im-portant things n horse-breaking, namely, to stand tied when hitched. This ono quality is about half of tho education of a hqn,c, and without it no horse Is properly broken. When old enough lo cat solid lood, they were fed each day, and later on turned out to pasture, but still wero given borne extra food and their mother's milk until -ready to wean, when they were put out in a good grazing field. Tho dams were woll fed, and regularly reg-ularly woikod at least 11 months out of tho 12. if tho weather permitted. They kept In good working ordor, did good work all tho year round, and four out of live raised a thrifty colt.' Neer lot a colt grow to 4uny age and sl.o without haltor-breakVng him. Hundreds of valuable young horses arc much injured in disposition by letting them run until thoy aro from two to three years of age. and then for the llrst time cornered In a btall by several farm hands, which may be a A Virginia-raised hackney. Stock of this kind sells as readily ns if thcro was not an automobile In the world. frolic to tho latter, but qulto tho contrary to tho former. A wild, green colt Is as strong as a bull when thus cornered; a man tries to throw a noose over tho tor-rifled tor-rifled animal's head, ho misses, the colt springs to tho far side of the stall, rears, and attempts to break over tho paitltion. back he Is forced by a fellow with tho handle of a pitch fork or some other equally serviceable servicea-ble weapon. Again they try the noose, and this time successfully. Tho sweating, plunging young animal is now drawn up to the partition by three husky farm-laborers, a bridlo Is placed on his head, tho doors aro opened, and with a bound the colt plunges out. Men aro hanging to the end of the long rope, an end of which Is run through the rings of the bit Tho colt reaches tho end of his tether with a Jerk which nearly dislocates dis-locates his Jaw; he Is brought suddenly sud-denly to a stop, when ono of tho men walk3 up lo him. The colt backs, the three fellows at the end of the rope jerk and swing on It until the qolt comes to a standstill, stand-still, with eyes staring, and the sweat running out of every pore Now he Is forced to move. Away he springs, to bo Jorked bapk suddenly sudden-ly In the cpunjo of an hour tho men and tho victim aro equally worn out, and tho colt, "having received his llrst lesson, Is put back In the stable with the bridle on and the rope dragging, to be left this way until another day.' whon tho .amo idiotic performance will bo repeated |