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 . kindness, force becomes nec-essary until a foundation is laid which will allow an appealto the better nature by kindness. Under treatment bythese methods the horse is taken at such a disadvantage atevery point that there is but one alternative,— is science
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 . kindness, force becomes nec-essary until a foundation is laid which will allow an appealto the better nature by kindness. Under treatment bythese methods the horse is taken at such a disadvantage atevery point that there is but one alternative,— is science against strength,—man using his ingenuity toneutralize and master brute force. Now it is seen that the most valuable machine may berendered useless by bad management; that its usefulnessand value depend upon the skill with which it is the advantages of these methods depend upon the man-ner in which they are applied. A more detailed explana-tion of these methods, with a history of the methods here-tofore practiced, etc., will be found in the chapter on Sub-jection, which should be read in connection with this. CHAPTER II. COLT TRAINING. The successful teacher aims first to gain the confidenceof his scholars, so that he can address their understandingclearly. But were he to transform himself into a danger-. FiG. 86.—Simple way of haltering a dangerous colt. ous monster, whipping them while talking in an unknownlanguage, indicating by his actions that he would kill or in-jure them, they would become so frightened and excited (91) 92 COLT TEAINING. tliat their first impulse would be, resistance, or ,a desperatestruggle to get away. Now this is the impression made upon the wild, un-broken colt when hurt, frightened, or excited, in the effortto train and control him, and Avhich in a proportionate de-gree must increase the difficulty of his successful It is important, on this account, that every step in
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