. The art of taming and educating the horse : a system that makes easy and practical the subjection of wild and vicious horses ... : the simplest, most humane and effective in the world : 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 .... Horses; Horses; Horses; CHR 1887; PRO Smith, James Somers, Jr. (donor). 238 BAD TO SHOE. propei'ly aj^i^lied, I will refer to its effects uijou a few special cases. At Bellows Falls, Vt., a paper-maker owned a fi


. The art of taming and educating the horse : a system that makes easy and practical the subjection of wild and vicious horses ... : the simplest, most humane and effective in the world : 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 .... Horses; Horses; Horses; CHR 1887; PRO Smith, James Somers, Jr. (donor). 238 BAD TO SHOE. propei'ly aj^i^lied, I will refer to its effects uijou a few special cases. At Bellows Falls, Vt., a paper-maker owned a fine horse, which, though otherwise very gentle, was extremely hard to shoe. A traveling horseman of much experience and a great deal of pretension, visited the place and made a small class. The owner, wishing to have his horse broken, brought him in to be experimented upon. Ac- cording to the gentleman's statement to me, this man. -Pulling the foot back to test the horse's submission. worked with the horse about half a day, injuring him very severely,—in the owner's language, " almost killed ; The result of it all was that the horse beat the man completely, and was more reckless and determined in his opposition than before. I requested the gentleman to let me see the horse. Upon examination, I found him to be finely bred, naturally gentle, but if excited or badly man- aged he would be extremely difficult to control. I told the owner we would have no difficulty at all with the horse, and succeeded in rendering him perfectly gentle in about fifteen 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 Magner, D. (Dennis), b. 1833; Fairman Rogers Collection (University of Pennsylvania) PU. Battle Creek, Mich. : Review & Herald publishing house


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