The new system of educating horses, including instructions on feeding, watering, stabling, shoeing, etc with practical treatment for diseases . ntshould be kept on until the horse is made reliable. Shouldbe driven and thoroughly practiced with other horses, andexcitement made as if in a race. Of course all this requiresingenuity, patience and care. This will work best on some horses by attaching to thecollar, or around the neck. The restraint is simply morepositive by this change. One gentleman in Ohio, two years since, came onehundred and fifty miles to get this treatment of me, and inthree m
The new system of educating horses, including instructions on feeding, watering, stabling, shoeing, etc with practical treatment for diseases . ntshould be kept on until the horse is made reliable. Shouldbe driven and thoroughly practiced with other horses, andexcitement made as if in a race. Of course all this requiresingenuity, patience and care. This will work best on some horses by attaching to thecollar, or around the neck. The restraint is simply morepositive by this change. One gentleman in Ohio, two years since, came onehundred and fifty miles to get this treatment of me, and inthree months afterwards he informed me that he had sincesold a mare for fifteen hundred dollars which he had boughtfor three hundred and seventy-five dollars. She wouldbreak when in the least excited, and could be made nothingof, though a fast stepper. He bought her, made the experi-ment, and in less than a month had her down fine, andcould hold her under the whip regardless of yelling and theexcitement of competing horses. This gentleman informedme he then had a horse that promised equally good resultsby this treatment. 106 BREEDING. Intelligent and Gentle. One of the primary pointsof success is to start right,and in no respect is thismore essential than in breed-ing. The law of like pro-ducing like is inexorable;consequently it is seen thatto raise good horses, goodhorses must be bred farmers who are other-wise keenly alive to theirinterest, are singularlythoughtless and imprudentin this. If a mare is brokendown and unfit for labor, nomatter how coarse, badlyformed, or what the evidenceof constitutional unsoundness, she is reserved to breed the cheapest horse, no matter how coarse if sleekand fat, is selected and employed to breed from. The mostignorant farmer is particular to select the largest and soun-dest potatoes, the cleanest wheat and oats, for seed, has learned this istrue economy. Yetthere seems to be themost utter disregardof this law
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