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 . e, being alsoengraved from a photograph of the horse, in the position heappears ; so that these figures do not exaggerate facts. Figs. 324, 325, are photographs of what are termed burrsthat have been used by the drivers of that city upon the bits oftheir horses, and are
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 . e, being alsoengraved from a photograph of the horse, in the position heappears ; so that these figures do not exaggerate facts. Figs. 324, 325, are photographs of what are termed burrsthat have been used by the drivers of that city upon the bits oftheir horses, and are here given for the purpose of showingtheir effect upon the horses. The side view (Fig. 325) showsthe ends of the tacks as they extend through the burrs were placed on the bit on each side of the mouth,so that the least pull of the reins would force the ends of thetacks against the cheeks, thereby producing great excitementand pain. The one copied from was taken from hundreds ofothers like it in Mr. Berghs office, which had been taken by his 18 CHECKING AND BLINDERS. officers from horses upon which they were used. Fig. 329 isgiven to show their effect upon the horses. It is copied bypermission from a plate in the Humane Societys office of thatcity. Fig. 326, which hardly belongs here, is made from a photo-. FiG. 330.—Fashion and torture. The attitude and harness of this figure are copied froma photograph of a horse as it appeared when bought by author of Bits and Bear-ing Reins. Taken from Horse and Man, by J. G. Wood, Lippincott. graph of a dog which had been rescued by Mr. Bergh. Theblack spots represent the wounds. This dog was almost liter-ally bitten and chewed in pieces in a dog fight. The figure isinserted to show to what degree it is possible for even intel-ligent, well-disposed people not only to submit to, but to coun-tenance, abuses, which, it would seem when presented to theirattention in their true light, would excite in them the kindliestsympathy.
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