. How to handle and educate vicious horses. e. Therewould be no credit or importance attached to master-ing and managing bad horses, if not difficult and ap-parently dangerous. No duty requires more firmnessof purpose in the control of the passions, or morefidelity to the principles of kindness and truth, thanthat of horsemanship. If you would be really a successful horseman, youmust never seem to forget by your conduct that youare a man, and that your real superiority over the ani-mal consists in the prudent exercise of your reasoningpowers. Brute force is not your forte, and the instantyou g
. How to handle and educate vicious horses. e. Therewould be no credit or importance attached to master-ing and managing bad horses, if not difficult and ap-parently dangerous. No duty requires more firmnessof purpose in the control of the passions, or morefidelity to the principles of kindness and truth, thanthat of horsemanship. If you would be really a successful horseman, youmust never seem to forget by your conduct that youare a man, and that your real superiority over the ani-mal consists in the prudent exercise of your reasoningpowers. Brute force is not your forte, and the instantyou give way to passion, your reason must yield tothe control of blind instinct, and you at once abdicateyour intellectual superiority over the animal. Try toprove by the example of your actions in the perform- Il8 HOW TO EDUCATE HORSES. ance of the duty, that to be a good horseman requireshigher qualifications of fitness than that of the huck-stering dishonesty and depravity so generally evincedin the conduct of those claiming the PART FOURTH. AGES OF HORSES. The following is my newof horses: A horse has 40 teeth,—2and 4 tusks. A mare hasfront teeth, and sometimes 14 days old, 4 N 3 months old, 4 M 6 months old, 4 C 1 year, cups leave N 2 years, cups leave. M 2\ years, sheds N 3 years, full size N 3! years, sheds M 4 years, full size M 4^ years, sheds C system of telling the ages 4 grinders, 12 front teeth,36 teeth,—24 grinders, 12tusks, but not often. 5 years, full-size C 6 years, large cup in C smallin M, and still smaller in N 7 years, cups leave. N 8 years, cups leave M 9 years, cups leave C 10 years, groove in upper. .. C15 years, half-way down up per C 21 years, at the bottom .. ..C 120 HOW TO EDUCATE HORSES.
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