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of them, and (hat without any more use of the whip than is 

 barely necessary to command his attention. 



Of course this can only be accomplished by means of that 

 wonderful system which has "been recently devised, practiced 

 and taught by the Rarey Brothers. They have happily fared 

 better than most reformers and inventors, and have not only 

 met with the most unqualified success in its introduction, but 

 have made it the stepping-stone to a fortune. Future genera- 

 tions will do them more honor than the present, and the time 

 is not distant when this system, based upon rational principles, 

 with the great law of kindness as its chief corner-stone, will be 

 universally adopted among civilized nations. 



W. S. Clark, Reporter. 



From the Report on Breeding Mares. 



The committee would invite attention to a few suggestions 

 respecting the breeding of horses, that we deem important. 



It is a well known fact that no animal, useful or useless, 

 unless it be man, is so liable to unsoundness as the horse . 



Is there any remedy ? If not, would it not be well to 

 substitute a hardier animal in his place, even if it were a 

 mule ? 



But we claim there is a remedy ; that the constitution of the 

 horse, " as we understand it," is, in its normal state, endowed 

 with sufficient power and endurance for all practical purposes. 

 While we allow a wide margin for ailments that result from 

 over-working, over-feeding and under-feeding, and want of care, 

 generally, we believe that the great predisposing cause is due 

 to breeding from unsound stock. 



It is a frequent remark with the owners of young and healthy 

 mares, that they will not spoil their beasts by making breeders 

 of them. But if the same animal becomes lame, or broken- 

 winded, or broken down, the same owners will then say, " well, 

 they will do to raise colts from !" What they say hundreds do 

 and have done till the horse as a race has become proverbially 

 unsound. "Like produces like," is an aphorism that has 

 ample confirmation in the facts to which we allude, and we 

 have the best of reason for believing that an intelligent appli- 

 cation of the same principles in breeding from a healthier class 



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