PRINCIPLES OF TREATMENT. 



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with far more ease, directness, and success 

 than has ever yet been accomplished. It not 

 only enables us to control with the greatest 

 facility, frequently in a few minutes, not ex- 

 ceeding twenty or thirty, horses that had re- 

 sisted all previous efforts to subdue or con- 

 trol them, and become practically worthless, 

 but it gives the proper foundation for making 

 the character safe and reliable afterward, its 

 most remarkable feature being the startling 

 results accomplished in so short a time, ap- 

 parently changing the entire nature of the 

 horse as if by magic. 



This treatment is the outgrowth of the 

 practice of over eighteen years of the most 

 constant and exacting experimenting, and 

 has been proved, by the results exhibited, to 

 bring the control and education of horses as 

 nearly as possible to the line of an exact 

 science, conclusively showing that when 

 horses become vicious or unmanageable, it is 

 the result of ignorance or bad management, 

 which the treatment herein given, if properly 

 applied, would have entirely prevented. 



I could include a great deal of other 

 treatment, and much of it very good, but 

 wishing only to give what is practical, I con- 

 fine myself to such treatment only as I have 

 found in my experience to be best. 



Before taking up details, I would state 

 that there is no difficulty in making a horse, 

 even when of a very vicious character, gentle 

 for a short time ; but the difficulty is to be 

 able to hold and fix the character in such 

 a way that he will remain gentle. This may 

 be done in quite a variety of ways. Any 

 method of lowering the vitality, such as bleed- 

 ing, physicking, preventing sleep, depriving 

 of food or water, subjecting to intense pain, 

 or, in fact, any means whereby we can suc- 

 cessfully lower the strength, will make a 

 horse gentle. But the difficulty is that, how- 

 ever gentle he may be at the time, when the 



FIGS. 37-42. Modifica- 

 tions of Well-bred Character. 



