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him. The whip should seldom be used as a punishment, but 

 when it is, let it be done energetically and suddenly, to frighten 

 the horse and intimidate him, rather than by being passionate 

 and furious, to make him angry. There is great advantage in 

 removing the support before shifting the weight. And an ani 

 mal must be taught to lift his foot before throwing the weight 

 in the direction he wishes to move. Whatever is possible with 

 a horse, Baucher's system makes attainable, and this by the 

 easiest means. The action of wild horses is perfect, but when 

 domesticated, chained to a stable, holding sharp bits, (of which 

 forty kinds were lately on exhibition in Philadelphia,) the native 

 grace is lost ; but all the high capabilities remain, and are seen 

 in the common horse, when developed by the supplings of 

 Baucher. " What is gracefully done is easily done," is a 

 maxim as applicable here as elsewhere. The horse of the pres 

 ent day wears out too soon because its education is forgotten, 

 and it is treated like a machine. Proper breaking and training 

 would add 30, 60, and in special cases even 100 per cent, to 

 the value of horses. Not one in a hundred, Herbert tells us, or 

 even in a thousand in the United States, was ever properly 

 broken, and not one in fifty has the proper rudiments of an edu 

 cation. In ten years the demand for saddle horses will be in 

 creased in a twelve-fold ratio. The foolish desire of the com 

 munity is for speed. If a horse is not fast, he is good for noth 

 ing. The high prices these fast horses bring would be a for 

 tune to some of the farmers. But they forget how many inter 

 mediate hands these prices pay. Most farmers try to breed 

 something FAST (tempted by the fabulous price, or because 

 their neighbors do) ; thus the whole community is involved, 

 and the market glutted with a class of horses, which if they 

 foil in speed are fit for nothing else. This process is the best 

 to develop the animal, but it must be progressively and care 

 fully applied. Such is Baucher's effectual means to annul and 

 equalize all resistances. Rarey's method is applicable to all 

 horses, of all ages, but to those especially who have never been 



