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tempt of all lovers of animal life, and should not be en- 

 trusted with horses. One who will work a team in the 

 heat and dust and then allow them to stand over night with- 

 out cleaning shows either lack of intelligence about horses or 

 cruelty. To drive a team until they are sweaty and then 

 allow them to stand in a cold wind unblanketed reveals not 

 only heartlessness but bad business management. 



The horse can not be taught like a person. Therefore, 



A horse market, showing a type of horse for which there is a 

 good demand. 



only one single word of command should ever be used for 

 the same act. Whoa should always mean an immediate and 

 dead stop ; back should mean to step backward, and not 

 merely to stop. Some one signal alone should be used to 

 start, and the horse never allowed to start without this sig- 

 nal. Care in such simple points as these would result in 

 much better broken and safer horses. 



