27,; now TO MAKE THE FARM PAY. 



never trained a great many horses will have to be tamed, for 

 which 



Rarey's Method is the best. It consists in fastening up the 

 left fore leg, by a strap, buckled tight over the ankle, and the 

 arm near the body, and the second strap attached to the right 

 foot, run through the surcingle to the right hand of the tamer, 

 while the left holds the bridle. See fig. 70. The horse is now 

 harmless, and should be made to hop, when a vigorous pull 

 with the right, will throw him on to his knees, where he can 

 be held until he is ready to turn on his side, which he should 

 be encouraged to do. These operations will take from fifteen 

 minutes to three hours, according to the strength and spirit of 

 the horse. ^When once fairly down, he should be caressed, 

 handled, and a saddle or portions of the harness put on to him 

 until he finds that none of them will do him any harm. This 

 throwing should be repeated several times, until the horse 

 readily submits, and allows his master to do whatever he pleases. 

 By this method Mr. Rarey has tamed the most vicious of horses. 



How TO Stable, Feed, and Groom a Horse. No man has 

 any right to torture a dumb animal. It is poor economy to 

 breed disease and death, in so valuable an animal as the horse. 

 Yet both these things are done in most stables. They are 

 abodes of torture and death. Each horse should be allowed, at 

 least, six by nine feet of stall room, that he may have room to 

 turn about, change his position, lie down, or stand up, as he 

 plea-ses, during the long weary hours that he is a prisoner. The 

 partition between these stalls should be solid, only the height 

 of the horse's chest ; the balance should be open work. In this 

 stall he should not be tied by the head, as this prevents the 

 change of position, of which we speak. He should be allowed 

 the freedom of at least a six by nine feet cell. The present 

 -nethod of tying a horse in a narrow stall, with the floor slant- 



