HOW TO BUY A HORSE 217 



animals inoculated against cold and fever - 

 shipper's fever, it is called. This should always be 

 done as the result has been found to be most ex- 

 cellent. "You can get no use out of a Kentucky 

 horse for the first year," I have heard New York- 

 ers say. That may have been their experience; 

 but when treated with the proper serum before 

 shipment they do not suffer to any extent with 

 colds and influenza. There is one disease, how- 

 ever, that I do not know how to provide against 

 nostalgia. The generality of horses are not 

 very affectionate, for they are not very intelligent, 

 being trained more by fear than anything else 

 and going on in their work through custom. But 

 they do love their homes, and that they should 

 suffer from home-sickness until the satisfaction 

 with the new environment wipes out the longing 

 is inevitable. The homing instinct of a horse is 

 very .strong and also interesting. Take a horse 

 ten or even twenty miles in a direction never 

 traveled before, and then turn him towards 

 home over a new route, and he knows it instantly 

 and shows that he knows it by a quickened gait 

 and a renewal of spirit. So these things should be 



