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though occasionally such masters are found, as renters, with their worth- 

 less brutes on the lands of a landlord too greedy to give an industrious 

 laborer a fair rental for his labor. Do such landlords thrive? Unhap- 

 pily yes. Sometimes, by denying themselves and families the common or 

 decent necessaries of life, and by cheating even the poor knackers whose 

 improvidence has thrown them in their way. 



V. Why the Horse Requires Intelligent Management. 



It is because hoi*ses are intelligent animals. They have a sense of 

 reason, w^hich may be improved by training. They are naturally dis- 

 posed to rely upon their masters, and this disposition should never be 

 overcome by the fear of injury. They are courageous, and at the same 

 time timid. Their courage should be fostered, since it increases their 

 spirit and decreases their timidity. They fear objects with which they 

 are unfamiliar. Once they learn that an object is harmless, they cease 

 to fear it. Thus they may be accustomed to the sound and sight of a 

 locomotive, one of the most fearful objects to them naturally, and if 

 allowed to satisfy themselves that a locomotive is not dangerous, they will 

 at length want to touch it with the nose ; for this is the last means a horse 

 uses to fully satisfy himself that an object will not injure him. Thus 

 satisfied, all further fear of that object is passed. 



VI. How to Know an Intelligent Master. 



An intelligent master, however poor he may be, will not drive a 

 broken-down, rat-tailed, spavined team, with ears torn away, eyes knocked 

 out, ill-kept and ill-fed. He will not have rusty tools, nor keep a hog- 

 wallow by the side of his door. His wife will not be found pulling down 

 and burning the remnant*? of a fence, for want of better firewood. His 

 team, indeed, may not be in high flesh. The necessity of extraordinary 

 labor, and plain food, may keep master and hoi-se thin, but there will be 

 intelligent care shown even in poverty. Cunning is not intelligence, 

 neither is brute force power. The intelligent man, however unlearned, 

 may be known by his surroundings, and by the care of his horse, if he 

 is fortunate enough to own one. 



It is certain that an unkind man in his family will be brutal to animals. 



All horse owners cannot have fine teams, but no man can afford to own 

 a poor team. They must be kept in proper condition for labor, else the 

 owner is losing money on them constantly. All farmers cannot have fine 

 houses and barns, but no farmer should have either cold, or, in other 

 ways, uncomfortable buildings. By studying chapter XII, one may 

 easily learn how to make the cheapest stmcture comfortable. The illus- 

 tration on this page fully illustrates an idea of comfort in farm animals. 



