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lire the time by da\s. Suppose that in training a colt 

 we were to spend one hour per day^ for twenty days, 

 which woidd he as long as should be needed. Compute 

 the time at ten hours per day, you will find that my 

 whole colt training system amounts to about two daj'S 

 time. You would then have a well trained horse, a 

 colt that would know more, and be more tractable than 

 3'our ordinary broken horses at the age of six years. 

 There is no farmer or horse raiser that could employ 

 his time more profitably, than to follow this system in 

 educating his colts. It would enhance their value at 

 least thirty or forty dollars, for there is no reasonable 

 person that would not gi^'e thirty or forty dollars more 

 for a horse properly trained than for one that was not 

 tractable and safe. 



In s]>eaking of the increased commercial value of a 

 properly trained and docile animal, I have mentioned 

 a motive that appeals to all men, good or bad. But 

 to the man of intojligence and moral rectitude, a bet- 

 ter and higher motive is to be found in the fact that a 

 horse has a right not only .to food and shelter, but to 

 all the comfort consistent with his state of servitude. 

 He has, in the nature of things, to be so much of his 

 life in the harness, that his working hours ought to 

 be made as comfortable as possible. A happy, cheer- 

 ful beast will do more work and live longer and so be. 



