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reach every part of tlieir body; and wherever any 

 superficial sore may be present, the flies are sure to 

 find it out. 



As to aged animals, it is sheer cruelty (practised by 

 some masters with the best intentions and worst pos- 

 sible results) to turn them out to grass. Such crea- 

 tures have probably been accustomed in the earlier 

 part of their lives to warm stables, their food put 

 under their noses, good grooming, and proper care. 

 You might just as well turn out a gentleman in his 

 old age among a tribe of friendly savages, unclad and 

 unsheltered, to exist upon whatever roots and fruits he 

 could pick up, as expose a highly-bred and delicately- 

 nurtured old horse to the vicissitudes and hardships of 

 a life at grass. 



TEAINING. 



kaeey's system. 



The principle of this system is that of overpowering 

 the horse that may in some instances have even become 

 dangerous and useless, from having learned the secret 

 that his strength gives him an advantage over his mas- 

 ter — man. Unconsciously deprived of his power of 

 resistance, his courage vanishes; the spirit which rose 

 against all accountable efforts to subdue it, that would 

 scorn to yield to overweight, pace, work, or any other 

 evidence of man's power, and which in the well-dis- 

 positioned animal causes him to strain every nerve to 

 meet what is required of him rather than succumb, is 

 by Rarey's system subdued through a ruse so effected 



