COACHING 



sure profit, or at all events help in preventing 

 loss may be of interest. 



Regarding the coach and harness : one cannot 

 go wrong if he applies to any of the leading 

 dealers, either at home or abroad. For horses, 

 one may go West or East if he prefers, but in 

 New York he can find the raw material better 

 broken, more nearly conditioned, and cheaper 

 than anywhere in the country, for the reason that 

 farmers nowadays know all about market prices, 

 which are always well kept up at Western points, 

 while New York is the "jumping-off place" for 

 horse-flesh, and by auction or private sale a 

 coach can be horsed more cheaply and quickly 

 there than anywhere else, while the material 

 offered is sure to be the best in the country or it 

 would not be there. 



As a rule, one makes a mistake in expecting to 

 get (or in giving, if one is a buyer) fancy prices 

 for any animals which have been regularly work- 

 ing a coach. Such horses have generally one- 

 sided mouths, and have banged their legs about 

 more than a bit ; if they have been the slow ones 

 of their team they have either been kept hopping 

 and skipping to keep up, until that unsightly 

 mode of progression has become a habit, or else 



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