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way to get over it is to find what they are fond off: sugar, 

 or apples, or whatever it is ; and before you get in to drive 

 let them advance to you to get the desired object; give 

 it, jump in quickly, and start off immediately. The 

 object is to get the idea out of their noddle ; the ex- 

 pected treat does it. You don't give them a chance to 

 balk; instead of it, you treat your horse to something. 

 He forgets it for the time, and possibly by frequent atten- 

 tions may be cured for all time as far as you are concerned. 

 When another owner gets him, he may go back to his old 

 tricks unless he knows how to tickle him. 



ECONOMY IN FEEDING. 



The following remarks are not intended to interfere 

 with, or at all contradict the directions given for feeding 

 under the head of Stable Management in another chapter, 

 as that represented the stable of a gentleman who has his 

 horses driven probably but once a day, and then a sharp 

 ten or twenty miles' drive, and whose horses should always 

 be kept in tip-top condition; but this is simply for another 

 class of gentlemen, viz., those to whom economy is a neces- 

 sity. There are many such, obliged from their situation to 

 keep a horse, with but little work for him to do; still, that 

 little requires a horse. To such I \^ould say, when corn 

 is seventy-five cents a bushel, and o&ts from forty-five to 

 fifty cents, feed corn, as one bushel of corn is about equal 

 to two of oats in its nourishing properties ; it is therefore 

 cheaper by nearly one-half. True, it is a little more 

 trouble, but very little, as it should be soaked for at least 

 twelve hours before feeding, that is, after it has become 

 hardened by age and exposure to the air (after being 

 shelled). The reason for soaking and making compara- 

 tively soft is, simply, that being very 1 \ a horse fed 

 sparingly, as I propose for an economist, will be generally 



