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mending n:y efforts and constantly urging me to compile my work of 

 the Minnesota Horseman, Farmers' institute annuals and such other mat- 

 ter as would make a ready reference book, is what has stimulated mc in 

 the preparation of Horse Sense, with the sincere hope that those who 

 will study its pages carefully and comply with the "law," will be benefited 

 many times its cost. 



The indulgence of the reader is solicited for the many repetitions, 

 crudeness of style, plain, simple, method and idiosyncrasy of the author, 

 as no attempt is made towards a scientific classical or professional pro- 

 duction, but a work of preventions rather than cures, that can be made 

 beneficial to the farmers (who raise the horses) and those who handle 

 horses, and especially for the comfort that may be rendered the noble 

 horse by better understanding him. ;(nd thereby giving better treatment 

 to man's greatest animal servant— the horse. 



J. C CURRYER. 



