CHAPTER XXX. 



DEVICES, MEANS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING 

 OUR HORSES. 



For the want of a proper education when young, together with 

 the careless handling and abuse of our horses, they contract habits that 

 are both dangerous to themselves, their companions and those who' 

 handle them. 

 STUDY TO AVOID INCONVENIENCE AND PUNISHMENT. 



It should be our purpose all through life to carefulljr study horses* 

 habits and the laws of their control, with the least possible inconveni- 

 ence and punishment, and we will be thoroughly convinced that the 

 simplest and most effective means of control, is through devices that 

 harmonize with the laws of their organization. 



WE SHOULD NEVER BATTLE WITH OUR HORSES. 

 The horses' strength being superior to that of man, precludes, at 

 once, the idea that we should ever go to battle with him on anything 

 like equal grounds; in fact, we would discourage the idea of ever get- 

 ting into the fight with our horses, for this reason; since they are en- 

 dowed with the same passions as ourselves, such as resentment, courage, 

 revenge, etc., etc., we must banish the idea that our horses are "mere 

 brutes" to be yanked, kicked and pounded at will, without the remem- 

 brance of the event being stored up by them, for some opportunity when 

 they will have the best of us. 



HORSES ENDOWED W^ITH INTELLIGENCE, SENTIMENT 

 AND PASSION. 



Horses are not only endowed with passions, but intellect as well, 

 and just in proportion to this latter endowment, and their educational 

 advantages, is the true value of the horse. 



WE ESTIMATE BOTH MEN AND HORSES. BY THEIR ABIL- 

 ITY AND EDUCATION. 



We estimate men by their natural ability and education, then why 

 not apply the same rule to our horses? We have good and bad citizens, 

 and for the bad, we have made laws and prisons for their control, and 

 if we would correct the bad habits of our horses, we must use the means 

 with which to overcome their muscular power without injury, or arous- 

 ing their passion toward us, as is naturally engendered by whipping, 

 "yanking" and kicking. Let us so confine them that they have to 



