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keep it up nuicli longer, repeating as often as necessary, until the horse 

 decides that lie prefers to draw the loads by his shoulders, rather than 

 his tail, as shown in cut No. loi. 



Cut No. loi. 

 THE HORSE CHEERFULLY DECIDES TO DO THE WORK 

 FROM THE SHOULDERS. 



The object in writing is twofold; first, to give a more complete de- 

 scription of the means, and especially the methods, than has hereto- 

 fore been observed by other writers on the subject; second, to be able, 

 at least to a degree, to ameliorate the sufferings of our horses in the 

 hands of those who would treat them more humanely if they only knew 

 the means and methods by which they could efifectively do so in an in- 

 telligent manner. We must not charge the abuse of our horses entirely 

 to the naturally cruel dispositions of their handlers, but to a want of 

 the proper means and methods, also, to the inherited impression in 

 man that the horse is only a brute to be driven, driven, driven, without 

 giving this noble servant credit for scarcely any of his innate intelligence. 



The close attention given this subject by the author for more than 

 forty years, and a study of the natural laws by which the horse can be 

 made as obedient and useful an animal as treads the earth, though the 

 means and methods of his education, is the reason for dwelling on the 

 humanitarian side b'f the question. 



The author confidently believes that when the young men of today 

 fully understand the underlying principles of horse sense, that our equine 

 friends will be handled more humanely, and there will be a better under- 

 standing between men and horses. 



Note. — An old Mexican method of drawing loads, and especially the 

 ^low, by the tail of animals, was brought out at a Farmers' Institute 



