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sugar is a little sweeter than the dam's milk, and is generally relished 

 with astonishing effect when given in small quantities from the hand of 

 the tutor, the young colt becomes the more confident, as it has been 

 caught and held by a superior force; it has not been hurt, but caressed, 

 fondled, petted and given ever a little sweeter food than its dam was 

 able to provide. Then what has the little thing to be afraid of? If it is 

 treated in this manner a few days it will as readily follow its tutor as its 

 dam, and enjoy being handled in any way desired which does not 'frighten 

 or give it pain. 



Granulated sugar, in its early life, must be given from the palm of 

 the hand, which, by passing the hand across the colt's lips with some 

 pressure and taken away, will leave a little sugar between the lips and 

 the colt's tongue will soon come in contact with it, and the job is practi- 

 cally done, as the colt becomes more and more satisfied with the situa- 

 tion, and soon manifests a disposition by its actions that it would like 



Fig. 6 illustrates what an early beginning, as in the (•;iv(- of Betsy at nine days 

 old, does for the voting colt to make It kind and indittert'iit to benig handled 

 in any manner. See how much more she is attracted to an object in the dis- 

 tance than she is to having her foot held up. 



more sugar, in which it should not be disappointed, but given more, 

 little by little, until its confidence is fully obtained. 



COLTS ARE NATURALLY TIMID. 



The treatment our horses have had from time immemorial and the 

 experiences of brutal treatment and torture their ancestors have suffered 

 has no doubt had much to do with the innate fear exhibited in the high- 

 ly organized nervous system of many of our horses,' and this influence 

 is so strongly manifest in the progeny that we are compelled to be more 

 careful in all we do with the young colts to gain their confidence, by 

 kind treatment and careful handling, to satisfy them that we are their 



