CHAPTEE VII. 



FITTING FOE. SALE.-MAEKET CLASSES 

 OF HOESES.-TEADE TEEMS. 



To sell to the best advantage horses should 

 be fat and well broken — the fatter and better 

 broken they are, the better they will sell. Hence 

 it pays to accustom all farm horses to as many 

 of the terrifying sights and sounds of city life 

 as may be met up with in the country — the lo- 

 comotive, the trolley car, the automobile, thresh- 

 ing machines, motorcycles and the like. I once 

 knew a man who did a mighty good job on his 

 young horses by taking them often to a spot on 

 the road over which the railway crossed on a 

 high bridge and fill. It so happened that a pas- 

 senger express, a local passenger train and a 

 through freight came along one after the other 

 about six o'clock in the evening, and it was 

 rather the exception, spring, summer and fall, 

 not to find him thereabouts at that time. His 

 horses learned to let the trains go by above them 

 when they could see them and when they could 

 not see them, and as each train always whistled 

 just as it passed over the bridge, the education 

 was pretty thorough. This man was continually 

 showing the locomotive and the trolley to his 

 colts under divers circumstances and he enjoyed 

 a steady demand for them at good prices even 

 during the dull times. 



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