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horses are once more safely on the home land- 

 ing platform. 



In getting to and from landing chutes and 

 unloading platforms at fair grounds the shipper 

 will acquire a varied assortment of experience. 

 Horses do not need much feed in transit— only 

 about enough to keep them quiet. A barrel 

 should be taken along for water and filled peri- 

 odically in transit. It pays to get horses off the 

 car as soon as possible after they stop rolling. 

 When standing still they soon begin to fret. 

 At junction, division and terminal points the 

 yardmasters will be found to be human and 

 therefore appreciative of common decency and 

 civility and occasionally, in my experience 

 amenable to other influences. It pays to be a 

 good fellow in the show business. 



Make entries in proper season and give full 

 details. Never let the suspicion that you have 

 a ^ ^ringer'' with you get abroad. Ask as 

 few favors of the show management as pos- 

 sible and as a general thing put up with 

 inconvenience to the point of imposition rather 

 than raise a row. It pays. It pays also to do 

 whatever the management asks in the way of 

 getting horses into the ring, parading and so 

 forth. Give the people a show whenever you 

 can. As the advertising is all that any exhibitor 

 gets directly for his labor, his stalls should be 

 tastefully decorated, the placards showing forth 

 in large plain letters whose horses are being 



