TAMING HORSES. 93 



CAUTION TO THOSE WHO RAISE HORSES 

 OR MULES. 



He that would raise a good stock of horses or 

 mules, must have good pasture-ground, and take 

 special care that the colts do not want for food in 

 the winter time, and more particularly the first 

 two years. More depends upon the first two years, 

 than any thing that can be done afterwards ; for a 

 colt that is badly fed, and allowed to suffer hunger 

 and cold while he is young, will rarely or never 

 make a large horse ; whereas, if he has been well 

 fed for two years, he is more able to support hard- 

 ship afterwards, though I by no means advise any 

 one to neglect him at any time. 



TO ACCUSTOM A HORSE TO STAY IN A 

 PLACE. 



If you buy a horse in one part of the country, 

 and take him to another, and the horse returns of 

 his own accord to his former abode, cause another 

 person, (if the person be his old master, so much 



