178 EDUCATING THE HORSE. 



The above instruction is equally applicable to 

 a kicking horse, but in his education he will 

 require more lessons before the habit will be 

 entirely removed ; still, kindness and a little 

 patience will soon accomplish all you desire. 



Men in general exercise too little patience in 

 the training of their colts, and they frequently 

 expect to accomplish more in a short space of 

 time than can possibly be performed. Yet the 

 time really required, when measured by days, is 

 so short as to be really surprising. Let us sup- 

 pose that in training a colt one were to spend 

 two hours a day for ten days, which is the long- 

 est time that could possibly be needed ; compute 

 the time at ten hours to the day, and the whole 

 amounts to but two days, at the end of which 

 he would have a well-educated animal. I doubt 

 if a farmer or horse-raiser could employ his time 

 more profitably in any other way than in thor- 

 oughly educating his colts, as he thus enhances 

 their value, for there is no sensible man who 

 would not give ten dollars more for a properly 

 educated animal than for one improperly trained. 



