508 PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. 



These circumstances led me to employ one of the best 

 veterinary surgeons I could find to give me a private course 

 of lectures, which was to embody his best treatment for 

 the most common forms of disease. The best remedies 

 used in this gentleman's practice, as well as those 

 obtained from' many other sources, I afterward published 

 in the Medical Department of the " New System," and 

 they will also be found embodied in the same department 

 of this work. 



My health finally becoming seriously impaired, I was 

 compelled to stop business for a while, or so arrange as to 

 lessen the strain to which I had been so long subjected. 

 Having too many trained horses, I sold six stallions, com- 

 prising four horses and two trick ponies, all trained to 

 drive without reins. Three of these (one being the " Fred 

 Arnd Horse,"* referred to in the chapter on Stallions) were 

 sold in Bath, N. Y., and vicinity. One of the matched 

 pair and a pony were sold to 0. S. Pratt, of Batavia, N. Y., 

 and the other to a man named Graves, of Lockport, N. Y. 

 This last pony was a superior performer, and I sold him 

 with the special stipulation that when he desired to part 

 with him, I should have the first chance to buy ; yet not- 

 withstanding this stipulation, he sold the pony to Pratt. I 

 still had two of my best horses; and, having made 

 arran2;ements with a man who had traveled in the South, 

 to assist me there, I shipped directly to Memphis, Tenn., 

 and traveled in the South nearly two seasons. 



I have at various times been greatly annoyed, and my 

 business much injured, by parties engaging in the business 

 and copying my bills, claiming to be authors of a New 

 System, etc. One of tlie boldest of these, and the only 

 one I will refer to, was the man Pratt, who is now deceased. 

 The sale of the horses to him was made on the condition 

 that I should teach him how to manage them, and also in- 



