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religious denominations, it is doubtful if even they 

 can lay down any hard and fast rules which will 

 be of value. I apprehend that it all depends on 

 the hand and temperament of the driver and on 

 the colt to be trained. Some years ago I was 

 very much interested in colt training, and took 

 advantage of every opportunity to observe and to 

 question the successful colt trainers. Only one, 

 a Kentuckian, who had a large measure of suc- 

 cess with colts, gave anything like an answer to 

 my question 'What is the best way to train colts?' 

 'Train 'em like aged horses, sir,' he said. In 

 answer to my inquiry if such a method did not 

 produce lameness he replied *Yes, sir, but it don't 

 hurt 'em.' As there seems to be so many good 

 ways to train colts, any method adopted, if it 

 happens to be suited to the colt, is like the old 

 lady's opinion of the doctrine of total depravity — 

 *a good thing if well lived up to.' J apprehend it 

 is after all a question of training the colt to make 

 what he lacks. If it is true, as I believe, that, ow- 

 ing to our advance in breeding, 'speed is born with 

 the foal' more frequently every year, it may be 

 that the mile on mile system, with a good stiff 

 brush at the end, will now produce more useful 

 colts than the brush system. Every farm seems 

 to have an abundance of speed. We seem to have 

 found or stumbled onto a way to produce speed. 

 Useful speed is now what we want. For that 

 reason I think the colt should be in harness all 



