iv Preface 



of diseases, to one whose experience and ability has eminently 

 qualified him. To these gentlemen we are under special obligations. 



This work is not only adapted to the wants of the farmer, but 

 it should be in the hands of every person who owns a horse, for 

 every one who keeps a horse should not only learn to keep him 

 in health, for pecuniary gain, but as a matter of humanity and 

 benevolence. 



We have aimed to be practical and definite on all points. We 

 regret that we have felt compelled to be so brief on many im- 

 portant matters, and indeed several articles have been thrown 

 out entirely, for the want of room. If the reader will reflect 

 that a large volume has been written on the horse foot alone, he 

 will easily conceive our confined, embarrassed, and cramped situ- 

 ation ; having to treat on so many different points and subjects 

 within the scope of 200 pages, we have omitted illustrations, rea- 

 sons, arguments, &c, and presented the naked facts. To those 

 who may wish for a more extended description and treatment of 

 diseases, we most cheerfully commend Dr. Dadd's Modern Horse 

 Doctor, or Youatt on the Horse. 



More space is given to the method of training and breaking 

 horses, in view of the interest that has been elicited on the sub- 

 ject, than would have been, under other circumstances. 



The method of treatment of Mr. Davis, found in this book, we 

 will guarantee is fully equal if not superior to any of the so called 

 Patent Rights, and we have our serious doubts, from all the evi- 

 dence we have been able to gather, that there is any Patent Right, 

 Copy Right, or any other right about them, but what the public 

 have just as good a right to as they have to the President's Message. 

 The use that has been made of this so called Right, and the manner 

 in which it has been conducted of selling it as a Patent Right, and 

 a little 6 cent pamphlet for $10, binding the purchaser under $300 

 bonds never to disclose it, and selling County rights for $1000, 

 and the like, we think is one of the greatest impositions that has 

 ever been passed upon the American People. 



Conscious of its imperfection, but trusting that it will in some 

 degree meet the wants of the farmers, in adding to the comforts, 

 improving the condition, relieving pain, removing disease, and 

 sometimes saving the life of the noble and most useful animal, 

 the horse, the author now lays it hopefully before the public. 



