INTRODUCTION. 



In undertaking the production of this work the author fully 

 understands the gigantic task he has shouldered. There is 

 probably no subject so extensively written upon and so little 

 understood as the one in hand. I think the public will bear me 

 out in the assertion that there are more balky men than balky 

 horses. 



In consideration of the magnitude of the Horse interests of this 

 country — the total valuation being seven hundred and seventy- 

 one millions nine hundred thousand dollars, that valuation of the 

 same number of Horses actually being one hundred per cent, less 

 than it would have been had all engaged in training and using 

 the animal as they should. I feel positive that in this treatise I 

 can convince every unprejudiced mind that much that has been 

 written upon this subject by able authors is erroneous, and is not 

 sustained by the practical experience of intelligent men of 

 modern times, who will not take mere assertions as truth, unless 

 it is sustained by the developments of careful and intelligent 

 scientific and practical observation. 



Having devoted eighteen years of my best days in teaching the 

 proper methods of educating the Horse, and in a field that 

 extends from the frozen and lakey regions to the Gulf of Mexico 

 and from the Atlantic to the Pacific Coast, I feel confident that 

 the knowledge collected will be of great service to the Horse 

 world. In connection with the training of the Horse, I will give 



