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anywhere. You can harness now, and I venture to say that 

 not one colt in twenty will ever trouble you again. The great 

 secret in breaking and handling horses, is to keep the mastery 

 both over the horse and your own temper. 



The intelligence of the horse is wonderful. He remembers 

 every kindness, and, unless his disposition has been soured by 

 bad usage, he will return, by looks and actions, every token of 

 kindness offered him. Always let him know as plainly as pos- 

 sible what you want him to do, then endeavor to make him do 

 as you wish by gentle management. Never resort to the whip 

 until everything else has failed, and then only enough to bring 

 him to submission. 



The Arabs, although a vicious and barbarous people, are 

 noted for their kind treatment of their horses. The Arabian 

 horse has been brought to the highest state of intelligence of 

 any breed known. I account for this in the way they are used. 

 The fondness which the horse manifests for his master can only 

 be created by kindness and care on the part of the master. I 

 see no reason why the same treatment would not produce the 

 same results if practised upon our own breeds of horses. 



H. S. Porter. 



John B. Moore. 



John Johnson, Jr. 



This Essay having been discussed and laid over to be taken 

 upon for its second reading, Mr. Slade, of the Visiting Com- 

 mittee of the Agricultural College, submitted the following 



report: 



In looking over the college farm, the following suggestions 

 occur to your Committee ; and they are offered, not in a spirit 

 of fault-finding, but for the benefit of an institution in which we 

 all have a common interest. 



We submit then that the general management of the farm, so 

 far as relates to the production of crops and permanent improve- 

 ments, should not differ in the main from that which an enter- 

 prising and successful farmer would give to his own farm. The 

 farm should be properly stocked, and careful and constant atten- 

 tion should be given to the making of manure. 



That this is the first step to be taken in the direction of sue- 



