GENERAL REMARKS AND INFORMATION. 9 



Horses are much more intelligent than most people 

 take them to be. Their instinct is wonderful. 

 I remember driving a horse on a strange road 

 some years ago, and I stopped at a cottage to ask the 

 way. To the very day twelve-months, after I went the 

 same road again, and some distance before the animal 

 got to the cottage, he pricked up his ears, and looked 

 up, as much as to say — this is where I stopped when I 

 was this way before. As soon as we got to the cottage, 

 my horse stopped within a foot of the same place as he 

 did the year before. Now I have had scores of such 

 instances as this come under my notice with horses 

 under my charge. I have been accustomed to take 

 them for very long journeys — 300 miles at a stretch — 

 and in many cases where I have been over the same 

 road the second time the horse has pulled up again at 

 the same places as he did before. 



Sometimes it has been three or four years before I 

 have gone the same road again, and even then, in some 

 instances, the horse would take the same turnings he 

 did when he went the same way before. This seems very 

 wonderful, and seems to denote an extraordinary amount of 

 intelligence. 



Now take a horse, for instance, at work on the farm. 

 If he has been accustomed to being loosed from the 

 cart or plough at a certain time in the day he will know 

 almost to the minute when he is going to be set free, 

 just the same as he knows when feeding time comes 

 round. Try another plan — go into a field where a pet 



