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gave the secret to John S. Rarey, who afterwards became famous, and 

 who received over $100,000 in England alone, for this secret. 



And now for the great secret medicine which has been sold through 

 the country for large prices, and many a man will still tell you will do 

 it every time. All you have to do is to get it and your success is sure : 



Oil of rhodium, oil of cummin or oil of anise seed. These should be 

 kept in air-tight bottles, ready for use. Next, the wart, or horn castor, 

 as it is called, which grows on the inside of the horse's leg ; dry, and 

 grate it very fine, and keep also in an air-tight bottle. To catch a 

 horse : Smear the hand with a little of the castor and oils, going to the 

 windward, and gradually approach until the nose can be touched, when 

 by fondling and rubbing, putting at the same time some of the ingre- 

 dients into the horse's nose, he will soon become gentle. 



Catlin, the noted traveler among the Indians, states that the Indians 

 breathe into the nostrils of young buffaloes to make them follow. I 

 have heard a great deal said at different times, and by different parties, 

 of the great things they could do with medicine and means, but I never 

 saw any practical proofs that were at all satisfactory. I give above the 

 great secrets of Rarey and others. Now, we see that all this is hardly 

 worth the name of a seSret or system. It is easy to talk about horses 

 not doing anything bad if they were not badly treated, etc. "We might 

 just as well claim we would not be sick if we lived right, and that doc- 

 tors were unnecessary, or that fire-engines would be unnecessary if 

 proper precautions were taken to prevent fires. In one sense this is 

 true, in another it is fallacious reasoning. We do not understand the 

 horse's nature, and probably never will so that it will not be found 

 necessary to resort to scientific principles of control. They are as 

 necessary as the skillful physician's help in emergencies of sickness or 

 accident, and as the well-equipped fire brigade to arrest and put out 

 promptly what might result in fatal destruction. So, in like manner, 

 we must study scientific principles of reaching and mastering the dif- 

 ficulties presented in the control and management of vicious or unman- 

 ageable horses, as modern research, based upon a higher and broader 

 intelligence, has enabled clearer perceptions of principles and the in- 

 troduction of remedies and inventions to more directly, and naturally 

 aid nature when exposed to disease or accident ; and as the difficulties 

 of the firemen, with the old hand-pump and bucket were simplified 

 and superceded by scientific means and the invention of steam-engines, 

 by which the difficulties presented are reached and overcome with ease 

 and power. In like manner we are now able to prevent and overcome 

 the difficulties of educating and making wild and vicious horses gentle 

 with an ease and directness which would be entirely impossible by 

 the principles used formerly by Rarey and others. The feats of control 

 I have shown by my treatment, and I show almost daily in illustrating 

 my system, would be entirely impossible by such treatment. My sys- 

 tem combines all the elements of success demanded, embodying well- 

 defined principles that will make the difficulties presented easily 

 reached and overcome. It demands also in a high degree fine, keen 

 perception and great firmness of purpose, that really but calls out and 

 develops the highest and finest qualities of our nature. 



