30 GREAT VALUE OF THIS KNOWLEDGE. 



The horse is in such general use, in connection with the 

 great difficulty experienced in making him docile and safe 

 as a servant for the various purposes of the farm and 

 family, and the many accidents caused by the use of 

 horses that are in consequence unavoidably unsafe. In 

 addition, the great anxiety, danger, and loss experienced 

 from such causes, make a knowledge of principles by 

 which all those difficulties are easily overcome and pre- 

 vented, a source of the broadest humanity and value to 

 all classes of society. First, it saves at least nine-tenths 

 of time necessarily employed by the old system, which is 

 seen to be so defective. Second, with the great advan- 

 tage of time it enables absolute security, as well as cer- 

 tainty, of making the most vicious colts and horses gentle 

 and obedient to control. Third, it removes all those 

 causes of annoyance and danger resulting from the old 

 methods of breaking horses. Fourth, it enables reforming 

 easily, horses that have been given up as worthless or 

 unsafe for use. Fifth, it adds largely to the value of 

 horses. Sixth, it secures the greatest possible kindness 

 in the education and use of horses. 



It is the work of months, and often of years, to break a 

 colt, and even at that a large proportion of the best by 

 nature are but little better than mere impulsive, danger- 

 ous machines, ready at the least little derangement of har- 

 ness or other cause of fear and excitement, to kick or run 

 away. The consequence is, an unavoidable accident, the 

 smashing of wagon and harness, the horse likely to be 

 completely spoiled and made worthless, and the possible 

 serious injury to or loss of life. 



There is nothing the farmer fears more than the task of 

 breaking colts, because, while he realizes the difficulty and 

 danger attending it, he has no remedy beyond that of 

 being careful and patient, and the whip and club law. He 

 does as well as he can, or employs some ignorant horse- 

 breaker who cannot do any better. The majority of so- 

 called horse-breakers, from ignorance, violate the simplest 

 laws of addressing the animal's nature and reason. It is 

 a struggle of the merest brute force, that results so often 

 in injuring and spoiling the best colts, by nature, in break- 

 ing. There is no lack of authority telling how to con- 



