I^ n-LUSTRATED STOCK DOCTOR. 



X An Irfellible Bule. 



We hare known a bmtal 5t.i'""c-r^. r. :■> f ?g a horse in the most terrible 

 maimer, simply to get rid of id* own ugline^, as he expressed it, while 

 at <H^£nanr times he petted and made much of the animal. Sach an ani . 

 mal will be frantic at the sght of a whip held in a threatening manner. 

 Animals that are in the halHt of being strack with the pitchfork, or being 

 kicked and cuffed, wHl watch carefoIlT the stable-man, and show by their 

 DerroQsness in the stable what ther are expecting, while of the master 

 : Dgj win show no sign of fear. Stable-men are often cunning creamres ; 

 laey will have soothing words to qoi^ the animal in the presence of the 

 masto*. We have always held that the horse dionld be spoken to firmly 

 but qmethr, and always hare an inherent suspicion that a team exhibiting 

 signs of fear at times, where we always hear the keeper speaking to them 

 in soothing tones, are abosed in secret. 



No sme man would practice sadli treatment to his own stock, and no 

 num who is oUiged to leare valuable animal > in the care of servants 

 ehiMld fail to know that they are doing their duty. It is not enough that 

 the Etable-men feed the regular rations, that they clean and exExcise pro|>- 

 »lj. It should be made impcHtant that in all their interoourse with the 

 animaU under tfafir care, thej be not vndiilj punished, nor in any otbev 



