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would neutralize and destroy the very object of our efforts 

 to make a strong, gentle, submissive servant to our wants, 

 which is our real object to attain. 



But the common plan of doing this by attempting to hold 

 and force a horse in harness, and whipping if there is re- 

 sistance, is from the nature of things, inadequate, defective 

 and cruel, since there is not necessary physical power to do 

 this with any degree of certainty, and the aggravation of 

 the whip, in conjunction with the natural fear of the 

 animal, stimulates resistance, and thus without adequate 

 precaution or power, the difficulty to be overcome is so 

 greatly increased as to cause failure and trouble, the cause 

 of which is usually attributed to a bad disposition. But if 

 the animal is first made passive to restraint by proper treat- 

 ment, control becomes simple and easy, since the mind can 

 now be easily won and guided without fear or resistance 

 into such habits as may be desired without exciting resist- 

 ance or subjecting the animal to injury. 



Now this is exactly what my system enables doing, de- 

 veloping to a practical basis those principles of necessary 

 power, while there is a clear understanding of what is re- 

 quired to be done impressed upon the mind, which is at the 

 same time aided and encouraged by the most powerful 

 appeals to the better part of the nature, until prompt will- 

 ing obedience is secured and fully established. This has 

 been the object of SCHRISTIAN, OFFUTT, RAREY, and others, 

 to accomplish, but in vain, as shown by the simple method 

 of throwing shown by all those including Rarey, by redu- 

 cing vitality, as shown by South Americans, the Indians on 

 our western plains, and the Chilians. Of course, very 

 remarkable and satisfactory results were and can be often 

 shown by these methods of subjection, but from necessity, 

 coming far short of those essential points aimed at, and so 

 necessary to that perfect success, which we are able to do 

 by my treatment, which enable results in many cases in 

 less than an hour, entirely impossible to accomplish by such 

 or any other treatment heretofore in use. 



SUBJECTION OLD METHODS OF. 



The rudest and most injurious methods of subduing hor- 

 ses are those which tend directly to lower the strength or 



