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misused ; to fit-him for his future task, he must be deprived 
of liberty, and subjected to artificial feeding and training, 
almost from the time he quits the side of his dam. No time 
is allowed him for that exercise in the field which his instinct 
points out as the most suitable and natural, nor for partaking 
of that food in the open air, which is best of all others to 
preserve health, and answer the demand of the sanguiferous 
system in the young animal. He must be trained, bled, 
physicked, sweated, and subjected to restraint in his natural 
motion, at the time when the animal functions should have 
their natural play.” 
These assertions are positive enough. Yet I think it is 
easy to prove that the Professor is wrong in every point. 
The cruel treatment and restraint to which the foal is 
subjected from the time it leaves the side of its dam, of 
which he speaks, may be summed up in the following 
brief description. 
The colt is, when weaned, confined in a stable with a 
companion or two, until he has forgotten his dam. Then 
he is with the others set at liberty, depasturing in well 
sheltered paddocks and comfortably housed at night ; when 
he has the best of corn and natural and artificial grasses of 
all kinds, and has in every other way all that he desires for 
his comfort. It will be seen that he does not lose his liberty, 
as the Professor would have us believe, at the time of his 
quitting the side of his dam, or indeed until some twelve or 
fourteen months after, when eighteen or twenty months old. 
Up to this time he enjoys the most perfect freedom of action. 
He daily exercises himself according to his natural propen- 
sities, either galloping or idly taking his rest. What is this 
but natural exercise? and where is the restraint so much 
objected to? Iam free to confess I cannot see it ; and more, 
I am bold enough to say it does not exist. But the time 
