THE TRAINING AND CHARACTER OF 

 HORSES. 



The following from a recent number of that useful 

 and practical publication, The Phrenological Journal, 

 will be .found of interest, and suggestive in the selec- 

 tion and management of horses : 



" Of our domestic animals none occupy more atten- 

 tion than the horse, and altogether there is no subject 

 with which general society is supposed to be more 



Fig. i.— Highest Type of Intelligence. 



familiar, yet when it is a question of positive knowl- 

 edge for a given purpose very few are able to meet 

 the case — even among farmers and stock raisers we 

 would scarcely find two who would agree entirely on 

 the training or education of a horse having a certain 

 trait or disposition. On the farm the treatment of 

 this most useful companion of man is for the most 

 part irregular, injudicious, and very often absolutely 



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