no EVERY MAN HIS OWN TRAINER. 



grating to the United States. Mr. H. B. Kirkham, the ship 

 carpenter, has always done my work as he thoroughly under- 

 stands the business and is very reliable and^ will follow in- 

 structions. I have him build a regular box-stall about ten feet 

 sqqare, with a good feed manger, and an extra partition with 

 a groove in each end to slide in the boards to make a narrow 

 stall, just wide enough for the horse to stand up in. I put a 

 heavy pad in front and another behind, with two heavy pieces 

 of canvas about six inches wide with ropes at each end to 

 make what we call a sling — one to go just in front of the hind 

 legs and the other back of the front legs. The ropes being 

 attached above the horse and being drawn up just close 

 enough to keep the horse from falling down in case of a storm 

 or rough weather. But in pleasant weather the horse is al- 

 lowed the liberty of the box-stall, with plenty of nice fresh 

 sawdust, changed every day, for a bed. I have had a number 

 of horses that went the entire voyage in the box-stall, not 

 having to be put in the narrow stall or sling, andthey have 

 actually gained from twenty-five to thirty pounds on the trip. 

 We always put on board plenty of good hay in bales, say one 

 hundred and twenty-five pounds to a horse ; oats, soft feed, 

 usually fine ships. We usually feed very lightly on grain the 

 first few days out, giving them plenty of hay ; then if the 

 weather is good and the horse keeps well and has a good ap- 

 petite, we increase the feed to about what they have been in 

 the habit of having at home. 



1 have never had but one horse that anything happened 

 to. That was Jessie Hammond, seven years old, and one of 

 the cleverest, best dispositioned horses I ever knew. He was 

 a grand, good race horse with a record of 2:25;^. I put him 

 aboard as 1 always had the other horses. He seemed to be 

 all right and in good health, was not at all nervous or fright- 

 ened when we put him in the box to lower him down into the 

 hold, but as soon as the vessel got up steam and moved away 

 from the dock he commenced to tremble, puff and blow and 

 kept it up for three days. He would not eat a mouthful of 



