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a recognized flaw that brands imperfection. Common 
blemishes are wire fence cuts, hock enlargements, blis- 
tered surfaces,'and scars from improperly healed wounds. 
14. Schooling —Boys and girls are sent to school to 
learn useful things and to develop their mental capabil- 
ities. Horses, like boys and girls, must be educated and 
trained in order that they may attain the power for them 
to give their best service in any one or more directions. 
A colt should be educated to do its work, but this educa- 
tion should be along the lines of usefulness for which it 
is best fitted by breeding and inheritance. A draft colt 
should not be trained for work on the race track, nor a 
colt of speed breeding for the plow. Yet each should be 
educated to its class, because it is only through such 
training and schooling that a high degree of proficiency 
is attained. . 
15. Educating the colt.—The old idea of “breaking” 
a horse is giving way to educating the colt. Training 
from the early days of colthood is a far better way of 
securing control and subordination than through neglect 
until the age of putting to work. The little foal should 
be petted and haltered early in its life, and in this way 
will not become willful and headstrong. Taken in hand 
early, a colt’s education will he continuous, each step in 
training being taken at the proper time. When the time 
comes for driving and working, the final touches will be 
easy of accomplishment. It is of vital importance that 
during no state of the educational work should the colt 
or young horse be frightened or alarmed. Most of the 
difficulties encountered in way of the vices and faults of 
adult life have their beginnings in fear and distrust aris- 
ing during the training time. 
