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Title: Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Baker, A. H. (Austin Hart), 1852-
Subjects: Livestock Veterinary medicine
Publisher: Kansas City, Mo. : Intercollegiate Press
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dependence upon the mas-ter prompts him to go forward, even into the most imminent danger, with-out other sign than that of eager curiosity or of obedience to the will ofthe rider or driver. It is true that all this may be accomplishea i>v the whip and spur,vvhich are, even now, freely and needlessly used by some brutal teamsters,as well as by many really liumane persons, who have never sought to un-derstand the intelligence of the hor.se, .ind far less that of the other do-mestic animals under their care. Hence, to persons of this latter class,the horse is a slave, whereas, to the intelligent master, he is a servant anx-ious and eager to do his will. The clement of fear cannot, of course, beentirely dispensed with in training. A wilful animal must be subdued atany cost of punishment, but this punishment should be as intelligentlyand humanely administered as in the case of a child. Those who trainanimals should first, themselves, lear-n to know what the animal means 208 3 I ^ P o o
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HOW TO TRAIN A HORSE. 209 by his mute language ; in the case of the horse, for instance, they shouldknow at a glance what is meant by the play of the ears, the arch of theneck, the expression of the eyes, and the attitude generally. Thesethings once understood, more than half the difficulty of training is over-come. II. The American Way Better than the English. It has often been remarked that English horses are wilder, more dan*gerous and difficult to subdue, have stronger resisting powers, and aremore liable at any time to exhibit freaks of temper, than American-bredhorses. This is quite true, and for the reason that, in England, the oldsystem of horse-breaking is more in vogue than in this country. InEngland, colts are not raised on every farm, as in the United States andCanada, to be the friends and the pets of the children. Their keepers aregenerally ignorant servants, who seem to think that horses have but twoimpulses—to eat and to iiijure. In America, colts are the pets of the

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