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Title: The art of taming and educating the horse ..
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Magner, Dennis. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Horses Horses
Publisher: Battle Creek, Mich., Review and Herald publishing house
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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nd, and, with the aid of my assistant,soon made him stand quietly to have the harness put uponhim, though he resisted the utmost of extreme treatmentbefore submitting. Another great and frequent cause of embarrassment tome was, after subjecting a horse to treatment before aclass, it was supposed that if the system was good foranything, he must perform equally well out of doors. Asfrequently explained, a horse must be subjected to treat-ment out of doors in order to insure his working there. Ifsubjected to treatment in a building only, when taken intothe streets where he has been in the habit of resisting, hewould be liable to show as much fear and resistance asthough not subjected to treatment at all. To let the horseresist under such circumstances would be fatal to mysuccess. Still this proof was in most cases demanded, andhad to be given. I have frequently referred to this difficulty in differentparts of the work, particularly in the last chapter—Familiar 522 PBESO)^AL EXPEEIENCE.
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Fig. 399.—As some vicious horses were frequently led in to be experimentedupon before the class. TEST EXPEEIMENTS. 523 Talk; but I will also refer to representative cases in pointhere. In my early career, and just before my experimentupon the Roberts Horse at Utica, N. Y., I visited Clin-ton, six miles distant, where I had a large class. Amongthe subjects brought in to be experimented upon was alarge bay horse, which had resisted every eifort to ridehim. I was soon able to get upon his back and ride around Fig. 300.—One of the tests usually given after subjection. the barn without his giving any sign of fear or resistance.Understanding his treacherous character, I knew that hecould not be safely ridden outside. But regardless of myprotests, the owner and entire class insisted that I shouldride him out of doors. Finally yielding to their demands, the door was thrownopen and I rode him out. He would have continued gentle,but the owner, as I was afterward informed, getting angrybecau

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