The farmer's encyclopedia: a hand-book of general information. A complete book of reference on the horse, the farm, dairying, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry, bee-keeping, home medicine, the secrets of good cooking, invalid cookery, 600 illustrations

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Introduction

A T an early age I was, in a chance way, led into the study of the principles of subduing and controlling vicious horses. In 1859 and 60, I was betrayed into teaching what I had learned by such experiments in this study, and in this way was finally induced to make it a permanent calling, in which I continued for nearly twenty years. I had at first, of course, but a very imperfect and limited knowledge of the subject, there being no principles or methods of instruction known, nor authorities to consult, of even the crudest character, before my time. In order, therefore, to combat successfully the difficul¬ ties which I met, I was forced to strike into a new path of study that finally led into the discovery of new and original principles and methods of subjection. By these methods I was not only led to revolutionize all previous ideas and meth¬ ods on the subject, but to exhibit such results in controlling vicious horses easily, safely, and quickly as to be entirely be¬ yond what it was possible to do by any other known methods of treatment, thus awarding me the success in this field of ef¬ fort which I was so fortunate as to obtain.

With the aid of this knowledge, I was often able, in from a few minutes’ to an hour’s time, to perform the apparently as¬ tonishing feats of effectually subduing and making gentle vic¬ ious colts and horses that had resisted months or years of the most skillful and persevering efforts, and were regarded prac-

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INTRODUCTION,\ tically worthless. These feats were performed daily before my classes in illustrating my instruction.

In the early winter of 1878-79, I became so seriously broken down in health in consequence of the long-continued strain to which I had been subject, that I was compelled to leave the road. I concluded now to give to the public the full benefit of my experience, which up to this time I had taught to my classes under oath of inviolate secrecy. This knowledge I expected to embody in a work of from two to three hundred pages ; but with the effort to make it as complete and thorough as possible, the work grew upon my hands until it comprised over one thousand large octavo pages, with nearly one thou¬ sand illustrations. This book, when published, I was pleased to find was accepted by the best authorities, not only as the first on the subject treated, but as the finest and most complete work on the horse that had yet been published. Though the sale of this book had been entirely beyond my anticipation, there was a general desire on the part of farmers and stock owners to have added information on the care and manage¬ ment of stock. To do this in a way to make it entirely reli¬ able, I employed the best veterinary talent to prepare the re¬ quisite matter. To make the necessary room for this, required the rewriting and abridgment of the Horse Book , bringing it down to nearly half its original size, and necessarily excluding much matter of interest to horse owners, — matter that had an important bearing on the secrets of subjection. In order to make it what I wished, I found it necessary to extend it to the large size of over 1100 pages , illustrated by 1700 engravings and plates. Wherever presented, this book has been accepted with the most flattering favor by the farming community.

Finding, however, that a great many farmers could not af¬ ford to buy so large and expensive a work, and wishing to bring the knowledge it contained in its most practical form

INTRODUCTION.

V within the reach of this class, I was induced to abridge this book as much as possible, giving the most im/portant facts , so as to make it available to them at the loivest possible price. And I think it must be admitted that I have made the most valuable book for the price that has yet been published.

In this work I have included additional features of special interest to the farmer’s family. I would call particular atten¬ tion to the instructions on cookery, embodying a great many valuable secrets known only to and practiced by the best of cooks, together with the fullest instructions for invalid cookery. Yery valuable instruction is also given in regard to the treat¬ ment of special dangerous but common diseases.

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PRINCIPAL AUTHORITIES CONSULTED

In preparing Stock department of the Standard Horse and Stock Book , from ivhich this work has been abridged.

Read’s “Farming for Profit,” Sheldon’s “Dairy Farming,” Long’s “British Dairy Farming,” Randall’s “Sheep Husbandry” (Orange Judd & Co., N. Y.), Periam’s “ American Encyclopedia of Agriculture,” Harris on “ Manures,” Flint’s “Grasses,” Barry’s “Fruits and Garden,” Saunder’s “Insects Injurious to Fruit” (J. B. Lippincott, Phila.), Holbrook’s “Eating for Strength,” “Hygienic Cook Book” (Good Health Publishing Co., Battle Creek, Mich.), Florence Nightingale’s “Notes on Nursing,” Beeton’s “Book of the Household,” and files of leading agricultural papers.

CHAPTER I. Preliminary Remarks

Intelligence of the Horse — Wilkin’s Horse — Malone Horse — Pledg¬ ing $500 to Make a Vicious Stallion Stand Still in Fifteen Min¬ utes— Jet — Mansfield Horse — Interesting Experiments — Captain Wood’s Experiment on California Horse — Temperaments . 17-34

CHAPTER II. Principles of Treatment

Special Explanations — Principles and Secrets of Taming Vicious Horses — Simple Methods of Control — The War Bridle — Its Value — Various Forms — The Foot-strap — Details of General Methods of Subjection — Wonderful Effects — The Most Vicious Horse Made Gentle within Forty Minutes — Training the Mouth — The Break¬ ing Rig — Qualifications of the Trainer.35-76

CHAPTER III. Colt Training

Age and Disposition of Colt — Making the Wild Colt Follow In¬ stantly— Various Methods of Teaching Colts to Lead — Making the Vicious Colt Gentle — Driving in Harness without Breeching — Mounting — Handling the Feet — Hitching, etc. . . 77-100

CHAPTER IV. Fear

Susceptibility to Fear — How to Prevent Fear — Overcoming Fear — Driving any Nervous Colt or Horse without Breeching— Interest¬ ing Experiments — Special Objects—Fear of Umbrella — Sound of Gun—■ Railroad Cars, etc.101-108

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CHAPTER Y.

Balking.

Preventing the Habit — Starting the Balker — Jockey Tricks — What Good Management Will Do — How to Break up the Habit — Double Balking — Simple, Effective Treatment . . . 109-117

CHAPTER VI. Kicking

Causes of Kicking — How to Prevent the Habit-—Making any Colt or Vicious Kicker Gentle to Drive — Experiments by the Author before Classes, in Driving the Worst Kickers Gentle without Breech¬ ing— Runaway Kickers — Confirmed Kickers — Switching Kickers — Kicking while Harnessing.118-128

Chapter VII

j Running Away—Will not Stand or Back.

Runaway Kickers — Resisting the Bit—Simple Method of Training the Mouth — Bad to Shoe—Simple Treatment — How to Make the Worst Cases Gentle to be Shod — Leaning Over, etc. . 129-140

CHAPTER VIII. Matter-pullin g

Preventing the Habit — How to Hitch the Colt so that he will not Learn to Pull— Experiments by the Author before his Classes — Training any Halter-puller in Two Minutes so that he Could Not be Made to Pull Back — One of the Author’s Important Secrets . 141-145

CHAPTER XII. Shoeing

Causes of Injury and Lameness — Preparing the Foot for the Shoe—

The Shoe — Form and Fitting — Nailing — Driving and Clinching Nails Down-—• Resetting Shoes — Contraction, its Prevention and Cure—-Corns—-Pricking — Treads, or Calks . . . . 182-200

Physiological Plates.201-216

CHAPTER XIII. Diseases

Preliminary Explanations : Preventing Disease, Ventilation, Circula¬ tion— Catarrh — Laryngitis, or Sore Throat—Strangles, or Horse Distemper—Pneumonia, or Inflammation of the Lungs — Pleurisy —■ Epizootic Pink-eye — Heaves, or Broken Wind — Chronic Cough — Colic — Flatulent or Wind Colic — Inflammation of the Bowels — Laminitis, or Founder — Chronic Founder . . . 217-241

CHAPTER XIV. Diseases. — Continued

Lameness, Sprains, Bruises, etc.—Spavin — Ring-bone — Curb — Capped Hock — Navicular or Coffin-joint Lameness — Fits, Me¬ grims, or Vertigo — Injury of the Eyes, Ophthalmia — Bots — Worms — Superpurgation, Diarrhea — Fistula of the Withers and Poll Evil. 242-258

CHAPTER XV. Diseases. — Continued

Scratches and Cracked Heels — Grease — Mange, Hen Lice — Cuts and Wounds, New and Important Treatment — Lymphangitis, or Mon¬ day Morning Leg — Thrush — Wind Galls — Saddle and Collar Galls — Sweeny— Counter Irritants, their Use—Hot Fomenta¬ tions— Poultices — Additional Prescriptions . . . .259-283

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CHAPTER XVI. The Farm

Barnyard Manure — Superphosphate of Lime — Home-made Guano — Solid Animal Manures — To Dissolve Large Bones — How to Double Manure — Twenty Dollars’ Worth of Manure for almost Nothing—Fish Compost — Manuring with Green Crops — Ashes from Soil by Spontaneous Combustion — Substitute for Barn Ma¬ nure — Ashes — Salt — Old Plaster — Liquid Manure — Plowing Clay Lands — Plowing Sandy Soils — Depth of Plowing . 284-293

Plates of Grasses. 294-304

CHAPTER XX. Dairying

Points of a Cow — Breeds of Cattle — $40,000 Cow — Feeding Cows — Artificial Feeding—Regulation of Food — Physiology of Milk — Pure Milk — Defects of Milk — Milk Difficult to Churn — Pres¬ ervation of Milk — Butter-making — Buttermilk — Packing and Shipping — Cheese-making — Milk-vats .... 340-370

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CHAPTER XXI. Diseases of Cattle

Prevention of Disease -—Nursing — Pleuro-pneumonia — Anthrax, or Bloody Murrain — Epizootic Aphtha, or Foot and Mouth Disease — Diseases of the Respiratory Organs—Catarrh; Colds — Malig¬ nant Catarrh — Laryngitis, or Sore Throat — Bronchitis — Pneu¬ monia— Anaemia, or Hollow Horn 371-388

CHAPTER XXII. Diseases of Cattle .— Continued

Injuries of the Mouth — Choking— Wounds —Diarrhea, or “ Scours’'’

— Haematuria, or Bloody Urine — Nephritis, or Inflammation of the Kidneys — Red Water — Eczema — Herpes — Fowl — Foreign Substances in the Eye—Gadfly, or Warbles — Ringworm — Lice — Mange... 389-404

CHAPTER XXIII. Calving

Natural Parturition-—Retained After birth—Flooding — Inversion of the Uterus— Original and Successful Treatment by Dr. Me Beth — Leucorrhea — Abortion — Sore Teats — Mammitis, or Inflamma¬ tion of the Udder ......... 405-415

Plates of Breeds of Sheep— Long-wooled Sheep, Short wooled Sheep,

Breeds of Sheep in Asia, Europe, and America . . 416-421

CHAPTER XXIV. Sheep - raisin g

Raising Sheep—Care and Management—Dry, Clean Pasturage Im¬ portant— Management of Ewes and Lambs—Dipping for Ticks — Care and Feeding in Winter — Teeth of Sheep — Diseases of Respiratory Organs — Diseases of the Digestive Organs — Diseases of the Blood — Contagious or Transmissible Diseases — Parasitic Diseases — Lambing and Attendant Diseases . . . 422-445

CHAPTER XXV. Breeding and Care of Swine

Diseases of Swine Largely Due to Improper Food and Management — Great Losses in Consequence — Choosing Parents of Stock — Best Time for Breeding — Gestation Feeding — Breeds of Hogs 446-456

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CHAPTER XXVI. Diseases of Swine

Anthrax, or So-called Hog Cholera—Nature of the Disease — Conta¬ gious Pleuro-Enteritis; Mr. Long’s Remedy ; An Illinois Farmer’s Remedy ; An Infallible Remedy , Mr Moore’s Remedy; Kim¬ berly’s Smartweed Cure; etc. . ... 457-465

CHAPTER XXVII. Diseases of Swine , — Continued

Malignant Epizootic Catarrh —Apoplexy — Cold and Cough — Consti¬ pation-Diarrhea, or “ Scours ’-Diphtheria-—Epilepsy, or Stag¬ gers — Inflammation of the Lungs, or Pneumonia—Parasites of Swine ; Kidney Worms, Lice, Mange, Trichinosis, Strongylus Paradoxus .......... 466-478

CHAPTER XXVIII. Poultry and the Fyg Interest

Breeds and Breeding—Food, Feeding, and Marketing — Packing and Preserving Eggs — Poultry Architecture — Eggs and Incubation — Natural Incubation — Artificial Incubation — Diseases of Poultry —Catarrh—Cholera — Diarrhea — Gapes — Giddiness, or Vertigo — Gout, or Swelled Legs — Lice — Pip ..... 479-496

CHAPTER XXIX. The Faithful Dog

His Intelligence and Usefulness — His Wonderful Powers — Diseases

CHAPTER XXX. Dee Culture

Importance of Bee-keeping as an Industry — Modern Progress in Bee Culture — Description of Bees — Swarming — Liquid and Comb Honey— Hives — Preparing Bees for Winter — Storing and Mar keting Comb Honey. 507-519

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CHAPTER XXXI. Valuable Secrets Known to Good Cooks

Importance of Good Cooking— Yeast and Bread : Sanitarium Formu¬ las ; Marion Harland’s Method — Dr. Heald’s Favorite Bread —

The Famous Vienna Bread — Buttermilk Bread—$100 Premium Bread — Graham Muffins — Wheat Meal Unleavened Gems — Wheat Meal Rolls — Breakfast Rolls — Breakfast Puffs, or Gems — Anger’s Method of Making Gems —Whole-wheat Muffins — Currant Muffins — Rolls — French Rolls — Tremont House Rolls — Southern Corn Bread — Virginia Corn Pone — The Famous St. Charles Indian Bread — Vienna Rolls — Graham Bread — Buck¬ wheat Cakes— Pancakes — Graham Griddle Cakes — How to Boil,

Fry, Roast, etc.—Howto Boil Potatoes — Irish Method of Boil¬ ing Potatoes — Baked Potatoes — Pork and Beans — Ham and Eggs — Omelette — Boiled Eggs — Poached Eggs — Beef Stew — Chicken Pie, etc., etc. ....... 520-561

CHAPTER XXXII. Invalid Cookery

Rules to be Observed in Cooking for Invalids — Duties of Sick-nurse —

To Make Arrowroot — Barley Gruel — Barley Water — Beef Tea, Special Instructions, Soyer’s Method — Calf’s Foot, How to Stew — Calf’s Foot Broth — Chicken Broth — Nutritious Coffee — In¬ valid’s Cutlet — Egg Wine — Gruel — Invalid’s Jelly — Lemonade for Invalids — Nourishing Lemonade — Stewed Rabbits in Milk —

Rice Milk—Toast and Water — Nutrina, or Bran Jelly — Flaxseed Lemonade — Fresh Eggs, Special Preparation for Invalids . 562-571

CHAPTER XXXIII. Diseases, etc

Water and Germs — Danger of Using Impure Water — Germs Cause of Typhoid, Malarial, and Other Fevers — How to Test Purity of Water — Filters — Water, its Use in Disease — Dyspepsia — Mala¬ rial Fever — Blanket Pack —Typhoid Fever, New Treatment, Im¬ portant Discovery—Measles — Scarlet Fever, Special Points of Caution — Croup—• Whooping Cough — Diphtheria — Pneumonia — Fomentations — Asthmatic Bronchitis— Rheumatism — Diarrhea, New Remedy — Constipation — Colic — Neuralgia — Dis¬ eases Peculiar to Women — Nervous Prostration, How to Prevent, Conditions of Cure—Special Caution, Sleep and Rest—Duties of Sick-nurse — Ventilation — Valuable Remedies — Household Rec¬ ipes, etc., etc., etc. 572-614

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CHAPTER XXXIV. Famous Cosmetic Secrets

Preparation Used by the Countess of Landsfeldt — Complexion Paste Used by the Celebrated Madam Vestris—Preparation Used by the Beauties of the Court of Charles II.—Cure for Eruptions and Pimples — Queen Elizabeth’s Complexion Wash — Freckle Unc¬ tion Used by the Celebrated Madame de Maintenon, Wife of Louis XIV.—Prevention Wash for Sunburn — Baron Dupuytren’s Po¬ made— Hair Cleanser Used by Lola Montez, the Countess of Landsfeldt — The Famous Honey Water, One of the Most Valua¬ ble Secrets — To Prevent Hair Turning Gray, Used by a Famous Spanish Actress ......... 615-618

CHAPTER XXXV. Social Sins

Valuable Information — Its Importance to the Family—Principles Regulating the Marriage Relation — Unwritten Sins — Their Danger — How to Avoid Them — New Secrets — The True Mor¬ ality of Wedded Life— Counsel of the Ancient Brahmin . . 619-630

Chapter I Preliminary Remarks; Abuse Of Horses

B EFORE taking up regular details, I wish to call jour atten¬ tion to some important points. First : That the horse, when treated intelligently, is really very easily managed, and that, too, by treatment that any one, however dull, should be able

Fig. 1.—An intelligent, courageous, yet extremely sensitive nature.

to use, if only patient and careful. But if at all spirited and intelligent, and treated ignorantly or wrongly, he can be made one of the most difficult and dangerous of brutes to control.

The better to illustrate the points I wish to impress, I will refer here to the statement of a neighbor, Mr. J. B. Sperry,

PRELIMINARY REMARKS.

who related to me the following from his recent experience. Now bear in mind, Mr. Sperry is not a horseman, but a business man, a produce dealer.

He had a mustang which he wished to have shod, but the horse would strike and kick so desperately that no man could

take up his foot except at the risk of his own life ; he was utterly unmanage¬ able, and blacksmiths could do nothing with him.

Mr. Sperry himself took him in hand, and in less than twenty minutes made him so gentle that he would stand on the floor and allow any foot to be taken up, and was shod without the least difficulty.

In conversation with the same gentleman, some time afterward, he gave me the following facts in relation to the manage¬ ment of a very bad balker he had recently obtained : This horse had been owned by several parties in the neighborhood, all good horsemen, one of them a livery-man ; but m defiance of all that could be done, the horse could not be made to go or to pull, and had been whipped and pounded enough to kill an ordinary horse. The man of whom Mr. Sperry got him, had abused the horse shamefully, repeatedly knocking him insensible, in fact nearly killing him. Mr. Sperry got the horse for a mere nothing, and said that

Fig. 2. —An intelligent, docile character.

Note. — In my large work there are seventy portraits of horses referred to in the text of that work, from which the portraits here given are selected.

ABUSE OF HORSES.

the animal was so cut up from the pounding and abuse that he had to let him rest a month, so as to have the cuts and bruises heal, and enable him to recover from the effects of the abuse. He then care¬ fully instructed his team¬ ster how to manage the horse, and put him to work ; and with the excep¬ tion of the first day, when he balked once a little, he worked right in without making the least trouble, and now he will pull a ton anywhere. To use his ex¬ act language, “He is one of the best working horses in the city, and I would not take $150 for him.”

On asking him particulars of what he had done, he said : “I first took your book and read it carefully, and then directed

the driver what to do, following exactly the course advised by you for simple treatment.”

In reply, I related to Mr. Sperry the fol¬ lowing incidents, com¬ ing recently to my no¬ tice, which are still more striking : —

A lady from Boise City, Id., Mrs. Thomas Johnson, who was at the Sanitarium in this place three years ago, upon going home obtained a copy of my book. She returned here recently, and stated to

PRELIMINARY REMARKS.

me that they had a half-breed mustang which was so vicious they could do nothing with him, and was practically worthless ; that she studied the book carefully, then went out with her husband to the yard, and, with the book on her lap, directed him what to do with the horse, and that in a short time he made the mustang entirely gentle ; that he has been driven in

harness and worked right along, remain¬ ing perfectly safe and gentle ever since.

She stated further that a neighbor of theirs owned a horse, also a mustang, which was so vicious that he could not be broken, and they had intended to shoot him. This woman took the book, and in like manner went out into the yard and directed her husband in the treatment to be used; and he in a short time made the horse entirely manageable. They have used him since then for their family driving, and he continues just as safe and gentle as any horse in the country.

I could give a great many cases of this character did space permit, but will refer simply to some representative cases in my own experience, — cases supposed to be so vicious as to be entirely worthless, yet, when treated properly, submitting readily, and proving perfectly gentle and manageable after¬ wards.

First: A horse in New York, referred to in my large work as the Wilkins horse. This horse was recognized as the worst in that city, and, as a final resort, had been taken to a preten¬ tious horse-tamer, who had orders to break him or kill him.

Fig. 5. —Sketch from life of the most vicious mustang pony the writer ever saw.

ABUSE OF HORSES.

The man worked upon the horse for a week, and tried to kill him rather than admit his defeat; but the horse, being a tough,

plucky fellow, fought through it, and the man had to send him home, with the state¬ ment that the horse had no brains and could not be broken.

More than a month afterward, when I saw this horse, he was scarred from head to foot, and that lie was not killed by the severity of the treatment to which he had been subjected, was owing to his remarkable vitality ; yet in forty minutes, by the simplest treat¬ ment, I had no difficulty

Fig. 6. — Nervous, excitable horse.

in making h i m entirely manageable,* and with a few slight repetitions of treatment, I afterward exhibited him in the pres¬ ence of Mr. Bergli and other leading humanita¬ rians, as a model of docil¬ ity.

In Cleveland, O., was the famous Malone horse, which had resisted for years every effort of the best horsemen, and was

Fig. 7.

A noted vicious horse.

* This horse, as a special test, was subjected by the writer to treatment before Mr. Bonner, under a forfeiture of $1000 if he was not made perfectly manageable and gentle within forty minutes, which was done. See reports of special committees and other experiments in New' York City, in my large work.

PRELIMINARY REMARKS.

finally pronounced hopelessly unmanageable, as no such kick¬ ing run-away horse was ever before known in that country. As a test, and with treatment easy for any one to use, I controlled him perfectly within forty minutes, making him so gentle that, with a little additional treatment, I drove him next day on the square without bridle, reins, or breeching, proving him to be one of the most gentle and safe carriage horses in the city.

In Lancaster, N. H., a fine blooded young stallion, owned by Mr. Stevens, to secure the best possible treatment was sent by him to a horse-breaker forty miles distant, who was recognized as the best in

Fig. 8. — Vicious.

Fig. 9.—Treacherous.

that country. This man, after working upon the horse for six weeks and being twice arrested for cruelty to him, sent him home as utterly unmanageable.* The owner positively asserted that such a horse could not be broken. Upon examination I assured him that there would be no trouble at all in making the horse gentle, that the trouble was the result entirely of improper treatment. So incredulous was he, that I was obliged to pledge $500 as a guarantee that the horse would not be injured, and in addition $25 to him for

* About six weeks before I went to Lancaster, this horse-trainer came twenty miles to attend one of my lectures. He at that time asked me if I intended to go to Lancaster; that if I did, I would find there the worst horse I ever had handled, etc. From his representations I was anxious to see and experiment upon the horse, and immediately W'rote my agent to be sure to put in Lancaster.

ABUSE OF HOUSES.

Fig. 10.—“Wild Pete.” A very peculiar and interesting case.

his time if I did not hitch up and drive the horse gentle within fifteen minutes. Upon trial, as I anticipated, it proved one of the sim¬ plest cases. The whole trouble was caused by his be¬ ing made insane with fear and ex¬ citement ; all I did was to overcome this, when he sub¬ mitted readily.

A young horse in Portland, Me., the famous Jet stallion, w a s r egarded hopelessly vicious. He had nearly killed one man, and seriously injured several others, and the owner, Pev. Mr. Hillman, refrained from shooting him only on the promise

of my going there to treat him; a n d the horse was kept shut up for ten months, until I was able to visit that city for the purpose.

Though the best horse¬ men in that country re¬ garded it as only the merest fool-hardiness to undertake to break such a horse, yet, as I had assured them, I expe¬ rienced no real diffi-

Fig. 11.—Strong-willed, intelligent character.

culty m making him en¬ tirely gentle and manageable when first tried, requiring but twenty-five minutes to bring him under complete control; and

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with slight repetition he was handled and driven afterwards en¬ tirely manageable.*

A case in Mansfield, 0., was a mare owned by McYay and Allison, purchased when three years old by them, with others, of L. L. Dorsey, of Kentucky. When purchased, she was so vicious a kicker that she was obtained by the parties mentioned at a greatly reduced price. Being fine blooded, the

Fig. 12. —The Arud Horse referred to in text as led out of stable to be subdued.

most persistent efforts had been made by the best horsemen from that time until she was seven years old, to break her, but she had finally to be given up as incorrigibly vicious. She could not be driven, w^as regarded too vicious to breed from, and was considered practically worthless. She had been worked upon and abused enough to kill any ordinary horse, all only making her worse. This mare was treated as a special test f on a for-

* In my large work I give very full and interesting particulars of forty of the best representative cases of vicious horses, giving age, disposition, character of resistance, with full details of treatment used.

f A number of jockeys planned to break me down and turn my efforts into ridi¬ cule by springing this mare upon me. The owners told their manager to take her in; that she was good for nothing, and even if she were killed, they would regard it no loss. No one supposed it possible to break such a mare, and it really could not have been done except by the treatment used upon her, which I gave only to my classes as an inviolate secret, under oath.

ABUSE OF HORSES.

feiture of $500 if not driven gentle without breeching in forty minutes, and she was controlled just within that time, the one lesson, in fact, breaking her perfectly, and she was after¬ wards used as a family driving horse of the very finest and most gentle character.*

Even if we had no special methods of subjection or treat¬ ment, with a proper understanding of the horse’s nature, and

Fig. 13.—The Fred Arnd Horse as seen by the writer four years

after being subdued.

the simplest means of control, there should be no trouble in making at least eight-tenths of what would be regarded as very bad horses entirely gentle and obedient; certainly all ordinary habits of resistance and viciousness could be prevented. To show what can be done in this way, I refer to some special cases.