Description: Training and Education Makes the Horse 1879 This is the front page of the American Agriculturist issue of March, 1879. The sheet measures 9 x 12 inches in size. It is in excellent and very attractive condition. The American Agriculturist was a monthly periodical mostly devoted to articles of interest to farmers. This cover features a wood engraved rural scene of three men approaching a horse they hope to tame. The illustration measures 7.5 x 6.5 inches in size, and is captioned, NOT SO INNOCENT AS HE SEEMS. Below it is a related text of 58 lines, which says, in part: Training and Education Make the Horse. The face of a horse is as good an index of his character as that of a man; the eye, especially marks his disposition. . . . Every good horseman learns, sooner or later, to carefully note this organ in the examination of a horse, as an index of temper, and latterly more attention has been given to breeding for mental qualities as well as for form. . . . Our artist and engravers have skillfully portrayed a colt whose eye evidently is not soft and gazelle-like, but he has a face full of intelligence and spirit. . . . he knows the virtues of his hoofs and teeth in keeping off those he pleases to consider his enemies. The catching of such a colt . . . is no easy master. . . . This fine fellow watches the motions of his would-be captors with suspicion, evidently conscious of the concealed bridle . . . But we doubt the desirability of having such animals on the farm. We do want that spirit, energy, and conscious strength, but it should be in a different condition. The fault is probably in the owner and not in the colt. We know of a trainer, who, when he goes into the pasture among his colts, will have every one of them about him rubbing their noses against him, and each jealous of attentions bestowed upon the others. His methods are simple: they are, to begin gentling and training the colts at a month old; kindness; firmness; never deceiving the animal; encouraging and rewarding obedience, and punishing disobedience rarely by the whip, but usually by abstaining from caresses and the tit-bits given to reward him at other times. These are the chief means necessary in making a wild colt docile without crushing his spirit. And such training makes all the difference between a worthless and a valuable horse . . . . Etc. _gsrx_vers_1680 (GS 9.8.3 (1680))
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