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HORSE SENSE AND PROPER TRAINING Most of us are admirers of good practical sense. Among farmers and those that train or break horses for their own use or for others it is an admirable trait of which they all boast. But comparatively few apply it in this phase of their work. Few have learned that the secret of successfully training an animal to be absolutely reliable lies in permanently fixing the proper impressions upon his mind. Habits are neither good nor bad to the horse. Bad habits are the result of improper training or accidents. Good habits are. the logical result of proper training. t The false idea that a horse can reason is not a benefit to the animal, but lias resulted in much harm being done. The harm is often caused by people punishing the horse for not obeying a signal or command which he had never been taught, and which, because of his inability to reason, lie cannot understand. The horse is much larger and stronger than man, but is far his inferior in brain development aud capacity. The several purts of the horses brain are not connected, but separate. The fact is borne out both by an examination of the animals brain and by experience in horse training. This explains why a horse will shy at an object from one side and not from the other side; or why a horse may have a particular foot which lie does not want shod that portion of his brain , has not had the proper impression made on it. - H. E. Coffey lu Golden Age.
