The Horse's Friend The Only Practical Method of Educating the Horse and Eradicating Vicious Habits; Followed by a Variety of Valuable Recipes, Instructions in Farriery, Horse-shoeing, the Latest Rules of Trotting, and the Record of Fast Horses Up to 1876

BY PROF. O. S. PRATT.

TENTH THOUSAND.

ILLUSTRATED BY OVER ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY ELEGANT ENGRAVINGS.

BUFFALO: PUBLISHED FOR THE AUTHOR. 1876.

Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1875, by O. S. PRATT, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D. C.

Entered according to the act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year 1876, by O. S. PRATT, In the Office of the Minister of Agriculture.

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DEDICATION.

To His Excellency, ULYSSES S. GRANT, President of the United States; to the members of the two houses of Congress, and to the gentlemen connected with Foreign Legations, who have belonged to my private classes, in connection with the thousands in all the principal cities and towns of the United States and Canada, who have been members of my various classes, this work on THE EDUCATION OF THE HORSE, is respectfully dedicated. Cheered by their presence, and encouraged by their approbation during the eight years in which the author has been engaged in diffusing a knowledge of his system of Equine Education, their generous appreciation continues to fill the present with treasured memories of the past, amongst the most prized of which is that of the friendship it has been his happiness to secure from gentlemen distinguished alike in the walks of politics, religion, science, literature and art.

THE AUTHOR.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

Portrait of O. S. Pratt, Frontispiece.