The matter relating to the purchase of stallions should prove specially interesting and valuable. It is a matter of general knowledge among the initiated that stallions are frequently sold at excessive prices to companies of farmers, and that “peddlers” of such stallions are unscrupulous in their methods of obtaining signers to the notes taken for the purchase of such horses. The facts published with respect to this business should serve to warn farmers that they are apt to be cheated in purchasing a stallion on the “company plan,” and that it is always best, safest and most profitable to purchase a stallion direct from a reputable breeder or importer, for by so doing much money will be saved and the horse bought will be much more likely to prove sound and suitable and to give satisfaction. Dr. Alexander desires in this place to acknowledge his indebtedness to the publishers of the various farm and stock papers from the pages of which extracts have been taken. WILMER ATKINSON CO. Contents. Page HORSE FEEDING SECRETS 7 Secret of Hand Raising a Foal 7 Secret of Feeding Silage to Horses 8 Secret of Fattening Drafters 9 Secret of Feeding Molasses 10 SECRETS OF VARIOUS VICES 12 Secret of Stopping Halter Pulling 12 Secret of Preventing Mules from Kicking 13 Secret of Tying a Mare with a Foal 13 Secret of Handling a Balky Horse 13 Secret of Curing a Stall Kicker 16 SECRET TRICKS IN HORSE TRADING 18 Secret of Shutting a Heaver 18 Secret of Plugging a Roarer 18 Diamond Cut Diamond 19 Making a Horse Act Mean 20 Blowing Air Under the Skin 20 Stopping a Switcher 20 Turpentine and Gasoline Tricks 21 Gingering a Show Horse 21 Unnerving and Cocaining 22 Keep an Eye on the Sign Board 22 Secret of Hiding a Spavin 23 Artificially Induced Knee Action 23 Artificial Tail Trick 24 Keeping a Horse “In the Air” 24 The Loose Shoe Trick 25 Wire Marks Over Side-Bones 25 Wedging a Cribber 25