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O. S. Pratt

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, HORSESHOEING,
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.

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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.

The Electrotyping, Printing and Binding, by
The Courier Company,
Buffalo, N. Y.

The Drawing and Engraving, by the
Bureau of Illustration,
Buffalo, N. Y.

To His Excellency, Ulysses S. Grant, President of theUnited 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 connectionwith the thousands in all the principal cities and towns ofthe United States and Canada, who have been members ofmy various classes, this work on The Education of TheHorse, is respectfully dedicated. Cheered by their presence,and encouraged by their approbation during the eightyears in which the author has been engaged in diffusing aknowledge of his system of Equine Education, their generousappreciation continues to fill the present with treasuredmemories of the past, amongst the most prized of which isthat of the friendship it has been his happiness to securefrom gentlemen distinguished alike in the walks of politics,religion, science, literature and art.

The Author.