Show ABOUT HORSES i 1 A A publication ca called I d Bit Bt and and Spur c conies rn s tous to t. t jis us lS monthly Jt It tt lsd mostly t to horses and to t those who wh wait waft upon upon horses and filled with bea beautiful ful illustrations of f flyers and pullers and j jumpers and is a reminder of t the e days not J long Jong ng ag ago c oilier cither when it was the ambition of every man man to a aI f fast st horse and arid of ot every Yer lad lady in l the cities espe especially I cialI to 10 have a finer carriage team than her hGr next cIpF I go i I neighbor ari and if the next ext neighbor had a greater house se ni m r rc furniture iture more works of f art more inore servants cr and could pu put on more airs generally gener goner ally s she tc ic did cUd not care are so that tha l her r team 1 could o outshine out out- t- t sh shine her ler neighbors neighbor team r This journal is full of useful writings For instance in in- in- in t stance in inthe the last to co come e we learn t. t that in Can Canada d from rom th the registered llO horses there are arc in th that t c country coun country coun- coun un- un try 1659 Shir Shires s and that tha the registration of d halt draft att horses s larger than at nt a any time in the thc past And nd speaking peaking of ot dratt horses while a great many man people think the horse hors is passing and it looks looIs so so at times still stil i in the single year ear of bf f 1910 highly bred Par Pal ch lo s were imported into the United States from France i-arice and the thc claim is p put t forth i this thi-s book t th the is the thc great groat horse of the earth ea th tint it is is' the hc only pound 2000 horse hors that can trot like Jike a ai i roadster and nd its hs f fast st walking qualities make it es especially d desirable sila le for all kinds d ds of farm arm work In Ina j a another oth r place pace we ee ce cc that the horse hOlse j good in iLls his his Va way has not should d tleta ls of tl Clyde de which makes the Clyde Clide so sure sire surefooted f footed and exa exactly adjusted for fOI h heavy vy pulling g b be- be l ca e the collar is is' is sure sire yle t tb tO hit every part of the shoulder or An it Anit And it it i is further stated that for for great hOM horses cS we we J eat eat h the thc treat ireat draft horses is steadily increasing despite lie lic encroachments tt t the automobile And nd ud the c lira Ue ita some home I ladies ieS who 9 yet vet ct lo love horses be because aus in tl the recent ent Brooklyn D horse show the tile li d ladies es drove dlO me we cs and while there is nothing in ip tl fh world so so retty as a a aliett pretty etty woman oman driving ng a span spai of steppers step step- pers I ers rs we ve do not lil like so well to too sue see t them on a cb tl th tt have bc c four foul horses t tg handle hanle nn and a aA a ank A A pa page c is devoted c to t the he hackney an and the in some ways wars is is the most interesting ting of oi 1 IJ ho horses 1 In 1 the first e an educated Hackney the wisest looking horse on e earth and when leople see e they are are ready to 10 admit th t fie je ic earth i i not good enough for him to 10 travel ra 1 1 ai aile le c 0 is s always s 's a high stepper nn and l yet ct h is he-is is about ic c st affectionate aft of jill all horses lIe He is is isan an old 0 id tp lp U that t 1 likes ke his friends and a goo good stable with ith withof ith c t. t of foo food mid and a do dog for a companion muk mak s 's sI s sri I ri ni about the c h happiest st horse on earth There i is jg noting nothing ling that will vill l humanize a man Juan so 0 uch as to study th the good points of if a horse and and one stock with another The rhe writer knew tw two colts cols They taken from the thc same farm farni farmen len en 4 years ol old od t to be Je trained d. d They rhey had bad grown t together geth l 1 They hey were put In hi a adjoining join I g stalls d 4 after fter da days thc they understood l the business lt t at t certain a ct in hour in the morning they were to tove toye toe e ve ye their first feed at a certain other hour they thc jre re re to be groomed and lind after four fOUL days one u of r rsc se sc colts who had b been en watching the thc the perform perform perform- e. e was content in the moraine if his hi's brother brothel oss os 8 the the stall tall was was' taken out o t to be be groomed first first It t t- if any ot other r h horse in the barn was was vas taken out outi it 1 i then h he tore the st stable down He lIe would have har it that way He had reasoned it out lil that t. t morning grooming was 18 one o the essentials i h that the one n picked out first held 1101 t l t oj f ov over r nIl alt the rest and he was bound t to toe tor r e that pr preference nc unless it came to his b brother other his family there was excited excite and he was was l tent And Aud so we arc dreaming that b by and b by there come back bak some sonic old arcadian days daR when some ty f human men and women will find an island ii in ine under soft where there will wil Jc e e sunny s sea a a sky rooks and green grass lass and flowers flower and tre trees s where here thc they can all congregate and have a as jy y hors horses s as us thc they want and mid spend the declining Vs s 5 of OLF life with horses and do dogs s and nd with cacTi r restoring that little part of the world orld to it innocence and thus without a a. a jar ded de dc d I the afternoon of life into an evening so soft thc they not know when it com comes R t 1 th the day a birds bi s go o to their nests an and the th night night- l Jc c tak takes s up her bai song und under i the af u |