Show TO MAKE FARM LIFE UFE PLEASANTER In the current Issue jot of Farm and Fire Fire- sIdo appears the following follo Hagenbeck of or trained animal fame famo i was as the tho first to harness cros crosses cs and make them work For the past sven Iven years Uncle Undo Sam Sani has been beon conducting ex OX- OX partly with tim the utility end in view few but more particularly along along- line of ot the breeding characteristic of zebras The Tho experiments began when In 1306 the king of Abyssinia Ab presented President Roosevelt with a splendid Gre Grevy zebra a. This typo of ot zebra has never b been cn domesticated do do- SI so far as known and the hy hr- brid most mo most t of ot them Jennet zebra crosses crosses- ato aw perhaps more difficult to handle handlo than those trained by JIa Hagenbeck who used a I smaller type of zebra rebra I Ono One team of Uncle Sams Sam's hybrids s have o been harnessed and driven but they thoy are arc skittish and treacherous Even in the pasture at the tho government ta farm rm in Belts Belts- villo ild Md they are very hand handy with their hind feet teet The are stocky resembling a small draft horse In conformation I |