Show ijjas TO K I 1 12 7 11 ak GROOMING THE FARM HORSE kindness to a i aarin herno is I 1 n why should the really valuable vilu able working horse to bo large a alper in fit broad winning not lip br to his hin owner a 1 source of greater interest nit an object of greater grealer care ono one donth of the lie care bestowed on oil a 4 great sporting porting horse would make a I 1 farm horse feel too proud of itself but there is little risk of such a horses borso e eier er feeling too ton proud front from any tuch huch remon reason A scotch hired plowman grooms his team with 3 degree of loving interest and arido to which the average canadian farmer fanner is almost a stranger though tho th clydesdale team belongs to another man mail and tl alio llio so man who works it i is only a hireling IV while the canadian generally owns the team and sig ns a rule abo farm as well why should not the more valuable beast because the more useful have a little of the alie warmth of interest bestowed upon him that is ungrudgingly bc stowed on a 2 trotter the farmer who looks on his bis farm his bis stock and his other belongings merely as a means to make money which lie he is reluctantly forced to stick 0 to O will never find either cither profit or pleasure u r ein in his work buethe but the man who feels pride in his beasts beaste and has haa a kindly feeling toward them is sure to turn the commonest drudgery into a source of pleasure and make a good deal more money into the bargain the vi writer riter aers went lately into a barn where a lot of farmers horses were stabled at after ter delivering their loads leads of wheat baill at the elevator 11 one team was in in fine condition and lie ile complimented the young mail who owned them the owner said they were eating nothing but oat baraw and four quarts of oats at a feed why said the next nest man mail along my team gets a of oats antl and good hay all the time and they are very much thinner than linn yours in III fact I 1 cannot put flesh on them tho the other in man an s was soon toll to his horses were carefully blank pl whenever they went into a cold bablo R at t the end of a trip trill to market and when cooled in that way were thoroughly groomed that lad and his two brothers who do the samo same thin thing will have those thos e same teams good ton to use s e and good to loo look k atlon at long after the present generation of f unskillfully managed and unwisely fed beabes r have been killed by pneumonia or going similar disease and ana thrown to the kindness even to a farm horse is al paying investment norwest cst farmer t a |