The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-06-12
The Horse-Endurance.


state Register, Is m modifying the opin-
IONS OF mankind relative to the healthy
endurance OF both man and horse. It
has long been known and acknowl-
edged that a man in the prime OF life.
and IN the practice, can travel further
IN day Tor long succession of DAYS
than horse. We notice that writer's
tlfUy and one hundred years ago
claimed that g. horse on tolerable
good roads, with an ordinary load
could safely travel twenty-five miles
per day, Tor six days in a week. And
that a man with a Light knapsack
could continuously travel thirtv-five
| miles per day. But since it has been
discovered that eight or ten hours a.
| day ls long enough for man to labor,
| days Journey is considerably short
ened. There is not, however, as much
foot travel as there was before rail-
roads. Then it was not uncommon
for men of means to 90 Journeys OF
one thousand miles on loot, with a
knapsack. We recollect VIM. Nc
| Cherry, of Indiana, in 1882, was ap.
pointed administrator of The estate OF
James Noble, who died at Wash.
| Ington City in that year, when a
United States senator from Indiana.
Mr.. McCleery was man worth $780,
600, which was then considered equal
| to what $4,000 would be now.
| Mr.. McCleery went seven hundred
miles to Washington and back on
| foot to settle with the government
about Mr.. Mobiles pay as senator,
| and he averaged forty miles per day.
Some OF the old time stage drivers
who superintendent the stage lines from
| Atkinson, Kas., to San Francisco,
twenty years ago, contend that good
| horses, when well fed and well cared
| Tor, could not stand going from one
| station ten miles to another and re-
turn, making twenty miles each for
| seven days in the week. For six DAYS
they could barely endure it, but it was
| then far better for the horses and more
| profitable for the proprietor, not to
| drive over ten miles each day in the
| week. Mr.. Ware, who is familiar with
| the work OF the horses on the street
| railroads IN Boston, and who claims
that they have 81 superior class OF
horses IN that employment, says tina
IL Is enough for q horse to travel
thirteen miles per day on those roads.
| But he claims that fifteen miles is the
| full limit OF endurance OF q medium
horsen the prime of life Mr.. Schamm'
| OF the New York horse. cars, says none
| OF their horses can stand for any length
OF Uncover fifteen miles per day for
seven days per week. And other pro-
| prietors of large numbers of horses
concur IN this opinion.
This Is considerably below what we
supposed was thereal endurance of the
| horse. On the farm it used to be con-
sidered days work i'll blowing corn,
twice IN a row, to pillow five acres per
day. That would make twenty-five
| and one-half miles travel Or in plow-
ing ground, two acres per day with a
twelve-inch plow, was considered q
days work. That would require eight
cen and one-half miles travel. And
the constant and never ceasing drag of
the pillow is harder than work on q
street car, or to draw wagon on an
ordinary road. A reaper is usually a
| heavy load for two horses. Twelve
acres are considered an ordinary days
reaping, and yet, with q four-foot
reaper, it would require the team to
travel twenty-four and one-half miles,
Thus it is seen that farmers usually,
according to the opinion of experienced
| horse managers, work their horses
much too hard 1t is time for farmers
to begin to work themselves, as well
as their horses, less hours, and put up
| the price of the products of their labor
to suit the shortened hours. Some
farmers think there is no process by
which prices can be advanced. The
food OF Uhe country can Ce moe easily
controlled in price than any other
commodity, if the producers would SO
will it. The world cannot do without
the product of the farm for three
months. 1t is an impossibility, and
farmers can certainly wait that long
for prices to advance. It is no trouble
for the farmers to do without the
products OF other branches of labor,
for three or six months. This would
be very trifiing trial OF their endur-