Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1904-02-18

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avocations, and believe it to be a fact
that every person using an automobile
on ordinary roads and streets. is a
trespasscr on the public domain, and
that they have no rights there unless
they be first granted franchise.
! My second conclusion is; whom you
raise horses raise good ones. They
are most useful and profitable both
| for home use and for the market 1t
| is better from IL moral and sentiment
al standpoint to have good horses
rather than poor ones. II you want
your boy TO be good to your horses,
| give him horses that he can be good to
and proud OF. and ii he has the right
kind of stun in him he will be good to
them. by giving him such a horse you
put a premium OH kindness. BY Civ
ing him a miserable old skate that
would not make decent dog meat il
dressed and cooked, you are compelled
to put a severe penalty upon cruelty
| or he will be very liable to make life a
burden to the poor brute. And you
know how it is yourself. a premium
| works better than penalty; it always
does il an individual has any moral
sense. Don't take your wife to town
behind a team that you would not
have been found dead with when you
were going with your girl, and ii your
wife isn't your best girl now we'll,
whose fault is it.
In order to have good horses they
must DE we'll fed, housed, groomed
and educated. 1t costs less To keep a
horse in good condition while demand
| ing certain amount of work OF him
than to keep him poor. Don't forget
your blankets. Always educate your
colts, don break them. When say
educate colt don't mean to pct and
play with them. A colt that has been
played with and taught tricks is cute
when he is little, but is very liable to
be as bad as a very vicious horse when
you get ready to use him. He wants
to take everything in fun and resents
every attempt to make him learn any
thing else Teach him the word as
well as the use Of tine bit, especially in
backing. Educate them to turn right
OF lett With the entire body when
spoken To or guided by the lines
Don't give your boy OF hired man a
horse that has TO have his head pulled
Ground facing the driver before he will
turn his body and then scold the boys
because a few hills Ut corn a1c tramp
led IN.
In educating the horse a good way
to do is to take Oliver Wendell
Holmes advice in the raising of chill
drcn, and begin the process years be-
fore they are born. What | mean is
this, select good level headed fathers
and mothers for them: especially
mothers. A horse needs a good
mother rs we'll as man does, and |
pity any young man who has To 90 to
the penitentiary because he failed to
have a good mother. He ought to
have known better. but after it is too
late he can't help it. So | pity horse
that by reason of careleSsness and
ignorance in the selection of ancestry
must be abused all his life by brutal
masters. see no way al present for
debating as TO the mating of indiy-
idualS ia the human family for the
retirement of the race, for If couple
Of young idiots get the idea that they
were created for each other, and that
they have Il ready made match on hand,
one that was made way OFT above the
stars, they will get married if the state
has to enlarge the Predetermined in
Stitute Oh the penitentiary for the ben
etit of their progeny and after years of
welded infeiieity shelter two old folks
in the poor house. We can help mat
tiers So tar as our domestic animals are
concerned however. Most of the
farmers of Harrison county have paid
strict attention to the subject of
Atavism from the word ''atayisn
meaning grandfather, so far as hogs
are concerned, whether they ever
heard the term used or not. That
subject relates to the likeness in fam
lilies from generation to generation:
and the theory is backed up by facts
in the experience of close observers
that the grandfather and great-grand.
father is almost as likely to be imi-
tated in many respects and in some
cases altogether so as the father. This
leads the careful scientific breeder to
not only select the breeding animal
sor individuality, but he pays strict
attention not only to the blood but to
the individuality of the ancestry the
fathers and mothers as we'll. Had
not Harvey johnson, VIM. Kirk and
many other breeders of standard bred
swine in this county, paid any more
attention to this subject than the
raisers of horses have, then, instead of
Harrison county being noted for its