Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-12-08

| feelings would permit.
| His principal theme was progress
| as typified in what the Central Maine
! Fair had accomplished since It's or
4 ganiZation. He recalled the many
/ changes which had come over lnuus-
/ tries since the days of his boyhood
Il and contrasted the conditions of farms
4 i'm the neighborhood of his early home
with that of the present time. Draw
/ ing the natural inference of this brief
| sketch he said, Human endeavor in
whatever direction it may be exerted,
| stimulates all activities of human in
dustries"
| He said that he was proud of what
had been accomplished for agriculture
| in Waterville during the history of
the fair and said that words could not
express the personal respect which he
| had for the management. He SAID
that he was under much personal
gratitude to Mr.. Mayo who presented
the financial growth and prosperity of
the fair at recent meeting of the city
government stating how it had been
made largely possible through the 10y
atty of the citizens and closed by re-
questing that the small bill for police
service be cancelled.
| My gratitude knew no DOunuS,
said he. as it suddenly occurred to me
that. had he asked us for $1,000, the
spirit of the meeting was surely such
that it would have been granted. |
was glad that he stopped where he did,
and so were we all" His words were
truly representative of the public SEN
tinent and as such, his speech was
duly appreciated by those present i'll
whose behalf he spoke"
| THE horse of the goth Century" WAS
the theme of DR.. George NJ Twitchell
of Lewiston Junction. "Thc heaviest
burden placed on New England agrl-
| culture. is the attempt to force the
Nintcenth Century horse on Twentieth
Century Necessities" He spoke of
i the necessity of horse culture. laying
much stress upon the fact that there
| never was n time in the worlds his
| tory when intelligent. well balanced
horses We're in so much demand. The
industrial inventions for travel, rather
than necessitating decline of good
| horses. but increase the demand for
higher culture of the indispensable
| animals. Tho more danger which
communities afford to the drivers show
1
are brought under proper training
| He drew a sharp distinction between
the horse which was valuable to agri-
! culture and the one which was quail
fed for the turf. He said that the
two qualities of horses We're not kept
distinctly separate as should be the
| case for the proper rearing of breeds
and the developing of their highest
! III
regarding the training of horses come
as authority from one who knows the
subject thoroughly and are well worth
reading.
"The day for breaking horses has
| some. Mere brute force will never
make the safe driver Begin early to
\ teach the alphabet. Take the colt in
your arms before it is one day old and
| hold until it ceases struggling. 1t will
never forget the lesson. Don't ask it
10 do a thing until you first show it
what is wanted. BE content with
steady progress. The end desired is
the safe horse, the free, willing driver,
fearless of steam. electric cars or au-
tomobles. and to insure this there
| must be a steady, graduation in the
steps of education. The end repays
| for the time, for such horses are price
| less.
| THE farmers wives are thanking
| God, today. for rough roads and snow
| for now they can take the old mare
and go to town without fear of the
kissing automobile The horse of to-
! morrow must be made safe through
education. Breed for size, substance,
| courage, quality and action but above
| all else breed for brains and then de-
| velop through education. Make criti-
| cal selection. next spring. of the stall
| lion to be patroniznd. Use only the
road horse type breed for square trot-
tiers, and. having bred. do your whole
duty and Maine will again be the CEN
| ter from which Will go to the great
cities the horses wanted and which
cannot, today. be found
| Gentlemen of this society," the
| greatest service you can render this
industry is to reconstruct your pre-
| MUM list for 1906 so that the road
| horse features shall be made more
prominent and special encouragement
given that industry"
| Thr next speaker was Mrs T., t.
| Marsh, who, according to the grateful
| INTRODUCTION which was given her, was
| largely responsible for the creation of
| one of the chief attractions of the fair.
| no full In