The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1906-01-24
AN INNING
FOR THE HORSE
II. w. AVERY TELLS OF
PERCHERON'S GOOD
POINTS
BETTER THAN DAIRY COW
Agricultural Meeting is En-.
Iiyened by Brisk Address


The following address was deliv-
cred by Mr.. H. w. Avery Of Wakefield,
Kans.. before the agricultural meet.
ing last week
This Is probably the first time in
the history Of the state board Of ag-
riculture meetings when the Perche-
ron horse has been substituted for the
dairy COW. For years we have list
ened to addresses and read columns
OF claims bosstlng Of the redeeming
features of the dairy COW and her
many resources, and confess that /
have always been RELUCTANT to accept
all that he enthusiastic admirers have
claimed for her. All this poetry about
the little yellow COW, her rich cream
and golden butter and the milk maid
are tangled up in my mind with some
lnl1ind memories OF being hitched up
to the churn when a small boy. After
wards my boyish curiosity and desire
for new experience induced me to
try the milking job. which very soon
developed the additional respoRsibili.
ties of getting up at o'clock in the
morning and finishing a long days
work with the delightful occupation
Of pailing six cows And Sunday
night, when the hired men all pulled
out for realms unlInown-which was
Invariably the case-there was nothing
to do but to see the gentle COW and
try to WOO few extra gallons Of the
Tactic fluid from her generous supply
and for what? Only to churn the
following day and carry the skinned
milk to the pasture for the calves.
have come to regard the dairy COW
as a tread-mill piece of machinery that
coaxes mankind and "boykind" into
more hard labor that can not be
avoided than any other deception l
know on the farm.
Two OF my old and very much re-
spected school mates are here and on
the program to give praise to the
dairy. but both are drawing good pay
for the argument they make, and
neither has anything to do with the
COW they love SO much.
This is twice / have visited your
board ;aseting, and twice in the midst
Of my pursuit Of peace have been
arrested and sentenced to hard labor
for this unprepared appearance be-
fore this intelligent representation of
the great agricultural interests OF
Oklahoma IS indeed to me hard labor.
But it Is only fitting, and the most
natural conclusion of events, that
when everything else has failed and
the old reliable dairy COW has dis
appointed us, that the draft horse is
called upon to save the day. And,
with that cheerful disposition, oharac-
teristic OF his ancestors for ages, his
willingness to take up honest labor
and toll, he never shirks. what ever
be the task or however undesirable
the burden. From the day you changed
q great tract of grass into the begin
ming OF a great farming community,
the draft horse has been with you al
ways. As soon as the race was over.
the work of the little horse and the
broncho was finished and you went
back home to get tho pair OF big
horses and the wife and babies, and
Oklahoma began from that time to
make true progress towards being a
great state 1t was a type OF the
draft horse that hauled the provisions
and the lumber for thousands OF little
homes that sprang up in a night, and
that afterwards turned the sod into
fields Of wheat. corn and cotton-and
prosperity.
said It was type" of the draft
horse that started all this, and It was,
but not the improved speciment as
We see in the modern Percheron OF
today; not the handsome. large 1900
to 1000 pound horse with harmoniCds
outlines. Glen cut Joints and muscled
contour that make him beautiful and
powerful maturing to usefulness as
a two-year-old and the most profitable
product on your farms as a four-year-
old. contend he has a right TO a
place on your program and place
on your farms and a comfortable stall
in your earns. Your farm improve
ments in the say OF comfortable