The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-03-16
THE HORSE STILL WITH US.

Let no one imagine that the morse
Is soon to become an object of Gu
riosity. Bicycles have come and gone,
and the automobile has been making
considerable noise the last few years,
and cutting up capers and people.
while the horse has been quietly eat
ing oats, until now the farmer with
a pasture full of the right kind OF
horses can sell them and buy a bank.
Horses have been steadily going up in
price, which is much better than blow
ing up, as the automobile has been
doing. Automobiles will come and go,
may puff in and speed out, but his
majesty the horse remains monarch OF
the road against all competition. NO
machine ever built or still uni1vented
will successfully dispute his reign. He
has withstood the locomotive, merely
permitting it to do the heavy work
and give him an easier lift.
Inventions will crop up from time
to time, but none that will dispute
the horses place in the peoples
hearts, for, always, excepting the hui
man race, the horse is the most beau
tiful thing made of flesh and blood;
and perhaps the human animal
scarcely deserves to be excepted,
when we consider how men and wo-
men deform themselves by foolish
habits.
Fashionable horse shows are fire.
uuent all over the country, extraOrdi-
nary Inducements being offered for
fine animals, and see in this and
other facts signs of increasing inter-
est in the horse beautiful, with an at
tendant interest in breeding. Buyers
are today searching the country for
good horses of all kinds, and are Of
fering better prices than were offered
factor to be seriously considered is
the foreign demand for American
horses, which is increasing at phe-
nomenal rate, shipload of horses be-
ing exported weekly. England, Ger
many, France, Scotland and in fact
all Europe comedies that America can
raise better horses for less money
than any other country in the world.
and Europe may be depended upon to
take all the surplus stock in the coun-
try at fair prices.
Haphazard breeding is the order of
the day among farmers; too often
they breed without purpose, not car
ing what is crossed with what, so that
the result is a colt which can be mar
keted The average farmer is, above
all others, the man who must market
his produce at a good price in order
to make both ends meet, to say Moth
ing of making farming pay; and yet
he persistently neglects to take the
one step which will bring him good
prices. 1t is only by repeated admon-
itions, urging and prodding that he
will ever be induced to take fore
thought enough to control by proper
breeding the quality of stock he mar
kets. Not until he does this will he
make breeding pay. l will say that
am not afraid that the horseless age
il upon us; not while the automobile
remains blind to your actions of kind
ness and dumb to the sound of your
voice, not while the horse is the de-
lightful company he is, whether in the
stable, under the saddle or in the har-
ness Certain it is that as far back
into the ages as we can trace his as
ISOLATION with human beings the
horse appears as the friend and init
mate companion of man. He steps
down the ages decked with the flow
ers and wreaths of love, poetry, ro-
nance and chivalry no less than with
the stern trappings of heroism and
war. MANS inhumanity to man" and
beast is justly lamelted; but so as
ISOLATED with the sentiment and ne
cessities of man is the horse that mo-
torcycles and automobiles will be pow
erless to displace him. w. Grand,
in the Tribune Farmer.