Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-05-20
KINDNESS TO ANIMALS PAYS
Coed Treatment Affects Disposition of
Farm Beasts and Increases Their
Market Value.
By J. M. KELLY.)

Only a few centuries ago the ances-
tors of most of us were barbarlans
without local habitation, and living
largely by the products of the chase.
In the course of time a few OF the
wild animals about them were domes-
ticated At first probably for play
things for the children, and for COM
partnership for adults, and finally for
their value as food and clothing. Then
the pastoral life began.
When in his upward development
man became wise enough to teach the
OK and the horse to draw a load, when
he found that either of them could, as
a draft animal, do as much work as
ten men, and that by using one OF
them man could increase his produc-
tive power ten-folds and by using two
twenty-fold; and finally when he
learned how to teach four or six or
them to work as unit, then man had
increased his working efficiency forty
and sixty-fold, respectively. Then he
became able to produce more 1000
than himself and family required, and
he also had the means of transporting
the surplus to considerable distances.
Then commerce grew, and civilization
began.
The money value of the domestic
animals of the United States exceeds
So 900 100000. What part of this value
comes through their dOmesticatlon
cannot be accurately stated, but it is
a very large part, as one will admit
if he considers of how little value
would be all the horses if at once they
were to return to their original state
as wild horses; or if the cattle, all at
once could be changed to the condl-
ton, the nature, and the disposition
of the wild cattle of the original forest
and plain.
1t is probable that more than fifty
per cent. of this value comes through
| the kind treatment their ancestors
! have received, and which has changed
| their disposition, so that this DISPOSE
| ton is now inherited, and also is
! strengthened by continued kind treat
ment
All who handle farm animals know
| that their value is affected by their
disposition. This disposition comes
from the state of the animals mind:
and the state of his mind toward us
| depends upon how we are treating
| him, whether kindly or cruelty. By
kindness he is made trustful, fearless,
and docile; by cruelty, suspicious,
| fearful and intractable.
They have their likes and dislikes
Some horses on farm do not like
certain other horses, while for GER
tain other horses they show great
friendship, and sometimes there is a
horse toward which all are friendly.
| Some horses cannot endure certain
men, while for other men they show
a marked preference. Likewise they
seem to enjoy doing certain kinds OF
work, while for other kinds Of work,
they manifest so great a dislike, that
they will not do it, can neither be
coaxed nor driven to it. Some cows
like certain mixers and for them of
course give their richest milk and in
largest quantity, while for others they
will hold up" their milk. AS rule
these are not blind and senseless
whins, but both the likes and dislikes
had their origin in some previous ex-
perience which formed a reasonable
basis for the manifested love or
hatred.