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fast trotting; horses are not a necessity. I heard a good farmer remark the 

 other day that Ztick Chandler had done more for the farmer boys within a 

 radius of fifteen miles of the Chandler farm than any other man in Michi- 

 gan. Said I, " la what way?" "la turaing their heads from the fast horse' 

 craze by introducing the Norman Percheron stock of horses." The boys 

 thiak the Norman Percherons are all right, and so they are. They are 

 noble looking horses, and answer every purpose of the farm. 



The man Avho made this remark has brought up two sons, and brought 

 them up well. They are graduates from our State Agricultural College. 

 They are farmers and Grangers, and their father's remark is a pointer for us, 

 not so much as to what breed or family of horses to raise, but how to make 

 boys contented on the farm and grow to be good men and a power for good 

 among men. And this should be our highest aim. 



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MEK AS DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 



Webster's definition of stock is "domestic animals of the farm." Man is 

 an animal. Domestic means belonging to a hoaie, and that is where man 

 belongs. I think every woman present will agree with me in this. If you 

 do then man is a domestic animal. 



The farm is the best place in the world to raise good men, and men 

 should be raised on every farm. Until now I have left you to choose what 

 kind of stock you shall raise, but I now say that it is the duty of every 

 farmer to ra'se men. If God has not blessed you with your own offspring 

 there are plenty of children without homes. You will find them at Cold- 

 water, in the State School, and at Lansing, in the State Reform School for 

 boys. Just as good boys there as you will had anywhere on your street; all 

 they need is a home aud to be taught how to be men, and it is our duty to 

 give them a home and training. Take one of them to your home and let 

 him know that it is his home by giving him a piece of your heart. Teach 

 him how to till the farm, that it needs food to be productive, how to obtain 

 food for the farm, and how to apply it. Teach him the difference between 

 a scrub and a thoroughbred, that every man who is honest and trae, whose 

 aim in life is to better the condition of his fellow men, is a member of the 

 royal family of men. Then, when your body shall have crumbled into dust, 

 and your finger marks be erased from the land you have tilled, the impress 

 you have made upon the immortal mind will still live, and will continue to 

 live forever. 



DISCUSSION OF THE PAPER 



was opened by President F. N. Green: We have many animals on our 

 farms that are "eating their heads off." There is no better county in the 

 State than Eaton for meat production. England has become a great 

 meat importing nation and offers an unfailing market. Mi at butchered in 

 Chicago can be and is sent fresh to the London market, and we can compete 

 sucjessfuUy with any other source of supply. The following extracts from 

 articles in the Breeders' Gazttte of February 3, 1887, give an idea of 



THE STOCK-CARRYING CAPACITY OF AN ENGLISH FARM. 



One of our English exchanges, in connection with a notice of the fine Short Horn herd 

 of Mr. William Handley at Greenliead, gives some facts about the number of animal* 

 maintained upon the farm which may be instructive to American farmers. The farm 



