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our schools and also in our homes. Standing before you as an 

 advocate of the lower races, I declare — what 1 believe cannot be 

 gainsaid that just as soon and so far as we pour into all our 

 schools the songs, poems and literature setting forth mercy and 

 kindness to these dumb beasts, just so soon and so far shall we reach 

 the roots, not only of cruelty, but of crime as well. 



Mr. Angell in his address at New Orleans said: "We long ago 

 found that the great remedy for all these wrongs lies, not in the 

 laws and prosecuting officers, but in the public and private schools; 

 that a thousand cases of cruelty can be prevented by kind words 

 and humane education, for everyone that can be prevented by pro- 

 secution." 



How many know what kindness to a horse means? It means a 

 better horse, a better owner or driver. It shows in a sleek glossy 

 coat. It means a thrifty condition. It produces one-third more 

 work with the same amount of feed. It creates a friendship and a 

 mutual confidence which, in cases of accident or emergencies, has 

 often been the means of saving human life. 



It was moved and seconded that the report be received, placed 

 on file and printed. Agreed to. 



MR. HUTCHISON: Mr. Chairman, while Prof. Shaw is coming 

 forward, I would like to make a motion. I move that a vote of 

 thanks be returned to all these Specialists and others who have 

 prepared and presented papers; also that a vote of thanks be re- 

 turned by the Board to the Hon. James M. Shumaker, Superinten- 

 dent of Public Grounds and Buildings, and for fixing up this room 

 for us, and arranging it as a place of meeting. 



The motion being seconded, it was agreed to unanimously. 



The CHAIRMAN: We shall now have the pleasure of hearing 

 from Prof. Thomas Shaw, of Minnesota, *his subject being, "Feeding 

 Farm Animals." 



PROF. SHAW: Mr. Chairman and Members of the Board of 

 Agriculture and Ladies and Gentlemen: If I understood the last 

 speaker right, he said that the value of live stock had declined some- 

 what during recent years. You remember, those of you who were 

 here yesterday, that I made the statement that there was a direct 

 relation between the amount of live stock kept on the farms of the 

 country and a profit that may be derived from those farms, so that 

 I hope, whatever may be the cause that produced such a statement, 

 that those causes may be speedily removed. I was cheered, how- 

 ever, by the statement made by another speaker a short time pre- 

 viously. If I heard him correctly, he said that the hay crop in 

 the State of Pennsylvania was its most valuable crop. There is 

 a close relation, as you all know, between the growing of hay and the 

 growing of live stock, as well as between the growing of grass 

 and the growing of live stock. I do not think that that could be said 

 of many states of this Union, that the hay crop is worth more in 

 money value than any other crop of the State, and I take it, sir, as 

 an augury for good; I take it as one of the most hopeful indications 

 in regard to the future of this State, that such is the fact. 



Now, according to the program, I was to talk to you about the 

 subject of feeding animals on the farm. I have been in Pennsyl- 



