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The better the action the higher price he will bring. The production of 

 this class of horses can be arrived at in no better and quicker way 

 than by crossing the ordinary light mares of this country — the trot- 

 ting mares or saddle mares — with a French Coach stallion. The 

 country about Marion, Iowa, which has produced more high-class 

 carriage horses than any other section of the United States, has used 

 more French Coach stallions in their production than has any other 

 section. 



The French Coach horse has been developed to its present state 

 of perfection by the French government in order to produce a horse 

 of more courage, more endurance and better conformation than any 

 other breed of horses in the world. That they have succeeded in this 

 eflfort is proven by the fact that all other countries in Europe come to 

 France to purchase French Coach stallions for the improvement of 

 their herds of carriage horses. 



There never was a better time to begin breeding and raising bet- 

 ter horses than the present moment. We now have an export trade 

 firmly established for our grade Percherons and CoacherS, so that the 

 time will come when the American farmer can not sell good ones for 

 Europe at a profit better than he can receive for any other breeds of 

 live stock. 



THE PACKERS AND THE RAILROADS— THE TWIN SER- 

 PENTS, HOW TO BRUISE THEIR HEADS. 



(M. H. Pemberton, Oentralia, Mo.) 



Sometimes I talk for fun — sometimes for money — but to-night I 

 am talking for the farmer. I am one of the horny hands of the sons 

 of toil — without the horny hands. But I know the farmer's troubles, 

 and I am here to tell some of them. 



Until I began farming I never knew that there were so many 

 hogs in the world. I find the woods is full of them, and they all need 

 ringing. A hog that don't need ringing is down in the back, or dead. 

 Another thing about a hog. I have never gone out to feed my hogs 

 yet and had one of them come up and wait until any of the rest got 

 there. Not only does he not wait, but he grabs the corn and runs off 

 with it. And the hog that has been lying around the corn-crib or 

 drinking slop from the kitchen for a year or two is generally the 

 biggest hog. 



The majority of mankind are not related to hogs, but some are, 



