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he can do it and try to use at least as much sense in teaching him 

 as you expect him to use in learning what you want him to do. 



The man who owns good draft horses and then applies the 

 "golden rule" in his treatment of them will be rewarded by both 

 good services and good profits. Show me a farm on which is 

 owned good draft horses well kept and I will show you a prosperous 

 farmer, and this truth will apply to neighborhoods, counties or 

 states. If you have any doubt about the truth of this statement 

 just take a trip to the most prosperous sections of Iowa, Illinois, 

 Indiana or Ohio and see if you don't find the draft horse there to 

 the exclusion of all other breeds with the exception of an occasional 

 light horse necessary to do the fast work on the road. 



Missouri ranks well near the top as compared with her sister 

 states in the production of all classes of live stock with the single 

 exception of draft horses, but in this important business we are 

 far behind our sister states when we should be in the lead, for we 

 have every natural advantage in our favor — cheaper land, good 

 grass with a longer grazing season and milder winters. Let us 

 get busy and let us have more "Clydesdales in Missouri." 



SOME FACTORS WHICH LEAD TO SUCCESS IN DRAFT 



HORSE PRODUCTION. 



(Hon. W. L. Houser, Mondovi, Wisconsin.) 



It is with a large measure of pleasure that I appear before 

 you this afternoon for the purpose of modestly giving to you some 

 of my experience in horse breeding, more especially in draft horse 

 breeding. I do not claim to be an authority. I have not yet met 

 the man who in my judgment has the last word on. the intricate 

 problem of producing draft horses or any other breed of horses. 

 The business is so ultra-scientific, so hazardous in its nature, that 

 not up to this time have any rules been laid down that safely 

 outline the course we must pursue to make it a one hundred per 

 cent business. Recently at Toronto at a meeting similar to this, a 

 farmers' annual gathering, a demonstration was being made be- 

 fore the class and horses were lead into the ring and judged by 

 the assistant professor of animal husbandry. His principal or 

 chief, a real Scot, being ill, but not so ill but that he kept his seat 

 and witnessed the proceedings. He was not satisfied with the 

 way the assistant placed the horses and he criticized his judgment, 



