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fulfillment. The raising of animal food is to be vastly 

 improved. Crops have been cultivated cheaper, and yet 

 cheaper, as year by year better agricultural implements 

 and machinery have been devised, but in tending domes- 

 tic animals, whether they are horses, cattle, sheep, 

 swine or poultry, but little, comparatively, has been 

 accomplished to diminish the amount of labor. K"ow it 

 takes more time to tend the farm animals of the United 

 States and care for their products butter to be churned, 

 wool to be sheared, steers to be fattened, colts to be 

 broken and trained for sale, and so on than it takes 

 hours to raise the grain and forage these animals eat, 

 harvest the same and haul it to mow or granary ready 

 for consumption. Here is a great field for labor-saving 

 inventions, a field white for the harvest. Machinery 

 must be used in doing chores. Where horses or cows 

 are kept in considerable numbers in the same stable, 

 mechanical appliances have already been employed by 

 the writer to supply them with water, hay and grain, 

 lessening the labor very materially, and a way has been 

 found to clean horse stables by machinery. Sheep for 

 fattening are now fed in immense numbers with grain 

 by specially constructed feed hoppers ; milking machines 

 are being perfected, and swine can be fed and tended, 

 horses curried and brushed, and young horses have been 

 broken and trained by the writer very satisfactorily 

 indeed, no matter how incorrigible they were at the 

 start, by the aid of machinery, at a great saving of time. 

 The first outlay for almost every modern machine is 

 much greater than was the cost of the old-fashioned 

 hand tools it superseded. But the sum total of the cost 

 involved by the time the machine is worn out doing 

 good, is less under the machine system than it was under 

 the hand tool system sixty years ago. Otherwise, mod- 

 ern machinery would not be labor saving. The reaper 

 and binder does the work of a file of men with cradles, 



