In Winter Quarters 



economy of the day. This is not only 

 the part of wisdom from the stand- 

 point of dollars and cents, but is a 

 fine confession of the moral responsi- 

 bility actually assumed by those who 

 have developed through clever manip- 

 ulation races and types of domesticated 

 animal life, admirably adapted to serve 

 a useful purpose, but demanding help 

 if they are to survive rigors with which 

 they are unfitted to cope. Those 

 forms of animal life which man has 

 not tried his 'prentice hand upon need 

 no coddling. 



If you are breeding buffaloes or 

 beavers you need not bother about 

 barns or good warm basements. You 

 can sit by your own fireside and take 

 no heed of whatever the thermometer 

 is doing. But with your Jersey cow or 

 Southdown ewe, the case is different. 

 Minnesota is not a Channel Island, and 

 the Laramie Plains have somewhat 

 more exacting Januarys than Kent or 

 Devonshire. Hence if you will insist 

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