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broken for a country horse, but lie will still have 

 much to learn. 



This is not the place to discuss the auto-on- 

 the-rural-highway question. The horse must 

 accommodate himself to the auto with its blind- 

 ing headlights, the trolley car and the locomo- 

 tive or go out of business. The law says that 

 the auto has as much right to use the public road 

 as the pedestrian or the horse, and no more, and 

 the owner of the horse might just as well make 

 up his mind to that fact first as last. It is no 

 small trick to break horses to autos and trolley 

 cars, but it can be done and it must be done if 

 the farmer is to get all that is coming to him 

 for his time and investment, not to speak at all 

 of his personal safety and that of his wife and 

 bairns. It is an un-American position to take 

 that because autos are common the wife and 

 babies can no longer drive on the public road. 

 That sort of spirit would never have wrested 

 from Great Britain the independence of which 

 we are so proud. There are horses now and 

 there will be horses after we are all dead. Make 

 them safe for the women folks to drive. It has 

 to come. 



To offer a thin horse for sale is to invite for 

 him a lower price than he should bring. The 

 trade demands fat horses. The farmer can more 

 easily afford to feed his grain to horses than to 

 any other domestic animal. Some one has to 

 put the animals in condition and if the farmer 



