CHAPTER XII 



ANIMAL HUSBANDRY 



^T^HERE is, perhaps, no other department 

 -■- among the many branches of the New 

 Earth which has been so beset with dangers, 

 more open to the attacks of enemies, or which 

 may be approached, for good or ill, from so 

 many different avenues, as the one of which 

 this chapter treats. Perhaps in no other line 

 of modern life has there been displayed during 

 this period so much selfishness and so great 

 a determination on the part of unfair capital 

 to take advantage of the necessities of the peo- 

 ple ; and yet those who provide the supply 

 for the demand, however greatly misused they 

 have been, have not allowed this selfishness to 

 prevent them from advancing. So it happens 

 that in the production of cattle, sheep, swine, 

 horses, and the like, the progress made during 

 the last third of a century has been among the 

 significant factors in American farm life. The 

 progress has been along two main lines, im- 



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