nature is transformed from fear and ferocity to 

 that of trust and docility. 



For example the descendants of the wild horse 

 are not only changed from vicious brutes to trust- 

 ful beasts of burden, but are also differentiated 

 into many different breeds to meet the demands 

 of strength, speed or endurance. Specimens of 

 such breeds as the Belgian, Percheron or Hamble- 

 tonian exist as monuments to the breeder's art 

 no less renowned and for more useful purpose 

 than anything in Nature, the likeness of which the 

 sculptor has wrought in marble or the artist has 

 transferred from life to canvass. 



From the wild buffalo, presumably, the ideal 

 strains of pedigree kine, for beef or dairy prod- 

 ucts, have been created as surely and even more 

 scientifically than the sculptor has immortalized 

 his ideals in granite or marble. 



Thus animal life is to the skillful breeder as 

 clay in the hands of the potter, and though a su- 

 persensitive and artificial generation may look up- 

 on this form of genius as vulgar, it nevertheless 

 is God's work and the doers thereof are working 

 with God. For without this incarnation of quality 

 into plant and animal life the world's population 

 could not supply its fundamental wants nor could 

 civilization rise above the animal instincts in man. 



The farmer, therefore, is a most important 

 personage, and his vocation the most absolutely 

 needful in all the world. The farmer is in very 

 truth a creator, certainly a co-creator, improving 

 Nature by the aid of science, just as the human 

 mind and character are improved by means of edu- 

 cation. And when the prejudice of the ages has 

 been rolled away the name "farmer" will rank 

 among the most envied names that enrich our 



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