r26 THE HORSE 



This notice is put up by a successful stablekeeper, 

 who is not a particularly humane man, but he knows 

 the nature of a horse and is aware of the bad effect 

 which rough treatment will have upon him. Another 

 practical man, the German Emperor, laid down a rule 

 to precisely the same effect for the treatment of all 

 cavalry and artillery horses in the German army. 



A successful dairyman who owns some hundreds of 

 cows says that it pays well to have milk-giving cows 

 groomed every day, "but," he adds, "if the grooming 

 is done by a man who does not like cows, it will do 

 more harm than good." Experienced poultrymen have 

 arrived at the same conclusion in regard to hens, and 

 they all agree that any roughness of treatment will 

 diminish the laying capacity of a hen just as it dimin- 

 ishes the flow of milk in a cow. " Humanity in the 

 poultry yard," is the title of a recent essay in an agri- 

 culture magazine, in which the writer says: "Good 

 feed and plenty of water are of little avail when birds 

 are frightened at every approach of the owner." 



If these things are true of cows and hens, much more 

 are they true of horses. 



