MAEKET CLASSES OF HORSES. 109 



*^ Family broken'^ means a wliole lot more 

 now than it did a decade ago. Then a horse 

 which would pass a traction engine and a sepa- 

 rator all right was esteemed safe. Now that 

 automobiles and trolley cars dot the landscape 

 and the motorcyclist goes whizzing by, it is alto- 

 gether a different story. A horse that is afraid 

 of automobiles or trolley cars or locomotives is 

 not worth a dollar for use anywhere near a 

 large city and that is where the best prices are 

 to be obtained. It is best to begin young with 

 them. They learn more easily then. There 

 should be no mistake about this, no maudlin 

 sentiment about the wrongs the automaniacs are 

 inflicting on the farmer. The auto has come to 

 stay. It is an accomplished factor of modern 

 civilization like the locomotive and the trolley 

 car. Just laws are needed to curb the ambition 

 of the madmen who career along the country 

 roads too fast, but the automobile must be reck- 

 oned with first, last and all the time. I have 

 driven over most of the country surrounding 

 Chicago. I know whereof I speak, the while 

 sympathizing deeply with the inhabitants of 

 rural districts traversed by roads which invite 

 the crazy autoist. Nowadays when a young 

 horse will stand fearlessly with a locomotive in 

 front of him, a trolley car passing behind him 

 and an automobile stationary but panting along- 

 side of him, he may be considered very fairly 



