Herds and Flocks and Horses. 18 



ITS SOLUTION. 



THE solution of this question, is the realization bj the 

 breeding and farming element of the country, that they 

 have in the grass that grows and the stock thev can 

 breed, an institution safer than any bank in America, and a 

 fortune greater than any combination in the world. 



The breeders of herds and flocks, and the tillers of the soil, 

 were the men who first made the world habitable, and until 

 food, living, and present conditions are comi)letely revolu- 

 tionized, and until every acre of cultivatable soil is jjut to 

 some other use, the breeder and farmer will be the mainstay 

 of the world. He is to the land what the ship is to the sea; 

 the only practical means of support in the one instance, as 

 the other is the only practical means of conveyance. 



Food is the one absolutely necessary essential to the main 

 tenance of life, everything else without it is positively use- 

 less. 



The world could not exist a fortnight without food, and 

 although it might be argued that the fruits of the field would 

 do, such an argument is based upon such ignorance as is not 

 worth consideration. 



The vegetarian, in his plausible argument for a diet com- 

 posed entirely of vegetables, and in every instance, brought 

 about by an abnormal condition of his own digestive tract, 

 whereby he is unable to assimilate and make use of animal 

 flesh — which by the way, is the most easily digestible of all 

 foods — shows a condition of abnormality, an unsound organi- 

 zation, and a state of health which is certainly not calculated 

 to improve the human breeds, nor add to the constitutional 

 soundness and stamina of the race. 



These people forget that man is in reality a flesh eating 

 animal, and while he is capable under certain conditions of 

 existing upon a diet in some measure composed of vegetables, 

 still animal flesh has been the diet that has made man what he 

 is today, and will continue to be the basic principle upon which 



