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stick to the horns of a bull, while the short end will 

 run into the ground and stir it much faster than he 

 could do it with a sharpened stick, and with much less 

 labor to himself. He tries the experiment, and cries, 

 * Eureka!' or some barbarous equivalent for that Greek 

 word. The germ of the plow is at length invented!" 



Not only was the crude wooden plow of our ancestors 

 invented by men who had idle horses, which they saw 

 could be far more efficient in tilling the land than men, 

 but the cast plow as well. In like manner, the wagon, 

 the sleigh, the harrow, the corn -harvester, the wooden 

 hay-rake, hay-unloaders and many other similar imple- 

 ments were devised. So it will be seen that the owners 

 of horses situated in a new, sparsely populated country, 

 far removed from machine and implement factories, 

 thought out many devices by which the strength of the 

 horse could be substituted for human labor. It will 

 be seen along how many lines the intellect has been 

 stimulated by this effort to utilize the horse. To breed, 

 rear and train for various uses and to direct the energy 

 of restless, courageous animals, requires no little intel- 

 ligence and skill. I have yet to find a successful horse- 

 man who is not above the average intelligence of his 

 associates in the same station of life. 



In the ancient scripture, the Lord, to convince Job 

 of his ignorance and weakness, used the strength, 

 courage and fierceness of the horse to emphasize the 

 argument: "Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast 

 thou clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make 

 him afraid as a grasshopper? The glory of his nostrils 

 is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth 



