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breeding of drivers does not end with raising horses. 

 Educating them is quite as important a branch of the 

 business as breeding them. Let Wabasha County be- 

 come as deeply interested in breeding high-priced driv- 

 ers as the Island of Jersey is in produc'ng Trrsey cat- 

 tle, or as Herefordshire is in breeding Hereford cattle, 

 and a county horse training school would be a neces- 

 sity. The bright young farm boys of that county have 

 thought they had not work of sufficient importance on 

 the farm, as shown by the fact that too many of them 

 are seeking to become clerks, barbers, bookkeepers, 

 stenographers, conductors on street cars or railways, 

 locomotive engineers and prgfessional men. They are 

 giving the farm labor and the farm opportunities over 

 to raw recruits from Europe. Hon. F. W. Knapp, 

 chairman of the legislative committee of the State 

 Grange to especially urge appropriations for the agri- 

 cultural high school and for agricultural instruction in 

 rural schools, a resident of Wabasha County, says prac- 

 tically as follows : 



"The sons of the old New England stock, who as 

 pioneers settled Wabasha County, are inclined to leave 

 the farm to the foreigner. The numerous graduates 

 of the agricultural school are bringing back a better 

 state of affairs. We need new methods, special lines 

 of business on the farm, which will meet the desires 

 and use the abilities of the superior New England blood 

 which settled the country that we may keep more of 

 this superior blood on the farm/' 



The merger idea is rampant in all lines of activity, 

 the printing press, education, the railway, the tele- 

 graph, the telephone and other agencies have given 

 mobility to affairs. As in lines where co-operative or- 

 ganization or corporate arrangements greatly increase 

 the value of the product individual efforts cannot com- 

 pete, so in the foundation of a breed of drivers the in- 

 dividual cannot so well cope with the problem. 



Think of the Wabasha County horsewomen in a 

 community making a specialty of breeding and educat- 



