42 The Hokse Industry iisr New York State 



and has a basis for discharging- a In-ntal employee, and getting 

 in his place a man who will take his employer's interest to heart 

 as well as his own, and who will keep his team doing a full day's 

 work with a light and happy heart. The man who drives his team 

 with cnrses, whipping, jerking and abnsing, keeps them in a 

 mental state which only a slnggard can stand, and the world 

 knows that slnggards are not performers. This does not mean 

 that the pnre-bred drafter is a slnggard; no pure-bred animal is. 

 There may be exceptions, but no class of pure-breds are slug- 

 gards. The pnre-bred drafter, due to his enormous size, has a 

 bullying eifect on a brutal driver, as brutal people are generally 

 not courageous at heart. 



MANY NOT TRUE TTrOROFGUBREDS 



Too often opinions are expressed which are founded on some 

 special case, instead of being the outcome of a really comprehen- 

 sive knowledge and due regard for the facts in general. The 

 Thoroughbred does not enjoy the reputation among farmers that 

 he is entitled to, and this is largely due to the fact that, generally 

 speaking, the Thoroughbreds found in American rural districts 

 are outcasts from racing studs — and even Thoroughbreds follow 

 the laws of the universe inasmuch as all cannot be up to stand- 

 ard — while the specimens of draft breeds in our rural districts 

 are usually of the best. Had our government made a practice of 

 selecting excellent Thoroughbred stallions, and through them fos- 

 tering the breeding of horses, the position of the Thoroughbred 

 would be established throughout the land. 



LESS AFFECTED BY AUTOS OR TRACTORS 



At this time, with the fast development of farm tractors, many 

 thoughtful people express the belief that the need for farm horses 

 must necessarily decrease, and, if the advance in tractor manu- 

 facture approaches the progress of the automobile, there can be 

 no doubt about it. A motor converts its food into a knowm amount 

 of work. It never eats while idle, whereas the horse must eat 

 daily, work or no work. There are no epidemics of diseases or 

 unknown ailments of motors as is the case with horses. 



Hence, what is the profitable horse for the farmer of to-day to 



