HERDS AND FLOCKS AND HORSES. 37 



THE TOMORROW OF THE STOCK BREEDING 

 INDUSTRY. 



SOME poetical wag, commenting upon the trials and vicis- 

 situdes of this mortal life, and the rapid changes that 

 are made, in time that seems too short for anything, re- 

 marked, that 



"Grass is grass and hay is hay, 

 We're here tomorrow and gone today.' 7 



The man meant well, and there is a truth in the couplet, 

 however funnily it may be expressed. 



They say tomorrow never comes, but if the actual word 

 doesn't arrive in reality, the rapidly passing days, weeks, 

 months and years, make us very positive that things are mov- 

 ing, and at a rate while the progress of actual time is just 

 Hie same that seems to be impossible, and which could our 

 fathers reappear and behold would be utterly inconceivable 

 to them. 



This seemingly rapid rate of speed is due to improvement, 

 and improvement alone, and for proof we have only to look 

 at the steam engine of but a few years ago and the locomotive 

 of today, the typesetter of only a little while back and the 

 linotype operator at his work now; the steamship of but a few 

 moons since and the ocean flyer of the present time; the tele- 

 phone, wireless telegraphy, and statements from men like Sir 

 Oliver Lodge and Professor Fessenden, that it may be only a 

 question of time before weather can be controlled and literally 

 "manufactured," and that the running of machinery will be 

 accomplished by power obtained from the sun, the wind and 

 the waters of the sea. In addition to this, Dr. Chree in- 

 sists that it is not improbable that electricity in the air has 



