238 Our Noblest Friend, The Horse 



crops cannot cheaply be grown upon such costly 

 fields. A few tons of this, a few bushels of that, 

 would cost far more than they would come to. 

 Feed, fodder, etc., can be purchased cheaply — very 

 cheaply — if one knows where, when, and how to 

 buy and is located near wholesale markets; and 

 this holds true even when prices are highest. A 

 horse can be kept, and well kept, in idleness at such 

 a place for about one dollar per week, or less if 

 pasturage or soiling can be secured for five to six 

 months per year. Not only can he be kept, but he 

 can be fattened as well. Dogs cost but a few cents 

 per day, and if harboured in quantities, so that sup- 

 plies could be bought at wholesale, can be well cared 

 for at about a dollar and a half per month, or fifteen 

 to eighteen dollars per year. The writer has kept 

 them in large quantities, — in packs of fox-hounds 

 of thirty or forty couple, — and that for two years 

 or more at a time, and knows just what the expense 

 is ; just what to buy, and how to buy it ; and his 

 experiences are at the service of any one who cares 

 to ask. In the same way he has had, for years, 



