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op with rails, the weather-boards fallen or falling off, and the whole thing 



shaky, like the master's mind. Fine stock, fat, and well groomed, have 



come out of hovels of barns ; they 

 were made warm and comfortable. It 

 is not the most expensive structures 

 that always contain the best stock, 

 but in the end the better barn will b« 

 built. ^Ve have never seen good 

 stock issue from such a bam as we 

 have shown, and it only needs to show 

 the house the farmer lives in, with 

 its brush heap, its line of ragged 

 clothes, the ragged, dirty children, 



«nd generally dilapidated appearance, to complete the pictorial story of 



neneral unthrift 



Vn. Farmer TTnthrift's Home. 



FARMER VXIHRIFTS BARN. 



FARMER UNTHRIFT'S HOME. 



Suob a man will raise his colts from spavined and broker down mares , 

 mey will shift for themselves upon scanty pasture in SumUi r, ai d in the 

 brush in Winter. He believes in hardening his stock, and he (V^s it j 

 hardens them into "runts," not worth a month's keeping. They are 

 literally broken to work, broken in body and temper with cruel blows j 

 they are halter-broken too, the halter is a rope knotted a!)0ut the neck, 

 like the poor old horse shown on next page, tied outside the bani for th« 

 benefit of the fresh air it may get ; a starved out skeleton horse, contein- 

 platin"" the skeleton of a barn. Even in such a barn there are cajjabilitir 

 that may be utilized for comfort. It may be reshingled, and r^ew ch.] 

 hoarded, and the doors hung on their hinges. It may even bf) patched 

 ^p 80 as not to leak, and be banked up to keep out the cold. But will ft 



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