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ILLUSTRATED STOCK DOCTOR. 



skim plowing. When he comes home, he "runs them into the barn/' 

 Buch as it is ; or they take the yard for it, and in the morning very closely 

 xeuemble the picture on the left • 



TBAM OP THE KIND MASTBR. 



TEAM OF THE CRUEL MASTER. 



A "humped up," hungry, thirsty pair of servants to a cruel, because 

 improvident master. 



Such a man may not be cruel in the sense of beating. He may be 

 really a kind-hearted man, a good neighbor, "thoroughly honest, as the 

 world goes," he may even be a good Christian man, or think so at 

 least. He is cruel nevertheless. More cruel perhaps than the brute who 

 belabors his beasts and then repents. Cruel in his improvidence, in his 

 neglect of his farm and his stock. 



HIS DOOR-TARD GATE. 



UlS FIELD-GATE 



Is it any wonder that in the morning the team should be found in tho 

 yard, waiting for their breakfast. The wonder is that there should b« 

 anyth.ng, either in the house or out for either man or beast to breakfast on. 



If to neglect we add a cruel or brutal disposition, the animals of the 

 firm are to be pitied, and the household likewise pitied, and pra^^ed for. 



This chapter is pictorial, and not particularly given to practical infor- 

 mation on the care of horses. It is a chapter of contrasts, and given 

 deliberately, as indicating far more eloquently than mere words can, the 

 ^fference between careful and kind treatment of stock, and cruel of 



