2 MANAGEMENT AND BREEDING OF HORSES 



wasted our coal and soil fertility; but we have used 

 human energy more economically than it has ever been 

 used before. The older nations are saving of everything 

 but human time. Our extensive use of the horse has 

 greatly influenced our national character and history. 

 Because we make our labor count for so much, we are 

 able to make farming an attractive business rather than 

 a peasant's drudgery. 



FIG. 2.— SAVING HUMAN TIME. PLOWING THE SOIL 



Horse labor and man labor. — The horse, properly 

 directed, is equal in productive energy to ten men, and it 

 will cost about one-half as much to keep him as one man. 

 Hence a horse intelligently handled may be made to 

 cheapen labor twenty fold over the old hand method. 

 Here lies the secret of success in America. The Amer- 

 ican farmer is not, as a rule, contented to direct the 

 energies of but one horse at a time. He usually har- 

 nesses two, sometimes three or four and even more, to a 



