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Title: Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Baker, A. H. (Austin Hart), 1852-
Subjects: Livestock Veterinary medicine
Publisher: Kansas City, Mo. : Intercollegiate Press
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t labor toguard against, viz: inefficiency in the men he employs. A man of thelatter kind, however, will have little difficulty in securing efficient help;whilst the grudging or unthrifty man seldom secures the best labor, be-cause good men will not work for such a ma.ster, unless obliged to.Hence, the want of common sense or of humanity always reacts againstthe individual, and at a loss to himself. The horses of a good farmerare not pampered. His workmen do not expect to be; but the common-sense man will see to it that they are made as comfortable as circum-stances will admit; that neither hoi-ses nor men are ovenvorked; that thefood, both for man and beast, is given in sufficient quantity, and that itis of good quality. Plain, but substantial food, well-cooked, should beprovided for the men, and sound grain, plenty of water, careful groom-ing for the horses; and the eye of the master should also see to it thatthe animals are pot abused by beating. If the horses have not been 240 N O
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HUMANITY AND COMMON SENSE. 241 broken in spirit, they will not need whipping; for the intelligent masterwill not long keep dull, lazy brutes, any more than he will employ lazy,shirking men. II. Common Sense in all Things. It would show ius great a want of t-oniuion sense to put a pair of colts,intended for fast road-horses, or trotters, or a young animal intended fora high-priced saddle-horse, to continuous and hard draft, as it would toexpect, extraordinary speed from an ill-bred brute, or from a horse bredsolely for draft. Does not the same rule hold good in all transactions?Is it not the result of ignorance, or of a penny-wise and pound-foolishdisposition that an inferior animal, of any kind, is ever allowed to be bredfor any purpose? Whatever may be the labor that is to be performed,none but the most superior animals for the use, should ever be bred;just as none but the most perfect seed should ever be planted or sown.If the rule were universally adopted of breeding none but the b

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