. The country home. in my , sir, are not stupid creatures; they are veryobserving, and enjoy landscapes and pleasant sur-roundings as much as they do the green grass;that, sir, is as I look at it. Now if you have ninehorses to lead out to water, and each one takes uptwenty minutes, it uses up about three hours time— haK of an afternoon. I cant afford it, so I builtthis house over the water, and the animals drinkright along, and get through with it. It takes abouthalf an hour to satisfy the whole of them. Merelya question of farm economy, sir. Sentiment is agood thing, if it doesn
. The country home. in my , sir, are not stupid creatures; they are veryobserving, and enjoy landscapes and pleasant sur-roundings as much as they do the green grass;that, sir, is as I look at it. Now if you have ninehorses to lead out to water, and each one takes uptwenty minutes, it uses up about three hours time— haK of an afternoon. I cant afford it, so I builtthis house over the water, and the animals drinkright along, and get through with it. It takes abouthalf an hour to satisfy the whole of them. Merelya question of farm economy, sir. Sentiment is agood thing, if it doesnt cost too much. I presumethat as you keep only one horse, you get on verywell with a tank uncovered. I had noticed thesame habit with my Morgan mare, but had at-tributed it to the rare intelligence and the reallypoetic instinct of that breed of horses; they are al-most human. But I am inclined to think that allanimals love the beautiful. Following an oppositetrack from my neighbor, I would provide for this [328]. FIFTEEN] HAPPY ANIMALS animal sentiment, and cultivate their taste for thebeautiful. Try an experiment in your barnyard. Open it wellto the south and east; make it clean and keep itsweet; slope the ground to keep it always dry andcomfortable — underdrain if necessary. Then letyour animals sleep there. Go out about nine orten of a moonlight night, and see whet you may see — as happy a sight, I will warrant, as you will findinside your own household. The cows will be ly-ing down to face the moon and landscape. Theywill be chewing cud, and at the same time evidentlymeditating. That they are figuring out Euclidpropositions I dont suppose; but they are study-ing nature in their realm — it may be as wide arealm as our own. Cows treated in this way makemorally better behaved cows, as a rule. I see no reason why our cows should not havebox stalls, with running water, as well as our have so far done very little to humanize the cow — probably as little as fo
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