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 . 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 , unless obliged , the want of common sense o
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 . 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 , unless obliged , 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. 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 b
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