. The American farmer. A complete agricultural library, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments and details. haps, a quadrumanous ancestry. Of course it is an unequal contest;but when the game is pursued on its own ground, where it enjoys every opportunity forconcealment or escape, and when the generous sportsman so far recognizes the rights of the 726 THE AMERICA2^ FARJIER. pursued that he scorns to take unfair advantages with trap or snare, it comes to a contestbetween wariness and skill. The pure murderous features of gunning are in this way toneddown
. The American farmer. A complete agricultural library, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments and details. haps, a quadrumanous ancestry. Of course it is an unequal contest;but when the game is pursued on its own ground, where it enjoys every opportunity forconcealment or escape, and when the generous sportsman so far recognizes the rights of the 726 THE AMERICA2^ FARJIER. pursued that he scorns to take unfair advantages with trap or snare, it comes to a contestbetween wariness and skill. The pure murderous features of gunning are in this way toneddown and wiped out, and the sport loses the taint of brutahty. It is difEcult, however, tounderstand how trap-shooting can be considered a manly or ennobling pastime. Whenbirds, which are the very emblems of innocence, are captured aUve and then set free in frontof the so-called sportsmans gun to be slaughtered, the sport becomes butchery, and prettycoarse butchery at that. Aside from domestic animals being more valuable and easily managed that are treatedkindly, it is wonderful to what an extent their inteUigence and sagacity may be utilized and. THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS. increased when their education or training is conducted on the principles of Bartholomew, whose trained horses have excited the wonder and admiration ofthousands in this country by their almost incredible exploits, states that the training of themwas all done simply by kindness, never by punishment. These horses are sixteen innumber, and Professor Bartholomew talks to them as to children, they seeming to understandall that he says. When they do well, he praises them; when they come short of their duties,he censures them, and they evidently distinguish the one from the other. He claims that theyknow and comprehend the meaning of three hundred distinct words as intelligently as humanbeings. The performances of these educated horses are described as follows: They are not PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIM
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