. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 1887 and admit that I had overlooked his paper in the Proceedings of the Society for the Promotion of Agricultural ability is only a question of time, or rather of necessity. Just so soon as it "will save expense the steam plow will supersede those drawn by horses. We shall never come to a time when horses will be useless; but they will be kept for driving quite as much as for drawing heavy loads, even on the farm. It is not likely that speed on the road will ever be deemed less val- uable than now. The greater speed of the railway train has in no wise les
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 1887 and admit that I had overlooked his paper in the Proceedings of the Society for the Promotion of Agricultural ability is only a question of time, or rather of necessity. Just so soon as it "will save expense the steam plow will supersede those drawn by horses. We shall never come to a time when horses will be useless; but they will be kept for driving quite as much as for drawing heavy loads, even on the farm. It is not likely that speed on the road will ever be deemed less val- uable than now. The greater speed of the railway train has in no wise lessened the price of superior trotters; but it will affect the price of horses for carrying great loads. It has in most places superseded oxen for farm work or teaming. That it has not superseded horses or mules is due to the fact that they can be used for other purposes than work. Steam, electricity, and, in fact, all inventions for saving of labor, make time much more valuable than formerly, so much more can be done with it lhan fifty or even twenty years ago. If a farmer doe3 not learn with others to think more of saving time than he did thirty or fifty years ago, he must be left behind in the fierce competition for precedence which everywhere prevails. It 13 a hard place for farming nowadays where even in the far west the railroad station does not bring a market within such reach of the farmer's granary that he can sell a load and return to his own home before night. Within the memory of men still living, farmers often had to spend two, three or even four days with their teams and wagons, carrying extra provisions for both with them, aDd camping out at night, as the only possible means of saving any money from their load. It would be absurd to suppose that- horses under such primitive conditions could be worth as much as now, nor would the loss of a few hours, or even an entire day, by a slow team be considered of much consequence. In fact, in those days oxen were generally p
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