Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1916 — MUSIC SOOTHES THE HORSES [ARTICLE]

MUSIC SOOTHES THE HORSES

Undertaker Placet a Plano In the Stable of His Establishment - In Waukesha. Milwaukee.—Ray Biggs has placed a piano in the stable back of his undertaking establishment at Waukesha for the sole accommodation of bis horses. Mr. Biggs said, when he read a few months ago about a phonograph being used in a chicken coop to make chickens lay, he discredited the report, but now he has been convinced that music has a soothing effect on animals. One of the men employed at the stable plays the piano proficiently and he verified Mr. Biggs’ statement that when the horses came in from a funeral procession, with their nerves at high tension, they immediately become calm and complacent when they hear the soothing strains of a popular waltz. Mr. Biggs says he is thinking of placing a musical instrument in the stable on His farm northwest of the city, with the belief that it may have some effect on his cows when the milking hour approaches.