Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1902 — FOR THE LITTLE ONES. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FOR THE LITTLE ONES.

Master Harold and His Cute Shetland Pony Colt. About two years ago I invested in a pair of Shetland ponies, with the idea, first, of pleasing the little boys, and, secondly, I thought they might be profitable to raise for marI 6end you a photograph of the first pony bred and raised at Hickory Hill farm, shown at Fig. 333, with his young master, Harold Morse, aged three. This colt’s dam was less than three years old at the time the colt was foaled. She is thirty-eight inches tall and weighs about 300 pounds. At birth the

colt weighed twenty-seven pounds and was twenty-two inches tall. As far as we have found, the pure bred ponies are very docile and safe for the children. A very good illustration of this was an incident that occurred two days after this colt was born. I had turned the mare and colt in the back yard, and soon after we missed Master Harold. We found him in the attitude in which he appears in the picture. The mare was standing close over them, very watchful, but not at all inclined to be cross. This little mare is not a “fish cart” pony, though, by any means and can draw the two older boys, aged eight and eleven years, five miles an hour and has made one trip of twenty miles in a day this fall. The boys have broken a two-year-old this summer to drive to the cart, and it is hard telling which learned the more, the boys or the pony. I also have learned a few things about Eonies and some about men too. I ave found that some of the mares are nonbreeders and also that it is well to have a certificate of registry come with the pony, or he may grow and grow and grow until he is just an undersized horse, too small for a horse and too big for a pony. Dealers in this class hurt the sale of real ponies, because they offer their stock at low prices and cause dissatisfaction among those who buy. —J. Grant Morse in Rural New Yorker.

A PAIR OF FARM BABIES.