Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1909 — FOR YOUR HEALTH’S SAKE [ARTICLE]

FOR YOUR HEALTH’S SAKE

The Middle Horse. A .farmer, plowing with three horses hitched abreast, noticed that the middle horse became tired and exhausted long before either of its mates. As the animal was the equal In every way of the other two, he was puzzled as to the cause of its not being able to stand the same amount of work, lie finally observed, however, that as they drew the, plow along the three horses held their noses close together, and with the result that the middle horse was compelled to breathe the expired air from its fellows. The farmer then procured a long “jockey” stick which he fastened with straps to the bits of the outside horses. The device worked perf('ctly; for, given its rightful share of good, fresh air, the middle horse w r as able to do the same amount of -work and with ,no greater fatigue than its fellows. Many persons are like the middle horse; they do not get their rightful share of fresh, pure air. And this is why they are not able to perform as much work nor of as good a quality as they would otherwise be able to do.