When awarding prizes for the best managed farm, the judges appointed by the Royal Agricultural Society of England are instructed to consider—
“General Management with a view to profit,” so that any breed of live stock which leaves a profit would help a competitor.
Only a short time ago a Warwickshire tenant farmer told his landlord that Shire horses had enabled himself and many others to attend the rent audit, “with a smile on his face and the rent in his pocket.”
Most landlords are prepared to welcome a tenant in that state, therefore they should continue to encourage the industry as they have done during the past twenty-five years.
Wars come to an end—the “Thirty Years’ War” did—so let us remember the Divine promise to Noah after the flood, “While the earth remaineth seedtime and harvest … shall not cease,” Gen. 8:22. As long as there is sowing and reaping to be done horses—Shire horses—will be wanted.
“Far back in the ages
The plough with wreaths was crowned;
The hands of kings and sages
Entwined the chaplet round;