Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Gwen Giffen" <ggiffen@1st.net>]

  "One of the con reasons against "mandatory" use of  draft animals is the
history of abuse because of it.  People who used  animals because they had 
to,
not want to, tended to use what ever method to get  the work done. Correct,
humane or not, They just wanted the beast to  pull  the whatever.  Read 
"Black
Beauty" for information on this.
   Wether one does no till or more contentional   ways of crop farming, the
farmer will still need more than man power to work and  move the crop,
therefor the need to raise grain for feed to feed the work  animals or the 
use of
fuels.  " There is no shouse thing as a  free lunch"   I wish there were :-(

Peggy"

"Black Beauty" is a story of a cart horse used for show and for the business 
of carting. I'm sure there were cases of abuse in farming, but I am of the 
opinion that in general, farmers who utilize large animals for a living, 
particularly on small farms, have much to lose with an unhealthy animal, and 
so are more likely to pay close attention to the animal's health and 
well-being. Many treated their work horses better than their wives.

Gwen