Lucky pony winners

II Lucky Pony Winners

Having Fun With Shetland Ponies

Stories and Pictures of Shetland Ponies contributed

by members of the Pony Club conducted by

The Farmer's Wife, a womans'

farm journal published

at St. Paul, Minn.

St. Paul, Minn.

Webb Publishing Co.

Sixth Edition.

Copyright 1915

WEBB PUBLISHING CO.

ST. PAUL, MINN.

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Preface

In this little book are printed pictures and letters from many of the boys and girls to whom we have given Shetland Ponies and Outfits. Failure to receive photographs that we could reproduce prevents our showing pictures of all the more than 325 ponies we have given away as prizes in our Pony Club.

These pictures were sent to us by the winners and are

actual photographs of the ponies we gave them, taken at

the children's own homes. The stories are sent in by the

children themselves, and we have printed them just as we

• received them.

For the past two years we have been awarding ponies at the rate of about 100 a year and any ambitious child can earn one of these beautiful outfits if he will join our Pony Club and work for one of our publications.

We believe you will be interested in reading about the good times these pony winners are having with their ponies and also in the various pictures. These photographs, taken under all conditions, chiefly by amateurs in the country, constitute the most remarkable collection of Shetland Pony pictures that we know of.

WEBB PUBLISHING COMPANY,

Publishers, The Farmer's Wife

St. Paul, Minn. The Farmer.

August 1, 1915

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PART I. Frontispiece, Original Pony Santa Glaus - Page II

The Farmer's Wife Pony Club, What it is and what it does - XI.

How to Care for Shetland Ponies - XIII.

Part II

325 Lucky Pony Winners - Page VII. to X.

Below is a complete list of the names of the 325 children to whom we have given ponies to date (August 1, 1915). They are scattered over 36 states and 244 counties, many of them living more than 1,500 miles from St. Paul, the home of THE FARMER'S WIFE. The names are arranged alphabetically by states in which the winners reside and opposite each name is given the page number on which his story and picture appears. Pony winners with no page number opposite their names did not send us pictures which we could reproduce.

This "happy family" of little folks is a tribute to the fairness of our Pony Club plan and to the inherent desire of red blooded youngsters for Shetland Ponies.

We do not publish post office addresses because a good many children have requested us not to do so on account of the great number of letters they receive which they cannot take the time to answer. We will gladly furnish complete address to anyone interested in a particular child.

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"Hilo" John M. Adams Clay Co., Alabama

"White Sox" Crayton Adams Tallapoosa Co., Alabama .32

"Lucky" _ Mildred Struthers Cochise Co., Arizona

"Beauty" Evelyne Russell Greene Co., Arkansas 77

"Bob" John B. Corn, Jr. Pulaski Co., Arkansas 11

"Sweetheart" Lillias E. T. Howe Nevada Co., California 5

"Marmalade"..... Crystal A. Andreas... San Bernardino Co., California....... 9

"Pansy" Evelyn Cutler Windham Co., Connecticut 118

"Prexy" Laura Myles Brevard Co., Florida

"Artie" Paul C. Johnson Pasco Co., Florida ..

"Corporal" Laura Powell Decatur Co., Georgia

"Rocksy" Clarence Kappner Adams Co., Illinois _

"Turk" Alvin Johnson Bond Co., Illinois 110

"Pal" Julia Federer Champaign Co., Illinois 67

"Sport" Fred Hagerman Du Page Co., Illinois

"Fritzie" Marie and Margie Parker..... Knox Co., Illinois - 104

"Toby" Geo. Lynch Lake Co., Illinois 110

"Jester" Lucy Dittman Logan Co., Illinois

"Midget" John McCartney ....Massac Co., Illinois

"Connie" Marion M. Veatch Macoupin Co., Illinois

"Beauty" ._ Bertram Eldridge Stark Co., Illinois 104

"Nip" Gerald Kingen..... Stark Co., Illinois

"Roine"... Clarence F. Busick Adams Co., Indiana - G4

"Heinie" Clarence Niemoeller Bartholomew Co., Indiana .18

"Rustler".. Jeanette McCown Floyd Co., Indiana... 74

"Sambo" Lowell Comeford ...Lake Co., Indiana 58

"Sonny".. Elmer Hoth... Allamakee Co., Iowa 106

"Fritz" Ida Metcalf Butler Co., Iowa -

"Crescent" Robbie Boseck Cass Co., Iowa

"Bonnie" Amyle Kafer Carroll Co., Iowa 91

"St. Nick" Marcella Conley Chickasaw Co., Iowa

"Empress" Avery and Orie Knight Chickasaw Co., Iowa Ill

"Laddie" Robbie E. Notton..._ Chickasaw Co., Iowa — - 18

"Derby" Arthur Fitzsimmons Clayton Co., Iowa

"King" Victor J. Breitbach Dubuque Co., Iowa 92

"Tatters" Percy Myers Fayette Co., Iowa -

"Snip" ..._ Harold Wilcox Greene Co., Iowa 136

"Pat" Flossie Meredith Jasper Co., Iowa 138

"Custer" Lee Mohr .„ Marshall Co., Iowa 17

"Banty" Lucile Galvin Plymouth Co., Iowa

"Foxy" Charles F. McCoy Story Co. , Iowa 69

"Jack" .....Bernice Harvey Union Co., Iowa

"Gyp" ......Lucile Heflen Union Co., Iowa 123

"Jim" Joey Edwards Barton Co., Kansas 3

"Jerry" Cleta Johnson Douglas Co., Kansas 113

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"Gypsy" Frances Sample Greenwood Co., Kansas 83

"Robin" Fenton Brannon.. Meade Co., Kansas 137

"Stubby" Harold Quick Jefferson Co., Kentucky. .. .

"Ducky". Robt. W. Frank Kenton Co., Kentucky

"Fun" Richard W. Gunter Allegany Co., Maryland

"Toots" Isabelle Whitcraft Baltimore Co., Maryland 82

"Flip" Imogene Schwartz Montgomery Co., Maryland 99

"Rattler"..... _ Carl P. Forster Bristol Co., Massachusetts 85

"Clipper"..- —Adelaide J. Stever Bristol Co., Massachusetts 28

"Rollo" Lillian Davis Dukes Co., Massachusetts 38

"Ranger" Charlotte J. Adams Worcester Co., Massachusetts 22

"Cinders" L. Ralph Brown Worcester Co., Massachusetts 93

"Early Bird" Edwin Larson .....Worcester Co., Massachusetts 73

"Peter". Charlie Mahoney.... Chippewa Co., Michigan 51

"Caper" Esther Miller Gratiot Co., Michigan

"Cutey" — Bonnie Jean Hill... Ingham Co., Michigan

"Snap" Jennie Nadeau Ionia Co., Michigan 16

"Forest" Wanda Mills Sanilac Co., Michigan _ 139

"Doc" Helen Tobian Wayne Co., Michigan

"Scout"... Lucinda Anderson Aitkin Co., Minnesota 39

"Dan" Hilding H. Gustafson Aitkin Co., Minnesota

"Clyde" Richard W. Gravelle Beltrami Co., Minnesota

"Ponto" Joseph Dziuk Benton Co., Minnesota

"Bobby" Leo Frank Blue Earth Co., Minnesota

"Carl"..... M. J. Klinkhammer..— Brown Co., Minnesota

"Tony" Maurice Himle Chippewa Co., Minnesota 62

"Mischief". -Orville Himle -Chippewa Co., Minnesota.....

"Topsy" -Olga Jeager Chippewa Co., Minnesota 80

"Rastus" Herbert Hill Clay Co., Minnesota

"Trump" Elder Gertner Cottonwood Co., Minnesota 23

"Bouncer" Marville Thompson Douglas Co., Minnesota 55

"Prince" Norris Nupson Fillmore Co., Minnesota 62

"Arrow" Willie Fox —Goodhue Co., Minnesota

"Inez" Edwin Koberstein Goodhue Co., Minnesota 89

"Larry" Wilford Schaffer Grant Co., Minnesota 120

"Pedro"... Arnold Anderson -Kandiyohi Co., Minnesota 101

"Carlo" Harold Bush - Kandiyohi Co., Minnesota 61

"Jocko". Clyde Olson Kandiyohi Co., Minnesota

"Huggs" Lloyd Osmondson Kandiyohi Co., Minnesota.... 47

"Togo" Winfred Brown Koochiching Co., Minnesota

"Don" — Oliver Olson Koochiching Co., Minnesota

"Sandy".— -Vernon McMicken Koochiching Co., Minnesota

"Hero" Gudrum Ekeland— Lac Qui Parle Co., Minnesota 59

"Eddy" Joseph LeRoy Fjelde. Lac Qui Parle Co., Minnesota

"Nero" Orion Hegre... - Lac Qui Parle Co., Minnesota.....

"Teaser". Harry Ronneberg Lac Qui Parle Co., Minnesota

"Bud" Selma Dillberg —Lyon Co., Minnesota 10

"Fancy"..— Wallace Eng Lyon Co., Minnesota

"Scrappy" Mabel Gravley Lyon Co., Minnesota 19

"Joker" Geo and Flora Hansen Lyon Co., Minnesota 29

"Razzle"... Vida Kopeschka Martin Co., Minnesota 109

"Bunny" John M. Borsvold— Polk Co., Minnesota 14

"Star" Clarence Grover Polk Co., Minnesota 7

"Domino"... Eunice Kringle Polk Co., Minnespta

"Victor". -Chester Torgerson Pope Co., Minnesota

"Nemo".— Earl Kammerer Ramsey Co., Minnesota. 15

"Queenie" Stanley J. Malicek Redwood Co., Minnesota 80

"Ruby" Charles Woelfel Redwood Co., Minnesota....

"Roy" Agnes Zeug Redwood Co., Minnesota 135

"Tris" Ernest Hanson Renville Co., Minnesota...

"Slick" Joseph Kottum .—Renville Co., Minnesota..... 134

"Dimple". Ida Schuenke... .. Rice Co., Minnesota 120

"Texas" Laura and Helen Sather... Roseau Co., Minnesota 50

"Twinkle"... Luther B. Arnold, Jr St. Louis Co., Minnesota 35

"Tatters" Gordon Kniffin... St. Louis Co., Minnesota 94

"Teddy". George Cooper Stearns Co., Minnesota

"Tango".. Erwin E. Wardian Stearns Co.; Minnesota 87

"Leo" - Merrill Robran Steele Co., Minnesota..

"Bozzie" Esther Muller Steele Co., Minnesota 71

"Beau" -Harriet Svendsen Steele Co., Minnesota 60

"Wonder"..... Olga Simenstad Swift Co., Minnesota

"Marty" Charlotte Thomsen Traverse Co., Minnesota

"Freckles" Dorothy Biebighauser ...Washington Co., Minnesota 98

"Trusty".. Raymond Krueger Washington Co., Minnesota 66

"Fairy" Lawrence Ulrich Washington Co., Minnesota

"Spotty" Mildred Etter Watonwan Co., Minnesota _.

"Bruce". Myra Todd .Winona Co., Minnesota 43

"Tinker" Arthur P. Anderson Wright Co., Minnesota

"Dandy" —Grace Burrows Wright Co., Minnesota

"General" Geo. and Peter Hentges Yellow Medicine Co., Minn 133

"Togo" Harris Greer ...Sharkey Co., Mississippi .83

"Pedro" - Harold H. Hodgin... Atchison Co., Missouri ...127

"Duke" Dorothy Lee Eagle Jackson Co., Missouri..... 69

"Ginger"..... Charles Foster Randolph Co., Missouri

"Evangeline" ...Gladys Houx Saline Co., Missouri.— 131

"Mac" Ruth Mead Saline Co., Missouri 54

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"Pilot" ...Freddie M. Richardson Broadwater Co., Montana "fig

"Cozy" Charles Young Cascade Co., Montana 50

"Playmate".... Christina Helland Dawson Co., Montana

"Kris Kringle" Mallena Vashus _ Dawson Co., Montana.. 46

"Dart" Fern Millsap Fergus Co., Montana 53

"Wahoo" Pearl Olson Fergus Co., Montana

"Happy" Harry Parker Fergus Co., Montana

"Nubbins" Aileen Keller Madison Co., Montana

"Rocksy" Gertrude Jensvold Musselshell Co., Montana... 138

"Andy" Alfred H. Brown Teton Co., Montana.. " 21

"Anna" __ A. O. Rustad Teton Co., Montana...

"Trixie" ._ Frank Harris Yellowstone Co., Montana 80

"Ned" Geo. and Ruby Kobelin Yellowstone Co., Montana 80

"Reggie" Clifford Smith Yellowstone Co., Montana

"Bert" Harry Ingwerson Cass Co., Nebraska

"Hector" Verna Beerbohm Cuming Co., Nebraska 34

*"Tom"._ Helen Heermann Cuming Co., Nebraska ~.~~.i...~.

"Brewster" Paul D. Simms Custer Co., Nebraska

"Gus" Frank and Vera Brown Dakota Co., Nebraska "!!.!!!" 68

"Bumps" ._ Lewis Barton Dawes Co., Nebraska

"Bingo" Jeanette Lansing Dixon Co., Nebraska 78

"Jewel".. . Arthur Marode Douglas Co., Nebraska "i03

"Roscoe" Doris Overman Grant Co., Nebraska 137

"Ray" Irene A. Brooks Cheshire Co., New Hampshire. 134

"Dot" Gladys P. Cowley.- Merrimack Co., N. H _ 30^-77

"Comet" Richard Lippincott Burlington Co., New Jersey

"Hummer"— Arthur Wallace Burlington Co., New Jersey 45

"Busy" John H. Albrecht Camden Co., New Jersey ...90

"Nipper" Harold Cavanaugh Warren Co., New Jersey 63

"Benny" Harold Kiley Warren Co., New Jersey _ _

"Buttercup" Charles McElroy, Jr Albany Co., New York

"Dolly" George Edwin Adams Cayuga Co., New York 115

"Snuggles" Alberta and Florence Ashdown.. Chemung Co., New York 136

"Dude"._ Frances M. Zeh _. Delaware Co., New York

"Nibs" Ralph Bergman Erie Co., New York 102

"Dud"._ Margaret Gentner Erie Co., New York

"Bubs" Elda Allen Essex Co., New York

"Bingo" Alfred Boissier Nassau Co., New York 83

"Joe" Harold R. Palmer Oswego Co., New York 125

"Honey" Mabelle Thomas Oswego Co., New York 36

"Patsy' Rena Smith St. Lawrence Co., New York 125

"Sultan" Donald M. Robinson Saratoga Co., New York _.. 79

"Banner" Tracy Gillette Wayne Co., New York

"Tip" Chester McKee ._ Wayne Co., New York 1

"Mayflower".- William A. Barnes Westchester Co., New York 20

"Cub".„ Eugene Mumpower Buncombe Co., North Carolina. _.. 52

"Rob"„ Gracie Winstead McDowell Co., North Carolina

"Silver Tip" Georgia Lee Barringer Stanly Co., North Carolina

"Buddy" Wm. A. Dimmette Wilkes Co., North Carolina

"Winkle"._ Myrtle Pearl Holbrook Wilkes Co., North Carolina 13

"Mert" Lawrence Ukestad Barnes Co., North Dakota _

"Chubby" Alice M. Swanson.- Barnes Co., North Dakota

"Master" Allen Anderson Benson Co., North Dakota

"Chief" A. Kindlein Benson Co., North Dakota

"Hank" Harry Larson Benson Co., North Dakota

"Archie" Mamie Westrom Benson Co., North Dakota. 48

"Prince" „ Bernadine Kunkel Bottineau Co., North Dakota 81

"Hub" Vilma Anderson Bowman Co., North Dakota

"Kirk" Luella Robbins Burke Co., North Dakota __

"Partner" Harriet J. Wallace Cass Co., North Dakota 81

"Doc" Kala Walden _ Cass Co., North Dakota _

"Fuzzy" Mary McMahon — Cavalier Co., North Dakota _

"Barney" Samuel Stepp Cavalier Co., North Dakota 31

"Betty" Dwight M. Snow Golden Valley Co., N. D 132

"Roger" Clara Fosness Grand Forks Co., No. Dakota

"Reno"..._ Pearl Peterson __ Grand Forks Co., No. Dakota 105

"Paul" Evelyn and Ber nice Sears Grand Forks Co., No. Dakota 55

"Paddy" Grace McGogy Mcintosh Co., North Dakota - 137

"Rex" Wayne Wright McLean Co., North Dakota

"Lightning" Luella Fischer Morton Co., North Dakota 128

"Judge" Louis Schmitt Morton Co., North Dakota 112

"Captain" Ida O'Keefe Mountrail Co., North Dakota 126

"Rip" Arthur Olson Mountrail Co., North Dakota

"Jinks" Sandy S. Myhre Nelson Co., North Dakota

"Flight".— Paul Jones .Renville Co., North Dakota

"Hal" Joella Abrahamson .._ Richland Co., North Dakota 33

"Spot" Ina Pruett Richland Co., North Dakota 87

"Chick" Susan Stampka Stutsman Co., North Dakota „ 27

"Frolic" Margery Wright Traill Co., North Dakota

"Snoozy" Mary E. Kennelly Walsh Co., North Dakota

"Mort" Hazel Irwin Ward Co., North Dakota. _ 117

"Curley" Viola Peterson Ward Co., North Dakota 71

"Sam" Mrs. W. D. Stinson Ward Co., North Dakota

"Zeppo" Robina Wylder Wells Co., North Dakota

"Woody" Julia Hill.- .....Williams Co., North Dakota 98

"Flo".— Lloyd Thomas ..Allen Co., Ohio _ 30

"Jolly" Hazel Cox Darke Co., Ohio

"Winner" Lloyd Drake Darke Co., Ohio 48

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"Pearl".- . Henry Mullenix Darke Co., Ohio

"Jess" Leo E. Baus Fairfield Co., Ohio

"Kip" Anna Ruth Miller Logan Co., Ohio 8

"Roxy" Eldon Crego Madison Co., Ohio..

"Rebel" Agnes Prybogle Preble Co., Ohio

"Welkie" Gretchen M. Stelzer Summit Co., Ohio 37

"Flasher" Clarence R. Morgret ...Cambria Co., Pennsylvania 77

"Hi" Luther Landis Dauphin Co., Pennsylvania :

"Fern" Martha Wright Greene Co., Pennsylvania

"Lightfoot" Romie Butz Lehigh Co., Pennsylvania 123

"Toodles" Durell W. Moyer _ Lehigh Co., Pennsylvania __ 56

"Russ" Wm. H. Edmunds Luzerne Co., Pennsylvania

"Monty" Gretchen Meyer Pike Co., Pennsylvania

"Pert" .— Georgia Spencer Warren Co., Pennsylvania 26

"Dapple" Ernest L. Heckert York Co., Pennsylvania 95

"Cyclone" Raymond L. Hild York Co., Pennsylvania 136

"Irene" Colgate M. Searle Kent Co., Rhode Island 58

"Jud" Henry Nachman Florence Co., South Carolina

"Tiny" Wm. N. Raiford Marlboro Co., South Carolina

"Sunshine" Eva Huddleston Beadle Co., South Dakota _ 97*

"Romeo" Onalee Aney Bonhomme Co., South Dakota 31

"Buster" Gifford Tures Brookings Co., South Dakota 84

"Starlight" Oscar Anderson _ Brown Co., South Dakota 135

"Sparkle" Eloise Savage.- Codington Co., South Dakota 76

"Tommy" Ruth Wakefield Faulk Co., South Dakota

"Jeff" Martin Opseth Grant Co., South Dakota _ 41

"Hugo" Mary Craig Harding Co., South Dakota

"Billie" Hazel McMartin Kingsbury Co., South Dakota ...15

"Cute" Leota R. Bray Lawrence Co., South Dakota 57

"Bullet" Billy Siskin Lawrence Co., South Dakota 25

"Babe" Roy Brown \ McCook Co., South Dakota 75

"Blackie" Glen Herting McCook Co., South Dakota

"Rob Roy" Harold Kutzler.- McCook Co., South Dakota 116

"Hugh" Chloris Malloy McCook Co., South Dakota

"Allie" Ruth Timmons Meade Co., South Dakota

"Biff" Oscar M. Anderson... Minnehaha Co., South Dakota 33

"Micky" Clarence and Lucy Buchholz Minnehaha Co., South Dakota 65

"Scamp" Geo. Hustoft Minnehaha Co., South Dakota

"Lee" Mabel Myers... Minnehaha Co., South Dakota 17

"Frisky" Emily L. Savage Minnehaha Co., South Dakota 130

"Cupid" Edna Evans Moody Co., South Dakota 31

"Dixie" Walter McLaren Moody Co., South Dakota

"Betsy" Cleighton E. Davis Campbell Co., Tennessee 135

"Pop" Douglas Lockman Crockett Co., Tennessee 139

"Lady" Marion Jones Franklin Co., Tennessee 29

"Wuzzy" Frank McKissack Madison Co., Tennessee 67

"Jean" John H. Elrod Smith Co., Tennessee 12

"Web" Grace Shephard Chittenden Co., Vermont 110

"Dainty" Gladys Ellwood Franklin Co., Vermont 121

"Zip" Ella Fullam Orange Co., Vermont 96

"John" Harry Bauserman Augusta Co., Virginia

"Wizard" John Kenyon Fairfax Co., Virginia 8S

"Ad"... .-. Aurelia I. Leigh Norfolk Co., Virginia 24

"Peggy" Arthur Treanary._ Rockingham Co., Virginia

"Cedric" Thelma L. Sproles Washington Co., Virginia

"Judy" Mary Kremstreiter Lincoln Co., Washington ....48

"Nap" Susie Bratt __ Spokane Co., Washington 70

"Buzz" Carl Twyman. Calhoun Co., West Virginia ;..

"Floyd" Francis King Logan Co., West Virginia „

"Chum" Bozzie F. Thornton Mercer Co., West Virginia 40

"Princess"..... Geneva Holt Nicholas Co., West Virginia 129

"Rover" Cloyd A. Reckart Preston Co., West Virginia 108

"Christy" C. P. Wells Wetzel Co., West Virginia 49

"Jay" Victor Harris Ashland Co., Wisconsin .......134

"Pet" Sheldon Adams Dane Co., Wisconsin .»

"Polly" Alfred Hokenstad Dane Co., Wisconsin 86

"Jingo" Pearl Kerr Grant Co., Wisconsin 137

"Tuck" Lawrence Fox Grant Co., Wisconsin _-.

"Tramp" Keith Walker Juneau Co., Wisconsin 44

"Crescent" Cecilia Garot Kewaunee Co., Wisconsin 127

"Mogul" Roy Podewells Rock Co., Wisconsin 72

"Sportsman" Harold A. Pierce Waushara Co., Wisconsin 86

The Farmer's Wife Pony Club

What It Is and What It Does

The Farmer's Wife Pony Club, from a very humble beginning, has come to be the greatest single factor in the whole United States for the distribution of Shetland Ponies among children.

The Club is conducted by The Farmer's Wife, a woman's farm journal of national circulation, and the Ponies are given to ambitious children who take subscriptions for the magazine. The Farmer, another of our publications, also conducted a Pony Club in past years but at the present time this club is not in operation.

In 1907 we gave away our first Shetland Pony and since that time we have awarded more than 325 outfits. And the Pony Club has developed so fast that now close to 100 children secure ponies from us every year.

An eminent authority has stated that there never have been more than 6,000 living Shetland Ponies in the United States at one time, so our Pony Club has already given away close to 6 per cent of the Shetlands in this country. And, at the rate the Club is growing, we may confidently expect to exercise a vastly greater influence over the distribution of these charming pets every year.

Of course, a good many children who work for our ponies fail to win, but it is seldom that an ambitious child who is willing to do a reasonable amount of work and is not handicapped by a too sparsely settled community fails to qualify for a Pony. Then, too, in every competition cash or merchandise prizes are awarded to all contestants of a value proportionate to the amount of work each has done, so every child who works for us is repaid for whatever effort he makes.

We buy our ponies from several Shetland Pony Breeders, often contracting for a herd of 20 or more at a time, and the older ponies are always broken and gentled by children, thus ensuring their fitness for the new owners to whom we send them out.

The motto of the Pony Club is "A Pony for Every Boy and Girl," and it is our aim to make it as easy as possible for any child unable to buy a pony to get one free by doing work for the Pony Club.

August 1 1915

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How To Care For Shetland Ponies

Interesting Facts About These Charming Pets

According to a man who has bred hundreds of Shetland ponies, who has worked and played with them for years, and who knows them in all their moods, the Sheltie has a disposition that is more nearly angelic than that of any other creature which walks on four legs.

Over in Shetland Islands, just north of Scotland, where these ponies come from, they live on terms of the most intimate friendship with their owners and their families. Not infrequently when one is in a particularly social mood, he strolls through the door of the little cottage and is treated like a member of the household. Not knowing the meaning of unkind treatment, he comes to believe in man as his natural friend and benefactor, and reciprocates by developing this kindly and affectionate nature, which makes him most desirable as a pet.

No one should suppose, however, that the Shetland leads a life of ease on his native heath, are produced annually on the islands, and the} sell for about fifty dollars each, which, added to the cost of transportation and the duty, which in this country is thirty dollars on all animals whose ancestors have not been registered for three generations, makes the imported stock fairly expensive. At the present time there are a good many Shetland ponies being bred in this country, and the industry is growing as the demand increases.

The training of a Shetland pony may be made a very simple matter. Where a pony and a child are allowed to grow up together, breaking to saddle and to harness are little more than natural processes, worked out with pleasure and satisfaction to both parties in the game. If the child treats the pony in such a manner as to inspire confidence, this confidence is freely bestowed, and whatever the little master or mistress thinks ought to be done the pony is ready to attempt.

No Child is too Small to Make Friends with a Shetland Pony.

for, on the contrary, his life is full of hard conditions. He runs wild the year round in a country where there is much winter and little summer, long seasons of cold rains and biting winds, rocky pastures and scant herbage, but he grows tough, hardy and sweet-tempered under the heel of adversity. He prefers good grass, but subsists on sea-weed when necessity compels such a diet, and under the lash of hunger he even descends to the point of eating fish. This extremity, however, comes only in the dead of winter and then the islanders usually provide some provender to help the little animals through the crisis.

The stock of ponies in the islands is never large, for the demand by American breeders and those of other countries is greater every season than the supply of animals available for export purposes. Some six hundred ponies

Ponies may be purchased immediately after they are weaned, when five or six months old and may be driven to a moderate extent by the time they are fifteen months of age. From this time on the pony becomes an indispensable member of the family. He often lives to be thirty or forty years of age.

When the ponies are systematically broken to harness or saddle, only a few weeks, as a rule, are required in which to accustom an animal to obey the rein under all conditions. The Sheltie is not without an abundance of spirit and vim, however. It is a curious fact that he seldom shows timidity at the sight of locomotives or automobiles, but will manifest a strange fear of trifling and harmless objects.

The Shetland is a Lilliputian, to be sure, but he is a real horse for all that, and endowed with more "horse sense" than most other members

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of his tribe. By the same token, he quickly learns to resent ill-treatment, and any child or older person who cannot own a pony without striking it or submitting it to similar indignities is better off without possession of such an animal. On the principle that evil communications corrupt good manners, ponies have been known to develop unamiable tricks when much in the company of human beings who refuse to treat them properly.

The Shetland Pony, under conditions which exist in this country, should have his hoofs examined each spring and fall and possibly trimmed a little, so that the feet will rest squarely on the ground. Ponies driven on soft roads in the country often get along satisfactorily without shoeing. Sometimes shoeing the front feet will be required, and where the roads are hard or the hoofs incline to break it will be necessary to use shoes all around. When winter comes, it often happens that the pony gets less exercise from being drive or ridden than during the warm months of summer. He should not, however, be kept closely confined, or his health will suffer.

It is well to have a paddock or a yard of some sort in which the pony may run. If such a yard contains a rough shelter of some sort, the pony may be allowed

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that it hardly need be considered. During the summer, one animal will be able to get practically all his living on the lawn around the house. It is not a bad plan to feed a small bran mash every week during winter, even though hay alone is being fed, and a piece of rock salt should always be where the little animal can lick it.

The pony which is exercised in a yard, not being driven or ridden during certain seasons of the year, will require no grain except the bran mash once a week. Clean, new hay constitutes the best ration. Only a small amount will be consumed, however, so that the pony is not an expensive animal to keep even when fed the best quality of hay, and no other should be given him. Although not necessary, it is a good plan to cut the hay in short lengths in a hay cutter. This is a particularly good plan if the hay is dusty. If very dusty, it is well

to sprinkle it lightly with water. A pony comes to rely very largely upon his master or mistress, no matter how small the child may be, and a knowledge of this fact helps to teach a child selfcontrol and gives him a feeling of responsibility Indeed, the handling of a pony is an excellent means of developing the character of a boy or girl and of creating the sympathy with dumb aniout-of-doors in all weathers, the only point is that the more the animal is exposed to the cold the longer and shaggier will his coat grow, unless he is kept always blanketed. This is Nature's way of providing for the little creature's comfort.

In the Shetland Islands, where the ponies run practically wild, they often grow coats of such extreme length that the little fellows present a very strange appearance. The woolly, fur-like hair of the young stock comes off in great patches in spring and a herd of the youngsters at this season of the year is a ludicrous sight.

One satisfactory feature in the keeping of a Shetland pony is the fact that it requires very little care. It is more in danger of suffering from heat in the summer than from cold in winter. A lightly constructed shed is ample protection if free from dampness.

The expense of feeding a pony is so small mals which it is desirable every child should have.

If one cares for points in securing a Shetland pony, he should know that animals over forty-six inches are not eligible for registry in the American Shetland Pony Stud Book; probably forty-two inches is the average size of the ponies in this country, although there are many much smaller. Ponies as small as thirty-six inches are not uncommon in the islands, where those over forty-two inches cannot be registered. A Shetland may be black, brown, mouse, bay, chestnut or sorrel, gray or white, dun, cream or piebald. The head should be short, the nose straight, the eyes prominent and wide apart, the neck full, the back short and the body deep. The legs should be straight with plenty of bone, and the mane and tail should be full.

After all, however, it is as a pet, a playmate and a boon companion for the younger members of the household that these animals are most in demand, and as such the Shelties are unequalled.

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Lucky Pony Winners

'Tip' and the Whole Family enjoy Reading The Farmer's Wife"

My Darling "Tip"

By Chester H. McKee, Wayne Co., New York

One very cold Saturday morning in January there came to our house a paper and in it was a row of little Shetland ponies with boys and girls riding on them. There was another picture of a little pony which the Webb Publishing Company was going to give away free. The more I looked at the picture the more I wanted the little pony for my own. My mamma and papa read it and said I might try if I wanted. So I signed my name and mailed it that day and the very day my Certificate of Entry came I began to take subscriptions.

When I first started to get subscriptions, it was pretty hard work, but the more names I got the more I could get and I had lots of pleasant experiences. Some said, "You will not get a pony any way;" others said that I would. I knew the Webb Publishing Company did just as they agreed, for I wrote to some boys and girls who had won ponies and they told me how nice the Webb Publishing Company had been to them. One of the girls I wrote to was Miss Cleta Johnson, who had won "Jerry," and now she and I write to each other about our ponies and the fine times we have with them, so you see the Webb Publishing Company were the means of my making a new friend, for which I thank them very much.

I would say to any little boy or girl who is wishing for a pony to

'Tip" at a Lawn Party enter the Webb Publishing Company's Pony Contest and they will surely win a pony for their own if they only work hard enough.

Finally the contest came to a close and then came the anxious days of waiting to know if I had won. Then came my precious letter on Wednesday morning saying that "Tip" would be shipped that week. Saturday night came and no pony. I was most discouraged. Tuesday morning before school my grandpa came down and brought the rest of the outfit which came that morning. Then I felt sure that my pony would soon be here. Wednesday night after school, I got a telephone message that my pony was at the station and maybe we did not hustle down after him.

When I saw him my joy knew no bounds. I put my arms around his neck and said, "Oh,

you little darling." How I did hug him, I was so glad he had come and was mine. He did not like his ride on the cars at all, for he had ridden 47 hours. "Tip" had kicked himself completely out of his crate and they had to put him in the freight house. We live four miles from the station and I thought we would never get home, for everyone came out to see my pony, for "Tip" is the first pony owned in our town. One lady said she just wanted to touch him; I suppose to see if he really was alive. We brought him home and turned him loose in a nice box stall we had made on purpose for him. "Tip" was Oh, so hungry and tired. He would eat a little then lie down; then get up and eat some more, then lie down. The next day he seemed rested some so I put on his saddle and bridle and rode him a little. "Tip" is just as gentle as he can be.