Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-07-14
2fsriculfural Department
I. D. &. COLLINS, Editor.
RAISING HORSES.

Horse breeding is branch of farm
ing which demands knowledge and close
attention. To conduct it proftably.
farmer must know what kind brings the
highest prices i'll the market, what are
the causes of such prices, and how those
causes will be likely to affect the mark
ct in the future. Particular attention
should also be given to the best and
most economical system of stabling.
feeding and training, so that by lessen
ing the cost of production, the profits
may be increased. And beyond all,
great care should be taken that only the
very best mares should be used. The
practice among many farmers of using
WORKOUT broken-down and blemished
mares for breeding cannot be too strong
ly condemned.
At present there is great, and in all
likelihood there will be, continuous
demand for heavy draught horses conse-
quent on the large and rapidly increas-
ing traffic of the principal towns, and it
therefore behooves our farmers to give
special attention to this important fact.
Thanks to the well-directed energy and
discriminating skill Of many of our i'm
porting agriculturists, we have heavy
draught stations that cannot fail to ex-
ercise marvellous influence on the char
acter of the rising stock of the country,
and we feel persuaded that our farmers
generally will heartily support the profit
able employment of these superior ami
mails in the various localities to which
they are introduced.
Self-interest itself should strongly
support such a course, for our American
friends are continually securing the
country in search of frst-class draught
animals, at prices ranging from two
hundred and fifty to four and even FIVE
hundred dollars apiece. Besides, in
most of our older farming districts
deeper blowing has become an iney1ta-
BILE necessity, and the light stamp of
horses hitherto predominating through
out the country, will prove very insult
able for the purpose, and a heavier
stamp of animals require to be substitu-
ted, substitution that will be more
generally acquiesced in, in consequence
of the rapid extension of railways and
the consequent diminution of long dis
tances that farmers hitherto have been
compelled tie travel to market. In
choosing mares to breed from, the far
mer should be careful to aim at perfec-
ton of style, constitution, and freedom
from blemishes, and if he has no good
mares of his own, will find himself amp.
ly repaid by purchasing one which com.
bines these good qualities in as great 9
degree as possible.
| Whilst thus advocating the claims o.
the heavy draught horse, we must mo-
he understood as deprecating the pro
duction of either blood or carriag,
horses. In their respective classes, ant
for special purposes. these animals arr
just as valuable as their neighbors o
the heavy draught breed are in theirs
But the exigencies of the times demand
an increased number of the latter stamp
and we feel no hesitation in recommend
ing the great bulk of farmers to Civ
special minding, care and attention t
the breeding of heavy draught animals
whether for the purpose of the farm o
) for disposal to either home or foreig
buyers.