The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-05-28
HOUSEHOLD AND FARM.
Norman W. Clydesdale.


Editors Free Trader-We noticed in your
last issue couple of letters. one FRI IN Mr..
Gruber, of Farm Ridge, to Mr. Heineman, Of
Ohio, and Mr.. Heineman's answer TO same.
Your readers know that Mr. G's. letter on Its
face purports to be an earnest, honest inquiry
after true light in the art of breeding draft
horses to suit Mr.. Hcineman and his market,
and in his honesty and childlike simplicity
says, I'VE will breed just as Toy say"
Oh, dear! oh, dear Now does Mr.. G., in
all his discrimination, believe that farmers are
20 stupid as to think for mOmen, that had
Mr.. HIS. verdict been against his Norman
horse, and in favor of any other breed, that lie
would have at once turned his stallion out to
grass and sought the service of some Clydes
dalef Every thinking, sensible person can of
course see ut once that the sole object was to
secure statement from some horseman that
would be advantageous to Norman stallion
owners and at the same time detrimental to
those who own stations of other breeds. We
have not the least doubt had friend Gruber
written to Mr. Durham or to Dillon & Co. but
that the reply would have been equally favor
able to the Norman. (They sell Norman stall
lions, 50 does Mr. Heineman).
We have nothing to say against the Norman
horse. We own and keep them, and like
good one and despise bad one. We also own
the Scotch" and English horse, and admire a
good one and dislike bad one. That there
are animals of undoubted worth and merit in
all those breeds can not be doubted by any un-
prejudiced man; that there are worthless anil
mails among all breeds is equally true. To
say in which breed can be found the worst
we will not attempt, suffice it TO say that we
can find mean ones enough among them all
to make any horscman's heart ache. No can,
did man, who does not wear the green specta
Giles of prejudice and personal interest, can tail
to see that there are distinctive features in
each of these breeds in which each eXccls the
other, and that by judicious crossing we
will get bone, shape and size, and the best
market horse in the world. A. 1t has been IN
tmated in the letter Of Mr.. H.. AMI quite eX-
tensively commented upon interested par
ties who taor differently, lait III" Clydcs
bring much lower prices and can not be sold
at near so early an age as the Normans, we APP
pend few facts
First, that Mr.. Hejneman's buyer bought the
first two.year.old geding that was shipped
from Ottawa last year. This colt was Clydes
dale, and worse still in MIR. HIS. mind, a
Clyde, beng from a Clyde horse and Clyde
mare,-and this colt cost him $210 here. Later
in the season Mr.. Snyder, of Ohio came to
buy feeders and again paid 1910 for two
year-old Clydesdale geldlng. Further, thatno
Norman geldings of that age have before or
since brought that figure in the vicinity of
Ottawa.
Again, that the highest price Mr. Helneman
has ever paid for a gelding IN this section
was for Clydesdale. We attended a county
fair in OHIO with Mr. II. a year ago last fall,
and during the day he purchased a number of
horses-all Normans but one. The price on
the Normans did not exceed 5000 each, but he
did pay $500 for an English draft mare.
Of course, Mr.. g. it may not be pleasant
for you to he failed with your own club, but
we can't help it. As to the proportion of Nor
mans and Clydes that Mr.. II. heads does not
every one know that to every Clyde stallion
there have been twenty Norman stations un-
I'll within the last three years As to the time
required to fit for market, we presume that
accounts for their paying such high prices for
such young colts in order that they may have
plenty of time to fit. But how they are going
10 fix this thing in New York we can't see
Evidently there is something radically wrong;
the Clydesdales have been getting the prices
that belonged to the Normans.
We think If farmers breed to the best stall
lions of any of these breeds they will have no
trouble to sell their colts The prices will
correspond. w. +. PRICHAgD.
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