Rocky Mountain husbandman., 1884-10-02
COOPERATION IN BREED1N G.

raising uTdIl HOIstes sIHSc he hau O0iNi|
b cen familiar with that region. A county
surveyor in Mclean county, with special
taci lites for observation, asserted that this
county raised a million dollars worth of
drafts every year. 1t seemed as if as much
value was imported and sold as was raised.
importers were touEd in every direction.
One firm had sold 100000 worth the pre-
vious season. Raising drafts was the spe-
ciai business OF the county. And men from
altar who wanted imported blood for stock,
and buyers from all parts Of the world who
wanted grade drafts for work, could go
there and secure the best the county could
furnish. They can pay 500 each more
than if compelled to hunt them up one in
county and transport them. One dealer
published The list of his last twenty-0ne pur
chases from nineteen different owners. Civ
inc names OF sellers, description. weight and
price of horses. The average weight was
.s36 pounds. and the average price S225.
These weights and prices were secured by
the cooperation OF many farmers. each at
work for himself, but unntentionally help
ing every other.
Some years previous (perhaps 'seventeen),
the billions, honest Quakers. had brought
an imported horse and a small herd of
grades into tile county. and a few years lat
er had made the unheard-of importation of
tour horses at once direct from France, and
for ten years all had been raising draft
horses. Those who tried racers or trotters
found their neighbors all set in one direc-
ton and turned in with them. The busi-
ness became better and better understood.
The tall, snowy, beautiful, stylish cross
bred) horses that attract the attention of
novices-handsome enough for the carriage
and heavy as any-were proved useless, and
those with extreme draft qualities, heavy
bone, low down and broad out, were alone
selected. A breeder would watch the i'm
portations all over the State tor six months
and then buy Dilon's best horse and keep
it in the county.
Column after column of the local paper
was devoted to advertising the claims of
different dealers, showing the best that each
one knew on the subject. The observations
and experiences Of each were the common
property of all. The facilities for purchases,
services, transportation and sale were such
that novice with scanty means could en-
bark in the business there with more assur-
ance of success than man of special ability
and capital could do elsewhere.
This is an example of what is often seen
a., ! ,t,.s.,
more there are in any locality engaged in
any one business, the better it is understood
and practiced, the more facilities are there
for carrying it on and the tiercer is the COM
petition tor the productions.
1t it We're announced that some man in
Montana had diamond worth ten thou
sand dollars, it would interest no one but
himself But ii it were proved that he had
a diamond mine turning out ten thousand
dollars worth every hour, every large city
in the world would send its best buyers and
its largest capitalists by the first train to Sc
cure the proceeds.
If one carriage team from Montana should
70 to Chicago, st. Louis and New Orleans,
question would be eagerly asked, are there
Others where these came from? and if there
were not, and this pair came back, it might
disturb no one But if, instead of one such
team, one hundred were sent forth and
should capture prizes everywhere, and
should announce that Meagher county, M.
T., had ten thousand such horses, all bays,
from l6 to l63 hands, from l,300 to |, 400
pounds, all from choice, healthy, hard
worked carriage stock on both sides, all as
good travellers, as agreeable drivers, as ca
pable and desirable every way as the aver
age American roaster, and all with the spe-
ciaI symmetry. 'stvle and action, of very
carefully selected sires. and all handled or
worked every day of their lives by trust
worthy men, with a professional trainer at
their head, handled not for speed, but for
work and usefulness. and perfectly broken
to cars. bridges, engines. mills, canyons and
other dangers what train loads of buy
ers would come to Montanai and how fast
those ten thousand horses would disappear!
and how eagerly would buyers all over the
world watch for the next crop of similar
horses, And ii in raising these 10000 coach
horses, 100000 inferior lower priced animals
OF similar breeding and breaking We're pro-
duced, how eagerly would buyers for busi
ness and for armies come from London.
Paris, Berlin and Vienna, and from every
city of our own land, to secure safe bar
gains in horses.
Such results on larger or smaller scale
are before all breeders who singly or to-