The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1888-06-09
RAISING HORSES,
sAgricola" Gives Some Valuable Points
on q Weiehty Farm Topic.

on q Weighty Farm Topic.
More progress has been made in
horse-raising In the last fifty years
Than in all previous history Of the
world.
The extremes Of feetness and
strength never co-exist in the same
horse.
What Is called ''blood" in horses
only fits them in a higher degree for
certain purposes. As arule, improve.
ment in breed can not be obtained
by mating animals entirely dissimilar,
as q dray hoise with q race horse,
large-sized males with understood 70.
males.
If an animal Of great excellence is
defective in n point 1t is desirable
TO select for its mate an animal par.
ticularly strong in the others defect
i've point
If both parents are bad in one and
the same point it is a thousand to n
that the progeny will be worse than
either.
Size. form. bone and constitution
must always be first regarded in breed
ing.
Never expect to produce a perfect
animal by the union of two imperfect
ones.
Acquired qualities arc transmitted,
whether Of sire or dam-bad qualities
as well as good.
A stunted colt rarely turns out we'll.
The cost of a colt at three years Of
age is ninety dollars. and the profit or
loss depends on the quality Of the colt
at that age.
Time has proved that the thorough
bred horse can be bred with advantage
in large establishments backed by cap.
ital.
The carriage horse, such as the
French coach horse or the Cleveland
bay, offers the largest profits to those
who can produce them with the nee
essary qualities.
These qualities are size, symmetry,
style, soundness, color and graceful
action. A combination of these the
average farmer can rarely produce.
The Government report says:
"Horse-b breeding has advanced within
the year five per cent, and the ten.
dency in the Central States is largely
toward larger and heavier horses,
suitable for draft purposes. Nothing
offers better profits"
Draft horses can be sold as readily
as oxen; they command as good prices
as roadsters or carriage horses. For
farm work, none excels the half. blood
Percheron or CIydesdale.
The day is not far distant when we
shall furnish foreign nations with
horses for artillery purposes.
Breeding trottcrs is not n profitable
business for the farmer. When u real.
ly good trotter is produced. the cost
of his development and exhibition
will in most cases eat up the price he
brings.
If you have boys, don't breed or buy
trotters Farmers sons would be safer
in many ways to ride slower. Much as
the world wants fast horses. she needs
men more.
Ihe mania for fast horses often lays
The found alton for 4 mortgage on the
homestead.
When your sons morals have be
come tainted, his tastes vitiatod. and
bis character corrupted, what are
horses to you, OF money either:
The great Improvement In the
breeds Of horses and of all farm ami
mails, has come through the sell ction
of males of the best quality:
In-and-in pairing means the pairing
Of relatives within the degree of Sec
ond cousins twice or mors in Success
sion. The best butter and mich cows
were made by once pairing animals
that were near akin.
Cross breeding is the pairing OF ami
mails not allied in several generations
Good horses have been produced by
both systems. Continued in-and-in
breeding develops weak constitution
"A loss Of vigor and stamina.
Experience teaches that you can no
develop a new quality in the next gen
grafton by y fem ale devoid of tina
quality. mated with a horse possessed
of that quality in a marked degree
For instance, a slow, stout mare witt
no fast blood will in no case breed
fast colt, though mated to a fas
horse.
The bro cd mare should hav
cheerful, comfortable quarters, no
stand on a plank floor, turned loos'
In the daytime, if possible. and shout
receive kind attentions.
The fall season. not the spring, |
the proper time for foaling' "A !
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