The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-12-25
CACHE VALLEY HORSES
Superior to the Imported
Animal.
COL i. B. WINDER'S VIEWS.
81 Our Grass fed Beef-standard Bred
Mares Misunderstanding of Colts
Our Climate.

There has been less importation of
horned stock and horses during the
past year than for a number of years
previous. Thi ., however, does oot in
dictate a lack of improvement in the
directions named, and for the very suf-
ficient reason that the blooded stock in
the Territory has grown to such an ex-
tent as to render it longer unnecessary
to rely upon outside markets for stand
ard bred animals. For several years
past our people have manifested an
earnest determination to secure better
strains of blood, both in horned stock
and in horses, and the result is visible
to-day, not only in the better class of
horses ani cattle to be seen throughout
1.-the Territory, but upon the streets of
Salt Lake City. The Grant Brothers.
in their livery business, have found no
better horses than those brought from
Cache Valley, and these horses have
the 'itional advantage over i'm
ported animals of the same grade, of
being cheaper, acclimated, and raised
fitted to the conditions by which they
are surrounded. OF course, we have
not reached that point which will Just
ify Us in remaining satisfied. There is
a very great work to be done still, but
the necessity of bringing in as many
PEDIeREED HORSES AND PURE BRED CATTLE
las has been done in the past, no longer
exists. We should remember that it is
always safe to breed to a pedigreed
horse Unthinkingly, many of our
farmers and stock raisers incline to the
belief that if the dam has the proper
blood in her, the result in the colt will
be as satisfactory as if the sire had
been a pedlgreed animal. 1t is true.
that pedigreed dam is better than a
scrub, but it is also true that the
chances for improvement in stock are
much better if an inferior mare is put
DO a Well-bred horse, than where q !
Superior dam is bred to an inferior sire |
What we need in this Territory now
are a number of pedigreed mares of
the various kinds. These, with the |
stations we now have, will bring about |
I6SulIS ldT III 6ACcSS VI WudI NC UdY
hope to achieve while the present con-
dItion is continued, though for the past |
we have no reason to complain.
Our mountain-raised horses not only |
make as fine appearance, they are not |
only more hardy, but they have also |
greater powers of endurance, and dis |
play all the sterling qualities which are
coveted in horse.
onoin If Tn q mis- |
take, the present tendency of training /
young horses to the extent that is now |
advocated and practioed by some.
Naturally a degree of exercise will |
materially facilitate the development |
of muscle and bone, and make the !
animal stronger than it would have |
been without it, but there is a dagger of |
exercising a young animal to pitch |
where it becomes actually INJURIOUS.
l cannot think that the training of a
yearling, as is done in California, until
it can trot a mile in 230, will prove
ultimately in the interest of greater
speed or endurance, or in long life to
the animal. There is a point beyond
which 1t is not safe to 60, and it seems
that 1t would be better to take the
chances for a growth in the future
than to overstrain the soft muscle and
bone of a colt.
There is, too, much in the proper care
and feeding of animals, though in the
case of our horned stock, the present
Christmas exhibition of beef shows re-
markabIe results of the higher breed of
animals, even where they have been
fed upon grass alone. The purity and
solidity of the beef produced by feed
ing upon the rich mountain grass are
yery remarkable. OF course, am of
the opinion that the same results as to
the favorable influences of climate and
our high altitude that follow in the
case of human beings are observable
also in horses and horned stock. There
are no two questions that our noun
tain regions are
CONDUCIVE TO LENGTH OF LIFE,
general strength of body and to marked
endurance in human beings, and it is
certain the conditions are fully as eff
cacious as to horses and horned stock.
When we shall have had the full de-
Velopment that will follow the intro
duction of the higher strains of blood,
and the skill which follows the rearing
OF animals, there is little doubt that
Utah will produce horses equal to any
in the world, and which for general APP
pearance will be superior to any that
may be raised in lower attitudes, not
withstanding the favorable view that is I
taken of climatic conditions in these ,
attitudes which admit of the protracted
working and training of animals. The
future is full of promise, and do not
think that, in any one direction. Utah
will show herself so thoroughly super
ior, as she will in her horned stock and
in her horses.
JOHN r. WINDER.