St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-22

which racers and trotters have not in
nlgner degree. 1t took 200 years to de-
velope Mand or Ten Brock from the
Ara,b and they are the perfection of
millions of experiments. and the sum-
nit OF constant aim for perfection. No
man can live for 200 years. and he can
not control millions of animals.
Don't waste your time and money trying
to evolve or dig out new laws from the
universe. Fools dig out the laws by their
failures, and wise men use them. Many
fortune has been spent in trying to
make trOtterS out of Arabs and thor
Oughbreds. 1t is your privilege to try
for yourself if you choose,
Don't imagine that every horse that
has good pedigree is good horse to
use. Insist on having good individual
first and good pedigree afterward.
Don't start out on the theory of get
ting trotters and deriving your profits
from them. There are many failures to
one trOtter, and the failures more than
counterbalance the profits Oh the trot-
tiers. So try to breed good horses of fine
action, shape, size and pedigree, and if
they prove to be trotterS so much the
better.
Don't imagine that you have the only
trOtting stock i'll the world. If man
offers you good living profit be pre-
pared TO sell. Don't marry yourself to
any animal OF number of them. 1t is
better to sell and regret than to keep
and regret. Maud S. was sold for less
than $500, and her sale was undoubtedly
the means of enhancing the value of her
brothers and sisters.
Don't imagine that all men are rOgues,
and you alone are honest. If this is
your idea, it is more than probable that
you are the rogue, and that you are
measuring other people by your own
measure.
Don't try to get areputatlOn for sharp
ness. Few men are able to distinguish
between sharpness and rOguery. The
sharp hOrseman is generally the one
without money and reputation. Don't
fear that you will have too much com
petition in honesty, whilst you may
make up your mind that smarter men
than you have failed to live by their
wits.
Don't wait until you are hard up for
money before you sell your stock. Set
the limit to your operations, and re-
morselessly cut the number down to
that limit every year. Every hour that
that he can be sold for good profit is
of keeping, but in the absenSe Of money
and the peril of loss and damages.
Don't sell your stock without having
them in good condition, unless you have
a certain customer. Many poor ami
NAL has sold well Oh account of his con-
dItlon. and many noble animal has
been given away for lack of the same.
Don't think that there is any money
in keeping your brood mare in poor con-
ditiOn. A brood mare needs far more
vitality than mare in training, and
she will not breed after foaling if her
vitality has not been kept until she has
had time to recuperate.
Don't forget that every year that your
mare fails to breed the cost of the next
must be doubled. Keep up the strength,
not necessarily to fairness, but by plenty
OF strengthening food.
Don't expect the buyers will know by
inspiration that you have stock for sale.
Advertising is the first condition of sell
ing; the second is that you have the
goods worth the money.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
Don't tie your enterprise to one strain
OF trOtterS or thOroughbreds. The
fashion in horses is constantly chang
ing. To-day it is the Wilkes strain that
prevails, next year it may be the Elec-
tioneer, and after that some other.
Better. like a country storekeeper, try
to have something to suit every reason
able demand.
Don't be ''stud-hoss'' man, and say
that your animals are the only good
ones, and everyone else's are bad.
Such a course marks yours a plug"
and not a thoroughbred, and Injuries
you more than the other fellow.
ness. Take such papers as are not
mere advertising sheets, but discuss the
science of breeding. Don't be afraid to
contribute your share. Almost every
one has something to contribute to the
sum total of human knowledge.