The Springdale news., 1889-08-02
PROFITABLE INDUSTRY.
rha Breeding and Rearing os Driving
 Horses and Heavy Mules.

praedine and Rearing os Driving
 Horses and Heavy Mules.
 r,r,ora who are interested in the hraediug of horses can scarcely nave f.i1od to take note of the present pop ..Ia,. dosira for useful horse that Is eoua,ly we'll fitted for the saddle or Tor barpess. Fast driving Will always have ifs votaries, but the breeding ot fast trotting horses mas prooaoiy raoobed it's climax, and no one except .sportsmen" will care to o" II q no' ps'. 9e that can trot faster on a road VT 'f''0~ than the horses of the present uaJ' Comfort in driving IS more SeHtrdilS desirable than rushing through Ihe air with the dangerous speed ot loco- motive and the hcalthful and pleasing use of the saddle is as appfoPr'"'e ioi women as for men. This gro"Ih ol tho nublic taste is in a legitimate dl- rection and will consequently prove nermanent. It is in accord "ttu human nature and as near as we ln America can get to the popular En- clish recreation of hunting, when Is not possible under our different idhu system. A jog at the rate of ten or twelve miles an hour on an excellent country road is pleasure that IS un- surpassed by any other oi the many rural delights that are 70 pc enJoySu in the country" and 1t Is Eoou thing that the popular good sense has turned in this direction
 The wealthy residents of cltleS are not the only persons to whom horse breeders may look for custom CTS as soon as they have the anlmals ready for sale Thousands of business men in moderately comfortable CIT cumstances, and even employees who are better paid than the average run of them. can easily afford 10 keep | horse, and the pleasure will De louhu actually less costly than that of haunt | ing the theatcrs, saloons and bllll@Tu rooms Of the cities, and infinitely moro conducive to health, moral and phys ical. Thus the market for horses ot the kind referred to will undoubtedly be far wider and moro profitable than that for the faster trotting roadsters, although there will be no grand prizes to be picked up. A wholesome, steady and sufficiently profitable business will grow up, in which any farmer who has the opportunities and the skin to rear the right horses and train them in the way they should go will make satisfactory investment ot money and labor
 Another profitable industry IS the breeding and rearing of mules These hardy animals will come into more cX- tended use in the North as the breed ing of road and park horses increases Mules for work and horses for profit and pleasure will be the outgrowth of the destined increase in the rearing Ot pleasure horses. The blow and the wagon are not conducive to the figure or spirit of a pleasure horse, but the mule is essentially made for labor Probably there is no more favorable opportunity for young farmers with small capital to engage in pleasing and profitable business than the breed ing and rearing of mules in Southern localities where iaii3idd I'd is still very cheap and where the climate permits outdoor feeding for nine or ten months n the year. A thrce-ycarold mule can there be reared as cheaply as a steer of the same age and will sell for twenty cents pound. live weight, when the steer will bring no more than two cents.- N. '. Times.