The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-02-10
THE NJ.
A PAYING INVESTMENT.

If you could invest or loan a few dol
lars that would return to you in two,
three or four years from now two or
three times as great as it is at present you
would consider it a good transaction. In
fact moneYed men are looking out for
places where they can place their money
so that it will make arate of increase one
half or one-forth as rapid as t. double up
in three or four years. The breeder Of
horses does not need to study long to find
an opportunity to place his money to as
good an advantage as this. This is espe-
ciallY true of the bree Ter who raises in
ferior horses.
No man can keep a stallion, give him
the kind of care he should have in order
to have the proper influence upon the
produce, 10 matter how inferior the ami
nal may be, and charge less than ten dol
lars as a service fee. There are stations
throughout the country, perhaps, the SER
vice fees of which are less than ten dol
lars, but the man who breeds to such
horses must expect to loose the amount
he saves in this way by inferior condition
of the offspring which naturally follows
the neglect and improper treatment of a
stallion when doing stud duty. But take
ten dollars as the price for the service of
a grade stallion or a mOngrel. Add an
other ten dollars, or fifteen at the fur
thest, and you can secure the service of
a superior horse. Of course prices run
much higher when it comes to trotting or
running horses, but the class that farmers
ordinarily breed is now under considera-
ton.
Bretd your mares to the cheeper class
of horses and when the time comes to put
them on the market they are worth from
seventy five to one hundred dollars. Say
one hundred dollars is the average price.
The high grade Of horse from the pure
bred stallion would have to sell at but a
slight advance to give the investor one
hundred per cent. on his in vestment with
in three or four years. There has been no
time aOithtn the past thirty gears that a first
class horse on Gny market In the country
WGS not ready safe at good prices. That
word 'frst class" must not be lost sight
of, bear in mind, when the qualifications
are given. 4 horse cannot be first class
aOithOut he Is bred right. Oue Of the most
successful horsemen in this country in re-
ply to the gu sry: How 10 make horse
breeding proftable2 simply said, "Breed
and aOeed and feed" Breeding aOas the
first consideration aOitb him and 1t Is aOith
every one oOho thoroughly understands the
business. Start right, that's the point. Get
good blood and then take care of it, The re-
suit aOM astOnish ycu. Incest the difference
of a fen dollars betoOeem the cost of service
Of an inferior horse and that of O. good one
00Gh the confidence that 1T a0iU return to
yOU again taOo, three or four fold. One
mar can raise VGIuG6k horses as we1 as
another. There is no patent or copyright
covering this history. The field is open.
Do not let the penny before yOWr eyes hide
the dollar IN the di8tGnce.-KV. Stock
Farm, Jan. 29th 81.
K COMPOST.
The editor, writing in the November
number of the Planter, gives the most
sound and Wholesome advice on the sub
ject of saving manure and making COM
post.
1t would scarcely seem necessary to