The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-03-20
NEXT TO MAN THE TROTTING
HORSE Is GODS NOBLEST
CREATION.
An Able and Practical Paper Addressed
to Farmers of Limited Means.

The relation of all classes of horses
% agriculture is a close one, inasmuch
Is large majority of them are bred |
IN farms by farmers. l shall there
ore start out with the assumption |
hat the real meaning OF relation"
n tn s connection is the profit arising |
rom the pursuit of breeding the trOt- |
ing horse.
1t is true that the agriculturist has |
an interest in his business above that of |
the simple sordid one of gain; and |
the elevating love of nature eugen- |
dered by the annual budding of crops |
from seed sOWn by his own hand, is a |
noble interest, leading the thoughts |
aud teaching the. mind to
wonder at the marvellous power of the |
Supreme Being.
The trOtting horse is an American
needing no naturalization
papers or introduction. For general
use ana business he is, next to man,
Gods MODEST creation. The draft
horse can pull, the thoroughbred
can run; neither can trOt; neither is
adapted to the general business OF
mankind; one is a slow slug, the 9TH
er treacherOus and tightly gamb-
ling machine. Whereas the trOtting
bred horse can pull your plow, he can
run as fast as ever necessary in bust
ness, and he can make You grow
young with the pleasure he affords in
"spinn down the smooth stretch of
road on your way hOme-such
"spin" that opens your heart, makes
you pat the baby on its head, fur
nishe5 a kind word and loving kiss
for your wife, Instead of that desire
to kick your dog after a slow, work
e-with-the-whfp ride be-
hind dung-hill beast.
The highest price ever paid for a
horse, $i0a coo, was paid for trotter
that was produced from a $3.50 mare,
and was bred, reared, trained and sold
by poor telegraph operator. The
general average paid for a trotting-
bred horse Is above the average paid
for horses of other classes. Then
why, with the possibilities of extreme
value, and the certainty Of q value
above that Of any OtheF-breed, is not
the trotting horse the horse FIR the
agriculturist to produce? He is the
horse of to-day and the horse of the
| future.
In this day of universal interest OF.
the subject, you cannot pick up pa
per nor turn street corner WlthOuI
having an answer to that question
Unfortunately the information, too,
|
never bred a trotter nor owned one. bu
who reiterates the arguments and wist
sayings of others equally ign rant,
frequently from an extreme theoris'
who rides q hobby till the hobby get
tired and then rides him in turn
Much of the many theories advanced
is good, a great deal bad-the old
story of the chaff and the grain. AnC
let me say right here, if you have MOI
Judgment of your own that can sepa
rate the chaff from the wheat, dom
start to breeding trOtters. Let ne
hope, for your sGke. that you employ
the separator" to this article, for l
undoubtedly contains much chaif
and only possibly very little sount
grain that might benefit you in saw
ing, for I plea guilty, like my fellow
men, Of a proneuePa to the equestrian
feat of straddiing a hobby and ridin!
with whip and spuf.
The trotting staudard-a much re
viled and often Il misleading guide
acting in the minds of unthinkinI
men as harmful finger-board, tina
points in the wrong direction, ani
adding a fictitious value to many
scrub not wo tn the water it drinks
is still mainly the true guide to sue
cess in breeding. 1t is lar from per
ment and intelligence, it will brin
success, and with success, 1t "put
money in thy purse"
1t is true that there are man
horses out of the standard rank bet
ter bred than many that are in i
But that's whGre Indignant Games IL
1t is also true that 1t has 40 cOntrt
over hereditary or individual III
sOundness. A plug decorated wit
ringbones, spavins, spllnts and curb'
not fast enough to get out of his Ow
way-in short, an utterly WORTHLESS
brute-nIay he as p4igibie to standar
registry as the best Individual hors
and the highest bred one in the land
And that is where think the prime
pal evil of the standard lies. Go to
fair of any of our country agriculture
societies with the following test
Let three gentlemen exhibit tire
different talliOus do not mean fC
premiums); No. |, a good individual
fast, sound aud Standard No. =,
tlat-sided scrub, TT for no duty that
horse was ever intended, but staI
lard, and having .'number;" No.
i grand individual, fast, high breC
sound, but just outside the standaIC
Then will appear the numerous IL
dividuals of the genus standard cranl
air, asking the standard "number" {
each. The two having that apendag
are then in his estimation equa
One is standard with a number, all
the other has 81 number and is star
dard, so both are equally good
breed to. But the one without
number is absolutely worthless j
the opinion of the theOrist, althOug
in reality capable Of making hin
self standard 10y his own perfOrmar
ces, and not depeding on the departe
greatness of his ancestors for tia
distinction. That is the fictitiou
view of the standard, the evil of tn
standard, the plaza where good judl
ment must step in and do its duty
My advise to beginner would b
to carefully study the 2:30 list, an
from it form an idea of the breedin
or combination of blood most pOteu
in producing the representatives i
that list. Chen breed to the bes
your means wall permit. Renem
Der, always, that a horse bred to tire
and cannot trOt, cannot do what he
bred to do, and is therefore failure
Don't breed to such one. He can
not transmit power he does lie
himself possess. Between the tw
horses. equal indiUidudiEy, one stan
| ara ana Cne QUIET nOG, DTeeu 10 IL
stauuaId one, but far better breed t
good nOu-standard horse than
poor standard one. Never forget tina
a good-lOoking horse will always sci
well, therefore do not sacrifice look
for uncertain speed. In this day tn
combination, good looks and speed
should be easily produced. Neve
breed to Il horse with hereditary un
= sOundness.
If you can afford it, buy mares o
fashionable breeding, because thei
offspring will sell readily for goOC
prices. II you cannot afford tina
kind, do the best you car, cOnsolinl
yourself with the reflection that tn,
dams OF many of the fastest horses il
the wo Id have been low-priceC
mares Oliver X, was sold with hi
dam for $3.50, AXtell's dam cost $50
Sacks dam sold for $50, McDoel'!
$40, Allerton's for $500, and this list
might be continued up into the
hundreds.
After you breed a colt, give it {
chance. Feed it well and when ole
enough teach it to step out, and
whether in training or not, remember
that pure grass is natures remedy
for All ailments. There is a great
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