Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-03-27
HINTS TO FARMERS.
Doc. Faust shows How 10 do Better
than Raise Potatoes.

What more can farmer do that will
pay besides raising potatoes? He can
raise good horse. This IL the way
he can do IT.. Get you as good u pair
Of mares Us you eau 20 do your farm
work with; breed them 10 the largest
horse you eau find; have the colts come
as early ~ possible, 10 that when the
the spring work begins the mares will
10 strong and tho colts will DO old
enough TO chl grass aud keep out of the
way. The horse business has changed
more than any other business. Electro
city has taken the place Of the all
purpose horse to- great measure. Here
Ia Salt Lake alone Il would take xix
hundred horses 10 do the work that
electricity Il now doing. What would
this bo at the same rate all over the
United Slatos? II Is the handwriting
ON the wall that means change. What
Ia the chnngeg To me 1t is plain: you
must take your choice Of two kinds OF
horses-lhc roadster, which means the
ttOtllng fhmily's, or the draft horse.
These arc my reasons for the pruduc.
ton Of the latter; Go TO the harbprs Of
New York, Boston, New Orleans, and
Ia fact all hAItOrs, and see the ships
come la from other ports Of the world
heavily Laden. When they anchor
aud begin to discharge their hundreds
o tons OF freight, then what? The
Ia Ia n -
tho railroads, 10 the stores or
warehouses. Can you do this with
power? Not much. The bigger the
horse the better. There are other rem.
sons for producing tho blg horse. The
feeding Of two horses II an item; the
room In the big city In also nm item; the
driver OF the one horse costs less. The
demand and supply fs what controls
the markets.
Take n carload Of our good hearty
horses TO the eastern market; what
viii you get for them? You would be
In big luck fyou came back home with
my dollars In your pocket for each
horse after the expenses Were paid.
What Is the price Of the big horse? II
you had u carload, or train load, that
would weigh from sixteen 10 twenty.
four hundred pounds each, they would
not bring less than $500 10 $500 head.
Their. eau be- seen at the safe Com.
pany's office, Mt broadway, New Yorl,,
four gray horses that arc used for haul
ing safes. The least one weighs
twenty-five hundred; their cost was
four thousand dollars; II was no more
trouble, nor cost 10 raise them than any
other horses.
What the practice has been OF our
farmers IL too we'll known 10 be dwelt
ON now; only this: II n farmer had n
good mare, or mares, what would he do
II there was horse standing In the
neIghborhood that cost the owner two
thousand dollars, aud the charge was
twenty dollars, and the offspring would
be worth One hundred dollars when
born2 Why, he would say, Mr.. Jones
has n horse that | can get for Ave
dollars, aud guess will ave the M.
teen by breeding 10 him; what IN the
result? II IL Just tins: The country IL
swarmed with scrubs that you cannot
sell, and tho time viii come that you
cannot give them away. The owners
IN many instances would be better OF
N they could trade them even for
sheep. What would you do? Is the
question asked me often. You can
breed up. Our mares In most instances
are good enough To breed TO, either the
rOadsters or the draft; You must use
some Judgment and common SENSE.
There IL one way out, and m | have
had many years of experience In breed.
ing, can safely say that II you viii
breed 10 good horses you viii be TO-
Enumerated.
There Is one thing that | have al.
ways been opposed To, and am more so
now--thnt Il 10 eastern breeders culllng
their stock, and bringing their cIlls
here, aud palming them on us. In one
cas- | was called on TO pick one horse
cue OF four, for friend. We measured
tile muscle OF the front leg, and out OF
the four horses Weighing over eighteen
hundred and upwards each, we only
found one that measured twenty-four
inches, Just what any common horse
ought TO measure.