The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-05-02
A Practical Horse Man Tells OF the
Foundation of u Fortune.

with one hundred acres of land to sell
stock, in one season, ~aggrcgating fifteen
thousand dollars. Our climate, water and
blu grass, SO essential to the production
of bone and muscle, is not Il whit inferior
to those of Kentucky, and should u peo-
pie with judgment turn their attention to
the same business, we, too, in a few years,
could realize fifteen thousand dollars from
farms which now barely cke out that
many hundred.
AS said we have the climate and water;
beneath the soil is found everywhere the
limestone rock, which causes the blue
grass to spring up spontaneously and
cover the ground. The price of well bred
horses has ever been on the increase and
the best will always find a ready sale at
good figures.
Then it is true no business in which the
agriculturist can engage calls for more
Intelligent thought and earnest study;
neither is there any in which failure is 80
sure to follow slipshod methods. First of
all, a careful study OF breeding is required;
secondly, q course of intelligent reading
must be followed, and the business in all
of its details must be carefully looked after.
Let us take some examples and in doing
so we are not engaged merely in paper
firming-particularly as it embraces the
experienced of many-and in doing so we
point out the general basis of a business
in which many farmers in Kentucky and
California are reaping a rich harvest.
The first aim should be to get The best,
but to buy even two or three iirst-class
brood mares would cost more than an Or
binary farm. For years such animals,
even in public sales, nave commanded one
to two thousand dollars each on an aver
age, and some ten, twelve and fifteen; to
buy these, therefore, is out of the question
in the majority of cases. Few of the
breeders owning such mares, and now
realizing such prices, started with this
class OF stock. They bred up.
II unable to start with such mares, look
around and find two or three lido not start
on too large scale for here is where many
fail-grow up yourself with your business,
i. e. as your business increases your know
ledge and capacity to manage it will ex-
pand)-get two or three standard produce
siS "a u 70 bilCu DJ ID
standard horse. But before you dc this,
read up. There is in some countries much
spurious money, and as you will quickly
learn, even by an examination of sales,
there is vast difference in blood.
Be sure they are good individuals, free
from all unsoundness, and with good ac-
ton. They may not trot fast, but they
.-...4 H. H.. =: $780, IL. IE~...-.
selected your mare then breed her to the
best standard horse you can get, that is,
the horse that comes from the best estab-
lished strains to head of speed producers.
II the produce is a filley you have a stand
ard animal and are prepared for business;
If a male, sell him for a road horse; in all
cases, never try to keep such al animal
for the stud for no merely standard horse is
fit for the stud. To do so is retrograding.
The filley above if then bred to a standard
horse, the produce in all cases is standard.
You then by intelligent breeding AVE
laid the foundation of a fortune, for the
produce is worth from $500 up according
to individuality and breeding. II you
cannot get standard producers to start
with, get the very best stock you can.
II takes one more cross INT longer. Take
for instance such an animal IL crossed
with a common horse at a small figure,
the produce is q horse worth at maturity
fifty, a hundred and in some cases one
hundred and fifty dollars; the next genera
ton is worth no more. II crossed with q
standard horse, with the right blood lines
the services for may be twenty or thirty
dollars more, but the horse colt is worth
fifty to three hundred dollars more; the
female progeny crossed again to a highly
bred horse is worth at auction, five hun
dred dollars, maybe five thousand dollars,
and sometimes even more. The enormous
fortunes of many horsemen Of to-day,
of whom Mr.. Corbin and MIR. Rose of
California are suspicious examples, were
laid just in this way.
If the farmers OF Lafayette county would
only properly study this subject, develop
their II instead of selling them; If
their sons instead of going west to find an
opening, would but avail themselves OF
the opportunities at our doors, Lexington,
Mo-, in a few years would be the center
OF as much wealth Us Lexington, Kentuc-
ky, and our lands, just as good as theirs,
would also be worth one hundred and
fifty to three hundred dollars per acre.
There are In this county the following
standard horses: William ", by William
L., sire OF Axtell, owned by j. ID. Shewal-
ter; Reform Tariff, by Mambrino Geoge,
owned by Mr.. ~Shewalter; Xerxes, by
Madrid, owned by Mr.. Shewalter; lingo
mar, by Aberdeen, owned by n. b. Camp
bell; Merchant, by Belmont owned by
Capt. II. T~odhunter; Electric, by Onward
owned by Capt. Todhunter; Fashion, by
Stranger owned by L. j. Stanley; View
mont, by Almont Pilot, owned by DIR. Geo
Bates; Conflict by Madrid owned by DR.
Bates; Dave Wallace by Sultan, owned by
DIR. Bates; On Top by Onward, owned by
Capt. Wilkerson; Wilkomont by Almont
Pilot owned by j. A. j. ShultZ.
If the farmers of Lafayette would but
take their good mares, mate them with
highly bred horses and the female
produce cross them again to horses of the
same character, in six years such a course
would add not less than one million OF
dollars to the wealth OF the county j.