Arizona republican., 1891-05-09
TEAMS FOR FARMERS,
q Few Suggestions as to what Animal
 Serves Best.

Serves Best.
 A correspondent, having purchased a farm on this Coast, and having to buy teams with which to work it, asks which would be the most profitable to buy-horses or mules. When a farmer has @ choice of farm teams, he should select good heavy mares every time. Mares not only do his work, but also give him colt nearly every year. The farmer must make every point pay. No source of income. however small, should be neglected. Business is business, in all pursuits. True business principles are based on savings and profits. Phil. Armour, the great Chicago millionaire packer, when asked the secret of his immense fortune, and constant success in business through manya crisis, when nearly all others fell by the way, re- piled: Constant industry, with con- stant saving. mostly by saving every thing. never allowed anything about my establishment to go to waste that a cent could be gotten out of. Every hair, drop of blood, hoof, horn, trimmings, scrapings and what not, that could in anyway be turned into money l saved; things that other packers have con- stantly thrown away, and been at great expense for the mere act of throwing away, I have saved and turned into money, and the money that I have in | that way saved constitutes the bulk of my fortune. The labor in making these savings have given employment to hun dreds of people,"
 The same business principles will make the farmer prosperous. Of course, much depends on how the farm is to be managed, as to what teams should be used. A large farm requiring four to eight teams at work all the time to carry it on, if the work is to be done with mares, about one extra team should be provided. And then by hay ing the mares foal at different times, the work can progress without loss of time.
 A mare carefully handled is all the better for breeding if worked right along within two or three days of foal- ing, and may be put to work three or four days after. Of course, care should be used so as not to overheat or strain her, and the foal will also be the better for the exercise it gets.
 There are some conditions of country life where the mule is the more econom- ical animal for work generally. He eats much less and lasts twice as long as a horse, and requires much less at l @~ ,,,
 The mule is finely adapted to the mar, ket gardener and small fruit grower, where mare with colt would not be admissible, and in all cases where it is not convenient to vllse colts. A good. tempered mule is fine work animal A mean, skittish, self-willed, vicious ol breachy one, is an aggravation, product i've of profanity and bad temper.
 The best mule is bred from the best pure-blood jack, and a full-blood ol grade draft mare, with no Indian pony nor racing (thoroughbred) blood in him whatever. Mules improve largely or all the bad points of their progenitors and very carefully leave out the good ones. The place for the mule and the gelding horse is in cities, lumber regions, mountain packing, working or railroads and in places where colts could not be reared, but the proper anima for doing farm work is the full-blood ol grade draft mare. No racer or trotteI blood has place on the farm. Tht only other blooded horse that shoul, | have a place is, perhaps, the Frencl coach horse. The farmer should rais' , such colts as will sell readily. Ther' never was and never will be an over , plus of good, heavy, draft horses.