Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-03-28
H4r44 XHtrtsets,
AT Cobleskill---H Horse Breeding,

breeding, rearing, using and selling
of general~purpose horses, He said:
| have no disrespect for those spec
ial purpose horses, the draft and the
trotting horse. The draft horse can,
no doubt, be successfully reared on
the great western farms, where grain
and room are plenty and cheap. The
trotting horse can only be successful
reared in the large breeding establish.
ments of our millionaires, and even
then, they must be bred with the
advantage of experience, and every
appliance that wealth can procure.
Only'one in every one hundred trots
in three minutes one in every two
hundred trots in 2:40, and only one
in every thousand ever reaches the
$50 class.
From the days of Flora Temple to
Sunol, over thirty years, all the
breeders, backed by their millions,
by their experience and modern APP.
planes, have been able to reduce the
time about ten secOnds-a noble tri-
umph for thirty years patient and
persistent endeavor for half a conti>
nent And has it never occurred TO
any Of you thinking men, that in all
that time no farmer has ever raised a
horse that has equaled the little Phe-
nOmenon's Kalamazoo record? If
that is true, what has become of all
our failures? A trotting horse that
cannot trot is as near a failure as any,
thing under the heavens, upon the
earth, or in the waters.
We hear a great deal about the
dollars of our daddies. | only wish
you to return to the horses Of your
daddies. Along early in the fifties
Gas some of you older boys will re-
memhcr), when your railroad was a
vision, not fact, from twenty to
forty teams from this county used to
assemble in front of StanwiX Hall in
Albany every September, to receive
freight of youngsters for our schools;
to be returned in the spring filed
with learning and hash. What
teams they were! Don't you re,
member them? Don't you wish we
had them now? Couldn't we carry
off all the ribbons at the fairs?
While we have changed the lum-
Der wagon for the palace car, the
cradle for the binder, the scythe for
the moving machine; in the matter
of horses have we not set our clocks
backward? About this time we
were-in the words of our late chief
Observation-Disclosures with a con.
dition, not theory" which cOndi'
ton was a lack of horses to do oul
heavy work. Away went our buy
ers to the West, and returned with
a lot of round-legged, big-headed
splay-foOted animals called horses
and we had to use them for we had
nothing else. And now if you viii
give me one-half the money that has
gone to the West and Canada for in
ferior animals, 1 will build a new
school-house in every school district
and a new courthouse and soldiers
monument at every county seat.
1 hold that the farmer should have
the best of everything-the freshes
eggs, latest chickens, the finest fruits
the sweetest butter, and last, but no
least, the very best horses, not only
as luxury, but as an economy
No one will pretend that he can do a.
much or as good work with trifiing
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with apair that has the strength
courage and ambition to do it thor
oughly and well.
Let me ask you, how many more o
our boys would now be contentedl!
on the farm had they such horses It
work day times and then in the even
ing been permitted to hitch up anC
give their sisters or t'other fellows
sisters a ride around the country
Another thing is the independent,
and solidity which the ownership o
such team gives a man. Ask you
merchant or banker which would ge
quicker credit, the man that drov
such a team before their place q
business, or the man with little, at
tenuated nag, booted from body t
hoof, even if he had a pedigree tina
went back to MahOmet? l hope
may be pardOned if quote remarl
made years ago by one Of you
brightest business men. 1t was mile
from here, and we were both strang
ers. He said: II think it will do t
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