Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1892-06-02
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
VALUABLE INFORMATION FOR
YOUNG BREEDERS.
About Bee Keeping for Womcn-value OF
PumpIins-Docs the Cow Need %
Rcst:-Stock Notes and
Household Helps.
Points for Young nrccders.


The following extract from paper
read by William b. Fasig. OF Clevc-
land, before the Ohio state board OF
agriculture. bristles with so many
good suggestions to the farmer or be-
ginner who is breeding trotters in n
small way. that we cannot pass it by:
After you breed a colt give it q
chance. Feed it we'll and when old
enough teach it to step out
and. whether in training or
not remember that puro grass
is natures remedy for all all
ments. There is great deal OF fool
ishncss in the present days training.
Toe weights hobbies patent spread
ers and the like are undoubtedly in
rare instances necessary, but are fire.
quently used when their absence would
be much better. A little more time
and patience generally accomplishes
all that these mechanical appliances
do. and the legs, feet gait and after
service OF the animal are much the
better for their omission. If you can
afford it put your colt in the hands OF
n capable trainer if you can find one
OF that kind but better no training
at all than poor training. Good train
ing is Il good investment If you have
the time. train him yourself. You
will find tho work fascina.
ting recreation. Get up an hour
earlier every morning. The colt will
ENJOY it-so will you. Do not over
work him. Keep him feeling as gay
as a lark and when he wants to step
out let him go. short distances at a
time. If at the snap OF twig or Il
rustic of the leaves of the roadside
bushes he occasionally starts up on a
trot and speeds away at clip faster
than his ordinary one, if only for a
rod or two you have then a promise
that will pay to train. If he has no
"brush' OF this kind, but sterotypcd
gait. about as fast one time as an
other my idea is that he has not the
necessary quality for training. Sell
him then for business horse; the
price will cover the expense of rails
ing and fair profit If he turns out
only a 2:30 performer his value will
be several times over the cost OF his
production, and will also increase
that OF his sire and dam. If he
should be a phenomenon 2:3O or
bentcr trotter you are made rich by
one animal.
1t may appear that there is great
production of this class of
horses that the inevitable law of sup
ply and demand will soon have its
innings and ovcr-production result as
it always does. in disaster. While
that may be true it is especially true
that breeding the trotting- bred horse
is at the present time the most proiita-
bic industry the agriculturist can en-
gage in. And remember that the
trotting-horse is the most useful
horse in the world; that America is
his home; that we have spent nearly
century in bringing him to his
present state OF perfection: that be-
ing the most useful animal OF his
kind, he will certainly gain foot
hold-or rather increase the foot
hold he has already gained with all
civilized nations. They must come
to the land of the stars and stripes to
get him. and though it looks like
over production now. the markets of
the world will soon all want what
only we can furnish and in that view
the business has rosy hue.