New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-07-27
ia RM, ED 4 ND G RDEN.
INFORMATION ON MATTERS OF
INTEREST TO THE IA RMER.
Breeding Saddle Horses--The De-
mand for Young Mutton--Pure
Water Necessary to Insure
Z Pure Milk Various
Pointers.
Brea ding Saddle Horses,

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Breeding Saddle Horses.
we were talking a few. days ago with
q horse .dsaler III New York who ham.
dies fourteen or fifteen thousand
horses every year, and among other
things he said:
'1There is a growing demand for sad
die horses in the market, but there
isn't one horse in q thousand that
passes for saddle horse that's wor-
thy OF the name. The great point
about a saddle horse is fine action.
He wants to. be snowy have style.
A variety of gaits is, Of course desir-
able, but it's action that counts in
selling him"
What our friend meant by action
comprised in reality the entire build
and makeup OF the animal. Carriage
horses have action, too, but they are
constructed on different lines from q
saddlehorse, as an ocean greyhound
is built on different lines from a
s9freighter."
But his remarks suggest that here is
a field that farmers who want to
breed for a good market might culti-
waite with profit. The custom of
riding has received a great impetus in
the North within a few years past. 1t
is coming to be q favorite pastime
with both sexes, and a very delight
full, exhilarating and healthful pas
timeit is. Not only in city parks and
on country roads, but across
country with hounds, in hot pursuit
OF the "aniseseed bag" is this ac-
complishment practiced with zest and
enjoyment.
Once generally established, this
riding mania is not likely to die out
In a hurry, for, although it may have
something OF the fashionable fad
about it in the minds Of some of it's
votaries, tits too deeply grounded in
common sense to be easily relin-
aquished. The man who can raise the
exceptional one in a thousand WILL,
therefore, not be likely to fail OF his
reward.
A horse, it has been we'll said, will
not-make a saddle horse to-day and
a harness horse tomorrow. His life
is too short to learn any two things
perfectly, and the means used to
train him for the saddle neutralize
his proficiency for the carriage. But
in fact, the fitness OF q horse for the.
saddle antedates any training to
which he may be subjected. Like the
poetshe is born, not made. He must
come of q saddle horse breed
A true saddle horse is d peculiar
specimen OF his race. He is, as ssn en-
thusiastic horse man puts it the em-
bodiment of all that is great and
grand in the equine natlare-in his
breeding, shape, figure, symmetry,
quality, muscle, bone, dura bility met
tie, endurance, temper, disposition,
instincts, style, action, intellect and
pluck, all OF which require to be OF
the first order. for he has many things
to learn in the spaoe'of some fveyears,
when he must be ;able to master his
profession before he gets too stiff to
please The same writer adds, which
every true horseman must hear ily
feel: When we occasionally see a
born saddle horse, or the material for
one, wefollow him with covetous eyes,
and wonder if he ever went to school
and ii his owner ,lonOWs what he has
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1t does nottake many hours watch
ing in the Park to satisfy one that the
number Of born saddle horses in New
Yorkis not large. A good many fair
ly good carriage horses are spoiled in
trying to make riding horses Of them.
perhaps this is unavoidable, so long
as the supply, like Sam Weller's nwis-
lon,' is limited; but it shows how
large a field is open for those who
know, or will take the pains to learn,
how to breed for the saddle as we'll as
Tor the carriage, the farm and therace
course.
The Demand for Young Mutton.
We have heard wonder expressed
that fat sheep have enjoyed 50 good
an average market for along time OF
years as compared with other stock,
and that a, season in which mutton
making is not profitable is a rare ex-
ception. We think a leading reason
for this is that a very large proper
ton OF all the sheep going into con-
sumption are marketed quite young.
There are no data available to show
what proportion go to theiblock at the
age OF one year or under; but it is a.
very large proportion, and one which
is constantly increasing. A great per-
centage OF the increase of hocks from
year to year is thus cut off from pro-
ducing further increase, and goes at
once into the food sup plies OF the coun-
try There is occasio nally something
of anincrease inf ock totals one year
as compared with another, but the in
crease does not keep pace with the
growth OF population. Another inf1u-
ence probably affecting this somewhat
IS that while Americans have never
been great consumers of mutton the
appetite for this meat has steadily
grown since the tendency has been
developed to market stock SO young.
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