Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-04-08

netted more than 20 per cent on the
capital invested"
Senator Leland Stanford who sold
"Arino" for S125, 1000.
J. Russell Allen, who invested for
tune by buying the best and soon had
the champion "2:073 Kremlin." L
might go on and give you dozens of
such notable successes. Prominent
among those who have from nothing
made fortunes out of the horse business
just as A. T. Stewart and Marshal
Field have become the dry goods
princes, are G. w. Williams, of Inde-
pendence, Iowa, who sold Axtell for
Sl05, 900 and still owns "Allerton," )" 2:O9t
who, when he defeated Nelson, won a
purse Of $1,000 also 8. A. Browne of
Kalamazoo, Mich, owner of "Ambas-
sador" and many others. i could go
on and fill pages with the names of
those that have for years made legiti-
mate business of breeding and racing
horses and each aud all will be found
to be as well off as the average man en-
gagged in mercantile or professional life.
Then why is it that we hear so much
complaint and so much about the loss
connected with the owning of horse,
as well as the anxiety of 80 many to
sell. My kind reader, if you will ask
the pessimist to explain why he abuses
the horse business in such eloquent
terms, he will be unable to give you
any satisfactory reason, or If he happens
10 be one of those who is condemning
the horse on account of expense at
tached 10 it, he will be found to own a
horse that is on race course when he
ought to be pulling piow, or If he bt
Of the class that "has whole herd eat
ing their heads off," none of which
have even been halter broke, go with
this gentleman and examine his stock
just after they have passed thro' hard
winter and you will not wonder at his
being unable to sell them, nor at their
eating their heads off for from the ap
pearance of the average pasture they
have nothing else to eat. After you
have feasted your eyes on the stock ask
the owner for the price and pedigree
and you will find that this much abused
party who claims to be ''horse poor"
wants two prices for mass of skin and
bones that was sired by horse that
"old Bill Jones brought over in an early
day and of mare that he never knew
to be beat" Let the average banker,
grocer, dry goods merchant, doctor,
lawyer or miner adopt the same policy
this disgruntled horse owner has and
you will hear just as many complaints
from them, but on the contrary let the
horse owner use common sense business
methods with his horses and you will
find far less complainers. Don't think
that you can run bank or grocery and
once month or twice year go and
see how the mares and colts are doing
and expect to have everything satisfac'
tory for you will be disappointed.
Don't expect high prices for something
IN poor condition totally undeyeloped.
When the milliner receives new sty les,
they are made up in different attractive
colors and arranged tastefully in the
show window and on the shelves and
an opening day is advertised and that
which is most pleasing to the eye is
readily sold at remunerative rates, and
so it is with the horse. If you have a
colt, have him well taken care of as q
yearling and as 2-year-old, thoroughly
and completely broke as young as pos
sible and you will soon find that there
are buyers for each and all of this kind
at fair price, that will warrant the
owner of the mare to continue to allow
her to produce. The man who has
been raising colts for the last three or
four years from one or more mares and
has bis. paddocks full of yearlings, two
and three-year-olds all unbroken and
undeveloped is adopting the same kind
of policy that the merchant adopts who
keeps his goods out of sight and In no
condition to sell. How can the man
who is horse poor decide the value OF
such unbroken stock. He may have a
"Nancy Hanks" or "StambouP OF
"Hal Pointer" in his midst and own
the mother to such record breaker.
If 80, he would have an assured income
from the mare every time she gave
birth to a foal. Develop the colts fol
the sake of the mothers, as well as the
colts themselves, and you will find
buyers for both the colts and the moth
ers. Take the best mares you have and
breed to the best horse In your section
When the colt comes, give 1t care and
attention and when old enough to bt
broken have 1t properly handled and
YOU will be thoroughly satisfied with
your investment. The same business
laws can be followed in racing horses
| as !. ra auccessfuily adOpted in any under