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whose owners follow other lines OF
busints., where they make their
money, 1irst SUPPLY & the M lrket,
then Cutting it, aud finally crJwding
it until we find The condition which
confronts Us to-day, sll of which is un-
just to this small and comparatively
poor breeder, who has, as the only al
ternative left him, that OF going out
of the business ar continuing it at a
loss which he is unable to stand while
the rich and large breeder can turn
loose his stock on the market through
the public auction, realizing, perhaps,
its cost, and turn mis- attention to his
regular or legitimate business.
The case, then 10 cum it up, stands
today like this, that, aside from the
general depression which obtains in
nearly every branch of business
throughout the country today, and de-
spite the fact that there is a lessened
NUM- Der OF uses for the cheaper grades
of horses, and that at present tins
there are thousands OF horses which
have been taken from the street cars
aud their use diverted to other pur-
poses, TO the still greater detriment to
the business, 1t stands out as a fact, to
our mind, that the present depression
| ia due, more than 10 any other cause
or bination OF causes to the fact
that the large breeders have monOpo
| liZed the business to the extent that
| they have caused an overproduction,
to the great injury of the breeding in
terests.
Accepting this as fact, then, the
remedy, while 10 will take time to
bring il about, lies IN the action OF the
large breeders IN the present crisis.
And right here let us remark that the
action OF Mr. H C.Jewett in dis posing
of all his stock hut two stations and a
dozen brood mares, that we are In line
with the views of at least one Large
br eder." If they breed for PLEASURE,
as they claim, let them continue, but
in place OF quantity and the breeding
of hundreds of the class that are only
fit To fiji the humber places and have
to be forced off through the auction
sale, let them breed for quality, for
here IL certainly more pleas.
ure in breeding Nancy
Marks, q Directum or an Alix
than in q bsrDyard OF commonplace
animals. Let them geld their young
stations ano thus prevent them ON
perpetuating their kind, breed only
their best mares, and thus restrict the
product If their farms TO a few choice
animals, which we opine Is no bad
advice for small as well az large
breeders.
Follow this, and although 1t will
take time, as surely as the day follows
the night just so surely will the sun
of prosperity once more light up the
night of darkness and depression
through which the breeding Of the
light harness horse, the pride of
America, is now passing Regard 1t,
then, as no injury to the business
whom you read OF large breeder
closin2 out his stock and dropping
out, but rather as an augury OF it's flu
ture perseverance, aud prosperity.
The views which we have outlined In
this brief article may be regarded by
many as unsound and heretical, but TO
the thinking mind we submit them,
believing that beneath the chaff may
be found grain Of truth.-Small
Breeder in a merican Horse Breeder.