Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1894-10-11
FOR HORSE RAlSERS.
A Few Thoughts Suggested That May b.
of RpneIt.

Few Thoughts Suggested That May Be
of Benefit.
Horses are lower in price just now
than ever known before in this coun-
try. Let us look about little before
concluding that the orse-breeding
business is gone up. A writer in Farm
and Home suggests test of strength
in the horse market. He says:
"Place one thousand dollars in the
hands of a reliable, intelligent horse
buyer and tell him to secure a horse
for you, standing sixteen hands high,
weighing LOO pounds, standard color,
handsome and stylish, good DISPOSE
ton and fearless, with courage, endur-
ance and action, that will allow him
to go on the road naturally at
twelve-miles-an-hour gait, pull
ing you and companion down
the road at better than
2:5O gait, and your buyer, if an honest
man, will bring you back your money
and tell you that he can't find such a
horse for the money. Such horse is
the gentleman's ideal road horse, a
type for which there is an enormous
demand and no apparent supply"
A gentleman of this city, county
official, who uses horse more or less
every day, who has an eye for good
driving horse, was telling recently OF
giving his family horse to friend in
the country, on conditions that it should
be well cared for, and if at any time he
did not want it to send it back, and the
boy who brought it back should be paid
for bringing it home.
But" said he, 81 have new marc
to take her place-a good one, too.
He said he had in mind certain well.
TODD farmer who always had good
horses. He went out, to find the farm
err overstocked. He was offered the
choice of ten head for fifty dollars, but
there was a six-year-old mare, the
mother of two of the finest colts that
had ever been on the farm, sound, a
dark bay in color, sixteen hands high
kind handler, safe with the women
and children, would not scare at the
cars, would meet steam thresher or
the road and go by it quietly, wa,
never known to take anybody's dust OF
the road-a beautiful, intelligent driv
g-horse-that it would take one hun
dred dollars to buy, My friend bought
| her without one word. The farmer
said to him:
81 expect you could get more for thi:
mare in the spring than you have pait
me. l doubt if you would take 1925 fol-
the mare now?"
NO." said her new owner, mot twice
that money, for she is just what wan
for my wife and myself"
There is another point right her,
that must be noted. The farmer JUS
referred to was induced to sell tiptol
brood-mare for the price of two rea
good horses. This was ''killing tn,
goose that laid the golden egg" Thi'
is going on all over the country. Their,
is a horse buyer in this city buying
horses for the New York market
Farmers are selling their best horses
and keeping inferior stock. The worl
of years of breeding is going out of tn,
country for a song; the cheap horse
remain on the farms to reproduc,
cheap horses, which are already il
over-supply.
Let us look further: The western
and southern ranges are full of cheal
horses, and can keep the horse marke
of the country crowded with low-pricet
things, such as they are, for years ant
years. The fact is, farmers can no
hope to compete with the eheapness o
the ranges they must excel In qualitl