The Opelousas courier., 1894-10-06
FOR HORSE RAiSERS.
a Few Thoughts Suggested That May BE
of Benefit.

- AAOA6 5u6bISlOu AA0o NANy DV
of Benefit.
Horses are lower in price just o
than ever known before in this coun-
try. Let us look about a little before
concluding that the horse-breeding
business is gene up. A writer in Farm
and Home suggests a test Of strength
IN the horse market. He says:
place one thousand dollars in the
hands Of a reliable, intelligent horse
buyer and tel 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 60 on the road naturally at
. twelve-miles-an-hour gait. pull
ing you and a companion down
the road at a better than
$50 gait, and your buyer, if an honest
man, will b-ing you back your money
and tell you that he can't find such a
horse for the money. Such a horse is
the gentleman's ideal road horse, q
type for which there is an enormous
demand and no apparent supply"
A gentleman of this city, a county
official, who uses a horse more or less
every day, who has IN eye for a good
driving horse, was telling recently of
giving his family horse to a friend in
\ ecountry, on conditions that it should
be we'll cared for, and il at any time he
did not wlnt it to send it back, and the
boy who brought it back should be paid
for bringing it home.
But said he, II have a new mare
NJ take her place-a good one, too"
He said he had in mind a certain we'll
TODD farmer who always had good
horses. He went out, to find the farm
or overs.ocked. He was offered the
choice of ten head for fifty dollars, but
there WIS a s~ix-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
ears, would meet a steam thresher On
NE road and go by it quietly, was
never known to take anybody's dust on
the road beautiful, intelligent driv-
sAag -horSe-that it would take one hum
sdred dollars to buy. Myfriend bought
nor without one word. The farmer
said to him:
Y expect you could get more for this
mare IN the spring than you have paid
ne ! doubt If you would take S125 for
the mare no@2n
20, said IN new owner, mot twice
~ money, 2 she is just what I want
aok NY wife and myself"
There is another point right here
knst must be noted. The farmer just
Eeferrea to was induced To sell 8 tiptop
prood-znare for the price Of two real
kood horses. This was killing the
9oose that laid the golden egg. This
y going on all over the country. There
= horse buyer in this city buying
s9otses tor the New York market.
xaxn1ers i selling their best horses
q keeping inferior stock. The work
% yesrs Of breeding is going out Of the
ectntry TOR = song. the cheap horses
Helnain on the iarms to reproduce
enesp horses, which are already ia
cysFssupply.
y rs look further: The western
&C. southern ranges are full OF cheap
aoraeS and can keep the horse market
81 theE country crowded with loSv-priced
mugs, sneh as they are, for years and
ks9fss The fact is. farmers can not
t9Nae ~ compete with the cheapness Of