St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-11-17
FOR HORSE RAISERS.
A Few Thoughes Suggested That May BE
of Benefit.

A 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 horse-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 reliable, intelligent horse
buyer and tell him to secure q 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
a NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. gait, pull
ing you and companion down
the road at better than
$50 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 a horse is
the gentleman's ideal road horse,
type for which there is an enormous
demand and no apparent supply"
A gentleman of this city, a county
official, who uses horse more or less
every day, who has an eye for a good
driving horse, was telling recently of
giving his family horse to a 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 a new mare
to take her place-a good one, too"
He said he had in mind certain we'll
to-do farmer who always had good
horses. He went out, to find the farm
er overstocked. He was offered the
choice of ten head for fifty dollars, but
there was 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 a steam thresher on
the road and go by it quietly, was
never known to take any body's dust on
the road-a beautiful. intelligent driv-
ing-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 this
mare in the spring than you have paid
me. doubt if you would take sla5 for
the mare now"
NO. said her new owner, mot twice
that money, for she is just what want
for my wife and myself"
There is another point right here
that must be noted. The farmer just
referred to was induced to sell tiptop
brood-mare for the price of two real
good horses. This was killing the
goose that laid the golden egg" This
is going on all over the country. There
is horse buyer in this city buying
horses for the New York market.
Farmers are selling their best horses
and keeping inferior stock. The work
of years of breeding is going out of the
country for a song: the cheap horses
remain on the farms to reproduce
cheap horses, which are already in
over~supply.
Let US look further: The western
and southern ranges are full OF cheap
horses, and can keep the horse market
Of the country crowdedwith low-priced
things, such as they are. for years end
wears. The fact is. farmers can not
hope to compete with the cheapness of
the ranges: they must excel in quality
If they woul,; make money at raising