The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1898-07-14
FARMER PLANTER
HINTS TO H0RSE-BREEDERS.
3 Few Suggestions that Forty Years Of
Observation Have Proved to
be Valuable.

ers at TINS very Important season Of
the year. we VIII endsaEor to give your
readers q few suggestions that over 40.
years OF close observation have firmly
established as valuable. viz.
First-It requires six years from the
time Of breeding until we have the
animal Of marketable age generally
sought for.
second-The best time to 90 into the
business Of horse-breeding is when
stock is eheap-IitGle or no demand IN
the market-wben selections Of the de-
sired types and blood can be carefully
made with the adaptation of both sires
and dams TO be coupled together for
the most uniform results, with the
view Of improving all the good quali-
ties Of our horses and er~adicating
their defects at a reasonable outlay Of
money.
Third,-To maintain any of the spe-
ciie types of horses, we must eonine
ourselves in the selection Of breeding
animals to the desired type, let it be
draft, coach, carriage or road horses,
and never try to improve either type
by crossing type with another, for
the reason, BY SO doing, we are in
great danger of losing the good quail
ties of both, and all subsequent breed.
ing win be more or less guess-work;
an ~irreparable loss that many genera
tons Will not eradicate.
Fourth While we may eonfne all
our horse-breeding to a specific type,
we can not expect TO overcome the inn
~perfections of many of the individuals
of the type without very careful selee-
tons of the brood mares and stations
that should be mated together for the
improvement Of that type, and herein
lies the great secret Of the improve
ment Of all the types Of our best
horses.
Thousands upon thousands OF farm-
ers in the last decade have had some
experience in ross-breeding or rather
ahaphazard breeding, from which the
country became flooded with a great
mass Of borsehesh that they them
selves did not want and there proved
to be no sale for at living prices,
which should be a lesson for US in all
future efforts in horse-breeding.
The rapidly increasing demand for
good, sound horses Of any of the we'll
defined types should induce every owns
err of good brood mares to make a spe-
ciaI effort to meet them with the best
stations to be found
The service fees should be a minor
consideration when the proper stall
lion IS found that shows decided inn
provement in the offspring with gem
orally uniform results.
It is not only the size, STYLE and ac.
tiop Of the stallion hat should gain
him patronage but his ancestral in
heritance. his ability to impress upon
his offspring the m-erftorious qualities
~ tbe family with a nniformitv that
WIN guarantee ID me owners Of brood
mares nbat Arc nearly the counterpart
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