El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-10
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Evolution in housekeeping.

r. j. berry says: NOTWITHSTANDING
the great depression of 1893 to 1897,
while prices ruled so low that it drove
farmers and breeders nearly out of
the business, within the last year great
changes have come and breeding has
commenced in earnest, every one be-
ginning to feel and realize the neces-
sity Of breeding and raising the best
quality of horses for the market. Car
riage and coach horses are as high as
they ever were; also the best grades of
heavy draft sell for as much money
as they did in high-priced times, with
strong demand and good prices for
blocky, smooth horses from LOO up.
While these great changes have been
going on during the last ten years,
the horse-breeding industry has been
entirely revolutionized. Since 1893 the
great export demand has been intro
duced for the best classes and quality
OF American horses, and this demand
which has been the life of our trade
and has been a great outlet for our
horse markets, has at the same time
fixed a specific type and defined the
different classes that are in demand
for export horses, and as the Ameri-
can demand has so changed through
the evolutions of the last ten years, or
since the early COS, the same classes
that are in demand for export are the
only kinds that are profitable to raise
for American as we'll as export mar
kets. Thus the great evolution of the
last ten years has changed the whole
horse-breeding problem, and although
costly object lesson to farmers and
breeders of horses, it has not been
altogether without its benefits-it has
taught us a lesson. While in former
times breeding was done promiscu-
ously, without proper consideration or
forethought of the kinds of horses the
market demanded, and in this way all
kinds of horses were produced, from
the best down to the most worthless,
the small and ordinary horses COM
prised the larger per cent of the num-
bers produced. The American horse
breeders have had severe lesson. 1t
has taught them that every horse
should be bred for a certain purpose
and of a certain type and Of a specific
class, with all the size, shape and
quality that the market demands. The
small horse is a thing of the past It
has proven a failure and an unsatis-
factory investment The grade has
been raised every year during the last
few years, and each successive year
requires larger horse and one of bet
ter quality to meet the demands Of the
market, and he must be a horse Of his
| own class and be an up-to-date market
| horse.
The Treatment of Hogs in England.
| In England the brood sows are
usually given plenty OF run on grass in
good weather; they have very little to
be called severe, SO that practically the
| brood sows run out most of the time.
This exercise and freedom give them
a very healthy, thrifty appearance, and
as rule you find them right up on
their toes, strong on their legs and
regular breeders of two litters per
year, says a contributor to Swineherd
| The stock boars there are as a rule
kept in thinner condition than they
are in this country, and thinner than
| their brood sOwS. Usually after boar
| has been shown one Season-or seldom
more than two seasons-he is reduced
| down thin and turned in with sows
especially selected as being suitable to
| breed to him. After those sows are
bred he is put in a pen Tor what they
call sty), and kept on low ration,
so as to not increase his flesh. They
| seem to depend more on active con-
dition" in their boars than they do in
| breeding boxes" (aS we do here with
our heavy bOars)-hence the necessity
of keeping the boar as thin as possible,
so he may not be encountered with
| flesh in his duties at the head of the
| breeding herd. And while speaking Of
| this way of using their herd boarS,
we would also say we admire one fea-
ture of their breeding there, and that
Is when they find a sire that has
proved good one and producer of
winners, they keep him, instead of
changing sires every year, as so many
do in this country.
The Profitable Feeder.-The charac-
teristics that make the profitable feed
er are naturally more difficult to detect
in animals in stock condition than
| when fattened, but Notwithstanding
| this there are number Of indications
that are fairly reliable. Though the
young steer may be comparatively thin
in flesh and temporarily lacking the
thick, even covering Of the back and
| ribs so essential in the finished car
cass, he must nevertheless present that
blocky frame and stoutness of build,
accompanied by short, straight legs,
wide back and loin. well-sprung ribs,
fullness back of shoulders and in
tanks, prominent brisket, full neck
vein, wide chest and well-rounded bar
rel. together with a good, soft, mellow
handling skin and fine, silky hair, CIV
ing what is termed the thick, messy
coat, without coarseness, and with it all
q good, strong vigorous head clear