The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-11

such time az the new crops begin to come
in.
Tell your people to make vigorous effort
and breed all the good horses they possibly
can, but be sure and breed them with all the
size. shape and quality possible, and should
never undertake to breed horse that would
develop less than 100 paunds; this is the
smallest horse that should ever be raised, IN
less you should get speed, but I do not be-
ieve 1T will pay any farmer to handle
spe ed But when breeding coach and carriage
horses tie mora trotting blood the better
and if a farmer gets speed and is not
practical horseman, he had batter leave it to
the horseman or the professional to handle.
The man that goes Systematically to work
with the proper knowledge of the business
and raises good market horses, will be right
in line, as soon he gets them ready for
the market they will get higher and high
er for many years to come. Yours truly.
F. ]. Berry.
Mr.. Seeley then discussed his sub
ject In the following terse manner:
Love, experience, profit. First, my love
for the horse, the noblest Of all mute ere
alton, has ever been pleasant II not lead
ing Incentive in the grand and fascinating
pursuit of horse breeding.
Second, my experience In breeding, raising
and marketing between 400 and 900 head of
draft, coach and trotting-bred horses in this
state during the past fourteen years was 1
believe, of sufficient value and such an es-
sential requisite as to warrant me in the
continuance of the business even in mod
crate way.
Infu, l nave ndQ ana Still rave mistaken
confidence that the conditions of the supply
of, and demand for coed horses in this eoun-
try Is today and for years will continue TO be
a source of great profit to every careful and
painstaking farmer in the state of Mime
sofa.
Mr.. Seeley then discussed the various
breeds and concluded as follows:
Let the farmers of Minnesota make proper
selections of sires and breed for a specific
purpose and there will be no question but
that their efforts will be rewarded with the
highest prices wren they send their finished
product to market, whether they breed horses
tered upon era of higher prices and those
who are best able to judge, declare that
| Ihere w2s never more propitious time for
breeding good horses than the present. 7 need
| not present arguments in favor of diversified
| farming to this audience for every man here
| knows that such farming presents the only
| road to ultimate success. He knows that in
order to maintain the highest fertility OF his
| farm, he should raise as much improved live
| stock as ne can profitably carry. He must
also know that in order TO secure the best re-
| suits in the breeding of improved live stock
| he must breed only to registered sires This
plan strictly followed out by every farmer
| will not only add to his pride self respect and
pocketbook, but will add millions of dollars
| annually to the wealth of Minnesota.
IMPROVEMENT OF HORSES
j. c. Curryer, president of the Min
| nesota Stock Breeders association.
read an excellent paper on THE I'm
| provement of the Horses of Mime
/ sofa" So long as we disregard the
law OF like producing like the further
we get away from desirable charac-
tertstics in horse breeding. The sire
for general breeding should be a typf-
cal animal of its class IN size, sound
ness, conformation, style, action. en-
durance and breeding The general
failure. with breeders was In not be-
| ing able to weed out undesirable quail
ties. There were whole families OF
| horses with yew necks heavy heads,
clumsy ears, defective feet, CURLY
hooks and flat ribs. Nine-tenths of
/ the domestic horses were bred by
farmers without regard to rules of
breeding. The first move in the right
| direction would be to relieve from tax
alton acceptable full-plood sires; Sec
ond, that no service fee should be col
| lected from sires not proven worthy.
and third, the service fee should be
commensurate with character and
quality of sire.
BEEF PRODUCTION.
When President Cooper called the
meeting to order in the afternoon there
were many present aside from the
regularly delegated representatives of
the various agricultural societies of
| the state.
| The subject Of Beef Production in
| Minnesota" was dealt with in paper
by John C. Mills, treasurer of the Min
nesota Stock Breeders association in
an interesting ffteen-m minute paper. He
said in part:
| We are sometimes won't 30 be discouraged
when we look around us and see what might
| be done, but when we carefully go over the
partially broken ground in our states prog
ress IN this direction there s much to be
| satisfied with, and we can safely say we are
| well founded In the rudiments of successful
beef production. Here and there all over the
state are to be found either the pure-bred
| or those well graded and in many cases
both. This is suggestive of not only desire
to- gain IN wealth. but it means that the peo-
| pie are being educated in this line as well.
It is said that beef-eating people are the
ones that have been our strongest nation or
when we neen into b;storv - The ee snei n,s
flock man showed this tendency. England
has ruled the world, while our own United
States has proud record. Never before has
there been such . desire Tor pure-bred cat