Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-03-28
GOOD INVESTMENT IN BREED.
ING STOCK NOW.
Demand for the Army Supplies Has
Taken tho Cream Of the Western
Supply and Prices Are on the Ad-
vance. W

Every week one to three carloads
Of good horses 60 out Of Dickinson
county to the eastern market. Buy
ers are securing the county picking
up the best young stock and 1t Is be-
coming matter Of interest how far
the process will continue. 1t has a.
ready raised the price Of horses at
least 40 per cent over three or four
years ago. The purchases are not
alone for the use Of eastern farmers
and townspeople but thousands arc
needed for the army, both British and
American forces. A press dispatch
says that whereas the war depart
mcnt was accustomed to paying $S6
for horses, now as high a. $3.50 ID
being asked. Because Of the high
prices asked the Omaha quarter.
master refused all bids and limited
that the regiment for which tho
mounts were intended might be do
layed.
HE will have to pay the price
asked II be gets bis horses" said d
leading horsebuyer. ut Is . mistake
to say the war department was GET
ting horses for $S6. EARLY during
the Spanish war the army picked up
few little fellows at that, but soon
they bit the level Of $ll2.5O to $ll5.
Then they got higher. The horse
market is high"
Other horsemen pretend not to be
concerned for the wants Of the army.
"Cattle are up, and so are horses.
Because the commissary was buying
beef four years ago at low price has
he right to demand 1t at the same
price nowp" asked another horse
man. ~ think $3.50 is too high, and
that cheaper horses will be found.
but they will not run far below $l26.
The war department is hard to please.
The British have mot culled the herds.
They do not buy the same class Of
horses. Out Of twenty horses .
United States soldier refused the
Brilisher will find ten to suit his
needs In South Africa. He has not
spoiled the United States quarter
masters chances, except that In tax.
ing the wiry little horse out Of the
country he has made us put higher
class horses In the harness to do ito
work. Now II the United States
wants that better class horse it will
have to pay the price"
"rhe country is drained Of all sorts
Of horses" said another horseman,
"to meet the South African demand.
Horses that brought $50 a year ago
are worth 500 to the civilian, and II
they are worth that to him they
ought TO be worth that TO the war de.
partment. The United States quarter
master wants one Of the best horses
there is. The Britisher has taken
thousands out Of the country, and for
every horse the Britlsher took away
he left a pair Of shafts or saddle for
some other horse to get in. This is
the horse breeders harvest and he
has waited long enough for it,"
+. G. Puliver, who buys more
horses than any man In central Kan.
sas, is Of the opinion that the horse
market good for ten years. "There
may be a little break for q few
months, said he, "but the demand is
with US and the good horses are
scarce. The price will continue high
and be little stronger all the time.
There is no better opportunity any
where than horse breeding properly
conducted. that Is, raising the right
kind Of horses to meet the markets
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