The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-01-05
NO HORSE BREEDING FOR HIN.
A DEALER EXPLAINS WHY HE
HAS No STOCK FARM.
Cost OF Raising Driving H~orses-Prices
for Fine Stock Low by Comparison
M%Tlionaires and Their Farms Better
Figures for the Running Horses

tIeures IOT inc huhhht
Isaac Goodsell, for thirty years one OF
the largest dealers in horses In Vermont,
has juat sold a pair Of fine young coach
mares 20 a man who ats in his office In Wall
Street and makes combinations Of American
industries for the profit of American capital
and the bctterment of American labor,
The two men were sitting In the Office OF
the new stable, which the horseman had
Just opened in q famous resort in northern
New York so that his stock might be nearer
TO New York purchasers than ii would be
away up among the Vermont mountains.
Much obliged. sir, much obliged said
Goodsell, as he pooketed the financier's
fat check in payment Of the horses. you'll
get a deal Of comfort cut Of that pair
They're right as trivets and as sweet AZ
maple zap.
They'll suit, take my word for II, and
the other pair wouldn't. I'd rather have
sold the others, because I'd a made
more money. but IL you'd bought EN-
maybe YOU wouldn't nave come 70 re
when you wanted something in my line
again
Look here, Goodsell.' said the financier.
regarding the horse dealer with a hal Z
uuizzical half humorous expression, you've
alW avs seemed TO me To he over honest
for a horse trader. Now perhaps you
be frank enough TO tell me Why you sell
horses that somebody else breeds, rather
than breed them yourself. ] would think
therc'd he more profit IN selling direct
from the stock farm. Why don't y'u
become n BREEDER
That's a fair question, and III answer
IT, said Goodsell. but don't you get UNI
easy over the notion that I'm too honest;
I'm lust as honest az / have 20 he to travel
double with decency.
"A boss trade Is a hoes trade, and all
do is to use boss sense in maxim one. II
was TO get too honest, Id violate the ira
ditions Of the business.
But that's neither here or there, You
want 10 know why / don't run q sales stable
a. a side show 10 n breedin' establishment,
instead Of maxim the. sales stable the
whole thing. The principal reason Is that l
can't afford to.
When | make my pile by sellin' bosses
that other folks raise, fl have 10 find a way
10 spend my surplus income. You spend
some Of yours on fine pictures. I'll spend
mine on a stock farm, and III sell only
home bred stock II | don't sell more'n a
dozen head a year.
But while I have to work for a Twin,
III let somebody else do tho breedln.
You've oiphered away until you have found
out that II you can control all there Is o. an
industry. from production 10 consumption,
YOU can make about all the money there
Is to make in that business.
If you applied tho same cipherin' "a.
the hess business, you'd cipher yourself
into the poorhouse. unless You had money
to burn. OF course, I'm conhnin my
remarks now to dTivin' horses.
The fat is that only n rich man can
afford 20 breed dTivin' stock, even II the
produce can trot EASTERN Bryan can talk,
Now III do a litt!o cipherin' TO prove to YOU
that | know what m talkin' about.
for instance, | wart'd to start
a farm for he breedin' Of drivin' stock,
~trotters, If you like. OF course, I'd lave
o. have the plant, but Ia have to ave
that IN any business, so we won't ons.der
that We've got the farm, then. and the
necessary stock.
Now, what happens the first year? You
must remember that, In figurin' the profit
ard loss on a stock farm your mares must
he reckoncd like ordinary boss flesh, ard
the amount they could earn in the every
day business OF bosses must be taken into
account SUPPOSE we put IT down AT az
a day. Every mare used for breeding
purpose, will be useless Tor other work
six months cut ~ every year That means
$3.50 added 20 the cost OF production.
Then comes the cost OF raisin', breakin,
and gettin the fOal into shape 20 tch. II
the foal shows a wonderful tirn OF speed
we NAV put II UP for sale when is n two
year-old That cuts of the expense 81
education a little. but for the great ma
joritv OF driviu' bosses there's lutte call
until they're a. least four-ycar-o,ds.
Now the hreakiu' and developla' Of a
drivin' boss requires skilled laD1r AID
costs money In proportion 90 tie capital
invested, ! believe II costs more 20 develop
"A drlviu' hos than II does % dHat a trust.
At any rate, { bring one u as II ~ did bs,
% give 10 HlC" manner add MAKE n fearless
and true, il short. 90 get Il ready Tor iaarAri
costs from siNO up
We can now ge, some idea Of whore
were AT When ! lead out on tNe for