Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-25
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The Carriage Horse.

The Carriage Horse
Farmers, as a rule, when carriage
horse is spoken of, call to mind some
little, fighty, nervous animal, good
for nothing else, SO he must be car
riage or road horse. In this they are
wrong. The carriage horse is an ami
NAL, first, of size enough to draw
carriage over country we'll as city
roads-which means a horse weighing
not less than eleven hundred pounds.
In its perfection, it must be an ami
NAL that is kind and which has intel
Hgence, as well as some style and
good action; and any horse without
these requisites will not class in the
market as a carriage horse. His
form we cannot in brief article like
this describe.
But the farmer who thinks to breed
carriage horse for carriage purposes
must always bear in mind that q
horse with less size and a disposition
such that he will not do other things
besides draw a carriage-yes, even do
light draft work, or plow, If asked to
do so-will never rank as an ideal
carriage horse. If sold at all, it must
be to man who is horseman and
not to the man who is not an expert
horseman-the one who always has
desire for his own and family's safety
and will pay larger money for kind
ness in a horse than for style and
speed. This is true in all markets OF
the world.
I will say right here, before going
farther: No sire, no matter how
well he may be bred, should ever be
used that cannot be driven safely in
harness or be worked at the class OF
work he is bred for, and is to be used
in string colts for. carriage stall
lion that cannot be safely hitched to
a carriage and driven, or draft stall
lion that cannot or will not pull
load when required of him, is, to
say the least, very poor sire for the
farmer to patronize. 1t is horses for
the various kinds of business we re-
quire of horses that the markets Of
the world demand, and when the sire
will not do the work we cannot even
hope but that some of his get will
show his disposition. Therefore, be
not misled into breeding to any bad
dispositioned sire, no matter what
his other merits may be. The very
first question asked when a horse OF
high price is offered in markets ia,
''Is he kind?" and the answer must
or no sale will be made. Kindness
means intelligence, and a horse with
intelligence can be easily controlled
by man, and that is what the men
who pay big prices want and will
pay for, other things being equal. So
much for the road horse.-Dr. c. d.
Smead in Farmers Review
Foundation for Horse Breeding.
A well-known veterinarian says:
There is no question but that the
ideal horse could be bred with greater
certainty if the mare be equally as
well bred as the sire to be used upon
her. Men of wealth can afford to buy
and establish horse-breeding ranches,
but the mass of the horses must for
years to come be bred on the farms,
and by men who are breeding for the
money there is in it, that they may
lift the mortgage and pay for the
home, and they have not the means to
buy high-priced mares to breed from,
nor is it necessary for them to do so.
Let them take the best mares they
own-not the poorest or worn-out,
blemished ones, but those that are
sound in wind and limb, unless the
unsoundnesS surely come from acci-
dent or some epizootic disease. Never
breed mare simply because she is
good for nothing else, but breed from
the one that is good, and the more
goodness she has the better.