Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-07-28
VALUE OF AMERICAN TRoTTER'

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American Horse Breeder-No fam
/ lily of horses has yet been produced
anywhere in this world, that can be
! adapted to so great a variety of uses
as the American trotteF. He can be
used for profit on the race track and
/, In the show ring, for pleasure on the
city speedway, for light teaming, ex-
press and general delivery purposes in
the city, for the cart, the plow, the
/ harrow, the cultivator, the manure
| spreader, moving machine, the tedder.
! the hay rake and fork and the fanny
wagon in the country. He can be
raised at less expense, and will per-
/ form greater amount of labor in pro-
portion 20 his weight and the amount
of food consumed, than the Cleveland
Bay, the Percheron or the Clydesdale
| When care is used in the selection of
| sires and dams, he can outpoint the
Hackney and the French coach horse,
either in the show ring or on the road
| There is no other horse that New Eng
| land breeders can raise which is so
sure of giving profitable returns. The
| heavy breeds of horses can be raised
| in the West, where forage is cheap
brought to New England, and sold for
less money than it costs to raise them
here, and still leave a profit to the
western breeder and dealer The win
tiers are so long and forage so dear in
/ politics, but cogressman who draws
never compete successfully with those
{ in the West in raising slow, heavy
/ draft horses, and should not be encour-
! aged to make the attempt
With the stations and brood mares
that breeders in New England now
have, they can compete successfully
! with any breeders in the world in pro-
| ducing sound handsome, stylish, good
! dispositioned trotteFs and roadsters,
| that at maturity will be able to hold
| their own in most company. They will
! not mature SO early as those raised in
/ California and Kentucky As a rule,
/ however, they are more tractable and
| docile. care less for trolley cars and
automobiles, have better feet and legs.
/ end If carefully used until matured
! they will do good service and remain
sound longer than those raised else
/ where. Trotting-bred animals, that
| are not fast enough for the track or
! speedway, generally make very salts
| factory work horses. They are better
| adapted and more profitable for per-
! forming the usual labor on New Eng
I land farms. and can pull larger load
/ in proportion to their size than the
| heavy, sluggish Western horses. A
/. pair of compactly made, well-fed and
/ thoroughly seasoned trotting bred
horses that weigh $50 to 1923 pounds
! each, will do more farm work of or
! binary nature than pair of western
horses that weigh 1900 to 1900
] pounds each The smaller, active,
hardy animals are preferable for most
all kinds of farm work. excepting, per-
haps, the manure spreader and stone
| drag, where the great weight OF the
western ones gives them an advantage
But even in that kind of labor a lead
! horse of the size and type of the
I smaller trotting-bred animals will
I make a more profitable team than a
pair of large, heavy western ones.
! The original Justin Morgan, founder
| of the Morgan family of horses, weigh
ed only about $50 pounds, yet he could
and did pull a heavier load in the