The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1904-01-14
HOW TO RAISE HORSES
The Following Interesting Paper on
Horses was by R. j. CritChfield
at the Farmers Institute.


pare paper for the Farmers Institute
upon the breeding, raising and care of
mans best friend, "The Horse" will
try to give you the opinion Of our lead
ing horsemen in their respective
classes, for as every man knows, the
successful horsebuyer and dealer sue
ceeds Just in proportion as he is able to
classify his horses and grade them in
we near the class will give you some
thing practical, in my own experience,
for in every branch of business there is
nothing that succeeds like knowledge of
the business that is gained mostly by
your action and every day experience.
This is not only true in all the different
branches of business, but it is true of
the profession and it's evident also that
no difference in what man engages he
must direct all his energy and effort in
that direction, to insure his success.
1t is true some men differ and some are
better adapted to the different voca-
tions in life than others, and are more
successful until it becomes saying as
a proverb that he or she that succeeds
| in life must select some one part of its
various business phases and then
devote all the energy and force you can
command in that direction. For in
stance our friend Hoffman wants to be
criminal lawyer, he directs his energy
and intellectual powers in that channel
and we all know his ability to succeed.
DR.. Foxworthy or any other doctor
wants to be surgeon or a specialist in
his profession, he or they direct all
their efforts in that channel or direc-
ton, and they succeed just in proper
ton to their adaptability and energy
devoted to that particular part of the
profession. Just so in the horse bust
ness, men succeed in proportion to their
adaptability and the effort they use in
that direction. 1t is not every man
that could be Bert or Munkey Tullis,
no more than every man can be Nc
Henry or a Geer, but they can succeed
in proportion to their daptability and
energy placed just in that direction.
We have hundreds of men in the breed
ing and importing business, but they
are not all Dunhams or McLaughlin's.
Hamlins or Peppers. There are many
who have bred horses with as much
speed, but not so many with extreme
speed, for their opportunities and adj
4 vantages are not so great, neither have
they the money or put the energy and
expenses in the business that those
first mentioned, have. 1t is not posi-
BILE for everybody to be G. W.
Williams, if it was the business would
be failure, prices would be reduced
and speed to common and like him, with
one single effort breed, raise and de-
velope an AXtell and an Allerton and
sell one as three-year-old for S105,00C
and get an offer of S125,000 for the
other, but we have plenty of men with
more than his equal in intelligence that
could and can make a better. financial
success of bre eding, raising and caring
for horses than Williams, but they fail
to put the energy and effort into the
business. The latest encyclopedia, now
in press is the only one, says the Ameri-
can Sportsman that gives the horse his
true place in creation, this is the Inter
national Encyclopedia of 1908, the work
of such eminent scholars and scientists
as Daniel Cost Gilman L. L. ID. Harry
Thurston Peck Phi. D. L. H. D. and Frank
Moore Coloby M. A., Late Prof. OF
economics in N. Y. University. In this
reliable work the horse is given the
following appreciative introduction
Since the domestication Of the horse he
has become next to man himself, the
most important factor in the business
and the pleasure of the world, in fact
all the practical details of every day
human life, and we are glad to notice
also that origin of the horse is not
traced to Arabia Gas in Prof. Wallaces
history, and in thesmost of the numer-
Gus other so-called horse histories
! According to this new international
Encyclopedia the use of the horse is
first traced to ancient Egypt. This was
before history was born and the knowl-
elge that he was in existence as one OF
mans utilities is evidenced by inscrip-
ton on Egyptian monuments that
modern scientists and Psychologists have
unearthed. Domestic breeds of horses
have existed in Europe from pre-
historic times, they have been improved
continually by the ingenuity of man and
by blending with oriental horses. And
we are glad to note that the contention
so long maintained in the American
sportsman that the prehistoric man or
American continent had prehistoric
horse for companion is fully maintain
ed in this encyclopedia.