Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1904-02-18

Il Suou TOuuu price lot Wl8G Is a0SO.
lutely what you need and must have,
you owe him something after the dol
i lais are paid over. for his painstaking
care in keeping the standard right up
to where 1t should be. Now, a big fine
looking animal, if that is what you
want to raise, is worth more than a
KuNr il his ancestry has been large
/ and small by turns. The progeny of
the tine individual is likely to be large
and small the same as his ancestors
We're: The progeny OF the runt is
likely to he small and large as his an.
cestors were, So. 1.-The odds is the diff
ference, you pays your money and
takes your choice"
Now in picking breeding stock OF
the horse kind, you have more than
one thing to watch for. Size and con-
formation are desirable, but you want
in the draft horse all the beauty lines
you can get as we'll as color, DISPOSE
tion. constitution. courage and docil-
lty Last, but not least, You must
look out for good feet. Remember the
old adagc, mo feet, no horse. You
should require all these things not
only in the individual before you. but
in the ancestry back of him. In ad-
dition to what is required in the large
drafter, the roadster must have speed,
a free frictionlcss gait and the dispo-
Sition to go to the front without be-
ing fool about il, and one other
thing not to be forgotten pick ON
long lived families. There is more
comfort in working ten or fifteen
year old horse that is full of vigor and
courage than a four or five year old.
There is where your profit comes in
too. What kind OF horses would | adj
wise you to raisey Any kind but poor
ones. You may get hint from the
way prices run in one Of our largest, if
not the largest horse market in the
world, taking the average prices for
1907.
Drivers, sl7l.Oo; carriage horses,
s445.0O, saddlers, $4,000; buss horses,
sl22.00; general purpose, $4,000:
frafters. sl56OO.
In addition to paying but little at
tention to the selection of breeding
stock, SO far as ancestry is concerned,
the average farmer has done another
thing to the detrimept of horse STOCK
in this part of the country. He has
got say one cross of heavy draft blood
with a small dam. That did not suit
him, because there was Il lack of SYM
metry, so he crossed back again with
an indifferent short bred roadster or
4 light harness horse. Tho symmetry
was not much improved and his stock
was smaller perhaps than ever. Then
/ back he goes to the draft blood again
and winds up with horse bred like
the old darkey's dog, which he said
was "A reglar pothound. little of
everything and not much o nuilin'. %
Now in the raising OF very large
draft horses for the market you will
get enough of light drafters il that is
what you prefer without specially
raising them, and you can always sell
the very large ones for enough more
than the small ones are worth to en-
| able you to get two or three for one.
SO when you start after the big fellows
keep on breeding up, never down. If
you are going to breed horses, breed to
a type and stay by it.
have followed business ever since
my majority which has made it ne
cessary for me to use the roadster. and
much as love them when they are
right, like to see a great, grand road
horse as he bends To his work, the
very personitication of docility, cour-
age, intelligence and strength. be
lieye the time will never come when
the light harness horse. Thy which L
mean the trotter,] the saddle horse
and the thoroughbred, will not be
raised. They will be raised because
man will always in one way OF another
have use for them. Had he never had
anything but the Pefcheron, Clyde or
Shire, history and song would have
less to say of Paul Revere, Phil Sheri-
dan or James Buchanan Reid; and
Ben HMr would never have been writ
ten
The thoroughbred, the foundation
upon which all or most of the other
families have been built, has been kept
SO distinct in type that they can be
traced back to the daysof William the
Conquerer and belong to the Barb or
Arabian stock Nothing else, strictly
speaking, is thoroughbred. Others
are standard according to rules for
registration in the books belonging to
the several families. Great pains has
been taken in keeping the thorough
bred pnre. Great pains was taken to
bring other breeds up to a standard.
Weall admire the thoroughbred for
his speed, beauty and courage. The
same can be said OF the other speed