The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1905-03-01

I say unhesitatingly that the draft
horse IS the best and most profitable
horse the farmer can raise. i say so,
just because my experience and obser-
walton has proven that a larger per
cent of draft horses raised are more
marketable than other breeds. My
estimation is that by breeding to a
good draft sire the farmer will raise
80 per cent marketable horses while
breeding to harness sires he does well
II he produces % per cent Of them
marketable. say to the farmer,
leave the sO-called specialist to breed
and raise the harness horse. No farmer
can or will do his farm Justice by TAX
ing the time that is necessary and
putting his mind on educating, shoe
ing and fitting the harness horse for
the market. While i admit that in
breeding the harness horse, chance
trotter or high "knee actor" is secur-
ed the average farmer does not realize
it, nor does he reap the benefit. The
horse is sold to the middle man" or
to the specialist who fits him and
makes him valuable. There is not
one farmer in a hundred who could
train and fit him, and il he could and
did so, he would tear his time and
mind from his farm work. / have in
mind farmer who did train and lit
a trotter tor the market for which he
received $4,000 but in doing it he lost
a $1,000 farm, so l repeat again to the
farmer leave this to the specialist and
keep right on breeding the good quail
ity draft horse. ! have sold many
draft colts B or years old to promin-
ent buyers for both the eastern and
western markets that have never
looked through collar, sold them for
green workers" and never had one
rejected on account of not working.
l have been engaged in the horse bust
ness since 1870. l have visited the
principal Eastern and European mar
kets and today am firmly convinced
that the draft horse is the best all
round horse for the farmer. While in
the east lately came in contact with
many foreign buyers who have had
long experience and heard some of
them say: Cant use that horse he is
too Frenchy''. We farmers may say he
is too 'clamish" but with all that we
must not let our own prejudices run
away with our pocket books. Raise
the kind that can be sold to |
the foreign buyer as well, for the
highest prices. 1t is a well known fact
that nearly every draft horse sold in
Chicago for $500 and over in the past |
three years, Shire or Clyde blood pre-
in his veins. OF course we
farmers can't all raise $500 horses but !
we can try, and are warranted in
The effort so long as the foreign de-
nands last and / believe it has come
to stay. Out of u buyers / met>in the
east IL of them were buying for the
English market; certainly there is a
great future for the breeding of first
class draft horses. | am often asked |
which is the safest and best draft |
breed to mate with your mares. j an
'wer, each of the recognized draft |
breeds have their respective merits. |
While ! am a great admirer of the
Percheron horse to raise in this great
agricultural state in lieu of foreign
demands that has grown up in the
past few years for the heavy draft
hosre, am forced to believe that the
shire horse is the best and safest sire.
Three fourths of the demand for draft
horses go to our principal cities such
as San Francisco, Chicago. etc, and
they must have big bone and "feath-
er" as they call it. Two weeks ago
see by the Drover's Journal of Chicago
that full car of fat draft horses sold
for the wonderful average of 1902. so
the best average ever made in Chicago
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