The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-09-22

year In connection with other lines of
live stock production and grain grow
ing for our supply of horses. The
small farmer who does not have
land enough to keep mares for breed
Ing purposes exclusively should aim
to use mares for work purposes, and
breed them. This will cause some
inconvenience in getting farm work
done, but more healthy and normal
colts are produced in this way than
when the mares are allowed to run
idle. III the mares are worked they
will not suffer from lack of exercise
and the foal is more apt to be grown
properly the first summer. Farmers
who make an effort to raise horses in
this way find that they become
source Of revenue that costs them ap-
proximately nothing.
While every farmer should raise
few horses on the farm there is an
excellent chance in the northwest for
establishing studs for the production
of pure-breds exclusively. For ex-
ample, land can be secured in large
tracts in such state as North Da-
kota at price where it would pay
handsome profit, If devoted exclusive
ly to horse raising. Some excellent
breeding establishments are to be
found scattered all through this state
and the class of pure-bred draft
horses raised on these farms is evil
dence that the best can be produced
here. What need is there for the I'M
portation of SO many stations of the
draft breeds when horses Of just as
much merit can be produced right at
home. If our breeders would use care
In breeding and feeding, we could ex-
eel other countries in the production
of horses. The word imported should
not be SO fascinating to our breeders
as it has been in the past
The contention may be made that
We are not situated close enough to
the large markets. The cost of get
ting them to these markets is an item
that would not make much difference.
Our best market at the present for
draft horses, is right at home, be-
cause the demand for horses on the
farm or the northwest has not been
supplied with home bred ones, and it
will be some time before there are
horses enough raised here to supply
this demand to say nothing of outside
demands. The settlement of so much
new country contiguous to this Sec
ton necessitates the use of large
number of horses. In spite of the de-
mand at home we find buyers from
the east shipping many from here
each year, and we can expect more
call for our horses from the east as
time goes on.
The great need to make horse pro-
duction greater success in the
northwest, is more care on the part
of our breeders and farmers to the
methods of breeding and feed. A de-
sirable climate, soil, cheap feed and
good markets will not produce good
horses in themselves, If no attention
is given to the selection of good sires
and proper mating all other condi-
tions may be ideal, but an inferior
horse is the result. 1t is great in
suit on the intelligence of our farm
ers to say that many use grade or
scrub sires, but it is a fact, and there
is many grade stallion making as
good season in the same vicinity as
a pure bred of greater merit. Reader,
if you are making practice of mat
ing a grade stallion on your mares,
there is no hope for you to improve
the grade of your horses. Why? Be-
cause grade will seldom produce true
to himself, for some of his ancestors
may be produced in the offspring, due
to the law of atayism. If you breed
to pure bred stallion you avoid this
danger.
Next in Importance to breeding is
proper feeding. They may be bred
right but if not grown properly they