The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-16

The American draft horse has come
to do the worlds work and add to the
prosperity of the nation.
In raising good horses now SO valu
all that is good in the colts, handle and
educate them as well as feed them to
develop the size and early maturity.
We see some farmers buy pair of
pure bred draft mares at $1,000 to $500
then work them down poor and the
colts are neglected, often get barbed
wire cuts and other bad treatment, the
mares overworked fail to breed and
they soon declare pure breds a failure.
another young man buys pair of
good mares works them carefully,
keeps them in fine breeding condition
is proud of his team when he drives TO
town. His colts are his constant care
and pride they get every care and at
tention and the mares are carefully
bred and are regular breeders.
He soon has a lot of filly colts and
lesson from the European breeders
who make these fine draft horses their
chief income, they keep all of the mares
they can and sell the stations at two
years old at fabulous prices and mares
that can raise such fine stallion colts
they value much higher
American farmers who expect to
raise pure bred draft horses or even
high grades must have the highest ap-
probation off the good work worthy
of the American draft horse as he can
not be raised with scrub horse treat
ment, the high prices justifies the best
possible care, feed and attention then
you will be repaid with the greatest
The French breeders look to the
mares as the most essential to the
production of the choicest stallion as
the Arabian recognizes the mare as
the most important in breeding The
Nivernese breeders of France breed
ing the black draft horses of the Perch
eron type have for years preserved
their best mares for a certain line OF
blood On the dams side have an es-
tablished type that is reproduced with
great uniformity. The careless, indif-
ferent breeder breeds to any mare that
he happens to have and thinks much
more about breeding to a good stall
lion. He will pay but a little more for
grade, but little more than a marke,
gelding and if buyer offers him
few dollars above market price he will
sell his best mare and take years to
breed up again. The farmer who
plans his breeding and gets the best
high grade and pure-bred mares raises
the best horses, sells at the highest
prices and makes horse breeding most
successful.
Pure- DTeO QrdIt morse DTceulHS Is
the highest achievement of the Amer
| lean farmer, for the best farm teams
have the most urgent demand at the
highest prices ever paid for any farm
stock. Still many farmers are raising
cheap scrubs.
| Everybody raising draft horses or
| in any way identified with the draft
horse interest Importing, breeding,
buying. shipping or selling, wins pros
perty and a great benefit to the coun-
| try far more than an yother breeds
of horses or any other stock.
The draft horse is the most popular
favorite on the farm and in the best
markets pays the best to raise and to
sell. The work horse of the world. he
has won his great popularity upon his
merits, his powerful strength to do the
work he is called upon to do as no
other horse, mule or other ANNA;
could do it.
| AS the horse is improved he rises