The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-09-02

over the United States and have each
one Of them perfect and technically !
sound horse. AT any rate, the average ;
price of this sale was four hundred and
fifty-four dollars each, and yet, there I
are those who would have US beiieVs e
that the horse days on earth are num- Q
bered Had you ever thought that nh- :
ike any other crop raised by the farm
| ers of this great country that II taxes
| lust six years to replenish our stock OF
| horses? If our country was suffering
| rom a shortage of corn. oats, barley
| rye or cotton, one year would be suih-
| cient to do away with that shortage not
| % however. with our livestock Tor from
| iaby hrrf to horses, it takes from three |
| 20 six years to have them ready for
| market. ,,, .
A few years ago it was possible TO
| find MANY OF our young men mounted
= | on a horse that the trapptngs were OF |
. | more value than the horse ana the Tor,
II mer would most likely be represented
l. | nv about twenty five dollars as a cash
~. | outlay this is far from being the case
today An elegant combination horse
lu viii command the attention not only
on along the streets on which he may be
driven or ridden. but wl1 also sell on
m the open market for from five hundred
~ to one thousand dollars. Then we ask
:; can our farmers do better than 10
one or more of such colts eaeh aiar
old | raise one or more such colts eacn
wear and feed to them theli
We surplus grain and hay to the enc
re that someone more able TO own theH
$ | than their breeders may purchase ahe
- | AT them for tho market, as breeolhs
~, and raising them belongs 10 one cas-
MN and the educating and fitting OF then
TO another .x,
for can IL not be said that each breeders
hon / success at our annual State taIr "h q
Nv" the finished product is shown wiii o
the an additional incentive 20 all onlooker
said and visitors at the fall meeting TO
I'm least try and raise something that ca
he shown in competition Win III
ave nstghbor and are we not all ambitiou
Nifty 10 excel? In conclusion 1t can be asks
lin lis not the Great State Fair, held q
ONO Dallas In all Its colossal proportion
49,. it's various products OF the states man
'uH farms it's mineral resources Iunlp'
sud and mining interests built upon aho II
ternsshea with the horse. Woulo Al
,,,,,o one of the many enumerated INDUSTRY
have been the proven success that th'
AVE have been without the aid OF the nor"
d to then We proclaim, AL nan 70 ne ere"
me est of all Of the lower animals given
a great and benefioient COO, 10 ma
the horse Again can we say that
lime ether than tho Great state Faf
will Texas has done more, nor have ON
He interests been able to do as mnch :
40 the breeders of livestock III the @'"'
"a vest as have they.
he At their annual meeting OCTOBER
had IS 1911, twenty sight thousand o"tla
will be given in purses TO ooth N"
and dSi,Iap 70 This there win also be gi
due en- for exhibition horses tlty-e's
o bis hundred dollars ior catI I 49,
spec huhoiea 80 sheen coats dan
farm and mill products, cotton, con
and rounty exhibits poultry, etc. ETC. "
with be given a grand total Of btN-seV
thousand three hundred and I'VE d
| lars. ,u
There will he expended in tho IAN
ector 1911, in Dallas, by the stat" talr
II up Texas, IN - and 1reraifors.
u as .aa,d totsI of two hundred and z
Used ,-oI.sand, three hundred and tte d
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