Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-02-18
OKLAHOMA IS A
PHSY|CAL STATE
ALTHOUGH YOUNG THIS STATE
HAS PRODUCED SOME EN-
CELLENT HORSEFLESH.
; ONE HORSE BRINGS $4,000
Certain Money for the Farmer, How
ever, Lies in the Breeding OF
Heavy Drafts for Market.

The horse, the animal nearest ap.
preaching man in intelligence and
usefulness, has found Oklahoma to
his liking The pure air for his lungs,
the limestone soil producing succu-
lent grasses that makes bone, the nu.
tritious grain, pronounced at the Chi
cago worlds fair as the ebst in the
world, TO give him fat and muscle
and the intelligent care of brainy,
cosmopolitan farmers and stock rails
ers has quickly put Oklahoma IN the
forefront OF the horse raising states
Tho great worlds champion four.
year-old trotting stallion, Joe Bow
ers, has the past seasyh brought in
an oklahoma farmer $4,000, this be-
ing the purchase price paid by an
eastern fancier. This colt was bred
near Ponca City. and is purely an
Oklahoma product Not only Joe
Bowers, but hundreds of other har-
ness horses raised In the state are
attracting buyers from all over the
country. There are some sixty stock
farms in the state making the rails
ing of harness horses a speciality, and
no complaint has ever been heard
against the adaptability of the soil or
climate for such purposes, but on
the contrary, men like Barney Schrib
er of St. Louis while at Tulsa last fall
offered to purchase a large enough
farm to accommodate his whole
breeding plant consisting of the great
est number of we'll bred thorough
bred horses in the United States. He
failed to find enough land in one tract
that could be purchased, hence the
project was abandoned.
The certain money, however, for
all classes of stock raisers is the Per-
cheron horse. The farmer is just be-
ginning in this state to know what
~ brothers in some of the older
states further north and east know
to a man, that is raising Percheron
horses is only hog and homlny p
position. He is learning that a Per-
cheron has only to be fed like a hog
and sold like a hog. He needs no
more breaking, he neds no training
or fitting for market. A pair of four
year-old colts fairly well mated can
be put on the cars and shipped to st.
Louis or Kansas City to a commission
merchant just as a car load of hogs
are forwarded and the farmer esti-
mates by their weight within so of
what they will net him. Not so of
any other breed of horses. This breed
of horses Is so uniform, so large and
certain in qualities. especially among
the full blood class that it is no
longer a mater Of opinion as to what
an animal Of this breed will bring
on the market.
The farmer seeking for real in
formation along this line must not
fall short in these land marks:
The stallion must be large, If pos
sible, not less than two thousand
pounds, the dams must be known to
be good breeders Of weight above
fifteen hundred pounds. These mat
ters leaked after the farmer Is pre-
pared to raise the horse that will
surely bring him the dollar without
variation. One hundred pounds put
on two thousand pound animal is
worth twice as many dollars as one
hundred pounds put on a fifteen
hundred pound animal. This last
fact explains why wise farmer pre-
fers to feed about teh same amount
of feed to colt that will develop
into a two thousand pound horse
rather than feeding one that VIII
only make fifteen hundred animal
pound four year old is worth about
$500, seventeen hundred and f'fty
pound horse of the same age about
$500, and a two thousand draft horse
at least $500. Thus 1t can be seen
that few pounds on the right horse
increases his value rapidly