Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-08

colt.s education is still not entirely COTS
nleted. Instead. he is given year or
what is "a ed light dEtt This means
merely that his owner viii ride hmm o.
,'asionalIX in rnanouvsrs but Will de-
,so,a nost of HIS time L. training him Il,
familiarity With the duties Of an armr
horse. An army horse. y must b. rcmem
herad must know his work a thorough
- as rho h;g animals Of Nity's fire de-
partmeiit
army post however. the colt il consid
cred 10 he ready. as the officer put it, TO
stand the raoket'--whicll means that hls
school DAYS are all over. and that here
after he must work for his food
And they stand II. too. Before the
farm started Uncle San secured his
horses ~ the contract s. stem. II
other words. wnen horses we're needed.
breeders We're invited to bid - supp'y the
demand \ price was finally agreed 81
and i'm time the horses slnIN delivered.
Naturally. while some Of tho horses Sc
cured under this system We're good.
great many more were bad Not one IN
1p, hundred was thoronGhtred. Suah
borses lasted ii was foup3. on m aver
axe of six and four-tenths Years
The new system is tria moro eV-
nansiye But the cNpense. after all =
nnly a few dollars more per horse aui
instead Of sending out iot ~ moncreis.
the BUYERS arc getting fhefough3feds.
Also. these latter. ii IL believed. VIII ~
a result Of their special training and 80
health precautions taken stand aetN"
service for ten years -. WAL. the III
,tial outlay is a little mos 1he ultimate
cost is considerably less aad For IA bet
ter horse.
They've gotten The cost o. raising
horses down 10 SCIENCE Il tncic sam
farm too. In the carly cas- of dt@ farm
AFa4AH p 81 th.4 eel
ahon, FIVE months out of She Atar- at a
cost. even with the mar'sous has ng
facilities of the goNernm'at. II - cents
nor day for every colt or s. - per
month But the days 81 buying food
are fast o. the wane
hundreds upon hundreds % acres have
already been titled for the raising ~ this
food-with the result that counting IN all
wing. the colts will cost about 81 a
Yoonth for five months out % the year.
The rest Of the time they viii eat rich
blue grass which grows Mid on -"
farm and hence costs NOTHING. And any
horseman will tell you that oniv so
vaar TO raise and train teoroughhred
colt to saleable age is getting Of pretty
cheap.
Yet. for all this economy. there Is not
one thing about the entire farm bat that
is OF the best Nor does this apply onlv
TO the horses themselves. but 10 the men
who look after them 2 wei
Il
When he first started the farm FOR the
government Capt. Conrad did a remark
ably foxy thing He knew. ot course.
that practically all the men in the Sec
ton where the farm Is .ueatta tHow
horses from the ground M. They have
been raising them and riding them AL!
their lives. So when he began buying ~
the thirty-fiye small farms which were
tja 10 Ia
nm the old owners Of those farms and
usually their sons. too. 10 stay right
where they We're and help in the raising
As a result. these men. combined horse
men and farmers not only look after the
colts but also till the ground 10 ra.se
their food in between times.
And the government has proved CRATE
full. for il has taken every one of those
thirty-fve old farmhouses. given 1t a
brand-new coat of paint and installed
every known modern improvement. from
new wall papering to. bathtuos, running
water and electric lights. the last sup
piled from private lighting plant To-
Gated on the farm itself. The workers
get the houses rent free-also a priNate
garden plot. Also with every house
there is small orchard.
So, down at the farm day IN and day
out they raise. buy and sell horses
picking up scraggly thorousnbreds for
4 little or nothing. fattening them, train
e ing them and selling them for the sans
a old price of sli4l5-that fiat price beins
t decided on by simple system of aver
. ages AT the farm there are black horses
bay horses, sorrels-horses of all sizes
and colors. save only white and gray
These two colors are taboo. for III,
reason that they would be- too easily dis
tinguished in time of battle.
e The present farm. too. is just starter
s 1t has proved so big success that Uncl'
q Sam is already planning to start at leas
one more i'm the far west-and perhap.
two or three. Horses for all the world.'
is his slogan.
/, And the best part of ii is said Capt
e Conrad. that any American citizen wht
wants to can come into partnership viii
3 u.s. with our side bearing practically al
the expense, taking all the chances ana
r guaranteeing a profit All the private n
dvidual needs is few acres of ground
e and a good mare"