Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1913-07-30
U. S. GOVERNMENT BECOMES BREEDER
OF FINE He VSES ON GRAND SCALE
VIII Add Other Farms and Eventually VIII Raise All Horses
Needed for Oar Armies, and VIII Sell Many to Public.
No Animal With Blensh Will Be Allowed to
Live Under this System of Equine Eugencs.

Front Royal, Va, June &. 1913.
FOR SALE-Thoroughb horses, 3
to years old; guaranteed sound,
without blemish and thoroughly
trained and broken; bred to the
purple for generations back and
sired by stallion that cost SEQ
600. Price $144.i5.
Apply to UNCLE SAM.
Note-Partners wanted.
IS YER since the days of %er&es no
doubt there have been remarEa-
BILE bargain-day offers, but pro-
ably never before in the history ct
any land was there any such Offer -
the above, made by the United Sta $
government. 1t is no special So.
to be held for few days only, eitlyr.
1t is to continue indefinitely and IN
time the price may get ever CHEAP"
yet.
For Uncle Sam has but recer y
embarked in the horse business -n
such a gigantic scale that it's not
improbable the business of The lHi-
vate breeders will be seriously O.
fected. He has started what is pro-
world, farm Of $500 acres. loca.0 Il
only a few hours ride from the "l-
tional capital, at Front Royal. in rur
long blue grass section of Virgil @.
And this is only the first OF .l&
farms. He intends to start sevCgai
and turn out thoroughbreds by HE
tens of thousands.
To-day the farm is already SUPP 80
ing practically the entire UNI Il
States army with it's mounts. 4 short
time. hence and it will be supply z
civilians, and short time more, .r-
cording to Capt. Caspar H. Conr,l,
who is in charge and is generally ao-
knowledged to be one of the grc1t-
est experts in horsefiesh in the J".-
ted States, it will be supplying most
of the civilized nations Of Euro
And the price-now only $1i4.1".
may become even cheaper for Am,rt-
cans. For Europeans it will soar!
1t is like a big city, this new W.
ture of Uncle Sans. Some idea IF
its elaborateness may be glean. j
from the fact that already II rep
sents an expenditure of moro tlan
100000, with some $400, 0,000f vet
to be spent within the next tw4lNe-
month or so. Uncle Sam Is no piSer!
On the farm are all sorts OF rutid-
ings, sanitary baths, swimming pools,
drinking fountains, resting sheds,
pleasure paths and even a gigantic
hospital-all for horses. Here ana
there are huge houses wherein eide
men. But these men do not one
thing IN the world but look "u; for
the horses. They talk Of blJ h.tle
else Probably they dream of little
else. Indeed. it would be strange If
the case were otherwise, for there
are only 100 of these men, and daily
they have to look after from 1900 to
1000 horses, the number depending
on the days sales.
1t took a long time to start the
llol Se ldl lll--lliOlS II'itl ldll a C6u-
tury It's need first became evident
back in the days of the Civil War,
when on one occasion Uncle Sam,
hard-pressed by the men in gray,
found himself with some 10000 sol
diers who were cavalrymen in name
only. They had no horses.
1t was necessary to send men to
all parts Of the world to buy up
horses. and the requisite number was
finally secured. But many Of them
were wild Western mustangs and
practically none of them were train
ed for the purpose for which they
were needed. Also the buying con-
sumed much valuable time and the
expense was enormous.