Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-08-22

AT this time the thoroughbred is
a yeritable gold mine when it comes
to declaring dividends on his prod
ucts. Too much encouragement can
not be gwen to farmers and breeders
in Oklahoma to Increase their stable
capacity and take advantage or the
golden opportunity which now awaits
them. When a thoroughbred year
ling will bring the lucrative sum OF
SI2.5 500 at public auction, and two
vear-old colts bring from $l9, 900 to
100000 each, and three-year-olds
from one farm were sold this year
at prices ranging from $4,000 to
$4,000, it is certainly time for
farmers and breeders to stop and
think on this very important sub
iect. especially when the United
States has already been stripped OF
hundreds Of thousands Of horses for
army purposes by European countries
in the past twelve months. In some
instances experts for the British gov
eminent say that they are compelled
to reject more than eighty per cent
of the horses offered, and these
horses coming from such states as
Virginia and Tennessee, where Mr..
Walter O. Palmer reports that 1t will
hG lmOS iii DOSElHlt 10 pun W ~
select h~alf-breds for officers mounts
in his entire district, although the
price paid Is between three and four
hundred dollars. Already "a large per
cent of our well-bred stock has been
taken from us, thus greatly depicting
our supply. all Of which demands an
immediate increase in the breeding Of
thoroughbreds throughout the entire
country: and the farmer who owns
even two or three well-bred colts in
a year from now will be looked upon
in his community as being well-tO-dO.
No one can estimate what the average
price of the thoroughbred colt will
be for many years to come, but we
can safely predict that the present
demand will rapidly increase his
value until the demand is supplied.
which under existing conditions can
not be done for many years,
We have in Oklahoma every condi-
ton requisite for the raising Of these
animals; we have a small but grow
ing market for them in this state,
which is shown by the Muskogee state
fair, which this year has running
races only, and is offering from three
to five hundred dollar purses in order
to encourage the owners of thorough
breds to enter the contests, and there
Is also an increasing demand through
out the middle west for the thorough
bred and his bi-products (such as
hacks and cross-country saddle
horses). The automobile and the
tractor are to a certain extent replac-
ing the horse, but the thoroughbred
can never be replaced for the reason
that autos and tractors cannot be put
to the same use as the thoroughbred.
a mar who buys a well bred horse
wants one that is above all things
pleasing to the eye, one hat gives
pleasure when riding or driving. and
one that has qualities which dis
tinguishes him from other horses.
He wants the things he can't get in
an automobile. A man can duplicate
his neighbours Ford or his Pierce Ar
row, but a good horse is as difficult
TO duplicate as rare gems and great
paintings.
What we wish TO impress upon the
minds Of the farmers and breeders Of
Oklahoma Is that the breeding of the
thoroughbred is a paying business,
one from which large dividends is TO
be derived. But aside from this
standpoint, the raising Of the thor
oughbred is a patriotic service to u
country.
General Robert L. lee made the
statement that There is many a val
horse that is more entitled to i'm
mortality than the man who rides
him." When we realize that 3,000,-
goo horses of the highest type have
been used in the present struggle in