The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-02-23

.uhnn- ut $1,000 ,OOO and Upward
800 Auctions Where Yearlings
,,r,np 81, 900 Each, The Races OF
r.eno, Aires and Their ENORMOUS
EefSsipL--Thc IsichcSt sporting
go az the WOrld-HOw Argentine |
NJ Mere Killed for Their Hides
80, JoJIow-The New Stock n
- .r,at stud Farms. The Argen- |
enc cowboy and How He Fights
Dnci-.
tco,vrient. 1915. by Frank G. Car
penter).
p..,os Aires. Feb. ei.-Buyers
Iron england and France are scour-
ARGENTINA for cavalry horses
hs ,,sed In the war. The purchases
"a tapt as quiet AS possible. but it
.sid nat orders for 500. 000 horses
baye already been received. and that
tbese orders will be duplicated in the
near future. 1t Is that the
80 yill Ultimately each twenty nils
;;on dollars. Thousands of horses
Sage already been shipped and
etn.cec loads of them are now NOV
DO on, over the ocean on the road
~ sudden death. It is said that h
average lie of . horse on the battle
f.ld Is only three days. and it makes
ore', heart sick TO think OF the
slaughter OF such animals az this
country IS raising.
Argentina is noted as paying the
highest prices Tor fine blooded stock.
and this Is 80 OF horses as vel as of
cattle. have already referred TO the
SSs 900 bull which was sold here last
year stations have been sold at sew
eral times that. There is one ROW on
the Las Ortigas stud farm that was
brought in from England at a cost Of
more than $4,000. 1t Is known as
"pi,mond Jubilee" and il won the
triple event FOR the late King Edward.
II was sold for thirty thousand
guineas. Another famous horse. i'm
ported 10y Saturnino Unzue. came
from France and it cost $4,000,
ormond was brought here from Eng
land, where he was purchased fol
nineteen thousand pounds. or $4,000
He remained for some time in Argen.
tina and was then sent to the United
States at D price OF moro than $780,
000. Flying Fox sold for $4,000
The horse CyiIene was landed IL
BuenoS Aries at a cost of &l5O.O0O
while Missel Thrush cost DR.. Benitt
Villaneuva $4,000. There have beer
nary prices, and some Of the fin
stations from England have had
chance to return homo at ~increaset
figures II is said hat an offer o
double the original price paid for CYL
iene was made with h idea of tax
Ing him back TO England. If this l
true the amount was 100000, and
a the story goes, it was refused.
There is q sale OF thOroughbre
STOCK here every spring which bring
IN 81 800. 900 and upward for the colt
sold. Sometimes it runs as high q
X2 HA1 n0n Inxyo thr G~Sr~no "a th
later sales from the Agricultural Sc
cletl or Argentina. In 1907 til
amount realized for 335 colts VIZ
more than 5000. 900, or on the I'VE
age almost OF $4,000 per animal. ]
ivy the sales amounted to more tina
*,5o0.0 900. and that for fourteen an
mails. while in 1910. 483 colts wel
sold for upward OF $500. Doc. 4
that sale ONE of the colts brOugl
as much as $4,000 each. In 19(
Two earrings were bid off at $500
each and in 1910 one yearling SO,
,of $4,000 and another for $500
bufi6s that same year one OF Di;
hond Jubilee's colts brought $3.50
ana another $4,000. Within a perit
VI aeFenteen years the average pri'
OF earrings at these sales has steadi
riser. IL 1908 it was $500, viii
SIM then 1t has risen to $3,450 p
@hcHt prices are tOT yedIiiu
V0ll' and they show what the Arge
.uhe mas been doing to improve
n't>es of the thoroughbred strain.
~ rs now. there are about 1910
.~horough0reds in the country, a
enPfe are something like 4
e~u''oaghbred stations and 5000 bre
,arhS Va service, with an output
A''' Pea9greed colts per annum.
t-ese high-priced thoroughbre
- sept principally for racing a
"itenlhg purposes. but they are sc,
80 al over the country and tn
."NP greatly improved the matt
$3.50 As to races. there Is
49, IN the world where the sport
"o'" popular. There are about ]
- meetings. per annum in BueI
- and last year more than 90
m"i""s ran. and the number of act
80 we're more han a thousai
o. mount of money bet vas g
''t'VV Ia gold. showing al incre;
1si any OF tire years precedi
@i"e hundred and dfty fhalSs