Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-03-27
Self Reproducing and Self Re-
pairing Dobbin Champion
ed; Breeding Business
Never More Profitable He
Declares:
BY. WILLIAM WILLIAMSON.
$3.50. Grafton, N. u.

lilS. Ile." SOdpC dfA ldhIl .JOAAItaAS
contain much .propaganda about trac-
tors and the. truck and their great
value on the farm. but there are few
that come to the defense of mans
best and tried friend-the horse. r.
Tractor manufacturers and sales
men lave used all possible and i'm
possible arguments to make farm
ers believe that the, horse is Il thing
OF the past. When the bicycle came
into use they argued That the horse
business vas injured, later the auto
mobile would give the horse industry
its death blow, and lastly the tractor
! ana the truck would put an everlast-
ing n to the. use II the raising of
| horses. 49,.
Nevertheless the horse still sur
wives and is the cheapest and the most
dependable. power on our farms to-
day. For that, reason L want to
write something from q farmers
! standpoint in defense of the horse.
The tractor is expensive and, shorts
lived and often balky when you most
need it. In wet soft ground it win
not work and provokingly gets out OF
fOrder at the most, critical times sc
that the farmer who wants to he cer-
! tain that. his. work will be done is
compelled to. have the trusty draft
teams ready for service than can do
the work in any emergency and un,
der all conditions. Tho best friend
OF the draft horse today is the farmer
who has tried the tractor. So
Horse Self Repairing.
The horse is self reproducing, self
repairing and capable of utilizing the
fuel produced on the farm.
1t was the superior endurance. &C
tivity, and docility of the Percherons
on the backgrounds OF Europe that
first attracted the attention Of army
officers who have given the breed I'M
stinted praise and it is these charac-
teristics that have made the Percher-
on the premier draft breed of the
world, now numbering more than 70
pc cent Of all American pure bred
draft horses.
1t is not surprising then that Eng
land recently has imported from the
Emitted states several shiploads OF
4Eure bred: P~ercherons.s
=" AS to the future OF the horse in.
dustry, sense indicates tha'
the gas engine will never put The
horse out Of business. Interest il
the breeding of heavy horses is in
creasing among farmers. The horse
breeding business was never moro
promising than right now. The de
mand for horses weighing 1900 lbs
and over is increasing.
Inc great lIouDlS. Io"SSIi' Wall
the farm horses of North Dakota i
thai the vast majority of them arr
too light and Of poor quality. Tnt
cayuse. the skate. and the scrub vii
have TO go.
>. .-. Urges Good Breeding.
The ordinary farmer must get thij
idea firmly fixed in his mind that III,
profitable horse to breed. own ant
work is the well bred draft ANNA
that weighs from 1900 to a ton. Thes'
horses will make more economical re
turns for investment, feed IL car
than the lighter ones of inferio
breeding.
The demand for better livestock o
5 all kinds is expanding IN "a remarkabl,
3 way. Farmers are waking up to tn
value and necessity OF owning ant
growing the best OF everything. TIL
man who raises the good ones viii
/. always find an active demand 10
, them.
!, But farmers will often breed thei
inferior mares to any scrub stallion
!, that comes around and then they de
Dlore the fact that there is no marke
+ for.horses.
, There is a demand for big horse
!. but there never should be a deman
for scrubs. If there were not a stal
lion weighing less than a ton 1t wou
- { US IL DtS JCllNlJl ~ ~ AA$~'Ss
The draft horse should be close t
' the ground. deep In the body an
: broad as contrasted with long legs
: wasp waist. and narrow body. IN
: latter kin when put to heavy wor
Q in the field soon become leg wear
. and begin to wabble.
When we get to growing big horse
8 with fine bone and muscle, we Wi
grow the highest class OF drafter
r that will be wanted all over the worlt
s have no hes!tancy Mn saying tina
there is a tremendous shortage {
draft horses almost upon us. Pre-
r dnction has not kent race with dc
: struction and the growing demand
: 'rnere Is a morse famine aheau an
not very far ahead at that. 1t is
! good time to get into the breedin
business for the farmer WHO shoul
raise a colt or two every year from
a pair of we'll bred mares.
: The pendulum swings to and fir
The hour has struck for the hors
man. There will soon be q gran
l scramble to meet the famine. but yo
o cant raise horses in a hurry as NO
} can hogs and baby beef.
Breeding stock will soon be high
price-higher than ever before. TT
6 demand in the future will be for tF
heavy horse. :,
/ Bigger and better horses must I
hitched to the pillow, the disk and tK
7. Harrow. In the cities the deman
y will be fo~ horses Of weight an
It quality. Farm machinery is belr
made larger and heavier all the tin