THE HORSE BUSINESS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3561, 17 August 1905, Page 4

THE HORSE BUSINESS.

tmuMt)* Who Raise th« Hi«Ut Sort ot jtliinMli Haw Never Yet Mnde • rallnre of It. At the round-up institute in Wisconnin last year, H. A. Briggs, an extensive breeder of that state, gave .the following good advice in regard to the brood mare,: If y«u are going to raise draft horses «ee what kind of brood mare you have. Don’t try to raise a draft horse from a 1,000 or 1,100-pound trotting mare. Select your largest mares and cross them with the breed you like best, a pure-bred draft horse, whether he is imported of American bred, you must get size aad quality. If you arc going to arced carriage or eor.cn horses, select your mares that have size and quai.-.j, and cross them with the very best carriage horse you can. lam not going to point out the particular breed yor ■ 'have. Among our American ti ■ ■ n g... .i- ype of OO' ~ ; I■ 01 Id, if we 1 ea no qua,.’. there are . ; < aof them. crican peop.. i i aid as much auujtion to prodmiug good carriage horses as they have to producing speed, and speed alone, we would have the ,best coach and carriage horses of any nation, in the worn' and we 'would Have a national ■ aion for protku«ing carriage horses equal to the or»e we have had for prod ucing little trot tiers. That has been the one great trouble with the men who have been raising' trotting horses, they have lost sight sof everything except the speed and rtie speed pedigree, and the result in many cases has been that not one in 25 Inis been fit to put on the market to sell :for any kind* of legitimate use. Get thie idlea of trying to raise trotting horses o»ut of you l ‘lead; if he can’t d anything but trot y rj do not want him. becapj'.e you would do more harm to and \ i r.'.-iuily in a fiuaneial and a mora \ * ban anything you can (ho on the farm. But if you have a goo<l standard trotting marc, and can cross.! her with a good French or German coach or standard bred horse you can 1 make money in raising conch or carring' 1 s-ea. Such horae- sell-

ing at the way from $l5O to $1,500.. Thev • >teh from 1,150 to 1,250* poi ; ■■. ■•tend ten*-'- ‘o 16 hai ■ .. : tii ;■ 11 o'. -m !■:■ and nitv. •■a>y melon tlv' \•'•an evi in a I.■ i■•.* u ;i a low r\- .obut one 1 'is his feet up mu, shows nice knee action and nice hock action. That will give you nn idea of the kind of horse that I thifik is a.’ “"■■ble for the farmer to raise. Y<n, mp have the ~very best breeds of either one of these kinds, and if you neglect feed you will bars the veriest scrub that efßr grew on a Wisconsin farm.