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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3611, 13 February 1906, Page 4

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C Who SUO»« the uieht »ort o« jjp»hrja»v« Merer Yet M*«e (Sk • JPcilare o« it. ]t* roand-up institute in Wiscon(year, H. A. Briggs, an extensive t of that state, gave th«_,fol- »- good advice in regard to the mare,:

are going - to raise draft horse* b&t kind or ..rood mare you .have, ’try to raise a draft horse from QfO or 1,100-pound trotting- mare. % your-’-largest mares and cross .breed you like best, Wdjjred draft horse, whether he is tted or American bred, you must ixe and quality. If you are going eed carriage or coach horses, seiyour mares that have size and ,ty f and cross them with the very icarriage horse you can. lam not £ to point out the particular breed ihoukl havo. Among our American :er« we : can'get (is good a type of i horse as thjyw-*ts*frrfhe world, if toJp--to- quality, but there

t er--.*;gh of them. If American It had paid as much attention to icing good carriage horses as they I to «•. . -ing. speed, and speed ||.'we v\ oui;l have the best coach horns of any nation in 5/roi.. ml vre would have a na-

Il Xt, . Ution for producing carthorses equal to the one we have tor producing little trotters. That been the one great trouble with the . who have been raising trotting es, they have lost sight of everyg except the speed and the speed free, and the result in many cases

ten that not one in 25 has been

p-Jjut on the market to sell for any lof legitimate use. Get the idea vying to raise trotting horses out tour head: if he can’t do anything trot you do not want him, because rtvoulcl do more harm to yourself fyour family in ft financial' and » wl way than anything you can do the farm. But if you have a good ward trotting mare, and can cross with a good French or German til or standard bred horse you can

money in raising coach or car-

hoi Such horses are aellthe way from $l3O to $1,500. weigh from 1,150 to 1,250 and stand from 15% to 16 higt- with all of the style and easy action that you can get in r:, : h low shuffling gait, but that r,> ts his feet up and) shows hhee -.cljon and nice hock action. will give you an idea of the kind that I think is advisable for to raise. You may have very best breeds of either one of kinds, a»A if yon neglect feed will have Ifee veriest scrub that on a Wisconsin farm.