The horse and the war . gue in agricul-ture in France, Canada and the United States, have no doubt on the prophesy failure on the grounds that the farmer will not forsake theShire and Clydesdale to which he and his fathers and forefathers have uninter-ruptedly been accustomed. We may take it there is no intention that thenew-comer should supplant the famous Enghsh cart-horse, whose vogue has ex-tended over the centuries. His position is too secure in our day to be assailed bythe advent of a hundred or more true-bred Percherons. He will continue to pulland haul on the land and he w
The horse and the war . gue in agricul-ture in France, Canada and the United States, have no doubt on the prophesy failure on the grounds that the farmer will not forsake theShire and Clydesdale to which he and his fathers and forefathers have uninter-ruptedly been accustomed. We may take it there is no intention that thenew-comer should supplant the famous Enghsh cart-horse, whose vogue has ex-tended over the centuries. His position is too secure in our day to be assailed bythe advent of a hundred or more true-bred Percherons. He will continue to pulland haul on the land and he will flourish on his abundant rations and the warmstable, which are so essential to his good health. The Percheron, if he shouldcome into favour with the agriculturist, will assuredly do so on his merits. Here let me interpose some extremely interesting notes conveyed to me ina letter from Mr. Wayne Dinsmore. He has had long experience of all thedifferent draught breeds on the range in western South Dakota, and for seven. c« •3d 2. .s u < 126 THE HORSE AND THE WAR years was on the Staff of the Iowa Agricultural College at Ames, where asassociate professor he taught classes in the history and development of alldraught breeds. This is what he says :— It may interest you to know that the production of so large a number ofadmirable artillery horses in the United States has been due to the breedingup of small mares by the use of Percheron sires and to the conditions underwhich a large proportion of these animals are reared. Small Western mares,weighing from 800 to 1,000 pounds, have been bred to Percheron get, if liberally fed and reared under farm conditions, would mature at1,400 or 1,500 pounds, but in virtually all cases the colts have been foaled onthe open range and have grown to maturity without any feed other than thatobtained from the dam and native pastures. The result is that such colts haveactually matured at i,loo to 1,207 pounds. The half-blood fema
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