Breeder and sportsman . ough feet are extremelyessential to longevity or hard service. The backshould be comparatively straight, strong, short,closely coupled, well muscled, and support a deepchest of medium width, good deep ribs and rump should carry width to., the tail, whichshould set fairly high. The hind legs of the horseshould be set well under the body. Strong hocks,well set and sloping pasterns are of great , level action with good style is essential inall horses. Close observation will call to our attention thefact that our best brood mares possess real femininecha
Breeder and sportsman . ough feet are extremelyessential to longevity or hard service. The backshould be comparatively straight, strong, short,closely coupled, well muscled, and support a deepchest of medium width, good deep ribs and rump should carry width to., the tail, whichshould set fairly high. The hind legs of the horseshould be set well under the body. Strong hocks,well set and sloping pasterns are of great , level action with good style is essential inall horses. Close observation will call to our attention thefact that our best brood mares possess real femininecharacter, which gives them power to reproducesuccessfully. Consequently along with the charac-teristics of type, age. size, quality, constitution,soundness, action and conformation we find ourgreatest brood mares are those possessed of thatlatent and unexplainable quality of real female char-acter and adaptability to motherhood. Saturday, May 15, 1909.] THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN 13 osawmamc85mooofiooooooo THE FARM. THE POISON WEED PROBLEMTHE ARID WEST. The real wealth, conies from thesoil, and those farmers succeed bestin the long run who practice drivingtheir crops to market. These sweep-ing assertions are, in the main history, as well as our mod-ern farm journals, are replete with ac-counts of live stock, and the impor-tant position they have held in an-cient, medieval and modern times inthe industries of the world. It mustbe conceded that in ancient time, theraising of live stock was the cardinalindustry, and in modern times it rep-resents more real wealth than anybranch of agriculture, commerce, ormanufactures. The area of the United States is di-vided by natural boundaries into sec-tions especially adapted, climaticallyand otherwise, to certain special linesof industry. An immense territoryin the Rocky Mountain region, be-cause of its aridity, must always re-main as it is now, a section largelydevoted to grazing. The old openrange conditions still prevail andma
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