. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Saturday, March 4, 1911.] THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN THE FARM MARE'S PLACE IN PRODUCTION. [E. T. R. in Chicago Breeder's Gazette.] No other animal fills a more important place in production than the farm mare. Like the farm cow she has diverse duties. The cow produces milk and meat; the mare raises crops and colts, and her youngsters, companions and idols of the farm boy, tie his heartstrings to the farm. It matters not that the present enthusiasm generally mani- fested in horse breeding is stimulated principally by the altitudinous prices of recent years, the f
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Saturday, March 4, 1911.] THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN THE FARM MARE'S PLACE IN PRODUCTION. [E. T. R. in Chicago Breeder's Gazette.] No other animal fills a more important place in production than the farm mare. Like the farm cow she has diverse duties. The cow produces milk and meat; the mare raises crops and colts, and her youngsters, companions and idols of the farm boy, tie his heartstrings to the farm. It matters not that the present enthusiasm generally mani- fested in horse breeding is stimulated principally by the altitudinous prices of recent years, the farm mare's economic position is secure against price fluctuations. Of late she has been distinctly a money-maker. Even with lower prices for horses her work would still yield a profit on her keep. The comparatively few men who now maintain bands of idle mares have less security in their position. A repetition of the prices of the nineties would pinch them just as it did those who then had an unproduct- ice surplus of horses. But the mare that works for a living can never be superfluous or superseded. Horses will always be needed on the farm. The horse is the only animal which every farmer must have. However he may contrive to plow, sow and reap by mechanical power, he cannot more than par- tially displace flesh and blood. Not only on the farm but in cities as well the uses of power vehicles are circumscribed. The strenuous effort of city firms to install motor trucks in the last two years has been due to the effort to escape the high prices of horses and feed. Only in the shadow of a great expense bill for handling traffic with horses has it been possible to make advances in the introduction of motor trucks. Every possible means of curtailment in the stock of work horses has been practiced by large team owners as prices have mounted higher and higher. Some have been forced to abandon attempts to move their loads without horses; others would quickly return to the old way if pric
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