The new system of educating horses, including instructions on feeding, watering, stabling, shoeing, etc with practical treatment for diseases . ike pro-ducing like is inexorable;consequently it is seen thatto raise good horses, goodhorses must be bred farmers who are other-wise keenly alive to theirinterest, are singularlythoughtless and imprudentin this. If a mare is brokendown and unfit for labor, nomatter how coarse, badlyformed, or what the evidenceof constitutional unsoundness, she is reserved to breed the cheapest horse, no matter how coarse if sleekand fat, is selec
The new system of educating horses, including instructions on feeding, watering, stabling, shoeing, etc with practical treatment for diseases . ike pro-ducing like is inexorable;consequently it is seen thatto raise good horses, goodhorses must be bred farmers who are other-wise keenly alive to theirinterest, are singularlythoughtless and imprudentin this. If a mare is brokendown and unfit for labor, nomatter how coarse, badlyformed, or what the evidenceof constitutional unsoundness, she is reserved to breed the cheapest horse, no matter how coarse if sleekand fat, is selected and employed to breed from. The mostignorant farmer is particular to select the largest and soun-dest potatoes, the cleanest wheat and oats, for seed, has learned this istrue economy. Yetthere seems to be themost utter disregardof this law of pru-dence in the breed-ing of horses andfarm stock in my long ex-perience before thepublic, I have en-deavored to impressupon farmers, whenI could, that this sortof economy is likepaying a quarter for a chicken, and giving a duU and TreacheroM. dollar to have it taken BREEDING. 107 It costs just as much to raise a poor, coarse blooded colt,as a fine blooded one. The cost of feeding and care isreally the same, the only difference in cost being in that ofthe use of the horse. The first will possibly sell when fiveyears old and trained to harness, for from a hundredto a hundred and fifty dollars. The other is worthfrom three hundred to a thousand, and possibly first will scarcely sell for the cost of feeding andcare. The second ensures a large profit, and this fora little additional first cost. And then the satisfaction ofhaving fine valuable animals, that can go along if necessary, able to do any kindof work easily, andsaleable for a largerprice, is a source ofno ordinary pleasureand encouragement,if from no otherfeeling than that ofcontributing solargely to increasedeconomy and fact is, b
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