Show of good prof E Z davenport in an addea to horsemen said I 1 would emphasize the importance of good sires these mares will not be purely bred anti animals nals they would be too expensive they W will be simply M good vigorous capable babl of giving plenty ot of milk the quality must come from tho the sire where ity means most because one animal can impart it to so many such associations ciati clat ions ons as these can render the horse horsa intel eats a valuable service by using mery influence to batten basten the day ot of stallion inspection and license here la in america this farmer we are considering si Is not a horseman that to Is la Is not able to detect the slighter faults of animals the hock may be slightly too nari nan ow or the leg a little crooked or the boric bone not quite flat enough or the loin a little light and he will not be able to detect it I 1 krow a farmer who considers himself something of ft 4 horseman who yet did not notice a hind leg of a colt so poor at the hock that it was mas certain to go to pieces I 1 know a part brad ard stallion that Is considered a great horse with the farmers because ho he takes fat like ilka it a hog bog and has a heavy arching neck but his sickle hock gives him a leg so ao b bent ell t ai to ent liely disqualify him in tile the eye of even a fair judge so do other parts escape the altice of a class of good men who ate aie riot not nt itt all ignorant but whose Inform ifton and vs ex pert knowledge lie along other lines the Ins inspector and the law should help them out As it to la now the owner of it a strictly first class well bred arid and registered stall stallion Jon hug has no chance out over the country as compared with the owner of 0 a part bred horse that will fatten readily and that costing but a frao traction of 0 the other can be stood tor for perhaps only two or three dollars less leas lind and get all the custom this compels the owner of 0 the good stallion to cat prices to a point where in order to secure decent returns so much service Is taken as to render next to worthless wort blesa a laige share of tile the colts gotten we shall produce plenty of scala scalawag moiseis hoi sea until the part bred stallion la Is driven out of business and that will be done only by a system of inspection it costs as much to raise a poor hois e as it does a good one the deficient hock bock or loin Is not a thing that takes less teed feed it II Is no element ot of cheapness until it cornea comes before the old horseman in the great markets and the general horse ralser raiser must be insured against his own foolish foolishness nes in this matter by a thorough of inspection until that time cornea comei the great adeis bd eis and improvers Im ot of horses will be subject to a ruinous competition from part bred stallions tb the system that has been in vogue has produced some good horses borset but it has produced a good many moi moie a poor cries the horse Is a higey developed animal and all his parts parta are developed tar far beyond their natural state it if la in a given individual one part to Is not fully developed it cannot stand the strain put upon it by the other and better d developed parts and it Is with a horsa horna as with a chain or a tile drain th the e whole Is no better than the poorest spot V hat a mixed and mass ot of horge horseflesh flesh we have been guilty of producing and yet the stallion stall lonear eer and the law are more in the blame than the farmer the horse ralser raiser should fix his mind definitely upon the tha class of horses that he be proposes to produce choose hla his stal liou accordingly and depend upon him tor for that quality that always distinguishes the excellent from the ordinary ile he should never sleeping Ble or waking forget hla his own limitations but remember that while t the he professional horseman must produce the breeder the racer and the phenomenal individuals out of the best belt material of the world yet that the pro of the great mass of commercial boches out of common mares and by App approved sires Is his bis own peculiar field in which good profits can always be realized if the farmer keep hla his bead and does not produce worthless stuff cheap horses lire are recruited with mith sufficient rapidity from the ranks above both by ago age and accident anu we ve cannot afford to grow them as an a business busl |