Show BEWARE OF UNSOUND HORSES So-Called So Trifles Often Show Weakness Weak Weak- ness fleas Which Is Liable to Be Transmitted to Foal By Dy J. J 11 M. DEJ BELL BELU I. I We Well the main question Is 18 what sort of horses do you OU want to raise I In n the tho first place the difference in the of raising a scrub and a properly bred horse is nothing like as ns great grent as aa tho the price that you will get when the colts arrive at maturity and the dlf ference will all be In favor of the tho well wll bred one one certainly certainly In nine cases out of ten The buyers In the big cities want horses that are bred on certain lines JInes The drafts must have weight and bone the tho roadsters speed the saddle horse gaits and carriage and so on each according ac according cording to his kind Now brother farmer read the market market mar mar- ket reports report II In your farm and daily papers and see It if I a am api not right about the classification and prices of horses when they are sold for the high dollar and then note the prices paid for chunks which are generally non non- Whatever you ou do beware of the Unsound unsound unsound un un- sound stallion of any breed for Cor although although al al- al though you OU may be told by the owner or groom that such troubles as just justa a slight pul puff on the Inside of hock just a little narrow about the heels or just a little enlargement about the knees but sound as a dollar and numbers of other trifles so called cabled you will find that In the course of years of breeding horses that unsoundness in limbs or feet shows how a manifest weak weak- Well Bred Farm Horses ness and this weakness Is very likely to be transmitted to the foal The writer well recalls recas a case In point when a thoroughbred stallion of high merits superb breeding and splendid racing record became injured very badly on the fore toot foot which put a quietus to his turf career the Injury developed Into a foot th the whole foot being abnormally large This stallion was placed in the stud and was sire to quite a number of good colts but several but several of them developed devel developed club foot So by all means breed to a sound horse |