Show upon farms it is easy to mistake mista kM indeed it is so aisy that ery often alio c ci inns nion which men s judgments in common affairs out to be cor stand so singularly prominent in our memories as to become epochs in our lives ono of the most conspicuous mistakes made not only by ordinary practical persons but brothers by others who abc used to practice wall foresight upon business and economical affairs is in regard to alio excessive demand for notwithstanding the vast inci caie in alio use of steam engines railroads canal boats ind oilier melli of inland transportation anil in regard to his people do not lire and learn forty oars ago when railroads were only projected and hie pi cat highways over which i of millious millio ps of tons of freight anro now carried ever air exiled only upon paper in the form of pix maps it was 0 against that alicy woud destroy hie horses ami render them div lass thus depriving alio farmers b a very profitable part of thoice buina hut aliat n mistake was made in cicro diw about horses in alic united states in 1850 were in esgo in 1870 in apito of tha enormous looses of alio war in and it is eliat alio llio number now in exist once is nearly and vet we have 1 miles of rai lr oads costing about ocr which freight is passed from town to town and from place to alico over our vast territory it is biting to note alio increase in ohp number of horses during the last ten years because blat is the period durin which the building of railroads lias been most c irrice on and the volume of business dono on them lias expanded so enormously aliis fact may bo accepted as a proof that alio extension of railroads actually creates a demand for horses to facilitate their business and that as mechanical facilities for business and transportation increase alic necessity for working horse increases correspondingly ant there is another fact which bears upon this question and aliis is that increase of business such as has been developed so prodigiously during alie past twenty years lias been accompanied by a vast production of and its distribution among nil classes of society with wealth have come habits of luxury and ono of tho most marked exhibitions of injurious Ins urious living is aliu ansu afline horses for road and purposes thus wo have seen n demand for horses of a class alio best of arc valued very highly anil almost beyond limit excepting ilia ability or of alic purchaser and thus there lias arisen 1 demand for a class of horses the breeding and rearing of which not only oner attractive profits but occasional prizes that equal in value those which tempt the miner to abandon the comforts of homo and bury in wild and savage solitude in pursuit of gold or jewels and yet alic very same mistake is enado today to day by thoc much interested chich aa has been pointed out lias any timo these forty years past and in of the fact i iove presented in spite too of the fact that a steer of three or four years old for alv or seven ceala n pound on hc hoof it is a very por horse that docs not bring fifteen or twenty a pound at the age and ant one of moderate value abich cannot be old with case for chii ty avo to fifty a pound all rarely as ns a dollar a pound is readily paid for an extra or a well matched hiir the simo is ruo of mules and inori so perhaps as regards alio moro desirable working animals fora stanch heavy mailo is worth ovo or fiely per cent more than si lipiac of similar character and it coils twenty five or fitta per cent less to rear no doubt the most profitable and com branch of agricultural business aliat liat exists today to day is alio breeding and rearing of horses and mules and it may bo said the next best is tho breed tig and rearing of battlo for beef alio tanner who goes into stock ha hai i tho world fur his market Y times |