Washington County News | 1900-06-02 | Page 3 | Aimless Breeding of Horses

Aimless UrfCdins of Horses. It is a fact well established that much of the breeding by our farmers is aimless. Horses are bred and fed lo a marketable age, only to he sold at a low price on account of coming under no particular class. Before starting to breed, a farmer should make a study as to the classifications for horses in the market and strive to make his product correspond to some one of the classes. That is, if he means to breed with the idea of selling- If he wants only a farm horse the object for breeding according to the classification classi-fication is not so great. But most farmers like to have a horse they can either keep or sell as hest suits their needs. Even in the production of horses for farm work there should he a well-defined aim. One horse is worth very much more than another hosre on the farm. The fast stepper is infinitely superior to the slow plodder. plod-der. The breeding of any kind of a mare to any kind of a stallion should stop. Select both parents with care, and consider the mutual effect of the one on the other.