Show RAISE MORE HORSES industrial demand for horses Is constantly expanding and farmers can make no mistakes in raisins raising standard commercial classes from the viewpoint of profitable husbandry the apprehension that the inquiry for horses will diminish with the invention of the automobile has now been eliminated from the industry and farmers raise horses with the extreme confidence that when the fo foals als reach maturity industrial demand d stands ready to take the surplus at remunerative prices says the chicago drovers journal it would appear that the broader the competing motor power for commercial use the greater the inquiry for good horses not only in cities has the demand tor for horses increased during the past decade but in agricultural development the demand Is steadily broadening vast new territory Is being brought under the domain of improved aarl agriculture culture and the cultivate cultivation ion of a great area of land annually creates increased demand for horses I 1 machinery Is largely sup supplanting band hand labor la ili farm manaj management ement and horses are indispensable to operate the ahe new farm arm implements it is admitted fact that in many localities f farmers are short of horses and have been the best buyers of the surplus in their community F farmers are favorably situated to raise horses and the bulk of commercial classes that are weekly distributed ut ad to the trade come from the farms of the middle ae western states the great breeding establishments have been dismantled and dispersed and horses that supply the commercial demand all come from farms where from one to six elk foals are raised every season so n vie it is doubtful from a financial viewpoint w it if great breeding establishments could co aid be operated at a remunerative profit the tact fact that the great studs have been dispersed demonstrates that the supply of borses must come collie from frem the farms operated on th the e lines of general husbandry the average farmer Is admirably to raise commercial horses he annually raises a large amount of the roughage especially adapted tor for horse feed i rations using many boyses in his agricultural operations economic administration of the farm compels him to exploit the horse industry the breeder can no more orford atford to keep a mare only oly to raise a foal than he can afford to keep a cow to raise a calf the expense of maintenance ten ance of the old mare in idleness would counterbalance the profit in raising the foal but when the mare performs the regular work in harness barness her foal becomes a most pron profi table byproduct by product some farmers are natural horsemen with a judicial eye for the commercial points in good hor ses farmers as a rule realize the great profit in raising those classes that can be utilized in the regular work on the big farm horses weighing 1400 pounds are very desirable workers on the farm and free sellers at wholesale markets it if the farmer loses a horse and has no supernumerary to take its place it means meang that he must draw on his bank account around to replace the animal the represents the sale of of lav live stock or farm products and to invest it in a horse that the farmer could have raised looks like prodigal economy buying horses for farm work soon takes a thousand dollars and in a quarter of a century amounts to a snug fortune if the farmer raises his own horses and always carries a small surplus for sale it will make an almost incredible difference in his accumulations in twenty five years of active husbandry every farmer should raise his awn supply of horses and always try to have a surplus to sell to dealers if he would get t the he greatest profits from agriculture re deseret farmer |