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Show , o THE FUTURE OF THE HORSE& BUSINESS. I Professor Carlylc, who is in charge of the government horse breeding cx-l periments in Colorado, in a icccnt communication to the public press, ' warns farmers against indiscriminate breeding of horses intended for the future market. This warning against v indiscriminate and careless breeding is timely. He suggests that farmers confine themselves to breeding one of two types of horses, cither a heavy draft horse or the heavy harness horse. This suggestion, too, is exceedingly timely. The farmer must rcmcmbei that he is breeding now for the market mar-ket five or six yenrs from now during which time a great many things may happen. The greatest menace that most men scq to profitable breeding of horses iii tho future is that the automobile may possibly be a substitute for the horse. We do not expect that any time in the future the automobile v. sefifcusly interfere with the usefulness of the best heavy draft horses of any of the well established breed's. j J'hc only point, is haying, them good 9 enough in bone, muscle, size, style and soundness. As intimated in a previous article we can always grow this type of horse cheaper than they can be grown in the old world and hence can always find a profitable market. Our grass is -cheaper, our grain is cheaper, the brood marc is cheaper. All that is needed is careful breeding, careful and generous feeding feed-ing and skill in handling. Undoubtedly the automobile will to I some extent take the place of the horse for light harness work. It is a utility for the doctor, the real estate man, and some other classes, and its practical use will gradually be extend-c.d. extend-c.d. At 'present, however, it is mainly a fad of the rich man and the man who would like to be considered rich; and even the rich who arc, able to hire a chauffeur and stand- the expense of keeping up the machine will after a while have his stylish heavy harness or coach horse. We do not, however, sec any place for the horse that is undersized, of mixed breeding, too small to pull and too slow to travel. A limited num-ber num-ber of these nondescripts will always be used, but the range can always supply sup-ply them cheaper and of fully s good quality as forms worth from fifty to one hundred dollars per acre. Wj have always urged that the farmer on land at this price should limit hit. horse breeding operations to the number of marcs that can be profitably profit-ably used in the management of tnc farm. ILc can afford possibly to keep three marcs, where but two arc really necessary, and that is about all. , In time the farmers of the United States will fall into the same methods meth-ods as prevail in other horse breeding 1 countries. The farmer will own the marcs, sell the colts at weanlings or perhaps yiearlings or two-year-olds to a grazier of some farmer who has a particular fancy for handling horses. He in turn soils the draft horses to the farmer who does not desire to breed horses, but buys youngsters, giving them light work on the farm I until they arc five years old, when they go into the city to be worn out. NiOt every man who can grow colts is competent to train therm; not every man who is competent to train them can sell them to the best advantage. We believe that in the future many of the best heavy harness horses will be developed1 from the larger types of stanclard bred. The weakness of; the standard bred horse is that he has been developed with a view to making a high rate of speed for 1 short distance, without reference to style or size. We believe this stand-ard stand-ard bred stock of the larger types will in time furnish the very best material ma-terial for the stylish coach horse, which will always be in demand a long as rich men arc "striving to fin I some way of gratifying their tastes and getting rid of their surplus cash Rural Spirit. |