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Show BRBID BETTER HOUSES SPECIALIST ADVISES According to reports received hy the United States Department of Agriculture, Ag-riculture, the situation in the horse-brcedin horse-brcedin industry reveals the fact that there are many nondescript and plug horses glutting the markets. This condition, it is believed, atfoct.s tin-horse tin-horse industry in general. The real rood animals are still comanding satisfactory prices, but the misfits aiv being sold for considerably less than tin i ost of production. The saving of additional feed bills is said to be the motive which prompts the producer to dispose of this class of horses, regardless re-gardless of price. One of the conclusions conclus-ions which the Department of Agricultural Agri-cultural draws from the present situation is that indiscriminate brec-ing brec-ing of horses is an unprofitable enterprise. enter-prise. It is essential, the department specialists add, that farmers use wise discrimination in selecting the proper type of stallions with which to male their best mares and thus mate rially aid in producing Only, efficient horses which are capable of giving the service required of them and which consume less valuable fee I ( n the umount of work performed. Such horses have a ready market and always bring good pints. It Imp ative that the breeder who propos es to compete with the domestic and foreign demands after the war should begin now to stock up his stables with desirable better bred horses. |