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Show Best Horse-Breeding Section. ' Dr. C. D. Smead of New York state says: Wlfere are the best locations for horse breeding? I will say that there are good locations in nearly all the states of the Union, and there are also bad ones. The New England states where there are pasture lands are by far too rough and rocky. The danger of accidents with resulting blemishes is a serious drawback in pasturing colts upon steep hill sides or the rocky pasture lands where sheep and cattle may do well. The level lands of all the eastern states are far too valuable for the owners to use them as horse pastures. And.sthe same can be said of many sections of the central states. Kentucky, with her rolling lands and blue grass pastures, has in the past, and can in the future, jjXQdu.ce fine horses. .. So can New York and Ohio; also parts of Pennsylvania, Pennsyl-vania, But let these states produce all they can and they cannot supply anywhere near what the future demand de-mand will be for first-clas horcss. The horse breeding sectio'n of the United States must be west of the Mississippi river. That is where the great ranges are found, covered with both the wild and domestic grasses, the essential thing in growing horses cheaply. |