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Show PROFITABLE TYPE OF HORSE Old Farmer Telle of Manner In Which He Makes Animals and Services Pay for Keeps. In regard to "the cost of a horse," I must flrKt and firmly sny that I received re-ceived great profits from my horses and their services pay me for their k'cplng. Am an oh! farmer and never had a pure bred mare, but by good breeding I now have tho seven eighths percheron. P.eglnnlng with the suckling, suck-ling, they are of no bother to me, for until they are a nxnth old the mother Is brought up onco In the forenoon and once In tho afternoon, but afterwards after-wards It Is kept at the stable, says wrltir In Haitltnore American. Then In the fall before they are two they are broke and ready for light service lit the rprlng. So from the time they are two years old they pay their own way. My coming twoyearolds weigh l.f.'tn pounds and bring $1 50, while the coming three-year old bring $200. Thn by keeping our best young Percheron mare and clubbing together to buy 1 registered stallion I find there Is ready sale and clear profit for a farmer farm-er In raising horses, and their services will pay for their keeping. |