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Show 'LIVE STOCK i Our Draft Horses. Th" Americans can ralve the best ,lrn( horses In the world If they caru I" do o. in tl0 nrftt place they have he foundation stock, having been lulling and linpurtliis. for ninny years the p..t ,nt hl,KM ,,,, Kr(,n. pr """'" The men on thl side of the uater 11, howeier. ho compelled to Inure their methods of feeding a o cnmpoiiitinn of tho ration. It l "I" that a goodly number of luirm rcedcrs have already done this, but lo y are alter all but a very small per '"I of the whole numb r of Amer inn draft horne breeders. Wo have ''en tempted l.y the "Goddess o. I'orn" snd have fallen Into the habit 'f thinking that that Is tho only kind of grain that it will pay us to fped The result Is a good Hired frame, hut nek of quality in bono and muscle, with a tendency to too mm h fatneis ')ur draft horses should lead the lorld in iuality, but It Is a fart thnt. .vith the exception of tho homes un der the control of our noted breeden j or homes that havo I n sold liv them our diaft hnrsi s are very uncertain uncer-tain In qunlliy. Wo Hiy fine animals (rem the Europeans, Import them. I fee.! their urTt-prli-K on corn for a number of generation and when wo :-"nd renin of their propeny hack to the old country we are told that the l-rlce paid for lliem will l.o less than ,1'ir the ones reared there hecauso our I ..wot lack stamina. In other words, the Esnipentis have determined thnt our homes have I. ecu deteriorated by ; bn way they havo been led. Inn't It I llmv to elmugo tho manner of feud lug tboin? I " ISize of the Horse. It is not unreasonable to suppose I i thttt our horses will undergo some- j l thing of tho "sine experience as have j I our beeves lu tiie mailer of popularity popular-ity aa to aire. Wc once wanted a beef gnlmal that welched two thousand pounds. Wo nuw want ono that woighs nearer 1.600 pounds. Yet in tbe matter of size for our draft horses we try to get l.iem to weigh n ton or , more. According to rcimrtt from tbroad the Americana are about tha only people In the world thnt want heavy draft horses. It It laid that the Fronch are breeding their Ferchorons . to a 1,700 pound standard, and that ' the larger ones tl .iy aro producing ' (re being produced for the especial j benefit of Americana. If we are the only people that are buying theso very heavy horses It Is evident that tie day Is not fur distant when wo fill not lie buying them. The ten-ilency ten-ilency 6f tho duy" is' Uiward things of ' a medium alzo. We are learning that ! bigness la not quality, and that tho I animal that la big may ba of Tory little use oven In tho city markot. For use on the farm our agriculturists long ago found out that the excesslve-: excesslve-: ly big horsoa are not the beat nor . tha chcapesL At the present time there Is a good market for heavy torses In our big cities, but we do not know how long the demand of our great browing and wholesale com- panlos will be for horses weighing n ' ton and more. It la safo to breed for ' a good weight, bdt not for tha maximum maxi-mum weight. Rising Price of Betf. Gradually from year to year there Is a gradual Increase in tho price of 1 beef, though the average rise it so j small fur any one year that our buy I era do not notice IL With the exhaustion ex-haustion of the area of public range i and the Increase of population there j la tteadily approaching a time when I beef will be high all the year round. While this la a matter for th' iiuy-i to look upon w ith ml"glvliigi It It ; ono that should stimulate tha producer pro-ducer of beef to put more thought ' Into bit business. The high priced . heef of the future will not ba mado alnno on our western ranges, but lu 1 ai! parts of tho country. The farmt In tho older ttatcs carry few beevus because they ronnot compete with the cheap grass on the western ranges, but that day Is ilowly but : surely passing. The millions and mil-' mil-' Hone of people thnt are coming to ' our shores are swelling the number : of tho beet eatort, and there It also among ua a steady Increasa of the ' native population. We hope to see beef steers on every farm. There art I very few farmers that c.vnnot raise one or two beevca without much extra ex-tra expenae, especially If they havt paaturea that are of good site and which aro teeded to good iqmblna-Uona iqmblna-Uona of (raises. Lamba In tha Stockyards. I-tmbi do not locelve very much consideration In tbe atockyarda, whether they be Intended for slaughter slaugh-ter or for roshipplng to farmers that are to feed them. Tho men that do tha handling at the stockyards are not the most tender that can ba found, and tha kind of attention given la not what Ihe lamba hava boon ao- cuttomcd to, If they bava been under the car of an intelligent tbcphorJ. Tha careleas dipping of tbeep and IttuVi baa resulted repeatedly in tbe lost of many of the lumbi, and sometimes some-times aa many as twenty dead lambs have been found In a tingle car after taat ordeal. It It supposed that chill-'g chill-'g resulted. It may be Uio that "i .me of tha dips are too strong for tender lambs. Tho farmers that liwvo is m I, t ui ship will do well to see tr II teat the lambs rocelva tho best of afr tiuitlon at this trying time. |
