Show HOESE HORSE RAISING IH IN UTAH recently a ranchman from southern utah ufah has been interviewed in the east about his own e experience experience in in raising horses in utah to ft a reporter odthe of the omaha world he gave an interesting account of his utah business he said aid the impression of the average man is that these western range horses are afan of an inferior breed and are almost good for nothing I 1 have been in the range horse business for about twenty years today I 1 have 1300 acres under fence and my hones horses feed over a radius of from 50 to miles out aide of my farm at pres ent I 1 4 S AJ exercise as much tp I 1 only A n ly has a half dozen to look after al wt the head bead of my stud I 1 have mambrino fam brino king a thoroughbred kentucky hone horse and john bull an imported english coach bores in addition to these I 1 have several good Perc beron stallions for breeding heavier horses my best brood mires are kept on the range all sli the time some of them div live e to be twenty five to thirty wirty years old all the I 1 ins mares res in the herd are bred after the first foal any that are not con rood good for the purposes are t branded for the market the 1 breeding reeding season luts ints from may lat let to october let the colta colts renwith run with the full herd generally the mares bunch off and form companies among themselves they run on the range all the year round and ne never ver require any hay or grain it takes some time for them to learn to cat corn when we take them up for use each year at the fall roundup round up for the market the year lug 69 honea horses are thrown and at sit the season every animal two years yean old is broken to the halter bater and 1 in n cabe e of need to the saddle the herd is seldom troubled with disease and in case it is we s aply act it work out its it own ruin ruin this year the young colte colts have been troubled with some disease like distemper they live for about a J 4 week after they are foaled and then die I 1 have lost about thi this reason season with ting this disease in getting ready for the market we pay no attention to age the horses are driven into the corral and cutout cut out according to their fit J new ness we try to market them at agee ranging from two wo to five year years when a horse is wanted we have to use the rope but on the whole there is very little of that work done the horses bred from native mares and imported horses are easily handled and broken I 1 only keep four men to manage the whole herd and care for my barn horse I 1 marked in a good season about three hundred head bead this year as prices are low I 1 will not send in so many the cost of rals raising a horse on the range is nothing in the outlay of dollars and cents but the expense of help and the keeping of my imported horses are mch uch n that I 1 estimate the cost of 1 ach ah horse w when hen four years old and W ws ty za prices we receive receive for the horses are three or four times thae amount but we must be well paid for we have big money invested from the tart start these range horses are shipped into the market and sold broken and unbroken with each lot cornea comes a it range man who is thoroughly acquainted with the buei busi ness he handles the horse for the purchaser the herd is easily cared for and live lives on rougher and hillier billier territory aban than would euit suit for cattle the horse after he is broken is found to be tough and wiry his wild life baa bas left him young and sound at eight while native tame horses are almost always stif fand eore sore at that age |