Des Moines Gazette (Newspaper) - December 5, 1901, Des Moines, Iowa Dont Forget Advertisers have Iree access to subscription Hat and should the same from any other paper before placing their bual neas them uive us a trial and see we cuu do for you es into about eek and Is read by ra farmers wives children iu a l DCS Moines than yayer Iu the slate VOL 5 NO 41 DBS MOINES IOWA THURSDAY DECEMBER 5 1901 WHOLE NO 302 fulfill Dear will try t my promise and write a few lints for yon valuable paper on one of most important subjects of all agricultural pursuits on the most no bly of all animals the horse He was the pride and admiration of years agu and the same pride and admiration has followed him down all generations to thu pre sent day and at the present time no animal that lies so near the of the American people as the horse He is the most useful serviceable and profitable of all ani mals in time of peace and ble in lime of war ii none of writing to i could point the renders attention is there more fre quent mention of more de scription of the power and beauty the horse than great book of books the Of of the Held which we are told tlie Lord formed out of the earth brew ght thorn unto Adam to see What he would call them none lias more engaged the attention of the historian and the philosopher none lias figured more in poetry and ro mance than the horse He is the servant friend and companion of man Jn all the ages for which we have then tic history the horse has been the sturdy and esteemed ser vant of man equally in the avoca tions of peace and productive indus tries subduing the wilderness and its savages whether or brute the march of armies r shock of battle he lias borne a part con and potent Adapted and adaptable to innumerable forms of mans service as no other animal the lime for his displacement is not yet Although the of evil may proclaim the horseless age is already ushered in no machine of steel and steam no battery motor no craft can success supersede the horse When the traction engine and steam plow became realities when electri city and the cable displaced the horse from the street car service when the bicycle look its among the necessities of life and the horseless carriage was something more than a dream men began to say that the horse had outlived his usefulness us a domestic animal and many a reader pen predicted liis speedy and cal extinction Then the cry went up from the sensationalists and knowing ones and the press from all over the country that the horse had seen its day that he was superseded byj more valuable and cheaper j power and this fallacy had a greet deal to do with the discontinuing of the breeding of horses from the best horse raising section of the country from 94 to 98 inclusive Nothing could be more false or more mislead ing tihe sensational article by the press throughout the country and much to the detri ment of a large proportion of breed ers and raisers of horses causing breeders to go out of business lust at the time they should have commenced thus great harm and ruin to one of the most valu able of industries false and mislead ing in all of Us forms for at the stinger good horses Never did they bring belter prices never were there so many horses in actual service and there nro morn horses sold in all of the markets than ever before with both and domestic demand daily I am willing to stake my reputation as a horseman with large experience that horses will nit be less valuable in the next ten years than they arc today and for the ten yours they will be higher each Until human nature becomes some the beauty strength in and utility ol the horse will be admired by human kind and a profitable pleasure be found in his production improvement and varied uses In his form pos sessing capabilities never before equalled and the approbation of him has never been more genuine or more generous than now It is true that much of our ordinary service of horses Is being much more cheaply performed by machinery The same is true of much of the labor of men All this reduces the value ol Hie grade individual whether horse or man but it docs not threaten the ex tinction of either species Oil the contrary new are constantly arising H is significant fact that horses like men are cheaper service and that from sides call is for animals of form and action quality docil ity 1S Hie ill bred mongrel is not he cannot do what is now demoded oi if he at all is at a normal priee of is heln at both ends On Dm one hand there is a real been for many n other hand there has hVn a widening demand orat territory through which the demand for American horses ex tends has been Thv is something has grown wonderfully during the past few years beginning with less than cur thousand horses that of horses reached 80000 nd for the present they will if not exceed that figure demand has been increasing in large proportions If wo had plenty of the export classes there is not a would lake nearly double this amount for many years to come Unless all fail ur something remarkable taken place OTIC of the best paying branches of fanning for a good many years to come will be the pro duction of horses for export and should bear in mind that all export horses must be of a fic class and every horse be a horse of his own class and adapted for special use and have the require ments of one of the export classes The great secret of success in breed ing horses for the market is to know what the market demands to know what the market horse is and before going extensively into the breeding business the breeder should post himself on all of the points that make up a good horse and julso cm the different that the market demands that lie may make no mistakes and breed strictly a market horse that is a specific class and type and adapted for a particular use and be sure that that use is a kind that is the strongest in demand in the market The breeder engaged in the live stock industry to secure the top in the open market for his finished product should con sider the price that his goods will bring when in proper condition for the market for what they bring in the market determines the profit and loss on the investment In near ly all of the industries a special fore embarking in the business The modern druggist be a profes pharmacist the surgeon must be endorsed by a diploma from some medical to obtain the con of his clients Hut in raising horses for the market too many en gage in the enterprise with no pre vious training or experience Under such conditions it Is no marvel that so many novices have failed in the breeding industry The perfection of art is to produce nature in nil her picturesque forms and varied colors Studies his and every strode of bis brush in an ef fort to the original on can vass So it should be with the breeder Ife should have an ideal which aims to produce This model is the market horse which fills the public wants and is in urgent demand The breeder should visit the open market to learn the type of animal that sells for the best prices and having decided what kind of a horse to breed strive by undaunted perseverance and methodical selec tions to produce a perfect horse of that particular class A correct ideal and continuity of purpose are necessary to achieve success in breed ing the market horse The progress of civilization lias made the special ists a necessary component of so ciety The luxuries of the rich and the necessities of the poor have made the professions where the spe adorn life and dignify civill The field of science if too comprehensive and life too short for become expert in uU of the branches of knowledge The breeder should not therefore attempt to conduct an establishment comprising the whole range of horse breeding but concentrate his capital and en ergy in producing the highest stand ard type of one special class The breeder should consult his finance and natural inclination when choos ing the kind of horse he will raise He must he inspired by an innate love of his art and possess intuitive perception of lus model animal lie is to breed or he will not achieve success Me must be an student of the animal king dom and have a humane conception of the comfort and natural wants of the youngsters iu his charge or they will never develop into the ex tra choice animals which top the market Now here is the parting of the ways which the breeder of the market horse must choose what class of horse he o produce the market whether it be class one the road carriage and coach horse class two the cab horse class three i the omnibus and express horse class four the heavy draft horse class live the trotler All horses bred for market whether or fo export he these to be a There is no half purpose was exploded io There is no such T farmer may raise a half wav hor make him useful on his far wishes to the market Therefore there is ImL one way strietly breeding ta class and for i purpose if you will breed the successful market horse So mv dear of the twen tieth century be careful in this mat ing of your horses art draft or whether they are of the mares are of good color good action and good quality with proper bone and high linish Mate then with the best look it presses hard upon our to supply horses for the rx port chinos in the year 1900 the o go I make up a perfect horse Then devote special Kill Coll ii d never lacks for food and care Handle him young that he may be od mannered mid docile and you ill be among the breeders that get style action and good looks nl go to make up a first class horse of his class are sary Breed for u purpose and breed for a J treed what the market ands for this is the ultimate ob fellow has done that if you nre smart you should profit by the ex of others Sell or give away I hose rough ordinary mares if you Jo not they will give you away the marketable breed quality breed for choice individual ly breed for of what ever strain yon may think the market most needs The kind 1 do not mean to say 1 however believe that the carriage and coach horse trot in bred and draft horse will a ho in demand and raised and matured for market 1 of their own class they will el a market at good profit able prices While some breeders have found it profitable lo breed raise feed and fit their horses for market ami have made a great others believe that there is more profit in buying md feeding and fitting horses for the market Feeding heavy draft horses nnl chunk horses for market has us feeding of steers And u few feeders of horses are to be found in all sections of the middle Teed horses from two to six months before marketing Many years ago ill of the feeders of horses in tins were to be found in The feeding of horses coni some thirty years ago ami quite u la rife business the best sections of the state sending their buyers all hrough the middle west nud buying he best shaped draft horses and that they find thin in lesh and taking them to the feeders where they were fed and properly finished and sold to all the best buyers of the eastern For the lust ten years a farmers and raisers of horses through nil the best horse states have been en in fitting this imc class of horses for the market extensive dealers in such horses feed ral hundred even to thousands each year Many more feed ind finish them for the market turn up them nil from once to twice a While an increasing number if farmers make feeding on a small scule of their regular routine mi work It would seem that farmers above all others should be in the best cir for commercial feeding mf it is the experience of most buy ers of heavy horses that it is ible to feed the larger part of the est horses bought from farmers for two or three months at least This K the very thing that the farmer should do before if he ood his business As in beef cuttle quality and fat for the heavy horses provided the are sound It is hardly possi ble to get them so fat that the bny s will not buy them on that ac count Whether extensive fattening often with but very little exercise ioes not lessen the usefulness of he horse is another question The of the market As a bright central Illinois farmer put it once the case stands about thus The fatter the horse the more the buyer pay for him and the sooner ill wear out thus for other horses So long as the are satisfied we ought to be My personal observation of such feeding on a large scale lias convinced me that there is plenty of money in feeding horses I have fed horses not a very large scale for many years and have always found it today that one if the most profitable branches in he line or in the live lock line is the feeding of horses f you ran get the proper kind I that v can make iv bushel of corn net him one dol lar aad every ton of hay twenty the horse if IVd to the right ready for market pro hey are marketed at right at a fair market price No mm can a in today if lie has the roper knowledge of the mil with than feeding for market feeders all tjie emm rv wlm make a business of feeling ami have fed them with profit but as space forbids 1 It is not necessary that 1 should call the readers attention to maiv others as they can be found through out the middle west In most all sec lions you will find some farmer that makes some pretensions to feeding and fitting horses for market on a chunks others feed the horse which can be conducted with economy and judicious management with a greater the first mentioned kind Mr Martin of on our Chicago about the first of October 1 will call readers attention to of the load then were many others nearly as One liss thai pounds sold pub lic auction for Mr Martin bought this colt as a and paid for him fd him all Hie he could eat for ten months before coming lo the market Messrs Shatter Lee who an well known feeders of horses at Miles Iowa hipped i choice f horses ihal had led for the market and sold them here at auction on of this week in No Fourteen head of Per draft horses ranging in price from to 475 One very choice pounds sold at auc tion to Armour Co for lie was bought for show purposes This being the record as it is the highest price that a draft horse ever Bold for in the Chicago market Several others of the lot sold between and as pood but not choice enough to be purchased purposes Here is a sample of what can be done by feeding horses 1 do not mean ty sav that every horse would do as well as this neither do 1 pre tend to say that every horse fed would maka anywhere near such a as this horse made but I do say that the right kind of horses can be fed at a great profit with econ omy and the of an ex feeder To the average farmer and breeder of horses that wants to go into the breeding of and at the same time make it very profitable I will say breed the best oE draft horse and be sure to breed them for size and quality selecting your marcs of the highest quality possible not less than 1000 to 2000 pounds and keep quality soundness bone color and disposition in mind all the time when selecting your breeding stock Mate them with the largest and best draft stallion available selecting him with all of the qualities that you wish to produce You cdn work the mares eight months or more out of every year and the mares and colts will be all the better for it Hive the colts all the feed they can cat from they are ready for the market Handle them young that they be good mannered and gentle and well broken to harness Give them strict attention so that they will be tame which gives them a fine appearance when shown to the purchaser and you will produce a class of stock that you can sell at any age at a good lrofit This of draft colts at one and a half years old should weigh JOO pounds and should sell for from 6100 lo SHii At two years old should 1 pounds and should sell At three years old they should weigh pounds and should sell at to At four years old should weigh to MOO pounds and sell at to At years old should weigh 2000 to and sell at ami some even at Here is an investment that will show big returns barring accidents every time with proper care and judicious management 1 have seen these coits come into our Chicago markets and the buyers are so earnest for them that they could hardly wait to get a price on them and when one is priced at a reasonable he is taken at once 1 have seen several of this class of colts sell in our auc tions of late at what I considered a very extravagant price No class of horses Unit conic Into our Chicago markets is taken so quickly and at Mieh prives as this very class of colls The great trou is to find them they In vers who are searching tin country us the markets I buy when they can be HNd at a farmer may the ami hordes is his I h ue adapted to Ms and knowledge of the business the pro bis hu with tine horses sold at an average of thousand dollars per head all I rot and most of them harness horses also trotting bred in the American Horse Ex Xew York City averaged per head The bidding was very spirited Mr W B Leeds paid for a fourinhand team Dudley Paragon and Per fection and 55100 for Commander a big hay horse of eort ami a pair chest nuts thai are reckoned good enough to win at Madison Square went lo Win 11 Moorse for Mr Tims Lawson bought Capt u hackneyed trotter for and and they will no Catalogue of the horse show now in session Brighton and Maryborough pair of went for Mr Daniel C Kecil who bought also another pair of bays Juno and Jupiter for Mr paid for Hamlet and Moorse got Carvel ami Cri sis a good looking pair of browns fo The M horses sold averaged about per head and the price paid by Mr Leeds is said to be the ever paid for a fourinhand team at public sale Here is a lesson worthy of the at tention of most experienced breeders ind dealers and one to which they can afford to give most careful thought and study H shows what can be done by fic breeding feeding education ami iUting the road carriage and coach horse for the market It is true that they were not all bred and raised by one man or on one farm but they were selected by experienced horesmen from the best ing sections in Illinois and the sur rounding states and nothing but the best was accepted and taken They were matched in pairs fed and edu and fitted for the market and came to market thoroughly broken men who understand Ha farmer is to breed the harness class of and raise and fit them for the market let him first study into the principle of and make a of all the details of the business he should visit sales and there study the market and the classes and quality required to demand the best prices A have done this and are raising some of the finest of the harness dass no and a few of these men have got well start ed in the iine horse industry and can be found scattered alt through the middle west Also a few farmers and breeders that are breeding heavy draft and all the different can be found here and there through many sections of the lintnot there should be more But the breeders of horses are working into a better stock All the breeding associations throughout the are beginning to realize the benefit of improved stock in the horse Hue suul the great necessity of breeding horses of a specific class and every horse of his own class and for a special purpose I believe that past experience of horsemen al result in untold benefit and not improvement in tho of horses when horses ill nearly all be bred to a class and will result in improvement throughout the whole country and we will have better horses than bavc ever seen before And while it Is predicted by many and alarmists who say Oh horses will go down again they will lie few but us soon as people get to breeding them will down In I say to you never give this idea a thought as horses will be high for the next ten years All we want to do is to breed quality breed them belter breed them larger breed of a strictly the ket horse and every horse a horse strictly of his elass All ex port horses have to be elass horses The between export classes ami the Ameri can demand is that the trade l little v than the markets a qualify that and American trade require the same all up to date market DCS Moines Iowa t IF you are in a Course in W Send for a Catalogue of the HIGHLAND PARK COLLEGE OP LAW PHARMACY Send for a Catalogue of the HIGHLAND PARK COLLEGE OF PHARMACY BUSINESS TRAINING HIGHLAND PARK BUSINESS COLLEGE ENGINEERING Send for Catalogue of HIGHLAND PARK COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING send a a HIGHLAND PARK NORMAL SCHOOL MUSIC Send for a Catalogue of HIGHLAND PARK COLLEGE OF MUSIC TELEGRAPHY Send for a Catalogue of the HIGHLAND PARK COLLEGE OF TELEGRAPHY STENOGRAPHY Send for a of the HIGHLAND PARK BUSINESS COLLEGE HOME STUDY Send for Prospectus of the HIGHLAND PARK CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL For any of these Catalogues or C C REAR President for a General Catalogue of Highland Park College land Park College address Des Moines Iowa iff trillions French ran In extremely results It is the opinion of mil horsemen that this prove a to tie of our It is too Hint class will not tlic size lint will add to fix ing v of the carriage and coach possess size action anI and still retain the road qualities required as every har ness horse lie well in order to KUind Hie wear tear of hard work upon city pavements Class No 2 ah rather pound smooth made with hone anil fair traveler Tills class of horses is very snliiWe tor ninny purposes hut there ire always plen eil readily at what Keport of Delegate to Illinois Mis and Local Societies W A Clear Lake and Practice of re S Il Union lies Mollies and Horticulture Kelson Noia Spring Culture K K Little Ames flic Kitchen A K Coll F M Iowell Clen vood Institute Fee Children Wednesday P M and tile Slate Col lege ami Station Prof Homer C Price Miles ill Ideal School 1 Have learned ill anil for 1901 Min Fruits and Hiss Mary they alwa are worth Class Xo 3 An omnibus horse It a smooth made horse very Moines Director Iowa Weather and wilh lots of substance and Crop Servi plenty of hone must shape himself of Do Notes T It Dei vell in harness rood action with L line movement slant fif 1 M for Decorative Purposes Lantern hands high weigh from L H 1200 to pounds This class of Ames horses includes the quality not only Horticulture and Education Gco of an omnibus horse but an express H Van Houten Des Moines use horse The English Department of Agriculture use he more block v lower set ones Attitude of the States for bussers while the larger ones in Regard to Our Forest used for express and general Reserves Lantern Tins is eliss of horses in Ames strongest demand in all American The Educational Effects of the and foreign and wll in Horticulture W M to They can be produced Ames President Iowa beat by a between draft horse and the smaller mare that is a trade or roadster bred This horse l and ruggel wiU easy The Thursday A M is for Timber and Windbreak r from 1500 t pounds IIK Orcharding W M made heavy boue with smooth on and a first draft horse in every re Our Atlantic wilt in j cin Be Profitably Grown They should ljn s K luk from the best draft fi ooi 00 1 M drafi in ils of what J U lunse he b he all The Conifers of Iowa Miss A Es the horse This nf tella Cooking Miss M Foods Miss Addiu of a On L and disposition and the more Secretary Kansas State has the higher price he will bring Horticultural Society ranging in price from to of Committee n Social do All horses for Friday A M port and domestic should Meeting of the Hoard of be sound and without blemish as far as possible Iowa Horticultural Society Eat More pruit If people ate more fruit they would aUe less and have is a ruit in lie uid lead l savs an i niat ir of fi is at but it should an draft burst nd lead him nd rife apple ran may n a time yl rmit o as an of iet le rip sunil and in ury way of jod quality and if pus f ham and in haion for most peo rapes pears or apples fresh Slai Kn rMH Kah Our Own 1 mild er C is tli
