1080 N'ew York State Breeders' Association 



Go after him! Produce him — work him a little, and sell him 

 before this wretched labor we get nowadays can, through care- 

 lessness, stui)idity or both, knock him out and make him a cripple, 

 or wrong in his wind. No farmer ought to keep old, weak horses, 

 or use three light screws to do what one or two heavy horses can 

 do cheaper and better. The drain of inefficient animals on the 

 farm is what keeps the mortgages on two-thirds of them. You 

 lay awake nights worrying over the dreaded cholera among your 

 pigs ; tuberculosis in your cows or lung worms in the sheep ; and 

 never give a thought to the fact that those four old crippled light- 

 weight plugs in your barn cost you more every year, by what they 

 cannot and you, therefore, do ilot accomplish, than you would 

 lose if all your cows, pigs, and sheep dropped dead to-morrow. 



Breed heavy horses, gentlemen, and do not bother with any- 

 thing else. There is nothing for you Xew Yorkers in this cavalry- 

 horse business. Do not listen to any one who tries to persuade 

 you that you can raise army horses and ever " break even." The 

 Government has its troubles — but you have your own, and you 

 know as well as I do that the " cavalry " of the future means 

 " mounted infantry," which, in turn, means — in war-time — 

 cheap, little cobs and horses, such as you have raised, if you have 

 bred horses at all. The artillery, however, must have big, active 

 horses ; and when the time comes your home-bred drafters will be 

 just exactly what the army will need by the hundreds of thous- 

 ands, and at your price. 



As to breed — heavy breed is good in your l)usiness, but 

 when the markets and the buying public of America (and pro- 

 gressively, in Canada also) wholly approve the Percheron and 

 Belgian grades, what use to look further? They stand beat 

 better than any; they are "good doers; " they average types that 

 make it very easy to mate up pairs ; they are active on asphalt 

 and all pavements; sure-footed; wear well; do not especially 

 suffer from side-bones, ring-bones, spavins, etc — the result of 

 heavy action and consequent concussion — their legs are free 

 from the heavy growth of hair so objectionable in our climate, 

 because in winter it accumulates large quantities of frozen snow, 

 mud and filth, the weight of which starts the hairs of the lower 

 legs in their roots, causes irritation, possibly fever, thence grease- 



