Horse Breeding to Increase the Farm Income 



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should study his conditions: some conditions will be favorable to the 

 production of one class, some to another. It should be kept clearly in 

 mind, whatever the type or class chosen — whether it is light or heavy, 

 for speed or for draft — that none but superior horses will sell at remuner- 

 ative prices. There will always be an overproduction of common horses, 

 which will be the first to be affected by oversupply and other business 

 depressions and the last to be revived. The market should also be studied. 



Fig. 228. — A pure-bred trotting stallion 



In some sections of the State the demand will be for a certain class and 

 in other sections another class will be in most demand. 



Cooperative breeding 



From observations made in localities where horses are bred in a com- 

 mercial way, it would seem advisable to breed on the cooperative plan. 

 It is apparent that the formation of horse-breeding associations in town- 

 ships and counties throughout the State would do much to advance the 

 progress of the industry. Such associations should be fonned of breeders 

 who possess the same class or breed of mares. It would be the work of 



