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stitiients like best, if there is one, otherwise his own favorite 

 breed. He should enlist the help of the banker, newspaper 

 and business man to help advocate better stock as well as to 

 discourage the bringing in of other breeds. I will tell you the 

 truth, friends, I have no favorite breeds. I thought I had 

 when I started breeding, but the more I associate with and 

 compare the different breeds of draft' horses the more I am 

 convinced that one breed is as good as another and where one 

 will succeed the other will also, but I realize the necessity of 

 sticking to the breed — not only of the individual breeder, but 

 of whole communities. I have been in breeding districts where 

 you can drive along the public road and see in one pasture a 

 group of horses of Belgian breeding; in the very next, Percheron 

 blood predominating; in still another field, Clydesdales, and so 

 on. Each of those farmers has followed his fancy. They have 

 been breeding in all directions and got mostly nowhere. I 

 have more than once been seized by a yearning to own one of those 

 thick, sturdy roans or one of the white-faced beauties, but 

 common sense tells me that so far as local interests are con- 

 cerned that should never be. 



It is very seldom than any one raises objections to the breed 

 that I handle. When some one does, I explain to him to the 

 best of my ability the wisdom of community breeding. In 

 nearly every case he goes away pledging his support to my 

 efforts, and he is especially likely to do this when he learns 

 that I am about as much of an admirer of his favorite breed 

 as he is and it is only a matter of policy or accident that I am 

 interested in another. 



SOME FACTS REGARDING THE DRAFT HORSE. 



(W. S. Corsa, Whitehall, 111.) 



King Richard offered his kingdom for a horse — Professor 

 Trowbridge only offers 20 minutes. We bow to Professor 

 Trowbridge and will attempt to touch a few of the high spots 

 in the subject assigned. 



The draft horse is the logical horse for corn belt conditions. 

 The proper tilling of the soil, with the scarcity of farm labor, 

 requires power for the large machinery devised to perform the 

 most work at the least expense for manual labor per acre of 

 ground or bushel of grain. This evolution of agricultural 

 machinery to the large model has been rapid and widespreading 



