530 Missouri Agricultural Report. 



to deny it, and when that day arrives the drafter of our ideals 

 and our dreams will be found on the land of the corn belt farmer. 



In this presence and in this connection it may not be out 

 of place to say that we have been fortunate enough to have 

 done some things or to have seen some things done in breeding 

 draft horses, and while every man's work is for real success 

 much depends upon his love and interest for it, and is not based 

 primarily on the financial side. At the same time, if it is not 

 profitable financially you cannot maintain your own self- 

 respect, much less that of your neighbors, your friends and 

 those around you. One could not afford to do these things if 

 they were not profitable from a money point of view. This 

 leads me somewhat to things that have passed. For instance, 

 I once came right here to your State and happened to be going 

 through Kansas City and I stopped over to watch a sale. I 

 was getting large horses simply for the work they could do in 

 order to do more work with less machinery expense. These 

 horses which were selling came up from Carthage and I topped 

 the sale at $280 for a mare; I also bought the next highest- 

 priced mare for $225. I sent the mares out to a farm I had 

 in Nebraska, and the mare I bought for $225 was bred to a right 

 good kind of a horse. She raised a yearling colt and a fellow 

 came from Kansas and he paid me $700 for that yearling. 

 That looked good to me. And we made more money on the 

 same mare. I came into your State one time and bought a 

 mare and paid $500 for her, took the mare home and she sold 

 for the highest price I had ever sold a horse for up to that time — 

 $1,160, and we were so excited that the auctioneer knocked her 

 down at $1,160 when the man was plainly heard to bid $1,200. 

 So you see what really money-making propositions you have 

 here in Missouri. 



I notice that they spoke of beginning with these horses 

 at birth. Oliver Wendell Holmes is credited with a statement 

 relative to what should befall every young man. He starts in 

 with the grandfather — and there is a whole lot of that in regard 

 to horses. A whole lot depends upon the grandsire and so on, 

 the same as with yourself. 



After you get on the scene yourself and you have to do 

 with the horses themselves, then comes this question of feed. 

 The point having been raised, I want to suggest the use of whole 

 oats rather than ground oats. It is much easier to make the 

 weight with rolled oats, I think. The feed is lighter, it is. all 



