Report of Missouri Farmers' Week. 



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do not fill your eye, get rid of them, even if you have to kill them ! 

 Don't let anybody say you ever handled a poor horse — and that 

 reputation will return you a substantial financial equivalent in the 

 extra prices such a man can. always obtain, even for animals not 

 up to his or to the buyer's standard. "Cheap stuff" and horses 

 that do not "class" in any regular market grade are drugs every- 

 where — ruinous in the days of plenty gone by and far more friend- 

 less today. "Class" and quality make a horse worth $250 to $500 ; 

 lack of them, $120 to $175, all other things being equal. Doubtless 

 many of you will consider all this as too general and as not special 

 enough, but in a brief paper like this, one has no space to specialize. 

 I can merely drop hints, which, had I been, given at the outset of 

 my career, would have profited me largely in financial equivalent. 



Princess Eugenia 655S, by Chester 

 Pea vine 3184 ; dam. Queen of Lincoln 

 6557 by Woods' Eagle Bird 1014. Win- 

 ner of the American Saddle Horse 

 Breeders' Association Trophy for 

 registered saddle stallion or mare three 

 years old or under at Missouri State 

 Fair, 1912. Owned by Eaton Farm, 

 Mexico, Mo. 



Kitty Gordon 9598, by Montgomery 

 Chief 1361; dam, Lora Chess 2338 by 

 Chester Dare 10. Winner of the Year- 

 ling Division of the Missouri Section. 

 First Saddle and Show Horse Chronicle 

 Futurity, Missouri State Fair, 1912. 

 Owned by Baton Farm, Mexico, Mo. 



You have probably noticed that the government, and the 

 people who are trying to deceive it into buying stallions of various 

 sorts for stationing about the country at public service, are raising 

 the usual ten-year-interval outcry about the "scarcity of army 

 horses" and the impossibility of mounting the cavalry, etc., in time 

 of war. To my own knowledge, and as the public press will prove, 

 this sort of talk has been going on since 1864. The gist of the 

 whole thing is this: If any government will pay market prices, it 



