428 Missouri Agricultural Report. 



can get all the horses it needs in any country — but not otherwise. 

 Any genuine demand will always be met. Italy pays about $375 

 per head, France $280, England $250, etc. — and the United States 

 offers $150 to $187 for an animal which in the open markets will 

 fetch $250 to $300 for any other pul-pose. Naturally it "finds 

 cavalry horses" almost impossible to buy. While the English, dur- 

 ing the Boer war, bought about 106,000 cavalry horses in America, 

 and the French over 40,000, our government "could not find 1,500 

 to 2,000 horses per annum suitable for cavalry and artillery." I 

 met buyers in St. Louis who were trying to buy 500 head (unsuc- 

 cessfully) — and yet at Lathrop, Mo., the English government had 

 some 18,000 animals. 



The government hopes (or says it does) that the farmer will 

 patronize these thoroughbred, trotting, Morgan and Kentucky 

 saddle-bred stallions — and probably some farmers will do so. If 

 you do, you must give the option to the government of buying your 

 colt, as a three-year-old, at $150 ; or, if you sell him otherwise, you 

 must pay a $25 stallion fee. No man can, afford to sell a really 

 "chancy" three-year-old to anybody at $150 and hope to make 

 any profit — counting in. every item of keep, insurance, losses by 

 death, accident, etc. If, however, you do patronize this undertak- 

 ing, do at least breed only really good mares of size, etc., to these 

 horses. The country is flooded with little scrubs without your 

 assisting in the outrage. The trotting or the saddle-bred sires will 



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My Major Dare 4424, by My Dare 2642; dam, Lily Rosebud 7138 by Elastic 233. 

 (Col. Paul Brown, up.) Prominent winner in Kentucky anrl Missouri, brought to 

 Missouri by Col. Paul Brown, St. Louis, Mo., at a cost of $6,500, and recently sold 

 by him to R. A. Long, Kansas City, Mo., for $10,000, the highest price ever paid for 

 a saddle stallion. To be shown and used for breeding purposes in Missouri. Owned 

 at Longview Farm, Lees Summit, Mo. 



