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perishable commodity, and from a regular farmer he becomes a 

 speculator. The time to sell is when the other fellow wants to buy, 

 and failure to do this as a strict business rule costs farmers all 

 over the country hundreds of thousands of dollars annually. If a 

 farmer had no proper cellar or building to store his potatoes, corn, 

 etc., he would never try to hold them — yet he will persist in winter- 

 ing stock in the worst of shelters (or none at all), and on the 

 roughest forage, although they are far more likely to suffer serious 

 damage than any planted crop. Stallions are perfectly practical 

 to work on the farm, provided you always treat them like geldings 

 and work them steadily. I always used stallions for any harness 

 work or riding work, exactly as I did mares, and never had any 

 trouble. The average stallion is caged and treated like some wild 

 beast, and such screaming crazy brutes are a disgrace to the man 

 who keeps them. 



Poetry of Motion, by Raven Dare 1284; dam, Jemima 162G by King Marvel 1065, by 

 King Chester 294, ))y Chester Dare 10. (Mrs. O. J. Mooers, up.) Four times winner 

 of championship for walk, trot and canter horses at National Hor.se Show, New York. 

 Winner at Olympic Horse Show, London, England. Exhibited in 1912 by O. J. Mooers, 

 Columbia, Mo. 



I would not advise everybody, or in fact most men, to keep a 

 stallion unless they are born horsemen and genuine good judges 

 of that particular breed. Men will allow that their mares do not 

 suit the stallion, but woe betide anybody who dares insinuate that 

 the stallion does not suit the mares ! The farmer who owns no sire 

 will probably look about carefully for the particular horse that 

 should probably "nick" with each particular mare he owns — to his 

 great financial subsequent advantage. For another item, a man 

 must own a lot of mares, or have a large outside patronage for his 



