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mares on the farm that can be used to do the work and raise colts 

 every year may be so handled on our farms that the work can be 

 done at no cost, because it is a poor kind of a draft mare that will 

 not raise a mule or horse colt that is worth $100 at weaning time, 

 and if it costs $100 to keep that mare, as I figure it, the work that 

 you get out of her is clear gain. The colt pays for the keep. 



Another thing I want to say is that the best place for a draft 

 horse is on the small farm. We hear it frequently stated that the 

 place for a draft horse is on the big farm where the man uses big 

 tools, but the place that the draft horse has reached its highest 

 development and the place where it has been most profitable is on 

 the small farms of France, in the province of La Perche, where the 

 Percheron horse originated. There is a place on the small farm 

 for the draft horse. 



It is not my purpose to tell of the merits of the draft horse. 

 You gentlemen interested in the horse are better able than I to do 

 that, but is is a very gratifying thing to me that so many men, 

 breeders and farmers, have come here this week and have associ- 

 ated themselves with the various organizations for the betterment 

 of agriculture. 



OUTLOOK FOR DRAFT HORSE BREEDERS. 



(Col. R. L. Harriman, Bunccton, Mo.) 



If you want to hear big horse talk out of an auctioneer, some 



of you make a sale. 



It is a great pleasure to be here, I 

 assure you. I did not expect to be called 

 upon to say anything. I am not a horse 

 breeder just now. I have reformed. I 

 used to be a horseman. I can probably say 

 something of encouragement to you horse- 

 men if it is worth anything to you. For 

 the last five or ten years I have been called 

 on to sell live stock of all kinds all over the 

 United States from Mississippi river to the 

 Pacific Coast. I can say to you frankly 

 now that all breeds of draft horses are sell- 

 ing higher, easier and better than any 

 other kind of live stock that we are called on to sell. I do not say 

 that to flatter you, but because it is the truth and the records of the 



II. L. Harriman. 



