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forget. The commercial demand for heavy horses is calling for 

 greater things in the individual horse for work. Greater weight, 

 greater perfection, greater size, better bone, bigger hoof and better 

 feet, with greater quality combined. Capital stands ready to be 

 given in exchange to the man that will produce this kind. It will 

 always be so, for there is work for the big horse to do that can be 

 done in no other way. 



Let's get together then and help, and assist our Agricultural 

 College and the efficient force here. Let's urge upon our Legis- 

 lature the importance of a greater appropriation in our agricul- 

 tural and experimental educational institutions, that better equip- 

 ment and the highest types of live stock may be secured with 

 which to do demonstration work with for the information of the 

 State's farming classes. 



Let the buyer of stallions buy none but the best, and he will 

 do his part in turning the eyes of the horse world upon the State. 

 Let the owner of the brood mare secure the services of none but 

 the best sires, though he be forced to an adjacent county, and 

 he will be performing his part, and then let everybody that has a 

 good one, go to the State Fair and enter him in the draft horse 

 classes, not only of his State, but at the fairs and adjacent states, 

 and when we will have carried away a few of their purple ribbons 

 and brought them to Missouri, like we have in other breeds, then 

 the story we now hear will be changed. 



CLYDESDALES IN MISSOURI. 



(F. L. Crosby, Mexico, Mo.) 



Horse breeding has long been one of the important features 



of live stock production in this great live 

 stock producing and agricultural State. 

 In fact so important has been the produc- 

 tion of horses and so great has been the 

 progress made, that at least in the case of 

 one breed, namely, the American saddle 

 horse, Missouri today enjoys a reputation 

 unexcelled by any state as a producer of 

 the highest type of this popular breed. 



But until very recent years draft horse 

 breeding has been sadly neglected in this 

 State. I think this was due, partly because 

 of partiality for the saddle horse, but main- 

 F. L. Crosby. j^ because the value of the draft horse on 



