PART SECOND-STOCK RAISING. 



CHAPTER IX. 



HORSES AND MULES. 



'N BEEBDING HOESES for farm use, quickness ot 

 working, power to pull loads, and ability to endure 

 constant daily labor, are the prime qualifications to 

 be aimed at. 



Speed, draught, and endurance. We say sj^eed, for a horse that 

 can harrow, or rake two acres while another is doing one, or 

 that can go to mill, or market, in one hour, when it takes 

 another two, is worth to his owner, other things being equal, 

 twice as much as the other. In the choice of a stallion, then, 

 for breeding good horses, the more blood compatible with thtj 

 size required the better; the "pare blooded," high-bred horse, 

 having greater quickness, strength, bottom, health, and vigor 

 of constitution, as well as greater courage. 



Black Hawk, whose portrait forms the frontispiece to this 

 chapter, is a good specimen of the roadster. {Fig. 68.) 



The blood should be on the side of the stallion ; breed up, 

 not down. Never put a mare to a stallion of inferior blood. 



The stallion should be free from vices of temper and disposi- 

 tion, as he will surely transmit these to his progeny. He will 

 also transmit diseases and malformations, therefore these should 



1)0 avoided. The general description for a stallion for the pur 

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