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spector, the government sells it at public sale, and in this manner 

 has sold thousands of really valuable animals that a short rest and 

 proper treatment would have rendered as good for service as ever. 



I advocate the establishment on a government farm of a horse hos- 

 pital, where horses that are condemned can be sent, properly doc- 

 tored and handled and allowed to recuperate their strength and 

 health. The government has thrown away thousands and thousands 

 of dollars by having no such infirmary in the past, and I feel assured 

 that it will be simply a question of a short time till this scheme ap- 

 proves itself to Congress and the people. 



I do not advocate that this government farm should be simply a 

 great Western ranch, but a farm in every sense of the word. Here 

 all the grain and food used on the place should be raised. It should 

 be under the management of a horseman of known and recognized 

 ability, and the hospital should be in charge of the best veternarians 

 that the country affords. 



Not only would tliis farm enable Uncle Samuel to give to his 

 soldiers the best of saddle horses, the best of artillery animals and 

 to his teamsters strong powerful brutes, but it would be of incalcula- 

 ble benefit to the people at large. The farmers throughout the land 

 have not yet learned the necessity of breeding their horses with care. 

 "A colt's a colt" is still the saying, and to pay out a good price for a 

 stallion fee, is considered in many sections as the height of folly. 

 After a few years of successful operation the surplus from this farm 

 could, if deemed advisable, be sold to the farmers at a reasonable 

 profit to the government, but still at prices which would place the 

 best of animals at the service of farmers, and so do a great deal 

 towards raising the standard of our horses. 



I believe that within a very short time Congress will look into 

 the merits of this plan and adopt it, at least in its leading particu- 

 lars. 



Shipping Horses. 



We need a law relating to the shipment of horses in cars. It is 

 the shameful practice of nearly all horse shippers to crowd and jam 

 into one car as many horses as they possibly can. Here they stand 

 packed in like sardines in a box, compelled to rida for hundreds of 



