238 THE HORSE BOOK. 



western country railroad, irrigation, lumber- 

 ing and urban construction work has absorbed 

 every available horse of size on the northwest- 

 ern range, prices increasing according to the 

 weight offered. This has induced breeders to 

 take better care of their mares and young 

 things and still greater betterment in this di- 

 rection must inevitably follow increase in 

 values. High-class carriage and driving horses, 

 too, are being produced on the range and the 

 cow pony flourishes and brings prices double 

 and treble those he brought in the good old days 

 when the cattle barons trailed their beef herds 

 hundreds of miles to a loading point. It does 

 not seem that the cornbelt can soon produce a 

 supply of drafters sufficient to its own and the 

 needs of the East. It will be a long time before 

 the Pacific Coast states can breed a sufficiency. 

 The outlook is surely rosy enough to warrant 

 the range breeders in making use of much bet- 

 ter stallions than they have hitherto purchased. 



THREE FAMOUS STALLIO'NS. 



In a reminiscent article written for THE 

 BREEDER'S GAZETTE I cited as the three greatest 

 celebrities of the Clydesdale, Shire and Per- 

 cheron breeds the stallions McQueen, Holland 

 Major and Gilbert. This was from a show 

 yard point of view exclusively, but in point of 

 general usefulness to the Percheron breed Bril- 

 liant must be substituted for Gilbert. Holland 

 Major and the famous black stallion that made 

 so much of Oaklawn's early reputation have 



