No. 4.] HORSE BREEDING. 117 



is a better driver, is an easier kept horse, generally speaking, 

 and in all ways, to my mind, is better than the heavier horse. 

 Of course if you have got long trips and a good large farm 

 where you want to haul heavy loads, a horse that weighs from 

 1,600 to 1,800 pounds might be the best horse. In our State, 

 and all over the country as well, the State government is 

 building roads in a way that almost prohibits the use of horses 

 on the roads. I believe the time is coming when the roads are 

 going to be built both for the horse and for the automobile. 

 It does not look right to me to think that anything like an 

 automobile could come into a State and actually drive the 

 horse off the road, which the}' are practically doing, and I be- 

 lieve that roads with horse paths beside them can be built 

 more cheaply than we are building them to-day, and can 

 give better satisfaction to every one. The automobile road as 

 built to-day is not satisfactory to the automobilist because it 

 will not stand the wear, and therefore must be made harder 

 and more substantial. When that is done it will be absolutely 

 impossible to drive a horse on these roads and be safe. We 

 cannot force all of our farmers to have automobiles, neither 

 can we force our farmers to stay at home. I believe the farmer 

 should stand up to-day and say what he wants on this road 

 question. The automobilists have come in and I am not saying 

 a word against them, they are all right; but I do not believe 

 they should come in and throw the farmer out of existence as 

 far as using our roads is concerned; and there is an organiza- 

 tion already established in this State that is going to take up 

 this matter of the road question soon. If every one here would 

 do all they could toward getting a horse path and an automo- 

 bile path, the horse would come back on our roads. 



Horses are going to be higher the next two or three years 

 than to-day. I forget the number that have been taken out of 

 this country, but there has been a very large per cent taken 

 out, and it takes four years to produce a horse able and right 

 to put to work and use on the farm or anywhere else. Now in 

 regard to stallions, I should like to see a law in this State that 

 would regulate sires. I do not mean to exclude any but regis- 

 tered or standard-bred sires, but a stallion ought to be up to a 

 certain standard before he can stand for service in this State. 



