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must be a little careful in using lier not to have her heated 

 in any way. Raising colts in this way you have not got to 

 feed them the best of everything. You can feed them ordi- 

 narily good hay, but you want to give them enough. I am sat- 

 isfied I could produce such a colt on a farm up to four years 

 old for $150, — barring the service of the horse. Now if you 

 go out and undertake to buy a horse that you can raise at 

 that age, knowing the age and the surroundings of the horse, 

 you will find that you can raise a horse as cheap- as you can 

 go out and buy him. Another thing, it is a good deal of satis- 

 faction to a farmer to have some kind of a hobby, and I don't 

 know anything you can have more pleasure with than a good 

 colt, and the trouble with us farmers is that we don't have 

 anything outside that we can have any pleasure with. 



Question. What breed do you advocate for farm purposes 

 — for stock? 



Mr. Richardson. Why, I don't know that there is any par- 

 ticular breed. I should not want to get a horse that would 

 not come up to at least 1,200, from there up to 1,400, or pos- 

 sibly, if you want to go into the larger ones, 1,600 or 1,800. 

 Of course I use a hackney horse. I was up in the country one 

 time about four years ago, and I saw a farm team come down 

 with a pair of horses; those horses weighed 1,200 or 1,400. 

 A man sitting behind those horses enjoyed riding; they had 

 good style, good action, they were fat, sleek, looked very nice. 

 I stopped the man and asked him about the horses and about 

 their working. He said, "I plowed all the forenoon with this 

 pair of horses." I believe that is what a farmer ought to 

 have, — something he can enjoy. If you want to get a cart 

 horse, and, like these men with automobiles, when you get 

 through put him one side, all right; but if you want to get 

 a horse that will know you and is worth being behind, get a 

 small horse that has got the action and life to go with it; but 

 you should, in the first place, not start with a mare all ready 

 to be laid away, but with a mare that is right and has got the 

 size, the disposition and the courage. Then you can go ahead 

 and raise a few colts. 



Question. Would you advise a man raising horses for the 

 market to raise the lighter type of horses? 



