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is done, the light horses predominate. It is sometimes 

 said that light horses are best adapted to farming in a 

 hilly country. It is the absence of work rather than the 

 presence of hills that makes them best. In hilly farming 

 regions, where farming is prosperous and where there is 

 continuous work for horses, heavy horses are preferred. 

 A very good combination for a farm that keeps six horses 

 is to have four heavy ones and a team of light horses that 

 can be used on the road and for the lighter farm work. 

 In most parts of the country, the heavy horses should be 

 mares and colts should be raised. 



Large horses do not stand heat so well as small ones. 

 This is strikingly evident in some parts of the South. 



148. Size of animal and meat production. Of two 

 animals that at the same age make the same gains from a 

 given amount of feed the large one is the more desirable, 

 because the labor of caring for them is about the same. 

 This point is not so important as with cows or horses be- 

 cause the labor item is much less with meat animals. 



The age at which to sell meat animals is a different ques- 

 tion. As feed becomes more expensive the age at which 

 meat animals should be sold is reduced. It pays a farmer 

 to keep a meat animal so long as the gain produced is 

 worth enough more than the feed to pay for the other 

 costs. 



PURE BREED VS. GRADE STOCK 



149. Profits from pure-bred stock. The raising 

 of pure-bred stock is a business requiring capital. Farm- 

 ers who are very short of capital will usually do better 

 by investing in land, equipment, and good grade stock 

 rather than by going into pure-bred stock. 



If one is to do much with the business, it requires that 



