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The Horse Industry in New York State 



The Thoroughbred in mind is the fnlly-developed survivor of 

 rigorous work and training, whose inherited constitution, stamina 

 and will, carry him on to a full, wholesome development; whose 

 physical points include a big, roomy lung cavity, and a bread- 

 basket affording comfortable space for a properly-working diges- 

 tive apparatus, which indicates that he is a " good doer " or an 

 "easy keeper." This is the type which for years the German 

 Government has bred for army horses. The Germans have paid 



Fig. 12. Prize-Winning Two- Year-Old. 



as high as $230,000 for a single Thoroughbred stallion to use in 

 their groat government studs, and now, in the bitterness of war, 

 their breeding policy proves its correctness — the efficiency of 

 their methods in building a war machine. AVith their superior 

 horses, they have made superior marches, attacks, etc., and their 

 horses are of Thoroughbred sires. We have heard no word of 

 Germany suffering from want of horses. Of course they sustain 

 losses from all war causes, but I think future histories will show 

 that their percentage of losses through fatigue, etc., is much lower 

 than the percentage of the Allies' horse-losses from similar causes. 



