140 The Horse Industry in New York State 



market goes lie will always 1)0 able to sell his surplus horses at top 

 prices. There is a scarcity of that sort now; it will Lecouie 

 greater as time passes. If, as is confidently believed, Europe will 

 be a heavier buyer than ever after peace is declared, the chunk 

 will bring relatively the highest price, just as it is practically the 

 only market sort in keen, active demand at present. 



He can be produced as cheaply as even much commoner kinds. 

 The mares will do the work on the farm, and the investment in a 

 stallion quite big enough for the purpose, if the feeding of the" 

 colts is properly done, will not be a heavy one. When business 

 picks up in this country, the first demand on domestic account 

 will be for chunks and good-sized wagoners, both produced after 

 the suggested formula. Foreign and domestic buyers will com- 

 pete for these stocky, useful horses. They will last the longest 

 against the competition of mechanical traction for several reasons, 

 which need not be detailed here, but largely because they are the 

 most useful of their kind. Finally, does it not stand to reason that 

 if, as hitherto, they will return a good profit when produced 

 haphazard and without close adherence to one type, they will, if 

 bred, fed and developed with a fixed object in view, return a 

 considerably larger profit ? There is no ([uestion but that chunks 

 bred to be chunks must be better than those that just iiappen to 

 be chunks because the treatment to which they were subjected 

 prevented them from becoming what they should have been at 

 maturity. Drivers, speed horses, saddlers and drafters may 

 safely be left to the specialists. The farmer will find the pro- 

 verbially safe middle road in breeding high-class chunks w-eighing 

 from 1,'P>00 to 1,500 pounds, the get of shapely, pure-bred, medium- 

 sized draft stallions and the mares he works on his land. 



