HoKSES AT THE XeW YoKK StATE FaIK 



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to between sixteen and eighteen million dollars annually. The 

 books of the two big concerns of East Buffalo — the Crandall 

 Horse Co. and the Bailey Horse Co. — show that during the last 

 tive years their sales of horses have amounted to $25,000,000, an 

 average of $5,000,000 a year. There is no valid reason why at 

 least 75 per cent of this number of horses, which breeders out- 

 side the state furnish, should not be produced on the farms of 

 Xew York. Xo better grazing lands or those adapted to the 

 raising of forage and grain are to be found than those in New 



Fig. 66. Prize-Winning Percheron Stallion, Shown at New York 

 State Fair, 1914. 



York State, and in no other state do the farmers have a market 

 for more than 75,000 horses annually right at their doors. 

 Despite these facts, however, horse breeding in this state has been 

 at a low ebb for several years. The farmers make no effort to 

 supply the commercial interests of this state, and it is not far out 

 of the way to say that 75 per cent of them do not raise the 

 horses which they need on their own farm. At the time I was 



