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visit she had a fine filly foal by her side. But the owner was not 

 satisfied. "Think how much more money I would have made," said 

 he, "if I had begun with a registered purebred mare. If the old mare 

 had been purebred and registered, the value of every one of her foals 

 would have been easily doubled, and it wouldn't have cost a cent 

 more to raise them." The lesson to the young breeder is clear,^start 

 right, even if it means starting slowly by buying one young registered 

 filly, and from her building up a breeding stud of fine mares. 



The farms of the Middle West and East are well adapted to the 

 intensive plan of horse production, because most of the farms are not 



Fig. 193.— Excellent type in the draft stallion. Fyvie Baiui., ^i^unpion 

 Clydesdale stallion at the International, owned by Conyngham Brothers, Wilkes- 

 barre. Pa. Note his masculinity, quality, style, correct position of legs, nice pas- 

 terns, and good feet. 



large, and usually the teaming is done by the owner himself, or by one 

 or two hands who are always under close observation. On big farms, 

 with incompetent and everchanging help, if valuable brood mares are 

 kept, they are liable to be injured if used to do the farm work. The 

 plan should call for working the brood mares, but not working them 

 as hard as geldings or mules. Let them earn their board, and board 

 them well. They may be worked well up to foaling time if care is 

 taken not to back them to a heavy load, or put them to a hard strain. 



