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CONKEY'S STOCK BOOK 



HORSES 

 I. Raising Good Animals 



A GOOD horse: That means good breeding, good feeding, good care, 

 good training. 

 High price never stands in the way of a purchaser, if the 

 animal is worth it. 



A good horse is good anywhere and good all over. But no one seems 

 to want these nondescript animals so many farm owners are thoughtlessly 

 raising. 



OLD DOBBIN The old type of farm horse was 

 sluggish and slow, fit for tough 

 sod, stones and the stumps of pioneer clearings. 

 Today, on our better farms, there is no place for 

 Old Faithful and his quality of flesh and spirit. 



TAKE IT Today as Secretary Wilson 



FROM WILSON points out, the most eco- 

 nomical way of raising good 



horses is right on the farm in connection with 

 ordinary farm work. The farmer who raises 

 horses, i. e., good horses, gets two profits (1) a 

 profit in labor and (2) a profit in breeding. For 

 look: Three brood mares will do the work of 

 two geldings. In addition, the colts will easily 

 pay for their own and their mothers' feed. Colts 



of stocky draft breed can pay part keep while they are learning to work on 

 the farm, thus earning their way ''through school" the same as an ambitious 

 boy at college. Many farmers now urge getting rid of the geldings, and 

 putting good brood mares in their stead. The horse on the farm is put to 

 real work only about a third of the time, and on this basis, the high cost 

 and keep of the gelding hardly pays the farmer. Let the cities have him! 



Old Dobbin 



