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training before they can be marketed, if good values are to be 
secured. This training requires skill, time, and money, which 
should be taken into account. A well-bred and well-trained coach 
or driving team will bring a good price, but the skill, time, and 
money required to breed and train them is too great for the general 
. farmer. 
144. Uniformity. — Each community should produce horses 
uniform in type. As it is now, each district produces a number 
of types. For this reason, buyers in search of a particular type 
or breed of horse do not know where to find it, and buy, here 
and there throughout a wide territory and at a great outlay for 
traveling expenses, individual horses of the right type, until the 
lot has been gathered together. Such districts may sell large 
numbers of horses annually, but they are of nondescript type and 
character. These horses neither make a name for the district 
as a horse-breeding center nor attract buyers willing to pay ap- 
preciative prices. The individual farmer will do better to cast in 
his lot with the majority of his neighbors, and breed the same type 
as they are breeding, even though this type may not be the one 
that suits his fancy best or even the one that is best suited to the 
district. . 
145. Soundness. — It is of great importance that the stallion 
be free from all forms of unsoundness or disease that are heredi- 
tary, transmissible, or communicable to the offspring. It is 
equally important that the mares bred to him should be sound 
in the same way, for not until both mare and stallion used for 
breeding purposes are free from unsoundness can we hope to raise 
the excellence of our horses to the degree possible as the result 
of intelligent breeding and development. 
146. Registration of farm animals. — Each of the important 
breeds of farm animals has a society which looks after its interests. 
This society publishes a book of record in which may be recorded 
the ancestors of each animal of the breed. This is spoken of as 
registration, and the record as the pedigree of the animal. When 
