34 Western Live-stock Management 



man who attempts to raise horses more extensively and 

 therefore keep a mare solely for the colt she produces. 

 About the only stockmen who make an exclusive business 

 of raising horses are those located in the range districts 

 where winter feed is very scarce. Range horses will stand 

 more hardship than any other class of stock and can be 

 wintered out in the hills when cattle and sheep would 

 starve. Horses raised in this manner, however, do not 

 have the size and type to compete with farm-raised 

 stock, and do not have much effect on the general horse 

 market. While the horse can live under very hard con- 

 ditions, the growing of good marketable stock requires 

 plenty of good pasture, hay, and grain, the cost of which 

 is partially offset by the work done by the mare. All of 

 these considerations must be taken into account in select- 

 ing the kind of stock to raise. Old residents seldom 

 make radical mistakes along this line, but newcomers 

 often undertake to raise hogs where only a Merino sheep 

 would live, or to raise beef where only a high-class dairy 

 cow would return a profit. 



