as MANUAL OF FARM ANIMALS 



mind, whatever the type or class/chosen, whether it is light or 

 heavy, or for speed or draft, that none but superior horses will 

 sell at remunerative prices. There will always be an over- 

 production of common horses, which will be the first to be 

 affected by oversupply and other business depressions, and the 

 last to be revived. The market should also be studied. In 

 some sections the demand will be for a certain class and in other 

 sections another class will be in most demand. 



Cooperative breeding. — From observations made in localities 

 where horses are bred in a commercial way, it would seem ad- 

 visable to breed on the cooperative plan. It is apparent that 

 the formation of horse-breeding associations in townships and 

 counties would do much to advance the progress of the industry. 

 Such associations should be formed of breeders who possess the 

 same class or breed of mares. It would be the work of such 

 an association to protect the interests of its members, provide 

 suitable stallions each year for use on the mares owned by the 

 members, advertise stock, attract buyers, hold sales, make 

 exhibits at the county, district, and state fairs, hold meetings 

 for discussion of horse-breeding matters, and educate the far- 

 mers of the locality to better methods of breeding, feeding, and 

 developing marketable horses. 



Securing stallions. — The fact that mares are often bred to 

 unsuitable stallions is, in many instances, due more to the difii- 

 culty of finding the right horse close at hand than to indiffer- 

 ence or carelessness on the part of the breeder. A fitting start 

 may be made in grading up in a certain district, and in a few 

 years no horse of the same blood is to be found to continue the 

 good work in the right direction. The consequence is that a 

 horse of different breed, unsuitable in many respects, is used 

 until a more suitable sire can be secured, or happens to enter 

 the district. 



It often occurs that a stallion is unexpectedly thrust on a 

 district by a salesman of some importing firm. A company is 



