THE BREEDING OF HORSES 



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price, but the skill, time, and money required to breed and train 

 them is too great for the general farmer. 



Uniformity. — Each community should produce horses uni- 

 form 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 



FiQ. 43. — Group of Perchehon Mabes. Imported and owned by J. Crouch 

 & Son, Lafayette, Ind. 



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. When each farmer in a 

 district is breeding according to his individual ideas, he has to 

 find a separate and individual market or buyer for his product, 

 and the price paid is consequently small. Such districts may 

 sell large numbers of horses annually, but they are of non- 

 descript type and character. These horses neither make a name 

 for the district as a horse-breeding center nor attract buyers 

 willing to pay appreciative 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 



