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. 
