1895 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
7o7 
Live Stock Matters. 
AN OHIO HORSE HAN TALKS. 
GOOD ROADS MEAN LIGHTER HORSES. 
I recently had a talk with S. H. Hogan, 
a well-known horse breeder of Zanes¬ 
ville, O. “ Horses are hardly worth talk¬ 
ing about, nowadays,” he said, “ still 
there are a few fortunate mortals who 
have good horses, and who get good 
prices for them. The general trend of 
the demand nowadays is toward lighter 
horses than have heretofore been bred 
generally, because Ohio is getting to be 
an old State, and the older the State, 
the better the roads. A pair of 1,200- 
pound horses can draw as much over 
our roads when they are at their worst, 
as a 1,400-pound pair could, 20, or even 
10 years ago. The people are finding 
this out, and as a result, we use our 
lighter horses almost twice as much for 
breeding purposes as we do our heavier 
animals. There is no use whatever in 
driving a big, awkward, lumbering ani¬ 
mal, when one that has sense, strength 
and go, will do the work more quickly 
and satisfactorily. 
“ Then our cities are all paved or are 
being paved. Manufacturers, produce 
men, millers, etc., are all falling into 
line in the demand for light horses, so 
that in both city and country, the larger 
demand falls on the light side of 1,300 
pounds. 
“ No,” said Mr. Hogan, in reply to a 
question, “ I don’t know that imported 
horses are any better than American 
bred, if they are bred right. In England, 
from which a large per cent of importa¬ 
tions come, the average , only, is better 
than the average in this country ; there 
are individual horses in this country that 
England will have to hurry up to beat ; 
but the trouble is that no pains are taken 
to breed for a type in this country, while 
a glance at the English system of breed¬ 
ing (and, remember, it is a system) will 
explain to any inquiring mind, why Eng¬ 
land has better horses, the whole coun¬ 
try over, than America.” 
“ I understand that the Hackney is a 
favorite with you. What are his good 
points ? ” 
“ Among his valuable points is the 
transmittance of the type for which he 
has been bred for years—his fine style 
and action, wonderful endurance, intelli¬ 
gence, etc. In fact, the breeding is so 
well established, that, with almost any 
breed of mares, a Hackney sire will infuse 
into his progeny the sterling qualities of 
his race. His proud step and noble bear¬ 
ing are admired wherever he goes.” 
“ Do you see any hope in the future 
for the horse market ? ” 
“ I believe that whenever farmers and 
horsemen can be made to realize the 
utter uselessness of raising an inferior 
quality of colts from an inferior quality 
of mares, for profit, and when they begin 
to breed systematically to supply a cer¬ 
tain demand and understand the demand, 
the horse market will recover from its 
present stagnation. So long as the mar¬ 
kets are glutted with the inferior stock 
which the average farmer forces upon 
them, I see no hope for any one but the 
man who handles the right kind.” 
“ Do you know of any one in the coun¬ 
try who makes a business of wintering 
horses for city people ? ” 
“I know of a number of farmers who 
make a very respectable income from 
this branch of the business. There is 
some extra labor connected with it, but 
I believe that a more satisfactory price 
can be obtained from one’s surplus feed 
in that way than in hauling it to market. 
Most farmers have plenty of time to feed 
in winter ; in fact do nothing else, and a 
few horses taken to board keep them 
out of mischief.” 
“ At what rate, considering the price 
of feed, can horses be boarded, to make 
the business profitable ? ” 
“I could answer that question for this 
locality only. As there has been no 
material change in the price of rough 
feed, the prevailing price is from $6 to $8 
per head per month, according to the 
amount of grain given to, and care taken 
of, the animal.” 
“ Do you consider the country fair to 
be a potent agency in promoting the 
breeding of better horses ? ” 
“ To a certain extent, and among cer¬ 
tain classes of farmers. There are farm¬ 
ers who take a day off and go to the 
fair. They gawk around all the games 
of chance and fakes such as are usually 
permitted, and go home apparently with¬ 
out knowing that there was a horse or a 
sheep or a hog exhibited on the grounds. 
Then the next spring they pick out the 
most despicable mare in their stables, 
and breed her to a thoroughbred horse. 
Then when the result is a failure, they 
raise a hue and cry that the horse is of 
no account, and in many instances they 
are believed, too. You couldn’t beat 
sense into those farmers’ heads with a 
10-foot scantling. Then there are other 
farmers who go to the fair to see their 
friends and have a little family picnic. 
They pay little attention to the exhibits. 
Hut there is a class that have energy and 
thrift enough to appreciate a good thing 
when they see it. They go to the fair 
to see how they may take advantage of 
what they have. They may not know 
very much, but if they have any ambition 
to learn, they can learn. They see a 
winner, and they want something like it 
themselves. The result is that they don’t 
come to the breeding stables next spring 
with the worst mare they have, but if 
they have no thoroughbred, they bring 
the best they have. That is the kind of 
farmer that is a benefit to the fairs, and 
the only kind to which the fair is of any 
advantage.” 
“ What defects do you notice in the 
management of most country fairs as far 
as the exhibition of horses is concerned?” 
“ The chief defect lies in the selection 
of the judges who award the premiums. 
If a man is a horseman he is very likely 
to be prejudiced in favor of some par¬ 
ticular breed. If he is not a ho seman, 
he has no qualification for judgeship. 
I’ll tell you a little incident: On a cer¬ 
tain county fair grounds last fall, we 
exhibited a few horses. I found out 
that one of the judges appointed by the 
board, had expressed an opinion, before 
the contest came off, that one of our 
horses ought to be entitled to the first 
prize. I wanted to be fair about it, so I 
promptly notified the other exhibitors, 
and they succeeded in having him re¬ 
moved, and another judge appointed in 
his stead. When the exhibit of a stal¬ 
lion and three of his get came off, the 
newly-appointed judge asked me which 
was to bejconsidered, the stallion or his 
get. I told him that I thought they 
both ought to be considered, and re¬ 
marked further, that the two or three 
others who were competing against 
me had the same breed of horses I was 
exhibiting, so that it was all in the fam¬ 
ily any way. The judge looked surprised. 
‘ Why,’ said he, ‘ Mr. It’s horse has three 
white feet, Mr. G’s two white feet, and 
yours hasn’t any. Is it possible they 
are all of the same breed? ’ I was like 
the boy that the calf ran over, I didn’t 
have anything to say. But that is a 
glowing example of judicial gumption 
for you.” _ j. D> 
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to feed more oats, rather than sell them 
at a low price and buy bran at 70 cents 
per 100 pounds. He says that farmers 
at his market town, are paid 16 to 20 
cents per bushel for oats. As compared 
with corn 100 pounds of oats give the 
following composition : 
Muscle- Fat - Pure 
makers. formers. fat. 
Oats.9.25 48.34 4 18 
Corn.7.92 66.69 4.28 
As compared with bran at 70 cents for 
100 pounds the oats are more valuable. 
The farmer makes a poor exchange 
when he- sells the oats for *20 cents and 
buys bran at this price. For horses and 
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