ITS 
RAISE GOOD HORSES. 
I am asked many times a year ques¬ 
tions about horse breeding and will tell 
you a little about the business that every 
farmer ought to know. About nine out 
of 10 farmers who are raising any colts 
at all now start out with a view of get¬ 
ting a horse for their own use. This is 
on the same plan as organizing a bank 
or railroad for your own use. A com¬ 
mon farm horse is the lowest-priced 
horse that is on the market to-day; aim 
higher. If the market wants a $400 or 
$500 horse, take the money. Lay all 
prejudice aside and use a little horse 
sense in selecting a brood mare and 
crossing her with a sire that will pro¬ 
duce results. Percherons are used 
about seven to one in this country and 
have proved their value. A Percheron 
can be crossed with all kinds of mares 
from mustangs up and the colts will be 
Percherons of different sizes. To say 
that we cannot produce the highest- 
priced draft horses in the world is to 
acknowledge we have not the brains. 
We have the land, feed and markets. 
As a business proposition, draft and 
business horse breeding presents to the 
eastern farmer an unlimited opportun¬ 
ity. Organize a breeders’ club in your 
town, get the farmers interested in 
keeping more and better mares. Get 
the best Percheron stallion that you can 
afford to own; rather than buy a cheap 
stallion, get two or three of your friends 
to go in with you. Remember that on 
the quality of the sire largely depends 
the results of your breeding and the 
profits obtained from the stock pro¬ 
duced. EL WOOD S. AKIN. 
Seneca Co., N. Y. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
t THE RANGE HORSE. , 
“ITe is a broncho; I do not want him.” 
“How do you know lie is a broncho?” 
“Don’t you see that brand?” 
r lhat settles it. Brand and broncho 
mean everything that is mean and despic¬ 
able in a horse to an eastern man who 
does not know the range horse. No matter 
how fresh an egg is, throw it at a man 
and it is rotten. Brand the truest and 
tried old family horse, and he is a broncho. 
Suppose you and five or 10 of your neigh¬ 
bors have from one to 500 horses each, all 
running together in a township or county. 
How are you going to tell them apart? 
You may think you can without a brand, 
but you cannot, and you must decrease 
their value from 10 to 25 per cent by put¬ 
ting a brand on them. Is it right for you 
to insist that a brand ruins a horse's char¬ 
acter? A range horse is born and raised 
out in the open air. Nine-tenths of them 
never were in a barn or were fed even 
hay until some one wanted to work them, 
and many of the brood mares have died of 
old age and always rustled for themselves ; 
Dever have known the use of halter or 
barn. Is it any wonder they fight for their 
liberties? They have had to fight for ex¬ 
istence, and if you fight, them they are 
true Americans, and are apt to fight back, 
but with a person who understands them 
they are easier trained or broken than 
your farm-raised horses. You know just 
what to expect of a range horse. Of a 
farm-raised one you do not. 
For the last eight years we have had 
nothing but range horses, not one of them 
afraid of the cars, automobiles, or anything 
of the kind. If a tumble-weed blows un¬ 
der them while traveling along the road 
they step over it as they would a snow 
drift, and not change the point of their 
ears, in all this country I do not know 
of a blind, balky, runaway or kicking 
range horse. They do not know any better 
than to pull. I have a team that never 
weighed 1800, the two of them, and I have 
hauled 2,800 of millet hay off the stubble 
ground out of the windrow. 
All stallions are turned out on the range. 
Bach of them chooses bis band and herds 
them as well as a person can. If one gets 
too far away you will see him start after 
her, first walk, then trot, then run, and lay 
hack his ears; then she will start for the 
bunch. They will seldom let a strange 
one come into the band, and to try to take 
one out is sometimes very dangerous, as 
the stallion will often fight. If two riders 
find one they want they get on the opposite 
side from the way they want the horse to 
go, put spurs to their horses, give an un¬ 
earthly yell, and away they go. sometimes 
four to five miles without slacking up. 
What would your farm-raised horse be at 
that time? They never step in a hole if 
it can be seen. Ilow can they do this? 
They are raised in the pure air, on pure 
food, and are never pampered or overfed. 
They will live on the prairies with 1(5 
inches of snow on the ground, and many 
of them come out hog-fat in the Spring. 
Because one man has an even good-natured 
temper it is no sign they are all that way. 
A horse is no better than a man. If some 
of them do know more than some men, 
the horse should hot be«b!amed for It, and 
it is often true. 
If you do not believe it come here and 
try to rope a cow or horse. You cannot 
be mean to them and have them gentle and 
kind. When I was a boy we lived 11 miles 
from the county seat, and we always took 
an early start to make the trip in good 
time. Here we are 18 miles from market, 
and we do not get up any earlier to make 
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the trip than we used <o to make the 11 
mile trip. Three hours is plenty eacli way, 
but it oftener takes but 2 % hours, which 
would be ruinous io the horses on the old 
farm. To be sure they are not as large as 
the eastern horse, but what there is of 
them is all horse. omhi e. daxiels. 
South Dakota. 
Hood Cows. — I have been testing our 
cream to-day to see what our cows are do¬ 
ing. \Yc are milking 25, two of them being 
nearly dry. They made in one day from 
cream besides furnishing our family $8.24. 
The cream was sold at the creamery for 33 
cents per pound for butter fat. I estimate 
that the manure and skim-milk would bring 
it up to $.10. The grain bill is $2.50 pet- 
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BREEDFR rT° ANY f ARMER> , STOCKMAN OR POULTRY A 
Cati you count the number of hairs drawn in a picture of \ 
Torest Patch, sired by Dan Patch, dam by Monaco by Belmont Write ’ 
of “Fo^t n prt D h l Pi " tUreS and 1 wU1 mail you a photo-engrav- » o 
gof rorestPatch, the Fine Registered Stallion to be given away and ALSO . \ 
cEm^easn^count^hf^vf 3 - counted and also stating- easy conditions. You \ *• 
Dan pitch Stelfien T? lrS drawn ln fn outline picture of this splendid $5,000.00 V, \ 
iJa,n L'atcn btallion. It means a small fortune free for some one TnniH mn % 
for Dan Patch and have been offered $180,000? I would have lost money \ \ 
D ^ arS ’ , You may^ecure thi. OOO.Dnn Patfh * \ \ 
to $50 000 S «?R U » e I y F r C t‘ L-Forest Patch” might make you a fortune of $25,000 ^ *. 
Ib if ii-°° a !u 8reat stock horse for any community because he will make a 1200 ^ 
3 > years I oId W wigh?; a i010 , ff)^ ,l to^)?‘ aUt '^ Ul f C + > i n ^ Ormat i° n ' I ^araitee “FoTeftPateh,” \ \ 
myto, YouwoiiHhs Hrfkhtif* 6 ° f S 16 X? ry best Dan Patch colts ever raised on \ \ 
name and addreTs On fL* sl J?^ ted to °. w T n this Magnificent Stallion. Write me today your % \ 
tOcountT You may^seoire this S 5000 a <5 u- W ' ‘af 3 ‘ \ th o? special engraving showing hairs 4 ’■ 
xou may secure this $o000. Stallion Absolutely Free. Mail Free Coupon At Once. ^ 
M. W. SAVAGE, Minneapolis, Minn. \ 
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MY NEW PICTURE OF 
DAN PATCH 1:55 
In Six Brilliant Colors 
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milerpfced bv“C Sint colors and is free of advertising. It gives his age and a list of all the fast \ \ 
track and saw him'in nnn^f i/^ from a Speed Photograph it shows Dan as lifelike as if you stood on the \ ’• 
the King of aimaimes« K^ f <" hlS „ 1 ? arVe 0 1 U ? l an i thri11 ^? speed exhibitions. You ought to have a fine picture of 4 \ 
this <;nionri;H • i- s Horse Creation and the Fastest Harness Horse the world has ever seen. The first edition of ^ 
BeautffM roY^eHPiT m6 cash but I offer you one absolutely free. I will mail you one of these Large, \ \ 
of Givimr Awav ?&&& t ^ ?- h 1J55 V th Prepaid and full particulars concerning my plan - 
will simpl^ FillOift'and ^^“NfaS^M^the^ree'coupcm Attache'd! engraVing Sh ° wing the hair3 t0 be <=ounted,-if you \ 
Write A T ONCE TO M. W. SAVAGE, Owner, Minneapolis, Minn. ^ 
Also sole owner of — International Stock Food Co. 
Also sole owner of —- International Stock Food Farm 
R. N.-V. 
D.-94- 
CASH CAPITAL PAID 
$2,000,000.00 
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