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HORSE BREEDING IN MASSACHUSETTS. 
After I bought a farm I looked 
around to see what my neighbors were 
doing in trying to improve the standard 
of the breed of horses. I was sur¬ 
prised at not seeing any mare and foal 
in any of the many pastures hereabout. 
I made inquiries and got many widely 
different replies. One said he “could 
not afford to lose the mare’s time,” an¬ 
other said he could not be bothered with 
colts; again another said he would 
rather buy a horse all ready to work 
than run any chance (and this same 
man got his fingers bitten badly in a 
pair of “western bulls” he paid $600 
for) ; another man came to me and 
said, “I am very much taken with your 
THE RURAI> NEW-YORKER 
A PRAIRIE SCHOONER BARN. 
A short, time ago some one asked 
November 7, 
through The R. N.-Y. for barn plans, 
especially for one that could be built 
for less money than the majority of 
barns of same capacity. As The R. 
N.-Y. and some of its readers have been 
very helpful to me, I should be glad 
to give a helpful word, and as I have 
a barn built on a different plan from 
the ordinary T will enclose a sketch and 
description, hoping it may do some one 
horse, and as I have got to have a 
team for a contract 1 have taken I 
have made up my mind to buy mares 
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and breed a couple of colts and try to 
get a matched pair.” This pair of mares 
are now in foal to “Mantell.” The 
French Coach horse, to my mind, is the 
ideal stallion to mate with the great 
majority of mares. My horse, “Man¬ 
tell,” was foaled on May 10 , 1905, and 
bred by Mr. Elwood S. Akin. He 
stands 16 hands one inch high and 
weighs exactly 1,259 pounds. He stands 
on short legs, but has nine inches of 
bone below the knee. His action is 
superb at both ends, his conformation is 
as nearly perfection as it is possible 
to find a horse. This horse has size 
enough to mate with a draught mare, 
and produce a 1,200 pound to 1,400 
pound horse, and that is heavy enough 
to work on any kind of teaming. That 
produce will have blood in its veins to 
give it pluck and energy (what the or¬ 
dinary draught horse is lacking), and 
when not heavily laden it can .trot 
along at a fair clip and be in its stable 
in better form than the clumsy draught 
horse that cannot “get there.” Again, 
a horse of the French Coach type is a 
fine single horse; that is, more suitable 
for a brougham or carryall for a family 
that does not want to keep a pair, and 
any man who wants to have a saddle 
horse and family driver combined that 
only has one mouth cannot beat this 
breed. I have handled both the German 
Coach and French Coach but must shy 
that the French has my vote; there is 
more snap and style at the end of your 
road with the Frenchman, that I have 
not found in the German. I have 
thought in looking over the pedigrees 
that perhaps it comes from the many 
crosses of Arabian (Godolphin) that 
the French Coach horse runs back to. 
It has been a matter of surprise to me 
that any man who has a good, clean, 
well put up mare would not try to pro¬ 
duce a colt from her. He would not be 
at any loss of time by breeding, as it is 
a well-known fact that the mare that is 
working produces the strongest foal, 
and the feed of a colt does not amount 
to a great deal. There is (to my mind) 
a great amount of pleasure in rearing a 
good colt, and if your mare is good and 
the sire is good, the colt in all ordinary 
course of nature must be good, and 
sometimes when the breeder is driving 
along the road a man stops him and 
says, “Did you breed that horse ?” If that 
breeder has an ounce of blood in his 
veins it will tingle then, and 3-011 never 
know what price will be paid. I firmly 
believe that the man who breeds colts 
now, and on from now, is the wise man; 
of course, provided he breeds the right 
stuff, and if he does not he would 
better not start. If you start with a 
pair of mares, and by ordinary luck, 
you will in four or five years start sell¬ 
ing a pair, or perhaps two pairs every 
year by breeding your two-year-old 
fillies. Go into any auction room and 
see what kind fetch the highest dollar; 
it is the up-headed, clean-cut, well- 
formed and snappy-actioned horses ; 
what I call the “gentlemen amongst 
horses.” Horses are the same as men, 
‘‘gentlemen are bred, not made by 
money.” j. p. 
Massachusetts. 
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PRAIRIE SCHOONER BA-RN. Fig. 403. 
good. I built my barn 10 years ago, 
somewhat on the plan of a prairie 
schooner, as it is mostly roof and has 
no beam or mortice in its make-up, and 
ordinary farmer help can do all of the 
work.' The barn <is 40 feet long by 60 
feet wide, the arches (which represent 
the bows of the prairie schooner or 
mover’s wagon) are made of inch 
boards six inches wide, and of any 
length, and six boards deep, each board 
bent to shape as it is nailed to the 
others, using plenty of nails, and giving 
plenty of lap over each joint. The 
arches form a*half circle, and in build¬ 
ing them I drew a half circle on the 
ground and set posts a few feet apart 
(perhaps 10 ) on the outside of the 
circle, being careful to get them per¬ 
pendicular and three or more feet high, 
so several could be made before any 
had to be moved. I used 14 arches 
in all; these were placed about three 
feet apart on the side walls four feet 
high by two feet thick. These arches 
or rafters were covered with roof 
boards and shingles, except the top 
being too flat for shingles metal roofing 
was used. Six round posts are used in 
each end (extending from stone wall 
*one foot high to arches) on which the 
AftCH 
Stone 
DETAIL OF BARN. Fig. 404. 
girders and siding are nailed. The floor 
is paved with field stone about 12 
inches deep, except under the horses, 
where I filled in eight inches deep with 
soft sand and covered that with wooden 
blocks on end four inches long. The 
stone is covered with a hard smooth 
clay. Both floors have given entire sat¬ 
isfaction. Stables are on each side of 
barn next to the wall, but with eight 
foot driveway back of stalls so I can 
drive through with wagon in cleaning 
stable and haul direct to field. Dia¬ 
grams of the barn are given in Figs. 
403 and 404. c. c. C. 
Dowagiac, Mich. 
On page 812 W. IT. Jenkins gives a very 
interesting letter and incidentally refers to 
housing cows at night. This calls to mind 
an experiment tried some years ago, while 
the writer resided in Massachusetts. Hous¬ 
ing the cows every night with much care, 
I was informed by a veteran cattle breeder 
tliat if left to their own choice the cows 
I cared for would sleep outdoors the major 
portion of the year through. I tested it 
one Winter, leaving the herd loose and the 
barn stable door wide open : I noted that 
every night the Winter through—and it 
was an average cold one—the cows slept, 
or rested, in the open yard, with but one 
exception. That night a strong sleet gale 
blew in from the east, and the leader cow 
slept in the barn with her head at the open 
door, and the others were crowded as close 
to the leader as they could be placed. 
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