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THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
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A PERCHERON MARE AS AN INVEST¬ 
MENT. 
IF. W.j Broome Co., N. Y .—I own a 
seven-acre farm and cannot get cultivating 
or other work done just when I need it. I 
am going to have a horse. If I get a 
Percheron mare I can raise a colt and do 
my own work at the same time, besides I 
can get a good price for Percheron colts. 
What must I pay for a good mare (Perch¬ 
eron) ? What weight would you recom¬ 
mend? I wish to raise good draft colts. 
Are Percheron mares gentle? What do you 
think I can get for a good Percheron colt 
when I get one? What age should mare 
be? Tell me all you can about Percherons. 
I have never bred the Percheron 
stock, for I deal in carriage stock, about 
1,000 pounds, which I find in good de¬ 
mand. It seems to me that W. W. has 
put the question of horse keeping on a 
seven-acre farm pretty strong. It means 
buying almost all hay and grain, if not 
all of it, and unless he could find work 
enough in the neighborhood to help pay 
her keep, I think it should be cheaper for 
him to hire the horse. As to raising a 
colt from a mare he is up against a 
fair-sized expense. Her service fee will 
be from $25 to $100 (live foal) ; then 
there will be pasture and grain expense 
until the colt is three years old, when 
there will be another expense of break- 
in" colt, unless he does it himself. I 
figure it costs me about $175 to educate 
a colt ready for the public or private 
market. If W. W. had more land would 
say buy a good blocky mare, not over 
12 years old, weighing about 1,100 
pounds, and cross her on a Percheron 
stallion of good conformation, and if 
colt did not have good conformation try 
another stallion and keep on the same 
way until he struck a good cross, then 
stick to it. Percheron colts three years 
old of good weight, 1200 to 1400 pounds, 
well broken and sound, should bring 
$200 to $500. 0. W. SHELDON. 
Dutchess Co., N. Y. 
I can hardly advise this man to buy 
a purebred Percheron mare to fill the 
place he has for a horse. A good reg¬ 
istered Percheron mare will cost from 
$500 to $1,000, according to size and 
conformation, and to bring the best 
prices, the horses must be of the heaviest 
class. Still if the owner of the seven 
weighed over 1060 pounds. I have raised 
three colts from her, all from pure draft 
stallions. These colts were not unduly 
large at birth, the mare always deliver¬ 
ing them without help. They were all 
straight and strong at birth, and seemed 
to think that they had the job of filling 
up a vacuum in the world, and grew 
accordingly, attending strictly to busi¬ 
ness, while their foolish trotting-bred 
neighbors insisted on jumping into a 
barbed wire fence or doing some other 
stunt to render themselves even more 
worthless than they naturally are. The 
oldest of these colts weighed 1125 pounds 
when he came from the pasture last Fall 
at 2 J , 2 years old. I am now driving 
him, and he is very easily handled, but 
has plenty of ambition and will make an 
ideal farm horse. This horse question 
is one of vital importance to New York 
State farmers. We need larger horses 
than we now have as a rule, but I firmly 
believe that we can rais^ a class of 
horses better suited to our use than 
we can buy from the West. There 
is many a dairy farmer with say 100 
acres of land, and milking from 12 
to 18 cows. Now these men could 
raise a few colts and cut down the 
dairy a little—just sell a few of the 
poorer cows—and they would be sur¬ 
prised to find that the profit from the 
dairy was just as large as ever and the 
work a good deal less. At three years 
old these half blood colts are worth 
around $200, and the money comes all 
in a bunch, and the farmer does not 
realize that it has taken much effort to 
get it. Not every neighborhood has a 
good purebred draft stallion, and in an¬ 
other letter I will tell about certain 
methods of getting them. 
J. GRANT MORSE. 
Madison Co., N. Y. 
Pig with Fits. 
I have a pig three months old. Sevnal 
days ago when I was feeding it, it fell over 
and began to kick and squeal, and it 
breathes very hard and quick, and is weak 
for awhile after it gets over the spAll at 
feeding time; then it acts very greedy. 1 
feed it plenty of good food, with charcoal, 
salt and sulphur before it. Can you tell 
me what to do for it, and what these spells 
are? G . w . 
Pennsylvania. 
Indigestion causes the fits or convulsions. 
Worms are often the cause of the indiges¬ 
tion. Make the pig take an abundance of 
outdoor exercise every day. Feed milk and 
limewater as a sole ration until fits cease. 
A physic may be given to start treatment, 
and if worms pass, treat for them by giving 
turpentine in thin slop of milk at rate of 
one teaspoonful once daily for each 80 
pounds live weight. Continue for three 
days and repeat the following week. 
A. S. A. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
acres thinks that he wants a 1600-pound 
mare to do his work and reading he can 
probably get one for, say $600. Then 
if there is a registered stallion of the 
right kind handy he can get her bred for 
about $20, and the colt at six months 
old ought to be worth something like 
$150. I should consider it impracticable 
to think of raising the colts up to a 
useful age on a seven-acre place, for by 
the time the owner had a colt three 
years old he would find that he had four 
or five horse kind on hand and they 
would eat all he could raise on his 
farm. If I were in this man’s place I 
would buy a good New York State bred 
mare of about 1100 or 1200 pounds 
weight. The age and price would be 
such as I could afford. I should require 
that she should be serviceably sound, 
have good feet and legs and of rather 
blocky build. She certainly should not 
be of the “cherry picker” type. Then I 
would breed this mare to a purebred 
draft stallion, which would not of ne¬ 
cessity be a Percheron. The Belgian 
horse is quite as good and some claim 
that they are superior to the Percherons. 
The colts from such an union will be 
of good size, say from 1200 to 1400 
pounds at maturity. They make ideal 
farm horses, and finer individuals make 
just such ones as the government wants 
for artillery horses, etc., and the cities 
want for express and delivery horses. 
One can get a good mare such as I 
have described for around $200, and her 
colts will bring about $75 at six months’ 
old. The lighter mare would be worth 
twice as much to use as the heavy draft 
mare for the man with only one horse 
on a seven-acre farm. The money in¬ 
vestment would be within the reach of 
an ordinary small farmer, while not 
every one of this class has $600 to pay 
for a horse. It is true that the heavy 
colt would be worth $150, but it might 
be hard to find a customer for him. On 
the other hand it would be much easier 
to find some one willing to pay $75 for 
the half-blood colt. 
I suppose that the above advice will 
be adversely criticized by both the breed¬ 
ers of purebred drafters and the “trot¬ 
ting hoss” fraternity; but I know what 
I am talking about in this matter. At 
present I have a little mare that never 
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