The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., April 23, 1910, Page 314, Image 14

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How to Grow Live Stock in the South
XIV.—THE VALUE OF A GOOD STALLION AND JACK
TO ANY NEIGHBORHOOD.
By Tait Botler.
r— HE PER CENT of scrub sires
used in our horse breeding is
probably greater than in any
other line of live stock breeding.
Pure-bred boars and bulls of fair
quality are being more generally
used, but the quality of our stallions
and jacks remains of a low order.
There are probably two chief reasons
for this fact. First, the horse and
mule are our highest priced farm
animals and the cost of a good stal
lion or jack is, consequently, greater
than our limited means have general
ly been able to secure. The second
reason is that America has no estab
lished pure breed of horses. Our
American trotter, or “Standard” bred
horse, is not a pure-bred horse, nor
has he been bred along any particu
lar line, except as to speed, sufficient
ly to fix and perpetuate a distinct
type. The speed quality has been
pretty generally fixed and our Stand
ard-bred horse is, therefore, the best
foundation in existence to-day for
develouing a high-class breed of light
harness horses.
The pure-bred draft horse is not
popular in the South, and perhaps
for good reasons; hence, we have no
distinct national breed generally pop
ular for the needs of the South.
The draft horse breeds are beyond
d8ubt best adapted to the conditions
under which the average farmer must
breed horses. The breeding of high
class cariage or saddle horses has
not been profitable to the average
farmer breeder. The knowledge and
money necessary to train, develop
and fit for market, these classes of
horses, make the general farmer un
fitted for the business.
The Draft Horse Best for Southern
Farmers.
The foregoing facts make the bus
iness of horse breeding in the South
a difficult and complicated problem.
We are convinced that the draft
animal will be the most profitable
animal for the Southern farmer to
breed, just as it has proved the most
satisfactory and profitable for the
general farmer in the Northern
States and in foreign countries.
The draft animal of the South is,
by existing conditions the mule; byt
to breed the mule, horses are neces
sary. The type of mares which are
the dams of most of the high-class
and high-priced mules now on the
markets, are grades of the draft
breeds, weighing from 1,200 Dounds
to 1,500 pounds. We have discussed
the reasons for this fact in previous
issues of this paper, and merely re
peat it here to point the reason why
we have selected a certain type of
► standard to illustrate the value of
a good sire in the improvement of
our horse and mule stock
1 lie stallion that in our opinion,
will do the Southern farmer most
good in improving our work stock
and in obtaining a better class of
mule-producing mares, is a small
type of draft stallion, preferably the
Percheron, weighing about 1,500 to
1,600 pounds.
It should be remembered that the
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Pereheron stallion of this type is not
a large, coarse horse with long hair
on his legs and of inferior energy
and quality. The Pereheron is the
smallest of the draft breeds, and his
ancestry, conformation uud quality,
make him the ideal progenitor of
farm work stock and mule-producing
mares.
What One Stallion May Ik) for a
Community.
What is such a horse worth to a
community? What would be the in
crease in value of our farm work
stock if they weighed from 1,100 to
1,300 pounds, instead of from 800 to
1,000 pounds as is now the case? No
other type of stallion will get that
size to his progeny crossed with our
small mares. We have tried the
lighter breeds and now, when heavier
horses and mules are becoming nec
essary to handle the larger imple
ments necessary under changed agri
cultural conditions, we are brought
face to face with the error of our
past breeding operations. We ad
mire the American trotter as the best
light harness horse tho world has
ever produced, but the American
trotting stallion has been tried and
found wanting as a cross to give size
to the progeny of the mares we now
have in the South. Southern farm
ers have not nor are they likely to
make money breeding light harness
horses.
A stallion of the type indicated,
can be bought for from $600 to $1.
000, and his value to any community
may be estimated by adding about
$25 for every 100 pounds he will
increase the size of our work stock
horses and mules. The horses com
ing from such a stallion will weigh
about 200 pounds more than our
average horse at present. The mule*
from the daughters of such a stal
lion will be worth on an average $5o
each more than those from the marcs
we now have. If we count the get
of such a stallion as 25 per year, and
his period of service 10 years, we
have 2 50 colts as his progeny. if
these be each worth $2 5 more than
the average from the stallions now
in UBe, we have his value, as shown
in the first generation, of $6,250. If
we estimate his cost at $1,000 and
his keep for ten years at $2,000, wc
still have a net profit of $3,250,
which any community may obtain
from the purchase of such a stallion
The Value of a Good Jack.
Hut this is only half the story. If
the daughters of this stallion be bred
to a good Jack, the mules will each be
worth $50 more than those we now
raise, half of which increase must
be credited to the sire of the mares
No ja«k can get high-priced mules
from small, Inferior mares, but a
good jack will easily pay any neigh
borhood 100 per cent on his cost and
keep, even on our present mare Btock,
and on good mares double that
profit. With good mares and jacks,
mules can be raised for one-half their
present cost; therefore, the value of
a good Juck is to be measured by
the quality of the mares bred to him,
and the service he is able to do. A
good Jack Is easily worth $3,000 to
any community that will use him.
He may be bought at from $800 to
$ 1,000. The prolit is apparent.
Hetter have two idle horse* than
lack one.—I). Rankin.
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