The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., June 04, 1910, HORSE AND MULE SPECIAL, Image 1

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A Farm and Home Weekly for the States of Mississippi,
Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee.
FOUNDED, 1895, BY DR. TAIT BUTLER, AT STARKVILLE, MISS.
Volume XV. No. 22. SATURDAY. JUNE 4.1910. Weekly: $1 a Year.
The Sort of Horses and Toots That Have Made the West Rich
terday—big, splendid, beautiful Percherons sweeping along
almost rhythmically, the rich, mellow soil crumbling swiftly
behind them in long, deep, straight furrows. Usually the
horses were two abreast, but very frequently there were
three or four great, gentle, well-kept fellows that it would
be a privilege for anybody to sit behind. I shouldn’t have
much respect for the farmer boy who wouldn’t be prouder to
plow a couple of these beautiful animals than to be some
body else’s hired man in town or to measure calico at some
cross-roads store. And when we get more of them down
South, every grown-up farmer, too, will feel more pride in
his business. Incidentally, let me say, we must begin-to
breed more for farm work
horses instead of coach and
trotting types.”
When such outfits as those
shown here are the rule on
Southern farms—when the in
efficient one-horse plow has
given way to modern imple
o UR readers will recall Mr. ft
Poe's recent letter on the
kingly farm horses of the
Middle West how he traveled
hundreds of miles without see
ing a one-horse plow and how
the beauty of the farm horses
everywhere impressed him
While in Wis consin he set out \
to get for Progressive Farmer
and Gazette readers sonic pic
turcs of these beautiful plow
teams at work and from the John Deere Co., Moline, III.,
he secured the typicil photographs given herewith. In this
connection *-t* also reprint a paragraph from Mr. Poe's
letter about these horses:
"I hail never seen ou'side the pictures such beautiful
horses plowing as I saw on the way from Chicago here yts
FEATURES OF THIS ISSUE.
DrtvluK Stv Ton* of Fine Horse-Flenh.407
Farm Work for June. . 308
lni|ir<>|H*r Feeding am! Inferior Horst's.408
Infant Diseases ami Infant Mortality 1. 40k
Keep Dow a the \\ eetls on tlm 1 arm .407
Mr. i mull \sks a Favor.
Ten Thlntts to Do This Month . 401
The Host t‘ropa to Follow tints 110
The Most Valuable Crop of the South. 400
The People Should t’ontrol VV fit or Powers
1 'tOM
Timely Harden Note*. . <
What Farmers Want to Know \luiul Horses .100
What I Saw in the Middle West
Why the South NimmIk More Horses .
Why We Need Draft Stallions . 400|
irienis uruwTi uy znree or jour
big mares or heavy mules,—
then the farmers of the South
will rival in wealth and achiev
ment those of the West, butI
this cannot be while the average Southern farmer drives one
little mule. The mule may remain the great work animal in the
South; but the mule of the future will be mush larger than the
average mule of the present, and when he goes across the fields
it will be in company with one or more of his mates.
Better work stock and more of it is essential if farming
in the South is ever to pay as it should.