Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 264, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1918 — HORSE-BREEDING HINTS. [ARTICLE]

HORSE-BREEDING HINTS.

If Brood Mares are Used as Work Animals on Farms They Will Be Source of Two Profits A brood mare on the farm is a source of two profits. It is not uncommon to hear of. some remarkable mare on a particular farm that, besides doing her share of the farm work, has raised many hundreds of dollars worth of colts. It is. seldom that there is more than one such mare mentioned. To obtain the greatest returns, nearly all the- work animals maintained on the farm should be ma; ■» of this character, says a Farmers’ Bulletin of the United States Department of Agriculture. . “Horses always are needed to do farm work,” says the bulletin, "and generally they can be raised from farm mares more cheaply than they can be purchased, while the surplus, if of proper breeding and liberally fed on suitable balanced rations, will find ready sale at good prices because they will have the characteristics that suggest the ability to do work satisfactorily and profitably." It is pointed out that breeding working mares plates double duty on them, consequently they must be robust individuals properly conformed, and must be given good care and treatment With two sources of profit from one animal, farmers can well afford to pay more for such stock, feed it more heavily, and give it special attention. The small farmer is most likely to get the best results from such a plan because he usually works his own teams or is in a position watch them closely and see that they are not ill treated. The two outstanding requirements in profitable farm mares \re.that they be breeders and workers, says the bulletin. Any mare that is not at least of high grade should not be considered. The particular breed or grade would depend largely on local ’markets. In a locality where there is a local horse market it Is generally ad visible to breed the prevailing type, since by so doing, sales are more easily made and the services of highclass stallions are practicality assured. Beets, carrots, parsnips, ‘salsify, turnips and onions, though most common of the so-called succulent root crops, differ from starch-yielding vegetables like potatoes mainly in containing a larger proportion of water, 85 to 9C per cent on an average, and consequently a smaller proportion of nutritive material. —Office Home Economics,-United States Department of Agriculture. * ————— The young and tender seed pods of some varieties of radishes are some times used for pickling like capers; tn fact, the Madras or rat-tail radish is grown exclusively for its pods, which are eaten cooked and also used In pickle making.—United States De partment of Agriculture. Two thousand bluebill ant 300 white-winged scoter ducks were found to destroy 8,000 oysters a day in a .tin gle bay near Olympia, Wash.