Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1920 — COST OF HORSE BLEMISHES [ARTICLE]

COST OF HORSE BLEMISHES

Defects Cannot Always Be Prevented, but 'One Bad Spot Will Prove / " Expensive. A horse market report from one of the Western selling .points says: “When present, blemishes take off up to SSO or even more from the price of first-rate animals of the same type.” Blemishes cun’t always be prevented, but it Is good business to try to pre-

vent them, for, as can readily be seen, . one bad spot in the makeup of a horse may mean the difference between profit and loss on him. Outside of precautions to prevent injury the ■only safeguard against blemishes Is to breed only sound mares to sound stallions. Sometimes a colt will be eurby or otherwise defective, In spite of all that can be done to avoid such weaknesses, but that is no argument against trying to produce only the good ones,