HOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION"
Money in American Horses
D USING the next decade there
will probably be an Increased
demand for American horses
tn the countries now engaged In the
European war. The demand may
ren continue much longer, accord
ing to investigators of the United
States Department of Agriculture,
M not only will horses bo needed
tor armies, but when peace Is re
stored, more will be needed for
agriculture. Already European
gents are endeavoring to purchase
Worses In this country and Canada,
and there is an Increased interest
In many sections in horse breeding.
To meet this Increased European
demand, American farmers may well
endeavor to raise well-bred horses,
Although the Department of Agricul
ture does not advise them to pur
chase a Burplus of horses merely
for breeding purposes. It morely
advises that ordinary farm work
should be done whenever possible by
good mares which should be bred to
good stallions. It also desires to
emphasize the fact that only horses
ef high quality may be profitably
raised today. Inferior horses are a
drug on the market, and their pro
duction is to be discouraged as
much as the production of good
horses should be encouraged.
The United States has previously
been drawn on to supply European
countries at war. In the Boer war,
over 100,000 horses wore bought
hero by the British government. It
may be doubted whether a foreign
government could now obtain a sim
ilar supply In this country, eiccpt
at excessive cost However, if farm
ers take pains to utilize their good
mares during this Winter to breed
them to good stallions, In the courso
of several years (time enough for
the fouls to develop), America will
he better able to mot the European
demand.
It 1b natnrnl that Europoan coun
tries should look to the United
Btates for horses, as next to Rus
sia it has more of these animals
than any other country in the world.
The United States and Russia pos
sess 58 por cont of the world sup
ply. The German army requlros for a
complete mobilisation 770,000 horses
and the French army is Bald to re
quire 250,000, which figures, how
ever, probably Includes only those
for the cavalry. It Is conservatively
Old Home of Hereford Cattle
TUB oldest home of registered
Hereford cattlo In the West
lieB Just a little enst of Chey
enne. It is owned by Honry Altman
and D. McEllwnn and is known as
the Wyoming Hereford Association.
Tho ranch and cattlo aro an In
heritance of the best of Hereford
blood from the dnys In the early
eighties when the great cattle boom
was on. Prematurely staged, it had
but an epbomornl existence, for forty-dollar
cows did not economically
produce 3-cent beef; much was lost,
but hern and there men gnlhered up
the remnunls and made a new be
ginning. Among thoso things snlv
agod was the prldo of tho English
Hereford breed brought hero by tho
Swunn Cattle Company and George
Morgan. Tho protests of the British
breeders wero strong and emphatic
that their herds hml been culled of
their best and that they would never
recover. The loss of the bull Ru
dolph alono was regarded as a na
tional calamity.
Breeder Niieroccl When Others Fall.
Almost Innumerable have been the
attempts to breed rattle up to stand
ard in the way It has beon.dono
hero that is under as nearly Ba
tumi conditions as cltmatlo circum
stances will permit.
Almost Invariably hords have run
down, become rough or scrubby and
the cattlo ruined, but Mr, Altman
and his partner have lucceoded
where others failed.
Running cattle out of doom In
Winter can ouly be successfully
practiced where ample, well cured
grasses are reserved for winter fend,
and calvu cannot withstand the
estimated on good authority that
1,000,000 horses are now engaged
in the European war. As the great
majority of these horses are not in
cluded In the permanent military
organization, but are used for farm
work and are requisitioned by gov
vernments only when needed for mi
litary purposes, the countries of
Continental Europe will certainly
face an acute shortage of farm
horses, which will seriously affect
the price of horses the world over,
as soon as peace is declared.
According to the best Information,
horses In the countries of Europe
now at war number as follows:
Great Britain. 2,231,000
France 3,222,000
Belgium 263,000
Germany 4,523,000
Austria-Hungary 4,374,000
Russia 24,662,000
Total. 39,265,000
In addition, England has a supply
of about 6,000,000 to draw on in
her various dependencies. RusBln
has about 10,000,000 in Asia and
France probably 600,000 to 1,000,
000 in her colonies.
Tbo rapacloua consumption of
horses In war is illustrated by fig
ures from our own Civil conflict.
During his Shenandoah Valley cam
paign, Sheridan was supplied with
fresh horBes at the rate of 150 per
day. In his report for the year 1865,
the Quartermaster-General of the
United States Army Stated: "The
service of a cavalry horse under an
enterprising commander has aver
aged only four months." During
1864 there were 500 horses con
sumed per day In the Northern
Army, without considering thoso
captured and not reported. During
eight months of that year, the cav
alry of the Army of the Potomac
was remounted twice, noarly 40,000
horses in all being required.
Our own Army furnlBhes a desir
able market for well-bred horses,
there being under the remount sy
stem, at least 6000 horses required
annually to Biipply both the Army
and the National Guard. There are
now about 20,000 horses in our rog
ular Army on a ponce basis. In
war, many more would be required
before the first engagement. There
Ib, therefore, a steady market for
good horses Independent of the Eu
ropean demand.
rigors of winter which as older ani
mals they brave with Impunity.
These cattle are also so froe from
lung troubles and tuberculosis that
none ot them has reacted, though
all are tested before shipment. Not
an animal has been lost from black
leg for ninny years, preventive treat
men now being used fall nnd spring,
although thore has never been any
mange, a dipping vat Is used to keep
them free from lice.
Ilerefords tiro natural grazers nnd
rustlers, but since tho beginning
In 1 883 theso characteristics have
been very much Intensified and
moreover tho culling has been dras
tic. It is many years since the herd
reached tho number of 1,000 bend
nnd slnco that time they have never
been Increased. Only seventy-five to
a hundred linud of the beet heifers
nre retained each your to keep up
tho herd picked from 250 to 300. A
very few bull calves are kept one
this year for which a 11,000 offor
was refused at DO dnys of agn,
The best bulls obtainable are
bought. They In no wise excell those
home bred, and It Is a pity there
aro not more Western herds run" on
the same basis to supply others with
hardy cattle, .
The calves are contracted and sold
for several years ahead, with the ex
ception of those that arc culled and
steered as unsuitable (or bulls,
The bulls tn use, sonic twenty
eight In number, run on grass pas
ture without grain, nnd are mated
according to the judgment of Wil
liam llooseman, the foreman, who
has been with the herd for twenty
avren yours, uud certainly results
are most satisfactory, for at all
ages from sucklings, yearlings, up
to the maturer matrons, the cattle
are of extremely high-class charac
ter, and size has been well main
tained. The old cows sold for beef
off grass average over 1,200 pounds.
Whilst only a few homo-bred bulls
can be UBed, the cows are entirely
home-bred and have never bepn rein
forced by any outside addition in
thirty years, so that, quality pro
duced can be judged by female spe
cimens at all stages of all ages, and
they stand well to the front com
pared with other hords, to which
show cows have been constantly
added,
Cuts 1,000 Tons of Hny n Year.
June aud July have been very dry
up here. The cows are not loaded
with fat, aB Is sometimes the casa
at this season, so that they stand iv
vealed in their true lines for inspection.
Twonty-four years ago, when this
ranch changed hands, It cut ninety
tons of bay; now it cut 1,000 tons,
enough for the cattlo under the sy
stem of pasturage and management,
but It would amaze Eastern breed
ers, that show cattle could be pro
duced with the amount of feed, ami
even Westerners must remember that
they are to the manor born a se
lection of the very fittest, and that
the mistake of lotting thein travel
themselves to death in search of
grass has been avoided.
Such a production of hny, cutting
but once in July, and the meadows
heavily grazed, would be impossible
If Bpeclal attention were not paid to
the grass. Every spring when the
frost comes out, the ground is disked
and seeded with a grass and clover
mixture, and then chain harrowed;
all the manure 1b put bark with a
manure Bpreader. Mr. Altman re
gards the disking as really more Im
portant even than the seeding, as It
opens up and Bprends tho crowns ot
the plnnts.
Tho whole of the ranch manage
ment Is practical, economical and ef
ficient, the smuller details, such as
hogs, poultry and dairy, are all at
tended to, with tho result that they
live well, yet cheaply. Denver
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