HORSE BREEDING.

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 42, 17 August 1918, Page 10

HORSE BREEDING.

I fully expect many will pass over the paragraph when .they see the heading saying horses have gone for good, the motor having taken their place, both on the road and farm (writes Mr. John Linton in the New Zealand Farmer). It may happen so, but history teaches differently. By the way, too little attention is paid to history by farmers. When railways were started in the Homeland farmers said the same as is now being" said regarding motor-trac-tion. But it was soon found that a greater number of horses were required than before the a-dvent of steam. And, to my mind, the same will be 'the case when the Huns are brought to heel, for the reason that it will be imperative that a greatly more intense system of farming must be carried on, in order to meet engagements incurred to pay the cost of the war. Besides, it is to bo hoped a large percentage of those who have gone to the front will return, and with them many others from other lands, for whom, employment will have to be found—and whore better to employ them than on the land? In that case farm horses will be required in increased numbers. So that farmers with good mares are well advised to breed from them, and as the season is approaching when a stallion is to be selected is tho reason for referring to the matter. If tho best results are to be obtained care must be taken that only well bred and frec-from-diseaso sires be selected, which, after all, is the be-all and end-all of livo stock breeding.