GOOD HORSES CANNOT BE DISPLACED.
It has been thought that the ,growing use of the bicycle is about to displace the carriage horse from its use, but this is wholly wrong. It is not the young men who use carriages, but the older, more sedate persons, who are not able to carry themselves in this fatiguing way, as well as for the iise of the old style of women, who do not think tho bicycle just the thing for them. It is not the fact that the carriage horse has been displaced at all by this modern invention; it is in quite as much use and demand as ever, and the price of a good pair is not any less than it was before the wheel came into use. The actual condition of the horse business is simply this : The cable tram system has displaced a o;oocl many of the common style of horse?. The expansion of dairying has caused small farmers to realise that it pays better to keep cows than to feed a lot of useless hacks for their sons to ride about on, and thereby wasting valuable time. Inferior stock has in consequence been lowered in value, but the panic is only amongst breeder*! of that class of stock. Horses that are wanted are bringing as good prices as over, and this will continue. Taking these facts into consideration, it is for the farmers to meet the necessities oi the case, and wholly refrain from throwing away money in the rearing of the old style of farm-bred animals, and- cater for the demand for the better class — the draughts, the saddlers, the well-trained roadsters, and the solid carriage animals, of which the best and choice ones will bring high prices, while the average will sell for a good profit for other uses. FEEDING AND CARE. The horse is made by its feeding and care, as well as by its breeding, and, like all other animals reared on farms, its consideration should begin long before it is bora. The mare is to be fed and treated in every way for the colt from the time when the young thing- is started.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2325, 22 September 1898, Page 6
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363GOOD HORSES CANNOT BE DISPLACED. Otago Witness, Issue 2325, 22 September 1898, Page 6
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