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Title: Illustrated history of the Union Stockyards; sketch-book of familiar faces and places at the yards
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Grand, W. Joseph
Subjects: Union Stock Yard & Transit Company of Chicago Stockyards
Publisher: Chicago, T. Knapp Ptg. & Bdg. Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ng a disfigurement) will sell to better ad-vantage than ever before. During the last six years theranches have, generally, become the property of ex-periencedranGhmen,to whom all breeds of horses and thewants of the country in that line are thoroughly famil-iar, and who by judicious breeding to first-class draft,carriage and hackney stallions, have produced stockwhich will compare favorably with horses raised any-where in the middle West, The great trouble in the pastwas that the ranchmen shipped in such wild horses bythe carloads,that they had to be sold in carload lots,un-haltered. A great deal of money was lost in this wslj.The coming range consignments will be thoroughlyworked animals, broken to harness,and fit for any pur-pose. The common horse of eastern production is nowless durable for working purposes than the ranch horse,the latter having better feet and greater endurancethan the former, although heretofore the range horsesshipped East were so small and nervous that breaking
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THE UNION STOCKYARDS 269 them to harness usually broke their hearts. But therevolution—or should we say evolution?™of the rangehorse is now as complete as the change in range cattle.They have been graded up to such a fine point that thedays of the bronco are over forever on most of the greatranches. Mr. Coopers advice to ranchmen is to go on andbreed, paying particular attention to the draft horses,which are selling for as much now as five or six yearsago; also avoid a large brand, as a glaring brand ona horse is as bad in its way as the brand of Cain on aman. Mr. Cooper is himself a large breeder, and hasgreat faith in the future of the breeding industry, thebicycle to the contrary notwi^Jistanding. The range horse is a creature of beauty on his nativeheath, wild, strong and fleet as the prairie winds.Horses do not herd as cattle do, by the hundreds andthousands, but in groups of from twenty-five to forty.x\t the head of each group is a stallion, the lord of thefamily, the king o

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