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from the plains of South Dakota. She weighed 1,000 pounds and 

 it took four men to lead her. I broke her in to do f ami work and 

 bred her to a draft stallion. I have raised three colts and none of 

 them worth less than $200 at three years old. At present I have 

 one sired by a pure Belgian that weighed 1,750 pounds. This 

 colt weighed 1,320 pounds at two and a half years old. He has 

 never eaten over six quarts of grain in a day; this winter he is 

 eating but four. These colts are upheaded and lively, and fit 

 to show with a good many pure draft colts. 



Do not be afraid to breed old Dolly or Peggy to a good draft 

 sire, and after you have raised some good half-blood mares from 

 her you will be pretty well started. The next cross will make 

 them as heavy as you will possibly want for farm horses, and the 

 third cross you can fat up and sell to the city truckman if he 

 should still be using horses in his business. 



Me. Husox: j^ow we have a very few minutes more that we 

 can give to this subject, and we would like to hear very briefly 

 from as many individuals as possible. 



Mr. Powell: I want to say, in the first place, that I never 

 have heard before more able or better written papers on the 

 horse question than we have listened to to-day, and each one, I 

 think, has convinced us that his paper was right. If we have 

 taken our friend from Minnesota, and the paper that followed 

 from Massachusetts, we would all be breeding draft horses ; if the 

 others, we would certainly want the thoroughbred ; and, following 

 that, if we had taken the last paper, we would all be breeding 

 trotters. ISTow it seems to me we should digest those papers and 

 each one take his o^vn opinion and see what is best adapted for 

 our own farms. We cannot measure our conditions with those 

 in the West, nor those of hunters or army or other purposes. 

 For the best conditions on the farm, it does seem to me that 

 we want horses that will work, horses that will do the 

 drudfferv, to brino; the agriculture of ISTew York State 

 up to the standard where it should be; and, that horse, it seems 

 to me, without a question, must be a draft horse, or a cross from 

 some of these other horses that have been so highly recommended. 



Mr. Campbell : I am not especially a breeder of horses, but 

 perhaps what I say might be of some interest to you. We have 



