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such an association to protect the interests of its members, provide suit- 

 able stalHons each year for use with the mares owned by the members, 

 advertise stock, attract buyers, hold sales, make exhibits at the county, 

 district, and state fairs, hold meetings for discussion of horse-breeding 

 matters, and educate the farmers of the locality to better methods of 

 breeding, feeding, and developing marketable horses. 



Procuring StalHons 



The fact that mares are often bred to unsuitable stallions is, in many 

 instances, due to the difficulty of finding the right horse close at hand, rather 



Fig. 229. — A pure-bred hackney coach slallion 



than to indifference or carelessness on the part of the breeder. A fitting 

 start may be made in grading-up in a certain district, and in a few years no 

 horse of the same blood may be found to continue the good work in the 

 right direction. The consequence is that a horse of different breed, unsuit- 

 able in many respects, is used until a more suitable sire can be procured or 

 happens to enter the district. 



It often occurs that a stallion is unexpectedly thrust on a district by 

 a salesman of some importing firm. A company is formed for the purchase 

 of the horse and the price is usually high, as it must contain many and 



