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to be seen in a few half bred Welsh ponies of doubtful utility) is that 

 the general hor^e-breeding public in Jamaica cannot be trusted to mate 

 their mares sensibly or successfully, if they are left to themselves. 

 They will breed from any horse that is sufficiently cracked up to them, 

 consequently care should be taken only to pwt before them a type of 

 Stallion which is likely to breed a useful and serviceable type of 

 horse. 



Hon. J. y. Calder : The backney stallions imported by the Agri- 

 cultural Society died before they did any harm, but the Welsh pony is 

 in my opinion doing a great deal of harm in producing undersized horses 

 M'hilst the general complaint is that our horses are running too small. 



Thret- of this horse's gets were at the Hope Show :— Geraldine, a 

 very neat well fed little mare ; a jerked up pony with only 

 room for a child's saddle on hia back; and a mis-shapen dwarf of 

 the type that used to come from the Caymanas and sold for £3 to £4. 



W. G. Clark, Esq.: 1. I have not seen any "Hackney" results. 



2. Sir Gerald has given bone but is small. 



R. Craig, Esq. : I am not in a position to answer this question. — 

 I never saw either of the Hackney Stallions imported by the Agricultti- 

 ral Society nor any of their progeny so far as I am aware. 



I have seen the pony stallion "Sir Gerald" and a number of his foals. 

 He is in my opinion a very fine pony and his stock are remarkably 

 true but he is too small for the purpose the Agricultural Society had 

 in view, which was to get stout hill ponies of 14 hands and upwards. 

 Unfortunately the tendency in breeding horsekind here, seems to be to 

 produce smaller animals than the parents, in many or in probably the 

 majority of cases. 



J. Daly, Esq. : The sires imported by the Agricultural Society are in 

 my opinion too small, as their progeny cannot meet the demand of 

 heavy work. 



H. G. T. Drew : The hackney stallion crossed with the average 

 Jamaica brood mare, produces a misfit ; in many cases maintaining the 

 heavy head and forequarters of the hackney, while the other parts of 

 the body reproduce the build of the dam which being so extremely 

 opposed to the hackney the offspring is a coarse ungainly ill-propor- 

 tioned animal. 



As regard the Welsh pony stallion "Sir Gerald" I have little to say 

 agaiiiSt him, save that his productions lack siz»^. 



C. A. T. FuRsiiON, Esq. : Hackneys a dead failure, which, being 

 an artificial breed they are bound to be. 



Welsh pony gets useful stock but deficient in size, but as he is ap- 

 parently much sought after must be considered a success. 



B. S. Gi^ssET, Esq. : That Hackneys are of very little use in Ja- 

 maica. 



That Welsh ponies are suitable for hacks and general purposes, but 

 a size larger would be better. 



I have also tried an imported Barb Stallion and an English Hunter 

 sire neither of which were very satisfactory. 



H. W. Griffith, Esq. : The Agricultural Society should do their 

 best to import onl}' really good stock. 



