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worth. In our locality for a good pair of Pereheron mares, you 

 will have trouble to get them for less than $600. We should pay 

 more attention to the breeding industry. There is no need of going 

 across the water. ' I hope there will always be some horses im- 

 ported. The great trouble at the present time is, that 50 per cent 

 of the horses that come from foreign countries should never come 

 in. We want all the good horses w^e can get, and we should en- 

 courage our home industries. Our people seem to be satisfied to 

 buy a home-bred bull, but when they buy a horse the inquiry is 

 whether he is imported. I might say in our locality we have a 

 home-bred horse, owned by jMr. Frye. I think he has done a world 

 of good. I think he is one of the best types of horses I know of. 

 Mr. Frye stands that horse at $25 ; he is a good individual, and he 

 breeds well. Some people think that horse would be better if it 

 was imported. Now, if we are going to make progress, we have 

 got to get away from the idea that because a thing comes from the 

 distance it is better. We have got to pay more attention to individ- 

 uality and good breeding. 



A ]\Iember : I would like to .substantiate what i\Ir. Kennedy 

 said. I attended a farm sale where there was a pure bred mare 

 offered for sale in 1897. I was not a man of much means, but I 

 made up my mind, if it didn't go over $200 I would buy it. She 

 was a black mare. She was knocked off for $210. The auctioneer 

 could not find the buyer. He turned to me and asked me if I still 

 made my bid good at $200. I told him I would. It was sold to 

 me. Now, she has produced me five mare colts ; one mare from 

 her has got two colts and one has got one colt. I sold two stallions 

 from her, one for $600 and one for $650, without any guarantee. 

 I am not in the selling line and am not advertising, but I believe 

 it would pay a man to buy good individuals, thorovigh-bred mares. 



]\Ir. Reeves : I would like to ask Mr. Kennedy if there is any 

 extra dift'erence in the texture of the hoofs. He spoke several 

 times of the hoof being brittle but tough. I Avondered if that was 

 a charactertistic of the Percherons. 



Mr. Kennedy: I don't think it is. You will find poor feet in 

 pure bred horses and you will find them in those that are not pure 

 bred. I know g:rade horses at the present time that have exception- 

 ally good feet, and I know pure bred horses that have not. 



The President : The next paper is by Mrs. Harriet Wallace 

 Ashbv. 



