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CONTINENTAL HORSES. 



suitable for both riding and driving, and are in great 

 demand ; but it is doubtful if they are as serviceable and 

 enduring as the East Prussian. Many young Holstein 

 horses are brought over to England, and are taken back 

 to Germany after a few years, and sold as English horses. 

 Mecklenburg horses (Fig. 520). — Mecklenburg possesses 

 high-lying clover pastures which ^ are admirably adapted 



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[F. Albert Schavarz, Berlin W. 

 Fig. 519. — Holstein carriage mare, Ordonnanz. 



for the production of good horses. Although Mecklenburg 

 horses were the finest saddle horses in Germany eighty or 

 ninety years ago, their breeding arrangements have been 

 so badly managed and English thorough-bred blood has 

 been so indiscriminately introduced, that the best horses 

 now in Mecklenburg are those of the Hanovarian or 

 Holstein breed which have been brought there, in order 

 to grow up under the favourable Mecklenburg conditions 



