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J 'rises in Live Stock. " 1 think," says an authority, " the 

 tario breeders and farmers as a community, as far back as you want 

 to go, are the best judges of quality and conformation of all classes 

 of horses that you will find in any country you wMi to visit; and 

 this is proved by the fact that when they make up their mind- they 

 can take a string of horses anywhere, and conn hark with a large 

 proportion of pi; 



At the (uelph Winter 1'air, December, 1911, the Hon. Adam 

 1 : "It must be gratifying to us to know that in the twenty- 

 three elates at the New York Show, where we were in competi- 

 tion with the Belgian-, the best that Holland could produce, the 

 .land could produce; yes, with the best that our con > in- 

 in the south of us could produce, Canada won u firsts, including 

 hampioiisln; .nds. 7 thirds and 8 fourth.-. In fact, the 



Jiibitors carried away more than half the pri/e- in 

 twenty-three classes in which they exhibited." 



At the Chicago International Exhibition, where the pick 

 American live stock meet, it is a common occurrence for Canadian 

 breeders to win championships for Clydesdale stallions, as was done 

 in n;u. when a grand championship was awarded, besides other 

 leading prizes, and many of the principal awards for pure-bred and 

 title, as well as sheep and swine, are brought back to Ontario. 

 An exhibitor from the Province, who has frequently carried off 

 championships in previous International Shows, won the champion- 

 ship for Shorthorn grades in 1912. The exhibit of >heep from the 

 Province at Chicago is alway> an excellent one, and in some of the 

 s the Canadian exhibitor- are invincible. The grand cliam- 

 hip for wethers in 1912 fell to an exhibitor of Shropshires from 

 Ontario. 



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