PONIES 



(i). Breed the best cart horse you can find, suitable to 

 your soil and climate. 



(2). Without hesitation, I advise you to breed the best 

 pure bred Welsh pony, which I have attempted to describe in 

 class two, from 12 to 13 hands, and even 13.2. You have the 

 breeding of this class of pony almost entirely in your own 

 hands. Keep this breeding pure. 



(3). Breed cobs from 14 to 15 hands with the Welsh cob's 

 character, type and bone. The breeding of this weight carry- 

 ing cob is also in your hands. Your climate gives him the 

 constitution, the breeding, the bone. His strength and weight 

 carrying power is fully equal to slighter built horses of 15. i 

 and 15.2. Hardy, inured to all weathers, reared on hard fare 

 and used to it, sure footed and active, able to carry from twelve 

 to fifteen stone with ease, where can the Government procure his 

 equal at the size ? I think the possibility of this demand 

 should encourage breeders to believe that there will be more 

 demand for their cast offs and misfits for higher prices, 



(4). Mate your typical best and largest brood mares (but 

 only in the limited portion of your districts that suits them 

 in soil and climate) with high class well bred hackneys, and 

 even half bred sires by this cross, if the sire be large enough, 

 and the pedigree and breeding of his hackney sire and his Welsh 

 dam be good. 



CONNEMARA PONIES. 



These ponies range from 12 to 14 hands, and in colour are 

 usually bay, grey, or yellow dun. The introduction of Oriental 

 blood amongst the ponies of Connemara many years since seems 



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