THE CLYDESDALE. 177 



In the Dominion of Canada, separated from 

 the United States only by water or an intangi- 

 ble boundary line, which is far from straight, 

 the Clydesdale is the pre-eminent drafter. For 

 more than half a century he has thriven and 

 multiplied and made money for his users. After 

 trial of that length of time he still repels in- 

 vasions of the other breeds, as he has repelled 

 them since his advent into the country of the 

 beaver. Magnificent pairs of home-bred Clydes- 

 dale geldings may be seen in Toronto, Ottawa, 

 Montreal and elsewhere, pairs that are to all 

 intents and purposes pure-bred and which have 

 left a profit from the first hands to the last. 

 Dotted over the Dominion are the Clydesdale 

 studs all the way from Edmonton to Quebec, 

 and there are no shrewder, more representa- 

 tive or broader-minded men than their own- 

 ers. But the Canadians are a nation of stock- 

 men to the manner born and this may have 

 something to do with it. Besides the Cana- 

 dians are much more in sympathy with old 

 country ideas and methods than we are, which 

 after all is only natural. 



British breeders, however, owe the interest 

 in the United States some measure of co-opera- 

 tion at least. If they would face about and give 

 us the big brawny ciean-Iegged sort that could 

 be named as heroes of a former day when the 

 Clydesdale was in his glory here, we would 



gladly pay the price and the benefit to the breed 

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