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hills of Wales. Not all Welsh ponies, however, 

 show the effects of this cross. The prevailing 

 colors are bay and brown. Efforts have been 

 made of late to form a breed of Welsh cobs by 

 mating the pony mare with the Hackney and 

 some excellent results have followed the work 

 of the breeders in both England and Wales. 

 The Welsh mountains form about as bleak and 

 barren a territory as any in which ponies are 

 bred, but the breeders are going forward with 

 concerted 'aim and still further improvement in 

 this type is confidently to be expected. 



EANGE HOESES. 



As 'there were no horses on the American con- 

 tinent at the time of its discovery it follows 

 that all the so-called wild horses of the plains 

 must originally have sprung from Spanish 

 stock. The spread of the American wild horse, 

 so-called, must have been from the Eio Grande 

 northward, and shape, color and size were as- 

 sumed according to locality. The cay use or 

 Indian pony may fairly be accepted as the abo- 

 riginal type of the horse of the American plains. 

 We all know him. A perfect prodigy of en- 

 durance in himself he has yielded readily to at- 

 tempts at improvement wherever they have 

 been made and he is now not nearly so numer- 

 ous as he was twenty-five or thirty years ago, 

 but we will always have him with us. 



Gradually as settlers crossed the continent 

 the range horse grew into- existence. Individ- 

 uality and speed superior to that possessed by 

 the cayuse were required when the herds of 



