Management and Feeding of Heavy Horses 139 



from the best of eligible stock on both sides, so that the produce 

 may be registered. In a certain district of Montgomeryshire where 

 the best Shire stallions have been in use for thirty years, a large 

 number of tenant farmers have made a profitable business of horse 

 breeding. Among so many it may appear invidious to mention 

 names, but the champion male and champion female at the 

 London Shire Horse Show of 19 14 were both bred in that district, 

 the colt having been sold, as indicated in an earlier chapter of this 

 volume, for the record price of 4100 gs. Such success as this is not 

 attained by all, but this, like other examples that might be given, 

 not only in Shires but in the other heavy breeds, notably Clydes- 

 dales, shows what may be done in heavy-horse breeding by a little 

 enterprise, careful breeding, and good management. That heavy- 

 horse breeding may be made a profitable business for farmers, if 

 conducted on proper lines, the experience of the last few years has 

 abundantly proved. 



