HORSE BREEDING. 



By Prof. J. Hugo Reed, V. S., Guelph, Ontaria 



THE LAW OF HEREDITY OK SIMILARITY. II. THE LAW OF VARIATION.— 



III. LAW OP HABIT. IV. THE LAW OF ATAVISM OR STRIKING BACK. V. 



THE LAW OF CORRELATION. VI. THE LAW OF FECUNDITY OR POWER TO REPRO- 

 DUCE. Vil. IN-BREEDING AND IN-AND-IN-BREEDING. VIII. CROSS-BREED- 

 ING. IX. THE RELATIVE INFLUENCE OF PARENTS. X. INFLUENCE OF 



A PREVIOUS IMPREGNATION. XI. INTRA-UTERINE INFLUENCE. XII. SEX 



AT WILL. XIII. CARRIAGE HORSES. XIV. SADDLE HORSES AND HUNTERS. 



XV. COBS. XVI. ROADSTERS. XVII. POINTS OF THE HORSE. XVIII. 



THE EXTERNAL CONFORMATION OF THE HORSE. XIX. CONFORMATION OF TFB 



HEAVY DRAFT STALLION. XX. CONFORMATION OF MARE OR GELDING. 



XXI. CONFORMATION OF COACH STALLION. XXII. CONFORMATION OF CAR- 

 RIAGE MARE OR GELDING XXIII. CONFORMATION OF THE HACKNEY STALL- 

 ION. XXIV. CONFORMATION OF THE STANDARD-BRED STALLION. XXV. 



CONFORMATION OF THE THOROUGH-BRED STALLION. — —XXVI. CONFORMATION 

 OF THE THOROUGH-BRED GELDING OR MARE. 



Present conditions point clearly to the fact that horse breeding can 

 be carried on with a reasonable prospect of fair profit. I do not mean 

 to advise farmers to go exclusively, or even extensively, into horse 

 breeding, but to have one or more mares breeding every year, as I think 

 any person following mixed farming should. While to-day even the 

 horse of no particular breeding or characteristics to particularly recom- 

 mend him (the mongrel, we might say) will command a fair price, I do 

 not recommend his production. The time for the patronage of the im- 

 pure bred sire at a low stud fee is past. In order that a man may suc- 

 cessfully and profitably breed horses, a few things are essential. In the 

 first place, he must be a fair judge of a horse, he must understand the 

 desirable conformation, action and characteristics of the horse he is try- 

 ing to produce, and the greater his knowledge of the internal economy 

 — as bones, muscles, ligaments, nervous, thoracic and abdominal organs 

 — the better. He must, provided he intends breeding for the market, 

 carefully study the horse markets and ascertain which classes of horses 

 are in demand at fair prices. Then he must decide which of those 

 classes his particular tastes or fancies, conditions or environments war- 

 rant him in endeavoring to produce. He must fix in his mind a definite 

 standard and then work up to that standard. 



He must not expect to reach his ideal all at once : he must have pa 

 tience and perseverance, must not become discouraged if he be disap- 

 pointed in his first attempt. Success in breeding horses, as in all other 

 departments of farm management, must be measured by the actual 



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