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ety should insits on their having", is a written or printed authen- 

 tic pedigree which, if necessary, could be vouched for and traced 

 to the SUid Books, so that a man having a choice mare among 

 us would not inquire into and insist upon having, before secur- 

 ing the services of a stallion, his antecedents. It may not be of 

 any importance to those who do not care, and we hope this num- 

 ber is few, as long as they have a colt born, from what parents 

 he comes, whether through unsound ones or not. But your 

 Committee can hardly think, in this day of fine horses and fine 

 breeding, that there are many in the old county of Essex who 

 are so foolish as to neglect a matter of so much importance, and 

 we urge this upon the Society as one of their most imperitive 

 regulations. 



Another valuable suggestion came as forcibly to this Commit- 

 tee as it has to others who have served upon this class of stock 

 and have written upon it often, and that is classificatio?t. There 

 is a great difference between a Percheron or Clysdale Stallion 

 and a Hamiltonian or a Goldust, and they should be entirely 

 separated in their class. No man in his senses would breed a 

 mare to either of the former two classes with the expectaton of 

 getting a colt which duriag his life would be worth anything for 

 a road horse, and yet, he would be invaluable perhaps for heavy 

 farm work, and none of us would expect a colt sired by Bysdike 

 Hamiltonian, or a Winchester, or a Dorsey Goldust to be valua- 

 ble except for rapid work on the road. The science of breeding 

 proves this without a doubt. Would any man of sense expect a 

 horse of fourteen hundred or fifteen hundred lbs to be able to 

 move ten or twelve miles an hour for two or three consecutive 

 hours and be alive or sound the next day ; or would any one im- 

 agine that the place for Smuggler or Thomas Jefferson was be- 

 fore a drag .-* Therefore your Committee speak earnestly of the 

 propriety of dividing the premiums and of making two distinct 



