48 Herds and Flocks and Horses. 



lie Clydesdale, Shire, Percberon or Belgian. In regard to 

 heavy harness horses, the great stables of the East have pointed 

 to the class of animals required for this purpose, and at the 

 horse show held in connection with the Chicago International 

 Live Stock Exposition have exhibited such types of Hackneys 

 and other horses and ponies as have not been looked upon any- 

 where else. 



The Westerner can produce horses of any breed as good and 

 better than can his Eastern neighbor, and he can do it cheaper 

 and in larger numbers ; all he wants is a model, and this model 

 these great Eastern stables are providing. Nothing can give 

 more practical instruction than such show ring lessons as 

 these, and so the Horse Show plays its part in an educational 

 way, as does its companion, the Stock Show. 



The heavy draught horse and the heavy harness horse are 

 by no means the limit of the fashionable horse world, for 

 Hunters, Saddle Horses, Hackney Ponies, Polo Ponies, Welsh 

 Ponies and Shetlands are in great and increasing demand, and 

 in addition to these animals, the Army Horse, for which 

 England, France, Germany, the whole of military Europe and 

 Japan are crying, could, with special attention to the careful 

 breeding of the classes required, be bred in the West in num- 

 bers sufficient to supi)ly them all, and at prices that would pay, 

 and pay well, even on a peace footing, but which would be 

 turned into fortunes when war breaks out, and war is sure to 

 come. 



