CHAPTER II 



BREEDING 



I AM going to write very little about 

 the breeding of cart-horses under this 

 heading, as most men who breed them 

 are practical farmers who know quite as 

 much on the subject as I can tell them, 

 but one word I may say in the shape 

 of advice especially applicable to the 

 small occupier who rears an odd foal, 

 and it is a point which I shall emphasize 

 very strongly further on, when we come 

 to hunter-breeding, i.e, don't breed from 

 small, under-sized, ill-shaped mares. If 

 any one has a mare of the small and 

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