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at to keep stallions fit for the road during the travel- 

 ling" season. They should always have plenty of 

 exercise to keep their legs in order. Many diseases 

 of the legs are caused by over-feeding and insufficient 

 exercise. 



Thoroughbred stallions will travel from twenty to 

 thirty miles a day, and serve seventy or eighty mares 

 in the season ; while Clydesdales and Shires will travel 

 fifteen or eighteen miles and serve sixty or seventy 

 mares. Colts of three years of age, however, should 

 not be allowed to serve more than thirty-five or forty 

 mares. Serving too many mares during the first 

 season spoils them for the next. 



HARNESS HORSES, HACKS, AND HUNTERS. 



The best way to breed a half-bred harness horse 

 is to cross a cart mare with a thoroughbred or Hack- 

 ney stallion ; or, if a lighter stamp is desired, a 

 half-bred mare should be used. Better action will 

 be obtained from the Hackney than from the 

 thoroughbred cross. 



The best kind of hack is produced from a half- 

 bred cob mare and a thoroughbred or Hackney sire, 

 or a half or three-parts bred mare if a lighter stamp 

 is wanted. 



We are not treating here of pure-bred pedigreed 

 stock. High -class studs can only be built upon pure- 

 bred foundations after years of careful selection and 

 mating, and at a large expenditure of capital, to 

 attain to anything like front-rank success. Our 



