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recommendations are rather intended to apply to 

 farmers of all classes, who may keep a few odd mares 

 for doing catch work about the farm, and who may 

 turn them into some profit by judicious breeding at 

 comparatively little cost. This idea is very practical, 

 because probably nine-tenths of the mounts of the 

 Imperial Yeomanry and cavalry regiments are drawn 

 from this class of horses. 



Pedigreed Hackneys, high -class hunters, and 

 thoroughbreds are unsuitable for the work, because 

 the prices which they realise are prohibitive. 



With a large increase in mounted infantry in 

 future, hardy horses, bred in this way, may probably 

 be in great demand, and horses of this class cost prac- 

 tically nothing for breeding, and will pay fairly well 

 at ;^40 a head. 



A heavy-weight hunter should be bred from a 

 strong half-bred mare and a thoroughbred stallion — 

 their respective dams having been originally crossed 

 the proper way. It is a pity that hunters are not 

 classified as a distinct breed, but owing to the valuable 

 correspondence which has recently occurred in the 

 Live Stock Jonr7ial^ it is pretty safe to predict that 

 we are within a measurable distance of attaining this 

 desirable object. The Hunters* Improvement Society 

 is doing much useful work in improving the breed 

 of hunters, and in the near future excellent results 

 are likely to be achieved in consequence. 



Hunters and all other classes of horses will be 

 fully considered in the sections that deal with them. 



