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their advantage to work large, roomy, bony, half or two- 

 third-bred mares, out of which, when they grow old, or if 

 by chance they meet with an accident, they may raise hunt- 

 ers, coach horses, or, at the worst, chargers or machiners, 

 rather than to plow with garrons and weeds, the stock of 

 which would be valueless and worthless except for the 

 merest drudgery. 



Within the last ten years the English agri- 

 cultural press and English writers upon the 

 horse have begun to again speak of the Cleve- 

 land Bay as a breed, but as late as Nov. 18, 

 1881, I find the London Live-Stock Journal, the 

 only distinctively live-stock serial publication 

 in Great Britain, stating that: 



The Cleveland that some people write about is not a Cleve- 

 land; it is only the nearest approach to what the Cleveland 

 was like. If there is such a thing as a pure Cleveland the 

 owner should stick to him; the breed, it is possible, may be 

 resuscitated. 



The Mark Lane Express of about the same 

 date qualified a reference of the same sort by 

 the remark, "if there be such a breed"; and Mr. 

 Frederick Street, who as late as 1883 wrote 

 "The History of the Shire Horse" in England, 

 speaking of the heavier classes of horses, says: 

 "The only distinct breeds now recognized are 

 the Shire horse or English Cart horse, the 

 Clydesdale and the Suffolk ; the Cleveland Bay 

 being well-nigh extinct." In January, 1884, I 

 addressed a letter to Mr. George T. Turner, then 

 editor of the Mark Lane Express, of London, 

 asking for his opinion as to whether the Cleve- 



