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In undertaking: this kind of breeding, it should be 

 carried on as much as possible in communities, to 

 attract buyers. The Province of Ontario, Canada; West 

 Virginia and some sections of Missouri are the present 

 headquarters for breeding this class of horses in Amer- 

 ica. Many thousand dollars for horses go annually to 

 these centers from all parts of the eastern states. 

 There is a very promising field for any community 

 of eastern farmers undertaking to breed this class of 

 horses. The great reputation won by Canada in the 

 harness- and saddle-horse markets of the world, and 

 in supplying the very highest class of remounts for the 

 British army, is owing to the extensive use of the 

 "blood" horse in some sections of the Dominion. 

 Within a radius of twenty -five miles of the City of 

 Toronto, for instance, there were reported, in 1895, 

 sixty-odd thoroughbred stallions in service principally, 

 almost entirely, to farm mares. 



It is not too much to say that the general use among 

 farmers of thoroughbred sires in Canada has brought to 

 that country the enviable reputation it now enjoys for 

 breeding high -class horses both for saddle and harness, 

 and that it has brought to our cousins across the lakes 

 millions of American dollars that should have remained 

 at home. 



