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lively, especially where they are used but little, the 



grain ration should be about one -halt', and the hay 



ration one -fourth of that fed to the employed roadster. 



It is sometimes said that a pony can be bred and 



FIG. 25. Champion Welsh pony mare. Titor, 11% hands high. 

 Owned by John Jones & Sons, Colwyn Bay, North Wales, England 



raised about as cheaply as a sheep. The raising of good 

 ponies is a highly specialized business; therefore their 

 breeding should not be begun hastily or ignorantly. 

 Anybody, can raise little horses at little expense, but 

 they will have to be content with little prices. In pony 

 breeding, something for a little or nothing is no more 

 likely to be secured than in the production of other live 



