APPENDIX I 359 



ADVICE TO BREEDERS 



Breeders 011 the western ranges will, no doubt, find it profit- 

 able from this time forward, to devote considerable attention to 

 the production of horses especially adapted for military use. 



In the other portions of the Dominion the supply of such 

 horses can be enormously increased with but little extra effort or 

 expense on the part of the breeder. 



Immense numbers of light horses and ponies are annually bred 

 in Canada of which many when grown are, owing to their non- 

 descript character, of but little value. If the breeders of these 

 animals would send their lighter mares to pure-bred stallions, of 

 the British breeds, intelligently selected with a view to the pro- 

 duction of a definite type of military horse, a vast improvement in 

 our clean-legged stock would speedily manifest itself. 



High prices would then, as now, be easily obtainable for really 

 superior animals; most of the others would find ready sale for 

 army use as well as for other purposes, while the misfits and object 

 lessons would be less numerous and, except by comparison, not 

 less valuable, than they are at present. 



[The admirable instructions for breeding army horses in Canada, 

 as set forth in the previous pages, are applicable when applied to 

 breeding the same class of horses in the United States.] AUTHOR. 



NOTE. With horsemen, the figures 15.1, 15.3 are read fifteen 

 hands, one inch, and fifteen hands, three inches. See pp. 356, 

 357. 



