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HERDS AND FLOCKS AND HORSES. 



HACKNEY MARE 



regard the hackney as the best kind of horse for military pur- 

 poses an animal that was always uppermost in each of their 

 minds but because they would see in half a dozen fashionable 

 hackneys as much money value as would have mounted a regi- 

 ment of cavalry in their days. 



Not only is the hackney the most fashionable and valuable 

 of heavy harness horses at present, but he is becoming more 

 and more so as time goes on. There are fortunes upon fortunes 

 in him, and he, like the heavy draughter, is a ready-made and 

 highly finished animal of the highest order. We see him every 



