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HERDS AND FLOCKS AND HORSES. 



HUNTERS. 



THE hunter is another horse in which is hidden untold 

 profit, if his breeding were taken up in this country 

 on lines calculated to fit him for hunting as it is con- 

 ducted in England, and will eventually be conducted here, and 

 to breed him with bone, size, substance, weight, carrying capa- 

 city, speed and stamina that would make him appeal to hunt- 

 ing men. In England, during the five months of the hunting 

 season, fifty thousand people at the very least may be put down 



A WEIGHT CARRYING HUNTER 

 (Copyright by W. A. Rouch.) 



