1906 



ON HORSE BREEDING IN ONTARIO. 



51 



Huron Concluded. 



MARES BRED TO DIFFERENT CLASSES OF STALLIONS. 



The public meeting for the county of Huron was held at Clinton on 

 October 18th. Owing to the inclemency of the weather the meeting was 

 not so largely attended as would otherwise have been the case. However, 

 each riding ni the county was represented. After about two hours' dis- 

 cussion on the horse question, the meeting came to the unanimous decision 

 that some steps should be taken to pievent a grade or unsound stallion 

 standing for service. Those present also resolved that "In the opinion 

 of this meeting a License Act would be preferable to an Inspection Act." 



BRUCE. 



The townships of Kinloss and Culross in Bruce County have a number of 

 heavy sires, there being no less than 11 imported Clydesdales, 2 Canadian - 

 bred ones, a Belgian and a French Draught, while the only representatives 

 of the light breeds are 2 Standard-breds. There is not a single grade horse 

 standing for service. With three exceptions they are all sound and one of 

 these is not now usad in the stud. The Inspectors state that the Clydesdale 

 were the best average lot they saw in their investigations. The mi'nimum fee 

 is? $11 and maximum $16. The mares are mostly agricultural in type number- 

 ing 1,000 of this class, 730 of the draught class and 153 light. They are of 

 fair average quality. 



In the township of Carrick the inspectors found only two draught 

 horses, a Clydesdale and a Belgian, the rest being Standard-breds, one of 

 them a grade, and two of the sires are unsound. Eight to sixteen dollars is 

 the range of service fees. As a matter of fact over 20 stallions, from Huron 

 County principally, covered a part of this township, and a number of the 

 mares credited to that county should really be included in Carrick' s and 

 Brant's list. The number of mares as given to Carrick and Brant townships 

 L< draught 166, agricultural 200, and light 187. The mares of draught 

 type are as numerous in these townships as in any of the other townships of 

 Bruce. 



Brant township has two imported Clydedales and a grade, all sound and 

 standing for fees as follows: grade $8, pure-breds $15. 



While Eastnor a'nd Lindsay townships have a fair percentage of heavy 

 sires, three Clydesdales, a Shire and a Percheron, two of these of Clydesdale 



