1906 



ON HORSE BREEDING IN ONTARIO. 



109 



Renfrew Continued. 



In Stafford, only one stallion was seen a Percheron grade. 



Stallion owners in Wilberforce township travel two pure-bred and one 

 grade Clydesdale, a pure-bred Shire, a grade Percheron, a grade Coach, 

 and a horse of no particular breeding. The pure-breds and the grade Per- 

 cheron and Coach grade have good conformation. One grade is not sound. 

 Only one owner charges $10 fees; the rest charge from |5 to $6. 



Excepting a grade Clydesdale in Bromley township, which the In- 

 spectors were unable to see, the four other sires are a Clydesdale, Shire, and 

 Percheron, and a grade Clydesdale. They are of fair average conforma- 

 tion. Two cannot qualify for soundness. The service fee is highest for 

 the Shire, viz., $10, the others stand for $5 and $8. 



Two grade stallions, both of French Canadian breeding, one being a 

 Percheron cross, serve in the township of Ross. Only one was seen by the 

 Inspectors, and it was sound and of good conformation, standing for service - 

 at $8, while the fee of the other was $5. Very few mares were met with 

 that could be called good. They are of a light type and of no particular 

 breeding. The best mares are sold to the lumbermen. The Inspectors 

 state that in this country they saw some really good stallions, and if these 

 are well patronized, the result should be a considerable improvement in the 

 future. 



In the townships of Grattan, Hagarty, Ratcliffe and the districts adjoin- 

 ing, but stationed principally at Eganville and Killaloe, there are seven- 

 teen stallions, some of them quite good horses, and the majority of them 

 serviceably sound. A number of them could not be seen by the Inspectors, 

 but from reliable information furnished, those not seen work out a good 

 average as regards conformation and also soundness. There is one syndi- 

 cate horse. Clydesdales total three pure-breds and four grades; Shires, one 

 pure-bred ; Percherons, one pure-bred and two grades ; Standard-breds, one 

 pure-bred and two grades, and French Canadians three, two at least being 

 grades. The maximum fee is $10, but the majority run from $8 down to 

 $3, and in one case, anything between $1 and $3 is taken. The best mares 

 seen were under 1,500 Ibs., but they are very few in number; the majority 

 are of a light general purpose type and of no particular breeding. 



STALLIONS. 



