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REPORT OF SPECIAL INVESTIGATION 



No. 65 



Renfrew Con eluded . 



MARES . 



MARES BKED TO DIFFERENT CLASSES OF STALLIONS. 



The meeting for the county of Renfrew was held at Cobden on Novem- 

 ber 6th, and was attended by about fifty men. Quite a number of those 

 present dropped in from the village to see what was going on. About 

 twenty men were horse raisers. All thought the draft horse the most profit- 

 able for farmers to raise. After considerable discussion and questions, 

 seventeen (about all the horsemen present), voted in favor of stallions being 

 licensed. Some thought that first-class grade stallions should be licensed 

 because they were superior to many imported ones. 



LANARK. 



Ramsay township runs almost exclusively to Clydesdale sires, there 

 being two pure-bred and two grades of that breed to one pure-bred Stan- 

 dard-bred. One of the h^avy ones is unsound; and the light sire and one 

 of the grade Clydesdales have the best conformation. It seems a pity that 



