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Leeds Concluded. 



Inspectors' Remarks : The mares are an exceedingly poor class, light, 

 and very few good young mares are bred. Farmers do not think of breed- 

 ing a mare until it is unfit for work, old, decrepit and unsound. This is an 

 exceedingly poor county, for mares, and we did not see one good sound 

 pure-bred mare of any class used for breeding. 



FRONTENAC. 



Kingston township farmers evidently pin their faith almost entirely to 

 the light breeds as there are a pure-bred and a grade Hackney, a Standard- 

 bred and four Roadster grades, and one pure-bred Clydesdale standing for 

 service here. No less than one-half are not sound, and are not likely to be 

 successful sires. Conformation is rather poor on the whole. Service fees 

 are |8 to $15. Mares average 1,000 Ibs., are light in type and poor in 

 average quality. 



The two stallions, a Clydesdale and a Percheron, both pure-bred and 

 sound, standing in Pittsburg township are two pretty fair horses. Service 

 fee is f 10. Mares are practically of the same type as in the previous town- 

 ship. 



Two stallions were inspected in Storrington township, a pure-bred 

 Percheron and a grade Shire. 



Mares are very poor in Loughborough township, their average weight 

 being given as 900 Ibs., and quality poor. The three stallions found here, 

 too, are not of good type, and two are unsound. All are pure-bred, being 

 two Standard-breds, and a Clydesdale. Six dollars to $10 is the variation 

 in fees. 



Portland township has all grades for sires, two Roadsters, a Clydes- 

 dale, and a French Canadian. One half of them are sound, and they have 

 fair conformation. Three stand for service at $8 and one for $15. Mares 

 are very poor and light. 



The only stallion inspected on Wolfe Island was a pure-bred French 

 Coach horse of fair conformation, standing at $20, and also sound. The 

 Inspectors were told that there were a great many common, nondescript 

 stallions kept here, which serve all the mares they can at any price obtain- 

 able during the season. They are then put to work. The horses and mares 

 are very inferior, and a great many unsound, and the people quite ignor- 

 ant of breeding principles. This Island would be an ideal breeding ground 

 if farmers gave more attention to breeding. Four stables were visited, but 

 the owners and the horses were away from home. 



Bedford township is poor and rocky, and the mares are very inferior. 

 There is a pure-bred Canadian 'Clydesdale, serviceably sound. Its fee is 

 $9. 



A grade Shire and a grade Coach travel in Oso township ; one being 

 unsound. Six dollars and $4 are their respective fees. Mares, too, are 

 poor, and the country rough and stony. 



Olden township, also, has two grades, both of French blood, one of 

 them unsound. Four dollars and $5 are the fees. 



Kernebec, another of the rear townships, has one grade Clydesdale 

 stallion on service. 



Three of the six sires in Hinchinbrooke township were not inspected. 

 The other three are a pure-bred Clydesdale, a grade of the same breed, and 

 a French grade. Only one is sound, and none of them are very good. 



