BREEDING. 



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Intelligent and Gentle. 



BKEEDI.NQ. 



One of the primary points 

 of success is to start right, 

 and in no respect is this 

 more essential than in breed- 

 ing. The law of like pro- 

 ducing like is inexorable ; 

 consequently it is seen that 

 to raise good horses, good 

 horses must be bred from. 

 Many farmers who are other- 

 wise keenly alive to their 

 interest, are singularly 

 thoughtless and imprudent 

 in this. If a mare is broken 

 down and unfit for labor, no 

 matter how coarse, badly 

 formed, or what the evidence 

 of constitutional unsoundness, she is reserved to breed from. 

 Again the cheapest horse, no matter how coarse if sleek 

 and fat, ;s selected and employed to breed from. The most 

 ignorant farmer is particular to select the largest and soun- 

 dest potatoes, the cleanest wheat and oats, for seed, etc. 

 He has learned this is 

 true economy. Yet 

 there seems to be the 

 most utter disregard 

 of this law of pru- 

 dence in the breed- 

 ing of horses and 

 farm stock in general. 

 During my long ex- 

 perience before the 

 public, I have en- 

 deavored to impress 

 upon farmers, when 

 I could, that this sort 

 of economy is like 

 paying a quarter for a 



chicken, and giving a Dim and Treacherou* 



dollar to have it taken home. 



