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the world. The United States of America 

 took many of our best Shire horses every 

 year until the introduction of prohibitive 

 Import tariffs ; these naturally administered a 

 severe check to the trade ; but there Is o-ood 

 reason to beUeve that the present year (1898) 

 has witnessed a revival. Our best European 

 customers now are the Germans ; and of 

 more remote buyers, the breeders of the 

 Argentine Republic. It must be stated, in 

 connection with what has been said on a 

 previous page concerning the importance of 

 studying pedigrees, that foreign . buyers, 

 though ready to pay large sums for our best, 

 will possess themselves of the best only. 

 Their object is to perpetuate the Shire breed 

 pure, and also to improve the bone, size and 

 substance of native breeds ; and with this 

 purpose in view they are invariably most 

 exacting on the points of pedigree and sound- 

 ness. They know that good pedigree and 

 soundness are essential, and require that 

 their purchases shall not only be registered 

 in the Stud Book, but shall be able to show 

 the clearest record of descent ; such record 

 shows that the qualities of the individual 

 horse are hereditary, and may be relied on 

 as transmissible to Its progeny. 



Important testimony to the value of the 



