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Clydesdale, and the Suffolk horse are bred 

 by large numbers of men who occupy land of 

 a suitable character, and who are enabled 

 to make annual sales at high prices. In some 

 parts of the country, notably in Yorkshire, 

 the Cleveland Bay, the Coach Horse, and the 

 Hackney are bred by horse-loving farmers 

 with almost equal success, and there is probaby 

 no county in England in which there are not 

 a fair proportion of men who, if not actual 

 specialists, employ the services of thorough- 

 bred stallions with the object of producing 

 foals of an improved type. Some farmers, 

 too, who make a practice of riding to hounds, 

 have proved themselves skilful breeders of 

 hunters, which they are enabled to sell with 

 advantage owing not only to their knowledge 

 of the requirements of hunting men, but to 

 the fact that they are excellent horsemen, 

 and are in consequence enabled to prepare 

 the colts which they breed for sale to liberal 

 buyers. Specialisation in horse-breeding, 

 however, is out of the question in the case 

 of the small holder. Yet there are small 

 occupiers of land who are compelled to keep 

 a horse either for purposes of haulage — ■ 

 which they sometimes undertake for other 

 people — or for the cultivation of their land, 



