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old farm horse of fifty years ago, has attractea attention in the United 

 States, and especially in the West, where many fair specimens have been 

 Imported. As showing the characteristics when standing extended and at 

 rest, we give a portrait of a pure bay, in color, with a star in the fore- 

 head, and one white hind fetlock. These dashes of white not detracting 

 from the ptyle of any horse, and showing breeding. It is a horse show- 

 ing blood and breeding, with lofty crest, magnificent withers, round bar* 

 veiled, and clean limbed, a coat like satin, and a head of excellent pro- 

 portions. Colts from such a horse out of large, roomy mares of good 

 «tyle, will always sell for high prices. When you find such a stallion do 

 not be afraid to buy, he will pay, and his foals will pa}'^ for their feed and 

 traming. 



The old fashioned horse of this race, the Cleveland bay, is extinct and 

 gone. The present form is the result of crosses with staunch thorough- 

 breds, giving better form throughout, greater speed and eminent style. 

 We consider them as among the very best from which to breed stylish 

 animals from proper mares. Horses that may do the ordinary farm work 

 until six years past, and then be sold at good prices for stylish omnibus, 

 express, light draft, and carriage horses in our cities. Farmers who have 

 large, well built mares, wishing to breed colts that shall have size enough 

 for any farm or road work ; that will breed to uniform color, so that they 

 may be easily matched ; that will have style — not that of the blood horse, 

 or light driving, or trotting horse — will do well to investigate the char- 

 acteristics of the Cleveland hays. Canada has acquired a high reputation 

 for stylish, well matched coach horses. It is founded in a gi'eat measure 

 upon crosses produced by breeding the modern Cleveland bays upon large, 

 handsome mares of more or less breeding. 



Such 'horses if properly cared for will do eight or nine miles an hour, 

 in harness, and under the saddle may be pushed up to twelve miles an 

 hour ; are active in all their gaits, tractable, easily managed, intelligent, 

 fast walkers, always ready for their feed, and as eager at labor, as they 

 are kind and intelligent every M'here. The late Henry William Herbert, 

 (Frank Forester), a thorough horseman, an accurate judge of horse flesh, 

 and a finished writer, in his voluminous work, "The Horse of America,'* 

 thus describes the original Cleveland bay, and also the improved horse of 

 his time : "The Cleveland bay, in its natural and unmixed form, is a tall, 

 powerfully built, bony animal, averaging, I should say, fifteen hand* 

 three inches in height, rarelj' falling short of fifteen and a half or ex- 

 ceeding sixteen and a half hands. 



The crest and withers are almost invariably good, the head bony, lean, 

 and well set on. Ewe-necks are, probably, rarer in this family than in 

 •oy other, unless it be the dray-horse, in which it is never seen. 



