food supplies are given the dairy herd while his young stock, fine 

 tollies and most promising foals are subjected to spare diet in order 

 to get "quick returns" from the dairy — the tollies are three years 

 late for the market and they are poor beef cattle even at that, while 

 the promising foals run in a mob and find no market. Does the 

 dairy make up for all this ? This wise man keeps no diary along 

 with his dairy and ignorance is bliss. Instances of this are unhap- 

 pily too frequent and can only be rectified by education ; happily 

 the enterprise is there, extra feed is supplied but fed into wrong 

 channels. 



Horse-breeding should not be carried on where the natural and 

 first requirements for the successful rearing of sound and useful 

 animals are wanting. In the selection of a farm for horse-breed- 

 ing, nothing can excel a limestone formation, as the water and 

 grasses of such farms so situated contain a due proportion of those 

 minerals so essential to the natural formation and development of 

 bone.^^ Low marchy grounds are very unfavorable to the consti- 

 tution of the horse, to the oriental or Thoroughbred type at least 

 and tend to make him coarse, unwieldy and generally unsound. 

 South Africa happily possesses large tracts of land containing these 

 requirements in addition to the extremely dry air and a temperate 

 climate and is eminently suited for horse-breeding — especially of 

 the Arab and his kind who find there a second home under better 

 grazing conditions and besides the Thoroughbred can no where else 

 be bred to better perfection. 



With the proper farm selected and thoroughly fenced and di- 

 vided into separate camps — this is a sine qua non in practical and 

 successful horse-breeding — proper accommodation must be provided 

 for the stallions and good shelter for the mares during the cold 

 winter months, for although well fed he will not grow and since this 

 want of size is often the only complaint against our horses, the shelter 

 from cold is an absolute imperative in order that every facility be 

 given the young foal to grow. By these shelters are not meant 

 the stabling of about two hundred and more of brood mares and 

 foals ; but such sheds as would give sufficient warmth on cold and 

 frosty nights and can be made use of by the animals at their own 



(16) Compare Dr. E. C. Hutcheon, Chief Veterinary Surgeon and later Di- 

 rector of Agriculture for the Cape Colony. Ag. Jour, of Cape Colony 

 1906. 



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