Chapter XYI. 



BREEDING. 



ONE of the primary points, of success in any enterprise is to 

 start right, and in no respect is this more true than in the 

 breeding of horses. The law of like producing- like is inexor- 

 able ; consequently, to raise good horses, good horses must be bred 

 from. Many farmers who are keenly alive to other interests, are 



Fro. 365.— Arabian Mare and Coll. 



singularly thoughtless and imprudent in this. If a mare is broken 

 down, and unfit for labor, no matter how coarse or badly formed she 

 is, or what the evidence of constitutional unsoundness, she is usu- 

 ally reserved to breed from. 



On the same principle, no matter how coarse the stallion, if he 

 is fat and sleek, and if his use can be obtained cheap, he is selected 

 (896) , 



