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Bruce — Continued. 



and Sliire breeding are grades, and there is also a French. Canadian grade 

 and a vStaiidard-hred grade. All are sound except one, but the average 

 quality and conformation is only fair, and services are given for as low a 

 price as f5 with a general run of |9 to |15. Mares are not numerous, and 

 are chiefly of the agricultural type and in quality poor. 



No draught stallions were seen in Amabel township, sires being Stand- 

 ard-breds and grades, one-half being unsound. Fees range from |8 to -^lO. 

 The rating is not high. There are some draught mares in Amabel township 

 and heavy stallions come in from Grey county, and consequently will be 

 credited to townsh'ps in Grey where these stallions came from, the Inspec- 

 tors being largely dependent for their information on the stallion owners 

 themselves. 



In Saugeen and Arran townships the Clydesdale is the predominant 

 breed, there being five imported Clydesdales, five Canadian-bred, one grade, 

 an imported Hackney, and two registered Standard-breds. There are four 

 cases of unsoundness, all among the heavy ones and the average merit of 

 these is only fair. Eight to seventeen dollars is the range of the fees. As 

 in several of the other townships the agricultural type of mare is in the 

 ma-jority, but there are a good many draught and some light mares. 



One Clydesdale, a Hackney, a Standard-bied and two grade? of that 

 breeding constitute the list of sires in Bruce township. Here, again, was 

 found unsoundness in the proportion of two-fifths. Conformation is good in 

 three-fifths and very bad in the remainder. Service fees are quoted as |7, 

 |10 and S15. Mares average about 1,250 in weight. 



Kincardine township co'ntains no less than nineteen stallions, the 

 majority being of the heavy type. Among them are five pure-bred Clydes- 

 dales, four grades of that breeding, five Percherons and five Standard- 

 breds, of which three are grades. The grades, as usual are the cause of 

 service fees being put as low as |5 and $8, but the owners of pure-bred sires 

 get from |10 to |14. The average quality and coinformation is only fair. 

 Agricultural mares again lead in number with 600, draught come nest with 

 433, followed closely by light mares 410. The average weight is 1,250. 



The four stallions inspected in Huron township were two Clydesdales, 

 an imported and a Canadian-bred one, respectively, an imported Shire and 

 a Percheron. One-half are reported as sound. Service fees charged are fS, 

 $10 and •1'*12. Out of the 430 mares in this tiownship, 300 belong to the agri- 

 cultural and 130 to the draught type. 



In Gre?nock township there are five pure-bred Clydesdale stallions, 3 

 imported and 2 Canadian-bred, an imported Shire, a Standard-bred, and 2 

 grades of French Canadian and German Coach blood respectively. The 

 lowest service fee is |9 and the highest |15. No less than three out of the 

 nine are not sound, and their standard of excellence is but fair. Mares 

 average about the same weight as in the adjoining townships, viz, — 1,250 

 lbs., and in poi'nt of numbers they stand agricultural 500; draught 25;"), and 

 light 160. Their average quality is fair. 



Ivxprctors' Remarhs : "We find in Bruce county (and especially in the 

 Centre Riding) a larger percentage of Percheron stallions than any other 

 district that we have visited on tliis commission. These horses are in a 



