1906 



ON HORSE BREEDING IN ONTARIO. 



97 



D It i-ham — Conchuled . 



Mares 



Townshijit;. 



Hope and S. Monaghan 

 Cavan and Man vers ... . , 



Cartwright 



Darlington 



Clarke 



' Total 



Type. 



iMoHtlv draught 1,400 



Mostly draught 1,400 



Mixed : 1,200 



Mostly draught, some Hackney.s luidj 



Standard-bred i 1,250 



Mixed 1,250 



4,554 



Fair 10 



Fair i 11 



Medium. 10 



Fair 



praughts, 



good ; 

 Roadsters, 

 Medium 



10 



10 



M.VRES Bred to DufFERENT Classes op Stallions 



Stdllions. 



Registered Stallion i 

 Grade Staljions... . 

 Unenumevated .... 



Totals 



Serviceably sound. Not servioeably sound. 





13 



80 



4,259 



L'02 

 33 



11 



295 



At the public meeting held at Orono, November 9th, Mr. Thos. Cowan, 

 Oiono, moved, seconded by Mr. H. C. Hoar, Hampton, "That a tax of 

 |100 be levied on all unregistered stallions kept for service, and that reg- 

 istered stallions be inspected and be required to measure up to a proper 

 standard of quality, soundness, and conformation in order obtain a permit 

 to be used as stock horses." :Carried unanimously. 



NOETHTJMBEELAND . 



Coming to Northumberland county the first to'VT'Jiships visited were 

 Hamilton and Haldimand. Some of the stallions found here are good, but 

 too many are not of a quality to improve the horse sta'ndard. Patronage of 

 inferior stallions and breeding from inferior mares appear to be the most 

 serious hindrance to improved conditions. Here, too, the majority of horse- 

 men are in favor of a Stallio'n Inspection Act. The stallions are twenty in 

 number, being ten pure-bred Clydesdales, three grades of same blood crossed 

 with French, two Shire grades, a Percheron, a Standard-bred, and two grades, 

 and a grade Thoroughbred. Their average conformation is only fair. Service 

 rfees ra'nge from |8 to 15. As regards mares, those of Clydesdale type are 

 •good, but lighter stock is inferior. 



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