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REPORT OF SPECIAL INVESTIGATION 



No. 65 



Renfrew — Concluded. 



Mares , 



Stallions. 



Registered Stallions. 

 Grade Stallions 



Totals 



Maees Bbed to Different Classes of Siallions. 



Total. 



03 .^ 



Serviceably sound. '! Not Serviceably sound. 





24 

 24 



48 



3 "^ 



k5 



1,642 

 1,394 



3,036 



-5 





a 9 



120 

 299 



419 



The meeting for the county of Renfrew was held at Cobden on I^ovem- 

 ber 6th, and was attended by about fifty men. Quite a number of those 

 present dropped in from the village to see what was going on. About 

 twenty men were horse raisers. All thought the draft horse the most profit- 

 able for farmers to raise. After considerable discussion and questions, 

 seventeen (about all the horsemen present), voted in favor of stallions being 

 licensed. Some thought that first-class grade stallions should be licensed 

 because they were superior to many imported ones. 



Lanaek. 



Ramsay township runs almost exclusively to Clydesdale sires, there 

 being two pure-bred and two grades of that breed to one pure-bred Stan- 

 dard-bred, One nf the hr>'.iVY ones is unsound; and the light sire pnd one 

 of the grade Clydesdales have the best conformation. It seems a pity that 



