46 STUD books; AND THEIR 



breeds more true to type. Now, it is just 

 this breeding true to type which one is apt 

 not to get in other breeds, unless it be with 

 the mountain and moorland ponies aforesaid, 

 which, left to run in a semi-wild state and 

 breed according to natural selection, seem 

 to retain their type from generation to 

 generation. After due care and time the 

 results attained in the case of the thorough- 

 bred may be looked for in other breeds, 

 which are now supplied with their respective 

 " Stud Books." Time, it must be remembered, 

 is quite as essential as care wherever nature 

 has to be dealt with ; the most that man 

 with all his powers of precaution and God- 

 given judgment can effect being to guide 

 natural effort into the desired channel. 



The best results, brief as is the time in 

 which the system of registration has been 

 applied to them, have already shown them- 

 selves in the case of the Clydesdale and other 

 breeds of cart horse. Even the Cleveland 



