EFFECT ON BREEDING, 5$ 



commands at present; though, personally, I 

 fancy I should always prefer a short-legged 

 thoroughbred, or nearly thoroughbred, horse 

 for any kind of hacking work. 



The main use of Stud Books, we may 

 say, then, in conclusion, is to preserve an 

 infallible record by which the breeder may 

 clearly trace the descent of his stock from 

 the purest sources ; and if this register could 

 be supplemented by a scale of points, and 

 the degree in which these existed in the 

 several animals whose names and numbers 

 figure therein, it would be of greater value 

 still. Mr. William Housman, in an article 

 entitled "Aids to Judgment in Stock-breed- 

 ing," which appeared lately in the Idve 

 Stock Journal Almanack, makes this sug- 

 gestion, with the remark that "pedigree 

 and certificate of personal character should 

 go together." The obvious difficulty would be 

 in the dimensions to which the Stud Book 

 volumes, already sufficiently bulky, would 



