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Clydesdales and Shires, Clevelands and 

 Hackneys — should be far in excess of our 

 imports, which consist chiefly of Canadian 

 and South American horses ; though how far 

 the newly developed trade with the Low 

 Countries in the "sausage" or "extract of 

 beef " horse may lower the rate of exchange 

 is uncertain. 



Still, when we consider the large sum of 

 money which these imported horses, at how- 

 ever low a figure they may sell, m.ust repre- 

 sent, it seems a pity that our farmers and 

 breeders should not divert it into their own 

 pockets ; but this seems impossible while 

 horses which have cost nothing to rear on 

 the wide prairies of the West can be offered 

 so cheaply in this country. We are con- 

 tinually being told that horse-breeding does 

 not pay, and it is, I suppose, true of all 

 but the very best quality. " I cannot say 

 that I have found that the case," a farmer 

 said to me lately, to whom I had repeated 



