54 HORSE-BREEDING FOR FARMERS CHAP. 
many characteristics of the Cleveland, to which he 
owed his origin. The Northumberland Chapman 
appears to have been equal to every sort of farm 
labour, and to have been capable of more sustained 
effort, and able to perform his task with greater 
activity and courage than the ordinary cart horse. 
Mr. Albert Grey, of Hawick, has taken great interest 
in the revival of this breed, and has informed me that 
many farmers in Northumberland have welcomed his 
efforts and hope much from the experiment. He 
has selected a Cleveland sire of exceptional size, 
strength, and bone, and time will show whether the 
crossing of this stallion with the Northumberland 
and imported mares, such as the Clevelands lately 
purchased by Mr. Grey, will lead to the restoration 
of the old type. Mr. Grey has gone to the only 
source whence such a revival can be expected, where 
the clean leg, the hardihood, activity, and quality can 
be obtained without the loss of that power and 
strength that is requisite in a horse for the farm. 
If the farmer can obtain mares of such a type as 
this, capable of doing all that the hairy-legged, rough- 
framed mare can do, he will have a quicker, handier 
animal, and a most valuable brood mare for the pro- 
duction of half-bred stock and harness horses. 
On the whole, I am inclined to believe that 
carriage horse breeding is the simplest, surest, and 
most lucrative of all descriptions of horse-breeding. 
The price that the London jobmasters give for a 
carriage horse is a high one; for a four-year-old it 
runs from 490 to £140, and they cannot find them 
in England. Dealers in fashionable carriage horses 
give still longer prices, but are unable to find match 
