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some extent at least, their own good qualities. Such horses are 

 to be found in these days. The common sense of the breeder 

 will select them. 



If it is heavy draft stock that is to be sought, the Norman 

 Percheron stallion, as we have previously intimated, ought to 

 be had, provided the breeder has mares of such size as to render 

 it judicious to put them to so large a horse ; otherwise, the Nor- 

 man Percheron mare may be most advantageously bred to some 

 native stallion, say a Morgan a good Canadian, or some other 

 compactly built and quick-paced horse. 



But it is unnecessary to extend these suggestions. If the breed- 

 er will consider with care what he really wants, and observe the 

 points upon which we have touched, he will be at no loss to 

 judge intelligently what course to pursue when cross-breeding is 

 his only resource. He may often, of course, find it diflBcult to 

 obtain just the stallion which his judgment tells bim he should 

 have for his class of mares ; but this is a pointed argument in 

 favor of that care which our farmers should long ago have exer- 

 cised in this matter. Intelligent attention to the improvement 

 of our stock throughout the Union will soon make it possible 

 for them to select their stallions, rather than be forced to take 

 up with every hack that comes along with a flourish of red sur- 

 cingles and a wonderful pedigree, manufactured to order. 



As to in-and-in breeding, but little need be said. All the long 

 winded, voluminous, and learned discussions of the subject have 

 resulted in adding but little more to our stock of knowledge 

 than this : that too close in-and-in breeding is likely to bring 

 about weakness, malformation, and general deterioration; but 

 that to fix and preserve and intensify a certain strain, the Jew, 

 (to speak in a figure), must not intermarry with the heathens 

 round about him. In other words, to have true Morgans, both 

 sire and dam must be of that stock, though of difierent families : 

 to keep up the real Norman Percheron horse, we must have 

 Norman Percherons, both male and female, to breed from ; and 

 so on. 



The objection to close in-and-in breeding seems to be here : that 

 nearness of kin is apt to be associated with likeness of qualities, 



