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■speaker has referred to the duty of all here present 

 who have any practical experience, trying to give 

 the benefit 9f it to others, I will try to do so. I 

 have bred horses off and on for a good thirty years ; 

 1 have bred thoroughbreds ; I keep a shire-bred 

 stallion, and I have bred several half-breds. The 

 best thing I have ever bred — and I have her now — 

 was got out of a light cart-mare by a Norfolk 

 trotter, and that is why I wish heartily to support 

 the Show that we are to have to-morrow. 



In our county — Oxfordshire — the Earl of Abing- 

 don, for many years past, has kept trotting stallions 

 which, I understand, have got very useful stock. I 

 do not altogether agree with putting a thoroughbred 

 sire upon a cart -mare — the natures are too opposite; 

 therefore, these trotters, if with size and substance, 

 will become a valuable breed to put on the light cart- 

 mares. As regards tenant-farmers who breed in my 

 district, I know some who have been very successful. 

 They have had well-bred mares which they put to 

 light cart-stallions. One of these was a Suffolk 

 stallion, and he got very fair stock ; but, as a rule, 

 the joints from the Suffolk cross were not good. I 

 know a farmer who bred very u.seful animals, and I 

 asked him to tell me something of his experience. 

 He showed me an old mare, which I understood 

 belonged to the Rothschilds, and I believe was 

 thoroughbred. He got his useful animals by putting 

 Tier to a cart-stallion, a short-legged horse, i6 hands 

 high, with a touch of "blood" in him. I saw some 



