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to the raising of little ponies, whose smallness-is 

 the measure of their value. 



These, it will be observed, are extreme types and 

 for that reason are taken as examples. For all 

 general truths should be accepted with common 

 sense, and it is along the means between these ex- 

 tremes that the drawbacks of an environment 

 which may not, in itself, be the best, can be suc- 

 cessfully overcome. 



Of equal importance is the matter of market. 

 If a man goes to raising carriage stock in a lo- 

 cality where every one else is raising draft stock, 

 even if the country is equally well adapted to it, 

 he will often find himself somewhat handicapped 

 in selling, simply because the place is known by its 

 principal output and its buyers are looking for 

 draft stock and nothing else. The same thing, 

 of course, applies to the breeder of draft stock 

 in a carriage-horse-breeding neighborhood, and 

 the lesson is simply that it is easier and generally 

 more profitable to go with the stream than against 

 it, although there are many neighborhoods where 

 all kinds of horses are raised and where one can 

 be raised as advantageously as another. 



But most of all, in my opinion, should the 

 breeder consider his own personal tastes and in- 

 clinations. What kind of horse attracts him 

 most? And how much time and attention will he 



