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nothing, and is no argument against the standard 

 to be applied, for again the type of horse must 

 be taken into consideration and the limbs as clean 

 and flat as his greater coarseness of fiber will 

 admit. It is needless to say that a horse, of 

 whatever type, should be homogeneous through- 

 out, and the limbs of a thoroughbred under a draft 

 horse would be sadly out of place. 



It need hardly be said that in the raising of 

 draft stock it is always most profitable to produce 

 the best. For, barring the greater cost of good 

 foundation stock, it costs no more to produce a 

 good horse than a poor or indifferent one, and his 

 value is much greater. In fact, mediocrity in 

 horseflesh, is a thing that there is little profit and 

 no interest or satisfaction in producing. The 

 latter consideration can no more be ignored by in- 

 telligent farmers than the former, for the produc- 

 tion of the best draft horses, like the best of any 

 other kind, calls for skill and attention to detail 

 and knowledge of the principles of breeding — mat- 

 ters that are always of absorbing interest and 

 that bring pleasure as well as profit into the 

 business. 



Breeders of road stock sometimes speak slight- 

 ingly of the skill required to produce draft ani- 

 mals, but every intelligent breeder who has 

 raised both kinds knows that this contemptuous 



