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are usually verv well cared for, and in condition and appear- 
ance compare verv favourably with similar animals in other 
counties. In summer they are turned out to grass, but from 
about Michaelmas are taken in and fed on chaffed hay or 
straw with gorse, and allowed a bushel or more of oats a week. 
With swedes and mangolds for a change, this feeding enables 
them to do a lot of work, and keep in good condition. Colts 
are reared and kept until two years old, when they either take 
the place of a mature horse that was sold at double the value 
of the two-year-old, or they are sold. 
It depends, of course, on the fancy and circumstances of the 
farmer what other horses are kept, though the half-bred mare is 
very common, and the thoroughbred less so ; both are used for 
breeding, and, thanks to the patriotism of some of the land- 
lords, there are usuallv an excellent selection of stallions serving 
in the county in the season. Hunters and carriage-horses are 
reared in considerable numbers, and their value is attested by 
the eagerness with which they are sought, and the prices they 
realize. Ponies are plentiful, and a goodly number are reared 
in the higher and more mountainous parts of the county ; but 
they are not so numerous as in some other parts of Wales. 
A very excellent sort of cob is bred by putting a mare-pony to 
a thoroughbred stallion ; it will, when matured, stand 13^ to 
14 hands, be well made, with plenty of bone, good action, rather 
an excess of spirits, and altogether it will be a most useful and 
endurins: animal. In horse-flesh, the farmers of this countv are 
generally credited with being abreast of the times. 
Sheep. — Sheep have been much neglected in this county, 
being looked on more as the scavengers of the farm than as an 
animal which requires more than ordinary care, feeding, and 
attention. The many cold and wet summers of recent vears, 
together with the heavy losses from liver-fluke, have convinced 
farmers that for sheep to succeed they require more considera- 
tion than they formerly obtained. The varieties in breeds and 
crosses are almost endless, and the numbers kept most variable. 
Some years ago, the Leicester, and crosses from it, were much 
favoured, and at the present time many of these are kept in the 
north of the county. Shropshires, and crosses from them, are 
more favoured in the south of the county at the present time. 
In the east and south-east, a breed known as the Llanboidv — 
from the locality in Caermarthenshire where they are reared — 
is much thought of. This breed appears to have originated 
from crossing the mountain-sheep with the Shropshire, and in 
appearance they are much like a Shropshire on short leo-s. 
Blackness of the face is sought, with a well-shaped body and 
shortness of leg. They seem to retain the excellent nursing 
