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VOL. XXIX. No. fi 
WHOLE No. 1254. 
NEW YORK AND ROCHESTER N. Y, FEB. 7. 1874. 
PRICE SIX CENTS, 
82.50 PER YEAR. 
[Entered nccordinK to Act ot Congress, in tUo yeur 1874, by the Rural Publishing Company, in the ofllce of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.] 
Prize in 186$. Hia dam, “Mayflower,” wa.s 
a prize mare sired by “ Lord Byron.” Dum¬ 
friesshire Jock is a true specimen of the 
Clydesdale horse. 
“ Lord Dimplas" is a rich hay, with black 
legs, four years old, stands nearly 17 hands 
high, with broad, strong bone ; weight 1800 
pounds. He was bred by Mr. Hunter 
Craighead, Abington, out of his celebrated 
prize breeding mare. His sire was the cele¬ 
brated horse ” Lofty the Third,” the property 
of Mr. Muilt, Hardington Mains, BIggar. 
“ Lofty the Third,” was bred by Mr. Cai.d- 
kkwood, Black Byre, by “Fenwick” out of 
a pure Clydesdale mare. Ho wus got by 
“Young Lofty,” the property of Mr. Kerr, 
Loch End, Jvilbernie, which gained the first 
prize at Haddington when three years old, 
and was sold to go to New Zealand for £400. 
other particular strain. Other authorities 
differ, and argue to prove the errors of all 
who are opposed to them, so that when a 
quiet, disinterested person attempts to judge 
for himself, the wading through the posi¬ 
tively written contradictions and looking at 
the numerous colts bred by the best of 
the breeders confounds him altogether, and 
makes him come to the conclusion that really 
the writers and the breeders know very little. 
Lot any man having a taste for good horses 
and possessing capital which he wishes to in¬ 
vest in a large breeding establishment, ignore 
all the frothy l,rash of fine-spun theories and 
commence on a. common sense, natural sys¬ 
tem in a climate which will admit of raising 
without the expense of stabling, till break¬ 
ing and training i3 necessary, and where the 
mares can run at grass all the year round. 
All the promising colts can lie brought 
North if desired, and those of useful appear¬ 
ance can be sold for the purposes of agricul¬ 
ture, &c., and no other would he produced 
if good judgment was used in selecting the 
mares. The sire would, of course, he one of 
the best obtainable. “ Do not use a horse to 
sire your colts,” says one writer, “ unless ho 
has stock of surpassing excellence,” or at 
least the advice is to this effect if hot in the 
very words; then when a horse has colts 
which prove to be superior there will be 
writing almost without end to show that the 
said offspring derive all their speed and pluck 
from the ancestors of their dames, conse¬ 
quently whenever a capitalist invests in 
a breeding stud lot him back his own opin¬ 
ions about strains of blood, taking care to 
have mares whoso breeding can l»e relied on; 
and whenever a genuine thorough-bred has 
the right kind of action, prefer her to mon¬ 
grels ; hut whoever begins breeding may as 
well try mures enough, so that ho cun ex¬ 
periment himself as to the effect of mating 
different descended mares with his horse ; 
for however numerous may ho his mares the 
Colts will pay for raising, because if raised 
so as to thrive and ho forced from their birth 
they will remunerate handsomely at their 
value for common use in the absence of extra 
speed. 
Breeders of horses would be successful and 
make much more money if they never run 
their colts for money, never timed them even 
(publicly) or trained them, letting others do 
this after buying them. The breeder having 
his colts merely broken to the saddle and 
harness so that they would he perfectly quiet 
and at Inane fu being ridden or driven, and 
making it a rule, like tlio laws of the Modes 
and Persians, noyer to be evaded, to sell at 
oreemmt 
IMPORTED CLYDESDALE STALLIONS 
At the stables of Mr. Robert Stoddart, 
600 Greenwich St., N. Y. City, are often found 
some rare animals of the horse kind, his sta¬ 
bles being so near the European steamer 
landing that they are made the headquarters 
of importers and of their stock during their 
stay in this city. Here our artist found, the 
other day, two pure bred Cljdesdale stul- 
lious, recently imported by Mr. Davtd Rees- 
OR, Jr. of Silver Spring Farm, Markham, 
Ontario, Canada, whose portraits by Edwin 
Forbes wo herewith give. We think they 
will attract attention and certainly must 
prove an acquisition to the locality whither 
they have. gone. Mr. Reesou gives us the 
following memoranda concerning these ani¬ 
mals. 
“ DumfriftHxhire Jock" is four years old, 
stands nearly 17 hands high, weight 1050 
pounds, with strong bone, on short Isgs ; is 
bay in color, with white feet, and was bred 
by John Montgomery, Boggerie, Dumfries. 
He was got by the celebrated horse “ Lord 
Derby,” which gained the Dumfriesshire 
BREEDING HORSES, 
Because very fast trotting horses sell for 
extraordinary prices there arc. many gentle¬ 
men trying to breed them, and it is astonish¬ 
ing to read the various opinions of those who 
write In the public papers. Accoi-ding to 
Hftme of these writers it depends entirely on 
bringing certain descendants of one uuimal 
to mix their blood with the offspring of some 
