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OVER AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
objection is to the use of sires of this class, for I am 
thoroughly convinced that the only true way of breeding 
with success is to keep in every case to the integrity of 
blood, on one side at least, and as it is far more convenient 
for the farmer to obtain it on the side of the sire than to 
keep heavy thorough cart mares on his farm, I advise that he 
has recourse to the use of the thorough blood horse, or the 
thorough cart horse. As the blood stallion is by far the most 
important, let us consider the qualifications and form requisite 
in him for the general purposes of the country. He should 
have a good (not too small), expressive, and intelligent head, 
jaws wide, neck light, and not too much arched, bright and 
prominent eye, deep oblique shoulders, and the chin thrown 
well back, level and muscular back and loins, large, deep, and 
muscular quarters, large thighs, large flat hocks, and hind 
legs, deep and large muscular arms, large flat knees, and 
large tendons; pasterns both before and behind not over 
long, nor very oblique, fore feet tolerably large, not small, 
round, and rather hollow at the bottom; fore feet w T ell set 
on, and, if any deviation from the straight line, the toes a 
little turned out, but on no account should the toes turn 
inward; chest round and roomy, with deep ribs. The action 
should be light, easy, and true, at all paces, the fore leg and 
foot well extended, knee up, foot forward and placed on the 
ground again the heel a little first; hind leg well extended 
forward, and hocks well under him; high digging action, 
with the toe of the fore foot reaching the ground before the 
heel is highly objectionable, and low shambling and twisted 
action on no account to be tolerated. Temper good, free 
from all vice, and sound, and free from all constitutional and 
hereditary defects. He should be a powerful, level, and 
truly formed animal, long, and from fifteen and a half to 
sixteen hands high. With these qualifications he will impart 
to his progeny all the requirements and form so essential, nay 
indispensable, for the satisfactory performances of the w ork 
of the field and road. Colour, if possible, should be bay 
or- brown, and without white. The cart stallion should 
have a good head, with wfide jaws, neck light and clean, 
thickening as it approaches the shoulders, shoulders mus¬ 
cular, broad, and deep, but not too oblique; chest wide, 
back strong, broad, and level; quarters strong and muscular, 
and extending well down towards the hocks; gaskines large, 
hocks large, clean, and flat; bone and tendon large, joints 
large, and firmly formed; feet strong and moderately deep, 
yet oblique; hind legs straight, and placed well under him, 
and on no account should his hocks turn or twist outward, 
