Wisconsin State Agricultural Society . 
left no lasting hoof u prints on the sands of time.” It is described 
as invariably bay, a little over lb hands in height, hardy and pow¬ 
erful, with tendinous legs, wear and tear feet, and showy rather than 
speedy action. This is a fair portrait of the now-a-day carriage 
horse, the animal, in my opinion, the most desirable for the farmer 
to raise. The market for carriage horses is extensive, ill-supplied 
mid necessarily high-priced. The promptest buyers are the wealthy 
of the cities. These people soon drive their horses to death or de¬ 
crepitude. Perhaps morally, there might be some objection to selling 
a generous animal into such self-killing servitude. But morals and 
horse-flesh, it is said, do not work double. An animal of the car¬ 
riage kind, falling below the standard of fashion, would, from his 
substance and activity, still be useful for the farm and road. 
The above breeding recommendation of mine is like the French¬ 
man’s flea-powder, it was warranted to kill, but you first had to 
catch the flea. This is the horse, but how are you going to get 
him? To the solution of this question I shall bring some authori¬ 
ties. Herbert says: u The Cleveland Bay, in its natural and un¬ 
mixed form, is a tall, powerfully built, bony animal, averaging, I 
should say, 15 hands ?> inches in height; rarely falling short of 151 
or exceeding 16£. 
“The Cleveland Bays are sound, hardy, active, powerful horses, 
with excellent capabilities for draft and good endurance, so long as 
they are not pushed beyond their speed, which may be estimated at 
from six to eight miles an hour on a trot. 
“From these Cleveland Bays, however, though in their pure state 
nearly extinct, a very superior animal has descended, which, after 
several steps and gradations, has settled down into a family, com¬ 
mon throughout all Yorkshire and more or less all the Midland 
counties, as the farm horse, and riding or driving horse of the 
farmers, having about two crosses, more or less, of blood on the or¬ 
iginal Cleveland stock.” 
Youatt: “The Cleveland mare is crossed by a three-fourths or 
thoroughbred horse of sufficient substance and height, and the 
produce is the coach horse most in repute, with his arched crest and 
high action.” 
Blaine: “ The Cleveland Bays are known to owe their most val¬ 
uable properties to early crosses of the race horses of those times 
with the best of the heavy breeds.” 
