The Mark Lane express, agricultural journal &c . at he has nothad time to get them up. His argument is thatif they are not fat neither judges nor the publicwill look at them. Is he light ? I am afraid any rao, I know it requires considerablecourage to give a first prize to a good poor horse. Tha Encouragement o? Other Braeds. AGAIN I am quite in agreement with ^ on th-3 question of the encouragementand subsidising of other breeds as well as theThoroughbred. When the Ro3al Commission onHorse Breeding was appointed I was examinedbefore it, and I then pointed out that there wasurgent
The Mark Lane express, agricultural journal &c . at he has nothad time to get them up. His argument is thatif they are not fat neither judges nor the publicwill look at them. Is he light ? I am afraid any rao, I know it requires considerablecourage to give a first prize to a good poor horse. Tha Encouragement o? Other Braeds. AGAIN I am quite in agreement with ^ on th-3 question of the encouragementand subsidising of other breeds as well as theThoroughbred. When the Ro3al Commission onHorse Breeding was appointed I was examinedbefore it, and I then pointed out that there wasurgent need of encouraging other breeds than theThoroughbred. I pointed out th;. t whilst ourcountry was being depleted of its best ClevelandBays, Coach Horses, and Hackneys, we werespending our money in buying back what ourforeign customers bred from our own stock, andthat the time would come when we should sadlyfeel the want of those horses which were beingregularly and in greit numb rs exported fromour shores. That time has coai, but it is not to). Our illustration above is of the Hackney Pony Stallion Mickleover Swell, sire SirHorace, dam Mickleover Mite. Mickleover Swell was bred by Mr. H. B. Ayre,Mickleover, near Derby, who won with him the First Prize for two-year-old PonyStallions at the Hackney Horse Societys Show this year. judiciously, leaves plenty of profit at £50 or £60if his dam has earned her living all the time,which she should have elone, and more than done,if one of the right sort. Over-Feeding. IAM in complete agreement with Mr. Angasabout the over-feeding and forcing of younganimals. Letting young horses rough it in allweathers, and giving them nothing but what theycan find for themselves in the pastures, is one ex-treme ; pampering them with highly nitrogenousfoods, o:lcakc and such-like, is the other. Nothingcan be more absurel than putting on fat on purposeto get it off again, and I have heard many trainetsinveigh bitterly against the practice which, is noto
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