. Illustrated history of the Union Stockyards; sketch-book of familiar faces and places at the yards. with a round, smooth-turned Norman,Percheron or other large mare with good action, whichthe two former invariably have. The mare will givesize and action and the stallion symmetry, activity andstaying quality, thus forming a foundation of finebrood mares of which the country is now sadly inneed. The produce will be half-bred hunters andsaddle horses, which are in great demand, and car-riage horses fit for home and export trade. Pairs ofsuch horses as this breed can pull a plow or draw a car-ri
. Illustrated history of the Union Stockyards; sketch-book of familiar faces and places at the yards. with a round, smooth-turned Norman,Percheron or other large mare with good action, whichthe two former invariably have. The mare will givesize and action and the stallion symmetry, activity andstaying quality, thus forming a foundation of finebrood mares of which the country is now sadly inneed. The produce will be half-bred hunters andsaddle horses, which are in great demand, and car-riage horses fit for home and export trade. Pairs ofsuch horses as this breed can pull a plow or draw a car-riage, and will find a ready sale at a minutes notice atfrom $500 to $1,000. The breed may be still furtherimproved by taking the progeny from this cross andbreeding it to carefully selected thoroughbred trotting, 160 ILLUSTRATED HISTORY coach horses or hackneys that are bred in the the stallion must in no event be a half-bred cur. By following my suggestions the farmer, when hedrives to town with a pair of such horses, will have somany offers for them that he will likely exclaim, Thank. A coACHER (Dunhams indre). God! at last Ive produced something for which thebuyers follow me around and ask, Smith, whatll youtake for them? I am talking from experience, andwhen I say that the thoroughbred is not nearly so muchappreciated by the average breeder as he should be. OF THE UNION STOCKYARDS 161 and that the thoroughbred alone can impart the desira-ble finish to a coach or other horse, I know whereof Ispeak. There is another horse to which we must pay someattention. That is the draft horse proper. The drafthorse requires the same forethought to produce himthat the coach horse does, for while the latter must beshowy the former must be herculean in strength, andneither quality is bred by chance. To get a draft horse,breed a Percheron stallion to a Norman or even a Clydes-dale mare. Do not make the irreparable mistake oftrying to breed draft horses from nondescript stock,even i
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