LiveStock" , JT" -J - BULES FOR BETTER BREEDING Modern Improvement of Draft Horse Brought About by Observance of Principles Given. Considering what has been said we may next set down some simple rules for the conduct of our breeding operations upon sensible, scientific and successful lines. It may be said, too, that the modern Improvement Df draft horses is being brought about by the following of these rules, and their observance has led to the success suc-cess achieved in foreign countries. The mares chosen for draft-horse breeding should be draft mares In ilze, weight, character and temperament. tempera-ment. They should be sound, work-sis, work-sis, over 15 hands in height and not not less than 1,200 to 1.&00 pounds weight In work condition. It would be best were they 1,500 pounds and np in weight The sire should be a sound, prepotent, muscular, thoroughly thorough-ly worked or exercised, pure-bred, registered stallion of draft breed. The resultant progeny of the first cross, If a male, should be castrated; If a female, it should, when the time oomes, be bred to a pure-bred sire of the same breed as the original 6ire, ind this plan of breeding should be Bontinued, cross after cross, until five r six top-crosses of the same pure r 1 Champion English Shire, flraft breed blood having been put on the progeny Is practically pure bred of the breed used in its making. There should never be the slightest deviation from this plan of breeding. Had there been In France we would not have the modern Percherons of today; and mixed breeding, such as has characterized American operations, opera-tions, would have absolutely prevented prevent-ed the origination and perpetuation of the Clydesdale, Shire, Suffolk or Belgian Bel-gian breeds. Selection and some mixing mix-ing in blood had to be followed In the early origination of these breeds, but tt is no longer necessary and now would be ruinous. Then, too, the Blre must be sound, and throughout the mtire operation of horse breeding, as we have seen, adequate feeding must be the rule.