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Show PEDIGREED STOCK BREEDING PLEASANT AND PROFITABLE Of All Pursuits Thnt City Business or Professional Man With Country Home Can Indulge In, Live Stock IK nds List. M IN If''1 h '." " ' - ' - - ., . I English Sire. cessfully as they nre In the countries ' In which their breeds orlKlnuted, und 1 It remains for the man of wealth with a country home and farm to how American, how easily this can be done, and so make It ns pleasant and prolitabk- us It Is In Great llrltuln. Prlze-Winnlns (Ity CAPTAIN WAl)Kt,U There are pleasant prollts to he made by tho man who Is seeking a country home and rural pursuit a by way of relaxation from business, than the ordlnuty man of this kind has uny idea of. A country home with land attached to It would be a dull place If there were not something besides tho fresh air, scenery, babbling brooks, song birds and flowers to admire and occupy oc-cupy one's mint in a way that combines com-bines rest with pleasure. Of all pursuits that the city business or professional tnnn with a country coun-try home und farm can Indulge In, nothing Is so pleasant and remunerative remunera-tive as that of pedigreed stock breeding. breed-ing. This may comprise horses of the various breeds, cattle, sheep and swine, . either of which w hen tukeir hold of practically und sensibly will bring much pleasure and a good deal of profit to tho man who Indulges In It. In the first place, there Is a ready market for good pedigreed stock of etery kind, and apart from the pleas-uo pleas-uo of breeding tbem and seeing them flourish and grow Into maturity there la tho dellghtfunl fascination of exhibiting exhib-iting them at tho various horse and live stock shoTD, competing with friends and nt hbors and beating tbem with animals, one bag bred himself. him-self. In the case of horses almost all the great stables of this country that have been and still are winning the majority of Oie blue ribbons throughout through-out the country have Imported all these horses from Great Ilrltaln, which robs him of much of the pleasure of winning with home-bred animals, this Is particularly the case with heavy harness horses, but the same holds good In regard to Shires, Clydesdales, Suffolks, Tercberons and Belgians. All tba great winners at the great shows throughout this country where Ibes horses are shown are Importations Importa-tions from England and Scotland In' the first three cases and France and lielglutn In the two latter. As far as polo ponies are concerned It Is only necessary to say that nine-tenths nine-tenths of the polo ponies that com-jwted com-jwted for the American cup at Hurl-Inphnm Hurl-Inphnm two years ago were Fngllsh bred and Kngllsb purchased, which robbed that splendid achievement of much of Its glory. All these animals as well as hunters, hunt-ers, hackneys and Shetland and Welsh ponies, which are all In great demand rou'd be bred In this country as sue- |