Show Ilar horba sews harlem from aldr arft maros HMM the discussion as to the correct method ot of producing that most profitable and high bagh priced product the th fashionable conable carriage horse a 0 today has been raging with great virulence in all the farm and stock publications editorially the breeders bleeders Bre eders gazette re r bently advised having a bit ot of bloc in the mare A contributor to tha paper says unquestionably this i needful where any of 0 the lorelet foreleg coaching or carriage stal long Hons are used tor for they each and every one carry suel heavy infusions ot of draft blood thai bred to draft mares the result Is ruy any thing but the carriage type recent shipments establish this rule beyond question now it if a bit ot of blood li IS needed in ill the mare to give unish finish style action pace and salable quality when the foreign heavy harness stallion is used why may not the reverse of 0 this operation work suppose that from among the great multitude of draft mares with which our farms are stocked some of those possessing good form and action were coupled with a harness horse of good size superior action and breeding here are the same elements why should not the same compound result allow me to say that it does with uniformity my reasons tor for saying so are as follows june 18 1894 a neighboring farmer who iss Is also a buyer and shipper of 0 horses came to my place with a big draft mare almost white in color and quite coarse not at all the type of draft mare which I 1 would select to couple with a harness horse she had been at the farm of an importer tor for two seasons being stinted to draft stallions without result ho he wanted to try a harness stallion to start her breeding and she was coupled with one that day the next year he brought her ba back ck with a seal brown filly ally at toot foot and she again got with foal by a single service just before the sleighing left he drove up in front ot of my office with a handsome young mare clean of 0 limb and a breedy looker shouting come out and look 0 a a good one I 1 asked him why he dl dit not ship her and he replied that hi he liked to drive a good one himself tha he had stepped her from his place f V chatfield thirteen miles la in an hour I 1 told him he ought to be ashamed ti te drive a youngster that way and he replied that it never hurt her she did it easy now what more could the foreigner do on a bit of blood than the native harness stallion with many times more than a bit of blood accomplished on the foreign draft blood |