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Show IBISH HUNTERS DYING OFF. Due to Disappearance of Irish Half-Bred Half-Bred Draught Horse. Trtbuna ;?p-c;.-l port.ns Service. DUBLIN. November ;5 About a year ag: one of the Agricultural department s experts pro.cd more or less to hl3 own satisfaction, that the race of Irish hunt-era hunt-era Is slowlv dylig out. owing to the ste.-id disappearance of the Irish half-bred half-bred draught horse. So. in order to meet the pressing demand of the small farmers. In 1W the department admitted Clydesdale Clydes-dale r-nd Shire stallions to their horse-hr.- llnr. ;. hcme Thes.- hrece'.s. however, were almost universally objected to, and the larger farmers would not have them nt , anv prlrc. declaring that their Introduction Introduc-tion WOldd me.in the ruin of the Irish hunter. Th Clydesdale end Shlrca. there-fore, there-fore, were dropped. Tt Is wo-th observing that when the raising of Irish hunters was most success-ful success-ful there was no Agricultural department; and. the "expert" In his article express his amazement at the Success With which without any regular mthod. hunters had hitherto been reared In Ireland. But they ore being roared as successfully to thl? day. as the Italian buyers Who visit the horse show In Increasing numbers every year can testify. An article aopears in this week's Ixm-don Ixm-don Field In which it li stated that "the hunting man who has been In the habit of buying In his own country f-orr. the breeder direct. If he Is now able lo find what he wants, is asked a price which Is about dorble the horse'n intrinsic value. One hears of such men traveling a hundred hun-dred miles or more to look at a likely horse, instead of b?lng able to buy one I close at home." |