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Show How to Breed Sound Horses. Hefore nn KngMsh farmers' club Dr i I. Clunes, member of the Uo)nl Col lege of Vetcrlnar) Surgeons, gave nn Interesting address on the above subject rccentls. He said the llrbt essential to earing sound stock was to start with sound parents C.olng on to deal with tho hereditary unsoundness to be molded, mold-ed, he specified cataract roaring splint, ringbone, slde-bones navicular dlReise, spavins, strlnghalt nnd shivering curbs nnd snndcrucks The most particular thing In breeding was to have Rood feet, becauso thes could alwass put the top of a horse on One of the causes nf unsoundness In Kwjland was that nns-body nns-body vvns allowed to traiel with a stallion without a certificate wheieas on the continent tra cling stallions had to be examined bs veterinars surgeons To get sound healths stuck they must hiccd from soum? marcs, and It had been amply proved that If thes wanted size thes must hae It In the mare Defects De-fects in a mare should not exist In a stnlllon nlo, or the colt would possess then, In un exaggerated form If the mare had small feet, for Instnnce, the stallion should have Rood big feet The question of shape must be considered ns well us unsoundness, because It did not follow that because a horse was sound ho was Rood-looking What was wanted want-ed In ans class of horse was a square animal, like a billiard table, with a leg nt each corner He. did not think soil ana situation made ers much difference, differ-ence, but the best land wai that on limestone. It was a Brent mistake to have too many mares breeding on ans form, because It was well proved that after a few sears the stock began to Bet smaller and the constitutions of the animals weaker. He next dealt with the enre of mares, treatment ln foaling, the diseases of foals, nnd causes of unsoundness un-soundness In perfectls sound colts, due to carelessness of the owner, breaker or wagoner. Horses should not be worked too soon, if colts were nllowed to run twelve months longer, vers' often u much greater value would be obtained for them He considered the breeding of big harness horses to be the most remunerative re-munerative branch of breeding. |