BREEDING HORSES.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1479, 10 February 1887, Page 2

BREEDING HORSES.

A correepondoot, Blgm'n? with the

initial* ' H « ' itea &a follows to the Tatanaki Herald :— T »ere are auch thin>>e -8 h-»ta d at.* horß«i6 ! Mos'- unfortunately •me oWa of them — Innumerable m Auar»Hn a: d N»w Z »'and, and mora ps»r---1.-..al:»r- uv Uii-, Vx>vince tie • uywhete •.'•fie — rt.-e wh.ft is a hundstdfjJd moro

<--;)tv<if.(t ):■> farnj!-t« tr.an either burrowing ;o'j!.m<, i 2 bird <r oo>r< give 8 Ut(, ftud wintmv.' fairly be >ut d.wn m the category of worthksa weeds ; scarcely m faot, could a much greater muudaoe bleeaipg be conferred, on their, owners than a

iiu.>-*ni winnh would sweep all such qi 'duip^dfl ■ ff th-t Ptjrface of the earth, as tie BUBt)>nar;c<) of oach amounts to as iniwh as nrould support two head of stock ! H'hore are also another numerous class, >ut hardly quito as prol-Qs as those just cited, whioh, for ordinary am, are not without many good p -tints, aud exceedingly useful m a way to their proprietors, b t the mißchief m th*<n ia this : Whenever they are wished to be roalieed upon they add to their maarer'a o.fi.-ra, bat ..-it to nothip» at all ! fcuch a dtre, and mo 4 disappointing conaoimnaiion is, In most caßea, owing to suoh horses being under ihe standard mark of height foe bringing the tip-top price. Had half as much attention for the last twenty years In Taranaki been paid to stalwart Biros, as there has regretably been to racing ones, this province now Bhould be several hundreds of thousands of pounds the rioher 1 The horae from fifteen and a-half to sixteen and a-half hand* high, that m, from five feet two to five feet six from the gtound to the tip of the withers, with a small head, thin neck, crest firm and arched, a light mouth, broad chest, body short t»nd compKot, the bocks w*U bont, power behind to push through diffiirui'iea, with br iu,d, well male fubt turned outward, will nowcumnand .vhareve itis to be got, fully fifty pounds sterling. Then, m the case of any promoted, formidable wnr there ia no telling how much more even the above price may be enhanced, as m is at the preset day one of the gravest problems' wi h English military administrators, where, m the event of being embroiled m war, would they pet remounts for their artillery and cavalry

Therefore, takiDg all these important matters into ooniiidaration, would not breeders act wisely to aim at getting something which would sub^c-i c to the right aide of their bocking account, last cad of that which would not do much more than enrich them to tha value of a aaok of pumpkins Only let our farmer! *> once fairly make op their mind tooroer with what may be calculated upon to produce the meritable points above enumerated and m a few years —almost impercep ibly— they will own horses tot which iheje will not exist fh> least difficulty to dispose of greatiy to their »>d vantage.