PROFITABLE HOUSE FARMING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1478, 8 September 1883, Page 4

PROFITABLE HOUSE FARMING.

—An- American.paper gives-the-follow- : ing sound advice on this subject, Horses suitable to match in pairs for the gentleman,B carriage, and also to go single in tlie coupA are profitable to raise. To obtain these, select perfectly sound mares, 15 to 1G hands high; well formed with gojJ temper and spirit, fine action, and as much stylo as can be got combinod with the above requisites, The horse to breed to these should also be as perfect in nil things as the marcs; special attention being paid to a kind disposition good eyes, feet and legs, In one' or more of these four points the carelessly. chose stallion is often most blamably deficient. As like begets like, it it. out of the question to expect choice offspring from diseased or imperfect parents. Stallions ought to be 15| to 10} hands high, and weigh, in proper working flesh, 1,150 to 1,350 pounds. His breeding must bo good either of the Trotter or Race-horse class. Objection may bo made by somo to the latter; but if of pony-build, kind temper, sound, with extra broad flat sinewy legs, clear tough hoofs, he is the most preferable, because his make-up is of a more enduring and superior order to nil others, save tlio Arabian, The latter is too small to breed to for carriage and coupe horses, though answering as well as the smaller horse, to get such as ■ are suitable for a lady's phaeton or her saddle.