Horse Breeding.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1891, 20 October 1886, Page 2

Horse Breeding.

L correspondent of the Waikato Times baa been writing upon this subject, and a* it ia of the highest importance, we quote part of his letter. Ho does not think it right to put all the blame of our want of success in producing good stock on the mares. He pnta it in this way “ I think we have nothing to grumble at in the sires ; something no doubt in the mares; some are brad from that never should breed, others are wrongly mated ; but to my mind three-fourths of the blame lies not in the parents at all but in the way we rear the young stock. We breed a colt, wean him just before winter, and turn him out on a bare swamp, or some such lively place, to shiver and starve through the winter, and reach the spring with nothing big about him bat his belly, then because, after this magnificent start in life, be grows up scraggy and wanting in substance we blame the horse that got him. The best horses in the world can only get weeds under the same circumstances. Young horses can't be expected to grow without food or shelter, more especially during their first winter. If they get a shed to run into and a bite of oaten bay during their first winter they will not ohsok in growth while running out during their subsequent winters, if kept on reasonably good grass, though in many instances they would pay for feeding every winter. The better bred a colt is the more he needs a hit of forcing. ”