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80 confident that by breeding the largest mares of this race to short, compact, stocky-bred blood stallions, one would obtain a most hardy, serviceable and beautiful small horse, partaking in many of the best qualities of the lost race of Galloways. The mares could be easily obtained, for a merely nominal sum, from the upper province of Canada; and we verily believe that it would prove a good speculation to an intelligent breeding farmer, to attempt to raise some of this stock, so rapidly and regularly is the demand increasing in our large cities for horses suitable for the young people of the wealthier classes; and so desirable is it that the taste itself, and the demand to which it gives rise, should be encouraged.