Draught Horses, Etc.

" A Working Farmer " writes as follows in the Hural New Toricr of Feb. 28 : It appears that tho Canadians find the breeding of fino draught horsos a P&ying business, and tho remunerating prices obtained from the Uuited States' purchasors for suoh horses has encouraged the importation of more stallions. A ïow years sinco I found that sheep were bought in Canada in tho Summor, brought to the State of New York, and during tho winter slaughtered and sont to hotels and to privato families in the city, paying oxponses of freight froin the Dominion, import duty, and for tho food and care after : for tho mutton obtained from these Canada sheep was superior to tho general kind obtained of New York butchors. Now this importing of horses and sheop from a climate entailing more expenso in wintering, in addition to the import duty and freight, shows that thero is something very extraordinary in there being an absence of such stock in tho possession of United States farmers ; for as it pays Canadians to breed, raise, and send to New York or sell to go to that city, how is it those who aro continually erying "fanning don't pay,"do not breed draught horses and mutton sheep, saving "20 per cent. import and railway carriago all the way from Canada.