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raises potatoes for sale. I only say that speed may be sought at 

 too dear a rate, and that bottom, courage, docility and action are 

 equally elements of money value and equally worthy of being 

 souglit for in })rogeny. It is not unlikely that an attempt to breed 

 for these last named qualities would result in the production of as 

 many fast horses as we now get, and in addition to this a much 

 higher average degree of merit in the whole number reared. 



Another suggestion may not be out of place. Hitherto (if we 

 except fast trotting) there has been little attempt to breed for 

 special purposes, as for draft horses — for carriage horses, etc., 

 and the majority of people at the present time undoubtedly 

 prefer horses of all work. This is well enough so long as it 

 is a fact that the wants of the masses are thus best met, but 

 it is equally true that as population increases in density and as 

 division of labor is carried farther, it will be good policy to allow 

 the horse to share in this division of labor, and to breed with ref- 

 erence to dilTerent uses ; just as it is good policy for one man to be 

 a carpenter, another a blacksmith, and another a shoemaker. The 

 same principle holds in cither case. 



