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HORSES, CATTLE, AND DAIRIES, 
Tue breed of horfes in this county is not parti- 
cularly attended to: a flight blood horfe is made 
ufe of for the field and road, and a very ordinary 
ftyle of cart-horfe ufed in agriculture. Some cart- 
colts are bred in the vale of Black-moor; and 
many others are brought in, either as fuckers or 
yearlings, from other counties. Some individuals 
indeed have good teams, and are very careful of 
their horfes; but from general obfervation, I am 
perfuaded the Dorfetthire farmers pay but little at- 
tention to the fhape, fize, or fymmetry of the cart- 
horfe. The ftallions are chiefly working-horfes of 
farmers, and cover mares, at half a guinea each, 
for the feafon ; and an average price for a cart- 
horfe, at five years old, is fixteen or feventeen 
guineas.* 
I was 
fectually offered a premium for the beft account of the difeafe and 
cure. It is doubtlefs believed, by fome theep-farmers, that they have 
made fome difcoveries of the mo/? probable caufe of the goggles, and 
perhaps alfo the means of retarding its progrefs in a flock, if not of 
the means cf curing the difeafe. Every communication on this fub- 
ject, from perfons who have clofly attended to it, and who with well 
to the publick, will be gladly received by the fociety. Eprror. 
* Wherever horfes are ufed in agriculture, which (with every pre- 
dilection for oxen) muft be the cafe in fome diftri&ts, it is of great 
importance to adapt their fhape and fize to the bufinefs required. It 
is an object worthy of much confideration. Some particular fize and 
properties of the horfe muft claim a decided preference, It cannot 
be 
bat tue 
