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of horfes. Hundreds of colts have been bought at 
thirty guineas a-piece, for the chance of felling one 
now and iben for forty-five or fifty, two or three 
years afterwards, under the idea that they earn their 
bread during the time the farmers keep them, and 
that the advance in their price 1s a// gain. 
But this is certainly a miftake. A large horfe 
feldom comes to perfection till fix years old; and 
during its progrefs to perfection, it muft be nurfed, 
and freated tenderly, and favoured in its work, or it 
will never attain its full fize and beauty. 
This nurfing and tender treatment muft be at the 
expence of the farmer; and the favour of work, at 
the expence of the older horfes: fo that the young 
ones, inftead of earning the bread they eat, are eat- 
ing that which the others earn. 
If the farmers in this diftrict were able to breed 
their own horfes, this argument would have lefs 
weight; but the great price at which cart colts 
have been bought for many years, precludes the 
poffibility of getting much by them afterwards. 
Befides, this kind of horfe is naturally too heavy, 
and too flow in its ftep, for the purpofes of Wilt- 
fhire farming, or perhaps, indeed, for the farm ufe 
of any diftrict. In light foils, fo much ftrength is 
not wanted. In heavy foils, the weight of the ani- 
_ mal does injury to the land, 
Large heavy-heeled horfes are, undoubtedly, fit 
for fteady heavy drafts on public roads; but, for a 
farmer's 
