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by many persons, who have no greater pleasure than in provid 

 ing for the comfort and welfare of their dependants. It is only 

 to be regretted that the practice is not universal.* 



In the breweries in London, and in the drays in the cities, 

 horses of an enormous size are employed ; and the same kind of 

 horses are employed on many of the farms. The weight of one 

 of them, ascertained in my presence, exceeded seventeen hundred 

 pounds ; and he was by no means extraordinary for size. I do 

 not desire to see such horses introduced among the farmers of 

 the United States. Their motion is slow and clumsy, and their 

 keep expensive. In cities, where the vehicles are heavy, 

 and the burdens of coal, and beer, and other goods, very great, 

 they are well suited to the service for which they are used. 

 As far as proportion, color, and action, are concerned, they are, 

 certainly, magnificent animals. With many farmers, these horses 

 are raised, not as being preferred for farm labor, but for sale in 

 the cities ; and, after being broken to service on the farm, are, at 

 a proper age, sent to market. 



But the horse best adapted to agricultural purposes is of a 

 smaller size, a compact form, short, strong, and muscular limbs, 

 full-breasted, and with round buttocks, of which a favorable 

 representation may be found in the plate accompanying my first 

 report. There are three breeds of horses in the kingdom, 

 distinguished for their valuable properties as farm-horses ; 

 these are the Cleveland Bay, a horse of great strength, and good 

 size and figure ; the Suffolk Punch, a large and serviceable 

 horse ; and especially the Clydesdale horse, almost exclusively 



* No person can have passed through the highly-improved territory of the 

 Duke of Buccleuch, in Dumfriesshire, which the public road traverses for more 

 than twenty miles, and observed the clean and comfortable cottages of the la 

 borers, Avhich constantly meet the eye ; nor have seen the almost luxurious pro 

 vision made by the Duke of Devonshire for his dependants, in his picturesque 

 village of Edensor ; nor the humane provision made by the late Lord Leicester 

 for his aged and decayed laborers, at Holkham ; nor have witnessed the extraor 

 dinary and beneficent exertions of Lady Noel Byron, by allotments, loan, and 

 benefit societies, and industrial schools, for the comfort, instruction, and improve 

 ment of her dependants, and the poor ; nor the beneficent and parental conduct 

 of many, many others, to whom the strong and unaffected attachment of their 

 laborers and dependants evinces the deepest sense of kindness, but whose names 

 it miofht seem invidious to mention, without a grateful acknowledgment of the 

 goodness of Heaven, in making minds so just and generous the almoners of its 

 bounty. 



