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common remark of some farmers, of some wretched, 

 under-sized, ewe-necked, cat-hammer wreck of a mare, 

 broken-winded, ring-boned, and spavined, " Oh, she 

 will do to raise a colt out of!" She will do ! but what 

 will the colt be? It will not be worth the mare's 

 grass, let alone the price of the stallion's service. But 

 it is a good feature that there is a growing anxiety 

 among farmers to raise valuable stock. This is attribu- 

 table to the fact, that it is not only as cheap to keep a 

 good horse as a bad one, but in reality it is much 

 cheaper. The prime cost is the only difference to be 

 considered ; the cost of stable-room, keep and care, is 

 identical ; while the wear and tear is infinitely less in 

 the sound, able, useful animal, than in the broken jade. 

 The work which can be done, and the value earned by 

 the one, is in no possible relation to that of the other. 

 The horse bought at the age of four years at three 

 hundred dollars, when he has attained the age of eight, 

 is worth twice the money, either for work or for sale, 

 to the horse that was bought for a third of that price, 

 when he has attained the same age. 



