J 2 BREEDING. 



priated to services of much greater public 

 utility and private emolument. 



To the constant increase of horses that are 

 oi little or no value, may be attributed, in a 

 collateral de<>;ree, the alarminir advance in 

 almost every necessary of life where the in- 

 digent and necessitous are mostly interested 

 without exception : but as the introduction 

 of minute calculations to demonstrate the 

 fact would be digressing from the subject be- 

 fore us, I shall only refer the attention of th6 

 curious reader for a moment, to a compara- 

 tive reflection upon the incredible consump- 

 tion of pasturage in summer, and corn M'ith 

 hay in winter, that might through other chan- 

 7^els be much more adapted to the promotion 

 of a general good* 



After the remarks hitherto introduced up- 

 on the inconsistencv and very fashionable ab^ 

 surdity, of even attempting to. breed horses 

 in such parts of the kingdom as are but ill 

 adapted to the purpose, whether from the 

 hilly state of the country, the infertility of 

 the soil, want of luxuriance in the pasture, 

 or many other concomitant obstacles, (totally 



