102 BREEDING. 



tically, to produce stock of shape, strength^ 

 figure, fashion, bone, or speed, (according 

 to the purposes for which they are designed) 

 there will still remain a more than moderata 

 proportion of the breeders formerly described, 

 who must inevitably continue to propagate 

 stock, not Avorth the proper support of even 

 the first twelve months, was their intrinsic 

 value to be brought into arbitrative compe- 

 tition with the year's consumptiouo 



No doubt can be entertained but the sweet- 

 est hay, with a daily portion of the hulled 

 oats, and a trifling addition of the bean meal, 

 would be as perfectly grateful to the weaning 

 foal of 2i^ve pound pony mare as to the palate 

 of a son of Highflyer ; bi|t it is natural to 

 conclude, in the present hourly increasing 

 age of sagacity and penetration, self-interest^ 

 with its concorqitants, will never he so totally 

 obscured, as not to I'egulate the conduct of the 

 majority, and that mares and colts will in 

 general be supported with a political refer- 

 Qnce to projit and loss, however some excep- 

 tions (with favourites of a forn;er description) 

 may produce many a four-year old at the do- 

 mestic expense of thirty , forty , ovfftij poufids^ 



