58 England's horses, 



becomes a necessity of large pasturable tracts of land ; as 

 liorse labour is of small agricultural, or tillage, farms, and 

 that, where on the former a comparatively unemployed, or 

 AvhoUy idle lot of mares, could not be calculated upon to 

 pay so steady and safe a return as beef, still, in the latter 

 kind of farming, where the mares' work goes against ex- 

 penses of their keep, and where the character of the farms 

 ■was not commensurate with cattle raising, the Irish horse 

 breeder was urged into a congenial, and, under his peculiar 

 circumstances, remunerative system of horse breeding, for 

 which, however, so great an oj^portunity no longer exists. 

 The fewer horses, and more extended beef supply, from 

 Ireland, is simply consequent upon an altered state of rural 

 economy there, brought about by Acts of the Legislature 

 of England in recent years, and not upon any want of a 

 continuance of the native taste for horse breeding, or faith 

 in its remunerative results. 



Let the Irish, even yet, be only directed through their 

 poverty and scrupulous economy in such matters, to the 

 adoption of reasonably supplied government stallions, 

 from which a desirable progeny may naturally be antici- 

 pated, and England will need not expensive government 

 studs for her military requirements, provided some efficient 

 steps are taken for securing to the Government the offspring 

 of their own outlay and exertions, which the present 

 unpenalized state of export in horses, and the facilities for 

 competition ottered foreigners, is entirely opposed to. Our 

 Continental neighbours cannot grumble, as in all cases ot 

 emergency affecting horse supply abroad, means are resorted 

 to, to prevent and cripple exportation as much as possible, 

 where it is not entirelv interdicted. 



