02 England's horses, 



" And the demand will produce the supply in time ? — No douht it will 

 eventually. 

 "It stimulates the supplj^? — Yes."* 



That there are grievances attached to the present system of 

 breeding and rearing, buying and selHng, to be removed, and 

 improvements to be effected, is sufficiently obvious from the 

 evidence we have touched on. But the real grievance lies in 

 the sudden and enormous increase of our national wealth and 

 prosperity. For one who hunted or kept his carriage twenty or 

 thirty years ago, it would be easy to find fifty who do so to-day. 

 It needs but a walk down Piccadilly to the Park on any Summer 

 evening during the London season to confirm our statement. 

 This extraordinary demand, too, has arisen on a market already 

 weakened by the late French war,f and tempted by the long 

 prices offered by foreigners at a time when the reaction conse- 

 quent on that mania for high prices which we can all remember 

 had set in. We do not think, however, that the public need be 

 under any very serious apprehension. So long as there are men 

 to buy, we strongly suspect there will not be wanting men to 

 sell ; and to the most fearful we feel we cannot do better than 

 recommend those comfortable words of Mr. Parrington we have 

 already quoted, that the very fact of the demand at present 

 exceeding the supply, will of itself stimulate the supply to rise 

 to the demand. "I 



Without attempting to review, collectively or in detail, 

 the subject matter I have reprinted from the pages of 

 "the leading journal " on the subject of " horse suj^ply," I 

 proceed with my theme after my own fashion. 



The supply of horses is, admittedly, much below the re- 

 quirements of the public and the War Department in this 



* Under the lax system of breeding general horses, what benefit will that 

 bring about, in comparison to what would be effected by the general siipply of 

 Government stallions at a period of scarcity so oxjportune for regenerative 

 eiforts. 



t The French War had no effect upon the fashionable harness horses and 

 hunters in use. 



I In providing that supply, let the country be warned that "like begets 

 like ! " and take care that the best males are interposed at a period so exceed- 

 ingly opportune to the consummation of the happiest results from such a wise 

 and practical course. 



