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and eaten during the war it is impossible to say, but it must leave 

 a very large demand in the future. 



As our farmers and breeders can grow cattle and sheep of any size 

 or shape, and to the greatest perfection, so can they grow horses of 

 any stamp ;'^ but they must be grown to pay, or they will not be 

 grown by men who have got their living to get by their business. 



The sort of animals we want to carry troopers is a short-legged, 

 active hunter, not the Leicestershire horse, but the horse for the 

 shires and chase counties. This horse, good of his kind, is worth 

 50 to 60 guineas in a fair at four years old, and many of them 

 100 guineas or more. (The author has seen them sell for 200 

 and 250 guineas.) How, then, can they be got for £30 at three 

 years old, and for £40 at four years old, except the inferior 

 animals that dealers and others won't buy 1 Such a horse as I 

 have described ought to be able to carry 16 stone from London to 

 Brighton (fifty miles) in the day, and back to Loudon the next 

 .... but where would you find a trooper's horse to do it ? or 

 how many out of one hundred of them would get to Brighton and 

 back in two days 1 If they cannot do this they are not efficient, 

 and therefore valueless in an emergency. 



As far as I can ascertain, we have not more than 10,000 

 cavalry, and these only on paper. What the real number of 

 horses trained to their work, and fit to carry men, I have no 

 means of knowing; but as we want 4,000 this year, or much 

 more than one- third of the whole amount, it looks as if the parsi- 

 monious fit had been "a long one this time, and therefore now 

 requires a large and sudden outlay. In Prussia and Austria the 

 calculation is about 10 per ceut. annually, so that we ought really 

 to want 1,000. As we want 4,000, it is 40 per ceut. in lieu of 

 10, and this is what they call economy ! 



In Austria and Prussia they have all they want— and reserves. 

 They are ready ; we are not. Which is the best and cheapest in 

 the end 1 



I will tell you, gentlemen, what they do in Austria, and I get 

 my information from an ofl&cer of cavalry, who was a great 



* Note. — ^Bravo ! Mr. Tattersall, that is the point. But they won't do so 

 without they can get the proper seed for the desired crop. 



