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ceased to breed either. The reasons they 

 assign for this is :— first, the large quantity of 

 com which our well-bred horses now require 

 while growing ; secondly, the difficulty, after 

 this expense has been incurred, of rearing 

 anything that is good, or worth much money ; 

 and, thirdly, the strong disposition in this 

 stock to become unsound. The result is, that 

 a large portion of Yorkshire farmers, who for- 

 merly entered largely into the breeding of 

 well-bred horses, now breed only cart-horses, 

 one of which, at only two years old, will sell 

 for £40. 



Looking, then, at the present insufficient 

 supply of horses calculated for our cavalry, 

 and at the further diminution of it about to 

 take place, I submit that a crisis has arrived. 

 If this be so, let us take advantage of a period 

 of military inaction by adopting some well- 

 considered measure calculated to insure, in 

 future, an adequate supply of good saddle- 

 horses. 



It will be said, that our cavalry-horses can- 

 not be worse than those of other countries, so 

 long as foreigners purchase them. But they 

 ought to be, as they long were, much better, 



