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and important affairs at home, in order to go to 

 Syria or Africa in search of a stallion, and that 

 he returns home with a good one, what must 

 then soon happen? Why unless many other 

 farmers took a similar course, our farmer must 

 soon go abroad again in search of another 

 stallion, or allow his stock to breed in and in, 

 by which it would soon become deteriorated. 

 This must be the final result unless other 

 fanners, following this man's example, secured 

 for their country a sufficient supply of foreign 

 stallions. It is enough, however, to say that 

 no farmers in any country have ever yet taken 

 such a course. 



If, then, our saddle-horses have generally 

 become bad, and our cavalry is in consequence 

 ill-mounted, this is one of those cases in which 

 the principle which usually regulates supply 

 and demand fails, and we must look either to 

 direct interference on the part of Government, 

 or to some special plan suited to this ex- 

 ceptionable case. 



The reader will observe that I have been 

 directing his attention chiefly to what con- 

 stitutes the first class of saddle-horses, but we 

 cannot under any system expect to mount our 



