6 VARIETIES PRODUCED. 



years on an average. The more moderate pace of the city omnibus 

 horse enables him to last about six years, although eating 

 17 lbs. of corn a day, whilst the pampered giants used by the 

 great London brewers, stand their slow work ten years, eating no less 

 than 22 lbs. of corn a day. The ordinary farm horse, eating 

 10 lbs. of corn a day, and getting a good deal of green food, 

 often lasts twenty years, although under equal treatment the 

 heavy cart horse is naturally a shorter-lived animal than the light 

 coach horse. 



9. — In the course of many centuries the climate, the soil, 

 and the requirements of each country, as well as the tastes, 

 opportunities, occupations, and genius of its people, have stamped 

 a peculiar character on the horses produced in it. South East 

 Asia and North Africa have produced the beautiful, wiry, enduring 

 Arab and Barb, the rich plains of Central Europe have grown 

 and fostered the heavy Flanders horse, whilst Great Britain, with 

 its horse-loving population, its grassy soil, its free trade, and its 

 watery high way to all the world, has culled from every country, 

 and cultivated whatever it required, until it has excelled every 

 other part of the world in its racers, its hunters, and its draft 

 horses. London streets and London parks have become the 

 places where the child's pony, the lady's pamlfrey, the gentleman's 

 hunter, the high stepping carriage horse, or the brewer's dray 

 horse, may be seen in the greatest perfection, under the highest 

 discipline, and in the best possible condition. The oflPshoots of 

 our race in America and Australasia, take the same horses and 

 the same tastes wherever they go, and whenever the horses of the 

 old country are beaten it will be by the descendants of her own 

 stock in the hands of her own children. 



Her colonists do not send to Africa or Arabia for their nags, 

 nor to Flanders for their dray horses, but to England for their 

 racers, to Ireland for their hunters, and to Scotland for their 

 draft horses, and foi' the men to handle them. 



