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THE HORSE 



It may be startling to assert that The general 



utility horse. 



within thirty years continental countries 

 will produce better general utihty 

 horses than Great Britain, but it is 

 true ; and even durmg the past season 

 half the carriage-horses m London have 

 emanated from foreign sources. 



Lord Rosebery's Committee which sat Scarcity of 



horses in 



in 1873 to inquire into the cause of England. 

 horse scarcity, although it elicited some 

 valuable information, never did a single 

 witness throw any hght upon the sub- 

 ject, for the simple reason that the true 

 cause was never recognised. 



