48 THE MERRY GEE-GEE 



reward. The price the Government pays 

 for troopers is quite inadequate remune- 

 ration to the producer, neither is the 

 current price of any middle-class nonde- 

 script horse, be he sound as a bell and 

 quiet as a lamb. It is only the best 

 and truest specimens of each individual 

 class of horse that are any source of 

 profit to the farmer who breeds and 

 rears them, consequently the man who 

 breeds from unsuitable mares or mates 

 good ones badly is blind to his own 

 interests, and lis courting disappointment 

 and loss. 



There are thousands of acres of 

 moderate land in this country, the 

 rent of which is now reduced to almost 

 a nominal sum, and whilst such land is 

 in many cases entirely unfitted to the 

 grazing of cattle and sheep, much of it 

 will do horses well ; and I firmly believe 



