2 THE HOESE. 



The demand There is no doubt that at this time 



responded to 



byconti- the d eman (i f or horses exceeded the 



nental conn- 



supply, and that the demand was re- 

 sponded to by continental countries and 

 our American brothers, and although 

 such horses assisted us in our life- 

 traffic, they were deficient in quality 

 and lacked that form which a century 

 past had taught Englishmen to admire. 

 But since this date the foreign horse has 

 improved, and this improvement has been 

 obtained not with foreign material but 

 by importation of equine material from 

 these shores. Good stallions and mares 

 have been sent to Germany, France, &c. 

 in order that these countries might grow 

 for us the very commodity we wanted 

 and which we refused to manufacture. 

 We exported to foreign countries that 



