THE HORSE. 87 



English blood-horse, and by the same 



means they continue to improve their Continental 



horses 



native stocks, threatening, as before 1IU P roved - 

 stated, to excel us in a few years. If 

 the German and the Frenchman can 

 manufacture good horses from materials 

 not so good as our own, on the one side, 

 and with ours on the other, for which he 

 does not hesitate to pay a large figure, 

 it needs no explanation from me to 

 make manifest a national suicidal policy. 

 Our home-bred utility horses are superior 

 to those of the continent. The foreigner 

 knows it, and where to purchase " what 's 

 wanting " in this country ; and by cross By cross 



breeding with 



breeding and careful selection of parents ^^ h h 

 produces horses which may be to-day ] 

 seen by the thousand drawing our metro- 

 politan vehicles. Are we not to learn 



