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arrested, and Nature's wise laws were 

 assisted, when the English mares were 

 mated with the progenitors of Flying 

 Childers and Eclipse. 



Almost all our famous breeds of do- 

 mestic animals have been brought to 

 their present excellence, not by breeding 

 in a direct line of the same family, but 

 by continuous application of sources from 

 outside ; and it has been the adoption of 

 this system by which the thorough-bred 

 has been manufactured. 



We have arrived now, 1880, at a DO we not 



now breed, 



period similar to that of 1750, when the %#* th 

 Oriental horse was denounced, or in fact mnch within 



. .the same 



when in and in breeding was impressing family? 

 its degeneracy upon our equine stock ; 

 and fortunately a remedy exists, by re- 

 sorting to a " fresh cross of good blood." 



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