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ragemcnt of gaming,; and the injury of the 

 breed of Englifli horfcs. The broad-lotned, 

 deep chefted, old Engiilh hunter is giving 

 phce to the lank feeble racer. If it fhould' 

 be dill thought />r0/>?r to continue the King's 

 Plates, it would certainly be wife to raife 

 the limited weight to twelve (lone, 



With refpeCt to CART-HORSES, if ex- 

 tending the faddle-horfe tax to farm-horfes 

 in general would leflen their number, and in- 

 creaie that of working oxen, it would be po- 

 litical to extend it without lofs of time. 



Under the prefent head it may be proper 

 to rcgifter an idea which I have met with in 

 this country; and which, evident as it may 

 feem, never occurred to me before, either in, 

 theory or practice. 



It is a fact, wcll-eftablifhed in the common 

 practice of this Diftricl:, that fpayed heifers 

 work letter, and have in general more wind, 

 than oxen; and it is not doubted that SPAYED 

 MARES would have an equal preference to 

 geldings. 



I do not, however, find that the experi- 

 ment has ever been tried. The reatbn held 

 put agaioft it, though formidable at firft 



fight, 



