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the fact, that it is not only as cheap to keep a good 

 horse as a bad one, but in reality it is much cheaper. 

 The prime cost is the only difference to be considered ; 

 the cost of stable room, keep and care is identical, 

 while the wear and tear is infinitely less, in the soimd, 

 able, useful animal, than in the broken jade. The work 

 which can be done, and the value earned by the one, 

 is in no possible relation to that of the other. The 

 horse bought at the age of four years at $300, when he 

 has attained the age of eight is worth twice the money, 

 either for work or for sale, to the horse that was 

 bought for a third of that price, when he has attained 

 the same age. 



What is called breed in horses, consists in the supe- 

 rior organization of the nervous and thoracic organs, 

 as compared with the abdominal ; the chest is deeper 

 and more capacious ; and the brain and nerves are 

 more highly developed. More air is respired, more 

 blood purified, more nervous energy expended. — 

 Whilst the heavy cart-horse may be considered to 

 possess the lymphatic temperament, the blood horse 

 may be regarded as the emblem of the nervous and 

 sanguine temperament combined ; the latter, however, 

 predominating. When the nervous temperament has 

 the ascendance, the animal will carry but little flesh, 

 but will go till he drops, never seeming to tire. He 

 will, however, take too much out of himself, become 

 thinner, and is what is called a hot horse. When the 

 sanguine temperament greatly prevails, the horse will 

 have great muscular powers, but not much inclination 

 to put them to the stretch. When the lymphatic tern- 



