244 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



These facts expressed in the preceding page or two in striking, 

 yet perhaps dry figures, can be nearly as well given in popular 

 language. 



Says a correspondent (Dr. Holland,) of the " Springfield Re- 

 publican," writing from England, after describing the kind of 

 horses in use there : — 



" Now with all these horses the rule follows that every pound 

 of muscle does just as much work on the road as two pounds do 

 in America. The cab and omnibus horse does twice as much as 

 the same horse does in America. The draft horse does as much 

 at the dray as two ordinary dray horses in America, and the 

 little horses, which are driven mainly in butchers' carts and 

 grocers' carts, will tire a cab horse to follow them with no load 

 at all. 



" In connection with these statements it should be recorded 

 that the speed of all vehicles in the streets of London, whether 

 the localities be crowded or not, is at least a third faster than it 

 is in corresponding streets in American cities. The ordinary 

 speed of vehicles in London, in which passengers or light loads 

 are transported, is one which is considered not entirely safe in 

 Main Street, Springfield, Mass., and one which, in some streets 

 of Boston or New York, would be at once checked by the police. 

 A man who sits in a ' Hansom' finds himself driven at an un- 

 precedented pace through crowded thoroughfares, and Yankee 

 though he may be, he will often wonder whether he is going to 

 bring up at last without a broken neck. 



" I mention this matter of speed, particularly, because it shows 

 that even more work is done by one horse in London, than by 

 two in New York. He not only draws as large a load, but -he 

 travels with greater rapidity. The streets of London present 

 such a spectacle of headlong activity as no American city can 

 show, in consequence of the rapid passage of all sorts of vehicles 

 through the streets. I might add to this statement, touching 

 the superior speed of the London horses, a word about the greater 

 weight of the carriages which they are obliged to draw behind 

 them. All carriages are built more heavily in Great Britain 

 than in America. They are built to last, and many of them 

 seem to me to be superfluously heavy. 



" The point which I wish to impress upon my American reader 

 is simply this : that the English horse, employed in the streets 



