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import Hunters, for we have no need of any such horse 

 among us. The Cleveland Bay, valuable as a carriage 

 horse, could hardly expect to improve the stylish breeds 

 found South and West, and distinguished more for style 

 than anything else ; aud when we consider that it is only 

 after we have reached many removes from the Thorough- 

 bred that we have arrived at good trotters, when we re- 

 member that neither in shoulder nor leg, nor quarter, nor 

 general mechanism, is there any analogy between the 

 Thorough-bred, as raised in England, and the trotter, as 

 raised in our own country, we may well ask ourselves 

 what advantage is to be derived from the introduction of 

 such animals among us? 



It is because we have already what we want in the way 

 of horses that I am opposed to the introduction of foreign 

 blood among them. Our customs and modes of life, to- 

 gether with perhaps a fortunate outset and certain national 

 advantages, have produced for us better horses than we can 

 import. If this were the case in respect to our cattle, I 

 should entertain the same opinion with regard to them. 

 But it is not so. "We have, partly by accident and partly 

 by design, been engaged for years in developing a race of 

 trotting horses. But we have not developed races of cattle 

 peculiarly adapted to the dairy or the shambles. That 

 work is still before us, and we can only accomplish it by 

 obtaining such animals, wherever they can be found, until 

 we have established the races for ourselves. 



With this estimate of the value and importance of the 

 various breeds of cattle in England, and the advantage to 

 be derived from their introduction into this country, I am 

 aware that some discussion of their respective merits will 

 be expected of me. There are certain qualities belonging 

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