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advice is far preferable to mine ; but in so strongly 

 recommending this pursuit, I think the recommenda- 

 tion is sometimes unaccompanied by what I should 

 hold as most important, namely, the recommending 

 the sort he ought to breed ; for unless this is done, 

 it is virtually holding out a prospect of gain from a 

 source from which gain will certainly not arise, that 

 is, on the aggregate. 



There are two descriptions of horses that the 

 farmer may fairly look upon as certain sources of 

 profit, if he has capital, a proper locality to breed 

 them in, and proper land to breed them on : these are 

 a really fine sort of direct cart-horse, or such a descrip- 

 tion of horse as are likely to make hunters ; or if not, 

 a superior sort of harness horse : either, at four years 

 old, will command strong prices. There was a time, 

 it is true, when in breeding horses with such views, 

 as to their distinct appropriation, he had a pull in 

 his favour that he must not attempt now ; formerly, 

 from three years old to four, he could use them for 

 agricultural purposes about his farm, and the strong 

 kind of horse then in use was probably none the 



