34 HINTS TO HORSEMEN ; OK, 



one whose value at the same age will range from 

 twenty-five to forty pounds. 



A farmer may say his land is not such as to suit a 

 fine breed of horses ; this very probably may be the 

 case : I should then say if it is too rank and succu- 

 lent for high-bred, hunting-like colts, then breed 

 cart-horses or oxen ; if too poor for them, breed 

 sheep of a hardy kind, but on no land breed inferior 

 common horses. If such would live and thrive on 

 provender in quantity and quality on a par with 

 their own scantiness of merit, they might, and 

 probably would, pay ; but it will be found they will 

 not. They will about require just so much as they 

 never will pay for. 



It is quite true that an ordinary class of horse is, 

 in true trading phrase, " an article in general de- 

 mand ;" and it may be inferred, that very high-class 

 horses are not. There is, however, error in this : 

 I quite admit that it would be the case if all men 

 lived in Sunderland or North Shields, where a beast 

 for use is the only desideratum, and the onlj^ article 

 in the horse vray understood or required. So aLon- 



