74] A TOPOGRAPHICAL 



For maggots from the fly, apply tar water, or spirits of turpen- 

 tine, to dislodge the maggots, and white lead to dry the parts. The 

 best shepherds dissolve one ounce of sublimate in one gallon of 

 spring water, and then add three spoonfuls of spirits of turpentine : 

 this applied to the Hy-blown part will destroy the maggots. 



Horses. The draught horses are generally of the Flemish breed, 

 in colour black or brown, and some valuable stallions are kept of 

 either colour, but mostly black. There are some considerable 

 shows or fairs, where a great many excellent colts and horses are 

 offered to sale, at Stafford, Burton, and Rugeley : many of these 

 are bred in the county. The poorer sort of land in the Moorlands 

 answers well for breeding ; and a few acres of rich feeding land, on 

 the banks of the Dove, pushes up the young stock surprizingly. 

 They produce a good price at these fairs at two years old, so as to 

 give a fair profit to the farmer who breeds them, and an inducement 

 to attend to this discrimination of poor and rich laud for the breed 

 and improvement of live stock. 



Lord Talbot has introduced upon his farm the Suffolk breed of 

 draught horse. They have good bone, are clean legged, active, and 

 very well adapted either for the waggon or the plough. For eco- 

 nomical ploughing, an active, quick-stepping horse, is quite essential. 

 In the slow pace in which that operation is too generally performed 

 in this county, the resistance is much increased by the want of im- 

 petus, afforded by the more acti've step of the Suffolk horse. His 

 Lordship has two stallions of that breed, and several mares. With 

 the same object in view, Mr. Toilet has introduced upon his farm 

 the breed of Cleveland horses, so called from a district in the north- 

 east part of Yorkshire. They are a native breed, colour bay, large 

 in size, and equal muscular power, clean in the leg as a blood horse, 

 but with sufficient bone, and are good for the coach or the plough. 

 By crossing with blood stallions, in order to breed the lighter sort 

 of carriage horses and hunters, the pure race of Cleveland bays had 

 nearly become extinct. Mr. Mason, of Chilton (the celebrated 

 breeder of Durham cattle), with some other spirited agriculturists 

 in the north, have taken great pains in preserving the small rem- 

 nant of them. Mr. Toilet has procured his by the exertions of 

 Mr. Mason, and has in his possession two stallions, six mares, and 

 two foals. 



The consumption of landed produce by horses has been much 

 complained of, and they are doubtless in many cases great con- 

 sumers, but it is very questionable whether their numbers can be 



