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for the army. The majority of the horses 

 thus employed m.ust continue to come from 

 countries where food and pasture are suffi- 

 ciently cheap to allow of their being reared 

 at a profit. Such English bred animals as 

 you find engaged in cab and tramcar work 

 must be either the frequent failures and 

 misfits which render horse breeding so un- 

 certain an enterprise, or else blemished or 

 superannuated horses of a superior class which 

 circumstances have degraded to this kind of 

 labour. It is obvious, at any rate, that no 

 one can deliberately apply himself to the 

 business of their production. 



The only kind of light draiight horse 

 which would seem at the present time to 

 pay for breeding are carriage horses of 

 superior class, and of these I would recom- 

 mend the Hackney in preference to either 

 the Cleveland bay or Yorkshire coach horse, 

 for the reason that the heavy barouches and 

 family coaches, which earlier in the century 



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