Io ‘“HORSE-BREEDING FOR FARMERS CHAP. 
And what are the horses we send away all over the 
world? Stallions and mares form an enormous 
proportion. In 1892 there were 872 stallions 
exported; in 1891, 1103; in 1890, 2308. In 
1892, 3015 mares were exported; in 1891, 
3436; in 1890, 4156. Of the 21,026 horses 
imported in 1892, 17,147 were geldings. What 
does this mean? Nothing else but that we are sell- 
ing the picked sires and mares of our best breeds 
to supply the foreigner with the necessary and in- 
dispensable material to produce the article he sells 
in the British market. What are the horses we 
import from Normandy, Hanover, Mecklenburg, 
Oldenburg, and even from America? They are the 
horses got by exported English sires or out of 
exported English dams. The American carriage 
horses are the best—the result of great and long- 
continued importations of English blood into the 
States. The Oldenburg horses that draw the 
Queen’s carriages are of the Yorkshire bay or Cleve- 
land type bred in Germany. So, examine the 
problem how we will, we are driven to the humiliat- 
ing confession that we have allowed the foreigner 'to 
do to our loss what we could have done to our 
profit, and that which could be done more easily and 
successfully at home. 
One of the curious things that strike the 
inquirer into this subject is that in certain parts of 
the United Kingdom the farmer is a horse-breeder, 
and in other parts naturally more favoured and 
nearer the markets, he seems to know and care little 
about it. Ireland contains perhaps the best horse- 
breeding districts ; and high-priced, well-bred young 
