70 HORSE-BREEDING FOR FARMERS CHAP. V 
profit. However, any horse that is strong and yet 
active enough, and is thoroughly sound, may be 
disposed of in this quarter if he is not quite up to 
the mark for other trades. But the farmer will find 
that he can sell his trooper at about 45 better price 
to the foreign buyer of remounts than to the 
purchaser for the British army. 
