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very inferior size to what he had when he went out 

 to India. This is a pubHc question, and if the 

 Government cannot take it up, I only hope that 

 there is enterprise enough among individuals in 

 this country to start this scheme, as I hope we shall 

 do by the Show to-morrow, and to go on in the lines 

 that I have very imperfectly indicated. I should 

 like to add my tribute of thanks to those which 

 have been given to Mr. Walter Gilbey, for his very 

 able and most interesting Paper. 



Mr. J. K. Fowler (Lee Manor, Great Missen- 

 den, Bucks): I have been waiting for a tenant-farmer 

 to get up to say something on this great question. 

 Only a few years ago I read a paper on breeding, 

 " Facts and Principles," and I endeavoured to lay 

 down the dictum that we should look to the male 

 animals for external appearance and locomotive 

 power, and to the female animal for internal organi- 

 sation. I think that has been tried and has been 

 found to be correct, as a general rule. I am old 

 enough to recollect when the old-fashioned post- 

 horse and coach-horse was seen plodding along the 

 main roads of England ; and I remember old 

 Bob Newman, of Regent Street, defining the best 

 riding post-shay horse as being a good weight- 

 carrying hunter. I perfectly remember the class of 

 horses that could go twelve miles an hour with a 

 gentleman's carriage behind them, and that is a sort 

 we cannot get at the present day. 



