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our mares. They require them first for their cavalry 

 or artillery, and afterwards for breeding purposes, 

 so that it is practically impossible in the present 

 condition of agriculture for the tenant-farmer of 

 England Xo compete with the foreign buyer, or 

 to refuse the temptation of a high price for his 

 mares; 



Mr. SherbOrn has touched upon a very 

 important subject also, and it is this — that it must 

 not be thought for a moment that the farmers of 

 England as a body can attempt to breed hunters 

 or cart-horses everywhere. You must have all the 

 necessary conditions present for so doing. There 

 is a great deal of rough grass-land ( I speak more par- 

 ticularly from a knowledge of the North of England) 

 where horse-breeding was formerly carried on with 

 very great success, but that seemed to give way 

 , under land improvement and land drainage, whilst 

 the tempting prices of beef and mutton have 

 subsequently caused the rearing of cattle and sheep 

 to be substituted for horses. But whether we can 

 by any means (yet to be devised) tempt the British 

 farmer to return to it, I am not at all prepared to 

 say. 



Of course the difficulty is, as the Duke of 

 Westminster has said, in keeping at home the raw 

 material in the shape of our mares. I regard with 

 very great satisfaction the movement started with 

 regard .to this question. It has been encouraged 

 very much by the success which has attended the 



