equalled in any other country. We may import from 

 foreign lands corn, meat, dairy-produce, vegetables, 

 eggs, and other luxuries of excellent quality, and at 

 an unlimited extent, but sizeable horses of a high 

 class, such as hunters, carriage horses, and heavy 

 draught horses, must be raised at home. 



At the present time there is a greater demand 

 than ever for animals carrying from 12 to 15 stone, 

 which will hunt or hack, and also prove suitable as 

 match horses for carriage purposes. Horses of this 

 type, indeed — square-made, sizeable, with proper 

 courage and action — can scarcely be obtained. 



In proof of this it is only necessary for a good 

 judge to visit the yards of our metropolitan and 

 country dealers, and he will soon discover how hard 

 and costly a job it is to pick up a London brougham 

 horse or a match pair from 15 '2 to 16 '2 hands in 

 height, with good feet and legs, stylish in carriage, 

 and workably sound. During the past few years,, 

 for such purposes buyers have had to content 

 themselves but too often with foreign horses at 



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extravagant prices. 



Hundreds of pairs of carriage and coach 

 horses are sold yearly in London to purchasers, 

 unconscious of their origin, at from ^^200 to ^500 

 the pair, an anomaly for which it is unjust to blame 

 the dealers when English bred horses are not to be 

 found in the country. As the demand is thus beyond 

 the supply, these enterprising dealers have now their 

 agents on the Continent always ready to purchase 



