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likely that an attempt to breed for these last named 

 qualities, with a proper reference to speed, would result 

 in the production of as many fast horses as we now get, 

 and in addition to this, a much higher average degree 

 of merit in the whole number reared. 



Another suggestion may not be out of place. Hith- 

 erto (if we except fast trotting) there has been little 

 attention paid to breeding for special purposes, as for 

 draft horses, carriage horses, saddle horses, etc., and the 

 majority of people at the present time undoubtedly 

 prefer horses of all work. This is well enough so 

 long as it is a fact that the wants of the masses are 

 thus best met, but it is equally true that as population 

 increases in density and as division of labor is carried 

 farther, it will be good policy to allow the horse to 

 share in this division of labor, and to breed with refer- 

 ence to different uses ; just as it is good policy for one 

 man to prepare himself for one department of business 

 and another for another. The same principle holds in 

 either case. 



SuflScient attention has never been paid to the break- 

 ing and training of horses. Not one in a thousand 

 receives a proper education. It ought to be such as to 

 bring him under perfect control, with his powers fully 

 developed, his virtues strengthened and his vices erad- 

 icated. What usually passes for breaking is but a dis- 



