7 
more than one horse may be grazed on 
about five acres. It was also provided that 
‘The hirers will be restricted to the number 
of horse stock, as stated in the particulars to 
each lot.” There is no restriction concerning 
the head of cattle which may be grazed 
thereon 
Other documents of the same character 
show that on some of the best and richest 
pastures in Lincolnshire horses are not 
allowed at all 
One such bill, containing particulars of 
twenty-four paddocks and fields amounting to 
over 218 acres, specifies four fields, measuring 
about thirty acres in all, as lots on which 
horses may be grazed. The same stringent 
conditions will be found in old agreements 
for letting pasture-land dating back hundreds 
of years 
STALE PASTURES UNFAVOURABLE 
Horse-breeders have not grasped the fact 
that this deterioration of the horses’ food 
reacts unfavourably upon the animals them- 
selves 
After making some considerable research 
I find that Lord Charlemont, the ‘largest 
rearer of horses in Ireland at the time, in 
