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upon it for all time that " Practice with Science " should never 
cease to be its inspiring- motto. It is not alone in improving 
and perfecting implements and in analyzing soils that science 
comes into play, for nothing is more certain than that there is a 
science in breeding horses no less than in maturing steam- 
ploughs ; nor is the dav, probably, far distant when there will 
be a further development and application of the horse classes 
exhibited last July at Kilburn, which, in Mr. Webster's words, 
" will be felt upon the rich pastures of the Ohio and its tributary 
streams." English horses — and none more readily than Clydes- 
dales and Suffolks — find an ever open and inexhaustible market 
in the United States; and while our American kinsmen have 
created by their ingenuity a class of trotters unapproachable in 
excellence, they are treading closely upon our heels with their 
thoroughbreds, and have already expressed a determination to 
increase the trotting capacities of our heavy draught-horses, so 
as to make them available, like the Percherons driven in his 
brougham by the late Emperor of the French, for lighter vehicles 
than they have ever been attached to in the land of their birth. 
The three recognized tribes of the British cart-horse possess, 
therefore, even more interest for our American, and, by parity of 
reasoning, for our Australian brethrpn, than for older nations ; 
and this consideration has determined me to hazard a few 
remarks upon their origin and development, together with some 
reflections, showing how important it is that each tribe should 
have its own Stud-book, so soon as it admits of distinctive 
classification. 
Agricultural Horses. 
It will be understood, in limine, that this title includes all 
those draught-horses shown at Kilburn which were neither 
Clydesdales nor Suffolks. " In making our report of Agricul- 
tural horses," say the three Judges apportioned to the task, " we 
beg to congratulate the Society upon the quantity and quality of 
entries in every class, except Nos. 36 and 37." Never was 
congratulation more merited ; for even though no other live 
stock had been visible at Kilburn, connoisspurs would have been 
rewarded for their visit by the opportunity afforded to them 
of inspecting the 109 Agricultural stallions, and still more 
numerous Agricultural mares, entered in response to the invita- 
tion of their hosts. The size of these classes, indeed, as compared 
with those comprising the Clydesdales and Suffolks, sufficiently 
establishes that a further division and more discriminating 
analysis of British cart-horses will shortly take place. It is 
notorious that a decision has already been arrived at to found a 
