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Canadian Agriculture. 
Horses make up more than one-tenth of the animal produce, 
and Mr. E. A. Barnard, Director of Agriculture, Quebec, has 
drawn attention to the neglect of horse-breeding in the 
Dominion. Considering the demand for good draught and 
driving horses both in Europe and in the United States, and 
the special facilities many parts of Canada — particularly Prince 
Edward Island, the present Arabia of the Dominion — possess 
for the raising of horses, the returns from this source should be 
largely increased. Moreover, the difficulty of procuring remounts 
for the cavalry and artillery regiments of the British army 
increases every year, and the authorities might with advantage 
turn their attention to the capacity for horse-raising which the 
Dominion possesses. Canada exports hay and coarse grains 
sufficient to enable her to raise for exportation ten times as 
many horses as leave her shores at present. The following 
figures are from the Trade and Navigation Returns, 1883 : — 
Value of Exports of Hay and Coarse Grains from Canada, 1883. 
£ 
Barley 1,258,647 
Peas 432,342 
Other Coarse Grains 310,837 
£2,001,826 
Bay. 
£ 
363,712 
183,138 
180,421 
Total £727,271 
ILiy — Average of three years 242,424 
Total £2,244,250 
It is reasonably suggested that, bearing in mind the con- 
tinued effijrts made by the European States to improve the 
raising of horses, all this coarse food might well be kept to 
increase the number of good horses — for nobody wants bad or 
poor horses — thus securing much higher profits, besides re- 
taining a large quantity of valuable manure. A regular and 
official inspection of stallions has even been proposed, and 
Dr. McEachran has suggested the desirability of imposing a 
heavy tax on all stallions unfit for useful reproduction. I may 
here observe that the farm horses in Canada are, as a rule, 
much lighter than tlie horses to be seen on arable farms in 
England. When a visitor calls on a Canadian farmer it is no 
unusual thing to see a horse taken from the plough and put 
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