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These depots would not only purchase, but handle and train 
the horses, before sorting and apportioning them among the dif- 
ferent corps. It is expected that, in the breeding districts, the 
supply of forage will be cheap and ample, and that the young 
horse, during his course of training, will be least exposed to sick- 
ness in his native country. 
It is considered more prudent to appoint a commission than to 
employ for purchase a single agent, who might bear a grudge 
against some particular breeder. 
Purchases might be made at the principal fairs or at the 
breeders' homes, but a complaint is made that certain breeders 
are not so frank and are more given to imposition than the 
dealers. 
Although the services of a contractor be not specially en- 
gaged, horses might sometimes be bought through dealers who 
have a ready access to secluded districts and farmers who follow 
the old routine of sale. 
: In every depot there ought to be a register in which a page 
should be assigned to each breeder in the district, wherein to 
notify the number of horses furnished by him, and the arm of 
the service for which they were intended. 
With due provision and encouragement, it is considered that 
Normandy and Brittany alone might furnish 4000 or 5000 horses 
yearly, — a large portion of the average supply required. 
The French prices for 1851, 1852, and 1853 were as fol- 
lows : — 
Peice AKD Height of French Troop-horses. 
1 
Branches of the Service. 
Height. 
Official 
Mean Purchase-price in 
Price. 
1851. 
1852. 
1853. 
Hands. 
£. 
£. 
s. 
d. 
£. s. 
d. 
£. 
s. 
d. 
15-2 to 15'3 
32 
31 
0 
0 
32 0 
0 
31 
10 
0 
Cavalry of the Line . . 
15 to 15'2 
26 
26 
14 
0 
26 0 
0 
27 
6 
0 
Light Cavalry . . 
14-3 to 15 
22 
22 
18 
0 
23 2 
0 
22 
16 
0 
Cavalry in Africa 
14 
14 
13 
4 
14 0 
0 
14 
13 
10 
Manege (Riding-school 1 
and horses in training/ 
40 
42 
6 
8 
51 10 
0 
60 
13 
0 
Officers' chargers 
36 
38 
0 
6 
36 6 
0 
41 
2 
6 
Ditto in Africa .. 
20 
20 
15 
6 
26 0 
0 
20 
10 
0 
Artillery : 
26 
18 0 
0 
25 
0 
0 
In Africa 
12 
12 
0 
12 
13 
0 
Draught-horses 
15 to 15-2 
22 
27 
12 
0 
21 
15 
0 
14-3 to 15-1 
20 
16 
2 
0 
8 
Camels 
8 
H 2 
