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use of farmers ; and I think I went on to suggest that the 
Hunt Committee might make it part of its business to see 
that such a want was supplied. At the moment it did not 
occur to me to ask the aid of that good fairy who in these 
times is ready to undertake almost anything we choose to 
name, from compounding a cattle-food to draining a bog ; but 
certainly never did the agency of a Company promise better, 
as a means for the public good, than that recently established in 
Lancashire. There is so much example in that which has 
already been accomplished, the project so far has been so legi- 
timate a success, that I am induced to give here a glance at its 
origin and object. From the official note-book of the Company, 
as kindly placed at my disposal, it appears that the efforts of 
the Royal North Lancashire Agricultural Society, and the 
Lytham and Kirkham Agricultural Society, to induce good 
thorough-bred horses to come into the district of the Fylde by 
offering a premium of 50/., not having produced a satisfactory 
result, it was thought expedient by those who felt an interest in 
the subject, to ask the landowners and other gentlemen in the 
neighbourhood, to combine in raising a sum of not less than 
500/., in shares of 25/. each, for the purchase of a really good 
thorough-bred sire. The Rev. L. C. Wood accordingly brought 
the subject before the notice of the principal landowners, and 
the following gentlemen at once consented to aid the proposed 
scheme by taking shares, viz. : — Lord Derby, 4 shares ; Colonel 
Clifton, 4 ; Mr. J. H. Miller, 4 ; Mr. T. townley Parker, 1 ; 
Mr. C. Addison Birley, 1 ; Mr. Leyland Birley, 1 ; Captain 
Jameson, 1 ; Mr. T, Langton Birley, 1 ; Hon. D. B. Ogilvy, L 
This was termed the Fylde Horse Breeding Company, and in 
due course, as will be seen from the following further minutes, 
the one led on to the launch of another, distinguished as the 
Fylde Cart-Horse Breeding Improvement Company : — In the 
year 18(58 a Company was formed for the purpose of improving 
the breed of horses in the Fylde, and with this view the 
thorough-bred horse Carbineer was purchased from the Earl 
of Zetland. After three years' experience, the promoters of that 
scheme have every reason to be satisfied with the result of their 
efforts ; and they consider that the numerous premiums won at 
the various agricultural meetings during the last two years by 
the young stock got by Carbineer, bear the best testimony 
to the progress that is being gradually made in this class of 
stock throughout the district. This success leads the promoters 
of that scheme to think it desirable that their operations should 
be further extended, and that the means placed within the reach 
of the agriculturists of the neighbourhood for improving all 
classes of stock should be completed by the introduction of a 
first-class cart-horse. With this view it is proposed to orm 
