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Table V.- — Setting forth the Numbeu of Entiuks of Houses in each 
County. 
XaMUS or COUNTIKS. 
Number of 
Entries. 
X.VMia OF COLNTIES. 
Number of 
Kutries. 
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2 
lU i\ i 11^ llilliibll 11 C • • • • 
\orfolk 
Cliosliivo . . ■ . 
11! 
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g 
■ It 1 »ii lirii'I ii TIM 
4 
^Jnvt 1 1 It 1 11 1 w 'I'll ml 
<Jltll LI Illl/l 11(111(1. .( ,( 
2 
28 
Nottiii'^^'linuisliirG 
20 
2 
S]iroj)sl 1 i rc 
2 
2 
StaUbnl 
14 
3 
Snflfolk 
34 
4 
1 
Gloucestersbiro 
2 
Sussex 
7 
2 
6 
1 
1 
51 
2 
:i 
21 
1 
10 
1 
2 
Agkicultukal Horses. 
A wail comes up from many quarters concerning the classi- 
fication of agricultural horses. There always are wails of some 
kind or other coming up, many of which are the mere out- 
pourings of spirit from recognised growlers ; but this wail has 
some signification, inasmuch as it hardly seems right that horses 
of great height, bone, and substance, fitted for very heavy draught- 
work, should be categorised with farm-horses proper — short- 
legged, compact, comparatively clean-legged animals. It is not 
wished by any means altogether to exclude such splendid 
specimens as *' Admiral," but only to have a separate class for 
stallions of that stamp. 
The collection of agricultural horses not qualified to compete 
as Suffolks or Clydesdales was somewhat disappointing, con- 
sidering that Derby is the centre of a great carthorse-breeding 
district, comprising the Midland Counties proper and Cam- 
bridgeshire and Lincolnshire. The horses were mostly black in 
former days, but now are of all colours, and are lighter and more 
active than they were seventy or eighty years ago, when roads 
were very bad, and not much land was drained. Only twelve 
agricultural horses came from Derbyshire, though many farmers 
in that county are extensive breeders of this class of horses ; 
but it seems that for some years past there has been a great drain 
upon the horses of Derbyshire, the best mares and fillies having 
been bought up at long prices. It is the practice also to send 
