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MISCELLANEA. 
THE FOXHUNTER AND FARMER. 
In Yorkshire there are ten packs of foxhounds, one pack of 
staghounds, and five or six of harriers, equal in all to sixteen or 
seventeen packs of foxhounds. Thirteen packs of foxhounds, of 
fifty couple each, or 1300 hounds, consume annually 200 tons 
of oatmeal, at a cost of £2600, besides the carcasses of 2000 
dead horses, worth nothing if no hounds were kept. There are 
at least 1000 hunting men in Yorkshire, keeping on an average 
four horses each ; 4000 will cost them £200,000, at £50 each, 
and their keep £50 per annum each, making £200,000 more ; 
4000 horses employ 2000 men as grooms (generally the off- 
spring of the agricultural population), and consume annually 
40,000 quarters of oats, 2000 quarters of beans, and 8000 tons 
of hay and grass. Every tradesman is also benefited by hunt- 
ing, tailors, shoemakers, saddlers, blacksmiths, druggists, veteri- 
nary surgeons, &c. If fox-hunting were given up, where would 
the farmer find a market for the above produce, or for a well- 
bred horse of four or five years old 1 Foxes are the farmers’ best 
friends, and they ought to use every exertion to preserve them, 
and prevent them being stolen to be sent where masters of hounds 
are unsportmanlike enough to purchase them, no matter from 
whence they come. — Yorkshire Gazette. 
EXTRAORDINARY FEAT. 
On Wednesday last, Mr. Toke Simmons, of Canterbury, for a 
wager, gallopped his celebrated brown horse, “ Walter Gay,” 
twenty miles, leaping in the first seven miles twenty hurdles, 
within two minutes and a-half of an hour. Previous to starting, 
at the request of Mr. Simmons, two veterinary surgeons were 
appointed to see no cruelty was exercised towards the horse 
during the race. — Weekly Dispatch. 
OBITUARY. 
Died, 31 July, 1851, Mr. G. Bainbridge, aged 54 years. The 
deceased practised the veterinary art at Saffron Waldon, Essex, 
upwards of five and thirty years, much respected by all who 
knew him ; and in the course of his practice sent several valu- 
able communications to The VETERINARIAN. By his nume- 
rous patrons and employers his loss is universally deplored. 
ERRATA IN THE LAST NUMBER. 
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