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one being the finance * of the subject. They all knew Story No. 
1, upon which the whole matter hinges. There (as Cecil 
wrote it does here) it must be remunerative. 
In my paper on the Remount of Cavalry, I wrote I would offer 
a few observations on the influence of feeding on size of horses. 
I am not prepared to admit the doctrine put forth by the 
author of this pamphlet, that “ form is produced by extra- 
vagant feeling. 37 That there is a difference in the form or 
outline of a fat and a lean animal we all know, but no 
further. All the rest can only be reproduced by inter- 
copulation. Feeding never gave position to the shoulders ; 
the capacious cranium of the thorough-bred horse, with 
corresponding nervous energy; along forearm or thigh ; a 
deep or shallow chest. The density of the tissues remain 
while the horse is thorough-bred, notwithstanding high 
feeding. There are differences in this respect in wild and 
tame animals, and the racer, as a domesticated animal, when 
young, is like other tame animals ; but this has no effect on 
his form though it has on his size. 
“ Feeding to give form” put in my mind Nimrod’s story 
of a party of gentlemen farmers, all bachelors of considera- 
ble size and weight, as were also the hind quarters of veal 
and ham, the remains of which were replaced by a plum 
pudding opposite each guest; when the host, I suppose being 
afraid his friends would acquire some monstrous form by 
feeding, put the check cord on Sally, by saying, “No more 
puddings till I tell you.” Now, that such substantial food 
had from infancy been influential in adding to the size and 
weight of these gentlemen none will dispute ; but the pro- 
bability is they were the offspring of persons of equal size 
and weight as the principal cause ; the same with the calf 
and pig ; the wheat had weighed 60lbs. the bushel ; the 
plums were not sultanas ; and if not thus prevented would, 
without the feeding, have produced similar beings. A weed 
of a thorough-bred horse is still thorough-bred; Nimrod, 
farmers, calf, pig, wheat, grapes, and Sally, had they been 
less fed, still the same beings as to form. 
Density of tissues exists in English thorough-bred horses 
of large size equally with small high-caste Arabians. It 
* A copy of “ a Minute of Council by the late Governor-General, Lord 
William Bentinck, requiring to know whether any reduction could be made 
in the expenses of the Stud Department,” was sent to the officers and 
veterinary surgeons of the stud in 1833. The British Government would 
find it here, as it has been there, an expensive affair. It had much better 
be left to the commercial speculation of private individuals, who can carry it 
out least expensively ; all that is required is due encouragement, as other 
sources of demand for such horses no longer exist. 
