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A CASE OF APOPLEXY IN A 1IORSE. 
judicious treatment before they came to maturity. They were put 
to work at two or three years old. He thought it would be 
advisable to take two colts from the young mare before she was 
put to work, as was done in Yorkshire, from which county some 
of the finest horses were produced. 
Mr. Karkeek said, he believed there were, at present, a mise- 
rable set of trashy horses, not only in Cornwall, but throughout 
England. There were, perhaps, as many good horses now as 
there were fifty years ago ; but the number of bad ones had greatly 
increased. M‘Culloch had stated that there were a million and 
a half of horses in Great Britain ; and he (Mr. K.) believed he 
should not be far wrong in affirming, that two out of every ten 
were not worth the food they consumed. He believed, also, that 
eight good horses would do more work than ten bad ones. (A 
member called out, “ more than twenty.”) He had taken the 
lowest possible calculation. If by an improved system of breed- 
ing, and the introduction of better horses, they could get rid of 
only one horse out of ten, there would be a saving to the coun- 
try, in the rearing only, of more than £2,000,000 a year, reckoning 
the cost at £5 annually : an equal amount would also be saved 
annually after the rearing to three years old, supposing the cost of 
keeping the horse to be £15 per annum. In reply to Mr. Prater’s 
observations, Mr. Karkeek gave it as his opinion that a two-years 
old filly was too young to breed from. Her powers were not pro- 
perly matured. He thought they ought not to breed from a mare 
under three years old. With reference to the Yorkshire horses, 
Mr. Karkeek said that, at the last meeting of the Breeding Society 
at Doncaster, they boasted of their having the best sheep and 
cattle in the world, but acknowledged that their breed of horses 
had deteriorated during the last fifty years. 
From the Cornwall Gazette. 
A CASE OF APOPLEXY IN A HORSE. 
By William Percivall, Esq., M.R.C.S . , Veterinary Surgeon, 
First Life Guards. 
Though medical men whose judgments have been matured 
by practice may vauntingly ask, in the same philosophic spirit 
that our bard of Stratford did, “ what’s in a name V* those young in 
practice, and persons out of practice, have been wofully misled 
by names given to diseases, and by no one appellation have 
veterinarians been misled more than by that of “ staggers.” This 
