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CATTLE AND HORSE INSURANCE. 
years old, and readilyfollowed the hounds with an unbroken spirit 
and untiring activity. He kept him four years afterwards, when be 
began gradually to waste away, and refused his food. At length, 
when he was nearly thirty years old, considering what 
“We shun to know, 
That life protracted is protracted woe.” 
he had this noble favourite mercifully destroyed. 
A solicitor in Reigate had a mare that lived to be thirty-six 
years old; and Mr. Coulstock informed him that he occasionally 
hunted this mare when she was thirty-two years old. He could 
state some other similar cases ; but his average is more to ascer- 
tain the usual age of this noble animal than to multiply instances of 
unusual occurrence. 
Mr. Beeson, of Amersham, follows in alphabetical rotation. 
1. Horses used for agriculture exclusively are, in this part of 
the country, the shortest lived of all others that he has to do with. 
This T attribute (says he) to the very coarse manner in which they 
are fed ; being generally compelled to eat in the winter refuse corn 
and hay, such as is not fit for the market, and in the summer sub- 
sisting on green food, in many instances without any corn. 
Some well-formed horses can live out twenty years, while many 
are abandoned much earlier, — in point of fact, not being able to 
endure farmers’ work on farmers’ living. There are, however, 
many instances, in well regulated stables, of this kind of horse 
living to twenty or twenty-five years, or even more. Out of 
eighteen horses working on the farm of T. T. Drake, Esq., and 
doing only such carting as is occasionally necessary on the estate, 
I cannot find that more than five have died during the last fifteen 
years. Of course, there have been some killed on account of their 
age, and also a few sold, and replaced by young ones. 
Another employer has had eight horses die out of half the 
number just mentioned, in the same period of time, besides some 
being abandoned as unfit for their work. There was much more 
connected with the breed. 
2. Agricultural horses that are occasionally used for other pur- 
poses are, for the most part, the property of better horse-masters 
than farmers are, and, in consequence, can endure more and live 
longer. For instance, a brewing establishment here, connected with 
a large farm, employing, in the whole, about forty working cart- 
horses, beside a few rest horses and some colts, and the manage- 
ment of which is entirely confided to me, I have had, in the last 
fifteen vears, eighteen horses die. To allow for any I may have 
overlooked, I will say twenty horses. It is very satisfactory to me 
