CATTLE AND HOUSE INSURANCE. 
729 
The next account is from Mr. Robert Read, of Crediton. 
1st. Horses for agriculture exclusively, from 15 to 20 years. 
2d. Farmers’ hacks, 12 to 16 years. 
3d. Gentlemen’s carriage horses, from 16 to 20 or 22 years. 
4th. Hunters and stallions, from 10 to 15 years. 
5th. Mares ; I know no difference. 
6th. I have the care of about 200 farms, with, probably, 3 horses, 
at least, on each farm : the horses for agriculture live about 15 
years. 
Carriage horses and hacks. About 4 horses out of 16, every 10 
years. 
7th. Gripes, indigestion, enteritis, and pneumonia. 
8th. Most fatal are the enteritis, gripes, with ingestion of colon, 
and pneumonia. 
9th. Strangles and quinsy, with tympanitis, when turned into 
juicy food. 
10th. The best and most profitable time for insurance is from the 
age of 6 to 16 years. 
11th. I cannot answer. 
12th. On the farm and slow carriage work until 23 or 25 years 
old. 
Next we have the valuable account of Mr. John Tombs, of 
Pershore : — 
Reply to 
1st question. Sixteen years. 
2d. Ditto. 
3d. Eighteen years. 
4th. Fifteen years. 
5th. Sixteen years, if not brood mares. 
6th. Ten in a hundred annually, barring epidemics. 
7th. Pneumonia and enteritis. Cart horses are particularly 
liable to the latter. 
8th. Enteritis and pneumonia. 
9th. Ophthalmia, pneumonia, laryngitis, bronchitis, and particu- 
larly strangles. The latter is often dangerous, as it terminates in 
diseased lungs, internal abscesses, and, sometimes, farcy. 
10th. Horses insured previous to arriving at maturity ought to 
pay a greater rate per cent, than those past the meridian, viz. 
six to twelve years. 
11th. The reply to this requires too much consideration to be 
hastily given, therefore I must excuse myself, although I cer- 
