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possible some such result may issue out of the formation of fresh 
lines; though how the increased demand is to arise, or what 
from, would, we believe, puzzle wiser heads than ours. All we 
say is, we hope “ the horses may get it we fear they may not. 
Supposing, however, that the demand for horses for public car- 
riages should prove less, it would only affect, in the first instance 
at least, the middling sorts : the stock of omnibus horses will be 
weeded, as they have been before ; and better horses be found, as 
indeed are at present found, drawing our busses, compared with 
what they were some two or three years ago. What the result 
of this suppressed demand for coach-horses on our breeding is likely 
to be, is another question : whether in the end we shall have a 
better or a worse description of horse bred will, no doubt, be in a 
measure regulated by this as one cause ; at the same time, there 
are others — and especially one, which is exportation — that must 
have a great deal more influence. Horses, in private as well as 
public hands, not being required to do the amount of work or go 
the distance in former times demanded of them, are bred lighter, of 
higher blood, but not with the same bone and strength and ser- 
viceable qualities about them as their progenitors had : they please 
the eye, and go the pace, but for general serviceableness and heavy 
work have evidently degenerated. Four-wheeled carriages — such 
as phaetons and broughams — drawn by single horses, may do some- 
thing towards restoring bone and substance ; and should this — as 
is more than probable it will be — prove combined with more blood 
than it formerly was, we shall have something to thank the pro- 
prietors of omnibusses and single-horse four-wheeled drags for, 
besides the equal convenience with less cost the latter afford, 
though the horses themselves will be no gainers by the single- 
handed work. 
We would draw the particular notice of our veterinary readers 
to the concluding part of Mr. Cartwright’s excellent practical 
paper “ On Veterinary Obstetricy.” Many veterinarians prac- 
tising in the country no doubt are, as Mr. C. is, in connexion with 
Cattle Assurance Associations. The insurance of the lives of 
cattle constitutes one of the novelties of the age in which we live. 
It is an experiment which may or may not succeed. Like other 
