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BREEDING OF HORSES IN FRANCE. 
food, such as bran, cut hay, a little bruised oil-cake, and a few 
cut Swedes : among any of their food give them a portion of salt 
constantly. If they do not at first take their food so freely in con- 
sequence of the admixture of the salt, slacken the quantity ad- 
ministered in this manner, and give them a second dose, as at 
the first, on the second or third day : they will soon take it freely 
enough in their food. This will, in a great measure, cleanse the 
stomach and intestines of those crudities that often lodge therein ; 
and though this may not accomplish a perfect cure where the 
malady is very bad, it will be the means of staying its progress in 
a great degree, give time for fattening the animal, and thus miti- 
gate the severity of the loss. But to young sheep, if taken at 
an early stage, it often will, by judicious management and care, 
effect an entire cure. In meadows where sheep are depastured, 
a quantity of salt (some prefer a lump for them to lick) should be 
deposited in a covered sheep-trough to preserve it from the rain. 
The sheep, having access to this, will constantly use it, and more 
at some times than at others, and it will be the means of keeping 
them in a healthy and thriving state, 
The saline particles carried by the winds over the Downs near the 
sea contribute much to the health of the flocks feeding thereon. 
Mark Lane Express. 
Veterinary Schools and Breeding of Horses in France. 
ATTENTION has been particularly directed of late years in 
France to the improvement of the breeds of horses, of which some 
are possessed of properties useful and peculiar to the country, the 
great desideratum to be supplied being the acquisition and natura- 
lization of horses of pure race and greater speed. When any 
object is desirable and expedient in a national point of view, the 
Government there is not slow in its direct intromission; and accord- 
ingly with that faculty for systematising in which the people are so 
ready and expert, a grand plan was speedily traced and organized 
for forming some extensive establishments of haras, or convenient 
open grounds and buildings for the reception, pasture, and superin- 
tendence of the best breed, in various districts of the country, for 
which indeed models were to be found in Hungary and the Crimea. 
At yearly exhibitions of horses, premiums are besides awarded to 
all such breeders or farmers as shall produce horses of the most 
approved qualities ; and to encourage individuals in improving their 
stock the choicest horses are supplied from the haras to the pro- 
prietors of brood mares for a trifling consideration. A permanent 
commission for the examination and registration of horses of pure 
blood is constituted, at the head of which are the Due Decazes, 
Count de Flahaut, with seven other distinguished persons, under 
