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ON BREEDING. 
The officers’ stables are, I think, generally so closely shut up as to 
present a remarkable contrast with the way in which the troop 
horses are kept. And one is naturally led to expect we should 
find a great (leal more disease in the one than the other. This 
ought to be the case ; but in this conclusion we are not sufficiently 
borne out by facts. The experience of the last twenty years, I 
must confess, has not shewn that there is, in any considerable de¬ 
gree, proportionally more disease (inflammation of the eyes not 
excepted) amongst the officers’ horses than amongst the troop 
horses of a regiment. 
For my own part, I always have been, and always will be, a 
great advocate for free ventilation. And notwithstanding this 
provoking fact staring us in the face, I must say, I think it has 
been productive of the greatest benefit possible both to the ser¬ 
vice and to the world at large: like every thing else, however, 
it may be over-done. By pushing it to excess we are apt to cre¬ 
ate a resistance, and to render it altogether unpopular. There is 
moderation in all things; and the abuse of any thing will bring it 
into disrepute and discredit. But as I have already, in a former 
paper, delivered my sentiments, in a practical point of view, upon 
the important matter of ventilation, I shall not here be tempted 
further into the subject. And I shall now take my leave for the 
present, with the intention, at no distant period, of resuming the 
thread of these observations. 
[To be continued.] 
ON BREEDING. 
By Mr. J. Karkeek, V.S., Truro . 
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[Continued from p. 12.] 
The perpetuation of the species, and the preservation of the 
individual, being apparently with the Sovereign Architect of the 
world objects of peculiar interest, all living beings appear to be 
formed in relation to these great ends. 
Human generation seems to know no annual variations; but 
most other animals, after puberty, are limited to particular times 
of the year, and the genitals undergo a periodical develop¬ 
ment for the purpose. The disposition to copulate in the horse 
species happens in the spring season; and at this period a 
considerable change in the appearance and manners of both 
sexes is very conspicuous. A fine and glossy tunic supersedes 
the rough and lengthened one of winter; their manes and tails 
are increased in length, their crests become elevated, and their 
