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and caution in handling young men or young animals, in 
order that they may be trained with success without in¬ 
ducing disease 99 (p. 18). 
Again, at p. 20, “ Farmers and trainers of racehorses 
are now beginning to understand the importance of at¬ 
tending to the due concurrence of age, weight, and develop¬ 
ment, in the training of horses and other animals.” 
The importance of these remarks we fully concur in. At 
the same page may he seen a quotation from our Journal, in 
which the necessity for these considerations has been insisted 
on, but we are sorry to say that at present there is very little 
evidence of such a course being adopted. As to age, the 
author says, f< experience has taught Continental states that 
men are in general not able to surmount the fatigue of a 
military life under twenty years of age” (p. 22). Again, at 
p. 23, “ When the Duke of Newcastle informed Lord Raglan 
that he had 2000 recruits ready to send him, he replied, 
f Those last sent were so young and so unformed that they 
fell victims to disease, and were swept away like flies/ ” 
And at p. 45, in reference to physical training, the author 
remarks, “ You can appreciate the feelings of the first 
Napoleon after the battle of Leipsic, when he said, f I must 
have grown men; boys serve only to fill the hospitals and 
encumber the roadside/ 99 
These statements should have a wide influence, not only 
in rearing and training the growing biped, hut also the 
growing quadruped. If the owners and trainers of race¬ 
horses would reason from past experience, or even from 
analogy, not only their own interest, but more especially that 
of the public, would be materially enhanced. A complete 
reformation would soon take place in racing-stables, which 
could not but tend to an improvement in the manage¬ 
ment of racehorses, both during their career on the turf 
and also in the after part of their lives. We should then 
have less disease, for such horses would be more likely to 
produce sound, healthy progeny ; and when themselves no 
longer required for the turf, they would be suitable for 
chargers, hunters, ladies’ saddle-horses, and many domestic 
purposes, which under the present system they are quite 
unfitted for. Can we imagine anything more graceful than an 
