THE 
VETER IN A RIAN. 
VOL. XXII, 
No. 257. 
MAY 1849. 
Third Series, 
No. 17. 
AN ESSAY ON THE MANAGEMENT OF THE FARM 
HORSE, 
CONNECTED WITH THE BREEDING AND REARING OF THE ANI¬ 
MAL ; WITH THE MOST PROFITABLE PLAN OF KEEPING. 
By Robert Read, M.R.C.V.S ., Crediton. 
“ Order is gain : waste not, want not.” 
[This " Essay” was sent in March 1848, to compete for the Prize 
offered by the Royal Agricultural Society for “ the best Essay 
on the Management of the Farm Horse,” &c.; but in consequence 
of its not arriving at its destination, owing to the sudden seizure 
of its author with an acute attack of bronchitis, until the 10th of 
the said month—the 1st being the date fixed for the reception of 
the papers of the candidates—it was not permitted by the Chair¬ 
man of the Journal Committee to enter the ranks of competition: 
under which circumstances it has been by Mr. Read kindly 
handed over to us for publication in The VETERINARIAN.— 
Ed. Vet.] 
Presuming the object of the Royal Agricultural Society, in 
offering a Prize for an Essay on the management of the farm horse, 
is to glean the most efficient method, based upon sound and prac¬ 
tical principles, for the breeding, rearing, and keeping of the ani¬ 
mal, it will be useless, and also occupy too much of the valuable 
pages of the Society’s Journal, to enter into the history of the 
horse, and trace it down from Holy Writ to the present period. 
Those readers who are fond or desirous of becoming acquainted 
with the primitive state or existence of the noble animal, I will 
refer for information to the many authors that have written on 
the subject, viz. “ Youatt on the Horse,” Professor Low, Col. 
Smith, Karkeek in The Veterinarian, and Burke in the So* 
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