430 ON THE MANAGEMENT OF THE FARM HORSE. 
to the breeding of the cart colt; such as accidents in breaking-in, 
missing foal, abortion, risk in castration, the occasional injurious 
effect of strangles and quinsy, smiths’, harness-makers’, and the 
veterinary surgeon’s accounts, with numerous other items, all 
tending to keep down the profit to the farmer. Some farmers 
estimate the cost of a colt for three-and-a-half years, including 
every expense, in the rough, to be about 3 s..6d. per week; which 
will make a total cost of more than £32. Now, supposing the colt 
should fetch £40 (and it must be a very good one to realize that 
sum), it plainly shews that there is not much gain in the end. The 
generality of farmers believe themselves to be on the losing side 
when they breed, taking every thing into consideration. On some 
farms there is a plenty of rough run for the farmer to depasture or 
rear a colt for his own use, in which no extra care is required or 
any additional feeding is given. This may be advantageous to the 
farmer in producing for him a colt to his hand, to make up his 
team, in case of loss from disease or any other cause. The breed¬ 
ing of the hunter or carriage-horse is attended with more profit; 
yet there are also a great many risks to run until he arrives at a 
proper age. This essay being only intended for the management 
of the cart-horse, connected with breeding and rearing, it is not to 
be expected that I should enter into the expense of breeding and 
rearing the carriage-horse or hunter. 
In concluding this essay, it must not be considered I have written 
all that can be said on the rearing, breeding, and the management 
of the cart-horse. To fully detail such a subject would furnish 
matter enough to fill a volume of The VETERINARIAN. I have 
endeavoured to give a brief view of the subject. I trust I have 
said enough to point out the principle to be attended to, which is 
required in the different divisions of the essay for which the prize 
is offered*. What I have asserted is derived from twenty-five years’ 
observation Yet observation is liable to error. However, I have 
much pleasure in stating that what I have written is the result of 
experience founded upon recorded facts. Should this essay afford 
only a mite of information to those who read it, it will afford me 
pleasure and satisfaction in feeling that I have given some little 
instruction for the better management of a most useful and willing 
slave, 
THE FARM HORSE. 
* By the Royal Agricultural Society. 
