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experts ” to study the breeding of the cavalry-horses of the 
Hnropean nations, these experts to act as instructors and super¬ 
visors in the horse-breeding districts of the United States. We 
shall not flatter ourselves by assuming that our agricultural 
contemporary means by expert “the veterinarian.” Yet this 
happy suggestion conies right in with the veterinary profession, 
and sooner of later—perhaps after some struggling—the Amer¬ 
ican veterinarian will be this expert instructor and supervisor. 
The old European governments have found this all out by a 
long series of trials, in which practical horsemen and veteri¬ 
narians were rivals, and France, Germany, Austria, *Russia, and 
even Turkey—whose cavalry has just won such laurels—em¬ 
ploy a large nnniber of veterinarians as directors of studs, as 
remount-inspectors and instructors in the'breeding districts. 
And while we ourselves may have no direct use for large num¬ 
bers of cavalry horses, we shall have an unlimited market for 
them for such countries as England, Belgium, Holland, Norway 
and Sweden, which have never been able to supply their own 
demands. 
There may be few American veterinarians fitted, at present, 
to take lip this specialty. The exterior conformation of a horse 
and its breeding has been a sealed book at most of onr colleges, 
and the average'veterinarian, especially west of the Alleghanies, 
thinks well of himself if he can talk of the trotter, a horse in 
which pedigree counts all, conformation little, and beauty 
nothing, and whose injudicious and limitless breeding has nearly 
mined the horse industry of this country. The other typical 
American horse, the Kentucky saddler, is little thought of, al¬ 
though he is a well-shaped, beautiful, intelligent and remarkably 
docile animal, the result of high art of breeding. But this horse 
is too fine for warfare. What the foreign governments want 
is a strong, well-built horse, with short back, high withers, high 
neck, strong limbs and joints, a fearless jumper and charger, who 
can carry weight and stand hardship. Such a horse we have not 
the broad land over ; yet we could supply it at a good profit, 
for the average price offered by the foreign governments is $200, 
