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breeding from weakly, useless sires; and, secondly, that the Indian Government 
and the Imperial Government should be approached with the view to a 
Temount purchasing agency being established in this colony, presided over by a 
carefully selected Imperial officer of experience. 
Such an agency would at once create a market for the very horses which I 
have described, and establish the requisite standard which Australian breeders 
should endeavour to reach in order to command the military horse market of 
Europe. ‘This system would speedily develop the European horse trade 
throughout Australia, the importance of which I have in my remarks on the 
28th endeavoured to emphasise. 
T have, &c., 
EDWD. T. H. HUTTON, Major-General and A.D.C., 
Commanding Forces, New South Wales. 
Eaetract from Lecture by Major-General Hutton, delivered at the Rooms of’ the 
Royal Socrety, Sydney, under the auspices of the United Service Institution 
of New South Wales, on Tuesday, 28th August, 1894. 
Let me close my remarks by reminding you that the mobility of mounted 
host important results to the whole of Australia, and to New South Wales in 
particular. 
There are four descriptions of horses required for military purposes, 
hamely :— : 
1. The heavy cavalry horse, of bone, quality, and power, 16 hands. 
2. The light cavalry horse, of good body and good quality, 15:2 hands. 
3. The artillery horse, of pou and activity, 15:2 to 16 hands. 
4, The transport horse, of bone and power, 15:2 hands. 
The medium class, or light cavalry horse, may be estimated as representing 
to a European military power £75 as a five-year-old, or at the commencement 
of its military life. It may be calculated that 30,797 horses of all kinds are 
yearly required by the armies of Great Britain, France, Germany, and Austria, 
troops for strategical purposes must be necessarily in direct ratio—namely, to 
and, therefore, in staying power—in all those qualities which go to make a horse 
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the quality of their horses. It is a fact, I fear, only too patent to any careful 
valuable for military purposes, and, I might add, for domestic purposes also. It 
in the future of the colony—namely, to consider what means should be taken to 
arrest the tendency to breed light, narrow, thoroughbred horses capable of 
nothing more useful than to win a six-furlong race. A future generation will, 
breed of horses which shall be valuable for its general qualities of utility. 
capabilities of soil, of climate, and economic facilities possessed by Australia to 
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observer, that the Australian horse is gredually deteriorating in bone, sinew, 
is a subject which should engross the earnest attention of everyone interested 
fear, have serious occasion to rue the slight heed paid to the development of a 
It is, further, a matter which deserves earnest thought as to whether the 
reed horses have not been overlooked, and whether a great trade in horses, 
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(exclusive of India), 1,470. This enormous number is with extreme difficulty 
Supplied in times of peace—with the strain of war the demand for horses would. 
_ be prodigious. 
The importance of developing a trade in horses now in times of peace, 
With the prospect of increased demand in time of war, I leave to some abler pen 
than mine to show. I have only endeavoured to indicate the possibilities of a 
Source of wealth which my experience in remount questions in other parts of 
the world have put me in a position to realise. 
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