Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-07-09

better tnan gram, ana quite as well as
cotton and tobacco. With land worth
from three to five hundred dollars an
acre In Great Britain, AID climate
with not three ffIhs of the Agricultural
force thar Ours possesses, wecan multi
ply horse fss h at half the cost per
pound that similar work is done
for n Scotland and England.
With cheap and direct transporta-
ton this fact decides the questions of
profit and of places best adapted to
horse breeding. In this connection it is
Of interest to know that in the British
House Of Commons quite recently, one
of the members called attention TO the
report Of the select committee Of the
House Of Lords on horses, and moved
That this House views with appre-
hcnsion the large and continued ex-
port Of the best and soundest stud
horses and brood mares for general
purposes from this country, and wishes
to direct theattention Of Her Majesty's
Government to the national Importance
Of taking such steps as may be desir-
able to prevent the deterioration Of the
stock which remains" In support Of
the motion he argued that the question
Of the supply of horses was a
most vital one 10 the United King
dom. The government should furnish
the farmer with two essential conditions
to make him take interest in the work
of BREEDING regular market and the
services Of really sound and good sires
at comparatively small cost and trouble.
It should not fail 10 maintain the
standard of excellence for which Eng
land has always been famous. OF late
foreign governments had realized the
advantages Of having a good breed OF
horses. IN Hungary, Austria, Italy,
France, Germany and Belgium, large
studs had been established, and agents
Of these had bought and were buying
up the most useful sires at prices which
private enterprise could not compete
with. The testimony was o7erwhelm-
ing that the travelling stations in En-
gland were worthless. Three things
must be done: encourage private breed
ing, discourage bad stations, and devise
some means Of retaining the good ones.
To prohibit expectation was out of the
question, but the bad stalliors might be
discouraged by the imposition Of a tax
upon every entire horse which stood for
hire, this tax 10 be RENTED in every
case IN which the stslhon fulfilled GER
tain conditions Of soundness. To re-
tain the good stations, government
dePots should be devised, On the system
which has been successful in Prussia.
He claimed that three-fourths Of the
horses that worked in the streets Of
London come from Abroad fact
which shows that England cannot hold
her own with other nations IN raising
horses for service, and that there is
ample room for the United States to
enter the field Of competition. We
notice that the views above given are
fully sustained by the London Sporting
Gazette, which says that ''tbe country is
unquestionably losing its best breeding
stock by expectation, and, as a conse-
quence, the horses bred in England
have deteriorated in quality if they
have not diminished in number" This
remark, it must be understood, does
not apply to horses bred for the turf,
but to animals for general use, such as
the South could furnish n vast num-
bars if her people would but make the
effort.
As to the stock-raising capacity of
the South, We find THAI Mr.. Alexander,
of Woodburn Farm, KY, first makes
the light aud heat, the plant food in
the atmosphere, and that in the soil,
all work together to cover his land
with the most nutritious heritage, and
fill his large stock barns with the same,
cured in the best order This wise
foresight gives him the raw material to
transform with true Scotch economy
for Mr.. A. is a Scotchman) the best
cattle aud horse feed into blood that
has something Of the force If our eli
mate, which is really needed andvalued
in the land of his nativity. There isne
deterioration, but improvement, pro-
gross everywhere. If a horse or a man
has any force Of brain, courage or mus
Gle. rest assured it never comes from
nothing. Z good horse has courage,
ambition, growing power, developed
partly by science and partly By that
inherent principle Of progress, called
evolution. Horses run, trot, pace and
walk faster now than one hundred
years ago, although they were trained
as earnestly then as now.
This marked improvement exists
alike IN the physiology and anatomy of
whole famiIics-fxed IN the constitu-
ton and descending from parent to Off
spring as a part Of unbroken life. The
inherited blood Of Bonnie Scotland Is
the same that it WAS IL Scotland, mod
fled an4 improved by the cedseless
force Of his Southern environment.
Vitality is wonderfully impossible,
yielding readily 20 surrounding inRu'
ences. The expert, scientific farmer