The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1875-03-06 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

FARMING VERSUS HORSE BREEDING.  The Times remarksi—, The truth is that farming in these islands, and eepecially in England, has in recent times become a highly-developed investment of money. The taipacikee of different lands for different kinds of production have been very precisely Wiled. Capital has been largely em ployed, and a rapid, as well as a copione, retern is expected- New, it is true that the breeding of homes at present pricee cannot be called unremuneratlve, yet it is in many ways lees attractive to the farmer, who looks for quick and certain profits, than the production of cattle and cheep. The demand for hunters and hawks has, no doubt, increased, but the demand for beef hi:id mutton has inereas.d still more; licd while young horses under the most favouralle conditions being a slow return, the profits of beef and mutton are very speedily and safely reaped. Beef and mutton--especially mutton, which in Ii months or so becomes mature, or at least marketable—pay the farmer better than horse- of any kind, which. except :or rani g purposes, and these are excluded front consideration, are scarcely saleable till they are three years out, and do not reach their best price till they ere five. The farmer who produces sheep, thiretcre, will have turned over his capital four or five times while the breeder of horses will have been making a eingle profit, and will escape all the risk and trouble the hone breeder has to bear while the young ettx:t is on bra bands. It is also obvious that the 'high farmir:g ' of modern times, which brings every acre of land under dos* cultivation, leaves less and lees ' run ' for young stock, which do not thrive without plenty of room for exercise. These ecosoinic..l remains are not to be met with a sin p offer of horse show prices; but it is easier to critici e a remedy no obsolete and in. adequate than torn :gest any that ma i be effectual. We fear it must he acknowledg. d tie, if other things pay British farmers better than the breeding of horse., fewer homes will be bred iii England But it might be worth while to inquire whether it is absolutely certain that fewer horses are bred, or that the breed ban degenerated. The inadequacy of the supply to meet the demand will not furnish a conclusive ansiver, for the unexampled growth of wea th and of luxurious living creates a mach larger demaud than any normal supply possible in the sountry can balance. It may be that there as. more horses bred than ever, perhaps even beltng horses, but more peolye want horses now-a.dayek and thus it is not no racy as it as to mount a raga. ment of cavalry at a week's notice."  Justice Denman replace& Justice Honymaa on the rota of election judges., A pension of £2OO per annum has been conferred on Mr. Wood in consideration of he labours at Ephesue in discovering the Temple of Diana, aad obtaining for the Bntish MUNI= a valuable eelfaction of sculpture.  sv,ravcc or ttswrn.—At Sligo aasizes a tramp, named 101:n ML' lid, pleaded ginity to the murder of a farmer named lerttuson. Prisoner was sentenced to be hanged, and woo removed expressing his satisfaction at the fate whiQh had befallen him.  MR. E. B.