An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles encyclopdiaofa02loud Year: 1831 'ir-^'^-r-.'-^ S21 breeds tiie means of continuing their
An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles encyclopdiaofa02loud Year: 1831 'ir-^'^-r-.'-^ S21 breeds tiie means of continuing their species, is observed with equal care anil jealousy by the breeders of 85JO the English race, as by the Arabians ; and turf jockeys assert tliey can discover a taint or departure from this âBTv jiurity to the sixteenth remove. _= ^ ' fi'23'2. The hunter {Jig. 820.) is derived from horses u_ i â - of entire blood, or such as are but little removed from *^ / J. it, uniting with mares of substance, correct form, and '/jjV' â ''JS^ good action. In some instances hunters are derived ^^ ~ ^laiii»^ from large mares of the pure breed, propagating with powerful stallions of the old English road horse. This favourite and valuable breed is a happy com- bination of the speed of the Arabian, with the dura- bility of the native horse. More extended in form, but framed on the same principles, he is able to cany a considerable weight through heavy grounds, with a swiftness equalled only by the animal he pursues, and with a perseverance astonishing to the natives of every other country. Hence the extreme demand for this breed of horses in every European country ; our racing stallions being now sent to propagate in the eastern climes, whence they were some of them origi- nally brought. t>233. The improved hackney (Jig. 821.) is derived, like the former, from a judicious mixture of the blood breed with the native horse, but exhibiting a greater proportion of the latter. Hackneys are no
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