which is a poverty-stricken disease that needs repair. I feel certain that success in its treatment can only be incomplete, and that a horse recovering from it can never be as good as he would have been, had he been brought up differently. The longer we wait to restore the young horse, the longer and more unsuccessful will be the treatment. If the animal is only a three-year-old, a few months may be sufficient, but if he is four years, and still more if he is five, he will require a year or longer. This undeniable fact is easily explained, because the longer the animal suffers from anæmia, the more severe does the disease become, and the greater is the general wasting.

The numerous cases of mortality among young horses are to be attributed to this state of impoverishment (anæmia). The debility which results from insufficient food during the period of growth, makes them unable to resist the slightest illness or the most trifling accident. It is also the cause of many diseases, strangles, for instance, and obscure lamenesses which are generally put down to youth. A young horse is vigorous and healthy, if he is brought up under good conditions ; but is weak and sickly if he has a lymphatic temperament, or is anaemic from want of food or exercise.

Norman horses are generally lymphatic, soft and backward, because Normandy produces less oats than other breeding districts, and it is the custom in that country to give it only to trotters. The breed feels the bad effects of this, and soon degenerates, unless the stallions are chosen from trotters which, having been always kept in good condition, are able partly to correct the lymphatic temperament of the dam which has suffered from anæmia in her youth.

It is not correct to say that trotters acquire their magnificent development and strength on account of their being exceptional animals. Besides the brilliant instances which