The Canadian Entomologist.

fatigues of war, and to all the miseries In Its train, the natural horse, badly built, ungainly and puny qs lie is, endures fatigue almost as well as the primitive horse. The Cross-bred Horse is, as his name indicates, the issue of a sire and dam of different breeds. This crossing, made with a view to improvement, may give, when judicious, more elegant, better made, and finer bodied progeny and also quicker in their various gaits, but always requiring, especially if derived from the English, exceptional care, and so much the more particular as they are of a more distingiue nature. Abandoned to himself, deprived of blankets, shelter, grooming, and oats, the cross-bred deteriorates early, and ill war perishes miserably, while the natural and the primitive horse thrives in browsing upon the scantiest herbage. On this score, our two campaigns of the Crimnea nd Italy have furnished unquestionable proofs."