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ENFORCED BREEDING IN OLDEN TIMES. The dcarlh of horse ; in England, due to the demands of the war and an inevitable consequence of the limitation of racing, has set some interested writers to delving into the me-lhoes adopted for dealing with a similar condition in the distant past. One has come across the provisions made iu the time of Henry VIIL. when the failing off in the breeding of horses was so pronounced that lerislation was im-perativelv demanded to arrest it. The preamble of the act referred to. while deploring the fact, pro-ceods thus: "Tlie great de-ay of the generation and breeding of Bead and swift and strong horses, which hereto-for ktft been bred iu this Kealme to the great defense profit and common eouimoditic of the same. :t:al now remembering the like breed of horses is sorely diminished and decayed." The act « f UR itself provides as follows: "The Kings Highness, with Lords Spiritual and Temporall ami the Commons in this present Parlia-lii.i.i assembled, and by the authority of the same, b-.th Ordained, enacted and established that every l croons and persons, as well as spiritual and tem-loi ill of what smtc. degree or condition soever 1 "•.- the-v be. which ::t this presclii time or at •inv time iiereafter shall have any Parke or ground ec.losed with a hedge, ditch, wall or pale wherein •inv decrc or at any time hereafter shall have anv Parke or "grounds so oiidos.-d wherein any .lee-re is ..i shall lie usually kept for game, containing the uuiiititv of one mile in compass: ••Tnat everv such owner of such Parke or ground boil,- his own laml. »"d every farmer of such Iarke To id being lctten to ramie. Iron, the 1st Hay of M. n the tear ..f our L.rd 1KCT shall keep for such Parke or ground being en-lose* as afore-,•,,„ e mares, n-l sphu.-.l. a;. I and able to beare f • s euh of them 1« the altitude or height of ii , i, "one iiandsfillls at the least. uim.ii panic ol !. I- lire of to shilling* for every monU. lacking Hie fc» «M» —*. — TlBIBll «.l»l»-. said mares contrary their new track that is in tlie course of construction. They planned to have a meeting here last night, brt owing to the failure of several of the prominent nie-n interested to arrive, it has been put ove-r. Alberto Madera, who holds the concession from the Mexican government: George Crowley, and others are on hand and anxious to get together to settle the deiails as to the opening, and the like. — San Francisco Chronicle of October li.
