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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10405, 1 April 1897, Page 3

The Lire Stock Journal states that a case of unusual longevity in the horse was recorded recently. The animal was a mart aged forty years, and she had been for soma time a pensioner at the Home of Rest foi Horses, where, thanks to the kindheartedness of her owner, she had passed her lattee days in ease and comfort, until the bnrdon of her great age became too heavy to bear. Whether a life of forty years is a record in equine existence or not, it must, beyond all doubt, be accepted as unusually long, and it • would be interesting to know how many other patriarchal horses can be traced. It is generally believed that ponies are longer lived than the larger breeds, a circumstance which is probably due to tho conditions under which the little animals are bred,. which unquestionably tend to the increase of robustness of constitution. On the other hand, the Suffolk is regarded a3 a longlived horse, and in the case of this breed a diminutive stature can scarcely be accepted as accountable for the length of years attained by the majority of the Punches. Eat only Acorn brand butter. : The finest creamery butter produced. Procurable from grocers, dairymen, and dealers, and in wholesale quantities only from T. W. Jon«, Wholesale Butter Depot, 38, Queen***, Auckland