Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1841-09-25

5N'"1 Ahto oIASA x aAS III u IS
AIS never valued till they make a noise,
To show how trusted, they their power dispias
10 show how worthy, they their trtist betraa
Like pence IN chtldren's pockets, secrets Lie
In female bosoms-they ln1st burn or fly.
u The following suggestions from the Au.
gust number of the Western Farmer anf
Gardener are peculiarly interesting to thi.
region, and, perhaps, no less so to the entire
country. Notwithstanding the great attention
and expenses devoted by enterprising gentle.
men within a few years to the Improvement
of the race OF horses in the United States, it is
evident that planters and farmers have no,
reaped SO large a share of the benefits Of the
enterprise as they might have done, had the
project at first ASSUMED the scope proposed BY
the able editor of the Farmer and Gardener
Our light, active horses, the produce of crosses
with the English blood horse, are unsurpassed
in the world for the saddle, stage coach, OF
family carriage, and yet the inefficiency of the
same animals for the more Humorous services
they are required to perform, is a fact of which
we have daily, and too often painful denton-
STATIONS.
Instead, then, of breeding working mafes to
light, agile stations designed for the turf. the
heavy Norman or English draughthorse should
be introduced for that purpose. Either of these
crossed with the largest and best American
mares, would produce a race of animals as
much preferable, as farm and cart horses, to
our present race, as this same race is to the
Shetland ponies. The result would be a great
saving in the annual cost Of horse flesh, and
a great gain in the amount of labor performed:
while the satisfaction the farmer would enjoy
from feastlng his eyes on the weighty volume
of muscle and flesh then filling his stalls, over
what he experiences from a Glance at the
tinny exhausted frames with which they are
now so often supplied, could not pass for a
trifie.
The HEAVY ESeLtsh BLACK ttoRsE.-A
breed of true draught horses-of the proper
description for the farm, the road wagon, and
the city dray, has yet to be produced in the
West. This cannot be denied by any person
OF observation. In what we are about to saw
on this subject, W. would assure the breeder
ard the advocate of the blood horse, that we
have not the most distant intention of under
valuing that noble animal-no one can admire
or rate him more highly than we do. Our OBJ
ject is merely to call the attention of our farm
ers to the necessity of breeding their stout,
common, rough farm mares to horses of great
er weight, and of an altogether different form
and temper from the part bred horses standing
through tine country, at prices within their
reach. 1t is out Of the question for the gene
rality Of our farmers to pay the price demand
ed for the first or even second class horses
from $50 to 800. Nor do we consider that
by so doing they would produce a race of ami
mails fit for the Uses named. 1t is argued, we
know, that the thoroughbred horse Will do
more work, and endure more under the broil-
ing sun OF dur summers, than a larger animal.
And we presume that according to his weight
he will do SO. But height, actual a~aroirdupois,
is necessary, where the object is to take along
a heavy load, and keep it going all day. True,
there must be bone, muscle and action to sup
port that weight and +! ere must also be
steadiness of temper, that he may pull true.
Let any one stand for a single half hour at the
Cincinnati or Louisville steamboat landings,
and see the little light but spirited horses
there worked in drayb, though only fit for the
saddle see them twisting and spluttering,
plunging and rearing forward, to take a load
rarely exceeding ten or twelve hundred
weight UP the landing-let them see this, and
feel how painful it is to see it and consider
how entirely these llorses are misplaced, and
say if we do not require a heavier, stouter
race for such purposes. See, too, the farmer
ploughing heavy sod land with a pair of light
nags, unable to turn over more than three or
four inches, and that by sheer muscular effort
four horseB finding their load i'll three
fonrths of a cord of wood on an ordinary road
and the WAGNER starting on a six OF eight
days journey, with a team of horses, for which
some thirty hundred weight or two tons is a
full load. Does not all this require change
and amendment Z
Let us now consider the other side of the
picture. We have, as a heading to our chap
ter, a spirited sketch Of the heavy team-horse
of England in his cart Of dray harness. Com
pare his form with that of those put to like
uses in the West--the admirable proportions;
the great power and weight ; the depth of
carcass and of flank and the lew, thick and
somewhat upright shoulder, by which he is
enabled to throw SO much of his weight into
the collar. His perfect gentleness and steady
tempe prevent restiveness, and insure his be-
ing a true and steady puller.
This breed is usually Of d clear, glossy
black, with two or three of the feet and the
legs over the fetIock white ; not unfreqnently
a blaze in the face but with the head scarce
II SO fine as is represented in the cut. The
largest of the breed, many of which are from
seventeen to eighteen hands high. are sent to
Lofidt n, and there sold to the brewers, coal
merchants, &C., whose superb, stately teams
are the admiration Ct every stranger. Those
o. a less size are used on the farms of the
midland counties.
Although We should decidedly prefer seeing
the Clydesdale horse introduced to breed to
our farm mares, a compact, active black horse
would answer an excellent purpose. We
know both the breeds well and for the farm
and road-Wagon, We give a decided preference
to the cross of the Clvdesdale;
To DESTROY OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES (says
a French paper devoted to scienee) a quar-
tity of black soap in warm waters agitate the
mixture so as to. prodacaa ffoths which throw
upon the caterpillars, congregated by huns
dreds on trees, with q broom. All touched
with this froth die instantly. The army worm
is a species of caterpillar: suppose some Of
our planters send out their negroes with
buckets of soap-suds to try the EJECT OIL o
them. The l~ntelligencer says, ..inat insect ha.
re-appeared in Coneorasa parish this fall,
Experiment with the soap-suds, Mr.. Smith
and let us know the results,