Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1855-04-04
WHoI.is 10 7s

lot dollars The whole number otshortied
3 tcattle is estimated at twenty millions. ay.
teraglng twenty llarss and valued at four
!: hundred millions of dollars :
. The number of sheep is twenty>thsee
millions. aud averaging two dol liars, eoual-
ling forty six millions Of dollars.
, The present estimated value Of swine.
is one hundred and sixty millions Of dol
Ials, being thirty-two millions head, worth
on the average i've dollars apiece.
From the small beginning have mon.
toned. the whole value to this country is
nov the immense sum ofnine hundred mil.
lions Of dollars. and the value of the land
used for agricultural purposes is three bill
lion and i've hundred million ofidollars, the
whole covering an area, of about three
Hundred and Eve millions of acres.
The Canadian horses are Of French ori.
gin. and to this stock We are indebted for
most of the trottiug horses of the United
States. 1t is marked peculiarly OF the
Canadian horse that he always lrots, as
the Arabian horse always canters. 9th
er breeds exhibit all the peeuliarities of
movement, including the trot, canter. and
amble, but the Arabian horse never trots,
and the Canadian rarely oanters. Beside
tho trotting horse, We are indebted to
Canada for many of the most ssrviceabls
specimens of the cart and dray horse, of
their size, and in the northern part of this
State. in Vermont. and other sections on
the Canada line. they are met with in
great abundance.
The United States do not as / have
mentioned, possess anything which can
be called native stock, but many of tho
horses found here are superior to any
others, owing to judgements in crossing
breeds, care in raising, and by close
observance of all circumstances whiehWill
improve good qualities and correct de>
teots. so that may say without hesitation,
and alter long observation, that they com.
bine all the excellencies Of other nationa.
IL was supposed that the horse sent from
Morocco to General jackson. and the
Muscat horses sent to President TVlst
would materially improve the American
race but they were small, though Just
made, and think the country has derived
no benefit from their possession. saa
Much of this excellence is obtained by
changing horse from one section TO an.
other, provided the change Of climats is
not one which will have a deletorious Of.
feet. Thus horse brought from tho
Western prairiss to the sea side, soon
gains in weight. power Of endurance land
value and the same is observed when
an Eastern horSe is carried Most. "a
horse with the heaVes taken from New
York to Illinois will be cured Of the dlS.
eass, and l have noticed many other 10.
Y0rable changes. Sill there Is ALWAYS
more or less necessity for Rcelimation, htIt
judicious course Of management. will
result in much good to the horse. The
change. however, will be injurious, Mtho
new climate ia not healthy. Thus. n
horse taken from here to South Carolina,
soon depreciates, and becomes o oflessvale
ue. A horse taken to Mexico feels
the change Of the climate at trst, very
sensibly, but the purity Of the air, and the
excellence Of the food soon add LARGELY
TO his usefulness and value, and ko &
much more highly estimated than the
native Mexican mustang, who parlakos
Of the uncertain and Eighty character OF
the people who raise him. A hofsA
brought from Kentucky or the Western
States, or from Canada, requires about .
| year to become acclimated TO our hectiof,
Our own horses, when taken west are
deemed TAR superior 10 any other. oh .
trip 30 Kentucky. was riding on a stage
and asked the driver where .hs obtained
his horses. He replied that they came
from NorlbeFa New York, that tbeyswers
brought out there by some parties who
had a small contract. and were liked 60
well that they always kept them. Their
own, arrived At maturity earlier, be said.
but did not last half so long, that the New
York horses far exceeded them in endu,
rance, and that there was no such thing
as driving them of Of the track. The
Kentucky and Tennessee horses are good
for the saddle. but not for tho collar. In
fact, custom is everything, and though Il
may do much towards training q horse
for uses TO which he Is naturally unit.
yet any horse accustomed to the haF.
ness can rarely be made OeTViCeabls Tor
the saddle, and good saddle horse is
soon spoiled ifthe collar is put upon him.
AZ the God Of nature has not endowed
any one man with all knowledge, so ho
seems TO have distributed the qualjfca-
tons OF animals, in such a ma1ner that
judicious management will msko each
superior in different and distinct sphere.
was once in Boston looking ut tbe i'm.
meuse truck horses, and epquirSd Whero
they came from. was told tbst eFi
came from the highlHnds Of New Ham
shire aud Vermont.
They we're better for that purpose tfd Il
any others, while for the lighter spiiuf
carts Of this section, the heavy eastern
horse is not 50 suitable.
The slow Conestega horse, Of peppsyl.
vania, was formerly used in teaming over
the Alleghapies; they weighed from
fourteen 70 sixteen hundred p0nnds-and
have found from experisnee, that tbey
> had not the endurance to labor as the