The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-03-05
The Horse Growers.

Going into Orange County, n. Y,
you find on every hundred acres 9
neat and capacious white house, with
well-kept fences, few rose bushes,
a convenient garden, ample barns.
Inside these houses you will be apt
to find wholesome, handsome wo.
man and four good children--that
is the average. If this womon does
not know what good butter is, and
how to make it, good bread and how
to make it; if she does not know a
good horse or cow when she sees it,
a good farmer as soon as she puts
her eye on his land, it will be sur
prising. Ii every woman in every
house does not own and wear a good
silk dress, if there is not in every
house newspaper or two, and q
magazine or two, and twenty good
books, it will be more surprising
still. These houses are furnished
with good carpets and good beds,
and in many of them stands piano,
which some daughter can use passa
bly, well. On Sundays and on fair
days, these men and women and chill
dren have good carriage and q
horse or two, with which they can
ride. They are as well off as man
kind can be, and they ought to be
content.
For myself, 1 should like to see
introduced bere the English fashion
of fortnight market days, where, at
the central town on a particular day,
buyers and sellers should met, the
one with productions, the other with
money, for mutual exchange. / be-
lieve this would promote and satisfy
the social feeling, which now may
sometimes 60 hungry; and l am
ciaE Five good farmers can start it
in any district, and / trust they will
in Orange County. The principal
products of this rich county are but.
ter, cheese, milk, cattle, hay, and
horses. 1t is with the last that we
have to do. Three great stud farms
are to be seen there; and, besides
these, good horses, in ones and twos,
are bred on nearly every farm. This,
indeed, has been the usual method
until within few years, when capi
tai, brains, and experience combined,
have organized great businesses, as
to which 1 only propose to report
progress.
On these great farms are to be
seen running loose on the snow-cov-
cred fields, herds of yearllngs and
two-year- olds, rough, unlocked, long
haired. 1t is not easy for the unin-
itisted to believe that some of these
unkept creatures are worth more
than a thousand dollars as they
stand. But, with singular conf
dence, they come up to you, they
put their noses into your hand, they
wish to nip at your coat, they have
no other idea than that you are their
friend. Then you begin to see that
they have broad faces, great, intelli-
gent eyes, quick, flexible ears, and
confidence. You are pointed to the
depth of chest, which indicates lung
power and large hearts. You see
that they are even now strongly de-
veloped behind, where the great pro-
pelling power of the trotter lies.
You see, too, that the stiles are wide,
and that the muscles creep well
down toward the hock-joint, which is
low on the leg. Very soon you be-
gin to believe that these uncombed,
wild looking, but gentle colts are in-
deed, worth money, and that they
are the stock from which is to be de-
veloped the Gentleman's Road Horse
of Eastern America in the coming
time. You 60 into the open yards
and find, in groups of five or six,
the brood-mares, as rough looking,
as unpromising as their children
but you learn that most of them have
racing blood in theirsveins-are de-
scendants of Mambrino, or Abdallah,
or Clay, or Star, or some other of
the noted horses; and nearly all
have made their mark, have done
their mile in $50, 240, or $50, and
so have won their places as mothers
of noted offsprings Great Far
mers by C. w. ELLIOTT, in March
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