Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-02-17
From the Rural New Yorker.I
Horses for Breeding.
ADVICE FOR THE VT. HORSE BREEDING
ASSOCIATION.

Horses for Breeding.
ADVICE FOR THE VT. HORSE BREEDING
ASSOCIATION.
notice in the Rural of Dec. 18th, an
article from the NeaO England Farmer
stating that Il Horse Stock Company is to
be formed in Vermont. l am very glad
that move of this kind is being made.
In most of the Northern States horse
breeding has always received far too little
attention. Nothing is more important
than that good horses should be bred, and
nothing which the farmer can do is more
remunerative than breeding good horses.
In Vermont and Northern New York
there is so little good blood to be found,
and as ii is expensive to procure it, L think
a Horse Stock Company with capital of
from 100000 to $250,000 is just ''the one
thing needful," Judging, however, from
the article referred to, fear that our
Vermont friends are in danger of starting
wrong. [ have spent much time, not
only in the study, but in the practice of
horse breeding, and have visited some of
the largest and most successfully man
aged breeding establishments in this coun-
try; and ii the "Green Mountain Boys"
will allow me, will give them-what l
believe to be-a little good advice. / am
deeply interested in their scheme, because,
If successful, they will he he-ofaots"s not
only to the people of Vermont, but to-
those of other States.
First would advise them to purchase
farm of one thousand acres, instead of
three hundred; then purchase no horses
of questionable pedigree, no matter how
great their individual merits may be; for
all intelligent breeders, both in this coun-
try and in Europe, give their testimony
to the fact that horses of pure blood be-
longing to fast running or trotting fam
lilies, even if they do not possess these
family characteristics, are far more likely
to be progenitors of fast stock than are
very fast horses of inferior blood. | take
it for granted that il is not the purpose of
our Vermont friends to breed stock for
running purposes, but fine looking horses
for fast trottng, for the carriage and the
ploW.
Now, the question naturally arises, what
breed is best calculated to serve all these
purposes | answer, a combination of
different breeds. Our friends need not
import stock from England, because as
good blood can be found in the State of
Kentucky and iii the counties of Orange
and Westchester, New York, as the Old
World can produce, and can bo bought
for much less. On the celebrated Wood
burn farm in Woodford Co, KY, owned
by MIR. Alexander, and on other farms in
the me locality, can be seen some Of the
finest thorough bred and trotting stock in
the world. would 20 to Kentucky and
purchase tho thoroughbred and some of
the t;ottiug stock, the Nam brine Chiefs
to Iowa aud purchase other trotters-the
Btshaws 10 Orange or Westchester
county, n. Y, to find still another breed
of trotters -~thc HanbletoniAus. These
are the three great trOtting families of
the world, and from them have sprung
Lady thorn, American Girl and Dexter.
The Nam brino Chiefs are large, sixteen
hand horses, rather coarse on the head
and neck active and cat-like in their move
mentS limhs clean and blood-like, but
with plenty OF bone. The HAmbletouians
are smaller about fifteen ami one-half
hand horses-and finer boned. Both of
these families are descendants OF Messeu-
gers great son MambrInO. The Bashaws
are about the size ii the Hambletonians,
but coarser and more ''stocky." Take
stations from these three families and
cross them with thoroug hbred mares, and
You have three kinds of trotting horses,
ali first class, which will suit every pur-
chaser.
Now about your thoroughbred mares,
u. they put the finish" on your stock,
uuu give thrm style and endurance. II
would ;sIi our friends TO select from two
breeds, VIZ: L. Xlngton and bennington.
| thiuk the latter little the better for
their purposes, az they are larger aud more
elegant in form, bennington being six
teen ana one-half hands high. The
American Stars are too small and too
light boned, generally; and as all horses
bred for trotting do not make trotters, we
must have an eye to the substantial as
well. Lastly, let me say let Vermont
breeding mares" and vermont stations"
severely alone"
Ii they will purchase three stations
Mambri Chief, a Bashaw and Ham
bletonian, and, keeping clear of Ameri-
can Stars and other small, light boned
breeds, get thirty mares by Leamin ton
and ten by Lexington, and give their bust
ness the attention it demands, Vermont
will at no very distant day rob Kentucky
of her prestige as the greatest of horse
breeding States.
Col Edwin S. Stowel of Cornwall, has
recently purchased one of the breed of
stock horses referred to in the above arti-
Gle from the Rural Aeso Yorker. The
horse of Mr. Stowell is attracting wide
attention, and is highly spoken of by the
best judges.
The following is the pedigree of COL
Stowells horse:
"Mambrino Patchen," by George NJ
Patchen,' by !" Cassius M. Clay" by
!" Andrew Jackson" by Young Bashaw,"
by "Grand Bashaw.' The dam Betsey,"9
by " Messenger Eclipse" by Messenger"
by Mambrino," by Imported Mes
senger."
On the presentation of the enterprise Of
Mr.. Stowell in bringing into this State an
animal of high grade, for stock purposes,