Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-10-07
VOL. 1, No. IA.
Terms, S1.OO per Annum.

time in either of three heats beside running
mate, has never been equalcd in public, by
any horse for even n single heat) is smaller
still. Flora Temple and Hotspur are below
the average height, as well as II very large
number of horses of lesser note.
vi the horses of larger size that have re-
corded good time and made themselves IA
NOUS very few of them have been able to
withstand the wear on the track that would
enable them to be trotted often i'm close races;
OF be for many years able to keep their places
ut the front, and preserve their sounclness,
and probably II much larger proportion of
medium sized horses have been withdrawn
from the trotting track in n sounder condi-
ton than of those above medium sized.
We think the computation of the cost of
keeping our smaller horses not II fair one
when he makes no distinction between the
cost of raising them, and the rangy l6-hand
horse. Our smaller horses cannot in the na-
ture of things cost so much to raise, and they
will at II much earlier age begin to safely
earn part of their living, and from their
more willing, tractable dispositions, and
greater intelligence. be more sure to come
out safely broken than the high bred and
rangy horses he proposes to substitute i'm
their stead. Under this head we think the
Coils picture of selling 4-year-olds of these
ringy slow maturing horses mt remunerative
prices, more vivid in his imagination, than
we shall ever real iZe in the future. Our
Morgans prOverbially mature much earlier
than any other good horses, and they have
rarely been saleable before older than four
years, and us the coarser horse natures so much
slower, and has to be used during his period
of growing with so much greater care. that
much larger prices will have to be obtained
to realize equally us large profits. The his
tory of the Hambetonians in Vermont is
proof of the TACT that coarse horses mature
slowly, and cannot safely be put to any but
very light services until their loose joints be-
come matured and settled together, and un-
less they We're compacted and settled togeth-
er by an infusion of Morgan blood, they have
not been ready for market or service mt near
as early an age us our Morgans, and the ex-
pense of keeping between and years
(whilc the Morgan is earning his living) will
require large margin to be deducted from
the profits of the coarse horse.
Again we do not think Col. Stowell is war;
rantcd by the facts in stating that we have no
longer n demand for our horses because they
are small We sincerely believe that we are
receiving rs good an average price for our
horses rs they are elsewhere. If we are
mistaken in this, it is because we have per-
mitted our hest horses to be always bought
up, and taken away to improve those of some
other sections, until they have improved
theirs by such IN Infusion of our own blood
us to make them of II better average quality.
In short so to Morganize them, MS to make
them better Morgans than we have left.
If this is the case, let us take warning and
preserve our best breeding blood in the flu
ture, and if necessary procure some of the
very best we have sold and return it to its
old home, and hereafter instead of bartering
our birthrght for mess of pottage "retnin
our very best stations and mares ut home mt
whatever cost. Vermont retained her su-
premacy in sheep, not by selling her Golden
Fleece, Sweepstakes, Gold Drops, or Green
Mountain, although their owners were tempt
ed by fabulous prices, but by retaining them
for use and improvement at home. SO if she
would maintain her supremacy in horses, she
must retain her best stations and mares for
her own breeders. 1t is the system of selling
her best, and breeding from those inferior
that needs reforming, not i'm infusion of bet
ter blood, for truly there is no better blood,
nor better horses for gentlemen's drivers, or,
for all work than Vermont Morgans.