Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-05-18
Color as an indication of the Qualities

Color as an Indication of the Qualities
of a Horse.
A correspondent CT the Country Gen.
teman writes
In the first place L must apparently
contradict myself, for color has really
nothing whatever to do with either good.
or bad qualities, instead of which, tenn
lperament has all to do with color, or
nearly so. Now as to the dark chest
nut and the dark brown so far as my
| experience goes, they and the blood bay
| are more exempt from disease than any
other color, except the dun-or, as it is
enormously called, the cream-which is
much objected to. Dapple O. dark
grays are subjected to fungus excre-
sciences, commonly called warts. Black
horses are, according to my experience,
more subject to affections of the eyes
than any other color !; also in the feet
they are, as a rule, faulty, and, though
pretty, are not of a vigorous, ruddy
c~onstitutio. What horseman does not,
of his own experience, know what the
different shades of the sorrel are sub
jected to? They are, as a rule, the
most skittish. Who among expert
that, of all the baulky horses he has
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light sorrels. For intelligence or gem
eral usefulness, for beauty, and for all
purposes for which the horse may be
required, the above three colors viii fill
the bill. Let no personfor a moment
understand me to affirm that there are
no good-yea, very good-horses of all
and every shade of color; but do wish
to be understood to mean this: In
breeding, always breed from the best,
for it costs no more in any sense. The
white horse is usually of good keonstitu-
ton, and docile ; the spotted horse is
very hardy, but by most persons object
ed to on account of color only. AS to
size, black horses, are perhaps the largest
| alLover the world, except u American
Black Hawk; .chestr uts; browns and
bays are among the largest some grays
are large, but not as a rule. So ssy
During my twenty years professional
| experience, I have had seven idiots
termed among the horse fraternity of
jockeys dumbies j; q six, of these were
black and N a. roam L keep two
thoroughbred dark chestnuts ; I allow
no one to go faster'in a day than do;
neither do KNOW of anyone who can
go along journey in less time than l
can, and do, in all roads and all weather.
uSC.SACnHluS
How many will shudder at the sight
Of those significant words. They bring
up only unpleasant recol1ections, but
they refer to a very essential annual
scene in every ~well-regulated family.
The New York HAIL has a very inter
esting chapter on use-cleaning, from
which we extract the following: 81
/ 1t takes a man of angelic tempera-
fment to pass quietly through the ordeal
of house-cleaning. But as, unluckily,
the genus homo are not given, as q rule,
to angelic disposition, it follows that
this period is apt to be a breezy one.
There is little comfort to be found in
the house. The, carpets are up, and the
smell of paint pervades every room, the
furniture is in a blissful state of confu-
sion, slippers and boots are mislaid,
smoking ftobooed, the housewife, poor
woman, is apt to be f~retful, and the
children are continually vacillating be-
tween alternate delight and despair
delight at finding every momentgsome
new mischiefto be into, and despair at
being suddenly brought to punish
ment. - -'il .-. --@
l. The meals are apt to be irregular, and
hastily prepared at that, and Bridget is
in a mood that warns you that she will
not be hurried or fretted at. (
Talk about dog days and rabid ami
malsl I should like to see anything
more to be dreaded or more unreason-
able han the creature man during the
days of spring house-cleaning. He de-
clares that all this hustle and stir is I'M
necessary that it is all folly to put
every room into disorder just for the
satisfaction of putting it to rights again.
Poor Benedict He is, like the spoiled
child, who does not know what is good
for him. But the busy little wife
knows. She knows how important it is
that every nook and corner should be
thoroughly cleansed before the. hot
days come on that every article should
be brushed and polished, and the win
ter clothing aired and put away before
the advent of the destroy ing moth. And
she makes a martyr of herself for four
or five weeks every year that all this
may be accomplished. -