The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1871-09-05
agricultural department.
CONDUCTED BY ALBERT CHAPMAN.
What Uores Shall we Raise.


feet and useful an animal but to breed
him, attend him, watch his growth, note
his improvement in gait, his heightened
stride, his quickened motion, his increas-
ed and increasing ability to perform, his
aptness to learn, and evident desire to do
all that you ask of him, and especially to
guard against his ills, gives zcst enough
to make the breeding, teaching and driv-
ing, of horses one of the most fascinating
of occupations, and to the true lover OF
horse-fesh almost a necessary one. Ger
tainly to be a good Judge Of horses one
one must have some intimate relations
with them and it naturally follows that
our task will be more or less biased by what
he grows up with; thus Mr.. Chapman
and myself both admire Vermont horses,
Orange Co. N. Y, Hambletonians Cen.
trail N. Y, Considerations Jefferson Co.
N. Y, Andrew Jacksons Kentucky,
Mambrinos Maine, Knox horses and
Hartford, Conn.,, Young Jeffersons. Well,
now, the truth is, all of these horses have
merit as familiarity with mean horse)
breeds contempt for they all have
staunch friends, as any one who will take
the trouble to go and see these several
families mentioned, and many others not
mentioned, as there at their homes will
discover.
That some of these families can be
crossed to advantage is my belief, that a
continued in-and-in breeding, of some of
them would result in lessening size and
bone. Also, that crossing large mares, or
having larger strains of blood in them,
(which is substantially the same thing,)
with small stations will produce good
stock. In former paper l gave few
examples to show, might have given a
great many more, they were not "excep-
tional cases." every body in Vermont can
cite examples of successful breeding in
this way, and everyone who has noted the
effect Of continued in-and-in breeding of
Morgans or Black Hawks, can cite ex.
amples Of decreasing bone and size in
them, if they have not noticed the effect
they can if they will, and that as distinct
ly and surely as in the Indian Pony or
Mexican Mustang.
also gave more examples of success
full breeding when the mare was small and
the horse large, those were not "excep-
tional cases" either. [ could have given
almost any number of marked success in
the breeding of Star and Bashaw mares
to Rysdyk's Hambletonians, land they were
foaled with great expectations no doubt,
and those expectations" are constantly
increasing by the wonderful success of the
cross of the small mare to the large horse,
and paying $500 five hundred) for SER
vice would naturally indicate "expecta.
tons of a good colt, or heavy loss, and
the one Judge Bingham sold, at Buffalo,
the other. day for 100000, was one
of the colts, and great as the expect
atoms might have been the result of his
growing and maturing must have fully
met them.
Does any one doubt that care and at
tention long continued, and the best of it
was necessary to bring him to the perform.
ances 2,22a or that any but the best Of
material would have paid for that care and
patient labor as he has done, or endured
it either, if so,they had better post them.
selves.
The history of all past horses and colts
if told, would would show a deal of pa.
tient care and ceaseless work, to bring
them through the necessary preparation
for great performance, and the drudgery
Of the every day worker dwindles in COM
parison as test of endurance, especially
of wind and limb, and whatever the opin-
ion Of the best judges may be, it was the
opinion of Hiram Woodruff that even
Ethan fallen had good care and hand
ling; for he says, che was in the hands of
many an experienced man." and got no
hurt from his early work, and races In
deed l doubt not his after excellence was
enhanced by it.
Now like to give credit where credit
is due, and doubt not Mr.. Chapman
does also, but fear he lets the merits of
certain little chestnut mare he drove to
Ohio, at the head or tail of flock of
sheep, l don't know which, blind him land
lead him wild on the subject of Morgans.
He seems to think every one who speaks
of another horse an enemy to Morgans,
indicates that l am and doubts the sound.
ness of my reasoning, and conclu.
sions. Now think paid the highest
possible compliment to Morgans and
Black Hawks, told the exact truth about
them, "did nothing extenuate, nor SET
aught down in malice" just what one
half the people in this county, and State
even, have believed for years, "that the
close built, round swelled, muscular little
Black hawk or Morgan horse has as much
true horse stamina as any in the world,
and are especially valuable in their cross
es with heavier stock, and are as likel,
to produce the best of results crossed will
Mambrinos, Hambletonians, or Bashaws
as either American Stars, or Kentuck7
Pilots. am indebted to Mr.. Chapman
himselffor examples of the success of Blacl
Hawks and Morgans with Mambrinos &c
as in the sales of the l.. L. Dorsey, ant
Mr.. Edwin Thorn, quoted in his paper Oh
Morgan Horses. Now if 1 had adhere,
to the old established way of using Nor
gans &C., that is with larger mares, a
our fathers did, land l find no fault onl
that we hav'nt the Mares all would hay
been satisfactory; no ones toes would hav
been pinched. But l have stepped out, il
hopes to benefit not few, but the masse
who are blessed with small mares an
have given few examples to show tina
they may hope for equal results by breed
ing them to larger, coarser trotting sta
lions, that it is not necessary to bree
ponies to secure trotters.
Mr.. C, calls these examples sex
eeptional," such as always follow tn
breeding of large Sires to small Daml
1.-THE marked cases that come prominent
ly before the public, while the large nun
Der are never known outside of their ow
immediate neighborhood."