Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-07-15
NEWPORT, SATURDAY, JULY Is, 1871.

and Henry mare are examples and in the
days of Black Hawk that system gave very
satisfactory results and | have no doubt II
more uniform class of horses than if bred
the other way We recall some few thus
bred of excellent stamina and generous pro-
portions, as Plato, Addison, Pathfinder,
lockwood horse and his renowned son Gen.
Knox among stallions Belle of Saratoga,
Lady Sherman, Lady Litchticld, and Boston
Queenamongmares. Black Hawk found dmany
good mares in Vermont, descendants fIIam-
bletonian, ,AurcliuS, Henry, st. Charles, Liber-
ty. &C., and these were their produce and the
product set all the world agog; for the beauty,
symmetry and general usefulness of Black
Hawks bred from such mares was IL wonder
to all; but as those old mares have passed
away and the stock of Black Hawk interbred
OF bred to smaller MOrgans or French, re-
suits have been to decrease size and bone,
and spoil the business and our reputation,
fastening upon us II small sized, chubby,
rugged, little horse to be sure, but degenerat-
ed in size and without the power of recu-
pelation, unless by slow and tedious process
of careful and discriminating selections OF
proper animals of the species for long series
tiencc to endure. With sheep in tlOcks OF
hundreds, ten years experience is more than
II lifetime with the number of mares that we
individually are able to keep. My experience
.js >heea has taught me that likes ao,st pSD,iuet
Ike cractly but intensity characteristics and
especially pecularities. Now then if we
breed small horses the product is smaller
The Mexican mustang and the Indian pony
are examples of continued degeneration in
size. These small. hardy little fellows ARE
descended no doubt from those horses o.
Cortez considered by the Aztecs half man ano
real Centars, and there is no reason to be
leve but they were Of full proportion whcr
imported, for how else could they have car
ried the mailed warrior and in addition theil
own stout covering?
If breeders would provide themselves Will
such mares as were in the days of Blacl
Hawk, small fast stations would produc,
equally good and better stock than was pro
duced then. But will they? Is it not tho
tendency of nearly all to breed from whn
they have, especially ifrendered unseryiccabl,
by hard work or strains, even if small?
think it is, and you no doubt agree with me
and it is not so very destructive after all II
we have sometimes thought, if care is use,
not to breed from horses having hereditary nil
ments, ,provideda II judicious choice of stallion i
made, for it is no doubt true the close built
sound, swelled muscled little Black Hawl
. or Morgan horses, have MS much true STAN
ina us any in the world. | remember tn
remark of II gentleman last summer, one ev
idently travelled and observant, and witha
IL true lover of the horse. Sitting upon tn
Addison House steps, in Mddlebury, on
public occasion, he watched the teams com
in from the country. Looking up he says
mo where have | ever seen horses com
into II town hitchcd to heavy buggies wit
two, three and even four loaded in, that woul
: take their loads mp such hill as that, ut sue
! Il rate of speed without hitching, bobbing O
/ jumping; and those sturdy little fellows don
seem to know that they have any load be
!, hind them at all. These are qualities, gel
tlemcn, that we cannot afford to lose, and
D is not necessary we should. In the last fe,
years there has been IL growing opinion i
t the minds of the most intelligent hors
breeders of our land, that the old theory
q large female, small male, though good i
practice must give place in measure to til
= absolute facts MS they are developed from da
5 to day and year to year; that the fastest an
, best horses, those showing the best stayin
h and enduring qualities, are being produce
( by breeding the small, fine boned, enduring