The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-06-11
agricultural department.
CONDUCTED BY ALBERT CHAPMAN,
what Horses shall We Raise,

In Mr.. C---'s last upon this subject
his position was so entirely partisan that
| thought it best to drop the discussion,
then and there, for fear we might de-
scend to war upon individual horses
After thought convinces me that this
should not be, that it is an important
question to the community what horses
they shall raise, and that there should be
free discussion upon the subject without
fear or favor, and according to the facts.
Facts are what l am looking for. [
have ever disclaimed any intention to
impinge on the merits of individual hor-
ses, and reiterate have and do believe
that we have had inbred Vermont horses
too long. BY Vermont horses l mean what
are known to the trade as such. (Morgans
and Black Hawks, when bred with for
eign strains they cease to be Vermont
horses pure, they are crosses, although
they may be owned in part or whole by
Vermont men. That Vermont horses
have degenerated needs no proof 1t is a
common remark both in and out of the
State. l am in favor of crossing, to breed
up again to size-to what we once had,
and | believe some of the renowned
stronger, coarser and more rangy fami-
lies, as Hambletonian, Patchen, Mambri-
no or Abdallah, son of Mambrino, all
strongly descended from old imported
Messenger, will produce that result and
give us as much or more speed than we get
from smaller stock.
j. II. Wallace, in his Trotting Regis
ter 1.-THE ablest and most complete on the
American Trctter ever compiled) says,
1.-The thousands of facts embodied in that
volume forces (him) to the conclusion that
English Mambrino the sire Of Imported
Messenger, is the true progenitor of trot-
tiers and q recent writer in the Nation
al Live Stock journal, G. F. S., Min
neapolis, Min, has taken pains to trace
the lines of the most noted trotting hor-
ses and sires in America, and found them
principally and prominently Messenger,
to wit
Dexter, 2l7 IA Messenger lines Diomed 3,
no other but once.
Lady Thorne 2.ls IA Messenger 2 lines Do
med 3, no other but once.
American Girl 2.l9 Messenger lines no other
but once.
Mountain Boy 22O ga Messenger lines no
other but once.
Geo. Wilkes 2 % Messenger lines no other
but once.
Judge Brigham 2.?2 Messenger lines Diomcd,
no other but once.
Gen. Butler 2.23 l-2 Messenger lines 9TH
er but once.
Fear Naught 2.23 Ii, Messenger lines Do
med 3, no other but once.
Geo NJ Patchen 1928 l-2, Messenger Diomed
no other but once.
Lucy, (sired by Patchen) Messenger Diomed
no other but once.
Joe Elliot Messenger lines no other but once.
Startle IL mile Ia at yrs, Messenger Do
med no other but once.
Socrates, Messenger Diomed Sourcrout ..
Black Wood fastest yr. old, Messenger lines
Sourcrout no other
Mambrino BERTHE Easiest yr, old), Messenger
Diomed Sourcrout 2.
NOTED TRoTr1NG sIREs.
Abdallah, Messenger 2 lines no other but once
Hambletonian Messenger lines no other but
once.
Mambrino Chief, Messenger / or more, no 9TH
er but once.
Andrew Jackson, Messenger 3, lines no Other
but once.
Long Island Black Hawk, Messenger 4, lines
no other but once.
Henry Clay, Messenger 3, lines no other bu
once.
Geo. NJ. Patchen, Messenger Doomed l line
no other but once.
MemJrino Patchen, Messenger 2 Diomed 8 NJ
other but once.
Membrino Pilot, Messenger Diomed 2 no 9th
er but once.
Edward Everett, Messenger no other but once
Alex'der's Abdallah, Messenger no other bu
once.
Young Morrill,, Messenger Diomed no othe
but once
Greens Bashaw, Messenger no other but once
And says that "to these lists might b.
added the names of many more distin
guished horses, selected with reference a
lone to their excellence but the abov,
is sufficient to show the true source from
which nearly all of our trotting horse
and trotting Sires have descended"
Or, if more proof is needed we vii
quote Mr., Charles Hayes, Muscatine
Iowa, in Stock Journal, who says, "Thre,
years ago l published in Wilkes Spiri
of the Times list of all the trotters thel
on the turf, who had !rotted under 227
There were thirty-twenty-two Of then
of Messenger blood. Seven of them hac
trotted under 223. This method cover
the whole ground, for by it the differen
families may be compared, bearing il
mind that it is through the Messenge
that we get the strong bone and gooc
size. Again,
Mr.. Wallace has published list of al
the horses that have trotted in $50, tn
past season, seventy-six have reached
those figures. Twenty-eight Of them o
unknown parentage; forty light are cred
tied with the names of at least one par
ent for each. Of the forty. eight, fifteel
are descendants Of Abdallah, ten Of tn
fifteen through Hambletonian
Seven of the forty-eight are Clays 0
Patchens; four are descendants of Colum
bus. Three Of Royal George, three oil
PAGER Pilot, two Vermont Black Hawk
three Eathan Allen, and three Lambert
two Gold Dust, one Young Morrill,, on
Mambrino Chief. Is here evidence enoug
that the families first mentioned are mos
emphatically, the sources to which W
must look, for that improvement W
need? If not, We will apply another tes
that of valuation-always to be take
with more or less Of caution; for | had
deal rather know what horse is, tina
what he sells for. At the same time larg
prices received for a family of horses, yea
after year, and those prices paid for tn
individuals, that have actually distir
guished themselves by their performance
as is the case with these, and especial
of the Rysdick Hambetonian's furnis
about as safe test as can be well apple
in these individual cases, truly wonderful
Dexter $4,000, Socrates $4,000
Happy Medium $4,000, Edward Evere
$4,000, Judge Brigham 100000, Judg
Fullerston $4,000, Bruno and Brunett
from little French mare, S34, 900, Star