Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-03-14

'"N" We oNorJ uay see the capitalists and
moneyed men Of our country securing the
state through to find trottiug horse, with.
out much quibblng about price, shall we say
to our Armers, give your attention to sheep
When every horse buyer in the country
wants speed aud is willing aud anxious to
pay for it, shall we offer him horse only fit
Tor cart while our neighbors are growing
iIch, in money and reputation, breeding the
hne aud noble auimal-the horse2 Shall We
with our rich pastures, devote them to the
culture of cattle aud sheep which, with our
long aud rigorous winters, will hardly afford
man comfortable living2
Let us take look over the past and see
what has been done in Vermont. David
HUI, OF Brdport, achieved world wide
celebrity with bis old Black Hawk, bringing
him much wealth ss we'll as reputation.
Two Of his descendants Camors and Lady
Maud, won rank with the horses that have
beaten 223. Ethan Allen, his very best
sou, without any doubt now ranks almost
first, with his family of fourteen, that have
beaten 2,30. Lambert, his last grandson,
ranks high as trotter, and has achieved
reputation which might be envied by all 9th.
ers. These horses being of one family are
all tinctured with trotting blood, and al.
though they differ in shape and color, yet
they all possess the trotting instinct impaired
to them by their ancestors. Then we have
old French Morrill, whose colts aud their de-.
scendantS have established the Morrill, breed
OF horses all over New England This breed
Of horses to my mind, is the very best for
Verupnt for the following reasons first,
good size, which is very desirable in all
horses The Morrill, colt is invariably of
sufficient sizr that he can be used for the
farm or team If he does not prove fast enough
Tor the road. thereby bringing no loss to the
breeder second, soundness, which is another
guard against loss third, color, which makes
the colt more salabe fourth, docility of
temper, which fits him for any purpose that
a horse is used for But | am inclined to
believ5 that Of the whole number of Morrill,
horses in the land there is greater proportion
OF good, square-gaited trotters than Of any
other breed. Although they are not quite
as fast, aud have failed perhaps to reach as
low hgures as some other blood, yet they
are very popular as trottlng horses, and al
ways lind a ready market. Many of them
stand in the front rank AS regards time aud
their nominal value high up in the thousands
Perhaps the most valuable Morrill, horse
living is Fearnaught, owned by Col. II. S.
Russell, OF Massachusetts. Col. Russell for.
merly owned Ethan Allen, but considering
Fearnaught with his blood superior, he sold
Ethan and bought Fearnaught for his stock
farm, at an almost fabulous price, always
considering it good investment Fear.
naught was on the turf only three years.
think but in that time he met and defeated
some Of the best horses, such as j ohm Nor
gan Ethan Allen, Hotspur, Myron Perry,
George Palmer, and American Grl, winding
up with the great race at Buffalo, summer of
1868, where he won the $4,000 purse,
making his record in 2.23f Mr.. Wright, of
Boston, has sold within the year past, three
of his colts for $4,000 $4,000 has been
refused for a wo-years-old aud yearling of
his family. The credit of this stock is well
established and by many coed horsemen is
considered second to none in America. Many
Of the stories of large prices obtained for
trotting horses come from other states and in
some instances long way off, but we have
only to look about in our immediate vicinity
to see where the farmer or breeder has been
benefited by trotting stock, and here let me
speak OF John MoTrill, now known as Wood
stock, aud owned by Hon. Frederick Billings
This horse, is well known TO most of
US. claim that the trotting instinct is so
well developed in himself aud nearly all his
sons, that it makes him one of the most re-
markable horses in Vermont. His colts have
been raised without much extra expense, and
some of them sold at prices which are entire
ly outside of the market, and without taxing
your patience too long let me name few.
Mr. George Atwood, of Barnard, sold two
colts, one three and the other two years old,
Irok min a.
hay left by the sheep, and summered with
the free run of his mountain pasture, costing
but trihe. He sold these two colts for,
think, $500 cash. They were afterwards
sold for thousands of dollars.
Mr., Clark, of Royaton, raised the ia
nous trotter, Royal John, and sold him be.
fore he was at any extra expense for six or
seven hundred dollars, aud the horse at the
same time was WORTH as many thousand
| myself raised mare and sold her for
$1,000, not costing me any more than anoth-
er which brought only $500; both sound
one was a trotter, and the other a common
gated horse.
The owner of American Boy refused
$1,000 for him at five years old, with no 9TH
er keeping than the coarse feed of Barnard !
Shadagee.
The beautiful colt Fred Billings was kept
when S2j00 was offered for him and at that
time he had had no more training than
give our common buggy horses,
The fine horse Hermit now owned by w. |
II, II, Walker, of Windsor, was sold by the !
farmer who raised him, when yearling, for
S4OO, aud the same farmer sold three
years-old mare,-an ordinary looking COLT
for 5000, to that veteran horse buyer, Mr..