The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-08-02
The Thorough bred Horse.

| The Thoroughbred Horse.
! We copy the following from the
the Turf, Field and Farm, AMI com
mend It's perusal to our agricultural
readers
II you will examine the thorough
| bred, you will, on investigation, find a
superior organization-his bones are
more solid, his tendOns stronger and
much better lefined, his muscles more
! firm and elastlc-ln fact, us his form
and quality are 50 much superior, it
results that he is much more active,
much more fleet, and much more pow
! erfuI than any other variety of the
horse tribe. He will perform much
much more labor III given tiWe, and
repeat the task ottener, coming
around much quicker from over
work, than any animal of in
! ferior blood When the -blooded
horse is Overworked, his spirits
sink, and his recovery is slow aud
sometimes never complete The
| thoroughbred's game and pluck are as
superior to the cold blooded mongrel's
as the game cock S are to the dunghills
A square inch of bone from thorough
/
square inch from a cart or mOngrel-
bred horse, the latter being more por-
GUS and calcarious, resembling pumice
stone, while the former is solid, par
| taking more of the close grained nature
of ivory. The same remark VIII apply
/ to the tendons and muscles. Conse
quently "a thoroughbred horse will be
stronger than cart horse in a little
more than half the compass. 1t is
asserted-and is doubtless true-that
the thoroughbred can support greater
weight upon his back tina the common
horse.
For all farming purposes the blood
| morse Is IN every way superior to the
scrub, and more particularly IN the
South and Southwest, where the heat
of the climate makes good wind and
| endurance an almost Indispensable
requisite. Experience has convinced
all the owners of stage and express
| lines that it is good economy to pay
! higher prices for horses of some blood
! than to buy the common horses at even
comparatively low rates. All our livery
and stable keepers Will agree in this
opinion.
Take any of our large farms, and we
do not fear to hazard the opinion that
If the horses are inspected at the time
| they usually lay by their crops, 1t will
| be found that the best bred horses are
invariably IN the best condition, with
out reference to size, and that at all
times, on push, they have been able
to do the most work. Let any of our
readers try the following experiment
next season: Take half-bred and
scrub, when the corn is about up to
the horses withers, and pillow with
them side by side, or III the same field,
and see which can endure the heat and
stand up best under the labor and
fatigue. We have no fear as to the
result. The half-bred will be found
Is so superior TO any other variety that
the quality of the horses of any por-
tion of the country will be found to
correspond with their breeding,
declining in proportion as they
recede from the acknowledged
thoroughbred. Blood, as the Eng
fish have found always tells in the
hunting field. When the speed Of the
hound became so improved as to out
strip the common English hunter, re-
course was had to the well-bred and
three-quarter-b bred horses, and now fox
hunting in England has become a sys
tenn OF racing under heavy weights, in
which nothing but full blooded. or
something nearly approximating 1t,
can carry the heavy weights across the
country and the deep-plowed fields and
maintain place with the hounds. No
inferior bred horse can get through
deep, heavy ground, jump hedges and
bitches, like the full blood, nor finish
up and return home so cheerful after Il
hard days work. They are rarely
ridden or driven off their feet, howeN er
severe the exertions of the day NAV
have been. while the common
horse will refuse his food and
turn from the manager. Ii, from
English experience, the full-blood or
thoroughbred horse Is so desirable for
the hunting field, it must follow that
he Is equally so for the road. For all
the lighter kinds of draught the thor
oughbred is most decidedly preferable;
and even for the operations of agricul-
ture a cOpious infusion of what Is IN
derstood by the term blood would be
found a great improvement A class
OF anlmaiS WOULD IHUS De EIouuceu-
not SO bulky as the present draught
horse, but more vigorous and stronger,
more active, and capable of enduring
much greater and long-continued ia
tigue.
Assuming these facts to be correct,
we hold to our original theorya as to the
superiority of the thoroughbred over
the Norman or any other family OF
horses for crossing with cold-blooded
stock, whether for heavy draught, road
purposes, or the trOtting turf.
JOHN Russell YOU'VE wasn't driven out
| of New York Inr nothing. The King of