The daily gazette., 1874-10-14
ADDRESS
pEIdvEGED BY
non. THOMAS y. B1Y.fRD
Al TIE OPENING OF THE AGRl-
tUlFuEAL FAIR AT MID
DLEFOWN.

A'.'E't'f''ND
4 systematic cxtirpation from .he stud
| OF every weak or defective animal, cou-
pied with the most jealous care of the
finest. We are told of the ordcals of
fati,aln, exposure ard sudden shocks.
such rs swimming rivers after long and
heated rides, to which the young Ar;lbi-
| an colt is subjected, and from which if
he emsrgc5 without apparent injury he
| Is adopted rs a true son Of the desert !"
| and deemed fit to continue his own gifts
| IN his progeny.
This refusal to breed from an imper-
| feet sire or dam il the corner ctonc of a
| upcrior strain of hOrsc3
A late Parliamentary commission in
hnSland, OF which the Earl of Roscbcr-
| ~ was the chairman, has contributed
| some Interesting and valuable facts, from
| competent and reliable witnesses, as to
| the great Improvement in the breed of
| horses in Great Britain, which is to G
| attributed almost entirely to free, un-
| fettered private enterprise and indce 4
All the testimony Is decidedly adverse I .
governmental interference, which even
N France during the ast empire wus
| ablrdoncd
| Admiral Hous, the Nrstor of the Eng
lish turf, testified that in ls.l there
were IN Britain but 7:;5 thorough bred
| brood mares, and 1872, 2959 brood marcs.
| besides having supplied France and Ger.
| many, the greater part Of Europe. Amer.
| lea and the British colon'r with the r.
| improved stock. He stated that undol
| their system of Tacins; and breeding, the
| stature of the thorough bred hol-r ha a,
| increased in England since the year l7up,
| one inch every p years. That "A the
year 100 the average height OF hors
was IL hands 3 inches; and = now l5
| hands inches; and moreover that the
horses Of to-day can carry twice the
| weight allotted in racing $50 ycalI ago.
| That even second class rlrc hon ;cs can
| give the best Aldbians five tone go H. ~
and beat them from one to twenty
| miles.
Tine actual experiment of racine be-
, tween the half-brcd chargers of the
| English officers and the best bred horses
81 the Arabs has, i'll almort every case,
resulted III the easy victory of the for
NOR.
| the attention Of the French has only
cnnpc rativcly lately bcon drawn to the
| tu1i a5 means Of improving their stock
of horses, and when III l"'3 they first
e"nt race horses to England they hardly
found place, ard allowance was made
N weight for all frrrch hor5c,. But
time ut last cts all things even" and
hv a few years Of careful breeding q
"tilIliateur" was produced, whose tri-
lumphs repeat Il, abolished all such "al-
pwanccs,' AMI our English friends find
~ hard work to gain IL plizc in Paris, oI
Keep their Il. tish trophies oil the
French sidrboards
rcmsmber well an American gentle.
man who has passed nearly half a cen
tury i'll France, told me of a thee ~
there accepted "'nong the horacmen wa
hat the closer to the earth Il hors,
cropped the grass, the better and dcnsel
the bone was formed; that he got NOR,
| tcr and earthly salts into his compost
lt'on thereby.
Now, | know not If this lc t.tr, an,
it certainly should be no excuse fo
scant feeding, but it would cncourl:,
our btrthren in Sussex and also oi
TIL" Eastern Shore, whose hrrhilgo i
| sonnet mcS thin, to cmulat" the pas mr.
IaGcs Of richer growth, III he production
Of finely bred horses.
1t HAS been often s,lil, and truly, i
, costs no more to keep good horar th''
n poor ore, and ii may h., added that i
costs LITTLE more to breed one; and, com
pared to the market value OF thr pro
auction. there can be- 10 question is t,
/ which way eronomy points.
; / And nowadays, my friends hen
!; gentleman II one of our cities want
ruc hon 'c. or Il pair, and begins loul
| +h''fhi A'''9 'tiIi7ttils IL WI llliA I
. speak from eXpeI .crcr) RS choice ves
""cam5rt I'D, and nc WI scnr.dil
and | think properly he advi eel, "yo
hal bcttcr - to kentucky or t. Dram,
county i'll New York II you want reall
tine horse.
l. II not about t'.ly this sort ol TIM
h"nld he topped ? And you =cntlcme
T. mers, yon stalwai y, omen OF the IL
Ipn-ulI, have 1t IN your power IN a Yer
hort period to change All tbs and bl 4
IT Ia p2Ss hat when we oitymen, wlotl
~ from New York or Baltimore or ri /
drlphla OF Wilmington, want a fine hol-
W. VII know Just where to 20 find M
lNi that will Ia iust here where | spell
OF anywhere along the In ui the Del.
war; railroad and the roads that lea
from 1t On both side. 1acrc il no 81,
~ the Union whcr,' the breeding of 4lI
horses can be more c.le'lr and protitah
,, conducted, and must al, there are fe
: p'IreS where good HItirs torn horses u
y lIu+t now 50 scarce. II y,u were to COT
pute the money that leaves the PENN su
= every yclr I" ply for horses raj 'ed
other and les favored States, thI
you would conclude We are Il wlstef
and improS ,deut people.
+ be-lu t. say something while Il
about the effect OF ? 'sociatlun with iil
horses upon the character and tone Of
people. lnlS beg Is very carly, a.
pen manent things do. Just a3 the gent
y | voice of the mother of our chi'lhooI !;
= sitting lessons Of iire-sid. MOI , II
steal into tine memory Of the world wo
nan irfuene HIM II ways and at tim,
that few around him. and perhar n
even he, fully comprehend. So n I
Clucatlon oil orr l1y5 and girls shol
an early influences upon thor imagiu
ton and charae tnr be closely consld,
$. ed.
RS. John Ruskin has been lately writins
series of noble letters to the workn
\ and llborcrs of Great Britain, from .
of which make this extract
You little know how much is impli
in the two con1'tions of boys educ.lti
that gave you IN my last lctter.-th
they shall all learn either } ride or 81
. nor by what conStlncy of law the pow
of highest discipline and honor is t
h. by Nature in the two chivallies of I
,u Horse and Wave. Both are sign;tcst Ii
>" of the iyht command ot NJ 10 o. hjS q
prsSioas; but they teach, IA .hcr, I
20. strange mystery or relation that cxi
MI lst NpRn his spiil aud fh, will n,t,,