The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1874-04-24
Maternal Ancestry of Hamblet0nian.

Mr.. J. II. Wallace gives the following
| account of the female ancestry of the cele-
brated horse Hambletonian
In the summer of 1907 Mr.. John Scely,
of Sugar Loaf, Orange county, was down to
New York with drove of cattle. He was
riding an eight-year-old brown mare by
old Messenger. This mare had white
hairs in her tail, hence he called her Silver
tail. His son Jonas a lad nine or ten years
old, was along helping to drive the cattle
and see the city. Having disposed of his
drove, he was exceedingly anxious to get
home, but did not like to leave the lad ;
so he took him up behind him on old Sill
vertail, and galloped home that day-sev-
enty-five miles. The date of the circum-
stance was fixed in the boys mind by q re-
markable eclipse cf the sun that day. She
frequently carried Mr.. Seely alone to AL.
bany one hundred miles-in day. Her
trotting action was not much deTeloped
but she would gallop all day long. Mr.
Scely bred this mare to Hambletonian, the
inbred son of old Messenger, and the pro-
duce was brown tilly, rather hard to
manage when they came to break her; and
one day, in fight to make her do as they
wanted, she got one eye knocked out
hence they called her One Eye.
This mare, One Eye, was bred to import
ed Belfounder, about 1881, and the pro-
duce was q handsome dark bay mare that
showed fine step as trotter and as that
way of going was then becoming lashiona.
bic, she was sold to New York for good
price. She eventually passed into the
hands of Mr.. Charles Kent, and was queen
of the road for number of years.
Meantime Mr.. Seely, ST., had died, and
the present Mr.. Seely-the lad of 1907
succeeded to the name and estate On a
certain occasion he saw the Charles Kent
Mare, as she was then called. She had
been hardly used-one hip knocked down,
and dilapidated generally. Knowing the
wonderful merit of the family, he bought
her again for trille, and took her home to
breed from. She produced several foals.
In 1850, she brought nice bay colt, by
old Abdalah; and in the autumn of that
year he sold the old mare, with the colt at
her feet, to VIM. NJ. Rysdyk's for $125, and
that colt is Rydsyk's Hambletonian.
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A SHEEP PAsTURE.-Two years ago
had underbrush mown and the trees trim.
med up ON some forty acres of second
growth woods, covering Il rough, rocky
hillside, and at times in the spring,
when the leaves and brush were Just dry
enough to partially burn, set them on fire.
This did not injurc the trees, as it would
have done had the ground been very dry.
| also cut out the crooked, leaning and
| less valuable trees, so as to leave room to
run narrow harrow over the ground.
The brush was piled in small heaps in the
more open places, so rs to burn without
scorching or heating the trees, and thus
the land was entirely cleared of everything
but the stubs. These sprouted in the
Spring, and had to be mown with the
weeds and briars that started up. Ifmown
with leaves on they make good bedding
and manure. This woodland was sown to
orchard grass and red clover, with q few
pounds of white mixed in, and has taken
well, and the coming spring l think l
shall have as complete Il sheep pasture as
any one could wish.-N. Y. Tribune.