The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-09-24
MAPLE GROVE STOCK FARM.
Report Of the Special Committee of the
State Fair.

bLato Falr.
The special committee appointed at u
meeting of the directors of the Vermont
agricultural society, held in the evening of
September 10Th, for the purpose of an ex-
animation of the stock of Gen. Ii. II. Bax-
ter, at Maple Grove stock farm, attended
to this pleasant duty on the afternoon of
the 18th inst
First, of course, to be shown was Waldo
the magnificent four. years-old stallion. To
those who saw him, with those other rep
resentatives of the Hambletonan family,
exhibited by Moulton Brothers, and Black
stone by Mr.. Noble, on the second day of
the fair, any description is unnecessary.
Indeed, if the necessity did exist, or if the
object of our appointment was a descrp-
ton, the stock we inspected is of so differ
ent type from that to which Vermonters
to the "mapner boIn are accustomed, that
the thing per Sc is only justice to the owner
and his stock.
Waldo, tracing back to Messenger, on
the side of both sire and dam, is a bay
stallion, 1G bands high, with such muscu-
lar development, such harmony of proper
ton, and perfect balance, that we were at
loss wherein or how to criticize. He is a
royal-super6ly royal hOrse--and as our
minds reverted to the cavalcade upon the
fair grounds, on the 10Th inst, memory
wandered back to that day when Old
Black Hawk with hundred Of his sons
and daughters in his Train went round the
track, now part of the grounds of Gen.
Baxter, then the grandest equine show
Vermont had ever seen, as was that of
Waldo and the stock of Maple Grove stock
farm, Monarch, Don Giovanni and that
ofthe Green Mountain stud, with Black
stone and his get, shown last week, vastly
the most valuable she has ever seen within
her borders.
Among the broodmares at Maple Grove,
is the Henry Clay mare, unknown-whose
produce, before her purchase by Gen. Bax-
ter, has been Marvels-her first colt, Tom
Sayres, in his three year old form, trotting
full mile In 300, sold to Budd Doble for
So, 500, and a like sum has been refused
for her second. Bertha, foal by her side,
is pronounced by Mr.. Backman, who is
perhaps the most extensive breeder of trot-
tiers 10 the world, as quite equal to either.
Kate Scott, another brood mare, is
roomy and muscular, with characteristic
motive power, and evincing that peculiar
temperament, which is the sine qud-no,s,
Of every horse 'oho eper trOtted fast, since
the day of their existence as a cass-whlle
Kitty, Proserpine, Ethel. Estele, Eflie
Dean, Star Maid, and Rutland, through
whose veins course the blood of Mambrino
surprising capabilities and endurance, not
known, no. understood not produci5ic, in
any other country, was the feat which
private generosity and enterprise, has pre-
pared for the stock raiser of Vermont !
Long after this generation has passed away,
his good judgment in introducing this
stock into our stale, will be felt and APP
preciated, because its value will be realized,
and if, AS has been affirmed, the original
Messenger, has benefited the United States
one hundred million of dollars, who can
estimate the enhanced value Of the produce
of his numerous descendants, whose good
qualities, under careful and correct prin-
ciples of breeding, necer detsriorate. but are
multiplied and intensified!
We cannot commen too highly, the
liberal policy OF the proprietor of Maple
Grove stock farm, in bringing to the use
of our farmers. free of charge. the past
season, the thorough bred chestnut stallion,
Onward. He IS perfect specimen of the
highest typeof the Morgan, such as we used
to see and glory in, twenty-five years ago,
offering convincing proof, II 1t was ever
open to doubt, that the pregenitor of this
famous family, was indeed thoroughbred.
Your committee beg to bear through
this their hasty, and necessarily, very gen.
eral report, thanks to Gen. Baxter, for his
courtesy, in accompanying and showing
them through his siables-and also to ex-
press their obligations to that connoisseur
| in horse flesh. Mr.. l.. ID. Packer of Brock