The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-04-28
Ghq farmer,
Orange County Farms.

Going into Orange county, New York,
you find on every hundred acres, neat
and capacious white house, with well-kept
fences, few rose bushes, convenient
garden, ample barns. Inside these houses
you viii be apttO ind wholesome, hand
some woman and four good children--that
is the average, If this woman does not
know what good butter is, aud how to
make it: good bread and how to make it /:
If she does not know a good horse or cow
when she sees it: good farmer as soon
as she puts her eye on his land: il will be
surprising. If every woman in every
house does not own and wear good silk
dress: if there is not in every house a
newspaper or two, magazine or two, and
twenty good books, il will be more sur
prising still. These houses are furnished
with good carpets and good beds, and in
manyof them stands piano, which some
daughter can use passably we'll On Sun
days and on fair days, these men and
women and children have a good carriage,
and horse or two, with which they can
ride. They are as well of as mankind
can be, and they ought to be content
The principal products Of this rich
county are butter, cheese, milk, cattle, hay
and horses. IL is with the last that we
have to do. Three great stud farms are
to be seen there; and besides these, good
horses, in ones and tyos, are bred on
nearly every farm. This, indeed, has
been the usual method until within few
years, when capital, brains, and expert
ence combined, have organized great bust
nesses. On these great farms are to be
seen, running loose on the snow covered
fields, herds Of yearlings and two.year-
olds, rough, unlicked, long-haired. 1t is
not so easy for the uninitiated to believe
that some Of these unkempt creatures are
worth more than a thousand dollars as
they stand. But with singular confidence,
they come up to you, they put their noses
into your hand, they wish to nip at your
coat, they have no other idea than that
you are their friend. Then you begin to
see that they have broad faces, great, in
telligent eyes, quick, flexible ears, and
confidence. You are pointed to the depth
Of chest, which indicates lung power and
large hearts. You that they are even
now strongly developed behind, where the
great propelling power Of the trotter lies.
You sec, too, that the stiles are wide, and
that the muscles creep well down toward
the ockjoint, which is low on tho leg.
Very soon you begin to believe that these
uncombcd, Withholding, but gentle colts,
are indeed worth money, and that they are
the stock from which is to be developed
the Gentlenan's Road Horse of Eastern
America in the coming time. You 90
into the open yard and find in groups Of
five or six, the brood mares, as rough-Iook-
ing, as unpromising as their children,
This rough appearance Of colt aud dam
don't speak well for the Orange county
farmer. but you learn that most Of them
have racing blood in their veins are de-
scendabts OF Mamhrino Or Abdallah or Clay
or Star, or some other Of the noted horses;
and nearly all have made their mark. have
done their mile in $50, 2.4O, or 2.30, and
so have won their places as mothers of
notedohspring. q W. Ezieott, 10 Gokrzy.