Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-10-31

the popular mind against such trials. 1t
was designed to bring into its ranks men
from all sections of the Union, and to be
national, not sectional, in character.
Mr.. Chas. Barkman, who had been so
prominently identified with this interest,
consented reluctantly to accept the presl-
dency. Governor Leland Stanford of Gail
ifornia, Col. IL. G. Mcdowell of Kentucky,
and Mai. Thos. Morton of Newburgh, N.
Y, were chosen vice presidents of the as
ISOLATION Mr. Clark Bell, owner of Con-
fedrrate Chief, Andy johnson, and Top
gallant, consented to take the treasuryship.
Mr.. Edwin rhorne, owner of Thorndale;
Mr. IL. N. Smith, owner of Jay Gould,
Goldsmith Maid, and others; Mr.. Shepard
+. Knapp; Mr.. Samuel j Morgan, owner
of Happy Thought and Piedmont, and MIR.
Jewetl of the Kansas Stud Farm, went in
to the executive committee. Mr.. l.. ID.
Packer for long time known TO be inter-
esed in the trotting horse, and writer for
the sporting press, accepted the secretary
ship
On the roll of its members were such
names rs Col. Russell, owner of Snug
gler; DR.. Herr of Kentucky, the veteran
breeder; Mr.. w. II. Peck, owner of Vol
taire; Alden Goldsmith, owner of Volun-
leer; Gen. Withers, owner of Almont
McGibbon, of Blackwood, Jr.; Case, of
Gov. Sprague; VIM. B. Smith, of Thomas
jefferson; u. L. Simmons, of George
Wilkes and Honest &llcn; COL West, of
Kentucky, and indeed II long line of the
foremost breeders of the whole country.
The movement was not well received by
the sporting press,nor by the horse.trotting
fraternity. 1t was assailed by the Spirit of
the Times, damned with faint praise by the
1Mrt, Field and Farm, and only fairly sup
ported by the rising Sportsman, who had
the good sense to see in the movement the
germ of revolution in the destiny of the
trUtting horse upon the American turf
The local press, however, welcomed the
movement, and whenever they have spok-
en-, have done it justice. The meeting at
Hartford, therefore, was looked forward to
with the greatest interest, to see if the labor
was TO be rewarded by success.
The result Of this meeting places the
future of this association beyond cavil OF
IL doubt The most sanguine man am ny
its founders could not have dreamed OF
such speedy and magnificent success, in
its first public trial No turf event, so far
rs the trctting horse is concerned, has &C.
CURED in the last twenty years, of half the
significance Of this meeting ut Hartford -
Cowntry Gentleman.
In these days of trotting and running
races for big premiums, the walking gai
is neglected, universally, until II fast walk
er is really rare thing to see. The tro
is cultivated to the exclusion of every
thing else. and we might say to the grea
injury of that most useful guit-the walk
!. The way everybody drives horses now, thu
walk is only used to rest the animal. Tht
farmer will start off to town with pair o
colts and will drive them on u trot unit
he thinks they should blow little, wher
he permits them to subside into u walk
As long as they are walking they can creel
along as slow as they please-no effort i
ever made to increase the gait or to i'm
prove it. We have seen it asserted tba
fast trotters were nearly always fast walk
ers. One of the best breeders in TIN
country made this statement but confined
r it, perhaps, to the horses he had bred him
self We know, by observation, that it j
not general truth. We believe it is onl.
exceptionally true, and for the very rea
, sons we have given. On the road in car
riages or light wagon, the little interval
in which the animal is allowed to walk ar
regarded as important only to give tn
, animal chance to blow before striking u
the trot again, and in this way Il habit q
slow walking is engendered and reall
cultivated. 1t is true, the walk is unim
portant in itself in such cases, but whe
the team is hitched to Il load and driven t
!, town, or to the plow for days work, thi
gait assumes Importance ut once
moments thought will convince any on
!, the walk is The gait for the farmers horse
= All his work in the fields and on the roa
is performed by this gait, The differenc
between a fast and slow walk will be mos
easily understood by comparison. RecorC
: ed exeriments tell us that II team movin
IT at the rate of mile and Il half an hoU
Z plowed an acre in seven hours and hall
=, another team walking two and three
y, fourlhs miles an hour plowed an acre
g four hours, and third team moving off ;
T. II rate of three and Il half miles per hou
Il accomplished the same result in thre
" hours and eight minutes. Three dilferor
~ teams were used in these trials, ard ii
~ ~ natural walking gait of each was maintain
y ed. 1t is well known that velocity has i
~ direct effect upon the draft of u pow. TT
+. dynamometer attached to the pillow in thes
y experiments indicated the same draft /;
all veocties, and no more power was e,
~ pended in blowing in acre in three hou
r than in seven and II half hours. If horst
# are urged beyond their natural gait, how
=. ever, it is evident that extra force
~ exercised in proportion to the increase
W. gait which soon tells upon the animals
=, work.
" A fast walk can be cultivated in horst
w as well as any other quality, and if agl
~ cultural societies would offer Us big prem
7 ums for this purpose as they have bee
NJ offering for trotting it would goa gre
~, ~ ways towards stimulating improvement
vi this direction, and it would be an improv
!" ment that would make itself felt upon Il
farmers and agriculture of the country
Ohio Farmer.