Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-02-08
Matched Teams.


most difficult task to accomplish of any
thing to be found in the equine traffic.
There are so many good qualities re-
quired to make the match that it is diff
ficult to find them combined in two ami
mails. Size, color, FORM action, speed,
temper, endurance and habits, must cor
respond to make the match perfect and
ELL the measure of the public taste. IF
the buyer is willing to dispense with
size and color, it is quite possible to get
temper and action to correspond. They
must be tempered and gated alike to be
pleasant drivers. The level-headed plea
SAINT disposition that cooperate together
as one in spirit and action, is the sum
and substance of a genuine matched
team.
There arc two classes of carriage
horses. The large class are used in the
family carriage, and the smaller kind
for liz ht vehicles on the road or for bus
mess purposes. The Cleveland bays
were the original favorites of the arts
tocracy for family use. They have been
superseded by grade founded from a
cross of Cleveland mares with thorough
breds or hunters. 1t has improved the
form and action of the old carriage
horse, and supplanted them with the
smooth easy traveller equal to seven or
eight miles an hour on the road. 1t has
increased the speed and endurance of
this modern family servant without di-
minishing his ability to carry weight.
The improvement put on the form of
the hunter and size Of the Cleveland
bays, and surpasses them in beauty as
well as utility.
The smaller class are feet-footed
roadsters, and are great favorites with
business men. They are not only used
for business, but for pleasure. They
contribute to the cultivated pleasures of
society, promote social intercourse, and
conduce to pleasant recreations. The
beautiful horse--the swiftest of the an
imal race, are cherished objects of fam
lily pride; household treasures that live
in the veneration of their owners for the
good they have accomplished. Their
| rapid strides, and easy movement, glides
over the ground without apparent effort
which delights the mind and gratifes the
ambition to keep pace with the improve
ments of fast age, where steam and
electricity have superseded the slow
| motive power.
AS society advances i'll wealth anC
| prosperity, new customs take the place
Of old WORKOUT associations They have
outgrown the antiquated theory of do
nestle happiness, and have changed the
old domestic habits by gratifying more
wants in homemade comforts. VIVA,
was once considered luxury is now
looked upon as necessity. Carriages
OF modern invention; they were not
known to the ancients They were in
troduced into modern usage when civil
ization took the place of barbarism
The pillow was the great civilizer of man,
kind. Agriculture has made great i'm
provcments in subduing the earth before
mechanics followed up with their in
ventions. Horses had been raised ready
to hitch on to vehicles as fast as they
were invented by mechanics.
Agriculture and manufactures are in
debted to mechanical inventions for
their most valuable productions Horse
power in connection with machinery is
the great saving power of human labor.
They SOW, reap, cultivate the SOIL and
gather the harvest. They have a strong
hold of the domestic affections, and fig
ure in the memories of the past. The
"reminiscences of the triumphs, obedi-
ence and fidelity, form lively episodes at
the fireside. Fine matched teams are
the jewels of aristocracy They are far
more useful if not more ornamental
than the tinkling symbols of dead mat
ter. The faithful horse shows his lus-
ter by his works.
In Arabia, where the pedigree Of their
exclusive breeds are attested by their
chiefs from the birth of the foal, and
handed down from father to son as a
valuable legacy to bequeath to posterity,
there is tradition that the prophet
Mohamet, being DESTROYS of improving
his stud, caused several war chargers of
undoubtcd courage to be kept several
days without water. When raging with
thirst they were let loose to the water.
On their arrival at the stream the bugle
was sounded for the war charge. Two
out of the number abandoned the water
and rushed to the expected battlefield
in response to the bugle. The two that
proved themselves equal to emergency
were selected for the harem, and from
these self-denying chargers descended
the most famous breed of Arabian
horses. Tor Mich. Farmer.