The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-08-08
CARRIAGE HORSE BREEDING.


CARRIAGE HORSE BREEDING.
Mr.. EDIToR:-When a discussion
upon horses leaves out horses and dis.
cusscs men, like the play of Hamlet
with the part of Hamlet left out, il
ceases to be of public interest and had
better be dropped. shall therefore
confinc myself in this paper, for the
time being, to tho correction of certain
errors of transformation or misappre
hension contained in Mr.. Chapman's OF
July IL.
He claims to have bred horses before
my remembrance. / am not prepared
to dispute it, but will say that ii that
be so, il accounts for many things, o
mystery TO me before, and l will now
try and show him that respect due men
who have arrived ut an age IN which
they forget nothing and learn nothing
And one of those things before unac
countable, is his remembrance of the
New Jersey Patchens, which is certain.
ly directly opposed TO all the Patchen
information that have been able Ia
extract from New Jersey men and
horses in the twelve visits or more
have made to the state within the last
ten years, and contrary to the state.
ments of many dozens OF men, horse.
men too, that l have met and discussed
Patchens with from Maine to Texas,
who claimed to know whereof they
spoke. 1t is most certainly opposed 10
the experience of men in this state and
the state of Connecticut who have pat.
ronized Mambrino Patchcn or Land.
lord. Secondly, my statement, used not
for the purpose of argument, for it had
nothing to do with the main question,
but merely TO show that was familiar
with the labor and expense of breeding
and training trotting horses, was in the
original manuscript, 81 love them as
we'll as any, and have bred and owned
as many as most men of my age, and
six that have beaten 2:30." In the
transcription or printing two words
were left out, by no, means uncom-
mon occurrence, as every one knows
who writes for the newspapers, and q
very small nail was left to hang very
big hat upon.
Thirdly, my memory certainly must
be very imperfect aud my course very
unusual, or Mr.. Chapman is mistak-
Ell, for meyer TO my knowledge did l
try 10 hire, drive or flatter him or any
other man to blow for my stations,
my horses, my sheep, or myself The
whole thing is contrary to my instincts,
to my education, and TO my better
Judgment, ard simply impossible. !
did offer to give him the use of my
stallion on two occasions, as did 10
two other men list, as an inducement
to him to try what was conceded to be
an experiment and-2d, after his fail
ures with Lambert with his small
mares, to show him the marked i'm
prOvement that could be made by using
Landlord or Patchen to the same
mares; and did not consider that i
was departing from the usual practice
of other stallion men by thus doing.
nor do ! now, when fur better &C.
quainted with them.
Fourthly, One thing further and |
am done. for / am sure have said
enough'to satisfy any reasonable man
that the pair Of big, black, Lion horses
l had the temerity to buy and sell
again, did not buy az Patchens, nor
sell as Patchens, nor advertise as
Patchens, nor call them Patchens, nor
do ] believe they would have been if i
had; but If l have not, / hope Mr..
Chapman will please read this over as
many times as he has referred TO this
same pair of Ethan Allen Morgans. as
he calls them, weighing 1900 lbs.
apiece, and as many times as here
''arise to explain" on them, and denied
his allegations and insinnations. and
see If his mind will not grasp the facts
here laid down, so that they NAV rest
easy with the old struggle between the
square trotting, level headed Morse's
Gray. and the jumping, skimming,
running Black Hawk ofMr. Chapmaii's
early day remembrances-and that Is a
little advice rom personal experience,
that when man ffets exasperated, by
being misstated, misquoted and misun-
derstood, and those misses repeated at
ter full explanations and denials are
made, and he sits down and writes an
answer under the pressure of his feel
iDgs, 70 lay his answer by for at least
one week before publishing. for three
times out Of I've ii be does he will not
publish IL at all. and the one no does
publish he will wish he had not.
iat Y. b. SVowELL.
- e.'S "f'1So W THO uuOtt ny Ou1s
stowelI, and would only add by way
OF reply that we believe VIC have
learned more from a disinterested
stsadpoiat than Col. Stowell has from
an Interested one, and II he has not yet
learned that bresdiag large, coarse
stations TO small, fine bred Morgan
mares, has proved failure 30 far as
giving the farmers good, seryieeable
horses for al work, or even sure and
proatabis pRadnce to sell, he will in
time, II he lises long enough or can see
anything except from biz standpoint Of
ms own present pecpniary iniegest.
We have not In this discussion LEFT
the horses out; We have given lists Of
horses, prices, sellers, purchasers, etc,
and have called on Col. Stowell 10 do
the same. bat he has len tie horses aud
the particulars out, and has not ena-
b'ed ~ 70 test his arguments by all the
facts OF his sales, etc. ~, ..,r
1t is very singular that some alopths
have elapsed, and Col. SfowelI has
made no correction Of the article pub,
iished last winter IN Wsllsce's Month