The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-07-11
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Conducted BY ALBERT CHAPMAN.
HoRE BREEDING.

Nothing mot surel indiestes Chat
Col. Stowell has no facts 10 present CHIT
will shstain his arguments and theories,
than bissiescending to personal innuen-
does, aud endtavoting to bclittle his
opponent as an authority without any
regard 10 the hcts of the case, as he
does in his article which we published
In our issue of fhe 27th dit. ~
Col.Stowell is not the original dis
coverer of this Substitute for facts and
arguments, that nnfair antagonists make
use OF when their opponents arc getting
the better of thu I'M in contest! the use
of these weapons by antagonists when
pressed for better, is as old as contro-
versy| Itself, bud will not be used except
by menlwith low conceptions of fair
ness, or with Interested motives. From
his standpoint DO one can possibly adj
vocate any thea'y without personal mo-
tives inYhis own interest, or he has been
hired ~ some one else to advocate one,
from similar motives. In regard to
ourself Col. Stowell knows full well
our opinions on horse breeding have
never been in The market or for sale.
He knows he tried to hire us by the
free use of his stallion to a mare of ours
years ago, a practice that seems to be
more common with him than with the
owners o. other stations, and. we do
not believe from the spirit he has mani
tested 10 this controversy, that his offer
ing to give every officer of the State Ag-
ricultural Society colt from his Man,
brine Patchen had any other motive
than to get large number of iuflueh-
tial men to blow for him. Col. Stowell
knows, or he has a very short memory,
that when he first secured Mambrino
Patchen he sought our influence, what
ever that may be, to convince the pub
lie that it was for their interest to breed
according to his theory, and his own
was just the stallion for them to use TO
test it. Our reply then was that we
did not think so, did not believe it, and
therefore could not say so. He knows
that two years ago he. sought our infu-
ence to convince the public that he had
"the best stallion In the wcrld," which
modest boast or assertion we could not
endorse as our own opinion, although
We were willing to give it as his; and
he also knows ON that occasion lie stat
ed that he had little or almost no pat
ronage for his stallion, and wished our
influence to get it; which makes his as
sertion in his last article, that we may
have been prompted by owners ofEthan
Allen stations to make an effort to re-
tain for them the patronage of the pub
lie, sound strange to us.
Col. Stowell, by dint of addresses at
public meetings, by publication of ar
ticles in the papers and elsewhere,
started with a considerable patronage
for his Patchen stations, but has finally
como down to very small number Of
mares, very much smaller than several
stations of Morgan descent now kept
in the county are having, and the asser-
ton from him that the owners of Ethan
Allen stations arc making desperate eff
forts because the brightness of their
idols are growing dim, is mere bombast
and bluff, and applies much more near
ly to his own case than theirs. Now
this couldnot be 20 if the patrons his
stations had received such rich practi-
cal results from the use of them as he
gave them reason to believe they would
receive if they followed his advice, or
as the same men know they, and others,
have received by using Morgan stall
lions.
We have never introduced our own
personal experience in breeding into
this controversy. The public always dis
counts largely from mans boasts of
personal successes, and it is distasteful
for lis to do 1t now, but as Col. Stowell
has seen fit to introduce our experience
with his usual disregard of the facts
OF the case, we will give brief
ly some facts from that experience, not
that there is anything remarkable in it,
but 70 show that Vol. Stowell from some
motive entirely tnistatcd them. /
In the first place, we bred horses be-
fore Col. Stowell was old enough to le-
gally own one. Years ago we bred two
Black Hawk stations that were taken |
to Pennsylvania, and were very sue
cessful as sires of useful horses, one of
them making better public time than
any stallion that Col. Stowell has ever
bred from ibis Patcben stock. Both
these stations were from Morgan mares
and sired by HIPS Black Hawk, the
dams were both small, barely 10 hands,
perhaps less, but the produce were
both larger than old Black Hawk. We
bred a mare from old Black Hawk that
after We had sold her went upon the
track at Chicago, where we lost sight of
her, but we heard she was trotting very
fast. We were raised on a large farm
where we bred good many horses and
had good deal of experience before
coming of age; we used there horses of
Messenger Thoroughbred, Arabian and
Morgan blood, and every time those of
the latter blood from the same mares
gave us the best returns in useful work
horses, the best roadsters, and those for
which we obtained the most money.
We used Longs Eclipse, Morgan, II
ger and HIPS Black Hawk, on the same
mare. The Eclipse we sold for $50,
the Morgan Tiger for 5000, the Black
Hawk for more still, although we do
not remember the exact price; all were