The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-06-11

large dealers and feeders say IN every particu.
lar, and consequently there must be something
more than mere prejudice In their assertions.
Mr.. p. must certainly be aware of all these
facts, and he must not believe that he can
dupe reading and enlightened people. Why
only last Saturday an Ottawa dealer, and also
breeder of draft hOrses-a man that owns a
Clydesdae stallion, and one that we know to
be good one, better than some We know
which are so highly boosted of-and this man
does not consider him good enough to breed
to his large Norman mares, which he is bring
ing all the way from Ottawa out to my place
and is breeding them to my Percheron No:-
man stallion, and the reason he does this, he
says, is because he considers my horse the best
one In the country that he has yet seen, and
that Mr.. =. thinks needs so much boastlng into
public favor As a reference refer all to any
OF the following named breeders and patrons
of my horse: Charles Ellsworth, Matthew
White, Daniel G. Mills, JeromeJ. Carter, Mar
tell Brown, David Beck, Messrs. VIM. and
Porter Donnell VIM. Newell, Andrew j, Red
ger, George Crawford, Abel Harris, Jackson
Fogle Hugh j. Clemens, Jacob Hess and a
host of other deserving and substantial pa
irons. 1t is an old and true saying, that the
proof of the pudding is the eating thereof. Mr..
=. stated In his letter that the highest price
Mr.. Heineman had ever paid in this section
Of country for any gelding, he paid for II
Clydesdale. Now, people do not all believe
that for good many good reasons; and,
further STILL he says the highest price ever
paid for any two-y earold geding, he also paid
for a Clydesdale-and, better still, he says 1t
was for a three.quarter Clyde Now, IN this
last assertion there may be more truth, and for
this reason if no other: Every horseman that
10 Of all mn with tbn hiStpry tf tho
Norman horse in this section, knows that all
the best two-yearolds of this breed have been
kept entire, and afterward sold as stations,
owing to the great demand for them. Further,
| have been told by men, whose veracty |
have no reason to doubt, that the highest price
ever paid tor a single gelding, or as lot, Mr..
Eli IIodgsou Il Sons, of Farm Ridge, received
for lot Of ten head which they sold at an
average price of $3.50 per head, and Mr.. p.
told me himself that the best Of them were
Normans, and they, too, were sold to Mr..
iIeineman, of Mansfield, Ohio, and | have
heard of other Norman geldings being sold
for, or nearly, the same amount Now, we
would like to know when, and by whom, those
Clyde colts were raised, and what Clyde horse
they were sired by; also, what were their
dams, &c.
But there is one fact that am fully aware
Of and that is tha, he does not need to boast
my own horse or any other Norman into pub
lie favor, as he has expressed II, and | shall
not even thank him iO doing So rs from the
amount Of patronage have heretofore ana
am now receiving, there Is no call or necessity
for him or myself to do SO. | have not rs
much as even put up single bill this season,
and yet am sorry TO say cannot more than &C
conmodae one.half Of the number that de.
serve 1t and have made application for the
1,,,
are all the advertisement Ineed and they need
only to be seen to be appreciated But Mr.. 7.
thinks that tie proportion of Clyde horses, as
compared to the Normans, accounts for the
number they claim to handle-that is, as 1901
Normans to five Clydes that Mr. Ileineman
claims he feeds. But that will not apply toI
other localities nearer New York, such, for in.
stance, as the Canadas, which is termed the
home of the Clydes and where there have been
so many Clyde horses raised. But Canada
must certainly be awakening to her own inter
est, by the large number of imported Norman
stations they have been importing from the
states within the last few years. Even old and
merry England seems to be on the alert, as by
the report published, in one of the numbers OF
the J0urnal, of trial made to test the endur-
ance, energy and sterling qualities of draft
horse, as made in the experiment with Scotch,
Norman and an English stallion, on Her
Majesty Queen Nlctoria's farm, near Windsor,
IN which all the laurels were awarded to the
Norman stallion, and that, too by Scotch
man, on English soil. Note, also, the extracts
of letter written by VIM. Dickson to Hon.
John Avery Dcnnison, and published in the
London Farmers Xdgaztne. He says, "You ask
me to give you my experience in breeding
horses, with special reference to my success
with the draft.stalhon imported from France,
In oh "a y,.
Royal Agriculturdl SOcietVs' Journal.
Il nave been engaged with every class Of
horses, from the winner of the st. Ledger
down to the horse working in the cart. /
fancy some Of my readers saying: what in
duced you to buy French horse could you
not find one good enough IN your own coun-
try?" My answer to those persons Is, yes,
could, and did so. | bought what thought,
and Others thought, too, a splendid horse.
bred from HIM, and so did my neighbOrs, very
good horses and ! should have continued
thinking There were no better Carthorses in
the world than the English, but in the year
1855 went to the International Exhibition in
Paris, where | had sent some short horned
cattle. There my attention was attracted to
class of horses | had never seen before.
looked at them, and was asonishcd at seeing
them drawing great long carts, as long as the
English wagons, loaded with immense blocks
of stone mot as ours are loaded in London,
with two or three blocks, walking nlmbly
away the whole day, from the PIT to the build
ing. These immense loads OF stone made me
think of the three or four dray horses draw
ing, at much slower pace, few butts Of
beer through the London streets. These
horses, walking so nmbly with these great
loads of stone, were not rs tat AS our own ia.
vOrites, but they seemed To me TO te doing
twice the amount of work. Although lcaner,
they bore the stuctcst scrutiny, and the more
saw of them the more | admired them.
Meeting Mr.. Jonas webb, | called his atten.
ton to them, and he said he had never seen
such horses before. He had observed a horse
taking INTO show yard an immense load Of
provender for the cattle that astonished him
beyond measure. He had resolved 10 try and