Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-20

great DIVERSITY III Tie ollspTlnP' nave
seen the Canadian stallion cross from
the heavy cart horse and thoroughbred
racer to the dimunitive sheltie. with sur
prising Improvement. Many of our best
and some of our largest horses in this
district are out of common mares of less
than fifteen hands, and got by Canadians |
of fourteen. The offspring of such oft
en- grow to fifteen and half and some
times to sixteen hands, and are both
heavy and agile. The loss of the coarser
marks of the parents in these crosses Is
sometimes astonishing. If any gentle |
men or agricultural association in the
United States wish to procure Canadian
horses to breed from, shall be happy to
become instrumental in furthering their
views.
The rich scrap from Mr.. Skinner has
described the Morgans in few words,
and set off the Canadians in good carl
cature. Mr.. S. is right in having doubt
ed the systematic or habtual employ
ment of the Canadian stallion in Ver-
mont. The blood is most commonly
intermixed by putting mares of unknown
origin, which are a cross of the Canadian
race, to American horses of some blood,
or at least of some figure. Such mares
are kept on the farm for their excellence
in the collar, and when the colt, arriving
at maturity, fetches good price, the
farmer in his simplicity usually views
its merits as accidental, or attributes
them to the Wanted sire.
As to ga paper on producing light
coach horses; without affirming what is
the chest course. it may be allowed to
recommend good, easy and cheap one.
Put choice native mares of the district, of
sufficient size and that are naturally
breeders and mixers. to a compact, active.
hardy horse, six to II years old, reared in
poorer country, in "A rough way, and
that has never covered many mares,
or been otherwise abused; let his distin-
gushing traits and those of his ancestral
stock be such as you wish for in the off
spring, and those in which your mares
are deficient; feed the produce well but
not highly; shelter warmly but do not
keep them too confined. As these arrive
at maturity select some fillies of freest
growth, and easiest to keep on coarse and
scanty fare, and put them to fine temper
ed horses of some blood their produce
will answer the purpose, and serve to
keep up the breed, but we may expect
some of them to be shockingly violent
and FESTIVE, owing to the double cross ::
these must be sold to our friends in the
city.
The Canadian gives the best cross for
work or speed; the Morgan for style and
travel. The produce of the Canadian
will grow larger on poor fare; that of
the Morgan may be most depended on to
inherit the qualities Of the sire. cannot
conceive of any use the thousands of
to so profitably as breeding with a Nor
gan or Canadian horse. We are to apt
to imagine that the produce must be
about half way between the sire and the
y
ed, there is no telling what it may grow
to. a PAGER is as likely as a trotter to
get fast trotting colts, if the breed is
crossed and the mares trot. Americans
who buy for breeding in Canada seldom
choose the best, being led away in favor
of large size. The height of a true bred
Norman of the right sort, reared, as he
should be, in the rough way of the coun-
try, rarely exceeds II hands and inches.
and when put up to 10 hands there is reason
to suspect a long leg cross in the pedi-
gree, or that the colt has been stall fed,
with view to sale; or what is worse, a
constitutional propensity to coarse
growth shows tardily in the offspring.
have bred from one of these horses so low
as l3 hands | inch, and have always
found his stock to grow larger than the
dam. Col Chaplin, of Montgomery Hall,
Albany, showed me five good sized, well
made, heavy, easy kept nags. of the right
sort for travel and endurance, which
were got by "A diminutiye Canadian PAGER
called the Jew, said to have done his
mile in.
Col. Jacques account, derived from
the groom, Shorey, is sufficiently recon-
cileable with what is given in Stearns'
affidavit in my first communication. We
must allow some lee way for Dragging
of one who could assert "that he had fire.
quently seen him run quarter of a
mile in 10 seconds" In your paper, both
in the last publication and in that of
September 2s, 1899, the name is erron-
eously spelt Shovey and the name of
Goss, the next owner after Morgan, is
printed Gass, which are apparently typo
graphical errors, owing to an obscure
handwriting in the copy.
, Stearns says that the horse is about II
hands high, and of such handsome and