The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-04-29
AMONG The HORSES.
A Glance at Burnham & Merril's
Broad Cove Farm.

| Promising Animals under the Training of
Mr.. Ayer-EYr. Ira p. Woodbury's
Stable of Fine Horses-The Floyd
StabIe-yarious Notes.
Out upon the charming Falmouth Fore
side road, past the pleasant summer
homes of Gen. John Marshall Brown,
Hon. A. A. Strout and numerous other
wellknown citizens of Portland, at a
distance of some half dozen miles we
come to a line of snow white fences that
mark the boundaries of Broad Cove Farm,
the summer residence of Mr.. George
Burnham, name familiar to the people
OF Maine and the business circles Of the
country as the head of the widely known
packing house, Burnham & Morrill,.
This farm, formerly known as the
Sturdeyant place, is nearly 100 acres, and
is located opposite the pretty estuary on
the Falmouth Foreside shore known as
Broad Cove. 1t extends from the waters
OF Casco Bay to the elevated wooded
lands on the northerly side of the shore
road. The group of buildings-also of
spotless white and harmonious colored
rimmings-consist of two residences,
one for Mr.. Burnham's family and the
| other for the manager of the farm, Mr..
Willis Stone. Near by are three stables
for stock in which are quartered some
twenty odd head, seven finely bred brood
mares and the balance youngsters.
A short distance in the rear, in cosy
grove OF evergreen and hard wood growth
is Mrs. Burnham's lily pond. This
pretty lakelet is chiefly of artificial con-
struction but nature has been so well re-
produced by art that one would never
suppose it was not one of good old
mother natures smiles, were it not for
the prosaic explanation of how much
good the muck did the farm that was
taken out of the extensive excavation.
Rustic arbors and bridges enhance the
beauty of Mrs. Burnham's lovely re-
treat
A few rods to the westward on a level
plateau, Mr.. Burnham has in process of
construction and it will soon be ready
for use, a broad and well graded quarter
mile oval track for the education of
youngsters in speed. Here they can get
a good knowledge of speeding, making
turns, &c at an age when it will be valu-
able to them. The soil is loamy and
elastic, a highly essential feature for
colts and the course is sheltered from
winds on every point by the growth of
trees. When completed it will be one of
the prettiest little miniature trotting
courses immaginable, with four circuits
to the mile.
The Horse Stock.
The equine stock being bred at Broad
Cove Farm is the property of Messrs.
Durham & Morrill,, By the courtesy of
Mr.. Chas. F. Aver, who for many years
has looked after their interests in this
department, which might be called recre-
ative if not aremurative branch of their
extensive business, the representative of
the Portland PRESS in the horse line
visited this fine stock farm the other day.
The animals were in splendid condition.
The youngsters were frisking about the
yards as playful as kittens and kind as
cossets. Charley stepped out under an
apple tree and called them and four of as
handsome yearlings danced up and ranged
themselves side by side as if born in
a circus, as you could wish to see. And
five two year Odds were equally as amia-
BILE and is the regular order of events
considerably better developed into
beauty of conformation and action.
The stallion Norway Knox 2.29a may be
put down as the chief father to this in
teresting and valuable flock and his
mates have been of breeding calculated
to improve the horse industry of Maine.
The fine bay mare Geneva, five-year
old that roaded Charley Aver and the
PRESS man to the farm is by Norway
Knox and the dam by Gilbreth Knox. SO
that she is an inbred Knox with the
Morgan and other fine strains of blood
entering into that successful family.
Geneva has splendid two-year-oId fillv
colt by Rockfellow of the Electioneer
family. t
Daisy B. is a fine bay mare by Tucka-
hue, dam Singlertons Silver Heels and
the granddam a thoroughbred. Daisy is
y PesSOA HAui q lCOOli VI A.IU. t1cG lIESUs
colt was Washable by Norway Knox;
second Maud N. by same; third colt
Darby B. by same and Darby was End in
the yearling race at Gorham last year in
2.503; the fourth colt is Fanny Elssler1
and she has sucking, month old, all
by Norway Knox and all natural trotters.
Margaret Mather, known as the Lam
bert mare, as she is one of the much
priced Morgan stock of Daniel Lambert,
is another valuable brood animal Her
dam was by Young America; I'd dam
thoroughbred. Margaret has produced
four colts by Norway Knox. Jim four
year-old, the property of MI. Peleg Bark
er of this city; Dick a 3-year-old; Edna
2year-old and a yearling. Maud N. an
other of the dams isby Won Moltke Drew
that was the property of the late DR.. S.
II. Tewksbury. Won Moltke was sold and
went to New York for time but was
afterwards brought back to Maine and is
to-day good representative of the fine
old Hiram Drew stock. Maud's LIST dam
was by Winthrop Morrill, and the I'd dam
an English thoroughbred. She has been
bred to Dandy B. this season.
Emma is by Norway Knox and the dam
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