Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-07-12
VARIOUS HORSE NOTES.
MiddleburY, Vt



Most breeders do not realize the I'M
portance of selling.
Three trotters have already beaten 2'l2
in race this year, one of which Is d
year-old.
This has been an unusual season for
+ho closing out of New England stock
farms.
The average bred colt will make
better gelding than stallion and bring
more money.
vearling brother to Lord Clinton Is
described as one of the finest colts OF his
age in Vermont.
Saws The Horse Breeder, breeding in
accordance with the standard formula
has resulted in many an understood AMI
nal with 2:l5 pedigree and a 3-minute
gait"
DIR. Earl ). Sloan, in his treatise on
the horse, says that the chief causes OF
bone spawn are working a colt too
young, fast driving over slippery roads
and Jerking and stopping the colt TOO
quickly.
Ell. Hoffman of Lyndon, VT. recent
ly made $50 mile trip across the hills
of Vermont with an old Morgan mare in
five days. On the tip he says he never
lifted a rein, used whip or asked for
more speed. a shift of the bit was all
that was needed to do the work.
The most disagreeable horse in the
world to train is the one brought up as
a pet, and while kindness and patience
have made race horses of number OF
bad actors, there is another class that
can be taught to obey only through fear
of punishment, and the instances cited
above are only few of the many similar
ones we meet every day.
"a great many more horses are spoil
ed by being driven too much than too
little. The great trouble with young
trainers is they drive so much that they
tire and exhaust their horses, so that it
gets them to htching. The purest-gait-
ed young trotter there is will get 70
hitching if hard driven, or driven hard
when not in condition"
Probably no industry ever suffered
such a slump as the horse business in the
past two years. Over production, hard
times. trolley and cable roads and fanati-
cal legislation have dealt it staggering
blows in all its branches. The big prices
of the good old days have gone never to
return, but a revival is coming and mat
tiers will be adjusted upon reasonably
paying basis.
Among the Morgans of the old type
which were shown at the recent tieldday
at Lyndonville, VT, was horse called
Clifford. sired by grandson of Black
Morgan, LIST, which was a grandson of
Sherman. His first dam was by a son of
Hale's Green Mountain, and his second
dam by Black Morgan, LIST. He is what
he has right to be by his breeding, a
black chestnut in color. l4.3 hands high,
weighs 1000 pounds and has style enough
for any parade.
"When horse is at the shoeing forge
lit is a condition, not a theory that con-
fronts the smith," says William Russell
in5 his new edition of scientific Horse
Shoeing," ''and unless he knows with
positive certainty just how to preserve
or obtain the proper balances and bear
ings of the foot he is utterly incapaci-
tated to take charge of il. Science and
art are combined in skillful shoeing. a
knowledge of the structure and normal
functions of every part of the foot, as
well as the legs from the knee and hook
down, though not necessarily in their
ultimate scientific minutiH, Is as neces-
sary to make perfect shoe as Is the
mechanical skill to make perfect shoe"
This is sound, and it cannot be dinned
too often into the ears of blacksmiths.