Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-04-30

pleasure hacks and even horses for riding post In the fifty
years S32) all that has passed POPULATION is longer
art there very hunting and France is interseced with
lent roads, the why Lmoun has almost ceased be
a horse breeding country
Forty years writer the Baron dEtreis
plains horses is associated in the public
ivoiy and that the judge, barrister phys
attorney, who ventued appear webd hack
driving himself phaeton the Legislative assembly the
law place of business would endange his reputation
practical and serious character.
ITO this social encouragement added
system arabic cultivation which, all but grazing dis
tricts universal country composed of peasant propeor
be reared without pastures and colts French
commissioners observe reporting the horses of Aace
perfection from very early period they shut up
stables
The French farmer he breeds horse naturally prefers one
which will be useful the land years DID, and he is
encouraged improvement heavy
carhorse the pachore which he formerly rode and carried
his goods market In the Adenne there formerly according
General Feury Grand EcyU OF Napoleon Ill., capital breed
horses the artillery but had been almost
xtnguhed by the avages and acquisitions OF the the first
Napoleon.
government attempted revive the breed by sending
good coaching stations into the crcumcrptOn (distrc with the
breeding artillery but peasant propreors would
nothing do with these cs, nominal fees They
found profitable put their Flemish wagonhoes
etc pGeG Gtaons
then fill the place occupied in this country by resi-
country gentry and horse loving OF farmers
courage and assist of peasant culators and far
as possible French army class
which the riding and hunting England afford unlimited
that the French has been compelled for
than forty years maintain system of artificial encouragement
! a very extensive scale.
THE production of the class horses required
cavalry carrage-horses wcbed riding horses-dcs
chc9aut fms (horscs with good ends London
ay)has in France been equal the demand
peace The deficiency between importation and eXpora
ton has been estimated fifteen cent The deficiency has
listed the seventeeh century, that standing armies
were established.
improving the horsesuppy of France
were taken reign Louis XIV AS course
spirit the age these attempts mainly consisted of number of
regulations suggested by naturalist philosophers of the
desk
"Unde Louis XIV. his subjects in Lorraine and Alsace
amongst the Frenchmen hy in blood Germans says NJ
Gayot who really fond OF horse and who took special pride
haassed and discouraged by the plumber
foreign the acquisitions OF their armies that they W
breeding miserable brues just able draw pillow
and worth stealing.
household cavalry of the king mounted
entirely on black Danish or bay Mec<lenburg horses
The nobility the imported welbred English horses
ta intervals Under Louis XV Marshal SAKE
to England to buy chargers
English style the plain Sao, and Philippe Egat6 rode
jockey 1885, under the republic the council Of five hundred
stations pure should be provided the
pense the the benefit Of the breeders Races and other
modes of encouraging breeding established.
The system, with slight notifications adopted under
the empire when the series made the
production France although all Continental Europe
rcquisioncd mounting the imperial cavalry Stations and
imported the East but except the short period
the peace Amcns, the English market closed French
purchasers, official and private
in acquisitions for the cavalry had reduced the horse
France its lowest condition. and little done to
stimulate breeding governments Louis XVIII and
Charles Xthc latter monarch having prejudice against
thing foreign everything worthy English country quc
in Pitts time
after july 1880 serious inquiry the
breeding led the establishment of the cabOr
ate SYSTEM de encouragement which adopted enlarged
improved the late emperor of the French who employed
adopted in the kingdom of Prussia.
man ohicct o this provide a snlic-