Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-02-11

tons untold mountains and mooands without shelter
other food than the natural heritage The pony bred
because nothing greater size be the
stances of soil and climate The smallest for any useful pur
pose is about hands e so nches) weshaped ponies
that height only fit for pets the establishment
Two very perfect pairs of ponies hands high totally
different styles, have under my
years The first pair of brown stations respectively Jack
and JILL exhibited by the Countess opeoun Islng
Horse Show in 1871 in curiousy ugly wagoncte
prize in the small stallion class In form they admirable
Norfolk The other perfect proper
V Myng, Wasal exhibited 1872 and we're miniature
hunters perfect shape and that the shape of good riding
pony.
SHETLAND PONY
"Where pony under hands required
rarely excecd In the Shetland Islands the
make impossible breed large any kind whether
sheep horse Thccas also in Devonshe and Cydesdae
tradition that the native breeds improved by stations
which escaped the wrecks Spanish
is the slightest historical evidence this
more likely that the Shetland the descendant the Norwegian
pony, considering that the islands long part the
kingdom In districts and countries boreed by lands
which will ul-sized horse there temptation
the breeder put his argczed res In the Sheands
there not and has BEEN such empaon and there
fore, symmetry has been neglected in favour The
Breeds however, have been very much influenced by the demands
of the export trade Lord Ashe Acts which opera
ton about the year $780, and forbade the boys
draugh created demand for ponies small enough draw coal
trucks underground tramways For the last thirty years they
have been bred that purpose rather than riding drawing
pleasurecarages North visited the Shetland Islands the
press purpose adding description ponies agricu
ural He says: Every the ponies of the country
The Norwegian coors-dun with black tall
stripe down the backae in request bays and blacks
common gas and chenuts Pebads to be found but
with many buyers opinion that they
paake of Iceland and softer and slower than the
native Sheancr The ceanders average higher
the Shetlandcrs They often imported great
Granton and Aberdeen The best Sheandcrs
They bred thin SOIL studded with large
OF rocks which of ponies picking the green
grass which the light of heaven and the breath of the Gulf stream
force barrenookng bed INST be regarded
heart of Shetland genialookng spot when other parts
the dismal enough in the late spring If well kept the
ponies reach inches On hands but the average SO
inches Each cottar has generally ponies the HILL which
they CATCH and offer the dealers sale May
When the trade in ponies for the coapts height
hundred taken not thirty amongst hem
and about hundred for general all ages
twelve These heavy sales continued for years. drained
the Sheands of aged ponies OF late the dealers purchases
fallen off. In 1867 good horse pony worth Il; mare
unless WONDER e. less The
January and February
the Durham colces Welsh ponies are required The
Scotch have the lead in Northumberland larger ponies
required The Scotch ponies bred chiefly Arghe Null and
Skye and the western part Rosshre average hands inches
the Iceland IL, the Welsh and the Shetland
Some the ponies have light years
In wereguated pits they kept good hunters
with green food in and full allowance beans
peas crushed and mixed with hay cha and bran They
most from ndgesonvz greedy feeding when hungry-scacey
from diseases OF the lungs eyes The average work
twenty miles day half with empty tubs Accidents OF broken
legs and backs are frequent.
The Orkneys had once galloway garon, pretty we'll
extinct would have been better they had been quite
that better animal might have been found than the habroken
outocondton brues which North shipped Kkwa and
to Kenngton expedition which doubt shortened his indus
ious life. Some OF the best Shetlands
estate in Orkney
The Druid stalon) headed the Shetland pony contingent
His mares are duns browns meay bay, and pebad Colonel
Baour the grandfather of the proprietor began
breeding the beginning of the century He improved the
blame the black Orcadian waterkepe Spunk who
Of The