The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1906-09-13
An Enterprising tmbden Farmer
Will Breed Draft and French Coach Stock
Three High Class Stations.

Three High Glass Stations.
A few days ago newspaper writer
had an opportunity to visit the farm OF
J. o. Whitney in Embden, that IS fast
coming into note as the home OF tnree
of the best stations of their class to be
found in the State, and is likel y IN the
near future to become quite a breeding
establishment of pure bred Percheron
and French coach horses. Two pure
bred mares are now on the place ana
the owner contemplates making other
purchases this fall.
Mr.. Whitney, who is native OF
Unity, purchased his present home, a
large and excellent, but somewhat run
down farm, containing several hundred
acres in the northern part OF Em0den,
about three miles from Scion Ferry
and ten miles from North Arson. He
has been making improvements IN the
farm in gradual way by taking up the
old fields, cutting bushes, removing ola
walls and clearing rocky pasture lana,
until he now has some large ana nanG-
some fields with a good burden OF nerds
grass and clover. Yet one can see at
glance that only a small part OF WhaL
he has in view has been accomplished.
and that when it is he will have valuI
able farm that will be well worth gong
to see. AS yet nothing has been done
to the buildings, Mr.. Whitney prefer
ing TO invest first in foundation STOCK
for the breeding of draft and coach
horses, believing them to be the type
that is to be in demand among a large
class of our Maine farmers:
To meet the growing tendency among
8 hi n tho St4t4
to breed to draft stations, he purchas-
ed in November, 1905, the young che sd
nut Percheron stallion, Merton, AZ, $50,
registered in Percheron Stud Book OF
America. Merton was bred by E. 5.
Akin, Auburn. y. Y, and both sire
and dam were imported from France.
He was four wears old the present
mouth, stands 16 81 hands, weighing
somewhere near l 800 pounds, is a well
put up animal, with good nerve and
easy action for heavy horse. He is
also strongly inbred in such way as
should make him a most potent sire.
Last season Merton was allowed to
serve some forty mares and there are
now some thirty youngsters to his
credit.
Being we'll satisfied with the pat
ronage extended this colt the first sea-
son. and believing that the services of
another stallion of the same class
would be in demand this year, Mr..
Whitney, early the present spring,
made an extensive trip among large
breeders and importers in the west,
going as far south as Nebraska, and as
far north as st. Paul, Mimi, and final
" selected the imported French draft
stallion, Corporal 1870. This horse is
black with star, stands upwards ct 16
hands and weighs about 1775 pounds IN
good flesh. He is eight years old, was
Imported from France several years
ago by Augustus Rogy OF Princeton,
Neb., of whom he was purchased. He
has since been used in the stud by MI.
Rogy, and in buying this horse Mr.
Whitney had the advantage OF seeing a
large number of his colts from variety
of mares.
MI Whitney previously made visit
to many Of the western breeders before
purchasing Merton. In selecting these
stations he has aimed to get types that
Were best adapted to grade up with our
native or trotting bred mares, and mas
looked for FORM ease of action, lite and
nerve rather than extreme size.
Both of these stations have been on
tile road three days q week this season
and have stood at the farm the rest OF
the time Merton goes as far as King
field and returns by way of New Port
land and North Arson. Corporal goes
to Bingham, Scion and Athens. To-
getitr they are giving the farmers OF
northern Somerset d rare opportunity
to patronize a high class draft stallion.
Mi Whitney's third stallion is the
French coach Javelot imported by E.
). Akin of Auburn, n. Y, and Was
purchased by Mr. Whitney last Novem-
ber He is dark brown in color, 4
nice stopper and typical specimen of
the breed Like the draft stations,
this horse has been on the road three
days in the week, going as far south as
Madison village and back home by the
way of Scion.
MI. Whitney also has an imported
French coach mare that has taken the
first premium among the Hackneys at
the New York Horse Show. Another
mare purchased for brooding is an iron
grey three year old pure bred Percher-
on, bred by a. S. Akin of Auburn, n.
y. She stands 16 hands and weighs
100 pounds or more. This young mare,
Helena, is a handsome type of the Per
cheron and is now in foal by Merton.
AS has been stated above. Mr.. Whitney
is year by year getting his farm into
better shape for cultivation, and at the
same time increasing the amount OF his
hay, grain and cultivated crops Next
year he intends to begin to make re-
pairs and Improvements on the build
ings, and by that time the colts will be-
gin 10 come along. If nothing comes
mp TO interfere with the present plans,
Embden will soon have a stock farm
that will not only be much to the credit
of The enterprise and labor of its pro-
pretors, but also source OF pride TO
the toWn.-Madison Bulletin.
DIR Finn's Testimony Interesting.
DR. Thomas CHM, of BoonSboro, Mo-. who