Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-03-25
hE SPIRIT OF THE ACE
Woodstock, Vermont.
kinted Saturday Morning
kE DOLLAR A YEAR
PoMFRET HORSES
me Good Ones Raised in
a Great Dairy Town.
Ry Allen w. Thomson.

:Pomfret, though IA hill town, is
III of the richest farming commu-
Is'ea in the state. A large amount
bed has been brought into the
IN Of late years, and cultivation
n greatly enriched the soil, 80 that
K. old barns have had to give way
ones, some holding 100
s.s of hay. The silos are doing
Nfh; dry season is not feared as
as once. 1t would be interesting
now the amount paid yearly for
N feed and phosphate brought into
'hfret and, tCo. the state.
Before the fall of wool the income
% the farm was largely from
|tep. All the, farmers mostly had
ID flocks. When wool brought
And so cents a pound sheep were
d most profitable stock to have. hut
!,An it went down to 10 and 20
I'S it stopped generally the keep
&; of the fine wool sheep The high
SIS >e of mutton makes it profitable
teep the coarse wooled ones. The
AK ino hocks of Pomfret were known
|,4fly all over the world The flocks
Messrs. Bridge, Perkins and
" Ter had a great reputation. Buy
Ks eame from all parts of the coun
q and the prices paid now seem
|||;{Sst fabulous. One hundred dol
|} was nothing for sheep and
1 brought $500 and more The
~ Is claimed it will not do to tell
7 wool and sheep sold one year hy
n pf the breeders brought $4,000.
3# the sheep have given way TO
81 Jerseys, and Pomfret is now as
Ssth noted for its Jersey herds as
+ j1hs for it's Merino hocks.
"a bmfret was noted for it's number
7Arge, fine oxen. Its town team
ken was; very sure to take the
at the fairs. The hand
|Hshe giving way to the mowery has
Nh ght about the use of horses for
|N work more on the farm, and not,
hany oxen are kept Pomfret has
3been as noted a horse town as
IA b. The fine wool sheep and
|t teys have made Pomfret quite
4b BUS, though. it may be said that
VI fret is not celebrated for it's
IN les, yet there have been many
81 ID horses kept there, and good
s raised. y.
fhe first one of note was the
IN Ported Norfolk !. .trotter, Tally-ho,
* 3Rorted in 1898, taken to Wood
0Hk from Connecticut by the Dyer
W hers about 1914. and sold to Mr.
ice, who lived on the farm now
Med by w. ID Foster. lie soon
Med him to the old horseman,
'2Iliam Hutchinson, of Pomfret.
III kept him as long as he lived
iied not far from 1920 He was
endsome, snowy horss, a dapple
M with some white ON the off
WA foot. Is hands high, and
ehed 1000 pounds. He was
lely patronized and it was claimed
a his foals in color were all bay
4 had speed and transmitted it
of his sons who was kept for
fk was larger than his sire and
a and was ridden by Colonel
Al h in the war of 1912 He was
ed Young Tallyho and was very
he dam of the fast trotter raised
NJ MIR. Lee of Hartland WINS by
a y-ho. The Lee trotter was hay
VI Dexter's marks He was taken
ew York city, and many believe
Eas the trotter Ripton who held
championship in 1912.
he dam of the Walker horse, or
gan Tally-ho, was by Tally-ho.
Walker horse was one of the
stock horses ever in Vermont.
10 number of his get took hack
NJ rally-ho, having his character
es. The Walker horse was very
N to transmit speed when bred 10
fes having speed. One of his sons
raised, kept and died at POM
Ea$ about 1855. The b. f. Chedel