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without stint, will fit the farms of New England, doing the work 

 thereon at a fast walking gait, and on the road prove his power 

 to carry a load eight or more miles an hour and satisfy his owner. 

 If your fancy is for the large, blocky draft type, then multiply 

 these colts on your farms, breeding always with the thought of 

 the greatest value in the individual and the highest service it 

 can render. 



With the race horse the man on the farm has nothing to do. 

 So much is involved in education and training, such care must 

 be exercised in fitting before the highly strung, nervous tempera- 

 ment can be adjusted and its speed realized, that breeding this 

 class can hardly be sustained in the light of our present experi- 

 ence, upon the farms and for general use. 



You will see that the field narrows to the high class draft horse 

 or the all-purpose, fast walking, smooth acting, intelligent, cour- 

 ageous road horse; and of these the state can never have too 

 many. Thousands could be sold this spring if the supply could 

 be obtained. Maine, which formerly occupied such an envious 

 position in the horse markets, has been practically abandoned by 

 buyers, and it remains for the owners of brood mares to reach 

 back as fast as possible towards the Morgan type of horse which 

 so delighted the buyer and brought such revenue to our farmers 

 thirty and forty years ago. 



It is a fact that the demand today is for something larger than 

 the average of that class, which in style, action and conformation, 

 we shall never surpass, the horse carrying a large per cent of 

 Morgan blood. 



Among the families most noted today because possessing in 

 themselves and their breeding in largest measure the form, intelli- 

 gence, size and courage wanted, the State of Maine must recog- 

 nize the work done at Elmwood Farm, Lewiston Junction, by Mr. 

 J. S. Sanborn. He brought sharply to the attention of Maine 

 breeders the essential qualities of the road horse wanted, through 

 the introduction of French coach blood, noted for its prepotent 

 powers along the line demanded by the market of today and has 

 done a service to his native State which future years will be prompt 

 to recognize. Find your sires wherever you may, but let this gen- 

 eral type of horse be your model, for in the breeding of road 

 horses answering the call of the market there is sure profit for the 

 grower, satisfaction for the owner, comfort for the driver, 



