242 NORTH AROOSTOOK SOCIETY. 



FROM REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. 



Horses. 



The committee on horses, in presenting their report to the 

 society, deem it proper to suggest a few remarks, trusting they 

 may receive the favorable consideration of those engaged in 

 the improvement of our breed of horses ; and if the commit- 

 tee can satisfy the farmer that, to raise a colt until it is four 

 years old, that will command an hundred dollars, is as feasible 

 and cheap as to raise one worth fifty dollars, then a point of 

 profit and economy is settled, and a fact that will guide him in 

 selecting the stock to breed from, that will insure tlie best re- 

 sult. And now, let the farmers of this society, for we are ad- 

 dressing them particularly, look at this subject in the light it 

 deserves, and employ the means they so amply possess, and we 

 venture the opinion that they will receive a more sure and 

 ample compensation than from any other department of stock- 

 raising. The history and merits of the horse have been too 

 loug familiarized in many business pursuits, to require an ac- 

 count here, of his origin. The orator and the poet have cou- 

 pled him with the achievements of the hero, and the laurels of 

 the conqueror. The bare mention of " old Whity," calls to 

 memory the history of the past, and fixes a character to the 

 present subject. The man that goes forward in the various 

 branches of stock-raising, taking the foreground in the improve- 

 ment of the horse, the ox, and the cow, is a benefactor to his 

 town, county, and State. Let us all, then, who appreciate the 

 most serviceable of all animals, the horse, give countenance and 

 encouragement to the growth and improvement of that animal. 

 And if the committee could but awaken in the minds of this 

 society the interest due to the subject here considered, they 

 confidently believe that in a few years, new resources would 

 be presented within its boundaries, beyond present computa- 

 tion; and we are happy to say, that on this occasion, the num- 

 ber of horses of all grades entered for premium, was greater 

 than in any former year. 



Joel Bean, Chairman. 



