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West, has contracted fever, and are offered to the butcher 

 nearly dead from close confinement and heated and had air, 

 will lead the consumer never to look at the one kind so long as 

 the other can he procured at any cost. 



Harvey Dodge, Chairman. 



HORSES. 



MIDDLESEX NORTH. 



From the Report of the Committee on Draught Horses. 



The horse was probably first domesticated in Egypt, about 

 seventeen centuries B. C, from whence he soon spread into 

 the surrounding countries of Svria and Arabia. Civilized and 

 uncivilized men have always considered the horse a noble 

 animal. When we read of the ancient warriors going forth to 

 battle with their chariots and horses, snuffing the battle afar 

 off, — or when we read of the young Alexander mounting his 

 young and powerful Bucephalus, whom none other could 

 mount, and subject him at once to his will, whose pulse does 

 not receive an accelerating throb at the thought of so powerful 

 an animal being subjected to the will of man ? Who cannot see 

 the difference between the lofty war-horse, swifter race-horse, 

 and the slower draught-horse, which, like the old Suffolk, will 

 drop in harness rather than give up, and the bony Rosinante of 

 Don Quixote ? Many of these things are the result of the 

 application of the true principles of breeding, darkly evolved 

 by that shrewd Hebrew who peeled the willow rods. 



We cannot but hope tli^t the day is near, when animals 

 and agricultural and manufactured articles, will be brought 

 together at our fairs, not only for the purpose of obtaining 

 premiums, but for comparison and the exchange of opinions 

 and experiences of producers and breeders of stock. 



The subject of breeding horses, and other animals, for 

 particular purposes — for they can be so bred — was not much 

 attended to until after the introduction of the Grodolphin 

 Arabian into England. Its beauty of form, speed and action. 



