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hoof, and that soon becomes tender in his fore feet by use. 

 Our citizens have paid more attention to the general appear- 

 ance and the size of their colts, than to their qualities as 

 travellers on the road. From this has resulted that enormous 

 quantity of fat we see piled on to our studs through the winter, 

 that makes them look much like geese fattened for the market. 

 A horse should have bold, high temper that will not brook ill 

 usage without resenting it with indignation to the amount of 

 his ability, and then with kind usage we shall have a kind 

 servant, but one of power. A horse without temper is like a 

 man without spirits, feeble and inefficient. 



0. Martin, Chairman. 



HAMPDEN. 



Report of the Committee. 



The exhibition of horses has heretofore furnished the most 

 interesting and exciting feature of the second day of our exhi- 

 bition, but on this occasion it was most sadly reversed. It 

 was not, as Shakspeare has it, " My kingdom for a horse," but 

 most emphatically, my horse for an umbrella, and most fortunate 

 was he who had one without a horse. The pelting of the storm 

 was too severe for man or horse without some covering. Ex- 

 pectation had been elevated to a high figure, in anticipation of 

 a rich display of young horses particularly. The entries which 

 had previously been made were forty-two, including fifty-four 

 animals, many of which were of the most desirable stock. The 

 Morgan, the Black Hawk, Hambletonian, and Kentucky Hunter, 

 were to have been represented by their offspring, but were 

 spared the mortification of having their lineal descendants con- 

 tend for the poor pittance ofibred by a small county society, 

 while themselves were being prepared to enter the field of 

 competition for the higher honors and rewards offered at the 

 National Horse Show, the very mention of which still tingles 

 the ear with delight, and deeply does it leave the impress that 

 there is an increasing interest aroused in this county in the 

 improvement of the horse ; this we trust is not an ephemerous 

 feeling, but one which will continue to be cherished by the 



