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a reasonable expectation that the draft will l)e lionored. 

 Some of these qualifications may be dispensed with, and 

 still we can have an excellent, serviceable animal, that will 

 make a. good horse for a physician, the express, the street 

 cars, or various other uses that may be named, and a horse 

 that will bring money enough to make his raising profitable, 

 especially if he has worked sufticient the last two or three 

 years he has been kept on the farm to pay for his keeping 

 during that time. While we may dispense with some of 

 these, and still have a horse that will bring a remunerative 

 price, there are others that we cannot dispense with and 

 have a horse valuable for market, or that will bring a good 

 price, except through some jockeying or trickery, whereby 

 his purchaser is defrauded. 



A horse may have a fine form and beautiful color, but if 

 he has not a good ga.it, good courage, is ill tempered or 

 tricky, the man that buys him at any price that will pay for 

 his raising and breaking, will be cheated. And this brings 

 us to the consideration of our second head. 



The reason Vermont horses have stood so high in market, 

 is because they proved more useful and lasting in a greater 

 • number of positions and kinds of work, than any others ; 

 and while they were more successful as horses of all work, 

 more of them were up to the standard of a gentleman's 

 driving horse than any others, and so great became their 

 reputation, that horse breeders niade long journeys from 

 States more or less remote, to purchase stock liorses of our 

 best, with which to breed up and improve their own blood, 

 and very rarely were the expectations of such breeders dis- 

 appointed. I think I run no risk in saying that the repre- 



