150 State Board of Agriculture, &c. 



THE COMING HORSE- 



BY Col. E. S. STOWELL, OF CORNWALL. 



Ladies and Gentlemen : 



By the courtesy of the Secretary of the State Board of 

 Agricnltui-e, Manufactures and Mining, and at the request 

 of several of your prominent citizens, I present you my 

 views upon the subject announced, viz. : 



THE COMING HORSE FOR VERMONT. 



Whether this request comes as a compliment to me, my 

 system of breeding, or merely for tlie purpose of hearing 

 this side of the question, I cannot say, and I don't know 

 as it much matters, if what I do say commends itself to 

 your better judgment. 



Five years ago, come June, at a meeting of tins Board 

 at Brandon, I read a paper upon sul)stantially tlie same 

 subject. Tlie experiencee of these five years have in no 

 way changed my views ; peculiar for a Yermonter, though 

 thought at that time, and subjected to much criticisi;i by 

 those wlio were interested in another system. 



Time lias vindicated the correctness of my words, and 

 taught multitudes that farmers are unfitted to raise the 

 small trotting horse ; and that the business of raising trot- 

 ting horses for speed alone is unprofitable, uncongenial, 



