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taste, such as color, size, style, etc., there is no donht about 

 its vsilue and prolitahleness ; and they have introduced large 

 animals, from tlie most distinguished trotting and pacing 

 families, as crosses for the smaller, more compact and more 

 active ones, that size, Ijone, and an enlarged scope may l)e 

 added to the many excellencies already possessed b}" them. 

 A wise people will present for use what tlie wants and 

 needs of their customers demand and will pay the most for, 

 all tilings l)eing; equal. 



Wlio are the customers that we of Vermont are to breed 

 horses for '. Truckmen, with their fourteen, sixteen, or 

 eighteen hundred pounds draft horses % No ! they are contra to 

 our genius, contra to our taste, and can ])e raised clieaper 

 upon the broad western corn tields. 



City rail car corporations \ No, the western competi- 

 tion is too strong. We cannot afford horses at prices they 

 are furnished them for by this same western colossal com- 

 petitor. We must furnish speed with our horses, for speed 

 brings money. For sporting men I Oli no I They are 

 too few, and the rate of speed too low down in tlie twenties 

 for US to even ch-eam of successful competition with those 

 having so mucli better conveniences than we, and so much 

 more time to develop their colts before presenting them for 

 the inspection of the public, and for the bids of purchasers. 

 Few of the average public know the amount of labor that 

 is required to grow up a trotting colt and present him fitted 

 for a race. The careful feeding, watering, shoeing, exer- 

 cising, speeding, scraping, rubbing, cooling, grooming, they 

 require day after day, week after week, for months and 

 years, only those who do it fully understand. Farmers 



