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where ; although, from thi* facts I AmW present, 1 hope to 

 be able to convince you that Morgan horses are now, as thev 

 have been, the best for not only Vermonters, but for others, 

 and that they still bring the most remunerative prices when 

 carefully bred, and are sold on their merits. A number of 

 years since, the subject of bringing in large, coarse stalhons 

 to improve our Vermont horses was brought up and ably 

 advocated by a gentleman who resides near me, and we had 

 a discussion of the same through the public prints. Since 

 then, I have been closely observing the effect produced by 

 the cross, and I find no facts in this experience to shake my 

 confidence in the soundness of the position I then took. 

 But I find the more I look up the records of time and sales, 

 and the wonderful effect the Morgan blood has produced 

 upon other horses, the more I feel my position on this sub- 

 ject impregnable, and the more I am anxious that all Ver- 

 monters should understand this matter fully, and take such 

 action as will secure the best results, and enable them to 

 reap the largest pecuniarj'- reward from then* horse breed- 

 ing. You will pardon me, then, gentlemen, if, in consider- 

 ing what are the best horses for us, I may take more time 

 than is usual in presenting a subject before such a meeting 

 as this, for, so long as the liorse question must inevitably be 

 one of absorbing interest to Vermonters, it is important 

 that they breed the best, for those must be the 



HOKSES FOE, VERMONT. 



In discussing this question, therefore, I propose to notice 

 the wants of Vermont farmers, and the kind of horses those 

 wants most nearly demand, give some reasons why Vermont 



