PLATE VII. 



(Page 97 ) 



In this plate we present to the reader such a collection of excellent 

 portraits of the most celebrated horses in America as can nowhere 

 else be procured. The four upper figures will be at once recognized 

 as correct likenesses of animals that have won a name that makes 

 them famous in equine history. That of the Justin Morgan horse 

 will be found in this chapter. He is the progenitor of a family that 

 has won the hearts of the people. Flying Childers stands as the 

 representative of the race-course. Patchen and Flora Temple are 

 the most noted of the great family of American fast trotters. The 

 Arabian here represented is a portrait of one of the noted horses 

 presented to lion. William H. Seward, and by him to the New York 

 State Agricultural Society, and this picture gives one a good idea 

 of the spirited appearance of that breed. The Cleveland Bay is the 

 representative of a class of noble carriage horses which has given 

 character to maiiy of the same class in this country, particularly in 

 Central New York. 



The Norman horse, as we see him here, gives a good idea of the 

 appearance of the heavy diligence and common work-horses of France, 

 having a thick neck, short, strong legs, and round, compact body, 

 capable of sustaining great burdens, and pulling immense loads at 

 a slow gait, as compared with some of our American fast horses. 

 This breed was made quite notorious in this country by the import- 

 ation of the late Edward Harris, of New Jersey, about twenty years 

 ago. The portrait of the Canadian horse is a fine representative 

 of his class, which was formed by a mixture of the Norman horses 

 of the early French settlers of Canada with some smaller breed, 

 which, by neglect and exposure, and carelessness of imjjrovement in 

 breeding, has produced a race of small, hardy horses, known as 

 Canadian, which are sometimes, though erroneously, called ponies. 

 A careful study of these portraits will be useful to all farmers, as 

 well as many other persons. 



