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We find that the prevailing character of the horses is very 

 different in different portions of the United States. In New 

 Enghmd we find a hardy, compact, good driving-horse, of me- 

 dium size, most common. There traveling on horseback or 

 horseback exercise is little practiced. In T^ew York a much 

 greater variety is found ; the driving-horses have a larger 

 mixture of the turf-horse, and are larger than in Xew England. 

 The draught-horses are also larger. Quite plentifully through- 

 out the State are clecendants of Messenger, Henry, Duroc, 

 Eclipse, and other thorough-bred horses. Nearly every stock 

 found in this country is represented in the State of New York. 



In Pennsylvania, Ohio, and the North-west, the fine buggy- 

 horse is less frequent!}^ met with, and the saddle-horse is more 

 common. There is great variety in the draught and farm- 

 horses. Many of them, descended from the Flemish and 

 Danish horses, are of huge size. In the West if the question 

 is asked. What is the size of a horse ? the answer will be given 

 in so many hands. The weight is very rarely asked. But the 

 rage for tall horses is fast giving way to more rational ideas. 

 Action, endurance, adaptation to the work required, are more 

 thought of. The horses of the West have been much improved 

 within a few years past by the gitater introduction of stallions 

 from Kentucky and other Southern States, of more or less 

 claims to blood. The Morgan stock is becoming quite com- 

 mon and much admired. Some of the best of the stock are 

 well supported in the West. Stockbridge Chief, the best stall- 

 ion in the United States, owned by Cooper, of Cincinnati, is 

 fully patronized. The Morgans have demonstrated their su- 

 perior adaptation both to the service of the farm and road in 

 the West, wherever they have been tried. 



In Kentucky and Tennessee, the saddle-horse is very com- 

 mon, and has considerable blood. The draught and carriage- 

 horses of these States, as well as those further South, are gen- 

 erally purchased in Ohio, Indiana, and other Western States. 

 In the States further South horses are but little used, except 



