326 The Trotting and the Pacing Horse 



istan, Dr. S. Price, J. T. Shackelford, R. S. 

 Strader, R. G. Stoner, A. S. Talbert, J. W. 

 Bailey, and L. V. Harkness. The latter is the 

 proprietor of Walnut Hall Farm, one of the best- 

 appointed establishments of its kind in the world. 

 The whole Blue-grass section was a nest of 

 breeding farms, and weeks instead of days were 

 required thoroughly to inspect them. Nutrition 

 is essential to successful live-stock farming, and 

 the sweet and holding grass of the undulating 

 limestone lands of Kentucky furnishes the grazing 

 that builds up constitution with rapid growth. 



In Orange County and Dutchess County, 

 New York, the grazing lands are excellent, and 

 the great foundation establishments after the 

 Civil War were Stony Ford, where Charles 

 Backman gathered around his table and in the 

 smoking room men of distinction from all parts 

 of the civilized world, and Thorndale, where 

 Edwin Thorne dispensed refined hospitality. 

 Other Orange and Dutchess County breeders 

 were Alden Goldsmith, Harrison Mills, J. M. 

 Mills, Guy Miller, R. F. Galloway, Benjamin F. 

 Tracy, E. H. Harriman, and Jacob Ruppert. In 

 Erie County, New York, the spirit of rivalry was 

 strong and the overshadowing establishments 



