1891.] PUBLIC DOCUMENT — No. 4. 179 



THIRD DAY. 



The meeting was opened at 9.30 a.m., Hon. James W. 

 Stockwell of Sutton in the chair. 



The Chairman. Members of the Board and fellow- 

 citizens, I have been requested by Mr. Hartshorn to act as 

 chairman during the forenoon session. The lecture this 

 morning will be upon " The Horse," by Mr. C. M. Wins- 

 low of Brandon, Vt., a member of the Vermont State 

 Board of Agriculture. 



THE HORSE. 



BY C. M. WINSLOW OF BRANDON, VT. 



The breeding of horses is a pursuit that has always 

 received much attention, both from the laboring and the 

 sporting classes of mankind ; for to each are good horses 

 necessary, — the one for support, the other for pleasure. 



I have been asked to say something to you to-day about 

 the horses that are best adapted to the wants of the farmers 

 of Massachusetts, and I was kindly allowed to touch on 

 other classes, and permission was granted me to even take 

 a turn around the race course, — with a farmer's horse, I 

 suppose. Now, as Massachusetts is not far from Vermont, 

 and as I was permitted to do a little trotting while not busy 

 at work, I will take for my subject the American roadster, 

 as combining all the necessary requirements for a horse of 

 all work while on the farm, and a mortgage lifter when sold. 



The American roadster, like the American people, is a 

 combination of all that is good from the mother country, 

 and the world at large ; and there are no horses in the 

 world to-day, that, for pleasant disposition, good style and 

 enduring qualities, will compare with the horses of New 

 England and New York. A part is due to the original 

 blood that lies back of them, a part to the food and climate 



