CHARACTERISTICS OF HORSES. 



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CHARACTERISTICS OF DIPFEREXT BREEDS 0? HORSES, BY HON. ZAB'XR PRATT. 



JASXrEES EECOMiLEXDED TO KEEP EXACT ACC0r>-T3- 

 PRATTSVILLE. GREENE CO- N. T- HOSSES AXD PESSSTLVAWA COXE5TOGAS COifPARED. 



"Ws do not know when we have seen the char- ' team ' Tor, after iQ. a &nB ie no leas a mano- 

 acteristics of Horses for difieren: purposes more tactory than a tannery is ! The tannerpots in his 

 briefly and at the same time comprehensively f land, his baildic?s. his raL his hides^ his bark- 



mUL his baric his horses : thea the cost of tbeir 

 food, the smnh's work, his hired labor, and au 

 that is omflaid. until the 'iatker ii soid amd iki 

 balance strmd. The fartDO' has ia like mmmter 

 a obtain amount (tf* capital inbezxted or isresced 



and accorarely described uian by Hon. Zadock 

 I>RATT. in the followin? extracts &oni his ad- 

 dress lately delivered to the Greene Coanty 

 Agricultoral Society of which be is the Pr&a- 

 dent. Bat it is not so much to commend these 

 extracts in that light, as to make tbem answier (fiw it is the same thins as a matter of account' 

 anoiber ptirpose. that we have cot them out of in lands, horses, hands. lime, plaster, seed. m&- 

 tbe midst of a variety of topics, presented by noie. expense of sabsistine his force, coet and 

 this address with the force of truth and the wear and tear of machinery, implements, horses. 

 plainness that belongs to and best becomes tie t moles, oxen — and all that is emp^yed in mamtt- 

 roriut^ man. i Jac'Hriasr hay. or srain. or lobaccaw or lie^ or 



The point to which we woald particalarly \ coia>n. or sasar. or hops, or apples, or heaip. 

 call the attenticNi of the ycon? Farmer, is the ', rami at last tAe prodmee or maxmfaetmrr, lii^ 

 ease and the confidence vx-ith which he states : fi-e leatier, is said, and He balamce sfrmei ! 

 the fxael cost per k •> ndrvd of transporting near- Why then are not accounts as necessary :o the 

 ly twp and a half millions of pounds of leather ! , fermer or the planter, as to Zabcck Pkatt ajtd 

 What an example here is of swfiem. How &»•- ^ Coxpaxt ? who, if you were to tell them they 

 cibly it illustrates what we have so often iacul- ; were not to keep ceeovmcs. however fiattericg 

 cated — the proprieiy ofketrpim^ ortMct accotimts \ of profit the chances naight seem to be. would 

 of every ee-mt of ouilaw and income on a Farm. I not vecmre to proceed for a sinffif da 9 .' But. 

 Let it not be said that to do so. would be di£B- keepins exact accounts, watchin? tor leaks, and 

 cult and troublesome if not impo«sable. To working by a system that cannot fall to detect 

 the slothful and indolent all things are diScult ; them as soon as ibey occur, behold tiie result '. 

 a lion is always standins in their path. So His sasncity discovers a manufacturing water- 

 Mr. Pratt mieht have said the same, but had he jHjwer which had Numbered for ages, anob- 

 acied upon that principle, how di^rent might served and nesriected. in the solitude of Xature. 

 have been the result even of his life of personal like granite in the yet unopened quarry. With 

 iadttscry ! Instead of ample independence, and confident forecast he takes hold of it and wakes 

 the power and the x-ill to be useful to his fellow the sleeping siant into action, taking care to 

 men and his country : he might, iritltomt swftem \ have him well harnessed and under coDtrvL as 

 { and ritkout <tctx>*nts. have closed a career of the Gaucho seizes and tames the w3dess horse 

 > care and toil, in penury and wretchedness. — 1 of the pampas. Driving that power with indas- 

 Withoct them his business might have sprung try and exactness^ it has ctowti into a manoSM:- 

 aleak in divers places, only to be discovered tory that has no equal of its kind — the nodess 

 when his bark was in a sinking condition ! In- , of a thriving and prosperous and monl contms- 

 stead of that, every item, finom the purchase of nity. But this couM never have been done, by 

 the raw hide to the sale of the perfect leather is indtistry aloae. without system, and that secu- 

 noted. and piosted up. as accurately and minute- rity which system only can give. Of this large 

 ly as in the most systematic mercantile estab- establishment, a model in its way. for the benefit 

 lisfament. If a screw gets loose in his business, of the rising generation, we may hereafter sfve 

 it is at once discovered and put right, and why a more particular account. 



should not every farmer keep, substantially at . These are the son of men who multiply the 

 least a full nVx- cf pro^t and lots ! Why | products of labor by oSering re«-ards to iada»- 

 efaould he not be able to tell how much a bushel j try. and who incite others to the practice of sys- 

 of wheat or a pound of tobacco costs, as well as lematic diligence by their own successfiil ex- 

 Mr. Pratt can tell the cost of a single pound , ample. Such men are of more real advaz:ta;;e 

 of leather — ay. even to a cent — how much to . to their country than an army— of idle falood- 

 haal it, though that be dotK>. as the tarmers ; suckers and intriguing, selfish dema^oeves. 

 wheat is transported, with his own wx^oa and , • Of all 'Jie animals created for tfaewse of aaa. 



