NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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EMPIRE STATE, 



The above engraving, procured expressly for our 

 columns, represents the beautiful horse, called by 

 his owners, Messrs. Trowbridge & Mathes, "Em- 

 pire State." They purchased him of a gentleman 

 in New York, about one year ago, who valued 

 him for his qualities as a business and pleasure 

 horse, being safe, of fine figure and action, and of 

 great speed and endurance. The present owners 

 have recently refused $3000 for him, and prices 

 varying from $100 to $200 have been offered for 

 colts of his at four months old. 



This horse was raised in Wyoming Co., N. Y., 

 will be eight years old the coming summer, and is 

 a natural trotting horse, a proof of which was had 

 at Cambridge Park last fall, in a trial for a purse 

 with the celebrated trotting horse "Flying Mor- 

 gan." 



The said Morgan came here from Vermont for a 

 trial of speed with a mare of the Black Hawk 

 stock, and ba\t the mare. This horse afterwards 

 contested with the Flying Morgan horse, and won 

 the race, we are informed, with perfect ease, in 2 

 minutes and 45 seconds, in harness, without fit- 

 ting or training, and it is said can trot at any time 

 in 2 minutes and 45 seconds in the same condition. 

 With proper training he would trot much faster. 

 It is believed by many that no entire horse in New 

 England can compete with the "Empire State" in 

 point of speed, style, blood, and docility of tem- 

 per. 



This horse is a descendant of the English horse 

 Messenger, imported into this country about the 

 close of the last century. His stock was distin- 



guished as strong and valuable roadsters, and fast 

 trotters, and some of his progeny were eminent as 

 racers. 



For the New England Farmer. 

 "TYING UP CATTLE." 



Mr. Editor : — Were a school-ma'am to ask me 

 that geography question again, "What are the 

 principal bodies of water upon the globe," I know I 

 should head, the list with Concord River ! The 

 water is very high for the reason that it has been 

 falling for four long days. Farmers in our neigh- 

 borhood wonder when they shall "get hold of their 

 spring work." We are all sadly behind hand. 

 When the sun does get out in sight, there will 

 have to be some "stirring round." 



It seems the editor of the Germantown Tele- 

 graph is down on that "Tying up Cattle" article, 

 published in the Farmer a few weeks ago. He 

 won't admit the improvement part of it anyhow. 

 He says the stanchion mode of tying up cattle has 

 been in use in France a long time. How he got 

 the idea that any originality was claimed for it, is 

 more than I can see. He says, "There is (in the 

 cut) a Yankee addition (oh, what does he mean by 

 that?) perhaps patented (!) attached to it of 

 ropes, cranks, and screws, which we regard as ut- 

 terly destroying the French plan." He then gives 

 the "French p/a/i" without any of these obnoxious 

 "Yankee additions." 



The French plan of stanchion fastenings is, to 

 have no hay-racks, but a good sized trough be- 

 yond the stanchions, (in front?) into which all 

 the provender of (for) the cattle is placed, and 

 which can be got at by the cattle only by the head 

 through the opening made by the sliding of the 

 upper part of the moveable bar. The cattle in a 

 day or two, thrust their heads through this open- 

 ing, which is quite large, as freely as they enter 

 their stalls ; when the tender passes along the en- 



