340 Black Hawk, the Morgan Horse. [June, 



a very respectable harvest of fame will be gathered by his enter- 

 prise up the Amazon. 



Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the year 1846. 



We are indebted to our friend, Dr. L. D. Gale of the Patent 

 Office, for a copy of this valuable report. We cannot but regret, 

 however, that the government should have deemed it necessary to 

 curtail the operations of the office so far as to exclude from its 

 pages important statistical, and other information relating to agri- 

 culture. We earnestly recommend, that the former plan of the re- 

 ports may be again approved of by the government. In no other 

 way can our agriculturists be supplied with valuable information, 

 in no other way can the interests of agriculture throughout the 

 country be so well and so generally promoted. The document is 

 very valuable, and it is scarcely necessary to add, indispensable to 

 inventors. 



BLACK HAWK, THE MORGAN HORSE. 



We paid what w^e thought a deserved compliment to this fine 

 animal, in our October number for last year. Another opportu- 

 nity for examining him has fully satisfied us that our commenda- 

 tion fell rather short of the truth. We are aware that excessive 

 praise often defeats its object; for truth is the only foundation 

 upon which a matter can stand: and it is only upon this basis 

 that we wish to place the merits and good qualities of Black 

 Hawk. No one who has seen him, but is ready to speak in the 

 highest terms of commendation. His usefulness must then rest 

 upon his stock; and placing his claim to patronage upon this test, 

 we are ready to say that enough is now known to place him first 

 upon the list of stock horses in the New England States. 



He is a distinct individual, having his own peculiar traits and 

 characteristics; and hence the sure transmission of these traits 

 and characteristics to his progeny. This will take place in a 

 great measure, in a mode which will be independent of the iflu- 

 ence of the female, unless indeed the female is equally individ- 

 ualized by high blood and distinctness of breed. Such horses are 

 the only ones which can improve the stock of the country. 



