284 Farmers^ Miscellany. [Oct., 



vior to strangers, graceful in his step under an easy rein, but the 

 signal given, and his rush is like the eagle upon his prey. 



In the Cultivator his figure has the following defects: back a 

 little too concave or hollowy, chest less capacious, neck less high 

 at base, tail too slim and less hairy at the insertion, lower jaw 

 too prominent near the base. A slight cut or hollow in the 

 flank, which does not exist in the original. Yet it is as given, one 

 of the best figures of a horse which we have lately seen; but 

 those defects are perceptible with the figure and horse before you. 



Some may say he has not size; but it is time to begin to dis- 

 card excess of shanks, and belly, and bone. Black Hawk is a 

 true breed, so it proves in his stock. His power is based upon 

 his chest. His hoofs are perfect, and made of a material which 

 holds the shoe to the last. He is owned by Mr. N. H. Hill, Boston, 

 but is kept upon the premises of D. Hill of Bridport, Vt., a gen- 

 tleman who fully appreciates his qualities. 



HORSE STEALING. 



Great complaint is expressed by the whole community at the 

 west, of the horse thieves w' ho infest the country. It is stated 

 that as many as twenty horses have been stolen in Kane county, 

 Illinois, alone. This fact shows the magnitude of the evil, and 

 its real extent; though probably the case of Kane county pre- 

 sents it in an extreme; but it shows the full extent of the liability 

 of the inhabitants to this kind of depredation. A remedy has been 

 proposed by a wTiter in the Prarie Farmer. While we are ready 

 to coincide with this gentleman in his views of the sin and 

 rascality of this species of theft, wx are -not ready to go with 

 him in his mode of punishment. We are not ready to return to 

 the old mode of punishment, that of death, for stealing even a 

 poor man's horses, as cruel, unfeeling, shabby and mean as it is. 

 We need not state the principal reason, as it lies in our own 

 mind, for dissenting from the writer in the remedy he proposes, it 



