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Percheron horse,) he will be largely the gainer by the intro- 

 duction of this breed of horses. 



The second horse examined by your Committee was a Bay 

 mare with her foal, entered by Mr. Moses K. Noyes of New- 

 bury, without description or record, but in charge of a very 

 honest and intelligent young farmer. This is a very promising 

 young horse, and in form and feature, in limb and motion, 

 showed very remarkable points for a good family horse or a 

 horse for all work ; and your Committee are of opinion that 

 more attention should be given to breeding this class of horses. 

 If you go into our market, you will find it full of infe-ior 

 animals ; if you desire speed, you can find it ; if you desire 

 style, it is there ; if you are looking for a draft horse, he is 

 found in every market ; but if you desire a perfectly developed 

 and thoroughly trained family horse, you will have to wait 

 long, and when found, the owner takes your bottom dollar 

 before he parts with his family pet. If you do not believe it, 

 just give your order to the most responsible horse dealer in the 

 county for a family horse, with the following description : 1st, 

 he must be sound as a rock from head to heel ; 2d, he must be 

 from unexceptionable parentage ; 3d, he must stand squarely 

 upon good clean limbs that grow out of a good round black 

 foot, neither too high or too low ; 4tli, he must be fifteen and 

 one-half hands high, with his head so set upon good bracing 

 shoulders, that he needs neither check-rein or martingale to 

 keep it in place ; 5th, he must be free from all tricks, or dan- 

 gerous habits, in the stable or out of it, not afraid of any 

 object or timid in the presence of danger ; and if he is a good 

 feeder, all the better, and, if possible, let his color be a bright 

 dark bay, with black mane and tail ; his weight must not 

 exceed eleven hundred nor be less than ten hundred pounds. 

 And now, if you have made up your mind not to ride until your 

 horse arrives, you will go on foot a long time. 



Mr. Noyes' horse does not answer the above description by 

 several points, but by a judicious crossing with the Morgan or 

 English blood, her stock might be improved so as to give a 

 very good foundation for a family horse. 



