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THE VERMONT DRAUGHT-HORSE. 



which marks the existence of Canadian or Norman blood for 

 many generations, and which is discoverable in the manes and 

 tails of very many of the Morgan horses. 



The peculiar characteristics of these horses are, however, the 

 shortness of their backs, the roundness of their barrels, and the 

 closeness of their ribbing-up. One would say, that they are 

 ponies, until he comes to stand beside them, when he is as- 

 tonished to find that they are often er 

 iv over, than under, sixteen hands in height. 



THE VERMONT DRAUGHT-HOKSE. 



Nine out of ten of these horses are from Vermont ; and not only 

 are they the finest animals in all the United States, for the 

 quick draught of heavy loads, but the mares of this stock are 

 incomparably the likeliest, from which, by a well-chosen tho- 

 rough-bred sire, to raise the most magnificent carriage-horses in 

 the world. 



As to the source of this admirable stock of horses, it may be 



