THE GENESEE FABMEE. 



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OUTLINE OF THE MODERN HUNTER. 





The power which man possesses to 

 improve different races of animals, is 

 well illustrated by the difierence be- 

 tween a wild Tartarian horse and a 

 modern English Hunter, or the horse 

 as he was and as he is. The lai-ge, 

 heavy head, angular bones, rough and 

 shaggy coat, and coarse, heavy legs, 

 have given place to a graceful form, 

 small intelligent head, arched neck, 

 slanting shoulder, clean and nimble 

 legs, showing that mind has been at 

 work moulding the plastic frame which 

 nature has given, into one better fitted 

 for the requirements of man. Further : 

 an Arabian horse, brought up amidst 

 and treated as one of the family, the 

 instincts of attention and understand- 

 ing daily cultivated and strengthened ; 

 exhibits a head which for intelligence 

 and beauty is unequalled : while the 

 Hungarian horse, removed from man's 

 sympathy and care, has a heavy, sul- 

 len, unimpassioned head, in every way 

 the contrast of the intelligence seen in 

 the Arab's. This is accomplished — 

 not in a day ; but is the work of ages. 

 Yet, when a superior breed is obtained, 

 nothing is easier than to pferpetuate or 

 improve it, no fact being better estab- 

 lished than that the offspring inherits 

 the form and peculiarities of both pa- 

 rents. In this fact lies the grand means 

 of improving not only our present 

 breeds of horses, but of all farm stock. 



The object of these remarks is to in- 

 troduce a notice of the finest specimen 

 of an agricultural horse that the world 

 can produce at the present time. The 

 Suffolk horse, or " Suffolk punch," has 

 long been celebrated in Norfolk and 

 Suffolk, the finest agricultural districts 

 in England. The breed we believe is 

 no longer in its purity, having been 

 gi-eatly changed by crossing ; yet at 

 this day they have no equal. We 

 had the pleasure of seeing the magnifi- 

 cent display at the great Windsor show 

 last summer, and no animals on the 



OUTLINE OF THE HEAD OF THE HUNGARIAN HORSE. g^O^^d^^^^terested US SO mUch as these 



noble Suftolk horses. A prize of ±30 

 ($150) was oflfered for " the best stallion of any age for agricultural purposes," and this 



OUTLINE OF THE HEAD OF THE ARABIAN HORSE. 



