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NEW ENGLAND FAR:MER. 



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A FINE MORGAJNT,— TOM HOWARD. 



Every body loves a good horse, — and when 

 hflkling the ribbons behind one possessing the 

 symmetry and spirit of the one presented in our 

 engraving, it inspires us with a feeling kindred to 

 that which the eagle seems to possess, of going 

 where we will without restraint or fear of fatigue. 



For beauty of form, and power of endurance, 

 added to gentleness and graceful activity, proba- 

 bly no breed of horses in the world surpasses 

 the Morgans. When well treated, they are kind 

 in every harness, and in the hands of those who 

 are willing to take some pains with them, will 

 soon learn so much of the road or the farm, as 

 to show a surprising degree of intelligence. The 

 Morgans are seldom vicious, are strong, compact, 

 sure-footed, and weigh about ten hundred, vary- 

 ing both below and above that size occasionally. 



A friend whose knowledge of horses is scarcely 

 surpassed by that of any person in New England, 

 told us the other day that his father long owned 

 a Morgan horse that he frequently drove from 

 Brattleboro',Vt., to Hartford, Conn., 80 miles, in 

 one day, attached to a chaise containing two per- 

 sons, and that he did this service handsomely af- 

 ter he was 24 years old ! 



As roadsters, coach or stage horses, they can 

 scarcely be equalled, while they are rarely excelled 

 in fleetness by any other breed on the turf. 



li. B. Westover, Esq., of Castleton, Vt., the 

 owner, says that Tom Howard, the subject of our 

 cut, was sired by the celebrated Black Hawk, for- 

 merly owned by David Hill, of Bridport, Ad- 

 dison county, Vt., (now dead,) widely known as 

 the sire of Ethan Allen, Lancet, Black Hawk 

 Maid, Bill of Saratoga, Black Ralph, Lady Litch- 

 field, and other famous trotting horses, and as bt- 

 ing the parental head of this most distinguishctl 

 family of Morgans. Tom Howard's dam was the 

 noted Henry Mare, sired by Barney's Henry G. 

 D. Queen Bess, sired by Sherman Morgan, Bar- ' 

 ney's Henry by Allen's Young Signal, he by old 

 Imported Signal; his clean, lean head, his broad 

 forehead, bold, full and prominent eyes, delicate 

 ears and flat, clean limbs, give unmistakable ev- 

 idence of a large infusion of superior blood. 



Tom Howard is a beautiful raven-black, not a 

 white hair on him, stands 16^ hands high, weighs 

 1250 pounds, and will be 7 years old the 20th of 

 June. For style, symmetry and action, he can- 

 not be surpassed ; is a splendid stepper ; his colts 



