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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Oct. 



quarters is somewhat greater than the height 

 at the withers, the action is confined, espe- 

 cially in the gallop, for the hind legs cannot 

 be brought suffi iently forward on account of 

 the interference of the fore-quarter; and, in- 

 d 'cd, from ihe want of play iu the back, they 

 are generally too much crippled in that re- 

 spect. * * * Next, to these points in the 

 middlepiece it is important to pay attention 

 to the upper line if the back, witich ,-houId 

 bend down a Utile behind the withers, and 

 then swell out very gently to the jimction with 

 the loins, which can hardly be too wide and 

 muscular * * * 



Jn examining tub Hind-quarters, so 

 much depends upon the breed, and th".^ pur- 

 poses to which the animal is to be put. that 

 only a few general remarks can be given 

 * '" * Muscular quarters and ga^kins are 

 d sirable in all bree<N; for wi hout strong 

 propellers, no kind of work to which thehor.-^e 

 is put can be didy performed. The ju<)ge of 

 a hor^e generally likes to lonk at the quarters 

 behind, so as to get a good view of their vol- 

 ume, and unless they come close together, 

 and leave no hollow belcw the arras, he sus- 

 pects that there is a want of constiiuiion, and 

 rejects the animal on ihat account. But not 

 only are muscles of full size required, but 

 there must be strong joints to bear the strain 

 which these exert, and one of the mo»t im- 

 portant of all th^' points of the hor>e is the 

 hock. This should be of good size, but clean 

 and flat, without any gumminess or thorouiih- 

 pins, and with a good clean point standing 

 clear of the rest of the joint; the ''curbN 

 place" and the situation of .>-pavin should be 

 free from enlargement ; but to detect the.'>e 

 diseases a considerable amount of practice is 

 required. Lastly, the hocks ^hould be well 

 let down, which depends upon the Icn th of 

 the thigh, and insures a short cannon-bone. 

 The pat-ters and fett should be formed in cor- 

 respondence with those of the fore extremity, 

 to which 1 have already alluded. 



MAINE AGRIGULTaRXL COLLEGE. 



This in^titution, which has one class of tifteen 

 students, anti has already reciived twenty applica- 

 tions for aJ'iii-fsion to tlie next class, was located 

 at Orono on coiuli ion that the town would give a 

 suitcible farm, and tliat oih^r friends of the insti- 

 tu'ion and ot the location would give the sum of 

 $\5 000 towards the buildings. Orono gave fi^OOO 

 and OliltDwn #3000 wbich went to pay for the farm. 

 The .'•uin of S'lo OIIO was sub-cribed by the citizens 

 of Bi'gor and vicinity. In making out the deed 

 of gift of the farm, the people of Orono were 

 shrewd enough to do it in s-urh a way that if the 

 location of tiie college should ever be chaeg d, the 

 k.nd and hiiildirg-i should revert to the town. Up- 

 wards ui .^'40,01)0 have been expended on the farm, 

 some 03O,OOit of which has come directly from 

 the State treasury. Last winter, however, in vot- 



ing an additional appropriation of ^28 000 the leg- 

 i>lature made its payment condiiondl on the trans- 

 fer of the title to the collegia farm from the town to 

 the State. This the Oronoites have refused to do 

 at three several town meetings. 



Hence the $2S 000 remains in the State treasury, 

 and, as we learn by the Maine Farmer, "ail the 

 work of the trustees, all plans for the eiilarg ment 

 and greater effl iency of the college, all iiuilding 

 operations are completely suspended." 



The editor of the Farmer expresses the hope 

 that an institution to which the State ha-i given 

 nearly sixty thousand dollars of the people's 

 money is not long to be paralyzed by the inconsid- 

 erate action of one town. 



GOVERNMENT AND LABOR. 



We presume that old Solomon is not alone in 

 the opinion that human affairs move in cycles, 

 and th.iC they repeat themselves continuously. 

 Hence what is regarded as new, is only thit which 

 h ith been of old time, and that which is to be hath 

 already been. Still it is not pleasant to apidy this 

 theory to what we regard as the progress of the 

 race, in government and the so. ial rela'itms of 

 men, and to think that our present form of g(jvern- 

 ment and our ideas of the equ d rights of mat are 

 to be superseded hy the effete land owning aristoc- 

 racy that onee flourished in th-.; old world, on the 

 one hand, and by the landless, servile, and depend- 

 ent lat)oring class that grew up undi r that sy.^tem, 

 on the other nand. And yet it may he po>isible 

 that there is a strong r tendency in this direction 

 than most of us are aware of; that in fact that 

 which hath been is soon again to be. 



Already there is one paper published in the city 

 of New Yoik that boldly advocatis the adoption of 

 an imperial government, as a remedy for the al- 

 leged evils of our present form. 



And to remedy the complaints of farmers and 

 planters about the unreliability and high cost of 

 help, the Turf, Field and Farm, of the same city, 

 reccmmends the introduction of the Chinese, and 

 says : — 



Our facilities for the general diffusion of agricul- 

 tural knowlediie thr'Uiijh the nunierou-* .jouTn;ils 

 devoted to thai iniere.-t in every Smte, ex eed 

 that ■ f anv country in the world, and no n I'ion is 

 .•-o well provided wnh inachineiv a id ini|.|. meiits; 

 f )r Mich is ihe nieehanical fienius of our [)eo|) e 

 that they can invent anyihing ''to order ;" ami yet 

 how poorly our agrieiuture compaies witu ihat of 

 KKinders, of Scoiland, or Euiiland! Tlie fa -t. is, 

 the great cheek upon (uir progre-s in tins duvciion 

 IS the want bo h in the iil.inting and farming >t-ites 

 Ota eln ai), reli-ilile laoor fr^ uu a ela-.s ot oeojile 

 ?c/t'), content, like th0 Asintus, to rematn in the posi- 

 tion asMgnt-d th' m by Porid nee, h'lve no re.\tiess 

 aspirations to risf above it, and fmm day-labo' ers 

 btcoine land owners. 



Thei-e ideas of government and of the laboring 

 classes are perfectly harmonious. They were 

 realized under the feudal sj?tem, and the one 

 cannot pro'iahly be revived wiinout the other. 

 Until an imperial government is established, we 



