1857. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



161 



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GIFFORD MORGABT HOESE, JE. 



There are few subjects relating in any way to 

 the farm that are more attractive at present than 

 those relating to the Horse. The recent exhibi- 

 tions in various parts of the country where horses 

 of blood and grades have been exhibited, tested 

 and commented upon, has turned the public atten- 

 tion to them, and not that of the rural population 

 alone. 



We are glad to see this, and only hope that the 

 zeal of our friends will be tempered with that pru- 

 dence which they would recommend in regard to 

 any other subject, where there is danger that a 

 thing good in itself may be appropriated to im- 

 proper uses. 



Mr. LiNSLET, in his excellent work recently 

 published, on the Morgan Horse, says the most 

 casual observer of a good Morgan horse is con- 

 scious that he sees a peculiar animal. His short, 

 light, rapid steps, point to the great muscles which 

 give him motion. His prominent, clear, eager 

 eyes, set wide apart, testify to his courage and do- 

 cility — while his clean, light head, carried high, 

 with short, pointed, sensitive ears, gives grace and 

 elegance to every motion. 



It is high time our horses were improved, for it 

 costs no more — perhaps not always so much — to 



keep a good animal as a poor one. Quite one-half 

 of all our horses are miserable, mis-shaped, stumb- 

 ling hacks, who would be very unwilHng to travel 

 more than four miles an hour on a good road, but 

 are always ready "to shy," run, or kick, when you 

 have no occasion for it. They have bad blood and 

 bad training. Some care and expense will correct 

 both, and ornament our streets and farms with 

 races that will be a credit to both. 



The cut of GifiFord Morgan, Jr., we borrow from 

 Linsley's work. The horse is owned at present at 

 Keokuk, Iowa. 



Carrots. — We have seen rich land which was 

 deeply subsoiled for carrots, and the crop treated 

 in the best manner, that produced, in our mind, a 

 very unprofitable crop. The carrots were from 14 

 to 22 inches in length, but very thin and weighed 

 very lightly. We also saw the same season, a crop, 

 the ground on which it was planted was not subsoil- 

 ed, and plowed only the usual depth for a root 

 crop, which yielded a much greater amount in 

 weight, though the carrots were scarcely more than 

 half as long. The roots penetrated to the hard 

 ground, then spread, and the carrot thickened. 

 The labor of digging also was not more than half 

 as much as the subsoiled crop. — Germantown Tel- 

 egraph. 



