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The Horse Industry in New York State 



with New York. During a half century or less Standardbred 

 horses have become most generally distributed throughout every 

 state, and are so firmly established as to meet the strongest oppo- 

 sition from promoters of other breeds for which it is desired to 

 gain a foothold. 



Fig. 3. Inscription on Monument to Green Mountain 

 Maid at Stony Ford — "Greatest Mother of Trotters." 



(From " Productive Horse Husbandry" — Courtesy of J. B. Lippincott, 

 Publishers.) 



standardbreds entitled to a place 

 One of the generally accepted policies of the later-day agri- 

 cultural education is to oppose the Standardbred. He is tabooed 

 for the farmer, and treated with the utmost contempt by many 

 who are responsible for an unprejudiced exposition of the merits 

 and claims of all breeds of live stock. We cannot deny some 

 reason for this. Probably lower net profits have been returned 

 to the credit of the farm accounts by trotters than by any other 



