102 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan. 



Tliere is a distinct ar.d widely distributed breed of horses in 

 Scotland, called the Clydesdale. Their chief points are short 

 legs, strong and compact bodies, with sometimes a tendency to 

 longer legs and lighter bodies, fine heads well set on, full chest, 

 well formed shoulders ; short back, strong in tlie loin with short 

 coupling, long and well formed hind-quarters, wide and well 

 formed hips, strong in the hock, with flat bone, and good, sound 

 feet. This horse is the general favorite for farm-work of every 

 description. 



A horse for general purposes should weigh somewhere from 

 ten to eleven hundred pounds, though many horses under that 

 weight prove themselves capable, in point of strength and 

 endurance, of performing any of the services usually required 

 on the farm, and for heavy draught twelve hundred may not be 

 too large. It has been said and with truth that there is no point 

 more desirable than that the horse should appear to be smaller 

 than he really is. It is pretty good evidence that the animal is 

 compact and symmetrically formed. 



Most of the horses entered in this division at the State Fair, 

 were, according to the report of the judges, of a very high 

 order of merit. 



" Petersham Morgan," was sired by " Black Morgan," g sire, 

 " Green Mountain, 2d," g g sire, " Gifford," g g g sire, " Wood- 

 bury," g g g g sire, "Justin Morgan." "Black Morgan's" 

 dam was also sired by " Greeji Mountain, 2d." 



Dam of " Petersham Morgan," by " Emperor," her dam by 

 " Woodbury Morgaii." " Emperor" was foaled in 1837, sired 

 by " Bulrush," g sire, " Justin Morgan." " Woodbury " was 

 sired by "Justin Morgan." 



" Anglo-Saxon " was sired by a son of old " Black Hawk," 

 out of a Sherman Morgan mare ; dam by " Post Boy," by 

 " Henry," well known thorough-breds. He has therefore a 

 strain of the Black Hawk, the Morgan, and the thorough-bred. 

 He is said to possess great muscular development, speed and 

 power of endurance. 



The premiums offered for stallions over one thousand pounds 

 in weight, entered as horses for general utility, were the same 

 as those for stallions over four years old, entered as roadsters, 

 as given above. 



The entries of stallions in this division were as follows :— 



