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always find a purchaser. The saying, that " a good horse will 

 always sell," has become proverbial ; and I candidly believe 

 that if a Horse Breeders' Joint Stock Company should be 

 organized, with a capital of one hundred thousand dollars, and 

 managed by skilful and experienced breeders, it could lie made 

 to declare in a few years larger dividends than any cotton or 

 woollen manufactory in the country with the same amount of 

 capital. 



I have been informed by the owner of Black Hawk that 

 he has for several years received annually for the services of 

 that horse upwards of twenty-five hundred dollars, which would 

 be the interest of more than forty thousand dollars. The cele- 

 brated mare Lady Suffolk has just dropped a foal sired by 

 Black Hawk; and I have not the least doubt that the owner of 

 this colt could receive for it, as soon as it is weaned, one of 

 the best farms in Vermont. Lady Suffolk and Black Hawk are 

 both American bred horses, strongly tinctured with English 

 blood, and are probably the best horses in the world. But 

 there is no reason why others cannot be raised which shall 

 equal, or even surpass, them ; and if breeders will go to work 

 systematically, and use as much capital, judgment, skill, and 

 experience as are used in most branches of business, they can- 

 not fail to be amply remunerated. 



Why will not some of our wealthy Essex County farmers, who 

 are fond of making good investments, show us at our next 

 agricultural exhibition one of the best stallions that can be 

 bought in America ? — such a one, for instance, as will answer 

 the following description : His weight must be not less than 

 one thousand pounds, nor over eleven hundred pounds. For 

 color, black, bay, or chestnut would be preferable, without a 

 white hair, if possible. His age may be any where inside of 

 twenty years, if healthy and vigorous. He must have a sharp 

 ear, bold eye, placed low down in the head, wide forehead, 

 large nostril, sharp shoulder, long, wide hip, sloping gradually 

 towards the tail, full across the loins, full breast, wide knee, 

 low hock, wide, flat cannon, pastern tolerably long, hoof wide, 

 but not flat. He must be able to trot a mile in two minutes 

 and forty seconds; and his pedigree must be traced back 

 through five generations, all from stock of good blood and per- 



