No. 4.] THE HORSE FOR NEW ENGLAND. Ill 



THE SUCCESSFUL TYPE OF HORSE THAT MAY BE 

 PROFITABLY RAISED BY NEW ENGLAND 



FARMERS. 



BY MR. HAURV ^y . SMITH, AVORCESTER. 



The American Trotter and Roadster. 



The successful breeding of trotters by New England 

 farmers has proved, nine cases out of ten, to be a failure, 

 for the reason that in producing the type everything is sacri- 

 ficed to the one desire, naniety, speed ; and every one I 

 believe will acknowledo:e that the hillv, rockv roads of New 

 England are not what one would term proper speedways for 

 the working out of the three and four year olds. 



Then, again, when speed is the one desire, to obtain same 

 fifty per cent of the colts raised are made unsound before 

 they come to a marketable age. This is brought about from 

 the fact that few of the breeders have suitable, liofht road 

 wagons to work the youngsters in ; consecjuently a heavy 

 weight is put behind them, and ciu^bs, spavins, etc., are often 

 the result ; or we find they are over-driven by ignorance in 

 training, and a large percentage of the horses become afilicted 

 with chronic indio-estion or scourinof. 



Feeding is also one of the essential points that the average 

 New England farmer is not up on. It is generally conceded 

 by most of the New England breeders that hay is good 

 enough for horses until they are three years old, and then 

 possibly two quarts of oats to a feed. 



The following illustration shows how the two-year-olds in 

 England are taken care of and nurtured, and the necessity 

 of careful, generous feeding of the youngsters. 



There is absolutely no doubt but what to nine-tenths of 



