No. 4. J TlIK HOUSE FOR NKW ENGLAND. I'dd 



of stuff, as Now England has been ])ur{lened for the last ten 

 years, we drag down our agriculture. You put in Maine or 

 Massachusetts those fine horses, horses that will walk more 

 than foui- miles an hour, free, easy, elastic-moving animals, 

 and they will drag some of us out of the old wa3^s. They 

 would be good for the farm and for the farmer. There arc 

 too many ox-horses being employed in plowing. The^^ are 

 not fitted for our conditions to-day. We want better horses. 

 Our agriculture merits better attention. We want more 

 breed in our horses and teams we are driving. We never 

 can get out of our })resent condition and reach the point we 

 desire until we get freed from the entangleuients, and get 

 freed from all deformations. A well-built horse is a help to 

 better agriculture. You may find them in the American 

 trotting horse, in the Percheron crossed with thoroughbreds, 

 with the French coach horses, find them anj^where, but for 

 Heaven's sake, let's find them. 



Mr. A. M. Lyman (of Montague). About ten years ago 

 Dr. Twitchell gave a lecture at Greenfield on the horse, and 

 some of us got the best horse we could procure for him to 

 score, and when the scoring was finished it footed up 67. 

 Some of us were disappointed because it didn't score 90. 

 The explanation Dr. Twitchell gave was that the best horse 

 in the world would not score 100, and I should like to know 

 how much nearer to that figure he is now than he was ten 

 3^ears ago. 



Mr. Smith. I have been up against the same proposition, 

 ever since I have been in the show ring, in Montreal, New 

 York and Newport, and generally with difierent judges each 

 time. They bring difierent types out, and I have agreed 

 with Dr. Twitchell that in the conformation of a horse 40 

 out of 50 is as high as I believe in placing them. A judge 

 would say put him at 50 ; I say put him down 40. I say, 

 how can you put him to 50? Is he perfect? I think we are 

 advancing just as much as the trotting record is advancing. 



Now, in regard to the question of conformation and type 

 of horse, it is perfectly wonderful how the market has 

 advanced in the last ten or twelve years. When T first 

 showed in New York, in 1891 or 1892, you could count on 



