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The show of single roadsters was large and good, and 

 there was an opportunity of witnessing all the different 

 grades which adorn the equine race. Some were good to 

 go ahead, others seemed better for holding back. In fact, 

 there is no good quality possessed by horse flesh, not 

 needed to make a good roadster. He must have sufficient 

 size to enable him to draw a carriage with ease. He must 

 have a gait that enables him to move with ease, grace 

 and speed. He must be sound, of a good disposition, and 

 handsome. Those qualities which fit him for a carriage 

 on the road, fit him for almost any place in which a good 

 master chooses to put him. Such a horse, it should be 

 the effort of all good farmers to raise ; and let no one 

 suppose that such a horse is the result of mere chance 

 breeding. Your Committee believe in cause and effect. 

 They believe that in raising animals as in vegetables, as a 

 general rule, a man can raise about what he is willing to 

 pay for. If he thinks that he can raise a good roadster 

 from unsound and faulty progenitors, and on poor keep- 

 ing, he is as unreasonable as the man who hopes to raise 

 good crops from poor land without fertilizers. No agri- 

 culturist can afford to raise a poor horse. It will not pay. 

 Let us make the figures and see. Suppose a mare worth 

 five hundred dollars. 



The interest for one year is $30 



" keeping " ' " - - • - - 75 



" risk " " .... 25 



" depreciation ""---- 25 



Service of a horse like Patchen, 

 Keeping colt till four years old, 



$155 

 100 

 125 



Suppose the colt then to be worth at four years as much 

 as his mother, ($500,) deducting the above, $380, leaves a 

 clear profit of $120. 



