STALLIONS. 



SUCKING COLTS. 



1st prem. to M. S. Heath, Lunenburg, 3 00 



2d '' L. Patch, Fitchburg, 2 00 



3d "J. H. Whitcomb, Littleton, 1 00 



Your Committee, feeling that much might be said in relation to 

 Mares for Breeding purposes, which we are quite too incompetent to 

 give at this time, yet will venture to give a few of the ideas we 

 have of those which are profitable to raise stock from, so that our 

 breed of Horses might be much improved. Select the best mares you 

 can find, sound, and from five to twelve years old, and secure the ser- 

 vice of some good horse, whose stock tell of his value as a stock horse. 

 Do not overtax her with hard labor while with foal, but use her gently, 

 expecting she will ere long reward you for your kindness to her, and 

 she will do it, on her part. But, alas ! how few of our* best mares, 

 while in their prime, are allowed to raise a colt ; her owner prizes her 

 so high for work or driving, that he cannot spare her for this purpose 

 until broken down and become unfit for his use as a driver ; then, for 

 the good service she has done, thinks her of value to breed from, and 

 begins to look for some horse which he has heard of that has made 

 quick time, or is in some way a kin to " Flora Temple," "Ethan 

 Allen," or "Dexter," anticipating that by securing his service he 

 shall raise a colt that will go in two-forty or less, in hopes when 

 matured, that he will beat " Dexter" himself. But he has fancied all 

 this and finds himself sadly mistaken at last, for he was not governed 

 by the horse having all the fine points which a stock horse should pos- 

 sess, but by what some said of his speed, and not of his beauty. 

 Speed is all, whether he has a large clumsy head, with sunken eyes, 

 and ears after the fashion of the animal that Balaam rode , or with 

 nearly twice the length there should be from his withers to his loin, 

 which is very narrow and is no good mark of strength or endurance, 

 which is, really, the value of any horse. 



We believe many good colts are spoiled by stinted keeping which 

 is not regarded in the light it should be. If you would raise a horse 

 that will command a high price in market, he must have beauty and 

 muscle ; and if you would raise such an one, you must give the colt 

 something that will produce muscle, which cannot be made by feeding 

 meadow hay or oats. From other stock, the best English hay and a 



