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to make the distance between the mill or the meeting- 

 house and his own home, as short as possible. We all 

 drive on the road ; and this, combined undoubtedly 

 with certain fortunate aptitudes of climate and soil has 

 given New England her valuable race of trotters. 



Why should we go abroad, then, with the expecta- 

 tion of improving what we now have ? While we 

 have our Messengers and Black Hawks, and other 

 families of Morgans, so diverse in size and shape, so 

 well fitted by form and temper to ever}^ labor, and yet 

 possessing a kind of prevailing uniformity expressed 

 by the phrase " a horse of all works," can we hope to 

 derive any benefit from a resort to those specific breeds 

 of horses which in England are devoted each to its 

 speciality ? There is no necessity, for instance, for 

 importing a Suffolk Punch — for half a day's search 

 would undoubtedly provide you with just such an ani- 

 mal, raised on your own soil. We need not import 

 hunters, for we have no need of any such horse among 

 us. The Cleveland Bay, valuable as a carriage horse, 

 could hardly expect to improve the stylish breeds found 

 South and West, and distinguished more for style than 

 anything else. And when we consider that it is only 

 after we have reached many removes from the thor- 

 oughbred, that we have arrived at good trotters ; when 

 we remember that neither in shoulder, nor leg, nor 

 quarter, nor general mechanism, is there any analogy 

 between the thorough-bred as raised in England, and 

 the trotter as raised in our own country, we may well 

 ask ourselves what advantage is to be derived from the 

 introduction of such animals among us. 



