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family uf them, instead of preserving them, at what they origin- 

 ally were, and in some degree still are — an admirable cross of 

 the thoronghbred horse, on that very excellent and useful ani- 

 mal — itself a cross of several breeds — which I have described 

 under the name of the Vermont draught-horse. 



Tliis cross could have been maintained, as I have observed 

 above, and shall show more fully hereafter, under the head of 

 breeding, not by re-breeding the cross-bred animals, like to 

 like — ^for they will not, by an absolute law of nature, produce 

 the like again ; but by reintroducing in their purity both the 

 strains of blood, out of which the first beneficial admixture 

 grew. 



As for instance, to the finest Morgan stallion in the eighth 

 degree stint the noblest draught-mare, or imported Norman, or 

 choice Canadian, and stint the female progeny of that admix- 

 ture to the finest, mind I do not say speediest, sound, short- 

 legged, bony, muscular, thoroughbred stallion, of indisputable 

 pedigree, and undoubted constitution — to exactly such a horse, 

 for instance, as Boston would have been, had it not been for his 

 unfortunate blindness, which it is to be feared will be hereditary 

 in his blood, as it has already proved to be in the case of Lex- 

 ington, or as Trustee was. 



In the same' wa}^, the finest Morgan mares may be bred with 

 advantage to properly chosen thoroughbreds ; and the progeny 

 of this cross again bred with the different, but somewhat similar 

 cross, last described, will preserve the type, or class, of animal 

 required, while reinvigorating the blood by the introduction of 

 new strains, from the same original fountain head, though they 

 have been flowing long through widely devious channels. 



I can readily believe, that many persons in reading this will 

 imagine, that it is my object to decry this type of horse, because 

 I deny to it the name of famil3^ 



And I fancy I can already hear the outcry, that I am hostile 

 to, or prejudiced against, the breed. It is not so in the slightest 

 degree. Far from it — they are, or wei-e, the very horse of all 

 others, which I believe to be the best for all general purposes ; 

 the saddle, light harness, the hunting field, if it were required, 

 and in a great degree, the trotting course. I mean the result ot 

 an infusion of thorough blood in a very large proportion into 



