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V ERTEBRATA. 





A MUHGAX HOUSE. 



inasmuch as the stock is alike remarkable for the persistency with which its good 

 qualities are transmitted, and the strength, vigor, and durability of its species, in application t«> 

 tiif Btern and stubborn work required of them in the common business of the country. 



It must not be supposed from the- preceding remarks that the improvement of the horse in 

 those forms specially adapted to the uses of the country, nor indeed in its highest forms as judged 

 by the English standard, is a matter of indifference to our people on the contrary, there is an 

 active, intelligent, and pervading spirit of competition and emulation among our gentlemen of 

 ample meai - and liberal tastes, as well as those governed by merely utilitarian views, which is 

 efficiently exercised in promoting the improvement of our breeds of horses. No better evidence 



this need be offered than the fact that at a "General Horse Convention," held at Springfield. 

 Massachusetts, in September, 1858, more than fifteen thousand people were assembled, including 

 gentlemen of the highest distinction, and from every part of the United States, some of them 

 having traveled more than two thousand miles to be present on the occasion.* 



of ■ climate, a1 the Bame time counteracting the tendency to the degradation of species which everywhere besets ani- 

 mal life. 

 Tli i ^ valuable and interesting animal died at the age of twenty-nine, having been long used as a stock-horse. It 

 been well said <>f him, thai probably "no horse of this or any other country has so strikingly impressed upon 

 to the fifth and sixth generations, his own striking and valuable characteristics, and it may be safely 

 rted that the stock of no horse ever bred in this country has proved so generally and lamely profitable t 

 ]■ rs of it. The raising of it has made the fortunes of hundreds of individuals, and added hundreds of thousands, 

 if not millions of dollar-, t.i the- wealth of V, rmonl and New Hampshire." 



Tl. ed is ool confined to the United States; the present Emperor Napoleon has recently caused 



four of them to be taken to Prance for his own use, 



* The Springfield " Bone Show" commenced October 10, 1858, and has since been continued annually; a field of 



died Bampden Park, 1ms been purchased for the exhibition, and was inaugurated in 1857, the /.'- oerena 



'/ \V,ml /:■ ■ This year (1858) we are told that " on Wednesday, Septem 



ber 15th, tri. I between some of the most celebrated horses in the country took place, and attracted even 



still larger throngs than on the previous day. No less than twelve thousand visitors entered the grounds, and the 



