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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



June 



THE OEIQINAL BLACK HAWK. 



Through the kindness of Charles L. Flint, 

 Esq., Secretary of the State Board of Agricul- 

 ture, we are enabled to place before the reader 

 the most beautiful and perfect portrait of the fa- 

 mous horse Black Hawk that has ever been given 

 of that far-famed animal. We have never looked 

 upon any other horse with so much admiration 

 as we have upon Black Hawk. His intelligence 

 was equal to his beauty, and his splendid action 

 corresponded with his other remarkable qualities. 

 We fear that it will be a long time before we 

 shall look upon his like again. Some of his de- 

 scendants are of rare beauty and action, but it 

 would be wonderful if they possess that combi- 

 nation of beauty, grace, courage, speed and en- 

 durance, which the old hero bore so proudly. 



The description of Black Hawk which follows, 

 we copy from the Report on Horses, by Prof. W. 

 S. Clark, given in the volume of Agriculture for 

 Massachusetts, for 18G0. 



The famous stallion. Black Hawk, is thought, 

 by some, to have been got by Sherman Morgan 

 out of a half-bred English mare, said to have 

 been raised in New Brunswick, and to have been 

 of a black color, a fast trotter, and a very fine an- 

 imal. This horse was foaled in 1833, in Green- 

 land, New Hampshire, and when four years old, 

 was purchased for $150, and used as a roadster 

 by Benjamin Thurston, of Lowell, until 1844. 

 As he was a beautiful, spirited horse, able to trot 



his mile in two minutes and forty seconds, and 

 as the few colts he had got proved remarkably 

 promising, he was then bought by Major David 

 Hill, of Bridport, Vermont, who kept him until 

 his death in 1856. Black Hawk was about fif- 

 teen hands high, and weighed nine hundred and 

 fifty pounds. His skeleton is preserved in the 

 Museum of Natural History, at the State House 

 in Boston. He Avas a horse of almost perfect 

 form for a roadster, compact, symmetrical and 

 muscular, and possessed of most beautiful head, 

 neck and limbs. He was active, elegant, spirit- 

 ed, and pleasant, and marked his offspring with 

 his own peculiar excellences and characteristics, 

 even to color, more decidedly, perhaps, than any 

 other American horse. His numerous and justly 

 esteemed descendants constitute the best breed 

 of roadsters ever known, combining the intelli- 

 gence, courage, elegance, life and endurance, of 

 the thorough bred horse, with sufficient bone and 

 substance, and the finest possible trotting action. 



The Cylindrical Meat Masher. — In the 

 April Monthly we gave an illustration and de- 

 scription of a little machine for mashing beef 

 steaks to make them tender and eatable, but 

 stated that we had not used it. Since that time 

 it has been used whenever Ave have been so for- 

 tunate as to be in possession of a beef steak, and 

 under its operation we find the meat tender and 

 juicy. It mashes the steak without squeezing out 

 the juice, and when over the fire admit the heat 



