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[February, 
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TROTTING STALLI 
in a large body than in a small one. Then, 
■with, a large ice-box holding four or five hun- 
dred pounds, and having room for meats, vege- 
tables, fruits, etc., at each home, it would only 
be necessary to open the ice-house once a Meek 
in summer to supply the families. If the par- 
ties owning the house would take turns in fill- 
ing the boxes, it would take but a little time to 
give all the families the luxury of a plenty of 
ice through theseason. This company arrange- 
ment is entirely practicable in the older parts of 
the couutiy, and works well. It is true that 
the isolated farmer bad better have hi ; own ice- 
house than to go without, but il is better still to 
have the joint-stock house. "We have so often 
given plans of ice-houses with illustrations that 
one has only to look at our back volumes to 
find a plan that will suit him. The supposed 
cost often prevents one from building. But 
very little, if any, money outlay is necessary. 
The plainest, roughest materials will suffice to 
keep ice if they are only put together so as to 
afford good drainage, and secure a non-conduct- 
ing medium on all sides of the body of ice. 
Wood, stone, or brick may be used, and it is not 
at all necessary that the stoue should he faced. 
A fair ice-house may be made of rails aud slabs 
from a saw-mill, with plenty of straw and saw- 
dust. Put up a company house, and fill it. 
[COPYRIGHT SKCUEED.] 
N.— Owned by S. A. Mills, Esq.— Drawn and 
Fearful. 
The above portrait, taken from life by our 
artist, represents Fearful, a bay colt, four years 
old and 15 hands high, the property of S. A. 
Mills, of Newtown, L. I. Mr. Mills is a wealthy 
banker of New York, who finds recreation from 
bis active business in the management of a farm 
of 170 acres, situated at Newtown, a few miles 
from New York, which he has devoted to the 
breeding of a very high class of trotters. His 
stock includes six brood-mares, four stallions, 
and eight fillies and colts, in which is found the 
best blood attainable in the United States. 
Fearful is a nephew to Dexter, his sire being 
Dictator, full brother to Dexter; his dam is 
Lady Quackeuboss, a perfect bay mare of great 
endurance, she by Mambrino Chief, out of dam 
by Vermont Rattler. He is a beautifully formed 
colt, shows great speed, aud has a tremendous 
stride. When but thirteen months old, the sum 
of $3,000 was paid for him. His services in the 
stud have already produced three colts of great 
promise, aud his best points are well marked 
upon his progeny. 
It is fortunate for the agricultural interests of 
the country that such men as Mr. Mills devote 
their leisure and wealth to the breeding of thor- 
ough-bred stock. It is from these high-blooded 
Engraved for the American Agriculturist. 
animals that the improvement so much needed 
in our stock generally is to come. We have 
now the best trotting stock in the world, and 
trotting horses are animals of general utility, 
differing in this respect from running horses, 
which are not adapted to American tastes or 
needs. Blood of the quality existing in our 
thorough-breds gives endurance, activity, and 
speed to our common stock when crossed there- 
with, and these are precisely the qualities our 
farmers need to have engrafted on to their 
working animals. Coarse, heavy animals are 
slow, unintelligent workers, heavy and unprofit- 
able feeders, continually subject to unsoundness 
in joint and limb, and of such failing constitu- 
tions that it is rare to find oue entirely free 
from blemish or disease. On the other hand, the 
American thorough-bred is light of limb, and 
yet of dense bone and elastic but wiry tendon : 
his temperament is noble, ambitious, and cour- 
ageous, never permitting him to succumb to de- 
feat, nor to submit hopelessly to ordinary ail- 
ments; he never refuses to exert his utmost 
strength, even in the face of impossibilities; he 
is very rarely or never vicious, and his instincts 
are so acute that his education comes as it were 
by nature. In short, although the horse under 
any aspect is a noble brute, yet a thorough- 
bred is an animal of the very highest nobility. 
