AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN HORSES. 
Baden-Baden, Sept. 25th, 1854. 
We were talking of exporting American 
horses to Europe. After considering the price 
in various countries, expense of transporta¬ 
tion, risk, &c., the principal motive, after all, 
must be a preference for your own country 
horses—without which the thing is hardly 
worth while. 1 confess to such a preference, 
having immense faith in their endurance, and 
the quantity of work to be got out of them, 
on the one hand, and their docility on the 
other. The latter is perhaps what astonishes 
the French the most, though they do not 
look upon it as an unmixed good in a horse ; 
and perhaps a fair share of the difference is 
to be attributed to the different styles of 
driving, as your Frenchman will never let 
his beast go naturally, butmust.be fussing at 
him with whip or curb, to make him prance 
or show off in some way. But whatever be 
the reason, I am persuaded that the combi¬ 
nation of speed and power, with perfect do¬ 
cility, is rarer in the European than in the 
American horse. Under the saddle, our ani¬ 
mals (I speak of the Northern horses) have 
some obvious and serious faults, pulling too 
much on the bit, stumbling, cantering on the 
wrong leg, not knowing how to leap ; but all 
these are the result of their education, or 
want of education. We are such a nation of 
drivers, that there is no adequate demand for 
superior saddle horses, or indeed for any 
horses exclusively devoted to the saddle—as 
a saddle horse, to be really a saddle horse, 
should be. 
Be it said, too, of our horses, that if they 
sometimes make a rider anxious by stumb¬ 
ling, when they do fall, it is not with so much 
damage to themselves as a European horse 
experiences. In eight years’ riding Ameri¬ 
can horses, I have had four falls ; on no occa¬ 
sion did the horse hurt himself enough to 
leave a mark of any kind, or to lose two days’ 
work. Of English horses, I never owned but. 
two; they both tumbled down with me—not 
on bad ground, either, but on perfectly 
smooth and level roads—and both broke 
their knees. 
Talking of English horses, did you ever 
notice a prejudice that the English have 
against mares for harness ? They consider 
them vicious and unsafe. From the extent 
of the prejudice there must be some founda¬ 
tion for it; and if so, it is another point to 
be put down to the credit of our animals, 
since with us mares are just as quiet in har¬ 
ness as geldings, and many of our sporting 
men prefer mares to drive. 
One sometimes hears a good deal of the 
Russian trotters, but I never met a Russian 
who, after having seen our “ flyers,” did not 
acknowlege their superiority. A Muscotive 
Prince in Paris imported a pair of fast horses 
from our country last spring, at a high figure 
—I believe chiefly to breed from. They 
were a brown and lightbay, about 15i hands 
high, and made a very respectable looking 
team, though not remarkable for beauty. 
The brown was a sister of Highland Maid, 
but neither her appearance nor gait reminded 
me of her distinguished relative. I liked the 
bay much better, and was told she turned 
out better on trial, having gone her mile (near 
Fontainbleau) in “2:40,” with about 300 lbs. 
behind her. The Prince remained incognito 
several months in France, at no small per¬ 
sonal risk, solely to get his purchases in order 
for the overland journey home. After that, 
he deserves that they should turn out well. 
Spirit of the Times. CARL BENSON. 
It is absurd to speak of the “ seat of war,” 
for the war can hardly be said to have a seat 
while it is at a stand still. 
Good character is above, all things else. 
THE FARMER’S GARDEN. 
A few days since, I chanced to take din¬ 
ner at the house of a farmer. It was the 
season of the year for early peas, beans, 
potatoes, lettuce, &c., and finding none of 
these luxuries on the table, being naturally 
inquisitive, I inquired the reason of their 
absence, when the answer that most readily 
suggested itself was presented : “ We have 
no time to attend to such small matters,” 
i. e., the garden. Now is this any excuse 
for a mere weedy patch, with the fence in¬ 
clined to an angle of forty-five degrees, in¬ 
stead of a good garden with a neat fence 
around it, so managed and arranged that 
every vegetable of a^wholesome quality for 
human food should be raised in it in perfec¬ 
tion and at the earliest seasons. No portion 
of the farmer’s time can be more valuably 
improved than in the cultivation of the gar¬ 
den. The interest of the farmer, the comfort 
of his family, the good condition and health 
of his whole household, require such a gar¬ 
den on every farm in the country. 
Why may not every farmer in the State 
have every kind of vegetable on his table 
as early as any gardener near the city can 
raise them ? There is not a single reason 
why he should not, while there are a great 
many why he should. The gardener has to 
incur a very considerable expense in procur¬ 
ing hot manure for his hot beds, while the 
farmer has it in his barn-yard. The gar¬ 
dener has everything to purchase and draw a 
considerable distance, while the farmer has 
nothing to buy, &e. Some people are for¬ 
ever harping upon the assertion : “We have 
no time to attend to such small matters,” 
and yet it may safely be asserted that an 
acre of ground, appropriated to a good gar¬ 
den, will be more profitable to the farmer than 
any other ten acres of the farm. These 
very people are fond enough of such things 
when they go to the city, and it is not, there¬ 
fore, a want of taste. Nor is it for want of 
time, for this class of men often spend time 
in unnecessary slumber, or, what is worse, 
repair to the store or tavern, or some other 
place of resort, and lounge away those hours 
in idleness and dissipation which might be 
improved in attending to “ such small mat¬ 
ters.” It is simply the fault of negligence ; 
for it would only be a source of amusement 
during winter, for him to construct the frame 
of a hot-bed, and prepare the manure and 
the bed for use. Having done this, and got 
his plants in a thrifty state, he can, in a 
short time, when the season arrives, get his 
garden ground in order and make his planta¬ 
tions. And then he will have all the veg¬ 
etable luxuries as early as any of his town 
friends can purchase them. The expense 
that he would incur would be a mere trifle. 
The small quantity of lumber required is 
probably rotting on his premises. It only 
requires a little industry and attention to 
accomplish this, and, as said before, his 
enjoyments, his health, and even his interest, 
as well as the comfort of his family will be 
benefitted by ii. Besides this, the natural 
appetite calls for it, and there are few pleas¬ 
ures that may be so safely and beneficially 
indulged in. And, in conclusion, I am free 
to say, that when I am at a farm-house, 
when vegetables arc properly in season, and 
find none of those luxuries on the table, 
nothing but the blue beef, salt pork and beans 
or potatoes of winter, I do not envy that 
farmer nor his family their enjoyments. 
Evewttstown, 1854. D. M. 
Dollar Newspaper. 
Why is the circulation of blood sometimes 
suspended ? Because it attempts to circu¬ 
late in vain! 
Keep your own secrets, if you have any. 
I’LL DO IT WELL. 
It is said that there lives in New-England 
a gentleman who gave the following interest¬ 
ing account of his own life. He was an ap¬ 
prentice in a tin manufactory. When twen¬ 
ty-one years old, he had lost his health, so 
that he was entirely unable to work at his 
trade. Wholly destitute of means, he was 
thrown out upon the world, to seek any em¬ 
ployment for which he had strength. 
He said he went to find employment, with 
the determination that whatever he did he 
would do it well. The first and only thing he 
found that he could do, was to black boots 
and scour knives in a hotel. This he did, and 
did it well, as gentlemen now living would 
testify. Though the business Avas low and 
servile, he did not lay aside his self-respect, 
or allow himself to be made mean by his 
business. The respect and confidence of 
his employers were soon secured, and he 
was advanced to a more lucrative and labo¬ 
rious position. 
At length his health was restored, and he 
returned to his legitimate business, which 
he now carries on extensively. He has 
accumulated an ample fortune, and is train¬ 
ing an interesting family by giving them the 
best advantages for moral and mental culti¬ 
vation. He now holds an elevated place in 
the community where he now lives. 
Young men who may chance to read the 
above statement of facts, should mark the se¬ 
cret of success. The man’s whole charac¬ 
ter, of which I have spoken, was formed and 
directed by the determination to do whatever 
he did, well. [Credit lost. 
The Wife. —It needs no guilt to break a 
husband’s heart. The absence of content, 
the muttering of spleen, the untidy dress and 
cheerless home, the forbidding scowl, and 
deserted hearth—these and other nameless 
neglects Avithout a crime among them, have 
harroAved to the quick the heart’s core of 
many a man, and planted there, beyond the 
reach of cure, the germ of dark despair. Oh ! 
may woman, before the sight arrives, dAvell 
on the recollections of her youth, and, cher¬ 
ishing the dear idea of that tuneful time, 
aAvake and keep alive the promise she so 
kindly gave. 
Modern Grease. —The groAvth of com¬ 
merce in Cincinnati exceeds anything re¬ 
corded of commercial progress. In 1826 the 
entire value of her exports and imports did 
not exceed four millions. In 1854 the value 
of her leading articles of export and import 
exceed one hundred and ten millions; and if 
the unenumerated articles could be iacluded, 
Avould probably reach one hundred and fifty 
millions. 
A Young Giant. —There is an individual 
at present in Greenock, named Patrick Mur¬ 
phy, the Irish giant, a lad of eighteen years, 
of the extraordinary height of seven feet five 
and a half inches in his stockings. Weighs 
tAventy-one stone, (294 pounds,) and meas¬ 
ures fifty-tAVO inches round the chest. Mur¬ 
phy is a native of the County Doavii, Ireland. 
A genius in NeAv-Bedford is fitting up a 
steamer for the purpose of lOAving icebergs 
to India, Avhere they sell for six cents per 
pound. Another proposes to do still better : 
to fit a screAV to the berg itself, and thus 
avoid the expense of ship building. We go 
in for the latter arrangement. 
Never run in debt, unless you see a Avay 
to get out again. 
Avoid temptation through fear that you 
may not Avithstand it. 
