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THE STOCK HORSE—BLACK HAWK. 
the fall, the higher the water can be raised, which 
will vary in quantity in proportion to the capacity 
of the ram, the size of the stream, and height of the 
fall. 
To meet the case of our correspondent, he is in¬ 
formed that a pipe 40 feet long and of one and a 
quarter inch calibre, leading into the ram by a ten- 
foot fall, will deliver a constant stream, from a half¬ 
inch pipe, at an elevation of 85 feet. This inform¬ 
ation is given from actual experience, and may be 
relied upon as true. 
THE STOCK HORSE—BLACK HAWK. 
The following figure is a portrait of Black 
Hawk, a celebrated stock horse, owned and kept at 
the stand of E. D. & N. H. Hill, Bridport, Vermont, 
He was bred by Mr. Mathews, of Durham, N. H. : 
Afterwards owned by Mr, Bellows, of Vt., and then 
Course. Black Hawk won with ease the first heat 
in 2 minutes, 52 seconds; and the second heat in 2 
minutes, 43 seconds. 
He is of a jet-black color, stands 15 hands and one 
inch high, and weighs 1,024 lbs. He is thirteen years 
old and perfectly sound. Several of his colts, two 
years old, weighed last October, over 1,000 pounds. 
The colts generally turn out of a good size. They 
are good tempered, active, and remarkably easy 
to break in harness. They sell at better prices 
than any other colts in this section.. Most of the 
premiums in this county are awarded to his stock, 
at the agricultural shows. 
Black Hawk took the highest prize and a gold 
medal at the New York State Agricultural Society 7 s- 
Show, in September last, as the best stallion out of 
the state. W. 
| Middlehuriji Vt n February 12 th y 1848.. 
Black Hawk.—Fig. 27. 
by Benjamin Thurston, of Lowell, Massachusetts, 
vrho tried his speed at trotting on Cambridge Park, 
where he trotted two five-mile heats in 30 minutes, 
30 seconds, and one mile in 2 minutes, 42 seconds. 
He has been kept for several years expressly for 
his stock. He covered, in 1846, one hundred and 
thirty-four mares, and got all but twelve of them 
with foal. In 1847, he covered one hundred and 
thirty-seven mares. His season extended from 
March to December. Under these circumstances 
and without training, he was matched against 
Moss Grey, at the time of the New York State 
Agricultural Show, last September, to trot a mile in 
harness and repeat on the Saratoga Trotting 
[We have had the pleasure of seeing this splendid 
horse, of which our correspondent speaks, and 
think highly of him. His action is very fine. The 
cut above does him injustice in not making him 
sufficiently strong in the quarters ; nor does it give 
his neck the graceful turn which belongs to him. 
The legs in the cut arc also represented too long. 
He is in fact a handsome horse of great substance, 
in pony form. Vermont has long been celebrated 
for its superior breed of roadsters, and we are high¬ 
ly gratified in being informed that the spirit of im¬ 
provement in that enterprising state is on the 
increase, not only in horses, hut in cattle, sheep, 
and their general system of farm management.} 
