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seen, and they were only equalled by those re¬ 
served by Mr. T., in his own sheep fold at 
Hartford. They appeared to us considerably 
to exceed the merits of his earliest importations, 
the result, probably, of his long and favorable 
acquaintance with their breeders in Europe? 
which has enabled him to procure the choicest 
animals from their reserve , which he could not 
for some time procure. This has given him a 
peculiar and exclusive advantage, which his in¬ 
telligence and enterprise has not failed to per¬ 
ceive and appropriate. We doubt if the world 
has ever seen any better animals. Mr. T. 
looked almost exclusively to quantity and qual¬ 
ity of fleece, and hardiness of constitution; yet, 
while eminently successful in these, he has suc¬ 
ceeded in securing carcasses, equal in size, and 
almost as perfect in form, as the Southdown. 
In addition to those shown by Messrs. Bingham, 
there were many excellent French Merinos ex¬ 
hibited by Messrs. Jewett, Campbell, Sandford, 
and Hammond; and some of the latter gentle¬ 
men showed a few Prussian sheep of rare excel¬ 
lence, descended from the Infantado and other 
choice flocks of Spain. The merits of these 
consisted in comparatively large weight of 
fleece, on small carcasses. They worthily rep¬ 
resent the best specimens of our earliest impor¬ 
tations of Merinos, by Messrs. Humphreys, 
Jarvis, and others. Besides the Merinos, we saw 
no other sheep—not a single representation of 
the Saxon, the long or the middle wools. 
Horses have long been a staple of Vermont, 
and at no former period has she equalled the 
number and excellence of her present stock. 
But as in sheep, this display was confined to a 
single class —the active roadster. We saw no 
racers, no heavy draught horses, and no Cleve¬ 
land bays. Those shown were principally de¬ 
scendants of the famous Morgan horse; and 
certainly, we have seen no better horses in 
their class than these. We liked the arrange- 
men for showing these animals, better than any 
before practised. They were brought upon the 
show ground and occupied a stand within or 
outside of the course, at their exhibitor’s option ; 
but on the call of the committee, each promi¬ 
nent sire took the lead around the course of 
half a mile or more in circumference, followed 
by his progeny. First came Black Hawk, a 
veteran of 16 years, with a troop of 30 or 40 
young stallions, and most of them presenting a 
striking resemblance to the original. Then 
followed the White-Mountain Morgan, the 
Green-Mountain Morgan, the Hambletonian, &c., 
and their respective gets; and last of all the 
geldings and matched horses, of which but few 
were exhibited. The mares and colts were 
very numerous and choice, and we believe 
everybody’s mare in Vermont had a colt. One 
of our correspondents has recently character¬ 
ised the Morgan horse a humbug. We wish 
there were more such agricultural humbugs. 
He has equally failed in characterising this fine 
family of horse flesh. He has evidently drawn 
his ideas from the throng of miscellaneous 
brutes that have been picked up by jockeys of 
every hue, and palmed off among the unsophis¬ 
ticated wherever such customers could be found. 
Of course, there is no such thing as a pure 
Morgan horse, as their origin dates from a sin¬ 
gle animal, and less than 60 years ago. But 
they have had about the same period to form a 
peculiar race as the Ayrshire cattle, and their 
success is fully equal. They are not homoge¬ 
neous in form, appearance, nor character; but 
they are enough so to be entitled to the pos¬ 
session of a distinctive family name. There 
are wide departures from their general resem¬ 
blance, in many of the progeny thht are bred 
from uncouth dams. We have seen some over 
16 hands high, and some scarcely 12; some 
with steep rumps, big heads, and dull eyes, or 
sluggish gaits, that were called Morgans, and 
probably enough were gotten by them, but the 
characteristics of the dam were too potent to be 
subdued by a single cross. In conclusion, we 
are compelled to say, that the true type of the 
Morgan horse is as desirable an animal for the 
road, whether our taste, or convenience, or pock¬ 
ets are concerned, as we have ever seen in har¬ 
ness; and success say we to the Vermont en¬ 
terprise, of rearing and maintaining a new and 
highly creditable family of horses. 
In Cattle, we found little to commend as com¬ 
pared with the New-York State Show, yet 
much if compared to some of her sister states. 
Mr. Sanford, of Orwell, had two beautiful im¬ 
ported Devon cows and a calf, from the cele¬ 
brated herd of Mr. Turner; and Mr. Gregory, 
of Northfield, showed a number of Herefords, 
from Mr. Sotham’s importation, and ther de¬ 
scendants and crosses. There were some other 
good Devons, and a few shorthorns, but these 
were deficient both in number and excellence. 
Vermont is not the place for shorthorns. It is 
the Devons and Herefords that are best adapted 
to her soil and surface, and these she will do 
well to encourage and propagate. There were 
few good cows, and fewer still of fat cattle, but 
a goodly show of steers and working oxen. 
Of Swine, there were only a few ; but some 
