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SEPTEMBER 29, 1860. 
in her veins, she is utterly unlit for a breeder. 
Many annuals possess some favorable peculiarity 
winch owners wish to transmit, and though there 
may be a structural deficiency in some other part, 
the mare is brought to the breeding paddock in 
e hope that the desirable features will be prom- 
■umit in the colt, eveu if It bo at the expense of 
other points of strength and action. The breed¬ 
er here corn in i is tm error. It would hebetferto 
let the mare co* for in th* i.*__ .. 
-AJV ORIGINAL WK1CKLT 
RURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
CONDUCTED By D. D. T. MOOBE, 
With an Able Corps of Assistants and Contributors. 
Tra Rural New- Yorker mdesitroed tot 
In Value, Purity, Usefulness an,) Variety of 
nnique ami btmutilnl in Appearance ft- Cou 
his personal attention to the unperson ljf 
partmeuts, ami «uu*etly | afHwg to rBn()or ( 
eminently Reliahlo Ur|,J 0 eo t|| ^ mifM)r 
j-Cientiflc and other Subjects intimately couni 
asiness of those whose interests If zealou 
A» a Family JockitaL ft is eminently Fr,.,tn 
tertaimng-being so conducted that it can bi 
to the Hearts and Homes ot people 01 Intel 
aud discrimination ft embrace, more Agn. e 
cultural, Scientific, Edncetional, 
interspersed with appropi 
than any other journal, - 
AoKJOULTCRaL, LlTKilAJtt 
America. 
Fob Terms and other 
, ottriying and well nourishing her off- 
«l»nug; that Is, she should be what is called 
• roomy.’ i here is a formation of the hips which 
is particularly unlit for breeding purposes, and 
yet which is sometimes carefully selected, because 
it is considered elegant; this is the level and 
strutght, hip, ill Which the tail is set on very high 
and the end of the haunch bone is nearly on a 
level with the projection of the hip bone. Nearly 
the opposite form is the more desirable, where 
on examining the pelvis, it will be seen that the 
haunch hone forma a conalderable angle with the 
sacrum, and that there is, as a consequence, plenty 
of room, not only for carrying the foal, but for 
allowing n to puss Into the world. Roth of these 
points are Important, the former evidently so, and 
the latter no less so on Consideration; because, if 
‘ 18 inju,,,, , u „, e Ktrth , BOo „ J. 
or from ignorance, it will often fail to recover its 
powers, and will remain permanently injured. 
I he pelvis, then, should be wide and deep,—that 
J® t0 1 l,ily ’ largc a,,fl ™omy; and there should also 
. a 1,111(3 m,,rt thaa the average length from hip 
to the shoulder, so as to give plenty of bed for the 
foal, as well us a good depth of back ribs, which 
arc necessary to give the strength to support this 
increased length. Beyond Ibis roomy frame, ne¬ 
cessary as the egg-shell of the Ibal, the mare only 
requiressuch a shape and make as is well adapted 
lor the purpose she is intended for, that is to Bay, 
for producing coita of the style aud form she is 
intended to produce. We will add, that she must 
have four good legs under her, and those legs 
standing on a foundation of good, well-shuped, 
lar ** feet, open-heeled, and by no means flat- 
particulars, see last 
EDS, rural New-Yopk***-—U ur age is a fast onn and 
tbs lever has got among tbo horses. The <• Horse Kubi- 
bitionH’’-County, State, and National—am all restoring 
this spirit by largo premiums for the animals who ran 
perform certain distances in the shortest time, and ere 
lo-g if a Change does not take place, on, horse stock 
will be good for little else than Crowding Old Father Time 
Into the corner. Ten jearn ago it was a matter to be 
wondered over when a mile was compassed in the 
“ thirties,' but now, if the seconds range above “ twen¬ 
ty-eight,’’ there i» considerable said about “slow 
coaches." This fa all wrong, and it is the sphere of the 
Rural to show the matter up ia its true light As an 
opening chapter, will you please giye us a description of 
the horse we Comers want-if the style and speed" 
does not suit onryonng men w hoaru got up on locomotive 
pnne,plea, it will please, I doubt uo>, one who can con¬ 
tentedly travel at a less rate per minute than—T wo- 
Fort r, Ontario Co, JV. 1., u*0O, 
It is hardly fair for our “Two-forty ” friend to 
enter the sanctum in so abrupt a manner, and give 
us a lecture upon the duties of the Rural in regard 
to matters intimately connected with the welfare 
Of man’s noblest servant, especially when it is m 
apparent that horse-talk is a second nature with 
Ot v> nuure is a very spirited Marassar mare, 
(known as “Old Bluestreak,”) who was sired by 
V oung Marassar, and he by old imported Marassar 
of Vermont. Young Marassar’s dam was by im¬ 
ported Messenger of Vermont. Ilis color is a 
beautiful mahogany bay, with black 
and tail. He was eight years old last 
is 154 hands high. “Wildfire” was 1 
same farm (and by the same family) i 
brated trotting mare Lady Suffolk. 
sound one; from a vicious horse, a cowardly 
horse,—what is technically called a dunghill,— 
J a kind-tempered and 
or any of these would be the 
The blood sire (and the blood 
°® the n.de) should bo, 
purposes, of medium 
EUROPEAN AGRICULTURE, 
Cro P Prospects in Ireland. 
Jitouincj from the tenor of the Iri 
the farmers of Ireland are placed in van 
ing circumstances, 
are deploring the 
community, and are indulging in gloomy prophe- 
C r e ?L ii8 , t °, C0 ' Jae( i ,,eut results upon the population 
o it- island. We clip the following from one of 
our leading exchanges: 
The clerk of the weather has assuredly held no 
sinecure ollice during the present season. It has 
een his office to record changes the most rapid 
and unexpected, from storm to Runshine, and from 
sunshine again to storm. Reports reach 
break out, and he paints a silver lining f, 
cloud hanging over his country in this man 
Happily for our friends, the consumers, c 
- -.. have been D, ” r « fortunate than ourselves. 
Each and all of the journals ast re f urus from America dwell in glowing' 
prospects of the agricultural u , pou tbe loug-delayed arrival of a year of p] 
111(3 GOru cro I ,H are everywhere abundant. 
May look for largo trans-Atlantic s 
breadstuff's of all <’ 
rumor of an Intention 
prising Yankees to c:_ 
which has hitherto been 
our own, aud to stock cl. „ 
beeves, the quality of whose cc— 
positively improved by their haying 
breezes of the Atlantic. Whatever 
with the hope of getting 
brave one; all 
height of folly, 
should always be 
for the farmer-breeder'r 
height, say 1 oj hands high, short-backed, well- 
ribbed np, short in the saddle-place, long below. 
He should have high withers, broad loins, broad 
c iest, a straight rump,—the converse of what Is 
often seen in trotters, and known as the goose 
rump; a high and muscular, but nut beefy crest; 
a lean, bony, well-set-on head; a clear, bright’ 
smallish, well-placed eye; broad nostrils and 
mall ears. His fore legs should be as long and 
as muscular as possible above the knee, and his 
hmd legs above the hock, and as lean, short and 
mny as possible below those joints. The bonce 
:aunot by any means be loo flat, too clear of ex- 
tresoenceB, or too large. The sinews should bo 
dear, straight, firm, and hard to the touch, 
’roinsuch a horse, wheii the breeder can find 
me, and from a well-chmcn mare (she may be a 
'ttle larger, more bony, more roomy, and in 
very way coarser than tie horse, to the ad van- 
descriptions. There is even a 
~i on the part of some enter- 
compete with ns in a field 
‘ -—l regarded as peculiarly 
onr market with American 
-J meat will have been 
; snuffed the 
our farmers 
reoedented an invasion, Pater- 
cr wsu-r, nay and cattle have will assuredly not look unkindly unnnl 
ept away, while in some in- enterprise which promises to reduce the price of 
7 farmers have found safety meat, and somewhat to abate the present formic 
>t the stacks which they had abl ° proportions in this cardinal item i n house* 
o save. Bridges have given expenditure, 
asure of the current; broad Miuiebamp-Mcrluo Shoep 
' bcen laid flat aa if with a At the late French Agricultural Frhiuu- 
soil have been covered by a in Paris, the Maucbamp-AIerino breed of she?' 
indationB which it will take were shown, and elicited much attention fro’ !J P 
A single week has changed visitors. These, it is said originated ,-. mthe 
e country, and inflicted an »ingle animal which was gifu-d wilh t0 ™. a 
i certain districts which they properties, and, also, the power of tran P 
ng the present year. them. Concerning tLe breed ttl v* 
Ji ts from the provinces only press gives the followlnir . ane Lx ' 
I . » - -vivpo LIVOIJ. J 
1 a, *° ,n favwr of '>lood. In addition to all this 
the general constitution of the animal is calc 
lated to furnish him with greater vitality, recu 
perative energy and physical power,-in propor 
uon to size and weighr,-and, as a consequenc. 
quicker movement, greater courage, and bettei 
powers of endurance. 
Herbert, in bis Hints to Horse-Keepers, gives 
his views upon this branch of our subject so 
concisely and clearly, that we cannot refrain 
from quoting a paragraph, as follows:—To breed 
from a small horse with the hope of getting a 
large colt; from a long-backed, leggy horse, with 
the hope of getting a short, compact, powerful 
one; from a broken-winded, or blind, or flat- 
footed, or spavined, or ringboned, or navicular- 
joint-diseased horse, with the hope of getting a 
