. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. California Agriculturist and Live Stock Journal. Shall We Encourage Walking Horses? fs}, ;T is hardly possible to take Tip a journal during tlie Summer and Autumn, without seeing either items or extended accounts . of what horses have accomplished in Kg trotting or niuning. We scarcely ever see accounts of their endurance in hauling loads at a given pace, or the number of miles they have accomplished in a given number of hours at a walking gait; and yet this pra
. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. California Agriculturist and Live Stock Journal. Shall We Encourage Walking Horses? fs}, ;T is hardly possible to take Tip a journal during tlie Summer and Autumn, without seeing either items or extended accounts . of what horses have accomplished in Kg trotting or niuning. We scarcely ever see accounts of their endurance in hauling loads at a given pace, or the number of miles they have accomplished in a given number of hours at a walking gait; and yet this practic- ice is of far more importance than their endur- ance at sjieed. Agricultural fair managers, who might not inaptly be called "Agricultural horse-trot managers," advertise widely the large amount devoted as premiums for trotting and running, but not a word as to horses exhibiting the greatest endurance and speed at a walking gait. Why not? " Oh, it will not draw the ; Vei-y well; if agricultural fairs are simply intended to draw that class of human- ity whose end and aim in life is trotting and running horses, and betting thereon, well and good. These is, however, now and then an indi- vidual who, while he admires the noble ani- mal at speed, very well knows that this eternal pandering to mere speed is not only vitiating the taste of the public, but is also tending to breed out other valuable traits that can ill be spared. A good walkiug horse should make, at that gait, an average of four miles an hour. How many can do it? Very few. Why so? The walking gait has ceased to be cultivated. By the careful training of ambitious and active horses, they may be made to walk five miles an hour as easily as the ordinary horse now walks three. There is no reason why an average pace of four miles an hour should not be kept up with ordinary loads through- out the daj'. In the day's travel, this would make a gain of ten miles, and the trained would have accomplis
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