The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-07-11

tnem tnan he docs Tor The produce OF
Patchen stations, and gets more for them
than he does for the others, and then
publishes to The world what he has sold
Patchens FOR, ignoring what Morgans
he has sold, and still persists In advis-
ing the farmers of this section to use
his stations because their produce is
more saleable and brings better prices
than the produce of the Morgan stall
lions, we think his acts are more USE
full 20 us when we are making up our
judgment in horse breeding than his
advice; and we can very easily sec why,
from his standpoint that every one
must be. affected in his advice by his pc
cuniary interest, it is not safe for
lis to rely upon his advice and publish
cd experience in making up our jndg-
ment in horse breeding.
Col. Stowell accuses us of letting
our zeal run away with our caution,
that we have been misinformcd as to
the unsaleable Patchen colts left in
Cornwall. We can buy a seycn-ycsr-
old bay, sired by Mambrin0 fatchen,
in Cornwall for $50, or could within a
week, little moro than ope-third of
what we got for our insignificant Lam
bert at younger age, and we know OF
some others that can be bought for
much less than $3.50. Can we afford TO
take Col. Stowell's advice and rely up
up his experience when he makes such
use of facts as these? We do not accuse
Col. Stowell of doing any thing wrong
in buying horses out of his own family,
but we do object in the name ofowners,
breeders and believers in Morgan hors-
es, in his vilifying them as insignificant
failures, and unstable, and through
Wallace's Monthly so decrying and de-
preciating the property of others while
he himself is paying more for them and
selling them for more money than he is
those of his own family.
Again, we object to Col. Stowell's
whining about our attacking him cruel
ly when we appear in the defence of
Morgan stations and expose the alb
surdity of his claims, and show facts to
prove that his attacks upon those same
stations are not borne out.
We object to his disposing of our ar
gumcnts and facts as he does. When
we call upon him to furnish list of
the remarkable horses of Handle tonian
descent bred in Vermont that he claims
have given Vermont better reputation
than her Morgan Stations, we object
to his furnishing list of what their
"sisters and their cousins and their
aunts" bred outside of Vermont have
done, and ignoring our call for the per-
fornances Of those bred within the
state. And in this connection we would
also ask Col Stowell to furnish list
of stations bred in Vermont sired by
the Henry, Hambletonian, Clay or Pat
chen Stations that have ever gone out
from her borders to spread the fame
and perpetuate the excellence of Ver-
mont horses, that has the least chance
for show beside hundreds OF thous-
ands of those sired by Morgan stations.
He does not furnish these lists, nor the
details of his own sales, because he
will show that he cannot maintain his
arguments, theories or assertions by
them.
We furnish list of actual sales OF the
produce of tive stations standing in his
own county and every one sired at
home (not stretching from Canada line
to Boston as he asserts), and give de-
tail of names, prices, etc. We object
10 his disposing of these unanswerable
facts by claiming he has sold twenty
one or twenty-five within two years for
nearly ten thousand dollars without
giving us list of the breeders of these
horses, their sires, and the prices receiv-
ed for each. When he has furnished
these details one can tell how much of
that Ten thousand dollars should be
credited to the support of his theories
and how much 10 ours. We object to
his selecting out the best of the produce
of Morgan stations and claiming them
as arguments TO support his own theo-
ries and leaving the poorest and the
unsound and unsaleable Patchens for us
to sustain ours, though we can afford
to take Ella Doe, as her breeder has
been offered $4,000 for her. We object
to bis asserting that we alluded to CERTAIN
tables in an unfair way, then pretend
ing TO give those tables in full, but leay-
ing out the heading of the Messenger
family so as to make it look as if they
belonged in the Bashaw family. The
tables in Wallace's Monthly classified
the trotting horses that made 2.3O or
better during the year 1878 into three
families, namely, the Messenger family,
which includes the Hambletonians,
Mambrinos, ETC., the Morgan family,
including Vermont Black Hawks, Ethan
Aliens, Lamberts, Morril,s, etc., the
Bashaw family, including the Clays,
Patchens, Long Island Black Hawks etc.
These tables also add three other groups
but these are not material for our pres
ent purpose. Of course, if Col. Stowcll
puts the Messenger family with its
eighty-six horses along with the Basbaw
family with its twenty-six horses, they
ouinumber the Morgan family, that had
forty-nine horses in the tables, but the
tables classify the Messenger family as
first, the Morgans as second and the
Bashaws as third. Now, how Col.
S'owell gets his authority for classify
mg the Bashaw family with the Mes
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