St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-07
Il Renfste,. of MorGa,. Rorses.

very important matter and is therefore pub
lished entire:
A stranger, writing me from Montana,
among other thing, says.
81 have read with great interest your arti
Giles on the horse, in the National LiVe Stock
Journal, with their friendly illusions to the
Morgans. Everyone will admit the superior
qualities of the Morgans. Now can not
something be done to organize the force
friendly to this grandest strain of horses that
ever existed! Something more than general
izations is needed. Horses with 1-64 or
LIPS Morgan blood can not stand much
more than out-crossing. tits necessary to
bring together Morgan strains and strengthen
the Morgan blood and reproduce the old
type.
'Vermonters are the best sheep pedigree
lists in the world, and the worst when it
comes to the horse. They have interbred
the horses of each family by itself. One
of the most noted horses now in Vermont
runs back seven or eight times to Justin
Morgan, through Woodbury., and only once
through Sherman. Let them bring together
the kindred strains, long separated, and then
we can reproduce the original, with all his
grand characteristics.
'The three noted sons of Old Justin were
remarkably alike in most of their character
istics, but were greatly unlike in some.
Cease the inbreeding, bring up the size, and
we have got the horse that is demanded
Said one man to another: "You rascal
What did you mean by recommending
such a brute to me? He broke my buggy to
pieces, and like to have killed me and my
family" 81 did not recommend the horse
to you" tYou didn't What did you do!''
81 told you that if the horse suited you, and
you wanted such a horse, he was just the
horse you wanted"
Whenever a man buys horse that suits
him, and he wants such horse, he has ''just
the horse he wants. and just the horse he
wantsn is the richest treasure that any prop
erty can be. To this enthusiast the Morgan
is this treasure, ''just the horse he wants"
He is 'just the horse they want,' for the
buggy or saddle, to more people-men,
women or children-than any other horse. l
have never paid for any one Morgan more
than the average of all 1 have owned have
sold for, but would rather have them for my
own use, than as MANY my choice of
similar number of the best horses in Queen
Victoria's stables. l have seen more Nor
gans that would tempt me to break the tenth
commandment than Of all other horses put
together But tout west'' he is curing me-
He is fast taking on size; every generation is
larger than its parents. They are fast be-
coming grand farm horses of !, 800 to 400,
sixteen to seventeen hands high, while, for
my use, all over 1, 100 and fifteen hands are
an incumbrance. But if the largest and
strongest were saved from the knife and
bred from, and generally diffused, we should
soon have the most salable horses in the
world in abundance; for there is, in my
opinion, no other cross that will so solidify
bone and muscle and add to the breadth and
weight, shorten and strengthen loose frames
gentle wildness, Gro d out vice, and pro-
mote size, symmetry style, speed and power
as the Morgan. If these facts were generally
known, they would secure these and multi
plication of the stock. How can they be
made known? There is one thing that would
teach the truth of these assertions or dis
prove them-a Morgan register.
l believe that tolerably complete register
of Morgan horses would reveal a wealth and
fulness of excellences, and a diffusion and
power of the blood that would astonish the
warmest friends of the race. Every other
register, and every history eff American
horses, reveals new and unexpected tributes
to the actual value and wide diffusion of the
Morgans. Horses represented by the advo-
Gates of other families, as of unknown blood
are often found to be Morgans.
Although rarely bred for trotting, and ex-
Guided persistently from trotting pedigrees,
it is found that very large proportion of all
trotters are of that stock And with each
candid further research, the proportion is in
creasing, e. g., list of all the sires of all the
mares that have produced two or more $3.50
trotters, places more mares to the credit of
the Morgan BLACK Hawk than to any other
sire. But their speed for a mile is the least
of their excellences. Let us separate them
out, and show them up in a class, and all
men can see whether they are worthy or
worthless. 1t only needs that this path
should be broken out for it to be followed
and become good road In breaking paths
the smallest cattle are put in the lead, and
larger ones follow and draw the load, and as
no one else starts, l will offer to begin. Let
every person who knows of one or more
Morgan horses not already registered at
once set down the chief facts concerning
such horses and send them to me, and 1 will
endeavor to get them into print in such a
way as will enable future writers to collect
and use them. If each one who desires to
own such a register will offer to pay 81 for
one or more copies in pamphlet form, when
ever not less than thousand new names
are published, the facts shall be published
whenever sufficient funds are provided to do
so with the very utmost economy. State
color, sex, height, weight, marks, date of
birth, owner of dam, owner of colt, pedi-
grees of sire and dam, progeny, perform
ance, and any other facts accessible. If pos
sible, have them published with a request for
corrections, in some local paper and send
several copies in printed form. If full par
ticulars can not be given, give any informa-
ton, however meagre, of any horse reputcd
to be Morgan, and possessing the Morgan
characteristics. The bare mention of the
sex, color, and owner of fine horse NAV
stimulate inquiries resulting in information
of as much value to our descendants as the
same, in reference to horses of our grand
fathers days, would now be to US. Send
the facts to me, at Green bridge, Mo-, and l
will preserve them carefully for the future
historian. If any who are familiar with the
facts are too old or careless to write them, let
some one who holds the pen of ready writer
at once commit to paper all the information
they possess. If some correspondent or the
editor of each of the publications devoting
space to matters of interest to horsemen
would make a similar request, the combined
efforts of many workers would secure the re-
suit desired. G. A. LEACH.
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