Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-02-10
INFORMATION ABOUT BUSINESS
HORSES.
Spirit OF the Times, ls41
Boston, Mass, Nov. 20, 1871,

Col. Jaques had Canadian stallion
standing on his farm, l called on him,
showed him the notice and requested him
to write you on the subject. He then
produced number of the Spirit for Au-
gust and September, 1899, which con-
tanned a letter from him giving all the in
formation relative to the Morgan breed
of horses and he said he would drop
line to you, and refer you to the number,
but from notice in last weeks paper |
suppose he has not done so and therefore
| take the liberty to call your attention
to it; if you refer back to your own
Times you will have no occasion to look
for the American Farmer.
We have some of the Vermont horses
bright bays-nice saddle or gig horses
here in Boston, but now we get num-
Der of fine ones from Maine. Col. Jacques
has a splendid stud called Black Hawk
on his Ten Hills Farm, three miles from
Boston, which could be obtained, pre-
sumo, on favorable terms. 1t is direct
cross from an English blood and Ca
madam.
have seen one or two nice trotters
this year, whose pedigrees can be traced
back to horse taken from an English
officer at the battle of Saratoga and taken
into Vermont.
Please excuse the liberty; 1 presumed
the information in the foregoing would
be my best apology; of course this letter
is not intended for publication, as it is
written in hurry, though the matter is
at your service to be used as you may
see fit. Yours truly, j. ID. II.
NOTE BY THE EDITOR.-We avail our
selves of the writer's permission con-
tanned in the last sentence of this letter,
and would express the wish that he wonld
frequently "write us in hurry" Sub
joined is the article referred to-:
STALLION TO GET RoADsTERs.
The following description recommen-
datory of horse is by one of the best
judges of a horse, and one of the best
horsemen in this or any other country.
Maryland is one of the last places in Gre
alton where such horse should be sold
or would meet with adequate encourage
ment as a stallion. Our citizens are
taxed annually for horses sent in from
other States an amount that would ex-
coed all belief, but if you offer them the
use of stallion calculated to get superb
harness horses, even at $40 mare, forty
nine out of fifty would send their mares
to ''barrel of corn scrub in preference.
So if you take into any of the counties a
bull that shall cost $500 in England, and
that would in any new State be encour-
aged at S25 COW, here he would not get
five cows at 81 and if you charged at all,
you need never offer for the Legislature,
especially if opposed by the book-keeper
of cross roads or public road store, to
retail liquor shy the small" and notori-
Gus receiver of stolen goods, as some of
them are. But to the horse-Bellfounde
Morgan-the price of which is $1,000.
think he possesses the best properties
as roadster of any horse ever bred in
New England. This you may think is a
strong expression, considering the many
fine roadsters we haye bred. 1t is fact
of great notorety, that New England,
within the last forty years has produced
more and better roadsters, than any 9TH
er section of this, and perhaps any other
country. 1t has been said, and | believe
it cannot be contradicted with propriety,
that there has never been breed of horses
in New England which have proved so
eminently useful as the Morgan breed.
They have often excited the admiration
of strangers, foreigners, etc. They COM
bine in great degree the properties so
desirable to New England Yankee no
tons, viz: Go to church, go to mill and
to the saddle, before the gig, to the coach
and before the pillow. They excel in
great endurance, carrying weight long
distance, noble and generous spirited,
with docility of temper that the most
timid can drive them, but if put to their
mettle they are full hand for the best
whip.
The origin of this breed of horses is as
-
follows: Sometime about 1896 to 1900, a
French Canadian horse accidentally COW
cred full-blood thoroughbred racing
mare, and when she dropped her colt, the
owner gave it to a man i'm Vermont, by
the name of Gass Morgan. At three
years old this colt showed uncommon
powers and Mr.. Shovey, the man who
broke and trained him, informed me that
he had frequently seen him run one-quar-
ter of mile in 10 seconds. This colt
was called the Gass Morgan-hence the
Morgan breed of horses. The Gass Nor
gan lived until 30 years; he was of great
vigor. Mr.. Shovey showed me super
ior horse of his get, which he assured me
was the 18th foal of the same days get by
this horse. The Gass Morgan horse was
the crack stallion in Vermont and that
vicinity for more than 25 wears. and ne