Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-06-07
MORGANS IN TENNESSEE.
From American Cultivator.l

man says any thing about horses, find
he should be like rubber foot ball, so
that G. B. L. can kick him across the
street, and K. l.. \. can kick him back,
and do him no harm, | enclose you two
letters from Gen. Jackson of Belle Meade.
The first one he wrote Immediately after
reading the remarks of G.. b. L., in the
Turf, Field and Farm. | answered that,
telling him that had said nothing to
which he could object, and, in order that
he might know just what did say, sent
him copy of the Cultivator, containing
the article referred to. After reading the
article, he wrote me the second very sat
isfactory letter, so that G. B. l.. entirely
failed to get up a row between Gen. Jack
son and myself.
"You no doubt believed that | intend
ed to tell you the truth in regard to Nor
gan horses during our interview, and |
feel that it is due to you that | should be
a little more explicit. | was born, as |
said, in Sherbrooke, Canada, Aug. 80,
1925 (this | know, for | was there my
self, and the next spring, before | was
one year old, my father moved to Stan
stead and kept tavern on Stanstead Plain
until was ten or eleven years old. Dur
ing that period | distinctly remember to
have seen old Sherman at two different
times, and, boy as was, admired him
very mnch. heard my father say that
he was the best horse in the world, and
that was just what | thought.
~ very distinctly remember on one oc-
casion going into Vermont with Munson
Hawley, one of my fathers stage drivers,
and stopping at place where there was
a muster. | there saw an officer riding on
a horse that | thought at first was old
Sherman, but when looked little clos
er | saw that it was not. | heard Mr..
Hawley ask man who was standing near
us what horse that was. He replied, the
Woodbury. Horse, the best horse living,
and said he, who would think that he
was twenty years old?' | thought that
he was the finest and most stylish horse
eyer saw. This reminds me that I told
you that Woodbury. resembled Sherman
very much, but was more stylish. and
you got it Bulrush instead of Woodbury.
| remember of seeing Bulrush quite a
number of times. He did not resemble
Sherman either in color, form or style,
nearly so much as Woodbury. did, still
he resembled him in some points.
II know Mr.. Norcross very well. and
| have no doubt that he thinks he is cor
rect about the breeding of Lancet, but
the Hon. Portus Baxter himself told me
that he bred Lancet, and sold him to Tim
Vim, when two years old. As Mr.. Bax-
ter was partner in business with La
throp Chamberlain for many years, it
may be that they were both interested in
raising the colt.
sour Morgans here are doing finely,
especially Rancho, which is admired by
every one who sees him, and | know of
some who have been breeding to Wedge
wood that say they shall breed to Ran
by Morgan Chief, out of good Morgan
mares, that are proving a credit to their
sire, and we have one colt sired by impor-
ted SaXton, out of a fine Morgan mare.
that appears as though he would be a
record breaker, and he is a yearlng too.
Thus far this spring we have only one
fOal; she came yesterday and is a true
Morgan. We expect to have quite num-
Der yet.
''Tell the people up North to breed Just
as pure Morgan as they can. The time is
not far distant when well-bred Morgans
will command the highest prices, for if
they are not all trotters they will all be
just such horses as you and |, and every
one else, want for every day business
and pleasure driving. | find among tho
roughbred horses those that are fast are
usually the most useless animals on the
face of the earth.
81 have learned one thing this winter,
and that is never to feed horses on Hun
garian hay; it acts so powerfully on their
kidneys that if you follow it up it will
finally ruin them entirely. | would rath-
er have one ton of good honest Yankee
hay than all the millet and fancy fodder
that was ever raised. do not know
anything about your silos filed with
picked corn stalks, but it reminds me of
the statement of the man who said that a
gallon of rum would go farther in a fam
lily than 100 pounds of pork.
"B. HIBBARD.
"Two Rivers Stock Farm, Nashville
Tenn, March, 1885,"