Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-02-14

deal, and possibly proves too much.
The same logic would forbid the pro-
duction of any new work on medicine,
law, mechanics or any art or science
early applied it would have enioined the
carrying of the multiplication table
beyond the twos. 1t is Il protest against
further knowledge. Now | had sup
posed that the trouble in following ped
igrees and tracing blood lines, in order
to learn the elements which go to make
great horses, with view to combining
the same anew, lay not in the multitude
of ascertained and recorded facts, but in
the uneXplored regions where facts are
set down enormously, guessed at or
confessedly unknown; and that every
one who gratutously explores this un-
known field and ascertains and gives
to the public that which was before I'M
known is worthy of the same need of
thanks due to him who causes t 70 blades
of grass to grow where only one grew
before. Intellects as yet unable to
grasp this proposition should be care
fully nursed and stimulated till they
are enabled to comprehend it.
But to return to Columbus: "When
one comes to determine what family a
given animal belongs to it is often an
easy matter to attach him to any one of
a half dozen. For instance, Mr.. Battell
claims the bay mare Adelaide as being
member of his favorlte family. Let
us examine into the matter a little. a
short study of the pedigree of Adelaide
teaches us that she was sired by Phil
Sheridan, a son of Smiths or Young
Columbus; while her dam was a daugh-
ter of Sam Houston, a grandson of
Hills Vermont Black Hawk, who in
turn was a grandson of Justin Morgan,
which breeding gives the sturdy daugh-
ter of the Canada stallion one sixty
fourth of the blood of Justin Morgan.
/ As well might we say that Abbottsford
rightfully belongs to the Columbus
family, or that Abdallah Boys glory
adds solely to the fame of Old Pacing
Pilot, or that Alcyone and Alcantara
reflect no credit upon George Wilkes
but are only bright examples of import
ed Buzzard's trotting propensities. Then,
again, Mr.. Battell claims all the de-
scendants of George Wilkes as being
personal refectors of the glory of Justin
Morgan alone. If we are to call the
Wilkes anything but IIambletonians
let us by all means style them Clays,
for Dolly Spanker was Clay mare,
and not IA Morgan"
Here are two statements made as
statements of fact: that Mr.. Battell
claims Adelaide as Il member of the
Morgan family, and that he claims all
the descendants of George Wilkes as
being personal rehectors of glory to
Justin Morgan alone. The late Horace
Greedy had summary way of dealing
with such statements. He briefly and
truly called them lies. But from what
| have observed of the mental processes
of Columbus, | am more inclined to
think he is innocently misled by the
advertised terms of admission to the
Morgan Register, than that he has de-
liberately made up these monstrous
propositions. THESE TERMS REQUIRE
THAT TIE ANIMAL SHOULD TRACE IN
DIRECT MALE LINE TO JUSTIN MORGAN
AND HAVE AT LEAST ONE sIXTY-FOURTI
OF HIS BLOOD. The mental organ of
Mr.. Columbus evidently is not of cali
bre to take in both these qualifications
at once, so he honestly supposes that
the author claims as Morgans all animals
that carry a siXty-fourth of the blood.
| recommend him to struggle with the
allowed italicsed paragraph, and earn
estly hope he may master it, OF course
the great majority of animals registered
will have vastly more than the above
fraction of Morgan blood. But the
author of the Morgan Register concud-
tracing III direct male line to the found
er of the family and not farther remov-
ed than the sixth generation, although
not shown to have any other strain OF
: lilt bIOou. IHlNs llht any Ollltl Stutl-
al rule, will exclude some horses carry.
ing more of the blood than some thai
get in; but Columbus says, ''if we are
to classify horses at all let US give the
credit to the sire This is the plau
followed in the register, and it seem:
that Columbus has no better one tC
suggest. But he SAYS. "more anon.
and possibly, after digesting the inertia
problem above suggested, he may come
forward with new plan that viii be
of interest Possibly, also, he Lay
favor us with his name.
The example of Adelaide :l9i, which he
cites, might be used to illustrate the
work being done in the Morgan Regis
ter. Little has hitherto been known OF
the sire of her dam, and here venture
to insert his pedigree as it will appear: