Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-06-14
concluded from last week.
THE MORGAN HORSE.
WHAT ONE OF HIS oLD-TiME FRIENDS
SAYS OF HIS GREAT MERITS AND
USEFULNESS.

Frank II. Dunton in Horse Review

The time of the first domestication of
the horse undoubtedly antedates his APP
pearance in northern Asia. Possibly he
may have first come into the possession
of the Tartar tribes; but if he did, he
quickly passed over Asia and Europe
and very shortly became the servant of
the Arvan and Semitic. But, of all the
wide range of species which have been
domesticatcd and won the companion
ship of man. none so completely supple
ments the human body, making him fit
for great and noble deeds, as the horse.
And it is the most fortunate circumstance
that ne came to us with such high
measure of ability as to fall into such a
variety of uses. If the reader is curious
to see with what esteem the horse IS held
by the ancients, he should read the story
of the campaigns of Hannibal against the
Romans in Italy. The horses memory
is of such high character that 1t is not
difficult to teach him many valuable
lessons. which he will retain all his life
Indeed, he is easily taught to execute
movements that are decidedly cOmpli-
Gated. For example: Ilale's Green
Mountain Morgan was one of the finest,
if not the best. saddle horse that ever
wore shoe, and was always in great
request on general muster days in Mas
sachusetts. In fact besides his magni-
ticent appearance, he became so CONVEX
SAINT with the order of the parade that on
one occasion the commanding officer, the
better to show Green Mountain oil, took
off his bride and rode the horse in his
evolutions for fully one-half an hour in
the general and regular parade, the horse
seeming to know his place as well as his
rider. And while am on the subject of
Green Mountain Morgan | will add one
more word of praise to what has already
been said. On one of these general mus
ter days Green Mountain cast forward
shoe early in the commencement of the
parade, and his rider became alarmed
over the situation lest the horse would
be ruined. The parade was already
formed, and dislikng to rest his COM
Ilduu Willie llt OlSC was lNSllOhs ilC
sent a messenger for Mr.. Hale, the owner
of Green Mountain. to learn his wish.
500 ahead with the parade - replied MIR.
Hale, and the result was that the horse
was ridden for hours and hours over the
stone pavements of the city. and was re-
turned to his owner without so much as
crack in his tough gray honf.
Were it not that there are so many
young readers of your paper, should
consider it a waste of words to write of
the many excellences of the Justly IA
nous family of Morgan horses.
That the horse partakes, IN a large
measure, of the conditions of the country
in which he is bred, no one need doubt.
Even NeuOphOn, in his treatise on the
horse, advised that he be reared on stony
ground, he having observed that horses
became more or less adapted to the con-
ditions of the country in which he was
bred. Therefore, we can easily account
for the toughness of the hOOf of Green
Mountain Morgan, being bred and raised
land. So far as | can learn, it was not
until the fourth century of our era that
the iron horse shoe was invented; ana it
appears to have originated with the
Greeks or Romans, and probably with
the former, for 1t bore the name of
"selene" from its likeness to the crescent
of the new moon.
l,have spun this letter out to much
greater length than was originally in
tended, and if the reader finds it too long
he is at liberty to cut off at any point he
may choose; or, if he finds it too prosy,
he is welcome to discard it at any place.
And vet, let us remember that not a few
of us go through the world like ghosts,
We have eyes and see not, ears and
hear not. minds but do not com
prehend.n There are but seven notes
in the scale of music, and yet what
vast enterprise it contains, What
science brings so much out of so little?
Out of these few elements a great master
may create his new world. Out of these
divine attributes there comes something
besides themselves. SO the breeding
OF the horse. Out of little, much may
come, if progress is made. There must
be a turning to account of every muscle,
bone and nerve in the body. We must
breed in-and-in until the horses blood
will hold its own through many wan
behring's and devious windings with
foreign blood. Breed him until he be-
comes like the race of leaves, that when
one falls, another comes to take its place.
Not all of the broad evenues to fame in
horse breeding are hedged up.