Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-03-27
MORGANs IN SOUTH DAKOTA.
concluded from last week. |

! In South Dakota is the general purpose
kind. Many mares with more or less Nor
gan blood were brought into the state in
the early days, or dating back to 1873,
and such mares have left their stamp in
varlably upon the offspring. Regardless
Of the class of stallion used, whether of
the pure dunghill, the Clyde, Tercheron
or the road horse, such colts have more
or less of the Morgan characteristics,
and the mares when coupled with Nor
gan stations are throwing just the class
of horses needed in prairie country.
Among the stations of early date
whose stock may be seen all over this
western country was Colonel Morgan.
This horse was a dark chestnut, standing
fully l6 hands and weighing upward of
1900 pounds. Old Colonies Morgan
blood came all through his dam, or at
least it could not be traced in direct male
line to Justin Morgan, but his dam was
remarkably strong inbred Morgan
mare, and the dam of his sire was also of
Morgan descent, and the Colonel was
one of the most perfect Morgans ever
saw-perfect in every point. He had
the true style and action and the road
was never too long for him. Unframed,
he could show three and half clip
with two in the buggy, and his colts
have sold for more money than those of
any other horse ever kept in the State.
Matched teams by the score have been
put in the eastern market at from $500
to $3.50 a span. He was the sire of Dan
Golden, now owned by Moody (eX-U. 5.
SENATOR, and Washabaugh, and is claim
ed to be the finest horse in the Black
Hills country. Messrs. Moody and
Washabaugh paid $1,000 for Dan at two
years old and picked him up unbroken
from the range. Charlie n, another of
his colts, brought about the same
amount. as did also Newt Burpee and at
least half a score of others. 1t Is well to
not seem high to breeders of fast stock,
who have spent several times that
amount in development, yet In no case
did these colts cost ten dollars above the
service fee and the interest invested In
the dam. Raised on the prairie or buffalo
grasses of the range, they develop the
muscle and bone aud have the ambition
and style equal to any colts crowded on
OFT.
Another of of the early day stations
was Black Morgan, or registered In both
the Battell and Model Morgan register
as Malcolm. This old horse was foaled
in 'z3, the property of NJ. p. Wheeler of
Westport, Wis, and brought into this
Territory about rs. He was bred in
Black Hawk lines, being sired by North
Hawk, son of Sherman Black Hawk,
and his dam was by Fremont, a grand
son of Vermont Black Hawk The stock
that this horse left in southern South
Dakota reminds one of the stock of the
"Myrick Horse in olden times in YER
mont
Black Prince. a grandson of Ethan
Allen. has left the Morgan imprint upon
many horses in eastern South Dakota,
but the mares of descendants of Converse
Romeo, by Sherman Black Hawk, when
coupled with imported Percherons have
more than two score instance, IN this
State, left the perfect Morgan even to
the chestnut color. In size they are
somewhat larger than the inbred stock.
! hnf In frl
action, and on the road they are hard to
match.
Before closing | would like to make
one comparison, and in doing so do not
other breed of horses.
Black Prince has for years been kept
in Moody county, and is owned by w.
S. Metcalf of Egan. Standing season
after season in the immediate locality
and sometimes In the same stable was
Morning Star, son of Rysdyk's Ham
bletonan. Both horses were of about
the same age, and individually one as
good as the other; bred to the same class
of mares, in fact frequently to the same
mares, at different seasons, the stock
grown up in the same yards and under
exactly the same circumstances the de-
scendants of Black Prince, have from the
first to the present commanded third
more money than have the Star colts,
and especially is this true of the match
ed teams of drivers. Colts from neither
horse have developed any remarkable
amount of speed, but the Morgans are
toppy, fine, gentle drivers, while many
from old Star are, to say the least,a little
of in disposition.
Don G. NEEDHAM.
Crow Lake, S. D., March IS, 1896.
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