The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-02

certain that the king of rOadsters will
be produced at this breeding farm as
they are that the clean-jowled, broad
hipped, tough little driving horse that
years and years ago made the Green
Mountain state famed for its royal
breed of Morgans belongs to them by
birthright.
Already the government experts are
beginning to do great things at Wey-
bridge. Horsemen in all parts of the
country are keenly watching for the
government bulletins which are soon to
be issued by the agricultural board on
corning the results there.
A Big Problem.
George NJ. RommelI of the bureau of
animal industry and Frederick Ham
mOnd, the superintendent OF the sta
ton, have d big task on their hands,
but they believe they have the problem
solved.
The long searched for incompatible
roadster is believed TO be combined in
the strain transmitted by the great JUS
tin Morgan and his three sons, Bull
rush, Woodbury. and Sherman Morgan,
to the 81, 200 stallion General Gates and
the present stock of thirty brood mares,
with the dozen or more handsome lit
tie colts and fillies which now COM
prise the future hope of the ideal king
royal Morgan roadster.
The success of this most interesting
attempt to give the world a perfect
driving horse rests largely with the
beautiful glossy black General Gates,
who has been installed as the stallion
breeder of the station.
General Gates has a large, rOOmy
box stall, more spacious than those of
thn MANY brood paurau in the harm gnA
he is carefully waited upon as the most
valuable possession there.
Every VermOnter who has seen this
stallion, and there are but few horse
men in New England who have not, is
still declaiming upon the great SYM
metry and beauty of the animal.
Summed up, he is an equine ensem-
BILE of perfection.
To breed Morgan horses like him
and, if il is possible, with his strain
of beauty and endurance even more
strongly emphasized. is the chief OBJ
ject of the present work at Weybridge.
More than a century Of reproduction
long ago proved that the Morgan horse
combined to the highest degree the
qualities which make the typical road
ster.
The Stallion General Gates.
Inc ttdi y pc WHICH II HON DCtllS
sought is hat of Justin Morgan. his
sons and the strain which now appears
in the stallion General Gates.
This horse is IA years old, jet black,
stands Is hands high and weighs, when
good condition, about 1850 pounds.
He carries his chin lifted high with
out check. is broad and deep-chested,
with shoulders slantine backward, rath-
er short back. round body, cordy legs
and hoofs of an oaken toughness. The
stallion was got by the famous Den
ming Allen and was bred by Colonel
Joseph Battell, Vermont's most famous
Morgan horse breeder, who lives in
M~iddlebury.
While the rugged, sturdy little Nor
gan of 100 years ago a 10 a great ex-
tent disappeared, with the infusion of
the Hambletonian and Wilkes blood in
to the Morgan strain. the descendants
of Justin Morgan have become like
General Gates and his famous broth
eT, Lord Clinton (2:0S 80. the most
priced horses i'm New England. and the
points of the Morgan type can be cas-
lily recognized, though the Morgan blood
is but a fraction of the original.
The project of Weybridge is to re-
new the Morgan type, TO so develop the
acknowledged valuable points of this
breed that finally a conformation may
be obtained that win typify all the
most excellent qualities of the breed.
Five of the government brood mares
were also purchased from Colonel Bat
tell shortly following h acceptance of
this well known breeders offer to deed
tile 400-acre farm i'm Weybridge to the
government for the purpose of devel-
oping the Morgan horse.