Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-05-28

1t is very strange that while the Nor
gan Horse Breeder of New England as a
whole and Vermont and Maine in par
ticular, were selling their horses for
good prices as fast as they could pro.
duce them and all the country wanted
them, the breeders allowed themselves to
branch out into other lines of breeding
and ignore splendid material they had at
hand until it was pretty well dispersed
and they awoke to the fact that they
were on the wrong track. The Vermont
and a few of the Western breeders
awoke to the situation first and started
in to recover the ground lost, and they
have made great strides in the last few
years in this direction so that at the
present time buyer can find quite
few real good old style Morgans through
our State. Now the Maine breeders are
just starting in to breed the type of the
days of Gen. Knox and the Eaton Horse
and their descendants. The demand for
the peculiar kind of a horse that the
Morgan supplies is very encouraging to
our breeders and it is evident that for
many years to come the Morgans will be
in great demand.
We remember nice little Morgan
stallion few years ago raised and
owned in Addison County and raced by
his owner and breeder to a record of
2 :27d, but was so small that the breeders
would not patronize him to a profitable
extent and the breeder sold him at about
seven years of age for $50. The pur
chaser, horse dealer, shipped him West
to his farm, castrated him and cut off
his tail and fitted him through the win.
ter, shipped him the following spring to
New York and sold him at Grands auc
ton as high actor for $1,000. This was
an inbred Morgan, but the Morgan breed
got no credit for the sale as he was
simply sold on what he could show to the
public. His dam was Delong and he
was by a son of Aristos. He made great
sensation in New York and won many
prizes in the fashionable horse shows in
and about New York. If our breeders
would keep the Morgan type in mind
all the time and fit their horses and keep
them in show shape they would realize
good prices and find ready sale. Just
keep them in good shape and let people
see them and then ask reasonable
profit on the investment. The case of
the Morgan stallion above mentioned is
not an isolated case by any means.
Last fall at the New York State Fair at
Syracuse a little Mogan stallion was
shown as harness horse against a very
large field of high class horses from all
parts of the country; this was "Silver
Allen" a grandson of Star Ethan by
Daniel Lambert. He was bred in Yer
mont and is owned by Mr.. Place, Buff
falo, N. Y. His dam was by Allen, son
of Star Ethan, so he is not only an inbred
Daniel Lambert but is also an inbred
Ethan Allen and even more so an inbred
| Black Hawk rs his Cd dam was by son
of Peacock by Sherman Black Hawk
Many of our readers remember the great
showing made at our Breeders meeting
about 25 years ago by the Lamberts
through his sons Aristos, Addison Lam.
bert, Ben Franklin, Lambert Chief, Mo-
ton, Star Ethan, Thought and others.
Can they be duplicated in Vermont to-
day, to limited extent? Yes, but in
numbers, no, and yet we all know that
if we had those very same horses today,
we could sell them for big prices. Let
us turn then to the same type which can
be found on few of our Vermont farms,
notably Green Mountain Stock Farm,
Fowler, Bread Loaf, Middlebury, and the
Government Farm, Weybridge, and a
good many single individuals can be
found in many other sections of the
state. We are already beginning to
have a reaction from the automobile
to the horses among very fashionable
people in cities, and as our kind are Just
what the demand calls for why not pre-
pare ourselves to supply it. We hope our
Maine brethren will succeed IN again es.
tablishing themselves in the front ranks
AS Morgan breeders and regain the favor.
able place they once occupied as a strong
hold of the breed. We can supply them
with the necessary stations to start them
on the right lines. 1t would seem that
some of our breeders would make it a
profitable venture to exhibit their stock
at Seattle, Wash. this season. From all
we can learn their will be a big show
there and as that is very rich country
an exhibition with the goods could in al
probability sell all of his surplus stock al
good prices. An excellent law has just
been passed in Penn. 1t forbids the offer