Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-12-08
MORGANS CAN COME BACK
Hands and Weigh 100 Pounds
Haie's Green Mountain the
Type Picked by j. w.
Davis.

type PICKED by y. w.
Davis.
The following excellent letter is from
j. w. Davis of Fairlee, Vt. The writer
remembers becoming first acquainted
with Mr.. Davis in the legislature many
years ago, and had the pleasure of
finding him again member last fall:
j. w. Davis of Fairlee, VT, lifelong
student of the famous family of Morgan
horses, paid recent visit to the govern
ment experiment farm at Weybridge,
and he has since written some interest
ing observations concerning it. "Some
very unkind things have been said about
the stallion General Gates, some that |
think might better have been omitted, -
writes Mr.. Davis. "To say the least, his
sire, Denning Allen, must have been a
good Morgan horse and good sire. OF
course the stallion Frank Bump sold at
auction at the Vermont State Fair was
not a great advertisement for his sire
General Gates, and, as he brought only
about $3.50, perhaps his purchasers will
not accuse US of attempted libel if we
say that, compared with Scotland and
others we have seen by the same sire,
Frank Bump is in our opinion decidedly
the cheapest one of the Gates family
we have yet seen exhibited.
Such a stallion as Red Oak at the farm,
dam Marguerite, by Whits River Nor
gan, I'd dam by son of Plato, by Black
Hawk, Bird dam by Churchill Horse, son
of Black Hawk (the dam of Churchill
Horse by Clifford Morgan), appears to
indicate that there is nothing in the
blood or individuality of General Gates
to make even our government ashamed
of his produce from nice Morgan mares,
and the weanlings, yearlings and others
at the farm from Morgan mares are
lot that any individual might well be
proud to own.
The government farm is in situation
to do strong work along Morgan lines,
as they send some of their mares to out
side Morgan stations, and have brood
mares of different strains of the real
Morgan blood. At least two of them
are strong in the blood of the
NOTED PETERS STRAIN
which it is probable has been kept
stronger in the original type and blood
than any other branch of the family.
Maggie, by Ethan Allen 2nd peters, is
away from the farm at Dubois, Penn.
being bred to the noted Bob Morgan,
son of the same Ethan Allen I'd, and if
she produces by that sire the farm will
have something that we should expect
would suit the fellows who are crying
for the small horse of the original Justin
type.
The writer is very familiar with the
Peters family of horses, having known
them in the height of their glory, and
remembers when almost every farm in
the vicinity of the Peters home had a
flock of merino sheep, and almost every
flock of merino sheep had wintered and
summered with it several "Peters
colts. " The writer, like others inclined
to "speak out, frequently gets the
laugh on himself, and he got it at the
farm several times.
As the door of one of the weanling
pens was opened, the writer's mouth also
flew open with the exclamation, "a real
little Peters - Then Mr.. Peck and Mr..
Hammond laughed, and when asked
what they We're laughing at replied:
"You are only guessing, but this is
Drum Major, by General Gates, dam
Babe, by Bob Morgan"
OF course | decided to be more eau
tious in expression, but was so soon off
guard that in the second weanling pen
spoke right out loud would swear
that was Peters if it was anywhere
else but at the Government farm, where
the critics say there are 20 Morgans,
and then they laughed again and said,
THAT is Duke, by Red Oak, dam
Maggie, by Peters Ethan 3D. But now
let US show you another for you to guess
on" and guess he is good one, a
bundle of nerves, beauty and