Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-01-13
FRIDAY. JANUARY 13, 1911.
BREEDING OF MORGANS.

the Montpelier Morning Journal of jan
uary 7. 1t was written by J. w. Davis,
the member from Fairlee:
The Morning Journal has received
from ]. w. Davis of Fairlee an inter
esting and exhaustive article on Nor
gan horses which contains much in
formation of value and which will
provide entertaining reading for all
horse owners and horse lovers. Part
of Mr.. Davis article follows and the
remainder will appear in later issue
of the Morning Journal. Mr.. Davis
writes:
Having seen several articles in va
rious Vermont papers quite sharply
criticising the horses and the work of
perpetuating the Morgans at the gov
eminent experiment farm l have for
some time had strong desire to go
there and "see for myself and be-
ing in Burlington recently over Sun
day l made a trip Monday to Wey
bridge.
do not wish to take your space for
any lengthy description of the farm,
the good substantial conveniently ar
ranged buildings, or the efficiency of
the able and genial manager, Mr.. Ham,
mond, but would recommend all who
are disposed to criticise, to first visit
the place and examine the horses.
Some very unkind things have been
said about the stallion General Gates,
some that think might better have
been omitted. 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 great advertisement for
his sire General Gates and as he
brought only about S13O perhaps his
purchasers will not accuse US of at
tempted 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.
GENERAL GATES IN HARNESS.
have never seen General Gates in
who have, that he is a nice horse in
harness, very snowy and attractive,
with nice action and movement. His
appearance in his large exercise yard
20 10 4 =.
certainly admitted that he is handsome
and the more of his colts / see the
more am impressed that he is truly a
valuable stock horse, even if he and
his colts are not quite so strong in the
little ''old Morgan blood and type as
his opponents recommend
Such stallion as Red Oak, at the
farm, dam, Marguerite by White River
Morgan, I'd dam by son of Plato, by
Black Hawk, Bird dam, by Churchill
Horse, son Of Black Hawk CHE dam of
Churchill Horse by Clifford Morgan)
appears to indicate that there is moth
ing in the blood or individuality of
General Gates to make even our Gov
eminent ashamed of his produce from
nice Morgan mares; and the weanings,
yearlings and others at the farm from
Morgan mares, are lot that an indvid-
ual might well be proud to own.
But of course the point of argument
is the reproduction or perpetuation of
the Morgans at the farm, with the
thoroughbred blood of the dam of Gen
eral Gates, also there as factor.
CAN DO STRONG WORK.
The government farm is in a situa-
ton to do strong work along Morgan
lines, as they sent some of their mares
to outside 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 prob
able has been kept stronger in its origi-
nal type and blood that any other
branch of the family.
Maggie, by Ethan Allen End pet
ers) is away from the farm at Du Bots,
Penn, being bred to the noted Bob
Morgan, son of the same Ethan Allen
End, 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