Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-03-15
MORGAN STATIONS AVAIL
ABLE.
Government Offers Free Use Of
Those at Middiebury
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Stock Farm.
With the approval of the Secretary
of War, the United States Department
of Agriculture announces the following
plan for the public service of stations at
the Morgan Horse Farm, Middlebury,
for the season of 1912.
Owners of approved mares may
breed to the stations during the season
of 1912 free of charge on the following
conditions:
Only mares with a square trotting
gait and good conformation will be ac-
cepted. PAGERS and mares with CURLY
hooks or other decidedly faulty con-
formation will not be accepted. In
view of the probable difficulty of OBJ
tanning suitable number of mares free
from draft blood, the presence of such
blood will not disqualify a mare, but in
no case will such mare be bred having
more than one-half draft blood.
Mares must be free from the follow
ing unsoundness: Bone SPAWN, ring
bone, side bone, heaves, stringhalt,
lameness of any kind, roaring (broken
wind, periodic ophthalmia Moon
blindness), blindness, partial or COM
plete.
The owner of the mare shall sign an
agreement at the time of the first SER
vice giving the United States an OPP
ton on the resulting foal at $3.50, dur
ing the year said foal is three years
old, estimating foal to be one year
old on the first day of January after
it is foaled. For the foals of mares
bred In 1912, the Government will
therefore exercise its option in 1916.
Most, if not all, of the horses selected
will be purchased for the United States
Army.
In case of death of the owner of such
a mare or foal, or in case of assign
ment or sale, the option may be as
sumed by the new owner by giving no.
tice in writing to the Chief of the Bu-
reau of Animal Industry. U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture, Washington, D.
c.; otherwise the stipulated service fee
must be paid,
If mare owner does not wish to give
the option, he may pay the stipulated
service fee in cash at the time of the
first service, which will entitle him to
service during the season of 1912, with
out return privilege in 1913.
If for any reason, and at any time
before the Government has exercised
its option. the owner of a foal bred
under this arrangement wishes to be
relieved of his option, he may be so re-
lieved by paying the stipulated service
fee in cash.
After the Government has exercised
its option, whether the foal is taken or
not, no service fee will be charged.
Mares will be booked in the order
applications are received at the office of
the superintendent of the Morgan Horse
Farm, Middlebury. In the case of the
stallion General Gates, preference will
be given to mares registered in the
American Morgan Register.
Approved mares will be given num-
Der in the Remount Brood Mare Regis
ter and certificate issued to that eff
feet.
The stations at the farm will be
available for public service during 1912
at the following fees, the number of
mares being Appropriated as nearly as
it is possible to do 80 at this time.
The stations at the farm and the
service fee, in case an option is not
given, follow: General Gates, $25;
Bennington, $40; Castor, SIS; Snoqual-
mic, SIS; Dewey, $40; Major, $40; Trou-
badour, $40.
In booking mares, owners should in
dictate first, second and third choice of
stations, so that in case the book of one
horse fills more rapidly than another, a
mare owner may not lose his opportu-
nifty to breed. Books will be opened
March Is, and no orders will be honored
before that date.
For further information, booking of
mares and payment of service fees and
charges for keep, communications
should be addressed to w. F. Ham
mond, Superintendent, Morgan Horse
Farm, Middlebury.