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the breeder who fancies he ean produce a chiss of tall, heavy 

 horses, possessed of the activity, the endurance and nervous 

 energy that belong to animals of a smaller size, will find 

 upon trial that he has underrated the difficulties of the 

 undertaking." 



Havins decided vs^hat stvle of horses can be reared to the 

 best advantage in our State, our next enquiry is, from what 

 family of horses can this class of stock be most successfully 

 produced { I unhesitatingly reply, the Morgan, and pro- 

 ceed to give my reasons : 



First, the Morgan is tlie strongest blooded family of 

 horses in the country, and can, therefore, be bred more uni- 

 formly than any other breed ; secondly, they possess the 

 grandest combination of beauty, tractability, speed and 

 endurance ; and lastly, his thorough acclimation and adap- 

 tation to our soil and uneven country, I having no doubt he 

 owes as much to our bracing climate and the nutritious 

 grasses of our rough pastures as to the blood of that world 

 renowned old horse — Justin Morgan, a description o*f which 

 I take from a work entitled " The Morgan Horse " : 



" The original, or Justin Morgan, was about fourteen 

 hands high, and weighed about nine hundred and fifty 

 pounds. His color was dark bay, with black legs, mane 

 and tail. He had no white hairs on him. His mane and 

 tail were coarse and heavy, but not so massive as have been 

 sometimes described. The hair of both was straiirht and 

 not inolined to curl. His head was good, not extremely 

 small, but lean and bony ; the face straight ; forehead broad ; 

 ears small and very fine, but set rather wide apart. His 

 «yes were medium size, very dark and prominent, with a 



