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THE AMERICAN FARMER. 



and although they have not produced animals of the very fleetest type, they doubtless justly 

 merit the very highest rank as fine-tempered, hardy, and desirable roadsters. The popularity 

 of this family of horses seemed at one period unbounded; in fact, no blood, except the thor 

 oughbred, has been more generally disseminated throughout this country, or more highly 

 esteemed. At the present time, they are not so highly valued by those whose main object is 

 speed, and who place that above all other qualities, but, as a certain writer has said 



&quot;Go where you will among livery-stable keepers or horse-railroad managers, and ask 

 them what type of horse they have found most profitable to use and wear out on the road, 

 and they will almost invariably answer, the old-fashioned Morgan. &quot; 



JUSTIN MORGAN. 



Justin Morgan was bred in Vermont, foaled in 1793, and died in 1821. His ancestry is 

 not positively known, although it is generally believed that the thoroughbred blood predomi 

 nated. The following accurate and interesting description and history of Justin Morgan is 

 given in Mr. Linsley s work on &quot;The Morgan Horse&quot;: 



&quot; 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 has 

 been sometimes described; the hair of both was straight and not inclined 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 eyes were medium size, very dark and 

 prominent, with a spirited but pleasant expression, and showed no white round the edge of 

 the lid. His nostrils were very large, the muzzle small, and the lips close and firm. 



His back and legs were perhaps his most noticeable points. The former was very short; 

 the shoulder-blades and hip-bones being very long and oblique, and the loins exceedingly 

 broad and muscular. His body was rather long, round, and deep, close ribbed up; chest 

 deep and wide, with the breast-bone projecting a good deal in front. His legs were short, 

 close- join ted, thin, but very wide, hard and free from meat, with muscles that were remark- 



