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take to decide whether this is wise or unwise, or whether these 

 families are any better than many others not half so much 

 talked about. But it is feared that frauds are being practised 

 in many portions of the State, by horses being represented 

 as Messenger, when there is not a drop of Messenger blood 

 in their veins ; or as Black Hawk, when neither old Black 

 Hawk, nor any of his sons or grandsons, ever saw their dams. 

 It is no difficult matter, if a horse has any pedigree, for his 

 owner to procure it in legal form, and file an authenticated 

 copy of it at my office. Then when a Morgan horse goes into a 

 neighborhood, it is a very easy matter for some one in that 

 neighborhood to make the inquiry of me whether the pedigree 

 of such a horse is in my office, and if so, what it is. And it will 

 afford me great pleasure at all times to answer such interrog- 

 atories. 



It is hoped, therefore, that all persons interested in the im- 

 provement of this noble animal will give the necessary attention 

 to the above resolutions. 



J. H. "Wallace, 

 Rec. Sec'y Iowa State Agr. Soc'y. 



No information has been received from any other of the 

 "Western States, although all means have been taken to procure 

 such ; but it appears that, in fact, nothing is definitively known, 

 no registries or records being preserved, and pedigrees but little 

 attended to, in those newly settled communities. 



In Illinois it is supposed that there exists a considerable 

 mixture of the French horse, and that in the South-western 

 States some Spanish blood may yet be discovered. There has, 

 however, been a veiy general intermixture of all breeds and 

 bloods ; and it is improbable that, until very recently, any 

 horses of unquestionably pure blood have had much to do with 

 the general stock of those States, the nearest approach thereto 

 being in all probability half-bred stallions, got by thorough- 

 breds, for the production of carriage-horses and roadsters. 



It is, I believe, generally from the horses of these States that 

 the cavalry of the United States are mounted ; and although they 

 are not supposed to be any thing extraordinary in point of blood 

 or speed, it is understood, that in making long continuous 



