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tendency to pace. Blood lines can not yet be drawn hard and fast 

 in Morgan breeding. We must select type first of all, and by so 

 selecting we will with each succeeding mating intensify the type and 

 improve the pedigree. If the Morgan horse is to be regenerated, 

 horses must be bred, not pedigrees. To breed horses which are in 

 themselves good requires a comprehensive knowledge of horses and 

 much more than average ability as a breeder; almost anyone can 

 breed horses of good pedigree if he has the money to buy his founda- 



FIG. 2. A modern Morgan. Stallion General Gates (666) at the head of the stud, United Slat* 

 Horse Farm, Middlebury, Vt. 



Morgan 



tion animals. The test of the worth of a pedigree is the animal it 

 produces. It follows, therefore, that a consideration of pedigree by 

 a judge in the show ring is a reductio ad absurdum. 

 Approved : 



JAMES WILSON, 



Secretary of Agriculture. 



WASHINGTON, D. C., June 17, 1910. 



[Cir. 103 J 



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