78 THE MORGAN HORSE. 



Morgan blood. This attempt to palm off counterfeits is the 

 highest evidence of the value of the genuine blood. 



" The ready and general objection in the West with those 

 who are not familiar with the Morgans, is want of size, forget- 

 ting that their size should be judged by their weight and not by 

 the length of their legs, and that the same bodies upon long 

 legs would look much larger." 



During the War of the Kebellion in the United States, there 

 was a great demand for medium-sized horses for the cavalry 

 service, and not only the States, but Canada as well, • was 

 drained of this class, especially geldings, to supply the demand. 



Of all the mounted troops passing under the review at 

 Washington of the late lamented Gen. Grant — a great lover 

 of fine horses — none were so pleasing to his practiced eye as 

 the Vermont Cavalry whose mount consisted principally of 

 Morgans. 



The Morgan producing States, viz., Vermont and New 

 Hampshire, were during this war so completely drained of 

 their stock that in order to supply their customers, who by this 

 time had become quite numerous, they — some of them — 

 bought up light horses from the West and from Maine and 

 Canada and after acclimating them among the mountains, were 

 ready to sell to inexperienced buyers as Morgans. 



I don't accuse the breeders or farmers of practicing this 

 fraud, but charge it to the dealers and jockeys. There have 

 been so many horses, first and last, sold for Morgans, that were 

 but little, if any, akin to them, and that were so lacking in the 

 general requisites of the true Morgan, that many have been 

 sadly disappointed as to the expectations they had formed of 

 their ability to perform all that was claimed for them. 



A well-bred horse of the old stock of New England Mor- 

 gans has never yet, to my knowledge, deceived the purchaser, 

 but of course they should not be held responsible for the class 

 of horses sold for New England Morgans, whose veins contain, 

 perhaps, not one drop of the blood of old Justin Morgan. This 

 style of horse-jockey dicker has done more injury to the Mor- 



