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ing used quite extensively in the stud, he was finally 

 emasculated* and taken to Boston. 



MERKOW HORSE. 

 Dark bay stallion with black points, of compact build, 

 foaled about 1849, bred by Mr. Hight, of Athens, Me., 

 got by Witherell, dam, of Morgan descent. Mr. Hight 

 sold him to Harford Merrow, of Hartland, and he became 

 known as the Merrow Horse. He is said to have trotted 

 a mile on the Skowhegan track in 2.44. He is the sire of 

 the famous mare, Belle Strickland. 



KENNEBEC. 



Sorrel, or chestnut, stallion, with light mane and tail, 

 about 15i hands high, foaled in 1849, bred by Mr. Weston, 

 of Skowhegan, Me., got. by Witherell, dam by Quicksil- 

 ver. S. S. Parker, of Waterville, bought him when three 

 years old, and sold him to J. E. Thillips, and he was afr 

 terwards taken to Ohio, and owned by L. Pelton, of 

 Warren. He afterwards went to Janesv'ille, Wisconsin. 



BUSH MESSENGER, 2d. 



Dapple gray stallion, 16 hands high, and weighed 1,200 

 pounds, foaled in 1840, bred by Erancis Perley, of Win- 

 throp. Me., got by Bush Messenger; dam, a French mare 

 from Canada. Perley sold him when five years old to M. H. 

 Delano of Camden, who kept him three years and then 

 sold him to his brother, Ira L. Delano, of Canton. He sold 

 him two years afterward to Hiram Reed and Allen Lam- 

 bard, of Augusta. He was kept in Augusta five years and 

 then put up in a lottery and drawn by William Rollins, of 

 Pittston. Rollins owned him two years and sold him .in 

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