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TYPES AND BREEDS 



in the breed outside the Lambert family, where chestnut with a 

 light sprinkling of white predominates. 



Improving the Breed. — The United States IDepartment of 

 Agriculture has undertaken to assemble enough representative 

 Morgans to form the nucleus of a stud, the object of which shall 

 be the preservation of the stock and improvement in the line of 

 a more approved type, better calculated to meet modern demand. 



Fig. 90. — General Gates, at the head of the government Morgan stud. 



especially in the matter of size (Fig. 90). We are reminded, 

 in this connection, of the statement that when an. Arab exceeds 

 14—2 he ceases to be an Arab. There is reason to believe that it 

 may be necessary to sacrifice some of the most distinctly Morgan 

 characters in order to attain the desired size, and in view of the 

 active demand for cobs, which old-fashioned Morgans are, the 

 wisdom of such a course is not altogether apparent. 



The Morgan Horse Club, recently organized, has inaugu- 

 rated an active campaign in the interest of the Morgan horse. 



