6 Department Circular 199, V. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 



The stock from the Burlington station, as well as new purchases, 

 were taken to the Battell farm in Weybridge in 1907, and this line of 

 breeding has since been conducted there. The farm, at the donor's 

 request, was officially named "The U. S. Morgan Horse Farm.'' 

 In 1908 Colonel Battell added by deed to the U. S. Morgan Horse 

 Farm another tract of land, known as the Cotton farm, which adjoined 

 the original tract and contained about 35 acres, together with a house 

 and two barns. In 1917 about 550 acres adjoining the original tract 

 were purchased, so that the farm now consists of approximately 

 1.000 acres. 



JMG. 3.— Bennington 5693. Morgan stallion bred at (lie l'. S; Morgan Horse Farm, sire of fine saddle 



types. 



BREEDING STOCK PURCHASED. 



Those in charge of the U. S. Morgan Horse Farm have spared no 

 effort in tracing the descendants of the best of the Morgans sold in 

 the early days and sent from New England to other sections of the 

 country. They have obtained stock in Kentucky, Kansas, Texas. 

 New York, Washington, Iowa, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and 

 [llinois, as well as in the native State of Vermont. Private stallions 

 have also been liberally patronized, the whole effort being to get 

 into i lie Government stud t he verv best Morgan blood in the country. 



NOTED ANCESTORS OF U. S. MORGAN HORSES. 



Short Statements follow of a few of the noted Morgan stallions from 

 which the breeding stock on the V. S. Morgan Horse Farm de- 

 scended : 



