Breeding Morgan Horses. 



MOVEMENT TO CONSERVE BEST BLOOD. 



This diluting and scattering of valuable Morgan blood Trent on for 

 many years with little serious thought given to it. At least no defin ite 

 collective action was taken until a comparatively few years ago, 

 when several public-spirited men, who knew personally of the many 

 meritorious qualities of the Morgan horse, made an effort to preserve 

 the best specimens of the breed. In 1906 the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture and the Vermont State Experiment Station were 

 authorized to assemble a small band of Morgan mares at the station 

 farm near Burlington, which formed the beginning of a permanent 

 project to conserve and perpetuate the best of the breed. 



Fig. 



-Troubadour of Willowmoor 6159. Sire of many young Morgans at U. S. Morgan Horse Farm 

 ( Photograph taken at end of breeding season.) 





ORIGIN OF U. S. MORGAN HORSE FARM. 



The late Col. Joseph Battell, of Middlebury, Vt, had long been a 

 great admirer of Morgan horses and had raised many high-class 

 horses of this breed at his Breadloaf Stock Farms. Colonel Battell 

 was also the founder of the American Morgan Register, a work which 

 took up the authentic recording of Morgan blood lines at a point 

 where D. C. Linsley, also of Middlebury, left off. The movement to 

 keep together the best Morgan blood appealed to Colonel Battell, 

 and he gave to the United States Department of Agriculture a farm 

 of 400 acres 2 miles north of Middlebury, in the town of Weybridge. 

 The gift put the work on a much more substantial foundation and 

 gave greater opportunity in the way of pasture and equipment for 

 the care of the breeding stock. 



