4. Department Circular 199, U. 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 the breed- 
ing work 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. 
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Fic. 3.—Bennington 5693. Morgan stallion bred at the U. S. Morgan Horse Farm. Sire of fine 
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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 
Illinois, as well as in the native State of Vermont. Private stallions 
have also been liberally patronized, the whole effort being to get 
into the Government stud the very 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 U.S. Morgan Horse Farm 
descended: 
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