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y) Department Circular 199, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture 
1853, and the first premium at the Vermont State Fair in 1854, as 
well as many other premiums. The Bulrush blood is probably best 
known to-day through the maternal line of Peters Morgan 405, in 
which there are two traces. Ethan Allen 2d 406, the son of Peters 
Morgan, is discussed later. 
DIFFUSION OF MORGAN BLOOD 
For many years the breed flourished. Morgans were used prac- 
tically to the exclusion of other horses in the New England States 
until a craze for trotting speed struck the country, and much of the 
best Morgan stock was then mixed with trotting blood. This 
resulted, in many cases, in the loss of the beautiful form and quality 

Fic. 1.—General Gates 666. Morgan stallion for many years at head of stud at U.S. Morgan Horse Farm 
of the Morgan and did not give the breed the reputation for pro- 
ducing trotting speed that was due it. Prominent writers have con- 
tended that the Morgan added stamina to certain trotting-horse 
families, for which the Morgan breed deserves considerable credit. 
In the early days many high-class Morgan stallions and mares 
were purchased at attractive prices and taken to other sections of 
the country, and, while a few scattering studs were bred pure in their 
new locations, many of them were absorbed by the Standardbred 
and the Kentucky saddle-horse breeds. The identity of others was 
lost, not because of a lack of ability to improve the stock in their 
new surroundings, but because definite breeding records were not 
kept, and repeated transfers of ownership occurred, 

