q Department Circular 199, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 



mares at the station farm near Burlington, which formed the begin- 

 ning of a permanent project to conserve and perpetuate the best of 



the breed 



ORIGIN OF U. S. MORGAN HORSE FARM. 



The late 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. Mr. Battell was also the 

 founder of the American Morgan Register, a work which took up the 

 authentic recording of Morgan bloodlines at a point where D. C. 

 Linsley, also of Middlebury, left off. The movement to keep together 



Fig. 3.— Morgan stallion Bennington No. 5693 A. M. R. Bred by U. S. Morgan Horse Farm. A successful 

 sire of high-class colts in the Army horse-breeding work. 



the best Morgan blood appealed to Mr. 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 oppor- 

 tunity in the way of pasture and equipment for the care of the breed- 

 ing stock. 



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." 

 During that and more recent years exhibits were made at the Vermont 

 State and Addison County Fairs. 



