Vol. LXIV. No. 2885. 
NEW YORK, MAY 13, 1905. 
WEEKLY, $1.00 PER YEAR. 
THE MORGAN HORSE. 
His History and Good Qualities. 
1 he founder of this deservedly famous family was 
bred by a school-master named Justin Morgan, foaled 
at or near Springfield, Mass, in 1789, and taken by Mr. 
Morgan to Randolph, Vt., when a colt. He was known 
as the Justin Morgan horse, and after the death of 
his owner as Justin Morgan, the horse, hence the fam¬ 
ily name. He was small, compactly built, muscular, of 
perfect conformation; color, a beautiful dark bay with 
coal-black points, delicate, fine-pointed ears and eyes 
full of intelligence and gentleness. He was an eager, 
tireless roadster, his trot being true and frictionless, 
his walk snappy and rapid; in fact, he could outtrot, 
outwalk, outrun, outdraw and outstay any horse of 
whatever size ever pitted against him. His proud and 
lofty bearing and free, elastic step made him of especial 
value under saddle, and he loved to exhibit himself at 
fairs and musters. Many are the anecdotes of the faith¬ 
fulness, intelligence, docility, endurance and speed of 
this horse and his descendants which are told by those 
who love to keep his memory green. He died at 32 
years without an unsoundness or blemish 
of any kind. That he should be possessed 
of all these characteristics' was his birth¬ 
right, as he inherited the bluest of blue 
blood from two long lines of illustrious 
ancestors, tracing in direct male line to the 
Byerly Turk, with certainly two crosses to 
the Godolphin Arabian. His dam traced 
direct in male line to the Godolphin and on 
both sides he inherited from the Darley 
Arabian. 
His sons were not large, but were pos¬ 
sessed of his characteristic qualities to a 
remarkable degree, while the third and 
later generations showed a consistent in¬ 
crease in size, still retaining the family 
hall-marks. His son, Sherman, 13^4 hands, 
produced Black Hawk, who had one son 
which stood 17 hands high and weighed 
1,450 pounds. Black Hawk was sire of 
Ethan Allen and grandsire of Daniel Lam¬ 
bert. Denning Allen, champion at Chicago 
World’s Fair, was grandson of Ethan Al¬ 
len, and inbred Morgan. Woodbury Mor¬ 
gan, son of Justin, produced Gifford Mor¬ 
gan, the greatest show horse of his day. 
His son, Green Mountain Morgan— 14]/ 2 
hands—was sire of many large ones, nota¬ 
ble among which was Baltimore Morgan— 
16 hands, 1,400 pounds—sire of Joe Ren- 
nock, said by John Harkness to be the 
handsomest and best horse he had ever seen, excepting 
none. Woodbury also produced Tally Ho Morgan— 
16 hands, 1,300 pounds—from a daughter of the hack¬ 
ney Tally Ho. From Morgan Tally Ho descended 
many of the magnificent Vermont coach and carriage 
horses of the middle and latter half of the last cen¬ 
tury. The family is also well represented in the saddle- 
horse register, and an examination of the pedigrees of 
the best and fastest trotters and pacers proves that the 
never-say-die element in the Morgan blood has been at 
least no detriment to extreme speed. 
The accompanying illustration, Fig. 159, is reproduced 
from a photograph, taken at four years, of the regis¬ 
tered Morgan, Flying Star, owned by the proprietor of 
Maple Grove Farm, West Claremont, N. H., and shows 
the prepotency of the blood after 110 years. Flying 
Star is a beautiful cherry bay with small star, and in 
.conformation, action, style and disposition he is faith¬ 
ful to his inheritance. He is strongly inbred to Justin 
through Woodbury, Sherman and Bulrush, tracing in 
direct paternal line through Flying Morgan and Gifford 
to Woodbury; in fact, he is as nearly all Morgan as it 
is possible for a horse to be, and he shows nothing else. 
All his foals are unmistakably of the family. Any true 
horse lover who has never been intimately associated 
with a horse of the genuine Morgan quality and dis¬ 
position has missed something of the best equine com¬ 
panionship. If the same judgment and care had been 
exercised in the breeding and rearing of Morgan horses 
as has been expended upon the Hambletonian the result 
would have most surely proven our wisdom. It is even 
possible that a Morgan might have made Lou Dillon 
hustle for the crown. golddust. 
FOOD FOR THE FARM TEAM. 
What grain do you feed your farm team, and how much? 
What part of this is given at noon? Ilow much hay do they 
get, and do you use cut hay? About what: do your horses 
weigh, and how old are they? Ilow much road work do 
they get? 
My work animals are mules, five years old, weighing 
about 1,000 pounds. I give one gallon of oats and two 
ears of corn and all the hay they will clean up. It is not 
run through a cutting box. Grain is fed equal parts 
morning, noon and night. Their road work is one trip 
to the city each week, but during berry season it is 
every day, 25 miles round trip. They put out and culti¬ 
vate 15 or 20 acres of corn each season. The old fam¬ 
ily horse does the single work in small fruit, and some 
of the runabout work; he is of age, so he gets ground 
feed, oats one gallon, cornmeal one-half gallon, and 
all the hay he will eat. a. m. 
We keep one work team of about 1,200 pounds each, 
aged 7 and It respectively, and one driver and third 
horse of 1,000 pounds, aged 15. The work team are 
trotted but little; the driver is in harness about every 
day. We feed the work team in Winter six quarts of 
grain per day in three feeds; in Summer 12 to 16 quarts 
in three feeds, and all the hay they will eat clean at 
all times. The driver gets 12 quarts in three feeds all 
the time, and all the hay she wants at night; a little less 
morning and noon. We raise our own grain; mostly 
it is barley and oats one to two, and feed it unground 
unless fer any reason it does not seem to digest well, as 
it will when on full feed. When feeding bought grain 
we use bran and cracked corn, half and half by bulk, and 
feed according to the work from eight to 16 quarts. 
Charlotte, Vt. g. m. h. 
I feed ground rye and oats, half and half by meas¬ 
ure. When working ray horses hard I feed 12 quarts 
each, four at morning, four at noon, and four at night. 
If working very hard, I give an extra two quarts at 
night. I his I fe,ed on cut hay or straw, wet with 
hot water in Winter and cold water in weather when it 
will not freeze; also at night give them some loose hay. 
As to the amount of hay they get in the 24 hours I 
could not say, as I never weigh any, but give what I 
think they need. My present horses will weigh about 
1,000 pounds each. I have three horses 12 years old 
and a farm of 200 acres. These horses do all the farm 
work and a large amount of road work also, as I haul a 
good deal of wood to market, and have to drive 6)4 
miles each way. With this amount of feed, my team 
is always ready for business; of course, they will not 
stand much fast roading, but are in condition every 
flay for a good day’s work. I have tried feeding the 
grain dry, but I am satisfied they got more benefit from 
the grain when fed on cut hay or oat straw. My reason 
for thinking so is that it does not enter the stomach 
in such a compact form, and of course takes longer to 
digest than if fed alone. They will not drink much 
water when fed in this way. c. w. h. 
Spencertown, N. Y. 
Our horses weigh about 1,200 pounds, 
and are nine and ten years old; have been 
well wintered and are in very good order. 
They have had but little work to do dur¬ 
ing the Winter, just about enough for good 
exercise, consequently we have fed them 
but little grain. We are now, however, in¬ 
creasing on the grain ration, which con¬ 
sists of two parts oats and one part corn 
finely ground, giving them at present about 
three quarts of the mixture three times a 
day. Our work horses have but little road 
work to do. We have never fed cut hay 
to horses. Most of our hay last season was 
secured in good condition and is nice and 
bright. We give them what they will eat 
in about an hour. Hay inclined to be 
dusty should be thoroughly sprinkled with 
water a few hours previous to feeding. Our 
plan when feeding such hay was to keep 
one feed of hay wet in advance. Sprinkling 
it at the time of feeding we did not find 
satisfactory. Carrots are one of the best 
conditioners for horses a farmer can raise. 
We grow a few bushels every year espe¬ 
cially to feed our horses during the Winter. 
They are also fine for milch cows. 
Burton, Mich. e. d. b. 
We feed to our horses corn, oats and 
hay. When at hard work they are fed 
eight or nine ears each, which would shell 
At l /z to five pounds, and six to seven pounds oats. Corn 
is fed night and morning and oats at noon. They are 
given all the Timothy hay (uncut) they will eat, es¬ 
pecially at night. Weight of horses is about 1,200 to 
1,300 pounds, and they are of different ages, four to 
15 years. At this time of year we feed in addition a 
small quantity of mill feed two or three times a week, 
and later they run on Timothy grass when not at 
work. We have but little road work. w. s. e. 
Casey, Ill. 
I feed my horses from 8 to 12 quarts of grain per 
day. I feed oats or oats and corn ground. One-third 
is given at noon. They get 15 to 20 pounds uncut 
hay per day. My horses are 10 to 12 years of age, and 
weigh about 1,250 pounds each. One has gone six or 
eight miles per day on a milk delivery wagon, and 
from four to six hours’ farm work. The other one 
has her share of the farm work only. Last year she 
raised me a colt to offset the milk team work of the 
horse. b. a. c. 
Colebrook, N. H. 
During Winter months I feed seven ears of corn 
twice a day with hay. Prairie hay is all I use for my 
MORGAN HORSE FLYING STAR. Fig. 159. 
