. Breeding Morgan horses at the Morgan Horse Farm. Morgan horse; Horses Breeding. 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 reco
. Breeding Morgan horses at the Morgan Horse Farm. Morgan horse; Horses Breeding. 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 ; During that and more recent years exhibits were made at the Vermont State and Addison County Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Reese, H. H. (Herbert Harshman). Washington, D. C. : U. S. Dept. of Agriculture
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