. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 12 THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN [Saturday, August 10, 1907. THE FARM THE MORGAN TYPE. SOMETHING ABOUT MILK VEINS AND THE UDDER. TESTING PURE BRED COWS. FEEDING EXPERIMENTS. "The Morgan type" has been men- tioned so frequently of late that it is evidently considered of great value. It refers, of course, to the old-fashioned Morgan horses, but chiefly to the or- iginal Justin Morgan, his sons and grandsons, and their immediate de- scendants. A novice is liable to get the idea that the great excellence of the Mor- gan family of horses was due to their confo
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 12 THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN [Saturday, August 10, 1907. THE FARM THE MORGAN TYPE. SOMETHING ABOUT MILK VEINS AND THE UDDER. TESTING PURE BRED COWS. FEEDING EXPERIMENTS. "The Morgan type" has been men- tioned so frequently of late that it is evidently considered of great value. It refers, of course, to the old-fashioned Morgan horses, but chiefly to the or- iginal Justin Morgan, his sons and grandsons, and their immediate de- scendants. A novice is liable to get the idea that the great excellence of the Mor- gan family of horses was due to their conformation, shape or proportions, and that by reproducing a close image of the old-time Morgan, that is, an ani- mal shaped after the same pattern, or run in the same mold so to speak, all will be accomplished that is desired, says the Horse Breeder. Practical horsemen, especially such of the old guard as have had experience with the old-time Morgans, know better, how- ever. The ocnformation of the old-time Morgan was really one of the tactors that made the family famous, and was perhaps the least important of all the many factors which, combined, made him the most noble, most useful and most valuable animal of the equine species to the farmers, the business men and the professional men of the day and location in which the Morgan flourished. There may have been other horses that filled the same exact measure- ments, weighed the same number of pounds and ounces, were of the same color, carried their heads and tails the same as the original Justin Mor- gan and yet were as unlike him as to the valuable qualities which he pos- sessed and transmitted as the paste imitation is to the genuine diamond, or iron pyrites to pure gold dust. It was the immense amount of nerve force which he possessed rather than his conformation, that enabled the original Justin Morgan, founder of the Morgan family, to out-pull, out- walk, out-trot and out-run any horse in the section where he was kept. It was
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