American farming and stock raising, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments . ections of the country. Tlie Morgans.—-This is a noted family of horses, of which the famous horse calledJustin Morgan was the progenitor. They may perhaps be called our oldest trotting family. 712 THE AMERICAN FARMER. and although they have not produced animals of the very fleetest type, Ihey doubtless justlymerit the very highest rank as fine-tempered, hardy, and desirable roadsters. The popularityof this family of horses seemed at one period unbounded; in fact, no blood, exce
American farming and stock raising, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments . ections of the country. Tlie Morgans.—-This is a noted family of horses, of which the famous horse calledJustin Morgan was the progenitor. They may perhaps be called our oldest trotting family. 712 THE AMERICAN FARMER. and although they have not produced animals of the very fleetest type, Ihey doubtless justlymerit the very highest rank as fine-tempered, hardy, and desirable roadsters. The popularityof this family of horses seemed at one period unbounded; in fact, no blood, except the thor-oughbred, has been more generally disseminated throughout this country, or more highlyesteemed. At the present time, they are not so highly valued by those whose main object isspeed, and who place that above all other qualities, but, as a certain wi-iter has said— Go where you will among livery-stable keepers or liorse-railroad managers, and askthem what type of horse they have found most profitable to use and wear out on the road,and they will almost invariably answer, the old-fashioned JUSTIN MORGAN. Justin Morgan was bred in Vermont, foaled in 1793, and died in 1821. His ancestry isnot positively known, although it is generally believed that the thoroughbred blood predomi-nated. The following accurate and interesting description and history of Justin Morgan isgiven in Mr, Linsleys work on The Morgan Horse:— The original, or Justin Morgan, was about fourteen hands high, and weighed about ninehundred and fifty pounds. His color was dark bay with black legs, mane, and tail. He hadno white hairs on him. His mane and tail were coarse and heavy, but not so massive as hasbeen sometimes described; the hair of both was straight and not inclined to curl. His headwas good, not extremely small, but lean and bony, the face straight, forehead broad, earssmall and very fine, but set rather wide apart. His eyes were medium size, very dark andprominent, with a spir
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