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Special Features &item to Morgan Horse Subscription Contest 2 The Brauns Family 6 Two Days (Part 1) 8 How They Raise 'Em, Feed 'Em in Falcons, California 10 the Editoti Daddy Peck 13 Horse Breeding Problems 16 How to Make a Horse 22 Farts of a Horse 31 The Flame's Trust 32 Dear Sir: Regular Features This little horse, Quicksilver, a half Letters to the Editor 4 Morgan. is just seven months old. Editor's Comments 5 The October issue had a picture of Cover 5 Names in Pedigrees 12 Gallant Lad, and since Quicksilver is The Vet Says 14 one of his daughters thought you Morgan Pictorial 13 might find her interesting. This colt New England News 20 was foaled palomino color with a red Buffalo News 23 Once Upon a Horse 34 mane—her tail had a red streak. At Stable Hints 35 the age of four weeks we noticed her mane was growing white; today, all the red is gone except a little on the ends of the hairs in the tail. She is ficers of the Morgan Horse Club really quite flashy wearing Lad's white Of stockings and strip and her white President MERLE D. EVANS Ohio Merchants Bank Building, Massillon, Ohio mane and tail. Vice-President FREDERICK 0. DAVIS Windsor, Vermont Secretary FRANK B. HILLS 90 Broad Street, New York 4, N. Y. Treasurer WHITNEY STONE 90 Broad Street, New York 4, N. Y.

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Quicksilver Publisher Otho F. Eusey for The Morgan Horse Club, Inc. Quicksilver and her dam, Babe, who Editor Sumner Rean is a western type saddle mare, were CONTRIBUTING EDITORS shown twice in mare and foal classes and winning the blue each time. They C. Fred Austin Dana Wingate Kelley Mabel Owen Russell Smith were also "cover girls" for the Farm Helen Brunk Greenwall and Garden section of the Watertown SUBSCRIPTION RATES Times. One Year 59.50 Two Years S6.50 Three Years 59.00 Yours truly, Mrs. Philip Howard THE MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE, published monthly by THE Black River Road MORGAN HORSE CLUB, INC., 90 Broad St., New York, New York. Watertown, New York Printed by The Eusey Press, Leominster. Mass. Entered as second close matter at post office, Leominster. Mass. Good for Twelve Copyright 1952 by The Morgan Horse Magazine Dear Sirs; His neigh is like the bidding of a monarch, 1 have heard that a Morgan is stiff"- on turning corners and he jolts the and his countenance enforces homage. rider. Is that true? I sure hope not, be- cause I love Morgans better than any other breed.

(Continued on Page 5) OUR COVER

The Editor's Comments

By THOMAS FAY WALSH in Professional Horseman's Association "News"

If you race or show horses, play polo or engage in any sport, you automatically become a member of a very high caste. For you can wear no prouder caste mark, nor bear a more noble appellation, than to have sportsman or woman written after your name. Three young mares looking over a barway is something to delight the From time immemorial this illustrious caste has been divided into two major heart of any Morgan man or woman. :lasses—amateur and professional and with amateur has also gone that elastic cog- So, in this period of hibernation— nomen "gentleman." from horse activities, that is—we're As neophytes the caste accepts both classes at their face value. Money, higher running it as our cover in the hopes education, or social position have little to do with it; for sportsmanship is innate, that it will give all you readers a lift something made from the very essence of life itself. and strengthen the hope that spring is just around the corner. Amateur and gentleman are not synonymous as one would think, for many charlatans have, and still use these terms as a cloak behind which to hide. An LETTERS amateur may have a professional heart in the worst sense of those words, while (Continued from page 4) the professional may be motivated by that intangible quality that stamps one any- where and under all conditions a gentleman, and there is no more splendid title I entered the Morgan Cott Contest. borne by man. I am twelve years old and have wanted a horse since I was four more than By their actions and betraying tongues one may easily recognize those who anything else in the world. I have tried "belong," and those who, despite apparent breeding and genteel background, are just about everything to get one, but outside the pale. There is no half way, you either belong or you do not. For something always goes wrong. Every once the caste mark is upon you it directs your conduct more rigidly than the night I pray that God will give me a severest taboo. It is a religion in itself. You remain a brahmin or become a pariah, horse, because Mother can't afford to your actions alone decide. For sportsmanship is an essence that cannot be diluted. buy me one as a good one costs about If tried it exposes a sham gentleman or woman. $250.00. We have a swell place to keep You are now in the oldest and most far reaching fellowship on earth, something one and Morn is hoping I can get one that embraces all nations, all people, and this means racing, horse shows, hunting, because she loves them too. She wants yachting, tennis, baseball, football, golf,—sport in all its countless ramifications. me to be a horsewoman if I want to. And the first and greatest of all your commandments is—play the game—not for I read all the horse boOks I can get my monetary gain alone, but unselfishly, for love of the sport. For once monetary hands on and tudy every night about gain, which spells selfishness, becomes dominant, it ceases to be sport; the glamour anatomy, muscle and the skeleton, etc., is sadly dimmed. until I know them by heart. I want to know all there is to know about horses Although it may provoke laughter among your friends, a inis-spoken word may and brother such names as the muscles spoil the whole day for those in the car parked near you or the strangers on the have! I have a hard time pronouncing rail, who perhaps are watching their loved ones perform. Remember there was a them, but I make out. I hope to go to time when you were green and awkard, and how a kindly sporting phrase brings one of those colleges of horsemanship fresh enthusiasm. when I am older. Play the game remembering courage is not all, for the savage beast has God won't let me have a horse till courage, and the desperate criminal also. With it must go good temper, patience I am good, so I try hard to be good so and tolerance, and the greatest gift the gods have given man: Laughter—kind He'll give me one. If I'm not lucky laughter. Play the game; uphold your individual caste with the reverence due enough to win a colt, PLEASE tell me your religion. Talk and act straight, without subterfuge or evasion. For sports- of any contest or any way possible for manship is but another name for chivalry, with all its ancient allure and romance me to get a horse free. modernized. Yours truly, Denise Stephens The laws of the caste follow you into your private life. They guide your con- duct toward your family and escpecially your servants. Here is where breeding Egg Horse meets a daily test, your attitude toward those dependent upon you, or the young Dear Sir: sters who are striving to learn the game, who rely on you for example. As I was looking at the MORGAN HORSE Magazine, I noticed that it was to be a monthly instead of a bi- monthly. As you can imagine my (Continued on page 15 ) Porriulus by Escort out of Aroloma. Headman in the Brauns stud, full of years but still getting good colts.

7e 6tattaJ aaiiitty Northwest Morgans

By SUM N ER K EA N

A pair of young mares. Bed Bess and Red Lass by Redman. Girl at right is Karin Brauns, one of the two accomplished young horsewomen in the family. Twenty years ago Barclay Brauns of characteristics. He had at that time Wenatchee, Washington, attended a sired two outstanding colts, a stud, rodeo in Waterville. Brauns, an east- Keystone out of Red Lass, a filly out erner and a Harvard man, was getting of Siskiyou Girl, and a filly out of accustomed to rodeos, but their fas- Etna. The first two are now two cination never palled. So that day in years old. Other colts on the Brauns 1932 he was taking it all in—the fam- ranch were a Palomino by Herod out iliar display of roping, pole bending, of Dawnglo who is the dam of their bull riding, bronc riding. In short. young mare, Mardy Vermont. Porn- all the color and life and noise and ulus, with Siskiyou Girl and Red Lass dust that goes with a western rodeo. has proven the best nick in the Brauns Horses were there by the score— breeding program. Two more colts Arabs, Paint and Palomino. resulted last July and both mares are But one animal took his eye. This again in foal to him. The Brauns was a high-headed, well-set-up bay, horses have excellent pasture, plenty which he later learned was called Pom• of good water and hills and valleys A Palomino Morgan foal shown just before in which to range. ulus. It was love at first sight; and he shed his light fuzz. Brauns did some investigating. He Just as the Brauns' Morgans have had never heard of Morgans but when Riders, Inc., was formed in Wenatchee progressed and gone on to win in he learned that Pomulus was of that and now has membership in 300 fam- model and performance classes in the breed he immediately cottened to it. ilies. It started as a small group and northwest, so have the two Brauns He found out that Pomulus was by grew in 1948 when a labor camp was daughters, Elsa and Karin. Escort out of Aroloma, generally of purchased. Each member who wished These girls are excellent riders and Black-Hawk blood. In his heyday the to have a stable for his animals paid what is more are horsewomen to the name of General Gates appeared three $50 for a share of stock. Old build- core. Kind and considerate of their times. The animal then belonged to ings, 20 x 100, were cut into five mounts, they would rather pass up a Harold Brail. and altered to fit a pattern. These class than overwork a tired horse. I Brauns liked very much everything were set up in a row, bordering a flat saw them both win in close competi- he had seen, everything he had heard terrain, bounded by Rocky Mountains, tion—competing with professionals, about the little horse, but an expanding to form a picturesque show ground. asking no quarter, and giving none. northwest apple business clamored for The riders are members of the Wash- As 1951 rolled to a close, Karin his time. And it was not until seven ington Horsemen's Association, which could look back on seven shows in years ago when a pair of rapidly includes all clubs in the state, grouped which she had won six blues. Elsa growing daughters were appealing for together for mutual benefit in the mat- rode in five junior classes and came horses that he gave thought to Porn- ter of publicity, shows and other ac- away with three blues and a third ulus — and Morgans. tivities. ribbon. He wrote to the Morgan Horse club In addition to the shows, the riders Barclay Brauns, who is the president for a list of breeders in the West. in small and large groups hold week- of the Pafific Northwest Morgan He and his wife and the two girls end rides along the hills bordering the Horse Club, a position he won by took numerous long trips in the fam- Columbia Gorge—some of the most acclaim last May, is keenly interested ily station wagon. The first Morgans beautiful country in the United States. in showing the Morgan in the North- were three Redman foals, Red Bess, While all this was going on, Barclay west states. Because membership in Red Lass and Etna—the last for Susan Brauns had not forgotten his first the club is so widely scattered it is Eskil, a member of the Brauns fam- Morgan love—Pomulus. The horse difficult for them to meet often. How- ily. The three fillies were yearlings. was then owned, 1948, by Hale Quig- ever, the officers of the organization Brauns also bought a red Vermont ley of Ellensburg and Brauns bought are Morgan stalwarts and do much to filly, but she was killed tragically when it. Last year when I was in Washing- promote the breed in such widely she reared and caught her foot in the ton, Brauns showed him to me. scattered areas as Marvin Jeppesen in crotch of a tree and was hanged. It Pomulus was then an old horse but Keating, Oregon; R. L. Van Pelt, Jr. was necessary to get another to re- still possessed a world of Morgan in Kirkland; Gladys Koehne in Bothel. place her, and finally a filly by Sheik Other members reside in Idaho, Wash- F out of Laydee, named Ladybelle Mardv Vermont by Red Vermont ington, Montana, and Oregon; and al- was obtained. though their effort; are widely separ- The Brauns live in horse country; ated during the year, they look for- but despite this, their accumulated ward to the annual show at Pullman, horse knowledge was meager. Never- Washington, for the big get-together. theless, father, and two daughters han- Such a family as the Brauns with dled the colts for a year before they interests of parents and daughters a- wisely turned them over to a profes- like; such a pleasure organization as sional, Bingham, who broke them to the Appleatchee Riders; and such ride and drive and taught both girls horses as the Morgans should do much to ride. Barclay Brauns had owned to promote good fellowship and good horses as a youngster and quickly horses in their corner of the country.

" came back." About this time the Appleatchee

FEBRUARY 1952 7 TWO DAYS

In two Parts

y ERN PEDI.Elt

Part On e

sometimes thought, from the western stories I've read that folks must get a mighty queer opinion of the west. The Cowboy is generally described as having "slate grey eyes." or "blue ice eyes," or "flinty eyes." he has a face Jugged as rimrock,. and is a six gun artist with no equal, killing on the slightest povocation. He supposedly is a livestock man, but spends much more time brawling in the saloons or chasing hordes of rustlers, than he does raising cattle. In contrast to these are the Sunday paper magazine section writers who say that the old west is gone, that the American cowboy is a thing of the past. They tell you that the cow pony has been replaced by the airplane and helicopter, and that the rancher now herds his cows from the air. To be sure, some of the outfits own planes to cover the long distances. or to survey the feed situa'inn in a hurrY. But I have a mental picture of a cowboy landing a plane in a bunch of rock ledges so he can chase on foot a hal dozen calves, with a ropo in one hand, a piggin' string in his mouth and a hot branding iron over his shoulder. Some branding and earmarking is still done on the range. I can see him step from his helicouter, dressed like a movie cowhc•• adjust his tie, wipe the dust from his boots, and then dive into a patch of scrub oak. With practised slcill he catches an old rnnee cow, twists her down randy with one hand, while he doctors her caked udder with the other, tripping her newborn calf with one foot and doping its novel to keep awa - r screw flies. I think of theso things and I grin, and I'm happy I know that there are many jobs to do and many places to go where the horse is still by far the most practical, and in many cases the only possible thing to use, even in 1951. Fixture some thrifty rancher moving is stock from one section of ranee to another, many miles distant. He runs the lathering cows at top speed mre after mile, spooking them alone with f-e rca! of his plane as ho buzzes down over them arain and again, rand he melts hundreds of pounds of beet from them at present prices. This of course is the same rancher who has cussed the boys out for chasing a calf horseback once in a while for roping practice. The west I see and know is a land where men even with plain brown eves and Lind faces are tough as leather from herd riding and hard work, even if t'ney've never killed a mrn or two. The,r are men with hopes and dreams, and humor. They are aood men. and bad men a-e few. The country runs from great rolling grass lands to rugrerd mountains, to snee flats and desert. It runs to strange colored wonderlands, to bad lands jumbled and broken, and to some it has a strange call, a sweet nostalgia that lives with a man all his days. In the following account I write (with participles dangling at all angles and my meaner educedien showing throttah) of twn days In the lite of an average young rancher. a tough day and a good day. It is true of him and hundreds just like him scattered through the western states. It is the west I see and know. In the half dark he checked his movement of objects, paying particular bones would crack. He wanted to leave saddle bags, then picked the saddle attention to any dark patches on the the cows, to give them to the storm up by the fork and swung it onto his ridges and the thick chaparral tangles. and get himself over the pass and out snorting "Cougar" horse, a power- He Law them then on a slope facing of the mountain. He wanted to be ful Morgan, so named for his cat- him and a good three miles away. He home with his feet in the oven, with a like action and smooth grace. As he counted them, and knew this would slice of fresh bread and butter in one snapped the latigo strap tight, the be his last high altitude riding for the hand and a Morgan Magazine in the pony humped his back and circled winter. They were all there. He other, but he stayed, and pushed, and nervously in the snow, sounding rol- thought to eat his can of beans, and moved on again. He kicked ice out lers through his nose and sucking grain the gelding, but the wailing of of the stirrup and climbed on and his belly up from the cold touch of the wind warned him on, and he rode to rest himself. He got off and the rear cinch. The man grabbed stepped up into the saddle and rode bucked snow again to rest the horse the horn and raised himself to the again. and warm himself. A cow went down stirrup, and as he swung into the He noticed the lull in the wind as and stayed, and would not be whipped saddle the pony buried his nose and he rode around his hungry cattle, and up, and he went on with the wind began to unravel, high, hard, spine in the few minutes it took to push and snow slapping at his face, and cracking jumps clear to the end of them out of the clearing they had numbing his hands and feet. He the lane, and Leo with his boots slick packed down, the air moved again with thought of an article in the last Sun- with snow was riding hard to stay a hollow sound from the north, and day paper he had seen, "Gone from on top until he hauled the pony's the snow came. Gaunt, weary cattle the western range is the cowboy and head up. He offered the pony a few moved along, balked, and filed on his inseparable horse, gone are the sincere words of criticism, and swung again whipped by the increasing wind chaps and jingling spurs, closing a in the saddle to wave to his wife, and the snow. He drove them hard, chapter in the history of the west. The outlined in the window by the lamp- knowing that time would wear thin modern rancher rides herd in an air- light behind her. before he pushed them over the pass, plane, speeding up the work and rid- In was warmer this morning, with knowing that cattle left deep in these ing many many more miles than the the wind pushing against him strong mountains tomorrow would still be cowboy of old." from the south. The pony snorted here next spring, dead. The pitch of His thoughts called for a grin, but at every step until he warmed up and the mountains grew steeper and the his cold face could not answer as he his hair laid down. Leo felt the roughness of the country increased. thought: "I wish that jasper was here good power under him, and the Cattle hunkered under the towering now with his plane trying to snake long swinging walk that rolled the rocks and ledges, and would not move. these cows over this pass." In the blue sage by in a changing endless He hollered through the shrieking same paper was a notice stating that pattern. It was good to ride this wind, he bit into their shaggy rumps all private and commercial planes morning. There was no frost glitter with the bull whip, pushing crowding. were grounded in that area due to and the snow was beginning to pack. The cows brushed up on him trying violent weather. He hummed a tuneless tune in to hide from the searching wind. He The cows turned and tried to come answer to the wind and the snow dug them out, shouldering them along by him, and the wind nearly smashed wrapped hills, and the silent moun- with the horse, up the heavy grade. him from the saddle, and in the half tains that had their pull on him He reached up with squinting eyes dark he saw the pass just above him. now as they had always done. These looking for the pass and could not He blocked the trail, forcing the weary were the things that made him, the see it through the driving snow. He cattle to face the storm. Foot by foot widening valleys, the cedar black hills felt the steady shove of the wind he crowded them up. The wind and the commanding peaks, and the against him, making him brace him- screamed over the divide in rni-rhty summer's blistering heat nor the self in the saddle. He felt the cold force, and he had to put his face be- winter's stiffening cold could not settle into him and his skin pulled hind the collar of his old sheepskin drive him away, because there was tight across his cheek bones, his body mackinaw to breath. The cattle hud- an answering call in him. It was packed itself against the cold, and dled hard together, trying to turn their him. the wind pulled the tears from his rumps to the gale. He worked fran- The white face of a newborn here- eyes, freezing them along the line of tically, feeling the cold and stiffness ford calf, the reckless play of a colt, his jaw. He knew that he would need bore through and through, and in the the feel of saddle leather, and the to get through soon. awful battle he won, and started them breath-taking action of the range The Cougar horse was glazed with down the other side. He knew he horses held him and made up for the snow, and the ice hung to Leo's chaps, ought to leave the downed cow and many things he would never own. cracking like glass when he bent his get the hell out of these mountains, He thought of the thirteen head of knees. He rode ahead, breaking trail but he was a cowboy, with all that it cows he had not yet found to tally a hundred feet at a time, coming back meant, and he went back. She was up his herd of 211. He watched the to push the dead-weary cattle on, and still down, no more than two hundred bunching shoulder muscles of his even in the paralyzing cold he worried feet below the pass. He looked at her Cougar horse as he pushed steadily about the horse, knowing that he asked a long moment and said through up. and over the top of Pine canyon too much. stiffened lips, "Cow, didn't you ever in a good twenty inches of snow. The exhausted cattle slobbered, and hear about the Donner Party? They In the pass the wind pulled through the slobber turned to ice. He was tired quit just under a pass too, and mostly hard, and he dropped a little down from swinging the bull whip, he was died." the other side before he stopped. He tired from bucking the snow on foot, He fumbled at his rope, broke the put the glasses to the country, scanning helping the horse break trail, and above ice from the keeper strap buckle, and the mountains for any off color or all he was cold until he felt that his (Continued on page 24) FEBRUARY 1952 9 *

Mr.. White and Dawn Melody then a week old. Dawn is now a strapping stallion.

How the y raise 'ern and 1 7 • 1-- 1 feea em in rolsom, Calif

By WILBUR WHITE *

Mr. White with his beautiful bay mare. Shawnee also taken in 1947 with her stud foal Melody. *

10 The MORGAN HORSE Magazine reading, experiment sta- three times during the day, as a rule, is likely to develop. We put iodine on tion and U. S. D. A. bulletins, talks my wife checks the water, hands out a foal's navel at the first possible mo- with silver-haired "old" timers and a small amount of alfalfa at noon ment. We keep out of sight during rosy cheeked "new" timers influence and makes liberal use of kind words foaling but occasionally take a "peek." our way of raising colts. Any ideas and some petting. With our present mare, Shawnee, no or information are sorted over and Linseed meal is fairly well liked. trouble has ever occurred. She goes what seems good and reasonable and It is mildly laxative, a high protein exactly 340 days, foals about mid- which can be used by us are added feed and puts bloom on the coat. night and takes about twenty minutes to our store of knowledge and may Speaking of coat and bloom. Include to do it. She does not become peev- vary slightly from time to time, in also skin texture. A fine, soft, thin pli- ish with us but seems proud to have our way of doing. able skin with a fine coat (not crank us around. Strangers upset her for We do not claim that our way is case oil) is an almost certain indica- about two months. the best or by any means, the only tion of refinement of breeding. Follow- As soon as a colt nurses we clean way. Each owner must be governed ing is my belief on coat. Polish your the stall and clean the worst off the by the time available, money, abilities, Morgan's coat from the inside. I mare. During the last foaling, the love for, and understanding of their would require any breeding class only soil on her was found at the tip horse friends. judge to at least touch an animal's of her tail. At any rate we clean her My greatest shortages are money and coat in the class, and if he has to wipe skin, tail and quarters thoroughly the time. I work outside to earn a living. oil and grease from his hands after second day. An average day begins at 4:15 a.m. doing so a cut should be in order. I When about five days old the foal Two horses are curried, brushed and thought I had seen everything after will be investigating what mother is combed every morning, but one of years of showing until I watched a eating. them is always the principal friend, Percheron owner draw dirty crank We have a creep outside the mare's the senior stallion, Silver Dan. He is case oil from his truck and apply it box barn with a tiny manger and small groomed very carefully and completely liberally to his black stallions. loose grain box. We place a small both because he is kept in an inside From the time our foals are five handful of rolled oats, a pinch of box and because he has repeatedly days old they are fed rolled oats twice alfalfa, and oat hay in the box and shown his primary business in life daily. We never feed rolled barley manger and lead and coax the young- as looking after and worrying about although is has been used quite ex- ster into the creep a few times. Within me. tensively in California. Barley is com- a week he will hustle out to the creep All are fed, cleaned out and watered. parable to corn in analysis. I think it as soon as we come into the mare's The other Morgan folks have their shortens a horse's life considerably, es- stall with feed. Probably before I individual barns and corrals. pecially in moderately warm areas. It finish brushing the mare he will hus- Everytime I am with them an auto- is said to "burn them out." Certainly tle in for a drink of warm milk to matic check of their condition is in past harness days it made them wash the creep feed down. made. I find the development of the sweat more profusely, and there was From then on it's a race to beat it "noticing eye" of great value. A flash always a foul, disagreeable odor in to the creep and results in his being look indicates how their stomachs are collar pads and light harness back pads tied while the mare is finished. working and how they handle their of felt. When the foal begins his second food, whether they are wasting it or I do not particularly prefer rolled day a tiny, made to order, halter is cleaning it up and its effect on them. oats as I would rather have them put on. With the left hand I lead Is it too laxative? Does it work the cracked. But that form is not always him and with the right, slipped be- opposite way? Is the amount of mat- readily obtainable. We do not like hind his buttock, push him at same erial voided excessive, about normal whole oats. It is my contention that time saying "come" a number of or too scanty? they irritate the intestines since so times. Shortly, we make a loop of Young animals of any kind, includ- many are passed unchewed and un- soft sash cord and drop it over his ing human, are very easily upset as digested. Oats are said to be cooling hips, pulling or mildly jerking the a result of overfeeding, wrong or taint- and are a high protein feed. A good halter at the same time saying "come". ed foods, or too radical a change in bran mash is given about every ten In ten days he leads like "nobody's feed. days and sliced carrots are dropped in business" and "comes" readily. I ease We feed hay of our own growing any concentrate feed every few days. my hand under his tail and gradually mostly—about three quarters red oat We get unused carrots from our gro- work upward, at the same time say- hay and one quarter or less of home cer at a special price. ing "easy" and administering many grown, tender, leafy alfalfa. When a mare's foaling time is at pats and other mumbles. I follow A small quantity of grain is fed hand we spray the stall walls and with a very smooth hardwood stick twice a day. A handful of dry, red scrub the floor with a strong sheep under the tail, slid back and forth wheat bran is added about every other dip solution and bed it well with and up and down. I stroke them all day, and during cool weather a hand- clean oat straw. We have recently about the body and legs with the ful of linseed oil meal is added about dropped sheep dip in favor of No. 6 stick until they pay no attention to it. every third feed. pine oil disinfectant. We have this I would suggest using cotton rope all Plenty of fresh well water is kept mineral oil, iodine, and soap and buck- around them. They are well sacked before all. Dan has had a bucket et handy. We watch the condition of and occasionally given a "paper" les- set inside his stall door on the floor a mare's system very closely. I contend son. Any object is good for lessons. for eleven years and has only tipped that if the intestinal system is in per- it over twice. While I am working fect condition, little chance of trouble (Continued on page 21) FEBRUARY 1952 11. r--4

Cabell's Lexington . The"Greatest reatese"

(Thirteenth in the Series - - Names in Pedigrees) By MABEL OWENS At the end of each year, each decade, sire, with several well - known show or more later, as fresh as when he each generation, or even each century, horses to his credit, there may also be started. it is the custom of man to compile found, usually in some numbers, others All the stamina in Lexington's make- lists of greats, in all fields, from politics of his get in surrounding towns. Per- up did not come from his Morgan and statesmen, to sports and the color- haps not so well known and with con- sire however, as his dam was a top ful figures therein. For the most part, siderably less opportunity, they do sire road mare sired by old Tom Hal out the final selections give food for argu- countless good horses, well able to of a mare by the immortal yellow roan ment for months on end, like the one carry on their grandsire's name and from Tennessee, Copperbottom. For that waxes strong whenever two tho- fame, if not their own. Such a one sheer toughness and courage, perhaps roughbred breeders meet and begin to was Gist's Black Hawk 1222, concern- no horse America has ever seen could discuss the relative greatness of Man ing whom almost nothing is known, compare with Tom Hal. Bred in Can O'War over Citation. It is a truism that not even his birth year. Kept in ada, from a location in which there differences of opinion are with us al- what was then the "back country" was a great deal of Morgan interest, ways, but there does come, maybe only outside Lexington, this brown horse there is some possibility Le was of once a century, that one truly great was in very extensive use in the stud that blood, and he is so credited in the horse, for whom there is a unanimous and left a great many good sons and Morgan register. He was a dark cho- choice. At nearly the close of a long daughters, widely used as general farm colate-brown roan, a true pacer, and stock, with an occasional sale by a career, one of the greatest showmen a very nicely rounded, solid little horse. and show horse breeders of all time farmer to a city dweller who had rea- He had a very lovely head, perfectly was asked concerning his choices son to know they could trot as well as straight iron-strong legs and feet, and among the stallions in the South at work all day. However lost in time are the records of Gist's Black Hawk and an equally iron constitution, he lived that time. His answer was that there to be over forty year of age. Some of were many good ones, perhaps more his dam, the name will remain, if only that he was the sire of the colt his feats of stamina seem almost un- than there ever had been at one time believable today, as once, for a side bet before, but it had been his privilege destined to become known as Cabell's Lexington. of $100. he was ridden the eighty miles to see Indian Chief in harness and The dark bay Lexington was foaled from Lexington to Louisville in one Cabell's Lexington showing at his best, in 1863, what was to be a "vintage day, from sunrise to sunset, and with and it was his considered belief that year" for the great number of equine one day of rest, returned at the same none of the best modern show horses champions to be foaled in it. There is rate. A favorite bet his owner always could match their performance or their a local legend concerning Lexington's won was that Tom Hal could pace stamina. Be that as it may, it is a mat- sire, which, although unauthenticated, over a row of ten logs and never touch ter of record that in a short life span has a ring of practicality if not of one. Because of some of these early of but sixteen years, Cabell's I.exing- proven truth. He was bred by Dr. efforts, Tom Hal became blind, but ton proved one of the most popular Price in Lexington, Kentucky, a town even this did not dampen his enthu- horses of his day, and despite the very containing then, even as it does today, siasm for great deeds as he was fre- great handicap of being born in the the cream of the best sires the state quently driven fifteen and eighteen war year of 1863 and making his short could boast. Dr. Price's reasons for miles in an hour countless times be- stud career during the subsequent re- choosing the little known Gist's Black yond his twentieth birthday. He was a construction and depression period of Hawk for his mare are vague, when confirmed stall walker and would eat the South, he made his name a by- he could have made a wide choice. but his hay and grain on the fly unless tied word among two registries, the Mor- fable has it that the mating which was securely, yet he remained fat and gan and the American Saddlebred. to produce one of the outstanding show round until the last. He was active in The brown B'ood's Black Hawk horses of that time, was made as a the stud until his death, and he was 89 was one of the most popular Mor- part of the barter system with which thirty-five when his best son. Bald gan stallions ever to stand in Ken- country doctors have been familiar Stockings, was foaled. This horse, cred- tucky. Bred in Vermont and sired by for untold years, a part. in fact, of the ited with being the source of the gait the original Black Hawk 20, he sired payment for a new addition to a coun- we now know as the rack, was a foun- a great number of top road horses in try family. Whether it was barter, or dation sire of great repute as his the South, foremost among. them, of whether the good doctor was well daughter Queen produced Diamond course, was the incomparable harness aware of the tremendous stamina Denmark, Latham's Denmark, Jewel horse Indian Chief. He also got the which marked the get of Gist's Black Denmark and King William, four of very good sires Blood Chief 91 and Hawk; whether fiction or fact, Dr. the greatest early show sires. Of the Vindex 133, both foaled in 1863 and Price did make the choice which was golden roan Copperbottom, little need the keenest of rivals, almost from that responsible for Lexington's ability to be added, for he was one of the great moment. Whenever there is a great enter a ring and leave it, an hour (Continued on page 26)

12 The MORGAN HORSE Daddy Peek . lilt, man who died too soon

Hazel Dean Loomis

A western girl whose touching story of the almost end-of Morgans in Dakota receives her award of a Montana bred colt from J. C. Jackson.

We hope that her prize has the endurance and spirit of the animals which made so interest- ing the life of the hero in her essay.

Hazel Loomis takes over her prize. Although the colt was halter-broken only the day before., it put up no struggle when Hazel led It and loaded it on the truck. At left Hazel's father with Orange Blossom, the dam and the colt. At right, Hazel is shown with the colt and with its donor. J. C. Jackson of Harrison, Montana.

Wherever cowboys, stockmen and Eaery year Daddy Peck brought a same thing for the rest of the day. ranchers meet, you can bet there's carload of Morgan studs up from Ken- Daddy Peck never bought anything going to be some lively talk about tucky. These horses, branded with but strip faced stocking-legged sorreis. horses. Probably one of the best known a NO on their left shoulder, were The only exception to this rule was a stories told is the one about the man smoothly built and known for their stud called Brownie. Daddy Peck rode responsible for bringing the Morgan endurance. A man could travel a and drove him for a number of years. horse into South Dakota. hundred miles on a green bronc in Even at the age of 18, Brownie was That man was Charles Peck, known one day—a day began when the sun still full of spirit. If you walked up to everybody for miles around as rose until it set. to him on the wrong side while he "Daddy Peck." He settled in 1878 on Charlie Ross, a person of that vic- was eating, you could expect a swift Black Horse Creek near Black Horse inity, owned a team of Black NO's. He kick. Butte. To the east were the Standing drove them hitched to a double seated These Morgans weren't hard back- Rock and Cheyenne reservations. Run- buggy from Everts to Siem, a distance ers, but they were fast. Most of them ning between these two reservations of 90 miles, in one day. weren't broken until they were about was a six mile strip, left by the Gov- A one-track-mind seemed to be a eight or nine years old. The average ernment for beef herds to cross. This dominating characteristic of these horsebreaker, being afraid of them, was called "The Strip." Herd after horses. When I say a one-track-mind, kept too tight a rein and cold-mouth- herd crossed on this strip to Everts, I mean just that because once a horse ed them. The smallest sound would which was at that time the largest made up its mind to do something, cause a stampede among them. shipping point for cattle in the world. there was no changing it. For in- Daddy Peck was the first man to The Milwaukee Railroad stopped at stance, if you saddled up in the morn- raise alfalfa in that vicinity. Alfalfa Everts until it began moving westward ing, and it kicked or bucked. vou was something new to the ranchers again in 1907. could he certain that it would do the (Continued on page 24) scuffed ankles or shins or from calk wounds. In the December 1950 issue we dis- cussed at some length the proper foot Tito Vet Sa4j4 . . How does he stand? axis from the ankle or fetlock down- In, out or sideways. ward. The normal foot axis as seen from the side is an imaginary line By R. E. SMITH, V.M.D. drawn from the middle of the fetlock joint to the ground and parallel to the front surface of the pastern and hoof. Proper and desirable standing posi- How do such positions change the While the standing position will de- tions have long been recognized. For line of travel of the foot? Using the termine the trueness of action, the foot the amateur they can be determined by previous diagram as the standard, the axis will influence the height of action. establishing imaginary lines from var- base-narrow or toe-narrow position fav- As already noted the axis should be a ious points of the horse to the ground. ors "winging" or "paddling". In this straight line, broken neither forward In the front legs a plumb line from case the foot is carried away from the nor backward. Normally it should the point of the shoulder to the midline with each stride. meet the ground at a 45-50 degree ground, as viewed from the front, The toe-narrow position brings angle. A steeper incline results in an should divide each leg into equal hal- about more exaggerated paddling than upright foot; a flatter incline results in ves. Viewed from the rear, the same plumb line dropped from the point of the buttocks should divide each rear leg into equal halves. In judging the standing position of the fore leg front the side, a line dropped from the mid- dle of the elbow joint should hit the ground immediately behind the heels. For the rear leg, a similar line from the point of the buttocks should meet the lower leg at the point of the hock, follow the tendons downward from the point of the hock to the fetlock or ankle, and meet the ground a few inches back of the heels. Refer to the diagrams. It has already been stated that a How does he stand? tn, out or sideways. How to judge the straightness of a horse's stance. At left from the shoulde through the knee, ankle, pastern and hoof. Center, horse with a proper standing position imaginary lines show proper rear end view. will usually have true action. That is, the base-narrow position. an acute-angled foot. See the accom- he will move in a straight line, with The base-wide or toe-wide positions panying diagrams which indicate these the feet of each side taking a parallel make a horse tend to interfere, or to three types of feet. Each of the three course to the micliine of his body. clip the leg that is supporting weight types in normal for the particular in- Perfection is usually just a little out with the leg which is advancing. dividual that owns them. The foot axis of reach. As a result we can find all The toe-wide position again exag- is not broken, and such feet should be manner of deviations from the normal, gerates the tendency to interfere. Now trimmed in accordance. or rather the proper standing position, note the diagrams which show true Now, to examine the character of and also from straight true action. action and its variations. the action produced by these feet. A The more common errors in stand- In comparing paddling and inter- horse progresses by digging in the toe ing position concern base-wide and or fering, of course paddling is the lesser of the foot, flexing the ankle, raising base-narrow or toe-wide positions, let's evil. It results usually only in wasted the foot, advancing it, and replacing it define them. Base-wide is seen from in motion. Interfering, however, can fiat upon the ground at the end of the front or behind, and paces the feet too keep a horse continually crippled from stride. far apart at the ground. Toe-wide allows the legs as far as the ankles or fetlocks to be in proper position, but from that point downward the toes point outward. Base-narrow,as opposed to base-wide, places the feet too close together at the ground. Toe-narrow, like toe-wide, effects the legs from the ankles downward, so that the toes point inward. Dotted lines indicate travel course of hoof. 14 The MORGAN HORSE

In a horse whose foot meets the ground at a 45-50 degree angle. the flight of the foot describes a regular arc whose high point is at the center of the stride. In the acute-angled foot, f I the greatest height is at the beginning of the stride. Due to the extra effort I I necessary to break the foot over, the 1 horse tends to snap his foot from the ground. Long toes and added weights increase the effort and exaggerate the I height of action. The upright or 1 stumpy foot shows the opposite type 1 1 or arc in the flight of the foot. Little effort is expended in starting the stride. since there is little interference with the breaking over of the foot. The high point of such an arc falls near the end of the stride, and contributes little to style of action. Correct standing positions and pro- per conformation of legs have not been determined by fancy, but rather 1 from their contribution to action and 1 general usefulness of a horse. Legs still 0 remain the in& t important points of conformation. But until men learn to whistle at the sight of legs on a horse. toe in, toe out and straight ahead. they will not get their deserved attention!

LETTERS she lift a foot, mop or lay back her a beautiful sorrel stud owned by Sid ears. I was so proud of her that 1 Hayes of Tacoma, and out of Jena, a (Continued from page 5) put both arms around her neck and registered Morgan. The Morgans are joy was overwhelming as it is really gave her a big hug. Nimble K, a four-year old stud, and a wonderful magazine, and we would- It's Morgans for us, and someday Sunshine Suzy, a three-year old mare. Nimhle has been winning trophies in n't miss it for the world. we hope to have a couple of registered mares to keep for breeding purposes. Parade, Pleasure and Harness classes. We own a Half Registered Mor- Sunhine Suzy has won several ribbons Sincerely, gan filly, Morning Star, three•years- this year. old, sired by Corisor of Upwey, which Mrs. Wallace Dennis In our group we have several pure- we think is pretty nice. Sherwood Forest Farm, Inc. bred Morgans in our drill team. They Nottingham, N. H. are excellent horses and have proved R.F.D. 1, Epping very satisfactory for drill, parade, Matched Chestnuts shows and trail riding. Because of Dear Sir: this we are finding more people buy- I am writing for the "Colts and ing Morgans. Fillies of Tacoma," a young but strong In closing I would like to wish you group composed of 67 members under a greater New Year and best of luck eighteen years of age. During the in your great magazine. past year we have had as leaders, Mr. Sincerely yours, and Mrs. Larry Kirkwood. As they Caro'e Ann Roslie have retired as supervisors we would Tacoma, Washington like to show our appreciation to them Now an Owner for all they have done for us by giv- Dear Sir: Morning Star ing them a year's subscription to the Although I've always been a lover Last summer in a Gymkhana, the wonderful MORGAN HORSE Mag- of Morgans I have never owned one ring master yelled, "The first ones azine. until last year. In Maich 1 purchased here will get the eggs for the Egg Mr. and Mrs. Kirkwood are great Starlet de Jarnette, a full sister to and Spoon Race." Being the nearest, admirers of Morgans and are the proud Questionaire from Marianne Blick. Morning Star and I were the first owners of two beautiful matched Last September I decided to buy Fire- there and all the other horses came chestnuts. The Morgans are full brand, a six-month-old colt. rushing in on all sides. Not once did brother and sister sired by Sunshine R, (Continued on Page 23) FEBRUARY 1952 15 1 . Horse Breeamg Problems By JOHN P. HUTTON Reprinted from 1951 Belgian Review The fundamental object of any horse Count Ledudroff, in his text on As the time for birth approaches, breeding establishment should be to horse breeding, gives a table of over the lips of the vulva become swollen, raise as many sound, healthy foals as 8,300 records, in which the average dur- stand apart, and a thick mucus may possible from the mares available, and ation of pregnancy was eleven months appear in, and flow from the vulva. to accomplish such object, it is neces- and three days. Mares approaching foaling time oft- sary to breed mares and stallions whose Statistics collected by the horse de- en appear somewhat anxious and ner- genital organs are free from disease, partment at Michigan State College, on vous, and move about cautiously. Signs sound and healthy in every respect. and 167 draft mares, show that the average of colic, like pawing, walking around capable of reproduction. duration of pregnancy was 334.53 days. the stall, switching the tail, and look- Gestation or pregnancy, is the The Foaling Stall ing around at the flanks, may be ob- period extending from the time of fer- When mares foal in the stable, pre- served two or three day before foaling. tilization of the ovum until birth. paration of the foaling stall is of great Some mares act very timid for a few When pregnancy occurs, the uterus significance. The most commonly en- hours before foaling, and if an atten- enlarges rapidly to many times its for- countered infections of the genital tract dant is present in the stall, or where he mer size, the principal changes in in mares (except contagious abortion), can be seen by the mare, she seems to form taking place in the pregnant occur at foaling time, or between foal- delay the act of foaling as long as horns. The cervical canal is firmly ing time and the first heat period. possible. Attendants should make fre- but slightly increased in size, unless Much of such infection can be avoided quent inspections of mares due to foal the fetus develops equally in the two by proper sanitation during the breed- but in doing so should disturb them horns. The cervical canal is firmly ing and foaling season. The foaling as little as possible. closed and sealed by a mucous plug. stall should be thoroughly cleaned, dis- The duration of labor is only a When the gestation period ends and infected, and bedded, with clean dry few minutes in normal parturition. parturition begins, the cervical canal straw, several days before the mare is Foals very seldom live more than is dilated until it is of the same di- expected to foal; and each day up until one to three hours after labor pains mensions as the vagina and uterus. Fol- the mare foals, all manure and soiled begin. The watchman should be qual- lowing birth of the foal, the cervical bedding should be removed and re- ified to render first aid and assistance canal contracts rapidly so that a nor- placed with fresh clean straw. As soon when the mare is foaling, if such aid mal condition is regained about seven as the afterbirth has been expelled, it and assistance is necessary, or to have to ten days after the first heat period. should be immediately removed and quick access to a veterinarian, because A first, the pregnant uterus rest buried. Lime sprinkled on the stall the lives of many foals and their dams partly within the pelvis, suspended by floor underneath the bedding is an can be saved by rendering assistance the broad ligaments but as soon as the excellent disinfectant and deodorant. when indicated. Very often the nose fetus has acquired any great volume. Brood mares should always receive or a foot may be caught on the pelvic it bears the pregnant organ downward ample rations, shelter and exercise girdle, and prompt release will be fol- toward the floor of the abdomen, and throughout the period of pregnancy, to lowed by normal birth. The operator finally pushes its way forward until keep them in good flesh and the best who renders such assistance should al- it is in close relation with the liver, physical condition, whether they are ways take due precautions against in- diaphragm, and stomach. The direc- worked in harness, or allowed to run fecting the genital canal, by first tion of the pregnant uterus is longi- in the pasture field. thoroughly scrubbing his hands and arms with soap and hot water, to tudinal in line with the long axis Foaling of the body. which has been added a small amount The signs of foaling in the mare of antiseptic. The external genitals Duration of Pregnancy are more or less uncertain and at times should also be washed with soap and The normal duration of pregnancy misleading. The udder usually starts hot water before inserting the hand commonly accepted is about eleven to enlarge about three or four weeks and arm into the genital canal. calendar months. Major John F. Wall prior to foaling and gradually increases Excessively large foals sometimes re- gathered statistics from the breeding in size. The consistency of the tard delivery, and in such cases. trac- establishments in Kentucky, which udder secretion at first is watery, but tion on the front legs should be direct- showed that the average duration for later becomes more milk-like and as- ed straight back until the elbows are 168 mares was 341.49 days. The aver sumes the character of colostrum. free, then in a downward direction to- age for 38 foaling mares was 34( 1.6, When foaling time is near, the milk ward the hocks. Traction should al- and 23 maiden mares 340.8 days. The secretion may become quite profuse ways be applied when the mare is average for colts was 341.22 days, and and escape from the teats in drops, or making expulsive efforts. The upper fillies 34038 days. The period for one in a stream. Usually a few days before angle of the vulva may be pushed mare was 319 days, but the foal was foaling, a wax-like substance collects back to prevent tearing. Sometimes the very weak and small—perhaps not on the ends of the teats. sometimes in foal is born with the amnion still in- a normal duration of pregnancy. Ex- old mares that are bred for the first tact. This thin membrane stretched cept for this instance, the minimum time, there is little or no milk secre- over the nose of the foal may interfere number of days was 324 and the max- tion, and only a slight enlargement of with respiration and should be quickly imum 379. the udder prior to foaling. removed. 16 The MORGAN HORSE A weakly foal may require artificial prior to rupture, it prevents the nor- the mother, or to diseases which may respiration to resuscitate it. This is mal discharge of blood and Wharton- reduce, or render the milk flow 'dan- performed by making alternate com- ian jelly from the cord. The retension gerous. The basic principle to be ob- pression and relaxation of the chest of Whartonian jelly within the cord served in artificial feeding is absolute wall with the hands and blowing into by a ligature makes a fertile media cleanliness of all receptacles used in the nostrils. As soon as the mare has for bacterial growth. The non-ligated the preparation and administration of gotten upon her feet and commences umbilical cord, if given proper treat- the food. All nipples, bottles, and con- to give attention to the foal, it is best ment, immediately after birth, will tainers should be sterilized before each for all attendants to leave the stall seldom ever become infected. There feeding. -The food should be whole- for a time. If the mare is sweating is litee, if any danger of fetal hem- some, and free from all harmful bac- and hot from foaling, she should be orrhage from the unligated cord. teria. Cows' milk may be used raw or rubbed down with dry straw, or rub- The Fetal Membranes pasteurized; it should be diluted from rags and covered with a blanket. The fetal membranes are normally about one-third to one-fourth with As soon as the mare has completely expelled immediately after birth, or water, depending upon its butterfat recovered from the shock of foaling, within one to three hours thereafter; content. Holstein milk should be di- the outer genitals, the thighs, the in- should they be retained longer than luted about one-fourth, and rich Jersey side of the hocks, and hind legs three hours, a veterinarian should be milk about one-third. If cows' milk should be thoroughly scrubbed off with called to remove them. causes conspitation, the addition of a hot water, using plenty of soap and Lacerations little milk sugar will usually prevent a sponge. There frequently occurs during par- it. Following is a mixture that has turition lacerations of the vulva and The Umbilical Cord worked well: Cows' milk, 3 parts; vagina. If such lacerations are at all lime water, 1 part; 1 tablespoonful of The umbilical cord in the foal is so extensive, they should immediately be sugar to one-half pint of mixture. long that it is usually not ruptured given attention by a veterinarian. About two ounces at body temperature when the fetus is expelled, unless the Mares that suffer from lacerations of should he given to a foal every two mare foals while standing. Normal the vulva and vagina, or retained fetal hours. This amount may be gradually rupture of the cord, however, usually membranes, should not be bred on increased as the foal becomes older. It takes place by the movements of the the 9th day after foaling. It is safer is also advisable when feeding a foal foal, or when the mare gets upon her in such cases not to breed until the artificially, to give one teaspoonful of feet and starts to move around. Occa- second or third 'heat period after tested cod-liver oil once daily. The sionally the chorion (sometimes called foaling. various powdered baby foods have been the colt bed), becomes detached from The Meconium the uterus immediately after the fetus used very successfully in the feeding of The meconium is the fetal matter foals. They are prepared as directed is expelled, and comes away with the discharged by the new born, and in on the package and administered every cord still intact; the cord, then must the foal, normally, much of this should be ruptured by the movements of the two hours, giving about two ounces at be expelled soon after birth, but this a feed. As soon as the foal commences foal when struggling to get upon its does not always occur. In order to feet. It is usually best to let the cord to nibble about it should be given a avoid constipation and scours, it is small ration, two or three times per rupture normally, but should its rup- ouite advisable to give the new-born ture be too long delayed, it should be day, of equal parts, by weight, of foal an enema about six or eight crushed oats and bran. separated by the caretaker, but before h, v.: after birth. The enema may con- doing so, the hands should be washed Scours In Foals sift of warm salt solution made by Cause: The gastro intestinal canal thoroughly in soap and hot water, then adding two tablespoons, of common the cord grasped about two or three of young foals is very sensitive and salt to one gallon of warm water, or it often becomes affected from the inges- inches from the body with thumb and may consist of plain warm water. The forefinger of each hand, and torn apart tion of too much milk. Overfeeding enema is best administered from a the mother on too much grass, clover by tension. It may be necessary to suitable irrigator through a small rub- scrape the cord with the thumb nail or alfalfa hay, or the giving of non- ber tube. The rubber tube should be nutritious spoiled feed may change the to facilitate its rupture. After the cord lubricated with vaseline or mineral oil character of the mother's milk suf- has been ruptured, gently press out and inserted twelve to sixteen inches the blood and jelly from the umbilicus fiiciently to cause scours in the young into the rectum, while the enema is foal. A common cause is an inflam- toward the ruptured end of the stump, flowing. The enema should be con- matory condition of the udder. Many and while still holding the stump, sat- tinued until the operator is sure all foals show slight diarrhea for a few urate it with tincture of iodine. hard feces have been expelled. Hard days during the first heat period of When the cord ruptures normally, lumps of fecal material may he re- the mare, and it is commonly believed it should be disinfected as soon as moved by the finger. It sometimes hap- that a change in the character of the possible by applying tincture of iodine, pens that large hard balls of fecal mat- mother's milk occurs at this time, then after treatment should consist in erial in the colon are hard to remove; causing diarrhea. the application of a reliable disinfect- these may he disolved and removed Exposure to rain and passing from ant healing powder three or four times by enemas of mineral oil and rectal a warm stable to a very cold out of per day for two or three days. The injections of two or three ounces of doors is a possible cause. Foals may umbilical cord should not be ligated glycerine. before it is ruptured, nor is there any Artificial Feeding develop a diarrhea from eating at a very early age, such objects as feces, good reason to ligate it after it has Artificial feeding of the foal may been ruptured. Tf the cord is ligated become necessary, due to the death of (Continued on page 261 FEBRUARY 1952 17 w10 00 01 I.; New England News and Notes

By DANA WINCATE KELLEY Do you know why Vermont chased from the Windcrest Farm the Morgans are famous? As I write this '51 stud colt of Upwey Casablanca and it is now 20 below zero and my snow Starfire, who will be gelded and used covered fields have taken a half hours for pleasure riding. Speaking of Mrs. good beating under the hoofs of 12 Dakin's Junior Miss reminds me that colts and mares who have had the time this spring she is expecting to have a of their life warming themselves by foal sired by Ben Don, there is an racing around and around the edges empty box stall in the Dakin barn, and making their own natural figure just waiting for the new arrival and eights. I am dashing this column off I know be will have the finest of care, to get it to the printer by the first of not only from his dam, but from his the month, loading my car and taking owner. Janet Dakin. off for Winchester, Mass., where I have * • * just completed a winter home. A few The mailman brought me a very of the three-year-old mares in training pleasing letter from Margaret and will come with me in February. Frank Lohaus in Wisconsin, who pur- Now on with the show. Up in chased a couple of John A. Darling Doctor Bill, owned by Dr. Oliver S. Hay- Morrisville, Vt. Edwin Miller re- colts this fall. May I quote? "The ward of New London, N. H. ports the sale of a very nice yearling article in the last Morgan magazine of heads in tribute to their beloved trainer filly sired by Upwey Ben Don and BILLY ROOT was sure wonderful, No words could have better fitted out of Betty Ross to Mrs. Robert Stoner our Anna's action, disposition, etc. is Joe's life than "Well Done." of Camp Hill, Pa. who will be trained very much like your description of * * * by her son and daughter and shown as Billy Root." Pictured in this month's column is a two-year-old this summer. Mr. Miller * * • Doctor Bill, taken at the National also sold a very nice brood mare, I know of no other Morgan man Morgan show where he placed in the Duchess Ann in foal to his young stud, who made more during his lifetime stud colt class. Dr. Bill, received his Miller's Pride to Marilyn Carlson, ex- and whose recent passing leaves a name from his owner, Dr. Oliver S. cuse me, Mrs. Harold Childs. memory that will cling for years than Hayward of New London, N. H., he Lloyd Marks of Peabody, Mass. is Joseph Boulris who for 15 years help is by Ethan Eldon and out of Jemima. the proud owner of Windcrest Don- guide the destiny of the Lippitt Next year it is hoped that he will have field, a very fine son of Upwey Ben Morgans. The picture of Joe lunging a full sister, like Royalton Starlight Don and Senaca Sweetheart. At the Ashbrook at 30 years of age in the owned by Mrs. William C. Bradford National show this colt was chosen first January issue brings back memories of West Bridgewater, Mass., and then in the '51 foal class and Junior reserve of that day as I watched him and the Dr. Hayward will have a well matched champion. He is a full brother to the old stallion work together, and many pair. A recent letter from Dr. Hay- junior champion mare of the same other days that I have spent learning word states that Bill is growing every show, Windcrest Sentimental Lady. of Morgans from Joe. This associa- day, putting a lot of muscle on his Lloyd is a splendid horseman and I tion at the Green Mountain Stock beautiful chest and set of shoulders. know he will do a lot of work on Don- Farm with him and his wife have he tries to boss all the other horses. field and turn out an outstanding been one of my greatest pleasures in What he likes to do most is get near Morgan. The colt was raised, shown Vermont. When visitors arrived at the road and pose for all the people and sold by Ted Davis of Windsor, the farm in Randolph, never was Joe driving by. Literally hundreds of Vt. so busy, but what he could take time people have photographed him. They * • * to welcome and talk Morgans with plan to make him rake and work to Mr. Davis informs me that he sold those who were interested in the Lip- a light plow and do all the farm work a very good bay four year old gelding, pitt Morgans. I am sure that anyone just the way the real old Morgans did. Coca Cola, the first son of Upwey who has enjoyed a few hours with I am sure he will do this as his daddy Casablanca and sired by Don. Well Joe will cherish the memory for years is well used to the rake and spreading mannered under saddle he will give to come. As I stood with a small lime over the hilly Vermont pastures his new owner, Joyce Ellsworth of gathering of loyal friends and relatives at Royalton. Another brother, Ethan- Worcester, Mass. many enjoyable beside the grave in the snow covered son Morgan, now five years old is hours in the saddle, especially when cemetery nestled between the Green used every summer in this respect by the snow has gone and the spring mountains he loved so the minister's his owners Thomas and his son Frank- dries out the bridle trails around final words "Well Done, Life's work lin Warren in Dorsett, Vt. Their dam Worcester. Well Done" were perfectly chosen. Jemima has been used during the * * * All of the wonderful things in Joe's past two years on the pleasure ride in Mrs. Phylis Cox of Wayland, Mass. life passed through my mind and Woodstock and is daily ridden all who owns Townshend McArthur, the somehow I was sure that the "Lippitt over the Hayward farm, bareback by sire of Junior Miss, has recently pur- Morgans" must have lowered their their youngsters. 20 The MORGAN HORSE to pass from one side to another behind die is eased on. I always fold the him, place your hand well forward on off side stirrup and double rig cinches How We Raise Colts his back and slide it along to top of up over the seat and set the saddle his hips and keep it there as you pass on, not holding with "throwing" it around behind him. Teach them early on. I put reins through stirrup leath- (Continued from page 11) to "get over." When you turn him ers and drive him about the yard and loose in a box, go in with him and field several times. Before unsaddling Perhaps the most frightening things then release him and step out. You I put weight on each stirrup first by are: an umbrella and a five pound may slide your hand along his back knee, then with foot, finally raising coffee can with several 40 penny spikes and end with a word and a pat and up enough so he can see me from the inside with a rope attached to the all will be well. On the other hand, opposite side. can for the purpose of shaking and turn him loose in the stall door and Next, I tie the dam on one side of dragging. They are also partly whip slap him in and you will probably fence and the colt on the other side broken. All come at call. Sometimes and very presently develop a nasty with me. Then, I ease up and put a one will get a little "brightheaded." kicker. leg over gently and step right down That's a good time to lay him down, If time can be found at anywhere on the other side. This is done re- sit on him and discuss the matter from six months on, a back pad, crup- peatedly, remaining in seat longer each with him in a gentle but firm talk per and side checks or side reins are time. Finally, when a friend, who is a keeping him down until he com- put on. He is taught to circle. Gen- horseman, is about, we saddle horse, pletely relaxes and lies flat and quiet. erally the side check on side away friend leading him about the yard Generally the result will be that he from me is snapped in halter Dee, to and in small circles each way. Present- will roll up to a natural "lay," with keep him from coming toward me ly he releases his hold continuing to legs folded as at rest and eat grass, until he learns what is wanted. Then walk with us a few steps and then getting up only when ordered. both "dees" are snapped in and 30 moving off to one side. We teach When a few days old I begin to foot cotton reins attached, and driv- them all to pay no attention to mount- pick up feet until no resistance is ing from the ground longeing with ing and dismounting from either side. made. In fact, with the three stallions, one rope and "in the reins" proceeds. From then on it takes plenty of time when I want to look at feet I merely Recently a light bridle with snaffle and patience. point to the leg and they hold them bit and "players" was introduced. The up for me to take hold. Results are "players" are taken off the bit as soon wonderful. We never had a "kicker" a the colt is used to it and starts a The MORGAN HORSE Magazine but how they love to "taste" me). moist mouth. 1 year $3.50 2 years $6.00 When teaching a colt to allow you At about 14 to 18 months the sad-

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Morgan business is looking up a Harmony over the suburban roads little as we turn at least halfway north of the city. toward spring. Harry Davis of Williamsville has in Mrs. George Arnold of Kanona, his barn two weanling fillies, one New York, has purchased a young Morgan, by Lippitt Mandate-Vicen, FREE BOOKLET the other a half Morgan, sired by Showing our complete line of feed- stallion sired by Lippitt Jeep, from C. ing and watering equipment. Write J. O'Neill of Manteno, Illinois. Mrs. Sherimill Sunrise out of Mr. Davis' for your copy today. Arnold is one of our most enthusi- saddle mare. The two little girls got BOTTEN BUCKET COMPANY astic boosters of Morgans, and we.will loose recently and called on all the CHAGRIN FALLS, OHIO be anxious to see the new member of neighbors. No harm was done, but her family. Harry had some anxious moments. Mr. B. M. Keene, Jr. of Indian- Next month spring comes officially OATKA FARMS apolis, is holding the coming three- — even to Buffalo. Plans for an or- year-old stallion Tar Hawk for How- ganization meeting will be published Warsaw, N. Y. ard Dobler and Ben de Yound of then. Clarence Center and Akron, New Mrs. Vincent J. Rogers Pleasure Type ∎llorgans York. Mr. Dobler has purchased a of 90 acre farm outside of Akron, where LETTERS Famous Bloodlines he intends to raise Hereford cattle and (Continued from page 15) Oatka means Quality in Morgan horses. He hopes to take pos- any Pedigree session and start farm operations in The only Morgan classes that I've March. shown them in were at the Minnesota Oatka Morgans State Fair this year. Starlet de Jarnettc won the two-year-old mare class and

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Will Dr. Sam Gibson of Buffalo, our lead- accept best otTer received by Feb- ing amateur photographer. Pecos is ruary 29, 1952. also owned by Mr. and Mrs. Hess of Akron. Dr. and Mrs. Gibson own the W. J. STEICHEN, EXECUTOR good Morgan gelding Harmony Lad. 1600 E. Minnehaha Parkway Mrs. Gibson is an ardent reinswoman Minneapolis 17, Minn. and may be found any fine day driving (Continued on page 25) FEBRUARY 1952 23 Then in the dark he heard a deep The E6 outfit settled along with Two Days soughing of the wind, and felt a slack- Daddy Peck. However, about the ening of its force and knew they had year 1881 the Turkey Track, a Texas (Continued from page 9) reached the scrub cedars at last, and outfit, bought out the E6. with mittened hands finally got it knew he would need to stay here to- Another prominent ranch in this down. It cracked as the ice broke night. The cattle would huddle in section was the C7, which originated from it and was as stiff as a steel cable. the shelter of these thick cedars and around 1907 or 1908. During the first He dragged out a small loop, putting it live 'till morning, and he knew if he winter, they lost several hundred head left his shelter he would never reach just under the horn stubs on the crit- of four and five-year-old steers be- home. He and his pony were too ters head. He put a coupe of hitches done in. cause they were brought up too late on the saddle horn with the other end. in the year. The Morris Packing He stepped wearily up into the saddle He groped until he found three cedars tight together, and he crouched Company once owned the C7 ranch. and spoke to his "Cougar" horse, Seventy miles to the east of Daddy watching that the rope did not kink on his knees behind these, scooping the snow away with his mittened Peck another neighbor of his could and break because of the stiffness. The hands, until he had a bare spot on the be found, the DZ, owned by Dan good horse leaned against the load and Zimmerman. The DZ had a NO Leo spoke to him again, stroking him ground. He ranged around, breaking brittle twigs and small branches, reach- horse running with their string. This with the spurs. The great pony dug ing into the trunks of the trees to get was the only horse they ever had that in and went to work, dragging the them. He moved to where his "Cougar" had a different brand than their own. critter up the steep slope through the He was a black gelding called Hawk. feet, be- horse stood with head down and tail heavy snow for some 6fteen to the storm. He spoke to the pony Hawk was a cutting horse of the best foi,: Leo stopped him. and slapped him gently on the should- type, and he was never used for any- / le gave the pony a moments rest, er. He fumbled at the saddle bag straps thing else. Gus McDanials, the DZ's hearing him reach deep for air, then finally getting them open. He fumb- he put him to work again. Clawing top wagon boss at that time, rode led again for his match can and a Hawk most of the time. Gus was a and scrambling, sometimes slipping to pound coffee can. His hands were his knees, but always plunging up the short fellow known as "Little Gus" numb and he couldn't feel much, and and was one of the best bronc riders gr:..1e the "Cougar" horse went, never the precious moments wore away as offering to quit until he was told to. in the country. he tried to close his fingers on the Nearly all the Buckleys rode for Leo saw the great shoulder muscles small match can. He needed a fire start to quiver, felt the great heart Daddy Peck. Jim Buckley was with bad, and he allowed it would be a him for quite a few years. During slugging away beneath his knee, heard little tedious rubbin' two sticks to- the heavy sucking for breath. He slid 1909, Daddy Peck sold 900 head of gether on a evenin' like this. five-year-old egldings to the army at out of the saddle and slapped the horse He moved back to his three cedars on the neck, "Son, you sure got a lot Miles City, Montana, without one re- again, he wiped his clear space clean. jection. Jim rode with him on this of guts." He worked the lid from the coffee He got behind the cow and lifted, drive. They began trailing from Ev- can and spilled out a ball of binder erts to Siem—on the Grand River— and hollered at the horse, and the twine soaked in kerosene. He laid storm nearly shoved the sound down some of his brittle wood over it, crossed the Montana line where Mar- his throat. Man and horse worked opened his sheepskin coat and hunk- marth, North Dakota, is now located. and rested, and strained and rested, ered down low, making a complete They forded the Little Missouri, just and strained again, until the breath shelter for the makings of his fire. He above Ekalaka, and went on into Miles whistled in and out of them, and their fought down the panic as his stiff City. - lungs burned, and the man knew that fingers refused to grip the lid of his After the horses were sold, Jim this was no good in this awful ex- match can, and he put his hand under asked Daddy Peck for some money. posure. Once the cow struggled to her the other armpit warming it a few He didn't say what for, and Daddy feet, tottered ahead a yard or two and moments. Finally he got the lid off, Peck, not one to question him, gave went down again, but the man and emptied the matches onto his other it to him. When they were ready to the horse never gave in, and when hand, and with wooden like fingers, head for home, Jim had disappeared. they crossed the pass through the icy picked up several of them. He wiped Nobody heard from him or about blast, the horse was shaking from ex- them across the rough surface of his him for more than twenty years. When haustion, but still leaning against the big belt buckle and slid them under he finally appeared on the scene again, load, and darkness had come over this the ball of twine. The flame came up he was minus a leg. He had been new, easy life that had replaced the under him smelling of kerosene, and to Alaska in search of gold. old time romantic cowboy. They wal- the wood began to crackle. Tightness In 1918 army officers were still rid- lowed and slid down the other side, came to his throat and the tears of ing the same NO Morgans sold them striking the trail of the other cattle, weakness and relief to his eyes. He in 1909. and half an hour later caught up with had a fire. But people in Dakota, like people them moving slowly without being all over the United States, stopped driven, on the steep down grade. The Reminiscences downed cow was up now, moving with thinking about horses after the First the others in this easier going, and Leo World War ended. By 1924 nobody of the Past seemed to want a small stock horse. pulled the rope from her and let it (Continued from page 13) drag from the saddle horn. He stumb- Daddy Peck couldn't afford to buy led in the underbrush and went down. and quite different from the feed they range. So, when the farmers started and as he struggled to his feet he had been using. They thought it was settling that country, there were about so much richer that a good sized groaned, "Almighty God I can't take (Continued on page 26) much more of this." handful was sufficient for any horse. The MORGAN HORSE 24 Letiers Ben Quietude, was named Quietude. Fussy of me, to be sure, but Quietude DO YOU KNOW THERE IS (Continued from page 23) has long since passed to greener pas- HALF-MORGAN REGISTRY tures, and I do believe that Danis' satisfactolly serving horse owners since 1939? If you have a Half- also Reserve Champion Morgan mare. barn is in the background. My per- Firebrand won in his class also. I hope Morgan of merit write for free in. sonal interest lies in the fact that formation. entry blanks. etc. HALF. to take in more shows this year. Quietude was the dam of that brave MORGAN HORSE REGISTER 2073 I have included two snapshots. 1 little mare, Manitude, which I once land S. W. Park Ave., Suite 107. hope you can print them although owned, and who was later shown so PORTLAND 1. OREGON they are not the best. successfully by Marilyn Carlson. Yours truly, Mabel Owen is doing a wonderful Horse Magazines Marilyn Dreher job with "Names in Pedigrees." Won- Excelsior, Minn. der if she has considered making up a Per Year Sample book sometime. 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Send dime for list of many more horst, magazines and horse books. (List is sent Torchoe. owned by D. A. Disbrow, My two Morgan mares, Bonnie Ann free with order.) Hartford, Telicl- igan. and Anna Rose are in foal. Both are MAGAZINE MART, Dept. M. H. full sisters and were bred to Haven. P. O. Box 1288 Plant City, Fla. I am enclosing a picture of one of My two-year-old mare, Haven's Beau- our horses, Torchee. We purchased ty, may be in foal. If so, my yearling our horses from Mrs. Greenwalt of stud colt, Fleetwood King is to blame 0 Pawnee, Illinois. BOYT 5-STAR since they were not separated until Respectfully, he was nine months old. Riding Equipment D. A. Disbrow As an interest to a greenhorn on Hartford, Michigan English and Western saddles, bits, bridles, horse shows, why not publish an 0 spurs. Steele blankets. Girths. Cave- Long Long Way son sets. A complete line of fine article about the know-how of show- horse equipment. For free catalog, ing your Morgan. address: The Boyt Company, Dept. Dear Sir: I- Bob Travis >- 2L, l>s Moines, Iowa. The MORGAN HORSE Magazine 0 has come far since its humble be- Thurman, Iowa Send for FREE Boyf Catalog ginnings. Owen Moon has planted a (Continued on page 33) good seed which, with loving care, has flourished. It is encouraging to UWE manEy new! mention the word "Morgan" and see Send for Your FREE Copy Today! the light of recognition in a listener's eye. "Oh yes, I have heard about the bieed," he says. • Ten years ago this was not the case. I believe the magazine has done NEW 96 PAGE 77 REAL SAVINGS ON more than the editor realizes in pro- CATALOG EVERYTHING FOt moting recognition of and respect for RIDING the Morgan horse. MILLER HARNESS CO., INC. In the December Morgan pictorial Dr t. MN - 123 EAST 24th ST., NEW YORK 10 section, a horse which I believe to be FEBRUARY 1952 25 Reminiscences of Morgans, he gave a strong impression great demand all over the United States, the Past of compactness, and this balance, with carload lots going to the great coupled with his intelligence and regal horse markets in New York and (Continued from page 24) carriage made him a very hard horse to Indiana, as well as some to California beat in any show. In the ring he was and England. His best sons in the ring 1000 head of NO Morgans running beaten but once in a long career, and and at stud were the bay Duluth and from Grand River to the Moreau. this was by one of the greatest show Tom Boyd. The former a counterpart Every time a farmer would plant a stallions ever seen within Kentucky's of his sire in color and manner, won crop, a herd of near-wild horses would borders, the unbeaten and ill-starred the stallion sweepstakes at the St. trample it out. Finally, disgusted and Middleton's Drennon. Probably the Louis Fair over no less than ninty-six angry, the farmers rounded up the one performance which most endeared competitors. Like all the Morgan sires NO horses and shot them. The shoot- him to the hearts of the ringsiders who did so much to futher the early ing of these Morgans was the worst success of the Saddlebred horse, Ca- sight a man could behold.—horrible to was at the World's Fair in Woodtord County, Kentucky in 1870. Then a bell's Lexington was primarily noted think that horses were no longer as a broodmare sire, and his daughters needed, horrible to see them die. seven year old, Lexington was first in did much to strengthen the reputations After this, Daddy Peck lost tne the ring, his bright bay coat shining of such sires as Harrison Chief and ranch and moved into town. There to each hair, and with a majesty and he lived for four or five years until balance seldom equaled even in today's Bourbon Chief, yet the bay Lexington his death. Although he was penniless paragons. Behind him came Hamlet, is also the sire, in tail-male, of more when he died, his many friends did exactly the same color, but finer and good saddle horses than all the other not forget him. They gave him one smaller, and with a gaitcy ok manner Morgan sires combined. One of his of the largest funerals ever held in that brought him prolonged acclaim. best in the show ring was the white South Dakota. Then came the great Arlington Den- faced bay mare Sally Cabell, shown He died before people's way of mark followed by the queer-tempered at Harrodsburg, Danville, Laurence- thinking changed, when they grew to Montrose, then only a five year old, but burg, Shelbyville, Springfield, Bards- realize that horses were—after all—a destined to be a great champion in town, Bowling Green, Franklin and necessity of life to the West. He later years, winning final acclaim in Hopkinville without a defeat, living died before the Morgan became re- St. Louis at the unprecedented age in a land of almost literally no Morgan established ras the great American for show horses of twenty years. Last mares, Cabell's Lexington figures horse. horse in the ring was the little peacock woefully little in modern Morgan ped- We shall not forget Daddy Peck. John Waxey, well under fifteen hands, igrees, as perhaps his best known The vibrant living Morgans of today but with a heart and courage nearly as annearance there comes as the sire of will not let us forget him. great as he was. It was a grueling Billie, the grand dam of Bennington show, with no decision after forty-five 5963, whose four sons Mansfield. Ulys- Names in Pedigrees minutes of showing, finally ending ses, Canfield and Querido, and two with over an hour's effort on the part daughters Redfern and Willys, prob- (Continued from page 12) of each of the horses to put forth his ably figure in more modern Morgan very best. When the smoke of battle sires of the Colonial Thoroughbred, pedigrees than do the get of any other had cleared, Cabell's Lexington was single stallion. Rescued from its near those horses which were able to run the winner to properly great acclaim, oblivion in an un-Morgan state, per. four mile heats and five heat races, and over Arlington Denmark and stout come back in a week and do it over haps the blood of the great show hearted little John Waxey with Mon- champion Cabell's Lexington. added again, all under crushing burdens of trose fourth. as much as 180 pounds, a far cry a small bit to the present great popu- Lexington had been purchased by larity of this whole family. from our present day "top weighted W.W. Cabell from his breeder Dr. at 130 pounds." Price when a four year old, and he Horsebreeding Lexington was a dark red bay with made his entire show career in Mr. a medium star, a snip on his upper Iip, Problems Cabell's hands. When he was thirteen (Continued from page 17) and three short white sox. He was a years old he was sold to the very as- straw, grass and other foreign material. scant fifteen-two hands high, and when tute horseman Nick Ray in Edmonton, Symptoms: Diarrhea is usually the in show condition weighed 1070 Kentucky who in turn sold him to W. first symptom noted. The feces become pounds. He had a beautiful head with M. Kirby of Smith's Grove, in whose very soft, thin, and are often voided extremely tiny ears and fine large eyes. ownership he died at the age of sixteen, His head was almost chiselled in its in a stream at short intervals. The his death coming as the result of com- feces often have a very disagreeable, fineness, particularly below the eyes plications following a kick by a mare. and around the muzzle. He was well- penetrating, sour odor, and are yellow- As a sire, Cabell's Lexington was ish in color. They are sometimes blood ribbed with good strong loin and deep second only to Gaines Denmark as square quarters. His legs were short in streaked. There may be a loss of ap- progenitor of quality saddle horses. petite and a rise of temperature. Some- proportion to his height and he had Most of his get were that same satiny extremely dense bone with the very best times foals show colicy pains and the mahogany color and most had his muscling above his knees and hocks. intestinal sounds become exceptionally His mane and tail were thick and quiet willing disposition and complete loud. They may become tucked up in black, which showed off his polished ease and balance of gait. Sold for the flank and show rough hair coat. mahogany coat to perfection. Like most from $200 to $1500 they were in (Continued on next page) 26 The MORGAN HORSE

(Continued from preceding page) If the disease is allowed to progress, FOR the foal may become very weak, and Better Breeding unable to stand, the extremities cold, and death occur in stupor or convul- Vigorous Colts sions. Show Horse Bloom Course: The disease ends in recov- ery in most cases. Improvement is generally rapid. Serious cases may die REX WHEAT GERM OIL in three to seven days, or drag along two to four weeks, and terminate in pneumonia. Treatment: The thing to do is to FOR 18 YEARS breeders have claimed REX Wheat Germ Oil helps normal mares to remove the cause, and regulate the diet. settle, and activates normal stallions refusing, or slow, to serve. If the foal is getting too much milk Now we can understand from the mother, reduce the amount WHY stallions maintain volume and motility of sperm with REX OIL. by milking some out every two hours. WHY mares settle promptly when REX OIL is used as a feed supplement. It the cause is an inflammation of the WHY top stables consider REX OIL essential for consistent production. mother's udder, resort to artificial feed- 1 . A hormone that acts like the pituitary sex hormones. ing until a cure can be brought about. REX OIL 2. A hormone that acts like estrone. If the foal is eating foreign objects, Contains: 3. A hormone that acts like testosterone. like feces, straw, or grass, this may be 4. A factor helping newborn young to live through weaning. controlled by applying a muzzle be- References: tween feedings. The foal should be a. Estrogenic, Androgenic and Gonadotrophic Activity in Wheat Germ Oil, Endo- kept in a warm, clean, well-bedded crinology 49:289 (1951). b. An Unidentified Factor Required For Survival of Newborn Rats. I. Nutrition, stall. October 1951. As to medical treatment, one may For maintaining vigor, stamina and top level performance on the track, trainers give the foal two or three ounces of provide REX OIL all through training and believe it a valuable feed supplement. One castor oil to eliminate gastro-intestinal great horseman says, "Rex Oil colts are vigorous and sturdy; they get off to a good start." contents. Many foals will respond quickly in the early stages of the dis- Exhibitors of show horses mix REX OIL in daily ration to produce a brilliant ease to a one-half ounce dose of bis- natural sheen and bloom on the animal. muth subnitrate. This dose can be Use REX OIL with our unqualified guarantee—you alone are the judge—you repeated every six hours until the di- must be satisfied or your money back. arrhea stops. The required dose of Insist on REX—the wheat germ oil with Hormone Activity. Prices: Pint, $3.50; bismuth should be mixed in a clean Quart, $6.00; Gallon, $19.00; lower prices on 5 gallons or more. At drug and feed stores cup with a little of the mare's milk, or direct from us. We pay shipping charges. and given to the foal from a small Write for free folder, "Hormone Activity in Rex Oil for Horses." bottle, or a dose syringe.

Severe cases sometimes respond to VIOBIN CORPORATION, M___ONTICELLO,Iiima I ll the subcutaneous administration of REX WHEAT GERM OIL (100 to 200 cc) of the dam's blood. This treatment may be repeated daily. reasons in support of this theory, it later, have been delivered of mares Navel-Ill given by Magnusson are that: "(1) from whose uterus it was possible to (Joint-Ill; Pyosepticemis; Omphalo- Certain mares year after year produce recover the organisms found present phlebitis) foals dying of joint-ill. (2) The dis- in the lesions of the diseased foal and Definition: Navel-ill is an acute in- ease appears so early that post natal its fetal membranes." fectious disease of new-born foals, infection could not have had time to "The subsequent history of mares characterized by lameness and swollen develop. (3) Even when the navel has with streptococci infection is that uni- joints. The disease is caused by in- been treated with great care, joint-ill formly they have a metritis and cervi- fection of the navel, which is either sets in. (4) The same bacillus is citis following delivery of a diseased prenatal or post natal, mostly the found in the uterus and in the foal." foal. Infection may be be present in the former. "It is the conclusion of Dimock, uterus at the time of conception or be Causes: Navel-ill has been found to Edwards, Caslick, Hagyard, and others introduced during service and gain be due to a specific infection. The or- of wide experience in Kentucky breed- entrance to the fetal body directly ganisms incriminated are: (a) strep- ing establishments, that in a majority through the fetal membranes and tococci, (b) bact viscosum equi (c) of cases, the source of infection is in- thence the fetal circulation, or the Bac- B. coli, and (d) hacilus abortivoe- tra-uterine. Dimock, Edwartrds, and terium viscosum infection may be quinus. ffl Bullard found that in many cases of transmitted from the maternal circula- The natural infection occurs from Bacterium viscosum infection, there tion to the fetal circulation through two sources, intra-uterine and extra- was unmistakable evidence of prenatal the placenta. uterine. We have very conclusive infection, the possibility of this having "The habitate of the viscosum or- evidence at the present time to indicate been positively demonstrated. Large ganism is believed to be in the digestive that a great many cases of navel-ill are numbers of foals showing symptoms tract of the pregnant mare; it is readi- due to prenatal infection. The main of the disease at birth or developing (Continued on next page) FEBRUARY 1952 27 (Continued from preceding page) previous to foaling, and to the foal mares, the maximum time between when born, the internal administration ly recovered from the tonsillar crypts of teasing periods, during the breeding the great majority of horses of alt ages, of stimulants, oily laxatives, and inter- season, both before and after such nal antiseptics of various kinds, sup- mares have been bred, should not both male and female. It is believed plemented by antiseptic treatment of to invade the fetus in utero through exceed four days. Foaling mares that the blood of the dam." the umbilicus, have been tried for foal normally and do not suffer from years, but up to the present time have any lacerations, retained afterbirth, and "Extra uterine infection may, and not lowered the mortality of the dis- no doubt does, occasionally occur as show no abnormal discharges, should ease, and those foals that do recover be tried on the eighth or ninth day, a result of contamination of the umbi- are seldom of much value. lical stump during parturition or im- and bred, if in season, then such mares Prevention: The best prevention of should be regularly tried at intervals mediately after birth. Such infection joint ill in foals that we know of is to may be acquired from soiled bedding not to exceed four days throughout breed only those mares whose genital the breeding season, and rebred at any or from the dirty hands of attendants organs are perfectly normal and free when applying ligatures or antiseptic time they may come in heat. to the umbilical cord." from infection and inflamation, to a Caslick* has recorded some very in- stallion that is potent, in good health, Symptoms: The symptoms may be teresting observations that he has made and has normal healthy genital organs. during the last five years with thor present at birth, but usually appear The foaling stall both before and after within the first twenty-four to forty- oughbred mares, concerning the sexual eight hours after birth. Foals may be parturition should be kept scrupulously cycle in mares and its relation to ovu- dead when born, or they may be born clean, and immediately after foaling, lation. These observations include a in a semi comatose condition, showing the umbilical stump should receive study of the vagina to determine the characteristic symptoms of the disease; prompt antiseptic treatment. All foals true ovulation period (oestrus period) such foals are usually referred to as affected with navel-ill should be kept and the periods between heat (dioes- "sleepers." strictly isolated from other brood mares trus). 'While the breeding season of In some cases, foals show very acute and foals, and all litter from their the thoroughbred mare is quite short symptoms soon after birth. In such stalls should be thoroughly disinfected, (extending from about February 15th cases there is high fever, diarrhea, and or put somewhere where no healthy to June 15th) he has found that in the rapid loss of streneh. Such foals foals or brood mares will come in average thoroughbred stud, it requires usually die in one or two days, or they contact with it. about three normal heat periods to may recover and later develop a chron- Barren Mares and Breeding produce one pregnancy. He also found ic form of the disease. Sanitation that, "under a system of every other In some cases, the first symptoms The majority of mares show normal day teasing, Sunday excepted." that observed are swelling and pus discharge heat periods at regular intervals. Mares the largest percentage of mares con- from the umbilicus; following this, the generally come in heat on the eighth ceived when bred either on the first, foal becomes lame, one or more of to the tenth day after foaling, and on second, third, or fourth day of their the joints swell, there is a loss of the eighteenth to the twenty-first day heat period. appetite and a rise of temperature. In thereafter. The period of heat usually Caslick has concluded that in a well- a few cases the umbilical symptoms lasts from three to five days. When managed stud with good veterinary will disappear under proper treatment teasing mares for evidence of heat, it service that, "barrenness in mares and the foal may completely recover. is seldom that one finds two mares that comes from three main sources: the In many cases, however, the foal shows will act exactly the same at the heat shortness of the breeding season; gen- more or less depression, lameness ap- period. ital infections; and failure of the mare pears, one or more of the joints swell, There is a great variety of methods to have a normal heat period. With become hot and painful, finally fluctu- of teasing practiced by different breed- our present knowledge of the control ating and rupture at several points, ers, and it is very difficult to say at of genital infections, except probably discharging various amounts of pus. the present time just what may be specific infections, failure of the mare The foal finally loses strength, becomes the best method. My own observation to have a normal heat period results emaciated, and very weak, the temper- leads me to believe that many breeders in more barrenness than the other ature goes below normal, the legs be- do not try their mares often enough main sources combined." come cold, and finally the foal dies during the breeding season, or because Caslick has concluded from his stud- without struggle or in convulsions. they came in heat, were bred, and ies that, "clinically there appears to be, Treatment: A great many different showing no further evidence of com- outside of the normal cycle, four quite forms of treatment have been tried for ing in heat were assumed to be in distinct types of sexual cycles." These navel-ill, but up to the present time foal, but proved not to be. My opin- abnormal cycles he terms: (a) long we do not know of any specific treat- ion is that many of this group of mares heat periods, (b) long periods between ment. are not barren because of any disease heat, (c) the irregular heat period, (d) A certain percentage of foals that affecting their genital organs, but sim- and the individual in which there is show symptoms at birth will recover ply because they were not tried by the no heat period. Caslick is quite defin- when treated with the dam's blood. teaser frequently enough to catch them itely of the opinion, based upon his The amount usually given is from (100 in heat and breed them. There are studies of a large number of mares, to 200 cc). This dose may be repeated some mares in which it is difficult to that mares showing long heat periods, every twelve to twenty-four hours if determine definitely when they are in long periods between heat, irregular indicated. Antistreptococcic serum, heat. My observation leads me to be- heat periods, and no heat periods at all, bacterins administered to the mother lieve that in maiden mares and open (Continued on next page) The MORGAN HORSE 28 (Continued from preceding page) that may cause the toal to be weak at has been bred 60 to 90 days, by one ovulate quite regularly, and that such foaling time, and die soon thereafter; who has had training and experience. ovulation period can be determined by and it is dangerous in that you may The examination is made by palpation vaginal examination. He has been suc- introduce infection that may cause of the uterus per rectum. An ideal cessful in getting a very large percent- the foal to suffer from navcri!! time to make a physical examination age of such mares in foal by making joint disease. for pregnancy is in early fall, and any systematic vaginal examinations and The mare, having been found to mares found pregnant that have ab- breeding the mare at the time she is be in heat, after being tried by the orted at any previous pregnancy should ovulating, regardless of whether she teaser, is brought to the breeding shed, be vaccinated against abortion. Three is showing symptoms of heat to the or to some other suitable place where doses of equine abortion bacterin teaser or not. she may be safely bred, but, before should be injected subcutaneously at Undoubtedly there are many mares being bred, should have the tail band- weekly intervals. Where there has been that fail to get in foal when bred, due aged and the external genitals thor- several abortions in a band of mares, it to the fact that ovulation occurs, either oughly scrubbed with hot water, use- is advisable to vaccinate all pregnant too long before, or too long after ing soap and a sponge, the outer mares on the farm. One series of copulation, so that the sperm cells are genitals should be rinsed off with bacterins will produce immunity all dead before the ovum was available clean, warm water, using a second against abortion for one gestation for fecundation. In many aged mares sponge and pail for this purpose; then period only, and must be repeated each physiological exhaustion of the genital the lips of the vulva should be parted year. The bacterin has no ill effects organs is undoubtedly a common cause and cleaned inside the organ with a when administered. of barrenness. water-soaked pledget of absorbent cot- Infected Mares In searching for the cause of barren- ton. The mare is then restrained with The clinical symptoms usually ob- ness in mares, the potency of the breed- twitch and hobbles, or otherwise. The served in infected mares are matting ing stahion must not be overlooked. stallion is then allowed to serve the of the tail hairs, caused by a discharge Sterility in the stallion may be quite mare, and, as soon as he dismounts, he from the vagina, the skin on the accurately predicted by making a mi- is backed away from the mare and the inner surface of the thighs, and on croscopic examination of the semen. It penis is washed with soap and warm the inside of the hind legs and hocks is advisable to make semen examina- water, and rinsed with clean warm often become soiled from this dis- tion of breeding stallions at the be- water from a second container. If charge. The external genital organs ginning of each breeding season, in the above methods were always re- often become very much relaxed, and order to make sure that the vitality of ligiously employed at the time of air will be sucked into the vagina, in- the ejaculated sperm cells have not breeding mares to stallions, I am sure dicating a loss of tone in the muscles become impaired. The number, motil- we would have a much less number that support the genital organs. If the vaginal tract is inspected, the mu- ity, and vigor of , the sperm cells may of abortions, dead foals at foaling be readily studied by placing a fresh time, weak foals that die soon after cous membrane lining the tract will drop of semen on a glass slide and birth, and foals that suffer from joint often be found congested. Sometimes observing the cells with the microscope. disease or navel ill. fluid is found in the vaginal cavity, the Stallions whose semen show only 50 Artificial Impregnation character of which may be thin and per cent of the spearmatozoa to be The introduction of semen into the cloudy, or thick and yellowish. Some- normal in motility and morphology, uterus with an impregnating syringe, times a fluid may be seen coming will generally get but few mares in or with breeding capsu'es at the time from the cervical canal. In a few foal, rarely it has been found that of service, is practiced to a limited cases, adhesions occur in the cervical stallions with a relatively small number extent in some horse breeding districts. canal, resulting in the accumulation of of sperm cells in their semen were It, however, has never conclusively varying amounts of pus in the uterus. fertile. On the other hand, stallions proven that the introduction of addi- In low grade infections of the genital may have what appears to be a normal tional semen into the uterus does get tract, the clinical symptoms may not semen, yet be of very low fertility. a higher percentage of mares in foal be visible from a physical examination, Several examinations of semen should than when reliance is placed entirely and in such cases, it requires a bac- be made from as many copulation upon normal copulation. Impregnation teriological examination to make a before arriving at definite conclusions has the advantage in that two or more diagnosis. as to fertility of the stallion. mares can be bred from one stallion Research investigations upon the The technique of sanitation employ. service, provided the additional mares breeding diseases of mares indicates ed at the time of breeding mares to are in heat and at the place of service. that the bacteria found in uterine in- stallions is of great importance. First, Unless artificial impregnation is per- fections and causing sterility in mares, I wish to strongly condemn the prac- formed according to the rules of strict enter the uterine cavity through the tice of opening up mares at breeding asepsis, it can easily become a dirty, external genital canal. Such infections time, or at any other time between filthy, and dangerous practice. It is may be carried into the genital canal heat periods. That practice is a dan- not advisable to impregnate foaling by inserting the hand and arm into gerous one in that you may introduce mares, when they are bred at the the vagina to open up the cervix at infection that may cause steri:ity; it first heat period after foaling. breeding time; it may be introduced by is dangerous in that you may introduce Diagnosis of Pregnancy unclean artificial impregnation; reten- infection that may cause abortion if The diagnosis of pregnancy by tion of fetal membranes; difficult par- the mare gets in foal; it is dangerous physical examination can be determin- turition, and improper douching fol- in that you may introduce infection ed quite accurately, after the mare (Continued on page 33) FEBRUARY 1952 29 BROOD MARE BAND - CRABAPPLE VALLEY FARMS

Crabapple Valley Farm, now buried in snow, will in a few more

weeks sprout grass on which mares such as those seen above will crop with their foals. When the days are longer and warmer

and horses have shed their winter coats, make it a point to drop

in at the farm and see our big band of Morgans.

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(Continued in March) Horsebreeding ence, Missouri. I believe he has con- Orcutt Gives Demon- tributed much to the breed and grade Problems of horses in Missouri and Illinois. stration at U. of M. (Continued from page 29) Yours, very truly, On Wednesday, December 12, Dr. lowing parturition. Linda Falkner Robert Orcutt of Rawley, was the No infected mare should be bred 11502 East 20th St. guest of the University Pre-Veterinary to any stallion so long as she is in- Club at the University of Massachu- fected. Infected mares may occasion- setts, where he gave a lecture and ally get in foal, but if they do, they demonstration on the training of light are liable to abort, give birth to a dead horses. The demonstration was open foal at foaling time, to one that is to all Animal Husbandry seniors as weak and will die in a short time well as Pre-Veterinary students. or to a foal that will suffer from Dr. Orcutt opened his lecture with joint disease. A certain percentage of a demonstration on the use of the infected mares can be cured with bitting harness. He fitted a harness proper treatment. Such treatment to a previously untouched 18 month should be given under the direction old Morgan stallion, U. S. Panez, of a veterinarian who has had exper- ience with breeding diseases. owned by the University farm. Em- phasized were methods of fitting and The commonly encountered infec- safe means of handling. Dr. Orcutt tions of the genital organs in mares then drove a three-year-old with little (except equine infectious abortion) Colton Hills Choice previous training, in long lines,' fol- often occur at the time of foaling, or Dear Sir: some time between then and the in- Just a word of compliment on the lowing which he showed the new ception of the next period of gesta- last issue of the MORGAN HORSE Morgan stallion, Meade, in harness. Magazine. It was an extremely fine The demonstration was both in- tion. While some of this infection the students may be unavoidable, much of it can issue, and I enjoyed every part of teresting and beneficial to be prevented by observing proper san- it. and guests attending. itation during the foaling and breed- I might add that we have recently Jean Sanborn ing seasons. completed a deal with Dr. R. B. References: *Cornell Veterinarian, Graves of Red Wing, Minnesota, 1937, 27, 187. Beeman — Veterinary whereby we acquired a mare and foal from him; and he, in turn, acquired a CLASSIFIED Obstetrics and Zootechnics. 5 cents per word Mentor yearling stallion from us. $1.00 minimum LETTERS Very truly yours, S. D. Sahlstrom (Continued on page 25) Milaca Morgan Farm PHOTOGRAPHY by Barbara Stone, 41 Franklin Avenue, West Medford. Mass. Don't Worry Dear Sir: Show pictures and action shots. For ap- Dear Sir: Many people own fine Morgans in pointment and price call Mystic 8-9810. Do enjoy the magazine to hear about this section of the country. I own two Morgans, one gelding and one ICING RANCH BLUESTEM, BLUE PANIC. Morgan affairs elsewhere. Last year and the NEW BUFFEL GRASS. Seeding did not raise any colts, but if things details and prices. go as planned, will have some next Guy Hutchinson, Uvalde, Texas year. Horses do, not seem to be too popular now in this locality. Perhaps REGISTERED MORGAN COLTS, Fillies for sale, Lippitt and Archie 0 blood lines— they will become more plentiful this Mid State Morgan Horse Farm, DeMott coming spring and summer. It's been Road. Middlebrush N. I., phone East so wet and mean that people just don't Millstone 8.2846. ride much now for pleasure, and the question of stabling horses REGISTERED MORGANS—COLTS, FIL- in the im- LIES. MARES for sale at all times. Best mediate vicinity is quite difficult. Also, bloodlines from selected foundation stock. feed is expensive and expenses to the Ideal saddle and show prospects, some average person who would like to outstanding winners. Pictures upon request only to interested buyers. HYLEE FARMS, own a horse is quite a problem. How- CAMBRIA, WISCONSIN. ever, if one wants something badly enough, there always seems to be TWO HORSE TRAILER—Custom built a way out. Captain Stormalong with tandem axles, brakes, metal body two-year-old 'stallion. The snapshot Sincerely, and roof, tack space. Has everything plus is of my two-year-old colt, Captain looks. H. Bertram, Box 231, Haverhill. G. A. Wessitsh Stormalong, foaled on June 4, 1949, Massachusetts (Phone 348491 Stockton, Calif. color dark chestnut. We call him Dear Sir: Stormy. FOR SALE: Registered Morgan Stallion, six-years-old, dark chestnut with white This is a photo of Cotton Hills Yours truly, strip in face. Stands 15-2 and is broke to Choice, who died last spring. He was Mildred Hilts Dalton ride and drive. Priced reasonably. James owned by A. E. Swartz of Independ- Gouverneur, New York E. Rapp. Chippewa Lake. Ohio. FEBRUARY 1952 33 ONCE UPON A HORSE NN

MAN WITH ALL THE ANSWERS

By OLD TIMER

Roger Stone eased his 200-plus bulk as caretaker at the barns and had They traded. I helped switch the har- onto the plank seat near the open door general charge of the city horses. To ness and they drove off. When they of his big farm barn. Roger, of French- accomplish this he usually drove into were out of sight Roger heaved him- Canadian descent—his real name was the city twice a day. He was a stiff self off the bench. "Lessee what we Raoul LaRoche—was built like a bar- taskmaster and woe to the driver bought," he said. rel. Like a barrel he sat and at a not who brought in an over-heated or We harnessed the gray and hitched much lower level than he stood. He worked out pair. During those years him to a stoneboat. I piled on con- pulled off his wide straw hat and sat, he met up with some mean horses venient boulders and Roger picked up grateful for the brief rest in a long, and quickly subdued them. So, when the lines. "Giddap," he said. The horse hot day. he bought the farm and began to do started, felt the weight of the drag, Above his head was an open window a little trading it was only natural that reared and plunged. Finally he threw and through it came a big brown owners of bad ones would seek him himself. I jumped on his head. "Stay head. It bent until its twitching muz- out. He never straightened out a horse there," he ordered and I held the big zle almost touched Roger and then a for anyone—he bought or traded for head down until he reappeared with long tongue started lapping Roger's the bad-actor. "If I make any mistakes a maul, rope and a couple of iron bald head. I have only myself to worry about," stakes. He drove one stake near the "Stoppat, you old fool," he mildly he was wont to explain. head and the other just out of reach ordered. "She like's the salty taste in "Get stuck often?" I asked as we of the extended feet. With inch rope the sweat. Plenty salty today," he add- basked in the shade of the barn. "Not he firmly tied the animal's head to ed as he reached up and softly cuffed often," he answered, "but mabbe pretty one and his four feet to the other. at the insistant busser. oon," and he gestured with his head "Thar," he said. "You take a little "Some baby" I commented as I toward the end of the long driveway. rest." watched the mare, now nibbling at Turning in was a spring wagon carry- "How long?" I asked. "Long Roger's big, hairy ears. "Had her ing two men. In the shafts was a big enough," was the answer. I left soon long?" gray, young—by the extent of his after. "Bout two years," re replied. "She's dapples — sound and handsome. The next day, curious, I drove up Belgian coach horse." "Know them?" I asked. He shook to Roger's farm. He was standing in "You don't mean—she's not the one his head. "No, but I know about that the barn doorway. "How's the horse?" that—?" horse. Balks." I asked. He pointed, in answer, and I He nodded and his big mouth tight- '1 he rig pulled up in front of us walked around the barn. There on the ened under the old-fashioned mous- and the driver greeted the farmer. A grass, exactly as I had last seen him tache. "That's the baby." wave was the reply. The talk, as al- was the big gray—Rat. "How'd you I recalled what I had heard about ways at such meetings, concerned feed him?' I asked. "Or water him?" her. Runaway, kicker and biter she everything in the world except horses. "Didn't," was the answer. "Didnt had put several men into the hospital Roger sat stolidly on his plank, an- want to disturb his rest. He should before she ended up at Roger's farm. swering but briefly all remarks aimed be 'bout ready to get up." "House of correction," his place was at him. Finally the driver came out He certainly was. I took him by called by disgruntled horsemen who with it. the head as Roger released the rope saw animals which acted like demons "What've you got to trade? This and he struggled to his feet and shook when they owned them and like lambs fellah's a little too young and quick himself. when they passed into his hands. Yes, for my business. Want something a "Back him to that stoneboat," said Roger had a hard name in the horse little older, quieter." Roger. I did and Roger hooked the business, a reputation swollen by liv- "Dunno," was the answer. "Show tugs to the trace chains. ery stable gossip. Yet no one had him that mare in the end stall," he "Giddap," he said. The stubborn- ever seen him abuse an animal. After said to me. I went in and led her out, ness was gone from the gray. He a few weeks in his care the most man- old, a chunk, and fairly sound. settled down and pulled the load until shy horse was his friend. The visitors alighted and looked her Roger halted him. He unhitched, A horseman all his life, tough in over. rubbed him down, gave him water mind and body, he exuded confidence. "How'll you trade?" and hay and later a big mash. He never tackled a job he couldn't "Even," grunted Roger and stared He never balked again. * * * * finish, and he would• tackle anything. expressionlessly at them as they pro-

When he landed - in our town , he tested. That was Roger's way. was a teamster. Then he drove city They haggled for boot. They started The Belgian mare who licked his teams. Then he bought a farm but at $100 and worked down. Roger head had been cured as quickly. The retained part of his city job—he acted said nothing. He wore them down. (Continued on next page) Horses as well as humans are victims was starvation for man and horse of war—in recent conflicts as well as alike. The horses hungered no more in the days of Napoleon. Not only are and neither did the men—they ate they targets for artillery and bombers them. but they suffer from lack of care and * * * food. Starvation stories are reminders that We recently were disucssing phases now is a good time to check on your of the last world war with a young well-fed but possibly starving horse. German engineer who had escaped into The plentiful diet he gets may be doing West Germany after the Russians took man transportation system it was the him little good. Minerals to tone him over in the East and who had even- up; vitamins to correct his jaded condi- tually made his way to this country. custom to transport thousands of these starving, weakened animals to France tion or worm medicine to rid him of In the course of our conversation we ravenous parasites—These deficiencies, mentioned the fact that we had once where they were fattened on captured farms. When their strength and con- one at a time or all together, can make read that Hitler's armies were not as life almost as miserable for your stock mechanized as generally believed; that dition warranted they were shipped back to the front. as it was for the German captive horses Germany had horses and mules run- in Russia. ning into the millions which it used But when the main rail lines were instead of trucks and even in some blown up transportation was too pre- • * * of its field artillery units. cious to waste on animals and they If your horses have been barefoot The engineer confirmed this. remained at the front until they died. all winter, keep the ragged edges of On the Russian front where he had When supplies ran out they lived on hoof trimmed and, with your footpick, been stationed horses had a hard time hark and moss, young brush, frozen check for gravel. This annoying and of it. Many of them were the big stubble. even dangerous condition comes about Flemish type and they suffered the The engineer, describing their plight when a barefooted horse starts a small most. The smaller, more wiry native said it was most pitiful in the cases separation between the walls of a hoof horses stood up better. But big and where farmers or real horsemen were and the sand or other grit works in. little they failed rapidly from short assigned to the task of caring for the If caught in time it can be worked rations. Army regulations provided beasts. These men, reared with animals out or cut out. But if a horse so that each animal should have so much would as soon starve themselves as afflicted is shod without the condition grain, so much roughage. But the mistreat their horses. Consequently being corrected the chances are good soldiers stole it--the grain to augment they stole hay—for which they were that it will give him trouble. It is their own meager rations and the hay promptly jailed. Thus punishment not uncommon for this gravel to work to provide insullation for huts and was the reward for trying to keep life clear to the top and come out, complete clothing, for bedding and for fuel. in animals owned by the army. with pus, right at the junction of hair The horses literally starved to death. The happiest end for all concerned and hoof. Then it's time for a veter- During the earlier days. before was when a Russian shell ended one inarian although many old•timers had American bombers wrecked the Ger- of the miserable beast's life. Done a method of treating it. first day she ran away with him was He carried this when he walked in. He had them shipped north and the the last time. He turned her toward The big horse threw himself at Roger day after they arrived he and his the hills and let her run her heart out. but instead of the gratifying crunch wife mounted them and rode over to When she started to slow he went to of human flesh and bones he came up R oger's. the whip. He drove her back to the against the sharpened stick braced Roger was cutting brush along the farm under a steady "massaging" and against the wall. That ended that edge of one of his fields when they it was all she could do to reach the career of mayhem. rode up. "Halloo" he beamed at them barn and still trot. She never ran The horse that pawed his manger for he admired and liked them both. away again. until his ankle was raw was quickly They greeted him as enthusiastically. Then there was the trotter who had cured. Roger placed a wide elastic Ta'k shifted from inquiries of families a habit of rearing and coming over around his arm just above the knee. to state of the nation, crops and local backward. A haywire cavesson and a From it dangled a one-inch iron nut politics. standing martingale ended that the first suspended with stout fishline. The Finally the millman, nettled that time. He came up, felt the sting of horse pawed, the nut cracked him on Roger had said nothing about the new the wire on his atlas bone and came the shin. The pawing stopped. hunters asked bluntly, "How do you down, shuddering, never to rear again. He'd tie up one front leg of a kick- like these horses?" There was the crowder—a big team er and tease him with a whip until he In heavy pantomime Roger gazed horse who had a nasty trick of crush- lashed out with his hind feet—and toward his barn, across the fields, ing anyone who came into the stall fell on his face. made play in the brush at his feet. along side him. He would throw his • • • • "Horses, horses—I don't see any entire weight against the man, pin- A wealthy mill-owner, who; in later horses," he replied paying no atten- ning him to the stall wall—that is life took to fox-hunting, had great tion to the heavy-footed, poorly-made he did until Roger got hold of him. respect for Roger's judgment. But pair in front of him. Roger sharpened a two-foot length of one year he went to Virginia and They went back to Virginia the next pick handle until it was needle sharp. bought a pair of heavyweight hunters. day. FEBRUARY 1952 35 GREEN MOUNTAIN STOCK FARM Randolph, Vermont

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