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35' he JUNE 1957 ( it 1VIORGAN HORSE Win a Morgan Colt -- Win a Morgan Horse MHC- I MHC-6 MHC-7 MHC-• CAR ORNAMENT MHC- 9 MHC - 10 MORGAN HORSE CLUB, Inc. Trophy Prices MHC-1 — Bakelite and Metal Base. Finish: Balfour MHC-6 — Book-ends Bronze. Over-all Height 16". Price $23.00 pair Price $20.75 MHC-7 — Bronze Ashtray. 9" Diameter, 7'/2" MHC-2 — Ebonized Wood Base. Large engraving Height. plate. Over-all Height 8 1/2". Price $18.75 Price $18.00 MHC-8 — Genuine Onyx Ashtray. 51/2" x 7". MHC-3 — White Bakelite Base. Over-all Height 14". Price $20.75 Price $16.25 MHC-9 — Morgan Horse Desk Piece. Height 5 1/2". MHC-4 —Mahogany Finished Base. Copper Oxi- Price—Bright Finish 58.00 dized Horse. Small engraving plate on Dull Finish $7.50 pedestal. Height 8". MHC-10— Wooden Cigarette Box. 12" Long, Price $17.00 Height 8". Price $18.00 MHC-5 — Black Bakelite Base. Balfour Bronze En- graving Band. Height 141/2". MHC-11— Car Ornament. Durable Nickel Finish. Price $15.00 Price $15.00 ITEMS MHC-1 through MHC 10 will be furnished with copper-oxidized figures. If Balfour Bronze desired add 500 to price. All orders shipped C. 0. D. L. G. BALFOUR COMPANY Attleboro, Massachusetts 1111,0111)thiiii Jr"'intin FOR SALE This is not Parade but his good son BROADWALL ST. PAT 11353 — (Bob Baker up). This stallion is beautifully bred with a very high percentage of Ethan Allen 2nd. He travels perfect- ly straight and is a real three-year-old show prospect. FLASH! — Won blue at Windsor Horse Show, May 19, 1957, for Morgans Under Saddle. We are going to sell some of our good Morgans by Parade. 1-2 yr. old show filly (Broadwall Brilliance) 1-2 yr. old bay gelding 2-1 year old colts 2-1 year old fillies This year's weanlings Mr. & Mrs. J. CECIL FERGUSON Greene, R. I. OUR FRONT COVER Table of Contents SPECIAL FEATURES Promoting Our Breed 5 Pictorial Record 6 National Judging School 7 Farewell My Friend 8 Fitting (Part I) 9 Arguments of Big and Little Horses 10 The Cart Before the Horse 11 Advanced Test 12 15th Annual Morgan Horse Show 14 New Folding Saddle Rack 16 Notice to Mid-Westerners 16 Obituary Notice 16 Allentown, Pa. Show 26 The Many Things A Morgan Can Do 26 Not to be out done by Her Highness, Grace Kelley, Locust Melody of Woods REGULAR FEATURES and Water Farms presented the Kanes Leiters to the Editor 4 with a brand new filly on the same The President's Corner 5 Central States News 13 date, January 23. She is sired by Wal- Maine Morgan News 13 and has been named 'Kane's Princess News from the Buckeye State 14 Caroline." The photograph was taken Mid-Atlantic News 15 on her third day. She was the first New England News 15 Wisconsin News 15 of Kane's dozen foals of the 1957 sea- Pacific Northwest News 16 son. New York State News 25 Hints to Horsekeepers 27 New England — Mid-Atlantic Calendar of Events 39 * Pictorial Section 17-24 Kettets to Officers of the Morgan Horse Club President FREDERICK 0. DAVIS Windsor, Vermont Vice-President GERALD F. TAFT EMots Northville, Michigan the Treasurer WHITNEY STONE 90 Broad St., New York 4, N. Y Secretary FRANK B. HILLS SO Broad St., New Ycrk 4, N. Y. Dear Sir: I have enclosed a check for $3.50. I enjoy the Morgan Horse so much The Morgan Horse Magazine that I naturally want to renew my sub- Vol. XVII June, 1957 No. 5 scription. I compare it to the other magazines I subscribe to, and it will A Monthly probably always top the list. The best The Official Publication of reason I can think of for this is that THE MORGAN HORSE CLUB, Incorporated every page is crammed with worth- 90 Broad St., New York 4, New York while information — every 35-40 Please send all correspondence regarding subscriptions and advertising pages; whereas other magazines with to publication office: The Morgan Horse Magazine, Leominster, Mass. over 75 pages have absolutely nothing Publisher Otho F. Eusey worthwhile. So all we get out of pay- Circulation Manager Lorraine LaFond ing 6-7 dollars is a bunch of advertise- CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Helen Brunk Greenwalt Ern Pedler Ruth Rogers ments. Thank goodness "our" maga- zine isn't that way. I use the word Virginia D. Lau Mabel Owen Charlotte McCartney Gail Dorow Mary Lou Morrell Eve Oakley our very freely in this case because Ruth Orcutt Katharine Eskil I feel as though I know every reader, writer, and Morgan owner, personally. The Editor and staff of The Morgan Horse Magazine and the Morgan Horse Club, Inc., are not responsible for opinions and statements Here, again, is a fact which makes expressed in signed articles or paid advertisements. These opinions are THE MORGAN HORSE readers not necessarily the opinions of the editor and staff of this Journal. have an advanage. In other maga- SUBSCRIPTION RATES zines there are so many ads saying: One Year $3.50 Two Years S6.50 Three Years $9.00 "Buy this horse," "No, don't buy that The MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE, published monthly except January by THE MORGAN HORSE CLUB, INC., 90 Broad St., New York, New kind, buy this one," "Don't buy a horse York. Printed by The Eusey Press, Leominster, Mass. Entered as second just breed your mare to any of our 20 class matter at post office, Leominster, Mass. Closing date for copy and stallions, and get the finest foal you advertising 1st of month preceding date of publication. ever laid eyes on," "Before you buy, Copyright 1957 by The Morgan Horse Magazine. you must be sure to look at our prize His neigh is like the bidding of a monarch, winning nag of the year, — why I can and his countenance enforces homage. (Continued on Page 28) - - King Henry V Promoting Our Azediciefrti fd. ealiote4 • • Breed By Stanley D. Sahlstrom This month our director's letter comes from Stanley D. Sahlstrom of St. After reading the various horse Cloud, Minnesota. Stan is one of those fellows full of enthusiasm for Morgans magazines that come to my attention I and is certainly doing an outstanding job for the Morgan Horse Club in the am disappointed that we do not have North Central Morgan Association. We need more like him. more publicity on our breed in all of I not only asked Sian to write an article for my President's Corner, but them. I do not mean that we should also asked him to write of his Morgan activities. neglect our own magazine. It is ab- F. 0. DAV/5, President solutely essential that we support it to the greatest extent, and that we send Dear Ted: My first ownership of pure bred Mor- information to the various correspon- In response to your request for in- gans occurred at the time of the govern- dents so they may constantly have a formation relative to my history with ment dispersal. At that time I was flow of material for the Morgan maga- Morgan horses, here is a resume of my Vocational Ag. Director at Milaca High zine. However, we have many maga- activities in that area. Any such per- School, and together with two friends zines devoted to horses in general that sonal writing must necessarily be from that town, Mr. Boyum and Mr. print letters about the Morgan. I should spotted with a considerable number of Bovy, we purchased a number of like to suggest that every Morgan en- "I's," but here is the story: horses. One of those horses went to thusiast write one letter or more to Ever since my earliest recollections Mr. Theis in Kansas and the rest have editors of magazines and enclose pic- of contact with horses, I have had a remained in the upper midwest area. tures of their horses for use in the great deal of respect for, and interest in, That fall we had our first breed classes "Letters to the Editor" section. Fur- the Morgan breed. During my early at the Minnesota State Fair. Mary Ann thermore, anyone who has the ability childhood, horses were still the prime Blick (Mrs. David Naas) and a num- and likes to write articles should contri- source of power on the farm. Tractors ber of others were instrumental with bute to those magazines. Such maga- were found rarely and only on the us in promoting classes at the State zines as the Western Horseman, the largest farms. Horses were still a very Fair. That same fall we had our first Horse Lover, and the Horseman's Ad- respected item therefore on the farm. meeting of Morgan enthusiasts in this visor, all popular in this area, would I remember well the comments of my area called at the time of the State Fair. attract much attention. Other maga- father and of other farmers upon see- I had obtained a list of Morgan owners zines in other areas of the country ing some of the better, closely knit, ac- from the National office, and the re- could use material too. Contributions tive farm teams relative to their Morgan sponse was very gratifying. From that to correspondents of other magazines "type," or "those horses act like Mor- small beginning, our North Central who write Morgan columns would also gans," or "that team must have some Morgan Association has grown a great be appreciated, I am sure.