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Title: The New England magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: Boston : (New England Magazine Co.)
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In the sap-orchard. Vermonts maple-sugar crop is worth $1,500,000 annually come to wise Vermont farmers. The Mor-gan horse has gone all over the country, buthe always was and still is a Vermont institu-tion. His return to favor should produce anew and large inflow of money to the State.The Morgan lost favor with the speed-breeders when the Hambletonians beat theMorgans on the trotting race-track. Breed-ers for speed first diverted the Morgan fromthe purpose nature intended him for, then deserted him as soon as something fasterwas developed. The Morgans supremacywas and is based upon his superiority as anall-purpose horse. He is the kind of horsethat you can drive sixty miles to-day andturn around and drive him back to-morrowwithout doing him any injury. He has notonly speed, but bottom, and the courageof a bulldog. And nothing handsomer thana well-bred Morgan ever walked on four 26 NEW ENGLAND MAGAZINE
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George W. Pierce, Master of the Vermont State Grange feet. The defect in the strain was an uncer-tainty of temper. Most of the Morganswere as kind and true as they were braveand enduring. A few of them were ugly;and, like the handful of specked apples inthe barrel, they gave a bad name to thewhole family. The States Three Colleges Middlebury is the seat of one of thefamous old colleges of New England. If you read the excellent article on New-England College Presidents in the South,in tjie June number of the New EnglandMagazine you must have noticed howmany of these distinguished educationalpioneers were graduates of MiddleburyCollege, founded in 1800. The State givesMiddlebury a small appropriation ($2,500)against $6,000 for the State University.Norwich University, the famous old militaryschool over on the eastern border of the WHATS THE MATTER WITH VERMONT? 27 State, gets some State help also — $8,500in 1905 and $12,000 in 1906. Riding alonga ridge of hills north of Middlebury, you

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