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RESULTS OF BREEDING EXPERIMENTS Government Officials to Sec What Has Been Ac ¬ complished in Gcnesee Valley ValleyAvon Avon X Y July 20 Members of Uncle Sams official household having to do with the production of cavalry remounts will be invited to attend the Livingston County Fair on September 25 at this point by Mrs Herbert AVadsworth who is president of this organization as Avell as of the Genesce Val ¬ ley Breeders Association which is doing so much for tlie iniprovement of the general purpose horse of this region regionThe The Genesce Valley with its virgin pastures watered by never failing springs and shaded by superb uaks elms walnuts sycamores and maples has iHtii famous for the quality of its horses ever since the original AVadsworths came from New Kng land more than 150 years ago and took possession of upward of 100000 acres unsurpassed in the United States for fertility and loveliness With the formation of the Genesce Valley breeders As ¬ sociation which embraces in its membership every live farmer within twenty miles of this town three years ago there has been renewed interest in horse breeding The liberal lines under which the work is carried on has had much to do with this reunais sauce The association which operates in con ¬ junction with the Jockey Club furnishes the mares The members own the resultant foals the only ob ¬ ligation living the proper care and feeding of the dams and a pledge to mate them with the thorough ¬ bred sires of the bureau which have for some years been stationed here at Genesco Mount Morris La roy and other points in the valley valleyOur Our work has now reached a point said Mrs AVadsworth at her Ashantee Stud yesterday where we can show the results of crossing thoroughbred sires on every type of mare from the cleanbred to the draft and as the Federal government has inaugurated breeding stations in Oklahoma Mon ¬ tana and Virginia for the production of cavalry re ¬ mounts we are in a position to show what can be acoomplished along the lines they have planned With this end in view we shall invite to our fair on September 25 Secretary of Agriculture Houston Chairman Lecver of the Committee on Agriculture Dr Mohler Chief of the Bureau of Animal Hus ¬ bandry his chief aid George M Uommel Col John S Fair head of the Iteiiiount Commission Lieut Col M C Bristol and others who are active in the promotion of the plan to give our troopers better mounts mountsALL ALL CLASSES TO BE EXHIBITED EXHIBITEDWe We shall have classes for stallions and their get mnrcs and foals yearlings twoyearolds and three yearolds some of them with upward of twoscore of competitors and it cannot fail to be illuminating and instructive to these gentlemen who will not have to wait for a period of years to see what types will lie evolved as a result of the work they have undertaken undertakenI I find an increasing interest ia breeding the type of horse I term useful resumed Mrs Wadsworth and by useful I mean a horse that can do anything that any other horse can do and then accomplish something more This the half and threequarterbred animal can do If he isnt highclass enough to command the top figure as a hunter or show horse he has a future as a cavalry remount or as a work horse on the farm and in the latter capacity there is ample evidence up and down this valley that he is superior to the draft type for the needs of our people Many farmers in the past have regarded the horse an an imple mcut instead of a product He was bred with one particular object in view the tilling of the soil and the marketing of the crops Beyond that he had no function The type we arc evolving can do these tasks with efficiency and then go on and do its part in the fields of war or pleasure his period of usefulness extending beyond the farm For that reason I term him a product just as wheat and corn are understood understoodWHAT WHAT THE THOROUGHBRED CAN DO DOBreeders Breeders who have no first hand knowledge of the thoroughbred continued Mrs AVadsworth and who have been wont to hear him referred to as hot and weedy and unfitted for any purpose but racing should pay a visit to this valley On Saturday morning last they would have found Estimator by King Hanover one of the Jockey Clubs sires raking eight acres of hay in company with a ft mare while mares of pure blood and others of varying degrees of blood were helping to till and house the crops the length and breath of the valley If they could have seen Eyebrow by Star Shoot Eyelet by Onondaga on the weigh siales at Avon that same morning they would have revised their opinion of the breed as in only fair condition with his ribs showing he tipped the beam at 1300 pounds while the standard showed him to l e 17 hands high A steel tape revealed a girth of 78 inches and the possession of 8 12 inches of tone below the knee Here was a horse capable of accomplishing any task allotted to him Viewing liiiu from an adjacent paddock was a group of threeyearolds bred in the valley among them a cleanbred filly 10 hands high which weighed 1150 pounds last March and a threequarterbred miss which at the same time stood 1C hands 1 4 inch and weighed 1250 pounds poundsAAhat AAhat we have done said Mrs Wadsworth in concluding the Federal experts also could accomplish here in the Genesee Aalley and I should like to see this entire zone divided into districts eight miles square with a good stallion in each of them The government could have a central station where these horses could be kept through the winter and they could be under the super ¬ vision of an expert during the breeding season The farmers would I am sure welcome such a plan as at present we are unable to reach all who want tj breed In taking the thoroughbred as a top cross the government has made no mistake jintl in this community the field is fallow as there ire few farmers and horse breeders who do not ocognize the merits of the work and the neces ¬ sity for its prosecution
