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WORK OF GENESEE VALLEY BREEDERS BREEDERSWarmly Warmly Endorsed by Representatives of the United States Army Remount Division Avon N Y October 5 The Livingston County Fair which brings many lovers of horses par ¬ ticularly those of the halfbred type to the Gcnesee Valley every autumn was honored this year by a special compliment on the part of the Federal Government which was represented by LieutCol M C Bristol head of the Remount Commission and Capt Walter Palmer of the Bureau of Animal Industry Their presence indicates a growing inter ¬ est in the work which the Genesee Valley Breeders Association has been doing hereabouts under the fostering aid of the Jockey Club which has for many years sent sires of blood into various parts of the Empire State where farmers might have access1 feeThe to them at a nominal fee The wonderful pastures of this region made It a paradise for the horse breeder and then came a genius in the shape of Mrs Herbert Wadsworth of the Ashantee Stud with a plan which has been so successful that it is worty of adoption in every community where there is a disposition to see the American cavalry properly horsed It is a co ¬ operative scheme for the production of the half bred horse which is generally accepted as the best general purpose horse throughout the world Every live farmer in this region is a member of this or ¬ ganization He is the custodian of the mare is pledged to breed her to a breeding bureau sire and owns outright the resultant foal besides having the use of the mare for light farm work in the interim interimCol Col Bristol was much interested in the workings of this plan and he considers it worthy of adoption in every farming community The federal authori ¬ ties have during the past year acquired through various donations from the Jockey Club and various public spirited men as well as by purchase twenty five head of thoroughbred horses to mate with se ¬ lected marcs at the breeding stations in Virginia Montana and Oklahoma Others are being secured as rapidly as possible and it will not be long until the United States will be producing remounts of the same type as France and other foreign countries which have made a science of horse breeding The prosecution of this work is largely in the hands of Col Bristol BristolIt It has been a pleasure to see the interest which Mrs Wadsworth and her associates have developed in this valley for better horses and the work has been of distinct value to the government said this officer at the close of the show last week I have seen a wonderful display of stallions and foals by them from every kind of mare from the clean bred to the draft and I shall carry away with me a most favorable impression of what is being done for the country in this lovely valley in the way of horse production The show as an illustrationj f type has no equal in the United Stateasnrd should be visited annually by all lovers of the horse horseFIN FIN MARE OF MIXED BREEDING BREEDINGCapt Capt Palmer who has bought most of the trot ¬ ting sires now used at the federal breeding stations and who was judge of the trotting bred horses at the worlds fairs at St Louis and San Francisco was eager to see some of the results of using the thoroughbred as a top cross with standardbred dams and he pronounced the mare Sophy by Philosophy a sou of Longfellow out of a trotting dam one of the finest big marcs that he had seen anywhere This mare which weighs more than twelve hundred pounds and has a lot of bone can road ten miles an hour She has a fine filly by Otis at her feet feetThats Thats the type of mare this country wants for general purposes said Capt Palmer and if the thoroughbred trotting cross will give it I want to subscribe to it I am a western man and in our region we havent many thoroughbred sirus My knowledge of the breed is limited but I never saw a ring of blood horses like this nor did I ever think I would see one that stood 172 hands and weighed upward of sixteen hundred pounds as Wonder Boy docs The light horse breeds of which the thoroughbred and standardbred arc leaders should be encouraged and the Department of Agri ¬ culture is perfecting a plan to provide suitable awards at state fairs and a classification which will encourage their production The winners will pass to the national and international shows as a court of last resort and such stallions will bear the approvalThis stamp of the governments approval This encouragement will come just in time to save the material for military horse production as our statistics indicate a great falling off in the number of marcs bred During the past three years the number of pure bred light stallions standingfor service in California has decreased 50 per cent in Iowa 40 per cent Montana 32 per cent South Dakota 32 per cent Wisconsin 20 pcrcent Illinois 25 per cent Indiana 25 per cent Kansas 23 per cent North Dakota 30 per cent Oregon 25 i er cent and Pennsylvania 30 per cent These are all horse breeding states and these figures tell their own tale taleIt It has been a tonic to come to the Genesee Val ¬ ley said Capt Palmer and sec what has been accomplished by the Breeders Association and I wish there were more enthusiasts of the type of Mrs Wadsworth
