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i 3 J 1 1 1 ! 1 j 1 AMERICAN BREEDERS MEET Defer Action on Experimental Farm and Committee Is Appointed to Consider Matter. LEXINGTON, Ky., Oct. 19. Members of the American Thoroughbred Breeders Association, at a special meeting held at Kecne-land Saturday, considered the proposal that the association sponsor and aid in the support of an experimental farm for the purpose of conductingexperiments in diseases of horses. With a number of possibilities offered, it was decided to defer action until a more thorough study could be made. John Hay Whitney, president of the association, presided, and after hearing the discussion, was authorized to appoint a committee to make a thorough study of the various possibilities. Immediately after the meeting he announced that the committee would be composed of Arthur B. Hancock, chairman; Walter M. Jeffords and Admiral Cary T. Grayson, with president Whitney and secretary Louie A. Beard as members cx-officio. Thomas P. Cooper, head of the Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station and dean of the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, suggested that the association of breeders might establish a foundation to provide funds,, which would be administered through the experimental station. With such a set-up, he stated, the staff of experts at. the university could be used as the nucleus for building up a special staff to investigate the various problems connected with the breeding of light horses. Major Beard stated ihat there had also been some correspondence with the veterinary school at the University of Pennsylvania, with eight other branches of such a foundation. Dr. W. W. Dimock, president of the Animal Pathology Department at the University of Kentucky, and internationally famous as an expert of breeding diseases of the horse, was also present and expressed the belief that the establishment of a foundation to be administered in connection with funds provided for the regular work of the experiment station would attract further support for the project. Present besides those mentioned were Hal Price Headley, Walter M. Jeffords, Barry Shannon, Thomas Piatt, Thomas Carr Piatt, Hugh Fontaine and Lucas B. Combs.
