Annual Meeting 1073 



farm; that is the kind of horse the buyer wants, and we cannot 

 reproduce the horse unless we have those qualities in the marc 

 and in the sire. I always want to see a horse, whether it is sire 

 or mare, have a lot of surplus power back of it all the time. It is 

 that surplus action that brings us the cash. If he has just simply 

 action enough and movement enough in him to move himself 

 about, he is not going to make you one cent of profit. 



One more point. What is the great problem that confronts 

 our farmers to-day ? When the Bankers' Association of our state 

 met a year ago, what did they stop to consider ? *' What can we 

 do to keep the boys on the farm ? " For two whole days they 

 considered that proposition. Down in Iowa the boys did the very 

 same thing, and that is what I hear as I go from the Atlantic to 

 the Dakotas — " What will we do to keep the boys on the farm ? " 

 Sometimes I think they ought to go a little further, and that is 

 this : " What can we do to keep the old men on the farm ? " 



I believe human nature is about the same all the world over, 

 and I never felt so poor in all my days as I did when I drove a 

 poor team. And when it comes to the boys, there is nothing we can 

 do on the farm that will so interest the boy as the horse. When 

 I was a boy I did not expect to be a farmer, but I had pictured in 

 my mind that fine house in the city. Where did I solve this prob- 

 lem ? It was when I was out in the field, alone with that team. 

 I had it all fixed up when I was in town. And then I would 

 look at that team, and I said, " I cannot leave that team," and 

 before night I decided not to. And so with that boy. If he 

 drives to town with a poor team he will hitch it up some place, 

 but, on the other hand, if he can drive down the street with a 

 team well equipped he is proud of them. 



Me. Huson : The next speaker on the program is Mr. Francis 

 M. Ware, a name very familiar in the State of ISTew York to those 

 at all familiar with the horse-breeding industry. For more than 

 forty years he has been a breeder, a buyer and a seller of horses of 

 all types in the IN'ew York State markets, and has probably 

 handled and sold more horses, and knows more about the type 

 of horse the market demands, than almost any man in the state. 



I regret more than I can tell you that Mr. Ware is not per- 

 sonally present this afternoon, but he has commissioned Mr. Cole 

 to read his address. 



