Annual, Meeting 1109 



this afternoon and take this matter up for our mutual benefit, and 

 for the good of the breeding interests of the state at large. I 

 think more good can be done by combining than by our small 

 individual efforts. I would like to see that taken up, and will be 

 glad to do anything I can to help it along. 



J. Grant Mokse, Hamilton, JST. Y. 



The gentlemen who have preceded me have advocated the breed- 

 ing of about every kind of good horses, so I suppose that you 

 wonder what breed or class of horse I w^ill champion. 



Well, I am going to champion the most useful horse on earth, 

 and his breeding is of the very best, for he is bred much as the 

 most of us are. That mixture of a little English, some Scotch or 

 perhaps Welch, a dash of Dutch and a little Irish thrown in just 

 to polish us off, and behold the " Yankee," the most versatile of 

 all men. So my horse shall be a little Arabian, some English race 

 horse, a dash of American trotter and a smattering of wild Indian 

 pony. But all of this must be on his dam's side. For my horse 

 will be even better bred than his master, for his sire must be a 

 pure-bred drafter. 



In other words, I advocate the breeding of the horse commonly 

 known as the " farm chunk." The autos may drive the carriage 

 horse out of market, the auto trucks may take the place of the 

 heavy drafter, but the place of the " chunk " is secure on our hilly 

 eastern farms. It is a pretty safe rule to first produce the thing 

 that you can use yourself in your own business, then, if you have 

 a surplus, raise something that you know your neighbors want. 

 We are told that, as a general thing, the farmer gets about 35 

 cents on a dollar of the consumers' price for what he has to sell, 

 and if you raise a high-class carriage horse, I think you will be 

 lucky if you get 35 per cent, of his real value. 



It is a question with me whether it will pay us to keep mares 

 especially for breeding purposes, and but few of us are prepared 

 just now to pay five or six hundred dollars for a draft mare to 

 start with. The mare that we already own, whether she be 

 Hambletonian, Morgan or broncho, if she is worth anything as a 

 farm horse, may be bred to a pure draft sire and be made pay her 

 way right along on the farm and at the same time raise a colt that 



