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brought into tlio nci^jliborhoorl that p:ot my patronafro. I»ut I looked around 

 until I found a horse that I thouj;lit filled tlie liill. .md in fills nninner 

 I got a fine set of draft horses. 



rrosident Christian: 1 would be very gliid to hear from auj'one else 

 tliat has anything to say. 



Mr. Donnelly, Jr.: Pei-haps I am taking more than my share of the 

 time, but I should like to speak first in regard to what this gentleman has 

 just said. It is sometimes hard to judge a l)ull by bis disposition, for 

 he may have been teased by small boys. Speaking of draft horses, they 

 do not transmit their dispositions nearly as readily as other breed of 

 horses. The care of an animal has a great deal to do with his disjmsition. 

 It seems to me that we want a bull with a great deal of life about him. 

 Why shouldn't he have when he is pampered like he is? Of course you 

 can not always tell what the results will be, but I think you get a superior 

 breed from the more lively bull. 



Mr. Strange: I like to hear him talk in theory, but along the line of 

 life he will run against practical things, and that is what jogs a fellow 

 up on these things. I have been in this business for fortj^ years or more, 

 and have found just this condition of things, and I find them at the pres- 

 ent time. Of course, we do not take scrub animals. We use only the best, 

 and thus have our standards set high. You want to look out for the 

 cliaracteristics of both animals, and having your ideal in mind cross the 

 animals that will nearest produce that. In this Avay you will improve 

 both animals. This is my idea of breeding. 



President Christian: If there is no other duscussion our committee 

 is ready to i-eport. 



Mr. Robbing : Your Committee on Resolutions on the death of de- 

 ceased members of the Indiana Short Horn Association, now assembled, 

 repoi't the following: 



"Resolved, That in the deaths of our brethren, E. S. P'olsom and 

 Thomas Nelson, this Association has lost honored and value(l members; 

 their associates have lo.st honored and valued members, warm hearted 

 and candid friends; the commimity, respected neighbors and citizens, and 

 their families, loving, faithful, generous and devoted Inisbands and fathers. 

 "Resolved, That this Association tender to the families of each its 

 sympathy in their hour of bereavement, and that these resolutions l)e 

 spread upon the records of this Association, and a copy thereof ])e deliv- 

 ered to their respective families. 



"Respectfully .submitted. 



"W. S. ROBBINS, 

 "MR. COTTON, 

 "CAPTAIN WELCy." 



