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niiining horse; please explain if the standard-bred horse is not a 

 hoise of mixed blood. 



TKOF. WATSON: The standard for horses is a record of perfor- 

 mance with their own pedigree. That standard was the English 

 record of running horses and was established with the understand- 

 ing and firm belief among those English breeders, when the first 

 record was established, that no horse could be a creditable performer 

 on the turf that did not fulfil the required conditions, and that is very 

 true to-day. 



MR. BRODHEAD: Isn't it safer for the common^ average farmer 

 (o improve his stock of horses rather than to use the standard-bred? 

 Wouldn't he better use one of our pure bred horses in the State of 

 Pennsylvania or New York? 



PROF. WATSON: Most assuredly, yes. That is a matter of judg- 

 ment. 



MR. BRODHEAD: It would be better to use a pure bred sire than 

 a standard sire. 



A. Member: It just depends altogether upon what a man wants to 

 do; whether he wants to raise drivers or trotting-horses. 



PROF. WATSON: I take it for granted that a farmer wants to 

 breed horses to use in his business. 



QUESTION: ''Have you had any trouble with abortion in cows, 

 and if so, how can it be prevented?" 



MR. LIGHTY: I don't have any trouble; I know nothing about the 

 means of prevention. 



MR. BRODHEAD: We have a doctor from Susquehanna county 

 who I think would be competent to answer that question. 



DR. E. E. TOWER: That disease has been quite common in Sus- 

 quehanna county. I think about three or four years ago we had a 

 case at Glenwood where there were 55 cows in the herd and 53 

 aborted. The others which calved, died within two hours of their 

 birth. The State Veterinarian came up there and decided to take 

 this up as a test case. I went there over twice a week to treat the 

 animals. We injected a 4 per cent, solution of carbolic acid, about 

 two drachms under the skin, the same as we would inject tuberculin 

 for tuberculosis. At the time we began — this was the year follow- 

 ing this terrible epidemic, you might call it, and at that time the man 

 only had thirty-five cow^s. Tw^enty out of the fifty-five had been 

 sold for beef, as they failed to do anything further than to make a 



