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minute mark. And right in that connection, brother farmers, 

 there is another matter that I want to speak of. I do not want 

 to irritate you, but I do want to speak of this one thing. I 

 want to say, in short, that if I had a boy and a colt, and I 

 thought that that boy would never succeed except in con- 

 nection with trotting merely, if I had a boy on the farm that 

 showed any such disposition as that, I would send that boy 

 off to a boarding school, and I would not let him come home 

 until I had wheedled some other fellow into buying that colt. 

 I would not allow that boy and that trotting colt to grow up 

 together on the same farm. (Applause.) Now we are going 

 back. I do not like to say those things, but I have watched 

 this thing so much, I have watched good clean boys grow up 

 to manhood, where they have been associated with trotting 

 horses, and I have followed those boys for years afterwards, 

 as they were laid away in drunkard's graves, I have watched 

 those boys until they were a disgrace to the community in 

 which they lived, and I say to you that this is my deliberate 

 conclusion. I do not know what it is, but there seems to be 

 something about it that has an influence, or a tendency to 

 drive manhood down, and when it comes to choosing between 

 a clean boy and a colt I am going to take the boy every time. 

 Now we have got these classes down to two. Now we 

 have a heavy coach horse, carriage horse, and driving horse. 

 There is a class of horses that we can grow and grow to 

 perfection, because we are surrounded with all of the natural 

 conditions for doing it, and doing it well, if we only breed 

 intelligently. We can grow a class of horses that will not 

 only pay a profit, if we want to sell them, but will last on the 

 farm more years and do more work, and do better work than 

 the class of horses that we are so largely breeding today. I 

 am not here to advocate any special breed, but we must, if we 

 are wise, breed for the best advantage to ourselves, and we 

 must go far enough to see that in those particulars we must 

 select certain types or characteristics, and it seems to me, Mr. 

 Chairman, that we will find more in the heavy horses that 

 are brought from those sections of the world where breeding 

 has been intelligently carried on for generations than we can 

 hope to find or expect to find where the ancestry or breeding 

 or pedigree is so short. Now I would select for a heavy draft 

 horse such a breed as the Percheron or the Clyde, horses that 



