Missouri Saddle Horse Breeders'' Association. 



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Your organization, made up of men interested in the saddle 

 horse, is a fine thing for the industry. If we could get together 

 all the people who are interested what could we not accomplish! 



The College of Agriculture is starting to pay more special- 

 ized attention to the saddle horse, and anything we can do in an 

 educational way we are glad to do. We now have 850 students 

 enrolled in the College of Agriculture, and we propose to give 

 them a chance to see what a good saddle horse is like and to re- 

 ceive first-class instruction in the saddle horse business. 



ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT. 



(James Houchin, Jefferson City, Mo.) 



At out meeting last year at Mexico, 

 when we were discussing the saddle horse, 

 some one asked, "What is the use of hav- 

 ing a Saddle Horse Breeders' Association, 

 for we do not accomplish anything?" We 

 had quite a discussion along that line, and 

 1 told those present at that time that if 

 there was anything I could do to do the 

 saddle horse industry any good or to 

 arouse more interest in the saddle horse 

 that I was going to do it during the year 

 1913, and I feel sure that our secretary 

 joined in these sentiments. 

 Shortly after that meeting we called together the directors 

 of the Missouri Saddle Horse Breeders' Association and held a 

 meeting in Jefferson City, adopted a constitution and by-laws 

 and started out to do some very effective work. We selected a 

 committee of judges who have been used to an extent throughout 

 the State, and I feel that some satisfactory work was done. The 

 secretary, through press of business and ill health, was not able 

 to push forward the matter of organization which we determined 

 upon at that meeting and has turned over to my hands the mat- 

 ter of organizing according to law, the idea being to become a 

 legal corporation. We spent a considerable amount of time 

 and about $50 worth of postage and literature, and a great 

 amount of correspondence was done. As a result we secured 

 some thirty-five subscribers for stock. Most of these gentle- 

 men agreed to subscribe for a share of stock that was to be paid 



James Houchin. 



