144 Breeding Plants and Animals. 



ing drivers. The sisters, wives and daughters can en- 

 ter into the work of developing, training and matching 

 colts. Picture the Wabasha County Fair with such an 

 interest to hold it up to a high standard. Realize the 

 victories of sales day, when the buyers come commis- 

 sioned to bring to their rich city patrons the beautiful 

 drivers, the family pets, the matched beauties and the 

 prize winners. Let this industry, if you please, set a 

 pace for other lines of farm effort, . co-operative and 

 otherwise. Such organizations have a most useful 

 function in the agricultural affairs of a State. With 

 a large number of such co-operative organizations act- 

 ing in unison, through representatives in the State agri- 

 cultural society and in other general agricultural or- 

 ganizations agricultural interests would receive their 

 just share of emphasis and attention. In such organ- 

 ization farmers would learn better how to co-operate, 

 and better team work would result in political, school, 

 church and other organizations devoted to county af- 

 fairs. 



There is no need of here going into details about 

 the construction of score cards, methods . of keeping 

 score card judgments and of recording the perfor- 

 mance records of individual animals or their "centgen- 

 er" powers as breeders. These would be worked out 

 by the leaders in the movement and officers of agri- 

 cultural colleges and stations interested in breeding 

 and in good horses would be delighted to assist in the 

 development of score cards, of pedigree plans and even 

 of business organization. The horsemen of the county, 

 especially those experienced in the statistics of perfor- 

 mance records in breeding trotting and running horses. 

 have a store of information which would here be of 

 value. Knowledge would develop apace and the bright 

 men in such an association would sooft form a school 

 for one another. 



The words "individual merit" are used in refer- 

 ring to the measure expressed on the score card when 

 comparing animals or when comparing an animal with 



