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demonstrated our capacity to be iudependent by creating the 

 American Trotter, which has gone all over the world, and the 

 Morgan horse, which, for general purposes, has had no superior. 

 The Kentucky Saddle Horse is also a recognized type. With this 

 history before us is it too much to predict that horse breeders 

 should not close the doors of research, and say they know all there 

 is to know about horses and horse breeding? 



BEAUTY AND INTELLIGENCE 



There are two essential characteristics of the Arab horse which 

 have intrinsic merit and financial value. They are intelligence 

 and beauty. As the use of electricity and gasoline for motive 

 power relieves the horse of his former position of universal 

 drudge, he returns to his own original position — the companion 

 of man in his pleasure in times of peace, and the salvation of man 

 in time of war. 



If there ever was the need of considering the maximum ef- 

 ficiency of a war horse, now is the time. The test given last year 

 in France of 1,000 kilometers, under hard military service, 

 showed the Arab-bred horse to be the most enduring; but this 

 has been demonstrated so many times and in so many ways, that 

 it is only a question of how best to use and continue the Arab 

 blood we already have in this country. 



In addition to attaining these most useful qualities of endur- 

 ance by use of Arab blood, we have also the marked advantage 

 of beauty and intelligence which he possesses, and, if we will fol- 

 low the laws of heredity and carefully record the results, we can 

 improve on the horses we have in any direction of utility and 

 beauty we may desire. At present the state experiment stations 

 would seem to be the means of carrying out such work and divid- 

 ing the many methods of procedure. 



Let us take up this work in a cooperative spirit of research 

 that we may make the most of this most interesting science. 



