Wisconsin State Agricultural Society. 
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something about fast horses. Now you take warning by me and 
don’t think that every horse that we raise is going to beat some 
other man’s horse. And, said I, let this thing of trying to be jock¬ 
eys end here. 
Mr. Young. I would inquire of Mr. Bascoin if, in his remarks in re¬ 
gard to racing, he meant to include the heat-nag as well as other 
shorter forms of the race-track. It occurred to me that probably 
the President did not measure the entire length of its bearing upon 
the organism and purpose of the horse. It occurred to me that en¬ 
durance was one of the main objects in the production of the farm- 
horse. In my idea, heat-racing is unconnected with horse grow¬ 
ing among farmers. The President is aware that endurance comes 
from protracted effort. 
President Bascom. There are two kinds of endurance. Endur¬ 
ance may show itself in different ways. I do not doubt the two- 
forty horse has a certain kind of endurance that does not belong to 
any other kind of horses. But it is a kind of endurance that will 
not suffice for other kinds of wants, for instance, to be able to stand 
a good hard day’s work and plow on the farm under moderate motion. 
That is one kind of endurance required. But to stand very rapid 
motion for a few minutes on the race-track is another kind of en- 
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durance, and that is not what is wanted by farmers. And just at 
this point I object wholly to this boat-racing in colleges, and on 
that ground I have a certain charity for that as a means of pleas¬ 
ure. But the truth is, that the man who is hard and plucky for 
drawing an oar in a boat-race, is not plucky and hard for solving a 
difficult problem in mathematics. It is like a mill-dam, if we draw 
off the water from it to a mill on one side we cannot draw it off to 
the mill on the other side. The men who can think the most and 
strongest are the men who keep up their general nutritive system, 
and thus direct their forces in the channel in which they propose to 
use them. 
Mr. Stewart. 1 think a horse of a medium size is about what a 
farmer wants on the average, especially where we can’t support a 
team for the various purposes for which we want horses. For a 
team for all purposes, a medium-sized team is the best. 
General Delaplaine. The importance of good walking in horses is 
generally overlooked. I understand that the premium offered in 
England for good walkers is larger than for any other kind of speed. 
