The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-01-07
LIVE STOCK.
MINUTE OF MEETING

Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer.
MOXwELL HOUSE,
Parlor B, Nashville, Tenn.
The meeting was called to order by
Vice President J. L Jones, President
@. e. Leonard being unavoidably alb
sent.
The roll being called, q quorum was
present.
Vice President Jones read q letter OF
regret from President Leonard, and
some timely remarks were made by
him about the needs and wants of the
Association.
Minutes of the previous meeting read
and approved.
The time of three of the directors
having expired, to wit, Geo. Tarking
ton, L. w. Knight and jas. Toggart,
and b. @. Ezell having died since the
last meeting, four directors were to be
elected.
On motion of J. D. Goodpaeture,
Geo. Harrington and L W. knight
were reelected and T. P. Green was
elected in the place of James Toggart,
and A. B. Horlan in the place of Fl. @.
Ezell.
DR.. Knight, perhaps the oldes5 jack
breeder in the United States, made
some appropriate remarks, urging all
breeders to register their stock. He
said breeders need not be afraid; all
they had to do wes to raise good ones
and keep them registered. That he
had seen all kinds of stock go up and
down, and if they would stick to the
jack, they would find that he would
not disappoint them.
Other remarks were made by other
members on the same line. Much en-
Ehusiasm was manifested on the part
OF the members.
On adjournment of the stockholders
meeting, the directors meeting vas
Immediately called to order by Vice
President J. L. Jones, President Leon
ard being absent. A quorum being
present, the election of officers was
called for and Q. E Leonard, Bemill,
No, was elected President, and ]. L
Jones, Tennessee, Vice President, and
J. W. Jones, Columbia, Tennessee,
Secretary.
Rule II, which is as follows: "Jen
nets are eligible to entry by production
when two or more of their produce are
registered" was amended as follows:
Provided the jennet is black with light
points.
On motion, the Chairman appointed
DR.. L. W. Knight, L. P. Green and a.
B. Harlan TO see Tennessee Centennial
and report the provision they he'd
made for live stock, and particularly
jacks and mules.
On motion of J. 3. Fulton, J. L
Jones, President of the meeting, was
added to the committee and made EH-
O6fciO Chairman of the same.
On motion of D. A. Hancock, all
registrations were to be made under
the old rules, that is, under rule 2, as
follows:
"An jacks 14B and all %jennets IA
hands high, standard measure, shall be
eligible to registration if black with
light points"
The following resolution was intro
duced and adopted:
Resolved, That all memeers be re
quested to take stud book and register
all the stock they may have eligible to
registration, and that they report to the
secretary all persons whom they may
know in their country who are inter
ested in the breeding of jacks and jen-
nets, and that these reasons be urged
for the same.
desire to call the attention of jack
and mule breeders to the aims of the
American Breeders Association of jacks
and jennets, and also to call attention
to the jack and jennet register that
this Association has ~inaugurated. The
haphazard method of mating animals
practiced in the past, with its neces
sary penalty of uncertain results, has
Of late years been abandoned by the
breeders of all classes of stock. The
study and observance of hereditary
principles have reduced breeding to a
science, with laws as definitely formu-
lated and results as accurately secured
as in most other other branches of
scientific effort. To make this knowl-
edge practical and available, the
breeder must not only know the quail
ties of the individual animals he pro
poses to mate but he must know the
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