The weekly Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1911-1922, 1911-10-19
HORSE LECTURE GOOD
Purdue Experts Give Valuable Ser
vice For Good of Animal
Industries of the
County.

Under the captain of can Edu-
eational Home Coming the Farm
ers Guide has the following to say
of the Plymouth Fail festival:
"The three day 'Home Coming"
held at Plymouth under the aus
piees of the Commercial Club of
that ETY., reached a climax in at
tendance and interesting attractions
on Saturday, September 23. Thous-
ands Of people were In to witness
the horse show and the great indus
trial parade, and to see the ao~n-
plane fights. The featre 81 tbs
home coming most wcr. ~ of note
was the dis4inc.v agricultural tone
given II tie whole affair. Over
$50 plates of splendid Marshall
county fruit-apples. pears. grapes,
etc.-were entered in the hortier..-
tural exhibit The corn and sn all
grains show was well filed in all
classes, many of the samples in this
class, however. showing their lack
of uniformity. lack of appreciation
on the part Of the exhibitors of
what Constitutes good sample of
corn. A feature Of Thursday 5 pro-
gram was lecture on corn growing
by Fred c. Palm. Newton. Indiana,
originator of Palm s Corn Flake
Yellow
Saturday. preceding the horse
show, D. o. Thompson, animal hus-
bandry extension man of Purdue ex-
pertinent station gave short talk
on "Tbe Improvement of Indiana
Horses He called attention to
the classes into which the horse
market divides horses offered for
sale, namely. drafters, harness
horses, saddle horses and ponies, and
urged that farmers strive to pro-
duce horses of type and quality to
fit into some definite class. Sound
ness Is essential In horses going TO
the horse markets. and unsoundness
can be largely eliminated In the
foals ami young stock by using per-
feetlv sound stations and mares of
good conformation of limb and body
for breeding purposes. Stations
affected with moon blindness. eat
aract. roaring or wllistling. heaves
or broken wind. crampiness. string
halt, bone SPAWN. ring done. navi-
cular disease. bog SPAWN, or curb
with curby formation of the hook.
should not be used for sires. as
these are breeding infirmities. The
value of the pure-bred stallion over
the grade IN producing marketable
foals was shown by means of a chart
wherein the data showed that colts
sired by pilre-bred stations sold all
the way from s27 to 800 higher ac-
cording TO ace than colts sired by
grade stations.
One Of the notable features of the
lectures on both days was the fact
that L. s. Iemert, Plymouth s ener-
getic horse dealer. who was in charge
of proceeding and to whom much of
the success of the Home Coming was
due. caused the carnival attractions
to shut down during tue lectures,
which was appreciated by both the
speakers and the audience Purdue
experiment station was further rep
resented by III. c. Mills Of the dairy
department who had an educational
dairy exhibit In connection with the
exhibit of the Schlosser Creamery
Company.
Following the horse show the
horses lead the merchants. manu-
facturers and farmers industrial
parade. 1t was over two miles in
length. and the floats were all ex-
cellent. The management of the
"Home Coming is to be congra-
tulated upon the very successful
manner in which they succeeded in
instilling an educational element in
TO the affair. thus making it more
worth while than where all the fea-
lures are of the light carnival Or