The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1915-08-20
HoLsTElN-FRiEsIAN BREEDERS
Organize County Association-Presi-
dent Aitken Of National Orsaniza-
tion Present-Officers Chosen.


dent Aitken Of National Orsaniza-
tion Present-Officers Chosen.
An organization of the breeders of
registered Holstein Friesian cattle in
Shiawassee county was perfected at
meeting held Thursday afternoon in
the Y. w. &. A. rooms in this city. AT
noon lunch was served by the ladies of
the Y. W. G. A. to about sixty ladies
and gentlemen-the latter including a
number of business men of the city who
were present to show their interest in
the new organization, which started off
with % charter members. B. E. Hardy,
president of the temporary organiza.
tion formed short time since. called
the gathering to order and introduced
Mayor DeYoung, who welcomed those
present to the city and rendered them
the free use of the rooms in the city
library for any future meeting the as
sociation might wish to hold, invited
the members to make use of the books,
ETC., in the library and stated that if
other books along lines which would
interest them in the breeding. feeding,
ETC., of dairy cattle were wanted an
effort would be made to provide them.
He commended the purposes of the
gathering as he believed organization
was essential in the life of today. W..
A. Seegmiller, L. F. Miner, G. T..
Campbell, E. o. Dewey and G. L. Tay-
lor also spoke briefly before Hon. d. D.
Aitken of Flint, president of the Ma.
tional Association of Holstein. Friesian
breeders, was introduced. Pres. Aitken
talked most Interestingly for twenty
minutes, setting forth the good quail
ties of the Holstein cattle, told of the
wonderful milk and butter records, of
the rapid advance all oyer the county
of the herds, spoke of the national
meeting to be held in Detroit next year
and urged Shiawassee breeders to be
present in large numbers. He said
that within six weeks a new queen in
the COW world would be announced
with a butter record of 1900 pounds in
year "a Holstein, of course. He urged
those present to study statistics and to
be able to show to their communities
the great food value of milk and its
products. Incidentally he suggested
that Shiawassee county wake ND and
really go at the work of building
better roads in a more energetic man
ner after the manner of Genesee
county where nearly million dollars
has been expended in a period of two
or three years, that county receiving
last year one-twelfth of the state re.
ward money paid out. Professor A. @.
Anderson of the M. A G, spoke of the
benefits of local and county organi.
cation. pointing out the manner in
which the membership as we'll as the
communities were benefited. G II.
Gillespie of Mason, told Of the ad.
vantages and the pecuniary benefits to
be derived from authenticated testing,
citing number of instances where
the owners of cows with large records
had been able to sell the increase in
their herds at several times the original
price paid for the foundation cattle.
j. Fred Smith of Byron. and B. E.
Hardy of Owosso, talked on the I'M
portance of large exhibits of Holsteins
at the county and state fairs. After
talk by A. L. Chandler, the following
officers were elected: President, B. E.
Hardy, Owosso; vice president, J. H.
Keyes, Owosso; secretary. treasurer, J.
Watson Hurst, Owosso. President
will name an executive committee of
five members as provided for in the by.
laws which were adopted just before
adjournment was taken. The Associa.
tion starts off with good membership,
which will be increased considerable
when all the breeders of the county
have an opportunity to enroll.