Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-11-24
Grant COUNTY lST IN
Pure BRED STATIONS
The Enviable Record Establish
ed In Last Eight Fears.
Ninety-fOUr Pure BREEDS and % Grade
and Scrubs in COunty-Dane Co.
2nd With 74.-OWneTs Names.

Grant county leads the state in the
number of its pure bred stations
used for breeding purposes. It also hes
an enviable record for the rate of pros
ress with which its breeders have
eliminated the grade and scrub stall
lions during the past eight years.
There are ninety-fOUr pure bred
stations, mostly PercherOns, and Bel
gians, used for breeding purposes in
this county, which is eighteen more
than are used in Dane county, the
second county in the states pure bred
sire honor roll. The number of grades
and scrub stations now used in Grant
county is twenty-nine, figure which
calls for great reduction.
In 1907, when the first reliable fig
ures regarding stallion enrolment
were available, there were seventy
eight pure bred and ninety-seven grade
and scrub stations in the county.
Wisconsin was the first state in the
country to adopt a systematic plan
for the improvement of horse breeding
through the elimination of grade and
scrub sires. The work is in charge Of
DR.. A S. Alexander of the College of
Agriculture, University Of Wisconsin,
who reports that about SIS per cent
OF all the stations used for breeding
purposes in the state are pure bred.
In 1907 60 per cent of the total num-
Der were grades and scrubs.
The horsemen of this county who
are helping the cause of better breed
ing by keeping pure bred sires are:
Grant cOunty-Badger Draft Horse
Co. IN. Hass), Glen Haven; w. c.
Bailie, Lancaster; Bennett & Woods,
Lancaster; Jesse Blackburn, Bridge
port; Otto Book & Louis Young, Mus
coda; William BOIL, Fennimore; John
BOlIen. East Dubuque, Ill; Vencel
Bollant G Frank Yelineck, Livings-
ton; A. w. Cardy, Lancaster; Peter
Caspers, Cassville; Frank Collins, Mt.
Hope; Henry COnnor & Edmund Col
Inns. Blue River; Charles Curtis, Cuba
Charles Degenhardt, Mt. Hope; r. |.
DugdaIe, Platteville; w. B. Dyer,
Lancaster: HIT Enloe, Platteville;
Peter Esser, Jr., Cassville; l. G. Ever
son. Preston; Fennimore Belgian
Draft Horse Co. III. Schneider) !.
Fennimore; Frank Flogel, Potosi;
Frank Gahart, Platteville; Robert
Glenn. WyaIusing; E. c. GOvier & f.
E. Morrow, Lancaster, Govier &
WEIGH, Lancaster; E. Fl. Hagerty, Bos-
cobel; II. z. Harville, Patch Grove;
William Hughett, Lancaster; o. v.
jerks. Livingston; Ora Jidney, Bloom
ington. r. ]. Kolar, Boscobel; Henry
Leist. Sitter; Leon 10y, Livingston:
McKivitt Bros, Bloomington; Thomas
Mcnamara, Bloomington; William Nc
Namara. Glen Haven; Maple Leaf Bel
gian Horse Co. &c. d. Bitney),
Platteville; Conrad May, Louisberg;
Thomas Murray, Montfort; Neiff &
Victora. MuscOda; D. r. Newman,
Lancaster: Henry Nichols, Lancas-
ter: Thomas O'Flahrity & ]. A.Tor-
mey, Montfort; L. H. Okey, Cassville;
G. W. Otte, Platteville; Harry Pea
cock. Cuba; H. Peacock & r. Harri-
son, Cuba; Peacock & Harrison, Cuba;
c. A. Perrin, Beetown; Matt Pipal,
Blue River; Platteville Percheron
Horse Co. &c. r. Barden), Platteville;
J. ]. Pluemer e j. Ritter, Poto ii;
Progressive Horse Breeders associa-
ton IL. Turner), Montfort; w. G..
Reukauf, Mt. Hope; Clyde Richardson,
Lancaster; F. z. Richardson, Lancas-
ter: C. w. Rowe, Montfort; A. E. Arch,
z. & F. B. Rundell, Livingston; Homer
Sylvester, Livingston; H. c. Vesper-
man. Fennimore; Lloyd Wagner, Liv-
ingston: Otto Wagner, Livingston;
Cornelius Walker, Boscobel; Chris.
Wedge. Platteville; William Weigel,
Platteville; Bartle Wiederhold, Poto-
ST; George wilkins, Preston; I. H.
Williams. Cassville; Lawrence Zifka,