New-York tribune., 1918-07-23
(,enesee VALLEY
Is Mecca for
War Horses
Cavalry Remounts To Be
Exhibited at Livingston
County Fair, Sept. Is

AVON, N. Y, July 22.-Members of
uncle Sans Official household having
TO do with the production of cavalry
remounss will be invited to attend the
Livingston County Fair on Septembe"
20 at this point by Mrs. Herbert Wads-
worth. who is president Of this organi-
zation as we'll as of the Gcnesee VAL
ley Breeders Association, which is do
ing so much for the Improvement of
the general purpose horse of this ,e
gion.
The Genesee Valley, with it's VIRGIN
pastures watered by never failing
springs and shaded by superb oaks,
elms, walnuts, sycamores and naples,
has been famous for the quality Of it's
horses ever since the original Wads-
worths came from New England, more
than $50 years ago, and took possess
sion of upward of 100000 acres. With
the formation Of the Genesee Valley
Breeders Association, which embraces
IN its membership every live farmer
within twenty miles of this town, three
years ago, there has been renewed in
terest in horse breeding.
Inc liberal lines under which the
work IS carried on has had much to do
with this renaissance. The association,
which operates in conjunction with the
breeding bureau of the Jockey Club.
furnishes the mares. The members own
the resultant foals, the only obligation
being the proper care and feeding of
the dams and pledge to mate them
with the thoroughbred sires Of the bu-
reau, which have for some years been
stationed here, at Geneseo, Mount Nor
rls, Leroy and other points in the val
ley.
Plan to Improve Mounts
Our work has now reached a point"
said Mrs. Wadsworth at her Ashantee
stud, where we can show the results
of crossing thoroughbred sires on every
type of mare from the clean bred to the
draft, and as the Federal government
has inaugurated breeding Stations in
Oklahoma, Montana and Virginia for
the production of cavalry remounts, we
are in position to show what can be
accomplished along the lines they have
planned.
with this end in view we shall in
vite to our fair OH September 25, Sec
retary of Agriculture Houston, Chair
man Lever of the Committee on Agri-
culture, Dr. Moller, chief of the Bureau
of Animal Husbandry; his chief aid,
George NJ. Rommel; Colonel John S.
Fair, head of the Remount Commission;
Lieutenant Colonel NJ G. Bristol and
others who are active in the promotion
of the plan to give our troopers better
mounts.
eve shall have classes for stations
and their get; mares and foals, year
lings, two-year- olds and three year
olds-some of them with upward of
twoscore of competitors-and it cannot
fail to be illuminating and instructive
to these gentlemen, who will not have
to wait for period of years to see
what types will be evolved as result
of the work they have undertaken.
II find an increasing interest in
breeding the type of horse l term use
full" resumed Mrs. Wadsworth, "and
by useful mean horse that can
do anything that any other horse can
do and then accomplish something
more. This the half and three-quarter
bred animal can do. If he isn't high
class enough to command the top fig
ure as hunter or show horse he has
a future as cavalry remount or as a
work horse on the farm. In the latter
capacity there is ample evidence up
and down this valley that he is supe-
rior to the draft type for the needs of
our people.
MANY farmers in the past have re-
garded the horse as an implement in
stead Of product. He was bred with
one particular object in view-the till
ing of the soil and the marketing of
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function. The type we are evolving
can do these tasks with efficiency and
then go on and do its part in the fields
of war or pleasure, his period of use
fulness extending beyond the farm.
For that reason term him a product,
just as wheat and corn are understood.
Thoroughbreds on Farms
breeders who have no first hand
tinued Mrs. Wadsworth, "and who have
been wont to hear him referred to as
'hot and weedy' and untitled for any
purpose but racing, should pay a visit
to this valley. On Saturday morning
last they would have found Estimator,
by King Hanover. one of the Jockey
Clubs sires, raking eight acres of hay
in company with draft mare, while
mares Of pure blood and others of vary
ing degrees of blood were helping to till
and house the crops the length and
breadth of the valley. If they could
have seen Eyebrow, by Star Shoot out
of Eyelet, by Onondaga, on the weigh
scales at Avon that same morning they
would have revised their opinion of the
breed, as in only fair condition, with
his ribs showing, he tipped the beam
at 1900 pounds, while the standard
showed him to be II hands high. A
steel tape revealed grth of 73 inches
and the possession of sh2 inches Of
bone below the knee. Here was horse
capable of accomplishing any task al
lotted to him. Viewing him from an
adjacent paddock was q group Of three
year-olds bred in the valley, among
them a clean-bred flly, 16 hands high,
which weighed ,15O pounds last March,
and quarter bred miss which
at the same time stood 16 hands a
inch and weighed 1880 pounds.
Plan to Breed Horses
"What we have DONE" said Mrs.
Wadsworth in concluding, "the Federal
experts also could accomplish here in
the Genesee Valley, and l should like
TO see this entire zone divided into dis