New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-06
Uncle Sam Is
Visitor at Fair
In Avon, N. Y.
Lieut.. Colonel Bristol and
Captain Palmer inspect
the Thoroughbreds

AVON. N. Y, Oct. 5.--The Livingston
County Fair, which brings very many
lovers of horses. particularly those of
the halfbred type. to the Genesee Val
ley every autumn, was honored this
year by a special compliment on the
part of the Federal government, which
was represented by Lieutenant Colonel
NJ. c. Bristol, head Of the Remount
Commission, and Captain Walter Pal
mer, of the Bureau of Animal Industry.
Their presence indicates a growing
interest in the work which the Genesee
Valley Breeders Association has been
doing hereabouts under the fostering
aid of the Jockey Club, which has for
many years sent sires of blood into
various parts of the Empire State
where farmers might have access to
them at nominal fee.
The wonderful pastures of this re
gion made it a paradise for the horse
breeder. and then came genius IN the
shape OF Mrs. Herbert Wadsworth. of
the Ashantee Stud, with a plan which
has been SO successful that it is wor
thy of adoption IN every community
where there is disposition to see the
American cavalry properly horsed. 1t is
a cooperative scheme for the produc-
bIOi VI LuS Udll-pltU nurse, Which -
generally accepted as the best general
purpose horse throughout the world.
Every live farmer in this region IS
member of this organization. He is
the custodian of the mare. is pledged
TO breed her to Breeding Bureau sire
and owns outright the resultant foal,
besides having the use of the mare for
light farm work in the interim.
Colonel Bristol was much interested
IN tha Of al Lo
considers it worthy of adoption in
every farming community. The Federal
authorities have during the past year
acquired, through donations from the
Jockey Club and various public spirited
men as we'll as by purchase, twet y-hve
head of thoroughbred horses to mate
with selected mares at the breeQn.g
stations in Virginia, Montana and Okla
homa.
Others are being secured as rapidly
as possible, and it will not be long Until
the United States Will be producing re-
mounts of the same type as France and
other foreign countries which have
made q science of horse breeding. The
prosecution of this work is largely in
the hands of Colonel Bristol.
ut has been pleasure to see the
associates have developed in this valley
for better horses, and the work has
been of distinct value to the govern
ment," said this officer at the close of
the show last week.
81 have seen a wonderful display of
stations and foals by them from every
kind of mare, from the clean bred to
the draught. and l shall carry away
with me a most favorable impression
ef what is being done for the coun-
try in this lovely valley in the way of
horse production. The show as an IL
lustration of type has no equal in the
United States, and should be visited
annually by all lovers of the horse"
most of the trotting sires now used at
the Federal breeding stations and who
was judge of the trotting bred horses
at the worlds fairs at st. Louis and
San Francisco, was eager to see some
of the results of using the thorough
bred as a top cross with standard bred
dams, and he pronounced the mare
Sophy, by Philosophy, son of Long
fellow, out of trotting dam, one of
the finest big mares that he had seen
anywhere. This mare, which weighs
more than 1900 pounds and has lot
of bone, can road ten miles an hour.
She had fine filly by Otis at foot
That's the type of mare this coun-
try wants for general purposes" said
Captain Palmer, "and if the thorough
bred trotting cross will give it l want
to subscribe to it. | am a Western
man, and in our region we haven't many
thoroughbred sires. My knowledge of
the breed is limited, but | never saw
a ring of blood horses like this, nor
did l ever think | would see one that
stood 17.2 hands and weighed upward
of 500 pounds, as Wonder Boy does.