Kansas State Live Stock Registry Board. Report No. 3. October 1, 1912.

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1 Kansas State Live Stock Registry Board. Report No. 3. October 1, 1912.

3 INTRODUCTION. This, the Third Annual Report of the State Live Stock Registry Board, contains a list of stallion licenses issued between October 1, 1911, and October 1, 1912; also, list of stallion transfers recorded between October 1, 1911, and October 1, Reports No. 1 and No. 2, containing lists of stallion licenses issued and transfers recorded to October 1, 1911, may be secured by addressing request for the same to the State Live Stock Registry Board, Manhattan, Kan. FRAUDULENT PEDIGREES. Prospective stallion purchasers should be very careful in selecting stallions to see that the registry certificate (pedigree) that is offered with a stallion is issued by a recognized registry association, and when satisfied that the registry certificate is issued by a recognized registry association one should be sure that the stallion in question is the one for which the registry certificate was originally issued. There are many so-called registry associations issuing pedigrees for grade stallions, and these stallions are then represented to be pure-breds. In many instances grade stallions hare been substituted for pure-breds which have died. In these cases the description, foaling date, etc., are changed to correspond to the description and age of the stallion substituted. Horses of this kind now have to stand for public service under their true colors in Kansas. One of the purposes of the State Live Stock Registry Board is to assist stallion purchasers to check up the breeding of stallions purchased, as very few Stallion purchasers have the facilities for checking pedigrees. A safe plan is to purchase stallions claimed to be pure-bred and registered, with a guarantee that such stallions pass inspection and be accepted as pure-breds by the State Live Stock Registry Board. Most stallions are purchased with this kind of a guarantee. Thus the stallion purchaser has a means of protecting himself against unscrupulous stallion peddlers. REPORT OF THE FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING of the KANSAS HORSE BREEDERS' ASSOCIATION. At this time only a brief report will be given of the meetings 1 of the Kansas Horse Breeders' Association in session January 2-3, The excellent addresses and papers presented at these meetings will be published in the next report. Considerable effort was made this year to prepare a program that would be instructive and interesting to every one interested in

4 4 Report of the Kansas State [Bull. 183 improving the horses of our State. With this in mind the following program was arranged: PROGRAM. Morning Session, January 2. President's Address...Hon. H. W. Avery, Wakefield, Kan. The Horse Plague-Probable Causes and Preventive Measures...Dr. F. S. Schoenleber, Manhattan. Afternoon Session. The Practical Application of Scientific Principles of Horse Breeding Frank B. Graham, Kansas City, Mo.. Editor American Breeder. General Discussion of the Breeding Problems. Evening Session. A Draft Horse Futurity for Kansas Breeders.... I. D. Graham, Topeka, Kan. Live Stock Editor Kansas Farmer. The Outlook for the Horse Breeding Industry.. Wayne Dinsmore, Chicago, Ill. Secretary Percheron Society of America. Morning Session, January 3. The Horse Exhibit at the County Fair J. M. Rodgers, Beloit, Kan. Secretary Mitchell County Breeders' Association. What a State Fair Ought to Mean to the Horse Breeders of Kansas Hon. A. L. Sponsler, Hutchinson, Kan.. Afternoon Session. Horse Breeding in Continental Europe Chas. R. Kirk, St. Joseph, Mo. Judging Draft Horses. Evening Session. The Stallion Law and the Farmer C. W. McCampbell, Manhattan, Kan. Business Session. Secretary Live Stock Registry Board. As President Avery had not arrived at the time for the opening session, Mr. J. A. Gifford was appointed temporary chairman. There was an insistent demand that Mr. Gifford address the association. In responding to this demand, Mr. Gifford gave some very practical and helpful suggestions. Mr. Avery arrived at the close of Mr. Gifford's talk and gave a short but splendid talk, laying special stress upon the value of a strong horse-breeders organization and the bright outlook for the horse-breeding industry. Mr. J. O. Williams, of Fort Collins, Colo., was unable to be present. Mr. Williams has charge of the government horse-breeding experiment at Fort Collins in which the government is seeking to develop an American carriage horse. The harness horse men are very much interested in this experiment and were greatly disappointed when it was learned that Mr. Williams could not be present.

5 Oct. 1912] Live Stock Registry Board 5 Dr. F. S. Schoenleber took Mr. Williams place upon the program and gave a very instructive talk on the recent horse plague. He confined his discussion mostly to possible causes and preventive measures. At the opening of the afternoon session, January 2, Mr. Frank B. Graham, editor of the American Breeder, gave a talk on The Practical Application of Scientific Principles of Horse Breeding. Over forty per cent. of the mares bred fail to produce living foals, and this condition is almost entirely due to improper care and attention either to the mares or to the stallions or to both. Mr. Graham s practical discussion of methods of getting mares to settle should have been heard by every mare owner and stallion owner in the State. Mr. Graham. does not present theories, he presents demonstrated facts. Mr. Graham s address was followed by a general discussion of the horsebreeders problems. Not less than forty horsemen took part in these discussions, and the exchange of ideas and suggestions was helpful and appreciated by all present. At this time the following committees were appointed and instructed to report at the business session, January 3: 1. Comniittee on revision of the stallion license law and stallion service collection law: George B. Ross, Sterling, Chairman. J. G. Arbuthnot, Cuba. C. M. Crandall. Barnes. 2. Committee on Resolutions: H. X. Holdeman, Meade, Chairman. T. H. Terry, Bavaria. J. M. Rodgers, Beloit. 3. Committee on Draft Horse Futurity at State Fair: J. G. Arbuthnot, Cuba, Chairman. George E. Ross, Sterling. C. W. McCampbell, Manhattan. At the Thursday evening session Mr. I. D. Graham presented the subject, A Draft Horse Futurity for Kansas Breeders. He presented very forcibly the value of the colt show and insisted that the colt show must be encouraged and promoted at the county and the State fairs. This paper was followed by a very able and inspiring address by Mr. Wayne Dinsmore, secretary of the Percheron Society of America, on the subject. The Outlook for the Horse Breeding Industry. There is not a man in the country to-day who is in closer touch with the actual existing horse conditions than Mr. Dinsmore, and his forceful, clean-cut, unbiased discussion of the subject was of inestimable value to every one present. Every horseman in Kansas, as well as every county fair director or manager, should have heard the splendid paper by Mr. J. M. Rodgers on the subject, The Horse Exhibit at the County Fair. He discussed the subject under three heads: first, how to get a good horse exhibit; second, what shall we do with it after we get it; third, what does a good exhibit mean to the exhibitor and to the community. Mr. A. L. Sponsler was not able to present his subject in person, so Mr. George B. Ross read his excellect paper on, What a State Fair Ought to Mean to the Horse Breeders of Kansas.

6 6 Report of the Kansas State [Bull. 183 At the Friday afternoon session Mr. Charles R. Kirk, of St. Joseph, Mo., gave a talk on the subject, Horse Breeding in Continental Europe. Having spent about half of each year in Europe since 1889 buying horses and studying the methods of European horse producers, he has the information first hand. This, coupled with his pleasing personality and delightful manner of expressing his ideas, made his address one of the most interesting, entertaining, and instructive of the entire session. One thing in particular that he emphasized was patience in our horse-breeding operations and more careful and thoughtful selection of our breeding horses, At the close of Mr. Kirk s address, all present adjourned to the College judging pavilion, where the horsemen organized into a class in stock judging. The first class of horses was composed of four pure-bred Percheron mares and the second class was composed of four imported weanling Percherons. These horses belong to the Department of Animal Husbandry of the College. The horsemen were given twenty minutes to look over each class, and then they were placed by a committee consisting of Mr. George B. Ross, Mr. Chas. R. Kirk, and Mr. J. A. Gifford. Each of these gentlemen offered some very valuable and helpful suggestions on the judging of horses. At the close of the judging hour the association was taken by Prof. W. A. Cochel, head of the Department of Animal Husbandry, to visit the College barns and herds. At the opening of the Friday evening session, the subject The Stallion Law and the Farmer was presented by C. W. McCampbell, of Manhattan. It was the aim of this paper to show the immense good this law has done, especially for the farmer who is a mare owner. The law has almost entirely eliminated misrepresentations from stallion advertisements, and it has eradicated from Kansas the grafting stallion peddler who formerly sold as purebreds hundreds of grade stallions with fake and fraudulent pedigrees. Under this law the mare owner has a means of knowing just what he is patronizing and the prospective stallion purchaser may know just what he is buying. The first business was the report of committees. The committee on revision of the stallion license law made the following report, which was adopted: Whereas, the purpose of the present stallion license law is to offer protection and encouragement to both mare owners and stallion owners of the State, and, Whereas, such protection is absolutely necessary to the best interests of the horse-breeding industry of the State, and, Whereas, the State Live Stock Registry Board, whose duty it is to enforce this law, is greatly handicapped because of lack of authority and specific powers, Be it resolved, That the Kansas Horse Breeders Association, in session January 2-3, 1913, most respectfully requests and urges. that the incoming State legislature amend the present stallion law so as to provide for: First, four classes of licenses: (1) Pure-bred; (2) cross bred; (3) grade; (4) scrub. Second, renewal of licenses each year. Third, specific power upon the part of the State Live Stock Registry Board to recognize stud books doing an honorable, creditable, and reputable busi-

7 Oct Live Stock Registry Board 7 ness and to discriminate against said books doing a dishonest and fraudulent business. Fourth, specific power upon the part of the State Live Stock Registry Board to revoke licenses for just cause Fifth, a more simple and more practicable method of incorporating information contained in licenses in stallion advertisements. Sixth, specific and definite wording of all sections of the stallion law. Be it further resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be published in the live stock papers of the State, and that a copy be mailed to each member of the incoming legislature. This committee also made the following report on the stallion lien law, and the report was endorsed by the association: Whereas, the present stallion lien law fails to protect the stallion owner as it should, Be it resolved, That the Kansas Horse Breeders' Association most respectfully requests and urges the incoming legislature to repeal the present law and substitute therefor the following: A stallion or jack owner shall have lien on mare and offspring for eighteen months from the time last bred to said stallion, providing stallion owner file list of mares bred with the register of deeds within six months from time of breeding. Fees for the first list shall be fifty cents; for each succeeding list filed the same year, twenty-five cents. Any person, persons, firm, company or corporation who shall trade, exchange, or remove from the State any mare bred to a stallion or jack, without the written consent of the owner of such stallion or jack, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction in any court of competent jurisdiction shall be fined not less than $20 nor more than $50 for each offense. The draft horse futurity committee could not report any definite plans, so this committee was made a permanent committee with instructions to continue its work for the best interests of the horse breeders of Kansas. The following resolutions were reported and adopted: 1. Endorsing Pres. H. J. Waters for secretary of agriculture. 2. Endorsing J. M. Rodgers, of Beloit, for State sanitary commissioner. 3. Urging the incoming legislature to make the Agricultural College appropriation liberal enough to allow the College officials to meet the offers of other states and thus retain the efficient men at the Kansas Agricultural College. 4. Urging the legislature to give the voters of Kansas an opportunity to vote on a State fair location at the primaries held in August, Urging that the legislature provide for a proper Kansas exhibit at tho International Dry Farming Congress. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, Geo. B. Ross, Sterling. Vice-president, First Congressional District, B. P. Waggener, Atchison. Vice-president, Second Congressional District, A. E. Smith, Lawrence. Vice-president, Third Congressional District, J. W. Jones, Girard. Vice-president, Fourth Congressional District, J. H. Lee, Harveyville. Vice-president, Fifth Congressional District, W. H. Rhodes, Manhattan. Vice-president, Sixth Congressional District, M. A. Smith, Cawker City.

8 8 Report of the Kansas State [Bull. 183 Vice-president, Seventh Congressional District, Geo. B. Allen, Meade. Vice-president, Eighth Congressional District, J. C. Robison, Towanda. Secretary, C. W. McCampbell, Manhattan. Treasurer, H. N. Holdeman, Meade. After the election of officers and the transaction of the general routine of business, the association adjourned. This meeting was the best attended and most enthusiastic ever held. The program was the best ever arranged. Every discussion was a valuable and instructive one and thoroughly appreciated by everyone present. Kansas needs a strong, well-organized horse breeders association, and all that is needed to make the present association such a one is the co-operation and support of every progressive Kansas horseman. With this co-operation and Support, the Kansas Horse Breeders Association will become a powerful factor in improving the horses of the State. Let s get together and boost. Join the association and get your neighbor to join. If you own purebred stallions or pure-bred mares, you are eligible to membership without dues. If you love a horse but do not own either a pure-bred stallion or a pure-bred mare, you are eligible to membership and it will cost you only one dollar a year. Send in your name at once, together with the number of pure-bred horses you own. Don t forget that the Kansas Horse Breeders Association, will hold its next annual meeting at Manhattan during the Christmas holidays. Begin now to plan to be present and bring one, two or half a dozen of your neighbors with you. C. W. McCAMPBELL, Secretary.

9 Oct. 1912] Live Stock Registry Board 9 CONCLUSIONS. 1. Oats proved to be a better feed for work horses, especially during the hot summer weather, than corn when fed with timothy or prairie hay. 2. Corn and oats proved more valuable than corn alone, but not so valuable as oats alone. 3. Other feeds may be substituted entirely for oats in a ration with good results, and with some reduction in cost. 4. Certain other feeds may be substituted entirely for oats in a ration with good results, and with a very marked reduction in cost.

10 10 Report of the Kansas State [Bull Corn, when fed with the proper amount of alfalfa hay of the right quality, gave as good results as a ration of oats and prairie hay, and was one-third cheaper. 6. Barley has practically the same feeding value as oats, but the cost makes its use prohibitive under Kansas conditions. 7. There is but little difference between bran and alfalfa meal so far as food value is concerned. The physical properties and cost of alfalfa meal make it an undesirable feed for work horses. 8. One pound of old-process linseed meal, equalled, in feeding value, four pounds of bran when both were fed with corn, oats, and prairie hay. 9. Timothy proved to be of slightly more value than prairie hay as a roughage. 10. Alfalfa hay, when properly fed, is a much more valuable roughage than either timothy or prairie hay, and reduces the cost of daily ration from twenty-five to thirty-five per cent. when substituted for prairie or timothy hay and fed with corn and oats. 11. While every ration fed may be looked upon as a more or less satisfactory one, so far as the ability of the animals to stand hard work and to maintain their weight and general good health was concerned, some were exceptionally well adapted for horses at hard work, particularly the following rations: Oats 4 pounds, corn 6 pounds, bran 4 pounds, timothy hay 12 pounds. Corn 6 pounds, bran 3 pounds, linseed meal 1 pound, prairie hay 14 pounds. Oats 2 pounds, corn 8 pounds, alfalfa hay 10 pounds. Oats 4 pounds, corn 6 pounds, lineeed meal 1 pound, prairie hay 12 pounds. Oats 12 pounds, prairie hay 14 pounds, Each of these rations represents the amounts fed to a horse in one day. The horses averaged about 1150 pounds in weight 12. Although it is not a cheap one, the ration made up of corn six parts, oats four parts, bran four parts, and timothy hay, is probably the best ration that can be fed a work horse. 13. The combination of corn and alfalfa hay is the cheapest ration that can be fed to a work horse in Kansas, and is one of the best when properly fed. 14. No digestive disturbances could be attributed to any ration used in this experiment. 15. The horses that were fed bran, linseed meal, or alfalfa hay showed the best condition. 16. Horses that were fed an oat ration did not show any more spirit than those that received corn. 17. Spirit and endurance depend more upon the amount and quality of the feed than upon the particular kind of feed. 18. The cost of the grain amounts to from sixty to seventy per cent. of the total cost of the ration. 19. This experiment shows that a nutritive ratio of about 1:8 is most satisfactory when the roughage consists principally of timothy or prairie hay. 20. The general health and condition of work horses is greatly influenced by the regularity and the manner of feeding.

11 Oct. 1912] Live Stock Registry Board Ability to determine individual peculiarities of the animals plays an important part in successful feeding. A detailed discussion of this experiment will soon be published in bulletin form, and anyone wishing to secure a copy may do so by sending his address to the Live Stock Registry Board, Manhattan, Kan.

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