Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1869 [PAGE 303]

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289 Mr. WHITE—What is a thoroughbred horse ? Mr. OOLMAN—If the gentleman knows what thoroughbreds are, there is no difference between a thoroughbred horse and a thoroughbred bull. We trace all our thoroughbreds back to the English racehorse, and they take theirs back to the Arabian. ^ There is a great difference between thoroughbred animals. I would give a hundred times more for some animals than for others. Old Boston never had his equal; and so with Lexington, and perhaps we may say the same of Red Eye. Mr. BURROWS—Let me ask Mr, Colman if there is not a thoroughbred draft horse ? You have spoken only of speed horses. Mr. COLMAN—It is not so regarded. None but race horses are considered thoroughbred. Mr. BURROWS—The lecturer, in speaking of crossing horses, said that if we crossed a large stallion with a small mare we got a wishawashy horse. That I believe to be a good principle in certain classes of stock. But can we cross in that way for training stock if we are to get that which is good for nothing ? Mr. COLMAN—I regret that the gentleman was not in to hear what I said on that subject. This is the very position that I take. The point of my talk was that we should have, as farmers, horses good for all purposes, and if with this we can get the trotting action, so much the better. The farmer does not want to train horses, but he does wrant horses combining all good qualities. My friend is very far wrong in supposing that thoroughbred has any reference to draft horses. Mr. EICE—Are "thoroughbred" and "full blood" terms signifying the same thing ?

Mr. COLMAN—Not at all, sir.

Mr. WOODS—As I understand the term thoroughbred, it is a specific term, and not generic. If you make it a generic term, then you may speak of thoroughbred draft horses, but as a specific term you cannot.

DR. WARDER'S LECTURE ON THE GRAPE VESTR

T H E GROWING V I N E .

The lecturer considered first the growing vine. In the growing vine there is commenced an extension of growth called a " shoot." The shoot is at first soft and sappy, not having yet deposited any fibrous matter. As growth advances woody matter is deposited and we have the strong canes of the vine.

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