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Ten Years of Hoosier Horse Improvement

Purdue University

Abstract

When the Hoosier Gold Medal Colt Club was started in the fall of 1925, by the Purdue University Department of Agricultural Extension, in cooperation with the Indiana Livestock Breeders' Association, it had exactly 137 weanling colts. From that modest beginning, the Club has grown steadily until it had 1,273 colts nominated for 1935, its tenth year, and has 1,487 nominated for 1936. The tenth year of this state-wide adult Club was fittingly climaxed at the 1935 Indiana State Fair when the Percheron Stallion Reserve Championship and the Belgian Mare Grand Championship fell to Gold Medal Colt Club productions.

These honors were won by Baryton's Milton, a two-year-old Percheron stallion bred by Paul Ferris and exhibited by the J. C. Penney Gwinn Farm, and by the two-year-old Belgian mare, Jeannine, bred and exhibited by Clifford Eller.

The first objective of the Gold Medal Colt Club is to encourage farmers to properly feed and care for their well bred colts throughout the critical period of twelve months starting during the nursing period. Club members are required to put on gains of at least 650 pounds, and are encouraged to do it with oats, bran and legume hay, accompanied by abundant daily outdoor exercise. Great stress is laid on proper trimming of feet and abundant daily outdoor exercise to insure development of good feet and legs.