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Voice of the Tennessee Walking Horse
300-Page, Well-Illustrated, Training Book
Can Be Ready By Aug. 25 If Pre-Subscribed
"A 300-page, well-illustrated, com­
prehensive hard-cover Tennessee
Walking Horse training book can be
published and readied for sale at the
1962 Celebration, Aug. 25-Sept. 1,
1962, if its publication costs are forth­
coming immediately at a reduced pre-
publication price,” Ben A. Green of
Shelbyville anno unced May 6.
A lull-page advertisement appears
in this issue of the Voice.
"I will give up all newspaper work
and start devoting full-time to Ten­
nessee Walking Horse projects bv
late this month,” Green announced.
''This means I will have full time for
V oice , the training book, and several
other pressing projects. I think the
greatest depressing factor right now
in the Tennessee Walking Horse in­
dustry is the lack of a comprehensive,
authentic, well-illustrated book on
training, care, riding, feeding, etc. of
the horses in this breed.
"I will take steps at once it ad­
equate purchases are made right now
at S5 per book—for a hardcover book
that will sell at S7.50 when available
for distribution. It will be compar­
able in quality to my Biography of the
Tennessee Walking Horse, except
there will be no four-color picture
therein. There will be more black
and white pictures than in the Biog­
raphy, however.
"This training book will be named
TRAINER STEVE HILL and
SALLY D. Photos of Steve and Sally
D are in the ad and this nature of
the book is explained. There will
Ire also other sections as follows:
" (A) What You Can Learn From
This Book (foreword), by the Au­
thor; (B) How I Train Young Colts,
by S. W. Beech, Jr., of Belfast, Tenn.;
(C) Training For Trail Riding and
All About Trail Rides, by Virginia
Lamb of Sacramento, Calif.; (D)
First Aid for Tennessee Walking
Horses, What an Amateur Can Do
and When to Call For the Doctor,
based on interviews with one of the
best known Tennessee Walking Horse
veterinarians in the business; (E)
Care and Feeding Under All Condi­
tions, based on interviews; (F) Hoof
Values, How to Protect Them, What
Farriers Do, interviews with outstand­
ing professional men in this field: (G)
Genetic Trends in Tennessee Walk­
ing Horses, as found by James R.
Orr, Huntsville, Ala., in his thesis for
a Master of Science Degree at Texas
A. & M. College. He later taught
animal husbandry for six years at
Auburn, Ala.; (H) Where You Can
Help About Everything, a conclusion
by the Author.
“All training book pre-payments
are in a trust fund at the bank where
Sally D's dad (Edward C. Huffman)
is president. They will remain Lhere
until they amount to enough to pub­
lish 5,000 books. We will appreciate
mass purchases of this book . . . and
by mass is meant 10, 20 or maybe 100
to keep, sell or giveaway. You buy
them for S5 and sell for $7.50 and
we invite competition,” Green con­
cluded.
Animal Science
Students Hired
T.asl year, tlie WSU Department of Animal
Science initiated a summer placement pro­
gram for college students, writes Dr. M. E.
Knsmingcr. chairman of the Dept, of Animal
Science at Washington State l niveisity, Pull­
man. Wash. Me says:
Stevenson Chosen
American Walking
Horse Group Head
Alan Stevenson of Utica, N. Y. (P.
O. Box 24), was elected president
of the American Walking Horse Assn,
at its annual convention held recently
in Indianapolis, Ind., succeeding
Maurice Peacock of Snow Hill, Md.
Mrs. Priscilla Marable, 753 Herkimer
Road, Utica, was chosen secretary, to
succeed Mrs. Peacock.
The association also elected several
vice-presidents and directors for sev­
eral states, to climax an interesting
2-day program. More than 200 per­
sons attended, including Tennessee
Walking Horse owners, exhibitors,
trainers and judges. Seventeen states
were represented.
Highlights included a judging
school with demonstrations by Vic
Thompson, Shelbyville, Tenn., riding
“Sun's Celebration,” Marvin Wilson
of Kibler Farms, Mt. Orab, Ohio, on
"Black Rhythm,” and other mounts.
A panel discussion proved most in­
formative.
A standout feature of the judging
school program was a direct compari­
son of a five-gaued horse in action
and a lop Tennessee Walking Horse.
Difference in the gaits were empha­
sized.
Taking part in the various pro­
grams were Board Chairman Herman
Kimscy, Washington; President Pea­
cock: Phin Horton, Jr.; Winston-
Salem, N. C.; Dave Davis, Silver
Spring, Md.; President-elect Steven­
son; Dr. John Bullard of the School
of Veterinary Medicine, Purdue Uni­
versity; Ben A. Green, Shelbyville;
Harold Thomas, urcsident of the In­
dian;! Walking Horse Assn, which co­
sponsored the judging school; Robert
Locke, Ft. Wayne, Ind.; Mrs. Peacock
and Mrs. Helen Shock, Huntington,
Ind., in charge of registration. All
except “eating sessions” took place at
the State Fairgrounds.
“Our reasoning was this: To meet
the deficit in Animal Science students,
we are recruiting for careers in agri­
culture many students who were not
born on a farm. College courses are
rightfully designed primarily to give
scientific training, better to prepare
students to operate the technological
complex that we have developed. But
we must not turn out graduates who
know all about the physiology of
animals, yet who would starve them
to death simply because they do not
know how, where, or when to feed
them.
“Also, training opportunities in
those agribusinesses serving animal
agriculture are needed. Although
salary is not the main objective, many
of these boys and girls (and we have
girls majoring in Animal Science, loo;
and many of them want and need
summer employment) work all or
part of their way through school. As
.a result, summer earnings are impor­ dents are now wanting to firm up
their plans for the summer) write to
tant to them.
"I suspect that the college of uni­ the Dean of your College of Agri­
versity of your state, or of your choice, culture, or to the head of your Animal
would be happy to join hands with Husbandry Department (if they can’t
you in a similar placement program. accommodate you, write to me). In
Thus, if you are willing to take a stu­ addition to providing an opportunity
dent (or students) for training-em­ for students, please remember that
ployment this summer, immediately you would have the privilege of being
(time is of the essence because stu- a teacher for the summer.”