Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-12
a.eeainn and Fitttna il. minnesota.

F2reeding and Fitting in Minnesota
The Pioneer Press of Monday last con-
tanned the following, the authorship OF
which is attributed to Mr.. H. G. Finkle, OF
Moorhead:
MooRHEAD. Mimi, Feb. IL was very sorry
IN Soc in last Mondays GLOBE report of
Midway stables. 1t only depends on how large
n circulation the GLOBE has as TO the amount OF
iniurv done the breeders of trottlng horses III
This state. The idea that Minnesota has TO seau
her stock south in the winter IS blg adTertlse-
mont for the state | think Ii Dir. hlttson
would take the stove out of his stable ne woulu
not have as much sickness. 1t Is the IaulG Vi
his men and not the climate. My stock has been
ont doors all winter. mean by that, IN YARD
davfimes and in stables at night, and don
know what it is to have horse SICK; ana Will
show Won, il Chicago gives purse LOT TWO year
Odds III july, whether we have to send our horses
ont of the state to fit them. have tWo-year-
cd 6Il,. IS she does not 90 wrong before July,
and if Chicago hangs out purse Tor tWo-year-
Odds Will make Woodmansee aud Splan THINK
thew are too far south now to MT horses Iake
their stables of horses to kentucky 10 III! Dull
From his acquaintance with Mr.. ID. G'
Finkle-rather limited, it is true-the
turf editor of the GLOBE had received the
impression that he was man OF goou
Judgment, not given to forming hasty
conclusions, and always trying to be talr.
AS all three of these qualities were lacking
in the person who inspired the above ex-
tract. the GLOBE is forced to the opinion
that Mr.. Finkle is not the author, or the
impression formed of him entirely wrong.
For the present we prefer to believe the
first superstition, for no person, not
anxious to do the GLOBE injury, and to be
willing to entirely misrepre
sent it to accomplish that result,
could have made the statements
found in it in reference to the Midway
horses being removed to 'Kentucky to
ft.n The GLOBE never made any such
statement. The GLOBE, after stating the
number of sick in the stable, and the fact
that new cases were developing every day
or two, said the management were consid-
ering the propriety of removing those an
finals being fitted for the great contests of
the coming season, away from contact with
the disease, by sending them south. Here
is the GLOBE statement pure and simple:
The fact that horses continue to be stricken
with the disease new cases appearing every day
Messrs Woodmansee and John Splan, who has
the trotters and PAGERS in charge. SO far, as
stated above, only Lady Rolfe of those it was
proposed to fit for the big circuits, have been
afflicted but there is the ever present dread that
the disease may be extended to the other trot-
tiers, and the ACCESSIBILITY of shipping the entire
string to Kentucky is being considered Com.
Kittson, who is in Chicago, has been cOmmuni-
Gated with and given full details, and IN answer
telegraphed the Messrs. Woodmansee that they
must be governed by their own judgments as to
treatment, etc, and it is very probable, should
not the disease be checked where 1t now IS, the
racing string Will be shipped into kentucky at
once,
Not word or most remote intimation
that the removal was to be made because
the horses could be better or earlier fitted
in Kentucky than in Minnesota, but SIM
ply that, exercising the same precautions
men do in their own cases when able, at
times when dangerous forms OF disease
have become epidemic, run away from 1t,
the horses intended for campaign
ing were removed from contact with the
SICK ones. Just this and nothing
more. The removal that was then being
considered, as the GLOBE stated, has now
been made, and however much it is to be
regretted for more reasons than one, the
GLOBE endorses it. Perhaps few shallow
pated persons may attempt to use the oc-
currence to show that Minnesota Is not
well adapted to the breeding and training
of trotters. Then, so much the worse for
the shallow pated, because any attempt to
build up prejudice against
Minnesota, as breeding
state, based upon the shallow pretext
that few horses being fitted for the turf
had been removed from stable full of
sick horses, and in which new cases were
continually developing, will but react upon
the authors of the SANDER. When the ad-
vantages offered by Minnesota, in cheap
lands, pure water, succulent grasses and
healthful climate, for the breeding, rearing
and developing the trotter in his best
form is questioned, the GLOBE will not be
found wanting, but it will not stoop TO the
contemplate meanness of misrepresenta-
ton to make it appear that such an attack
has been made upon the state, for the
sole purpose of Wanting its own loyalty,as
was done by the author of the extract in
question, whoever he may be.
The fling in the extract at the men in
charge of the sta ole is even more unGener-
Gus ana uncalled for than the nisreDresen-
tation of the GLOBE That the prevailing
illness Is due IN large degree to defects
in the stable is undoubted, but the man
agement is in no'way responsible for this.
1t is one of the largest, if not the largest
stable under one roof in the United States.
1t is in the form of Greek cross, having
a total length of 24O feet by $50 feet in
width, and height ranging from 60 to
10 feet, furnishing space
large enough to hold ten such
stables as that in which Mr.. Finkle
keeps his stock. 1t is pierced by seventy
four windows besides large sill
ding doors in the four wings. In mild
winter like that of year ago, the building
was found admirably adapted for the hous
ing of stock, all tie horses corning out in
the spring in as near perfect condition as
they well could be. The present winter,
as all know, has been the severest for
many years, and has developed the fact
that the building has too many air holes,
by which too great a draft was caused,
lining the interior of the walls with frost
when the coolest which in turn, in milder
weather produced dampn ess, giving the
horses colds terminating in lung fever,
from which a large portion of the
horses have been sufferers. For this