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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-07-24
Horse Notes.
American Cultivator.l

From American Cultiyator.
Who of our readers can give us any
information concerning Green Noun
tain Eagle, the reputed sire of the dam
of Prince Allen (2.26 10y?
A correspondent of the Transcript,
who has lately furnished an interesting
article concerning Robert Bonner's
trotters, gravely states that Mr.. Bon
ner believes that Majolica (2.1O may
give birth to youngster that will
lower even the record of Maud S. This
will, doubtless, remind the owner of
Maud S of the Southern gentleman
who wrote for price on the wonder
full trotter Joe Elliott which he wished
TO purchase for stock horse. The
trotting gelding Maiolica is as well
suited for brood purposes as the geld.
ing Joe Elliott was for stock horse.
DR.. III. G.. Brigham, Montpelier, VT,
mentions several cases of prolonged
CESSATION that have come under his OBJ
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servation this season in mares. One
belonging to Mr.. Harry Lowe carried
her foal one year and eleven days !;
another went eleven months and twen-
ty-nine days; another eleven months
and twenty-four days, and another,
which had then run eleven months and
twenty seven days, bid fair to prolong
the period week or two more. Such
cases are seldom met with. Abraham
has been bred to between forty and
fifty mares so far this season, and is in
the best of condition.
The popularity of fashionably-bred
Wilkes stock in Vermont can be imag-
ined from the fact that the services of
the promising Fairvale stallion Incent-
i've have already been fully engaged for
the season of 1886, the limit being
placed at twenty.
Out of forty-one mares bred to Geo.
Wilkes, jr., at the Wilkes Stock Farm
so far this season, only two have been
returned. Can any establishment show
better record? A five-months-old
by Geo. Wilkes, jr,, stands fourteen
hands high and is remarkably well-de-
velOped all over, and one of the best
shaped youngsters that can be found.
Its dam stands barely fifteen hands
high. Al twelve months old the colt
will be as large as his dam, which is a
daughter of Daniel Lambert.
Phyllis, which opened the campaign
brilliantly by lowering her record to
Ply Ia, is reported not quite herself
just now, but it is thought that she will
round to again later in the season. She
is evidently not in very poor form judg-
ing from her race at Detroit, Mich, on
the I'd inst, where she trotted against
Clemmie G. (2.l5 10y, Wilson GIG.
LAY and Felix. winning first and Sec
ond heats in 2.20 1-2, 2.17 "a, respect
Wilson in 21S -, after which Glenn
mic G. won the race, capturing fourth,
fifth and sixth heats in 2.lS -, PIG.
3.4, 2.1S -. Second money went to
Phyllis. The time of the last heat is
the best ever made in the sixth heat of
trotting race, which is another brill
liant achievement to the credit of rep
resentative of the Clay family. Glenn
mie G.. is a large, powerful chestnut
mare, foaled in 1877, got by Magic, he
by American Clay, he by Strader's
Cassius NJ Clay, jr., by Cassius NJ.
Clay, son of old Henry Clay. The
dam of Clemmie G. was Ned, by Berk-
ley's Edwin Forrest. Ned is also the
dam of Post Boy CPS 1-4) by Magic,
Alice Stoner (2.25 l.2), by Strathmore
and Mystery (2.25 l-4). by Magic. At
the close of last season, being then on
ly in her seven-year.old form, Glenn
mic G. was credited with record of
2.l5 1-2 and forty-eight heats won in
2.3O or better.
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Sorsc Department.

The steadily-growing popularity of the
Morgan horse. and the increasing demand
for animals bred from the best existing
lines OF that blood, with pedigrees that can
be vouched for as authentic, has led the ed
itors OF this department to undertake tine
collection and verifcation as far rs posi-
BILE, OF Morgan pedigrees from the time of
the original Justin Morgan to the present.
In connection with this work we are also
investigating the pedigrees of all trotting
horses that have proved their powers of en-
durance by trotting fifty or more public
and recorded races each. We have already
received from original sources a large
amount of important information in both
these lines, much of which will be given in
these columns. For the completion of our
work, which will be published IN book
form, we want pedigree, description and
history of every meritorious stallion de-
scended in direct male line from Justin Nor
gan that has ever been used for stock pur-
poses. Blanks for this information will be
furnished free on application. Questions of
public interest concerning Morgan horses
will be answered in this department All
communications in this department may be
addressed to W, H. Bliss, Rochester, Vt.
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the country are interested in having
these revenue laws rigidly and honest
ly enforced, whatever they may be.
We produced in this country $780,
100000 pounds of wool or thereabout.
The consumption of this country, al
though | cannot state exactly what it
will be, will be more than $50, 100000
or $50, 100000 pounds. With the i'm
ports there will be total of 375, 000,-
600 pounds of wool in this country, so
that you see that with what you pro-
duce, with what has already been i'm
ported, there must be surplus of wool
left over unused this year as there was
last. 1t is this surplus that Is forcing
prices down year after year. Never
was so much pulled wool in the market
as now, as | understand it. That is
owing to two reasons: First, wool
has been growing cheaper and cheaper
since the last two years, since our pres
eDt tariff law was enacted and men
have neglected their flocks. Many
have died. In my own country thous-
ands upon thousands of sheep have
been slaughtered and their flesh fed to
the hogs, their pelts going INTO market.
How can you compete, gentlemen,
with wool which can be grown in
Australia, as it is said now, and put
down in the docks of Australia at from
to cents pound? You simply can
not do it; it cannot be done, and the
English government ls so managing its
Australian possessions as to make their
vast public domain an enormous wool
growing country. They have peren-
NAL pastures there. There is little of
expense, except simply the price of the
flock, little washing and the cost of
shearing and taking the wool to dock.
England desires to obtain control of
the wool market of the world. She de.
sires to monopolize, as she will, unless
our government takes action upon this
question within the near future; she
will monopolize the wool markets of
the world and will exact whatever
price for wool she chooses in case of
war.
Why, gentlemen, the wool-growers'
associations are not actuated entirely
by selfish motives in the movement
that they are making. OF course it
would be destroyed or its value greatly
impaired. 1t produced, or has in the
past, 800, 900 annually in the value
of wool and S40,000,000 for mutton
raised, making $40 100000 of produce
tons for the United States for year.
We might raise something else, and,
with great loss, we might go into other
industries; but gentlemen, remember
one thing, wool is more important as
an element of defence in the United
States in case of war than even powder
and arms. [Applause.] You may
make guns, you may make powder,
upon very short notice, but you can
not grow flocks and produce wool up
on short notice."
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FOOt-ROt In Sheep.

1t is far easier to prevent foot-rot
than to cure it. Once, in the writer's
experience, we had it in large flock
of sheep for two years. We finally
cured it, but it was a tough Job, and
we have had wholesome dread of 1t
ever since. We now keep gallon
jug of carbolic acid always at hand, and
whenever sheep is lame, or the hoofs
need pairing, we apply, with brush, a
little crude carbolic acid to the feet.
Two or three times year we make a
business Of going over the whole flock
and give liberal application of car
bolic acid to every hoof. We have had
but one case of genuine foot-rot since
we adopted this practice, now more
than dozen years ago. This one case
was easily cured. For cure or proven.
ton, we know of nothing better or
cheaper than carbolic acid. Sulphuric
or muriatic acid will answer as well.
Both are cheap, and both useful for
many purposes on the farm, provided
you know how to use them, and take
proper care of them, to prevent acct.
dents. On the first appearance of the
disease, every sheep and lamb, and
every foot, and every hoof, and every
toe, especially the parts between the
toes, should be carefully and thorough
ly wasted with carbolic acid. In two
or three days go over the whole flock
again, if there are any new cases, sep
arate them-not merely for fear of con-
tagion, but for convenience in dressing
them repeatedly.-JoSeph Harris in
american Agricultulist for august.
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Turf Notes.

j. w. Peck, West Cornwall, VT, has
lately sold his yearling colt King Arts
s,by Aristos, son of Daniel Lambert, to
f. A. Bodies of Morish, N. Y, for five
hundred dollars. King Aristos is full
brother to Mr.. Peck's two-year-old
stallion Gold Mine, for which he has
recently refused one thousand dollars.
Gold Mine is entered in the two-year-
old stakes of the Vermont Breeders
Association, where he will try titles
with such promising Youngsters as In
centive by Onward, Star Franklin by
Ben Franklin, Elaine by Auctioneer
and Rocky Mountain by Motion.
In the race at Paramount Park, Fair
Haven, July 4th, between the trottng
horse Il. b. Clark, and the "phenom-
email" PAGER Hiram H., the first two
heats were won by the trotter in 1888.
ii, 2:35 1-2, when the PAGER came to
the front and won three heats and the
race; best time, 2:33.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-07-24

The above cut is an excellent and
faithful likeness by Mr.. Schultz of one
of the most popular horses ever bred in
Vermont. Ben Franklin was foaled in
1S73,the property of his present owner,
Hon. II. II. Cults, proprietor of the
Brookside farm in Orwell; and is there
fore now twelve years old. He is
very dark or black chestnut In color,
stands sixteen hands high and weighs
100 pounds. He has all the high fin
ish and proud bearing of the Black
Hawks, with suggestion in his move
ments of resistless power. His record
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erful black mare by Addison, son
of Vermont Black Hawk; second
dam, daughter of Sir Charles, by Du-
roc, son of imported Diomed. Seven
of the get of Ben Franklin are entered
in the colt stakes, for two, three and
four-year-olds, of the Vermont Horse
Breeders association, to be trotted at
Burlington October and next, a
much larger number than are entered
of the get of any other horse.
Mr.. Cuts is also the proprietor of
Addison Lambert, full brother to Ben
Franklin, whose portrait and descrip-
ton will appear in our next issue.
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Sheep Snfercsf.
The WOOl-GrOwers.

ADDRESS OF HON. GEORGE L. CONVERSE
OF ONO AT THE RECENT ST. LOUIS
MEETING.
"Your honorable commissioner
has suggested that | should speak"
he began, "but | did not ex-
pect to have any suggestions to
make, and what suggestions | may
make are after very little reflection. |
am not familiar with the matter of pub
fishing the report which has been re-
terred to, and therefore, can say moth
ing about it one way or the other ex-
cept that what we need upon this en-
tire subject of wool growing and pro-
lection to wool interests what we
need is all the light we can get from
every source, whether it be from
shows, exhibitions of llocks or of fibre,
or comparing of hands, or reading of
history, or studying of efforts that are
being made abroad to drive us from
the market. No matter from what
source it comes, we want all the infor-
nation and light we can get.
A few weeks ago - four or five weeks
ago-I was at the department of sta
tistics at Washington on other bust
ness and inquired of the chief clerk if
he could give me any statistics upon
the subject Of the importation of wool,
and be furnished me a few items he
then had, and which | consider of very
great importance as adding to the stock
of information necessary for wise and
proper action upon the part of the
wool-growers of the country, as well
g., o,,I ho
part of officers of the government and
the lawmakers of the government.
do not desire it to be said in the
way of criticism or suggestion, but that
it struck me, as our honorable COM
missioner was proceeding with his
close analysis of the subject which he
did present, that that was not the great
question for us now TO consider. The
discussion of evenness of fibre, of its
length, Of its fineness, of purity of
blood, of the evenness of distribution
of the fibre over the body, and all that,
with the necessity of adding to the in
telligence of the people upon this sub
ject-that is not the great oyershadow-
ing question at this time. The ques-
ton is, Shall the wool industry succeed,
or shall we be driven from our own
markets? That is the question. APP
plause. | mean that is the present
question. Those other questions of
vast importance should all come along
a little later.
found, or rather was furnished by
the department, with the following
statement of the importation of woods
during the three-fourths of the present
fiscal year, which closes on the last day
of Juup npyt
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-07-24

of 1929, which is no measure of his
speed,was obtained as six-year-old in
his only season on the turf, when he
trotted through the eastern circuit,
starting in four races, all of which he
won. Previous to this season his SER
vice had been limited, so that when he
returned to the stud at seven years old
he was the sire of but twelve foals in
all, seven of which were dropped in
1873 and five in 1879; none in $780,
But from 1880 to the present his popu-
larity has steadily increased and his
success as stallion has been very re-
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markable. His services have
been in such demand that the
fee was increased until last
year, when it was placed at
one hundred dollars to war;
rant, at which figure it now
stands; yet, notw outstanding
the general scarcity of mon
ey, his patronage continues
TO be extremely large. The
cause of his great success is to
be found in the high breeding
and individual excellence of
the horse, his success as a trot-
ter, and the speed, size, beau
ty and general excellence of
his get, which are such as to
have given them market val
ne second to that of none ever
bred in this State. Ben Frank
Inns breeding is that cross of
Daniel Lambert back upon
stout Black Hawk blood
which has been shown to be
the most successful for speed,
style and endurance of any
cross ever tried in this State.
His sire is Daniel Lambert.
His dam was q large and DOW
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-07-24

A SENSIBLE MAN-would use Kemp's Balsam
for the Throat and Lungs. II is curing more
Group and all Throat and Lung Troubles, than
any other medicine. The proprietor has author
lied l.. Hanaford to refund your money If after
taking three-fourths of bottle, rehef is not OBJ
aimed. Price 90 cents and 81. Trial size free.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-07-24
Centennial Temperance Camp Meeting.

This is the programme of meeting
to which the above name is given, to be
held on Old Fort Ticonderoga, August
12-2O, 1885:
August l2-New York State Temperance society
day. Rev. ii. NJ. King presiding
10 IL. III. Address by Rev. IL, NJ King, ID. ID of
Albany.
?p: m. Address by Rev. J. b. Smith, ID. D.. of
Eyening-Address by Rev. W. c. McAlster of
Plattsburgh
August l5-Gospel Temperance Day. Hon.
Justice Miller OF Troy presiding.
10 a. IN. Address by Hon. Justice Miller and
other speakers to be selected bv himself
p m: Address by IL. Clay Bascomb of Troy,
followed by opening OF Temperance Question
Box" by Joseph Cook and Miss Frances +. will
lard.
Evening-Conierence of temperance workers
Led by Rev Charles Reynolds of Pittsburgh.
August l4-National Woman's Christian TEN
perance Union Day. Miss Frances L. Willard,
president
10 Il. m. Address OF Welcome by Mrs. Sarah
McClees OF 1onkers. Responded to by Miss
Frances +. willard.
Reports from and Organization of Woman's
Christian Temperance union.
. ,. IN. Address by Miss Frances +. willard
of Chicago.
Evening-Eyangelistic services under direc-
August l5-Juvenile day. Miss Anna Gordon
OF BOst on presiding.
10 a. m. and p m. Addresses by Miss Cor
uoH anu olIltTS.
August lG-Troy Conference Temperance Day
Kew u. a. Barrett OF Schenectady presiding.
10 a. m. Sermon by Rev. ID. W. Dayton Of CO.
hoes.
Up. IN. Address by Mrs. Mary Hunt of Bos.
ton.
Evenng-Address by Rev. ID. b. Mckenzie OF
MoOres.
>, August l7-Union Temperance Day. f. Ryan,
Esq, presiding.
10 a. m. Address by f. Ryan, Esq, and Will
lard Snyder OF Troy.
p. m. Address by John z. st. John.
EvenlnS-Address by Rev. q. IL. Thompson of
Granville.
August lS-Centennial day II. Clay Bascomb
of Troy presiding,
10 a. M, Address by Hon. and Rev. &C. Leigh
of Brooklyn.
Ppm. Address by Joseph Cook ofBoston.
Evening-Address by Rev. Joseph Zweifel of
Whitehall.
August 80 Closing day. Rev. Joseph Zweifel
presiding.
10 a. m Address by Rev. W. IL. Boole OF
Brooklyn (eXpected).
Up. m. Address by Hon. Neal Dow of Maine
Services or song and prayer will precede the
regular morning services. The singing will be
under competent leadership. Bring Gospel
hymns,
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PAGERS THAT LOWERED RECORDS.

Eight of the new 2:30 trotters are
Morgans. Several others whose breed
ing is not fully ascertained are likely TO
be proven to belong to the same family.
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A GREAT SURPRIsE--Is in store for all who use
Kemp's Basam for the throat and lungs, the
great guaranteed remedy. Would you believe
that tits sold its merits and that each druggist
is authorized to refund your money bv the pro-
prietor of this wonderful remedy il It fails to cure
you. l.. Hanaford has secured the agency for
1t. Price SOC and 81. Trial size free.
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If you are troubled with a "hacking cough,
Downs Elixir will give you relief at once, War
anted as rec commended or money refunded.
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Temperance.
w. G. T. u

THE Lord of Hosts is aOith as, the God
of Jacob Is our refuge."
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OF ONO AT THE RECENT ST. LOUIS
MEETING,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-10-19

Ex-President Hayes hit it about right, in his
address before the prison reform association,
when he said the great trouble nowadays is not
the punishment of the innocent, but the escape
of the guilty. There was time when the dun
geon was ready resource of the tyrant but
the law now favors the defendant fully as much
rs Is good for the community. If the individual.
by reason OF wealth or station, can command
the full machinery OF legal defense, It is a very
difficult matter TO get him inside the bars, how
syer well he may deserve punishment and con-
straint- 1t does not follow, of course, that
prison discipline should not be just and hui
name, but ii is fully as important that crimi.
mails get their deserts as that they should be
Defended from excessive punishment
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-10-19

Within few years separate literature for
Children mas been developed, and the next stem.
1t seems. is 10 provide them with special class
OF circulating libraries. One of these novel as.
sociations is TO be started in New York citv the
object being to furnish boys and girls with read
Ing matter TO their taste while shutting out
sensational trash. Heretofore this function has
been largely left to tine Sunday school. but IL
must be said that this class of libraries do not
cover the field
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-10-19

A curious feature of the base ball convention
In New York on Saturday was the adoption of
4 rule limiting the salary of players to 81 900 a
season Step by step monied men have built
up a base ball monopoly, which threatens to be
one 1.-THE most harsh and offensive known. It
may De said that $40 is enough to pay for
the skill OF any player. That may be true, but
that Is not the way in which the question OF
wages is commonly decided. In practice q,
course, the rule will be eyaded, as all similar
EFFORTS 10 ignore natural laws Of supply and de-
mand commonly are
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-10-19

The first reports from yesterdays supplement .
tary election in France favor the republicans.
1t is altogether probable that the returns when
completed will show that the progressive ele-
ments have Won the day, though readjust-
ment of the government may be necessary