Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-07-20
JOSEPH BATTELL,
MiddleburY, Vt.
VARIOUS NOTES

SO good horse as Mack ought to
have mechanic to train and drive HIM
II Mirror & Farmer.
As the fly season is at hand it is well
to know, says an exchange, that smart
weed. which grows almost everywhere
boiled with water into a strong decOction
and applied to the animals with sponge
over the entire body, will eflectually
keep all fly pests away. The effect lasts
about twenty-fo hours and during that
period no insects trouble the animal.
1t is a fact not generally known that
the death of President Carnot means a
serious blow to the trotting horse in
terests of America. 1t was the late
presidents pet scheme to place Ameri-
can trottlng sires at the head of the
French national harems. lie was en-
thusiastic over the American trOtting
horse. He had commissioned competent
experts to visit the breeding districts of
America to obtain the best material 1t
is to be hoped that the new president
may take as much interest in the horse
interest of France as the late lamented
Carnot.
Capt. Phil. Kidd tells the following
story: Eighteen years ago, when | sold
old Ethan Allen under the hammer in
Kentucky, he stood under Il canopy of
American flags, and It was beautiful
sight. Gen. Grant was on his western
tour at the time, and as soon as he ar
rived in town he jumped INTO carriage
and drove out to the sale, and once there
he got into the wagon TO which Ethan
Allen was hitched, and drove him
around the track" The captain added :
s'The stallion was then % years old, and
only brought 81 800, but it showed how
much Gen. Grant was Interested. = EX-
change.
In survey of the business status The
Western Horseman says: Every pound
of wool that has been clipped this year
has lost one-third of its value. Every
domestic animal in the country has been
scaled down in price. Every bushel of
wheat has lost from one fourth to one
third of Its former value. In short, the
shrinkage in values that can not be arith-
metically stated has probably been even
greater than the aggregate of the large
items given above. The trotting horse
Industry can not be singled out as stand
ing separately and alone as a victim of
stringent times. 1t has not suffered more
than any other business in fact the truth
is it has withstood the ravagng effects
of the panic much better than majority
of other lines of industry"
NJ. I. drattan, Preston, Mimi, writes
an exchange; "While most stations are
idle in this section, .lIerod is doing as
much as D horse in his t.ilrtieth year
should, and Bay McGregor is getting
more mares than ever before. Among
the notable outside mares being bred to
Herod is the beautiful and speedy white
mare Cynthia, which Colonel King used
TO drive with Jenny l.. Colonel King,
is also breeding her daughter by Red
Chieftan to HerOd. The patronage ac-
corded the old horse is no doubt due to
his being Morgan of the Morgans, and
that. by virtue of this fact, his progeny
possess the qualities that many buyers
turn to the Hackneys for. 1t should be
borne in mind that the greatest of the
Hackney tribe are descendants of the
Morgan trOtter Shepherd +. Knapp"
j. G. Spaulding contributes to an eX-
change an interesting article on Shop
herd f. Knapp, in which he says; 81
first saw Shepherd F. Knapp in 1853,
then two years old, soon after he was
purchased from Silas Mitchell of Turner
by the Russell brothers of Buckield.
At that time the colt would apparently
weigh 1000 pounds and stand fifteen
hands and two or three inches high.
He was a remarkably well developed
colt and looked more like a three or
four-year-od than twO-year old. So
remarkable was the development of this
colt that | was little incredulOus about
his age till | examined his mouth and
discovered he had lost none of his colt
teeth. | think the colt could then show
a three-minute gait, and as pure, hand
some trOtting gait as had ever seen.
Silas Mitchell bought this colt as a
weanling from George Smell of Turner,
Maine, who bred the colt. The Russell
brothers paid Mitchell 5000 for him in