San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-01-20

were Satisfactory 10 everybody con-
cerned.
The biggest four legged hog at the
Worlds fair was a boar weighing actu-
ally about $40 pounds, though the fairy
tales in circulation about him claimed
1900.
Foot rot is apt to attack sheep that
pasture long at time on low, wet
lands.
Ten ewes and a blooded ram make
good beginning for the small farmer
who wants to go into sheep. In two
years at most the blood must be changed
and new ram procured.
Are There Too Many Trotters9
"Are there too many trotters in the
country?' asked breeder the other day.
That depends upon what standpoint the
matter is looked at from. So far as the
earning capacity of the average first
class trotter is commemorative good
ones, mind you, not the failures-it is
not worth talking about. Since the trot-
ting campaign of 1893 opened 1t has been
an everyday occurrence for large fields
of horses, every one of which could beat
2:30, and quite number of which were
capable Of a mile in 2:20, to start for
purses of $500 or 800. 1t is on record
that mile close to 2:12 has been trotted
for $500 purse, and in the faster classes
on the programmes this summer the
number of heats better than geo where
the consideration in the way of purse
was remarkably small would mount up
into the scores.
Down at LaPorte, Ind, for instance
on the Fourth of July, there was a free
to all race for $500 purse. So good
horse as Jalisco was the winner, but he
had to step the opening mile in 2:2Ot and
the second in 2:19t. By winning the
race he received first money, $3.50, out of
which came 10 per cent entrance fee of
$50, making the net sum paid to the best
horse $120. To get the animal in shape
for a first class performance such an
one as would win, it was necessary that
he should reach the track at least two
days ahead of the race.
1t costs something to ship horses, and
then there is a driver and rubber who
must be paid all the time, and altogether
it is pretty hard to figure out how the
owner of horse that wins $500 purses
is going to make both ends meet in his
horse speculation. The trouble is there
is so much trotting that the purses must
necessarily be small at nine-tenths of
the places where meetings are given, for
the simple reason that the attendance is
bound to be moderate and the gate re-
ceipts correspondingly light.
One trouble is that man with a 2:20
trotter or 2:15 PAGER will generally keep
campaigning such an animal at a loss
rather than sell him for road use at the
price the market offers. Everybody
who has had to do with the trotting
turf knows this-knows that there is
never a meeting, big or small, but that
some unfortunate-more likely half a
dozen of him-must be assisted. by
friendly hands to reach 1.-THE next town."
where IN have pretty good horse and
get piece of the purse"
What owners want to learn is to sell
the first time fair price is offered, re-
membering that even what most of them
would consider the insultingly small
amount of 81 900 is better to have in the
house than 2:2O trotter that can hardly
keep even when he wins while as soon
as he is out of the first fight there is a
big deficit every week. The times are
such that prices running well into the
thousands will no longer be given for
road horses unless the speed and other
qualities are of an exceptional charac-
ter. There are entirely too many 2:30,
2:20 and 2:15 horses produced every year
for the price of them not to be affected.
1t is not so very many years ago that the
entire 2:80 list did not contain as many
names as there were trotters beat 2:80
last season for the first time. That tells
the story. There is a good market for
trotting speed right now, when every
body admits that times are hard, but 1t
is at prices consistent with the facts In