The morning times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1897, 1895-11-17

which are the model winter carriage horses,
! aud it is hoped Grover Cleveland will al
low his Russian sleigh horses to he present.
| There will be display of carria ge horses
better adapted for the winters than the
Western horses of the plains. The plain
| horse is more enduring in heat and surer
footed, but the Russian pony stands the
winter better, never having pneumonia,
that scourge of the plain horse. Exactly
the right cross between the two has been
found and Will he exhibited.
The Gerhard exhibit should include
prize game cocks, OF which there is such
an assortment that one feels sure the Fitz-
simmons and Corbetts of game cocks are
there. They are great fighters, each being
kept in his own pen, as nothing Will keep
them from "scrapping." They have the
fine, high droop OF tie tail with its sparse
spreading plumes, and they boast the long,
taper neck of the game fowl.
VALUE OF GAME COCKS.
The value of the Live Stock Show, as
applied to common poultry raising spe-
cially, may be shown with the game
cock as an illustrator. The common
rooster sells for So much per pound, ac-
cording tn weight, just So much alive or
dead. The game rooster, on the other
hand, has very great value alive. If
of good stock he is worth from SO up
ward. Trained for the fighting pen he is
worth anywhere up tn 81 600.
The ethical side of the training of these
game fowls has presentation. Ii is claim
ed that the game fowl, trained ready to
fight, is much more perfect than the un-
trained In judging the game cock his
stride, his step, his gait are all taken into
account; hence the increase of value when
he is trained.
George Gould's Siberian hounds, from
Furlough Lodge in the CatskiIls, will be
exhibited These are the genuine Russian
dogs, long haired, slim and very graceful.
The Gould kennel is the finest in the world
many dogs being raised for the markets
and very large assortment of them being
kept at the lodge. They are hunters, fine
watch-dogs, capable of training for house
dogs. and at home in the coolest winters.
They stand the summer quite well and
are the ideal dogs for country places where
manifold duties are expected of mans
best friend"
Every effort is being made TO put the
cattle from Levi p. Morton's country
place. Ellerslie. on exhibition. A few will
be brought down, but the great mass OF
the animals can only be viewed from the
thousand hills of the millionaire politi-
clan nd country gentleman. The truth is
that the cattle have business to attend to
at Ellerslie. As is well known. the milk
and butter from the great stock farm is
contracted for by a certain large hotel,
and the cattle have an appointment at
home 10 supply it,
Aside from the qualification Of owning
such beautiful acres. the Morton pocket
book is greatly swollen by the proceeds.
And this takes one back to The eyer-recur-
ring point of the show, and that is the
value TO the farmer Of letting him
know how much more money can be made
by good stock than by the ordinary head
of cattle whose milk sells cheap and whose
butter never gets above market value, and
whose chiei value is in beef, for which it
is not 50 very excellent after all.