Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-11-24
TRACK AND STABLE GOSSIP.

| The Young chestnut mare owned by
G. +. Pillsbury of Unity which has at
| tracted so much attention this fal! and
| summer has been sold 10 New YORK
parties for something like $3.50. The
| mare was one Of The prettiest in waldo
county ana ~ very promising one. She
/ weighed 1880 pounds and stood 1873
| hands in height. Mr. Pillsbury had
several hattering offers for the horse
| prior to this.
r. H. Pierce, Of Embden. has a string
of good colts, all save one by Broadway
| C2..y). They consist OF one 3-year-old,
| brown and a fine free gated stopper.
| The two 2-year- -olds are bay with black
| name and tail, both good actors. The
other two are gray and are promising.
Mr.. Pierce. will handle them more or
less the coming winter. They're good
| ones.
| NJ. A. DAILY, Of Calais has bought
| from J. NJ. johnson Of that city the
| handsome brown gelding, Joe Gun bred
| and raised by a. c. Hammond Of
| Ma chias, former owner Of the stallion
| Trusty Bay. Joe Gun is q fast we'll brec
trottcr. being by Parker Gun, Son Of
|
2G9. Parker Gun was a phenomenalIy
| fast colt, and, had it not been fer an
| accident, would have achieved cham
pionship honors, for Guns dam was by
Trusty Bay. son Of Mambrino Patchen,
sire OF Mamhrino Ring. the handsom-
est horse in the world ana he. the sire
Of Lord Derby. one Of the best trotters
on the turf. This horse has been q half
this year in liz with very little hand
| ling, ana Is game and reliable. y trot-
| ter with his breeding and individuality
| should make Il very valuable horse and
| prove a worthy successor to the game
race horse and great local favorite,
Barney.
| The latest addition to the list of gilt
edged stock owned on the border, is the
yearling colt, which Mayor J. M. John
son Of Calais, purchased recently ia
| Massachusetts. The colt IS by Baron
| Wilkes. the sire OF Dulce Cor and many
other winners Of recent events. ANA the
| granGsire Of Prince Of Orange, Baron
de Shay. and the blind stallion Dhyth
| mic, winner of this years NJ. and NJ.
| Baron Wilkes is son of George
| Wilkes. dam by Eldorado. son of Guy
| Wilkes, grandsire Of John A. Mcker-
| nan, second dam by Aberdeen, grand
/ sire of the great mare of 1902. Amelia.
| and sire Of Wiggin, sire of Katherine
| A.. ana Hilgar, two of the greatest colt
| trotUers OF the year. Mir. JnhnsOn's
yearling is a splendid bay, with three
white ankles and q small stripe, and Il
nicely put up, handsome as q picture,
and as good q gated colt as ever wore
| harness.
| We are horse poor-not as some peo-
| pie are land poor, because they have
too much land-but horse poor because
| we haven't enough horses. Our neigh
Dor. the Scientific American, has been
complaining about it. After the Civil
| War we found ourselves short of horses
Of the bigger types. and began import
| ing them for breeding purposes. We
| imported them to good purpose and in|
very large numbers. and greatly inn
| proved the quality of our stock. When
| electricity began to haul street cars,
| the market for the comTnoner kinds of
| horses fell off, and farmers didn't breed
| SO many. When the automobiles be-
| gan to appear and We're heralded as
| machines that must supersede the use
| of carriage horses. the breeders of the
| better class of horses took fright For
| years after '95. too, thousands OF peo-
| PIE who wanted horses could not afford
| to have them. But with the return Of
prosperity the demand for good horses
| began to grow again. and breeders bred
more Of them. But it takes about five
| years to raise q horse that is fit for the
| market and the breeders got behind.
| The demand has outrun the supply; the
| price of good horses has increased very
| greatly, and imported stations are
| said to be worth nearly ten times what
| they were ten years ago. The South
| African war took n great number of
| horses out Of the country, including
| many worthless ones. but the business
| Of horse breeding has revived so much
| that we shall soon have again \ rea-
| sonably full supply. IInterprsing
| farmers nowadays breed good horses
| It pays. and breeding poor horses does
| Mt pay. We import horses from Eu-
| rope for breeding purposes, and from
| Canada for use, but OF late we have ex-
ported far more than we have import
| ed. and we are likely to keep on doing
so. The annual horse show in New
| York. which seems on its surface to be
| a frivolous spectacle, really holds al
| highly important relation to one of the
great industries of the country. 1t isl
the parent Of all the American horse
shows, ana with them. constantly mea-
sures, stimulates. and directs the coun-
| try's progress in the breeding OF finel
/ horses. There are about 13.5G3aDol
horses in ouy land, of an estimated
value OF sG0i, ,000.000. The improvement
of that much stocks is pretty import
| ant matter, especially in these days,
when Europe is horse poor, too, and
ready To take from us any surplus sup
| ply of good horses that we may come to|
| have.-Harpers Weekly.
| plan has been laid before the Berlin
Nunicipal Council for an underground
| electric railroad from the extreme north
Of Berlin to the Hilliscnes Gates, ending
~ the Suburb or Schopnherc, a distance