Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-08-06
AMERICAN HORSE
NEWS DEPARTMENT
News Items Pertaining to all
Kinds of Horses are Solicited.
Address Matter for this Department to
C. A. Chapman, Ferrsburgh, VT.

C. A. Chapman, Ferrisburgh, Vt.
The last Horse World contains an
article on "The Present and Future of
the Horse Business, which would seem
worthy of a place in our department.
We give it in full below and at the same
time take this opportunity to inform
our readers that should they desire to
turn their horses into cash at any time,
they can ship them to Fiss, Doerr &
time, with orders to sell on the marke
and return will come promptly and the
expense of doing the businets reason
BILE. The writer has had such dealings
with this firm and the results have al
ways been satisfactory and the returns
fair and just 1t is worth knowing as
it may be of benefit to some Of our read
ers at some time or give them the ben
fit of our experience. The article fol-
lows:
THE PRESENT AND FUTURE OF THE
HORSE BUSINESS.
Speaking of the declaration of a II
per cent. dividend for the six months
ending June 80, by the Fiss, Doerr &
Carroll Horse Company of New York
City, of which he is president, J. d.
Carroll spoke of the business in which
his firm is interested and in which all
horsemen have a vital interest, as fol-
lows: That doesn't look as if the
horse business was going to the dogs
just yet, does it? AS matter Of fact,
it's the biggest dividend for the period
that our company has ever paid We
have always paid dividend, and it is
true that once before it ran to Il per
cent, but that was on years business,
not six months. And besides paying y
per cent this year on the Fiss, Doerr &
Carroll Horse Company's stock We have
paid dividend of 10 per cent. to stock
holders in the Crandall Horse Company,
which our company controls. Contin-
uing, Mr.. Carroll said: eve thought
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business ran to $3.50, 600 the first year
after we organized. Now it will total
right at $1,000, 600 for the first
half of the year, and not very
good year at that in business general
| ly. In reply to question as to how
many horses his company had sold this
season, Mr. Carroll replied: "Not quite
20, 600 in six months. | think our books
show 10, 500 and some odd head mclud-
ing everything at auction and at private
sale. The showing of our harness de-
partment has pleased me as much as
anything this year. The balance was
on the wrong side of the books at the
end of the spring season of 1908, but the
trade has picked up to such an extent in
the last six months that the season will
go on record as the best we ever had in
the harness department, excepting the
spring of 1907. Regarding the future
of the business of his firm, whch~vir-
tually means the future of the horse
business, the following is Mr.. Carroll
expressed view:
81 never saw such good outlook as
there is right now," he said. "If we
have good crops and nothing unforeseen
happens shall be disappointed if oul
fall trade is not better than it has beer
through the spring; yes, better than il
ever was, spring or fall, in the history
of the company. Why, right now we
have over 700 open accounts on oul
ledger, thing that never was known
before, and people are only just start
ing to replace the horses they threw
overheard after the panic of 1907.
Coming from the source they do thes,
statements cannot but carry weigh
and encourage those who have money
invested in horses and their allied in
terests."