f636.1 B74 -43 ACCESSION 1-.7 837 NOT TO BE TAKEN FROM THE LIBRARY FORM NO. 37 2M-2-2Q PERIODICAL DEPARTMENT VOL. TT.TTT. NO. 1. SB GEARY STREET. 147837 SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1903. SUBSCRIPTION THREE DOLLARS A YEAR H t2>\o.\ 131^- Bay Yearling Filly by Bonnie Direct. NORICE, blk. m. by Charles Derby. PERZA, b. u. by Allie Wilkes. Bay Mare by James Madison. 8 ®hi? gveeirev emfr *&p&vt&ntan [July 4, 190* Opening Meeting of the North Pacific Fairs. # FALL MEETING, 1903, OF TH E KTfSJG COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION SEATTLE, WASH. AUGUST 8th TO 29th, INCLUSIVE ENTRIES TO ALL HARNESS STAKES AND PURSES CLOSE WEDNESDAY. JULY I5th No. 1— THE No. 2— THE No. 3— THE No. 4— THE No. S— THE No. 6— THE No. 7— THE No. 8— THE NORTH PACIFIC STAKE, {FoTVM^ce"\ ...$1000 Me, \* CT * y"P I Parse Donated by the Business Men i 1 000 ■ *X nu Ol rtfAC, (of Seattle, for 3:20 Trotters, 3 in 5/ IUUV IITVPNI1 P QTAk'P I For 3-Tear-old Pacers, owned and i tlUTLHILL OIAIVL,, bred In North Pacific Fair Aeso- - (elation District. 2 In 3 \ DIONJPPD ^TAL'P (For 3-year-old Trotters owned and) riV/llCLIV Ol/YIVC, J bred In North Pacific Fair Assocla- ■ (tion District, 2 In 3 J nPRIIT QTAL'P (For 2-vear-oId Pacers, owned and bred) UL,U\J 1 O 1 rtlVC, J |n North Paclflo Fair Association DIs- - (.txtct. 2 in 3 J PIIfiFT SOUND ^TaK"F I For 2-year-old Trotters, owned) r UUC I OUUHU O 1 A l\ E . > and Dred In North Pacific Fair '- (.Association District, 2 in 3 .. i CITY COUNCIL PURSE, {For 32;11°p3acer"} POST INTELLIGENCER PURSE, In Addition to the Harness Events (For 2:15 Facers > 3 In 3 J 500 500 300 300 500 500 No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. ( For 2;20 Pacers | 1 2 in 3 ; 9— THE PROFANITY HILL PURSE, 10— THE SEATTLE KENNEL CLUB PURSE, {For ■,",•?""} THE SEATTLE STAR PURSE, {FoT VZF3acm} ■ -THE SEATTLE TIMES PURSE, { For 3:12 Trotters I 3 In 3 / 11 12 13— THE MEADOWS PURSE, 14— THE SHERIFF CUDIHEE PURSE, 15— THE SEATTLE DRIVING CLUB PURSE. |For *fUZ°"°n\ (For 3:14 Trotters) 1 3 In 3 / • (For 2:17 Trotters) t 3 In 3 f 16— The ARGUS PURSE, 17— The COMMONWEALTH PURSE, 18— The MATINEE PURSE, Liberal Purges will be given for Runners. (For 2:35 Trotterl ) 3 In 3 / i For 3:30 Trotters) t 3 In 3 I ■ (For 3:40 Trotters I "t 3 In 3 I ■ $500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 CONDITIONS. Entrance fees five per cent or Stake or Parse (ana five per cent additional from money- winners) , payable July 15th, when horse must be named. Money divided fifty, twenty-five, fifteen and ten per cent of Stake or Purse. Horses not winning a beat in four shall not start in fifth heat, except in a field of eight or more starters, and then it must win a heat in five or go to the barn. Horses so ruled out shall have a right to a share of the Stake according to their rank at the close of the last heat. Right to transfer or substitute entry in any of the above Stakes open to August 1st to horses eligible July ISth The Association reserves the right to declare off and return payments in any Stake or Purse that does not fill satisfactorily to the Association. Right reserved to declare two starters a walk-over When only two start they may contest for the entrance money paid in, tc te divided seventy per cent to first, and thirty per cent to second horse. A horse distancing the field shall be entitled to first and fourth money only, and in no other case will a horse be entitled to more than one money Other than specified, rules of the National Trotting Association, of which this Association is a member, to govern, except hobbles are not barred on pacers three years old and upwards. In addition to the above Special Purses will be offered for Overnight Closing Harness Events. Any information pertaining to the meeting will be gladly furnished by the Secretary upon application. Address all communications and inquiries to A. T. VAN DE VANTER, Secretary and General Manager KING COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION, 7 SULLIVAN BUILDING. SEATTLE WASH Entry must plainly state name, color, sex and breeding of both sire and dam, with owners signs ture and address. Two horses may be entered from the same stable in the same class and held but for one entry fee No conditional entries will be considered. Drivers must have colors and not fall to mention them when making entries. Declaration of intention to withdraw a horse must be made by 7:00 p. m on the day preceding raoe. The Association reserves the right to use Its discretion as touufavorable weather conditions. Entry fees to accompany nominations and to be made payable to A. T. Van de Vanter, Secretary and General Manager King County Fair Association. Applications for stabling must be made to the Secretary, stating the number of horses to arrive . In case of any subsequent change in the movements of the stable, or any part thereof, a prompt notice is earnestly requested. Horses should be shipped in care of King County Fair Association, Seattle. Arrangements will then be made for their unloading at the race track. Ample notice of the dates upon which these stakes and purses are to be decided will be given. J. O'KANEf R 26 GOLDEN GATE AVE., S. F. HORSE BOOTS TRACK HARNESS 2QO Padishah Send For Catalogue. Our Goods Are the Best Made. *•••' "*•-•' "*•-• "*!|5' >*."" >»->" >•."" '"!•?' "«*."' ■*•?" "«*.»' ■*•■■' "*|V ■«•*" >*>8§>»^'^*~"" >•?" 'H?" '*•-*" "*•?" '*•.*" '*•-"' >•■•' **T Tba But Low Priced Jeweled Watch Made Non-Magnetic nickel Silver Case Fully Guaranteed For sale by ALL JEWELERS Illustrated Booklet on request, showing COLORED FANCY DIALS The New England Watch Co. Factories— Waterbary, Coon. Offices- New York. Chlcafo. San FranciiCQ. Jepsen Bros. Company mv MAKERS OF and IMPORTERS OF Fine Harness English Saddlery Come and See The Fine Ordered Work "We Are Turning Ont At This Time. THE BIG STORE with the Little Prices 11451147 MARKET STREET SAN FRANCISCO Phone: South 1032 Pedigrees Tabulated rriX¥?rtr^ SPORTSMAN, 38 Getrj itreet, S» FranoUoo, C»l. Bids for Privileges AT THE VALLEJO RACE MEETING AUGCaT 13, 14 and 15, 1903, as follows: Rookmaking and Pool Selling, Bar, Restaurant and Lunch Counter, Candy and Nuts. Programmes, ttc, Eic will be received up to and opened August 1st. Right reserved to reject aLy bid Address TH05. SMITH, Manager. Vallejo. Cal McKINNEY FILLIES FOR SALE. LADY GRAN3J1RD. three-year-old trotting record 2:23; 16 3 hands high; worked a mile last year in 2:13 Sound, not a blemish on her. By McKinney. dam Igo by Antevolo. second dam Daisy May by Nutwood, third dam Ralston mare by Alexander's Abdallah Five-year-old by McKinney, dam by Winwood. Sound, handsome and now in training. Ready for the green trotting stakes this year. A very promising filly. A Full Sister to the above, -i years oid, sound, good looking and thoroughly broken. Five-year-old filly by McKinney, dam by Young Venture, second dam thoroughbred by Nig- &erbaby; 16 hands high, excellent disposi- tion, thoroughly broken, gentle. Apply to P. FOLEY. Race Track, Alameda, cor. Arbor Street and Eagle Avenue. WANTED. A BAY GELDING, 18 HANDS. 1250 LBS.. ^ medium stout, active Carriage Horse. Ad- dress dr. P VI1.LIOTTE. Vet., Lameness and Foot Specially. 321 Grant Ave., S. F., Cal NEW MODEL 1903 BEST ROAD CART MADE. O'BRIEN & SONS Cor. Golden Gate Ave. and Polk St. SAN FRANCISCO. CAX, JULY 4, 1903] ©h* gveebev cmfc gijwtrtsman 3 THE WEEKLY BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN F. W. KELLEY, Pboprietor. Turf and Sporting Authority of the Pacific Coast. — OFFICE — 36 QEARY STREET, SAN FRANCISCO. P. O- BOX 2300. Telephone: Black 686. Termg-Une Year S3. Six Months 81.75, Three Month. SI STKICTLY IN ADVANCE. Money snoald be sent by postal order, draft or by registered letter addressed to F. W. Kellet, 36 Geary St., San Francisco. Cal. Communications must be accompanied by the writer's name and address, not necessarily for pablication, but as a private guarantee of good faith. San Francisco, Saturday, July 4, 1903. LOU DILLON seems to be able to furnish a sen- sational headline for the papers every time she starts and it need not surprise any of our readers if the telegraph flashes the news before October that she has equalled or beaten the record of Cresceus who now holds the championship with a mark of 2:02} made against time while hitched to a bike. Last Monday her now owner Mr. C. K. G. Billings drove her a mile in 2:04} hitched to a wagon, which is the world's record at that way of going. The first quarter was made in 31J seconds, the second in 31}, the third 30|, and the fourth in 30}. The dispatches say the daughter of Sidney Dillon "finished strong and seem- ingly ready to cover the distance a second time." The fastest mile heretofore on record at the same way of going was 2:05} made by Lord Derby at Brighton Beach laBt summer. The little chestnut m3re was paced by a runner and he was kept ahead of her about five lengths until the three-quarter pole was reached when he was taken back and kept right alongside of her. She never made a skip or a bobble, but trotted as straight and as square as a die every foot of the way. Lou Dillon seems to be bent on dis- proving all the stories that have been told about her temper and cranky notions, and has evidently met in Mr. Billings a reinsman who has secured her entire confidence. That Lou Dillon has a temper of her own is fully attested by George Ramage, of the Santa ResaStock Farm, who broke her when she was two years old and developed her speed until he had driven her a mile in 2:19, and a half in 1:05} and who often Btated that he did not know how fast she could go be- cause he had never asked her to show her best. In the fall of 1900 Mr. Ramage told the writer that he had a two year old filly by Sidney Dillon out of Lou Milton in kis charge at the Santa Rosa Stock Farm that was "the only trotter in the world," and he still believes this description is no exaggeration as he is confident she will yet get the world's record. When Ramage first hitched her up she would throw herself and would not get up until the harness was stripped from her. After two or three experiences of this kind Mr. Ramage concluded he would cure her of the habit and the next time she did it he let her lie on her side for nearly an hour in the hot sun and did not attempt to coax her to get up. When she finally concluded to rise she got up and started off quietly and never after did she make any attempt to throw herself down. The next crank she took was refusing to stand while being hitched »nd Ramage finally resorted to the twitch to make her stand still. He used this four or five weeks, gradually holding her more loosely with it, and the last two or three times simply putting the stick against her nose until he found he could dispense with it altogether. She was badly mixed gaited at first and heavy shoes and toe weights were tried on her, but to no purpose. Then one day Ramage pulled them off and put a pair of light bar plates on her and she struck a gait that surprised him. She was entered in the Stanford Stake of 1901, but contracted the distemper and was very sick bo that she was not taken to Sacramento at all. Mr. Ramage handled her from the time he broke her in the spring she was two years old until Decem- ber, 1901, and always claimed her to be the greatest piece of trotting machinery on earth. She was always a wilful little miss and one of the kind that required the greatest patience to get along with. It would have taken very little to have ruined her for life, but Mr. Ramage says that after she learned to trot she seemed to know nothing else and did not want to go at any other gait. Mr. Ramage has the distinction of having broken and trained her sire Sidney Dillon that he drove a trial mile in 2:22 and a half in 1:06, and also his two daughters Lou Dillon 2:04} and Dolly Dillon 2:07. . AMONG THE VISITORS to the office of the ** Breeder and Sportsman last week was Mr. D.J. Price, owner of the Australasian champion harness horse, Ribbonwood 2:09, an account of whose defeat of the former champion Fritz 2:13 has appeared in these columns. Mr. Price is accompanied on his visit to California by Mr. James Pettie, also a patron of the trotting turf. Both gentlemen are residents of Upper Ricarton, Canterbury, New Zealand, and came over for the purpose of purchasing a few well^red mares to breed to Ribbonwood. Mr. Price tells mtDy interesting incidents of the great race wherein his little horse won the championship, and any American horseman who listens to his description of the New Zealand tracks will be compelled to admit that he haB a great horse in Ribbonwood. The championship race was decided on a track that is five furlongs in cir- cumference, on which the turns are not thrown up in the least but are perfectly flat. It is not a grass track as are many in the Antipodes, but is a soil course, very rough in comparison with good American trotting tracks. Messrs Price and Pettie visited Pleasanton last week and stated they had never seen such a perfect course to work harness horses over. They both agreed that it was at the very least eight seconds faster than the best track in New Zealand and were certain Ribbonwood could turn it in 2:04 or bet ter. They would very much like to see some enterpris- ing American come to New Zealand with either pacers or trottera with fast records and sta'.e that they willbe willing to match Ribbonwood against them for almost any sum. They realize that outside of a match, how- ever, there are few purses for horses with fast records in New Zealand or Australia unless they start in handicaps as nearly all the races between record horses there are on that plan. Mr. Price expresses the determination, however, to bring Ribbonwood here next winter after the New Zealand racing season is over, and if he reaches California all right will train the horse at Pleasanton and enter him in his class on the Grand Circuit in 1904. Nothing would excite more interest among horsemen than the appearance of the Australasian champion in races here, and after seeing our tracks his owner confidently believes that it will take horses that can pace in 2:02 or better to defeat him. Ribbonwood is only a four year old and was broke and trained by Mr. Price who purchased him when he was two. He states that he has re- peatedly driven him quarters in 30 seconds very handily, and has never yet asked him to do his best. He states that Fritz was not himself on the day of the match having been affected by the trip on the water between Australia and New Zealand. Fritz showed a mile in 2:08 in his work two or three years ago and is a square trotter. There is not a particle of doubt but our friends in Kangaroo land have bred some good horses from the foundation stock sent from America. TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS has been hung up in purses for the harness horses to contest for at the KiDg County Fair, which opens at Seattle August 8th this year. Entries close Wednesday, July loth, and the full list of purses will be found in our ad- vertising columns to-day. Seattle is one of the great racing centres of the Pacific Coast, and the King County Fair Association is one of the most popular with rating men. Mr. A. T. Van DeVanteris Sec- retary and General Manager. Send him your entries if you want some of that ten thousand dollars. A mare by Altamont, dam a Bayswater mare, is for sa'e. Apply at this office. She is sound and gentle and a good roadster. - Answers to Correspondents. W. G D.. Los Angeles — Kindly give breeding of Morse Horse 6; bad he any reputation as a producer? What is the breeding of Geo. M. Patchen Jr. 31? Answer — Motse Horse 6 was a gray horse foaled 1834, got by European (McNitt Horse). Nothing is known of the blood of European, but he is described as a gray horse of elegant form, sixteen hands high and was purchased in Canada. He could trot very fast for his dav. The dam of Morse Horse was Beck by Hambletonian 2 (Harris') that was by Bis bop's HambletoniaD, he by imp. Messenger. The second dam of Morse Horse was Mozza by Peacock, also a son of imp. Messenger. Morse Horse was the aire of but one in the standard list — Gray Eddy 2:30. His son, Gen. Taylor, holds the thirty mile record, 1:47:59 however, and his sou Norman 25 sired two in the list, had four producing sons and fourteen producing daughters. Norman sired the dam of Nerval 2:14], one of Electioneer^ greatest producing sons. The blood of the Morse Horse is considered very valuable in a trotting horse pedigree, aa it denotes great stamira and staying qualities. Geo. M. Patchen Jr. 31 was by Geo. M. Patchen 30. His dam was Belle by Top Bellfounder, a grandson of imp. Bellfounder, sire of Rysdyk's Hambletonian 's dam. His grandam is given as "a Hoot-a-Laddie" mare. Our Pictures. The half tone engravings un tha .first page of the Breeder & Sportsman this week. s,re from photo- graphs taken for this paper at Pleasanton track last Saturday. The handsome filly by Cfl'jpie Direct 2:05} is a yearling, foaled March 8th, last "year. She is owned by Mr. Chas. L. Griffith. Her dam. is Petrina by Piedmont 2:17}, second dam the thorough- bred mare Miss Peyton by imported Glengarry. This filly is a trotter and before she was quite one year old trotted an eighth over the Pleasanton track in 21 seconds. She stood 14 hands, 2} inches high last week. She is entered in $65,500 worth of stakes in California and the East. The mare by James Madison is in Ben Chaboya's string. She is a mag- nificent large mare, a square trotter and a great pros- pect. She should make an ideal road mare, as her disposition is perfect and she looks well in harness. Her breeding is choice as her dam is Muriel Wiley by Steinway, second dam Clytie 2d (dam of Neernut 2:12}) by Nutwood. The mare Norieeby Chas. Derby is five years old. She is a pacer and is out of Naulahka by Balkan, son of Mambrino Wilkes. Mills & Sanders sold her and her mate, also by Chas. Derby, last week to Messrs. Price and Pettie of Can- terbury, New Zealand. The mate is a trotter, but few can tell them apart when they are not in action. Both are entirely green, but make a slashing pair as they trot nicely together when not at speed. They will make valuable additions to the breeding ranks of New Zealand and will probably be bred to the cham- pion Ribbonwood 2:09, owned by Mr. Price. They will be shipped to New Zealand in a week or so. The mare Perza by Allie Wilkes is owned by S. Christen- son of this city. She is as near the perfect type of a broodmare both in conformation and breeding as one would wish to see. Her dam is Anglia (own sister to Patchen Wilkes, sire of Joe Patchen) by Geo. Wilkes, her second dam the great broodmare Kitty Patchen by Mambrino Patchen, her third dam another great broodmare Betty Brown also by Mambrino Patchen, and her fourth dam by Mambrino Cnief 11. Perza has been bred to Bonnie Direct 2:05} and the produce Bhould have great beauty and speed if there is any- thing in breeding. Harness Racing in 1903. Some idea of the extent of the trotting horse game as it refers to racing, without any reference to matinees or contests on the road, may be gained from the following figures gleaned from the last Year Book: There were over 8000 horses that started in trotting and pacing races for money in 1903. Races were held over 860 different tracks. Over these tracks 1070 meetings were held. Pleasanton will soon be ranked among the leading summer resorts of the State. Since it has been dem- onstrated by the management that the famous track there can be kept in good condition during the dry months as well as during the racing season, many more horses are kept in training during the summer and the pretty little town has an added interest, The Rose hotel has its new addition all completed and suites of rooms can now be had that compare fa- vorably with those at first-clasB hotels in the metrop" olis. No better outiogthan a fewweeksat Pleasanton can be devised. It is within an hour and half's ride of San Francisco by three different trains and is one of the most healthful spots in California. Messrs. Olney & Son, proprietors of the Rose hotel, will give full particulars and terms to all who correspond with them. Kelly Briggs 2:10} made his first start this year at the Valley Track, a half mils ring near Cleveland, Ohio. It was in the free for all pace for a purse of $400. His competitors in the race were Capt. Sphinx 2:06}, Alvina Wilkes 2:10, Lennie Seara 2:14} and Frank Rysdyk 2:08}, a pretty hot field. Capt. Sphinx and Kelly Briggs fought out the first heat and made a dead heat of it with Alvina Wilkes, the favorite a poor fourth. The American Sportsman describes the race as follows: "In the first heat Alvina Wilkes did not score good, acting badly and delaying the start several time. When they did get off tha California pacer Kelly Briggs took the lead and held it until he made a little break in the back stretch, when the Sphinx horse took it and held it through- out the mile. The finish was a hot one between Capt. Sphinx and Kelly 3riggs, and after a long deliberation the judges decided it a dead heat. To those in the grand stand who were watching the finish closely it looked like Capt. Sphinx was the win- ner of the heat. In the second heat the favorite showed her nose in front at the wire, and justified the faith of the talent by winning as she pleased." The summary of the race is as follows: Alvina Wilkes, 4-1-1-1; Capt. Sphinx, 0-2-2-5: Kelly Briggs, 0-3-3-2; Lennie Sears, 3 1 1 3; Frank Rysdvk 5-5-5-4. Time 2:15, 2:13}, 2:15, 2:17. ©he gveeinstv cmfc g*jKwt#mcm fJULY 4, IMS Rational Treatment of the Horse's Foot. New Stock Farm in Arizona. Editor Breeder and Sportsman: — The most important Jab'i.in all lines of ownership of property of divers nature, is whether or not it is worth having. If the sns'wer is no, then let the owner dispose of it the-sooner the hetter; if yes, then it is worth taking ..carer Of on the basis of economy. .'.'-is a horse worth having? By close observation I find the majority of the populace of this God's country is kindly disposed to take care of horses the best they know how and actually do so, but there is one thing which is beyond doubt the most essential of all, and yet is Badly neglected, probably for the lack of know how, and that is the horse's feet. The old adage i6: "No foot no horse. " The horse's foot is, as everybody knows or ought to know, the very essential part of the animal's anatomy. On the foot of the horse depends all the superstructure above it, and on the perfect symmetry and soundness of the horse's foot depends the graceful action of his limbs and body. The foot being the foundation, if good or bad, what it carries is affected accordingly. In this country most horses are more or less afflicted with the time immemorial disorder known as the "narrow heel" which is the mother of all other possible evils as a consequence. Therefrom the •'narrow heel" in a horse's foot gives rise to indolence, deformity, corns, quarter crack, progressive atrophy, splints, quittor, side bones, founder, etc. Causing sore feet, but not lame, as horse men speak of a horse not having one sound foot under him, but because he does not limp in moving he is sound and guaranteed to be sound, so as to sell him, at a big price to the unwary intending purchaser. The narrow heel, causes interfering, over-reaching, tcalping, forging, cross-firing, (as termed by horsey individuals, when he over-reaches his front foot with the hind foot from the opposite side in moving either slow or fast,) wabbling, stumbling, sprawling, hitch- ing, short gait, springing of knees, swollen and bowed tendons, knees knocking, abnormal and excessive knee action, and all other imaginable impediments in his motion, by restricting it to a certain extent. There is a multitude of causes for narrow heels, but the most common and essential one is climatic influ- ence, which is so trying on the horse's foot in this locality that nearly all of them are more or less af- fected by it. The next cause is the concussion caused by the pounding of the feet upon the hard pavement; the next in gravity but first in quantity is improper shoeing; the next again is neglect, for the want of "know how" in doing something to correct the causes above mentioned. The consequence is that the most noble of man's faithful servants, the horse, is allowed to go to ruin, and in a great many cases to the bone yard, because hie usefulness is a thing of the past. He can not go any longer because his feet have been neglected. "No foot, no horse, "as the old adage says. Narrow feet can be remedied; the only thing lacking is the know how and the will power to do the proper thing at the proper time. The question asked as regards to what ought to be done is of daily occurrence, and the answer is invar- iably "to correct the cause, "which iB very easily done. In the firBt place, all good people know that a drop of prevention iB worth a barrel of cure, therefore I say, do something to prevent the trouble, Euch as, for instance, keeping the horse's feet in a symmetric con- dition, so as to allow full circulation of blood in the vessels distributing the natural nutrition, consequently keeping it thrifty. Furthermore, get the feet properly pared once a month and give a reasonable amount of moisture. The above is sufficient for prevention. But for the cure of the above mentioned disorders, directly or indirectly caused by the narrow heel and its consequent compiications, it becomes necessary, not only essential but indispensable, to practice a surgical operation so as to cause the he of to be more elastic and, consequently, to expand itself, having also the effect of causing an easier absorption of the after treatment, which consists of a reasonable amount of moisture. The expansion and absorption are never attained sufficiently to do much good if not preceded by the operation. But the term "surgical operation" may create some • distrust and, possibly, a repulsive impression upon the reader's mind unless he is made acquainted with the real nature of it, and here it follows: The operation is performed upon the insensitive horoy texture of the wall of the hoof, and consists of a thinning thereof in due proportion, governed by the amount of expansion required by the gravity of the case, and, if made by a skillful operator, causes no punishment whatever and no unsatisfactory after results, but on the contrary gives some immediate relief, which increases gradually until the foot is restored to its normal condition without laying up the anim-dl and hiring another one to take his place a work. In fact, it does away with firing, nerving, ^atoning, etc., etc., which, to say the least, is mal- 1 reatment, not to say barbarism, besides being very xpensive and unsatisfactory. Keen Observer. The heaviest purchaser at the recent Bale of horses owned by the late Henry Pierce was Mr. J. C. Adams of Phoenix, Arizona, who paid a total of $2125 for thirteen mares, as follows: Oakley Russell, b m, 1888, by Happy Russell-Oakley "Modjeska 2-32J, b m, 1886, by Ulster Chief-Puss by Skenandoah. - -Vver Eye, ch m, 18S5, by Abbotsford-PrincesB by Henry Williamson. Antonette, b f 1899, by Antone-Silver Eye. Yedral, b m, 1882, by Nutwood-Lady Patchen by Budd Doble. Effie, b m, 1887, bv Piedmont-Esther by Express. Nordica 2:19, gr m, 1892, by Advertiser-Sallie Ben- ton by Gen. Benton. Princess McCarty, b m, 1891, by Dexter Prince-Lady Fracture. Annie Dillon, ch f. 1900, by Sidney Dillon-Ceta by Piedmont. Captive, ch m, 1889, by Piedmont-Clariurso by Electioneer. Annie Godiva, b f, 1899, by Bay Rose-Diva by Pied- mont. Wilfan, br m, 1889, by Mambrino Wilkes-Fancy by Bonner. Myrtledale, ch m, 1896, by Iran Alto-Nettie Nut- wood by Nutwood. Several of these mares are producers and all are bred in producing lines. Mr. Adams owns the pro- ducing stallion Oh So 16738, record 2:251 which he purchased a few months ago in Chicago. Oh So is described as a magnificent horse standing over 16 hands aDd weighing 1250 pounds, and is a horse show first prize winner. He is a producer, having sired Dunton Oh So 2:08, Lola Mix 2:101, Augus Oh So 2:12}, Dr. Archibald 2:12, and eight more in the list. He is one of the best bred stallions in the United States as his pedigree shows: His sire is the great Nutwood, champion of all siies, and his dam So So 2:17} (dam of Syra 2:12} and four others with standard records) by Geo. Wilkes, second dam Little Ida by Edwin Forrest 49, third dam Ida May by Red Jacket, fourth dam Anna by Kinkead's St. Lawrence, fifth dam by imported -Trustee. Mr. Adams has a farm in the famoud Salt River Valley, not far from Phoenix where he has a fine herd of Jersey cattle in which he takes great pride, and will add to this a horse breed- ing farm that should be a paying investment. He has not paid large prices for any of his purchases, but has bought intelligently and selected good indi- viduals that are bred in producing lineB. His experiment at breeding trotters will not be a costly one to him, and with the fine climate for which the Salt River valley is noted, together with as fine feed as there is in the world and abundance of it, he should produce horses that will find a ready salein the Eastern market. Mr. Adams is an intelligent and successful business man who has great faith in the future of Phoenix and Arizona. He believes that the big irrigation project recentlv inaugurated there, on which the United States Government is spending about three million dollars for storage reservoirs, will soon make Phoenix a city of between 50,000 and 75.000 inhabitants. Mr. Adams has purchased several mares while here in addition to those he secured at the Pierce sale. We hone he may meet with success in his new venture and succeed in raising a champion or two before many yearB. Slow, Careful Preparation. The most successful trainers in this vicinity, those who go into winter quarters with the largest bank accounts to their credit year after year, are those who give their horses a slow, careful preparation early in the season, says the Horse Breeder. They may not figure prominently as winners early in the season, but go into winter quarters sound. Ihey train on year after year and improve with age. Many young horses and not a few older ones have been ruined for life by giving them a short, hurried preparation and racing them to their limit before they are properly fitted. If such horses do not give out or go badly gaited they often get the name of be- ing quitters when they do not deserve it. A game horse can't race well unless he is properly fitted and in a perfect healthy condition. Let a good, game horse once lose a race from what- ever cause, and outsiders who have backed him will ever after shout quitter. This brings to mind the re- marks made by the veteran trainer Charles Marvin, in his work on "Training the Trotting Horse." These remarks were called out by comments of horse- men adverse to the courage and stamina of Manzan- ita (4), 2:16, the world's champion four-year-old trot- ter of her day, and are as follows: "The close and logical observer will never jump at conclusions about the qualities of a race horse. You must see him not in one race but in several races, and you muBt know about his condition in his races be- fore you can determine that a horse is faint-hearted. The moBt resolute horse in the world will not trot resolutely if he be ailing, and he cannot trot resolutely if his physical machinery be out of repair. The gameBt horse will stop if short of work, and if you do not know that he has had sufficient work, that he is not sore or sick, how are you going to know whether he stops from physical causes or from true quitting, which is a mental quality, cowardice, fainthearted- ness. ' ' The racing season is right at hand, in fact, has already opened. Those who have not given their horseB a slow, careful preparation, and got them in perfect racing condition, are pretty sure to fall by the wayside early in the season, no matter how good the natural quality of the material of the horBes that they are campaigning. It is too late now, for such of those as already have near engagements, to remedy the evil. There are country trainers, however, who are intending to race their horses at the local fall fairs whose chances for winning money and selling their horses for good prices may be greatly improved by following the example of those successful trainers who give their horees a slow, careful preparation. Another Rational Theory for Breeding Trotters. Recently there seems to be much discussion as to theories for breeding trotters. Most writers, how- ever, agree that Hambletonian 10 is the principal source to which good sires trace in the male or sire line, but they also attach much importance to out- croBses, such as Amnrican Star, Clay, Pilot Jr., etc., in pedigrees of descendants of Hambletonian 10. Now, if it is true, as acknowledged, that Hamble- tonian 10 is the principal progenitor of the American trotter, and that he is prepotent principally through the sire or male line — that is, through his sons and grandsons — would not the following theory as to breeding be as rational as any yet offered: The sire of the individual, male or female, and the dam and each of the grandams, as many gentrations back as possible, should trace in the male line to Hambletonian 10 through sires and grandsires, each of which hare produced good performers and each of which have had sons or daughters to produce good performers. Also, get in the pedigree of both sire and dam as many other crosses of Hambletonian 10 as can be obtained, especially those tracing to him through descendants of his sons. In other words, the individual would be bred about as follows: Tiie sire, the first dam, the second, third, fourth and fifth dams, as many generations back as pos- sible, would trace in the sire line, through only producing sires and grandsires for each generation to Hamble- tonian 10. It appears to the writer that a sire bred in this way, mated to a dam bred in about the same way, would not only beget great performers but also great pro- ducers. The offspring resulting from the mating of such bred sire and dam would represent such a con- fluence and concentration of the best producing forces, handed down from Hambletonian 10 through sire lines, aa would give an irresistible momentum of superior producing qualities for succeeding genera- tions. Theorist. To Drive Flies Away. A French chemist has discovered a way to protect horses from flies. His invention consists in rubbing the horses, especially the parts most subjected to attack, with a little concentrated oil of laurel. There is not the slightest danger in its use, and the cost is small. Another excellent remedy is asafetida one pound, vinegar half pint, water one pint. If horses are well washed with this, not a fly will settle upon them, as the asafetida will drive them away. This drug has no deleterious qualities as an external appli- cation. Take common smartweed and make a Btrong decoction by boiling in water. When the infusion is cold, apply to the legs, neck and other parti of the body with a brush or sponge. Neither flies nor insects will trouble them for twenty-four hours. Must Have Taroleum. Bhattleboro, Vt., June 17, 1002. W. F. Young. Springfield, Mass. Dear Sir:— Will you please send me up two cans of Taroleum by express. I find I cannot get along without it. J. G. BAKER. Taroleum 82 per gallon, express prepaid- Address W. P. YOUNG, P. D. F , Springfield, Mass. The Kenney Bicycle Co., 531 Valencia St., is doing a big business in the McMurray CartB and Sulkies. You not only Bave money by purchasing a McMurray but get the most durable, best made, and easiest running cart or sulky in the market. Investigation will con- vince a Missourian. * A match race between Prince Alert 2:00, and Ana- conda 2:01}, is in the range of probabilities for the Grand Circuit meeting at the Empire City track. Jackson's Napa Soda does not tangle the feet. July 4, 1903] i&he gxeebev anb *&p0vt&nuxn Denver Meeting. A very successful meeting is being held at Overland Park, Denver. The racing has been interesting and fast and the association deserves much credit for the way it has managed affairs. Our report last week closed with a report of the first two days' racing — Saturday and Monday, June 20th and 22d. TUESDAY, JUNE 23. The 2:08 pace brought out a field of four. In the first heat Harry Logan, the California horse, racing head and head with Winfield Stratton from wire to wire, forced the latter to step in 2:07* in order to land the heat. This is the fastest heat paced so far this season. In the second heat Logan forced Stratton out on the upper turn, allowing Lottie Smart and Miss Williams to come through on the rail, the latter win- ning the heat. When the drivers got back to the stand there was much bad blood between them and at one time it looked as if a referee's services would be necessary. Matters reached a climax in the last heat, when McGuire sent Stratton along bo fast the California horse was shut out. This action on the part of McGuire waB roundly condemned by the other drivers on the traok, and when McGuire returned to the stables Cassidy de nounced him in terms more emphatic than elegant. The association, however, realizing the grand strug- gle Harry Logan had made, handed him third money regardless of the "shut out." This action on the part of the association made it many friends among the drivers. The summary: Pacing, 3:08 class, purse 8500. Winfleld Stratton. to. h. by Saraway (McGuire) 12 11 Miss Williams (Bush) 4 12 2 Harry Logan oh g (Boucher) 2 3 3ds Lottie Smart ch. m (Loomis) 3 4 dr Tlme-2:07^,2:10X, 3:13X.2:1!- In the 2:35 trot there was nothing to it but the big gray Jim Ferry, who won in straight heats "on the bit." At no time was there any contestor in the race that could force him to top speed. The interest in the race centered in the struggle between Congressman Sibley and Gitawoy for second and third money. Much was expected of the latter, as he came from California touted as a wonder. His backers, however, had the keen satisfaction of seeing their money burned up. The summary: 2:35 trot, purse $500. Jim Ferry, g g by Orange Wilkes (Frank) 111 Congressman Sibley, b h (Colburn) 3 2 2 Gltaway.cbg (Zibble) 2 3 4 Queen Sign, b m (Dillon) 4 4 3 Time— 2:19H, &203£. 2:2IX. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24. The firBt race, a free-Tor all pace to wagon, one mile heats, best two in three, proved an easy victory for Jess C, owned by R. S. Gutshall. This was the first of two races in which the horses were driven by gen- tlemen drivers. The firBt heat was won by Martha B., driven by J. W. Miller; AgneB Le May, the bay mare owned and driven by Edwin Gaylord, finishing second, and Daisy Field third. Jess C, the favorite, was last. The next two heats were won by Jess C. with ease, with Daisy Field second in both heats. In the last heat Agnes Le May was drawn on account of sickness. That she was not in condition was shown in the second heat, when, after a poor race, she fin- ished last. Free-for-all pace to wagon, prize, one-mile heats, best two In three. Jess C, oh. g»by Catata 5 1 1 Martha B., b. m. by Ashland Wilkes 1 4 2 Daisy Field, o. m 3 2 5 Dora Delpha, b. m 4 3 3 Agnea Le May, b m 2 5 d Time— 3:12H, 2:15K. 2:16. The free-for-all trot to wagon, one mile heats, best two in three, was the second event on the card. But two heats were required to decide the winner of this race as Silver Sign, the favorite, had everything his own way! The famous bay horse, owned by Judge E. A. Colburn, was in excellent form and never showed up to better advantage. But three horses were entered in this race, as Prince L., the gelding bought by George Estabrook in California last winter, was withdrawn. Second money was divided between H. H. H. and Nancy King. Free-for-all trot to wagon, prize, one mile heats, best two In three. Silver Sign, b h by Silver Thorn , 1 1 B.H. H.,sm 3 2 Nanoy King, bl m 2 3 Time-2:18M, 2:18*. THURSDAY, JUNE 25. The only harness race on the program was the 2:14 trot. Gold Dust Maid waB installed the favorite for this event chiefly on the showing Bhe made previous to her Denver appearance. Just why the talent "fell to her" is one of those inexplainable things that occur on a race track almost daily. It was thought that Loomis was not driving her at top speed, but that good reinsman, when called into the stand, soon convinced the judges that the Silver Thorn mare had trotted a heat faster than ever before. Notwithstanding that Tom Smith wai the proven "class" of the race, the "wise uns" again went to Gold Dust Maid with a vengeance, only to see her trailing her field in the next heat, which went to Tom Smith. The third heat witnessed Will Lane receive "the flag" after putting first heat to his credit. Tom Smith won the next heat and race, although Loomis forced Zibble to drive for the same and made a close finish of the race. The summary: 2:14 trot, mile heats, best three in five, purse $500. TomSmith.brh 3 111 Gold Dust Maid, blk m 2 4 3 2 EdWinship.bg 4 2 -s< S Will Lane, br g by Wilmaroh 1 3 ds Time— 2:15«,2:15«, 2:l7y£, 2:14tf. FRIDAY, JUNE 26. Under the hottest sun that has shone on Overland Park this year Bix races were conducted Friday in creditable time. It was a day that made the horses' coats shine. The finishes were close, and man and beast went back to the paddock tired. Interest in the early part of the day centered around the 2:40 pace. At the end of the fifth heat no horse, owing to the jockeying of Raven Dixon's driver, had made three wins, and a sixth was paced between Raven Dixon, Joe Younger and Amble W. They finished in the order named. Amble W. had been favorite during the first of the race. In the third heat Raven Dixon was chosen, he having had some friends all the time. But Johnson seldom tries until the third heat. Johnson, Dixon's driver, took a sixth place in the first, a fifth in the second heat. Having undoubtedly the beat pacer in the field his taking fir6t in the third, when the time was ripe to begin winning, waB no surprise. Johnson was fined upon winning the third heat, which showed that he had undoubtedly had the best horse all the time. A bit of surprise was furnished by Joe Younger, who won the fifth handily after trailing in the earlier heats. His time in this heat was 2:18}, only a second slower than Raven Dixon's performance in the final. Pacing, 2:40 olass, purse $500. Raven Dixon, b h by George Dixon (Johnson) 6 5 114 1 Amble W., b m by Alta Boy (Bnsh) 114 6 2 3 Joe Younger, bl h by Joe Young (Dillon) 8 7 6 5 12 Bonnie Treasure, Billy Carrew, Fairy Medium, Arrowphene, Pay Day and Mary A. also started. Time— 2:14«, 2:15>A 2:14^, 2:18J<, 2:17&. List of entries in the 2:27 pace was reduced to four, Congressman Sibley and Evadne being scratched. Tout, the favorite, won all three heatB. Red Fairy and Lady in Gray, second choice at 5 to 1, fought it out for second place, Lady in Gray crossing first. Susie R. got fourth money. The summary: Trotting, 2:27 olass, purse $500. The Tout, bl g by McKinney (Bush) 111 Lady in Gray, g m by Judge Toler (Colburn) 2 3 3 Red Fairy, b m by Red Gameleon (Raybould) 3 2 4 Susie R , bl m by Allie Wilkes (MacDermld) 4 4 2 Time— 2:24H, 2:24 a, 2:25tf. SATURDAY, JUNE 27. Theorowd at Overland Park on Saturday was fully as large aB on Derby Day, a week previous, eight thousand people passing through the gates. Betting was heavier than on any previous day, and on the fifth race, which was a six-furlong selling affair, the books refused to take bets of less than $5. There was but one harness race during the afternoon, which was the 2:15 pace for a purse of $1000. There were ten starters and six heats were required to decide it. The race was won by Stipulator, a horse sired by Titus (own brother to Direct 2:05J) out of Grace Kaiser, the dam of Coney 2:02, etc. While Stipulator did not win thefaBtest heat in the race, that going to Laura Spuhr in 2:09}, he outgamed his field and low- ered his record to 2:13} in the third heat. Laura Spuhr waB the favorite, and there was a heavy play on more than half the starters. The summary of the race follows: Pacing, 2:15 olass, purse $1000. Stipulator, blk s br Titus 6 3 13 11 Laura Spuhr. ch m by William C. P 116 2 7 2 Martha B., bm by Ashland Wilkes 3 5 2 12 3 Jess C., Gayfleld, Exodus, Darkaway, Lulu M., Selden Wilkes and Christobal also started. Time— 2:11H, 2:09M, 2:13tf, 2:12)4, 2:14k, 2:16K. Caustic Balsam Cured Fistula, Poll Evil and Spavin. Mowehsvillb, Pa., July 4, 19oe The Lawrence- Williams Co, Cleveland, 0. I have been using Gombault's Caustic Balsam for a number of years past, treating fistula and poll-evil. Have cured quite a number of horses. Some six years ago cured an old mare of spavin that was so lame she went hopping along with the spavined foot soarcely touchiDg the ground. Had begun to think her leg was broken, but I applied Caustio Balsam as per directions in pam- phlet, and after one or two weeks' treatment she became sound and well again, and has remained so ever since. A. W. BRECHBIEL. H. B. Gentry, Gentry Stock Farm, Bloomington, Illinois, reports that McKinney has turned off mares so successfully this Beason with a Bingle service that he is pretty well through with his booking. As it is Mr. Gentry could have, with perfect safety, accepted a few more mares. On a hot day drink Jackson's Napa Soda lemonade and be refreshed. Colic in a Horse. Indigestion assumes one of two forms, either acute or chronic. In the acute form it is one of the most fatal diseases to which the horse is subject, as in nearly every instance the victim will die unless imme- diate and intelligent treatment is given. A number of causes may produce this condition, chief among which are feeding an extra amount of grain before a long, hard drive, heavy feeding after a prolonged fast, speedy driving with full stomach, or getting loose and having access to the grain bin, overloading its stomach. The symptoms evinced will vary somewhat in the beginning of an attack, but as the disease pro- gresses the symptoms displayed in all cases bear marked similarity. At first the horse may appear to lag if being driven, will appear dull, there will be a full appearance of the flanks and the patient begins to perspire more frequently than usual. If stopped it will in a short time become restless, will paw or try to lie down. If taken out of the harness, in a short time the symptoms become aggravated. The abdomen be- comes distended with gaB, there is belching up through the gullet, the latter being a distinguishing symptom, for in almost every case this belching of gas, frequently accompanied with more or leBS of the contents of the stomach discharged through the nostrils will take place. Two things are very likely to cause death suddenly in acute indigestion — rupture of the Btomach from over-distension, or suffocation from the accumulation of gas in the intestines interfering with respiration. Treatment in all cases of colic must be prompt and energetic. If possible administer a physic the first thing to aid in emptying the stomach. A ball or cap- Bule containing from six to eight drams of aloes is beBt owing to the fact that it is not bulky and will take up but little space in an already over-distended stomach. If, however, this cannot be procured, give from one pint to one quart of raw linseed oil as a drench. Fol- low the physic with some antiacid, such as baking soda two to four ounces, salicylate of soda, hyposul- phite of soda or charcoal in about one ounce doses, or chloride of lime or carbonate of ammonia in half ounce doses. Many practitioners add from two to four ounces of cayenne pepper, with the idea that it tends to contract the stomach. Injections of half an ounce of turpentine, combined with six or eight ouncesof raw linseed oil, will do good and the patient should be placed in quarters where it is not likely to injure itself by tumbling around or falling down. As in flatulent colic the use of the trocar is often the means of afford- ing quick relief by relieving the bowels of gas. It is always well to call a veterinarian as soon as possible, as he is the one most competent to cope with an attack of this kind and the only one in fact that should undertake the operation of puncturing the horse. To relieve the intense pain an ounce of chloral hydrate dissolved in water can often be given with advantage and in all cases avoid the foolish practice of forcing the poor suffering animal to walk or trot around, with the idea that by so doing it will obtain relief, for as a general thing it becomes exhausted all too soon. In chronic indigestion a variety of symptoms are often present. The seat of trouble and causes vary in different horses and even in the same one at dif- erent times. Among the causes of this form are de- cayed or faulty teeth, bolting of the food, poor quality of food or an improper quantity, derangement of stomach and bowels from any cause, etc. The char- acteristic symptoms of chronic indigestion are ir- regular appetite, refusing all food at times and again eating too much. There is frequently a disposition on the part of the horse to eat dirt, wood, plaster off the walls or manure, the coat is rough or staring, bowels costive, droppings smell bad, or bowels loose, with frequent pasiage of sour smelling gas, loss of flesh and hidebound appearance. In treating, the teeth should in all cases be first examined and all irregularities rectified. This, in conjunction with good food and regular exercise, will be all that is necessary if the teeth are the direct cause. If not, other treatment should be given. If due to bolting food, spread grain out over large sur- face when fed, or mix sufficient dry bran to prevent bolting. Give a physic of one ounce of aloes or a pint of raw oil and follow with some tonic, tuch as the following: Gentian, ginger and bicarbonate of soda, of each one ounce; nux vomica, half an ounce; mix and give dessertspoonful night and morning in food. A tablespoonful of hyposulphite of soda once a day in food will do much to sweeten the stomach and stop the formation of gas. Indigestion is often due to the presence of wormB in the stomach or intestines. The purgative, however, will do much toward aiding their removal. The digestive apparatus is often deranged by improper feeding, either too much, too little or keeping the animal too long on one diet. The horse has a small stomach and will thrive if fed often and not allowed too muoh at one time, t&he $v&sbex attb &p&ci#ntixt\ tJtJLV 4, 1903 Lou Dillon 2:042. She will beat Alix's record soon. The Petaluma meeting will be the best trotting meeting of the year in California. Bankers Daughter 2?13J worked a mile in 2:18$ at Pleasanton last Saturday without the hopples. The next sale of horses belonging to the estate of Henry Pierce will probably be held at Santa Rosa. The attendance has been good at Denver, as many as eight thousand people being on the grounds in one day. Major Delmar, 2:05$, has been a mile in 2:14}, last half in 1-05, for Alta McDonald, at Albany, New York. Rey Del Diablo ha9 been unlucky at Denver. He won two heats in the 2:23 pace last Monday, but failed to win the race. The eastern mare Miss Georgie that is entered in the Chamber of Commerce Stake at Detroit is by the California bred stallion Regal Wilkes 2:11}. She hag worked a mile this year in 2:11. The match between A. Ottinger's trotter Zambra 2:16J and B. Croner's pacing mare Banker's Daughter 2:14} is off. The man who proposed the match and offered to back the mare failed to put up the coin. Columbia, McDowell and Creighton, of Manitou, Colo., own a three-legged colt that was foaled on the Frizzell ranch. The foreleg is on the left side in the natural position, and the joungster gets about quite lively. Billy Red, the pacer that Mr. J. R. Springer pur- chased from Mose Hart is improving right along. He has already worked a mile in 2:12$ and is capable of a mile in 2:10 or better. Mr. Springer is much pleased vrith him. A. E. Sturges is well pleased with the way his horses, Prince Direct 2:07 and Baron de Shay 2:08}, a "e working for M. E. McHenry at the Cleveland ' ack and.hopes to pull off some good races down the le this summer. John B. Sage, secretary of the Buffalo Driving Club, is not seriously ill, has not retired from the secretaryship, and Mr. E. J. Tranter is only assisting Secretary Sage temporarily. So writes Mr. Tranter, and he ought to know. John Phippen has taken Del Oro and several other horses to the San Jose track. A consignment of Hungarian ponies from Mr. A. W.Foster's Hopland farm has been sent to the Occi- dental Horse Exchange in this city for private sale. They are a very handsome lot of liitla fellows and are ideal ponies for children. Oi."5jer Ronan of the Pleasanton track, was in the city last week purchasing lumber with which to con- struct twenty-eight new box stalls at the track. The demand for staUs at this famous track last winter was greater than the supply. John P. Ray of Hemlock Lake, who has for many years been at work to secure the true breeding of George Wilkes' dam, Dolly Spanker, believes he now has indisputable evidence that that great mare was sired by Mambrino Paymaster. Little Branch, the three year old filly by Nutwood Wilkes out of a mare by Long Branch is one of the most promising youngsters at the Pleasanton track. She is owned by Martin Carter and is entered in the three year old trot at the Breeders Petaluma meeting. Budd Doble has taken a nomination for Kinney Lou in the Transylvania $6000 stake for trotters eligible to the 2:12 class. El Diablo 2:11}, Kelly Briggs 2:10 and Robert I. 2:10 will reprjient California in the 2:10 pacing classes over East this year. John A. McKerron 2:05}, The Monk 2:05$, Lou Dil- lon 2-:06}r and Anzella, 2:06}, ought to be able to de- fend the Cleveland Challenge Cup this summer. Clipper worked a nice mile at Pleasanton last Sat- urday in a shade under 2:10 and from the way he finished It looks as if he might lower his record this year. Experience has shown where many horses inclined to break when pushed are kept at their gait better by a sulky which is a trifle weighty than by an extremely light one. _- Idylwlld, the bay trotting mare by McKinney that W. G, Durfee is training at Los Angeles, trotted an eighth last week in 15 seconds, according to a Los An- geles report. Ed Geers is quoted as saying that he thinks that Prince of Orange 2:07$ will be able to beat both Lord Derby 2:05}, and Major Dalmar, 2:05$, before the sea- son is half over. Searchlight's season is about ended. There ate very few mares in his paddock that are not ready to send home. About 78 mares were booked to Search- light this season. Robert I. 2:10 (p) left Agricultural Park last week for Cincinnati in charge of trainer William Jukian, where he will be entered in the great $2000 pace. He will follow the Grand Circuit. The Memphis meeting, October 20th to 28th, will afford every horse entered two to four chances to start for the money. At least two dash races will be given every day, and a full card of two in three events for all classes, including two and three year old trotters. E. H. Harriman, owner of Stamboul 2:07$ for the best years of that great horse's life, has purchased the new mile track at Goshen, N. Y., and it is believed he will continue to underwrite the meetings which have hitherto been held in that town but on the old half-mile course. • A very clever exhibition of early speed was given the other day on the Empire City track by a seven months o'd colt by Direct, owned by Mr. Steinway. John Daly, who has just broken the youngster, allowed him to Btep a quarter of a mile in 53 seconds, the last eighth in 24 seconds. Albert H. Merrill, Danvers, Mass., the noted East- ern starting judge, pledges $100 extra to each of the drivers of the winners of first money in both divisions of the Western Horseman's $6000 no-entry-fee futurity for foals of 1904. Mr. Merrill is absolutely responsible, and there are "no strings" to his added money. R E. Davis, who wintered his stable at Columbia, S. C, has shipped five head to the Empire track to be used by their different owners in the matinees which will be given during the summer by the New York Driving Club. Thev areConey 2:02, Chain Shot 2:06J A. J. D. 2:09}, Plumline 2:12} and Richard B. 2:21}. " J. C. Quinn of Honolulu, who bought Waldo J. 2:08 three years ago through this office, writes that he sold the gray ghost about nine months since. Mr. Quinn raced him two seasons and never lost a heat or a race. The new owner has had poor luck with the horse however, and has never started him in a race. The two-year-old pacer by Altivo in James Thomp- son's string at Pleasanton worked a nice mile in 2:25 last Saturday with the last half in 1:10. He was not driven at any portion of the mile. T. H. Griffin has shipped a part of his stable from tha Lexington, Ky., track to Detroit, where he will race Prince Selma and Black Bart. They will be driven in their races by Billey McLaughlin. The Woodland people are still engaged in trying to raise a fund to assure the success of a good fair and race meeting this year, and although the outlook ie good no announcements have been made so far. Mills & Sanders are having Buccess with their train- ing stable at Pleasanton. They make a specialty of buying, training and selling horses, and have made a number of good trades since they began business. Irish, the colt by Monterey 2:09} that is causing so much talk over East, is out of Juliet D. 2:13$ by Mc- Kinney. The next dam is by Creighton, a son of im- ported Glencoe and the next by Hock Hocking. Irish was a trotter as a two-year-old, but has been shifted to the pace and recently showed a mile in 2:15 at that gait. The two year old colt by Mendocino outofCoralie by Boodle that Monroe Salisbury purchased for James Butler at Palo Alto sale at Fred H. Chase & Co.'s salesyard in this city January 29th, is being entered in two year old stakes over East under the name California Cresceus, which Mr. Salisbury selected for him. Some time ago a Michigan veterinarian guaranteed to cure the fast trotter Country Jay of his lameness o- get no pay. If he succeeded he was to have $500. The gelding was placed in his care, but the practitioner failed to get results and Country Jay has been turned out to grass, his lameness makiDg bim of no account as a race horse or as a roadster. A special meeting of the Pacific District Board of Appeals of the National Trotting Association will be held at the office of the Secretary, 36 Geary street, San Francisco, Cal., at 2 o'clock p. m. on Wednesday, July 15, 1903. AH communications intended for con- sideration of this Board at this meeting must be for- warded to the Secretary not later than July 1st. The classes provided by the California State Agri- cultural Society for harness races this year will be about as follows: For trotters, the 2:30, 2:24, 2:17, 2:15, 2:11 and a two mile race for the 2:24 class. For pacers, Green class, 2:20, 2:17, 2:13, free-for-all, and three year olds. These, with the Stanford and Occident Stakes will give two races each day for har- ness horses. Ed Geers received the following recently from a Nebraska horseman. "I understand that you have bike sulkies to burn. That being so I wish you would send me one. I have a horse with a mark of 2:13, made to a clumsy old "sulky, and I think that with a bike he could lower this figure to 2:08 If you would send me a bike sulky, perhaps I could win enough money with it that by fall I might pay you. You needn't send me a new sulky, an old one will do." Two weeks ago Brook Curry, Lexington, Ky., sold a lot of yearlings in Philadelphia, the youngsters being mostly the progeny of Silent Brook, 2:16$, Directman, son of Directum 2:05}, and Baron Oakland, son of Oakland Baron 2:09}. The prices realized were fair for the age of the stock offered. The be6t figure paid was $300 and quite a number of the colts sold between that and $200. James Butler's East View Farm stable opened the campaign at Mineola, L. I., last week and carried off more than its share of the money. The first day the mare Tobasco, by Direct, won second money in the 2:25 class for pacers, and the following day Lady Direct won the 2:30 pace, Hettie G. 2:05} the free-for-all pace, and Intact 2:19} the 2:20 trot. Thoma9 Murphy is doing the race driving for the stable. Just to show that prices in California are about the same as those obtained all over this country we print the following item from an Illinois paper: "At a sale of trotting stock held by H. J. Marbold at Greenview, 111., June 3rd, some forty head, mainly youngsters, were sold at an average price of $150. The top price was $325 for a voung stallion bv Grand Baron 2:12}, son of Baron Wilkes 2:18, dam Gustine 2:29.1, by Aller- ton.2:09}." Alan-a-Dale, the four-year-old chestnut colt by Halma out of Sudie McNairy by Enquirer, ran one mile at Washington Park, Chicago, last Wednesday in 1:37}, a new world's record for a circular track. Halma is a son of Hanover and is owned by Mr. Van- derbilt, who sent him to his breeding farm in France in July, 1901. Alan-a-Dale carried 110 pounds in bis record-breaking performance and defeated the great three-year-old Savable, that carried 100, by three- quarters of a length. Several California bred horses are being worked at the Wbeaton, Illinois-, track. The threo year old colt Irish by Monterey 2:09} has been a mile there in 2:15, last quarter in 32 seconds, and is considered a rare good one. Dan W. 2:17}, the roan gelding that J. R. Albertson of Fresno campaigned here in 1901, is at Wheaton and worked a handy milein 2:15 lately. Two two year old fillies by Falrose that Det Bigelow bought for an Illinois man and shipped over there last winter, are showing up well and promise to get standard rocords when started. Tom Smith 2:14} by McKinney won again at Denver last Tuesday, taking his race in straight heats. This horse has doubtless fallen in good hands and Mr. Zibble should have the credit of his excellent showing since he took charge of him, and his owner, Prof. E. P. Heald of this city, is to be congratulated. Tom Smith is out of Daisy S. by McDonald Chief (that is also the dam of Little Mac 2:27$ and Sweet Ro6e2:28}) and his grandam Fanny Rose (dam of Columbus I. 2:17 and George Washington 2:16}) by Ethan Allen Jr. 2993 Tom Smithisagood individual, a square gaited trotter and should make a high class sire. A record of 2:10 is not beyond his reach when he is just right. John E. Madden, the famous running horseman, whose early associations were those of the harness turf, has notified John Splan to attend to all the wants and needs of the great driver, Orrin Hickok, now in an insane ward in a Cleveland sanitarium, and send the bills for same to him. Hickok is said to be in the most pitiable condition. At times in a vague way he fights the old battles of the turf over again, but his remembrance of the great horses he haB driven is now very slight. His physicians say his mind is completely wrecked and he will never fully recover his reason. Still, with all his affliction, he eats well and sleeps nat- urally, and may yet live for years. — Trotter and Pacer. The accidents which befell the well-known Texas trainer, Wiilis O Foote, and his partner, J. L. Dodge, at St. Louis, Missouri, the other day was more serious than first reported in . the papers. Mr. Dodge was killed outright, while Foote was crushed about the feet and lower limbs besides receiving abrasions about the head and perhaps internal injuries. The great trotter Rilma 2:09}, winner of the Transylvania and several other big trotting stakes, was fatally injured and Nutbearer 2:09} besides several other fast trotters and pacers were so badly damaged as to have to be killed. The list included W. O. Foote, Lew Vaughn 2:09$, Vanity S. 2:17}, Hall Fry 2:18}, Gov. McCauley, Rilma Strong, Princeptisa and a matched team worth $10,000. Geo. Ramage, who handled the horses in the ring at the sale of the Henry Pierce horses last week, and who has been with that breeding farm for eleven years, states that the filly Clara Oakley and the gelding Arandale,two and three years old respectively, were the choice animals of the sale. They are full brother and sister and were purchased by MeBsrs. Geary & Grindell of Hay wards, who have engaged Mr. Ramage to train them. They are by Sidney Dillon (sire of Lou Dillon 2:04} and Dolly Dillon 2:07) out of Oakley Russell by Happy Russell 2:21$, second dam by Orestes 1920, third dam by Henry Clay Jr. Happy Russell was by Mambrino Russell out of Odd Stocking by Happy Medium, next dam _by American Star. Mambrino Russell was by Wood ford Mambrino out of Miss Russell, the dam of Maud S. 2:08}. Nutwood and others. Orestes 1920 was by Cassius M. Clay Jr. 22, dam Princess by Mambrino Patchen, second dam by Mambrino Chief 11, third dam by Rodolph. Mr. Ramage rightfully considers Oakley. Russell one of the best bred mares in America. She carries the blood that produced Alix 2:03}, Nancy Hanks 2:04, Kremlin 2:07} and many other record breakers. A filly of hers by Bay Rose was the fastest green mare ever seen at the Santa Rosa Stock Farm, but was frightened by a runaway horse one day and ever after was afraid of any vehicle. Mr. Ramage thinks both her foals by Sidney Dillon should get low records at the trot. , fVL,* i, 1903] ©he gveebe* attb gptitt&mati What is an Unavoidable Accident? Every Beason there are a number of cases in races where something occurs that causes some one of the starters in a race to pull up and not go the mile, and then ask the judges to let them start again in the next heat. Sometimes it is due to an accident that just misses being a really bad one, in which the driver who pulls up might have been seriously hurt, and sometimes, more often in fact, it is some case in which the driver decides not to take any chances, but relies on the plea of accident to give him the privilege to start again. In nine cases out of ten there is no real chance of the horse that has been pulled up being allowed to start again if the judges follow the rules, but drivers fancy that because they "break down" from any cause, it must always be termed an "unavoidable accident." The rules certainly give the judges plenty of leeway in the matter of deciding whether an accident is un- avoidable or otherwise, but it is a risky thing for a driver to try to figure out for himself in about ten seconds whether his own particular case can come under the head of the unavoidable class or not, and the best way is to try to go the mile, even if shut out a block or a dozen blocks, and take a chance that a little talk will satisfy the judges that the accident was unavoidable in a measure, and that in the case in point distance can be waived. Actually the only cases in which the plea of una- voidable accident is permissible are those in which some one gets into difficulties through the careless- ness or negligence of some one else. Unavoidable accident is only another mms for unintentional foul, and the interference has to be caused by some one else in the race or be due to some action of some other driver or horse in the race before the injured party can put in any claim for the privilege to start again. Brjkei hiraess, baited hopples, a punctured tire, a locked wheel or any other such damage to that par- ticular horse's harness or sulky, that is not caused by Borne collision with some other horse or with the fence, owing to being crowded into it by some other horse, cannot come under the unavoidable class, and the sufferer cannot start again under the rules if properly enforced. If in any heat there is unavoid- able crowding, owing to the track being narrower in width at one point than another, there may be cause for claiming the privilege to start again on account of an unavoidable accident, and to illustrate this point I will quote a case in which I had personal ex- perience, but which luckily did not result in any one having to claim the privilege above mentioned. It was at a track where seven could score abreast, and where the first turn was so close to the wire that you had no sooner got the word than you were in the turn, and this was so much narrower tban the stretch itself that six horses filled it from fence to fence without an inch of waste space But to make matters worse, as you rounded into the back stretch it became a matter of scientific driving for five horses to travel alongside of each other without "rubbing wheels." Now with such a field as I had the pleasure of traveling with, fourteen starters, on such a track, it was pretty much of a guess whether the bunch would get around to the quarter pole without some one getting pinched, and if a wheel had been hit and put out of business around the fir6t turn, I think it would not be stretching it a very great deal to call it an unavoidable accident. As it happened in that particular race there was no one who got into any difficulty in that race, so the case was not tested there, but the situation shows just how the track conditions may influence the admission of the plea of the "unavoidable accident." Crowding in such a case could not be avoided, but oftentimes when there is plenty of room on the track for three or four times the number of horses that subsequently get into collision it is equally unavoidable as far as any "intentionality" goes on the part of the offender. Sometimes a horse in making a break will swerve towards the pole or out from it and force another driver to pull his horse over one way or the other very suddenly to try to avoid being hit, and in doing so he accidentally and purely unintentionally either crowds another horse into the fence or collides with him and causes some damage, such as a broken wheel or something else that makes it impossible for the horse that is interfered with to continue the mile, or if not so badly injured as to make the completion of the mile too dangerous an undertaking, causes the horse in question to break and lose so much ground that he is distanced, or injures him so he can only progress at a slow rate of speed and he gets shut out any way, then that interfered-with horse's driver can claim the right to start again, and with any fair set of judges will be granted it, too. Unless some other driver in the race iB in some measure responsible for the damage that is done, al- though he may be perfectly innocent of any intention of causing any accident or interference, there can be no possible grounds for claiming the privilege of start- ing again onthe plea of "unavoidable accident." The only chance is to go the mile even if shut out, and trust to luck that sufficient doubt can be raised in the minds of the judges that there was some interference on the part of some other horse that caused the trouble that resulted in the "said-to-be" interfered- with horse being shut out, then there is just a chance that the distanced horse will be given the benefit of the doubt. All such pleas as broken harness and busted hopples are of no avail if the judges know their business, and to try to tell them that a twisted wheel that was not caused by some one else hitting it is an unavoidable accident is about as near to a con- vincing argument as it would be to try to get the ' judges to not award you the heat after you had won it, because some other fellow away back in the bunch did not try to beat you. To make any ground for an unavoidable accident it is absolutely necessary to have some other fellow to lay the blame on, whether you can prove it or not, for even if the evidence is insufficient to prove the case, it still leaves a doubt in the minds of the judges as to whether the injured horse met with his accident though his own fault or that of some other horse in the race, and in the majority of cases when such doubt occurs the interfered-with horse will get the benefit of the doubt. — Frederick Watson in American Horse Breeder. ♦ Great Tournament at Santa Barbara. The Curb Bit Not Cruel. Santa Barbara is to hold a two weeks' carnival of amateur sports from July 13th to 25th on a scale never before attempted in California. There wiil be all sorts of land and water sports. A dispatch from Santa Barbara says: "The Riverside, Pasadena and Burlingame polo teams, together with the local team, have accepted an invitation to participate in the events and will send their entire outfits. Frank J. Carolan of Burlingame will be here with his entire stable, and Charles Clark, son of United States Senator Clark, who has recently purchased the Hobart place at Burlingame, will send a full carload of racers and polo ponies. The southern clubs will also be fully represented. The polo pony races will be another feature of the tournament, and, like the otherevents, handsome prizes wiil be awarded to the winners. The gentlemen's driving races, in which none but amateurs may take part, will be participated in by the best known horse fanciers in the State. In addi- tion to Mr. Clark and Mr. Cardan's stables, Messrs. Batchelder, Henry Goodall and John Barneson, all of San Francisco, will take part with their entire strings of racers. Three days of the tournament will be de- voted to these races and the same time to polo. Scores of horses from the southern part of the State will also participate in the racing. It will unquestion- ably be the finest meeting of the kind ever held in the west. Lewis Freeman, the Pacific Coast tennis champion, is now arranging for the tennis portion of the program. He is having new courtB built adjoining the Potter Hotel, and their arrangement will be on the most elaborate scale. From the present outlook there will be at least fifty playerB here, andtheeveLts will be continuous until completed. All of the best known players, both ladies and gentlemen, have ac- cepted the invitation to take part. The ladies of Santa Barbara have taken the greatest interest in the tournament. Nor are their efforts con- fined to social events alone. Ladies' crews from the south will take part in the boat races, teams from the Corinthian and South Coast Yacht clubs having sent word thst they will be present. An effort is now being made to have the proposed maneuvers of the Pacific Coast naval squadron held in the channel during the tournament. Secretary Moody has been communicated with, and while no reply has yet been received there are. reasons to be- lieve that the effort will be successful. It is quite probable, however, that a few ships will be in the harbor at that time, even though the maneuvers do not take place. A scheme of illumination has been arranged that will convert the ocean boulevard into a scene of brilliancy. Thousands of electric lights will be strung along the entire water front and the two pleasure wharfs will be elaborately lighted. State street, the main business thoroughfare, will be strung with vari-colored Chinese and Japanese lanterns and illuminated each night. There will be no charge to any of the events on the entire program, every feature being free and for the avowed Durpose of promoting outdoor sports. The citizens of Santa Barbara will bear the entire expense. " I was recently greatly impressed with the remarks of a successful trainer and driver, who of late years has been devoting his time to the coach horse branch of the harness horse game, regarding the curb bit with its apparent clumsy, cruel, and complicated checks and chains. He contended it was the easiest bit for horse and driver as soon as both were properly educated to its use, and in support of his claim named a number of well known trotters that were failures as race horses on account of their noted pulling pro- clivities that had as a last resort been forced into the coach horse brigade and, after their education in this line, had become good-mannered with an easy mouth and a dispo ition to let the reinsman do the driving at all times. On several memorable occasions I have noticed with what poor success a first class coach-horse driver handles a race horse, and, on the other hand, have seen expert race drivers make a funny show of them- selves in the ring while trying to handle a coacher. I have also observed a well-educated coacher drive nicely rigged like a trotter, but the latter invariably fights the curbs until properly educated to their use, and is then all the better behaved and easier to handle in his light harness rigging, and under these circum- stances am inclined to think there are some grounds for the ex-trainer's claims. It is a well established fact that tho average race horse carries a stiff neck with his nose well out, while the coacber's neck is archrd and pliable, and he car- ries his chin well under. I think both habits are ac- quired, to a certain extent, by the methods and appli- ances used, and havenodoubt benefits can be obtained by slight modification* of both. I feel quite sure many trotters and pacers that are giving their trainers and owners endless trouble by pulling and lugging on the bit could be greatly improved by a competent coach horse trainer and a few lessons with a "dumb- jock," a rigging used to educate coach horses to the curb bit and to teach them to carry arched necks and nicely poised heads. — Palmer Clark. A novel feature of the racing to be conducted in con nection with the New York State Fair at Syracuse this year will be some heavy harness events, these having been selected as follows: two milo dash for four-in-hands, horses to be changed at the end of the first mile in front of the grandstand; mile dash for dock-tailed horseB to runabout wagons; half-mile races for saddle horses, riders to wear colors; mile dash for tandems, wheeler to trot, leader to t<:ot or run; three- furlong dash for ponies under saddle; special class for sporting tandems, outfits to be shown in the ring and then the leaders tried over the jumps. In addition to thses events there will be a full program of regular horse show classes, including the jumping events, in some of which ladies will be eligible to compete and some will be open only to horseB ridden by ladies. The prizes wiil amount to $15,000 in cash and plate. It may not be generally known that Mr. J. A Buck- land is almost aB great an enthusiast in the matter of breeding thoroughbreds as he is with trotters. Refer- ring to the success of Zenda, a mare owned and bred by the New South Wales sportsman, in the Bligh (N. S. W.) Cup and Bracelet, "Milroy," in the Sydney Mail says: "Though Mr. Buckland is, doubtless, dis- appointed over the defeat of his mucn-beloved Fritz, by Ribbonwood, knowing as he does that the winner's time is not within secoeds of the best Fritz has shown him, he takes the loss well, and is game to come again. I was once privileged to time Fritz at Wonbobbie, but I am not privileged to reveal the record. However, it may not be a breach of confidence to say that it was better than the best that Ribbonwood has shown in public." Jackson's Napa Soda is sold in every city, town and hamlet in the StatA In hot weather there is no drink like Jackson's Napa Soda — plain or in a lemonade. Horse Owners Should Vse GOMBAILT'S CAUSTIC BALSAM The Great French Veterinary Remedy. A SAFE, SPEEDY * POSITIVE CURE. Prepared exclusively by J. E. Oombautt, ex- Veterinary Surgeon to tbe French Government Stud. SUPERSEDES ALL CAITERY OR FIRING. Impossible to produce ami scar or blemish. The safest he?t Bli-ier ever used. Tahea the place or all liniments for mild or severe action. Removes all Bunches or Blemishes Irom Horses or Cattle. As a HTM AX REMEDY for Rheu- matism, Sprain*, Sore Throat, etc., it Is Invaluable. WE GCARAXTEE that one table- spoonful of Cauntlc BuUam win produce more actual results iban a whole bottle of any liniment or spavin cure mixture ever made. Every bottle of Cnuatlc lliil-uin sold Is Warranted to (rive satisfaction. Price 91. SO per bottle. Sold by druggets, or sent by ex- press, charges paid, with lull directions for Its use. Send for descriptive circulars, testimo- nials, etc. Addrebs THE LAWRENCE- WILLIAMS COMPAKT, CleTeUni, Ohio. 8 (&he gveebev anh gtjttrrtemcm [July 4, 1903 ROD, GUN AND KENNEL. Conducted by J. X. Do WITT. The 01' Mill Pond. On these balmy summer moraln's, 'fore the sun is In the sky, Whtn the shadders turnin' purple tell that day Is drawin' nigh; With a can or worms a-squirmin' jist beside me on the ground, You are mostly sure to find me by the ol' mill pond. For the shadowy reflection of the clouds a-sailin' by, A-tintin' of the water with the colors of the sky; An' the cool green grass a-wavin', in the medder jist beyond. Makes it mighty pleasant flshin' in the or mill pond. So with the robins chirpin' in the harvest apple tree. An' the orryole recitin' of his sweetest song to me; With the golden sun a-risin', it's jist fun to loaf around An' fish for perch an' mullets in the ol' mill pond. Fer the stretch of dewy medders, full of misty lines all curves, Hakes a mighty soothin' poultioe fer a weary feller's nerves; An' I 'low if this aint comfort, then it really can't be found, When you 're anglin' fer mullets in the ol' mill pond. Why! the very frogs a-croakin' . and the peepers pipin' low. With the mooin' of the cattle in the pasture lot below; An' the rumblin' of the mill stones, as the water wheel goes round, Fill a feller with contentment by the or mill pond. So lay in' on the grassy bank an' takin' of my ease, With the sunshine peepin' shyly thro' the branohes of the trees; A-watching of my bobbers as they slowly drift around, I could jist fish on forever in the ol' mill pond. — Gaorge W. Slawson. Possibilities of Salt Water Fishing Near San Francisco. Salt water fishing off the California coast in innum- erable places is inviting; and various in its attractions. In and about San Francisco bay, with the exception of striped bass fishing;, the sport is yet in its infancy. The methods ind tackle employed are crude and stereotyped. The species and habits of the fish to be found inside the "heads" have not been advantage- ously studied. In thiB respect there is a compar- atively wide field for the salt water fishermen. What may in future be accomplished in these par- ticular lines is encouraging- enough for systematic study and experiment in a field that will amply repay for the time invested. That this conclusion is not a far fetched one will be readily understood when the advancement in the sport by Eastern anglers, particularly in the vicinity of New York, is noted. There the fishermen have or- ganized a League of Salt Water Fishermen, having a membership of thousands, drawn from the ranks of, it has been claimed, at least one hundred and fifty thousand devotees of the sport. Along the ocean shores within easy reach of San Francisco there can be found many good fishing places where surf fishing can be indulged in. Here can be found as picturesque Bcenery and as exhil- arating air as can be wished for by the most exacting lover of a day's outing. There are also many other pleasing accessories for a trip of this character that makes puzzling the almost general ignoring of the opportunity for days of splendid recreation at the ocean shore. In the light of past indifference it does not seem reasonable that this state of affairs may continue for a much longer period. When Bolinas bay, for instance, can be reached by the electric line of cars, for which the surveyors have recently fin- ished the preliminary work, then we expect there will bo a grand awakening of the salt water fellows, and incidentally the enlistment of many recruits. Bolinas bay is prolific in opportunities for as pleasant a day, with rod and line, on the ocean shore as the heart could wish for. Deep water fishing around about Lime Point, Point Bonita and outside the "heads," to the initiated few, is as an open book, the pages of which are recurrent with new and enlivening material. For the fisher- men who can handle a Whitehall boat, a sail outside and up toward Point Rey»s is a trip full of pleasant adventure and replete with fishing possibilities. W. W. Richards often finds much enjoyment in a fishing excursion of this kind. Outside fishing, from this city, ii most familiar through the excursions of the fishing tugs. Whilst the possibilities of salt water fishing are not of a nature that we could universally recommend, still the trip, for varieties sake might do for once. The ocean fishing banks most frequented and nearest to San Francisco are to the westward of the Farrallone islands, which are from twenty five to thirty-three miles from our wharves. The trip is made in steam tugs, having limited accommodations for the passengers, who generally number from twenty-five to seventy, paying from $2.50 to $4 each, according to vessel and number aboard. The passen- gers work during the week days, so the steamers leave the wharves Saturday nights or Sunday mornings from 11 P. M. to 2:30 A. M., reaching the wharves on return at from 4 to 5 P. M. The lines used are hard laid twisted cotton one- eigbth of an iach thick (No. 72) and from sixty to seventy fathoms long, hooks 8.0 to 10.0 Limerick or croked, with lead sinkers from two to five pounds ear h. Tbe bait mostly used is fresh or salted anchovies j. ,-alted boneless smelts, the latter being preferred •o ,ts toughness. The bank generally visited is the Noonday Rock shoal, which lies about five miles west by north from the North Farrallones islands. In summer time the weather is frequently windy with damp fog and quite rough sea, causing a large number of passengers to be sea sick. On windy days, owing to the drift of the steamer (shedoes not anchor) fishing can only be done from the windward side, while in nearly calm weather fishing is done from all sides of the vessel. Arriving at the fishing grounds to the westward of the buoy from 4 to 6 o'clock a. m., the steamer is stopped and fishing begins in from twenty- five to forty or mote fathoms of water. On the hookB reaching bottom and sometimes before, a slight twitch- ing is felt, and upon the fisherman jerking his line, the fish is hooked. Some persons haul at once and bring from one to three fish to the Burface; others keep jerking the lines as bites are felt until they think they have sufficient and haul in, sometimes having their hooks all full, from six to ten fish being taken. In some places where the lines are put down to the great- est depths the fish can not be felt at all when they bite and are hooked. The work of pulling up the heavy tackle and fish is frequently so laborious that one experience iB all that is cared for. The fish taken are red rock cod from one to ten pounds, salmon red cod from Bix to fifteen pounds, a species of codfish from six to forty pounds, a brown and golden colored fish from one to three pounds, what is known as a blue rock fish from one to five pounds, halibut up to sixty pounds and occasionally an octopus with arms six to eight feet long. The red and salmon cod as a rule do not fight much, as the "poke" or air bag swells into the throat and partly chokes them, while the octopus generally attaches its arms to the steamer's bottom and cannot be got on board. The fishing in the deep water with heavy leads and fish on is as we have remarked a tiring exercise, es- pecially when a strong wind prevails causing drifting. In very calm weather lighter leads are used and the work is less, and as in all other kinds of hand line fishing skill and experience always make the best catches. One of the most successful fishermen we have known was a postal carrier named Stanly Post, but generally known as "Phenomenal Post, "on ac- count of his great catches, which in the six hours al- lotted to fishing have ranged from two hundred to four hundred and fifty pounde. Post generally used five spreaders with ten hooks and his hauls in good weather ranged from five to ten fish at a time. On one occasion he brought nine red fish averaging over five pounds each and a halibut weighing thirty pounds. In good weather the catch runB from sixty to three hundred pounds per fisherman on board. In two instances one summer, salmon weighing from twenty to thirty pounds have been taken by parties on the steamer when their lines were about half way up. Sharks from four to eight feet long occasion- ally take the baits and sometimes the fiBh after being hooked. Sea lions and seals also sometimes strip tbe fish from the hooks when being hauled up. One would naturally suppose that one trip under the dis- comforts of no cabin room, sea sickness and other unpleasantness would be enough for a man, but such is not the case, some parties going from eight to twelve times during the summer. It has always been a cherished belief among fresh- water fishermen that their pastime creates a brother- hood of sympathy among its followers; that a sort of masonic feeling exists in the craft. It is not to be doubted that this communion of feeling and belief has strengthened the interest and excited the en- thusiasm of all "sweetwater" anglers, and — of much more importance — it has caused them to work, as a body, for the enforcement of the existing fish laws and the enactment of new ones, which, from their experience and belief, tbe public good demands. It is much to be regretted, and not easily understood, that no such unison of feeling or action prevails among the salt-water angles of this city and of the Coast. They do not seem to appreciate the necessity of a vigilant outlook for the constant violators of the law against pollution of the waters and the determined and in- cessant inroads of the market fisherman upon the rights of the rod and line salt-water fishermen, who do not pull together in protection of their privileges, certainly not in extending them. This is not as it should be, and we hope that the local clubs may take gome action tending to the advancement of the sport of salt-water angling and its future protection which will make them realize that the choice privilege of a suocessful outing with rod and line is worth guarding and fighting for. » In the season of hegira to the mountain and trout streams where rattlesnakes may be in uncomfortable proximity to those seeking out recreation, it behooves those who go to prepare themselves with some snake bite medicine and a good deal of Common sense. Few people are bitten by rattlesnakes, but the danger is sufficient to warrant the ounce of prevention. WMsky is not an antidote to the poison. ItB only office is to stimulate the organs of the body so that the poison may not paralyze them. To make the patient drunk is to reinforce the poison. Give whisky sparingly but frequently. Take a hypodermic syringe with you and some permanganate of potash that your druggist will prepare for you in five per cent solution. Chromic acid will serve the same purpose. Scarify the wound and suck the poison out, then ligate the member if you can and keep cool and rest easy. It will be a tough experience at best but only a total state of un- preparednesB and mental aberration will permit fatal results to follow. San Francisco Fly-Casting Club. A fair day and a west windj were favorable to the manipulation of fishing tackle on the 27th inst. C. R. Kenniff was high rod in the delicacy event, with 90 6-12 per cent. He was closely followed by T. W. Brotherton and E. A. Mocker who each scored 89 7-12 per cent. This particular event is more in the nature of exemplification of the actual work required on a trout stream than the others. In the long distance casting, a more showy competition than either the delicacy or accuracy work, it is never necessary on a stream to put out a line the extraordinary distances our local cracks are capable of. This event, however, is a great developer in giving an angler command of his rod and line. T. W. Brotherton managed to make the respectable score of 127 feet; C. R. Kenniff waB next with a cast of 127 feet; T. C. Kierulff shows the results of practice and application in a cast of 115 feet. At the commencement of the season bis best casts were not over 90 feet. Dr. Brookes put out his line 110 feet. In the accuracy event, the high standard of proficiency of the anglers present was shown where every score cast was over 86 per cent. C. R. Kenniff, with 98 per cent was again high in the lure casting event. P. J. Tormey was second, with 96 6-15 per cent, and C. G. Young was third with a total of 87 8-15 per cent. The art of tbe expert angler was well exemplified on Sunday morning at Stow Lake by those members of the Fly-Casting Club who participated in the bait- ■ casting contest at five buoys, ranging from 60 to 100 feet distant from the casting platforms. Each rod wielder had five easts, one at each floating globe. Seven rods were entered and all but one caster scored over 90 per cent. C. R. Kenniff was again high with the remarkable score of 98 per cent. T. W. Brother- ton and C. R. Kenniff made the best scores in the del- icacy event. In accuracy casting T. C. Kierrulff was the cleverest contestant. At the long distance work, out of eleven members competing seven of them placed their silk lines on the water for over 100 foot casts. The high records in their order were: T. W. Brotherton, H. C. Golcher, C. R. Kenniff and J. Boswell Kenniff. The next meeting at the lake-side will take place August 1st and 2nd. Saturday Contest No. 8— Stow Lake, June 27, 1903. Wind, west. Weather, fair. Judges— Messrs. Kierulff and Brooks. Referee, Mr. Battu. Clerk, Mr. Brotherton. Events 1 Kenniff, C. R . Young, C. G... Brotherton, T. W. Mocker, E. A... Battu, H Edwards. G. E.. Brooks, Dr. W. E..110 Kierulff. T C 115 Stephens, Dr. C. J. . Tormey, P. J .117 .127 .104 .102 88 4-12 92 8 12 88 4-12 9U 6-12 89 92 4-12 83 4-12 87 10-12 90 8-12 91 8-12 87 6-12 89 7-12 88 4-12 91 8-12 87 6-12 89 7-12 87 4-12 90 85 87 6-12 90 4-12 90 87 6-12 88 9-12 88 90 87 6-12 88 9-12 86 4-12 88 4-12 85 86 8-12 85 4-12 56 8-12 71 88 8-12 878 93 84 7 891 77 2 96 6 Sunday Contest No. 8 — Stow Lake, June 28, 1903. Events 1 2 3 4 a b c Young, C. G Blade. A M 98 Kierulff, T. C 98 Kenniff, C. H 123 Golcher, H. C 127 Haight, F. M 99 Battu, H 115 Sperry, H. B 97 Buyck.C 112 Tormey, P. J Brotherton, T. W.. 131 Kenniff, J. B 123 Brooks, Dr. W.E..106 87 8-12 87 4-12 87 a-u 87 5-12 64 1-12 86 4-12 78 4-12 82 4-12 90 8-12 82 8-12 81 8-12 82 2-12 92 4-12 98 8-12 93 4-12 92 89 4-12 89 4-12 88 4-. 2 88 10-12 87 91 77 6-12 84 3-12 85 8-12 87 8-12 86 8-12 87 2-12 76 4-12 88 4-12 72 6-12 80 5-12 1 87 S-U 90 75 82 6-12 88 8-12 85 4-12 89 4-12 93 4-12 91 4-12 1 89 8-12 91 4 12 90 90 8-13 1 89 8-12 89 4-12 86 8-12 86 6-12 | 918 93 2 968 4^-NOTE: Event 1— Distance Casting, feet. Event 2— Ao- euraoy percentage. Event 3— Delicacy, (a) accuracy percentage, (bj delicacy percentage; (c) net percentage. Event 4 — Lure oast- ing, percentage. The fractions in lure casting are 15tha. On the Trouting Streams. Pleasant weather and streams in splendid condition will be the cause for an unprecedented exodus of anglerB from town during the present holidays. It were easier to note those who will not be away than to give a list of the devotees of the gentle art who are off fishing this week. The following notes from a correspondent who wrote on the 29th inst. are indicative of much sport to be had at the localities mentioned: Sisson — Fishing is now fair in this vicinity and the trout have begun in earnest to take the fly. The Keyser Meadows are now open to all those obtaining permission from the keeper and paying the charge of SI 00 for the privilege. There have been several par- ties there lately and they report catches ranging from 30 to 110 for party of four. The fish in Keyser Mead- ows are of the Eastern brook variety and can only be caught with bait; angle worms being the best, wormi can be found anywhere in the meadow. Wagon Creek, Sulloway Creek and Cold Creek have afforded several nice catches lately, all with the fly, but are almost too brushy to give satisfaction to out- side fishermen. The Sacramento River in Box Canon Is also in good condition. A party of four fishing there last Sunday made a catch of 41 fish between 8 A. M. and 9:45 A. M., all rainbow trout ranging from 7 to 14 inches. The Sacramento from mouth of Box Canon to Rain Bow is alBO reported in good condition and good catches have been made there, but the fiBh are smaller, ranging from 5 to 10 inches, with only occa-" sionally a large on*. The North, Middle and West July 4, 1903J (£J*e gJtrjeeiu^r emit ^paxi&xmxn 9 Forks of the Sacramento are a trifle too high as yet' although they have all yielded fair sport for the fly fisherman. The flies proving the best killers are gray hackle, black hackle, black gnat and royal coachman. Shasta Retreat— Fly-fishing in the Sacramento north of Dunsmuir will be good about the 4th of July and the best flies will be found to be the march browD, caddis (light and dark), coachman and light stone fly. Within the last few days several catches ranging from seven to nine dozen have been made by anglers fishing in the vicinity of the Retreat. Castella— Fishing with the fly is steadily improving, another ten days will see a marked change in the conditions around here. The lighter flies have been found most effective. Castle creek will repay any one a trip and the further up one goes the better fishing and all with the fly. Lamoine — The trout are taking the fly here now, but in a few days will take more kindly to this lure. The flies proving best at this time are royal coachman, brown and gray hackles with peacock body or yellow body, professor, royal governor and light caddis. Most of the fish now being caught are large. There are quite a few salmon now in the river and they will take a spoon readily and give one the battle of his life if he happens to hook on. A gentleman last week got on a big fellow, which he lost after a fight lasting three hours and ten minutes. Redding — Fishing in Battle creek, a tributary of the Pitt, is reported very good. Last Sunday Messrs. E. Barton and W. Jeffrey made extra good catches. Thaywereup above what is known as Giles Ranch and used the coachman and black gnat, also the spoon successfully. Reno, Nev. — Fishing has not been at its best for the last few days on account of the Trucke9 being muddy but by the Fourth of July the river will be in good condition again. A Mr. Carr on the 26th caught 25 pounds all on the fly, using the darker varieties. Through the middle of the day a spoon has proved effective and bait fishermen are getting all the fish they want. Verdi, Nev. — The Truckee river has fallen about eighteen inches in the last ten days at the Country Club and the water is now clear. Thirty-five rainbow trout were caught by the guests on the evening of the 26th, all with the fly. The best killers are brown hackle, yellow body, gray hackle and black gnat. The Vatchell brothers have taken 110 fish this week with the flies just named. Cisco, Cal.— Fishing is very good just now judging from the catches made by Messrs. Huke, Evans and Jeff Wells who have caught all the way from 20 to 70 in a day, weighing from a pound to a pound and one half and also running as high as four, sis and even eight pounds. The principal flies are brown hackle, coachman with gray wings and also the professor and black gnat. The opportunities for surf fishing down south are taken advantage of by a large number of saltwater fishermen. Los Angeles probably has more good fishing beaches within easy reach than any other part of the Southern California coast. vVith Newport, Long Beach, Ter- minal Island, San Pedro, the new breakwater, Re- dondo, Manhattan, Playa Del Rey Ocean Park, Santa Monica and the Long Wharf, all reached within an hour's time, and many in half that time, it is not to be wondered at that there is such an exodus every Sunday from Los Angeles of those who enjoy the sport of angling, says the Express. And this is not all of the attractions. Big fish, and those that are tiny, medium-sized and those just right for the pan, are caught at every point named, and usually in sufficient numbers to make it interesting. Every veteran has his favorite beach, and the new arrival at any of them usually is there, because he has heard the devotee to that particular beach discourse on its attractions and as a place for "the best fishing on the coast " These are a few of the reasons why visitors to the beaches find so many fishermen at work when they reach there all dressed up in Sunday clothes. Often the new suit or dress is forgotten when they see how fast the fish are being hauled up, and they fly to the dealer to rent a pole and line, and soon are at the sport with the same vim that is displayed by the veteran. During the last week the reports from the beaches are all that could be asked for. The fish are running in numbers, and the prospect for to-morrow's fishing is excellent. At Playa Del Rey the new wharf is an excellent place to fish for surf and yellowfinB. Al- though the peredinium, or red water, has been found at all the beaches, it has not affected the fishing to any extent, the fish coming in twice a day for their meals. There has not been a great deal of fishing at Terminal or Brighton this week, but to morrow a crowd of the regulars will go down. China croakers, yellowfins, surf and bass are biting well there, and the regulars expect to have the best day of the year. At Redondo the mackerel are coming in early in the morning, and during the evening, with an occasional visit during the day. Reports from there to-day say that fishing there never has been better, and it is ex- pected that to-morrow will find both wharves crowded with regulars and occasionals. Mackerel, rock bass, smelt, croakers, herring and an occasional yellowtail can be found at this beach. Many will go to the rocks below Redondo in the morning for bass, as they are reported to be comingin. Trolling outside is excellent, and a good haul of barracuda is now in order by the fishermen who go out in launches. The Atlantic and Pacific Salmons. There are five species of Pacific salmon ; the chinook or quinnat, the red or blueback, the humpback, the silver and the dog salmon. The features that dis- tinguish externally the Pacific salmons from the At- lantic is the greater number of rays (soft spineB) in the anal fin of the former, and internally by an in- crease in number of the cosca or blind intestines. For example, the Atlantic salmon has only nine rays in the anal fin and the coeca are sixty-five in number. The anal rays of the Pacific salmon range from thir- teen to sixteen and coeca from forty-five to one hundred and eighty-five, those in the silver salmon only being from forty-five to eighty, and in all the other species seventy-five to the greatest number named. The Atlantic salmon varies in color and form afr cording to sex, age, food and condition. The adult is brownish above and silvery on its sides, with numerous small black spots, often x or xx shaped, on the head, body and fins, with red patches along the sides on the male. The young (parrs) have abouteleven dusky crossbars, beside black and red spots. The coloration and form of the Pacific salmons vary in the different spocies. The quinnat has a stout body, a conic head, small eyes and a deeply forked tail, with a bluish or greenish tinge on the dusky body above the lateral line; the sides and belly are silvery; the head dark with a metallic lustre, with numerous round black spots on the back and the dorsal and tail fins. The blueback salmon is a rather slender fish with a much-forked tail fin; as its name implies, it is a bright blue color above with silvery sides but no spots. The humpback salmon is very much the color of the blueback, but has numerous black spots on the back and on the soft or adipose fiu and the tail, the largest spots being on the caudal or tail fin. It has a rather slender body. The silver salmon has a long body, a short head, a blunt snout, and a small eye, also small fins and a deeply forced tail. Its coloration is bluish green above, sides silvery with very few nearly obscure spots on the head, back and dorsal fins, also on the upper rays of the tail fin. The dog salmon has very much the form of the quinnat, but the head is larger and not so round. It is of dusky color above and on the head, and is some- what paler on the sides. In some specimens there are very fine spots on the back and sides. The tail fin is either dusky or finely spotted with black edge; all the other fins are blackish. The run of the Pacific coast salmons into the fresh water to spawn commences in the latter part of March and continues, with modifications and interruptions until the actual spawning season in October and No- vember, some of them, notably the blueback, spawn- ing in the lakes of Idaho in August. The Atlantic salmon run up the rivers to spawn, commencing in April orjater according to the tem- perature of the water, and spawn in October and No- vember. Unlike the Pacific salmons, the fish that have spawned do not, as a rule die; this is probably owing to the short distance they are compelled to travel before reaching their spawning grounds in the Eastern waters. On the other hand, the Pacific sal- mon, except the late run of fish, are known to travel over fifteen hundred miles to theirspawning grounds, none of them afterwards reaching the ocean alive. The spawning habits of the Western and Eastern salmons are very similar. On first entering a stream they swim about as if playing. They always head towards the current, and this appearance of playing may be due to facing the moving tide. Afterwards, particularly when in deep water,, they swim straight up with few interruptions, making from two to three miles a day. The prevailing impression that salmon have some special instinct that leads them to return to spawn in the same spawning grounds where they were hatched, is doubted by Drs. Jordan and Evermann, at least so far as the Pacific salmon are concerned. It seems more probable that the young salmon hatched in any river mostly remain in the ocean, within a radius of 20 to 40 miles of its mouth. These young fish in their movements about in the ocean may come into contact with the cold waters of their parent rivers or perhaps of any other river, at a considerable distance from shore. Their instinct leads them to ascend these fresh waters, and in a majority of cases, it is believed, these waters will be the same in which they were spawned. A number of fanciers of Scotch Collie dogs are pre- paring to make a big exhibit at the Oregon State Fair, to be held at Salem commencing about the middle of September this year. The Collie is fast becoming very popular with the farmer, the stock breeder and also with city people. There is no better place to bring them into public notice than at our state and district fairs. The fair board is offering cash premiums on Collies this year, and invites every one interested to bring out an exhibit. C. D. Nairn, the well-known Collie fancier of BallBton, Ore., will have charge of the exhibit, and he invites those wishing to exhibit to correspond with him at any time. Hammocks and Lawn Tents. Minas Prietas hammocks can not be excelled. They are a hand- made Central Amerioan product, woven from a light, tough and strong grass fibre and dyed In bright colors with mineral dyes. They are lasting and comfortable; one can roll them up into a small compass the same way as is done with a silk India shawl. Skinner, the Sporting Goods man, 801 Market Street, has just re- ceived a new consignment. Lawn Umbrellas for outing, camping, prospectors, Invalids, for the summer cottager, etc.. 8-foot spread, comfortable for two peo- ple. Light weight, very strong, variegated or solid colors, put up In five minutes. Just see Skinner about 'em. You'll sure want one when you see It. • Free!! Free!! Free!! The Polk Miller Drug Co. of Richmond, Va., whose advertise- ments of -'Sergeant's Dog Remedies" are appearing now In the columns of this journal, desire us to state that they will furniBh absolutely free to our readers a revised copy of their book on "Dogs," which accurately and exhaustively treats of the more frequent diseases with which Dogs are afflicted. Enclose them So in stamps to cover cost of mailing the book. They have recently made F. W. Braun & Co. of Los Angeles, California, distributing agents for their popular line of "Dog Remedies," and extend an Invitation to all persons having sick dogi to write them- describ- ing symptoms, eto. Enclose stamp for reply. No charge will he made for Information furnished. The Field Dog. Very many — good sportsmen, too — think that any dog that has a good nose and is staunch enough to not break is a "bird-dog'' and therefore all sufficient, not considering several essential requirements. In these days of infrequent and broken bevies of birds, scattered over immense areas of stubble, brush land or hillside, what we want first is a dog that can go fast and stay. As mos,t sportsmen are one-dog men, the dog must be able not only to do his work for one day but for several successive days. For this reason the first and most necessary requirement is good feet — firm, elastic and cat-like — of the rubber-tire oider, to take up the resilUance of the swift gait, now needed. A dog whose feet are not firm and elastic cannot en- dure the hard work required of him. In the first place, he shakes himself to pieces by the perpetual jarring and his feet become sore. He will staDd one day of hard work and, perhaps, by the exercise of en- thusiastic courage, run through a second, but be practically unfitted for work the rest of the hunt. The good footed dog will eat heartily when his day's work is ended, roll up, sleep soundly, and be ready and fresh in the morning. Next to feet the field dog needs abundant heart and lung room. Without this he cannot go fast and stay; he chokes up Speed-fuel, which in men, animals and machines is air, is not supplied in sufficient quantities. Not only must there be abundant capacity but it must be of the right form for free and easy action propel- lent parts. The shoulder blades must lie fiat and play freely; the sides of the fire-box — which indeed the chest is — must be flat not rounded, if speed is to be attained. What is lost in flattening the sides must be regained by deepening — thus we get the wedge-shaped chest seen in its highest perfection in the modern Greyhound. Of course, of the field dog is not required the tremendous burst of speed the Greyhound is called upon to make, and which, even with his perfect conformation, he can only measurably endure; but the same conformity that enables the Greyhound to make his wonderful bursts at intervals enables the field dog to maintain a high rate of speed foi a long time. The third physical requirement is elastic, wire-like muscle, not bulky but of fine texture, well placed in leg, thigh, quarters, loin and shoulder. As a minor detail, other things being equal, the animal that is longest from bip to hock will have the most speed. A long back, like a long bridge, cannot be as atrong as a short one; hence the coupling of fore and hind quar- ters should be short and muscular. So much for the physique. If it was frame alone we wanted we could rest content with the Greyhound; but the field dog wants all that the Greyhound has, plus keen scenting powers and a great intelligence. Without these he would be useless except to range the country haphazard and flush a covey, by chance, here and tnere. A field dog must be psychical as well as physical; hence the eye must be bright, beautiful and love-in- spiring. A bad-eyed dog — like a bad-eyed man — is psychically deformed. The eye takes expression from the spirit within. Although there may be intelligence behind a bad eye, it is perverse and intractable, there- fore useless to the sportsman; for he does not want moodish flashes of genius, but a bright, steady light that will be a sure guide at all times. To a student of character, and there is character to study in all animals, the eye and its expressions will be a great aid to education. Some physiologist has said that the eye cannot lie; at all events an animal's cannot. The bold, keen, fearless-eyed animal can be strongly dealt with, while the mild-eyed, gentle,- pleading creature demands a tender, loving schooling. The nose is the filter by means of which the various taints in the air are assorted, labeled and conveyed to the brain. It should be broad, elastic and sensitive, with wide, dilating nostrils to catch the faintest zephyr. The muzzle — face — of the field dog should be square and fairly broad, for this is indicative of firmness and dignity. This is seen to perfection in the mastiff and, to a less degree, in the St. Bernard. The snipe-nosed field dog, as the hatchet-faced man, may be keen and intelligent, but cunning instead of large-minded. One might as well expect a snipe-nosed dog to mark a bird in sight, and, if successful, to bring it to his master with a wink in one eye and a see-what-a-smart-dog-am-I expression in the other. The broad-muzzled dog is sure to be staunch on his point, if properly trained ; the firmness and dignity of character would, by the sense of duty, overcome any natural prompting to snatch. Behind the eyes the head should be capacious and well formed, having plenty of brain not only to differ- entiate the various scents that are passed, but to prompt and direct action on the ever varying phases of a field dog'sexperience. The dogs can differentiate, sportsmen know who follow their canine friends afieid, not merely to bag game but to enjoy their intelligent labor of lo^e. A good dog takes pleasure in laboring in his master's cause. As he ages he stores happenings away in his memory for future reference. He gets to distinguish different kindB of game and, to the observant, eye, will surely indicate, by a mere trifle it may be, the game before him. So surely is this a fact with some dogs that a change of shells may be made by the gun- ner. There is more behind a dog's eyes— yes, of any ani- mal's— than we humans credit in our self-satisfied philosophy. Behind them lies an open scroll en- grossed by the hand of the Creator— and it repays our study. Jaokson't Napa Soda untangles the feet. 10 ©he gveeb&c atxb gpttxtsman [Jviv 4, 1963 AT THE TRAPS. Fourteen shooters participated in the initial event at the Dnion Gun Club live bird shoot last Sunday at Ingleside. S. E. Fish of Martinez, George H. T. Jackson, C. A. Muller and "Yardmaster" Murdock scored straight and divided the purse. In a twelve-bird raci following straight strings were shot by George Jackson. C. A. Muller, A. M. Shields, E. Klevesahl, S. C. Fish, C. Hansen and Dr. MeConnell, who divided the money. „._,,. In the third match, at six pigeons, Fete Walsh, Shields Muller and Hansen divided first money. Second money was split by Fish and Dr. M-Connell, who each killed five birds. This division was larger than that won by those who had straight scores. *j* The winners in two six-bird races following were: L C Pratt, W. Hansen, C. A. Muller, George Jack- son, Dr. MeConnell, Pete Walsh and E. Klevesahl. All killed their birds straight A distance handicap at six pigeons, the shooters commencing at the 2S-yard mark and going back one yard a bird to 33 yards, was won by George Jackson. \fter this race the shooters were represented princi- pally by California Wing Club members, and a num- ber of pool shoots were shot up, Dr. MeConnell, C. C. Nauman, P. J. Walsh and George Jackson being the principal winners. „„-„„- jj j o First event, 6 pigeons, entrance $2 oO, -so added, 3 moneys, high guns, distance handicap— Walsh.P.J g Barns, J ™ MeCutchan, J. B ~ Pisani. J S Klevesahl. E f? Hanson. W ~c Pish. S O JS Hatton. Dr J. G J? Patrick. Bert Golcher, W J. Muller, 0. A... Winegar, E. M £? Murdock, W ff Jackson G.H.T « * Dead out. Second event, 12 pigeons, entrance $5, S10 added, 5 moneys, hi»h guns, distance handicap — 30 yds— 2I1«2 110-21 31—10 ....'-'6 " — UI210 22010 02— 7 —II 1 1 1 Mill 2»— II ...28 32 yds— 1»U10— i —002112— J —1111*1—5 — U02«2— 4 —21" II 1—5 — 011122— 5 —122221—6 —210120— J —121021—5 — *0;l«l— 3 — 111111-6 —021211—5 —111121—8 —1221 12-8 Burgi tied for first money with 20 each; Newbert won second, breaking 19. Event No. 2, -0 targets — Newbert won first money, breaking the string of 20; G. Thompson, A. Johhson and G. W. Gibson tied for second with IT birds each; Ruhstaller broke 16, winning third money. Event No. 3, 20 targets — G. Johnson and Newbert tied for first money, each breaking 19; F. Burgi broke 18 and won second money; Gibson, Godfrey and De Merritt tied for third with i7 birds each. Event No. 4, 20 targets — Newbert, Bolt and De Merritt broke 19 each and tied for first money; Han- son won second money with 18; Gibson, Humble, Haugh and Norman tied for third with 17 each; Thomason, Miller and Damon won fourth money by breaking 16 each. Event No. 5, 15 targets — Burgi made a clean score and won first; Newbert broke 13 and won second money. Event No. 6, Merchandise shoot — 15 targets. The winners were: Godfrey, Johnson, Newbert, De Merritt, Bolt, Burgi, Miller, Phillips, Gibson, Stewart and Haneon. Event No. 7, 20 targets— Newbert broke 20 straight and secured first money; F. Johnson and Bailey broke 19 each and won second money; Ruhstaller and God- frey broke 18 each and came in for third money; Luther and Gibson won fourth money by breaking 17 each. Event No. 8, 20 targets — Newbert, first money, 19 birds; G. Johnson and Thomason tied for second money, with 18 birds each; Haugh ana Humble each broke 17, securing third money. Golcher. W. J ... Hutton.Dr J. S « jIc^^h/t:::::::::::::.::::::::::::^^ Winegar, E M • ■* Muller, C A £> Shields, A M 30 Klevesahl, E -;' PUaai J ~ Bums. J -£ Fish.S C t? Hansen. W ■ J° Kiefe-ahl H ~° MeConnell. Dr. E S dJ Third event, 6 pigeons, entrance $2 50. class shoot- ing 3 moneys, 60 and 40 per cent, distance handicap— Hutton.Dr.;. A 28yds-O120l« 3 Pratt. L O E »;; -"'"'"J 12201 1210U 20— 8 —11212 22211 12—12 —121:2 21121 12—12 —22112 11212 11—12 — Iir22l 82*11 22—11 — 20100 22221 21— 9 —21 121 2221 1 12—12 —12112 211 11 22—12 —02112 1>2 0 21— B — 12222 22212 22—12 Flsu, S C . Patrick. Bert Shields. A. M » --J,- TT~? Muller. C. A g> " MeConnell. Dr E. G 30 Jackson, G H T -I ' Hansen, W M -12I0U1- 221111—6 — 22.M01— 5 —110012—1 —222121-0 Six bird pool, high guns— Pratt L C 212211—6 MeConnell. Dr. E. G.. .02122 Hansen. W '.'.'.".'.'.'.'. 2.-2122-6 Walsh, P. J 202 in il221-5 !IIO— 1 Muller C A ....112IU—6 Smitn,l..C Ollluo— 3 Jackson.G H.T 112424-6 Klevesahl. H HW>»-2 Hutton.Dr 021112—5 Klevesahl, E lOw — 1 Six bird pool, high guns — MeConnell, Dr. E G... .111211-6 Pratt, L C 112011-5 Walsh P J 111222-6 Hution.Dr 220220— 6 Kleves'ahl.E 111211—6 Jackson, G H.T OlOw — 1 Six bird pool, distance handicap high guns — Jackson.G H.T 121111-6 Walsh. P J 101211— 5 MeConnell, Dr. E G... .111110—5 Hutton.Dr 002202—3 The Millwood Gun Club shoot Sunday at Mill Valley brought out a fair attendance of members. The high score in the club badge race at 25 blue-rocke was made by Bob Van Norden, who broke 23 tar discs. In the 25-bird match for the J, K. Orr trophy, Clar- ence Asblin was high gun for the month, with a score of 24. Billy Price shot so strenuously that he dis- tanced all the other coast artillerymen in the fusillade for the M. O. Feudner medal. After the 6hoot a meeting of the club was held and the following officers elected for the ensuing year: James Newlands, president; D. Hairfield, vice-presi- dent; Charles H. Kewell, secretary and treasurer; George Collins, captaiD. The scores made were as follows: Club race, 25 targets— Haas 15, Ashlin 22, Mers- felder 15, Price 21, Kewell 18, Collins 17, Newlands 8, Van Norden 23, James 12, Sellwood 10, Jansen Is, Bearing 9, Sweeney 21, Sellwood 12, Ashcroft 19. Team shoot, 10 targets— Team A — Ashlin 8, Orr 6, Haas 6, Mersfelder 5, Ashcroft 6, Jansen 7; total 38. Team B— Collins 8, Price 8, Van Norden 8, New- lands 4. Kewell 6, James 4; total 38. The tie will be shot off at the next meeting of the club. J. K. Orr trophy race, 25 targets — Sellwood 17, Ashlin -24, Price 18, Van Norden 22. Kewell 15, Collins 22, Haas 21, Mersfelder 18, Newlands 14, James 15, Bering 19. Arnold 19, Sweeney 18, Jansen 14, Lock- wood 15, Orr 19. Feudner medal race. 25 targets— Haas 22, Kewell J7, Mersfelder 17, Price 23. Collins 19 Jansen 19, Bi arJng 10, Arnold 21, James 12, Asblin 17. The initial blue rock tournament for the town of Gridley took place last Sunday. Thirty-five trap shooters from all over Sacramento valley congregated on the ground to participate in the sport given under the auspices of the Gridley Gun Club. Shotgun artists Tore present from Sacramento, Colusa, Willows, Chico, Orovilie, Marysville, Red Bluff, Redding and other towns of the valley. F. M. Newbert of Sacra- mento was high gun for the day. The main events were won as follows: Event No. 1, 20 targets — Godfrey, De Merritt and F, Tie scores made were the following: Events— 12 3 Targets— 20 20 20 Johnson. G A Thomason. G W.. Pnllips, M. E Ruhstaler. F Eperson, B Gihson, G. W Trumpler. H C Newbert. F. M Humble J Godfrav J W De Me-ritt, C. G.. Marshall 12 Morgan, G 14 Gridly. L 10 Haugh. J 17 Burgi. F 50 Miller 17 16 17 14 11 10 13 1.1 19 18 20 20 Garoett,- F. . Johnson, A. .. Stewart, J — Roberts. D... O'Brien, J Bolt, T Dirby R W. Keys, A Hanson, A — 14 .. 17 8 14 19 14 14 16 17 19 19 11 16 H 14 16 15 10 19 13 12 IS 10 :- 9 9 12 9 14 10 15 14 In 11 12 10 II 14 5 10 20 The Vallejo Gun Club scores for the shoot held on the 28th iost. were the following: Drake 21, Erwin 15-21-19, Beveridge 19, Carter 18, Magistrini IS, Wood 18, Brown 17, Bennett 17, Greig 16, Kreglo 14, Coe 13, Clark 18 8, Lynn 10, O'flara 8, Brady 6. First club medal won by J. L. Ervin, second medal J. Wood, third medal Ralph Carter. The following scores were made by members of the Marysville Gun Club at the traps in a regular practice shoot last Sunday: Webber.J 101 II 11101—8 Collins, Jack. 11001 11111— 8 Giblin, J 11111 1I0OI— 8 Berg. Henry. 11001 11101 — 7 McAlpnine, C lion 10011— 7 Lipp.C 01111 11001—7 Smith, Dr 01111 00111— 7 White, R.F mil 11000—7 Peacock, Geo 00111 I100I— 6 Boyd, K W ioioi lOuil— 6 Hare. J. L oilio moo 6 Banhe, E OI00I llOOi— 5 Fetrow, D. E 01I0O 01110-5 Spillman. W 01010 01011—5 Bedeau. W 10001 11001—5 A party of young San Jose sportsmen, including L. Greeninger. J. Edmundson, J. Villar and Jean Barre, recently returned from a fishing trip to the Jolon country in southern Monterey county and are exhib- iting to their friends the skin of a monster mountain lion which they killed the first of last week. The animal measured nine feet irom tip to tip, and the residents o( that distiict state that it was the biggest lion they had ever seen there. The lion was killed after an exciting chase. A Spaniard by tho name of Avila, who resides on what is known as the San Lucas range, found where a lion had killed two of his lambs. One was partially eaten and the other had been buried near by. He knew that the animal would return for the one which it had buried, and asked the boys to join him in a lion hunt. They readily accepted the invitation. They secured three good trailing dogs and the next morning found that the lion had been around and had taken the buried lamb. Believing that the animal could not be far distant, they put the dogs on the trail. It was not long before they came upon the big cat. For miles, over the roughest kind of country, they followed the dogs. At times the dogs would stop and bay furiously, seemingly as if the lion must be treed, but on coming near the place the dogs would again start to run and it was apparent that the lion had made another attempt to escape. Finally, tired by the long chase, the lion sought refuge in a large tree in a deep gulch. Greeninger, Edmundson and Barre fired a volley from their Win- chesters at the beast. Hardly had the rifles cracked when the animal with a terrific scream leaped through the air and just as It touched the ground the dogs were upon him. The lion easily shook himself loose from the dogs and started up the trail, but one foreleg wa« broken and it was slow progress. Avila bad gone down the trail toward the ravine and the first thing he knew he was face to face with the infuriated beast. He grabbed his pistol and thrusting the muzzle in the face of the lion pulled the trigger, but in would not explode, he had forgotten to cock it. The next in- stant the dogs had -again seized the lion and the bunch of them went tumbling down into the ravine. Once more the congar faught himselfloose and started up the mountain side, but a volley from the rifles ended his life. Kennel Suggestions. It is one of the deterrents in the intelligent treat- ment of skin diseases that the ordinary dog owner will persist in quotiDg all these troubles as mange. As a general proposition the cure of mange is infinitely easier than getting the better of eczema, which as a rule, unless attended to at once when the sores appear, by a general cleansing of the system, becomes a very tedious process. Even among kennelmen who should have known better, every dog who exhibited the slightest symptoms of coat trouble was said to have mange, when in nine cases out of ten it was probably no of the forms of eczema, and every kennelman had some infallible cure, and very fearful and wonderful some of then* were and still are. Moreover not a few of these panacea, while killing the disease, also caused the dog to renounce all interest in life. As a matter of fact, true mange is a local and external affection, calling for very simple but drastic treatment, and the most virulent case should be cap- able of cure in a fortningt or three weeks. It is highly contagious, and seldom if ever, occurs spontaneously, though a half starved cur is always more susceptible to it than his brother born in the purple, by reason of the conditions under which he lives. It is unnecessary here to give the detailed symp- toms, since to the naked eye they do not greatly differ from some forms of eszema. But Bince mange is invariably due to a parasite and eczema is not, a strong magnifying glass will enable you to ascertain what to treat for. Mange is of two distinct kinds, sarcoplic and folli- cular. In the first, the acarus, called Sarcoptis canis, burrows in the skin itself near or upon the surface, and the risk of contagion is much greater, though the disorder yields more quickly to treatment. In follicular, the parasite Demodex folliculorum inhabits the hair tube or follicle, and burrows deep under the skin For this reason the propagation from one aDi- mal to another is not so easy, but the advantage thus gained is counterbalanced by increased resistance to remedies, the acarus being so much the harder to affront. Mercury in almost any form is certain death to all parasites — if you can reach them, but is at any time a dangerous thing in the bands of a novice, and when applied externally a dog should always be muzzled to prevent him licking any off. For the purpose we are discussing, the most conven- ient application is as an annointment composed of J} drachms of gr^en iodide of mercury added to an ounce of vaseline. Having arrived at a correct diagnosis, the first thing to do is to give the animal a good hot bath, when this may ba thoroughly rubbed in, though, to my mind, the simplest, cleanest, and most effective all round remedy that exists is lime and sulphur lotion. Ce-tainly, in the sarcoptic variety It will in- variably prove successful. It is not new, but it has stool the test of years. Take of flowers of sulphur ] lb, unslaked lime \ lb, water one gallon. Slake the lime in a small quantity of water. Stir in the sulphur, adding water gradually while stirring until it is of a creamy consistence. Then add the remaining water and boil down to one half bulk. When cold strain off the clear liquor and add one pint of cold water. The animal, well washed and dried as directed, should be carefully dressed all over, best done with an ordinary house-painter's brush, and put into a clean bed. In two days' time wash and apply again, another clean bed, to be continued until the sufferer is clear, usually at the end of four or five applications at most, when it it as well to give him another for luck, just to show there is no ill-feeling, so to speak. His litter should be burnt, and all places to which he has access well disinfected, and he should have a dose of cooling medicine twice a week. In those instances where the disease extends over a large surface it is the habit of some to attack it piece by piece, a course which does not commend itself for the reason fiat it would take so much longer, besides the risk of reappearance in a region already cured, nor is any useful purpose served. In cases of severe and obstinate follicular mange, the treatment is a dressing of ordinary benzine and the above lotion alternately. On a white dog the ap- pearance of the skin often suggests red mange, which is not mange at all but a form of eczema. All doubts can be set at rest by the microscope and the micro- scope alone. Puncture one of the pustules and mix the contents with a little water on a slide, when the acari will readily be seen. The sarcoptic is short and thick, demodex elongated with a tail. — American Stock-Keeper. DOINGS IN D0GD0M. It is stated that action is being taken with a view to calling a special meeting of the A. K. C some time in July to discuss the new rules in regard to winners classes. Doubtless the attendance will be large and the matter will be thoroughly gone into. The Pacific Northwest trials, which will be held in the latter part of September, promises to draw a large number of starters from all sections of the Coast, and it is probable that quite a number of Cali- fornia dogs will compete for honors on the northern grounds. The Pacific Northwest Club has a great advantage in the matter of suitable grouDds and birds on which to run trials as the "Bob Whites, " owing to their habits, offer splendid tests of all the qualities which go to make a high class dog, and the scenting conditions are superior to those'prevalent on eastern grounds. Kennel Registry. WHELPS. Mrs H. H. Carlton's Boston Terrier hitch Oakslde's Prfnoespof Avoodale 61213 (Tremont-Lady Montez). Whelped June 29. lfuS, five puppies (three dogs) To same owner's Trenjgnt 47976 (ThtOT- dike's Brindle-Lorden's Mollie). JULY 4 1803J ©he gveebev attfc gtpaviemati 11 THE FARM State Fair Cattle Premiums. The Committee on Live Stock of the California State Agricultural Society con- sisting of Directors F. H. Burke, E. \V. Howard and J. Whitaker, haB prepared the new premium list for registered cattle and have made many changes in the old one. The premiums have been increased in several instances and the list is a great improvement over those issued during previous years. The breeds for which regular premiums are offered are regis- tered ShorthornB, Herefords. Holstein- Friesans and Jerseys. In addition there are sweepstakes for all standard beef breeds and all standard dairy breeds. The first prizes for bulls and cowb have been increased to $40, while second prizes are increased to $30 in both cases. The classes are free to al1, and cattle owned anywhere can be exhibited. All ihese classes, however, are duplicated (when 60 or more animals of oue breed are listed) and called the State Class, open only to California-owned cattle that were the property of the exhibitor on the 1st of June, 1903, and owned by him since that date. The American Shorthorn Breeders Asso- ciation will duplicate premiums offered on Shorthorn cattle, both in the Open and State classes, under these conditions: No animal will be eligible to compete for any money offered by the American Shorthorn Breeders Association, except the pedigree has been recorded or accepted for record on the books of the American Shorthorn Breeders Association. Tf is applies to both classes of Shorthorns Several changes have been made in the rules governing exhibition, among them the following: After the present fair of 1903, no bull over six years of age and no cow over twelve years of age will be allowed to enter or compete for premiums, either as an individual or member of a herd. Forage will not be supplied by the so- ciety, but instead the premiums have been greatly increased and prizes for entirely new classes formed. The parades have been reduced from four to two, one in each week, and every head must participate. No excuse.. Animals too sick to parade are not in a condition to show. Those too wild to be led should not be shown. All bulls two years and over must be shown both in parade and ring, and must be led by strong, suitable bull poles. A quartet of the best known and most competent live stock judges of the entire country will be present for the purpOBe of passing on the points of the competing herds and to lecture before the assembled stock growers and dairymen who are ex- pected to meet there during the progress of the State Fair. Professor H. E. Alvord, the head of the Dairy Bureau of the United States Gov- ernment at "Washington, will attend and pass on dairy products. Harry Lowden, the Acting Secretary of the State Agricul- tural Society, says that the mere mention of Professor Alvord's name in this con- nection is sufficient to arouse the interest in every man in California who is engaged in the dairy industry, and that the fact that he is to be in Sacramento will attract hither a great many who otherwise would not attend the Stale Fair. Negotiations are in progress to have Professor TV. E. Carlyle, who judged cattle last fair time, return and perform that duty again. Mr. Lowden looks on this as another drawing card for the fair. The reputation of Professor Carlyle spread wide on the Pacitic Coast by reason Of his method of judging stock. He not only gave decisions carefully, but he ex- plained why he decided thus and so, and at the same time pointed out the weak lines in the breeding of the different com- petitors, and by summing up the credit points illustrated the justice and sound- ness of his judgment. Professor Majors, head of the Bureau of Animal Industry of the University of California and Professor Leroy Anderson of the State Polytechnic School are to be present and participate in the work of awarding premiums. Fattening flogs on Alfalfa. Some time ago there appeared in these columns a summary of an address deliv- ered before the Nebraska State Swine Breeders' Association by Mr. C. H. Payne of Omaha. Referring to that address we find that Mr. Payne pastured 160 head of hogs on 25 acres of old alfalfa and 5 acres of new, says The Homestead. The hogs were turned onto the alfalfa June 14th, at that time averaging 108 pounds. These hogs were fed a half pcund of shelled corn per day each, in addition to the alfalfa pasture, from which they made an aver- age of .6 of a pound gain per day each. In another instance Mr. Payne turned hogs averaging 131 pounds into an al alfa pasture August 14th and fed them about four pounds of ground wheat and rye per day. from which they made practically one pound of gain per day each. While gains were made at a small cost in the above instance, considered from the standpoint of grain fed, yet we believe that with corn selling at twenty-eight cents a bushel it will pay to feed theEe hogs somewhat liberal ration of grain in addition to their alfalfa. However, the matter may be viewed from two stand- points : If it is the aim to make the larg- est amount of pork with the least outlay for grain it might not be advisable to feed more than two pounds of corn per day to each hog. On the other hand, if one wishes to obtain the greatest weight of pork with the expectation that the price realized will more than offset the extra food consumed, then four or five pounds of corn a day might be fed to each hog in addition to the alfalfa they can consume. In either case it is altogether likely that will pay to feed grain Bomewbat heavily during the last few weeks of the feeding period, because at that time the hogs will be getting pretty heavy and w 11 not care to do much walking for their food. The last month or six weeks will be the most expensive feeding period, viewed from the standpoint of pounds of gain made for the food consumed, but nevertheless it is gen- erally profitable to give animals what might be called the 'last dip," because it is this that springs the selling price and removes one from the field of keenest competition. What Causes Thumps? The latest theory regarding thumps in young pigo is that the disease is due to spasms of the diaphragm, prohably due to pressure. The symptom is a sudden jerking movement in the flank. When a pig is standing quietly the jerk is very noticeable and may be of such violence as to move the whole body backward and forward. It may be accompanied by a sound that can be heard some distance. These contractions are not rythmical but may be much more frequent at one time than at another. After exercise the jerk- ing is more violent. The jerking is also more pronounced after a full meal than when the stomach- is emply. The causes are probably a full stomach and lack of exercise. The disease occurs mostly in litters from mothers that are excep- tionally heavy milkers and always takes the fat est pigs in the bunch. Treatment requires an increase iu exercise and the pigs should be turned out into alfalfa pasture. If they are kept in a pen give salts or castor oil. Fifteen to twenty drops of each tincture of laudanum and digitalis every two hours until the animal is relieved is recommended. — Field and Farm. Calf Cholera Remedy. La3t spring I was feeding my cows corn and my calves when first born seemed all right, but when one to three days old they began to show signs of cholera, I tried several remedies but all failed; when, after losing five or eix I made some strong lime water by putting a piece as large as your fist in a quart glass bottle and filled with good rain water (or any other clean water would do) and then after shaking well, set it aside to settle. I took the calves, says the Stockman and Feeder, when first noticed sick away from their mother a few days; took a little of her milk and put two tablespoonB- ful of the lime water in it and fed them three times a day. After drinking it, I gave each a dessert teaspoon ful of corn starch, moistened with the milk. The corn starch is cool and healing. This saved them. Another good remedy is laudanum. When the rest were born tsume seemed to be affected when born) I gave ten drops of laudanum in their milk twice a day till they were better. Two doses weie gen- erally enough as it won't do to give too much. The calves should not be allowed to eat too much at a time. The sick ones should be kept from the well ones, and the laudanum away from the children. I have used lime water for hog cholera and found it very beneficial. This year we are feeding whole oats ar.d stock food to the cows and one or two calves were affected a little with cholera. I gave one dose of laudanum as soon as noticed and let them run with the mother, and they are all right now. A New Way of Fattening Poultrv. Armour & Co. of Chicago have estab- lished a large poultry fattening estab- lishment at M-irshalltown, Iowa. The method employed is a most novel one, and has baeo triad in the East with great success. The old theory that ''You cm lead a horse to water but you cannot make him drink" has been ex- ploded so faras live poultry is concerned. By the new process they not only lead the chick to the feed, but thoy also force him to take it into his iaterior, and, best of all, he fattens on it. The chick- ens are fed one at a time by machinery. The food used is especially prepared, and is in liquid fo;'m and is forced into the fowls through the bill by high pressure. As soon as they are fed the fowls are put in a dark room, so that they will not, by running around, lose their flesh- They are kept in this room excepting during the feeding time. Ten days are all that are required to make what was a poor, lean chicken a plump, fat fowl. Many people imagine that they cannot profitably and properly raise a calf unleBS it is brought up on whole milk. A calf raised on whole milk is generally a very expensive one. The method commonly followed is to let the calf ha.\p itself. Sometimes it is allowed to take th first and sometimes the last of the milk, ac- cording to the convenience of the owner and without any regard to the fact that the last milk or strippings ie generally four or five times as rich as the first milk. By such method, or rather lack of method it cannot be determined how much milk the calf is getting, and there is no regular- ity in the amount. The advantage iB that there is less labor in handling the caU and in milking, but there is also less milk and but little better calf than by other and more economical methods of management. The plan, however, seems to please the most oi our western dairymen and so long as they are satisfied with it we have no protest to make, although the whole sys- tem is radically wrong and something bet- ter should be substituted for it. Do not expect to get something for nothing in the dairy business. You will be doomed to disappointment if you do. | Raising Mules. The advantage of a mule over a horse ie, he can be taught to turn shorter, thus preventing the breaking down of vegeta- bles or other plants. He can go in rougher places, is not affected by heat as badly as the horse and requires less attention in the way of currying, rubbing, etc His feet being smaller, he can walk closer to the row of growing plants. To make a good mule worth from $50 to $S0 at weaning time, or $140 to $160 as a two year old, he should be foaled from a large mare in April or May. He should run with the dam until October 1, then be weaned. At this time he should be at least 5 i inches. Put him in a shed with plenty of light and feed oats, with clover and timothy hay Too much corn, fevera the legs and produces scratches. The nextBummer he should have access to pasture, with a little corn each day until cold weather, when he should be brought back to the barn. At two or two and one- hall" years old he should be 16 hands high, fat and ready for market. When feeding, care should be given to keep the Bystem cool with green stuff, and keep out scratches. The following is a good cure: Take equal parts of blue stone, white vitrol and verdigris, grind together with equal parts of soapstone, mix with warm water until about as thin as paste, apply with a swab on the end of a stick about three times a week. Mule coltB are no more troublesome than horse colts. The colta run with their mothers, but a separate pasture is required for two year old mules. Feeding for Egg Production. Have you ever observed how a hen feeds when out on the range? It ia first a blade of grass or leaf of clover then a short chase for a grasshopper or cricket. She now discovers a soft spat in the soil which she believes worth investigating and sets to work with the mining tool which nature has given her, with a view of finding out if it is -'pay dirt." A fuzzy weedhead is in her path and she stops to shatter down a few ripened seeds. She is drawn awav from her repast by another grasshopper, which springs down in front of her and jumps again Justin time to save himself from thedash she madeat him. In place of the grasshopper which she didn't get, she nips another clover leaf or blade of grass. Thus the hen feeds a little at a time and consumes hours in obtaining a full meal. It a ems to me that any per- son who has observed the hen feed on range wo Id never throw down a measure of shelled corn on a bare spot forher meal. In feeding for egg production we niust and can well imitate nature When we remember that fowls produce e*;gs most abundantly at this season when they have the greatest freedom, plenty of green food and are fed some grain and are able to seek an abundance of meat food in the form of insects, we may have the solution of the whole problem. Strike! — If they don't give you Ja< k- son's Napa Soda when you ask for it. For Sale Thoroughbreds. T>ROOr) MARE BY SIR MODRED AND TWO 1 nf her get Ou<\ two-yt*ar old Ally, has been handled hui neritr raced and odp varlin^ r-olt All royal I v h-ed \V. H. CHRISTIE. 615-C1G Hayward BuildlDg. Five Cases of Spavin Cured. Buffalo, N. Dale, ~ Jan. 28, 1903. Dr. B J.Kendall Co.. Gentlemen:—! hare cured live horses absolutely of Spavin In the last Tour j ears with yonr Kendall's Spa Tin Cure. Very truly vours. Harry D. Huettel. The endorsement or Its users cuarun- tees Its merits. Price SI; six for SS. As a liniment tor family me it has no equal. AsL your dmcclst for KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE, also "A Treatise on th* Hon.." the book tree, or address DR. B. J. KENDALL CO., EN0SBURG FALLS, VT. IS ®He gveeiiev antf &v&vi&tncm f July 4, 1908 Live Stock at St. Louis Exposition. F. D. Coburn, Chief of the Department of Live Stock of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, has arranged for a total of over 26,000 prizes in the classifications of horses, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry, etc., for the World's Fair shows next year. TheBe are unprecedented in amount and are divided among twelve breeds of beef and dual purpose cattle with 2352 prizes; four breeds of dairy cattle, 560 prizes; nineteen breeds of horses, 3458 prizes; eleven breeds of swine, 2772 prizes; four- teen breeds of sheep, 2548 prizes; 375 varieties of poultry and pigeons, 10,300 prizes; fifty-seven breeds of dogs, 2604 prizes. There are thirty-two additional prizes for single cows and herds entered in the dairy demonstration ; five for oxen, fifty-five for mules and 1310 for the esti- mated display of pet stock, vehicles, etc. Provision has been made for five cash prizes and two honorable mention awarde in most sections except poultry. The final arrangements of the classifications may still further enlarge the number of prizes offered. Up to the present time that feature of the World's Fair at St. Louis pertaining to live stock has been designated as a •'section.'-' a title which erroneously seemed to indicate that it was a branch or subordinate feature of some other depart- ment. This has now been changed by the management and Mr. Coburn will here- after be officially known as the Chief of the "Department of Live Stock." Che exposition has added much to its popular- ity in making live stock an independent department and giving it a separate chief with a prize fund of $250 000. This sub- stantial recognition will do much to at- tract attention to the ereat St. Louis en- terprise and secure the hearty co-opera- tion of stocKmen, fanc'.en and others in- terested. This is the first world's fair to give live stock the prestige and rank of a department with an independent chief, and the great extent and high character of the live Btock exhibits already assured the World's Fair confirm the wisdom of this liberal policy. The general desire of the live stock breeders to have public sales made a fea- ture of the live stock shows at the World's Fair has met with hearty approval by Chief Coburn, and the leading national breeders' associations have already filed requests for dates and have commenced preparations for holding such sales. A representative of a number of leading poultry fanciers has applied for dates for public sales during the poultry displays. The Louisiana Purchase Exposition will be the first World's Fair to provide for the holding of public sales of pure bred stock, which are asBured of crowds of apprecia- tive buyers and good prices. Complete plans have been made for a ring for public sales apart from the main live Btock am- phitheater, so that sales may be held with- out interfering with the judging or other features of the exhibition. Public sales of prize winners and other choicely bred animals have come to be a ve y attractive feature of fat stock shows and the leading State Fairs, but no opportunity for this popular method of selling stock to the highest bidder has ever been offered at a World's Fair. The sales will be under the auspices of the breeders' associations interested and within the period m which the breed will be on exhibition. The following associa- tions have already asked for assignments of sale dates : Cattle— American Short Horn Breeders' Association, American Hereford Breeders' Association, American Aberdeen-Angus Breeders' Association, American Galloway Breeders' Association. Horses— American Percheron Horse Breeders' and Importers' Association. Swine — American Poland Chi- .a Record Company, National Duroc- Jer<;ey Swine Breeders' Association, Am er;' 4ri Berkshire Association. n entirely new departure decided upon as a leading feature of the live stock awards at the Louisiana Purchase Expos- ition is the premier or sweepstakes cham- pionships for each breed. TbeBe are in- tended as grand prizes to recognize both the skill of the breeder and the enterprise of the exhibitor. It is proposed to give a premier championship award to the breeder making the best showing in each class, the showing to be determined by the largest aggregate amount awarded to animals bred by the breeders represented in that class. The premier award to the exhibitor in each class will be made on the same baBis. The large amount to be offered for prizeB and the consequent breadth of the classifications and the world-wide charac- ter of the shows will make the premier championships of St. Louis an exceptional honor, certain to be Btrongly competed for and highly appreciated by the exhibi- tors as well as breeders of the prize ani- mals. The Right Calf to Raise. Perhaps you may say, raise those that come lrom the best cows, BuggeBts T. B. Terry, in the Practical Farmer. All right, but that isn't enough. The sire should have been a good individual, with the general makeup and marks that to the practiced eye show that he is euch, and then also he should be a pure bred animal. There are plenty of pure bred animals, with long pedigrees, that have no perfect value because they are not by any means perfect types of their class. Better pay a man who is a good judge $300 to select a sire to head a herd, rather than take an animal on hia pedigree only. YeB, I would not buy one at all unlesB I had the skill to pick him out, or could employ some one who did have. This is pretty strong lan- guage, but it is used in all earnestness to help readers, to prevent bitter disappoint- ment in years to come. Now how are you to know which are your beat cows? Only by weighing the milk and keeping a record through the year. It will do very well to weigh once in ten days, morning and night, then multiplying by three will give you, closely enough, the amount given in a month. Then, if quality is an im- portant factor with you, as when you are selling butter or cream, you should have a Babcock tester also. Then you can know ab8olutely which cows give you the moBt milk and the richest milk. Their calves, from a good, pure bred Bire, are the ones to raise, if the calves themselves are all right. Don't have a weak point in this chain anywhere. Don't take it for granted that all the heifer calves will be good from a good sire and mother. They may be, and may not. I would follow the Van Dreaer method of selection. Look in the mouth of the new born calf. If there are, say, only two teeth just pricking through do not attempt to raise that calf, no matter what its parents are. The mother lacked vitality enough to fully develop the calf If there are six or eight teeth well put through, showing vigor and stamina in the mother, all right so far. Next turn the little heifer on her back and examine the teats. If there are four good teats, well spread apart, and two or more rudi- mentarieB (extra little teats), then raise the calf. The chances are largely in favor of her not disappointing you when she be- comes a milker beyond this period, they loae rather than gain in flesh, and the extra food given them may be regarded as a useless ex- pense. This condition in the birds, whether fowls, turkeys or ducks, can readily be told by an expert, and any one can, of course, guess it by practice and observation. It is quite worth while for all poultry-keepers to try to gain this knowledge. Green hone is fresh bone from the butcher's shop. Bones just from the table are quite suitable, and broken into pieces the size of maize, are well suited for the fowls to devour. Boiling for a consider- able time does not make them unsuitable. Do not add bone meal or oyster shells to the soft food so as to compel the fowls to devour such substances when they are not necessary even for the hens, which is the case sometimes. An excess of bone form- ing material injures male birds. Poultry-keeperB who have to keep their fowls in confinement in towns or suburbs should keep a heap of cinder8 and aBlies in the run. The birds will find in them much that ia beneficial, and it will help to keep down the grit bill a little. Mutton Chops. Sheep are Bubject at all timea to attacka of ticka and lice. A flock will never thrive when infested with ticks. A dipping tank should be kept ready for use at any time. The flock should be examined frequently and never allowed to suffer. At shearing time the ticka leave the sheep and go to the lambs. The lamba should then be dipped. The demand for well fattened lambs 1b steadily increasing. The prices of fat lambs run high at any time of the year compared with mature sheep. The earlier the lamb ia in the market the better the price. While pushing the fattening keep the aheep and lambs dry on their backs and dry on their feet. The grain troughs should have wide, flat bottoms so that the grain can be scat- tered and not bolted in mouthfuls, and thsy should not be crowded. Corn and clover hay, or corn and clover pasture, ia the beat feed to put fat on rapidly. Wheat and oata cauae more growth in frame and muscle than fat. For raiaing winter lamba the ram should be turned with the ewes about the first of June. There ia an increasing demand in the large cities for this dainty. Thia branch of sheep husbandry should not be at- tempted by persons with little or no ex- perience, but it will pay to work up to it as experience is gained. Breeding tor Color. Books and Pictures ABOUT California Mountains, Valleys, Canyons, Lakes and Seaside and Vacation Places. Shall It Be A Camp In the Forest A Mountain Lake A Good Hotel and Trout for Breakfast or A Seaside Resort and Clam Chowder for Dinner The Publications ot the Southern Pacific Coverall Desirable Places and answer question! of Distance, Accommodations, Expense, Fares, Route, etc. Nothing Left to the imagination. Inquire at INFORMATION BUREAU 613 MARKET STREET Hunt and Fish ALONG THE LINE Or THE (LESSEE OF THE S. F. A N. P. R. B.) 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There is a certain time when poultry that are being fattened are just ripe and fit to kill. If left even for a few days Said Director E. W. Howard of the State Agricultural Society, one of the largest breeders of shorthorn cattle in the State, in response to a question by a Union re- porter as to whether or not breeders are moving toward solid colors of late, "the tendency of most of the breeders ia to breed to red, but I do not think it a wise one, as it necessarily restricts the stock from which to breed. In England they breed largely to roans and many magnifi- cent specimens are produced. Last year I brought up a couple of roans in my ex- hibit, just to show my independence. I had no idea either of them would win a prize, and pinned my faith on a red that I considered the best in the herd. To mv astonishment Professor Carlyle placed him third, placing both the roans before him. t(I did not agree with him, but he went over them point by point and convinced me that he was right. He waB not only a most competent judge, but he had the faculty of imparting instruction and, what is generally dfficult to do, would convince you that you were wrong. I am going to bring up a lot of roans for exhibition this year,"— Sacramento Union, TN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE CITY ■*• and county of San Francisco, State of Califor- nia. In the Matter of the Application of "/ JOSEPH ALBERT CRACKBON, J- for Change of Name. ) The petition of Joseph Albert Orackbon, re- spectfully shows: That he Is over the age of twenty-one years; that he was born in the City of Sacramento, State of California, and has ever since resided in the State of California, and does now reside at the City and County of San Francisco. State ot Calif- ornia. The petitioner's father is dead, but petitioner's mother, Ada B. Crackbon, is alive and resides at Sacramento, and petitioner's other near relatives are Mrs Emma Pierce and Mrs M. W. Wilder, both residing at Sacramento, California, and L. S Crackbon, petitioner's brother, residing at San Francisco, California. That petitioner desires to change his name to Joseph Albert Whitney, the name Whitney being petitioner's grandmother's maiden name. That the reasons your petitioner desires to change hiB name are: that the name Crackbon is made the subject of ridicule and punning to such an extent as to render the lives of petitioner and his children extremely disagreeable and unpleas- ant. Wherefore, petitioner prays that this Court make an order fixing the time and place of hear- ing this petition and directing publication there- of, and that upon the hearing of said petition, this Court make an order changing petitioner's name from Joseph Albert Crackbon to Joseph Albert Whitney. Dated June 12- 1903 JOSEPH ALBERT CRACKBON, Petitioner. Wm H. Chapman, Attorney for Petitioner. Upon reading the foregoing petition, it is hereby Ordered, that Monday, the 13th day of July, A. D. 1903, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, be and the same is hereby appointed as the time, and that the Court-Room of Department No. two, of the said Superior Court at the City Hall, In the City and County of San Francisco, State of Calif- ornia, be and is hereby appointed as the place for hearing the application contained in said peti- tion. And it is further ordered, that publica- tion of said petition be made once a week for four successive weeks in some newspaper, printed in this City and County. Dated June 17, 1903- FRANK J. MURASKY, Judge of the Superior Court. Endorsed: Filed June 17, 1903. ALBERT B MAHONY, Clerk. By Joseph Riobd an. Deputy Clerk. July i, 1903] f&hs <§vesbev onto ^p-otrtemcm 13 The Express Horse. The lighter classes of the draft type are distinguished by the fact that their work is done almost exclusively at the trot. The first of these is the expresser. This is one of the best highest classes on the market so far a9 individual excellence is concerned, and horses that fill the require- ments are always in demand at strong prices. An expresser is the beet finished of all the draft classes. The style of horse wanted is thus described by George M. Rommel, expert of the Bureau of Animal Industry. Size and Weight— The size and weight varv somewhat, as a matter of course, but, as a general rule, an expresser stands from 15.2 to sixteen bands, and weighs from 1250 to 1500 pounds, or even more, the weight varying with the kind of work, wagon, etc., to which a horse is to be put In some cases a team hitched to an express wagon will be seen showing all the characteristics of the true drafter, but, as a rule, these horses are for heavy, dray work, and are not looked upon as rep- resentative expressers. Conformation — The most pronounced type of the expresser is a rather upstand- ing horse with strong, closely coupled body, considerable width of chest and hips, sound, clean legs and particularly sound feet. Special stress is placed on the health, quality and conformation of the feet. Excepting the class following the bussers, no class of draft type has to undergo the same amount of strain on the feet as the expresser. Hauling a loaded wagon at a trot soon tells on any but the best organs of locomotion. When the expresser is said to be upstand- ing the inference Bhould not be that he could be dominated as "leggy." This extreme ie to be absolutely avoided, and as between the two, a horse with short legs is much preferable. Buyers demand a sensible medium. The most striking features in the conformation of an ex- presser are (1) his high finish with con- siderable weight — 'a draft horse with coach finish"— and (2) his rather upstand- ing appearance as compared wfth other draft classes. Action— His work makes the trot of an expresser his most important gait. It should above all things, be straight, fric- tionlesB, as smooth as possible, and quick I and regular. The walk must be similarly developed. Demand— Theexpress companies consti- tute the ruling factors in the trade for this class of horses, but other lines of business that require an extra good light delivery horse find in the expresser such an animal as they desire. The lighter teams of the packing companies are heavy expressers, weighing from 1450 to 1550 pounds. Fire companies buy their horses very much after this type, getting a somewhat "toppy" animal that shows much intelli- gence and courage. Police horses come from somewhat similar sources. Stock and Dairy Notes. Flavor does not come by chance. Every intelligent butter-maker is fully aware of the uncertainty and the difficulty of pro- ducing a uniform high flavor. Experience has taught us that when certain processes are followed the resulting product is ordi narily of at least fair quality. But even under the best sanitary conditions the product is often strikingly variable in fla- vor from day to day. A fairly good cow should give about two hundred pounds of butter in the season with good treatment. Many really good cows give as high as 320 to 350 pounds of butter in a year. Bear in mind that a gallon of inferior cream that is mixed with other cream in bulk will cause an injurious fermentation to spread through the entire lot, the result being a butter that will go rancid if kept any time after being made. The longer the calf is left with the mother the harder it will be to teach it to drink. The longer it is left with the cow the harder it will be to wean, and the more foolishly the cow will act when weaning is attempted. To teach a calf to drink will require patience and some tact. If a cow is fractious a halter paBsed round her horns gives a man greater power over her than if it is passed round the neck, but there is nothing like pa- tience if she is to be humbled. The owner should Btand at her head while the man is milking, and talk to her, giving her a few pieceB of apple or beet, and en- couraging her in every possible way. If she is roughly used she will only become worse, and probably overturn the pail or put her foot into it more often. A stabled cow should never be without a lump of rock salt, aa it is not oily an agreeable condiment, but it often prevents her losing her rppetite, and contributes materially to her health. A cow which is fond of tossing her head when handled and, whether in play or wickedness, endangering the by-stander, should at least have her horns tipped with knobs, for we have known one death and several accidents through lack of this pre- caution. 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Send at once for our 100-page book, "Veterinary Ex- perience," which we mall free. Tuttle's ElixirCo., 437 O'FarreMSt., San Francisco Cal. Bennre of so-called Elixirs— none genuine hut TintlrV Avoid all blisters; they offer only temporary relief, if any. No Foot-No Horse All Orders COD. Sample can $1. Special Prices to Dealers Horse Sboers and Agents You don't have to pack horses' feet when you use STRAP VETERINARY and HOOF OINTMENT. We guarantee a speedy and positive cure for Collar and Saddle Galls, Wire Cuts, Wounds of all kinds. Burns, Scalds, Cracked and Inflamed Heels.Grease Heel Scratches, Speedy Cuts, Thrush, Contracted Heels, Toe, Sand and Quarter Cracks, Nail Pricks, Car Bruises, Sore Tendons, Corns and Foundered Feet in all forms. We Pay Express Write for testimonials. PRICES— 1 pound can, $1.00; 2 pound can, $1.75; 5 pound can. $400. Address a card to 1711 Genessee Street. Lew Watson & Jones, cottingham Bros. 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Send in your name with references and we will send you sample copies for canvassing and appoint you local agent. FOR SALE-$5000 THE GRANDLY BRED STALLION Sired by MoKinney 2:11 j^, dam By By by Nutwood Is offered for sale at the above figure. He is a full brother to Marengo King 2:29^. Address H. Le BARON SMITH, 320 Bush St., San Franoisco. £0C0ANUT OIL CAKE THE BEST FEED FOB STOCK, CHICKENS AND PIGS FOE SALE IN LOTS TO SUIT BT EL DORADO LINSEED OIL WORKS CO 208 California Street, San Franoisco, Cal BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN 36 Geary Street, San Francisco BLAKE, MOFFITT & TOWNE -DEALERS IH- 55-57-59-61 First Street, ~ Tiuphosi Mais iw 14 ®he Qxttttzv emit gp&ci&mtm fJULY 4, 1903 p>- —TRADEMARK— W^^^ SPAVIN CURE Horse 13 Years Old With Spavin 7 or 8 Years Old Made Sound 4 Bottles CURES 5 Cases., Received by Registered Mail. North Chicago, III., May 11, 1903. Enclosed find $5 for one more bottle of "Save-tbe-Horse. " I have used four bottle9 and cured five cases with your remedy. I bought a colt the other day with two soft curbs which I hope to remove with this bottle. WILLIAM C. ANDERSON, D. V. S., Office — Goss House, North Chicago, 111. On reoeipt of the above we wrote and asked Mr. Anderson if he would kindly favor us with a detailed report of each case. No stronger facts can be contributed to advance this humane cause than letters like the following. Note the usual method of terrific torture resorted to now eliminated by treatment with "Save-the-Horse." North Chicago, III., May 18, 1903. Troy Cliemical Co , Troy, N. Y. Gentlemen: — Here is a report of the five cases that I have treated with your "Save-the-Horse" spavin cure. The first was Chester Chief, thirteen year9 old, bred and raised by George Hagen of Waukegan. When three years old he was broke and driven for two years by John Swanbrough. Late in the season of the second year he developed a large bone spavin on his left leg, and he was put into the hands of one of the foremost veterinarians in the country. He fired and blistered him. Instead of benefitting the horse, he became so very lame that driving him was out of the question. Hagen became disgusted and sold him. The purchaser put him into my hands, and I tried — — . I put it on good and plenty and let it remain all night, and in the morning a good big hole was bored out in the spavin. I healed the sore, but the horse was still dead lame. I then mixed equal parts of crystal iodine, corrosive sublimate, quicksilver and lard and applied a little every day for five days. It gave the horse great pain, and the entire leg swelled badly. The whole spavin cracked around and looked as though it would drop out, but it did not. I healed the place up and sent the horse home as lame as ever. There was nothing more done until about five months ago. I then took charge of him again and began using your preparation, "Save-the-Horse. " Pour weeks' treatment seemed to make him a great deal lamer; bunch became very tender and sore, and remained so for about a week, then he began to get better. I kept right on treating him, and to-day he goes perfectly sound and can trot in thirty, which is as fast as he ever ?ould trot. The other four— one was a bog spavin and thoroughpln combined. The horse is a four-year-old, a Clyde, and the formation was about a year old and yielded to two months' treatment, when the entire bunch and lameneBS disappeared. The others were ringbones on the hind feet. They were not large, but colts were dead lame. Lameness disappeared in about twenty days in each case, but it took me nearly three months to get the bunches down. They were large, heavy colts, across between the Hambletonian and Clyde. I used four bottles to effect these five cures. W. C. ANDERSON, D. V. S. P. S. — I have been treating spavins for forty years, and "Save-the- Horse" is head and shoulders above anything I have ever tried. I cured up a case of grease heel of three years' standing with your Veterinary Pixine. I tried to cure this case a year ago, but could do nothing with it. The legs were badly swollen and craoked, a nasty, gummy pus oozing out, legs wet all the time. I told Dr. Colwell I intended to cure it, and he asked if I were going crazy. He said there was not a man living who was able to heal up those legs. I showed him the horse last week, and he examined him and pronounced him sound. He said, "You have discovered the right thing." I took a flannel rag about four feet long and saturated the middle of it with nitric acid, took hold of each end of it and sawed it right into these cracks. Then I went ahead with Veterinary Pixine, according to your directions, and in two months and a half I had the horse well. I burned it several times more by touching bad placas with a feather dipped in nitric acid. He is a draught horse, and was owned by Judge Upton of Waukegan. He sold him five monthsago for $30, but to-daj he could not be bought for $150. SAVE-THE-HORSE" Cures Without Scar, Blemish or Loss of Hair. " Save-the-Horse" can be applied at any time, anywhere, any place, and in all conditions and extremes of weather. boots, as no harm can possibly result from scalding: of limb or destruction of hair. SS.OO Horses may be worked as usual with shin or ankle Need of second bottle Is almost Improbable, Written guarantee with every bottle given under our seal and signature, constructed solely to satisfy and protect you fully. exeept In rarest of oases. Copy of booklet and guarantee sent upon application. POSITIVELY AND PERMANENTLY CURES Bone and Bog Spavin, Thoroughpln, Ringbone(except low ringbone), Curb, Splint, Capped Hock, Windpuff, Shoe Boil. Weak and Sprained Tendons and all lamenes8 If you have a case different than described in our booklet or advertising we will advise you frankly as to the possibility of the remedy effecting a cure, veterinarian's diagnosis if he is competent. Inform us fully as to the age. development, location and swellings, lameness, action and previous treatment. $5 a bottle at all druggists and dealers, or sent express prepaid. Give explicit particulars. Give tbe TROY CHEMICAL CO., Manufacturers, TROY, N. Y. D. E, NEWELL, Pacific Coast Agent, 519 MISSION ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. THE BAYWOOD STUD THE BUNGALOW, SAN MATEO, CAL (Property of John Parrott, Esq.) Imp. Hackney Stallion GREEN'S RUFUS «» ■«»" Will serve a limited number of Approved Mares, Season 1903 FEE ... $75 Reductions made for two or more mares. Manager, WALTER 8EALY. QUINNS OINTMENT! FOR HORSES stands at the head of all veterinary remedies. Such troubles t as Spavins, Curbs, Windpuffs, Splints, Bunches have no f terrors for a horse if the master keeps and applies Qu-inn's Ointment. All | ■well known horsemen speak of it in the highest terms : Miller & Sibley of Franklin, Pa., owners of St. Bel, brother of lato Bel Boy, write, "We have need Quinn's Ointment with great success ond believe it fulfills all claimed for it. We cheer- folly recommend it to oar friends." For Curbs, Splints, Spavins or Banches it has no equal. Price $ i.oo per package. Sold by all druggist-s, or sent by mail. CS |l Vl a x w- B- EDDY * CO** WHITEHALL, N^Y. Hill FOR SALE. HANDSOME CHESTNUT DRIVING HORSE, 1514 hands high weight 1100, foaled in 1896; sired by Gossiper, dam Maud Fowler, who was also the dam of Sonoma Girl, entered in the 2:34 class at the Breeders meeting. Can trot a mile in 2:30 or better: perfectly gentle, not afraid of cars or automobiles; registered in the Ameri- can Trotting Register, as Fenton, under Rule 6. Vol. 14. Price £400. W. S. WEST,, P O. Bos 216, Santa Rosa, Cal- VETERINARY. DR. C. MASOERO VETERINARY SUR0E0N Graduate of Royal Veterinary College of Turin INFIRMARY AND RESIDENCE— 811 Howard St.: between Fourth and Fifth Sts.. San Francisco. Telephone: Main 457. 0. A. W. F0LEERS Successor to J. H. A. Folkers & Bro. A FULL SUPPLY OF SURGICAL AND VETERINARY INSTRUMENTS, ETC. S09 Market Street Flood Building, Room 4. Sarj Francisco M. R. C. V. S-. P. E. V. M. S. VETEKINARY SURGEON. Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, England; Fellow of tbe EdLnburg Veterinary Medical Society; Graduate of tbe New Veterinary College Edinburgh; Veterinary Sur- geon to the S. F. 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BREEDERS' DIRECTORY. HOLSTEINS— Winners of every 7 days' butter contest at State Fair 1899 1st & 2d for aged cows, 4-yr., 3-yr. and 2-yr.-olds; 21 Jerseys and Durhams competing. 5th year my Holsteins have beaten JerseyB for butter. Stock for sale; also pigs. F. H. Burke, 30 Montgomery St., S. F. JERSEYS, HOLSTEINS AND DURHAMS. Dairy Stock specially. Hogs, Poultry. Estab- lished 1876. William Niles & Co.. Los Angeles, Cal. AYB8BIRES- Young Bulls, Cows ud Heifers. Registered. From prize winnine famlUee, Brown * Brmndoa Pet*luma Cal. The puppy is liable to destruction from worms. 'Tis the critical period in a dog's life. Canine worms meet "sure" destruction when Sure Shot is administered. After that, it builds up the growing dog's constitution, develops bone and muscle. It makes thin, puny and weak puppies plump, animated and strong. 50c* by mall, prepaid. SERGEANT'S CONDITION PILLS are the best liked and easiest to give of all alteratives and tonics. Incidentally any disease that a dog is likely to have will be speedily relieved and ulti- matelycured. Of dealers, 50c and $1.00. By mall, prepaid. Sergeant's Carbolic Soft Soap is the "best ever" and for sale everywhere. 25c. of dealers. By mail 35c. An order, or 8c. m Btamps will entitle you to our LATEST Dog Book and Pedigree blank, mailed free. For sale by "All Druggists and Sporting Goods Dealers, F. W. BRAUN & CO., Los Angeles, Cal., Pacific Coast Supply Depot SPRATTS PATENT. DOG CAKES REMEDIES SOAP. NEWARK, N. J, Send for free copy of " DOG CULTURE." ST. LOUIS, MO. Pacific Coast Branch — 1324 Valencia Street, San Francisco. Agents for "SANITAS" Disinfectant. STHIPED BASS ANGLERS LAKE MERRITT BOAT HOUSE J. A. FATJO, Proprietor, Will furnish good boats at reasonable prices. Tackle Live and Clam Bait, etc., and better ac- commodations than ever before offered at Lake Merritt. Take narrow-gauge train to Oakland: street cars or five minutes' walk on East 12th st. to flsh- ing water. Get off broad-gauge trains at Oak st CALIFORNIA Photo Engraving Company HIGH CLASS ART IN Half Tones and Line Engraving Artistic Designing. Kt6 Mission St.. cor. First, San Francisco At Stud. SMOOTH FOX TERRIER Norfolk Trueman Ppp >u»oaofiAa CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS Advertisements under this head one cent per word per insertion. Cash to accompany order. BULL TERRIERS-FOX TERRIERS. KENNEL ADVERTISEMENTS. IRISH ._. £._.,,_. IRISH TERRIER AT STUD TEKRIEK IHE GRAND YOUNG DOG BOLTON WOODS DESPOT y Saskatchewan, the dam of the great Bolton Woods Miser (winner of over 2000 firsts and spe- cials) Just imported direct from the celebrated Bolton Woods Kennels. England. One of the finest or modern specimens Racy, upstanding, true-fronted dog: typical long, narrow skull; smallest and blackest of eyps. Fee. io a few ^itches, $25. Particulars, address W. OLLARD, Tacoma, Wash. AT STUD— CH WOODCOTE WONDER. THE ■**■ world's premier Bull Terrier Prize winning Wonder puppies: Pox Terrleri sired by Norfolk Trueman: bmnd bitches In whelp and puppies for sale W' ODLAWN KENNELS, Geary and Central Ave , San Francisco Phone: Baker 3031 ST. BERNARDS. T7"OR SALE — WELL BRED, HANDSOME x largest Bernard dog. two years old. Can be seen at 2125 Buena Vista Avenue Alameda. NT' Wandee Kennels' Fox Terriers. WANDEE BLIZZARD, formerly Llthian Bliz zard (Blizzard-Pop). Fee 820 WANDEE JESTER (Norfolk Velocity-Norfolk Two Step). Fee 810 Puppies and Brood Bitches for sale. Dogs shown by appointment only. Address WANDEE KENNELS, 8 + 1 Han-lson St., San Francisco Cal. DELVERTON COCKER KENNELS FRU1TVALE THE HOME OF THE CHAMPIONS. Winners ■*■ of more First and Special prizes in 1902-1903 than all the other Coast kennels combined. Have taken the Special for Best Cocker in show at San Francisco, 180R-9P- 1 9c :0-« "2-03 Champion HAMPTON PROMISE, black, at stud Winner of Special for best any color, San Francisco, 1903. These kennels have bred many high-class show dogs, among others Plumeria Portia conceded to be the best Cocker owned In Plumeria Kennels. Young stock now on hand. AT STUD CUBA OF- KENWOOD (Qlenbolgh Jr.— 9tella> SAM'S BOW (Plain Sam-Dolly Doe II) STOGKDALE KENNELS K. M. DODGE, Manager, Bakers field, Kern Co., Boarding. Pointer Puppies and well-broken Dogs lor sal*. AIROD KENNELS— REMOVED TO 132 Nioth Avenue, near California— offer for sale the celebrated St. Bernard, LE KING (Champion Le Prince-Sylvia's Lola). At Sidd-Cbamplon GRAND MASTKR If. admittedly the grandest headed St Bernard on the Coast. Fee $25. IRISH AND SCOTCH TERRIERS. [R1SH AND SCOTCH TERRIER PUPPIES -L at $12 and $15 Sired by Champion Lome Ruffian and Champion Fighting Mao. MBS. BRADLEY-DYNE. Sarurna P. O . B C. COLLIES. pOLLIE PUPS FOR SALE-BY PRIZE ^ winning imported sires and dams, fit for nencb. ranchorfarm Bothsexes Prices accord- ing to quality Correspondence solicited: all let- ters cheerfully answered. THOS. S. GRIFFITH, Bos 1907, Spokane, Wash. COCKER SPANIELS. N AIROD KENNELS— 133 NINTH AVENUE, near California. Champion bred Cooker SpanielB at stud and for sale. PLUMERIA COCKER KENNELS HAVE removed to their new kennels, 229 Ninth Ave. The dogs In this kennel are conceded to be the best in the West, having defeated all comers, under a number of the best judges In America. At Stud— Champion HAMPTON GOLDIE (great- est sire of winners alive), PLUMERIA TWEE- DLEPUNCH and others. Young and matured stock for sale. Address E C PLUME. 229 Ninth Ave., San Francisco. Small dogs boarded. -OR SALE— COCKER SPANIEL PUPPIES -«- by Ch. Hampton Goldle. Apply at junction old county and Redwood roads. Frultvale. Alameda PEDIGREES TABULATED And type written Ready for framing. Wri*e for prices. BBEXDKB AND SPORTSMAN, 38 G«CfT 8tr San Franolaoo, Oal, 16 ©h£ gveebev txttb gppavistncm [July 4, 1903 Telephone-. South 640 VRSE BOOTS San Francisco, Cal. Fourth of July and Other Celebrations BLANK CARTRIDGES "A .38 Vr s. &. w. r BLANK •A F°R ; .4+ WINCHESTER. BLANK Sure Fire Clean Loudest Report SUITABLE FOR RIFLE, REVOLVER, GUN OR CANNON. ^TMARKED flgS UNION METALLIC CARTRIDGE CO. TS*AO£ MARK PACIFIC COAST DEPOT: 86-88 FIRST STREET, SAN FRANCISCO E. E. DRAKE, Manager AMMUNITION, RIFLES AND SHOTGUNS PACIFIC COAST AGENCY; 127-135 FIRST STREET SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. -A.. IIVITTIjIjEIE*., Agent. The World's Greatest Shooting Record FRED GILBERT, of Spirit Lake, la., since Jan. 1, 1902, has shot in competition at 5765 Targets, breaking 5532 or 95.9 per cent, using a PARKER GUN. AT SHOT AT Natchez, Miss 400 . . Fort Dodge, la 300 . . Lakefield, Minn 205 .. Sioux City, la 360 . . Dubuque, la 360 . . BBOKB PER CES1 . 396 99 . 298 98.6 . 203 99 . 351 97 . 351 97.5 THE "OLD RELIABLE" IS RELIABLE. PARKER BROTHERS MERIDEN, CONN Send for oatalocna N. Y. Salesroom: 33 Warren St. GlabrougL Golcher & Go. guns Gun Goods FISHING Tackle «-8end for Catalogue. S38 MARKET STREET.S. F. 1 Du Pont Gun Powder SMOKELESS, SHOT GUN and MILITARY POWDER Black Powder for Sporting and Blasting Purposes rhe Reputation of a Hundred Years is the Guarantee of DU PONT POWDER •• A. BAIOBI, aww, . 319 Mission St., Room 311, San FraaoUoe, Cal. SMITH GUNS LONGEST STRAIGHT RUNS ^^ At S. F. Trap Shooting Association May 32— 33— 24— 26 VAUGHN, - - 72 Straight. FECDNKR, - 62 Also longest straight ran and first monies at lire birds SMITH QUNS are made tor AH Kinds of Ammunition... aPa&°on to Hunter Arms Co., Fulton, N.Y- PHIL. B. BEKEART CO., San Francisco, Coast Representative NEW " E. C." NEW "SCHULTZE" SHOTGUN RIFLEITE » THE AMERICAN "E. G." and "SCHULTZE" funioMtr Co., Ltd. PHIL B. BEKEART CO., Pacific Coast Re pr esentatire Manufactured You can get these Smokeless Powders in FACTORY ...CUri I O loaded OH LLLD I DU PONT "E. C." SCHULTZE WA7ABT, SHOTGUN RIFLEITE BALLISTITE LAFLIN & RAND 'INFALLIBLE." What More do you Want? VOL. XXIII. No. » IS GEAKT STREET. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1903. SUBSCRIPTION THREE DOLLARS A YEAR Sj^^tB^ m m IRISH (3), CH. C. BY Monterey 2:091-Jtjliet D. 2:13J. m DOLXEXA, b. m. by Alexis-Dolly Withers 2:29}. i r - 2 ©he gveebev cm& gpavtsutcm [July ll, 1908 Opening Meeting of the North Pacific Fairs. FALL MEETING, 1903, OF THE KING COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION SEATTLE, WASH. AUGUST 8th TO 29th, INCLUSIVE ENTRIES TO ALL HARNESS STAKES AND PURSES CLOSE WEDNESDAY, JULY 15th No. 1— THE No. 2— THE No. 3— THE No. 4— THE No. 5— THE No. 6— THE No. 7— THE No. 8— THE NORTH PACIFIC STAKE, {ror a3:11;p5acer8} Mt M CTAlVP (Parse Donated by the Business Men , ■ t\ 111* OirtlVL. -(0f Seattle, for 2:20 Trotters, 3 In 5/ IIlVPrVH P ^.TAlVP (For 3-year-old Pacers, owned and) JLVCiMLL OlrtiYC, J bred in North Pacific Fair Asso- ■ (elation District. 2 In 3 J DIONFFD ^TA K'F I For 3-year-old Trotters owned and) riUllLLlV Jl.i^L, - bred in North Pacific Fair Assocla- ■ ( tion District, 2 in 3 ) FlPRIlT QTAlfP (For 2-year-old Pacers, owned and bred i UL,UU 1 JIAIVL, . in North Pacifio Fair Association Dls- - (.trict. 2 In 3 J PITfiFT ^HlllVn ^TAK'F (For 2-year-old Trotters, owned) rUUti OUUilLF OiniVC, J and bred in North Pacific Fair \ (Association District. 2 In 3 ;. ) CITY COUNCIL PURSE, {Fo1 Til*™"} $1000 1000 500 500 300 300 500 POST INTELLIGENCER PURSE, {For22:1£P3acera}.. In Addition to the Harness Events No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. fFor 2:20 Pacers 1 2 In 3 f 9— THE PROFANITY HILL PURSE, 10-THE SEATTLE KENNEL CLUB PURSE, {For SfijV""} 11— THE SEATTLE STAR PURSE, {For2,!81; ?"«"} 12— THE SEATTLE TIMES PURSE, {"""S.'LV""'} 13— THE MEADOWS PURSE, 14— THE SHERIFF CUDIHEE PURSE, 15— THE SEATTLE DRIVING CLUB PURSE, {For %sLTsroUra] (For 2:14 Trotters) \ 2 In 3 J fFor 2:17 Trotters) 1 2 in 3 / (For 2:25 Trotteri ) \ 2 in 3 ; 16— The ARGUS PURSE, 17— The COMMONWEALTH PURSE, 500 No. 18— The MATINEE PURSE, Liberal Parses -will be given for Runners (For 2:30 Trotters "I 2 in 3 / • :40 Trotters) 2 tn 3 ) $500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 CONDITIONS. Entrance fees five per cent of Stake or Purse (and five per cent additional from money-winners), payable July 15th, when horse must be named. Money divided fifty, twenty-five, fifteen and ten per cent of. Stake or Purse. Horses not winning a heat in four shall not start in fifth heat, except in a field of eight or more starters, and then it must win a heat in five or go to the barn. Horses so ruled out shall have a right to a share of the Stake according to their rank at the close of the last heat. Right to transfer or substitute entry in any of the above Stakes open to August 1st to horses eligible July 15th. The Association reserves the right to declare off and return payments in any Stake or Parse that does not fill satisfactorily to the Association. Right reserved to declare two starters a walk-over. When only two start they may contest for the entrance money paid In, tc ce divided seventy per cent to first, and thirty per cent to second horse. A horse distancing the field shall be entitled to first and fourth money only, and in no other case will a horse be entitled to more than one money Other than specified, rules of the National Trotting Association, of which this Association is a member, to govern, except hobbles are not barred on pacers three years old and upwards. Entry must plainly state name, color, ses'and breeding of both sire and dam, with owners signa ture and address. Two horses may be entered from the same stable in the same class and held but for one entry fee No conditional entries will be considered. Drivers must have colors and not fail to mention them when making entries. Declaration of intention to withdraw a horse must be made by 7:00 p. m on the day preceding raoe. The Association reserves ihe right to use its discretion as to unfavorable weather conditions. Entry fees to accompany nominations and to be made payable to A. T. Van de Vanter, Secretary and General Manager King County Fair Association. Applications for stabling must be made to the Secretary, stating the number of horses to arrive - In case of any subsequent change in the movements of the stable, or any part thereof, a prompt notice is earnestly requested. Horses should be shipped in care of King County Fair Association, Seattle. Arrangements will then be made for their unloading at the race track. Ample notice of the dates upon which these stakes and purses are to be decided will be given. In addition to the above Special Purses will be offered for Overnight Closing Harness Events. Any information pertaining to the meeting will be gladly furnished by the Secretary upon application. Address all communications and inquiries to A. T. VAN DE VANTER, Secretary and General Manager KING COUNTY FAIB ASSOCIATION, 7 SULLIVAN BUILDING. SEATTLE WASH. J. O'KANE 26 GOLDEN GATE AVE., S. F. HORSE BOOTS TRACK HARNESS BLANKETS, MEDICINES, S01BIES. Send Foe Catalogue. Our Goods Are the Best Made. $2QO Padishah The But Low Priced Jeweled Witch Made Non-Magnetic Nickel Silver Case Fully Guaranteed For sale by ALL JEWELERS Illustrated Booklet on request, showing COLORED FANCY DIALS The New England Watch Go. Factories— Waterbnry. Coon. Offices- New York, Chicago, San Francisco. Jepsen Bros. Company uno MAKERS OF Fine Harness Come and See The Fine Ordered Work "We Are Turning Ont At Tnls Time. THE BIG STORE with the Little Prices 11451147 MARKET STREET SAN FRANCISCO Phone: Sonth 1033 and IMPORTERS OF English Saddlery Pedigrees Sportsman, 36 Geary street "T1-, 1»-, I *j +£»/-! and type written ready for framing I dUUlalCU Write for price*. Breeder ans San Francisco, Cai. Bids for Privileges AT THE VALLEJO RACE MEETING AUGUST 13, 14 and 15, 1903, as follows: Bookmaklng and Pool Selling, Bar, Restaurant and Lnnch Counter, Candy and Nnts. Programmes, Etc , Etc. will he received up to and opened August 1st. Right reserved to reject auy bid. Address THOS. SMITH, Manager, Vallejo. Cal. For Sale— Thoroughbreds, T3ROOD MARE BY SIR MODRED AND TWO -*-* of her get. One, two-year-old filly, has been bandied but never raced, and one yearling colt All royally bred. W. H. CHRISTIE, 615-616 Hayward Building. FOR SALE. HANDSOME CHESTNUT DRIVING HORSE, 15^ hands high weight 1100, foaled in 1896; sired by Gossiper, dam Maud Fowler, who was also the dam of Sonoma Girl, entered in the 2:24 class at the Breeders meeting. Can trot a mile in 2:30 or better; perfectly gentle, not afraid of cars or automobiles; registered in the Ameri- can Trotting Register, as Fenton. under Rule 6, Vol. 14. Price J4CO. W. S. WEST, P. O. Bos 216, Santa Rosa, Cal. WANTED. A BAY GELDING, 18 HANDS, 1250 LBS., •^ medium stout, active Carriage Horse. Ad- dress DR. P. VTLLIOTTE, Vet., Lameness and Foot Specialist, 321 Grant Ave., S. F., Cal NEW MODEL 1903 ROAD CARTS THE BEST IN THE WORLD, O'BRIEN & SONS Cor. Golden Gate Ave. and Polk St. SAN FKAXCISCO. CAL July 11, 1803] ®h* gveebev unit gftrorisrotm 3 THE WEEKLY BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN p. w. KELLEY, Proprietor. rurf and Sporting Authority of the Pacific Coast, — OFFICE — 36 GEARY STREET, SAN FRANCISCO. P. O BOX 2300. Telephone: Black 586. rerms— One Year S3. Six Months SI. 75, Three Months 81 STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. Money snould be sent by postal order, draft or by registered letter addressed to F. W. Kellet, 36 Geary St., San Francisco. Cal. Communications must be accompanied by the writer's name and address, not necessarily for publication, but as a private guarantee 3f good faith. San Francisco, Saturday, July n, igo3. THE CALIFORNIA. CIRCUIT will open at Vallejo Thursday, August 13th and three days' racing will be given, closing on Saturday the 15th. The fol- owing week the Grand Army encampment will be aeld in San Francisco, and as excursion trains from ill points will be run to the metropolis that week, no listrict association will hold a race meeting. On Wednesday, August 26th, the Pacific Coast Trotting Horse Breeders will open their big annual meeting at Pet alum a. It will continue four days, ending Satur- day, August 29th. The following Monday the Cali- fornia State Fair will open at Sacramento, during which there will be two weeks of racing as usual, clos- ing September 12th. The next move will probaoly be to Pleasanton where a three day meeting will be held. Woodland may not be in the circuit tbis year after all, although no official announcement has been made as to whether a meeting wili or will not be held there. Los Angeles will give three weeks of racing beginning October 10th, closing the circuit. Never has the California trotting circuit been so demoralized as this year. When Gov. Budd vetoed the appropriations for district fairs, the Breeders Association stepped into the breach and gave several meetings and a number of the districts gave meetings without State aid. This year, however, there has been an apathy on the part of district boards and others that has utterly demoralized the former circuit and harness horse ownerB will have but little opportunity to earn money in California with their horses. Everything pointed to one of the most successful circuits of dis- trict fairs ever held in the State until Governor Pardee cut off the appropriations therefor, but that act led every district board to retire from the field in disgust. The long delay of the Governor in filling the vacancies on the State Board of Agriculture put back the announcements of that association several weeks and its race program which will be announced next week will doubtless suffer much from the delay. Governor Pardee's action in these matters has de- moralized a business that pays many thousands of dollars annually to the State treasury in the shape of taxes, and has caused a very heavy loss to the breeders and owners of horses. as is ordinarily the case with the big metropolitan ex- hibitions which last a week. The beautiful Queen's Park and University Oval, which furnisn a roadway around adjoining circles of more than two miles, were utilized for the exhibition. Throughout the length of this route were ranged upward of five hundred horses and carriages which were entered in the show. Simultaneously several score of expert judges began their work and in less than an hour the prizes had all been awarded. Then the whole exhibition moved in procession ar ound the oval and passed in review be- fore the Governor General, Lord Minto and other dig- nitaries who occupied the reviewing stand." Here is an idea for Californians who have been demanding a horse show for some time. By holding the show dur- ing one day out of doors, four-fifths of the expenses usually attached to an exhibition of th's character are saved and the public gets a better chance to inspect the horses than at a show which extends over three or moredays and is held during the day and night. The Toronto idea is bound to meet with popular favor and we hope our California horse show enthusiasts may take it up and hold one on the same lines LOS ANGELES WILL GIVE A MEETING as usual this year, beginning October 10th and con- tinuing through to the 31st, giving three weeks of racing. Lessee J. W. Brooks has succeeded in get- ting the permission from the City Council of Los Angeles to hold a meeting atwaich betting on the races will not be prohibited, and he will bend every effort to secure the best horses t ''.at can be brought to Los Angeles to start for the purses and stakes which he will offer. There will be purses for runners, trotters and pacers, with auction pools and mutuals only on the harness events and books on the running races. Mr. Brooks has always hung up liberal purses and will try to make the Los Angeles track more popular than ever with all classes of horsemen. He expects to have his program out in a few days. The track will be put into the best possible condition, the club house and grand stand renovated, and every- thing will be spick-and-span when the mooting opens. There was no appropriation set aside for a fair this fall by the last legislature, but Mr. Brooks has stop- ped into the breach, and with the aid of the city 30uncil, will give an independent meeting. This will add three weeks to the California circuit, and there is jvery prospect now of there being at least eight weeks if good harness racing for horseB that are in Califor- nia. THE SECOND AND FINAL SALE of the horses belonging to the estate of the late Henry Pierce will be held at the Occidental Horse Exchange in this city on Wednesday, July 22d. The horses consigned are broodmares, geldings, colts and Allies, and seven of the two year olds have worked quarters in 35 sec- onds or better at Santa Rosa, and among the brood- mares are a number of producers. Mr. Layng adver- tises that there is not an inferior animal listed, and all are sound and without blemish. In the big advertise- ment which appears in this issue of the Breeder and Sportsman, every animal's pedigree is given. The list should be carefully perused by buyers, as it con- tains the names of many that have made and are mak- ing trotting horse history. Catalogues will be out next Tuesday. Send for one. The Salisbury Horses at Empire Track. Sam C. Freeman writes under date of July 2d as follows in the Trotter and Pacer: " Last Friday the veteran trainer, Monroe Salisbury, took a hand in putting the Empire City track in good shape for speed, and under his instructions it was worked into first-class shape, being good and fast for some work- outs which he wanted to send his horses, as well as for the matinee of the Driving Club, Saturday. Ben Walker, who does the driving for the Californiar, was kept very busy almost all day Saturday, and Mr. Salisbury showed several of his friends a lot of speed. The California trotter, Monte Carlo 2:09, was given his last fast workout prior to his being shipped to Detroit, where the stable will begin the season across the river at Windson. That good son of Mendocino reeled off a mile in 2:11 without the slightest trouble, negotiating the last half in 1:04£, aetiog very much as though he could have knocked off the seconds and fraction, had he been asked to do it. He was given other miles, but not so fast. The decorated pacer, .Mush, which Is still just as much of a curiosity to the regular visitors to the track as he was when he first arrived, was also given three or four miles at a good, round clip. His fastest mile was in 2:11, with a final • quarter in even 30 seconds. The tight little mare Trilby Direct was the sensation of the morning's work. Her fastest mile was not surprising. It was caught by several watches in 2:15}, but she cut loose for a quarter on the back stretch which she knocked off in 29 seconds as smooth as oil, and the three year old, Daphne Direct, marked up a quarter to her credit in 30 seconds, doing it in excellent style. Judge Green was given three or four miles jvith the fastest in 2:20, the last quarter in 32J seconds, and Daniel O'Dell's big mare, M. M. D., went a mile easily in 2:14}. The M. & M. candidate Monroe, the giant trotter, worked five easy miles around 2:20, and looks in fine 6hape. He is quite a favorite with Mr. Salisbury, who thinks he is just about as good a trotter as he ever trained. Some .of the stable will be started at the Windsor meeting as a sort of a preliminary lesson, then at Detroit and follow right down the line of Grand Circuit meetings." A ONE-DAY HORSE SHOW was recently held at f» Toronto, Ontario, and proved a tremendous sue seas. The show came off on July 3d, and differed 'rom all previous showB heretofore held "inasmuch as t was all over in one afternoon and that despite the act that as many horses were displayed and judged Mr. A. B. Gwathmey of New York owns a horse in the trotter Forney 2:19J that furnished the members of the New York Drivmg Cluh a sensation one day last week. On a wager of $500 John Howell attempted to drive Forney a half mile in 1:04. The horse won with ease, trotting tbe distance in 1:02}. Forney is by Sidney Prince, a borse bred by tbe Estate of the late Count Valensin in this State. Sidney Prince is by Sidney out of Crown Point Maid by Crown Point, son of Speculation and Young Martha by Geo. M. Patohen Jr. Crown Point Maid was bred by Billy Donathan. * Jackson's Napa Soda is sold in every city, tows and hamlet in the State- Answers to Correspondents. Constant Reader — Will you kindly Inform me through the columns of your valuable paper as to what constitutes a five-cross thoroughbred? Ans. — No horse will be classed as a thoroughbred that has less than five uncontamlnated crosses. That is, every animal in his pedigree within five removes must be a thoroughbred or recorded as such in the American Stud Book or in a recognized stud book of another country. In the tabulation of a pedigree to five removes there are 62 ancestors. All must be thoroughbreds or recognized as such before the horse oan be called a "five-cross thoroughbred" which is a term not generally used however. R H. Na^on, Woodland — KiDdly give me through your good B. & S. the breeding of Mountain Boy the horse brought to this State by our lamented friend By Holly? Ans. — Mountain Boy 4841, was sired by Kentucky Prince 2470 (son of Clark Chief and Kentucky Queen.) The dam of Mountain Boy was Elsie, a daughter of Messenger Duroc and Green Mountain Maid, the dam of Electioneer Matinee Racing at Woodland. The Woodland trainers will hold a matinee this afternoon and have arranged the following program: The first event will be a match walking race for $50, between horses belonging to R. H. Nelson, A. B. Rod- man and Sam Grigsby. The second event will be an exhibition mile by Det Bigelow's guideless pacer, to beat the track record. The first race will be between Economizer, John Silvy, Sacramento: Mono, Ora Wright, Davisville; Wild Rose, Leona Lillard, Davisville; Celmar, A. E. Mastin; Glen Rose, R. H. Nason. The second race will be between Bellrose, R. H. Nason; Penrose, W. Mastin; Smuggler, John Norton, Lena A., Giblin, Yuba City; Polka Dot, Charles Silvy; Sacramento. An admission of 25 cents will ba charged, and the proceeds will be devoted exclusively to keeping the track in proper condition. There will be no pool- selling and no sale of intoxicating liquors. "Notionate," not Balky. "The other evening I went out to my country place on business," said a man. " I walked out — just for the walk— and found I had to stay all night. In the morning, as I started to walk in, a nice old colored man whom I knew came along in an old-fashioned carryall, driving a rather fine looking sorrel horse. Jerry drew up at once and took me in, although I protested that I wanted to walk. The horse, old Charles, stepped along in good style for about an eighth of a mile, then he stopped stock still. Jerry urged him a little; but he didn't budge. Then Jerry whipped him a trifle, but the horse never moved. After about five minutes' waiting, he lifted his hoofs and trotted along. "'Jerry,' I said, 'what's the matter with your horse? Is he balky? ' " 'No, sah,' Jerry remonstrated, indignantly. 'Ol' Charles ain't balky — no he ain't. He has got sense — he knows when he wants to rest — an' he jes' stops.' " Just then old Charles stopped again. " ' Didn't I tell you? ' exclaimed Jerry. ' Dat borse knows when he wants ter rest. He ain't no balky horse — he:s just sense. He got notions, too W'y I lent him to a feller once to pull a load o' wood t' town, and after dey got out o' sight, a neigh borcom in' back this way sez: "Mr. Jerry, you better go down aroun' de hill, an' 'ten to yo' hoss. He won't let that fellew drive him t' town wid dat load o' wood. He's done stop stock still in a mudhole an' gone to sleep." ' " 'Dat wuz so, sah. I had ter takeol' Charles outer dat wood wagon an' fotch him back borne; he's no- tionate, he is.' "All this time the horse hadn't moved. I told Jerry I must get out and walk, but he said: " No, sah. Set still; set still. When ol' Charles flics his ears that means he's a-gwine ter start up in a minute. Jest you set still, sah.' "Sure enough, in a minute we jogged on again. "'Onctllent dis same hoss ter a widder woman tJ do some errants, ' continued Jerry. 'Den she wuz t' meet me on de corner, an' we'd trabble back home. Laws! dat widder woman hed ter send a boy ter tell me t' round t' de blacksmif shop an' git ol' Charles, He didn't like her; she couldn't make him go.' "The horse stopped again, and I jumped oul. 'Thank you, Jerry,' I said, 'I'll have to walk; I guess old Charles don't like me.' Jerry looked bumble and apologetic. " 'I'se mighty sorry,' he Baid, 'but hosBes will have der ways— same as folks. Ol' Charles is mighty no- tionate, but he ain't balky.' "—Detroit Free Press. ®he gveeitsx cmfc ^pcvt&tnan fJULY 11, 1903 JOTTINGS. m OILED ROADS are to be found in nearly every county in southern and central California, and where the work of putting the crude oil on the soil s well done a splendid driveway, free from duBt in summer and mud in winter, is the result. Different soils require different treatment, but road masters are fast learning the requirements of their sections and the good roads problem iB being solved iD Cali- fornia by the aid of crude oil which is now one of the State's greatest products. Oiling race tracks and speedways has been often suggested but there has been a hesitancy in making the experiment as there is no doubt but where the soil is of the proper kind, water and work in generous quantities applied with good judgment make a better footing for harness horses than any oiled track. Water is an expensive article in California during the dry season which begins in May and continues until November, track workers getting no aid from showerB, as is the case in the states beyond the RockieB. Tracks well patronized by trainers can afford to pay for the water necessary, but owners of those not so patronized find the burden a heavy one and the result is there are few good summer tracks in this State. The Commissioners of Golden Gate Park, in this city, have recently made the experiment of putting oil on the speedway, which gives every hope of being a pronounced success. For several yeare past the roads in the park have been treated with oil and are now in perfect shape for slow driving The treat- ment for roads is to roll them when the oil becomes well mixed with the soil, and a hard smooth surface results. An ideal speedway, however, should not have a hard surface but a cushioned one, which is obtained on watered tracks by daily use of a very light harrow. The Park Commissioners therefore decided to work the speedway with oil the same as they had been doing with water, with the exception of course of making but few applications of the crude petroleum. The experiment was begun three weeks ago, and although a roar went up from road drivers at first, it has died out and words of approval are be- ginning to be heard. In company with Mr. Thomas Bonner, former superintendent of the Santa Rosa Stock Farm, but now a resident of this city, I drove through this speedway on Tuesday of this week, and from a close observation it appeared to be in excellent shape. There is a good cushion of loose dirt on the surface, and to look at it one would conclude that it would be a very dusty track for fast driving, but a horse moving at 2:40 speed threw up but the slightest amount of dust, so little that it was hardly noticeable. What little dust that was raised settled back quickly, the weight of the small particles or atoms being made too heavy by the oil to be carried away by the breeze that was blowing. We noticed one man driving a pacer at probably a 2:30 gait, and he seemed to be bothered a good deal by the small particles of dirt- that were thrown in his face by the feet of his horse, but the same thing is noticeable on any watered track, although the oiled particles, being heavier, sting alittle more severely. The small pieces of dirt that fell on our lap robe, which was a light gray in color, did not stain or grea6e it in the least and were shaken off the same aB dry dirt. It will take a week or two more to get the oil thoroughly mixed with the surface soil and it should then be an excellent track to speed horses over. It will not be as good as a well watered track, hut vastly superior to one that is not so generously treated. Australia has furnished this country with quite a number of novelties or new fangled ideas. The num- bered saddle cloths and the starting gate were both introduced into America by an Australian, Mr. R. E. deB. Lc " iez, now a resident of Alameda county in this State, '..he system of secret ballots now in use in many States of the Union is also an Australian inven- tion. Mr. D. J. Price of Canterbury, New Zealand, owner, trainer and driver of the champion antipodean harness horse, Ribbonwood 2:09, is the inventor of an appliance to prevent hopple chafing, that will doubt- lesB be in general use in this country before very long. Mr. Price was greatly surprised to see horses on Cali- fornia tracks that had been the victims of hopples so placed as to chafe their limbs, and remarked to me that in New Zealand the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals would take cognizance of such cases and hale the owners or trainers before a magis- trate. The hopples are used in New Zealand and Australia to a greater extent in proportion to the number of horses trained than they are in America. In the races to saddle, which are very common at thej trottiDg and pacing meetings in the antipodes, hopples J are very frequently used and there iB scarcely a race ^ for harness horses where "the straps'1 are not in evi-^ dence. Mr. Price is of an 'inventive turn, and some time ago devised a protection to the legs of the hoppled horse that has since come into general use in Australia and New Zealand . These protective devices are called "blooms" or "bloomers" and are made of thin light leather or glove stock, and fit the legs tightly above the hock and knee. They are cut so as to fit closely and on the hind legs are fastened on the front thereof with elastic bands, so that the expand- ing of the muscles in action is not interfered with. On the front legs the elastic bands are on the back of the leg. The hopples are put on over these close fitting leggings, and the result is that horses with chaffed legs are not seen on the Australasian tracks. Mr. Price haB cut out patterns for these "blooms" as he calls them, for several of our California trainers and the chances are that they will be in general use before long. Mr. Price is fully aware that the idea could be patented in America, but says that he has no ambition to make a profit from it and will be satis- fied if the device is generally adopted here as he knows that much pain and misery will be avoided by itB use and the horses will get the benefit. These "blooms" are held in position by light straps over the hips and withers, that are attached by buckles or snaps that can be released quickly when the horse is unharnessed. They are a humane invention and 1 . hope the Price bloomers will come into general use wherever hopples are used in America. Getting Lively at Vallejo. As the Vallejo meeting will open the circuit in Cali- fornia this year, the trainers are already heading for that excellent training ground and the track presents a lively appearance on workout days. By the end of this month there will probably be a huDdred harness horseB in training there for the excellent purses hung up by the Vallejo management and a first class meeting is looked for when the racing begins on August 13th. Mannie Reams, who has been working a string of horses over the Dixon half mile track for the past two months, has moved to Vallejo. The Xeu:s says: He has five horses in his string, two of which belong to him. One is a two year old trotter called Mamie R. She is by Oro Wilkes, her dam being by Belmont. Mr Reams has a very good opinion of this filly. His other horse is a green stallion Oro Legrande, five years old. He is by Oro Wilkes, and should be a consistent performer. Another very attractive animal is a two year old filly by Demonio. She is the property of Rush & Haile, Suisun, and is named for that prosperous city. Another Suisun horse in the string is a five year old pacing mare Miriam E., the property of Ed Dinkelspiel of the Solano .Republican. She is by Bradt- more, and will doubtless take a low mark during the season. Little Babe, the property of Hen^y Peters of Vaca- ville, is the other occupant of the Reams stable. She is entered in the 2:25 class trot here at Vallejo and Mannie says he expects her "to get the money." G. A. Owens, of Concord, has seven stalls. Two are taken up with the thoroughbreds P. A. Finnegan and Enjoyment. In addition he has Lincoln Allen, a trotter with a record of 2:27, a three-year-old pacer called Presumption, a green pacing mare named Swan- hilda, a^d Orkney Wilkes, also addicted to the side- wheel gait, at which he has stepped to his record of 2:25. Sid Abbott, a two year old trotter, completes the list. Joe Smith is working the bay gelding Hank 2:23, who is expected to be a useful performer on the circuit. McKinley, by McKinney-Daisy S. also prom- ises well. He is a full brother to the stallion Tom Smith, who took- a low mark at Denver last week. Mr. Smith has several others in his string. Other trainers are expected to arrive during the week, when the track will present a lively appearance every day. So much does Mr. Smathers believe he has a cham- pion in Lord Derby 2:05|, that he is going to point him for the world's trotting record of 2:02J, now held by Cresceus. "I am going to drive Lord Derby to sulky myself this season;" said Mr. Smathers the other night," "just to see if he can get the record. Lord Derby showed some great speed last year to wagon. In fact, some of his performances were wonderful and the speed that he has shown hes convinced me that his chances of capturing the record are very bright." The world's ax-champion trotting queen, Nancy Hanks 2:04, was got by Happy Medium. The dam of the coming champion trotting mare, Lou Dillon 2:04J, was by Milton Medium 2:25}, a son of Happy Medium. | More Good Races for Breeders Meeting. £ The Pacific Coast Trotting Horse Breeders Asso- , ciation will have one of the best programs of harness races ever offered the California public when their meeting is held at Petaluma during the last week in August. The four leading stakes that closed June 1st re- ceived large entry lists, which have already been published. Of the stakes advertised to close July 1st four have been declared filled as follows: The 2:30 class trot, $500, with eleven nominators of fifteen horseB; the 2:17 class trot, S500, with seven nominators of eight horses; the green class pace, $500, with ten nomi- nators of eleven horses, and the 2:17 class pace, $500, with nine nominators of twelve horses. The stakes that did not fill were the 2:13 pace, free- for-all pace, three-year-old pace and 2:11 trot. New classes have been opened to close August 1st, as follows: 2:12 class trot, $500. 2:10 class pace, $600. Roadster race, for horses without records owned in Sonoma, Marin, Mendocino and Napa counties. The list of entries received for the four stakes de- clared filled is as follows: NO. 5—2:30 CLASS TROTTING, $500. B. Croner, gr m Louise Croner by Wild Boy-Abbie S.; br s Erosmont by Eros-Francisca. J. D. Carr, s g Larkin W. by Boodle, Jr. -Isabella McCa by Lottery. F. D. McGregor, b m Gertie H. by Stone Robin- Mabel by Redwood. W. W. Mendenhall, b m Rosie Woodburn by Easter Wilke6-Lady Beth by Goldnut. C. F. White, b m Dollexa by Alexis-Dolly Withers by Aberdeen. S. H. Hoy, blk g Ora Belmont by Ora WUkes-by Belmont 64. C. Whitehead, s g Deputy by Derby Ash-by Priam. P. W. Hodges Co., br m Lady Zombro by Zombro- Lady Woolsey by Woolsey; b m'Dna K. by McKinney- NellieK. by Gen. Grant, Jr.; br m Sona by McKinney- Nellie K. by Gen Grant, Jr. L. B. Daniels, b g Sproul by Cal. Lambert-Dorothy Tenant by Clay. Mr. AhlerB, b g Telephone by Direct. J. W. Zibble, ch g Getaway by Strathway; b c Swift B. by Stam B. -Swift Bird by Wald6tein. NO. 6—2:17 CLASS TROTTING, $500. Jas. A. Smith, br g Hank by Vasto. C. A. Durfee, b s Cuate by McKinney-Miss Jessie by Gossiper. P. W. Hodges Co., br m Grace McK by McKinney- Grace Kaiser by Kaiser; b 8 Potrero by Redondo-by Junio. W. W. Mendenhall, gr g What Is It by Direct- Lassie Jean by Brigadier. J. W. Sampsell. gr g Rozelle by Bob Mason. E. T. Anderson, b m Twilight by Noonday-Miss Sidney by Sidney. W. S. Maben, b g Zimbra by McKinney. ■ NO. 8— GREEN CLASS PACING, $500. L B. Daniels, ch g Edwin S. by Dr. Hicks-by La Harp. W. S. Maben, b g Wa by Wis-Athlea. J. W. Sampsell, b g Victor by Platte; b g Billie F. by Thos. Rysdyk. C. Whitehead, b m The Mrs. by Derby Ash-Spur- wick Girl by Hawthorn. W. P. Hammer, b h Joe W. by Bay Prince-by Indi- cator. John Offutt, r ir Mildred O. by Secretary-Vesper Bell by Dawn. S. A. Eddy, b g Colonel C. by Glenway-by Nephew Jr. H. A. Bell, blk m Black Venus by Rajah-by Dexter Prince. S. F. Martin, b g Tom Carneil by Diablo-Mountain Maid by Cresco. NO. 9 — 2:17 CLASS pacing, $500. C. W. Welby, ch m Alice Lee by Ferguson-Rain- drop by Robert Lee. W. Mastin, b g Penrose by Falrose-by Brigadier. S. Watson, b g Al Sandy by Wayland W.-R»pid Ann by Overland. S. A. Eddv, b g Cuckoo by Strath way-Edith M. by Milton R. John Donahuo, 8 m Happy Maid by Happy Prince- by Sacramento. W. P. Hammer, b h Joe W by Bay Prince-by In dicator; b m Dot by Falrose-Bessie by Killarney. C. Whitehead, b g Cranky Thorn by Hawthorn-by Gen. M3Clellan. J. W. Sampsell, b g Victor by Platte; b g Billie F. by Thos. Rysdyk. J. W. Zibble, ch m Pinky H; ch g Monroe S by Dictator Wilkes. * The Kenney Bicycle Co., 531 Valencia St., is doing a big business in the McMurray Carts and Sulkies. You not only save money by purchasing a McMurray but "get the most durable, best made, and easiest running cart or Bulky in the market. Investigation will con- vince a Mi8sourian. r One of the very few living daughters of Georg .Wilkes 519 is Nora Wilkes, dam of Norwood'2:12^ owned by Smyser Bros., Lyndon, Ky., and heavy iri foal to Arion 2:07}. Smyser Bros, would like to hear from owners of mares by George Wilkes. Jackson's Napa Soda does not tangle the feet. 7LY 11, 1903] ®he gveebev tmfcr gupcnctzmcin Denver Meeting. MONDAY, JUNE 29. tremendous cruah of people filled the stands, rter stretch and betting ring at Overland Park Monday, when the second week Of the meeting ned. The sun beat down—hotter than it has on previous day, and this, with the natural heat of irge a crowd, wilted collars, caused little streams water to run down backs and made a. lively busi- s for the dealer in cooling beverages. he expected happened in the trot, in which race as alleged in some quarters that a surprise was to sprung upon the unknowing. The Tout or Bay if were the horses on which whispers had been y. But neither was able to come up in time to do ■ damage at all. Bay Leaf was bought a few days i by W. A. Clark Jr. of Montana. She was to 'e gone out and made Jim Ferry look like a poorly Hed two-spot. She failed to show any form at all varrant even the passably good things that had n said about her. The race again brought Jim ry forward as an M. & M. possibility. He went a i race, having plenty of speed to spare in every ,t. 'he pace went to Hello Girl, the fast Pueblo mare, sr a long and stubborn contest. Rey del Diablo wed all the speed at the beginning of the race, 'ing to fight out each heat with Bonnie Treasure, ihe third heat Covey brought up Hello Girl, who k the remainder of the heats. Bonnie Treasure wed more speed and gameness than in his other es here. Lrrowpene, the big green pacer from Durango, has in very short of work all spring, but is rounding sly into form. His race Monday has given his ner courage and faith in him, so that the big horse I be sent East to start in some of the slow classes, king a good partner for Polar Wilkes. William Zibble, who drove Nance O'Neill, made his it appearance as a driver. He is a Bon of J. W. ible, the well known drivor and trainer. Blast, 3 Cook horBe, was poorly handled in the opening its and made jio showing at all. For the third it a good driver was put in the sulky, but too late — i really good animal had been worried and mis- ndled until his BDeed was gone. lello Girl and Bonnie Treasure were held at about jn money in the books for the first heat of the pace, y Del Diablo being so little considered that as high 12 to 1 was laid against him. The heat was be- een Diablo and Treasure. Loomis driving the ter desperately in an effort to get the heat. The easure was just a little short on speed, as Diablo >n rather handily. The odds were shortened, ma- •ially on Diablo for the second heat, as his per- •mance in the first had shown he had speed. The jond was again a contest between the Treasurer d the Devil. The Treasurer was again just short the requisite speed, finishing well up. ?or some reason the bettors were induced to place eat faith in Fritz for the third heat, and rushed on n until the books carried all the Fritz money they red to. Why this happened no one can tell, for he d no chance at all in the heat. Covey brought illo Girl up and Zibble pushed Nance O'Neill along the way. Nance was not quite fast enough, yield- l first place to the speedy Hello Girl. The heat actically decided the race, for Hello Girl refused to ow any other horse to be in the lead in any of the bsequent heats. The summary: 'aoing, 2:23 class, purse $500. Uo Girl, b m by Hello (Covey) 8 7 111 y del Diablo, ch g by Diablo (Bouoher) 4 13 5 3 ante Treasure, oh g by Bonnie Bells (Loomis) 2 2 6 3 2 nceO'Nelll, b m by Dexter Prince. ...(W. Zibble) 3 3 2 2 4 tlast, Arrowpene, Fritz, Pay Day Bnd Sir Adrian also started. Time— 2:15M. 2:14K. 2:15%. 2:17*4, 2:17%. fim Ferry continued his successful campaign as a itter, winning the 2:35 class event with some ease.' *y Leaf made her first Denver appearance and did t go as fast as had been expected because of her rformances in the state circuit. Twice she took irry to the half in remarkably good time, and once ted clear into the stretch. Ferry had her at all nes, and usually finished his heats in a jog. It was cidedly the best form he had shown during the setihg^ Getaway, that had appeared to have the Bpeed in a ce last week, did not make any kind of a showing, le pace Bet in the last heat was very much too fast r him. The Tout made a race in only one heat, the ird, and then failed to come up to Ferry's speed, immary: Protting, 2:25 class, purse $1000. m Ferry, b g by Orange Wilkes (Frank) 1 1 l rkwood, b h by Silver Thome 2 2 5 le Tout, blk g by McKinney 4 3 2 Congressman Sibley, Getaway and Bay Leaf also started. Time-2:17tf, 2:14)4, 2:16H. TUESDAY, JUNE 30. The one harness race on the programme at Over- nd yesterday was decided in four heats, when really l three were necessary. After the accident to Viometa in the first heat of the trot there was only one horse that was at all con- sidered. Tom Smith had the speed for each heat and should have taken them all. The only excuse for not going after the first was that Mar Boy got a start while the driver of Tom Smith was watching Viometa. In the second heat Carr laid up with Mar Boy, which accident was so evident to every one on the grounds that the judges took action. The driver was fined $25. Thereafter he went out after heats, but was unable to beat the great son of McKinney. In the first heat Viometa tore shoe and toe weight from one of her feet, putting her so far out of it that she was distanced. Viometa and Tom Smith were equal favorites for the first heat of the trot, as both were known to have speed of about 2:10. The accident to Viometa put her out of it entirely. That Mar Boy was laid up during the second heat was so plain that the judges fined the driver. Thereafter he stood no chance at all, though he was driven hard in the stretch for both heats. Tom Smith could have made the mile in 2:10 or better if he had been pushed. TheBummary: Trotting, 2:17 class, purse $500. TomSmith.brh by McKinney (J. W. Zibble) 2 111 Mar Boy, br g by Delmar, A. M. Carr (Carr) 14 2 2 H. H. H., ch m by Allerton, J. W. Miller (Miller) 3 2 3 3 C. K W. and Viometa also started. Time— 2:16*, 2:17, 2:13*. 2:15%. WEDNESDAY, JULY 1. Another large crowd was at the track on Wednes- day. The prophets had decreed that Polar Wilkes, who made his first appearance in Denver a year ago, was the natural winner of the 2:11 pace. His owners and his driver declared that the horse was short of work and could hardly win. He was also found to be a little lame. Martha B. was picked by the Pueblo contin- gent and Lulu M. by those present from Florence. Few believed that Jess C. had much of a chance for the race under any consideration. The first heat was one of th'e'most heart-breaking heats of the whole race meeting. Lulu M. was sent to win it if she had to break a leg. Martha B. was also out for the heat. These two made a race of it for three-quarters of the mile, when they were pretty well pulled out. They went to the first quarter in 31 seconds, and to the half in 1:02}. The three-quarters was reached in 1:37. But from that point in the two leaders fell away, the last quarter being paced in 37} seconds. The second heat was between Martha B. and Jess C. up to the stretch, when Polar Wilkes oame up. Lulu M., Primrose and Monroe S. were in distress through the second heat because ol the fast drive in the first. They formed a little bunch that made the mile pretty well in the rear of the others, and when they arrived at the distance pole found the flag down. The third heat was another duel between Martha B. and Jess C, the Pueblo mare proving a trifle faster in the stretch. Loomis, with Jess C, was also at a disadvantage. He got "pinched" trying to find an opening between sulkies when he might have gone around and made his gain. Both Polar Wilkes and Sheeam were reported to have torn off shoes in the heat. The fourth heat found Martha B. at 1 to 2 in the books. Polar Wilkes being at 4 to 1. Polar WilkeB won the heat so easily that the judges were suspicious of the heat. Mr. Miller was ordered down from behind Martha B. and Joseph McGuire was asked to drive in the fifth. The action of the judges was open to some criticism, for the starter did not protect Martha B. in getting away for the fourth heat as he should. The other horses were under better headway and were in advance of her. Having got the worst of the start, Mr. Miller claims that he waB so placed that he would have tired out his mare if he had tried to bring her up on the others and caused her to probably wear herself out and be distanced in the next heat. Mr. McGuire drove one heat and then reported to the judges that the mare was pretty tired, was doing her bestand he thought Mr. Miller could bring her up better than any other driver. Mr. McGuire's report was accepted and Miller restored to his sulky. A tired lot of horses came up for the Bixth heat. Jess C. Bhowed an unexpected recuperation and won, all driving fiercely through the stretch. Again in the Beventh the race was a good one all the way, hard whipping being resorted to in the stretch. Again in the eighth only the grit and gameness of the horses kept them going. They had been driven some very hard miles, faster than it was supposed some of them would ever be able to go. Loomis' careful driving of the winner secured the best part of the prize for R. 8. Gutshall. The summary: Pacing, 2: 1 1 class, purse $500. Jess C , ch g by Calota (Loomis) 3 12 4 3 12 1 Martha B.bmby Ashland Wilkes. (Miller) 2 3 12 2 2 12 Polar Wllks, ch h by Eric Wilkes (Curl) 4 2 3 113 2 3 Sheeam, Lulu M-, Primrose and Monroe S. also started. Time— 2:14%, 3:13H, 2:12^, 2:17%, 2:15, 2:17K, 2:20%, 2:19%. Allesandro, the California entry, had the Bpeed in the two year old trot, though he did not win the first heat. The talent knew that the Californlan was the best horse, so that lots of money went into the boxeB on him for the first heat. When it was presented to Bi-Carbonate this money was burned. Mr. Zibble, the driver of Allesandro, explained that the Walter Wood horse had been beating him in all the trial workouts on the track, so that he was afraid of the Colorado horse. He came up in the stretch, he said, but found it too late. The other heats went to Alles- andro in rather hollow style, proving his right to the careful consideration of those who expect to meet him in two year old contests later. The mark of 2:40, made in the second heat, Is the best that has been given a two year old trotter on the Overland park track. Allesandro should be able to enter "the list" before the close of the present racing season. The summary: Trotting, 2 year olds, purse $500. Allesandro, b c by Athaneer, J. W Zibble.. (J. W. Zibble) 2 1 1 Bl-3arbonate, g o by Carbonate,_Walter3Yood (Wood) 13 8 Happy Lotta.bf by Happy Allerton, A. G. Bixler.(Bixler) 3 2 2 Time— 2:4B?i, 2:40. 2:43. THURSDAY, JULY 2. The one harness race of the d ay was the special pace to wagon. The entry list showed four horses, of which Billy Carrew was selected for the favorite In the first heat. Joe Mack was a second choice. Billy Carrew burned up all the money that was back of him by breaking in the first quarter. His driver waB not able to handle him well, so he continually lost ground. The second heat was almost a repetition of the first. Abe B. was shoved into second place in both heats be- cause of the skill of his driver. The summary: Paolng, special to wagon, purse $250. JoeMac.bg (Ed. Woodworth) 1 1 Abe B., b g by Re-Echo (J.K.Stuart) 2 2 Billy Carrew, b g by Superior (J. A. Osner) 3 4 Queen of Diamond, ch m by C. H.-K~™~^,...(T. A. Bowen) 4 3 Time— 2:20%, 2:20. No racing was held Friday, owing a heavy rainfall. SATURDAY;,. J-UJ-.Y A. The Overland race meeting came to a close on the "glorious fourth" with a long program that was most succeBBfully carried out. The crowd was the largest of the meeting and on all sides were heard words of praise and commendation for Secretary Wahlgreen, to whose excellent management was due the success of this, the best meeting evenrbefdlrrDenver. The track was very heavy, owing to the rains, and fast time was out of the question, but the harness rac- ing was good throughout. _County Attorney and Rey del Diablo were the California bred horses to start in the first race. County Atiorney won the first heat, but was outclassed by Laura Spurr in the remaining three heats, which were won by the daughter of W. C. P. much as she pleased. Rey del Diablo waB third ' in the last heat, but got no money. In the 2:30 class trot th&gray gelding Jim Ferry won easily in straight heats. Swift B., the three year old by Stam B., was a starter in this race, and after finishing second in the first heat was third in the next and fourth in the final heat, and got third money. It is asking a good deal of a three year old to start him against aged campaigners that have shown better than 2:15 in their work. The summaries of the day's races follow: Pacing, 2:17 olass. purse $500. Laura Spurr, ch m by Wm. G. P (Raybould) 3 111 County Attorney, b g by Arthur Wilkes (Parr) 12 7 7 Young Hal, Russell S , Rey del Diablo, Raven Dixon, Helen Mar, Blast, Gayneld and Pinky H. also started. Time-2:18M, 2:17«, 2:17J£, 2:16%. Paoing, free for all, purse $500. Winfleld Stratton, b h by Saraway (McGuire) 1 1 1 Lottie Smart, b m by Roswell (Loomis) 2 3 8 Daisy Field, Miss Williams and Dora Delpha also started. Time— 2:15, 2:14, 2:14. Trotting, 2:30 class, purse $500. Jim Ferry, b g by Orange Wilkes (Frank) 1 1 1 Congressman Sibley, b h by Cecilian (Colburn) 3 2 2 Swift B, bh by Stam B (Zibble) 2 3 4 Annie G., ch m by Otto Wilkes (Connolly) 4 4 3 Time— 2:24, 2:21 a, 2:24%. Millard Sanders Will Train Lou Dillon. In view of the wonderful performances of Lou Dil- lon at Cleveland, the following dispatch from that city quoting Mr. Billings' intentions as to the mare's future work, will be of Interest: Lou Dillon 2:04}, now the world's champion wagon trotter, and John A. McKerron 2:05}, are candidates for the crown of Cre6ceus 2:02}. " She haB done more than I asked of her, and she haB left nothing more to be done to wagon," said Mr. Billings of Lou Dillon. "There is only one other laurel that will do her credit now, and that is the world's record to Bulky. She deserves an opportunity to win that honor, and it shall be given her. She will be turned over to the exclusive care of Trainer Millard Sanders, and he may handle her as he likes. His object will be to demonstrate that Lou Dillon is the fastest trotter in the world, and I have abundant faith that he will succeed. Lou Dillon Is marvellous. I believe no other horse ever possessed Buch a flight of speed. If she but retains her form nothing can keep her from the greatest triumph that a trotting horse could gain." 6 ©he gveeltev anii gjwrcrtsromrt [July n, 1903 Notes and News, m Vallejo meeting opens August 13th. Seattle entries close next Wednesday. The State Fair program will be out next week. Briaey K. 2:19$ by Strathway is in W. G. Durfee's string this year. Big fields will be the rule at the Breeders meeting at Petaluma. W. G. Durfee is expected to arrive at Vallejo with bis horses next week. Ben Walker drove Monte Carlo a mile in 2:08| at Empire track last week. Vallejo has opened three additional purses of $300 each. See advertisement. Robizola may be a starter in the M. & M. if a nomination can be secured for her. Millard Sanders worked Robizola a mile in 2:12}, jast half in 1:05}, two weeks ago at Cleveland. You have doubtless noticed that no California horses have been named Governor Pardee this year. A report comes from Cleveland that Kelly Briggs 2:101 has been turned over to Millard Sanders. Uen. Nelson A. Miles is the president of the recently organized Washington Road Drivers' Association. Det Bigelow of Woodland has a guideless pacer that has worked a mile in 2:20 bitched to a bike without a driver. _^^^^^ Walter. Mahen. has A. Ottinger's new purchase, Zambra. 2:16} in his string and will start him at the Breeders meeting at Petaluma. Note the big advertisement of the second sale of horses belonging to the estate of Henry Pierce. It occupies a half, page in this issue. The State Board of Agriculture will meet at Sacra- mento to-day. It is expected that a speed program of harness races will be agreed upon. Castor, a gray gelding by Dictator Wilkes, won the 2:30. pace at Alexandria, South Dakota June 18th in straight heats. The fastest was 2:25*. Cuate 2:18, that-took his record as a three year old last year is^ working nicely at San Jose and should re- duce his mark several seconds this year. Mr. A. B. Spreckeis left for Chicago last week to be present when his consignment of thoroughbred vear- lings was sold. The sale was set for the 10th inst. Geo. Beckers may go east with Zombro 2:11 next year. He has received some very flattering offers to take McKinney's greatest son across the mountains. The winner of the two year old trotting division of the Breeders Futurity to be decided at Petaluma next month will earn $825— quite a neat sum for a two year old to add to his value in one race. Los Angeles will give three weeks of racing in Octo- ber and harness races will be on the card every day. Auction pools and mutuals will handle the money on harness events, books being barred. One-week fronrMondayjiext.the Grand Circuit will open with- the bbj-meeting at Detroit. The Chamber of Commerce is to be decided en the firat day of the meeting and the M. and M. on the following day. That Indiana complimentary stake inaugurated by the Western Horseman is getting entries from every- body everywhere. It will not be a question of "are you in, "but "are you out" when the stake closes. Trainer Ben Walker rode some fast miles at the Empire City track a week ago last Saturday. He worked Monte Carlo a mile in 2:11}, the green pacer Mush in 2:11, and the speedway trotter Miss Overton in 2:17. _ The Memphis shoe has been patented. Now all those inventors who have been-claiming that they mads shoes on the Memphis plan years ago will have to admit that Mr Lake at least beat them to the patent office. Coney 2:02 wintered at Columbia, South Carolina, along with Chain Shot 2:06}, and several others be- longing to R. L. Davis, but has been sent to Empire City track and will be used in the matinees of the New York Driving Club. Miss Williams 2:09} was a contender in the 2:08 pace at Denver last week, and was well to the front with the fast Harry Logan 2:12} and Wiufield Stratton 2:08}. This is her tenth consscutive year at the races. She is a wonderful old mare, but even so dear old aunt Effie Powers 2:08} antedates her, having started one year previous to Miss Williams' time. Mr. R. H. Russell of Stockton has sold his bay gelding by Directum to Messrs. Pettie& Price of New Zealand. This horse is a green pacer but quite promis- ing. Fred Chadbourne has been training him at Pleasanton. The breeding of the dam of Mush has been cleared up and is as follows: By Richard's Elector, out of a mare by Geo. M. Patchen Jr., next dam by William- son's Belmont. It is said this pedigree can be proven beyond a doubt. From Cleveland comes the report that Ed. Geers is not having his usual success this season with his string of horses. His Chamber of Commerce entry, High Pointer, has been sent home, and he has numerous other disappointments. Horsemen who have visited the Santa Rosa Stock Farm since the track was recoated with soil say that it is better and faster than ever, and is just about per- fection for a trotting track. Pity a meeting could not be given there this year. Katherine A, that took a two year old record of 2:14 last season is training well and recently trotted a quar- ter in 32 seconds, last eighth in 15} seconds. It looks as if she would be one of the great three year olds of 1903. She is by Wiggins. Alberta 2:25 by Altoona owned by Mr. W. Parsons of Salinas, foaled a fine bay colt June 30th by Mc- Kinney 2:11}. "He is a top notcher in every respect," writes his owner. He is probably the last colt McKin- ney sired before he went East, Now that the racing season is about to open, 6ee that your medicine chest has a supply of Vita Oil. It is the greatest remover of pain and soreness that can be found. It does the work and does not blister, and is as good for men as for horses. Effie Logan, dam of the whirlwind pacer Sir Albert S. 2:03$, foaled a handsome filly, full sister to that horse, on the 7th inst. Mr. William G Layng has booked Effie Logan to Demonio, full brother to Diablo, and she will be bred to him next week. MessrB. Price and Pettie of Canterbury, New Zea- land, have already purchased Ave horses for shipment to that country. They will probably select two or three more before their steamer sails. A full list of their selections will be printed next week. Peter Weber advertises that he has opened a public training stable at Emeryville and will train race horses and polo ponies. Mr. Weber is a veteran with much experience and his system of training keeps the legs and feet sound and in good shape. See his advertise- ment. Lou Dillon knocked another half second from the matinee record on the 4th. She pulled a wagon a mile on the Cleveland track that day, driven by Mr. Bil- lings, in 2:04}, within a half second of Alex's sulky record. Millard Sanders has charge of her training again. Mr. J. H. Fogarty of Bakersfield owner of Richmond Chief, one of the handsomest and gamest trotting stallions in America purchased quite a number of well bred mares at the recent Pierce sale to breed to the little blue horse. It's dollars to apples he gets a 2:15 performer or two out of his first batch of colts. The Seattle Driving Club proposes to hold an inter- city matinee race meeting some time in August, and members of driving clubs in Portland, Tacoma, Spo- kane, Everett and other nearby citieB will be invited to participate. A handsome silver cup will be awarded the club winning the most events. Climax, the chestnut mare by Charles Derby that took a record of 2:18} last year at the Mineola track, New York, started in the 2:16 pace at Brooklyn last week at the meeting of the Parkway Driving Club, and won two heats and record money. She paced one of her heats in 2:18$. The track is a half mile affair. Dr. Boucher was due to reach Pleasanton to-day with his string of horses that he has been racing at Denver. He has Miss Logan 2-06}, Harry Logan 2:12$ and Rey del Diablo. Tbe latter reduced his record to 2:14}, but failed to win a race. Harry Logan showed speed but got off and did not win. Miss Logan did not start. When Billy Red worked a mile in 2:12} for his new owner, Mr. J. R. Springer of Pleasanton, a few weekB ago, a bystander turned to Mobo Hart who sold him to Springer and remarked, "I gueBS you let a bird go, didn't you, Mose?" "No, "was the rejoinder, "Isold Mr. Springer tbe 'bird' ard he is the one that seems to be 'letting him go.' " Eula Mac 2:17}, winner of the Occident Stake as a three year old, is now owned by Mr. J. G. Bennett, President of the Pittsburg, Pa., Driving Club. At a matinee there on June 27tb, she won over four com- petitors in straight heats, pulling a wagon in 2:18} and 2:15}. She trotted an exceedingly game race and won the last heat by a head. Kenney the bikeman of 531 Valencia street sent away two of those handsome McMurray sulkies last week. One went to W. J. White of Hanford and the other to John Phippen, who is training several horses at San Jose. The sulkies are enameled in white with gold trimmings. They are perfect beauties, and will be seen on the circuit this year. Every one will rejoice to learn that Mr. Lawson's trainer Paige has Boralma 2:07, going sound and well and that the gelding is taking his preparatory work in fine shape. Boralma has not been worked out faster than 2:25 as yet, but the season is yet young. It is said that Mr. Lawson proposes to drive him somewhat in the matineeB of the Boston Gentlemen's Driving Club. James W. Rea of San Jose has recently been made happy by the arrival of a couple of foals at the Ven- dome Stock Farm. Much Better 2:07} has "the finest filly you ever saw" by McKinney 2:11} that has been named Mrs. Weller. Irantella (daughter of Iran Alto 2:12} and the good thoroughbred mare Flirtilla) is also a proud mother and has a McKinney colt at her side. He has been named Alto Kinney. Mr. T. J. Crowley of this city, who is one of the Directors of the Pacific Coast Trotting Horse Breeders Associaion, will leave next week for the East on a business trip. Mr. Crowley will be accompanied by his wife and they will aim to be at Cleveland during the week of the Grand Circuit meeting. Mr. C. has promised to tell the BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN'S readers how Grand Circuit racing appears to a Californian. Frank, the bay gelding by Secretary owned by Mart Demarest, won the 2:09 pace at the Saugus track June 26th. There was a field of seven good ones, among them the fast Gyp Walnut 2:08} that is consid- ered a 2:05 horse this year. Frank won rather handily but had to come the last heat in 2:10} to win. The other heats were in 2:12} and 2:12}. There were three postponements on account of rain and the race was held over a very heavy tiack. It was suggested the other day that associations that offer $300 purses would get larger entry lists were they to divide the purse $200 to first, $75 to second and $25 to third, with nothing additional from money winners other than the original five per cent entrarce. A horse winning a race wtere the purse was $300 under the above conditions would win as much money as in a $500 purse where the usual division of four moneys is made with five per cent entrance and five per cent additional from money winners. Wednesday July 15th, (that's next Wednesday, remember) entries close for the big harness meeting at Seattle, under the auspices of the King County Fair Association. There are eighteen purses for trotters and pacers, two of which are $1000 each, the remainder $500 each. This is a big pile of money and the way to get some of it is to enter first and then race for it. Mr. A. T. Van De Vanter is the Secretary and will be pleased to receive your entries and will make it pleasant for you to visit Seattle. Among the horses sold Ia6t month at the big sale of Arabian stock, trotters and road horses, at former Alderman Cowley'B Blue Front Auction Mart, in New- burgb, N. Y., was the imported Arabian stallion Gaunlad, bred at the Imperial Stud for the Czar of Russia. The horse was exhibited at the Chicago World 's Fair and was also a prize winner at Chicago, Philadelphia and Madison Square Garden, New York. For some years he was used by Sculptor N. K. Bush Brown as a model for his equestrian statues. He brought only $115. Indications are that Kansas City will have a greater horse show this season than it has ever bad since the inauguration of the great equiDe exhibit in Conven- tion Hall. The prizes are very large and the list will include no less than five of $1000 each, thus: the Stillwell for gaited saddle horses, the Woolf tor trot- ters, the Imperial Brewing Co. for gig horses and the Orient for some local class not yet selected.- In ad- dition $200 will be offered for the best ride shown by a boy under eighteen and $4000 will be won by the hunters and jumpers. Th« final sale of the horses owned by the late Henry Pierce will take place Wednesday, July 22d. It will be held by William G. Layng, the popular live stock auctioneer, at the Occidental Horse Exchange in thie city. The broodmares have all been bred thiB year to Sidney Dillon, Bire of the two fastest trott'ng mares ever sired by one stallion — Dolly Dillon 2:07 and Lou Dillon 2:04}. We understand that Sidney Dillon is not to be sold. That Mr. Ira Pierce will retain him and a few of the broodmares and continue the Santa Rosa Stock Farm in his own name. Mr. John O'Keefe of 184 Clipper street, this city, purchased the two year old filly Centre Eye at the recent sale of horses owned by the late Henry Pierce and has sent her to Watsonville, where, she will be trained by the well known horseman John Hammett, owner of the stallion St. Nicholas. Centre Eye is a very handsome and well built two year old and as well bred as the next one, being by On Stanley 2:17} (Bon of the great Direct 2:05} and Lilly Stanley 2:17} dam of 3 in the list) out of Silver Eye (dam of two with records below 2:18) by Abbotsford 2:19}, second dam by Henry Williamson Bon of Williamson's Belmont, and third dam by Jack HawkinB son of Boston. The pacer Elastic Pointer,"the own brother to Star Pointer 1:59$, that paced a mile last season in 2:04}, but that, on account of being a bad actor, failed to win a heat in any race in which he Btarled, promises to fulfill some of the expectations his great speed aroused, says Trotter and Pacer. John Hussey, who worked patiently on him all last season and all winter, has at last got him shod so that he no longer hits his knees while going around the turns of a track, and with that fault overcome the horse no longer acts in the erratic manner which spoiled him for racing last year. Hussey haB him at LouiBville, Ky., and he is acting so well in his work that he really looks for him to pace to a record close to two minutes before next fall. JULY 11, 1903] ®he Qvesinzv crab gtjrartsfrocm J RACING ON THE FOURTH. * AT FRESNO. About two thousand people were at the Fresno race track on the national holiday to see a good program of racing under the auspices of a committee of local horsemen. The officers of the day were: T. C. White, presiding judge; M. L. Woy and J. R. McKay, associate judges; A. J. Hudson, clerk of tha course, Louis Heilbron and Joe Cutten, timers, and L. Parker Timmins, marshal of the course. The principal event of the dav was a race between Chas. Clark's good trotter Cozad, C. J. Snyder's pacer Jonas A. Basler, and S. Walton's Tish. That Cozad is as good a horse as he was last year is evi- denced by his winning the race in two straight heats iD 2:14J and 2:13 with Basler second and Tish third. There were three starters in the second race, viz: Newport driven by J. H. Egan, Selda driven by E. T. Stockdale and Oceana piloted by the veteran Worth Ober. The last named was the favorite but the race went to Newport. The first was a dead heat between Newport and Oceana Belle, time 2:28. New- port also won the Beeond heat in 2:24J. In the third heat Newport acted very badly and just 6aved his distance, the heat going to Selda in 2:30. Newport was himself again in the fourth heat and did the mil in 2:24. Selda got second money. The third race had four starters — Mabel M., driven by C. E.Clark; Baby Mine, driven by Geo. Knight; Milton Gear, driven by Z. Lowry, and The Gentile, driven by Mr. Leggett. Mabel M. wtn in straight heats in 2:37 and 2:31, with Milton Gear second, and third and fourth moneys divided between the other two. The last event of the day was a three furlong dash for runners, with five horses entered and men from various parts of the valley in the saddle. Birdie won, Ada B. second and Annie B. third. Time, 0:37. The rider of George lodged a protest with the judgeF, claiming that he had been fouled by the winner, but it was disallowed. PITALDMA RACES. .The largest crowd in the history of the Petaluma track witnessed the races there on the Fourth. It is estimated that 2500 ladies and children were in the grand stand. A. B. Hinkle, one of the veterans of the trotting turf, officiated as presiding judge and his decisions gave complete satisfaction. The results were as follows: Independence Stake, puree $250, best two in three — Lottie Derby by Chas. Derby (Lawler), first; Sunny Jim (Grimes), second; Grace McKinney (Stillwelll, third. Time— 2:31, 2:27j, 2:30J, 2:29}. Fourth of July Stake, purse $250, best three in five — Lena Holly (Grimes), first in straight heats; Babe Sherman (Sherman), second; Lunk (A. W. Bailey), third. Time— 2:32}, 2:30}, 2:33. Match race, $500 a side— Kitty D. (W. H. Lorn), first and third heats; Jim Chase (Lawler), second. Time— 2:31, 227|, 2:24|. AT TANFORAN. There was a large crowd at Tanforan Independence day, the Golden Gate Park and San Francisco Driving Clubs holding a joint meeting. Bookmaking was the system of betting provided to accommodate the public, and there was a row over the fifth race which resulted in it being declared off. Slow time was made in all the races, the track not being in good shape for fast miles. The officials of the day were: Judges, J. Windrow, W. Simpson and I. Coon; starter,A. J.Martin; timerB, W. J. Kenney, R. Pyle and F. Vetter; marshal, W. Taft; assistant starter, W. Higgenbottom; raciDg sec- retary, T. J. DouglaBS. The results of the first four races were as follows: First race, green class, San Francisco Club. In both heats — Zulu Lass first, Louey S. second, Star Banner third; time for both, 2:47. Second race, 2:25 class, Golden Gate Park Driving Association. First heat — King V first, Mack second, Delia McCarthy third: time, 2:26. Second heat— King V first, Delia McCarthy second, Mack third; time, 2:27. Third race, 2:40 clasB, Golden Gate Park Association. First heat — Sea Breeze firat, A. B. P. second, Ivy third; time 2:34. Second hrat— A. B. P. first, Ivy second, Sea Breeze third; time, 2:31. Third heat — Ivy first, Sid second, Sea Breeze third; time, 2:37. Fourth heat— Ivy first, Sea Breeze second, Sid third; time 2:43. Fourth race, free for all, San Francisco Club. First heat — A.1 Sandy first, Echora Wilkes second, Twilight third; time, 2:23. Second heat — Al Sandy first, Twi- light second, Elchora Wilkes third; time, 2:27. The fifth race had three starters — Doc, King V and Mission Queen. Doc won the first heat, with Kinf; V second. In the second heat it looked to the judges and everybody else that Doc was pulled to let King V win. The heat was declared off and Watson and O'Kane, drivers of Doc and King V respectively, were fined $10 each and requested to give up their horses to other drivers. This they refused to do and the race and pools were declared Off. VALLEJO DRIVING CLDB. An unqualified success was the racing at Vallejo last Saturday under the auspices of the Vallejo Driving Club. J. W. Hartzell, William McGraw and Thos. Smith acted as judges. President Ed Kavanagh and Secretary Frank Willia worked hard and made the club's first effort a sucoess in every way. The first harness race was a half mile and repeat: Ed Kavanagh's Hank won first heat; time, 1:09. Dexter's Irene D. won second heat; time 1:06. Hank was second in this heat and Irene D. third in first heat and the judges said Hank was entitled to first money, but a final heat was trotted in which Hank won in 1:10J and was declared winner of the purse. In the 2:40 class J. A. Ladd's Rats won, doing one heat in 2:39 and another in 2:41}. Mr. Ladd drove his own horse in good style. Colonel Hartzell's Ros- coe was second, being driven by Tom Smith, Jr., the colt performing in excellent style, without much preparation for the race. Sanderson's Nancy won the saddle horse race ridden by Shouse in 57 seconds; Mabel second, and George Herbert's Bert third. died. Sherman Morgan's great son, Vermont Black Hawk, only reached 23, but his celebrated son, Ethan Allen 2:2oJ, reached 27, and Ethan's best son, Daniel Lambert— the best horse ever produced by the Mor- gan tribe— reached 31. The longest-lived of the great Morgan sires were, however, General Knox and Young Morrill; each died at 32. General Knox's best son, CharleB Caffrey, is reported still living in Nebraska at 28, while Young Morrill's noted grand- son, Royal Fearnaught, is still living in Michigan at 30. Magna Charta, who was of the Woodbury Mor- gan house, died at 31. Star of the West 2:26}, a grandson of Vermont Black Hawk, attained the same age. Among horses belonging to other trotting families who lived to patriarchal ages may be mentioned Alex- ander's Norman, 32, and his grandson, Blackwood, Jr. 2:22}, 28 ; Toronto Chief, 30, and his famous son Thomas Jefferson 2:23, 28; Gooding's Champion, 30; Reavis' Blackbird 2:22, 30; Bayard (Pilot Jr.'s best son), 28; Tom Hal, the greatest of pacing progenitors, died at 30. The most extreme instance of longevity in a harness stallion of note that we recall is, however, that of Orange Blossom 2:26}. This horse is the sire of Orange Chief 2:13J, Mike 2:15 and ten other standard trotters. He was foaled in 1867 and was reported living in Mary- land, but a few months ago. As no notice of his death has since appeared, it is presumable that he is still living at 36 years. It is an interesting fact that Orange Blossom is a son of Middletown, the son of Hambletonian previously referred to as having lived to the age of 31; and it is perhaps even more curiously interesting when we trace Middletown's pedigree to find that his dam was by a grandson of American Eclipse, the horse instanced by "Hidalgo" in the ar- ticle which we quoted at the outset of these notes as having died at 32 and sired five living foals that feason. Longevity of Trotting Stallions. [Horse Review.] Hidalgo (Capt. T. B. Merry), the well known Cali- fornia writer on the thoroughbred horse, in a recent issue of the Breeder and Sportsman, discourses entertainingly upon the great ages to which many noted thoroughbred stallions attained and preserved their potency. He cites the case of American Eclipse, who died at 32 and got five living foals that year; of imp. Glenelg, who died at 33; of Norfolk, who died at 29, and of Himyar, still vigorous at 28, among Amer- ican horses; while among English ones he finds Touch- stone to have lived to 31, Hermit, Sir Hercules, Waxy, Comus and several others to 29; Pot-8-os, Orville. Dr. Syntax, Orlando, Voltigeur, King Tom, Birdcacther etc., ect., to 28, and numerous others to but slightly less extended ages. The subject of equine longevity is always an in- teresting one, especially to those who study the breeding problem with due attention to its biolog- ical phases, and the history of the great trotting sires may be profitably drawn on to illustrate it. The extremest historical instances that we know of are those of Volunteer and Sayre's Harry Clay 2:29, each of whom attained the remarkable age of 34 years. We have no data that is official to guide us, but we doubt if either of them paralleled American Eclipse's record of getting five living foals at 32. It is, how- ever, a notable fact that Clayton 2:19, the fastest of Harry Clay's get, was got when his sire was 28, and that Volunteer got the pacer St. Patrick 2:14} at the age of 29. The Hambletonian and Clay families, to which these two illustrious sires belonged, are both famous for the longevity of many of their foremost members. Abdallah, the sire of Hambletonian, lived to be 31, and was 25 when he begot Hambletonian, who, in his turn attained the age of 27. The number of promi- nent sons of the "Hero of Chester" that exceeded the average span of equine life is quite remarkable. Volunteer, as noted, lived the longest, 34 years. Mid- dletown died at 31, Dictator and Jay Gould 2:21} at 30. Harold, Strathmore and Administrator 2:29} at 29, Sweepstakes at 28, while numerous others, the precise dates of whose deaths are not recorded, are known to have approximated or exceeded 30 years. George Wilkes 2:22 died at 26. His longest-lived sons aie Red Wilkes, still living and potent at 29, and Ken- tucky Wilkes 2:21 J who is the same age but is no longer in the stud. Young Jim died at 28 and Onward 2:25} at 27. Of the Alexander's Abdallah branch of the Hambletonian family Wood's Hambletonian rsached the age of 30 and Thorndale 2:22J that of 28. Almont died rather prematurely at 20, but bis son Hamlin'B Almont Jr. 2:26 is still vigorous at 31, while Bostick's Almont Jr. 2:29 died at 29. Volunteer's longest-lived son was Louis Napoleon. The precise date of his death we cannot at thiB moment Btate, but he is known to have lived past 30. His best son, Jerome Eddy 2:16}, is still alive at 28. Reveille 2:21}, who comes from Eambletonian in the male line through New York, and is maternally a double Vol- unteer, is alive and potent at 28. Andrew Jackson Is generally referred to as the founder of the Clay family, but the family name is de- rived from his son Henry Clay. Henry Clay died at 30 years, and among his long-lived descendants, a6)'de from 34-year-old Harry Clay 2:29, aforementioned, were George M. Patchen, Jr. 2:23, who lacked but a year of that age, his career closing at 33. Strader's CassiuB M. Clay, Jr., and Clay Pilot each.lived to be 30. The Morgan family, so famed for its wearing qual- ities, produced many noted horses of unusual longevity. Justin Morgan, its founder, died at 28. . His best son, Sherman Morgan, was either 26 or 27 — the exact date of his birth being uncertain — when he EFFECTUAL The most effectual remedy in use for the cure of ailments of horses and cattle is GOMBAIJLT'S CAUSTIC BALSAM Used as a Blister or Lotion. This preferred remedy is prepared ex- clusively by J. E. Gombault, ex-Veterinary Surgeon to the French Government Stud. As a HTTMA1V KEUEDT for Rheu- matism, Sprains, Sore Throat, etc., it is invaluable. Every bottle of Caustic Balsam sold is "Warranted to give satisfaction. Price Sl-50 per bottle. Sold by drucrists, or sent DV ex' press, charges paid, with full directions for its use. Send for descriptive circulars, testimo- nials, etc. Address THE LAWRBNCK-WILLUHSCOSPAKT.CleYeland, Ohio. Have You Noticed It? Palmer Clark, the well known authority on har- ness horses, says: " It is becoming more and more apparent to all harness horsemen that the auction sale ring is the best place and manner of selling to advantage good horses of all kinds, and I have noticed that the consignors who secure the most satisfactory returns through the progressive method are the ones who send their choicest stock in the best condition .for absolute sale to the highest bidder, and who make their entries early, thereby securing the benefit of extra advertising and a good location in the catalogues without In- creased expense." If you have to sell your horses write at once to Wm.Q. Layng, LIVE STOCK AUCTIONEER, 246 Third St.. San Francisco THE OCCIDENTAL HORSE EXCHANGE, which he owns, and in which sales are held will accommodate 2,50o people, and every buyer fs as- sured that no more risks are taken than if these horses were offered at private sales. Mr. Layng refers to any one who has consigned horses to hie place since he opened it in 1896. f&he tftveettev attb gpcvtstntm [July 11, 1903 tmmmi Tmmmmm^^^mis^m&m ROD, GUN AND KENNEL. Conducted by J. X. Do WITT. County Changes in the Game and Fish Laws. The deer hunting; season, under the State law, will open on Wednesday next and continue until the 1st of November. For the better protection of the game the Supervisors of various counties have seen fit to shorten the season in their respective counties. In some counties the bucks are not in good condition and can be hunted advantageously only earlier or later in the open season, according to the altitude, location or topography of the hunting grounds, as the deer will shift from higher to lower ground, and vice versa, fol- lowing the varying conditions of temperature and feeding grounds as they prevail at different months in the open season. Under the State law no person is allowed to kill or have in his possession more than three male deer dur- ing any one season, whether killed in this State or shipped into the State from any other State or terri- tory. It is illegal to take or kill at any time does, fawns, elk or antelope or mountain sheep. The pos- session of deer meat in close season is illegal and the sale of venison is prohibited at all times. Every person who buys, sells, or exposes for sale, transports or carries any skin, pelt or hide, of any fe- male deer or spotted fawn, or any deer hide or pelt from which the evidence of sex has been removed, is guilty of a misdemeanor. The dove shooting season under the State law be- gins July 1st and closes February 15th. A number of changes in the open dove season have also been made by different county governments. Local sportsmen are much interested in ascertaining just what ordinancas are in force in various counties, particularly the hunting grounds in the counties within easy reaching distance of this city. The county laws following are those now in force and em- brace the provisions relative to other wild game be- sides deer and doves as well as the new ordinances and change 3 in the fish laws. In Siskiyou county the open season for deer com- mences on August 15th and closes October 15th, a period of two months only. In San Bernardino county the open season for deer hunting prevails from September 1st until October 31st inclusive, two months. Bucks may be hunted and killed in San Mateo county only from August 1st to October 1st, two months. The possession of deer meat in San Mateo during close season, irrespective of the place of kill- ing, is a misdemeanor. It is illegal at any time to shoot tree squirrels or song birds or destroy the nests or eggs of song birds in the county. Cottontail rab- bits are protected by a close season, from January 1st to July 1st. The open season for quail is from Octo- ber 15th until November 15th. The individual taking of more than 100 trout from any stream in the county in one day is a misdemeanor. The open season on deer in Santa Cruz county is for two months during August and September. Wild birds, other than hawks, owls, bluejays, the shrike or butcher bird, English sparrow and house finch or red-headed linnet, are protected from the careless in- dividual with gun or trap. Song birds, their nests and eggs are also on the prohibited list. A ciose sea- son for black bass prevails until January 1, 1907. The individual limit on the angler confines him to a catch of fifty trout a day. Fish nets or seines, spears and fish hooks larger than a No. 3 are prohibited from being used in any stream, lake or lagoon of the county. Gaffs, except with a handle no longer than three feet, cannot be used. This latter prohibition is directed against the taking of large steelhead from the waters by the use of long-handled gaffs. The gaff-hook vandals were doing much damage yearly in robbing the streams of steelnead when the fish were running up to spawn. Tree squirrels are protected by a perpetual close sea- son. ■ This handsome and agile little rodent has been thinned out in many counties. There seems to be an all-round awakening to the fact that the tree squirrel stands a good chance for extermination, hence the effort at this late day to save the few that are left. Trinity county has made the open season for deer from September 15th until November 1st. In that section the fawns are seldom strongenough to survive the loss of the mother deer as early as the general law permits the hunter to pursue the game, and as many does are killed where promiscuous hunters abound, it was deemed advisable to shorten the sea- son to conform to the best interests of those most directly concerned — the deer themselves. In that territory few bucks are in proper condition to kill before the first fall months. The Marin County Game Protective Association has issued the following abstract of State and Marin county ordinances now in force. This is of much con- cern to local sportsmen: Deer season for Marin county for male deer ooens July 15; closes September 15. Killing of does'and spotted fawns illegal at all times; no person to kill more than three deer in any one season. Sale of deer inert prohibited. Loves — Season opens August 1st; closes February 15 i; no person to kill or have in his possesiion more th ,n fifty doves on any one day. ,>uail — Season for Marin county opens October 15th; cl ses January 15th. Trapping and sale of quail pro- hibited; no person to kill or have in his possession more than twenty-five quail on any one day. Ducks — Season opens October 15th; closes February 15th. No person to kill or have in his possession more than fifty ducks on any one day. Shooting of ducks between one-half hour after sundown and one- half hour before sunrise of following morning pro- hibited. Larks and Birds — Killing of meadow larks and song birds prohibited. Meadow larks, however, may be killed when destroying berries, fruits or crops by owners or tenants of premises. Robins — Killing of robins prohibited at all times. Squirrels — Killing of tree squirrels from February 1 to August 1 prohibited. Trout — Season opens April 1; closes November 1; must be caught with hook and line only. Steelheads must Dot be caught between February 1 and April 1; must not be caught between September 10 and October 16; must not be caught above tide water between November 1 and April 1 of following year. Steelheads may be caught in tide water between April 1 and September 10 and between October 16 and February 1 of following year. Bas6 — Catching of striped bass less than three pounds in weight prohibited. Black bass may be caught between July 1 and January 1. Spearing of any kind of trout, steelheads or salmon prohibited. Shooting — Shooting on county roads of Marin county or in cemeteries prohibited. Dogs — Permitting dogs to hunt, track, trail or pur- sue deer during close seasou for deer is a misde- meanor. The dove season in Madera county opens September 1st and closes February 15th following The open season for mountain quail in Tuolumne county begins October 15th and closes February 15th following. In Sonoma county the open season for shooting bucks is from July 15th until September 1st. In Orange county the season for shooting doves is between September 1st and February 15th. Santa Clara county — Deer shooting, from July loth to October 1st. Kern county — Same as general law, but according to ordinance game must not be shipped out of the county. San Benito county — Deer shooting, from August 1st to October 1st. Monterey county — Deer shooting, from July loth to October 1st; quail shooting, from October 15th to February 15th; dove shooting, faom July 1st to Feb- ruary 15th. Mendocino county — Deer shooting, from July 15th to October 1st. Fresno county — Deer shooting from September 1st to November 1st; doves from August 15th to February 1st, quail from November 1st to February 1st. Los Angeles county — Deer season, July 15th to Sep- tember 15th. Limit on ducks, 25 per day, doves, 35. Trout season open from May 1st to August 1st. Dove shooting from July 31st to October 1st. Tulare county — No change in the Sta^e game laws, but trout under six inches in length must not be taken, and not more than ten pounds of trout in any one cal- endar day allowed in possession. Black bass catching until July 1905 prohibited. Orange county — The daily individual limit for sale or shipment of cockles, scollops and cohogs is 25 pounds. The counties which have not yet announced the adoption of any changes from the State law are: Ala- meda, Shasta, Mono, Contra Costa, Sacramento, Stanislaus, San Joaquin, San Luis Obispo, Colusa and Humboldt. In Nevada State the trout season opens March 15th and closes November 1st. Fishways must be main- tained by dam owners, and the dumping in streams of matter deleterious to fish is prohibited. Trout under six incheB in length cannot be sold. Trout can only be taken by hook and line, and the fish cannot be shipped without the State to be sold. Plume and song birds are protected. Pheasants are protected until September, 1906. The close season on sagehens is from February 15th until July 15th. On grouse and mountain quail, March 1st until September 15th. The daily bag limit of game birds is 20. Birds' nests are protected. No gun larger than a 10-gauge can be used to hunt feathered game. The open season on male deer and antelope is from September 15th until November loth. A hunter may sell the bucks he kills, but the purchaser of the veniBOn may not re- sell it. _ Fishing Days. Sing a song of sus-pense, Poclret flask of rye — A gang of Bassio fishermen, All so very dry. When the flask is opened, Men begin to sing. Praising me because rd Thought the flask to bring. 'Round goes the bottle. Underneath the tree — Oh, will there be a drink left When it gets to me? Food and Digestion ia Fish. The alimentary canal of fish begins in the mouth (which is more or less furnished with teeth), to which, i is joined a wide throat with folds running length- wise. The throat leads into a cylindrical tube, some- times straight and sometimes more or less twisted, which opens at the anus. In the lampreys the entire alimentary canal is of on even, cylindrical form, and entirely straight; in some fish it is somewhat twisted, but no distinction can be recognized between the stomach and the intestinal canal, while in other fishes the stomach may be easily recognized as a bag-like, or at least as a considerably widened portion of that canal. A microscopic examination of the mucous membrane, which lines the entire alimentary canal, shows that in a large group of fish, to which, among the rest, the carp belongs, the stomach is wanting, so that the intestinal canal begins at the throat. It is a characteristic feature of the stomach of fish, as well as of warm-blooded animals, that its mucous membrane possesses pepsin glands. These glands se- crete a ferment (pepsin) which, together with a free ■ acid produced by the glands of the mucous membrane, digests albuminous matter; that is to say, dissolves it and makes it fit to be received in the organism of fiEh. In fish which possess a stomach the mucus of the en- tire intestinal canal connected with it shows no digest- ive faculties, but serves only to absorb the albuminous matter dissolved by the gastric juice. The gall sec- reted from the liver, however, goes into the intestinal canal, as well as does a juice secreted by the pancreas and the appendages of the ctecum. Both the pancreas and c:tcum are, however, wanting in many fish. The gall bladder does not digest albuminous matter, but contains a so-called "diastatic" ferment, which transforms starch to sugar and thus renders it fit to be received in the organism. The liquids secreted by the pancreas and the appendages of the caecum react in a neutral or alkalic manner, digest albumen, and to a limited extent possess the faculty of transforming soaked starch into sugar. Like the gall bladder they also possess the faculty of changing fatty substances to an emulsion, thus preoaring them for absorption by the intestinal canal. Matters are different with those fish which have no stomach, as in the case of the carp. Here the entire intestinal canal from the throat to the anus (though to a much greater extent in the front than in the back part) secretes a liquid, which in its effect resembles that secreted by the pancreas, and which, therefore, digests both albuminous matter and soaked starch, as well as fat' y substances. These fish have no append- ages to the caecum, but the liver pours a considerable quantity of gall into the intestinal canal, immediately back of the throat. It is well known that fish do not masticate their food, as the teeth of predatory fish serve only to take hold and to retain food. Even in those fish which possess strong teetb, worms and the larva? of insects are only squeezed somewhat. No fish env«lcps its food in saliva while in the mouth, as is done by mam- mals, as fish have no salivary glands. Although the food, therefore, reaches the aliment- ary canal without any preparation favoring digestion, the alimentary canal in a majority of our fish is com- paratively short. While in a cat, for instance, it is three times the length of the body, in man six times, in the horse twelve times, and in the goat twenty-six times, we find that only in a few fish does the length of the alimentary canal exceed that of the body. The rapidity of digestion depends very much on the quantity of food taken at one time. If a pike swallows ' a fish half its own size, so that in the beginning the tail protrudes from its mouth, the head is, of course, digested very soon; but gradually there is some delay, as the digestive liquids are only secreted in limited quantities and the dissolved substances can only be absorbed gradually. Pike, however, are not suitable for making observations relative to the time occupied by digestion, as they are in the habit of throwing up very soon some of the prey which they have swal- lowed, and the nerch and hake, with which experi- ments have been made, serve the best purpose. When, the stomach of the perch is gorged with food it be- comes entirely empty at the end of about Bixty hours; the same result occurs in the hake in much less time. In both experiments the entire-intestinal canal, from the throat to the arus, was evenly filled with worms. Note — There wasn't. Sober up on Jaokson's Napa Soda. Jerry Falvey, an old time rodmaker and fishing tackle repair man, died recently in his shop in New York city of apoplexy. He was 70 years of age, and came from Ireland to New York when a lad. For half a century he had been- well known as an expert . maker of fishing rods and their fittings, and a number of articles now in common use. among rodmakers and in the trade originated in old Jerry's Fulton street" shop- Indeed, it is even claimed that the split bam- boo was first made in this country by him, and that he invented soft rubber artificial lures. He had a practical knowledge of the uses to which the finest of Mb rods were put, for angling was his favorite pas- time, and he was even better versed in the demands of the trade, though nearly, all the orders he received were specials, and not a few of them came from men whose names are well known to the general public. For many years he waB in the employ of Jabez Crook, the old Fulton street tackle dealer, but afterwards opened a shop of his own, continuing to do special work for the old firrr when his own orders would per- mit of this. - ■ Take an Outing and Rest. If you are "all tired out" from hard work indoors a trip to any trout stream will do yoc good The gentle exercise, change of air and the country "grub" ail bring you to realize you are still liv- ing. Skinner, at 801 Market street. S. F. can furnish you the proper tackle and camp outfit, and will tell you where to go and how to get there. Make the catches as reasonable as you can, Skinner goes fishing himself- If your rod or tackle needs looking after, take it to Skinner's. Skinner, the sporting goods man at 801 Market street, San Fran- cisco, ia displaying the finest assortment of razors, strops and gen- eral cutlery erer shown in this country. "Stiletto"' cutlery once used, always used. * JtTEY 11, 1903J ®tt£ Qvsebsv attfr ^pjcrrfcsmcm 9 AT THE TRAPS. Years ago our shooters were accustomed to meet at various road houses and resorts and indulge in both live bird and blue rock trap shooting. This custom, however, was discontinued when the different gun clubs fitted up their own grounds. Last Sunday the iuitial meeting of what promises to be the opportunity, for those desiring it, of a return to the old style, took place at the Hunters' Inn, on the road to Lake Chabot and near San Leandro. This reBort has been opened by John H. Ravake, a well-known sportsman, who has fitted up his road house with a special view of making it a resort for devotees of the shotgun. Traps for both clay pigeon and live bird shooting have been set up and other conveniences are arranged for the accommodation of visiting sportsmen. In the vicinity of the resort can be found, in season, quail, dove, snipe and rabbit shooting. Mr. Ravake will endeavor to make a barbecue the leading feature at all future gatherings. If the viands set out last Sunday are any criterion of his abilities in that line, then'a large attendance will al- ways be guaranteed, for the barbecue upon this oc- casion was a success in every particular — beef on long iron skewers grilled over live cherry wood coals, salads, fresh butter, huge loaves of home-made bread, fresh milk, cool lager and tankards of ruby vino with num- erous other appetizing accessories were done ample justice to by the Union Gun Club members and a large number of visitors from this city, Oakland, Hay- wards and San Leandro at the outing of the trap shooters. Mine host Ravake was found to be a gen- ial and paiustaking Boniface and looked after his guests in an appreciated manner. At the trap grounds during the day a program of three events was shot up. The first number was at 15 targets, entrance 50 cents, $5 00 added by C. Hyer of San Leandro, high guns. The winners were: A. J. Webb, H. T. Hoyt and C. Carroll. The second num- ber was also a 15 target race, 50 cents entrance, $5.00 added, high guns. The winners were: J. Burns, Zeiner, G. Sylvester, Dr. Hutton, H. T. Hoyt, Herring and Carroll. The third event was a merchandise prize race, tar- get handicap, 20 to 25 targets, $1.00 entrance, high guns, re-entry 50 cents. The winner of the principal prize was George Sylvester, a Remington gun, after shooting off a tie with Patrick, Klevesahl and Her- ring. Twenty-three prizes were distributed in this eveat. A summary of the scores made is the following: First event, 15 targets — Patrick 10, Webb 13, Hoyt 13, Burns 10, Carroll 13. Iverson 12, Sylvester 12, Masterson 9, Hutton 12, Mitchell 12, Thomas 12, Wollom. 9, Walpert 1Z, Zeiner 7, Shields 8. Second event, 15 targets— Walpert 11, Masterson 11, Magic 5, Burns 14, Mitchell 10, Hutton 12, Webb 10, Iverson 10, Zeiner 14, LindstoneS, Hoyt 12, Sylvester 13, Carroll 12, Shields 8, E. Klevesahl 9, Herring 12, "Swedie"3. Third event, handicap, 20 to 25 targets — Lindstone, 25 targets sho. at, broke 12; Klevesahl, 22, 17; West- phal. 24, 11; Iverson, 20, 15; Masterson, 22, 13; Webb, 20, 19; Carroll, 21, 16; Mitchell, 23, 17; Hutton, 23, 17; Monarch, 20, 8; Walpert, 22, 16; Herring, 23, 20; Shurtleff, 25, 14; Morse, 25, 11; Clausen, 25, IS; Wollam 23, 12; Lorenza, 25, 13; Hoyt, 20, 17; Zeiner. 22, 16; Patriek, 25, 12; Sylvester, 22, 15; Burns,' 22, 15; Shields, 23, 15. Re-entries— Iverson, 20, 19; Klevesahl, 22, 20; Hut- ton, 23, 17; Carroll, 21, 18; Hoyt, 20, 16; Shurtleff, 25, 13; Lindst-ne, 25, 9; Zeiner, 22, 14; Burns, 22, 17; Shields, 23, 8; Monarch, 20, 11; Patrick, 25, 20; Mas- terson. 22, 15; Morse, 25, 15; Lorenza, 25, 17; Westphal, 24, 9; Walpert, 22, 18; Mitchell, 23, 14; Wollam. 23, 12; "Swedie", 25, 14. At the College City Guq Club shoot last Sunday R. C. Reed was high gun in almost every event, he- sides which, he won 3 club bars for straights of 15, "Edwards" also won a bar. A summary of scores is the following: Medal race, 25 targets — Juster 22, Newcomb 20, De Meritt 18, Reed 24, Baird 14, Searles 19, Edwards 16. Back scores, Newcomb 21, Reed 23, De Meritt 17, Johns 15. Watch race, 25 targets— Newcomb 19, JuBter 15, Reed 22, Edwards 14, F. Baird 6, Searles 15. Shell race, 25 targets — Searles 17, Edwards 14, Newcomb 15, Reed 24, De Meritt 19, Juster 15, Baird 9. Back scores, Newcomb 22, Newcomb 20. Edwards 16. Challenge medal race, 25 targets — Newcomb 19, Juster 18, Reed 20, Edwards 20. Shoot-off of tie — Reed 24, Edwards 6, withdrew Special race, 15 targets — Juster 8, Searles 12, Reed 13, Edwards 15, De Meritt 5, Johns 9, Juster 8, Reed 12, Baird 7, Searles 12, Johns 6, Edwards 7. Eight — C. W. Budd won high average at New Lon- don, Iowa (468-500). Nine — Open comDetition medal of Iowa State and L. C. Smith, at Central City, by O. N. Ford. Scores 25 straight (47-50). At the Maryland county shoot, recently held in Baltimore, the Hundred Target Championship was won by Mr. H. D. Jackson, an amateur, with the per- fect score of 100 straight. This is a feat very seldom performed by professionals. It was a perfect score, made by a man shooting perfectly with perfect shot- gun shells. The shell Mr. Jackson used in making this perfect score was the celebrated Winchester "Leader." Dr. W. L. Henderson, also an amateur, who was second high man, broke 97 out of 100, itself a winning score. He, too, used the Winchester "Leader" shells. Another remarkable exhibition of target shooting made with the Winchester "Leader" shell, was the performance of Mr. H. C. Hirschy at Inter-City Park, Minneapolis, last week, where he broke244straight targets, shattering all Northwestern record 8. The following is a list of the averages made by 54 shooters out of 89 who participated in the three-day tournament of the Sportsmen's A3»ociation of the Northwest. Out of a total of 600 targets shot at the high scores were: No. Name. Rank. Total. Per Cent. 1. Becker 1st 555 92 5 2. Sheard 2d 515 90 8 3. Ellis. E. E 3d 5-10 90 4. Seaver 4th 539 89.5 5. Fanning 5th 535 89.1 6. Biglow 6th 534 89 7. Stephens 7th 530 88.2 8. Conlarr 7th 530 88 2 9. McBroom 8th 526 87 6 10. E111S.H 9th 524 87.3 11. McOlure 10th 523 87.1 12. Holohan Ilth 522 87 13. Baker 12th 518 86 3 14. Ellis.C.D 12th 518 863 15. Ware 12th 518 86.3 16. Cooper 13th 517 86.1 17. McMillan 14th 515 858 18. Haight 14th 515 85 8 19. Peck 15th 513 85.5 20. Smith, L. A 15th 513 85.5 21. Gaist 16th 511 85.1 82. McDonald, S 17th 507 84.5 23. Beck 17th 507 84.5 24. Abraham 18th 506 84.3 25. Dryden 19th 505 84.1 26. Pierce 20th 501 835 27. Knettle 21st 500 833 28. Hindle 22d 497 83.1 29. Jent 22d 497 83 1 30. Reed 23d 496 82.6 31. TanahiU.S.0 24th 492 82 32. Flohr 25th 490 816 33. Thompson, P. N 26th 489 81.5 34 Smails 27tb 488 81.3 35. Hillts, Wm 28th 487 81.1 36. Shields 29th 479 79.8 37. Howe 30tlt 477 79.5 38. Kershaw. 30th 477 79.5 39. Lougee 31st 476 79.3 40. Forbes 22d 475 79.1 41. Whitlaw 33d 473 78 8 42. Hillls. J.T 33d 473 78.8 43. Dorn 34th 471 78.5 44. Dunn 35th 466 77.7 45. Steel 36[h 468 77.1 46 Wood 37th 462 77 1 47. Story 38tn 450 75 48. Mocine 39th 444 74 49. Garrett 39th 444 74 50. Smith, Dr. T. F 40th 441 73 5 51. Mnrphy 41st 428 71.1 52. Stewart 42d 425 70.8 53. Sheard. Mrs 43d 372 62 54. Brownlee 44th 367 61.1 The Union Metallic Cartridge Company has good reason to feel proud of the records made during the last two months with U. M. C. factory loaded Arrow and Nitro Club shells. Since winning the Grand American Handicap the following State champion- ships have been added to the string of victories which bear testimony to the accurate and Bure-fire shooting of the "Uniform U- M. C." shells: One — Kansas State championship, won by W. H. Heer, April 21, 1903. Two — Nebraska State championship, first, second, third and fourth places won by U. M. C. Three — Pennsylvania State live bird and flying tar- gets championship at Philadelphia, May 20, won by Fred Coleman. Four— Iowa State championship, won by T. B. Nichols fperfect score). - Five — Wisconsin State championship, won by J. M. Hughes (145-150). Six — West Virginia State championship and high average, won by J. M. Hughes (193-200). Seven — Indiana State championship, won by Mr. E. Brown (579-600). A letter received this week from Mr. W. H. Seaver is the following: "In regard to the Nineteenth Annual Tournament of the Sportsman's Association of the Northwest, which took place in Dayton, Washington, on the 25th, 26th and 27th inst., would say as follows: Of the 89 shooters who shot in this tournament, 47 U6ed Win- chester 'pump' guns, 63 Winchester 'Leader' shells, and 4 Winchester 'Repeater' shells. The Multnomah Medal, shot for on the first day, was won by A. P. Bigelow of Ogden, with a Smith gun snd Winchester 'Repeater' shells on a score of 73 out of 75, which included two tie shoot offs. The Three Man Team Championship Cup, shot for no the same day, was captured by the Seattle team, composed of E. E. Ellis, who shot a Smith gun and Winchester 'Leader' shells, Dell Cooper, who shot a Winchester 'pump, gun and Winchester 'Leader' shells and Dr. A. Purdy, who also used a Winchester 'pump' gun and Win- chester 'Leader' shells. The team score was 56 out of a possible 60. The Dayton Medal, shot for on the second day, was won by N. McMillan of Idaho Falls with a Smith gun and Winchester 'Leader' shells on a score of 50 straight. The Walla Walla Brownlee Medal, shot for on the same day, at 20 targets, expert rules, indicator pull, one man up, four unknown and one known trap, was oaptured by C. D. Ellis of Harrington, with the only straight score of 20. Mr. Ellis shot a Winches- ter 'pump' gun and Winchester 'Leader' shells. The Globe Trophy, shot for on the same day, was tied for by W. F. Sheard of Tacoma, who shot a Winchester 'pump' gun and Winchester 'Leader' shells, G. L. Becker of Ogden, who shot a Winchester 'pump' gun and Winchester 'Repeater' shells, and A. P. Bigelow of Ogden, who shot a Smith gun and Winchester 'Repeater' shells. All tied on 47 out of a possible 50 in this event at mixed shooting. In the first shoot-off, Sheard scored 45, Bigelow and Becker 46 each. In the second shoot-off Bigelow and Becker tied again on 45 each, and will hold the trophy together until the next tournament. Tbe Anaconda Cup, shot for on the third day, was won by I. Dornburg of Spokane, with a Winchester 'pump' gun and Winchester 'Leader' shells, on the only straight score of 25 in this event. The Brownlee Trophy, shot for on the same day, was captured by E. F. Confarr of Living- stone, with a Winchester 'pump' gun and Winchester 'Leader' shells, on the only straight score of S5 in this event, which was at unknown angles, reversed pull. The Individual Championship Medal was captured by G. L. Becker of Ogden, with a Winches- ter 'pump' gun and 'Repeater' shells, on a score of 50 straight, which included a shoot-off with A. P. Bige- low at 25 targets. The Ladies' High Average Med»l was won by Mrs. W. F. Sheard of Tacoma, with a Smith gun and Winchester 'Leader' shells. The first three high averages of the entire tournament were won by shooters using Winchester 'pump' guns and Winchester shells. G. L. Becker first with 45 lost in the 600 shot at, W. F. Sheard second with 56 lost in the 600 and W. H. Seaver third with 61 lost in the 600. Of the 13 high average prizes, 10 were captured by shooters who shot Winchester 'pump' guns, and 11 by shooters who used Winchester shells. A noticeable feature of the tournament was the four solid squads of five men each all shooting Winchester 'pump' guns and Winchester shells. Of the seven individual trophies shot for during the tournment, five were captured by shooters using Winchester 'pump' guns and the entire seven by those who shot Winchester shells." DOINGS IN DOGEOM. Forest Flasu, first puppies ('Frisco) this year and a promising young dog, was killed last week by a street car. Flash was by Norfolk Trueman out of Lillian Sage, and was owned by W. J. Foster. " My word," said Mr. George Raper to Foster last April, "but he's a coming dog." W. G. Kerckhoff of Los Angeles, who has long heec an enthusiastic fancier of field trial dogs, has been unfortunate enough to lose bis well known English Setter winner and sire Mercury (Dick Bondhu-Sunlit), and up to date no trace of the dog has been found. Mercury was the winner of second in the Pacific Coast Field Trial Club's Derby, 1894, and divided third with J. M. Kilgarif's Sirius (Sportsman-Sweetheart) in the same club's All-Age Stake, 1895. A number of Mer- cury's get showed well in trials, among which were Peach Mark, Merry Monarch and Midas. The Collie Club of America, at the recent meeting of the Executive Committee, selected Milwaukee, Wis., for the next annual show, the date to be the week preceding the Chicago show. The Continental Field Trial Club will hold its ninth annual meeting at Thomasville, N. C, commencing on Saturday, December 5th, with the running of the Members' Stake. The Derby will commence on Mon day, December 7th, and will be followed by the All- Age Stake. Mr. E. Knight Sperry has resigned as president of the Connecticut Field Trial Club, according to a re- port in an Eastern contemporary. Mr. Sperry has done much for the club, which will be fortunate, indeed, to find one who can acceptably fill his place. The situation regarding game and cover at the field trial grounds near Washington C. H., Ohio, has never been more satisfactory at this season of the year. In a letter from a prominent handler who lives near the grounds the information is given that birds were never more abundant than now, with a very good hatching season, which will keep in favor grounds that are perhaps considered second to none. Geo. E. Gray has sent Bangs Hazel by Bang Ill- Dot's Hazel to be bred to Plain Sam. Dr. E. R. Hickerson, S. H. Socwell and W. R. Green have been selected to judge the Illinois Field Trial Association's trials. The Eastern Field Trial Club will hold its trial ahead of that of the United States. This will be wel- come news to a majority of handlers, as they will thus be enabled to do their training in Southern Georgia this year, a locality which struck them very favorably last season. Thomasville has an ideal winter climate, with apparently more quails than can be found any- where in Northern Mississippi or Alabama outside of game preserves. Should the United States trials not take place until some time in February, the trainers will be ready to return to their northern homes at the finish of this trial and the National Championship. Preliminary arrangements are beiDg made for the annual meet of the South Dakota Field Trial Associa- tion, which is to be held on grounds about four miles southwest of Sioux Falls in August. A little later in the season a patrol will he established on the grounds, bo that birds will not be molested and driven away, thus insuring some rare sport when the trials are held. Prairie chickens are numerous this year, and the trials should be the most successful and interest- ing in tha history of the association. Entries for the trials will close July 31st. Although last year's trials were very successful, both in the number of entries and the interest manifested, this year's meet is confidently expected to surpass last year's event in every particular. Most of the States of the Union will be represented by one or more entries. Invitations have been ex- tended to Thomas Johnson of Winnipeg and C. B. Whitford of Chicago to act as judges of the trials. Both are experienced men. The former acted in a similar capacity during the past two or three annual trials of the South Dakota association, and gave the best of satisfaction. There w;ll be three stakes this year — the All-Age, the Derby and the Subscription. A change in the division of the prizes has been decided on by tbe offi- cers of the association. In the All-Age and Derby contests the prizes will be divided as follows: 32}. 27*, 22* and 17J. In the Subscription stake it will be divided at 50, 30 and 20. The officers of the association expect that over $2000 will be distributed in the various purses. 10 ©to gveeiiev ani* gtpiovt&nxaxt [July ll, 1903 The Pacific Coast Derby Entries. The record Derby entry for Coast trials is a strong showing of the interest our sportsmen take in breed- ing and developing food field dogs. In the list below will be found scions of the best blood lines of the English Setter and Pointer, the list being a notable one in this respect. Our field trial supporters, as well as other coast sportsmen hare bred good dogs for years past and have kept up their strains by the purchase of many good Eastern dogs and by judicious breeding to and with the best blood and tie most promising individuals the East or West has produced. Old Champion Count Gladstone IV. is as usual well represented among the setters. Four of the Derby candidates are sired by Llewellyn Drake. This grand old dog has shown his value for a number of years as a producing sire, both in the field and on the bench, so much so that overtures have been made to his Northern owner for his purchase by an English breeder. Drake came originally from the Llewellyn Kennels and is recognized as one of the few typical straight bred Llwellyn:s now living and is considered to be a desirable dog for the stud in the old country, where the breed has shown strong evidence in the last few years of the necessity of an infusion of new blood. " . . Among the list of sires and dams given below are many winners at field trials and in bench shows. The dogs heretofore running in our field trials are acknowl- edged as being on an equality with the average start- ers at the trials North, East and South. Most of our dogs are bred here, and the selection is made from the best blood lines. This has led to the possession by our Coast sportsmen of as fine Pointer and Setter stock as can be found anywhere. Count's Mark, with four representatives entered, was the winner of second in the Members' Stake last January, and is a litter brother of Joseph Terry's Lady, winner of the stake. Peach Blossom, another frequent winner, is of the same breeding — Ch. Count Gladstone IV. -Peach Mark, she by Mercury, a winner, by Dick Bondhu out of Betsy Mark, she by Gath's Mark, all great Setters. Sport's Destiny is owned by A. EL Nelson of Tacoma, and is a splendid perfermer herself and has whelped some good ones. Marie's Spert is owned by H. B. Led better of Parmington, Mo., and has proved a producing sire time and again. T. J. A. Tiedeman's Northern Huntress is a bench show and field trial winner. Ch. Rudtield, who sired more Setter winners last year than any other dog, is represented in the list by OQe puppy, so, also, is Cb. Cincinnatus Pride. A dog thought'so well of by California sportsmen as to be in demand, despite his age, is Thomas J. Wattson's Starlight W., than whom a better Setter never pointed a bird. Tony Boy, a big winner in the East last year, is represented by lour sons and daughters. Taking the Setter entries all in all, it is safe°tu say that in the history of previous field trials, in the United States, there never was before a class of young dogs entered in a stake that is its equal in the highest standard of quality, each and every individ"ual being bred in the purple for generations buck. O the thirty-five Setters entered Llewellyn Drake is directly represented by 4, Marie's Sport 3, Clipper W. 1, Count's Mark 5, California Bell Boy 5, Tony Boy 4, Due Hick 2, Cbarm 1, Ch. Kodfield 1, Count's "Whitei-tone 1, l'un\ Count 1, Sport's Gath 1, Lady's Couut Gladstone 1, "starlight W. 2, Petrel's Count 2, Ch. Cincinnatus 1-Vide 1, abudow 3, Fairyland Queen I, Lady 1, Isabella Maid 2, Verona School-girl 2, Kod's Lark 2, Peach Blossom 2, Belton Girl 1, Sport's Destiny 3, Jessie Gladstone 1, Louise Danstone 1, Marv Lou 3, Sport's Belle 1, Nellie C. 1, Tony's Maid 1, Flo Rodfield I, Rod's Sylvia 2, Fairyland Pet 2, Brown's Queen Vic 1, Northern Huntress 1, Miss Maud 1. Nor is the Pointer class a whit behind the Setters in quality. Old champion Glenbeigh is well represented. This great dog won a Derby in England and was a winner here until his untimely end at a Bakersfield trial several years ago. The progeny of Glenbeigh, as a rule, are stamped strongly with true Pointer character, and most individuals of this strain show the famous old dog's traits in style, action and ap- pearance. This biood is looked upon as a good line for interbreeding with the Jingo Rip Rap stock, the latter being considered by Eastern sportsmen as the creme de la creme of Pointer blood. There are a few Pointers here, by the way, bred on these lines. They are high headed, staunch, stylish and untiring goers, and show bird sense and field qualities that are unexeeptionably good. Such a breeding was two litters by C. A. Haight's Glendale out of an old Rip Rap-Jingo bitch Fay brought here several years ago by Dr. White. Ch. Cuba of Kenwood by Glenbeigh Jr.. out of a great dam, Dodge's Stella, is both a bench show and field trial performer par excellence. Cuba Jr. has fol- lowed in the footsteps of his illustrious sire, enlarging somewhat by winning in Eastern trials. Petronella, Florida and Winnipeg Fly are each descendants of the best Pointer stock extant and should be favorably represented by their Derby progeny. Cuba of Kenwood is directly represented by 7 pup- pies; Cuba Jr. 2: Ashbury 1: Glendale 1; Kenwood Dan 2; Don Graphic 1; Buck of Kent 1; Dr. Daniels 2; Sam's Bow 2; Vic's Queen 1; Kenwood Rosel: Whis- per 2; Florida 3; Petronella 4; Queen H 1; Nancy Jingo 2; Winnipeg Fly 4. This is a Setter year with 35 Setters entered as againBt 18 Pointers, as follows: SETTEES. Henry W. Keller's (Santa Monica) orange and white 1 itch Sombra (Llewellyn Drake-Shadow), whelped August 12, 1902 Breeder, W. W. Van Arsdale, San Francisco. Alexander Hamilton's (San Francisco) black and white dog Lady's Lad (Clipper W.-Lady), whelped Tune 16, 1902 Breeder, J. E. Terry, Sacramento. H. H. Dunn's (Elko, Nev.) white, black and tan bitch Hoosier Belle (Marie's Sport-Fairyland Queen), whelped June, 1902. Breeder, W. J. Baughn, Ridge- ville, Ind. Dr. C. Wilson's (Elko, Nev.) lemon and white bitch Rosie O'Grady (Marie's Sport-Isabella Maid), whelped April, 1902. Breeder, H. B. Ledbetter, Missouri. Same owner's black, white and tan bitch Sweet Marie. Same breeding. W. W. Van Arsdale's (San Francisco; white and orange bitch Count's Gift (Count's Mark-Verona Schoolgirl), whelped April 10, 1902. Breeder, owner. Same owner's black, white and tan dog Klamath (California Bell Boy-Rod's Lark), whelped April 20, . 1902. Breeder, owner. Same owner's white, black and tan bitch Keepsake (California Bell Boy-Peach Blossom), whelped August 22, 1902. Breeder, owner. Same owner's white and orange bitch Manzanita (Llewellyn Drake-Shadow), whelped August 12, 1902. Breeder, owner. Same owner's white, black and tan dog Calaveras (California Bell Boy-Peach Blossom), whelped August 22, 1902. Breeder, owner. Same owner's white and orange dog Monterey (Llewellyn Drake-Shadow), whelped August 12, 1902. Breeder, owner. John Schumacher's (Los Angeles) white, black and tan bitch Valita (California Bell Boy-Rod's Lark), whelped April 20, 1902. Breeder, W. W. Van Arsdale. John W. Considine's (Seattle, Wash.,) white and lemon dog Tonv's Tony (Tony Boy-Belton Girl), whelped August 13, 1902. Breeder, F. A. Mai- baugh, Liberty, Ind. Same owner's white, black and tan dog Hick's Lad (Doc Hick-Woodcraft), whelped May 23, 1902. Breeder, owner. Same owner's white, black and tan bitch Hick's Bab; =ame breeding. Charles W. Coggin's (Igerna, Cal ) black, white and tan dog Sharon Boy (Tony Boy-Sport's Destiny), whelped June 30, 1902. Breeder. A. H. Nelson, Ta- coma, Wash. Same owner's white, black and tan bitch Miss Nel- son; same breeding. Same owner's white, black and tan bitch Mountain Quail (Charm-Jessie Gladstone), whelped January 2, 1902. Breeder, G. W. Tibbetts, Colusa, Cal. H. L. Betten's (Alameda, Cal.) black, white and tan bitch Rod's Rhyme rCh. Rod field -Louise Dan- stone), whelped May 10, 1902. Breeder, D. D. Cor- nell, Knoxville, Iowa. A. L. Scott's (San Francisco) black-, white and tan dog Mustache (Count's Mark-Verona School Girl), whelped August 12, 1902. Breeder, W. W. Van Ars- dale. J. E. Terry's (Sacramento, Cal.) black, white and tan bitch Countess Lou (Count's Mark-Mary Lou), whelped September 4, 1902. Breeder, owner. S. Christensen's (San Franeisco) black, white and tan dog Count Jo. (Count's Mark-Mary Lou), whelped September 4, 1902. Breeder, J. E. lerry, Sacra- mento, Cal. J. M. Kilgarif's (San Francisco) black, white and tan bitch Diane (Count's Mark-Mary Lou), whelped September 4, 1902. Breeder, J. E. Terry, Sacra- mento, Cal. C. E. Worden's (San Francisco) black, white and tan bitch Count's Cash (Count Whitestone-Sport's Belle), whelped July 12, 1902. Breeder, C. Black- burn, Olathe, Kan. A. B. Truman's (San Franeisco) black, white and tan dog Tony Boy T (Tony Count-Nellie C), whelped June, 1902. Breeder, D." E. Rose, Lawrenceberg, Tenn. Same owner's black, white and tan dog Sport Gath T (Sport's Gath-Tony's Maid), whelped July, 1902; same breeder. William Dormer's (San Francisco) lemon and white dog Don Jose (Lady's Count Gladstone-Flo Rodfield), whelped January 16, 1903. Breeder, F. A. Maibaugh, Liberty, Ind. B. J.Baum's (San Francisco) black, white and tan dog Starlight Jr. (Starlight W -Rod's Sylvia) whelped April 18, 1902. Breeder, owner. T. J. Wattson's (San Francisco) orange and white dog Star's Rod (Starlight W.-Rod's Sylvia) whelped April 19, 1902. Breeder, B. J. Baum, San Francisco, Cal. Phil Wand's (San Francisco) black, white and tan dog Bowling Green (Petrel's Count-Fairyland Pet), whelped July 6, 1902. Breeder, Mrs. Thomas Murphy, Hollister. Cal. J. E. Lucas' (San Rafael, Cal.) lemon and belton bitch Petrel's Pearl. Breeding same as Bowling Green above. John Ripliuger's (Seattle, Wash.) black and white bitch Premier Belle (Ch. Cincinnatus Pride-Brown's Queen Vie) whelped December 1, 1902. Breeder, E. D. Brown, Minneapolis, Minn. T. J. A. Tiedemann's (San Francisco) white, black and' tan bitch Northern Belle (California Bell Boy- Northern Huntress) whelped May 12,1902. Breeder, owner. Same owner's white, black and tan dog Robert Llewellvn (Llewellyn Drake-Miss Maud) whelped July30,"l902. Breeder, Thomas Plimley, Victoria, B.C. A.H.Nelson's (Tacoma, Wash.) white, black and tan bitch Sporting Duchess (Tony Boy-Sport's Des- tiny) whelped June 30, 1902. Breeder, owner. POINTERS. William Dormer's liver and white bitch Lize (ABh- bury-Vic's Queen) whelped April 1, 1902. Breeder, Victor Poncelet. W. B. Coutt's (Kenwood, Cal.) black and white dog Glen Rose (Glendale-Kenwood Rose) whelped April 12, 1902. Breeder, owner. J. W. Flynn's (San Francisco) liver and white bitch Whisper D. (Kenwood Dan-Whisper) whelped Sep- tember 10, 1902. Breeder, Tod Sloan. John Schumacher's liver and white dog Frank W. (Don Graphic) whelped July 1902. Breeder, F. W. Emery, Pasadena, Cal. Dr. A. T. Leonard 's (San Francisco) liver and white dog Wallace Bruce (Kenwood Dan-Whisper), whelDed September 10, 1902. Breeder, Tod Sloan. ^CLE' ,w°rden's liver and white dog Sandlewood (Cuba of Kenwood-Petronella), whelped January 22 1902. Breeder, Stoekdale Kencela. J. E. Lucas' liver and white dog Buck H (Buck of Kent-Queen H), whelped January 9, 1902. Breeder, James Hayward, San Francisco. W W. Van Arsdale's white and lemon dog Mari- posa (Dr. Daniels-Nancy Jingo), whelped June 30, 1902. Breeder, owner. Same owner's white and liver bitch Senorita. Same breeding. Stoekdale Kennels' (Bakersfield, Cal.) black and white bitch Fly's Pearl (Cuba Jr.-Winnipeg Fly) whelped February 8, 1902. Breeder, owner. Same owner's white and black bitch Dodge's Stella II. Same breeding. Same owner's black and white bitch (Ch. Sam's Bow-Winnipeg Fly), whelped September 19, 1902. Breeder, owner. Same owner's black and white dog (Ch. Sam's Bow-Winnipeg Fly), whelped September 19, 1902. Breeder, owner. Same owners' white and liver dog Cuba's Glenwood (Ch. Cuba of Kenwood-Petronella), whelped January 22. 1902. Breeder, owner. Same owner's liver and white dog Cuba's Cotton- wood (Ch. Cuba of Kenwood-Petronella), whelped January 22, 1902. Breeder, owner. Same owner's liver and white bitch Cuba's Ivy wood. Same breeding as above. Same owner's liver and white dog Cuba's Sinew (Ch. Cuba of Kenwood-Florida), whelped April 2, 1902. Breeder, owner. Same owner's Cuba's General Joe Wheeler, liver and white dog. Same breeding. A meeting of the board of directors of the Sports- men's Field Trial Club was held at the Calkins House, Clare, Mich., June IT, at which arrangements were completed for holding our inaugural trials at Clare, beginning Monday evening, October 26. Two stakes will be rus, a Members' Derby and a Members' All-Age, in which all dogs will be handled by their owners, who must be amateurs, professional handlers not being allowed to participate. The entrance fee will be two dollars, and starting fee three dollars in each stake, all of which, without deduction, will be awarded to the winners, divided into four moneys, forty, thirty, twenty and ten per cent. In addition, there will be a silver cup awarded to winner of first place in each stake. Lesser specials will be awarded to the other place winners. A special feature of the trials will be a bench show to be held on Tuesday evening. October 27, at which all dogs antered in the trials will compete for a silver cup to be given by the club. The grounds, which are ample, are located within a short distance of the town and contain an abun- dance of birds. They will be posted, and bo shooting will be allowed over them at any time. No finer grounds for the purpose could be found in the state. Hotel and livery accommodations are of the best, and comfortable quarters will be provided for dogs, without charge. The membership of the club now numbers eighty- six, and all amateur sportsmen are invited to join in holding these trials for shooting dogs Membership is not restricted to residents of Michigan, but sports- men from any state or Canada will be heartily welcomed. Further information will be sent on re- quest by Erwin C. Smith, Secretary-Treasurer. How Deer Give Information. It is a beautiful sight to see a string of deer pasB over the rocky point and one by one follow each other around the bases of the big firs, jumping fallen trees and walking the old moss-covered logs, their mild eyes and large ears ever on the alert, and handsome and graceful from the points of their polished antlers to the tip of their bushy black tails. Their very cautiousness increases the enjoyment of the hunt, and is no doubt the reason that the deer appeals to the sportsman as the finest of big game hunting, both for pleasure and skill. For all there are so many following the trail, do not think that any inexperienced hunter can kill as many as he wishes. When one is alarmed the whole band takes warning. Over confidence often results in a bungling shot and then such a smashing and crash- ing over rocks and logs and underbrush, and no more shooting on that trail for a while. Ten or twenty deer stampeding from a trail leaves evidence enough to turn all the deer that might pasB that way for several days. If you drop one on the trail the result is as bad, unless you wait until he steps out on the gravelly bar by the stream, then when all ib over carefully wash all scent from the trail. — Sherman Powell in Sunset Magazine for July. Kennel Registry. VISITS. Maurice S. Kramer's smooth coat St. Bernard bitch Nance (Leonard-Bella) to Nairod Kennels' Ch. Grand Master n (Ch. Grand Master-Bonnie Doone) June 28, 1903. Dog Owners! 1 Read ThisI! We are carrying in the advertising columns of this journal an advertisement of "Sergeant's Dog Remedies," a popular line of preparations for which F. W. Braun & Co. of Los Angelea, Cali- fornia, have been made distributing agents on the Pacific Coast. The goods have few equals and no superiors on the market today having received the highest endorsements of the leading dog men and kennel owners of this country and Canada. They are manufactured by Polk Miller Drug Co of Richmond Va„ who invite all persons having sick dogs to write (enclosing stamp) describing symptoms, and they will cheerfully furnish the best possible advice without any charge whatever. A revised copy of their book on "Dogs" sent free on receipt of 3c in stamps to oover postage. JULY 11, 1903J Wire gveeZtev anli ^pavtsxncm 11 Leading Holstein Bulls. The two bulla that lead the Holstein breed in the number of officially teated daughters are De Kol H.'a Paul de Kol and Aaltje Salo III.'s Tritonia Netherland, saya Dairy and Creamery. The first named haa about 45 registered daughters and 31 of them have made tests that have placed them in the advanced registry. Two of them have made officially 29.26 pounds and 2S.24 pounds of butter SO per cent fat in seven days at four years old. This bull had for a dam De Kol II., with a record of 26 pounds 9.2 ounces of 80 per cent, butter in seven days, and she was also the dam of three other bulla having taken together 26 registry daughters. In hot weather there is no drink like Jackson's Napa Soda — plain or in a lem- onade. The fair average day's work for a harness horse is nine or ten miles, in which case exercise is quite unnecessary, says American Cultivator. More harm and injury is done to horses by the grooms when at exercise than in any other way, I and unless the man can be fully depended upon the less they are exercised the better. Where the horse is only oc- casionally worked exercise is of course neceBsary not only to preserve him in health, but to keep him steady and from getting above himself. Good dairy cows deserve to have good, intelligent care, and this can only be insured by having the right kind of attendants. A restive cow is seldom profitable. PUBLIC TRAINING STABLE. WANTED A STANDARD BRED STALLION, weighing ■**■ from 1175 to I2o0. Must be a trotter and be I am prepared to take race horses and Polo at least 4 years old. Color must be bay, trown, Ponies to train at Emeryville Race Track Stable, Section C. PETER WEBER, Oakland. Cal. black or chestnut. Horse must be perfectly sound, state particulars, price wanted, and where stal- lion can be seen. WM. G. LAYNG, Occidental Horse Exchange, 246 Third St- THE VALLEJO RAGE MEETING VALLEJO RAGE TRACK, AUGUST 13, 14 AND 15, 1903. Additional Stakes to Close August 1, 1903. 2:30 Class Trotting Stakes The Grissim Stakes for 2:12 Class Trotters Green Class Pacing Stakes $300 300 300 Remember that Entries must be made on time. Entries postmarked later than date of closing are not eligible to win. Member National Trotting Associailon. For further particulars and Entry Blanks address THOS. SMITH, Manager, VALLEJO, CAL. The Final and Greatest Sale of Santa Rosa Horses! -WILL TAKE PLACE AT THE OCCIDENTAL HORSE EXCHANGE 24L6 THIRD STREET. SAN FRANCISCO. WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1903, COMMENCING AT 10:30 A. M. SHARP. To Close Out the Estate of Henry Fierce, Deceased. The Finest Looking and Best Bred Trotters and Pacers, Broodmares, Colts and Fillies of the Santa Rosa Stock Farm ■will be sold without reserve or limit. This Sale offers golden opportunities to seekers after the very choicest of Trotting Stock that are "bred in the purple" and show their breeding. No consign- ment has ever been sent to San Francisco to surpass it. There is not an inferior animal listed. A careful perusal of the pedigrees below and an inspection of all to be offered will convince horsemen, farmers and breeders that it will pay them to attend this sale and secure a few of these, for the demand for good Trotters, Pacers and Broolmares is increasing and they will never be as cheap as they are now. Name, Sex, Tear Foaled, and Sire. Alto Russell, b g, 1899, by gL W Russell 20820. , Dam's Family. .Palo Belle 2:24^ by Palo Alto 2:08*4; 2d dam Belle Isle (great broodmare) by Piedmont; 3d dam Idabelle by Hambletonian 10 " ArawanaB, b f, 1G00, by Sidney Dillon 23157 Lilly Stanley 2:1?M (dam of On Stanley 2:17S4, 1 Rokeby2:133£ and Rect2:i6V4) by Whippleton Belle Isle and Ally, b m, 1883, by Piedmont 2:17^ .Idabelle (dam of Carlisle 2:26^) by Hambletonian (sister to Carlisle 2:2614) 10, etc.; foal by Sidney Dillon and stinted to this sire Ben Russell, b g, 1900, by L W Russell 20821) Paceta 2:26 by Lone Pine 2:283£ (bro to Palo Alto 2:08i4); 2d dam Ceta (great broodmare) by Pied- mont 2:1?X; 3d dam Cecil (great broodmare) by General Benton Bertha Bates blk f 19C0, by Vallotta 30840 Lissette by Abdallah Wilkes 7562; 2d dam Musette by Startle 290 BarbaraAUen, blkf, 1900, by Vallotta 30840 Molly Allen2:20!4 by Mambrino Wilkes 6083; 2d dam Lady Allen by Ethan Allen Jr Bravo ch g 1900, by Beau B J:19& Lou Milton (dam of Lou Dillon 2:01^ (champion), Redwood 2:21^ (a sire), Ethel Mac 2:25, Aileen 2:2iH(damof Mowitza 2:20y&), Sister 2:20^) by Milton Medium 2:25^ Bromwell, ch g, 1900, by Sidney Dillon 23157 Silver Eye (dam of Ramon 2:\7H and Fram 2:17#) by Abbotsford 2:l9;4, 2d dam Princess by Henry Williamson, etc Biscara Russell, br g, 1899, by LW Russell 20820. Biscara (dam of Stambold 2-.18H, Guycara 2:18&, Interna 2:24# and Stamboulita 2:27) by Director 2:17; 2ddamBicara (dam of Pancoast 2;2L% and 6 others) by Harold; 3d dam Belle (dam of Bel- mont, sireof Nutwood 2:18?^, etc) by Mambrino Chief 11, etc Columblad be, 1901, by Sidney Dillon 23157 Madonna (dam of Alcona Jr 2:24 and 2 other.) by CM Clay Jr 22; 2d dam by Joe Downing Colonist bg. 1901, by Sidney Dillon 23157 Lilly Stanley 2:17M (dam of 3 Inside of 2:18) by Whippleton; 2d dam Dolly McMann s t b by Mambrino Patchen Chester chg, 1901, by *Inferaa 2:24H Palo Belle 2:24^ by Palo Alto 2:081$; 2d dam Belle Isle by Piedmont, eto Chestnut ch g, 1901, by Interna 2:24& Lissette by Abdallah Wilkes 7562; 2d dam Musette by Startle, eto Caromel blk f, 1901. by tBeau B2:I9& Flora Allen (dam of Almaretta 2:25, Florallne 2:2114, Topsy Allen 2:25 and Florine trial 2:>l) by Mambrino Wilkes; 2d dam Lady Allen (dam of Molly Allen 2:20i4) by Vlck's Etban Allen Caromplly, blkf, 1901, by Beau B 2:I9i4 Molly Allen 2:2014 sister to Flora Allen(see above) by Mambrino Wilkes, son of Geo Wilkes Crossout, bf$ 1901, by Beau B 2. 19)4 Paceta 2:26 by Lone Pine 2:28&;2d dam Ceta by Piedmont 2: 17^; 3d dam Cecil (dam of Cecllian 2:22, etc) by Gen Benton, etc Credit, chf, 1901, byBeauB2:19^ Belle Isle by Piedmont 2:17%; 2d dam Idabelle (dam of Carlisle 2:26' i) by Hambletonlan 10, etc Flora Allen, blk m, 1886, by Mambrino Wilkes... .Lady Allen (dam of Molly Allen 2:20)4) by Mam- (dam or 3) brino Wilkes Asoania, ch t, 1900, by Sidney Dillon Maud (dam of Maudee 2:2414 and Legation 2:23^) by Nutwood 2:18££ Inferlotta, b f , 1900, by Interna 2:24H Carlotta Wilkes (damofVolita2:15H aud Vollotta a sire) by Charley Wilkes2:2l!££; 2d dam Aspasia (dam of 3) by Alcantara 2:-^3; 3d dam Miss Buchanan (dam of Escape 2:26M) by Clark Chief 89, eto Lady'Agnes, bm, 1884, by Electioneer 125 Lady Lowell(dam of Ladywell 2:1614, Lorita2-16i4 (dam of 2) and dam of Alta Vela 2:1114) by St Clair, stinted v to Sidney Dillon Ladywell 2:1614 & c, blk m, 1886, by Electioneer 125Lady Lowell (dam of 2 and grandam of 3 in 2:30) (dam of Local 2:1914) by St Clair Has a handsome foal at foot by Sidney Dillon and is stinted to Sidney Dillon again Name, Sex, - Tear Foaled, and Sire. Dam's Family. Lilly S, blk m, 1896, by Direct 2:05^4 Lilly Stanley (dam of c in 2:30) by Whippleton, etc. Very handsome. The finest Direct mare in California Lilly Stanley 2:17K,br m, 1887, by Whippleton 1883Dolly McMann, s t b, by Mambrino Patchen (dam of 3) * stinted to Sidney Dillon Lissette and colt, blk m, 1885, by Abdallah WilkesMusette by Startle 290; 2d dam Beckie Sharp by Bill Denton; 3d dam Kent Mare by Long Island Blackhawk 24. Foal at foot is by Sidney Dillon stinted to this sire again Molly AIien2:20i4,blkm,i889,by Mambrino WilkesLady Allen (dam of Flora Allen, dam of 3) by Vick's Ethan Allen Jr. Paceta 2:26 & filly, b m, 1894, by Lone Pine, 2:28?xCeta (dam of l) by Piedmont 2:17^; 2d dam Cecil (dam of Cecilian, a sire, etc ) by Gen. Benton- 3d dam Cuba (dam of Cubic 2:183^) by imp. Aus- tralian. Filly at foot by Sidney Dillon, and stinted to this sire of champions again Palo Belle 2:24, ch m, 1892, by Palo Alto 2:0814... Belle Isle by Piedmont 2:17^; 2d aam Idabelle (dam of Carlisle 2:2614) "by Hambletonian 10, etc. Palo Russell, b g, 1898, by L W Russell Palo Belle 2:24 by Palo Alto 2:08;;; 2d dam Belle Isle by Piedmont 2:\l*i, etc. Transitof Venus&foal.chm, 1*93, bySidney 2:i9?aVenus (dam of Adonis 2:1114, Cupid 2:i8,a great (sister to Sidney Dillon, Cupia 2:18, Adonis sire, Lea 2:i8!i, the dams of 3 in the list, and 2:1114, etc ) Sidney Dillon, sire of the champion trotter to wagon Lou Dillon 2:04^, Dolly.Dillon 2:07, B S Dillon 2:25 and Captivity 2:26J4) by Venture 2:27?i. Filly by her side by On Stanley 2:17M, stinted to Vallotta, one of the best bred sires in California Easter Lilly, b f , 1902, by Sidney Dillon.... Lilly Stanley 2:17^ (dam of 3 in the list all inside of 2:18) by Whippleton Sid Allen, b g, 1902, by Sidney Dillon 23157 Flora Allen (dam of 3 in 2:30) by Mambrino Aloha, ch c. Wilkes; 2d dam Lady Allen (dam of Molly Allen 2:20 H) bv Vick's Ethan Allen Jr Grlsette, chf, 1902, by fMarengo King 2:29&.. Palo King, b c. 1902, by Marengo King 2:29^. Lady Paceta, b f , 1902, by Marengo King 2:29' Observer, b g, 1902, by Marengo Kin? 2:29^ .. by Sidney Dillon 23157 Adioo by Guy Wilkes 2: 15^; 2d dam By By (great broodmare) by Nutwood 2:1 8^; 3d dam Rapidan (dam of Lockheart 2:08l . and 2 others) by Dicta- tor; 4th dam Madam Headley (dam of Expert Prince 2:13j^ and dams of 5 in list) by Edwin Forrest 851: 5th dam bv Mambrino Chief. .Lissette by Abdallah Wilkes; 2d dam Musette by Startle, eto .Palo Belle 2:24 by Palo Alto 2:08^: 2d dam Belle Isle by Piedmont 2:17"^, etc. .Paceta 2:26 by LonePine 2:28*£; 2d dam Ceta (dam of 1) by Piedmont 2:17^, etc .Transit of Venus (sister to Cupid 2:18, Sidney Dillon, etc) bv Sidney 2:i9?i, etc Prince Allen, br g, 1902, by Marengo King 2:29& . Mollie Allen 2:2014 (sister to Flora Allen, dam of 3) by Mambrino Wilkes, etc Escelsus, br g, 1902, by Esioneer Lady Agnes (dam of Lady Piedmont 2:21^, Stewart &37j£] by Electioneer, etc Indamont, br f, 1900, by Altamont 2:26 Myrtle 2:1314 (dam of Roblzola, trial 2:11) by An- teeo 2:16^; 2d dam Luella (dam of Myrtle 2:13*4 and Prinoe Nutwood 2:12) by Nutwood 2:18%; 3d dam Ruth Ann by Bell Alta, son of William- son's Belmont; 4th dam Jane by Boston Boy Rushbelle, chf, 1900, by L W Russell 20820 Palo Belle 2:24 by Palo Alto 2:083f; 2d dam Belle Isle by Piedmont 8:17J^. Frambelle. b f, 1901, by Fram2:17j* Belle Isle by Piedmont 2:17^; 2d dam Idabelle by Hambletonian 10. Tramper, oh g, 1896, by Sidney Dillon 23157 Red Rose by Sultan 2:24; 2d dam Lady Baldwin (great broodmare) by The Moor. Monition, blk m, 1896, by Almonition 2:24?^ Hazel Mac by Director 2:17; 2d dam McCord's Tricks by Baldy Dandy, rn g, 1893, by Dlreotlvo Dam of Pascora Hay ward *Inferna 2:24 H was sired by Diablo 3:09<4 out of Biscari (dam of 4) by Dlreotor 2:17. IMarengo King 2:29M was sired by McKlnuey 2:11^ out of By By (sister to Lookheart 2:0814, etc) by Nutwood. +Beau B 2:1914 was sired by Wlldnut out of Nettle Benton (dam of 3) by Gen. Benton, eto. SL W Russell was sired by Stamboul 2:0714 out of By By (great broodmare) by Nutwood, etc. With but a few exceptions all the above that are older than yearlings are well broken to drive; some have been and are at present in training on the Santa Rosa track; many are heavily engaged in stakes, and have shown very fast trials for the work they have had. All the Sidney Dillons that have had records have been sold. The amount these four brought aggregated 828,800. The sum of $35,000 has been refused for Lou Dillon. Every Sidney Dillon that has been broken to harness is noted for its perfect disposition, frictionless gait and gameness. Dolly Dillon 2:07 was the greatest mare of 1901. B. S. Dillon 2:25 has shown trial miles in 2:09 and Captivity 2:26£ miles in 2:11 before leaving for the East. This will be the last opportunity offered to get such horses. All are standard and eligible for registration. Those by the younger Santa Rosa Stock Farm sires will show for themselves on the day of sale. Catalogues will be ready for distribution Tuesday, July 14th. Send to the office of the Breeder and Sportsman or to the undersigned if you want one. THERE WILL BE MORE GREAT "TROTTING PROSPECTS" OFFERED AT THIS SALE THAN AT ANY EVER HELD IN CALIFORNIA! Stock at salesyard July 19th. "WM. Hii/ve Stock Auctione 12 ©ft* gveebev cwtfc ^ovtsxxxaxi fJTJLY 11, 1908 Testing Cows in Denmark. Keport on tb.e Benefits Derived by a Sys- tematic Test and Weeding Ont of Poor Cows— Prodnctlon Increased OM- Tbird and Over. Farmers who keep cowb for inilk pro- dnction should be sufficiontly interested in their dairy investment to make that investment pay the largest possible divi- dends. How it is done in Denmark, with comment on other systems, appears in a recent report by John Speir of Newton rarm, Glasgow, which report in part reads: "For a long time back it has been cus- tomary in this and other countries for persons taEing a particular interest in their cows to regularly weigh the milk of each animal. A very few people did so morning and evening, but the bulk of those who kept milk records, and their number is very small, contented them- selves by doing so once a week or once a month. Where cows are kept the busiest hour of the day is usually that of milking; the consequence is that, although most breeders are cognizant of the gain to be derived from a milk record, only an en- thusiast undertakes the trouble. Dwenty years ago when I first made a tonr of Danish farms, I was greatly im- pressed with the number of average farmers who methodically weighed the milk of each cow night and morning. Few people are so methodical in their habits as the Danes, and none have learned and appreciated so highly the value of a milk record as they have done. The enthusiasm and methodical working of the Danes were not, however, proof aeainst becoming tired of such work. A more satisfactory way had, therefore, to be discovered, and this work has now almost entirely fallen into the hands of small soeieties, which undertake the work for their members. These societies, as a rule, are composed of from ten to twenty farmers (twelve is considered the most suituble number) who own among them from 200 to 400 cows Each society becomes affiliated with the Royal Danish Agricultural Soci- ety, and through it get from the Govern ment a grant ranging from one-third to one-half of the total expenses. The soci- ety then engages a young man whose duty it is to spend a day at each farm, weigh and test the milk of every cow, and daring the winter also weigh tne total "quantity of food of each class given to the cows for one whole day. It is the duty of each member to board and lodge the young man while t his farm, and convey him and his weighing machine and milk t ^ter to the next farm when finished. One person can weigh the food and weigh and test the milk of any number up to fifty cows in our day, and, being constantly at it, becomes more expert and does it more reliably than the ordinary farmer. The results for each farm are all tabulated by the parent society, which forwards a copy of the results to every member. Each member contributes in proportion to the number of cows teEted, dry cows being left out of the account. According to Danish labor, the cost works out at about J^d per cow for each double weighing and testing oi the milk and weighing of the food used. As a rule, the visits are made every fortnight, but in some cases every week, and others only once a month. The first societies were begun in 1895, and the number at the present time is over 300. The work is very popular with the average farmer, as he finds he gets many hints as to cheapening cost oi pro- duction. Some farmers are found to pro- duce a gallon of milk or one pound of butter at two-thirds of the cost of others, and some herds to produce one third more than others. Comparing the Danish records of the first and last years, it seems that the aver- age mi"x-, Wm, F. £2saxx. M. R. C. V. S.. F. E. T. M. S. VETERINARY SURGEON. Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, England; Fellow of the Edlnburg Veterinary Medical Society; Graduate of the New Veterinary College. Edinburgh; Veterinary Sur- geon to the S. F. Fire Department; Live Stock inspector forNew Zealand and Australian Colonies at the port of San Francisco; Professor of Equine Medicine, Veterinary Surgery, Veterinary Depart- ment University of California: Ex-President m the California State Veterinary Medical Associa- tion; Veterinary Infirmary, Residence and Office, San Francisco Veterinary Hospital. 1117 Golden Gate Avenue, near Webster St., San Francisco: Telephone West 128. Thick, Swollen Glands can be removed . . with . . ABS0RBINE or any Bunch or Swelling' caused by strain or inflam- mation. $2.00 per bottle, delivered. W. P. YOUNG, P. D. F., Springfield, Mass. For sale "ot Mack & Co.. Langlev& Michael a Go Remington & Co., J. CSaoe, and J. A. McKer IOB all of San Francisco. July' 11. 1903| <&tie Qveeftev trofc grjxortsmcm 15 Portable Houses ALL SIZES, Particularly desirable for Shooting Boxes, Bungalows and Summer Houses. A VERY CONVENIENT AND INEXPENSIVE HOUSE. Send for Illustrated Circu- lar and Price List. Burnham— Standeford COMPANY Washington Street, bet. First and Second, OAKLAND, CAL. San Francisco Office: 40 New Montgomery Street BALLISTITF Tbe Standard Dense Powder of the World. ^^^^ 1901— Wins Second in Grand American Handicap at Targets. 1902— Wins First in Grand American Handicap at Targets. 1903— Wins during Grand American Handicap week at Kansas City. First Amateur Average in Regular Events. Third General Average in Regular Events AIT. OF ABOVE ABE AMATEUR RECORDS. J. H. LAU & CO. Take No One's Word. Try It for Yourself. 75 CHAMBERS ST,, NEW YORK CITY Telephone 1747 Franklin. Importers and Dealers In Fire Aims, Ammunition and Fencing: Goods. Sole Agents for BALLISTITE (Dense) and EMPIRE (Bulk; Smokeless Powders and the RUBLE GUN. A postal brings catalogue and ;1 Shooting Facts." (third edition ) BALLISTITF The Standard Dense Powder of the World. ^^^™ CAMPBELL'S EMOLLIO IODOFORM GALL CURE For GALL BACKS and SHOULDERS, CRUPPER SORES and SADDLE GALLS there is none superior. The horse CAN BE WORKED AS USUAL For BARBED WIRE CUTS, CALKS, SCRATCH- ES, BLOOD POISONED SORES andABRASIONS OF THE SKIN it has no equal. It is very adhesive and easily applied to a watery as well as a dry sore- Its use will absolutely prevent BLOOD POISON- ING. In this respect there is no Gall Cure offered which can justly even claim to be a competitor. We placed it on' the market relying wholly on its merit for success, and notwithstanding the fact that comparatively little has been done in the way of advertising the sales of 190uwere lOO per cent great- er than tbe aggregate sales of Gall Cure preceding that year. This iocrease was entirely due lo its MERITS and from it wefepl justified in saying that it is THE GALL CURE OF THE20TH CENTURY It is a quick and sure cu^r f#-r those troublesome skin cracks under the fe ^ck . aich injure and often lay up race horses. All Trainers Should Have It \n Th;1r S'ables PRICE:— 3 OZ. BOX, 25c; 1 LB. BOX, $1.00. Read our "ad." ou Campbell's Horse Foot Remedy in next issue of this pap^r. JAS. B. CAMPBLL & CO., Mfrs.,412 W. Madison St., Chicago, 111. GOOD ONLY UP TO AUGUST 15, 1903 We are pleased to announce that we have made arrangements whereby we are able to renew our offer of the MAMMOTH CHART, SHOWING SKELETON OF THE HORSE as a handsome premium to new subscribers anl other-* who will pay us $3 for subscription to the Breedeb & Sportsman between July 1st and August 15, 1903. This Chart Is lithographed on tinted paper and is 22x38 inches. It will be found invaluable to every owner of a horse as the names of all the Bones are given, as well as the names of the Tendons and Ligaments of the legs. By studying this Chart almost any lameness tar be located and the proper remedies applied. The accompanying engraving will afford an idea of its appearance. No similar Chart has ever before been published. The artist, in preparing this Skeleton, visited the American Veterinary College in New York City and made drawings from actual skeletons, thus insuring absoluta accuracv. This Chart sells for One Dollar, but any reader can have it who will remit IHKtE DOLLARS BEFORE AUGUST 15, 1903. It will be mailed, carefully packed, in a heavy pasteboard tube for safety. Address BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN, 36 Geary St., San Francisco. SICK DOGS MADE yiELL Sergeant's Remedies STANDARD THE WORLD OVER. SURE SHOT frees the pup from worms for all tim« to come. A marvelous cure and absolutely certain. Its use is pre- liminary to the making of good dogs. By mail 50c. Sergeant's Condition Pills impart vigor, vim and life to the dog who has dropped his tail in dejection. His ambition, keen scent, and eye luster will return with their use, be it in treatment either of Mange, Distemper, Chills, Fever, Constipation or Nervous Debility. 50c and $1.00, postpaid. 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CALIFORNIA Photo Engraving Company HIGH CLASS ART IN Half Tones and Idne Engraving Artistic Designing A06 Mission St., cor. First, San Francisco KENNEL ADVERTISEMENTS. At Stud. SMOOTH FOX TERRIER Norfolk Trueman Fpa £.v. reserve winners, Oakland, 1902i- Imelda (winners and special for best, S. F., 1902) Isabelle, etc. N. H. HICKMAN, 176? Page St., San Francisco. -^WANTED ^J» DOGS mm fUNGE i^,^fT~T0CURl TM[.1 rvmi 5TAM>AlDOtt0f UK. ■STAHPAUP Dm.NrTCTANTCQ Cleveland Q CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS Advertisements under this head one cent per word ■per insertion. Cash to accompany order. BULL TERRIERS-FOX TERRIERS. IRISH _ ._ _,__.,_ IRISH TERRIER AT STUD TERRIER THE GRAND YOUNG DOG BOLTON WOODS DESPOT y Saskatchewan, the dam of the great Bolton Woods Miser (winner of over 2000 firsts and spe- cials). Just imported direct from the celebrated Bolton Woods Kennels, England. One of the rlnest of modern specimens Racy, upstanding, true-fronted dog; typical long, narrow skull; smallest and blackest of eyes. Fee, to a few ^itches, $25. Particulars, address W. OLLARD. Tacoma, Wash. Wandee Kennels' Fox Terriers, WAX DEE BLIZZARD, formerly Lithl an Bliz- zard (BUzzard-Pop). Fee 880 WANDER JESTER (Norfolk Velooity-Norfolk Two Step). Fee 810 Puppies and Brood Bitches for sale. Dogs shown by appointment only. Address WANDEE KENNELS, 814 Harrison St., San Francisco Cal. DELVERTON COCKER KENNELS FRUITVALE T Easter Lilly, b f, 1902, by Sidney Dillon. . . Sid Allen, b g. 1902, by Sidney Dillon 23157. Aloha, chc, 1902, by Sidney Dillon 23157.. Grlsette, chf, 1908, by tMarengo King 8:29* Palo King, be. 1902, by Marengo King 2:29* — Lady Paceta, b f . 1902, by Marengo King 239* Observer, b g, 1902. by Marengo King 2:29* Prince Allen, br g, 1902, by Marengo King 2:29*. Excelsus, org, 1902, by Exi,neer Indamont, br f, 1900, by Altamont 2:26 Rushbelle, chf, 1900, by L W Russell 20820... Frambelle.. b f, 1901, by Fram2:17* Tramper, oh g, 1896, by Sidney Dillon 23157. . . Monition, blkm, 1896. by Almonition 2:243». Dandy, rn g, 1893, by Directivo Darn's Family. .Lilly Stanley (dam of i in 2:30) by Whippleton etc. Very handsome. The Quest Direct mare in California Dolly McMann, s t b, by Mambrino Patchen stinted to Sidney Dillon Musette by Startle 290; 2d dam Beckie Sharp by Bill Denton; 3d dam Kent Mare by Long Island Biackhawk24. Foal at foot is by Sidney Dillon, stinted to this sire again .Lady Allen (dam of Flora Allen, dam of 3) by Vick's Ethan Alien Jr .Ceta (dam of 1) by Piedmont 2:17*; 2d dam Cecil (dam of Cecilian, a sire, etc ) by Gen Benton; 3d dam Cuba (dam of Cubic 2:I83£) by Imp. Aus- tralian. Filly at foot by Sidney Dillon, and stinted to this sire of champions again Belle Isle by Piedmont 2:17*; 2d dam Idabelle (dam of Carlisle 2:284) by Hambletonian 10, etc Palo Belle 2:24 by Palo Alto 2:084; 2d dam Belle Isle by Piedmont 2:17*. etc. Venus (dam or Adonis 2:114, Cupid 2:18, a great sire, Lea 2:184, the damsof 3 in the list, and Sidney Dillon, sire of the champion trotter to wagon Lou Dillon 2:04*. Dolly Dillon 2:07, B S Dillon 2:25 and Captivity 2:264) by Venture 2:273£. Filly by her side by On Stanley 2:17*. stinted to Vallotta, one of the best bred sires In California Lilly Stanley 2:17* (dam of 3 In the list all Inside of 2:18) by Whippleton Flora Allen (dam of 3 in 2:30) by Mambrino Wilkes; 2d dam Lady Allen (dam of Molly Allen 2:204.i bv Vick's Ethan Allen Jr Adloo by Guy Wilkes 2:15*; 2d dam By By (great broodmare) by Nutwood 2:18V, 3d dam Rapldan (dam of Lockbeart 2:u84 and 2 others) by Dicta- tor; 4th dam Madam Headley (dam of Expert Prince 2:13* and dams of 5 in list) by Edwin Forrest 851: 5th dam by Mambrino Chief. Lissette by Abdallah Wilkes: 2d dam Musette by Startle, etc Palo Belle 2:24 by Palo Alto 2:08?4; 2d dam Belle Isle by Piedmont 2:1?*, etc Paceta 2:26 by LonePine 2:28^; 2d dam Ceta (dam of 1) by Piedmont 2:17*. etc Transit of Venus (sister to Cupid 2:18, Sidney Dillon, etc) by Sidney 2:19^, etc Mollie Allen 2:204 (sister to Flora Allen, dam of 3) by Mambrino Wilkes, etc Lady Agnes (dam of Lady Piedmont 2:21 '4, Stewart 2:27*) by Electioneer etc Myrtle 2:134 (aam of Roblzola, trial 2:11) by An- teeo 2:16*: 24 dam Lueila (dam of Myrtle 2:134 and Prince Nutwood 2:12) bv Nutwood 2:18\; 3d dam Ruth Ann by Bell Alta, son of William- son's Belmont: 4th dam Jane by Boston Boy Palo Belle 224 by Palo Alto 2:08*;; 2d dam Belle Isle by Piedmont 2:17*. Belle Isle by Piedmont 2:17*; 2d dam Idabelle by Hambletonian 10. Red Rose by Sultan 2:24; 2d dam Lady Baldwin (great broodmare) by The Moor. Hazel Mac by Director 2:17; 2d dam McCord's Tricks by Baldy Dam of Pascora Hayward *Inrerna2:24* was sired by Diablo 2:09* out or Biscari (dam of 4) by Director 2:17. JMarengo King 2:29* was sired by McKmuey 2:11* out of By By (sister to Lockheart 2:084, etc) by Nutwood. jBeau B 2:194 "as sired by Wildnut out of Nettie Benton (dam of 3) by Gen. Benton, etc. £L W Russell was sired by Stamboul 2:074 out of By By (great broodmare) by Nutwood, etc. With but a few exceptions all the above that are older than yearlings are well broken to drive; some have been and are at present in training on the Santa Rosa track; many are heavily eogaged in stakes, and have shown very fast trials for the work they have had. All the Sidney DilloBS that have had records have been sold. The amount these four brought aggregated $28,800. The sum of $35,000 has baeo refused for Lou Dillon. Every Sidney Dillon that has been broken to harness is noted for its perfect disposition, frictionless gait and gameness. Dolly Dillon 2:07 was the greatest mare of 1901. B. S. Dillon 2:25 has shown trial miles in 2:09 and Captivity 2:264 miles in 2:11 before leaving for the East. This will be the last opportunity offered to get such horses. All are standard aDd eligible for registration. Those by the youneer Santa Rosa Stock Farm sires will show for themselves on the day of sale. Catalogues will be ready for distribution Tuesday, July 14th. Send to the office of the Breeder and Sportsman or to the undersigned if you want one. THERE WILL BE MORE GREAT "TROTTING PROSPECTS" OFFERED AT THIS SALE THAN AT ANY EVER HELD IN CALIFORNIA! Stock at salesyard July 19th. Live Stools. Auctioneer We Can Save You Money HARNESS, SADDLES, WHIPS, ROBES, and Turf Goods, Being the Largest Manufacturers of Fine Harness in the State and Direct Importers of SADDLERY GOODS and TRIMMLNGS. We save you the Jobber's Profit. JEPSEN BROS. COMPANY THE VALLEJO RACE MEETING VALLEJO RACE TRACK, AUGUST 13. 14 AND 15, 1903. Additional Stakes to Close August 1, 1903. 2:30 Class Trotting Stakes The Grissim Stakes for 2:12 Class Trotters Green Class Pacing Stakes - $300 300 30 0 Remember that Entries must be made on time. Eotries postmarked later than date of closing are not eligible to win. Member National Trotting AssociailoD. For further particulars acd Entry Blanks address THOS. SMITH, Manager, VALLEJO, CAL. PUBLIC TRAINING STABLE. I am prepared to take race horses and Polo Ponies to train at Emeryville Race Track Stable, Section C. PETER WEBER, Oakland, Cal. S. F. STOBE: 1145-1147 MARKET STREET. Phone: South 1032 ; WANTED l STANDARD BRED STALLION, weighing ■**■ from 1 175 to 1250. Mubt be a trotter and be at least 4 years old. Color must be bay, trown, black or chestnut. Horse must be perfectly sound, state particulars, price wanted, and wheie stal- lion can be seen. WM- G. LAYNG, Occidental Horse Exchange, 249 Third St. JULY 18, 1903] ®ke gveeitev emir &pavt&xnixn 3 THE WEEKLY BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN F. W. KELLEY, PROPRIETOR. Turf and Sporting Authority ot the Pacific Coast. — OFFICE — 36 GEARY STREET, SAN FRANCISCO. P. O- BOX 2300. Telephone: Black 586. TonuH— One Tear 93. Six Months SI .75. Three Mouths 81 STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. Money snould be sent by postal order, draft or by registered letter addressed to F. W. KELLEY, 38 Geary St., San Francisoo. Cal. Communications must be accompanied by the writer's name and address, not necessarily for publication, but as a private guarantee of good faith. San Francisco, Saturday, July 18, 1903. HARNESS RACING IN CALIFORNIA will not be as extensive as in years past, owing to several causes, but tbere will be many good contests and some high class horseE will be developed during the few weeks of racing that will begin August 13th. In the green classes for trotters and pacers there are several horses entered that will get marks below 2:15 before the season is over, and three or four should get into the 2:10 list. Quite a number of California train- ers will take their strings to the Oregon and Wash- ington circuit where eight or ten weeks' racing is assured them, but there will be plenty of horses re- maining in California to furnish all the meetings that are given with generous fields in the races for which purses are announced. In fact the absence of a por- tion of the horses that have been trained here during the winter will make the chances of those remaining still better when they start for the money. The Vallejo meeting gives every promise of being a big success. There is more interest in harness horse matters in that section at the present time than for years past, due in a great measure to the recently organized Vallejo Driving Club, that arranged a pro- gram of harness racing for the Fourth of July cele- bration two weeks ago that drew a tremendous crowd to the track and was splendidly managed. The entry list for the Vallejo meeting is an excellent one, and some great contests are certain. On the 1st of August three additional purses of $300 each will close. The Gri8sim Stake for 2:12 trotters is one, the 2:30 class trot another and the green class pace the third. The Vallejo track is in fine shape for training and at least forty horses are now being worked there. The Vallejo meeting will open the circuit in good shape and all horsemen should make it a point to be there. successful meetings. The Woodland fair last year waB a great success and the racing was better than at the State Fair and yet all the betting was by auctions and mutuals — there were no books. The State Agricultural Society has run behind nearly every year since bookmaking waB adopted as the bet- ting system on its races. Why not try the old plan once more, especially as the money paid for the privi- lege is all given away for purseB for the runners? CYNDICATE BETTING has been the bane of O California summer racing for years past. The Sacramento Sunday News proposes to do away with it by the following method: ' It is wholly unlikely that the betting on the com- ing State fair races will be of the syndicate variety which has driven the public from the race track and prostituted the sport of kinds to a mere device of pro- fessional grafters. A sim pie scheme can be proposed to accomplish this result and take the fair speed con- tests out of the hands of the gambling ring. Here is a plan that can be consummated if there is an earnest desire on the part of the fair directors to take the in Btitution out of the clutches of the gamesters, and it is understood that there is, at least on the part of a comfortable majority. It is easily possible to induce eix bookmakers to cut in at a price of $225 a day each, payable for the twelve days in advance on the pledge of a programme of sixtv races or five a day. This would bring $16 200 to the society instead of $12 000, which the syndicate paid last year. If more than bix desire to get in the cost could be prorated according to tbe number. The opportunily would be open to all and competition would save the public from the cinch arrangements that have nearly killed racing at the State rair." Tbe plan set forth by the News looks pretty well on the face of it but when it is remembered that all the leading bookmakers who are willing to give fair odds are not on this Coast during the summer, and that the layers of odds who remain here are not at all averse to forming a syndicate, and in fact always do so, there would be nothing gained by the Sacramento journal's plan. It is a known fact that just about all the money received from the bookmakers is given back to tbe running horse owners in the shape of free pursee. Four running races a day for pur6es of $250 each makes $12,000 for the meeting which waB the sum paid last year by the bookmakers for the privi- lege of taking and keeping the publics' money. Why have any booKs at all? Auction pools and mutuals will furnish all the opportunity necessary for the public to make its wagers, and any State institution that must depend for its maintenance on the sum re- ceived for a betting privilege, is not worthy of support. The Pacific Coast Trotting Horse Breeders Associa- tion has abolished bookmaking on its races and holds 1. His second dam was Dolly by Kentucky Eclipse, and third dam untraced. Tbe only Frank Murphy with a record that we know t)i- was sired by Brown Jug, son of Nutwood. His recor.d. of 2:24J was made at Salinas in the fall of 1897." We do not know whether he was ever worked on tbo ,Alameda track. ~pHE STATE FAIR PROGRAM has been issued ' and the advertisement of purses for the harness races will be found in our business columns to-day. The trotters are provided for with a purseof $400 for two year olds, one of $1000 for the 2:24 class, one of the same amount for the free for all class, and purseB of $500 each for the 2:30, 2:17, 2:11 and green claBses. For the pacers there is a purse of $400 for two year olds, one of $500 for the free-for-all class, one of $1000 for the 2:20 class, and $500 each for the 2:17, 2:13 and green classes. In addition to these purses, the Society has offered purses for two mile races as follows: For 2:20 class pacers a purse of $700 the race to be two miles and repeat For 2:24 class trotters the same purse and the same conditions. A double team race for trotters or pacers for teams that have been owned and driven regularly on the road prior to June 1st this year is also provided. $500 is hung up for this event, and the team must be driven in the race hitched to a road vehicle and by the owner. There is a consolation trot and a consolation pace for the classes that have the most starters during the meeting. The Occident Stake will be trotted on the opening day of the fair and the Stanford Stake on the follow- ing Monday. These stakes will be more valuable thiB year than at any previous year. There will be special races for drummers and members of properly organized driving clubs. The fair will open Monday, August 31st and continue two weeks. Entries to the greater part of the harness events will close Wednes- day, August 12th. See advertisement. Answers to Correspondents. G. W. Young, Burns, Oregon — Will you publish in your next issue the pedigree of the stallion Vasto 2:16J and who he was owned by? Can you give the names and records of the sons of John Nelson, and did any of his sons get any fast daughters of note; if so, what were their names? Answer — Vasto, register number 20072, bay horse, foaled 1888, was sired by Vasco 10996, dam Chess (dam also of ValisBa 2:19) by Magic 1451, grandam Betty (dam of Retta 2:28|) by Clark Chief 89. Vasto was bred by J. R. Bascom & Son of Sharpaburg, Kentucky. He was owned by the late James G. Fair of this State and made his record at Woodland, California, August 30, 1894. John Nelson sired four that took standard records, as follows: Aurora 2:27, Gov. Stanford 2:27}, Nemo 2:30 and Nerea 2:23j. He also sired the dams of Albert W. 2:20, Bonanza 2:29}, Alexander Button Jr. 2:26}, Arol 2:24, Hazel 2:28, Maud Y. 2:20}, Sister V. 2:181, and Valensin 2:23. None of his sons have sired standard speed that we know of. D. S. M. Ryde — I wish to enquire in regard to cas- trating colts from four to five months old. Have any of your readers any experience in th's line and what luck have they had? Answer — We have talked with several horse breed- ers on this subject. The consensus of opinion is that castration is aB succeesful at four or five months as at any age. We have heard of colts being castrated at two weekB old. Perhaps some of our readers can fur nish us some personal experiences with colts of this age. We should like to hear of any such. L. M. L. , Martinez— What 1b the breeding of Direct FilB, formerly owned by the late A. G. Gurnett? Answer — Direct Fils iB by Direct 2:Q5A. His dam was a mare oalled Lady W. by Ophir, a son of Sken- andoah, but we have no record of the breeding of the second dam. R. L. N., San Francisco — What hor6e sired Medico 2:171? Answer — Medico, bay gelding, made his record at Napa July 7, 1896. Ho is by Hewlett's Echo, he by Echo 462. The dam of Hewlett's Echo was by Priam 1798, second dam by Skenandoah 926. Robert Elwert, Alvarado, Cal. — Please give breed- ing of the Bire of dam of Ned Forrest 2:25}. Is there a horse called Frank Murphy 2:13} trotting. He is Baid to have been worked on the Alameda track and Is described as a large bay gelding. Answer — Ned Forrest's sire was Blackbird 402, known as Reavis Blackbird. His record is 2:22. He was sired by Blackbird 401. His dam was Jane Smith by Captain Lightfoot, son of Victor, he by Abdallah J. C. H. — Can you give the pedigree and race record of a horse called Plumas? Answer — Plumas, a bay stallion, was by Warner's Rattler out of a mare called Rose Thompson, whose pedigree was untraced. He was bred and owned by John Thomson, Quincy, Plumas County, California. He was foaled in 1862 and had a record of 2:40|. He is registered. The Columbus, Ohio, Meeting. Columbus (O.), July 13.— The summer meeting of the Columbus Driving Park Association opened here to-day. Results: Trot, 2:30 class; purse $800 — Robizola won the second and third heatB and race. Time, 2:15}, 2:17$. Patchen Maid won the first heat in 2:14}. Pace, 2:18 class; purse $1000— Rampart D. won in straight heats. Time, 2:12}, 2:12}. Trot, 2:24 class; purse $1000 — Joymaker won in two straight heats. Time, 2:135, 2:14}. Pace, 2:30 class; purse $800 — Five Points won in two seraight heats. Time, 2:12}, 2:10}. July 14. — The judges did not think McCarthy was driving Tom Keene out in the first race to-day and McHenry was put up in his place. Track fast. Results: 2:24 pace, purse $1000 — Dr. Madara won in two straight heats. Time, 2:11}, 2:09}. 2:23 trot, purse $2000— Guy Fortune won second and third heats and race. Time, 2:17}, 2:16}. Maud Carlisle won the first heat in 2:16}. 2:10 pace, purse $1400 — Baron Rodges won in two Btraight heats. Time, 2:11}, 2:08}. 2:17 trot, purse $800— Robizala won in two straight heats. Time, 2:13}, 2:16. July 16.— Track fast. Results: 2:12 pace, purse $1000 — Pauline D. won in two Btraight heats. Time, 2:08}, 2:07}. 2:19 trot, purse $1000 — Aerolight won in two straight heats. Time, 2:13}, 2:14}. 2:16 pace, purse $800 — George A. Fuller won first and third heats and the race. Time, 2:08}, 2:09}. Miss Ophelia won second heat in 2:09}. 2:22 pace, purse $800 — Five Points won in two straight heats. Time, 2:12}, 2:12}. Runners and Trotters Compared. Palmer Clark writes as follows in the Chicago Inter- Ocean of last Sunday: In the face of the absorbing interest In sporting circles caused by the most successful racing season in the history of Washington Park, now in progress at the South Side track, discussions and comparisons as to the merits and Buccess, past, present and future, of the harness and running horse game are numerous and, at times, heated. A newcomer to the thoroughbred ranks is puzzled to know how the trotters and pacers manage to keep up year after year, even to a limited extent. Sports of all kinds are, to a great extent, a matter of educa- tion, and the kindergarten schools for the running meetings are the big cities, and the very large major- ity of the schools never get beyond the primer used in these great schools, namely the metropolitan dailies, From personal knowledge and observation I am positive there are thousands in Chicago and vicin- ity who turn to the running horse news first in picking up a Chicago daily who can tell you all about the horses that are to race that particular day, repeating like a parrot the information gleaned in the past from the same source. They could not tell one horse or rider from another except by comparison of numbers and colors on the score cards; they seldom go to the races, but will bet their last dollar with all the confid- ence in the world. It will be news to this vast army to know that there are close to a thousand harness horse meetings each year, as compared to about 100 running events in the smaller towns. These meetings, their promoters and followers, aB far outclass the run- ning element, as the latter are 80 confident in claim- ing for their side in the larger cities. It would be harder to give a successful running meeting of the first class in Ceveland, strictly a har- ness-horse center, than a trotting meeting in Chicaeo, where the runners are so prominent, yet both a-e possible and a matter of education coupled with good management. Lexington, Ky., is about the only city where suc- cessful meetings of both kinds have been held for years past and where both clashes of horses are bred, raised, and developed. I doubt whe'.her f-e-e is a fair-minded resident of the Blue Grass 6eotioa but will concede first honors to tbe trotter. The runners are bred to sell and race — trotters the same, but, in addition, the latter are a source of pleasure and recreation to many wealthy, retired business and professional men. For this, from among many good reasons, I, for one, believe the harness horse interests will survive the longer and grow In popularity. ®he ^veehev tm& *&ptftrt&matx fJULY 18, 1903 ul EXPECT ;£6 'SEE HER go in 2:03 or better this * yearj'. Was the statement made by Millard Sanders wb/an Lou Dillon was put up for sale at Cleve- land last May. Since then the handsome little daughter of Sidney Dillon has made four public trials against the watch held by Father Time. In her first trial she pulled a wagon in 2:06J. Her next trial was to beat that record and 6he drew the four wheeled vehicle a mile in 2:045— faster than any other horse had ever drawn one. Tb« nest time she started was in an effort to lower the record of Alix 2:03j to sulky. She failed as the mile was in 2:04J. Last Saturday she again made the attempt and when the mile was finished 2:031 was the time hung out and Lou Dillon is now the fastest trotting mare the world has yet seen. The beautiful little mare has been written of so often in these columns that there is no need of anything further being said of her breeding, looks or peculiarities. She is undoubtedly the most wonder- ful trotting mare ever seen on the turf and her flight of speed is as great if not greater than any other trotter. That she will trot a mile in 2:03 as Millard Sanders predicted is as certain as she keeps right "and starts some day this year when the weather and track conditions are favorable, and it is the opinion of the writer that she will shade the record of Cres- ceus 2:02^- a little before the end of the year. Another good mare that Mr. Sanders is handling is the bay mare Robizola by Robin that he has under lease from her owner Dr. Clark of Santa Rosa. Robi- zola started twice this week at the Columbus races and not only won both races, but took a record of 2:15J in the first race and reduced this to 2:13^ in the second. Robizola is by Robin a son of Director and is a very rapid gaited and nervy trotter. She will get a mark better than 2:10 this year barring acci dents and 2:07 will be nearer her record if she finds a good day and track and a fast field to make her show her best. Dolly Dillon 2:07, Anzella 2:06j and Lou Dillon 2:03.1 is a pretty good lot of records for one trainer to hang up in three successive years and Mr. Sanders is entitled to all the credit thatis due adriver of three such trotters. May he add Robizola to his 2:07 list before the summer is over. Breeder's camera, and which are shown on the title page to-day, were the following: Swanhilda, a good-looking bay mare owned by W. L. McDonald of Concord, will- be a starter in the 2:25 Glass pace at the Vallejo meeting. She has a nice way of going and wears nothing but a harness and a pair of quarter boots. She has had very little work, but can show a mile in 2:25. Hank 2:23| by Vasto is now in Joseph Smith's charge. He is an improved horse in appearance and, if he could get away as well as he can come home, would be a dangerous factor in any company. The McKinney two year old is owned by L. Lead- better. This colt is a very handsome youngster, just learning to know what a harness is. His dam is by Secretary and his second dam the dam of Silas Skin- ner 2:17; so he is bred for looks, speed and staying qualities. He is a square trotter. Miriam E. is not only a good-looking mare, with size and style, but 'she is a great prospect. She be- longs to E. Dinkelspiel, the Suisun editor, and is being trained by Mannie Reams. Miriam E. is a full sister to Ben F. 2:22, the fast pacer that Fred Chadbourne is training at Pleasanton. Like him she is a "side- wheeler." Joe Corey turned Djnnybrook, full brother to Joe Selby 2:24J, loose to have his picture taken, remark- ing that the contrast would be too great if he re- mained in the sulky. Donnybrook is a trotter and can show a lot of speed He has been in the stud this year and done a fair business. He is one of the best dispositioned of stallions, and is often led about by a little twelve-year-old girl when being ccoled out. The high-headed gelding Roscoe is a five year-old and beiongs to the famous McGregor family. He is by Rainbow, son of Silver Bow, and he by Robert McGregor. Roscoe is a trotter and- Joe Smith works d him a nice, easy mile in 2:47 just before the picture was taken. This gelding is a bay, good gaited, has been driven by a lady, and is about an ideal road Robert Smith left Los Angeles last Thursday evening for Seattle with his own and W. G. Durfee's horses that are to be raced on tbe North Pacific Circuit. Mr. Dur- fee will follow some time during the coming week. The horses taken were High Ball, Red Skin, Ama A., Sweet Marie, Rita H.. Coronadoand Idylwild. Several of these horses are horse and a good prospect for someone to get aod entered at the Vallejo and the Breeders Petaluma train for the races. meeting but they will hardly be back in time to start Little Babe is the mare by Bradtmoor that won the there as the time will be too short and then tbe out- trotting race on May Day at the Dixon track and MILLARD SASDEBS ASD LOO DILLON" 3:03 1-2. look for a good season of racing is so good up north that few who start in at Seattle will wan.t to come back to California before October unless they have engagements in the large stakes. As Durfee has several fast ones in his string the fact that he has gone to Seattle will rt oubtless cause the list of starters at Vallejo to be larger than it would have been had he taken his string there. From present appearances the Vallejo meeting will be quite a success this year as the applications for stall room already made show that more horses will be on the grounds when the meeting opens than have been seen there in years. During a flying visit made to the Vallejo track last Saturday I found several of the old standbys at work. Thos., Smith, who now has the management of the Chicago, Louisville, Lexington and New York. took a record of 2:25. She is one of tbe best pros- pects I have seen for a 2:15 trotter, and as she has been trained but very little looks like the real goods, as she can show a very fast clip. Mannie Reams has her in his string. Ascot Park Will Open Christinas Day. A telegram from Los Angeles dated July 12th says: "Ascot Park, the new race track upon which work is now progressing, will be thrown open on December 25th for a six-days' season of racing. J. W. Brooks, manager of the new track made the announcement to- day. He leaves to-morrow for the East and hopes to induce owners of the best horses to be had to race at tbe new track. He will visit St. Louis, Cincinnati, track is working a few, bis son Jos. Smith has a half dozen or so, Joe Corey has three or four, Mannie Reams is handling seven or eight. L Leadbetter is working two or three colts; Dr. McDonald, the Con- cord vet, has a couple there, and during the afternoon J. W. Zibble came in from Denver wuh nine head. Several trainers will take their strings there during the coming week There will be a full season of three weeks' racing at Agricultural Park, of which Brooks is lessee, from October 13 to 31st, inclusive. Ascot Park has large financial backing, and is designed to be one of the firest race courses in the country." It is said that at Bronson, Mich., a five year old broodmare with a foal at foot was started in a matinee The track is in fine shape — in fact race the other day, winning a heat (half mile) in 1:111. I never saw it look so well. Arrangements just com- pleted with the city authorities of Vallejo will give a liberal water supply from this on and tnere will be no ibortage of this necessary aid to good track makirg. Among the horses that got within the view of the She had on no shoes behind, and the morning of the race was led eleven miles to the track. This marvel- ous mare is called Little Reanie, and is owned by Stanton & Son, Union City, Mich. Little Reanie is a gray mare, 15 hands, foaled 1898, sired by a son of Pilot Medium, dam Irene 2:27.} by Ira Nutwood. She and her colt were shown after the race, and were led home that night. She was big and fat. Good Sport at Woodland. Woodland, July 12, 1903. Editor Breeder and Sportsman:— As we had a nice day's sport here yesterday, I send an account of it, thinking it will interest your readers. There were four events on the card. No liquor ^aB sold on the ground and no pool selling was permitted, and as the admission was but 25 cents every one could attend, and there was a fair crowd. The first event was a walking race between R. H. Nason's Glen Wilkes, A. B. Rodman's Billie and Sam Grigsby's saddle horse. Mr. Grigsby's horse won, Glen "Wilkes being second and Billie third. The time for the mile waB 9:57. The second event was the attraction of the day. Mr. C. B. Bigelow's horse, The Kid, has developed into a guideless pacer with but very little experience. He was given a couple of slow heats to harness first and then turned loose for the guideless mile. He went the mile without a skip in 2:23|- and came down the homestretch like an oldtime campaigner. It was something new for the people of Yolo county to see, and it gave great satisfaction. It is predioted by horsemen that this horse will develop into a very fast guideless pacer. The next event was a race between A. E. Masten's Celmar, Johu Silva's Economizer and R. H. Nason's Glenrose. The result was as follows: Celmar by Falrose-Killaroey. (Masten) 1 1 Economizer by Ctaas Derby (SHvb) 2 2 Glenrose by Falrose (Nason) 3 3 Tlme-2:2-iK, 2:29. The second race was a very pretty contest and gave great satisfaction. In the second hent of this race Bellrose by Falrosa lowered her record by three- fourths of a second. The summary is as follows: Bellrose by Falrose (Nason) 1 1 Penrose by Falrose (Masten) 3 2 Smuggler by Waldsteln (Norton) 2 3 Polka Dot by Mendocino (Sllva) 4 4 Lena A by Linmont (Glblln) 5 5 time— 2:21, 2:1?H- The judges who officiated during the day were A. C. Stevens, O. A. Lowe and S. H. Grigsby; Timers, E. Donnelly, S. W. Lillard and H Edmonds. Clerk J. M. Cradman. Matinee Racing at Eureka. A Driving Club has been organized a-t ICureka, Humboldt county aod held its fiist matinee on July 4tb. A large crowd was present and enjoyed the r- cing. The results are follows: . First race — For delivery wagon horses, one-half mile. Two started. First, Loheide & Vorrath's Maud, second, E. G. Pluke's Black Bess. Time, 1:30. Second race— One mile. Four started. First, D D. Avers' Black Prince; second, John Hanson's Blossom; third, Frank McGrath's Johnny Bright; fourth, Guy Roberts* Eagle. Time, 3:33. Tbird race — Free for all, one-half mile. Firt heat: First, H. Cochran's Priscilla; second, E. L. Hunt's Bolivar. Time, 1:11}. Second heat: First, Priscilla; second, Bolivar. Time, 1:10. Fourth race — For double teams, one mile. First, Dr. C. C. Falk's team; second, Dr. E. Backenstone's team; third, Dr. Rae Felt's team. Time, 3:40. Fifth race — Ladies' buggy horses, one mile. Four entries. First, Mrs. H. Cochrane's Aurora Don; sec- ond, Mrs. Wm. Hall's Lucy; third, Mrs. C. E. Jenney's Beauty: fourth, Mrs. R. E. Baldwin's May. Time, 2:50. Sixth race — Trotting and pacing, one mile. First, J. Loewenthal's Pat Patchen; second, G. R. George- son's Robert G.; third, Dr. C. C. Falk's Bertie. Time, 2:46. Seventh race— One mile. First, I. Minor's Elmer V. ; second, H. Cochrane's Aurora Don. Time, 2:40. An Efficient Controller. A patent for a folding blinder, which is said to be an efficient means of controlling a vicious horse, was recently granted to Ole Vikoren of Holdrege, Neb. The inventor says that it is positive in its action and is always ready for use, while at tbe same time its presence is never obtrusive wben out of service, for the reason that it is largely hidden away in a casing over the brow-band of the animal's bridle. The blinder comprises, according to the description of the inventor, the casing or housing curved to con- form with the brow-band and fastened to the bridle by suitable straps. This contains a bellows folding- curtain or blind which is normally held in place within the casing by means of spring clips. This curtain is operated by a cord secured to the lower ends of the curtain and passed through the bit-rings and then back to the saddle or the hip-straps of the driving harness, within easy reach of the rider or driver. The moment that this curtain is drawn down in front of a horse's eyes he at once becomes quieted, and can be secured and led away from danger. — Philadelphia Secord. July 18, 1903] f&he ^xeeifzv tmtr ^povt&nxcax Proposed Five-Mile Trot. Hollister Citizens are Showing Enterprise. William J. Irvine worked his trotting gelding Talis- HOLLISTEB, July 12, 1U03. nan by Steinwayon Agricultural Park track last Sat- There is to be quite a change at the Hollister race irday morning a mile in 2:20, last half in 1:08, says the track. The property is owned by a corporation Sacramento Union. He was so well pleased with the jerformance that he announced his willingness to Dack his horse with $500 against any horse, trotter or Dacer, owned in Sacramento County for a five-mile jut, to be raced on the second or third day of next State Fair, if agreeable to the directors. His idea is ;o get at least three other owners of good horses in- terested, owDers, trainers or handlers to drive, and the winner to take all. This is a somewhat novel proposition, as it is some years since a five-mile out was raced in this county, [t is none the less commendable, since a five-mile race s undoubtedly a better test of the bottom and stamina is well as of condition than the single mile heatB and best two in three to win, which have been in recent' years growing in public favor. On the thoroughbred course it is the get of four and Sve-mile horses which are now taking the money, as was instanced by the recent winning by the great three-year-old Afrikander of the Advance Stakes, in which hebioke the Sheepshead Bay track record, and the rich Realization Stake. Afrikander was bred in Sacramento County, and is by imp. Star Ruby, whose last performance before retiring to the Haggin Grant stud was the winning at the Bay of a four-mile race, at One stage of which he was almost a mile behind the leaders. There is no scarcity of fa6t harness horEes owned in this county and eligible to Mr. Irvine's proposal. Among those which may be mentioned are Frank Wright's Kelly Briggs, Captain Frank Silva's Polka Progress or No Progress. The following letter was addressed to the New York . Sun: The Sun of July 1st contained an editorial reference to a recent trotting performance to wagon in 2:04$, at Cleveland; and, recalling Nancy Hanks' reduction of Maud S.'s record to 2:04, the question is asked: "Did the mare or the pneumatic tire on the sulky do it?" In turn Alix dethroned Nancy Hanks by trotting to bicycle sulky in 2:03A. The owner of Alix declared that he would put her in special training to high- wheel sulky to also beat'Maud S.'s high-wheel record of 2:08$. After due preparation, and When she was thought to be "fit," Alex had her trial, and, much to the surprise of ber owner, failed lamentably, her best effort being something like 10 or 11 seconds slower than her record to "bike," or about 2:14 and perhaps a fraction over. Some of the newspapers of the day mentioned the known as "The San Benito County Land and Improve- ment Club," but since Gov. Pardee vetoed the appro- priation for district fair9 all interest seems to have waned. This was about to cripple a very important industry. A few enterprising and prominent citizens realizing that something must be done to foster the raising of good stock, and also realizing that well bred horse6 with speed undeveloped were practically of no value, determined to see what could be done. A9 a consequence, a company of prominent men has been organized and has rented the Hollister race track for a term of five years, and before this is in print,. a contract will have been let for a ten inch well, a ten thousand gallon tank and frame and a twelve foot windmill. This. in addition to the well, tank and mill now in use, will furnish the necessary water to make failure, but in general a very ominous Bilence ensued, a firBt class track. There are some first class sires in Hollister such as Dictatus Medium by Dictatus from Belle Medium; Mestoe by Sable Wilkes from Jane E., and Don Pa- tricio by Benton Boy. All these horses' colts should be given a chance. To do so requires a good track. The -raising of well bred horses is attracting the attention of our community; the great drawback is the limited number of first class dams. The aim of the new company is to make a fine track that will attract outsiders. We have -the climate, water in abundance and that which is good, and the Hollister hay is recognized' as the best in California— in fact it is being shipped all. over the East for race track pur- poses-. Hollister is centrally located, and thereisBO and still seems to prevail, and I can not recall any further attempts in that direction. When the "bike" Bulky first appeared the trainers quite generally agreed that it made "any old skate" into a "ghost." Alix was very far from being a "skate," yet she could trot many seconds faster to "bike" than to high wheels, and ever since her day and failure as mentioned I have pondered this question: If Alix, certainly not above second class to high wheels, could be queen of trotters, in fact trotting champion, to "bike" sulky, what record would Maud S., the champion trotter to high whe ;ls, have attained had she enjoyed the opportunity, of trotting to bike? Would she also have trotted 10 or 11 seconds faster than she. did, say. down to 1:57$ .or 1:583? I' Maud S. Dot, Frank Ruhstailer's Munroe B, Joe Terry's Mar-. reaBOn why this track, once in good order, should not ' COuld be the world's champion trotter under the re- garetta, Alex Brown's Aristo and The Bouquet, and L. T(.dhunter'9 Zombowyette. Mr Irvine places much reiiauce in the abundant strains of thorough- bred blood which are to he found in the pedigree of Talisman.. Besides what he gets through his sire, i Steinway, he is further enriched in that respect through his dam, Woodline by Woodnut, second dam Maud by Whippleton, and third dam You Guess by Jack Hawkins, a son of old Boston. The day following the publication of Mr. Irvine's defi Captain Charles F. SUva of Sacramento was in- terviewed and said: "I am more than pleased to accept the challenge of Mr. Irvine, and I can make up a field of three horses in order to make the event interesting. I will race him five miles out for $500, and my entry will be my mare Polka Dot. I am authorized to state that Frank E. Wright 'sMargaretta or Florodora— probably Florodora— will enter, which will make the purse $1500— well worth competing for. If Mr. Irvine is in earnest and will post a $250 forfeit immediately, I will post a like sum for each of the other two horses, and wo can give the race of the fair and draw the bigge6t crowd. I mean just what I say, and my money is ready to go up. It is up to Mr. Irvine. I think it likely that other owners would also put up the entry fee and start their crack road- sters,' but of course I don't know. I don't think there would be any difficulty in getting the race put on, for it would be a big drawing card and would cost the Agricultural Society nothing." Director U. W. Paine, of the State Agricultural Society and member of the Speed Committee, was seen by a Union representative and asked whether the directors of the society would be willing to put on the race. He a. id: "You may say for me that the society will not only put on the race, but will hang up a gold medal for the winner. The race, as proposed, would be the biggest drawing card of the fair, would fill the stands and would cost the society nothing. We will hang up a gold medal for such a race and will be glad to do it. 1 A five-mile trot, even if the starters were not local horses, would be enough of a novelty to draw a great crowd. I know all of the horses mentioned, and I am I satisfied that a corking race will result if the parties | interested stand by their offers, and as they are all game sportsmen, I think they will do so." become popular as a training stable. There are twelve tarding influence of high wheels, wherein would she horses being worked here sow, and a number of others haVe lacked the necessary capacity to be over w helm- will come from neighboring townsas soon as the track is in first class shape. The intention is to have three days' races at a date to be hereafter made known. Observer. . Good Words for Trainer Zibble. Mr. J: W. Zibble, who came to California last winter and.loeated at Fresno with a few horses that he had ingly the world's champion, trotting with no draw- backs whatever? As to pneumatic-tire wagon record sit should not be forgotten that in September. 1900, at Hartford, Conn., The Abbot made a record of 2:05J, while a few weeks later he "worked" a mile in public to wagon in 2:03}, timed by many spectators, and this performance was duly set forth in many newspapers. As The Abbot's campaigned successfully on the northern circuit last sulky record was also 2:031, his trial to wagon in pre " a _" . - • . • .:^.rln llin noma time I an t.n pnncirlorQ hlo cnnlrnvBroT year, reached Vallejo from Denver last Saturday with a string of nine horses including Prof. Heald's good trotter Tom Smith that he drove to a record of 2:13} at Denver and won t,wo races with., Mr. A. D. Hughes, a correspondent of the American Horse Breeder, wrote last -week in that paper the following complimentary notice of Mr. Zibble, who is a stranger to a majority of California.horsemen: Trainer James W. Zibble, who won a fair share of the "money and honors at the Overland Park meeting, will be remembered as the man who brought out Shadeland Onward 2:18J, giving him his early prepa- ration and first race record below 2:30. Last season he had the good, young stallion The Commonwealth 2:18J, a son of Shadeland Onward 2:184, who gave Mr. Estabrook's fast mare Hallie Hardin a beating in the'2;25 class in June, but was not awarded the race for alleged repeatedly breaking in the last heat. Mr. Zibble is a native of. Michigan, one of the hardest workers in the business; and his many friends in and about Fullerton, Neb., will be glad to know that "Jim" has struck a winning streak. He waB twice elected sheriff of Nance county, Neb., when the country was new and the citizens none too good, but ha made a good officer, having a reputation for fear.. lessness that bordered on the miraculous. cisely the same time led to considerable controversy a9 to whether the bike-wheel wagon was rot as little drawback to a horse as the bike sulky. With these facts before us does it not appear reasonable to assume that the trotter has made no progress 6ince Maud S.? Otherwise would not some owner have discovered the superiority of his horse and have made it manifest to the world by beating 2:08$ to high wheels, on a regulation track, tires of narrow steel and no ball-bearing axles? Now we are without landmarks to measure our progress in breeding. Would not some enterprising track manager find fame and profit in offering a purse to any trotter beating 2:08$ under the condi- tions suggested? Should no entry be made then it would indeed be time to formulate a new standard for improving the breed of owners rather than trotters. I dislike to believe that owners have been cowed by the failure of one champion to prove her capacity and now consider discretion to be the better part of valor. Unless, something is soon done, will it not be clear that the bike wheel is a delusion and a snare, and mainly useful in being the "skate's" best friend? T. B. Armitage. Which is it On? Sam Browne, the Kentucky horseman, used to tell story about a foreman at his Blue Grass 6tock farm. The foreman loved horses and whisky, and he was so attentive to each that it was impossible to determine which occupied first place in his affections. He went on record one day, however. A group of stablemen were discussing the size of some nags when one asked : "Why are horses measured by hands?" " I don't know," replied tbe foreman, "but it's all wrong. Horses should be measured by fingers and whisky by hands."— New York Times. The Kenney Bicycle Co., 531 Valencia St., is doing a big business in the McMurray Carts and Sulkies. You not only save money by purchasing a McMurray but get the most durable, best made, and easiest running cart or sulky in the market. Investigation will con- vince & MisBOurian. I . ^ *rr— — TT - Jackson's Napa Soda does not tangle the feet. The following is from the Western Horseman pub- lished at Indianapolis: Of course everyone knows that H. B. Gentry and Sterling R. Holt, are not only both very much in the trotting horse business, but they are very good friends. Mr. Gentry stands Mc- Kinney 2:11} at $200, and it is said he has a fine- blooded dog which serves at the same price. Mr; Holt is also somewhat of a dog fancier himself and owns a female of royal lineage, fully "standard bred", and. registered. Mr. Holt desired to make one book- ing each to McKinney and Mr. Gentry's dog, but was "turned down" because the book of each was full. He was anxious to "get in," however, and pressed Mr. Gentry for the favor of an exception, and being anxious to at least in a measure oblige his friend. Mr. Gentry told Mr. Holt that he— Mr. Holt— might make one booking, taking his own choice as to whether it would be to McKinney or the imported Dlue-blooded canine. Mr. Holt paid over his $200 ar d "booked" to the canine— so the story goes. Now the query is, among the intimate friends of the two gentlemen, which one is it "on"? The editor of the Western Horseman haB been appealed to for a decision on^he question, but finds the "scales of Justice" bo evenly balanced that they refuse to "break!". ■ President Harry K. Devereux of the League, of Amateur Driving Cluba announces that this year's inter-city matinee will be held at the Glenville track) Tuesday and Wednesday, September 1st and 2d, un- less these dates should not meet the approval of the league members, which condition is unlikely. Of course, the principal events of the two days' card will be the annual pacing cup race and the race for the Cleveland challenge cup for trotters. The Cleveland cup takes the place of the Boston cup, which was won three successive times in straight heals by Mr. Devereux's splendid stallion John A. McKerron 2:05}. There is already much speculation as to the possible starters in the big race. McKerron is by no means a certain contestant. Mr. Devereux plans to have him start for the world's record, and being thus occupied McKerron may not be in position to fill the role of cup defender. But it is sure that Mr. Billings will start one of his horses, either Lou Dillon 2:03J (matinee) or Tbe Monk 2:05}, while it is reasonably certain that O. G. Kent will have Anzella 2:06$ pre- pared to start. Whether or not Mr. Smathers' new- found passion for tbe runners will keep him out of the race is not known, but Lord Derby's recent accident miy, although, of course, the former Village Farm gelding may be fit for the race of his life in a few weeks. N. E. Olio, of Kent, O., was the owner of a valuable pair of horses woich died a few days ago from eating the leaves of an oleander tree. 6 ®Jte gveebev crofc grpjcrrtematt [JOLY 18, 1903 The new sulky for Lou Dillon weighs twenty-six pounds. State Fair program is out. Entries for it will close August 12. The free for all classes are given S1000 each by the State Fair. A two-mile race for 2:27 class trotters is on the State Fair program. This is the year to enter in California races. Most of the very fast horses will race outside the State. Woodland has given up the idea of giving afair and rarte meeting this year. There will be meetings held at Hollister and Salinas this fall and good programs of harness racing will be given. Horsemen predict that the two dash races at Mem- phis this fall will have more than their share of entries. William Mac 2:05} paced a mile in 2:07^ over the West Chicago Driving Club's half mile track last Saturday. Anaconda 2:01J haa not only changed owners lately, but has also had his name changed. He is now called Knox Gelatine King. Mr. O. G. Kent, of Cleveland, Ohio, believes his mare Anzella 2:06? can trot as fast a mile as Lou Dillon has yet shown. Earalma by Earl has joined the list of great brood- mares and is the dam of two very good ones, Pan Michael 2:11} and Boralma 2:07. The quarters of Lou Dillion's mile last Saturday when sue won the world's record for mares in 2:031 were as follows: 31}, 301, 30} 31. W. P. Hammer of Willows reached Vallejo last Saturday with his string of horses, which he will race on the California circuit this year. The Monk lowered his wagon record to 2:05} at Cleveland last Saturday, and Mr. Billings' new pur- chase, Greenline, paced a half in 0:59 3-5. Confienza 2:211, bay mare, (4), by James Madison, dam Ituna by Steinway, in J. H. Tbaver'a stable, trotted a mile in 2:21, the last half in 1:061. Robin the sire of Robizola 2:13} the good mare that Millard Sanders iB now campaigning in the east, is owned by Mr. Julius A. Trescony of Salinas. Trilby Direct by Direct worked a mile on Saturday for Dan Malony in 2:09. She will probably be one of the contestants in the Chamber of Commerce stake. Don't forget the Pierce sale at Wiiliam G. Layng's Occidental Horse Exchange next Wednesday. This is the final dispersal of the horses owned by the late Henry Pierce. Lottie Smart 2:07} is a new arrival in California. She came in with Mr. J. W. Zibble's string from Den- ver and is at the Vallejo track. She made her record last year at Baltimore. Note the advertisement of the bay five year old trotter for sale by a Vallejo party. A picture of the horse appears on our title page to-day. He is called Roscoe and is by Rainbow. Woodland will be missed from the circuit this year. The Yolo county district fair has- always been one of the best held on the coast and it is unfortunate that it cannot be given this year. Sidney Dillon has sired the fastest mare in the world. There are three fillies by Sidney Dillon and a full sister to him catalogued for the Pierce sale at the Occidental Horse Exchange next Wednesday. A filly by Sidney Dillon out of a mare that baa pro- duced three in 2:18 or better should be worth money. There are two fillies bred like this to be sold next Wednesday at the Occidental Horse Exchange. Walter Direct, son of the unbeaten Direct Hal and Ella Brown 2:111. is being trained by Geers just as he trained Direct Hal. It is said that he can step right at 2:10 now but will be saved for the 1905 races. Alone 2:09} by Nearest 2:22 (full brother to John A. McKerron 2:05}) is showing great speed at San Jose and looks to be capable of reducing he record this year. She has worked a mile in 2:101 recently and a half in 1:02 J. In the parade held at Fresno on the Fourth of July there were many attractive turnouts, but none that made a prettier showing than the tandem driven by Dr. Stimpson the well known veterinary. He drove Kohlan King and his son Kohlan Prince. Both are blacks of beautiful conformation and great style and they were universally admired. M. M. Donnelly of this city has sold his trotting stallion Young Salisbury 2:18} by Judge Salisbury 5872, out of Nora Sprague by Gov. Sprague 444, to John Teddy, a New Zealand horseman, and the horse was shipped on the steamer Sonoma last Thursday. Primrose 2:1.3 that was purchased in Los Angeles last year by Jos. Barnett of Albuquerque, New Mex- ico, was sold at Denver two weeks ago to J. Fred Roberts of that city for $1900. She started in the 2:11 pace at the Denver meeting but was outside the money. Marengo King (3) 2:29} by McKinney, that was bought by J. H. Brown, Detroit, at the last Fasig & Tipton, sale is now in Frank Colby's training stable at Detroit. He made a short season in the stud and recently stepped a mile in 2:40, last quarter in 33 seconds. Mr. Watson, one of the drivers fined at the 4th of July meeting at Tanforan Park, informs us that at a meeting of the Golden Gate Park Driving Club held this week the fines were remitted and both he and Mr. James O'Kane exonerated from any wrong doing in the race. Directina, the black mare by Direct 2:051 out of Stemwinder, the dam of Directum 2:05}, that took a record of 2:16} in 1897, when a three year old, started in the 2:17 class at Readville week before last and won the first heat in 2:14}. She was beaten the next heats, however, in 2:15 and 2:17}. Lilly S., a five year old mare by Direct 2:051, dam Lilly Stanley 2:17}, therefore a full sister to Rec't 2:16$ and On Stanley 2:17}, is to be sold next Wednesday at the Pierce sale. She is stinted to Sidney Dillon, the sire of Dolly Dillon 2:07 and Lou Dillon 2:031, and the produce should be worth a lot of money. Emaline 2:271 by Electioneer, foaled a fine colt by Zolock 2:101 on July 8th. She is owned by Mr. F. A. Ramsey of Riverside. Mr. Ramsey also owns the yearling Hylock by Zolock out of Hytai by Happy Prince. This little colt is a natural trotter and trotted an eighth of a mile about two weeks ago in 30 seconds. Horsemen will be sorry to know that Tim Murnem, so long with Cresceus 2:02}, was badly injured at Den- ver while jogging one of the horses in his stable. The mare stumbled and fell, throwing Mr. Murnem on his head and face. His injuries, while not thought to be serious, will keep him out of the sulky for some time. T. C. Butler of Salinas has purchased from Geo. A. Davis of Pleasanton the three year old trotting geld- ing X-Rey by Rey Direct 2:10, dam Midget, the dam of Too Soon 2:24J by Inca. X-Rey is 15.3 and a hand- some bay. He has already shown 2:40 speed and has the making of a fine roadster as he has a splendid disposition. Kelly Briggs won the 2:11 pace at Cleveland on Sat- urday on July 4th. The program of the meeting was mostly made up of matinee races, but three purse events were put on and the race won by Kelly Briggs was one of them. He won in straight heats in 2:171 and 2:14. The other horses in the race were Sadie Baron 2:18} and Glib, a horse without a record. El Moro 2:131, the fast trotter by Longwortb, owned by Mr. Graham E. Babcock of Coronado, has been added to the string of Chas. E. Clark at Fresno, who will soon ship his horses East to race through the Mississippi valley this summer. El Moro has been out of training a couple of years owing to an ailing leg. but is said to be all right again and very fast. The Napa Stock Farm thoroughbred yearlings brought good prices in Chicago last week. There were twenty-five in the consignment sent over by Mr. A. B. Spreckels and they averaged over $500 each. The night the colts reached Chicago a fire destroyed the building adjoining the stable where they were stalled, but Superintendent Geo. Berry was able to get every colt to a place of safety. O'Brien & Sons, corner of Golden Gate avenue and Polk street, have just received a nice stock of new model Toomey racing sulkies, also some new model jogging carts finished in racing colors, such as white, carmine, straw, green, etc They have shipped several orders of both sulkies and carts during the past week to racing men in different parts of the State. The Toomey sulky is known wherever there are people who want the best. Trilby Direct will be the representative of the Salisbury stable in the Chamber of Commerce Stake at Detroit next Tuesday. She has worked a mile as fast- or faster than any done by the big pacer Mush and is in better condition, so Mr. Salisbury will start her. Trilby Direct is owned by Mr. Juan Galleagos of Mission San Jose and is by Direct 2:051 out of Bessie Wilkes by Sable Wilkes. The Kenney Bicycle Company sold during the past week McMurray racing sulkies to James Pettie of Christchurch, New Zealand, and te Capt. Barneson of this city. They also sold to Mr.'H. Schottler of this city, owner of King V., a McMurray cart. As Mr. Schottler weighs 370 pounds, and picked out this cart very carefully, the fact that he selected a Mc- Murray should commend that vehicle to men of weight in the community. Murray Howe, secretary of the Memphis track, sayB that the best race that he had on the program last fall was the half mile dash between Prince Alert 2:00} and Sir Albert S. 2:03}. It was also a big betting race, and the fact tnat owing to one horse making a break the relative merits of the two horses were still in doubt when it was over, only helped to make the event a strong one for the association, ''I could have had twice the crowd to see it the next day, "' says Sec- retary Howe. Under the 1812 system a repetition of any race would not draw a handful of people. The State Agricultural Society has offered $1000 for a free for alt trot and the same amount for a free for all pace. It is to be hoped these races will both fill as they will be attractions worth going to see even though the fields are small. There are quite a num- ber of fast pacers in this Stale that could enter in the free for all class. Clipper 2:06, Alone 2:09}, Zolock 2:101, Eagletta2:ll}, Dictatress 2:091, Harry J. 2:09}. Robert I. 2:10, Harry Logan 2:12}, Daedalion 2:11, El Diablo 2:11, Toppy 2:10, and several others with re- cords below 2:15 should be candidates for the free for all class this year in California where good purees are offered . Lilly Stanley 2:171 was a great mare in her day. When she was owned by Nathan and Frank Coombs of Napa, and was driven by Bill McGraw there was always a crowd present when she was to start in a race. Had she not been injured when taken from a car one day, she would have taken a record of 2:15 or better, as she had shown a mile that fast in her work. She trotted the middle half of a mile at Petaluma in a race in 1:05 aod won races of five and six heats repeat- edly. In the stud she has been a great success, having produced three with records better than 2:18, viz. • Rokeby 2:133, Rect 2:161 and On Stanley 2:17}. Lilly Stanley will go to the highest bidder at the dispersa. sale of the Santa Rosa Stock Farm horfes at the Oc- cidental Horse Exchange in this city next Wednesday It costs considerable to ship a horse east by express unless he is one of a carload. The rate to Chicago is over $300 for one horse and something over $700 for a carload of twelve. There are one or two parties who desire to ship horses east within the next two weeks who would like to hear from others who have the same desire that expenses may be lessened. Apply to this office. Diodine 2:10} and Tags 2:11}, both by Diablo, started in the 2:10 pace at Minneapolis July 1st. The race went to the fast mare Nonamie 2:09} in straight beats, Diodine taking second money and Tags third. There were five starters in the race and the track was very heavy from rain, while a strong wind blew. The time, 2:121, 2:12! and 2:14, was very creditable under the cir- cumstances. Nearly five hundred horses are in training at the Glenville track. "Doc" Tanner has the largest stable, forty in number. The next highest are Geers with 26, Fred Keyes with 20, Geo. Saunders and W. L. Snow with 18 each. Charlie De Ryder, John Splan, Ed Benyon, Tom Price and Charley Garfield with 17 each, Ben Kenney and Charley Lyons 16 each and Vance Nuckols with 15. At the Occidental Horse Exchange next Wednesday will be sold a beautiful young mare called Galetta that carries in her veins the blood of the Morse HorEe (lire of the renowned Gen. Taylor, the 30 mile cham- pion) from two different ancestors. Her sire is Gayiota Jr. and her dam Aletta by General Taylor, second dam Kate Parker by American Boy Jr , he by Williamson's Belmont. The sire of Gaviota Jr. was Gaviota, a son of Electioneer, and his dam Emma B. by Bayswater. The dam of Gaviota was Lady Ellis by Mohawk Chief, second dam Lady Clay by Pay- master, third dam by Morse Horse 6. Few mares are as strongly bred as this one. Galetta is thoroughly broke, gentle and can be driven by a lady. She is 151 hands high and a good, serviceable young animal. It is said there is but one living thing that Rowellan 2:15} likes, and that is a tiny maltese kitten. The horse and kitten occupy a stall in James Golden's stable at Mystic Park. When the horse lies down to rest up hops "Rowella" on his shoulders and begins her play. She capers over his back, rolls over and over, and occasionally scampers into his mane. All of her various caperings disturb not the fast Row- ellan. Occasionally he raises his head from the straw pillow and gazes fondly at the kitten. If she is dangerously near the edge it is a good bet be will roll slightly, precipitating the unwary "Rowella" to the straw. Then up jumps the kitten to his back again and the play commences once more. Messrs. Pettie i Price of Christchurch, New Zea- land, who have been in California for the past few weeks, left for home on the steamer Sonoma last Thursday. Both gentlemen made many friends among the California horsemen they met while here and Mr. Price thinks very seriously of bringing his great little horse Ribhonwood 2:09, the champion Australasian harness horse, to America to race next year. Messrs. Price & Pettie purchased four pacers while here, which were shipped on the same steamer. They purchased from Mr. Russell of Stockton a bay gelding by Directum that has never raced and been trained but a few weeks. From Mills & Sanders of Pleasanton they bought Norice, a black mare by Chas. Derby 220 out of Naulahka by Balkan. This mare is entirely green, has never started, but has a nice way of going. They purchased from Mr. Albert Josephs of this city the mare by Dictator Wilkes out of a mare by Hawthorne that is known as the Hughes mare. She has never started in a race. From Mr. Lawlor of Petaluma they got the mare Lottie Derby by Chas. Derby. This mare started in her first race on July 4th at Petaluma and took a record of 2:291. All these pacers are fair prospects but have shown nothing phenomenal and while the priceB paid for them werenot large the New Zealand gentlemen have used good judgment in making their selections as all are good useful horses. July 18, 1903] ©hs gvee&ev axxii gr-povt&mati State Fair Directors .Meet. rsacramento Bee, July II] News from the North. The Directors of the State Agricultural Society de- cided bj a majority vote, at a meeting held Saturday afternooD. to deed all the property of the Society to the State at the request of Governor Pardee, for the sum of S45 000. This decision came after a long debate over a resolution offered by Director Thomas Fox, which was anally adopted by a vote of 6 to 4. Those voting for the adoption of the resolution were Direc- tors Thomas Fox, William Johnston, C. W. Paine, J. W. Wilson, James Whitaker and President BeDJamin Rush An amend ment by Director Grove L. Johnson, to defer action for sixty days, was lost, after which the resolution was adopted, as stated. The Directors also voted to do away with the Art Gallery at the approaching Fair, on motion of Direc- tor Grove L. Johnson, and the money which has here- toforebaen appropriated for this purpose will be given for a display to be made by the State Grange. The space in the Art Gallery will be occupied by the dis play reforred to. The Directors also declined to change the date o( the opening of the State Fair, which was fixed at a previous meeting for Monday, August 31st. The Directors voted to appropriate S100 for a tennis tournament to be held during the Fair, and to offer several pold and 6ilver medals to stimulate interest in bee culture. On motion of Director Grove L. Johnson it was de- cided to allow theKnightsof Pythias $150 for a special day at the Fair. Ttie Board voted down a motion by Directoi Frank H.Burke to postpone the opening of the Fair one week. Director Thomas Fox succeeded in having adopted [Portland Kural Spirit, July 10.] Albany had a horse show last week that drew out many very fine animals. It was gotten up in a hurry, but the boys all responded promptly and made a suc- cess of it. More than 100 head of finely bred animals were on exhibition, and after a parade through the principal streets, which was reviewed by many horse lovers, the premiums were awarded by Judge Barton, J. M. Ralston, both of Albany, and Dr. E. A. Pierce of Salem. The task was not an easy one, and some fine points were overcome very nicely, i Possibly the longest judging occurred in the standard breds for yearlings, when the judges scratched their heads many times before tying the ribbons. The blue rib- bon was given to Zamona by Zombro. Le Roi won the free-for-all pace at Grand Forks, B. C., defeating Sam Bowers and Starkey; best time 2:214. Sam Bowers reported lame in last heat. Tecora by C. M. Clay Jr. is the dam of eight in the list — four picers and four trotters whose average reco.'d is 2:17. The four pacers have an average record of 2:10. John Green, who has charge of N. K. West's stable at La Grande, writes us that the horses are working very satisfactory. The Commonwealth has not been asked to go faster miles than 2:30, but is working like clock work. Taffeta Silk is stepping easy miles in 2'25, while Sati" Royal, a two-year-old trotter, is working miles in 2:50, quarters in 40 seconds. Satin Royal is by Bonner N, B. 2:17 and out of Minnie M. (dam of Trumont 2:21J) by Rockwood. J. A. Jones of Springfield has bought the promising three year old trotter Bessie Jones from John Pender. Bessie Jones is by Capt. Jones, out of Ada Rock (dam of Atlas 2:15J) by Adirondack; second dam Minnie M. Cleveland Track Notes. [American Sportsman.] j u * ■ t- v. (dam of Trumont 2:211) by Rockwood; third, Sallie ,ing resolution, after a long debate, ,n wh:ch (dam of^ 1^ ^^^"^ ^ ±m) fej path. Grove L. Johnson was the principal speakor: "Whereas, The State of California annually appro- priates the large sums of money for the support of the State Fair: and •'Whereas, There is now lying in the State Treasury the sum of $45,000, appropriated by the State for the purpose of paying a portion of the debts of the State Fair, which appropriation is conditional upon **»<> the finder. Bessie Jones is one of the largest and hand- somest mares in the State and can trot full milf s better than 2:40 with but little track work. A. T. Van De Vanter, secretary of the King Ctiunty Fair Association, who Is managing the running meet- ing at Seattle, has not lost his loveand admiration for S. E. Kent will start the stallion Bonnie Russell by Conifer at Windsor. He is also entered in the M. v\- M. and will probably start. M. E. McHenry will ship his horses to Columbus for their first start. Dan Patch has been a mile in 2:12, Baron de Shay in 2:104, Prince Direct in 2:10$, and the green pacer Joe Grattan a mile in 2:104. Millard Sanders'great trotting mare Robizola is one of the fastest green trotters at the track, and it would surprise us if she did not start in the M. & M. She certainly has speed enough to win at least a part of the purse. Ed Geers will ship fifteen head of horses to Windsor, where he will make his first start. He will have an entry in nearly all of the classes. Mr. J. E. Butler of New York was here last week to see Cole Direct and King Direct take their work. Mr. Geers gave them good, strong work, and Mr. Butler was pleased with the way they stepped. Budd Doble has commenced a little strenuous work with Kinney Lou. On Tuesday he scored him with a runner, and let him step a mile in 2:16 accompanied by the runner. He looks fit for a race now. Doble has decided to make his first start at the Cleveland meeting with both Kinney Lou and The Roman 2:094. He sayB that he expects to drive them in their races, at least that is the way he feels about it now. Mary Gage, a three year old by Oro Wilkes, trotted a mile accompanied by a runner in 2:174, last half in 1 :05, last quarter in 31 seconds. This filly is owned by W. B. Chisholm, and is in Ben Kenney's stable. Ber- naldo 2:17J by Patron, in the same stable, and owned by Mr. Chisholm, trotted a mile in 2:12J. These are two very promising trotters. Mary Gage has some important stake engagements and it looks like she will be able to deliver the goods. deeding"to'the*' Stale of the real property under the the harness horse. Van has built himself a fine and control of this Board; now therefore be it comfortable home near the fair grounds on the banks "Resolved, By the Board of Directors of the State Qf ^e rjuwamish river. Here he has also built a fine Agricultural Society that all the property, real, per- • , barn where is located his stable and private sonal and mixed, under the control of this Board, tiaining ou»ht to be the property of the State of California; driving horses Van is training Harry Hurst 2:23, be it further "Resolved, That the Board holds itself in readiness at the request of the Governor to deed to the State of California all the property now under its control.'' Johnson vigorously opposed the adoption of tie resolution, and offered an amendment that action he deferred for sixty days. In asking for the delay, Johnson said he had been informed by telephone while at the meeting by P. C. Drescher that a propo- sition is on foot to give the Society $40,000 in cash and a new site in exchange for Agricultural Park. John- son said Fox's resolution was more sweeping than any proposition that had yet been made along these lines, as it contemplated the giving away of everything possessed by the Society. All former propositions have dealt with the transfer of Agricultural Park only, Johnson pointed out that if the property were deeded to the State, under the Statute only $27,000 C. K. G. Billings, the noted amateur horseman, has the following to say anent the automobile: "The horse and automobile are not rivals. Neither can be used as a substitute for the other. A great deal of pleasure can be derived from both. In these days, when every moment of a busy man's time is valuable, it is impossible to get along without an automobile if vou have to do much traveling around New York. It may be years before our rapid transit facilities are de- veloped to anything like a state of perfection. Mean- time, the best substitute is found in the automobile properly managed. I would lav stress on the last phrase, because it seemB to me that the average man who uses the automobile has to suffer a great deal of annoyance, because of the foolish things done by men who think it is smart to go flying along the public and intends to race him throughout the circuit; he has a very promising two year old pacer that will be started in the juvenile stakes. For a driving team he has Tickets 2:204, and the good green trotter Kinmont, which he challenges the Northwest to race with ama teur drivers. Van will start this team in the matinee races at Seattle and expects to lower the water in the highways at a rate of speed that is unsafe to the auto- Duwamish river, where he intends soon to be sailing in a fine yacht. The horses at the State Fair grounds are "hiking" alon°" some. Sam Casto set the speed ball rolling when he drove his two year old trotter Judge Nation a mile in 2:59}. Fred Stopplefeld brought out his two year old pacer Alto Lace by Lovelace, and turned the track in 2:42. Ezra Tilden then took a whirl around the ring with his three year old trotter Zipsey by Mc- Kinney in 2:40, the last quarter in 36 seconds. W. O. Trine was next seen behind the big three year old of the indebtedness could be paid, the balance of the .rotter Ma-ud Salisbury, owned by an agriculturist up in Linn county. She stepped the full mile in 2:394. George Beckers, recently from the orange groves of Southern California, brought out his three year old trotter The Jester by Stam B., to see if he could beat the mile made by his half-brother out in Denver mobilist and dangerous to the lives of pedestrians.1 money remaining in the State Treasury until such time as it may be required for the purchase of a tew site. After considerable discussion, in the course of which all the old straw was threshed out, Fox's reso- lution was adopted Those who are arguing pro and con over Casper Redfield's theory of speed transmittance have two recent examples in The Picket, winner of the American Derby this year, and the new champion trotting mare Lou Dillon. Those who believe with Mr. Rodfleld that an old stallion will sire the fastest horBes can instance The Picket, who was got when his sire Fal- setto was 24 years old, while those on the other side of the controversy can refer to Sidney Dillon who sired Lou Dillon when he was a five year old. "You pays your money and you takes your choice." — -» Jackson's Napa Soda untaneles the feet. It does not follow that the transfer will be made at recently, and he went the mile by the overland route tmee, it being understood that Governor Pardee does not care to press the matter. The Board by almost unanimous vote tabled a motion to reconsider the action whereby it was de- cided not to elect a secretary until after the coming fair. in.2'234 half in 1:09, last quarter in 331 seconds. This mile not only beat the Denver mile, but it was the track record for the year. Lord Stopplefeld not wishing this honor to be held by a California three year old, brought out his green pacer by Lovelace, and stepped mile in 2:23 flat, last quarter 324 W. L. Carlysle of Minnesota and E. W. Majors of secon49! and came in with a smile on his face as long Berkeley were appointed to judge the cattle exhibits. a8 bis arm. Beckers said no Irishman could hold the Director Grove L. Johnson, Superintendent of the trac|j record if he had to hitch Zombro to beat him, Pavilion, announced the following appointments: 30 he brought out Zombowyette, a daughter of his Assistant Superintendent of Pavilion, O P.Dodge; .anion, and turned the track in 2:22 flat, which will Superintendent of Poultry Department, M Coffey; jj^iy stand as the track record until Captain Smith Entry Clerks, Mrs. A. R. Fink, Mrs. Ella G. Clark, takes a whack at it with his whole stable. Ezra Mrs. Mary Ross-- Ticket ClerkF, P. F. Ruman, W. H. Sherburn, Harry Dodge; Ticket Distributor, Miss Sadie Paine; Captain of Watchmen and Night Super- intendent, Timothy Lee: Messenger, Porter Ander- son; Janitress ladies' room, Mrs Lawlor; Janitre6s gallery exhibits, Mrs. Quigley. The Board decided to engage the services of Talbot H. Wallis to solicit exhibits for the pavilion display. The Board will meet again on Saturday, August 1st. Tilden said he didn't have any long distance horses this season of the year, bnt would show the boys a little speed with a ^reen pacer by Del Norte, which stepped a half in 1:06, last quarter in 32 W. O. Trine then brought out Belle Air and let her step through th8 stretch in 314; then the boys all went to dinner. Report has it that George Garth turned offer of $10,000 lor Winnie King, the chestnut of Brandon 2:121, that worked a mile in 2MH- Jackson's Napa Soda is sold in every city, town audi hamlet in the State. turned down an it daughter :08j at Mem- ihis thisBpring. She is well entered down the line, and bar first big engagement is the Chamber of Com- merce stake. Gombault's Caustic Balsam The Great French Veterinary Remedy. A Safe. Speedy and Positive cure for ailments of HORSES and CATTLE. As a HtHAN JBEMEDT for Kheu- mutism, Sprulm, Sore Throat, etc.. It Is invaluable. _ ... Every bottle of Cauntle BnUam 5oM,i2 ■Warranted to give ^tlsfactioc. Price »l.*»o per bottle. Sold by drutnnsts, or sent by ex- Dress, charges paid, with full directions for its use. Sead for descriptive circulars, testimo- nials,etc. Addre;.* THE LiWaSHCE-WILLUISCOHPin.ClereliLnd, Ohio. 8 &tu? fgvee&ev anb gtpvoxrtsmcm [JULY 18, 1903 ^^^SaSBaMMSffi»a%^»3S ROD, GUN AND KENNEL. Annual Camp Stew of the Grass Valley Sports- men's Club. Conducted by J. X. De WITT. Save the Song-Birds; BV JOSEPHINE CLIFFORD MCCHACKIN. President Ladies1 Forest and Song-Bird Protective Association of] Santa Cruz County. "Save the Redwoods!" was our watchword and our battle-cry, the grand aim of our aspiration and the object of which we dreamed at night and for which we worked all the day. Not we of the Sempervirensj Club alone, but each son and daughter of our Golden. State, every loyal citizen of these United States, for, when the Big Basin was saved from destruction it was not for California alone, since every State in the Union is benefited by the acquisition of our State Redwood Park. "Save the song-birds!" is our battle-cry and watch- word now, and we of the Ladies'Forest and Song-Bird Protective Association ask through these columnsthe help not only of the legislative body of the State, but of every inhabitant, man, woman and child, for they all can aid us in our work — a labor of love — but whicn seems harder tu carry on than the work of saving the Rddwoods. Men who could grasp the utilitarian idea of redeeming the forest grants from impending doom listen with an indulgent smile to our pleading for the life of our little featnered songsters, convinced in their masculine heart that women are sentimental always, and sometimes worry themselves and others over the most nonsensical things. Nevertheless, the protection of song and plumage birds — insect-eating birds — has become an object of vital importance, not alone to us farmers and fruit- growers of California. The destruction of our or- chards and grain fields by insects, worms and cater- pillars, whicn the birds that are dead can no longer eat, is but a part of the loss accruing from the wanton killing off of song-birds and the still more heartless slaughter of the plumage bird, as carried on at present. Though no foolish sentimentalism can be charged against us women in our work, I admit that there is a sentimental as well as an economic side to bird protec- tion; and I have pointed out, elsewhere, that to the man who comes here from the Eastern States or foreign countries, the absence of song-birds, the utter lack of bird-life and bird-song in the country, is so serious a drawback that I have known people to change their intention of building up a home in a piacewhere the song-bird had been exterminated. It positively does not pay to kill every bird that dares to take a cherry from a heavy-loaded tree, or is thoughtless enough to spread its bright wings where the net and the snare of the detestable, contemptible milliner-hunter can capture it. What an impression is made on people fresh from the older states by the wholesale murder of song-birds I can testify to from my own experience. Over thirty years ago, when I first came to California to make my home, I was visiting in the Santa Clara Valley, near San Jose, in June. Mr. D. T. Adams had one of the earliest and finest orchards there, and his cherry trees were especially prolific bearers. The charm of the country was something wonderful to me; the beauti- ful gardens, the song of the birds in full chorus in the early morning hours, and the orchard with its long rows of thrifty trees. These were naturally the theme of conversation amoDg the guests at the house, new arrivals in California like myself. Mr. Adams was a Yankee from Maine, his wife a Missouri woman: one visitor had been a resident of Illinois, the other was from Wisconsin, and among them there came to be but one opinion — that California with its favorable climate was the only place in which fruit could be grown to perfection, on account of the entire absence of insect pests. Never was there an apple here with a worm in it; never a plum, a prune or a peach troubled with borer, by caterpillar or eurculio, such as were found in the older States, and from which the plantations of these men had suffered. It was the climate here, they said, that kept this blessed land clear of all such plagues. What glowing accounts I wrote back to my Missouri friends, and my friends in Iowa and Alabama! I was flourishing and waxing fat on the song of a thousand bird throats in the morning, and the absorption of delicious California cherries all day long. But my enthusiasm came to a sudden end one morning, as I strayed round the or- chard and visited the cherry trees. I saw Mr. Adams take up a shotgun that stood against the fruit-house. and thinking he meant to shoot a chicken-hawk, I watched to see it drop. Instead there fell, almost at my feet, a bird, no doubt an oriole, with feathers pur- plish black and orange, and I looked up in alarm, for my host uttered an expression of satisfaction. I picked up the poor thing in its death struggle, and as it lay on my hand it opened wMe its frightened eyes, pleadiag mutely, "Oh, please don't hurt me anv more, I am hurt to death already.-' I held out my hand and asked, "Did you mean to shoot it?" "Whv yes," he replied in the most matter-of-fact manner, "that's what the gun is there for." I marched straight into the house, and forgetting policy and politeness, I asked his wife, "Do you mean to say that this is what they shoot in the orchard '? " "Certainly," was the unhesitating answer, "there's no use baing foolish about such things; these birds that sing bo beautifully eat the cherries, and the men on the place have orders to shoot them where they see them." How changed the country all at once looked to me! I observed the birds more closely after that, and found so many different kinds beside the bluejay, which I hated for his thievish ways and his harsh screeching. I knew he needed killing. But the song- birds, the bright, beneficent creatures that made the morning glorious with their music and lay dead at night, their little bodies tossed to one side by the hand that had murdered them, when there were too many dead to be left under the tree — how could men find it in their heart to kill them? That was the beginning of the destruction, not of the song-bird alone, but of our orchards and grain fields too; for our climatic conditions have not changed, obey still are more favorable for the growing of fruit and grain than those of any other country, but our little efficient aids, the song-birds, from the oriole, the yellow-hammer, the titmouse and the blue bunting, to the robin and the meadow lark — are no longer with us; the Agricultural Department of the United States has had to be appealed to, to become our aid; but all the noxious sprays, all the artifices used in applying fertilizers and manures, will not do the work that our feathered friends did for us. I am not preaching what I do not practice. A rancher's wife, I have lived for over twenty years on this place which we built up, and I have an eye myself to the butter on my bread, for we must live on the proceeds of our vineyards and orchards — cherry orchard included. Sometimes I wish that cherry orchards might be abolished, or given into the keep- ing of only those who can control the greed and the fury that seem to take possession of most mec when cherries begin to ripen, and the birds, who have been with us, one kind and another, all through the winter, really do take a few of the earliest kinds. Again I speak fromexperience and personal observation when I say that the bluejay is the culprit for whom the smaller birds suffer punishment. This blue-coated rascal will pull off the whole cluster of cherries, if only one of them happens to have a red cheek. The mocking-bird alone, outside of the bluejay, would be powerful enough to pull off these clusters, and mork- ing-birds are not plentiful, and have never been accused seriously of taking fruit of any kind. The smaller song-birds, after getting a bite of the earliest fruit or berries, do very little, if any, injury; certainly not one-thousandth part of what is done by codling- moth, red spider, caterpillar, scale, bark-lice, canker- worm, and not to cherry trees alone; when the birds have been killed and the insect pest takes possession of the field. The trouble is that many orchards are rented out by their owners, and those who have rented them — often foreigners who will never make this country their home — are intent only on getting out of them what they possibly can; they care nothing for the waste and destruction they leave behind them To be sure, in some cases even the owner of the orchard is short-sighted enough and cruel enough to want every bird killed, even though e^ery bird had eaten three times its weight of harmful insects, to where it had eaten one cherry. But the instinct to kill some- thing lies dormant in every boy's breast and is too often fostered b? the foolish parents, who will buy Johnny a pop-gun and boast of his prowess in bird- murder, not considering that when Johnny grows up this murderous instinct will grow up with him. if not checked, and may lead to the killing of some larger game before his life is closed . A London tackle dealer makes a specialty of large salmon reels made of alloyed aluminum, which, it is claimed, hardens the aluminum so much that reels made of this alloy will wear quite as well as brass, while the weight, as compared with brass, is reduced materially. The weights are given as follows: For a 'Sh inch reel, i> ounces; 4 inch, 12 ounces; and for one of -U inches, 14A ounces. It would be interesting to know how this alloyed aluminum will wear under the action of salt air and salt water. Generally such reels, in this country at least, corrode badly if used for salt water fishing, hence, as a rule, rubber reels reinforced with brass are employed- Any consistent reduction in the weight of a reel of large size is an ad- vantage, especially when used on a heavy rod, and_ it would seem that aluminum, if so alloyed as to be strong, yet at the same time withstand the destroying effects of salt water and air, has advantages which our manufacturers should not lose sight of. So many improvements have been made in aluminum alloys, and in the processes of manufacture within recent years, however, that better grades of this useful ma- terial are constantly being used in manufactured articles, while the prices are gradually but surely be- ing reduced, as the cost of manufacture is lowered. This is especially true respecting articles for sports- men's uses, such as cooking utensils and the like. They are generally well received because of their cleanliness and light weight. But even these articles have their faults, Eoap and salt water being their worst enemies, so far as corrosion is concerned. Outings Made Enjoyable. When you go to the country or the mountains, dress your feet properly, ill fitting and improper dress will spoil vour pleasure. The Skinner Co , 801 Market St , have made to special patterns footwear for men and women that is right for all kinds of outdoor work. The prices will suit your purse as well as the shoes fit your feet. Call and see them The Self Basting Broiler is one of the New Camp Comforts. It sells for 50 cents, and Skinner has it— Don't fall to see" it, if you are going Camping or Hunting during vacation. * Sober up on Jackson's Napa Soda. A TOAST TO OUR GUESTS. We greet you, brave sportsmen, we greet you to-day, And wish you a glorious time; May your hearts be jovial, cheerful and gay, And your appetites simply sublime. A motley crowd sure to meet in this place, Sherwood, Mainhart and others galore: But alas: I note many a missing face, Of good fellows whom we 11 see no more. But the Grass Valley sportsmen invite to this board The brave men of rod and of gun, And ask you within your proud stomachs to hoard Several plates of this stew with the fun. And now glasses clink, let's drive dull care away, Let smiles chase away every tear, For this is the Grass Valley Sportsmen's Club's day, And we wish nothing here but good cheer. — Frank Dtilmaine. Another camp-stew has been recorded on the pleasant pages of California sportsmen's history with memories of a splendid time and lots of good fellow- ship. On the 9th inst. the Grass Valley Sportsmen's Club entertained its guests at this famous feast, and the affair outshone any in recent years. The day passed without at accident or unpleasantness of any kind to mar the festivities of the occasion, and will certainly never be forgotten by the 3U0 sportsmen who assembled in the shady grove near Indian SpriDgs. The day before a parly of seven from Grass Valley, cons:sting of Ed Morgan, Adolph and Frank Dul- maine, Henry Williams, Dan Dee Die, James Phillips and T. W. Nuell. went down to the grounds and pre pared for the coming of the jovial multitude. There was fuel to gather, water tu carry and kettles and other tbiugs to be placed in position. The party camped on the gr unos all night, and when morning broke was up bngkt and early. Soon the fires were burning merrily, steaks were sizzling, mingling their ordor with the savory smell of big trout, sliced bacon and other meats. Shortly after b' o'clock the first batch of arrivals drove up and were regaled with hot coffee and their choice of all the good things on the place. Not the least appreciable were 50U pounds of fine trout con- tributed by Robert Linder, Robert Richardson, Jerry Goodwin and William Breuning of You Bet, the catch being the result of several davs' fishing. The cooks struggled valiantly, serving breakfast up to the noon hour, and a more appetizing meal could not have been prepared in the most favored haunts of the epicure in any quarter of the globe. The cool morn- ing air, heavy with the ordor of balmy pines and the smell of the great outdoors whose pure, sweet breath came over the wooded hills, whetted the appetite and made even the most chronic dyspeptic forget his ills and be glad for the pure joyouscess of living. And eat -how they did eat! It was a pleasure to watch them. Delicious trout, fried to order, together with so many other templing viands, disapperred with re- markable speed. It was a happiness to the cooks to prepare food for such appreciative men During the afternoon the time was given over to sports for all who felt so inclined. Some raced and others put in the time down in the ravine; others blazed away at bluerocks. The musically inclined were the center of a large throng for hours, singing all the songs they knew and some they didn't know. For the weary mortals who had left home at an early hour, the shading oaks in the background offered a comfortable resting place. At 3 o'clock Hon. Franklin K. Lane arrived in a four-in-hand, having driven over from Dutch Flat in company with Professor Sullivan of the State Univer- sity and J. **» How to Raise Heifer Calves For Milkers. Following are T. B. Terry's directions for raisin* heifer calves for milkers : Give them new milk, warm from the mother, for about two week9. Don't let them suck the mother. Give them only a moderate amount, just enough to keep them growing nicely; never enough to fatten them, as you would for veal. In about two weeks, gradually wQrk them onto Bkimmed milk. Have a thermometer and see that milk is always warmed to about 100 degrees and always sweet. Work in gradually a very little flaxseed meal This will give oil to take the place of but- ter fat that has been extracted. Old- fashioned linseed will do fairly well' but has not nearly as much oil in it Pour hot water on the meal and make a jelly and put in only a teaspoonful or so when you first begin to change from new .tctBkimmed milk. Increase the amount gradually as you see the calf is doing all right. A little wheat middlings can be put in after a time. Put some nice, bright, early cut clover hay in a rack where little calves can pick at it. They will soon do this. By the time they are six or eight weeks old they can eat oats and wheat bran in email quantities, fed dry. Never feed any corn. Do not feed a large amount of skimmed milk. Be moderate. The idea is to feed growing foods and those only, nothing to fatten, during the entire two years that the heifer is getting read}* to give milk This will not make smooth, plump calves, Buch as a butcher would want, but it will make the best possible heifers for giving milk. Of course they may be turned on grass in due season. Often some wheat bran fed with the pasture grass will be a good addition. What one wants is to make them grow, steadily and thriftily, at all times, but never to start the habit of laying on any fat. If this is once done, they will not be as good milk- era in the years to come. If pasture is short, alwavs see that the heifers have enough proper food to keep them growing thriftily, such kinds as are named above. During the entire winter season keep them growing, as well as in the summer. Furnish a dark Bhed for them to run in when on pasture, so they can get away from flies, or spray them, same as you do the cowb. Do not let the flies retard their growth. In the winter keep them running loose in penB that are warm, comfortable, sunny and dry. You can put them in stanchions while eating, so they will not waste food. Water twice a day and turn them out in a yard to have a run for a time every pleas- ant day. Each calf should have at least 250 cubic feet of space in pen, and, of course, it ihould be well ventilated besides. Don't forget to let the sun shine in and to use bedding enough to keep surface dry. Manure may be allowed to accumu- late under them for months if the surface is dusted twice a day with land plaster or acid phosphate, and fresh straw or saw- dust added often enough to keep a dry, clean bed for them. Always be very gentle with them. A good carding daily will pay during winter. The writer has done this many a time, and there was always a good-natured scramble among the calves to get scratched off first. They enjoy it. I particularly want to caution all friends against keeping the little young calves in dark, wet places. I have often seen them thus cared for, their bed all wet with their own urine. This is dangerous. Their health may suffer as a result and they may even die. If they get Bick at this time it will check their growth decid- edly. It iB very important that they start oS well. Sunlight and a dry bed will help them. Then watch them closely to of perpetual motion as it were— without see that the feed is all right. Be very gradual about making any changes in food. See that the young calves have pure, fresh water where they can get it at all times. They will not get water enough in the milk, perhaps, particularly after they begin to eat hay and dry grain. Put no salt in their food, but have it where they can lick it. — Practical Farmer. which all life stop —Hoard's would come to a sudden Dairyman. Feeding Terms. In hot weather there is no drink like Jackson's Napa Soda— plain or in a lem- onade. Judging from letters and inquiries re- ceived, the terms, scientific and practical, that are used in dairying and feeding are often stumbling blocks before the feet of many of our readers, and it io probable that in many cases readers hesitate to acknowledge, even to themselves, that ignorance of the meaning of these terms forms a decided obstacle to the better un- derstanding of the science of dairying. Everyone is more or leaa Bubject to the same trouble, and the man who keeps up with the procession must be constantly familiarizing himself with ihe terms that are constantly being formed by scientific workers to explain conditions and meth ode for which there are no words in Eng- lish, and which would otherwise require a phrase or even a sentence to explain. Recently we received a new work on ani mal nutrition and on looking it over we find metabolism, katabolism, anabolism, and a few others of like nature that Bent ua at once to the dictionary for informa- tion. Unfortunately for the average reader, the dictionary assumes frequently that the seeker for knowledge in a certain branch has a wide assortment of knowledge in other branches. Supposing a dairyman, to whom the termB U8ed in feeding are aomewhat new, goeB to the dictionary to find out what albuminoids are and he finds the following: 'Albuminoids-One of the claas of organic principles which form the main part of organized tissues." Thia may be clear tc some, but it does not throw much light to assist the 8eeker after knowledge The fact is that very f w of the term- used in feeding can be defined in a few words and carry to the mind of the in- quirerany clear meaning of what the term actually means, and this is especially so where there are two wordB that are used to indicate the same substance. Thus, albuminoids and proteids are used for names of substances containing nitrogen, and that can be used for foods, or that are derived from foods digested and assim- ilated by the living animal. Of this clasa the white of egg and the casein of milk are the most common ex- amples, but they are only two of a long series of b}diea that can be used aa food End that vary alightly in taste and appear- ance according to the source from which they are obtained. There is not a living thing in the world, from bacteria up that does not contain albuminoids of some kind, and the number of varieties is prob- ably beyond calculation. Like all other nutrients, the albumin- oids go through a long seriea of buildiug up and decomposing, continually being made and unmade. The great reservoir and starting point is the air that contains a large per cent of nitrogen. By various methods chemical, physical and bacterial this nitrogen ia changed into bodiea that can be used as food by plants. The plantB work over these products derived from the air and store them up as albuminoids, which can then be used as food by animals. The animal works over this material, uses a little of it to supply its own wants and in the process makes a large part of it into substances that can again be used by plants to form more albuminoids, which are again used by animals, etc. A little of the nitrogen ia wasted each time a change is made, and that goes back to the air again, to be finally cap- tured once more and started on its rounds I BEN J. F through plant, animal, bacteria — a kind! FOR SALE CHEAP. LOCHINVAR 2120 Black Trotting Stallion, 15-2'/a hands high MYRTI F Standard bred Mare by SterllDg. in 1 iv 1 Ub, now ln roal to Lochlnvar 8:» For particulars write JOHN D BLAMEY, Grass Valley, Cal. FOR SALE. BAY, HORSE. FIVE YEARS OLD, WITH black points, good mane and tail, star In fore- head, good mannered, gentle in all harness with VJn^SXi blinds, fearless ot pars, steamSoaTs or ?m f' Cl,y, brok''' we"5h8 "™ Pounds. S,nH?»rt f - """PO-can trot in 2:40, never been worked for speed, sire Rainbow. Rainbow bv Sil- verbow, silverbow hy Robert McGregor, the sire rVrI?scK?.:dai.m McDoIla', conditions will be announced later. tember 7lh. The most valu- sted, Final payment of ¥20 paj- SPECIAL, CONDITIONS. Entries to above races to close with the Acting Secretary, H Lowden, Sacramento, Wednesday August 12, 1903, when horses are to be named and eligible, except where otherwise stated. Five per cent entrance and five per cent additional from money winners. AU races mile heats, three in five, except otherwise stated. Moneys to be divided 50, 25, 15, and 10 per cent, unless otuerwlse specified in conditions. All races to fill satisfactory to the Board of Directors or they mav be declared off. Distance in all heats 80 yards, but ir the Held is more than eight, I0U yards. A horse not win- ning, or making: a dead heat In three, to be ruled out but will retain his position In Bum mary Five or more to start, or it is optional with the Board to declare race off. If there are less than four starters the Society may, if they so decide, allow them to contest for the entrance moneys only paid in, to be divided 60.30, and 10 per cent. A horse distancing the field will only be entitled to first and fourth money*. Hopples barred in trots, but allowed in pacing races, except where otherwise stated. It is not intended to give any specials. If you want to start your horses or secure stalls, enter ia advertised races. For full and further conditions, see entry blank. RUSH, President H. LOWDEN, Acting Secretin Sacramento, Cal. 12 %£\xs gvee&ev axib &p&xt&m(xn fJULY 18, l»Ot Clean Milk tor City Use. Just at the present time we seem to be on the eve of a revolution In the methods that are being used in handling the milk supply of cities. The authorities are dis- covering that there is a direct relation be- tween unclean milk and the city health. The only trouble in this crusade ie that the producer is being held responsible al- most entirely for the quality of the milk. He is, no doubt, to blame to a large de- gree, but the methods of transportation and handling in the city should certainly come in for their share of the trouble and not put the whole burden on the shoulders of the dairyman. The following gives the view of the subject from the viewpoint of the city milk inspector: In many of the great cities of thiB "ountrythe milk supply is closely con- nected with the health and life of the people. This is especially true of the babies in great cities like Chicago Re- cently the milkmen of that city have put into force a rule of once a day deliveries As a result, disease and death have come to many children, as much of the milk is delivered too sour to be used, so the health department claims. Of course, if the milk were clean and cleanly handled it would keep for mjre thsn twenty-four hours. But the milk is in such poor con- dition that it will keep i'or Lut a few hours in warm weather. The Bo ird of Health warns the public that the dirty milkman is more dangerous than the dishonest one. An official of the Boird of Health said: "The problem is the most serious the department has faced in years, it -is a matter of life and death. It is practically impossible to keep milk for twenty-four hours in the congested districts, and it Js in these districts, that the greatest infant mortality results. The people there seldom are able to purchase ice. We believe that the milk drivers will see the situation and give the problem serious consideration " According to the department's statistics , close milk inspection during the last six years has brought a decided improvement in the milk supply of the city. During the previous six years, before stringent methods were enforced, there had been 66,003 deaths of children under five years of age in the city. During the six years now closing there have been but 51.046 such deaths. The under-five-years popu- lation, according to the federal census, in- creased 30 per cent between 1890 and 1900. So that on this basis, instead of 51,016 deaths in the second six year old period there would have been, had the earlier death . ate continued S5.083 deaths. Sour milk is declared to be the cause of the increased death rate recently among babies. One of the health commissioners of Chicago asserts that the increased death rate is due to intestinal diseases caused by the fermentation set up by the attempt to digest sour milk. Chief Milk Inspector T. F. Grady of Chicago says: "Germs thrive wonderfully in the milk detained by the flakes of rust left after the can has been washed. In this way the supply for a whole neighborhood is often polluted, the children being the greatest sufferers. I have devised a red label which is to be pasted tightly on every rusty milk can coming into Chicago. The can will go back to the farmer and his name be retained. IE that can ever comes back it will be smashed and the milk in it poured out, as well as any other milk that farmer Bends in. By keeping his name we can tell who uses rusty cans and shall condemn his whole supplv for fear of missing the rusty can. The consequences are too grave to be overlooked. We in- tend also to post a circular on all milk platforms warning dealers that they must sterilize their cans before sending milk in them to Chicago. Sour milk is very com- mon. It might be supposed that formalin would be used to counteract the tendency to sour, but careful tests have revealed none " Tie war for clean dairy products should go fi till we have not only pure butter and cheese, but pure and clean milk de- :d to our cities. — Farmers' Revieto. Farmers' Institutes. Great preparations are being made for the opening of the Farmers' Institute work by the University of California. With the increased funds voted at the last Legislature, these meetings will be conducted during the fall months on a more elaborate scale than ever. Besides the members of the agricultural experi ment station staff, there will be a large force of special lecturers, who will discuss the special problems with which they are particularly famiiar. During the last week of this month a big gathering will be held a Long Beach, in Southern California. At this seaside institute, a strong program will be pre- sented, every phase of agricultural work being touched by a corps of speakers, gathered from all sections of the State. Among the men from Berkeley who will deliver addresses and hold round-table talks are Professor Robert H. Loughridge, who will speak on 'Agriculture and Chem- stiy" : Professor Leroy Anderson, director of the San Luis Obispo Polytechni- School, who will handle "Dairying and Dairy Animals''; Professor Archibald R. Ward, "Cattle Diseases" ; Professor Veranus A. Moore of Cornell University, ".Microbe Diseases", and A. J. Cook, University conductor of the Farmers' Institutes, "Entomology for the Orchardist." Professor Alexander Craw of San Francisco will speak on 'Quarantine Against Insects". Other leading men who will be heard during the session are Professor A. J. McClatchie of the Phoenix Experiment Station. President George A Gates of Pomona College and Elwood Cooper of Santa Barbara. This institute will' begin on July 27th, and w 11 close on August 1st at which date a Farmers' Institute will commence at Pacific Grove. At the conclusion of this meeting the work will be again transferred to Southern California, where a long series of meetings will be inaugu- rated. Turtle's Elixir has drawn the following expressions of endorsement from Its grateful users in every state and terri- tory In the Union. Invaluable for man or beast. Gives immediate relief. Unequated for Colic. Very satisfactory results. Best for Spavin. Shoe Boil removed. Wouldn't be without It Never lost a hair. Saved a heap of raofley. Speedily relieves pain. $5000 REWARD for every oneof theabove endorsements that can be proven spurious. Turtle's Elixir for use in the stable. Turtle's Family Elixir firuse in the home. Both are unequaled remedies. Fifty cents buys either at any drug store. Sam- ple free for Cc in stamp?— to pay postage. Used and endorsed by Adams Express Co. Turtles Elixir Co., 437 OFarrell St, San Francisco, Cat. tennre of all wal'ed Eli: epimi c bul Tut ^ .* ^ff ^l* W NEW YORK SAN FRANCISCO * J. O'KANE 26 GOLDEN GATE AVE., S. F. HORSE BOOTS TRACK HARNESS Sexd Foe < 'atalogue. Our Goods Are the Best Made MM£f PALACE HOTEL, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA. 5 For Sale bv All Druggists and Harness Dealer?, Or VITA OIL CO., 1533 Buchanan St , S F, TO THE PUBLIC. VOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE J-^ Stallion BONNIE RUSSELL, now at the Glenville, O track, and entered at Detroit in the M. & M. by Emma Isabel Howard, Los Angeles, Cal.. and at other places, is the propertyof Louisa B Howard and is now wrongfully in the posses- sion of S. E Kent and Walter Bordwell. All persons are hereby warned not to purchase the animal. "W. W. HOWARD, Los Angeles. Cal. FOR SALE. HANDSOME CHESTNUT DRIVING HORSE, 15^ hands high weight 1100, foaled in 1896; sired by Gossiper, dam Maud Fowler, who was also the dam of Sonoma Girl, entered in the 2:24 class at the Breeders meeting. Can trot a mile in 2:30 or better: perfectly gentle, not afraid of cars or automobiles; registered in the Ameri- can Trotting Register, as Fenton, under Rule 6, Vol.14. Price S400. W- S. WEST.i P. O. Box 216, Santa Rosa, Cal. TOST LIKE A HORSE RACE Wednesdays and Saturdays, at the Pleasanton Rack Track. Bring the ladies and see the FASTEST HORSES LN THE WORLD. Stop at the ROSE HOTEL TOURISTS and TRAVELERS will, now. with difficulty recognize the famous COURT into which for twenty-five years carriages have driven This space of over a quarter of an acre has recently, by the addition of very handsome furniture, rugs, chandeliers and tropical plants, been converted into a lounging room— the FINEST IN THE WORLD. The EMPIRE PARLOR— the PALM ROOM, furnished in Cerise, with Billiard and Pool tables for the ladies— the LOUIS XV PARLOR the LADIES WRITING ROOM and numerous other modern improvements, together with the unexcelled Cuisine and the Most Convenient Location In the City— all add much to the ever increasing popularity of this most famous HOTEL. ADDITIONAL GUARANTEED STAKES! PACIFIC COAST Trotting Horse Breeders Association PETALUMA Entries to Close Saturday, August 1st No. No. No. 7. 10. 11. A. 8. OLNET & SON, Proprietors 2:12 Class Trotting $500 2:10 Class Pacing: 600 Roadster Race for Road Horses Owned in Sonoma, Marin, Napa and Mendocino Counties prior to July 1, 1903. NOTICE — Nominators have the privilege of naming two horses from the same stable, or owned by the same person, on one entrance fee. N. B. — It is not the intention of the management to give any special races at this meeting, and if ■ you want to start your horses they must be eotered in the regular advertised events Races will be arranged so that horses entered in several races will have time enough between races to start in each. Entrance 5 per cent. Five per cent of the amount or the purse will be deducted from each money . won Conditions same as heretofore advertised for this year. Member of National Trotting Asso- ciation. Address all communications to E. P. HEALD, President. F. W. KELLEY, Secretary, 36 Geary St., S. F. and type written ready for framing" Write for prioee. Breeder and SPORTSMAN, 36 Geary street, San Francisco, Cal. Pedigrees Tabulated July IS, 1903] gDite gvee&ev emit ^pavi&ntmx 18 Indications of Constitution in Dairy Cattle. The Maritime Farmer, in an interesting article on "Breeding Dairy Cows for Production," defines constitution in dairy cattle by saying that "the wide chest, good heart girth," are the cbief indica- tions of constitution in a dairy cow. It seems to us as if the Farmer as well as many other writers has fallen into the old beef-type method of judging constitution in dairy, cattle, and for want o£ better! knowledge is still keeping it up. They, have only to look at the form of a race horse and his build about the heart rnd lungs and then compare hi'n to the deep- chested, wide-bet ween-the-forelegg form of the draft horse to see that there is something lacking in this old definition of constitution. Is the race horse deficient in constitution or staying power? Com- pare the setter and pointer dog with the deep-chested bulldog. Does the hunting dog lack in constitution? Is either the race horse or huntingdog lacking in heart and lung power? Why, one minute of the work of the race horse calls for more breathing capacity and heart action than two days of tbeslowysteady pulling of the draft horse. And so in like manner it is with the hunting dog and his labor in the field. The dairy cow does not lack constitution or staying power, in her chosen field, be- cause she does not have the deep brisket and great width between the fore legs that mark the b ef animal. More than this, the beef outline is not an indication of large heart and lungs. We wonder sometimes if these beef outline advocates, ever examined the lungs and heart of a race horse and dairy cow to see whether they were smaller in size and compacity for action than those of the draft and beef type. The form of the dairy cow like that of the race horse has been fashioned by the dominating effect ofa.peculiar function. Function always modifies form, builds it and shapes it to its own purpose. But constitution is an independent quality, and must be present in all forms and function?, else the animal does not last well in its work. Constitution simply means vitality ; power to endure; ability to resist disease and discouraging cir- cumstances. It is largely derived from the brain and nervous system. This is shown more cleaily in men. It is found in men of slight form and fails in men of large chest girth. Its in- dications must be sought for in other lines than are indicated by the old Short- horn doctrines and outline. The construction of the walls of the abdomen, strong will and temper, active, alert bearing and action, are much better indications of enduring constitution than the formula generally given of "wide chest and good heart girth." 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I tried three verternaries and various advertised remedies which were on the market but without effecting a cure. Also fired and blistered him once. My attention rras called to your remedy by a friend who urged me to use it. After one month's trial ar.d the use of one and one-half bottles, Ke hitched the horse up and drove him and he has never ta!:en a lame step since. Have now ocen drivinr him six months on the road, have speeded him on the track and macaccm roads and he is as sound as a bulla t. It is certainly a wonderful remedy ' nd I feel that T cannot say too much i'nrVts praise. * Wishing you every success, I am, Yours rcspectful.lv. <^^W wire*. Waterbdrt. Ct., June, IS03 Gentleman:— I have used your ■ Save-the Horse" and And it excellent in its results It was rec- ommended to me by H.B Loucks, lireryman or this city, as a sure cure for bone spavin. My horse bad a bone spavin was pin fired once but it did not cure him Then I used one and a half bottles of "Sav -tbe-Hor=e " He is now going sov.nd and was not laid up while applying' Save-the-Horse." Very respectfully. A. P HENCHEY. Chester. Orange Co . N Y, June 1, 1903. Gentlemen:— Regarding the use of "Save-tbe-Horae." I used part of a bottle on my horse for a stratDed tendon He had been lame for about three montbs and had been blistered twice with no benefit, and ha f a bottle of "Save the H^rse" cured him The beauty of the medicine is that it left noscar. Very truly. W. F. DePUY. "SAVE-THE-HORSE" Cures Without Scar, Blemish or Loss ot Hair. 'Save-the-Horse" can be applied at any time, anywhere, any place, and In all conditions and ex- tremes of weather Horses may be worked as usual, with shin or ankle boots, as no harm can result from destruction of haf r or scalding of limb $5.00 PER BOTTLE. 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It is the best and because of its merits is rapidly displacing all others. JAS. B. CAHPBELL&CO . Manufacturers, 412 W.fladison St.. CHICAGO, ILL GOOD ONLY OP TO AOGOST 15, 1903 We are pleased to announce that we have made arrangements whereby we are able to renew our offerof the MAMMOTH CHART, SHOWING SKELETON OF THE HORSE as a handsome premium to new subscribers and others who will pay us $3 for subscription to the Breeder A Sportsman between July 1st and August 15,1903. This Chart is lithographed on tinted paper and is 25x28 inches. It will be found invaluable to evoxv owner of a horse as the names of all the Bones are given, as well as the names of the Tendons and Ligaments of the leg*. By studying this Chart almost any lameness Can be located and the proper remedies applied. The accompanying engraving will afford an idea of its appearance. No similar Chart has ever before been published. The artist, in preparing this Skeleton, visited the American Veterinary College in New Vork City and made drawings from actual skeletons, thus insuring absoluta accuracy. This Chart sells for One Dollar, but any reader can have it who will remit THRtt DOLLARS BEFORE AUGUST 15, 1903. It will be mailed, carefully packed, in a heavy pasteboard tube for safety. Address BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN, 36 Geary St., San Francisco, iwi ire* InTcT i WESTjCOAST WIRE"* JR0NJW0RKS J9_f B.EM0NT ST^N FRANQISCO. t BREEDERS' DIRECTORY. HOLSTEINS— Winners of every 7 days' butter contest at State Fair 1899 1st & 2d for aged cows 4-yr., 3-yr. and 2-yr.-olds; 21 Jerseys and Durham* competing. 5th year my Holstelns have beaten Jerseys for butter. Stock for sale; also pigs. F. H. Burke, 30 Montgomery St., S. F. DOG HEALTH IS POSITIVE IN THE PRESENCE OF SERGEANT'S CONDITION PILLS. Lustrous eyes, keen appetite, strength and ambition all reclaimed by this •world renowned dog remedy. For torpid liver it is unexcelled. As a general tonic aupreme. Mange, Distemper, Chills, Fever and General Debility posi- tively cured by it, and for every sickness to which a dog is subject these pills are administered in preference to any other medicine. 60c. and $1.00, postpaid. SERGEANTS SURE SHOT emincipatea the canine from worms and may be depended upon. flB7T7T^rT'rn^W^m\ 60c by mail. \Mj mj^Ujm'W/ All remedies bearing our stamp are Standard the World Over. An order or 3c. in stamps will bring to your desk free our Revised Dog Treatise and a Pedigree Blank. "Sergeant's Dog Remedies" for sale by all Druggists and Sporting Goods Dealers. F. W. BRAUN & CO., Los Angeles, Cal.. Pacific Coast Simply Depot SPRATTS PATENT. DOG CAKES REMEDIES SOAP. NEWARK, N. J. Send for free copy of " DOG CULTURE." ST LOUIS. MO. Pacific Coast Branch— 1324 Valencia Street, San Francisco. Agents for "S ANITAS" Disinfectant. STHIPED BASS ANGLERS LAKE MERRITT BOAT HOUSE J. A. FATJO, Proprietor, Will famish good boats at reasonable prices. Tackle. Live and Clam Bait, etc., and better ac- commodations than ever before offered at Lake Merritt. Take narrow-gauge train to Oakland: street cars or five minutes1 walk on East 12th st. to fish- ing water. Get off broad-gauge trains at Oak ?t CALIFORNIA Photo Engraving Company HIGH CLASS AST IN Holt Tones and Line Engraving Artistic Designing. 506 Mission St.* cor. First, San Francisco At Stud. SMOOTH FOX TEERIER Norfolk Trueman ppp <7ft Sire of Garston Prefect (1st pnppj, I tt .p-v, reserve winners, Oakland, 1902.- Imelda (winners and special for best, S. F., 1902)" Isabella, etc. N. H HICKMAN, 1767 Page St., San Francisco. f^\UAimD^D06S Wim MANGE /[ i ^> /M** 10 CU R t TH EH *TTM STANDAtt Oil Of U* CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS Advertisements under this head one cent per word per insertion. Cash to accompany order. BULL TERRIERS— FOX TERRIERS. KENNEL ADVERTISEMENTS. IRISH - _ __.._ IRISH TERRIER /\ | STUD TERRIER THE GRASD TOCXG DOG BOLTON WOODS DESPOT y Saskatchewan, the dam of the great Bolton Woods Miser (winner of over 2000 firsts and spe- cials). Just imported direct from the celebrated Bolton Woods Kennels. England. One of the finest or modern specimens Racy, upstanding, true-fronted dog; typical long, narrow skull; smallest and blackest of eyes. Fee. to a few "itches, $25. Particulars, address W. OLLARD, Tacoma, Wash. \T STUD— CH. WOODCOTE WONDER. THE ■**■ world's premier Bull Terrier Prize winning Wonder puppies: Fox Terrier* sired by Norfolk Trueman: brood bitches in whelp and puppies for sale. WOODL AWN KENNELS. Geary and Central Ave. , San Francisco Phone: Baker 3031 ST. BERNARDS. UOR SALE — WELL BRED, HANDSOME x largest Bernard dog, two years old. Can be seen at 2125 Buena Vista Avenue. Alameda. TSJ-AIROD KENNELS— REMOVED TO 133 -^ Ninth Avenue, near California— offer for sale the celebraied St. Bernard, LE KING iChamplon Le Prfnce-Svlvia's Lola). At Stud— Champfon GRAND MASTER II, admittedly the grandest headed St Bernard on the Coast. Fee $25. Wandee Kennels' Fox Terriers, WANDEE BLIZZARD, formerly Lithian Bllz- ' zard (Blizzard-Pop). Fee S*0 WANDEE JESTER (Norfolk Velocity-Norfolk Two Step). Fee SIO Puppies and Brood Bitches for sale. Dogs shown by appointment only. Address WANDEE KENNELS, 844 Harrison St., San Francisco Cal. IRISH AND SCOTCH TERRIERS. i yOH SALE-TWENTY-FIVE IRISH TER- I *- riers from eight weeks to three years old. 1 Some winners and all champion bred Price from $10 up This is a rare chance to get Dare DivHs for next to nothing Write for prices. \V. BAL- LANTYNB, Central City, Colo. LEWIS A. DOUGHERTY Hay, Grain and Commission. Special Attention to Foreign Shipping. warehouse: 203 Berry St. ofpice: 303 California St , Room 7. BAN FRANCISCO, Telephone: Main 10*7. JERSEYS, HOLSTELNS AND DURH AMS. Dairy Stock specially. Hogs, Poultry. Estab- lished 1876. William Niles & Co.. Los Angeles, CaL ATR9HXRES— Young Bulls. Cows and Heifers Registered. From prize winning families. Brown A Brandon Petaluma Cal. DELVERTON COCKER KENNELS FRU1TVALE THE HOME OF THE CHAMPIONS. WlnnerR of more First and Special prizes in 1902-1903 than all the other Coast kennels combined. Have taken the Special for Best Cocker in show at San Francisco, 1898-99-1 9OO-O2-03 Champion HAMPTON PROMISE, black, at stud Winner of Special for best any color, San Francisco, 1903. These kennels have bred many high-class show dogs, among others Plumeria Portia conceded to be the best Cocker owned In Plumeria Kennels. Young stock now on hand. TR1SH AND SCOTCH TERRIER PUPPIES ■*- at $12 and $15 Sired by Champion Loyne Ruffian and Champion Fighting Mac. Mrs, BRADLEY-DYNE. Saturna P. O , B C. COLLIES. AT STUD PEDIGREES TABULATED And type written Ready for framing Wri*e for prices, Brudir and Sportsman, 86 Geary Street, Ban Franolaoo, Oal. CUBA OF KENWOOD (Glen Deign Jr.— Stella) SAM'S BOW (Plain Sam-Dolly Dee LI) STOCKDALE KENNELS K. M. DODGE, Manager, Bakers fi>ld, Kern Co., Boarding. Pointer Puppies and well-broken Dogs for sale. pOLLIE PUPS FOR SALE-BY PRIZE ^ winning imported sires and dams, fit for bench, ranch or farm Both sexes Prices accord- ing to quality Correspondence solicited: all let- ters cheerfully answered. THOS. S. GRIFFITH. Box 1907. Spokane, Wash. COCKER SPANIELS. AJROD KENNELS— 132 NINTH AVENUE, near California. Champion bred Cocker Spaniels at stud and for sale. N' pLUMERIA COCKER KENNELS HAVE ■*■ removed to their new kennels, 229 Ninth Ave. The dogs in this kennel are conceded to be the best in tho West, having defeated all comers, under a number of the best judges in America. At Stud— Champion HAMPTON GOLDIE -great- est sire of winners alive). PLUMERIA TWEE- DLEPUNCH and others Young and matured stock for sale. Address E C PLUME. 229 Ninth Ave., San Francisco. Small dogs boarded. FOR SALE— COCKER SPANIEL PUPPIH- by Ch. Hampton Goldie. Apply at junoticui old county and Redwood roads, Fruitvale, A 3 Site gveebsv ani* grpjortsmarr. [July 25, 1903 GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY. CALIFORNIA STATE FAIR FOR 1903 SACRAMENTO August 31 to September 12, inclusive. All Races to bo Contested at the State Fair on Days to be Hereafter Designated by the Board of Directors. Entries to Close with the Acting Secretary, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1903, UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED. TROTTING EVENTS. PACING EVENTS. -2=Year-01dTrot,3m3 $ 400 9— 2-Year=0Id=Pace,2io3 ....$ 400 -2:24 Class 1000 10— 2:20 Class 3—2:30 Class .. 4—2:17 Class.. 5 — Green Trot 6—2:11 Class 500 500 500 500 7—2:24 Class Trot,3 ^7". 8— Free=For=AII Trot 11—2:17 Class 12—2:13 Class 13— Free=For=AH 700 14 — 2:20 Class, 15 — Green Class Pace miles and repeat 500 500 500 700 500 16— Double Team Race, Trotters or Pacers, SEtt^Mr »^S"tb«d regularly driven on the road: to be driven to a road vehicle by the owner; purse -J500 To close Wednesday, September 2nd. 17— Double Team Race, Trotters and Pacers, JI£&t,&Ed!^~C1",£ close Wednesday, September 2nd. 18— Consolation Purse for Three-Year-Olds J^A ™^»VsSK! lord Stakes; purse $100. To close Wednesday, September 9th. 19— Consolation Trot ^^SUfSSAS^ most starter3; purse $m To cl0S" tii fArtPAlaliAii Dnfln for the class that has the most starters; purse £400. To close iU l/UIlsUlallUn rate Thursday, September 10th, 71 Tho f\rrii\f*n+ Cfntp will be trotted on Monday. August 31st The most valuable L\ 1 lie \JC-C1UCIIL oLarvC Occident Stake yet contested. Final payment of £50 payable thirty days before race. tl Tho QfanfnrH ^tnkp wI11 oe trotted on Monday. September 7th. The most valu- LL 111C oLaillUl U Ciarvt aDle Stanford Stake yet contested. Final payment of $20 pay- able ten days before race. Qnprial Darpc frtr nriimmprc and otner properly organized Driving Clubs- opetldl KatCS IUr UI Ullllllcrs, conditions will be announced later. SPECIAL, CONDITIONS. Entries to above races to close with the Acting Secretary. H. Lowden, Sacramento, Wednesday August 12, 1903, when horses are to be named and eligible, except where otherwise stated. Five per cent entrance and five per cent additional from money winners. All races mile heats, three in_fi ve, except otherwise stated. Moneys to be divided 60, 25, 15, and 10 per cent, unless otnerwise specified in conditions. All races to fill satisfactory to the Board of Directors or they may be declared off. Distance in allheals 80 yards, but if the field is more than eight. 100 yards A horse not win nlng, or making a dead lieat in three, to be ruled oat but will retain his position In earn mary. Five or more to start, or it is optional with the Board to declare race off. If there are less than four starters the Society may, if they so decide, allow them to contest for the entrance moneys only paid in, to be divided 60. 30. and 10 per cent. A horse distancing the field will only be entitled to first and fourth moneys. Hopples barred in trots, but allowed in pacing races, except where otherwise stated. It is not intended to give any specials. If you want to start your horses or secure stalls, enter it advertised races. For full and further conditions, see entry blank. BENJ. F. RUSH, President H. LOWDEN, Acting Secretary Sacramento, Cal ADDITIONAL GUARANTEED STAKES! PACIFIC COAST Trotting Horse Breeders Association PETALUMA Entries to Close Saturday, August 1st No. 1. 2:12 Class Trotting $500 No. 10. 2:10 Class Pacing- 600 No. 11. Roadster Race for Road Horses Owned in Sonoma, Marin, Napa and Mendocino Counties prior to July 1, 1903. NOTICE— Nominators have the privilege of naming two horses from the same stable, or owned by the same person, on one entrance fee. N. B.— It is not the intention of the management to give any special races at this meeting and if you want to start your horses they must be entered in the regular advertised events Races will be arranged so that horses entered in several races will have time enough between races to start in each Entrance 5 per cent Five per cent of the amount or the purse will be deducted from each monev won, Conditions same as heretofore advertised for this year. Member of National Trottin" A«n elation. Address all communications to £. P. HEALD, Preiident. F. W KBLLEY, Secretary, 36 Geary St., S. F. ^^wjp *^ TRADE MARK %< *^r' SPAVIN CURE It isn't words, it isn't type or page advertisements, it is the truths that ring out sound and clear and impressive — actual results like the following from business men whose standing and reliability can be readily ascertained— which have made "SAVE=THE=HORSE" such a success. Their cured horses are living advertisements, absolute certainties as to the possibility of the remedy for your own case, and with every bottle is a guarantee document as binding to protect you as the best legal talent could make it. t^mtm/ & •lacute^.l\X .'June 8, 190: Troy Chemical C?»pony7 Troy, M^x. Centleraen:- - "- Replying to yours of Hay lPth, I beg to state that] I got a bottle of your "SAVE THE HORSE" last year to use on my ■are which was affected with some disorder of the coffin joint. which was badly Inflamed and kept the mare lame for months. I tried several remedies hut with very alight benefit, ■«#-" T then tried "SAVE THE HORSE", used about 2/3 of bottle and she nes been going sound since.^^vWith_thank3, I am, -S - — «a*»y ^ Yours very trply,- J. 3. CAFFRRi:r. «A| wtocMfDt^LM __ _ ihaktooto *t Mm OLIVER B. WOOD. Printer .r^-tf»|apeedod^hinXonltJ:iejltrac^Tan(i macado* [Toads ~ and he~ Is as ' 60und " a s7 a bull* t • I t£i slcortaJ^yJ^Tzondorful, remedy^. ctd^I f eel that III carH»^e^yJLtc^InuchIto^4flJ^aisoj, Uffustlz? W>»c trXil ly -t f Waterburv. Ct., June, 1903 Gentlemen:— I have used your "Save-the Horse1' and gnd it excellent in its results It was rec- ommended to me by H.B Loucks, liveryman of this city, as a sure cure for bone spavin. My horse had a bone spavin was pin fired once but it did not cure him. Then I used one and a half bottles of 'Sav .-tbe-Horse.1' He is now going sor.nd and was not laid up while applying '-Save- the-Horse." Very respectfully. A- F HENCHEY. Chester. Orange Co , N. Y , June 1, 1903. Gentlemen:— Regarding the use of "Save-the-Horse," I used part of a bottle on my horse for a strained tendon He had been lame for about three months and had been blistered twice with no benefit, and half a bottle of '"Save the-Hrrse" cured him. The beauty of fhe medicine is that it left no scar. Very truly, W. F. DePTJY. "SAVE-THE-HORSE" Cures Without Scar, Blemish or Loss of Hair. "Save-the-Horse" can be applied at any time, anywhere, any place, and in all conditions and ex" tremes of weather Horses may be workel as usual, with shin or ankle boots, as no harm can result from destruction of hair or scalding of limb. $5.00 PER BOTTLE. Written guarantee with every ^o'tle given under our seal and signature, constructed solely to* satisfy and protect you fully. Need of second bottle is almost improbable, except in rarest of cases Copy of booklet and guarantee sent upon application. POSITIVELY AND PERMANENTLY CURES Bone and Bog Spavin. Thoroughpin, Ringbone (except low ringbone). Curb. Splint. Capped Hock, Windpuff, Shoe Boil, Weak and Sprained Tendons and all Lameness. If you have a case different than described in our booklet or advertising we will advise you frankly as to the possibility of the remedy effecting a cure. Give explicit particulars. Give the veterinarian's diagnosis, if he is com- petent. Inform us fully as to the ase. development. Ineatio'n and swellings, lameness, action and previous treatment. $5 a bottle at all druggists and dealers or sent express prepaid. TROY CHEMICAL CO., Manufacturers, E. NEWELL, Pacific Coast Agent, 519 Mission St. TROY, N. Y. San Francisco, Cal. July 25, 1903] f&hs gveeitev cmi* ^pcvtstnan 3 THE WEEKLY BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN P. w. KELLEY, Proprietor. . Turf and Sporting Authority ot the Pacific Coast. — OFFICE — 36 QEARY STREET, SAN FRANCISCO. P. O- BOX 2300. Telephone: Black 586. Terms— One Tear 83, Six Months SI. 75, Three Months 81 STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. Money snould be sent by postal order, draft or by registered letter addressed to F. W. Kelley, 38 Geary St., San Francisco. Cal. Communications must be accompanied by the writer's name and address, not necessarily for publication, but as a private g-uarantee of good faith. San Francisco, Saturday, July 25, 1903. BRIGHTER GRO v~V THE PROSPECTS for the California circuit. The Breeders will give a meeting at Pleasanton after the State Fair, and Salinas and Hollister will give meetings in all probability. Some of the fast horses have gone to Seattle to race and this has induced owners here to keep up their payments in the stakes at Vallejo and Petaluma and the prospect is for big fields at both places. There s 3ems to be more interest manifested in regard to harness horses by the general public than for several years. On the 4th of July large crowds turned out at Vallejo, Petaluma and other places to see the local races and there is a demand for good horses that seems to be above the supply. The circuit will open at Vallejo August 13th. A good program has been arranged for that meeting and over fifty horses are already at the track there. The Petaluma people are very enthusiastic over the Breeders meeting and promise a big attendance to see the sport. Lots of money will be divided among the horsemen who win there. There is one stake for $2000, one for $1500, one for $1000 and several for $500 and $600. The first divisions of the $6000 Futurity are to be con- tested for and about ten thousand dollars will be paid out during the meeting. The State Fair is making an attempt to abolish the syndicate bookmaking that has been the bane of the fair for several year3, and the Directors are making every ef- fort to make it a fair for the people instead of for the bookmakers. The purses for harness races are liberal and should draw a big list of entries. Pleasanton will hang up about $5000 for harness horses and at Los Angeles there is to be a three weeks meeting at which good purses will be offered for two harness races each day. The circuit begins to assume a quite respectable shape. Our Pictures. The horses pictured on our front page to-day are as follows: Kitty D., chestnut mare by Dictatus, owned by Walter Lord of Sonoma. She is a pacer and a very promising one. She started last Sunday in a match race against the pacer Eden Vale 2:20 but was beaten in straight heats, best time 2:22. Kitty D. fell in the first heat, throwing her driver and injuring him some, but made a close contest in the other two heats. Mildred O., the roan mare by Secretary, is owned by Mr. John Orfutt of Petaluma. She is a nice going pacer, but has never been started in a race. She will make her debut in the Pacific Slope Stake of $1500 for 2:20 class pacers at the Breeders meeting next month. Lomo Wilkes is a good looking bay colt, two years old, by Linwood W. 2:20 out of Flora B. by Whale- bone, be by Inca. This colt is a square trotter and shows speed. Centreeyeis a two year old Illy owned by John O'Keefe of San Francisco. Mr. O'Keefe purchased ber at the Pierce sale last month and is much pleased with his bargain. She is by On Stanley 2:17A, son of Direct 2:05$ and Lilly Stanley 2:17$. Her dam is Silver Eye 2:17* by Abbotsford. Mr. O'Keefe will send her to Mr. John Hammet at Watsonville to be trained. A. Ottinger, of this city, wno own6 the McKinrey trotter Zarobra 2:16}, has heard about that proposed five mile race for $500 a side at Sacramento between horses owned by members of the Sacramento Driviog Club, states that he would like to enter and put up another $500. He suggests that the race be made free for all and if the Sacramento gentlemen object to outsiders coming in and carrying off their money he will donate all the stake except his $500 to any Sacra- mento charitable institution if he wins. The genial ticket broker wants a race for bis horse as he thinks he can win but says he will be sstisfied with the fun ho gets out of it and does not care for the money. Grand Circuit Opens at Detroit. Opening day of the Blue Ribbon inaugural meeting of the grand circuit attracted an immense crowd to Grosse PoiDt track on Tuesday of this week, but heavy rain which set in at 3 p. m. brought the sport to a summary close, when a sensation was developing that promised to make the day memorable. This was in the feature event, the $5000 Chamber of Com- merce purse for 2:24 class pacers. Elastic Pointer, the heavy favorite, won the first heat as he pleased in 2:10. In the second he sailed over to the half in 1:01}, and appeared to have his field spread-eagled, but tired in the stretch, and "Kaapsack" McCarthy brought up lorn Keene a 5 to 1 shot, and beat him home half a length in 2:07}. The heat caused wild excitement in and out of the betting shed, and the complexion of the race at once assumed a most interesting hue, but a downpour necessitated a postponement at this juncture. Elastic Pointer was very tired. When the finish of the Chamber of Commerce race was called od Wednesday Tom Keene was a heavy favorite. When the word was given Elastic Pointer led to the half, when he tired and fell back, Tom Keene, who had won the last heat Mondayt made a bad break on the far turn and was flagged, and Pan Michael won handily. Under the rules only Pointer and Pan Michael were eligible to start again. The litter was made a 100-to-40 favorite, but Elastic Pointer gave the ring a shock by coming out fresh after being apparently all in, and pacing right away from Pan Michael with the utmost ease. Elastic Pointer won first, fourth and seventh heats and race. Time, 2:10, 2:11}, 2:11|. Pan Michael won the third heat in 2:14}, Tom Keene won second heat in 2:07} and was distanced. Before the race pools sold as follows: Elastic Pointer and Page Hal were equal favorites at S50 each. Five Points $30, Trilby Direct $25, Pan Michael $20, Tom Keene $10, and the field $20. Nick Hubinger, owner of Elastic Pointer, offered $1000 for the first choice, but Lowry could not get enough against it. James Butler backed Trilby Direct steadily. The 2:30 trot was a sad blow to the talent, Aerolite, the heavy favorite, was "flagged" in the first heat. Katrinka G. by Steinway, who won this beat, was "flagged" in the third and Scott Hudson's Guy For- tune, who had been at 15 to 1 in the betting, won handily. The 2:15 pace was hardly more than an ex- ercise for Star Hal. The crowd on Wednesday, the date of the classic M. & M. $10,000 trot was larger than that of the pre- vious day. It was the fourth race of the day and, as usual, ante-post betting was fast and furious. The first pool sold was as follows: Wainscot, $200; Nir- vana, $110; Jim Perry, $100; Robizola, $80; Hie Boy, $75; John Taylor, $65; Robert Mc, $55; Cole Direct, $50; Shady Beatty, $50; Bonnie Russell. $15; King Simmons and Miss Jeannette, $10 each. In subsequent pools Wainscot remained strong fa- vorite, but John Taylor was made as strong a second choice. The race was practically between these twu. In the first heat, to a poor start, Robizola sailed off in the lead, with John Taylor right after her. He took the lead before reaching the half, and was never headed, Wainscot breaking when Hyde moved him up in the stretch. In the second heat Wainscot and Taylor had a tre- mendous duel from the home turn to the wire, and the four year old outgamed Taylor and beat him one and a half length in 2:10], sparkling time for the track. The third heat was easy for Wainscot, as on the upper turn, when trotting in a compact bunch, about six lengths back of the leader, Hie Roy broke and swerved into John Taylor, Robizola was right behind and the three piled up together. Hie Roy and Robi- zola were stopped but Taylor kicked himself loose from the sulky and ran in third place, stopping on the turn at the finish and returning to the scale with the other horses when he was easily caught. Strangely enough, none of the horses or drivers were hurt. Non-heat winners now went to the stable, and only Wainscot and Taylor appeared for the fourth heat. The odds were 1 to 4 Wainscot, and 3 to 1 John Tay- lor. The two horses battled head and head practically every step of the mile, at d in the last strides Wilson lifted Taylor a winner by half a neck amid a perfect pandemonium of applause. Darknses f.hen called a halt and the finish went over. On Thursday the talent played John Taylor at $115 to $100 on account of his advantage in age and in sea- soning, and they were correct. Wainscot could not foot with the gray at the score and was never able to get to him except'momeutarily on the back stretch. He had two lengths back at the head of the home stretch, but broke there and lost two more lengths. Under hard driving he almost got to John Taylor's wheel, but could never bring Wilson to more than a mild drive and at the end he was sitting still. In the summary Robizola, the only California horse to start was 3-9-9. Jim Ferry, the Denver horse was 8-3-2. Monte Carlo was beaten in the 2:10 trot although he was favorite for the race and a lot of money was lost on him. The telegraphic reports of the races are so meagre that we will have to wait for the mails to arrive to get a full account of the contests. The results of the races as far as beat winners are concerned are as follows: 2:15 pace, purse $1000— Star Hal won both heats. Time, 2:11$, 2:11}. 2:20 trot, purge $1200, two in three heats— Guy Fortune won second and third heats and race. Time, 2:13$, 2:14}. Katrinka G. won first heat. Time, 2:14}. 2:21 pace, $1000— Nick Wilson won both heats and race. Time, 2:10}, 2:09}. 2:14 trot, $1200— Judge Cullen won both heats. Time, 2:15}, 2:14}. 2:05 pace, $1500 purse— Elder One won both heats. Time, 2:08, 2:10. 2:27 pace, $1000 purse— Hal Chaffin won second and third heats and race. Time, 2:10}, 2:12. Five points won first heat in 2:10. 2:10 trot, $1500 purse (unfinished)— Dan T won first heat in 2:09}. Dr. Strong won second heat in 2:10}. Trotting, 2:12 class, $2000— Billy Buck won both heats. Time, 2:10} and 2:31}. Trotting, 2:18 class, $1000 — Fanfaron won both heats. Time, 2:11} and 2.12$. Pacing, 2:17 class, $2000— Dr. Madara won both heats. Time. 2:09 and 2:08}. Pacing, 2:09 class, $2000— Winfield Stratton won both heats. Time, 2:06$ and 2:08. Pacing, 2:09 class, $1000— Sadie Baron won both heats. Time, 2:11 and 2:13}. Acting Secretary Lowden Opposes the' Syndicate. There is a warm controversy on foot between Harry Lowden, acting Sacretary of the State Agricultural Society, and B. W. Cavanaugh, the well-known hop- grower and bookmaker, regarding the subject of bookmaking at the coming State Fair. Mr. Lowden has openly declared himself against syndicate book- making, and ha3 stated that the State society will not be dependent on the syndicate, but can easily obtain $16,400 for the privileges in an open betting ring. Mr. Cavanaugh, on the other hand, claims that this sum of money can not be obtained for the booking privileges, either from the syndicate or fo> an open ring, and the controve; sy has gone to such an extent that each of the parties have wagered the sum of $100 on the ultimate result. The conditions of the wager are as follows: The conditions of this bet are as follows: The bet- ting to be made at the State Fair races in Sacramento during the racing season of 1903. The privileges for an open betting ring must bring $16,400 for the racing season. If the Agricultural Society receives $16,400 for the betting privileges B. W. Cavanaugh loses his bet of $100; if the said Agricultural Society fail to re- ceive the said sum of $16,400 for the betting privileges, Harry Lowden loses his $100. Dated at Sacramento this 21st day of July, 1903. (Signed) B. W. Cavanaugh. Harry Lowden*. Witnesses — J. J. Campbell and H. Meyer. In an interview with Mr. Lowden he said: "I claim that the betting privileges, including the booking and poolselling, should bring to the society enough money to pay all added money to stakes and the purses and the direct expenses of conducting the racing. "Under the law we are not allowed to use any appro- priation made for the society by the Legislature for horse racing and in consequence we are obliged to de- pend on the amount of money produced by the sale of the booking privileges to make up our purses. Last year the booking and betting privileges brought the society $13,336 and the directors paid out in purses some $20,090, leaving a deficit of $6754. "This does not include the large expenses incurred for preparation for the track, starting and other ex- penses necessitated in first class racing, such as is pre- sented at the State Fair. At the spring meeting held at the track by the Sacramento Jockey Club the bookmakers paid all the purses and all the attendant expenses with a free gate, and I hold that at no time under syndicate betting has the State Agricultural Society received a proper price for the betting privi- leges, as the balance sheets of the society will plainly show a loss to the society and unfair prices to those who bet against the books." — Sacramento Union. Down in Australia and New Zealand the betting on racing events is done by means of a totalisator or mutual machine and is under direct control of the government as it is in Frauce. Ten per cent com- mission is taken out of all the money that passes through the totalisator, a portion of which goes to the government for charitable purposes and the rest to the association giving the meeting. The public who attend the races there prefer this system to book- making. ©He greefcetr atib ^pavi&tnan f JULY 25, 1903 The Windsor Meeting. Across the river from Detroit is the Windsor, On- tario, track, where a meeting is held every year dur- ing the week before the opening of the Grand Circuit meeting at the latter place. Trilby Direct, the handsome little black mare owned by Mr. Juan Galleagos of Mission San Jose was a starter in the 2:30 pace the first day and got second money. In the 2:21 pace the second day Diablita, by Diablo, also owned by Mr. Galleagos won second money. He took the first heat in 2:13| and the third in 2:111. Billy Buck, the trotter in Ed Geers' striDg that is said to look very much like The Abbot, won the 2:17 trot in straight heats and got a record of 2:12}. Monroe Salisbury's much talked about pacer Mush was a starter in the 2:25 pace and got third money. The best time was 2:10J. Monroe the big bay trotter by Seymour Wilkes got second money in the 2:30 trot which was won in straight heats, by Ellenwood. The beBt time was 2:14}. The meeting wound up on Friday. Kelly Briggs by Bayswater Wilkes was a starter in the 2:09 pace which was won in straight heats by Allerson in 2:083, 2:09} and 2:08}. Kelly Briggs got fourth money. Frank by Secretary was also a starter but was 10th in the summary. Monte Carlo won the 2:10 trot in straight heats re- ducing his record to 2:08}, the fastest mile by a trotter in a race this year. The following are condensed summaries of the re- sults of races held there last week: Monday, July 13—2:30 pace, purse $600. Page Hall won in three straight heats. Time— 2:111, 2:11}, 2:121. Trilby Direct, W. O.Foote, Vernon and Lady Gothard also started. 2:12 trot, purse $600 — Judge Cullen won in three straight heats. Time— 2:11}, 2:12, 2:11 }. Pug and Black Lady also started. Tuesday, July 14—2:15 pace, purse $600. (Unfinished from Monday.) Darky won first, second and sixth heatsand the race. Time— 2:11}, 2:10}, 2:10}. WayEe King won the third and fourth heats. Time — 2:09}, 2:12}. Maggie Usher won the fifth heat. Time — 2:14}. Master Roy, Al McGregor, Prince Vale, Hankie and Minnie Jones also started. 2:25 trot, purse $600. Wainscot H. won in three straigut heats. Time— 2:10}, 2:13}, 2:13. Hie Boy, Bonnie Russell, Estrella, Scapegoat and Jennie Scott also started. 2:21 pace, purse $600. Natalie N. won the fourth, fifth and sixth heats and the race. Time — 2:14J, 2:14}. 2:14}. Diablito won the first and third heats in 2:13} and 2:111. Hal Chaffen won the second heat in 2:11}. Minaloid and College Queen also started. 2:17 trot, purse $600— Billy Buck (Geere) won in three straight heats. Time— 2:13}, 212}, 2:13. Matty Smeltz, Direct View, Millard Sanders, Uncle William, Panforen and Louis E. also started. Wednesday, July 15 — 2:30 trot, purse $600. Ellen- wood won in three straight heats. Time — 2:18}, 2:14}, 2:16. Monroe, Mary Scott, Preceptress, Josie Wilkes and Sid Thome also started. 2:14 trot, purse $600. Gold Standard won in three straight heats. Time— 2:13}, 2:12}, 2:13}. The Questor, Wild Wilton and Dick also started. 2:25 pace, purse $600 — King Direct won in three straight heats. Time— 2:13}, 2:10}, 2:11. Geary, Mush and Tomboy also started. Thursday, July 16 — ColeDirect won in three straight heats. Time— 2:16}, 2:15}, 2:14}. The Parson, Henry I.., M. M. D. and The Tout also started. 2.06 pace, purse $600. William Mc won first, second and sixth hiats and race. Time — 2:064, 2:07}, 2:10}. Captain Sphinx won the fourth and fifth heats in 2:10} and 2:13}. Terranee Queen won the third heat In 2:124. Only three starters. 2:18 pace, purse 8600. Cleopatra won in three straight heats. Time— 2:12}, 2:13}, 2:15. Benoni Jennings, Gallagher, Dacy, Eldorado, Great Guy and Governor Pingree also started. Friday, July 17—2:09 pace, purse 8600. Allerson won in three straight heats. Time — 2:08}. 2:09}. 2:08}. Nonamie, Cabinola, Kelly Briggs, King Charles Carthage Girl, Satin Slippers, Dorothy Wilton. Mar- shal, Frank and Rysdyk also started. 2:10 trot, purse 8600. Monte Carlo won in three straight heats. Time— 2:10}, 2:08}, 2:08}. Dan T. Dr. Strong and Prioce Zelma also started. ' The first Indiana foal by McKinney belonging to the Gentry Stock Farm. Bloomington, Ind., put in its appearance at that establishment Monday evening of this week at 9 o'clock. The youngster, Superin- tendent Shepherd writes us, is a dark bay co.t by McKinney, out of Miss Fantastic, by Electric Bel), son or Electioneer: second dam Fantasma, by Red Wilkes: third dam Ida, by Edwin Forrest 48 The voui, jster is good size, strong and sprightly and both ^■Iv. frentry and Superintendent Shepherd are begin- n, to associate him with the 2:10 trade-mark of his -Western Horseman. Sacramento Track to be Improved. The Sacramento Union says: "J. W. Wilson, Super- intendent of Agricultural Park, is making prepara- tions to have the racetrack placed in far better shape than it has been in many years, and to accomplish this result he will have the under surface of the old original track, which has been covered nearly six inches with clay, broken up, in order that the moist- ure from beneath and the moisture produced by the daily sprinkling of the surface may have a chance to work through the clay. An old track expert who is thoroughly conversant with the condition of the track at the park, in speak- ing about the matter, said: "The mistake made was in not breaking up the surface of the old track before the new clay was applied. This old surface has be- come as hard as cement, and the consequence is that no moisture from below can be drawn up through it. The result is that the new layer of clay that was placed on top of the old surface failed to amalgamate with it, but instead formed a layer on top that became slushy when too much water was put on it, and when dry the clay would cup, or lift, beneath the horses' feet. This condition was very unsatisfactory to horse- men, who were unable to get the best results in their training, and ihe result has been that they went to other tracks to do their training. If the hard surface of the old original track were broken up the moisture from below would be drawn to the surface every night, and the moisture produced by sprinkling would sink down in the day time, and this would cause a firm, hard track that would not cup beneath the horses' feet." Harness Horses. Toe Weights and Shoes. A few ounces in the way of a toe weight or added to the shoe calk gives a trotter stride and action or on the other hand many take away an overplus of stride and lessen action so as to improve speed. Some years ago trotters wore long-heel shoes behind. It was more to catch the back strap of the toe boots than anything else, yet once in vogue every trotting animal wore them. Long toes forward were the hobby of some trainers, yet when Directum came out with short heels all round the observing trainerabandoned the projecting front toe with a rush and to day rarely sees much foot under a fast ooe. A horse can be gaited to a nicety at the instance of a shoer. Nowa- days leading stables have their own shoers at salaries as high as $2500 accompanying them around the cir- cuits working under tents. A blacksmith made a set of shoes for Star Pointer that improved his speed from 2:02} to 1:59} and was engaged to travel with the great horse, giving up his shop and patron- age, so it must have been profitable to him. While at his best no one shod the champion but this one man. He found that Star Pointer's sole was so thin and acute that a pad was necessary for him to stand upon while either forward foot was suspended. To shoe a great horse like Cresceus, The Abbot, Star Pointer, etc., several hours are usually required and the trainer scarcely takes his eyes off horse, shoe or farrier. It means much with engagements dependent on keeping a horse at its highest speed and free from lameness. — Bural World. « A correspondent sends us the following from a Maine journal: Will Wadsworth of Gilbe rtville owns a horse that his children drive to school mornings: and. upon arriving they all go in leaving the horse to go home alone, which he does without accideDt or loss of time. At night Mr. Wadsworth harnesses him to the wagon and the intelligent animal goes after the children. If he arrives before school is closed, he waits patiently at the door until it is out and his charges are all aboard and then conveys them home. The distance that the sagacious brute thus travels alone is more than a mile. Such an instance of in- telligence and sagacity in an animal is rare and can hardly be accounted for on the theory of instinct alone. The National Trotting Association will do a com- mendable thing if it will fine every association twenty- five cents for each and every entry that appears on its "list of entries," to which no breeding of any kind is added or a specified statement is made that the entry is of unknown breeding. Section 3 of Rule 6 is not observed in one case in ten around the majority of half-mile track circuits, and the consequence is numerous horses get into the list of standard per- formers of unknown breeding, in spite of the efforts of statistical compilers to obtain the necessary information. It seems that Charles Marvin is entitled to much credit for the performance of the running horse Alan- a-Dale, that lowered the mile running record to 1:37 3-5 recently, for when the horse broke down after winning the Kentucky Derby la=t year he was turned over to the veteran reinsman, who treated him in the same manner that he would a trotter, with the result that the runner is now in good shape. There is an innate love in civilized man for the good horse of the light harness class, and with increased wealth has culminated a broader demand for these useful and handsome equines. It is not the heavy harness types used to the family coach, but rather the lighter and fleeter class used on the speedway and for public entertainment at race meetings, of which we write. The latter grade has been bred for over half a century specifically for a great flight of speed, intel- ligence, docility and beauty of conformation. The speedway performer and racing campaigner is the elite of the light harness world The American roadster is the creation of American genius in breeding and development. His ancestral inheritance traces back for several generations, and in purity and continuity of blood lines his breeding has reached a degree of standard excellence. The lin- eage of his ancestors are duly recorded in the Ameri- can trotting register, givirg him a standing among the pure-bred equine breeds. The speed and endur- ance of the American roadster are marvelous and his fame at home has created a broad demand for him in foreign lands. In sensational flights of speed he sur- passes all rival breeds and holds the world's record for all distance performances. Exported to Europe he is penalized with a burdensome handicap when competing against competitors, surmountiDg all in- equalities he has excelled at harness achievements abroad. The home demand for handsome, speedy roadsters by wealthy fanciers has nearly depleted the supply, and thelight harness breeding industry is everywhere being rehabilitated. Owners of choice road mares are sending them to the court of some aristocratic sire, with the expectancy that the resultant foal will develop into a fast track animal or a capital speed- way performer. There are many well-bred young sires standing for service, and there are older stal- lions that have won their laurels by the public record of their progeny. There is nothing that succeeds like success, and for profit in immediate sale the foals from a sire with an established reputation will gener- ally declare a better dividend than the off-spring of royal breeding yet unknown to fame. The reputation of owners of stallions will often assist to sell the get of their hor6es. The owner who is developing the produce of his stallion, exhibiting them at harness meeting, and who is actively interested in increasing the standard record list of his establishment, will directly add value to the foals of his horse bred by outside parties. As between the owner actively .in- terested in pushing the reputation of his stallion's produce to the front or the owner of a sire who is indifferent as to the standing of his stock, the breeder from financial conditions should patronize the former owner's establishment. In the breeding for supreme qualities and extreme prices the breeder must receive the assistance of the progressive owner's reputation in making sales of his surplus, while in the latter instance he will have no encouragement outside of his individual effort. The policy of breeders should stimulate them not only to patronize the best roadster stallions, but the greatest sires heralded by pro- gressive proprietors. There is an urgent demand at high prices for the produce of stallions, whose progeny are prominent at horse shows, speedways and harness race meetinge. — Drorer's Journal. Roamer's Record. At the Columbus (Ohio) meeting, August 2, 1902, the pacer Roamer by Moquette paced the second heat in the 2:11 class race in 2:05}, and it was so reported in several of the turf journals. When the Year Book appeared, however, Roamer was credited with a mile in 2:08} in that heat, and his record of 2:06}, made at Buffalo a few days after, was given as his fastest mark. Tne National Trotting Association has been investigating the matter, however, and President Johnston has issued the following notice: The National Trotting Association, Office of the Secretary. Hartford, Conn., July 16, 1903. notice. To Whom It May Concern: It is evident, from the sworn statements of all of the Timers- and two of the Judges submitted to me, that the record, announce- ment and publication of 2:08} as the time made in the second heat of the 2:11 pace at Columbus, Ohio, dur- ing the Grand Circuit meeting of 1902, was an error, and that the time .actually made in said heat by the horse Roamer, who won it, was 2:05}. It is therefore ordered that the said horse be credited with said record of 2:05} in said race pending action of the Board of Review. P. P. Johnston. Pres. Secretary W. H. Smollinger. of Galesburg, 111., is going to try to persuade Mr. Billings to send Lou Dillon 2:03}, there in August to try for the world's record over the track where the ex-queen, Alix 2:03}, broke it nine years ago. JULY 25, 1903] f&he gxeeitev tints gtpovt&mcm The Trotter and Pacer's Maine poet bursts into the following song to Lou Dillon, imploring her to have compassion on Dr. Bailey, the man who has written so often that the two-minute trotter is an impossi- bility : Oh, "lovely" Lou, Lou Dillon, you are our hope and pride, There's none but Dr. Bailey your advent to deride; With form as frail as subtleties your march to stay he tried. But juggernaut rolled over him and this is how he died. Oh, "lovely" Lou, Lou Dillon, don't reach the mark too soon. Just stop the clock about 2:01; we want to "tree that ccon." We've heard for 3 ears you'd ne'er arrive, and now 'twould be a sin Did you not, Lou, a bit take back the while we "rub it in." Oh, "lovely" Lou, Lou Dillon, you're sure to wear the crown, But stay two minutes till nest year and let him easy down. And while admirers gather 'round your fame to celebrate Remember him in mercy ns you are surely great. I do not think Mr. Billings would sell her under any conditions, but any man having a trotter that can beat her can command $100,000 easily, I believe. She is absolutely sound, is the natural result of develop- ment, and small as she is, but 15 hands 1 inch, she is the fastest trotter in the whole wide world." The Cleveland Press of June 30th says: "I would rather own and drive Lou Dillon to her final record, which I firmly bslieve will ba faster than any other trotter ever stepped, than be Preiident of the United States." Thus spoke Millard Sanders, trainer of Lou Dillon, at the Hollenden Tuesday. The ex-trainer of the late California millionaire's (Henry Pierce) stable is per- haps the happiest man in Cleveland. Certainly he is the happiest horseman, for his predictions have come true and Lou Dillon has amply repaid him for the care and affection lavished on her since he took her in hand. " I took charge of Henry Pierce's horses when the little mare was a yearling," said Sanders. "I realized last year that she was the most wonderful trotter I ever saw and we concluded to keep her until this year. Had Herjry Pierce lived $100,000 would not have caused him to listen to an offer for the mare. While we have no means of knowing what she, will do, because she has always done more than we asked her, I firmly believe Lou Dillon will beat Cresceus' time. I have never doubted it. "The beauty of Monday's mile was that she went the distance in one, two, three, four style, not missing a step the whole di; tance, and finishing without that stagger and struggle noticeable in so many horses. She finished as strong as she went away. When the boys had cooled her out and I took her a slow mile after the trial, the crazy little thing wanted to run away with me. She was full of go. That is the only trouble with her, she wants to trot too fast. "I have every reason to feel proud, for while Mr. Billings owns her I have always said she was the fast- est trotter living, and I have practically proved it. "Lou could not have been driven better than she was Monday. Mr. Billings appreciates her every mood, and he handled her to perfection. Her mouth is as delicate ai silk, but of course she will fight if her driver fights her; but Mr. Billings has a light hand and no one could have improved on his drive. " Lou Dillon is no accident. When I realized her speed I told Mr. Pierce, and after trotting a mile with The Abbot and Prince Alert in 2:08J, last half in 1:01 J, at Memphis last year, we concluded to hold her until this season and then race her. Henry Pierce's death gave the mare to Mr. Billings dirt cheap. I never expected to see her go for less than $25,000 when I brought her to Cleveland. "I tried to prevent the heirs of Henry Pierce sell- ing Lou Dillon, and told them she was worth more than all their other horses together, but thev wanted the money and the result is that C. K. G. Billings owns the grandest trotting horse in the world. The heirs would have sold her for $5000 rather than keep her. I would rather see Mr. Billings own Lou Dillon than any man living, because he appreciates her worth. " Next Saturday I will drive the mare to sulky to beat Alix's time, 2:03J, and I think, with proper con- ditions, a new queen of the tratting turf will be crowned on that day. One thing at a time is our motto. I will not say that Lou Dillon will break Cresoeus' record this year, but I consider her the fastest trotter in the world for all that. "I told Mr. Billings Monday that he was the only man living who had ever driven Lou Dillon a mile. I never drove her a mile in my life. I have jogged her miles in 2:03,2:03 and thereabouts, but never drove her. She has been driven just two miles, and both of those over the Glenville track to wagon. " I came to Cleveland expecting to return shortly to California, but I have sent for my family now and will remain here at least long enough to see the little mare fulfill my words, which I am sure she will do, barring accidents. "I would not want to place a value on her, because [From the Horse Review, July 14th ] Speaking conservatively, we think it safe to say that the performance of Lou Dillon at Cleveland last Sat- urday was the most remarkable in the entire history of the trotting turf. It was, and is, so wonderful that it is difficult to speak soberly of it — superlatives only seem fit with which to describe it. The same may also be said of the whole history of Lou Dillon her- self— it is so absolutely unprecedented that compari- sons wherewith to judge, and epithets wherewith to characterize it are alike wanting. Of this new Queen of the Turf is it emphatically true that "none but her- self can be her parallel." During the past few months all the facts and details of the career of Lou Dillon have been printed, some of them repeatedly so it is not now necessary to recapitulate them; they are already, to all our read- ers, familiar. We will therefore here merely group together the four miles that constitute her sole public performances to date. They are as follows, all hav- ing been trotted over the famous Glenville track in the Forest City: To wagon, driven by Mr. C. K. G. Billings; X H U Mile June 16 :33 1:04K 1:355£ 2MH June 29 :31-5£ 1:03M 1:34 2:04»£ To suiky, driven by Millard P. Sanders; M « % Mile July 4 :31 1:015£ 1:32J£ 2:04X July 11 :31M 1:013£ 1:32>4 2:03!-; Let us now stop and consider, first, that Lou Dillon is a five-year-old mare that never, excepting these four miles, had been extended in public, either in or out of a race, and, previously, had absolutely no rec- ord whatever; secondly, that, aside from having beaten Alix's world's record for mares (which had stood for nine years, and as the world's best record for six years) the records of but two other trotters — Cresceus 2:02J and The Abbot 2:031, — excel hers, and that these records were both made by trotters who were brought to them only after numerous seasons — In the case of Cresceus, five, and in that of The Abbot, four — of public performances during which their speed and strength were gradually developed — let us consider these things and compare them with what Lou Dillon has done, and we shall then appreciate how phenomenal she is. The world's records that Lou Dillon's mile in 2:03* give her are: that for trotting mares, beating the 2:03| of Alix, made in 1894; that for five-year-old trotters, beating the 2:05* of Major Delmar, made in 1902; that for five-year-old mares, beating the 2:06* of Susie 1., made in 1902; that for green trotters, beating the 2:07 of Lord Derby, made in 1900; that for green mares, beating the 2:08* of Dulce Cor, made in 1902. Her two miles to wagon, in 2:06* and 2:04^, unfortunately matinee and not technical records, ar« non-official. Were this not the fact, she would also hold the world's wagon record for trotters of all ages and Bexes, with either amateur or professional driven Having recited these facts, it remains to be said that the chief interest of Lou Dillon's maiden record of 2:034 lies in the fact that it broke the record of Alix 2:03|, which had endured impregnable, as stated, for nine years, during two-thirds of which period it also stood as the world's record irrespective of age or sex. The greatnnss of Alix, though her crown has now passed from her, needs no fresh encomiums to- day. We are not prepared to say that Lou Dillon in every sense is a greater mare than Alix — she must pass through a severe ordeal before this can be con- scientiously pronounced — but that she is a faster one is assured. In this connection the fractional time of the two miles of the two queens will be of decided comparative interest. It is given herewith: Ji % J£ Mile Alix, 1894 :304 1:01'* l:3SJi 2:03« Lou Dillon, 1903 :31>< 1:01* 1:32» 2:03* Or, each quarter separately: Alix, 1894 -30H :31« :3l :31 Lou Dillon, 1903 :31X :30J4 :305£ :31 The similarity of the rating is astonishing. Both first halves were the same, and both last quarters. Alix's first quarter was the same as Lou Dillon's sec- ond, and her second the same as Lou Dillon's first, but the latter mare trotted her third quarter a quar- ter of a second faster, which resulted in her triumph. Ten Years' Experience. Mr. A. R. Jones, veterinary surgeon at Lamont, Iowa, writes as follows: " I desire to inform you that I have been using Qulnn's Ointment for the last ten years with the greatest success. For removing ourbs, splints, spavins and other bunches am more than pleased with its work." This is the general verdict of the leaning horsemen everywhere. For splints, spavins, windpuffs and all enlargements give Qulnn's Ointment a trial. Price, one dollar per bottle. Satisfaction guaranteed Address W B. Eddy & Co., Whitehall, N. Y., If you cannot obtain it from your druggist. The Chicago Horse Market. Chicago is the main horse market of the world as well as the principal cattle, sheep and hog market. Chicago prices come nearer representing the actual values on the days horses are sold than those quoted in any other part of the country. When the very highest class road , race or carriage horses are offered at auction, the New York salesrings will probably se- cure higher prices than those at Chicago, but for all classes of horses the prices paid in the latter city Is the best guide for sellers and buyers. In this connec- tion we quote the following from last week's Chicago .Horseman, calling attention to the fact that July is the very dullest season of tho year in that city in the horse marts: History repeated itself in the direction of the mar- ket for the week, receipts being light and the demand indifferent. Estimated arrivals for the week approxi- mate 650, against 980 the previous week and 1254 for the corresponding week a year ago. In 1902 tneie were two weeks in July and two weeks in December in which the receipts fell below 1000 arrivals, but indica- tions foreshadow lighter runs the balance of the year than featured the trade last year, when the total ar- rivals aggregated 102,100 horses. The yearly 101,566 mark was reached in 1890 and the greatest annual re- ceipts were reported in 1890, when 118,754 horses were received. The general movement was freer than the previous we%k, as receipts were abnormally light and the de- mand fairly steady. Connelly & Shotwell of Philadel- phia were the largest operators of the week, executing a liberal order for drafters and expressers. James Boyd, superintendent of the Pabst Stock Farm at Wauwatosa, Wis , executed an order for Heavy draft- ers to be used in the delivery of the beverage that made Milwaukee famous. Worth, Hammil & Co., Milwaukee, were in the market for drafters, as also was A. Asher of the Pittsburg Horse Exchange. While there was some improvement in the activity of the trade, the general demand continued narrow and indifferent at the decline of around $20 noted the pre- vious week. The annual dullness was conspicuous in the light receipts and the general inertia that predominated the trade. Choice drafters moved slowly at $200 to $250. Well matched pairs changed hands at $400 to $450. Common and blemished sold unevenly at the previous decline of $15 to $20. Eastern chunks and expiessers were sluggish under the depression of light orders and changed hands at $100 to $140 for the former and $135 to $175 for the latter grades. The buying on foreign account was feeble, a few bussers and vanners being taken for export. The movement of coach and driving horses was nar- rower owing to the commencement of the outing sea- son. The offerings of the better quality were taken principally by eastern and local dealers at $150 to $350. One local stable sold a carload to James Watson for export to Glasgow, Scotland, at an average of $250, and also shipped two car lots east to be closed out in a special sale. The general trade for the first half of the fiscal year was very satisfactory, and while the exports to Europe declined materially, there was a broader foreign demand in other quarters, par- ticularly from Mexico, for matched pairs at $500 to $1000. _ Ozone and Cape Cod Climate. California journals are so prone to praise the land of sunshine, fruit and flowers as the only place on earth where the best of horses and every other living thing can be raised to perfection that we give space to the following, from the pen of Thos. W. Lawson of Dreamwold, just to show that we are not prejudiced against the East as a horse breeding locality: "It may interest our breeding friends to know that I think we have already demonstrated one thing at Dreamwold: The cold, bleak New England ozone of barren Cape Cod is, with a big 'IS,' the kind ef ozone in which healthy American trotters can be bred and reared. If anyone has any doubt of it, let them come down and look over our yearlings and this season's foals and their dams. I don't want to 'blow, 'but I really believe there is no better bunch in the whole world, so far as size, health, snap and all-around rug- gedness go. So far this season we have from our own mares fourteen fillies and fourteen colts; not a brood mare but has come along on time almost to a day, has dropped a perfect, lively, healthy little one, and both inside of forty-eight hours have hustled about, the mares 'like tbey were going to the races, ' and the babies like yearlings. Isn't that a record for the barren Cape to be proud of? We haven't had a sin- gle abortion, accident, deformed or weak foai, or sick dam, with the exception of Miss Thayer's oolt by Dare Devil coming dead, having got wound up in its navel string and choked to death, but even tbis one looked 'like it was a winner,' had it lived. All our great mares, such as Rosy Morn, Impetuous, Prelacy, Annie Wilton, Black Shrew, Can Dance, Civil Rights, China Silk, First Love, Lady Kilbuck, Lady Wilton, Oblique, Provincial, Welcome Home, Betsey Dobson and Sea Shell, have beautiful youog Dare Devils or Ponces at their heels. Yes, I think it is safe to say we have demonstrated that you can breed and rear trotters on the bleak, barren Cape Cod shore." « The Kenney Bicycle Co., 531 Valencia St., is doing a big business in the McMurray Carts and Sulkies. You not only save money by purchasing a McMurray but get the most durable, best made, and easiest running cart or sulky in the market. Investigation will con- vince a Missourian. Jackson's Napa Soda does not tangle the feet. 6 ®Jte gveslrev crnii gftwwtsmatt [July 25, 1903 £^§? Notes and News. -D2>m#«^eZ2^**x The Pierce sale averaged $223 per head. Robizola's record is now 2:121, made at Windsor. McBriar2:24 has stepped a half ia 1:05 this year and looks like a 2:10 performer. Fifteen thousand people turned out to see Lou Dil- lon break the world's record for trotting mares. The nomination for Robizola in the M. & M. Stake was purchased by Goldberg Brothers of Detroit. Our Cleveland correspondent has an interesting letter this week. It will be found on the Tth page. P. W. Hodges arrived at the Petaluma track this week from Los Angeles with nine head of trotters. Elastic Pointer, wioner of the Chamber of Com- merce Stake, is a full brother to Star Pointer 1:59}. Th« Golden Gate Park Driving Association is arranging for racing at Tanforan Park on Admission Day. • Mack Mack 2:15J is working well and has already shown a mile in 2:16 for Henry Helman at the Port- and track. Mires continue to engage the service of Rey Direct 2:10 at Mansfield, O. He has done much larger busi- ness than was expected. Imp, the chestnut gelding by Diablo, formerly owned by C. F. Parks of this city is now the property of John Clancy of Seattle. Budd Doble worked The Roman 2:09} a mile in 2:11} at Cleveland last week and says the son of McKinney and Wanda is in fine shape. The big meeting at Columbus was for four days. Nearly all the Grand Circuit meetings are for five days. Few associations cling to the old six day meet- ings. Irene W., chestnut mare by Waldstein, started at Auroro, Illinois, July 14th, and won third money in the 2:25 pace. The fastest time made by the winner was 2:19}. . One who saw Lou Dillon plaoe the matinee wagon record at 2:04}, says that at no time during the mile was this wonderful mare nearer the pole than second horse's place. Paul Bianchi of Soledad is the owner of a filly by Dictatus 2:17 out of a Junio mare that is considered a very promising trotter. Cal. Rodriguez is training her at Salinas. Lou Dillon 2:03} is to start on Wednesday, July 29th, to beat the world's record of 2:02} held by Cresceus. It is a big task to perform, but here's hoping the little mare will do the trick. $300 purses for the 2:30 and 2:12 class trotters and green class pacers close with Manager Thos. Smith of Vallejo on August 1st, which falls on Saturday next. See advertisement. Electioneer is in the lead as the sire of dams of new 2:30 performers so far this season, his daughteis having produced two, Darkway 2:13} and Amble W, 2:14}, both records made at Denver. August 1st falls on Saturday next. There are quite a number of purses to close that day for the Breeders Petaluma meeting and also for the Vallejo meeting. Read the advertisements in to-day's issue. Monte Carlo reduced his record to 2:08} at Windsor in his first start this year. This was in the third and last heat and those who saw the race say it was easy for him. He will touch 2:05 before the season is over. $500 for 2:12 class trotters and $600 for 2:10 class pacers are two additional purses offered by the Breeders Association for its Petaluma meeting- and will close August 1st, next Saturday. Read the advertisement and make your entry in time. Perhaps you can get a nomination in the $1000 trot for the 2:23 class, or the $100o pace for the 2:17 class at Vallejo. If you have a horse that is eligible to either of these races and want to get in, write Mana- ger Thos. Smith at Vallejo before August 1st. John Taylor, winner of the M. & M., is given as a bay gelding by Dispute, dam by Joe S. According to the Year Book this is Dispute's first standard per- former. Joe S. is a grandson of Almont and his only standard performer is the pacer Windsor 2:17}. Robert I. 2:10 has arrived at Freeport, Illinois, and is doing well. He will probably make his first start at the Moberly, Missiouri, meeting, and may start at someof the Grand Circuit meetings laterintheseason. Tbe Golden Gate Fair Association contemplate giv- ing a meeting at the Emeryville track beginning August 5th. One harness race and five running events will be on tbe program each day if the meeting is held. Do you want a nomination in either the $2000 for tbe 2:24 class or the $1500 pace for the 2:20 class at the Breeders Petaluma meeting? If so, write Secretary F. W. Kelley, 36 Geary street, San Francisco, before August 1st. O. A. Lowe and Sam Grigsby of Woodland will take a car load of standard bred horses to Seattle for sale at auction. They have some elegantly bred young horses in the consignment which consists of abon* sixteen head. Lird Derby 2:05|, is working a mile around 2:30 agal'l and is said to be as sound as he was before the r.oc' lent. George Spear thinks that he will be able to " ■ -i. " the pood ones in the 2:06 classes and that he will s invaluable. Everv bottle of Cnn>t1<- BnUnm sold '* ■Warranted to pKe mti:-Tn.-ii. periment Station Professor Wilber J. |Fra=ersays: "One of the first essentials in keeping dairy utensils clean is to have a clean surface. This fact should be kept in raind when purchasing, and if all seams are not flushed smooth with solder this should be done. As soon as the tin iB worn off on the inside, exposing the iron, the utensils Bhonld be discarded, for they cannot be properly cleaned when in this condition. All utensils Bhould be washed as soon as possible after using, since the longer the milk remains on them the harder they will be to clean. They should first be rinsed with lukewarm water to remove the milk, then washed with hot water and soap or some alkali and scalded with boiling water, or with steam if it is available. Cans should never be tightly closed when not in use, and should be placed on a rack in an inverted position, so that the dust cannot blow into them. If possible, they should he placed where the sun will shine on them, as that will do much towards keeping them pure and sweet." We do not know whence come some of the old sayings, known on almost every farm. A new one, to the writer, has ap- peared ; "The rain always holds up in the evening long enough to do the milk- ing." This is not always true, but it will do to live in hope of. But it is safer to have sheds. It has been found that a medium-sized Jersey cow will eat less and give more milk in proportion to her size than a lar- ger one. The larger breeds have a tend ency to put on fat, and therefore are not as profitable as one that goes mostly to milk. New Cattle Era Comiag. Is the country facing a shortage in beef cattle and a consequent return of prices approaching those of the memorable sum- mer of 1902? There are phases of the trade that will point an affirmative ans- wer to the above question. While feeder prices for the last six months have been dangerously close to the selling value of fat cattle, there is a suggestion that it has been short of suitable young cattle and not manipulation of speculators nor bid- ding prices up on themselves by farmers and inexperienced feeders that has brought about this condition. In conversation with an old-time com- mission man a. few days ago, a Live Stock World man asked the above question, and the answer of this man, who has made as much of a success of cattle feed- ing as he has of the commission business, was, in substance, that the country is surely facing an era of new conditions and higher prices in cattledom. "Take for instance," said this man, "our own trade; we find that whereas a few years ago Wisconsin furnished enor- mous supplies of feeding cattle to this market. Of late years that Bection has switched and furnishes comparatively few stock cattle. Wisconsin farmers have gone into dairying. There is some atten- tion being paid to breeding improved lines of beef cattle, but the general run of farm- ers are running to dairy stock and are sending their calves to market. They have found that they can realize almost as much out of a 120-pound veal calf as they can by holding the animal until he is a year old and then putting him on the stocker market. Other northern sections of the country that have been relied upon to furnish large numbers of young cattle to corn belt feed lots are doing the same thing, and it is being felt in a shortage of feeders. We have orders for fully 3000 feeding cattle; other commission houses are also carry ng large orders they cannot fill. Prices are too high and the cattle are not in sight. All of which points to an era of higher prices not far ahead for beef cattle." It is just possible that the dawn of this higher era is not far distant. Studious men of the trade have within the last ten days gone on record with a prediction that good, fat, corn-fed cattle will sell at $6 before the first of August.— Chicaqo Live Stock World. A Good Silo. We have a round silo in use that is in many respects the best one I know, says a correspondent of Rural Xew Yorker. The sttves we had sawed two and three- quarters inches thick and six inches wide. This extra thickness has nearly prevented freezing. The width is about right. They are beveled, grooved and tongued. If I could not get the stuff near hand prepared, ll would buy it of some silo deale , just the plain staves jointed beveled and grooved without hoops, doors or roof. The hoops I would get in steel wire type, or more commonly known as "guy wire," half an inch in diameter. The cost will not be greater and the re- sult more satisfactory, easy to put on as a clothesline, no danger o: breaking in cold weather. In fact, they are ideal. They can be fastened with a turn buckle or common nuts through a four-inch scant_ ling. The doors I would put on the out- side of silo, hanging them with heavy hinges bolted on. The hawks and the owls are quite generally condemned for the chicken they kill, and rightfully; but were they at the same time credited with the mice, rats and other destructive farm pests which they kill and eat, the ledger would far overbalance and they would be seen to be the farmer's very valuable friend, despite their occasional depredations in the chicken yard. Advantages of Silage. Professor Eckles says in order to secure the best results in feeding dairy cows it is generally considered that tome food hav- ing that quality known as succulence is necessary. When on pasture the cow, as a rule, does her best, and to make the beat of winter conditions something must be provided that has some of the properties of grass. Two methods an; used to sup- ply this necessary quality— by the use of root crops, by the use of silage When attention iB given to winter dairying sil- age should by all means be provided, as it is undoubtedly the cheapest food for this purpose. There is no way by which the corn crop can be used to better advantage than by putting it in a silo. Probably more feed- ing value can be secured from an acre of co n put into the silo than from an equal area utilized in any other way. Silo is al- ways relished by cows and furnishes a large part of the roughness required in a cheap and palatable form. The number of silos in use is constantly increasing, es- pecially in the dairy sections. Silage is also growing in favor as a summer feed to supplement pastures. The advantages of silage as compared with field cured fodder have been summed up by Professor H J. WaterB as follows : 'The practice of preserving the green corn plant in the silo has grown rapidly in favor, especially with the dairy farmer. It commends itself on the ground that — "First. — A large quantity of material may .be stored i n a comparatively small space. "Second. — Green and succulent food is thereby provided for the winter months. "Third. — The green plant is more pal- atable, the coarser parts of the stalk being much more completely consumed when made into Bilage. "Fourth. — The harvesting is done during the pleasant weather in the early fall, and the drudgery of handlirg dry stover in winter is obviated. "Fifth.— It is cheaper on the whole than to be at the expense of husking and grinding the ears and cutting and shred- ding the stover. It does not appear to affect the digestibility of the material favorably or unfavorably." An Illinois swine breeder says that in weaning pigs the usual method is to take the pigs away from the sow; but the method is wrong, aa the pigs are com- pelled to endure a double grief — being taken away from their mother and away from the place where they are accus- tomed. The effect often is aeen in the stoppage of all growth for a few day9. The pigs should be left in the pen and the sow removed. She can stand the change better than the pigs. If left in the pens the pigs will continue to grow right along. — American Swine Herd. Modern harvesting machines are now in use by farmers of 29 different nations nf the earth. They are mostly American typps or embody American p ttents. They are estimated to repres-ent in their ab'lity to harvest crops the labor of 20,000,000 men; and vet the papers are full of the difficulty the farmers have in obtaining hands. The high grade butter cow will not only give more and better butter than the cow of no breed, but she will make it at leae e-Mt; that is, she will convert more of a given amount of food into butter and less into beef, and having a smaller carcass to support, the food required in that direc- tion will be lesa. Said an exporter: "Range sheep have not been coming good enough for our pur- pose thia year eo far. To go acioas the Atlantic aheep must not only be strictly fat, but the flesh must be solid in order that the stock may stand the journey and arrive at its destination in good shape." 13 ®h£ gveeitev emir gtp&vt&man fJTJLY 25, 1903 Preserving Eggs. Continually are we requested to inform our readers aa to how they may preserve eggs from one season to another. It should be perfectly well understood that no matter how we store or keep them, eggs are never so good again as when fresh-laid. With this thoroughly well un- derstood, we shall tell what we know about the methods employed for keeping eggs. OI all methods, cold storage is by far the best. To succeed with eggs in cold storage, never try to keep those that have been laid in hot weather. If the average weather is above seventy degrees, or if the temperature at any time has gone to eighty degrees, or above, eggs will not keep the best in cold storage. AVe see considerable in print as to eggs being put into cold storage all summer to compete with fresh-laid eggs in winter, but poor success comes from storing eggs that are laid in hot weather, no matter what pro- cess or method is made use of. Remem- ber that non-fertile eggs will keep better than will those that have been fertilized, and that one or more bad eggs in a pack- age that is stored may spoil the whole case. Eggs may be placed in salt or wheat- bran, or in any material that has no ten- dency to heat. Eggs may be nicely kept in stone jars if packed in salt so as to keep out all the air. If the eggs are packed the same dav thev are laid, and as soon as they are free from animal heat, and the package kept in a cool cellar that will not freeze, the eggs may be kept fairly well for three or four months. The French cover them up in butter, or coat them with beeswax or varnish. This, of course, is only valuable for keep- ing out the air, and to benefit at all must be thoroughly done and the eggs kept in a cool place. LIMED EGGS. About the best solution for keeping eggs is made from or by using lime. Take of stone lime, like builders use, one and one-half pounds. Measure two full gal- lons of water ; pour a little of this water on the lime, that has been put into a store jar. Keep adding a little of the water to the lime until well slacked fair- slacked lime is not so good). When thoroughly Blacked, pour over the lime thi balance of the two gallons of water. Add to this ten or twelve ounces of salt and two or three ounces of cream of tartar. Stir thoroughly three or four times a day for four days ; allow to set- tle, and pour off the clear liquid and im- bed fresh-laid eggs in this liquid. It is well to have a surplus jar of the liquor ready to fill in when needed. Keep eggs so stored or packed in a cool place. When taken from the liquor it is well to rinBe them in clean water for look's sake, if nothing more; but to do any good it must be done as quickly aB possible after taking from the lime mixture. In using all these preparations, remember that sterile eggs will keep by far the beBt. TO KEEP EGGS FOB WIXTER USE. Pour a full gallon of boiling water over two quarts of quick-lime and half a pound of salt. When cold, mix into this an ounce of cream of tartar. The day following, put in the eggs. After the lime has been Btirred well into the boiling water, a large part of it will settle at the bottom of th 3 vessel, on which the eggs will remain. Keep them covered with the liquor and they will keep for two years.— S. /. Hale. WATER GLASS. Che nicest way to preserve eggs for a family is to get a quart of sodium silicate I water glass; and add to it ten quarts of water that has been boiled. Put it in any convenient vessel, and as fast as your eggs are gathered drop them into it. They are not so good after they are a day or more old. When this liquid is filled add more of it that is the same as the other— one to ten. Be careful to have your vessel large enough to hold as many eggs as you care to preserve. It will cer- tainly keep them as fresh as the day they are laid if the directions are followed. — Dr. E M. Santee. In the use of this preparation, when the eggs are taken from the solution, there is a coating on them like glass. When boiled these small particles are likely to fly into the egg-cup when the shell is broken. To prevent this, wash the eggs in clean water as soon as they come from the liquid and before the solution can dry. This must be done very quickly as it dries very fast. — The Feather. Some Ideas About Breeding Dairy Cattle. There are two theories before the world on this question : The theory of breeding for specific purpose and type, the theory of breeding for dual purpose and type. The first theory has behind it the clear, specific experience of those who have es- tablished dairy breeds of cttle, such for instance as the Jerseys and Guernseys as advanced butter breeds, giving milk of great richness in butter fat, and the Ayr- shireB and Holsteins giving milk in larger quantity and of less per cent of fat. Com- menting upon the dual purpose agitation, Hoard's Dairyman proceeds to say: These four breeds are called dairj' bred cattle because in the main their breeders hold to the idea and purpose of making butter in the one case and milk in the other, the main object of their breeding. In other words, these four breeds of cattle are bred to a specific purpose and to a cer- tain extent to a specific type or form, the so-called dairy form. Nature has satisfied the purpose of theBe breeders by granting them increas- ing development of dairy capacity in their cattle, just as long as they have held steadily to their specific purpose. She has in every case punished them also, sooner or later, with loss of dairy capac- ity, as well as loss of dairy heredity and prepotency, whenever they have departed from the line of breeding for these specific purposes. In this way, and only in this way, have we been enabled to establish breeds of cittle of specific dairy prepotency and the power of constant development in dairy productiveness. Nature at her best is full of confusing variation. Breed as closely as we may to a Bpecific purpose, there will still come to our hand plenty of failures Too many breeders in the past have poisoned the stream with foolish fads, with ideas of breeding for meat as well as milk and butter, and their ideas have left their de- tracting effect on the procreative powers of the cattle we are new using. Do the best we can, we will have all the confusing diversity and variation we want, all the loss of dairy capacity we can take care of, without breeding for it on purpose. Dairy breeders must nev r lose sight of the great principle that all future devel- opment lies in the direction of holding steadfastly to two principles ■ Breed for the single purpose of dairy capacity and strength of constitution. By the term "development" we do not mean so much the production of phenom- enal cows as that there shall be less and less failures ; a larger per cent of certainty that the resulting heifers will prove pro- fitable cows and the resulting bulls the Bires of profitable cows. If the foregoing premises are sound it iB plainly evident that no breeder of dairy cattle or dairy farmer can afford to med- dle with the confusing heresy of "dual purpose." • ■ Owing to the terrible drouth which has devastated almost the whole of Australia that country is losing many of its beBt farmers. Every ship scheduled to sail from an Australian port to Canada has her capacity bought up for months in advance and the influx of Australians into the Dominion is almost beyond belief. Lands are being bought beforehand and the purchasers sail as soon as they can find paseage on ship. A Golden Fleece. Tne Bale of the champion Angora buck Aztec for $1400 was something more than a Btreak of sale-riDg luck. The twenty- seven dollar fleece of this suparb animal tells the story. Long sustained, careful breeding, critical selection, close adher- ence to blood lines and a looking forward to the day when a great animal with practically kemplesB fleece should be born is the fitting commentary upon the brilliant work of the silent and patient man who bred and brought out Aztec. Xot a drop of Turkish or South African blood in his veinB, writes American Sheep Breeder, save such attenuated blood as mingles in the free flow of old flocks that trace to importations now almost forgot- ten. An American Angora born of American blood and bred by a western breeder, who never used an imported sire or dam in his flock, is an emphatic nega- tion of the claim that we are sorely in need of foreign blood to rescue a valuable national animal industry from decadence. There are a score or more of Angora rloi ks in this country with blood as nearly pure as any in Asia Minor, or the Cape Colony, and better still, their fleeces are bringing twice and, in some instances, thrte, four and five times as much as the best fore gn fleeces at Port Elizabeth or Bradford. The Bacon Hog. Frank Bixby, head buyer for Swifl & Co., says: "There is not as great de- mand for the bacon hog as there used to be. It never has paid in this coumry to raise it exclusively, nor do I 1 e- lieve it ever will. We get our bacon an- imals from mixed lots, choosing lengtl y animals weighing from 110 to 180 pounds. The Berkshire, in my opinion, is the best bacon hog. Tamworths are quite satis- factory, but there are not many of them here, bo we hardly consider them. The thin rind hog is also good for bacon I do not believe that the American farmer can under present conditions raise as good bacon as the Danes or English." To Breed Cattle in Hawaii. The cattle industry of Hawaii is about to receive great impetus. A company which includes among its members Samuel Parker and other capitalists hss been formed to go extensively into the raising of blooded cattle. The company has launched its scheme by the spending of $112,000 in the purchase of 95,000 acres of land suitable for its purpose. It is expected that within a few years Hawaiians will in a great measure be independent of the stock-raisers and butchers of the Pacific Coast, on whom they now depend for supplies of fresh meat. A steer-feeding experiment recently completed at the Kansas Experiment Station furnishes proof that corn silage is a superior feeding material for making beef of good quality. It was fed in con- nection with chopped alfalfa to 10 head of two year old steers, the feeding period extending over 209 days — from November 10 last to June S. In comparison with a similar number of steers comprising five other lots which were fed different rations the silage-fed cattle made better gains and when slaughtered made a higher per cent of dressed meat and more tallow. Further details of this experiment will be given in a bulletin soon to be issued by the Kansas Station. On the face of the incomplete data at hand corn silage as a factor in beef production has received a significant recommendation. See that the youDg calf iB kept warm and growing. A stunted calf never- well, hardly ever— makes a profitable cow. Sober up on Jackson's Napa Soda. The Corales Ranch, embracing nearly 100,0i0 acres of land, situated in the State of Chihuahua, Mexico, has just been purchased by M. Sidney Durrell, of Se- dalia, Mo., and J. M. Patterson, of New York City. The consideration was abont $1,000,000 in Mexican money. There are 20,000 acres in cultivation Two towns, having a population of about 1,50U people, are situated on the ranch. Mr. Durrell is said to be the owner of the Fairview Stock Farm at Sedalia. FOR SALE. T>AY HORSE. FIVE YEARS OLD, WITH 1 black points, good mane and tail. s>tar in fore- head, good mannered, gentle in all harness, with or without blinds, fearless of cars, steamboats or automobiles, city broke, weighs 11U0 pounds, height 16.3, sound, can trnt in 2:40. never b^en worked for speed, sire Rainbow. Rainbow by Sii- verbow, Silverbow by Robert McGregor, the sire of Cresceus:dam McDonald Maid she by McDonald Chief. Tbis horse Is a good prospect for a fast trotter and is an exceptional road horse now. This hor.-e can he seen io Valle'o: price 3350. ApplytoJ W HARTZELL, Vallrjo Vita ^Oil A Bottle of BaLlm for MAN AND BEAST Cures Internal Pain In. the Home- On the Fej-m. In the Stable. Stops External Pain R-efuse Substitutes For sale o. .1*1 u» uxgix.- aoU uuiUw uealera, or VITA OIL, CO , 1533 Buchanan St . S>. F. PUBLIC TRAINING STABLE. I am prepared to take race horses and Polo Ponies to train at Emeryville Race Track Stablep Section C. PETER WEBER, Oakland. Cal. $2QO Padishah The Best Low Priced Jeweled Watch Made Non-Magnetic Nickel Silver Case Fully Guaranteed For sale by ALL JEWELERS Illustrated Booklet on request, showing COLORED FANCY DIALS The New England Watch Co. Factories— Watertrary, Coon, Offices- New York, Chicago, Sao Francisco. "i -H— - 4- 1" — £ — «— -4 11 i I 1 CALIFORNIA Photo Engraving Company HIGH CLASS ART IN Half Tones and Line Engraving Artistic Designing. 506 million St., cor. First, San Frsmclaou JULY 25, 1903] ©he gveelrev cm%* gftrjortemcm 18 The Man Behind the Herd. A producer of breeding stock should idvertise himsell fully aa much as his herd or flock. While most prospective buyers will walk around an animal sev- eral times and try to look wise, yet the majority when they come right down to buying do so on the pedigree of the Dwner. Tl ev wou'd not admit the truthi least of all to themselves, but they are not expert judges, and the fact that the par- ticular breeder has a reputation goes a long way with them. Acquaintance of the right sort is essential and this is best obtained through the farm and live stock paper that comes each week. In some in- stances, possibly, any closer acquaintance would not be an advantage; but acquaint- ance and confidence cut a big figure in in- fluencing buyers of breeding stock and are promoted by the use of printer's ink. When I was quite a young man I ar- ranged to take my best girl driving to the county seat. I did not have a good road- ster, but one mare did tolerably well, be- ing kept for driving by the family because she was safe and sure and not because of any delusion that she was speedy. The night before the drive a cow got into the horse stable and chewed the animal's switch off up to the bone. When I saw that mare the next morning I was up against trouble, but I was banking on the drive and so cut off the straggling hairs and went. The banker of the town waa standing in the doorway as we stopped at the sidewalk and his second word was a compliment for my nag. "Something good you have there! " he said. "Looks like she had speed." It was an hour be- fore I realized the inspiration of that compliment for the old mare— the tail had done the work. It reminded him of what he thought a bang-tail should be like. The banker was not a judge of live stock, but he was about as near one as three men out of five. If this statement is correct then the business air that a clear-cut advertisement appearing week after week and year after year is essential in attracting custom. Many sales are wholly on the representation of the seller and are possible because he hat reputation gotten through the judicious use of adver- tising. An occasional small breeder says that his sales advertise him sufficiently. He asks little and receives it with exact- ness. But the breeder whose name ap- pears clearly in the columns of a farmers' paper each week is the one who will make the most sales. When the average stockman and farmer are concerned, the advertising that pays iB in the paper he takes and that is not a journal devoted to a Bpecial class of live stock. The aim of a livestock advertise' ment is to secure inquiries that will bring sales. The transient breeder is served by transient advertising, but the man who has come to stay and has brought some- thing good with him needs an attractive advertisement standing each week ready to catch the eye of the man who wants something good. — Alva Agee in Field and Farm. each time feed no more than they can consume. Every shepherd is cognizant of the fact that good feeding is the fundamental principle to better breeding and improve- ment Its characteristics are inherited by turning the best feeds into growth, and the greatest percentage of high-priced mutton of early maturity. Neither can we ignore the results of good feeding upon the fleece. Every set- back of the sheep by scanty, damaged or poor feeding is marked by a weak spot in the fleece, in which the fiber breaks, the growth ia arrested, and the wool is greatly reduced in value. Foods vary in composition. Some con- sist largely of the carbohydrates, or fat- formers, as timothy hay, corn fodder, oat straw, millet and corn. Others are richer in protein, or flesh and bone formers, as clover hay, oats and pea bay, oats and bran. As a guide in the choice of feeds in common use there are tables with the nutritive ration given. The careful feeder will make up such a ration as will be best for the purpose fed. NEW MODEL THE BEST IN THE WORLD, O'BRIEN & SONS Cor. Golden Gate Ave. and Polk St. SAN FRANCISCO, CAX FOR SALE. HANDSOME CHESTNUT DRIVING HORSE, 1554 hands high weight 1100, foaled in 1896; sired by Gossiper, dam Maud Fowler, who was also the dam of Sonoma Girl, entered in the 2:24 class at the Breeders meeting. Can trot a mile in 2:30 or better; perfectly gentle, not afraid of cars or automobiles; registered in the Ameri- can Trotting Register, as Fenton, under Rule 6, Vol. 14. Price £400. W. S. WEST,] P. O. Bos 216, Santa Rosa, Cal. Hunt and Fish ALONG THB LINE OF THB California & Nortliwestern Ry (LESSEE OF THE S. F. & N. P. K. K.) Best Hunting and Fishing in the State Numerous and Popular Resorts Hot and Gold Mineral Springs HEALTH PLEASURE RECREATION Fine Camping Grounds on Beautiful Streams Best Section In California for Fruit and Breeding Farms The route to San Rafael, Petaluma, Santa Rosa Uklah, and the Famous Pleasure and Health Resorts In Lake County. Saturday to Monday round-trip tlcke'B at reduced rates. Ticket Offices— 650 Market Street, Chronicle Building, and Tiburon Ferry. R. X. RYAN, Gen. Pasa. Agt. Hay, straw and oats are now bringing, especially in the Atlantic Coast States, prices about as high as they ever brought in this country, and the expenses of campaigning a stable of horses is much increased thereby. It will be harder than ever this Beason to make a trotter or pacer win his expenses, and the feedmen are already beginning to fear that by fall they may possess a good many runners which do not represent the money put into the first cost of the feed they have eaten during the summer. TO THE PUBLIC. VOTICE IS HEREBY GrVEN THAT THE -N Stallion BONNIE RUSSELL, now at the Glenville, O , track, and entered at Detroit in the M. &M. by Emma Isabel Howard, Los Angeles, Cal., and at other places, is the property of Louisa B. Howard and is now wrongfully in the posses- sion of S. E. Kent and Walter Bordwell. All persons are hereby warned not to purchase the animal. "W. W. HOWARD, Los Angeles, Cal. Strike! — if they don't give you Jack- son's Napa Soda when you ask for it. FOR SALE CHEAP. LOCHINVAR 2:20 Black Trotting Stallion, 15-214 hands high. MVPTI P Standard bred Mare by Sterling, 1T1 1 IV 1 L, now in f0ai t0 Lochinvar 8:30. For particulars write JOHN D BLAMEY, Grass Valley, Cal. HARNESS AT COST IN ORDER TO DISPOSE OF OUR SURPLUS STOCK AND KEEP OUR PLANT RUNNING AT THIS TIME WE HAVE DECIDED TO SELL 200 Sets of HARNESS AND SADDLES AT ABSOLUTE COST. SALE FOR THREE DAYS, NEXT MONDAY, TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY All Harness and Saddles Our Own Make and Guaranteed. JEPSEN BROS CO. »«> 1145-1147 Market St., San Francisco The Handling of Sheep. Successful sheep husbandry depends on the attention to two essential factors, carefully carried through with the ut- most regularity. It is quite as essential how feed is given to the flock, as the kind given, to realize the full benefit to the shepherd, writes R. E. RobertB in New York Farmer. ' Sheep are not generally thought to be so intelligent as most of our domestic an- imals. However, they are sensitive to every minute that passes after the usual feeding hour has arrived. ! They will announce ite arrival by rest- lessness, which means wear on their sys- tem and loss of flesh. Therefore the more regular and aystematic we are in feeding the less food it will take to keep them in | good condition. ' The intervals should be so divided as to secure the full digestion of the food. At r PALACE HOTEL, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA. 3 TOURISTS and TRAVELERS will, now, with difficulty recognize the famous COURT into which lor twenty-five years carriages have driven. This space of over a quarter of an acre has recently, by the addition of very handsome furniture, rugs, chandeliers and tropical plants, been converted into a lounging room— the FINEST IN THE WORLD. The EMPIRE PARLOR— the PALM ROOM, furnished in Cerise, with Billiard and Pool tables for the ladies— the LOUIS XV PARLOR the LADIES WRITING ROOM and numerous other modern improvements, together with the unexcelled Cuisine and the Most Convenient Location in the City— all add much to the ever increasing popularity of this most famous HOTEL. THE VALLEJO RACE MEETING VALLEJO RACE TRACK, AUGUST 13, 14 AND 15, I903. Additional Stakes to Close August 1, 1903. 2:30 Class Trotting Stakes - $300 The Grissim Stakes for 2:12 Class Trotters - 300 Green Class Pacing Stakes ----- 300 Remember that Entries must be made on time. Entries postmarked later than date of closiDg are not eligible to win. Member National Trotting Associaiion. For further particulars and EDtry Blanks address THO?. SMITH, Manager, VALLEJO, CAL' Books and Pictures ABOUT California Mountains, Valleys, Canyons, Lakes and Seaside and Vacation Places. A Camp In the Forest A Mountain Lake A Good Hotel Trout for Breakfast or A Seaside Resort and Clam Chowder for Dinner The Publications of the Southern Pacific Cover all Desirable Places and answer question! of Distance, Accommodations, Expense, Fares, Route, etc. Nothing Left to the imagination. Inquire at INFORMATION BUREAU 613 MARKET STREET Bids for Privileges AT THE VALLEJO RACE MEETING AUGUST 13, 14 and Ifi, 1903, as follows: Bookniaklng and Pool Selling, Bar, Restaurant and Lnnch Counter, Candy and Nuts. Programmes. Etc , Etc will be received up to and opened August 1st. Right reserved to reject aLy bid- Address THOS. SMITH, Manager, Vallejo, Cal. D^H i (rr>i*£*C Tei h% f 1 1 a f pH and ^P6 wriUen VQ&dJ for framing * cUlgreCfc I dUUldLCU Write for prioea breeder and Sportsman, 36 Geary street, San Francisco, Cal. Chronic Bronchitis and Catarrh ol the Bladder Cared In 48 Hoars. CAPSULES Sapvlor to Copaiba. Cnbeb*' or In.lectlc 14 ©he gxeebev anii gtpavt&tntm [July 25, 1903 THE BAYWOOD STIWtto Foot-No Horse THE BUNGALOW, SAN MATEO, CAL. (Property of Johs Pabbott, Esq.) Imp. Hackney Stallion GREEN'S RUFUS « «■> Will serve a limited number of Approved Mares, Season 1903 FEE --- $75 Redactions made for two or more mares. Manager, WALTER SEALT. frrtAA/lrlAAAiTAAJUU\J"Lru"imB*i* * * *"* *~-'**'>*nm.n.r<.anm.n.mnnmna*m'i CURBS, SPLINTS, SPAVINS, WINDPUFFS, — and all enlargements, absolutely removed by— QUINN'S Ointment. Ji has the unqualified endorsement of out lead' ing horsemen and veterinarians. Ms, C. E. DiNEHABT, Cashier State Banl; Slayton, Minn., says: "One bottle cured a very bad case of blood epavio nn a mare for which I have since been offered SSUU. 1 would not be without it if it cost $o.0u a bottle." We hare ft; tdreds ofeueh Ut-timortiaU. RED BALL BRAND. ^warded Gold Medal At California State Fair 1892. Every horse owner who values his stock should constantly have a sup- oly of it on hand. It improves and beeps Istock in the pink of condition. Manhattan Food Co 1253 Folsom St., San Francisco ABk your grocers or dealers for it. All Orders COD. Sample can SI. Special Prices to Dealers Horse Sboers and Agents You don't have to pack horses* feet when you use STRAP VETERINARY and HOOF OINTMENT We guarantee a speed5 and positive cure for Collar and Saddle Galls, Wire Cuts, Wounds of all kinds Burns, Scalds, Cracked and Inflamed Hee1s,Grease HeeJ Scratches. Speedv Cuts Thrush, Contracted Heels Toe, Sand and Quartet Cracks, Nail Pricks. Cai Bruises, Sore Tendons Corns and Foundered Feel in all forms. We Fay Express Write for testimonials. PRICES— I pound can, 81.00; 2 pound can, *1 75: 5 pound can. M 00 Address a card to 1711 Genessee Street. Lew "Watson & Jones, Kansas City, Mo. Office Cottingham Bros. HHCTiH BUSINESS COLLEGE 24 Post Street, San Francisco, Cal The oldest, the largest, the most popular com- mercial school on the Pacific Coast. 20,000 gradu ates; 30 teachers: 70 typewriters; over 300 student* annually placed in positions. Send for catalogue. E. P. HEALD. President. Positively Cures Colic, Scouring and Indigestion. C. F. KEKTELL, Manager. Mark Levy & Co. £0COANUT OIL CAKE THE BEST FEED FOB STOCK, CHICKENS AND PIGS FOB SALE Ef LOTS TO SUIT BY EL DORADO LINSEED OIL WORKS CO £08 California Street, San Francisco, Cal. BLAKE, M0FFITT & T0WNE — DEALERS IN— 55-57-59-61 First Street, S. F. Telephone Main 199 Get Up a Club and Get One For $15 Worth of New Subscribers NCCKLE OPEN-FACE TIMER. Stem wind, shows seconds and reg sters minutes, start, stop and fly back operated from the crown. For $42 Worth of New Subscribers For $51 Worth of New Subscribers GUN-METAL OPEN-FACE TIMER AND WATCH COMBINED. Fine jeweled nickel movement, lever ascapement, finely finished, shows seconds and fifths; start, stop and fly- back operated from the crown. The thinnest timing watch made. GUN-METAL OPEN-FACED SPLIT SECOND TIMER. Shows seconds and fifths Registers minutes, start, stop and fly back oper- ated from the crown, split-second at- tachment worked by the side plug. The thinnest split timer in the market ALL RELIABLE, HANDSOME AND FIRST CLASS The subscription price to the Breeder and Sportsman is S3 per year, SI. 75 for 6 months or SI for 3 months in advance. Get enough new subscribers at these rates and send in the names, addresses and the money and you will get the premium offered. Send in a list of the people you wish to see with their post-office addresses and we will send sample copies. Send in your name with references and we will send you sample copies for canvassing and appoint you local agent. BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN 36 G-earv Street, San Francisco FOR SALE-S500C ^THE GRANDLY BRED STALLION macb: Sired byMcKinney 2:11 n, dam By BybyNutwoo is offered for sale at the above figure. He is a fa brother to Marengo King S29W. Address H. L BARON SMITH, 330 Bush St., San Francisco. SUBSCRIBE TO Showing exact position of every horse, including the favorite, which was either first, second thin or fourth at each quarter pole, also positions a start. Events reported from all parts of Canadi and United States. Issued the 1st and 16th of every month, from April 15th to October 15th. Price 60c, 75c. or SI, according to Issue. For sale at all principal hotels, news stands aa: race tracks in the country, and publishers1 office GOODWIN BROS., 1440 Broadway, N. \ ANNUAL SrBSCBIPTIOS, 116, which includes all semi monthly editions and two morocco bound semi-annuals. Erplana(or\ circular mailed fret. For sale by the Breeder and Sportsman. VETERINARY. DR. C. MASOERO VETERINARY SUR0E0N Graduate of Royal Veterinary College of Turin Infirmary and Residence-— 811 Howard St: between Fourth and Fifth Sts., San Francisco Telephone: Main 457. G. A. W. F0LKERS Successor to J. H. A. Foikers & Bro. A FULL SUPPLY OP SURGICAL AND VETERINARY INSTRUMENTS, ETC. 809 Market Street Flood Building, Room 4. Sao Francises Ira Barker Dalziel VETERINARY DENTIST Fancy Carriage. Saddle and Road Horses for Sate Office and stable: 605 Golden Gate Avenue, Sal Francisco, CaL Telephone South 651. Dx% \A/xxx, F. ZEsan. M. R. C. V. S-. F. E. T. M. S. VETERINARY SURGEON. Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, England: Fellow or the Earn bur* Veterinary Medical Society; Graduate of the New Veterinary College Edinburgh: Veterinary Sur- geon to the S. F. Fire Department; LItb Stag Inspector forNewZealandand Australian ColonlS at the port of San Francisco: Professor of Equine Medicine, Veterinary Surgery, Veterinary Depart- ment University of California: Ex-President « the California State Veterinary Medical AssooH tion; Veterinary Infirmary, Residence and Offloih = an Francisco Veterinary Hospital. 1117 Goldra Gate Avenue, near "Webster St., San Franciseo: Telephone West 128 , To cure a Bruise or Strain quickly, proceed as follows: Wring out a sponge in boiling hot water and hoM on the affected part, keeping the sponge hot by repeating the op- »- eration, forfroml5to30minutea. Rub dry and apply ABSORBINE rubbing it in well. Use the hot water steaming process once a day and apply the Ab- sorbine from three to |fonr times a day. One or two days usually cures fresh cases. Absorbine is unequalled in removing bunches caused by a bruise or strain from animal or man- kind. Vet. size §2 per bottle, for mankind SI pe* bottle, delivered or furnished by regular dealers. Write for pamphlets. Maaufactiired by W.F.Y0UNG.P-D.F Springfield. Mass. For sale by Mack & Co.. Langley&MichaeliOi RedingtoB & Co., J- O'Kanc, and J. A. McEerrc* all of San Francisco, July 25. 19031 ®ite ^veeXfzv croft gtpxnrtamcro 15 Portable Houses ALL. SIZES. Particularly desirable for Shooting Boxes, Bungalows and Summer Houses. AIVERY CONVFnIENT AND INEXPENSIVE^ HOUSE. Send for Illustrated Circu- lar and Price List. Burnham— Standeford COMPANY Washington Street, bet. First and Second, OAKLAND, CAL. San Francisco Office: 40 New Montgomery Street CAMPBELL'S EM0LL10 IODOFORM GALL CURE f *For GALL BACKS and SHOULDERS, CRUPPER J SORES and SADDLE GALLS there is none superior. The horse CAN BE WORKED AS USUAL For BARBED WIRE CUTS, CALKS, SCRATCH- ES, BLOOD POISONED SORES and ABRASIONS OF THE SKIN it has no equal. It is very adhesive and easily applied to a watery as well as a dry sore. Its use will absolutely prevent BLOOD POISON- ING. In this respect there is no Gall Cure offered which can justly even claim to be a competitor. We placed it on the market relying wholly on its merit for success, and notwithstanding the fact that comparatively little has been done in the way of advertising the sales of 1900 were 100 per cent great- er than the aggregate sales of Gall Cure preceding that year. This increase was entirely due to its MERITS, and from it we feel justified in saying that it is THE GALL CURE OF THE 20TH CENTU RY It is a quiok and sure cure for those troublesome skin cracks under the fe ■•ckv oich injure and ofttn lay up race horses. All Trainers Should Have It In Their Stables PRICE;— 3 OZ. BOX, 25c; 1 LB. BOX, si. 00. Bead our "ad." on Campbell's Horse Foot Remedy in next issue of this paper. JAS. B. CAMPBLL & CO., Mfrs.,412 W. Madison St., Chicago, III. GOOD ONLY UP TO AUGUST 15, 1903 We are pleased to announce that we have made arrangements whereby we are able to renew our offer of the MAMMOTH CHART, SHOWING SKELETON OF THE HORSE as a handsome premium to new subscribers and others who will pay us $3 for subscription to the Breeder & Sportsman between July 1st and August 15, 1903. This Chart is lithographed on tinted paper and is 32x28 inches. It will be found invaluable to every owner of a horse as the names of all the Bones are given, as well as the names of the Tendons and Ligaments of the legs. By studying this Chart almost any lameness can be located and the proper remedies applied. The accompanying engraving will afford an idea of its appearance. No similar Chart has ever before been published. The artist, in preparing this Skeleton, visited the American Veterinary College in New York City and made drawings from actual skeletons, thus insuring absolutg accuracy. This Chart sells for One Dollar, but any reader can have it who will remit THKtK DOLLARS BEFORE AUGUST 15, 1903. It will be mailed, carefully packed, in a heavy pasteboard tube for safety. Address BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN, 36 Geary St., San Francisco. STHIPED BASS ANGLERS LAKE MERRITT BOAT HOUSE J. A. FATJO, Proprietor, Will furnish good boats at reasonable prices Tackle Live and Clam Baft, etc., and better ac- commodations than ever before offered at Lake Merritt. Take narrow-gauge train to Oakland: street cars or five minut es' walk on East 12th st. to fish- ing water. Get off broad-gauge trains at Oak st. BREEDERS' DIRECTORY. JUST LJKB A HORSE RACE Wednesdays and Saturdays, at the Pleasanton Rack Track. Bring the ladies and see the FASTEST HORSES Of THE WORLD. Stop at the ROSE HOTEL A. S. OLNEY & SON, Proprietors HOLSTKINS— Winners of every 7 days' butter contest at State Fair 1899 1st & 2d for aged cows, 4-yr., 3-yr. and 2-yr.-olds; 21 Jerseys and Durhams competing. 5th year my Holstetns have beaten Jerseys for butter. Stock for sale; also pigs. F. H. Burke, 30 Montgomery St., S. F. JERSEYS, HOLSTKINS AND DCUHAH8. Dairy Stock specially. Hogs, Poultry. Estab- lished 1876. William Niles & Co.. Los Angeles, Cal. AYRSHIRKS— Young Bulls, Cows and Heifers. Registered. From prize winning families. Brown & Brandon Petaluma Cal. PEDIGREES TABULATED And type written Ready for framing. Write for prices. Breeder asd Sportsman, 36 Geary Street, San Francisco. Cal. AnOG-SPOORAPKT^ means disordered digestion, and if not promptly attended to will develop into chronic dyspepsia. Sergeant's Condition Pills will improve the appetite by strengthening the stom- ach, and. cure indigestion, general debility, nervous- ness, and all disorders arising from impaired digestion. The Pills are a scientific remedy and the standard alterative and tonic in the treatment of Distemper, Mange, Fevers and General Debility. Of dealers, 50c. and $1.00. By mail, prepaid. Sergeant's "Sure Shot" rids the Dog and Puppy of worms. Price, 50 cents. Mailed free anywhere. Sergeant's Carbolic " Soft Soap." is the only right kind made. 25c. of dealers. By mail, 35c. Our Dog Treatise, revised, and Pedigree blank will be sent on receipt of an order or 8c. in stamps. Our goods for sale by "All Druggists and Sporting Goods Dealers." F. W. BRAUN epot. G. DATTIEL. HELM I?.T. SPRATTS PATENT. DOG CAKES REMEDIES SOAP. NEWARK, N. J. Send for free copy of " DOG CULTURE." ST LOUIS, MO. Pacific Coast Branch— 1324 Valencia Street, San Francisco. Agents for "SANITAS" Disinfectant. KENNEL ADVERTISEMENTS. Wandee Kennels' Fox Terriers. ffANDEE BLIZZARD, formerly Lithi an Bliz- zard (Blizzard-Pop). Fea S»0 WANDEE JESTER (Norfolk Velocity-Norfolk Two Step). Fee SIO Puppies and Brood Bitches for sale. Dogs shown by appointment only. Address WAKDEE KENNELS, 844 Harrison St., San Francisco Cal. At Stud. SMOOTH FOX TERRIER Norfolk Trueman Pap Oft Sire of Garston Prefect (1st puppy, I CC «piu. reserve winners, Oakland, 1902^ Imelda (winners and special for best, S. P., 1902) Isabelle, etc. N. H HICKMAN, 1767 Page St., San Francisco. DELVERTON COCKER KENNELS FRU1TVALE -THE HOME OP THE CHAMPIONS. Winners L of more First and Special prizes In 1902-1903 than all the other Coast kennels combined. Save taken the Special for Best Cocker in show at San Francisco, 1898-99-1900-02-03 Champion HAMPTON PROMISE, black, at stud Winner of Special for best any color, San Francisco, 1903 These kennels have bred many high-class show dogs, among others Plumeria Portia conceded to be the best Cocker owned in Plumeria Kennels. Young stock now on hand. IRISH TERRIERS AT T STUD— THE GRAND YOUNG DOG. BOLTON WOODS DE-POT. ex Saskatche- wan, the dam of the great Bolton Woods Mixer (winner of over 2000 hrsts and special?.) Direct from the celebrated Bolton Woods Kennels. Eng- land. One of the finest of modern specimens. Looks ju>t what he is— a perfect Irishman Par- ticulars, OLLARD, Tacoma, Wash. U>OR SALE— TWENTY-FIVE IRISH TER- -*- riers from eight weeks to three years old. Some winners and all champion bred Price from $10 up This is a rare chance to get Dare Devils for next to nothing. Write for prices. W. BAL- LANTYNE, Central City, Colo. ST. BERNARDS. AT STUD CUBA OF KENWOOD (Glenbeigh Jr.— Stella) SAM'S BOW (Plain Sam-Dolly Des H) STOCKDALE KENNELS K. M. DODGE, Manager, Rah era field, Kern Co., Boarding. Pointer Puppies and well-broken Dogs for sale. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS Advertisements under this head one cent per word per insertion. Cash to accompany order. GREYHOUNDS. POR SALE OR SWAP-KENNEL OF STAND " ard bred, registered Greyhounds Stud dog imp HAWKER iPetar Piper-Ivy Green); bltcbps' PEARL PASHA (Emtu Pasha-Sometime) find three puppies by imp Hawker; SANTA ROSA (Bismark-Fleeta) and six puppies by imp Dudley TV*~ond (Fabulous Fortune-Nordtca); SCHIL- LING'S BE-^T (Mft^tPrOi^-ikirk-Diana, sister to St. Lawrence); BRIDGET OLEARY (Winged Foot-Tipperary T.ass, litter sister to Sacramento Boy). Aadress DR. GaVNOR Eureka. Cal. IRISH AND SCOTCH TERRIERS. TRISH AND SCOTCH TERRIER PUPPIES *- at 812 and $15 Sired by Champion Loyne Ruffian and Champion Fighting Mac. Mrs. BRADLEY-DYNE, Saturna P. O , B. O. I U-OR SALE— THE CELEBRATED STUD AND 1 show St. Bernard, COLOMBIA GENT Stock- I keeper says: "A typical dng of rare breeding.'* American Field: "Colombia Gen$ won all nis classes; a little thin, if he had fifteen pounds more flesh there Is few that could beat bim " Also two bitch pups by above dog out of a grand bitch. W. BALLANTYNE, Central City, olo. rOR SALE — WELL BRED. HANDSOME *- large St Bernard dog, two years old. Can be seen at 2125 Buena Vista Avenue. Alameda. ■\TAIROD KENNELS— REMOVED TO 133 ^ Ninth Avenue, near California— offer for sale the celebrated St- Bernard, LE KINO (Champion Le Prince-Sylvia's Lola). At Stud— Champion GRAND MASTER II, admittedly the grandest headed St Bernard on the Coast. Fee $25. BULL TERRIERS-FOX TERRIERS. IT STUD-CH. WOODCOTE WONDER. THE ■£*- world's premier Bull Terrier Prize winning Wonder puppies; Fox Terrien sired by Norfolk Trueman: brood bitches in whelp and puppies for sale- WOODLAWN KENNELS. Geary and Central Ave . San Francisco Phone: Baker 3031. pOLLIE PUPS FOR SALE— BY PRIZE ^ winning imported sires and dams, fit for bench, ranch or farm Both sexes Prices accord- ing to quality. Correspondence solicited: all let- ters cheerfully answered. THOS. S. GRIFFITH. Box 1907, Spokane, Wash. COCKER SPANIELS. NAIROD KENNELS— 132 NINTH AVENUE, near California. Champion bred Cocker Spaniels at stud and for sale. PLUMERIA COCKER KENNELS HAVE ■L removed to their new kennels, 229 Ninth Ave. The dogs in this kennel are conceded to be the best in the West, having defeated all comers, under a number of the best judges In America. At Stud— Champion HAMPTON GOLDIE (great- est sireof winners alive), PLUMERIA TWEE- DLEPUNCH and others. Young and matured stock for sale. Address E C PLUME. 229 Ninth Ave., San Francisco. Small dogs boarded. rlTPPI. T70R SALE-COCKER SPANIEL PTTPFIES Jc by Ch. Hampton Goldie. Apply at junctloa old county and Redwood roads, Fruitvale, Alamada J>^«DO0SWIHMAN6EI v ro cum. TtiM wrm STAmuusoaof u* i ATANDABDOIAINnCTAKTCO : 16 ©he $veei>ev axxii grpmrtemctw [July 25, 1903 TELEPHONE-. South 640 ■i ne Harness ORSE BOOTS San Francisco. Cal. REMINGTON-LEE SPORTING RIFLE ta WITHOUT AN EQUAL FOB LONG RANGE TARGET and BIG GAME SHOOTING Frank H. Hyde shot with a Remington-Lee Sporting Rifle and won the All-Comers Match, Sea Girt, New Jersey. Pacific Coast Depot: 86-88 First St., S. F. E. E. DRAKE, Mgr. REMINGTON ARMS CO. ILION, NEW YORK. . . Send for Illustrated Catalog. USE THE ALWAYS RELIABLE . .. AMMUNITION UNION METALLIC CARTRIDGE CO... Pacific Coast Depot: 86-88 First St , S. F. E E. DRAKE, MEr AMMUNITION, RIFLES AND SHOTGUNS PACIFIC COAST AGENCY: 127-135 FIRST STREET SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. -A.. MULLER, Agent. BALLISTITF ^™^ The Standard Dense Powder of the World. ""^ 1901— Wins Second in Grand American Handicap at Targets. 1903— Wins First in Grand American Handicap at Targets. *-!„* »_„.„, a„„ 1903— wins during Grand American Handicap week at Kansas City. First Amateur Average in Regular Events. Third General Average in Regular Events ALL OF ABOTE ARE AMATEUR RECORDS. Take No One's Word. Try It for Yourself. J H LAU &, CO 75 CHAMBERS ST„ NEW YORK CITY w" " *' ^"*"» **» y^^S* Telephone 1747 Franklin. Importers and Dealers In Fire Arms, Ammunition and Fencing Goods. Sole Agents for BALLIST1TE (Dense) and EMPIRE (Bulk) Smokeless Powders and the REBLE GUN. A postal brings catalogue and " Shooting Facts." (third edition 1 BALLISTITF ^m^ The Standard Dense Powder of the World. ■<^"™ Glabrougfi Golcher & Go. GUNS Gun Goods WSend tor OsUlogos. F. Trap Shooting Association May 33—23—24—25 VAUGHN, - - 73 Straights FEUDXKR, - 63 « Also longest straight ran and first monies at live birds FISHING Tackle 638 MARKET STREET.S. F. Du Pont Gun Powder SMOKELESS, SHOT GUN and D, , „ MILITARY POWDER Black Powder for Sporting and Blasting Purposes The Reputation of a Hundred Yeare in the Guarantee of DU PONT POWDER •' *-*»*•■*. •■■■•• - 519 Mission St., Room 311, San FraBoi.c, Cal. aplfeon to Hunter Arms Co., Fulton, N. Y. PHIL. B. BEKEART CO., San Francisco, Coast Representative (( NEW E. C." NEW "SCHULTZE" SHOTGUN RIFLEITE Maauf so tared » THE AMERICAN "E. C." and "SCHULTZE" Gunpowder Go., Ltd. PHIL. E. BEKEART CO., Paoluo Coast Representative. You can get these Smokeless Powders in FACTORY . . LOADED SHELLS DU PONT "E. C." SCHULTZE HA7APT1 SHOTGUN RIFLEITE BALLISTITE LAFLIN & RAND "INFALLIBLE." What More do yon Want? VOX.. XUIL No. 6 38 GEARY STREET. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1903. SUBSCRIPTION THREE DOLLARS A TEAR THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN'S CAMERA AT VALLEJO. ALLESANDRO 2:40, b. c. (2) by Athaneer. TOM SMITH 2:13 1-4, b. «. by MoKlnney LOTTIE SMART 2:07 1-4 by Rojwell. SWIFT B. 2:24 1-4. b. o. (3) by Stain B. DOT 2:20 by Falroae. Two-Year-Olfl Colt by Gaff Topsail. Two-Year-Olil Filly by Son of Oro Wilken, 2 ®hc g$rccc1 1 UC UWWUCUl OlarvC ocoldent Stake yet contested. Final, payment of $50 payable thirty days before race. ¥) Thfl C + ontnr/1 Qf pIVa wi]1 oe trotted on Monday. September 7th. The most valu- LL 1 UC olalllUl U OlatvG aDie Stanford Stake yet contested. Final payment of $20 pay- able ten days before race. 'snArial Dare* fnr nrnmmpri: and otner Pr°Perly organized Driving Clubs- opclIaL Kates lOT UI UllllllCI S, conditions will be announced later. SPECIAL CONDITIONS. Entries to above races to close with the Acting Secretary. H. Lowden, Sacramento, Wednesday, August 12, 1903, when horses are to be named and eligible, except where otherwise stated. Five per cent entrance and five per cent additional from money winners. All races mile heats, three in five, except otherwise stated. Moneys to be divided 50, 25, 15, and 10 per cent, unless otnerwise specified in conditions. All races to fill satisfactory to the Board of Directors or they may be declared off. Distance in all heats 80 yards, but if the field is more than eight, 100 yards A horse not win nlng, or making: a dead heat la three, to be rated oat. bat will retain his position in earn mary Five or more to start, or it is optional with the Board to declare race off. If there are less than four starters the Society may, if they so decide, allow them to contest for the entrance moneys only paid in, to be divided 60, 30, and 10 per cent. A horse distancing the field will only be entitled to first and fourth moneys. Hopples barred in trots, but allowed in pacing races, escept where otherwise stated. It is not intended to give any specials. If you want to start your horses or secure stalls, enter in advertised races. For full and further conditions, see entry blank. BENJ. F. RUSH, President H. LOWDEN, Acting Secretary Sacramento, Cal FOR SALE. HARNESS, SADDLES, WHIPS, ROBES, TURF GOODS. THE FINEST & LARGEST STOCK IN S. F. JEPSEN BROS CO. '»c. 1145-1147 Market St., San Francisco FOR SALE CHEAP. LOCHINVAR 2:20 Black Trotting Stallion, 15-2H hands high MVPTI P Standard bred Mare by Sterling, .'l I IV 1 L.L,, now in roal t0 Lochinvar 2:20 For particulars write JOHN D. BLAMEY, Grass Valley, Cal. FOR SALE. TTANDSOME CHESTNUT DRIVING HORSE, -LL 154 hands high weight 1100, foaled, in JS96; sired by Gossiper, dam Maud Fowler, who was also the dam of Sonoma Girl, entered in the 2:24 class at the Breeders meeting. Can trot a mile in 2:30 or better: perfectly gentle, not afraid of cars or automobiles; registered in the Ameri- can Trotting Register, as Fenton, under Rule 6, Vol. 14. Price 8400. W. S. WEST, P. O. Bos 216. Santa Rosa Cal. OREGON STATE FAIR SALEM September 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19. ENTRIES CLOSE AUGUST 25. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14. Pacing, 3:20 Class, two In three 8 500 Trotllng, 3:35 ClafiB, two in three 500 TUESDAY, SEPSEMBER 15. Trotting, Two-year-olds, two In three (closed) g 600 Pacing. Inland Empire Stake for Three-year-olds, two in three (closed) 600 Trotting, 3:14 Class, three In five IOOO WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16. Pacing, Two-year-olds, two In three (closed) 9 400 Pacing, 3:11 Class, three in five IOOO Pacing, 3:17 Class, The Greater Salem Stake, three In five (closed) 3000 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17. Trotting. Three-year-olds, Webfoot Stake, two In three (closed) S 50O Paclog, 2:35 Class, two In three 500 Trotting, 3:30 Class, The Lewis and Clarke Stake, three in five (closed) SOOO FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18. Pacing. Consolation to 3:17 Pace, two In three s, 500 Trotting, 3:30 Class, three In five 500 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19. Trotting, 2:17 Class, three In five .< 500 Pacing, 2:15 Class, three In five soo Trotting, Consolation to 3:20 Trot, two in three 500 Orponn Fliprhv A handicap for Three-year-olds and upward ; 820 to nominate and $30 vJi cguii i/ciuj1 additional to start. Entries close Tuesday. August 25th; weights announced We.'nesday, September 16tb, at 10 a. m ; declarations due at 2 p m. 1 1-4 mites 81000 rendition's Entrance fee 5 per cent of purse and 5 per cenk additional from money winners. vuuuiiiuiia. Money divided 50, 25, 15 and 10 per cent of purse Two or more horses may be entered from the same stable and held only for one entry fee. In case where two or more horses have been named as one entry, and any horses have been separated from the stable from which they were originally entered, and such separation made according to rule, they shall be eligible to start in the race upon the payment of the regular entry fee A horse entering a class that does not fill may be ^raisferred to any other class eligible by notifying the Secretary on or before September 5th. A horse not winning a heat in three shall not start ir the fourth heat, except in a field of eight or more staners; then be must win a heat in four or go to the barn. Horses so ruled out shall have a right to a share of the purse according to their rank at the close of the last heat. The board reserves the right to declare off and return first payment in any purse that dries not fill satisfactorily. Right* reserved to declare two starters a walk-over. When only two start they mav oontest for the entrance money paid in. to be divided 70 per cent to the first and 30 per cent to second horse A horse distanc- ing the field shall be entitled to first and fourth moneys only, and in no other case shall a horse be entitled to more than one money. Other than specified, rules of the National Trotting Association, of which this Association is a member, t© govern, except hopples not barred on pacers. RlffinifHT RaCeS T""° Running Races will be given each day, with entries to <* " close at 6 p. m. day preoadlDg race. W. H. WEHRUNG, Pres M. D. WISDOM, Sec'y, HILLSBOEO, OREGON. PORTLAND, OREGON. Starting Payments Due August 16, 1903, On Two-Year-Olds ENTERED IN THE PACIFIC BREEDERS FUTURITY STAKES I. 1 $6000 GUARANTEED FOR THE GET OF MARES COVERED IN 1900 (FOALS BORN IN 1901) ENTRIES CLOSED SEPTEMBER 1, 1900. To Trot or Pace at 2 years old in 1903 and at 3 years old in 1904 at either or both ages. MONET DIVIDED AS FOLLOWS: 1903. Trotters 813SO Pacers 750 Nominator Dam of Winner Trot 300 Nominator Dam of .Viuner Pace.... 300 Two -Year-Old Two-Year-Old 1904. Three- Year-Old Trotters. 83000 Three- Year-Old Pacers 1 OOO Nominator Dam of Winner Trot 300 Nominator Dam of Winner Pace 300 Owner of Stallion, sire of Winner of Three-Year Old Trot, when mare was bred.. 8 IOO Owner of Stallion, sire of Winner of Three- Year-Old Pace, when mare was bred.. IOO Entrance and Payments— S3 to nominate mare on September 1, IflOO. $5 January 2, 1901. $10 on yearlings January 2, 1932 $10 on two-year olds January 2. 1903 $10 on three-year olds January 2, 1904. Starting Payments— $35 to start in the two-year.old pace. $35 to start in the two-year-old trot. $35 to start in the three year-old pace $50 to start in the three -year-old trot. All starting payments to be mads ten days before the first day of the meeting at which the race is to take plaoe. Nomi- nators mu^t designate, when making payments to start, whether the horse entered Is a trotter or a pacer Colts that start at twoyearsold are not barred from starting again in the three-year-old divisions. The $10 payment January 2, 19J3, keeps your entry good to January 2, 1904, whether you start at two years old or not. E. P. HEALD, President. F. W. KELEEY, Secretary, 86 Geary St , San Francisco, PALACE HOTEL, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA. 5 TOURISTS and TRAVELERS will, now, with difficulty recognize the famous COURT into which for twenty-five years carriages have driven. This space of over a quarter of an acre has recently, by the addition of very handsome furniture, rugs, chandeliers and tropical plants, been converted into a lounging room— the FINEST IN THE WORLD. The EMPIRE PARLOR— the PALM ROOM, furnished in Cerise, with Billiard and Pool tables for the ladles— the LOUIS XV PARLOR the LADIES WRITING ROOM and numerous other modern improvements, together with the unexcelled Cuisine and the Most Convenient Location in the City—all add much to the ever increasing popularity of this most famous HOTEL. E>£kH 1 O-f £W*C T«l Kills -f-*»H and type written ready for framing * euigree^ i duuiaicu Write for prioe6 breeder an» SPORTSMAN, 36 Geary street, San Francisco, Cal AUGUST 1, 1903] ©He gveeiiev cmb gfcpuxrtsmcm 3 THE WEEKLY BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN F. W. KELLEY, Pbopbxetor, Turf and Sporting Authority ot the Pacific Coast. — OFFICE — 36 GEARY STREET, SAN FRANCISCO. P. O- BOX 2300. Telephone: Black 586. Terms— One Tear 83. Six Months 81.75, Three MonthB 81 STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. Money snould be sent by postal order, draft or by registered letter addressed to F. W. Kelley, 36 Geary St., San Francisco. Cal. Communications must be accompanied by the writer's name and address, not necessarily for publication, but as a private guarantee of good faith. San Francisco, Saturday, August i, 1903. THE S6000 FUTURITY is the subject of much con- versation among- California horsemen just at present, as the two year old divisions of stake No. 1 are to be decided at the Breeders meeting- this month at Petaluma. Starting payments are due August 16th on two year olds that will start this year and from present appearances these payments will be made on quite a number of youngsters. It is very likely that a half dozen or more two year olds will go to the post in each race and if so they will be notable events. It is several years since a valuable two year •Id stake was trotted or paced in California and the revival of the interest in breeding and racing colts will therefore be noticeable. The inauguration of this futurity by the Breeders Association has done much to increase this interest which had lagged greatly during the years of business depression. While as yet no phenomenally fast colts have been discovered among those eligible to start this year, the probability is that the winners of both races will have to trot and pace in standard time to win. How- ever, any owner who has a two year old trotter that can now show a mile in 2:40 or a pacer of that age that can pace in 2:30, should have an excellent chance to win part of the money if his colt is eligible to start. The race is not always to the swift and the steady going youngster that can put in a couple of heats in the time mentioned will not be far behind the winner in our opinion. MR. T. J. CROWLEY of this city, one of Califor- nia's most enthusiastic trotting horse admirers and an active member of the Board of Directors of the Pacific Coast Trotting Horse Breeders Association is now in the East on a business and pleasure trip accompanied by Mrs. Crowley. They attended a meeting of the New York Driving Club at Empire t»*ack, New York, on Thursday of last week, the ciub officials honoring Mr. C. by asking him to preside in the Judges' stand. In a private letier to the editor of this paper Mr. Crowley says: "Here I witnessed the best and only real matinee racing I ever saw. I wish some of our California horsemen could just take a look in on one of these matinees. They would doubtless say to themselves. 'What arrant fools we be!' Here one sees gentlemen driving for blood and blue ribbons — no petty gam- bling, but the best of good feeling and fellowship. When one wins, the defeated contestants shake his hand and congratulate him in the greatest of good humor. I saw Ida Highwood against Swift and Ax- tello trot and win the fastest heat to wagon I ever witnessed — 2:08i. It is the fastest heat to wagon in a race this year. Although beaten by Swift in the de- ciding heat in 2:11 she was not disgraced. Mr. Smathers claimed he was carried out by Mr. Cockerill, driver of Swift, but the claim was not allowed as the judges were of the opinion tnat (as Mr. Smathers ex- pressed it) 'Mr. Cockerill never intended to win other- wise than on his merits.' Empire City Track is a grand one, and a credit to the man who built it. It is a fitting memorial to his memory." Mr. Crowley has been at Cleveland during the Grand Circuit meeting there this week, and after a short stay in Toledo will start for home, arriving here about August 12th. He has promised to write for us his impressions on harness racing as seen on the Grand Circuit, and as he is a keen observer we shall await the receipt of his manuscript with great interest as will also our readers. Our Pictures. The photos for the group of handsome horses showa on our title page this weak were obtained by the Breeder's camera at the Vallejo track last Saturday. Allesandro, the two-yerr-old colt by Athaneer, is owned by Mr. Geo. Warlow of Fresno, who bred him. Allesandro won the two-year-old stake at the Denver meeting and trotted to a record of 2:40 which is the two-year-old record for the State of Colorado atd also for the Denver track. Allesandro is a big mascu- line colt and will grow into a magnificent horse. E:s dam is a full sister to Lesterine 2:13£, being by Atta- don out of Lustrine by Onward. Tom Smith 2:13^, as the picture shows (and it does not flatter him in the least), has grown and filled out until he is one of the handsomest horses in California. Mr. Zibble, who is training him and drove him to his record at Denver, has made a very steady and fast trotter out of this son of McKinney and believes he will mark him in 2:10 this year. Prof. E. P. Heald, who owns Tom Smith, has in him one of the very handsomest of McKinney 's sons and one of the strong- est bred, and we don't know where there is a son of McKinney that on breeding, individuality, size, speed and gameness is a better horse to head a stock farm. An offer of ST000 was made for Tom Smith by East- ern parties after he had made his record at Denver. Lottie Smart 2:07£ was brought to California by Mr. Zibble in the hopes that a race or two might be arranged for her, as her owner would like to have her record reduced. She is a chestnut mare looking very much like a thoroughbred. Her sire is Roswell, he by Belvoir and he by Belmont 64. Lottie's dam is by Ogallala, a son by Mambrino Russell and her gran- dam by Strathmore. She was bred by Mr. Francis Smart of Denver and made her record at Baltimore last year. One of the grandest looking mares ever seen on a race track is the mare Dot 2:26 by Falrose. She is a pacer and took her record at Quincy, Plumas county, last year. Dot is owned by Col. F. G. Crawford of Willows and is trained by W. P. Hamner. Col. Craw- ford also bred the pacer Don 2:10 by Falrose, a horse that would have taken a record of 2:05 or better had he not met an untimely death after making one of the best winning campaigns ever made by a horse raced in California. The two year old colt by Gaff Topsail is one of the first of the get of that son of Diablo. This colt is owned by Mr. H C. Myers of Vallejo and is out of his fast mare Easter D. by Easterwood. He is being trained by Joe Corey. One of the most talked about three year olds in California is the gelding Swift B. 2:24J (record made at Denver this year) by Stam B. 2:11£ out of that good mare Swift Bird 2:18| by Waldstein. Swift B. is the first of the get of Stam B. to be trained and he is a natural, pure-gaited trotter. He is entered in the Occident Stake this year and his mark of 2:24\ made at Denver shows that he will doubtless be one of the contenders for first money when that rich stake is de- cided on the first nay of the State Fair. One of the greatest pieces of trotting machinery ever seen on the Vallejo track is the little bay filly in Mannie Reams' string that occupies the lower right hand corner of the group on our front page. She is only a two year old and is by a son of Oro Wilkes that President Ben Rush of the State Agricultural Society purchased as a colt at the dispersal sale of the William Corbitt horses at San Mateo. Mr. Reams could not give the full breeding of this filly but she can trot well enough to have the very beat that's going in her veins. Reams worked her out with three aged horses last Saturday whose drivers intended to go a mile around 2:30. She went to the quarter with them in about 36 seconds and the spectators all thought her driver would pull her up and drop out of it. He did take her back but she wanted to go so badly that he gave her her head again and sbe was right uo with the others at the half in 1:17. He took her back again on the third quarter, but she still wanted to go on and 'ie let her step to them again. They finished in a bunch in 2:31 and she was right at them and not over a length or two behind. She is a very clean gaited and good headed filly and should make a veay fast mare when she matures, as her gameness is beyond question. Los Angeles is in line with a big program of harness races for a meeting to be given by tbe Los Angeles Racing Association of which Mr. J. W. Brooks is Presiient and Capt. Thos. B. Merry, Secretary. There are sixteen Btakes offered for trotters and pacers and the classes have been well arranged. One of these stakes is for trotters of the 2:24 class and has a value of $1000. Another of the same value is for the 2:15 class pacers. The free for all trotters and free for all pacers are each given $600. All tbe rest of tbe stakes are $500 each. Ooe of the best features of the program are two consolation purses. One is for 2:17 class trotters that have started at the meeting and not won first or second money. The other has the same conditions and is for 2:15 class pacers. Tbe consolation trot will be held October 29th and the pace the following day. The meeting opens October 10th and closes on the 31st. Entries to the sixteen stakes will close September 1st. The Los Angeles track is one of the best in California, and Los Angeles one of the best harness racing towns on the Coast. Be sure and make your entries in time. Answers to Correspondents. L. M. R., Eureka, Cal.— If at a matinee at which gateentrauceis charged, threeor four horsesin train- ing at, the track at the time be given workouts to- gether, as a compliment to the club and as an enter- tainment for the grandstand, does the time taken by the judges make a record or a bar? Answer— If admission fee is charged for exhibitions of this kind and time is taken, it is a bar. Rule 42, Section 1, says: "Any contest between horses for purse, premium, stake or wager, or involving adimssion fees, on any course and in the presence of judges and timers shall constitute a public race. ' July 9, 1963 Editor Breeder and Sportsman— The follow- ing, in quotations, is a copy from a trophy which ex- plains itself: "Presented by Tbe Hilo Mercantile Company, Limited, for the One Mile, Free for All, Running Race Hilo, Hawaii, H- I., July 4, 1901." On the back is "To be won Twice." In the first race for cup and purse R. Ballentyne entered Billy McCloskey and won. Since then A. Humberg won with Fierro, J. T. Moir with Dixie Land, J. O'Rourke with Carter H. Harrison Jr. and on this Fourth R. Ballentyne won with Bruner. Mr. Ballentyne was lessee of both Billy McCloskey and Bruner. He made no claim to ownership of the horses but does claim that as lessee he is the nominal owner and is entitled to the cup. His claim is disputed by others here. The races were run under the rules of the "California Racing and Blood Horse Association." We have no jockey club here, the races being (this year) in charge of Citizens Committee. Will you kindly say whether under the conditions a lessee of a horse is considered as the owner and is entited to the cup. Very truly, The Hawaii Herald, J. T. Stacker, Mgr. Answer — An inquiry in regard to this same matter was answered in this column last June, before the last race for this cup was run. It was therein stated that we could not decide in the matter without knowing the original conditions of the race. Cup races and all other races for that matter are governed by certain conditions which are agreed upon or published prior to the first entries being made. The inscription on the cup offers no clue to what the conditions of this race were. It simply states that it is a free for all running race at one mile to be won twice, but does not state whether it is to be won twice by one owner or one horse. As the Hilo Mercantile Company, Limited, offered the cup, it should be the one to state what the conditionsgoverning it are. Toask a news- paper or any other authority to decide in this matter without knowing what the conditions are is like ask- ing a court to interpret a contract it has never seen and has no evidence of. Woodland Matinee Races. [Saturday, July 26. J First race — Cal Brown by Goldrose-Advocatrix (Rodman) 1 2 1 Celmar by Falrose (Mastih) 3 12 Tuberana by Tuberose (Nason) 2 3 dr Time-2:35, 2:27, 2:25. Second race — Penrose by Falrose (Mastin) 1 1 Bellrose by Falrose (Nason) 3 2 Lena A. by Linmont (Bigelow) 2 3 Time-2:19^, 2:18&. Tbe judges were A. C Stevens, and O. A. Lowe. The timers were J. Norton and J. D. Martin. Clerk, S H. Grigsby. The Best of Results. People who hesitate to invest in a bottle of Absorbtne can take courage from tbe experience of others Here is what one man says: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, March 3, 1902. IT. F. Young. Spring fidd . Jfass. Dear Sir: — I purchased yoar Absorbine from a local dealer and am using It on mv mare with the best 01 results. The puffs are just about gone. Yours truly, Tbos. Ptolemy. Absorbine %i per bottle, express prepaid. Address W. F. YOUNG, P. D. F., Springfield, Mass. Many horsemen do not realize just how much speed a horse must have in order to make him of any ac- count as a Grand Circuit performer. Scott Hudson was talking about this a few days ago and asserted that a man who went away to the big meetings with a trotter that could not step in 2:10, or a pacer that could not go in 2:05, was simply wasting time and money. The truth of the statement is apparent to those who are familiar with the conditions surround- ing Grand Circuit racing. Why, at Columbus and Windsor last week, where tbe meetings were just pre- liminary skirmishes of the Grand Circuit brigade, nearly two dozen pacers eligible to the slow classes, but tbat can pace right around 2:10, failed to win a race, and probably a dozen trotters capable of trotting as fast were not among thewiDners. In the light of these facts it is no wonder that a large number of trainers prefer to race over the half-mile tracks and minor circuits, where the pace is not so hot. Jackson's Napa Soda Is sold in every city, towc and hamlet in the State. (ffihe gv&ebzv anb ^poxt&man [August 1, 1903 MONROE, the big- bay gelding by Seymour Wilkes 2:08£, won at Detroit on Friday of last week, getting the second and third heats of the 2:26 trot in 2:14| and 2:15J. He is the first trotter by Seymour Wilkes to start in a race, I believe, and to move up into the 2:15 list at the second meeting of the year is a pretty good showing for a trotter that nearly all the horsemen thought was too big for a campaigner, al- though all agreed that he was good gaited and fast. Mr. Salisbury, who purchased Monroe from Mr. Fred Talbot of this city, has entered him as out of a mare by Geo. M. Patchen Jr., but although his dam has two crosses to that stallion sh.3 was not sired by him. The correct breeding was given me the otter day by an old friend, Mr. P. H. Lennon of Napa, one of the old-time horsemen of California, a man who has probably sold more high class carriage teams and road horses for good prices in San Francisco than any dealer that could be mentioned. "Pat" Lennon, as his friends all call him, retired some years ago from the active busy life of farmer and horse dealer which he led for bo many years, and his "old homestead" just south of Napa is now a part of the Napa Stock Farm, where Mr. A. B. Spreckels has established one of the finest thoroughbred breeding farms in the State. With a competence to keep him comfortable in his declining years Mr. Lennon now lives "in town" but retains all his old love for a good trotter and can pick one out in the rough as well as the nest man. I met him at Vallejo laBt Saturday, he having come down on the train fifteen miles that morning "just to see the horses." He knows all about the dam of Monroe and gave me her breeding, Monroe's dam is the McCord mare, and she is by Mr. Lennon's old horse Columbus, he a son of his horse John M. Pat- chen that died many years ago in Napa, after leaving his impress upon the roadster stock of that county. John M. Patchen was a big high headed fellow that got carriage horses and roadsters of size, good looks and quality, and it was his blood that did so much to sell for good prices the many teams that Mr. Lennon from time to time brought to San Francisco. John M. Patchen waB by Geo. M. Patchen Jr., and his dam was the mare Lady Geneva by Hambletonian 10. The dam of Columbus, sire of the McCord mare, was a mare called Mayflower by Eugene Casserly, son of the thirty mile champion Gen. Taylor. The dam of the McCord mare was Lady Sargent, a famous road mare owned by Alex and the late John McCord of this city. "Lady Sargent was such a good one on the road," said Mr. Lennon, "that Alex generally hooked her double with any horse brought in by a countryman to sell, just to make the country horse look cheap." One day Mr. Lennon brought down a horse called Hector that he wanted $500 for. Alex McCord hooked him up with Lady Sargent and with Mr. Lennon be- side him on the seat they drove out to the Park and to the Bay District track. Though McCord drove the Lady to her topmost speed, Lennon's Hector was right there all the time and carried the mare off her feet several times. McCord bought Hector, of course, and as Lady Sargent went lame soon after, she was sent up to John McCord's Napa farm, which adjoined the Lennon homestead and was there bred to Colum- bus and produced the dam of Mr. Salisbury's big trotter Monroe. Lady Sargent was herself a well bred one. She was sired by Quien Saba, son of Whip- ple's Hambletonian 725, and her dam was Pinbone by Budd Doble, he by Geo. M. Patchen Jr. The next dam was Milkmaid, a good road mare of the early days owned by Geo. Jefferson. Milkmaid's pedigree was unknown. When Mr. Talbot bought Monroe he was told that the dam was by Geo. M. Patchen Jr., and this has always been supposed to be correct, but there is not a particle of doubt but the pedigree aB given by Mr. Lennon is the true breeding of Monroe's dam. The California horses are racing up in the front row on the Grand Circuit, and, although they do not all land first every time they start, they are nearly all showing speed enough to get a part of the money at least. Little Trilby Direct won the consolation Chamber of Commerce stake on Friday last and paced the two heats in 2:08^ and 2:09. This is fast time, and Mr. Gallegos' little mare is proving that her speed is not all shown in the workouts. Trilby Direct is by Direct and her dam is by Sable WilkeF. The gelding Diablito, also owned by Mr. Galkgos and being raced in the Salisbury string, is showing up weM and should get a very low mark this year. He wus second to the fast pacer Tom Keene when the latter paced a mile in 2:07£ in the first heat of the 2:18 7 ce at Cleveland on Monday of this week, and was i '-ird the next heat in 2:05£, getting second money. Diablito is one of the kind that will improve if no accident happens him, and he will very likely return home with a record several seconds below 2:10 if be has average luck. It is to be hoped that both these pacers will do well on the Grand Circuit, as their owner is a gentleman who breeds and trains his horses entirely for pleasure and who takes more pride in the records than in the money they earn. Seattle Entries. The pedigree experts are now at work trying to dig up the breeding of Venus, dam of Sidney Dillon. There are several who claim to know the facts who say she was by Capt. Webster 10173, son of William- son's Belmont. Others say that Venture 2:27^ another son of Williamson's Belmont is her sire. There was much controversy over the matter years ago. When Count Valensin owned Venus he spent considerable time in trying to get her correct breeding and in his catalogues gave her as by Capt. Webster, dam by Kentucky Hunter. Like many good broodmares VenuB will probably be among those whose pedigree cannot be positively determined but that she is a grandaughter of Williamson's Belmont is as certain as anything that is believed but cannot be sworn to. Just as I had finished the above paragraph Dan McCarty ("White Hat") came into the sanctum sanc- torum to protest against Mr. Peter C. Kellogg classi- fying him among the "departed." In the last issue of the American Horse Breeder Mr. Kellogg, discussing the breeding of Venus, dam of Sidney Dillon, referred to a talk he had heard on the subject between "John Goldsmith, W. S. Hobart, Dan McCarty, and G. ValensiD, all of whom are dead." While Messrs. Goldsmith, Hobart and Valensin have all crossed the divide Dan McCarty is very much alive and a bard one to kill. After the wearer of the historical white hat had denied the story of his death and stated that he was ready at any time to make affidavit that he was alive and knew it, I asked him about the breeding of Venus. "I bought Venus," said he, "from Billy Lyle, who had purchased herfromSabe Harris who bred her. Harris brought her dam across the plains with hirr, and I have heard him state her breeding but have forgotten it now. He told me he bred the mare to Venture 2:27| and the produce was VeDus. Billy Lyle always claimed that Venture was the sire of Venus and I think there should be no doubt about thiB. I sold Venus to Count V'Jentin and I don't know what information he got that led him to give her sire as Capt. Webster, but I shall always think that Venture was the sire of Venus." At the Pierce sale last Wednesday Dan purchased for $185, the mare Transit of Venus, own sister to Sidney Dillon. She had a filly foal at foot by On Stanley 2:16J, son of Direct 2:05$ and Lilly Stanley 2:17.1. This filly is a black and Dan says is "the great- est trotter on earth, bar none." He had the mare led behind a saddle horse on Van Ness avenue the other day and he says that the filly trotted alongside her at a three minute clip without raising her nose. The filly was foaled with a deformed caudal appendage and "looks like a bloomin hackney" according to Mc- Carty, but she is the next world's record breaker or the wearer of the white hat is not a prophet. T. W. Barstow of San Jose, who bred and owns the pacing mare Alone 2:09J by Nearest, own brother to John A. McKerron 2:05}, tells me that he will not race her this year, as there are no classes for her on this coast. He will drive her an exhibition mile at the Breeders Petaluma meeting however, and will also send her a half mile at that meeting, which will be very close to one minute. Alone hasn't a spot or a pimple on her, and is as sound as the day she was foaled five years ago. She is sixteen hands and an inch high and weighs about 1200 pounds and can be driven by anyone that can sit still in a buggy or bike. She took her record of 2:09£ last year in a race and was the fastest four year old mare of the year. Then she carried eight ounces all around, but this season has three ounces less on each foot and is faster than ever. She paced a half in 1 :02A at San Jose last week, covering the second quarter in exactly £9 secordf. That she can equal or beat one mioute for a half mile is certain, and when Mr. Barstow turns her loose on the Petaluma track the greatest speed of the year in California will be seen. Alone will probably be sent a full mile to beat 2:04$ {Lady of the Manor's record) at Petaluma, and her performance will be a drawing card for the meeting. Always Has a Supply of Caustic Balsam. Pomerot, Pa., Dec. 26, 1902. The Lawrence- Williams < To . Cleveland, O. Kindly seDd me a supply of your pictures of famous horses. I have used your Gombauh's Caustic Balsam with great success for past two years. Always have a supply in my stable. James Darlington. Jackson's Napa Soda does not tangle the feet. 2:17 Pace, S1000— Highball, Harry Hurst, Ama A., Rita H., Miladi B., Adimont, County Attorney, Prince Tom, Ollie M., Bensurba, Polka Dot, El Rio. 2:20 Trot, $1000— Red Skin, H. H. H., Mark Han- nabus, Duke of Waldstein, Idylwild, Swett Marie, Briney K., Monicrat, Capt. Clapperton, Lady Jones, Belladi, Helen Norte, Bay Leaf, Harry Marvin, Idle Boy, Louis Z., Phil N. Two Year Old Pace, $300— Marie C, Jules Bedel, Free Love, Altolace, Loveless, Pricemark, Pricelist. 2:10 Pace, $500— Highball, Harry Hurst, Ama A., The Freak, Martha D., Le Roi, Sam Bowers, Red Seal, Francisco. 2:15 Pace, $500— Harry Hurst, Ama A., The Freak, Christabel, County Attorney, Ollie M., Starkey, Francisco, Bensurba. 2:20 Pace, $500— 3arry Hurst, Highball, Ama A., Chebalis Maid, Maplemont, Christabel, Prince Tom, Ollie M., Portia Knight, Polka Dot, Economizer, El Rio, Rita H. 2:25 Pace, $500— Charlie S., Direct C, Ama A., Tidal Wave, Rita H., Chehalis Maid, Alcounter, Prince Tom, Vision, Princess Chehalis, Portia Knight Polka Dot, Economizer. 2:30 Pace, $500— Charlie S., Direct C, Highball, Tidal Wave, Even Tide, Rita H., Taffeta Silk, Vision, Adlace, Princess Chebalis, Portia Knight, Bensurba, Glengarry, Patchen, Queen B. 2:12 Trot, $500— Arketa, Briney K., Coronado, Sweet Marie, The Commonwealth, Mar Boy, Will Lane, McBriar, Oveta, Chico, Doo Bunnell, Mack Mack. 2:14 Trot. $500— Arketa, Coronado, Sweet Marie, Briney K., The Commonwealth, Will Lane, Mar Boy, Oveta, Doc Bunnell, Mack Mack, Chico. 2:17 Trot, $500— H. H. H., Coronado, Sweet Marie, Briney K., Lady Jones, The Commonwealth, Master Ddlmar, Bay Leaf, Harry Marvin, Louis Z., Doc Bunnell, Phil N. 2:22 Trot, $500— H. H. H., Mark Hannabus, Duke of Waldbtein, Idylwild, Capt. Clapperton, Lady Jone6, Belladi, Helen Norte, Bay Leaf, Harry Marvin, Prince Howard, Sweet Marie. 2:25 Trot, $500— Red Skin, Mark Hannabus, Zealous, Monicrat, Capt. Clapperton, Lady Jones, Belladi, Helen Norte. Ba} Leaf, Louis Z., St. Patrick, Sweet Marie. 2:30 Trot, $500— Red Skin, Lord Kitchener, Idly- wild, Zealous, Monicrat, Capt. Clapperton, Thelma, Belladi, Louis Z., St. Patrick, Altaho, Sweet Marie. 2:40 Trot, $500— Beulab, Idylwild, Zealous, Monicrat, Capt. Clapperton, Thelma, Belladi, Louis Z , St. Patrick. The Juvenile Stakes for three year old pacers, the Pioneer Stakes for three year old trotters and the Puget Sound Stakes for two year old trotters did not fill and are declared off. "Aurelius" is Now Bishop Hendrick. Rev. Father T. A. Hendrick, who over the nom-de- pen of Aurelius, was one of the most prolific and brilliant of the contributors to the journals devoted to the trotter in the era of 1886— *93, and who, of late years, owing to bis increasing duties and authority as a churchman, has been obliged to relinquish his pleasant labors as a writer on trotting topics, has just been the recipient of signal honors in his church. He has forsome time past been pastor of St. Bridget's church, Rochester, N. Y., and he now gives up that post to accept that of Bishop of Cebu, Philippine Islands. He has received official notice of his appoint- ment from the apostolic delegate at Washington, Mgr. Falconio, who was informed by Cardinal Rampolia that Pope Leo XIII. nominated Father Hendrick June 30th. Father Hendrick was born in Pen Yan, N Y., in 1850 and received his early education there. Later he attended Fordham College and completed his classical studies at Seton Hall College, South Orange, N. J., the late Archbishop Corrigan beiDg president of that institution at the time of his graduation. From there Father Hendrick entered the theological seminary of the province of: New York, St. Joseph's, situated at Troy. After graduating from the seminary he was" ordained at Troy by Bishop Wad Bams of Ogdensburg in 1873. After his ordination Father Hendrick went to Rochester and was appointed by Bishop McQuaid assistant rector of St. Mary's church. Later he was made pastor of the Charlotte church, where he erected a new buildiDg. He also erected a handsome church for the people of Parma, called the Church of the Holy Ghost. Father Hendrick was then made pastor of the Union Springs church, where he remained until appointed to St,. Bridget's church in 1891. Michael J. Hendrick, now United States Consul at Belleville, Ont., formerly of Union Springe, N. Y., is well known in western New York as a breeder of trotters, and is a brother of the new Bishop. — Horse Revitic. August 1, 1903] &he gvee&ev uxxb gtvtuci&mait Detroit Summaries. TUESDAY, JULY 21. 2:20 trot, purse $1200. Guy Fortune, ch h, by Guardsman (Hudson) ■ 4 l l The General 2-0-2, Red Arthur 6-3-3, Prince Caton 3-4-5, Nicolett 5-5-1, Katrinka G 1-2-ds, Scapegoat 7-7-ds, Aerolite ds. Time-2:14?4. 2:13K, WW- 2:15 pace, purse $1000. Star Hal, br h, by Brown Hal (Snow) 1 ' Wayne King 2-2, Darky 4-3, Hal Patron 3-6, Merry Master 5-4, Hankie 5-4, Dr. Marvin 6-7, Joe Sibley ds. Time-all'/S, 2:11K. WEDNESDAY, .JULY 22. Chamber of Commerce Stakes: 2:24 pacers, $5000. Elastic Pointer, br h, by Brown Hal (Hussey) 12 7 11 Pan Mlobael 6-3-1-2-2, W. O Foote 5-6-2-ro, Ebony King 2-9-6- ro Kingmore 3-7-3-ro, Page Hal 9-5-4-ro, Trilby Direct 7-8-5-ro, To'mKeeneS-1-ds, Miss Georgia 4-4-ds, Ella Hal ds, Five Pointds Time-2:10, 2:07?4, 2:14«, 2:1154, 2;Il»i. 2:24 pace, purse $1000. Dick Wilson, brh.by Clay King (D. Wilson) 1 1 King Direct 2-2, Funston3-3, Gallagher 4-4, Cleopatra 5-6, Major Wilson 8-5 Rudy Kip 6-7, Mamie Brown 7-8. Time— 2:1054, 2:)9«. 2:14 trot, purse $1200. Judge Cullen, br g, by Raven Wilkes (Cares) 1 1 The Questor 2-2, Walter Smith 6-3, Viometa 3-6, Crescent 7-1, Gold Standard 4-7, George Muscovite 5-5. Time— 2:15'.,, 2:1454- 2:06 pace, purse $1500. Elderone, br g, by Box Elder (Hyde) 1 ' William Mo 2-2, Little Squaw 3-3, Captain Sphnix 4-5, Terrace Queen 5-4. Time-2:08, 2:10. 2:27 pace, purse $1000. Hal Chafliu. br h, by Brown Hal (Geers) 3-1-1 Five Points 1-2-5, Geary 2-1-3, Dlablito 5-3-2, Bernodet 6-5-4, Tom Boy 4-ds, Nathalie M. 7-ds. Time— 2:10, 2:1<"M. 2:12^. THURSDAY, JULY 23. Merchants and Manufacturers' Stake, $10,000,2:24 trotters, (un- finished from Tuesday). John Taylor, g ;g by Dispute, dam by Joe S (D.Wilson) 1 2 o I l Wainscot, b h by Alcy Wilkes (Hyde) 2 112 2 Jim Ferry 8-?-2-ro. Cole Direct 5-6-3-ro, Robizola 3-9-9-ro. Ner- vana 4-J-7-ro, King Simmons 9-10-1-ro, Bonnie Russell 7-7-5-ro, Hie Boy 10-5-10-ro, Robert Mc 6-8-6-ro, Miss Jeanette 11-dr, Shady Beattie ds. Time— 2:12«,2:10M, 2:13^.2:15, 2:10V4. 2:10 trot, purse $1500 (unfinished from Tuesday). Dan T., b g by Crawford (Geers) 1 2 1 Dr. Strong, b g by Strong Boy (Gabegan) 2 1 3 Monte Carlo 3-3-2, Lilley YoUDg 4-4-4. Time-2:095£, 2:10M, 2:08«. 2: 12 trot, purse $200 0 Billy Buck, b g by St. Clair (Geers) 1 1 Allle Wood 2-2, Hawthorn 3-3, Red Princess 4-5, Judge Cullen 5-4. Time— 2:l0y, 2:115*. 2:18 trot, purse $1000. Fanforan, b m by Tommy Britton (Fullager) 1 1 Millard Saunders 3-2, Judge Greene 2-5, Miss Brock 4-3, Dillon Boy 5-4, Lady Patchie 6-7, Uncle William 7-6, Jim Fenton 8-8, Dupuy' trin 10-9, Louis E. 9-10. Time— 8:1134, 2:12^. 2:17 pace, purse $2000. Dr. Madara, ch g by Simmons (Hudson) 1 1 Robert D. 2-4, Mary Anna 5-2, Mush 3-5, Laura Spurr 6-3. Harry D. 4-0, Eldorado 7-7, Little Sphinx ds. Time— 2.09, 2:0894. 8:09 pace, purse $2000. Winfleld Stratton, b s by Saraway (McGuire) 1 1 Milton S. 3-2, Joe Pointer 2-3, Shade On 4-1, Rosebud 7-5, Aller- son 5-7, Cubanola 6-6, Dorothy Wilton 8-8, Surfreet9-9. Tlme-2:06VS, 2:08. 8:19 pace, purse $1000. Sadie Baron, ch m by Baron Bell (Snow) 1 1 Governor Plngree 3-2, Wajor Willson 2-4, Big Boy 5-3, Fred S. McEwen 4-5, Fred H. 6-6. Time-2:11,;2:1354- FRIDAY, JULY 24. 2:26 trot: purse $1000. Monroe, b g, by Seymour Wilkes (Walker) 2 1 1 Prince Caton 3-3-2, Jennie Scott 4-4-3, Genella 5-5-4, Ellenwood Time— 2:14'^, 2:1454, 2:15*. 2:08 pace; purse $1200. Nonamie, b m, by Gen. Boyle (Loomis) 0 1 1 Carthage Girl 0-2-2, Ax 3-3-3. Tlme-2:08J4, 2:07^4, 2:09. 3:16 trot; purse $1000. Billy Buck, bg, by St. Clair (Geers) 1 I Direct View 3-2, Elma O. 2-3, Joymaker 4-1, Mattie Smeltz 5-5, Frequent 6-6. Time— 2:1354, 2:12*. 2:24 pace; Chamber of Commerce Consolation; purse $1000. Trilby Direct, b m, by Direct (Walker) 1 1 Kingmore 2-2, Ebony King 3-3, Tom Keene 5-4, Ella Hal 6-5, Five Points 4 ds, Page Hal ds. Time-2:0854, 2:09. 2:13 pace; purse $1200. Theron Powers, b g, by Anderson Wilkes (Nuckols) 2 5 1 1 Darky 1-2-3-2, Joe Rhea 4-1-2-3, Dr. Marvin 3-3-4-ro, Gus Wilkes 5-5-4-ro, Merry Master 6 ds. Time— 2:12, 2:14'/., 2:12J4, 2:1354- SATURDAY, JULY 25. 2:08 trotting, purse, $1500. Prlnceof Orange, br g, by Prince of India (Hyde) 2 14 1 Monte Carlo 6-2-1-2, Baron de Sbay 1-3-3-3, Rhythmic 5-1-2 Metallas 3-6-5, Maxine 4-5-6. Time— 2:0814, 2:08«. 2:08, 2:0954. 2:22 trotting, purse, $1000. Lucy Lee, bm, by Disputant (Hudson) 1 1 Henry L 2-2, Mary Scott 3-4, Bermuda Maid 4-3, Estella 5-ds. Time— 2:17'i, 2:16. 2:24 trotting Merchants' and Manufacturers' consolation, $2000. Robert Mc, b g, by McRoherts (Hudson) 1 1 Hie Boy 2-3, Robizola 3-2, King Simmons 4-5. Cole Direct 5-4. Time-2:I034, 2:18. 2:04 pacing, purse, $1500. Dan R.. chg, by Tasco, Jr (Jolly) 4 1 1 Little Squaw 1-2-2, Fannie Dillard 2-3-4, Captain Sphnix 8-4-3. Time— 2:05',, 2:04'4, 2:06 2:11 pacing, purse, $1200. Pauline G., b m, by Commoner (Snow) 1 1 Miss Williamont 2-2, Byrl Wilkes 4-3, Kelly Briggs 3-4, Dlodeoe 5-6, Marshall 6-5. Time— 2:07!4, 2:07J<. Teeth of Young Horses. It is important that the teeth of young horses or colts receive care and attention between the second and third years, says an exchange. Mouth defects arise from neglect and often re- main to adulthood, proving unpleasant and un- sightly, but in the horse family the neglect leads to imperfect mastication, impoverished condition, irri- tability, digestive disturbance", eye derangement and other ills. It sho.uld be remembered that between the ages of two years and uine months to three years the two central incisors are cast to make room for two permanent incisors in their stead, for the former were only fragile temporary foal's teeth and bad ful- filled their purpose. At or about the same time the firstand second temporary molars are shed and are followed by the teeth Intended for life. The shedding or casting of these temporary teeth takes place in the uppei and lower jawbones at the same period. There- fore the colt at his third year has sixteen permanent teeth, eight in each jaw, above and below; that is to say, when, dentition goes on regularly. "When there is an irregularity in teeth development these temporary teeth get jammed in between two perma- nent ones, and if allowed to go on, these teeth get pushed aside, and the result is deformity; therefore the mouth should be carefully examined at this period and such irregularities ad justed. Not only the fangs, but the crowns of the suckiDg teeth get jammed in and have to be removed. Young horses are often sent to the doctor to have the lampas burnt out, because the youngster was not feeding well. Investigation showed that ihe cause of the trouble was irregularity in dentition, so after this was remedied the colt returned to his feed and prospered, while the lampas subsided without "fire." A word here about the ''lampas" business may not be amiss. When a colt has a fever or gastric irri- tation, this lampas, or swelling of the gums, appears, and as the heated state of the system subsides under action of the usual febrifuge, this swelling of the gumB, termed lampas, subsides also; it is about the game as the gum boil in the human beiDg, but the ancient farrier gave the name lampas and it has stuck to it through all ages. Colts suffer on some lands from a languid condition of the system, which retards dentition. Here extra feed is needed, such as oats, corn and good upland hay, unless attention is paid. The colts become run down in condition when thus affected, and too often remain so for good, being list- less, flat sided creatures, with an ewe's neck and tucked up belly; in fact, a picture of sorrow and pity. A Gold Cup for Amateurs. Cleveland, July 22, 1903. In order to stimulate theBportof amateur racing, and to hold and increase the interest aroused by the contests for the Boston Challenge Trophy, which hav- iog passed out of competition, the Gentlemen's Driv- ing Club of Cleveland offers a gold cup valued at *2000, to be competed for under the following condi- tions: This cup shall be known as the Amateur Driver's Challenge Trophy. It shall be awarded for trotters and Bhall be com- peted for under the rules governing the League of Amateur Driving Clubs and the Gentlemen's Driving Club of Cleveland, except wherein they conflict with these conditions. It shall be open to competition to any member of a gentleman's driving club of recognized amateur standing (an amateur is defined as one who has never accepted compensation for his services as trainer or driver). The competition for the cup between the various clubs shall be held annually at a regular meeting of the club holding the cup, and must take place some time between the first day of August and the fifteenth day of September following, and notice of the date that the competition will take place must be sent to the Secretaries of the various clubs. A horse, in order to be eligible to compete for the cup, must be owned by an amateur in good standing, and the horse must have started in at least two regu- lar matinees duting the season prior lo the date of competition — he must also not have been stalled in a public race for money during thirty days Drior to the date of competition. The cup must be challenged for in the name of the club of which the challenge." is a member. As many horses representing one club as desired may be started; but no two horses owned by the same person can be started. In case where there are eight or more horses de- clared as starters the night before the race, the field shall be divided by lot, and the winners of each divi- sion shall compete the following day a single mile dash. The cup shall become the property of the club win- ning it three times. Should three years elapse with- out competition for the cup it shall become the prop- erty of the Gentlemen's Driving Club of Cleveland. The club holding the cup shall construe the rules and conditions governing it, but any club or member of a club competing not satisfied with such decision shall, within ten days after such competition, file a written protest with the Secretary of the League of Amateur Driving Clubs, and the decision of that body shall be final. The Gentlemen's Driving Club of Cleveland, Ohio, claim the days of September 1st and 2d, 1903, for the Inter-City Matinee, at which the first race for the Cleveland Challenge Trophy will take place. F. L. Chamberlin, Secretary. Joe Wheeler 2:071-2 a Ri;ger. Over at Honolulu last year a black pacer made his appearance under the name of Cyclone that acted like a campaigner accustomed to reeling of miles in 2:20 or better. He did not show any such speed in his races, but in his work over the Kapiolani track went a half in 1:03 one day and paced a quarter in 31 seconds rather handily. There was much talk among the Hawaiian horsemen about the black whirlwind and several efforts were made to trace his pedigree and previous history. At one time the description sent of the horse answered very well that of Midnight 2:11 J, but investigation proved that the son of Nut- ford was at work in this State and that he had never been out of it nor traveled under an alias. The Breeder and Sportsman obtained informa- tion this week from a reliable party that the horse Cyclone was none other than Joe Wheeler 2:07A and there is no doubt but the black gelding by Sidney Arnett did a ringing tour over in the land of hula hula Cyclone or Joe Wheeler was entered in the 2:30, 2:22 and 2:14 classes at the Honolulu meeting. He won the 2:30 and the 2:22 classes, but when he came to Btart in the 2:14 class, Billy Cunningham, owner of Wayboy protested him, and refused to start against him. In warming up for the race, however, Cyclone had a bleeding spell, and had to be withdrawn. Joe Wheeler had the same trouble here. Our informant tells us that the late Chas. Owen sold Joe Wheeler outright to the parties who took him to Honolulu and had nothing to do with the ringing tour he went on. There is not a particle of doubt, however, that Cyclone is none other than Joe Wheeler 2:074 the son of Sidney Arnett and Bess by Grand Moor, and that the parties who raced him in Honolulu know his proper name and record. Racing at Santa Ana. There was a race meeting at Santa Ana on the after- noon of July 4th, which drew a large crowd of specta- tors and furnished them some good sport. Two harness racss were on the program in addition to other contests. The 2:40 trot was won by Lady Zombro, a daughter of Zombro 2:11, but the fastest heat went to the old mare Joharna Treat, who won the second heat in 2:24$. Johanna Treat is by Thos. Rysdyck 2:28 out of Kate Treat by Venture 2:27. She is the dam of th3t handsome stallion Coronado 2:19 by McKinney. The 2:30 pace had five starters and required five heats to decide. Red Dick was the winner, but Lilly Mack by McKinney took two heats. The best time in this race was 2:24}. Running races and vaquero contests finished the day's sport, which was enjoyed by all. From President American Trotting Association Warren Park Farm, home of the sensational performer and sire, -axtell (3) 2:12. Sponn Medical Co., Terre Haute, Ind., Oct. 24, 1901. Gentlemen:— For seven years I have used your speolflo for con- tagious diseases, to cure Distemper, also as a preventive, both with my horses at the track and at the farm, with colts and mares. I never found anything that worked so well as Spobn's Distem- per and Cough Care— in faot, it helped me out of the most seri- ous trouble. No stock farm or owner can afford to be without It. Very truly, W. P. I.iams. The Kenney Bicycle Co., 531 Valencia St., is doing a big business in the McMurray Carts and Sulkies. You not only save money by purchasing a McMurray but get the moBt durable, best made, and easiest runniDg cart or sulky in the market. Investigation will con- vince a Mi8sourian. Jackson's Napa Soda is sold in every city, town and hamlet in the State. 6 f&he *$veebev anfc ^pcxi&xxxati [August 1, 1903 Notes and News. Lou Dillon 2:03} by Sidney Dillon. Monte Carlo 2:08 by Mendocino. Trilby Direct 2:08J by Direct. Robizola 2:12} by Robin. Monroe 2:12} by Seymour Wilkes. This is a pretty good showing- so far for the Pleas- anton-trained horses racing over East. Entries close to-day for the following; purses: For the Breeders Petaluma meeting the 2:12 trot, $500; the 2:10 pace, $600. For the Vallejo meeting the 2:30 trot, $300; the 2:12 trot $300, and the green class pace $300. These are the last races that are open for these meetings. Sweet Marie will not be at Vallejo to start in the $1000 stske in all probability as she is now in Seattle with Will Durfee's string, but there are several horse- men who have entries in that race who believe that should Sweet Marie be there and start she will have to trot the race of her life to win. Star Hal 2:09} is the ninth 2:10 pacer to the credit of Brown Hal 2:12i. Vallejo meeting opens one week from Thursday next. Don't miss it. John A. McKerron has been a mile in 2:11, last quarter in 31 seconds. Anzella 2:06} has been taken out of training and will be given a year's rest. Clipper 2:06 will go east in James Thompson's charge about September 1st. Onward is again the leading sire of 2:10 performers. He now has ten to his credit. Situation is wanted by a competent and experienced coachman. See advertisement. The privileges of the Breeders Petaluma meeting are advertised for sale in this is6ue. A three year old filly by Sidney Dillon is offered for sale. See advertisement in this issue. China Maid stepped a mile in 2:10} at Cleveland on Tuesday, July 21st. She came the last half in 1:02} and last quarter in 29| seconds. The sulky pulled by Lou Dillon in 2:03} was the one made for and used by Prince Direct 2:07, McHenry's pony, last season. It weighs 26 pound9. Geers did well at Windsor. He got some of the money every time he started. With nine starts he won five firsts, two seconds and two thirds. Monroe Salisbury says he likes Monte Carlo better than he did Azote 2:04}. Monte Carlo now wears ten- ounce shoes forward and needs no toe- weights. Imp, the pacer by Diablo, won a heat in 2:16 at a Seattle matinee two weeks ago. He pulled both hind Bhoes in the heat and was withdrawn from the race. It is stated that Mr. Billings purchased Greenline 2:07} for the purpose of hitching him double with Sir Albert S. 2:03} and tryingfor the world's pacing team record. Frank by Secretary is making a good showing this year. He won the 2:11 pace at Rome, New York, July 17th, taking three straight heats in 2:13, 2:12} and 2:14}. Those who have seen Mush in his races think his name is not an inappropriate one, after all. He has been out of condition somewhat, however, and may do better later on. Lady Ellen by Carr's Mambrino is the dam of six standard trotters. Helena 2:11}, Eugeneer 2:28}, Elleneer 2:28}, Ella 2:29, Ellene 2:28} and Ellen wood 2:14} were produced by her. The Tanloran track is having the light sandy sur- face scraped from it and will soon be in fine condition for harness horses. On the stretch where the scrap- ing has been done the track is fast. The brown gelding Louis Z. by Upstart, that is en- tered on the Northern Circuit in the green classes, is quite a trotter. He stepped a half in 1:05 over the Irvington track at Portland last week. J. R. Freeman advertises several well bred horses for sale. Among them is a stallion by Sable Wilkes, a mare by Stamboul, and a four year old and a year- ling filly by Zombro 2:11. See advertisement. Ida Highwood, Mr. E. Smather's beautiful mare, won the first heat of her race at a matinee held by the New York Driving Club last week, in 2:08J. This is the fastest mile to wagon this year in a race. At Pekin, Illinois, July 21st, the bay gelding Oak- land Baron by Barondale won the 2:20 pace, getting a record of 2:16} in the fourth heat. There were eleven BtarterB. The Barondales are all showing well this year. ■ Dr. James Hammond of Byron, Contra Costa county, is the owner of a 1903 colt by Nutwood WilkeB out of Blue Bells by San Diego 8776 that he was offered $300 for before it was a month old. The doctor declined the offer with thanks. Audubon Boy 2:03} will not start in the 2:04 pace at Readville, for the reason that it is tbe purpoBe of the owner to add him to the two-minute class this season. Audubon Boy will attempt to break into the 2:00 set at the Read ville Grand Circuit meeting August 24-28th. With two trotters trying for the world 'a record this year — Lou Dillon and John McKerron — a California bred animal may wear the crown before the season is ended. The consensus of opinion among horsemen is that these are the only ones that have an even chance to dethrone King Cresceus 2:02} this year. Dan Patch paced a half mile in 57} seconds last month at Columbus. This equals the record made by Prince Alert in his race againBt Sir Albert S. It shows that the son of Joe Patchen has as much speed as ever and has it earlier in the season. He should knock a half second from Star Pointer's record this year. Funston by Dictatus, the roan horse that Sandy Smith purchased from P. W. Hodges for eastern par- ties in 1901 and took East, was a starter in the 2:21 pace at Detroit on the second day of the meeting. Funston was third in both beats and won third money. Dick Wilson was the winner, pacing the heats in 2:10} and 2:09}. Pleasanton will have one of the best meetings on the circuit during the week following the State Fair. Messrs. Olney & Son, proprietors of the Rose Hotel, are making preparations to feed all and furnish lodg- ings to a portion of the big crowd that will be there. The rose is newly furnished, electric lighted, and thoroughly up to date in every particular. Det Bigelow left Woodland this week with carload of hoises belonging to himEelf, Grig6by & Lowe, Tryon & Silva, and others that will be raced on the Oregon circuit. A dispatch from Woodland says: These ani- mals have been trained here in anticipation of a dis- trict fair. The veto of the district fair appropriations has driven many horsemen out of the State. Dr. P. O. O'Rear, the veterinary and horse owner of Indianapolis, died July 13th in that city from typhoid fever. He was a member of the Indianapolis Racing Association and professor of surgery at the Indiana Veterinary College. Dr. O'Rear was the gentleman who induced H. B. Gentry to buy McKin- ney, and came to California last year to examine and pass upon that great sire. W. A. Valentine of Hermosa, Cal., was the pur- chaser of the beautifully bred three year old pacing filly Inferlotta that was sold at the Pierce sale at tbe Occidental Horse Exchange la9t week. Inferlotta is by Inferna 2:24} (son of Diablo and Biscara) and is out of the great brood mare Carlotta Wilkes by Charley Wilkes, second dam by Alcantara, third dam by Clark Chief. The Vallejo meeting will bring out several good fields of horses. Tne horsemen have entered quite liberally there and all that are training at Vallejo speak in high terms of the track. As it is the first meeting of the year it will be the place to get a line on the trotters and pacers that are entered through the circuit, and we expect to see a large attendance of those who admire the harness horses. At Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, July lltb, the Cali- fornia-bred horses made a fine showing at the matinee of the Driving Club. Boodler by Boodle won the first trot in straight heats, 2:24} being the best time. Dolly Dillon was started and took two heats in a jog in 2:15} and 2:14. Eula Mac was a starter in race No. 4 and won handily, her best heat being the second in 2:13J. Dr. Book won a heat and made a dead heat with Senator K. in 2:16} and 2:16}. Lou Dillon 2:03} has the unique distinction of being the only trotter that has made a world's record since 2:30 was first beaten that had never started in a race previous to the time when she made her record. Tbe performance is also the fastest to the credit of any horse, either trotter or pacer, that has taken a record the first season out. The record is also the best ever made by a five year old trotter of any sex. Also the best ever made by any trotter so early in the season Several inquiries have been received as to what be- came of Gazote, tbe two year old by Nazote that Mil- lard Sanders took East for the Blue Ribbon sale in May, as his name did not appear in the list of horses sold. Henry Sanders tells us that Gazote was put up, but that a bid of $200 was the best received and Mil- lard would not permit him to be knocked down at that figure and led him from the ring. He afterwards sold him at private sale for $2200, which was nearer his real value. According to tbe Melbourne Sportsman, Mr. Buck- land, owner of the Australian trotter Fritz 2:13 is ready and willing to make another match for $5000 a side against the pacer Ribbonwood 2:09. Doubtless Mr. Price will accommodate Mr. Buckland when he reaches home from his California trip which will be some time this week. Mr. Buckland must have a tremendously good horse in Fritz if he is willing to back him again in a race with the young pacer Ribbonwood. Fritz is about twelve years old while Ribbonwood is coming five. Fred H. Chase of this city was requested to manage the betting at Santa Barbara last week for tbe racing given during the athletic and sporting carnival held there. Mr. Chase took a mutual box with him and all the betting was done on that system. The club and those who wagered on the races were highly pleased with the manner in which Mr. Chase managed the business for them. He will go to Del Monte this week in the same capacity. Mr. H. W. Meek has sold the four year old pacer Cavalier by Welcome to parties in Seattle. The son of Welcome was shipped north this week and will be a member of ;he string trained by John Lance, owner of that fast horse Sam Bowers 2:11. Cavalier is a fast horse as well as a handsome one and wears no hopples or much of anything but a harness. He has never started in a race but is a good prospect for a record below 2:20. Hi9 dam iB Carmelita, a full sister to Cricket 2:10. Searchlight 2:03} is to make a fall season at Pleasan- ton from August 1st to October 1st. There is little that can be said about this great horse that our readers do not already know. He is one of the greatest individuals ever bred. His record as a game race hor6e is almost unequalled and bis list of winning raceB is a record of extreme speed, endurance and gameness. Write to Ed. Mills, his owner, at Pleasanton and get a card giving Searchlight's pedi- gree and performances. The much talked of match between Major Delmar 2:05} and The Abbot 2:03} came off at Albany, New York, on Thursday of this week, but owing to the fact that the track was slippery and slow was not much of a race. Major Delmar won in 2:15} and 2:14}. Neither driver appeared to be anxious to ask his charge to step at full speed. The track was slippery and unsafe, and as they will meet again next week at Poughkeepsie, the risk of ruining such valuable horses was too great. An Eastern gentlemen who resides at San Jose, recently purchased from A. O. Hatch of that place an unbroken two year old gelding by Nearest 2:22, dam by Weatherhead's Nutwood. The colt is nicely halter broken and is one of tbebest steppers to halter that anybody ever saw on a track. The eastern man was so taken with the handsome appearance and splendid action of the colt that he paid Mr. Hatch $400 for him and now says that ten times that price will not induce him to part with him. It is a rare thing for harness speed breeders to be favored with an opportunity to engage their speed- bred foals in a rich futurity stake "free gratis for nothing, " but this is practically the case with The Western Horseman $6200 No-entry-fee Futurity for foals of 1904 Two dollars pays for Tke Western Horse- man for one year, and with each yearly subscription one mare bred this year may be nominated in this stake absolutely free, and if the subscription is kept paid up the foal will be eligible to start in the race at the age of three years Does any breeder want an "easier thing" than this? During the recent meeting at the Readville track Mr. Knox, the new owner of Anaconda 2:01}, and Dr. J. C. McCoy got together and after a little talk made arrangements whereby the latter is to race the pacer. Jack Curry, who is doing the driving for the McCoy stable, will now have the opportunity, which he has wanted for several years, to try the erratic son of Knight. Curry has been very successful with horees with dispositions such as Anaconda possesses and should be able to drive him in 2:00 if anyone can. Jack always thought that Anaconda was the fastest pacer living, and we hope that he will be able to prove it. There will be a week of sports at Del Monte begin- ning Monday next. There will be running and trot- ting races, oony racing, polo, etc. The polo tourna- ment and races will be under the auspices of the Paci- fic Coast Polo and Pony Racing Association. Ten events have been arranged, in all of which either purses or prizes or offered. They are as follows: First race, three-sixteenths of a mile, for ponies; second race, 250-yard dash, for qualified polo ponies; third race, quarter of a mile, for ponies; fourth race, half a mile, for race horses; fifth race, three-quarters of a mile, for ponies; sixth race, half of a mile, for ponies; seventh race, three quarters of a mile, for horses ridden by United States Army officers; eighth race, three-quarters of a mile, for vaquero or saddle horses", ninth race, five-eighths of a mile, for ponies; tenth race, one mile, for ponies. The Los Angeles Express of Monday last says: In- formation comes from Chicago that J. W. Brooks, the horseman, will return to Los Angeles about August 3d. He is now in Kentucky, visiting friends and relatives, and will be in Chicago in a few days and will start west the last of the week. Mr. Brooks has been talking Los Angeles as a winter racing cen- ter, first, last and all the time, during his absence, and has had no trouble in securing promises of many good horses for the proposed meeting at Ascot Park. It is said Corrigan will send several carloads of hisr best horses here, and others will contribute to the success of the meet. Several Chicago bookmakers also say they will visit Los Angeles this winter, if there is a running meeting. Out at Ascot Park grounds, just south of Slauson avenue, men and teams are at work grading, and carpenters are building tbe fence to enclose the grounds. Work will be rushed on these grounds from this time on, and every effort made to have the opening of the new park take place Christmas Day, or, at the least, the first of the year. The park will be reached by electric cars by way of the San Pedro line to South Park avenue, thence to the gate entrance to the park, or by the Central ave- nue line to Slauson avenue. August l, 1903] f&he ^teebet cmb ^povi&mixu Cleveland Grand Circuit Meeting. Cleveland, July 27.— The grand circuit trotting meeting opened at Glenville track to-day without pool selling, Mayor Goff of that suburb having scared away bookmakers with a vigorous crusade against them. The absence of the speculative element kept down the attendance and occassioned some scratches, but a good card was left and those who saw the races witnessed some royal sport. The meeting was the first trial of the entire card of two in three-heat races and was a success from a standpoint of speed, there being no doubt that the time attained was better than under the old three in five heats system. The Monk and Louise Jefferson, owned by C. K. G. Billings of Chicago, were driven a mile to pole in 2:14*. Summary: Trot, 2: M, purse $2000. AUlewood, b h, by Allle Wilkes (Miller) 1 1 Hawthorne 2-1, Dr. Strong 3-3, Leola 4-4 Francis B and Lilly Young also started. Time— 2:10, 2:09 ',4. Paoe, 2:06, purse $2000. Fannie DUlard, blk m, by Hal Dillard (Snow) 2 1 1 Little Squaw 1-2-2, Elderone 3-3-1, Terrace Queen 4-1-3. Billy H. also started. Time— 2:04!j, 2:06' i and 2:06fi. Trot, 2:20, purse $1000. Aerolite, b m, by Acolyte (Saunders) 3 1 1 Lucy Lee 1-2-3, Judge Greene 2-3-2. Time— 2:I6i£, 2:12M and 2:13. Trot, 2:25, purse $1000. John Taylor, g b, by Dispute (D.Wilson) 1 1 Monroe 2-4, Gray Gem 5-2, Bermuda Maid 3-3, Kinley Mc 4-5. Time— 2:11J£.2:11K. Pace, 2:18, purse $1000. Tom Keene, g g. by West Egbert (McCarthy) 1 1 Diablito 2-3. King Direct 5-2, Dick Wilson 3-5, Sadie Baron 4-4. Time-2:07«, 2:05 %. July 28.— Fanfaran, the Chicago mare, which sur- prised the talent by winning the 2:18 trot at Detroit last week, gained new laurels here to-day by capturing the 2:17 trot from a field of twelve fast ones. The daughter of Tommy Britton from the F. S. Gorton stable, finished third to Bernalda and The General in the flrBt heat, but in the second and third Fullager had no difficulty in landing her in front and capturing the event, which proved one of the best contests of the day. In spite of the vigilance of special officers placed at Glenville track by Mayor Goff to suppress betting, a number of hand books did a big business about the ring, the bookmakers handing out green tickets to their patrons. The work was done quietly, however, without official sanction of the Driving Club, and no arrests resulted. The sport throughout the afternoon was high class with close finishes, while the fast time kept up high interest, despite the absence of the regular bookmak- ing stands. Billy Buck apparently outclassed his field in the 2:14 trot, and Geers drove him to an easy victory in straight heats. In the 2:23 pace Elastic Pointer was forced to re. duce his record to 2:061, but won without difficulty. Joe Pointer, in the 2:09 pace, waB another to reduce his mark, going a mile in 2:05A — the fastest time of any son of the champion pacer, Star Pointer. The 2:16 pace furnished the greatest excitement of the day. The first heat ended with a four-borse finish, which, from the grand stand, seemed a dead heat, but which the judges gave to King More, a horse which had made up a lot of ground and won out in the final stride. Ebony King, who was placed fourth in the heat, won the last two and the race. In the second heat of the same race, through the fault of the driver of Queen of Spades, Hal Patron, John W. Patterson and Queen all went down. The two former were allowed to start in the final heat, and Hal Patron took down third money. Summaries: Trot, 2:14, purse $2000. Billy Buck, b g by Saint Clair (Geers) 1 1 Norrle 3-2, Joymaker 2-3, Alfred Star 4-5, Black Lady 5-4 Time— 2:13, 2:11H- Pace, 2:23, purse $2000. Elastic Pointer, b h by Brown Hal (Pussey) 1 1 Hal Cbaffln 3-2, Mary Anna 2-3, Harry D 4-4 Fred H , Ella Hal, Miss Georgie and Major Wlllson also started. Time-2:06i4,2:06H- Trot, 2:17, pur-e $1000. Fanfaran, b m by Tommy Britton (Fullager) 3 1 1 Bernalda 1-11-5, The General 2-2-6, Prince Greenlander 11-5-2. Millard Sanders, Hie Boy, Dillon Boy, Direct View, Nicolette, Jim Fenton, Elma O. and Berkshire Chimes also started. Time— 2: 105i, 2:l2!4,2:11'/i. Pace, 2:09. purse $1500. Joe Pointer, b h by Star Pointer (McClary) 1 1 Allerson 2-2, Surfreet 5-3, Cubanola 3-3. Birdina, Mustard, Rosebud, Lady Albright, Schley Pointer and Kolley Briggs also started. Time— 2:07?i, 2:05!4. Pace, 2:16, purse $1000 Ebony King, blk g by Atlantic King (Bogash) 4 1 1 Kinymore 1-3-4, Hat Patron 2-8-2, Lord Gentry 3-2-5 John W. Patterson, Robert D., Dacy, Little Sphink, Funston and Queen of Spades also started. Time-2:12«, 2:11;*. 2:10'/a- July 29. — Adverse weather conditions to-day ruined what would have been a great afternoon at the Grand Circuit meeting. Lou Dillon 2:03J was down to go against her world's record for trotting mares and the announcement was sufficient to draw an immense crowd to Gienville track in the face of a heavy track and a sky that threatened more rain immediately. It had rained heavily early in the morning, but it was hoped that the sun and wind would dry out the track and make.it faat by the afternoon, but instead it clouded up and the going remained 60 slow and heavy that all idea of record breaking had to be abandoned. The condition of the track was such that it hurt the regular racing card materially and the contests as a rule were tame and featureless. The event of the day was the way the blind horse Rhythmic tramped all over a good field in the 2:08 trot. The horses from California proved somewhat of a disappointment. Monte Carlo could only land fourth money in the 2:08 trot, while the pacers, Mush and Trilby Direct, were both outside the coin. The summaries: Trotting, 2:23 class; purse $2000 Caspian, b g, by Patron {B. Hank) 1 1 Guy Fortune 2-2, Kinney Lou 4-3, King Simmons 3-7. Time— 2:15!4, 2:12. Prince Catton, Bessie Birchwood, Cole Direct and Patchen Maid also started. Pacing, 2:15 class; purse $2000. Dr. Madara, ch g, by Simmons (Hudson) 1 1 Star Hal 2-2, Volita 3-3, Theron Powers 4-4. Time— 2:10K, 2-.UH- Mush, Laura S. and Alma G. also started. Pacing, 2:15 class; purse $1000 Illinois, b h, by Antella (MoMahon) 3 1 1 Guy Red 1-5-4, Donna McGregor 4-2-2, Joe Sibley 2-4-3. Time— 2:12S£, 2:12!4. Honest John, Five Points and Gold Call also started. Trotting, 2:08 class; purse $1500. Rhythmic, b h, by Oakland Baron (Hudson) 1 1 Fereto 2-4, Baron de Shay 6-2, Monte Carlo 3-5. Time-2:11!^,2:09J4. Maxine and Lord Vincent also started. Pacing, 2:20 class; purse $1000. Tom Keene, ch g, by West Egglebert (Saunders) 3 1 1 Geary 1-7-2, Page Hal 4-3-2, Governor Pingree 7-3-4. Time— 2:09 y2: 2:14, 2:10. Joe Grattan, Trilby Direct and Bernadette also started. July 30. — The Grand Circuit races to-day had sev- eral distinct features, of which the most interesting was the ovation tendered to the veteran rein9man, Budd Doble, when he drove The Roman to victory in the 2:10 trot. Doble has returned to the sulky this season as a race driver after an absence of eight years, and to-day drove his first victory. His appear- ance elicited applause when the horses scored for the first heat, and when the gelding came through in the stretch and nipped Dan T. at the finish, there was loud cheering. In the second heat The Roman re- peated this performance with greater ease than be- fore, and then the crowd rose and gave his driver an ovation so hearty that he was obliged to enter the Judges' stand and bow hi9 acknowledgements. Millard Sanders took another race with his good mare Robizola, although Ben Walker won the second heat of this race with the Seymour Wilkes gelding Monroe, reducing his record to 2:12J. Had there been any betting the defeat of Anaconda by Dan R , in the free-for-all pace, would have brought the talent a barrel of money. The famouB snake horse seemed far from good to-day, while the lean and lank Dan R. was cherry ripe and paced him to tired breaks in the stretch in both heats. Jay McGregor's win in the 2:19 trot was impressive, as he smothered his field, when ready and was almost eased up in the first heat in 2:10}. It looked as if he could have beaten the 2:10 trotters had he been in against them. Summaries: Paoing, 2:11 class, purse $1000. Miss Willamont, b m by Rosticks Almont Jr (Miller) 3 1 1 Pauline G. 1-2-2, Joclisco 2-3-4, Polar Wilkes 4-4-3. Time— 2:07)-(, 2:0754. 2:09K- Trotting, 2:19 class, purse $2000. Jiy McGregor, b h by Jay Hawker (Hudson) 1 1 Gray Gem 3-2, McAdams Jr. 2-5, Katrinka G. 4-8. Time— 2:10»£, 2:11J£. Ladle Patchie, Nicolette and Judge Green also started. Free-for-all pace, purse $1500. Dan R-, ch g by Tasco (Jolly) 1 1 Anaconda 2-2, Coney 3-ds. Time— 2:05M. 2:05S*. Trotting, 2:10 class, purse $1500. Tne Roman, b g bj McKlnney (Doble) 1 1 Dan T. 2-2, Dan Wilkes 3-4, A.J. D. 4-3, Silver Sign 5-5. Time-2:10, 2:11X. Trotting, 2:21 class, purse $1000. Robizola. bay mare by Robin (driven by Millard Sanders), won the Drst and third heats and the race. Time— 2:12M, 2:12)4. Monroe, bay gelding by Seymour Wilkes, won second heat in 2:12)4. Lucy Lee, Parthla, Dark Secret and Maud Carlisle also started. If Lou Dillon belonged to a poor man, or to one who followed theGrandCircuit for a living, she would be the means of making, a fortune this summer in ex- hibitions alone. Already the Billings stable at Glen- ville has been the receiving station for numberless telegrams from track managers in all sections of the country, offering inducements to B'llings to let the mare trot over their tracks. Columbus wired an offer of $2500 for an exhibition. None of the offers will he accepted.— Ky. Stock Farm, How Women Should Ride. One of the most important things for women to realize when they commence to ride is that ten, twenty or forty lessons will not make experienced horse- women of them. Riding should be considered an art as well as a sport; and I do not think any rational persons would think of calling themselves finished singers, pianists or painters after ten or twenty lessons. Thon why should riding be easy to learn— when it is not only difficult, but, if not learned properly, dan- gerous? Any woman possessed of the normal amount of courage has every chance to become a good horse- woman. She will not have the advantage of years of youthful practice, but close application will do much and she can always bear in mind the true saying, that "Horsewomen are born, not made." But being one of the "born" is not enough. It is a great thing to have the material there; yet a strictly "ready made" rider is a bad thing. A certain knowl- edge of form and detail is necessary to produce a finished horsewoman. We have been asked many times of late our opinion of women riding astride. I think that in some ca6ee, as in games, it is permissable, even advisable; and some women hunt that way. In polo, for instance, where so much depends upon getting away quickly, riding straight, and rapid turning, the advantage of a leg on each side of a horse must be great. Yet it is worthy of notice that women who played the best polo in Aiken last winter played in a sidesaddle. Many people have an idea that riding astride is safer than the sidesaddle; that there is less daDger of being dragged and more chance of escape if a horse falls. But with a safety skirt and safety stirrups, there is no chance of dragging from a sidesaddle. Then, too, women are not usually physically adapted for a man's saddle; their legs are not long enough or Btrong enough to get a good grip astride. The more plainly one dresses for the saddle the better. Safety skirts should always be jvorn. These ase made in two different ways. One is practically nothing but an apron, and gives the effect of a skirt when in the saddle, but is awkward when one is dis- mounted. The other is more convenient. It is more like the ordinary habit skirt, but has an open seam, which is provided with fasteners permitting it to be closed when eff the horse and readily opened pre- paratory to mounting. No other skirt should be worn beneath the habit skirt. Plain, closefitting underclothes add greatly to one's comfort in the saddle Balbriggan drawers, such as boys wear, and socks are best. Stockings are bad, as they often wrinkle and chafe, and elastics sometimes interfere with the circulation. Habits are preferably made of whipcords, or roughish dark materials. Black cloth habits are best for the show ring and park riding. The coats should be single breasted, tight fitting and long enough to touch the horse in the back. Covert coats are quite emart for outdoor riding. Norfolk jackets look well on slight people and children, and are most com- fortable for country use. Khahi makes a desirable habit for summer. Also duck or crash; these latter stand tubbing, and look smart and cool at all times. — Miss Belle Beach in Milwaukee Sentinel. 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In the matter of judging puppies there is frequently considerable misunderstanding. Some judges are apt to pass the awards without a very cleat conception of the principles on which such awards should be based. Exhibitors without understanding the principles either but keenly alive to the inconsistencies of judges feel themselves aggrieved. Yet the whole point lies in a nutshell. At shows, where both puppy and open classes are provided, a puppy is eligible for both. This is, of course, obvious: the puppy class is especi- ally intended for puppies, the open class is open to all dogs over sis months old — irrespective of age, in fact. But the aspect from which a puppy is viewed, accord- ing as it is judged in a puppy or an open class, is en- tirely different. In the puppy class, it is — or rather should be — judged as a puppy; in the open, it has to meet matured animals as competitors and to be judged from their standard. That is the poser of the situa- tion; it should be sufficiently obvious, but it does not appear to be so. The usual definition of a puppy, is a dog over six and under twelve months of age on the date of the show concerned. Considering how puppies alter be- tween six or twelve months of age the range is a very wide one. But, with the accepted definition, that can not bd helped, the class provides for dogs within cer- tain limits of age, and the conditions being met, all puppies fulfilling them are entitled to be judged on their merits. A puppy of eleven and a half months is so matured that its form can be told at a glance; the form of those of eight, nine or ten months of age may not be in much doubt, the ultimate merit of a six or seven months old youngster is frequently a very different thing; still they are all entitled to their chance. Very young puppies will always be, to a cer- tain extent, handicapped in competition with older ones, and provided that thelatter possess conspicuous merit, this is only fair. For if the older puppies pos- sess the advantage of age in the exhibition of their good qualities, it must be remembered they have also the same opportunity of showing their defects The number of ways in which a promising puppy of six months of age can go wrong between Lhat age and twelve months, is legion. It then frequently be- comes a battle between certainties and probabilities, and the judge has no easy task to fulfill. The more experienced the judge, and the stronger the class in older puppies, the less the chance perhaps for thoes of tender age, but this is speaking very generally. The raw judge is, however, apt to unduly favor a promising six months youngster. At that age a puppy has often grown all the head it is going to nave. It exhibits a length of head out of all propor- tion to its size. The disproportion disappers in later life, but the inexperienced judge is not infrequently deceived, particularly so in the case of Fox Terriers. Moreover the six months old puppy will often display a sturdiness and strength of bone, which is very taking to the uninitiated eye but which as often as not means nothing whatever; another three or four months and it may prove just the reverse. The experienced judge is not likely to be deceived in this respect, and young puppies, unaccustomed to restraint, are unable to stand the ordeal of chain and collar, and the confine- ment of prolonged shows. Still there it is, in puppy classes the exhibits are to be judged as puppies, by their present merits and defects, and their future promise, their age being always taken into considera- tion. When, however, puppies appear in open classes the position is wholly changed. They are no longer en titled to puppy considerations, they are competing with matured dogs, and the standard of points of maturity should be the only standard of guide. The judge should regard all alike from the point of view of grown dogs. That being the case, it is obvious a very youDg puppy can possess no possible chance. It can, for instance, possess no chance on the point of size. The size of a six months' puppy will naturally not be that of a full grown dog. *A matured dog of that size would be a dwarf, and would be dismissed as such. If only on that ground the puppy must there- fore go. But there are many other points beyond immaturity of size, and yet young puppies, unfit to be entered in an open class at all, which no seasoned breeder or owner would dream of entering, not infre- quently win merely on the strength of what the judge, rightly or wrongly, considers their early promise. But it is not a question of promise, it is purely a ques- tion of what the exhibits are, at the time, in the ring, in accordance with the authorized matured standard, age not being taken into account. It follows, therefore, that a very young puppy in an open class, unless indeed the other exhibits are con- spicuously bad, cannot win. But it does not follow that no puppy can win In fact, it is common enough to see a puppy, on its debut, run through the gamut of its classes and win first in puppy novice, limit and open with probably several specials to boot. To ac- complish this feat, a puppy must be sufficiently old to compete with matured dogs on the same footing. It will probably be not much under the twelve months, though it may possibly be only eight. Some puppies m iture at an extraordinarily early age, while others, e 'necially bitches, may not furnish till well on in their s' cond year. And early puppies ha^e often excep- :>nal chances. Certain puppies, those of the lasting | Tt, will sometimes go on improving with age, up to a certain limit, say four years. Some may go on win- ning till they are seven. But, as a rule, youth will have its day, and puppies which make a debut to the flourish of trumpets will often wholly disappear from view altogether, or endeavor to earn their keep at stud on the strength of a few early successes. In Ter- riers, for instance, a ten months' old puppy may have a perfect front. In later life it may grow wide in chest, out at elbows, or coarse in shoulder. In pup-, pyhood its skull may be lean and narrow; in matured life the head may be thick and stumpy. A hard coat may develop into a woolly one. Feet may splay as superincumbent weight increases. It may grow too large in size. There is scarcely any end to possible future defects. The puppy has, therefore, ample chances in puppy- hood even in open clas3eB. It has frequently more success than it deserves. It is judged in open classes as it is at the time. Its front may be clean and narrow, its size may be correct, it may be known that time may produce over size and coarseness of build; but, unless it is a close thing, the judge has not to take future probabilities into account, he is purely con- cerned with the open exhibits as they are. A case is known where a judge dismissed a puppy from an open class, although he subsequently said he con- sidered it the best in the class, because he considered that it would eventually grow too large. It is con- tended that he was wrong. If the puppy was not too large at the time for a matured dog, it was entitled to be judged on its merits. A judge may think a puppy will be too large, but this was not an instance of any certainty. A large, over-grown puppy will frequently A letter from Seattle 6tates that the Pacific North- west Field Trial Club, at a recent meeting, decided to held its fourth annual trials on September 29th. Derby, all-age and membership stakes will be run. The entries for the Derby will close August 1st, for- feit $5 and S5 additional to start. The all-age entries will close September 1st, So forfeit and $10 additional to start. The starting fee in the membership stake is $3. The club is making a special inducement to han- dlers this year by offering a purse of $50 (contributtd by five of the members of the Board of Governors), which is offered as follows: S15 to the handler start- ing the largest number of dogs in the Derby and $10 to the handler with the second largest strirg; $15 to the handler starting the largest number of dogsyi the all-age stake and $10 to the second. The Pacific Northwest Field Trial Club has some twenty members, and the annual dues are $5. The officers of the club are: J. Ridelsheimer, president; L. B. Youngs, first vice-president; T. J. A. Tied e- mann, second vice-president; C. L Lundy, third vice- president; E. B.Roy, fourth vice-president, and the Board of Governors are W.J. Miller, J. W.Considine, C. B. Yandell, N. A. Weedene and John Riplinger. A number of dogs from British Columbia, Oregon and "Washington are already in training for the stakes, and good materia] seems to be well in evidence. California handlers will be accorded every possible consideration, and a goodly number of strings from them is to be looked for. The practical work which California dogs get the benefit of here in their work on bob-white quail has been found to be most beneficial to their field trial development. Mr. F. A. Pontius of SeaUle, who is the popular secretary and treasurer of the club, made a trip to Whidby Island recently and made all necessary ar- rangements for the trials, securirg for the club similar privileges as were en- joyed last year. The trials will be run on practically the same grounds as heretofore, and as the present season has been specially favorable for young birds, they are reported to be more plentiful than ever before. These trials are run on bob white quail in wheat stubble. The secretary will give all inquiries prompt and deserved attention. Addre>sNew York Block, Seattle, Wash. The club's energies heretofore have been well rewarded with a good entry, and the present season promises to be no ex- ception. The entire entrance money is divided on a percent- age basis for the purses in the several stakes. The opportunity offered by Kenwood Kennels for getting a good, broken Pointer or Setter is a timely chance for a sportsman to get a £ood dog. An owner can become thor- oughly acquainted and the dog suddenly stop growing at an early period of its well used to the master by the time the fall shooting puppyh'ood, just as a backward youngster will often season is on. Mr. Coutts' abilities as a trainer of field develop size at a comparatively late period: there is dogs is too well known to be further extolled here. THOS. S. GRIFFITH'S COI.IJE "MORETOX TESTA." really no telling what a puppy is going to do. In this particular case, the puppy died shortly after- wards and the question remained unsolved, but whether the judge's predictions were correct or not, it is held that hi6 judgment was at fault. The point is that in puppy classes, a judge is compelled to take futurities into consideration; in open classes, he is concerned with the present, and it is thought a study of these principles will help judges to avoid many inconsistencies that have hitherto obtained. See the announcement on page 15. The result of the recent A K. C. meeting relative to the value of winners' classes is embodied in the fol- lowing resolution which was presented by Mr. Carnochan and adopted: Resolved, "That the Rules Committee be instructed to report the following at the annual meeting as an amendment to the rule= — That each show be guaran- teed one point towards championship. All shows to be rated on the actual number of dogs entered as follows: 1000 dogs or over, 5 points, 750 dogs and under 1000, 4 points; 500 dogs and under 750, 3 points; 250 dogs and under 500, 2 points; under 250 dogs, 1 point. On the Pacific Coast 400 dogs or over, 5 points; 300 dogs and under 400, 4 points; 200 dogs and under 300, 3 points: 100 dogs and under 200, 2 points; under 100 dogs, 1 point. The total number of points re- quired for a championship to be 15, but the dog must make one win at a show whose rating is three points. Specialty clubs holding shows confined to their own breeds. 4 points. We notice in the advertising columns of an Eastern exchange the following extraordinary announcement: "For sale cheap, Great Dane dog, 13 months old, 44 inches high." After extolling the dog's good points, etc., the ad concludes '"or will trade for Boston Terrier bitch." We wonder if the dog's height was taken in his stocking feet? We have mentioned alocal dog or two that were over 32 inches high, which statement was noticed in a quizzing way by Eastern scribes, but 44 inches is a corker. Maybe the types played a not un- usual joke on all concerned and mixed things. Pos- sibly the animal for sale was a giraffe instead of a Great Dane, or mayhap, the ad should read 34 instead of 44 inches. Even at that, the presumption arises, that they must breed dogs in Buffalo for utility, alter- nating between picking fruit and hanging out clothes. The offer to trade a giant for a pigmy is evidently going from one extreme to the other. Mr. Thos. S. Griffiths of Spokane has purchased the Collie brood bitch Craigmore Ethel, whelped April, 1902. She is by imp. Brandane Ranger out of Antoinette by Edgbaston Royal, and is in whelp to imp. Braebead Commander, a big winner in Scotland and also at the Collie club show at Stamford, Conn. Moreton Vesta has a litter of six very fine puppies thrt are coming on well. It is to be hoped that the contemplated field trials to be run by Nevada sportsmen will come off. The matter has the endorsement and good will of all of the Coast sportsmen and will be an inducing feature, possibly, in the creation of an annual Coast circuit. Full particulars and further information can be ob- Considerable amusement was created on Main street near the Stockton Courthouse late one afternoon re- cently by the efforts of a Bull Terrier to get the bet- ter of a movable lawn sprinkler in full operation. Somebody had given the hose a jerk and ttrown the tained by addressing Dr. C. E. Wilson, Elko, Nev sprinkler to one side, and the dog immediately darted m for it. He got the sprinkler in his mouth and held on w. B. Coutts recently sold a broken English Setter, with the determination characteristic of the breed, Modic Chief (Buck Gladstone-Blanche H.) to Mr. Van although the sprinkler was sending streams of water Berger of this city. A promising young Pointer went down his throat. When half drowned he desisted for to J. N. Pevton of Spokane, Wash. a few seconds, but tackled the sprinkler again with ^ the same result as before. This was kept up for ten We are pleased to announce that Mr. Norman J. minutes before the dog acknowledged himself van- Stewart will arrive in California again about the end quished and turned his attention to the hose instead, of next week. AUGUST 1, 1903J ®ite $veebsv anii g^wtrtsmcm 9 Save the Birds. Prof. F. E. L. Beale, of the United States Depart- ment of Agriculture, is about to finish his studies uf California birds in the orchards and vineyards, and will soon return to Washington to prepare his report, which will be of great value and a guide to all fruit growers in their attitude toward the feathered folk. Prof. Beale has devoted eleven years to the examina- tion of 20,000 bird stomachs. He is the head of the economic ornithology at the United States Depart- ment of Agriculture. He was sent to California in response to the cry of. the bee men and fruit men, that the birds are eating up their profits. "We will prove or disprove their claims." says Prof. Beale to a writer for the Los Angeles Times, "by the examination of the stomachs of your birds; ana if a remedy can be found to reduce the destruc- tion of the linnet to the fruit or the king birds to the bees, it will be offered." It is the work of the department of ornithology to study the economic production and distribution of birds and mammals in the United States, and to pass on the advisability of any importations. The depart- ment has m fifteen years accumulated, catalogued and preserved a collection of over 50,000 bird stom- achs, and is in a position to place any bird on trial as to its 3Conomic assistance or injury to agriculture and mammal life. The method is through the study of its digestive apparatus, and this study deals with minute things. Most of the work is done with the microscope magni- fying four or five times, but at limes more powerful lenses are used in the study of starch granules. As an example, finding these starch granules he is able to know what kind of grain the bird has eaten. Botanists know liotle of seeds, especially weed seeds, which birds eat freely, and it is part of the work while here to make a collection of seeds for reference. One seed, of the myrica, or wax berry, defied investi- gation for three years, but was discovered. On the outside of this seed is a coating of wax. Under this coating is a layer of granules, surrounding a solid nut ia the center like the p ivmg stones in a street. In the stomach of the bird it would seem that there were three kinds of seeds, after the pirts separated, while the whole berry is no bigger than a very small pea. The seed of the poison oak is similar to the wax barry, and Beale saya: "Herein some of your birds ciuse trouble. Maoy of your birds eat this seed for the wax, and then the hard seed partis disgorged, and will grow if it falls on the soil. This is the reason poison oak almost always grows along fences." Cali- fornia birds also eat the pepper berry and disgorge it again, and when it falls upon a tin roof and rolls along often puzzles one who hours it. In Kansas, fossils, glass beads and rubber bands and buttons have been found in the stomach of the crow. "Perhaps the most interesting eater of California birds," said Prof. B^ale, "is the road runner. I find they ea* lizards, small snakes, mice, gophers, bugs, and I believe are an enemy of the tarantula. Your linnet is destructive to the fruit, because the bird is superabundant and has no enemies but the popgun. The turtle dove, so common in California, ie a good bird to destroy weeds. In one stomach I found over 9000 weed seeds, representing about twelve varieties. In the stomach of a red-winged flicker I found over 5000 aDts, the kind so offensive to the sense of smell. The stonger the flavor of the insects the better birds seem to like them, and science cannot discover why poison oak, hurtful to man, is harmless to birds. " The black scale is a bad thing in this country, but there are three birds here that eat it freely — the bush tit, Bullock's oriole and black-headed grosbeak. Owls and hawks are generally thought of as pests, but they do much more good than harm in killing mice, rats, moles and insects. The butcher bird or shrike is a freak, having the head of a hawk, but no claws to hold its prey. It pins small birds to the forks of trees or hangs mice on barbed wire or thorn bushes, there to be eaten at leisure. " Even as people eat more oysters at one time of the year than another, so have birds their seasons of fruits and relishes. One reason birds damage fruits in California is because there are so few wild fruits or berries. The mocking bird loves the domestic black- berry, at times almost living on it." So far President Beale aas found little ground for the claims of the California bee men against the king bird. There is cause for gratification, we think, from all sportsmen and those who take pride in the achieve- ments of their country, that the American Team which went to England this month to compete against all nations for the Palma Trophy, should have been victorious from all points. It seems to us that not only She men who took part in the shoot are to be congratulated, but also those who manufactured the ammunition and rifles should come in for their meed of praise With what elation must the following cablegram have been sent: Loxdox, July 11, 1903. . To President Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, American rifles, ammunition and men won victory to-day over Great Britain, Canada, France, Norway, Australia and Natal, and bring back Palma Trophy. (Signed) Lieut. Albert S. Jones, Sec'y of the National Rifle Association of America. The New York Herald, in commenting on the event, said: "This sweeping victory for America and the extraordinary score of 1570 out of a possible 1800, were made with 30-40 regular factory cartridges, manufactured by the Union Metallic Cartridge Com- pany, and were selected after exhaustive trialB by the entire American Team in preference to all others for their wonderful uniformity and extreme accuracy." Making Artificial Flies— Amateur Work. Amateur fly-trying is not only a pleasant recreatiur. for odd and reminiscent hours but is practical as well. Most anglers who indulge in the practice of tying their own flies follow certain stereotyped lines in pre- paring their flies. The method employed by a well known fisherman and angling authority, Mr. Thos. S. Morrell, is interesting and is in brief as follows: "The way in which I tie my flies," says Mr. Morrell, "is somewhat different from any I have seen de- scribed in point, and I believe superior to the old method in neatness and durability. I use the fingers only, dispensing with the vise. I discard wax, do not soak the gut nor bite it into ridges before fastening to the hook." "Having all the materials before me. I select the hook, length of gut, tinsel. duffing, silk, hackle and wing feathers. 1 take a two-ounce vial, fill it quarter full of nicely broken gum shellac; then nearly fill the bottle with alcohol, and shake until thoroughly dis- solved. The cork has a sharp-pointed stick running through it so as to just immerse the point of the stick into the liquid. Take the hook by the left thumb and forefinger by the bend, the barb pointing downwards. Touch the shank all around down to the edge of the fingers with the shellac. Then take red sewiDg silk, tine but strong, and wind from six to a dozen turns, according to size of hook, from the fingers to the end of shank; turn over one loop and draw tight. Now place the silkworm gut under the shank and wind down to the fingers tightly and closely. Take two half bitches, and again anoint the length of the part wound, with shellac; lay it away ten minutes and it will dry enough to proceed. Take a piece of gold or silver tinsel, four to six inches long; fasten one end by two half hitches just below the snell to the hook, and wind down on the bend one- quarter of an inch; then back again and fasten as before leaving the end of the tinsel hanging loose. Take two or more fibers of feather and fasten on top for a tail, just above the tinsel; see that it sets straight and well up. If you intend the body to be slender, fasten a small piece of floss silk of the color you intend the body to be, and wind with silk thread to within a quarter inch of the end of the shank. If you intend a full body, take a short piece of worsted yarn and fasten to the hook just above the tinsel, and wina smoothly and evenly to a quarter of an inch of the end of the shank; fasten, and cut off the end of the yarn close. Now wind back your silk thread, closely and smoothly, so as to entirely cover the worsted yarn, to the tail. Then take the tinsel and thread together and wind tightly back towards the end of the shank, leaving as much of the silk body visible as you think best to make a good finish; take two half hitches after touch- ing the thread with shellac draw tight, and cut end of tinsel off closely. Now take the hackle you have selected, clip off the tip-end fibers and fasten just where your thread hangs, or, if you choose, a quarter of an inch lower, in which case wind back your thread and take a half hitch at the desireO. point; fasten the hackle by the stub where you clipped off the fibers, and wind with both hackle and thread, closer as you approach the end of the shank. Fasten by a half hitch of the thread, and cut off the stub of the hackle closely. Touch the thread with shellac, and take one more half hitch. You are now ready for the wings. Most trout flies have only one wing, but the best and most difficult to make are the two-winged. We will suppose only one. Take the feather or feathers you have selected and lay the stub end on top of the shank, the tip of the wing pointing away from it; hold in this position by the left thumb and forefinger. Touch your thread with shellac and take two half hitches drawn tightly, then turn back the wing over the hook; touch the thread again with shellac, and take two half hitches over the bent feathers and around the hook as closely to the end as you can and not slip off. See that the wing sits right and does not lie too flat on the back. Draw very tightly and cut off the thread close and your fly is complete, except the loop in the gut, which can be made either before or after the fly is made. To make this loop the gut must be soaked fifteen minutes. This is known as the reversed wing fly. The two-winged fly is not usually made by reversing the feathers, although it can be so made. Each wing is put on separately; and it is much more difficult to make the head small. Neatness of finish requires that the head should be very small. This is always the great trouble with beginners. It is the correct thing for trout flies, but salmon and bass flies are often made with large heads. For trout flies, nature should be copied closely, but the large flies for salmon, bass and pickerel resemble no living insect, and the amateur can suit his own fancy. Trout flies are rarely made with mixed wings, and are worthloss when so made. For salmon and bass the mixed wings or wing is very beautiful and most attractive. It requires the eye of an aitist to mix colors rightly either in paintingor fly-making, and it is best, though many colors are used, to have one color predominate in each fly. Have five or six colored feathers before you; clip off, say, a dozen fibres of each, and separate each fiber carefully. Make as many flies as you have colors, and lay a fiber of each color on each pile. Try to have the fibers of equal length. Now, if you wish your fly to have, say, a bluish shade, take double the number of blue fibers (or even more) to any other color. We will suppose you have tied on your silkworm gut, tail is fixed, body made (the latter being of the same color that predominates in the wing), hackle on (you can make it the whole length of the body, or at the head to represent legs only), and all ready for the wings. Roll all the piles of "fibers together in one bunch carefully, so that the stub ends are even. You can tie them together if you choose, but this is not my practice". Touch your silk thread attached to the shank of the hook with shellac for about an inch, spreading it on the thread smoothly and evenly. Place your bunch of fibers on top of the shank and fasten by two or three half hitcbes drawn closely and tightly. After the shellac has thoroughly stiffened, say ten minutes, clip off the stub of the feathers cioselyand cover with the silk thread. Touch the head all over with shellac and the fly is complete; or you can make a head by taking a few turns of peacock hei\, which is common in both salmon and bass flies. For bass flies I usually drees the top of the wings with dark brown feathers, and for salmon flies with golden pheasant. Both are matters of choice or taste. The very gay flies should be on large hooks, the mod- est colors on medium size, and the very plain dark colors on small hooks. The wings for most flies either for trout or salmon should stand well up. Mos*. flies have the wings too flat on the back, which I think a mistake. The plain hackles are sometimes very successful in waters rarely fished or in preserved ponds; but in much-fished streams, where the trout are educated by great experience, only the young fry from four to six ounces can be so easily seduced. Neatness of finish, smallness of size, and a copy as nearly as possible of the natural fly latest on the water will call up the old patriarch? and be conducive to a full basket. There area few flies that are almost always successful, be- cause the natural fly they represent is more or less constantly on the water. The hackles may do very well on same days and in a particular state of the water and atmosphere when the trout cannot see clearly; but on bright, clear days and low water you must imitate nature closely to deceive the wary trout. This is my experience, and is not theory or hook edu- cation." Stocking Trout Streams. Twenty thousand young rainbow trout were sent to Napa last week from the hatchery at Sissons for distribution in the streams of that vicinity. Twenty- five thousand young trout were also sent to St. Helena, and 30,000 to Calistoga from the same hatch- ery. Wm. West and Wm. DeCarteret took 14,000 of the little fishes to Millikan Canyon, planting them both above and below the falls. C. R. Look took the re- maining 6000 received at Napa to Saco creek and dis- tributed them in that stream. Thirty thousand of the cut-throat variety were planted in the lake in Wild Horse Valley. The Fish Commissioners have made the local ang- ling fraternity happy for the time being in the distri- bution and planting of thousands of joung fry in streams nearby this city. These young fish are the Eastern brook trout variety (fontinalis) and have been received in this city during the week in consignments. One shipment of 40,000 brook trout fry came from Verdi, Nevada, and will be distributed in Paper Mill and in Lagunitas creeks, near Camp Taylor, Marin county. The North Shore Railroad will assist in the distribution of them. In addition to this shipment another of 75,000 arrived for streams in Monterey county, and are to be distributed in the Carmel river andother streams. They were brought from the Sisson hatchery. In a few weeks 60,000 more will come from Siseon, in Siskiyou county, near the headwaters of the Sacra- mento river, to supplement the first shipment. These last will be distributed in Marin and Sonoma counties, and the work will be continued 'a3 far north as Cazadero. The streams of Santa Clara are also to have a gen- erous distribution of trout very soon. Dr. A. M. Barker, president of the Fish and Game Association of Santa Clara County, states concerning the fish to be sent to thestreams in the Santa Clara valley by the Fish Commissioners: "We expect to receive notice of a shipment of rain- bow trout at an early date, wbich will arrive some time during the early part of August, instead of at the end of this month, as we bad anticipated. We will probably receive between 75,000 and 100,000 fish. Last year we had about 50,000, and in 1901 not quite that number. Our fish will come from the hatchery at Sissons. They are given to us by the Fish Commis- sion, and are transported without charge by the rail- road company. The fish are placed for shipment in large cans simi- lar to milk cans. A man is sent with the trout to care for them. He must see to the cooling of the water with ice and keep it properly aerated. The constant motion of the cars in some measure aerates the water, but the guide must travel in the car with the fish in order to insure their protection, as they are easily killed. The matter of distributing the fish is left to volunteer workers, and there are always plenty of sportsmen ready to assist in this part of the distribu- tion." The Fly-Casting Club members will resume the casting contests at Stow Lake this afternoon and to- morrow morning. Hammocks and Lawn Tents. Minas Prietas hammocks can Dot be excelled. They are a hand- made Central American product, woven from a light, tough and strong grass fibre and dyed in bright colors with mineral dyes. They are lasting and comfortable; one can roll them up Into a small compass the same way as Is done with a silk India shawl. Skinner, the Sporting Goods man, SOI Market Street, has just re- ceived a new consignment. Lawn Umbrellas for outing, camping, prospectors, Invalids, for the summer cottager, etc.. 8-foot spread, comfortable for two peo- ple Light weight very strong, variegated or solid colors, put up in Ave minutes Just see Skinner about 'em. You'll sure want one when you see it. . Jackson's Napa Soda untangles the feet. 10 ®h* &xeebeY anb Qpavtzmcm [AUG0ST 1, 1963 Deer and Dove Hunting Notes. Where to go in quest of a day or a week's hunting is frequently a poser for the local Nimrod. The fol- lowing data' gathered within the week offers a variety of sport and a selection of location that should enable one to choose acceptable territory for a shoot: Marysville-Dove season opened July 1st and good hunting has been had by local sportsmen. The birds seem to be scarce this year however. Wallace-Dove season July 1st to February 1st. Birds are very plentiful and can be shot from the station door. ' Chico-Deer season in Butte county July loth to October 15th. Doves from August 1st to February 1st. Deer are quite plentiful along the Sacramento six to eight miles from here and ten to fifteen miles east in the foothills. Doves are numerous in all directions. Tehama— Dove season in Tehama county opened July 1st. Good shooting in the vicinity distant from one to three miles from town. Auburn-State laws apply in Placer county. Good deer hunting across the river from here in El Dorado county. Dove shooting good all over the county. Red Bluff— State game laws in force in Tehama county. Deer are plentiful in Coast Range from thirty to forty miles west of here. Good dove shoot- ing from five to ten miles from station. Lincoln— Dove shooting from two to five miles from station, hunters have been bagging from 30 to 35 for an afternoon shoot. Summit— State laws rule in Nevada county on deer shooting and bucks can be found at a distance of twelve to fourteen miles back fiom the station. Grouse and mountain quiil season commences Septem- ber 1st and birds are numerous in this vicinity, the country is open to all, there being no private shooting grounds. Paso Robles— State laws rule in San Luis Obispo county and doves are numerous in the immediate vicinity, there is also very good prospects for deer shooting in the foothills distant not more than five miles. Sudden— Deer season in Santa Barbara county opened July loth and closes September 15th and quite a few deer cad be found within a radius of ten miles from this station. Madison— Deer season in Yolo county from August 1st to October 1st. Doves from August 1st to January 31st. Deer are reported quite plentiful in the foothills distant about ten miles from here. Doves within five miles. Guinda— Fair deer hunting can be had about five miles west of here along Davis creek and deer are reported plentiful and numbers of hunting parties are already in the field. Shingle Springs— Several good places for dove shooting varying in distance from two to five miles. Season opened July 15th. Bakersfield — No change from the State laws in Kern county. Doves are plentiful in certain localities within two to three hours drive from station. Deer in mountains one or more days drive. Fresno — Season in Fresno county for dove shooting from August 15th to February I5tb, and birds can be found in large numbers in any of the grain fields ad- jacent to tbis city from one to five miles distant. They are probably more numerous near Tarpey Sta- tion, six miles from town. Deer can be had from forty to fifty miles distant in the mountains near Temper- ance Flats and back of Millwood. Sunol— Deer shooting from ten to twelve aciles from here, but hunters must look out for posted private land where shooting is not allowed. Yolo — Dove season opens in Yolo county August 1st and fair sport can be had along Cache creek half mile from depot. EL Dorado — Deer season from July 15th to November 1st. Doves July 1st to February 15th. There are some deer near Nashville, eight miles distant, in a very rough country and hard to get through. Rocklin-~State laws in Placer county. Dove hunt- ing grounds from one to three miles of town. There seems to be a goodly number of quail and there will no doubt be great sport after October 15th. Placerville — Deer shooting within five miles of town and doves can be had close to town. Mad rone — Fair doveshooting in the grain fields and on streams near here. Deer are plentiful in Pine Ridge country and two fine bucks have already been brought in from that section. Santa Barbara — A Utter from Mr. E. C. Tallant of Santa Barbara gives a very good description of sport in that vicinity, as follows: "I have just returned from a little hunt over the mountains and will say that the Supervisors shortened the open season for deer, making the time July 15th to September 15tb. There are no other changes from the State laws. Deer are plentiful in the Santa Ynez and San Rifael ranges, one day's drive from Santa Barbara. I killed two on the opening day on the Santa Ynez river and could have killed two more had I been so inclined. A stranger would have to be piloted into these mountains but no difficulty would be experienced in finding the right man. West of Santa Barbara, from Naples to Conception stations, very good dove shooting can be had. The promise of good quailshootirjgin the county is very encouraging, the birds all breeding this year and the coveys very large." Casmadia — Dove shooting only fair in this vicinity but there are quail in abundance. Bradley — Deer can be found twenty miles west or east of this place and E. E. Brock of Valleton will aot as pilot for hunters. He has a good pack of hounds and knows the country well. Lamoine— State law in effect in Shasta county. Dear are very plentiful, judging from the number that have been broughtin Bince the season opened. Hunt- ing grounds not more than five or six miles distant. Baird— Shasta county laws same as State. Good deer shooting can be had between the Sacramento and McCloud RiverB and accommodations can be had at the Rosendale Resort four miles east of this station, where guides and horses can also be secured. This place offers exceptional chances for good sport, being situated as it is on the peninsular formed by the Sac- ramento, McCloud and Pitt Rivers. Bear and panther can also be found in this region and the fishing is al- ways first class. Firebaugh— Dove season in Madera county, from August 15th to February 1st, and the birds are plenti- ful in the thickets along the river and slough banks distant one mile from town. Ducks will be very thick this fall on account of plenty water this year. Milpitas— Several deer have been shot in the range east of here distant twelve miles. Rigs can be secured here for the trip. Santa Rosa — Deer season Sonoma county July 15th to September 1st. Doves July 1st to February 15th. There are plenty of birds reported from the vicinity of Annadel eight miles from here. Deer are reported plentiful in the vicinity of Geyserville, Cloverdale and Healdsburg, and several fine bucks have been brought in from this neighborhood recently. Morgan Hill — Dove season in Santa Clara county be- gins October 1st, but around here permit has to be secured from property owners to shoot on enclosed grounds. Watsonville— Doves reported plentiful near Vega and along the west side of Elkhorn Slough south of here distant three miles. LosGatos — Dove shooting season opens October 1st, and birds can be found within one to five miles of the station. Deer season opened July 15th and closes Oc- tober 15th, and bucks can be found within one to five miles of town. Valley Springs — Season in Calaveras county for doves July 1st to February loth. Deer from July 15th to November 1st. Very good shooting can be found from two to eight miles from the station mostly along the Calaveras River. Deer shooting can be had within thirty miles of here. Nordhoff — Deer Beason in Ventura county begins August 1st and closes October 1st, and there is no better deer hunting grounds in the State than those right here. They are distant about twenty to thirty miles, but horses and supplies can be secured here. Many people come hundreds of miles just to get the hunting in tbis Bection, and there is no reason why one should not get his limit in a short while. Dove shooting is very good and they are to be found most anywhere and close to the station. Orland — Dove season in Glenn county from July 1st to February 15th. Deer from July 15th to October 1st, and there is splendid shooting at both these kinds of game. In this vicinity the deer hunting is found about a day's travel from town. river is a read spinner, drake wings, on a No. 1 hook. W. H. Street caught, a number of large bass daily last week at Camp Vacation This well known local angler claims the black bass fishing to be had in Russian river at present is first class and cannot be excelled . .. The good qualities of the erstwhile despised "hard- mouth" are gradually .oeginning to be understood by many fishermen who are becom'ng familiar with the pike by reason of numerous catches and battles with the fresh-water pirate. Inthe^East this particular fish is looked upon as an exceedingly game fighter and exceptionable food fish. Many of our anglers, with Coast prejudices, do noteven care to admit the taking of one of these fish. . The sport of trolling for salmon at Capitola still en- gages the attention of numerous boating parties daily. Plenty of fish are landed, most of them being taken with the Wilson trolling spoons, Nos. 4 and 5. Striped bass angling has not been good recently at most of the bay fishing grounds. A number of these gamey fish have been taken in Lake Merritt and in the Oakland estuary, off Cotton Mill wharf, during the week. A 25 pounder was taken in the estuary last Sunday. On the lake during the day 25 or 30 rods were out. Messrs. .Pariser, Hollywood, Bliss, Cun- ningham, Watts and others were successful in landing fish. The bass ranged generally under 6 pounds and were almost all taken with clams as a bait General striped bass fishing in most localities seems to have gone to pot and what new whim has seized the fish and caused their scarcity is a puzzling ques tion for the anglers. AT THE TRAPS. Fish Lines. Angling at Lake Tahoe this year is lots better than for two years past, most of the parties who trolled recently have been most successful. Judge Sloss of the Superior tench of San Francisco caught a ten- pound trout on a rod and line; G. X. Wendling of San Francisco caught twenty-five trout in the lake on the 20th and 21st, being out only a few hours, among the fish was one weighing eight pounds; William Kent of Chicago has had phenomenal success, bringing in on the 21st inst., two trout weighing ten pounds each, one seven and one five pounds, and several smaller ones. A few days before he caught a total of sixty pounds. The regular fishermen have been equally successful, catching twenty to forty pounds daily One fisherman, Pete Alverson, caught two sixteen- pound trout and several weighing six pounds aDd in excess of that weight. Fly-fishing on the Truckee river for the four miles of the stream from where it leaves the lake is ex- ceptionally good and catches are made every day averaging fifty fish to the rod. This is a particularly fine stretch of water and well worth a visit from some of the fishermen who go to other portions of the Truckee. Among the anglers recently enjoying the sport at Boca were W. H. Brophy and wife of Bisbee, Ariz. Mr. Brophy is a prominent Arizona mining man. Mr. and Mrs. A. Muller and Colonel C. G. Young and Miss Young of this city were also at Boca. Colonel Kelihor and Dr. C. G. Levinson have had great success at Lamoine recently. Charles Miller landed thirty fish one day at Lamoine, one trout be ing a three-pounder. At Point Arena and up the Garcia river the trout fishing is good, but the fish are very small. Bert Spring has just returned from a week'ssojourn on Eel river at Fortuna and Ferndale. Prospects for good fall steel head fishing are very promising. Eel river at present is full of small trout; an angler can easily take 100 in a day. The No. 14 royal coachman is the principal lure The river is low pnd clear. In Eureka bay the big steelhead are taking matters easy until the first indications of fall and rains, when they will run upstream to the spawning grounds. The California Wing Club members will meet at Ingleside to-morrow for the regular monthly shoot. Last Sunday the postponed club shoot for July was held. In the club race the openirg event at twelve birds, distance handicap, twelve members par- ticipated. 1 he scores were as follows: Ed Donohoe, 31 yards, 11 birds, Dr A M Barker 30-10, CC Nau- man 33-11, C A Haight 30-11, W E Murdeck 30-12, C F Stone 30-6, "Slade" 27-11, W J Golcher 27-11, A M Shields 29-9, Dr E G McConnell 27-12, G H T Jackson 28-10, H Justins 29-7. Dr McConnell and Murdock scored straight and divided the club purse. In a six bird race following, $2.50 entrance, the scores were Donohoe 6, Barker 6, Jackson 6, McCon- nell 6, Nauman 6, Shields 6, "Slade" 5, Haight 5, Golcher 5, Justing 5, Stone 4. The "straights'" divided the pool. The results in a couple race, where two shooters were pitted against each other, round after round, miss and out, brought Shields to the front in the third round — The entriee anil scores were: Barker 3, Jack- son 2, Shields 9, Donohoe 8, Murdock 3, Haight 2, McConnell 1, Nauman 0, Shields 11, McConnell 10, Barker 4, Murdock 3. Final round Shields 1, BarkerO In a twelve bird race, $5 entrance, Barker, Donohoe, Nauman and McConnell scored straight and divided the purse. The scores in another twelve bird race were as fol- lows: Shields28 yards, 11 birds; "Slade" 27-6; Barker 30-6; Donohoe 31-3; Nauman 33-2; Haight 30-3; Golcher 27-3. Six bird race, $2:50 entrance, high guns — McConnell 6, Jackson 6., Barker 0, Donohoe 2, Nauman 6, Haight 6. Shields 6, Murdock 3. Team shoot at six birds — Shields 6, Donohoe 5, Jackson 5, Justins fi, Total 22. Whites— Nauman 6, McConnell 5, Haight 5, Barker 6. Total 22. Shoot off — Shields 3, Donohoe 3, Jackson 3, Justins 3. Total 12. Nauman 3, McConnell 3, Haight 2, Barker 2. Total 10. The Millwood Gun Club shoot for July came off near Mill Valley last Sunday. R. Van Norden was the winner in the club badge race, W. H. Price won the Orr medal race, and Mr. Collins won the Feudner medal event. The best general average during the day was made by Mr. Harry Kelly, a visiting sports man from Eureka. Masters Harold Steinfeldt and Carl Deeher made some excellent scores during the day. Steinfeldt shot 16 out of 25, and in 10 bird races smashed 9 8, 7 and 8. A summary of scores in the club events Is the follow- ing: Club badge race, 25 targets— Arnold 17, Price 17, Ashlin 12, Turpin 10, Haas 12, Steinfeldt 16, Lewis 13, Kelly 17, Kewell 16, Van Norden 21, Collins 18, Pat- rick 14, Kelly 21, Decker 5, Behring 9, James 12, Falk- enstem 7, Johns 12. Johnson 9 Orr medal race, 25 tarerets — Van Norden 18, Arnold 20, Price 23, Ashlin 22. Turpin 16. Haas 19, Collins 22, Behring 19, James 18, Newlands 14, Kewell 17, Lewis 16, Falkenstein 7, Kelly 21. Feudner medrl race, 25 targets — Collins 19, Haas 14, Arnold 19, James 13, Turpin 10, Kewell 15, Behring 14, Kelly 14, Patrick 13, Lewis 15. Frank Skinner caught trout galore on a recent trip to the streams In the vicinity of Lierly's. Black bass fishing on Russian river at Guerneville, Camp Vacation and Duncan's Mills never was better. The stream is full of splendidly conditioned black bass, that fight the angler In the liveliest manner. The most killing lure for the black bass in Russian Kennel Registry. WHELPS. Chas F. Charles' Cocker Spaniel bitch Nairod Imposter (Ch. Viscount-Chloe) whelped July 22. 1903, five black puppies (2dogs) to H A. Wegener's Ch. Dufferin Pastime (Ch. Viscount-Poll? Pastime.) Dog Owners!! Read This!! We are carrying in the advertising columns of this journal an advertisement of "Sergeant's Dog Remedies." a popular line of preparations for which F. W. Braun & Co. of Los Angeles. Cali- fornia, have been made distributing agents on the Pacific Coast. The goods have few equals and no superiors on the market today having received the highest endorsements of the leading dog men and kennel owners of this country and Canada. They are manufactured by Polk Miller Drug Co of Richmond, Va., who invite all persons having sick dogs to write {enclosing stamp) describing symptoms, and they will cheerfully furnish the best possible advice without any charge whatever. A revised copy of their book on "Dogs" sent free on receipt of 3c in s*»mps to oover postage. Augdst'1, 1903] Whe ^trecber cms g^orteman County Exhibits at State Fair. It has been decided by those who have charge of the arrangements of the coming State Fair that no competition "'will be made by the exhibit of Sacramento county against the exhibits of the other counties of the State on the ground that the fruit and vegetables raised in that county could be renewed each day if necessary and this wriuM give Sacramento an undue advantage in the competition. In other words, the Sacramento citizens in charge of the promotion of the Fair have decided that every other county shall have a clear course in the race for the premiums and they have also decided to have men on hand who will care for the exhibits of the various counties and display them to the best advantage with- out extra expanse to them. In addition to this the State Fair man- agers and their volunteer assistants will insist that fresh and perishable fruits can be renewed only on such days as will suit all of the counties, so that no one county will have an advantage over another in this respect. In fact it is to be a fair test in every way without any undue advan- tage given to any one county, so that the exhibitB may be equitably judged on their merits. The matter of getting up separate ounty exhibits will be given special at- tention and sub-committe:s will visit every county in the State and lay before the various Boards of Supervisors the ad- vantages to be derived by an exhibit of their various products. Those exhibits may be made at little cost to the counties and yet be very interesting to the public at large. *. • Oiled Roads a Big Success. Supervisor T. J. Field has had the road leading from Salinas to Monterey oiled for almost the entire distance and it is now one of the longest stretches of oiled roadway in the State. The work has been done in a thorough and satisfactory manner. Patrons of the road were incon- venienced only a few days after the oil had been spread along the road, but now they are blessed with a smooth, thor- oughly packed and dustless highway, one over which it is a pleasure to drive. Su- pervisor Mann, one of the "cross-the river" river district, informs us that it will be policy of the Monterey County Supervisors to continue the oil road policy as rapidly as finances will permit, and that it is his intention to have that portion of the road to Salinas which is within his district oiled as soon as possi- ble.— Pojaronian. English Butter Laws. The Marie Lane Express reviews the various measures adopted or brought be- fore the Englist Parliament to do away with fraudulent practices in the butter business. The latest measure under con- sideration is sw eping. One of the most difficult matters which the English board of agriculture has to deal with is the so- called "blended" butter, made by working in large quantities of moisture, which of course the consumer pays for at butler rates. The new bill makes it unlawful to make, sell or import any butter or butter mixture containing more than 2} per cent of moisture under penalties of $10 I for first offense, $250 for second, $500 forthird. Anything but pure butter must be marked plainly on every package in letters at least half an inch long with the designation "Margerine" or "Adulterated Butter," as the case may be. Xone of the marks pre- viously used, such as "milk blended but- ter," will be allowed. This is a hard blow, as it is not likely that many buyers will care to use a product plainly marked adulterated. A horse turns 34 per cent of what he eats into pjwer. an engine turns 20 per cent of fuel into power. Horse power, therefore, under some conditions is less expensive than an engine. FOR SALE. ^IDNEY DILLON F[LLY; A GREAT PROS- ' peel: kiQd and gentle in everyway; 3 years old: will weigh about 950; without a fault or blemish Price $750. 176rj Ninth Avenue, East Oakl aDd. A balky horse is a very annoying ani- mal. It takes very careful management to cure him. Trv working him to a har- row, or a plow, the middle one of three; then with two, being careful Dot to over- load. If he cannot be cured he is practi- cally useless. The World's Greatest Shooting Record FRED GILBERT, of Spirit Lake, la., since Jan. 1. 1902, has shot in competition at 5765 Targets, breaking 5532 or 95.9 per cent, using a PARKER GUN AT SHOT AT Natchez, Miss 400 Fort Dodge, la 300 Lakefield, Minn 205 Sioux City, la 360 Dubuque, la 360 THE AT BROKE PER CEXT 396 .. 99 296 .. 98.6 203 .. 99 351 .. 97 351 .. 97 5 OLD RELIABLE PARKER BROTHERS Send for catalogue. . IS RELIABLE. MERIDEN, CONN N. Y. Salesroom; 32 barren St. THE BEST PLAOE! THE BEST TRACK! THE BIGGEST MEETING! LOS ANGELES RACING ASSOCIATION LOS ANGELES Three Weeks' Racing. OCTOBER 10 to 31, inclusive. ENTRIES TO HARNESS RACES CLOSE SEPTEMBER 1, 1903. TROTTING STAKES. No. 1— THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA STAKES 2:24 Class $1000 No. 2— THE HOTEL STAKES 2:30 " ... 500 No. 3— THE CATALINA STAKES 2:27 " .... 500 No. 4— THE WINSHIP STAKES 2:20 " .... 500 No. 5— THE HARRISON STAKES 2:17 " .... 500 No. 6— THE POTTER STAKES 2:14 " .... 500 No. 7— THE QARLAND STAKES 2:12 " .... 500 No. 8— Free=for-AH Trotting 600 No. 9— Three=Year-01ds Trotting 500 PACING STAKES. No. 10— THE LOS ANQELES STAKES 2:15 Class $1000 No. 11 — The Green Class (horses without records) 500 No. 12— THE VAN NUYS STAKES 2:25 Class No. 13-^THE STIMSON STAKES 2:20 " No. 14— THE CANFIELD STAKES 2:18 " No. 15— THE SILKWOOD STAKES 2:10 " No. 16 — Free=for=AH Pacing 500 500 500 500 600 CONSOLATION CLASSES. TROTTCRC A PURSE OF 8400 will bB eiven [or Trotter* eligible to the 3:17 Ckiss I n A OCDO A POKSE OF S400 will be given for Pacers eligible to the 3:15 Class who IIIUI ILnOi who have started at this meeting and not won first or second monev. I ' HUullOi who have started at this meeting and not won first or second money. I Horses to be named overnight. Entrance fee 5 per cent; nothing from winners Money divided TO%, 20%, 10%. Race to take place October 39. have started at this meeting and not won first or second money. Horses to be named overnight. Entrance fee 5 per cent: nothing from winners. Money divided 70°o', 20%, 10°0\ Race to take place October 30 Nominators have the privilege of naminz two horses from the same stable or owned by the same person on one entrance fee. Nominators in any race that should fail to fill may on September 8th transfer their entry to any other class that filled in which their horse is eligible. Entrance 5 per cent, of which 2J par cent must accompany the entry and 2% par cent to be paid on the opening day of the meeting. MAKE YOUR ENTRY ON TIME And be sure that It Is postmarked not later than September 1, 1903. ^^ -_ _ _ ^ _ _ _ _ ^^ U _ ^ I You can eater the same horse in three or more classes and have plenty of time between races. The length of the \^ \J |\J ^j| \j [2, |^ 1} WW I ^^ ■ meeting permits of the program being arranged so that every horse in attendance can be started in several races Added Money Stakes for Running- Horses will be published in this paper at an early date. CONDITIONS. Entries to close Tuesday, September 1, 1903. Entries not declared out at 4 o'clock p m on the day preceding the race shall be required to start and declarations must be in writing and made at the office of the Secretary at the track. Stakes will be divided into four moneys: 50. ?5, 15 and 10 per cent. Entrance lee Ave percent of Stake. 2JS per cent of Stake in cash, draft or check MUST ac- company Entry, balance due and must be paid the first day of the meeting. 5 per cent of the amount of the Stake additional from money winners. If there are less then four starters they may contest for the entrance money paid In, to be divided 50, 30 and 20 per cent. The Management reserves the right to declare two starters a walk over. When only two start they may contest for the entrance money paid in, to be divided fifi'j per cent to the first and 334 per cent to the second. A horse distancing the field shall only be entitled to first and fourth moneys; but in no other case will a horse be entitled to more than one money. All harness races, unless otherwise specified, mile beats, three In five. Distance in all heats shall be 80 yards, but if the field is more than eight 100 yards. Hopples barred in trotting races, but will be permitted in pacing races. J. W. BROOKS, President. The Association reserves the right to start any heat after the fourth score, regardless of the position of the horses. All Stakes not fllling satisfactorily to the Board of Directors may be declared off. Racing colors should be claimed with entries, must be named by 5 p. m on the day preceding the race, and must be worn on the track in all races. Colors will be registered in the order in which they are received, and if not named, or when colors conflict, drivers will be required to wear colors selected by the Secretary. The management reserves the right to change the hour or date of any race, and the right is reserved todedare off or postpone any or all races on account of the weather or other sufficient cause Conditional entries will be treated the same as regular entries, and nominators held under the rules Any race that may be started and unfinished on last day of the meeting may be declared ended and money divided according to the rank of horses in the summary. Otherwise than as herein specified in these conditions, Rules of the National Trotting Association (of which this Association Is a member), except Rule 4, to govern. Send all communications to CAPT, THOS. B. MERRY, Secretary ROOM 006 BRADBURY BUILDING, LOS ANGELES, CAT. 12 ®tte gxeeitev cmfc ^upoxt&matx fAtJGtJST 1, 1903 Sale ot the Brothertown Herd. The closing out sale of this herd of purebred Holstein-Friesians held at Deansboro, K. Y., on July 15th was a notable event in the history of dairy cat- tle breeding. The sale was made to set- tle a partnership and the herd itself had been collected together but two or three years, the animals which gave it fame having been purchased within two years. To Holstein-Friesian breeders the sale was chiefly interesting because itincluded th world's record butter cows, Sadie Vale Concordia, thirty pounds 10.5 ounces and Mercedes Julip's Pietertje, twenty-nine pounds 5.7 ounces and sev- eral repiesentatives of these families. Both of these cows bore official records, whicn were made under the auspices of the State Experiment Station representa- tive?, who determined the weight of the milk and the butter fat. These tests are the largest ever scientifically determined, and gave great fame to all representatives of the families from which they sprang. Sadie Yale Concordia was bred by the firm of Yeomans & Sons of Wolworth, N. Y., and it would appear from her blood lines that this great richness and amount of product was due to a skillful blending of the blood of America, Concordia and Netherland Prince, each famous animals of their day. The MerceJes Julip's Pietertje lines take their richness perhaps most largely from the famous Mercedes, winner of the Breeder' Gazette Challenge Cup early in the breed's history in competition with the great JerEey cow, Mary Anne of St. Lambert, in a thirty-day test. Sadie Vale Concordia was purchased by Hon. L. J. Fitzgerald of Cortland, N. Y., at $2,200, and added to an already very superior collection of cattle of thiB breed. Her son, Sadie Vale Concordia's Paul De Kol, four years old, brought $2,300, being actively bid for by Mr. Fitzgerald, C. F. Hunt of Manlius, N. Y , and F. E. Gaus of TJtica, N. Y., finally drooping to Mr. Fitzgerald. Three other animals of this family, one three-year-old and two year- lings, brought $1,310, making a total for the five head of $5,810. Mercedes Julip's Pietertje, last year's world's champion, developed by South Side Farm, White Bear Lake, Minn., with a test of twenty-nine pounds 5.7 ounces, was the subject cf a spirited com- petition in bidding between Mr. Fitzger- ald Mr. O. U. Kellogg of Cortland, N. Y, and Mr. Gaur, who carried her up to $1,700, when Dr. W. T. Housinger of West Chazy, N. Y., took a hand and the bidding advanced at $25 jumps between Messrs. Housinger and Gaus, finally go- ing to Dr. Housinger at $2,200. A three-year-old daughter of this cow was sold to Mr, Gaus at $665 and a ten- month's calf to Mr. Fitzgerald at $400, making $3,065 for the three members of the family. Sixty-three head were sold for $17,500, an average of $280 per head, a figure the highest sime the flush times of the " ightiee." The three mature bulls sold at an average of $1,148, and the calveB at $110 average. The thirty-one mature females (drop- ping out four defective cows that averaged $87 5 )), brought $10,360, an average of $334 These results are very gratifying to breeders and indicate the widely spread demand for and popularity of this great dairy breed, and this point is still further emphasized by the fact that of this entire number of cows less than one-third were possessed of official records and were sold simply on their merits as breeding ani- mals. — -• Although a hog is an omniverous animal and will eat almost anything, the quality of the ration must be good. Poor corn, poor wheat, poor bran, poor slop will not bring good results, no difference what the breed of bogs. The horse, although the most useful of wer animals, is the most abused. The Average Farmer and Pure Bred Poultry. It may take some time to induce the average farmer to invest in pure bred poultry. There are several reasonB why this happens to be true. One of them is that the average farmer iB not one that is in the habit of spending his money with a free hand ; hewantB to be sure he is going to better himEelf before he will invest bis hard-earned money. Pure bred poultry is not a new subject to the average farmer, and many of them have improved their stock with a pure bred male, but a major- ity of them will take time to think the subject over and consider it from every point of view before he will pay the price of pure bred stock. By the average farmer I don't mean the progressive one- the pro- gressive farmer's poultry is now away above the average. If we glance back over the last few years, look into the dif- ferent interests of the country and com- pare them with the present time I think we will End that no branch of the agricul- tural development has turned out as well as the poultry industry. We don't have to turn back many pages of memory to the time when only a few fresh. eggs could be had in the coldest days of winter, and when the farmer that paid more than market price for a change of blood for his fowl was looked upon as the man who cought a gold brick. The change for the better has come through the efforts of these progressive farmers and poultr/men who saw the chance of making a few dol- lars from better poultry, and the reward has not only been in dollars and cents, but it has been a pleasant task for those that love the art of standard breeding, and it has aroused the ambition of the average fa mer and has put him to thinking. The original ancestors of the up-to-date fowl of to-day are no more to be compared with their prize- winning descendants than is the ox-cart of the past compared with the automobile of the present. It is up to the average farmer to spend a few dollars for pure bred poultry, thereby so improving his stock that he may be able to send to the market and his customers better quality of stock and eggs, and which^will return to him better treatment and a handsome profit. To sum it all up the farmer who ia to engage in breeding poultry must breed the "real thing" un- less he is satisfied to do a small local bus ioess and sell at low prices. Pure bred stock of all varieties is having a 'boom" at present; you can't call it a "fad," but simply a part of the general progress in the line of better farming, for poultry is the "finished" product of the farm, the source of the greatest immediate profit and the best assurance of future success What a small number of people out of the great multitude that have any idea of the greatness of the poultry business. Sheep Notes. Alfalfa Don'ts. Don't sow alfalfa on poor soil. Don't sow alfalfa on wet soil. Don't forget to clip it three times the first year. Don't turn any stock on it until the next May. Don't let alfalfa hay get dry before raking. Don't fail to cut your bay in time. That means to be ready to cut by June 1. Don't ever let your stock on alfalfa meadows in cold weather. Don't sow alfalfa seed on unprepared soil, as you do clover. If it fails with you, manure the land and try again.— Joseph B. Wing, in National Stockman and Farmer. With pork as high as it is, few things will be too good for the brood sow. In trying to "push" her there may be danger in overdoing the matter. Corn produces too much fat ; feed as much clover, oats, grass, etc , as she will eat. Strike!— if they don't give you Jack- son's Napa Soda when you ask for it. Size is very important in a show animal but quality must not be sacrificed to 1 obtain it. Keep the baby-fat on your lambs; when they have lost that they have lost their ' growth. Weed out all the poor ewes at weaning time Let the quality of the lamb be the criterion of the quality of the dam. Among the best investments a sheep- breeder can make is the buying of a dip- ping tank and a few gallons or cases of dip. Play shy of a sheep that "wobbles" as ■he walks; he has been overfed and is ' nothing less than a foundered and useless ' animal. Don't attempt to wean your lambs on a J dry burnt-tip pasture. Nothing affords a 1 more favorable weaning ground for the ' lamb than the rape field or second growth 1 clover. Every lover of pure-bred sheep should ' make every effort to attend his state fair for no better opportunity cfterB for seeing I really good individuals of the various ! breeds than do such fails. If you have occasion to dock or eniascu- : late lambs at this season of the year some agent by way of preventing the attacks of the blow-fly ehnuld be emploved. Tar is one of the best for this purpose. Among the most important factors in the successful feeding of Bhow sheep are regularity in feeding, regular and gentle exercise, and abundant supply of succulent rations and the avoidence of excessively heating foods Aged rams are very liable to suffer from stoppage of the water. One of the best remedies for tbis trouble is a dose of epsom salts, followed by a dose of sweet nitre. Should this not give relief in about five or six hours give eight grains of belladonna. Nowhere can we find bloom in a higher state of perfection than in the healthy suckling lamb and the ewe that has lest her lamb and become fat on common pasture. Either of these are as mellow and firm to the touch as velvet and gutta- percha and no flabby foreflanks or rickety lege are found in their company. In caseB where a dram of hyposulphite of soda, a dram of ginger and three drams of Bpirits of ammonia do not prove effectual in curing the bloat, the trocar should be employed. In its use care should be observed that the kidneys are not pierced It should be inserted in the most prominent distention on the left side of the victim. Foot-rot must be attacked by the ' shepherd in the most determined manner if he ever hopes to cope with the disease successfully. The most important part j in the treatment of this scourage is the getting at the seat or foundation of same with the knife and caustici. Every loose or detached piece of hoof should be cut away and any of the caustic preparations recommended in past numbers of this paper applied. the best, safest and most profitable method is to get a complete outcross every year. To a certain extent this is like crossing of breeds, which from a pork standpoint is always a good thing for the first cross. But a thoroughbred conducted upon the theory of absolute freedom from in-breed- ing is rarely if eyer a uniform one. That is, uniform to such an extent as to show a "herd type," which is the thing more than any other that marks the genuine ' hog man." Complete, or whatare sometimes termed violent, outcrosses will not produce uni- formity. This also holds true of the mat- ing of animals that are strikingly dissimi- lar, as a coarse boar on a fine sow or vice versa. The best results, or at least the surest results, are obtained by having a similarity of form and characteristics be- tween the boar and sow, and then if the breeding is Blightly similar, it is not likely to be a detriment when intelligently used. Little pigs will do well when raised by hand if fed on sweet milk. They will soon eat soaked corn, or oats and corn without any soaking. A good pasture and a clean bed will keep them from getting mangey. A bull can be safely bred at one year of age. Breed to only two cows a week until he is eighteen months old. Sober up on Jackson's Napa Soda. A Body Wash that will takeout and prevent colds, pneu- monia, etc., is abso- lutely essential to the race horse owner. T\ittle's Elixir will do all of these things better end more surely than any like preparation ever known. As a Leg Wash it keeps the speed end of a horse always in perfect tune. Apply to legs and bandage lightly. Sponge the body with it and throw on light blanket. Tuttle's American Condition Powders— A specific for impure blood and all diseases arising therefrom. Tuftle's Family Elixir <,»„--' J£ «m» We send asaopje free foi 6c in sumps, merely to pay perience." which we mail free. Tul;Ie'sElixirCo.,J37 0'FarrellSt.,SanFrandsco,Cal. B-wareofso-cntler! Elixirs — nonecennlnahni Tattle'.. Avoid all blisters; lliey offer oaly temporary relief, If aoy. In-Breeding. Be Bure you know what you are doing before attempting much in the way of in- breeding. If you decide to raise say two litters of in-bred pigs it bad better be some time when you are pretty sure you will have at least two litters more than you will need. The chances are you will get nothing at all. In most cases the re- sults will be disastrous from all points of view. While this is true the fact remains that in most breeds of live stock, and in hogs particularly, most of the improvement and advancement has come from at least line-breeding and from in-breeding. Probably the best animal the writer ever produced was from the mating of litter brother and sister But a good animal produced in this way is nearly certain to be very costly if the number of failures are taken into consideration. For a very great majority of breeders Good Ones For Sale. pYRUS WILKES, brown stallion (standard ^ bred) by Sable Wilkes, dam Menlo Belle by Menlo 13028; next dam by Speculation 928. etc. Aged 6 years, weighs 1 150; sound, now in training and showing speed. Mare by Stambonl. 10 years old, handsome, great buggy mare and high class brood mare, with a 4 y. o Zombro Filly, coal black, very hand- some, good size, stylish, flae driver and a Yearling Filly by Zombro. Eotered In Occi- dent Stakes. Handsome bay in color and very promising. Will Be Sold Cheap. Address J. R. FREEMAN, Red Blnff, Cal. PRIVILEGES! FOR_SALE. Pacific Coast Trotting Horse Breeders Association Race Meeting at PETALUMA AUG. 26, 27, 28, 29. 1933. T3IDS FOR THE FOLLOWING PRIVILEGES 1J> will be received up to Noon, Wednesday. August 6, 1903: BETTING (Auction and Mutuel Pools) PROGRAMMES FRUIT, CANDY, NUTS and ICE CREAM. A certified check (or 50 per cent should accom- pany all bids Right reserved to rejeot any or all bids. Address F. W. KELLEY, Sec'y. 36 Geary St., San Francisco. SITUATION WANTED. pOACHMAN OR GROOM— By a thoroughly - competent, experienced man Bestofrecom mendations as to ability, sobriety and honesty. Country or city. Has been with some of the best tamilies in Ireland. Address JOHN CONNELLY care of Mrs. Edwd. Ford, 1:4 Eugenia St., city AUG0ST 1, 1903] ©lie gveebev emit ^pavtsntaw 13 Typhoid from Milk. Last April a cow at an Oregon experi- ment station was led on pure cultures of typhoid bacilli for fifteen successive days. Cultures were made from the milk night and morning, but only two colonies of ty- phoid developed. These were probably accidental inoculations. At the same time examinations and cultures of the ex- creta and urine of the cow were made, but no colonies of typhoid could be induced to grow. The experiments had no effect upon the health of the animal. Similar experiments were made with various other kinds of bacilli, but colonies could be developed in neither the m Ik nor the urine, nor the excreta of the cow. In order to determine whether typhoid bacilli would enter the cow's udder through the teat, by the cowb wading in stagnant water containing this germ, the teats were inserted in a bottle which con- tained pure cultures of the bacilli. Twelve hours later and just b»fore milk- ing each teat was disinfected. This oper- ation was repeated morning and evening for five days, but no colonies of typhoid appeared. The cow was a Jersey, about four years old, and a fair subject for the experiment. The report of the experiment says: It is evident that outbreaks of typhoid fever come not from the milk as it leaves the cow, but :rom vessels which have been washed with contaminated water. The results obtained by this investigation are conclusive, first, that a pure cultures of typhoid bacilli, mixed with water and given to the cow to drink, did not pass into the milk ; second, that the bacilli did not pass alive from the cow with the ex- creta; third, that they did not pass alive from the cow with the u.ine; fourth, that they were not taken into the udder by capillary attraction through the teat ori- fice. It is generally believed that micro- organisms gain access to the milk in a cow's udder through the teat, hut in this case they did not. However, the result might not be the same with all cows. A teat possessing weak sphincter muscles is imperfectly closed at its extremity, and must necessarily be more accessible for bacteria. Another teat having good mus- cular contracting power would be iess likely to admit germB. It does not follow that the danger from a cow's using polluted water does not exist. All cows may not have the power of rendering the germ inert, and continu- ous use of such water for a great length of time might yield far different results. If a cow becomes sick from any cauBe it is difficult to tell how the ailment may affec the mammary glands or milk secretion. It would certainly be far better that sin be permitted to drink only the purebl water. SlougliBand stagn nt water ponds in pastures should be fenced off so as to keep cows from them. Stagnant water does not always contain typhoid h'ver germs, yet it is a very likely place to find them. A pond of stagnant water contains an immense number of germs, which in warm weather multiply rapidly. As they are at that time in an active condition of life, they must feed upon something in the water. If they live and feed they must also Becrete. Their secretions are chemicals and com- pounds not found in pure water. There- fore water charged with these germ pro- ducts is often unwholesome both to the human and to the animal body. Although such water may be freed from germs by boiling or other means, the chemicals remain. These experiments were conducted by E. F. Pernot, of the chair of bacteriology. Cream Separator in Farm Dairy. Among other things that have aBsisted in improving the quality of butter pro- duced on the farms is the increased use of cream separators in the home dairies, says Goodall's Farmer and Drover. The deep pan and shallow pan methods of setting the milk each have their advocates, but all who have once used the separator will testify that it is superior to all other methods of taking the cream from the milk. In the first place, no difference how carefully the milk is handled from cow to churn, more or less impurities get mixed in it, which will injure the quality of the butter. The separator will remove every vestige of dirt and impurity oi every nature, and turn out the cream without taint of any kind. In the second place, more cream can be secured from a given quantity of milk by its use than from the same quant" ty by the usual method of setting and skimming. In fact, the increased amount of butter made from a fair-sized herd by the use of the separator will pay for the machine in a few months. In addition to the saving in the amount of cream gathered and the elimination of impurities the skim milk can be fed to the pigs and chickens almost as warm and fresh as it comes from the cow, and it will be much more palatable and acceptable to them. Butter fat is too expensive to feed pigs and chickens on, but they get considerable of it when they are given milk skimmed by the usual method. When fed to calves it is very much superior to the ordinary farm skim milk, notwithstanding the fact that all the butter fat has been removed. "When fed to them almost fresh from the cow, with flaxseed meal added, if desired, it will give much better results than the bout skim milk which is fed cold or scorched in a pan in an endeavor to warm it. The separator should have a place on every farm where any attention is paid to butter production beyond the needs of the home table. Experience has proved that where the farm dairy herd comprises ■light or ten cows it will pay to invest in i separator, although one lady who is milking five cows claims that the use of the separator increases her output as much as another cow would, and she finds it an excellent investment even in her small herd. — St. Louis Journal of Agri- culture. In hot weather there is no drink like Jackson's Napa Soda — plain or in a lem- onade. S The King of Race Horses S it SEARCHLIGHT 2:03- Rejr. No. 33657. Will Make a Pall Season FROM AUG. 1 TO OCT. 1, 1903, I f # AT PLEASANTON RACE TRACK. TERMS, $50. # For further particulars address ED. MILLS, Pleasanton, Cal. 0 3lF3r### S?## Used Ten Years For Spavins, Ringbone, Splints, Curbs, and all forms of Lameness, bunobes or bony enlargements. Washington, D. C, Nov. 20£h, 1902. Dr. B.J. Kendall Co., Gentlemen:— Please send me a copy of your "Treatise on the Horse and his Diseases"." We have used your Kendall's Spavin Cure lor ten years and gladly testify to Its merits. Yours truly. JUSTUS C. NELSON. Asa liniment for family use ft has no equal, .rice $l;6fof SS. Ask your drucgiist for KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE; also "A Treatise on the Horse," the book free, or address DR. B. J. KENDALL CO.. ENOSBURC FALLS, VT. NEW MODEL 1903 SI 111 i r 4ff ft ir -d-n _u_jlr- TOOMEY PATENT 33 to 35 lbs. TRACK SULKIES AND BEST ROAD CART MADE. O'BRIEN & SONS Cor. Golden Gate Ave. and Polk St. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL Hunt and Fish ALONG THB LINE OF THE California & NorHwestern By (LESSEE OF THE S. F. & N. P. K. B.) Best Hunting and Pishing in the State Numerous and Popular Resorts Hot and Gold Mineral Springs HEALTH PLEASURE RECREATION Fine Camping Grounds on Beautiful Streams Best Section [n California for Fruit and Breeding Faring The route to San Rafael, Petaluma, Santa Roaa Ukiah, and the Famous Pleasure and Health Resorts in Lake County. Saturday to Monday round-trip ticket at reduced rates. rJiMWT ?„F/I^EhS_650JVl8rket Street> Chronicle Huuaing, and Tiburon Perry. R. X. RYAN, Gen. Pass. Agt. FOR SALE. "DAY HORSE. FIVE YEARS OLD, WITH ±J black points, good mane and tail, star In fore- head, good mannered, gentle in all harness, with or without blinds, fearless of cars, steamboats or automobiles, city broke, weighs 1100 pounds, height 16.2. sound, can trot in 2:40, never been worked for speed, sire Rainbow, Rainbow by Sil- verbow, Silverbow by Robert McGregor, the sire of Cresceus;dam McDonald Maid she by McDonald Chief. This horse is a good prospect for a fast trotter and is an exceptional road horse now. This horse can be seen in Vallejo; price $350. Apply to J. W. HARTZELL, Vallejo For Sale by All Druggists and Harness Dealers, or VITA OIL CO , 1533 Buchanan St , B. F. PUBLIC TRAINING STABLE. I am prepared to take race horses and Polo Pontes to train at Emeryville Race Track Stable, Section C. PETER WEBER, Oakland Cal. aw. Books and Pictures ABOUT California Mountains, Valleys, Canyons, Lakes and Seaside and Vacation Places. Shall It Be A Camp In the Forest A Mountain Lake A Good Hotel and Trout for Breakfast or A Seaside Resort and Clam Chowder for Dinner The Publications of the Southern Pacific Cover all Desirable Places and answer question! of Distance, Accommodations, Expense, Fares Route, etc. Nothing Left to the imagination. Inquire at INFORMATION BUREAU 613 MAKKET STREET W I R E •F- E.-..-N .C E 19 frYmontst.san francjsco 1 Chronic Bronchitis and Catarrh of the Bladder Cured In 48 Hoars. SrvNty CAPSULES Superior to Copaiba. Cabeu«< or Inject! 14 ®toe gxesbev anit ^povtsmcm TAUGUST 1, 1903 THE BAYWOOD STIII1 No Foot-No Horse THE BUNGALOW, SAN MATEO, CAL.. (Property of John Parrott, Esq.) Imp. Hackney Stallion GREEN'S RUFUS » «* Will serve a limited number of Approved Mares, Season 1903 FfcE - - - 875 Reductions made for two or more mares. Manager, WALTER SEALS. BffifBBffl&afrffiqW^^ QUINNS OINTMENT FOR HORSES standsatthehead of all veterinary remedies. Such troubles | as Spavins, Curbs, Windpuffs, Splints, Bunches have no | _ terrors for a horse if the master keeps and applies Qudnn's Ointment. All \ 51 well known horsemen speak of it in the highest terms : Miller & Sibley of Franklin, Pa., owners of St. Bel, brother of late Bei Boy, write, "We have used Quinn 's Ointment with preat success and believe it fulfills all claimed for it. We cheer- fully recommend it to our friends." For Curbs, Splints, Spavins or Bunches it has no equal *! Price Sl.oo per package. Sold b}- all druggists, or sent by mail. £ ^ W. B. £00/ a CO.. WHITEHALL, N. Y- RED BALL BRAND. AwardedGold Medal At California State Fair 1893. Every horse owner who values his stock should constantly have a sup- ply of it on hand. It improves and keeps stock in the pink of condition. Manhattan Pood Co 1353 FolBom St., San Francisco Ask your grocers or dealers for it. All Orders COD. Sample can $1. Special Prices to Dealers Horse Sboers and Agents You don't have to pack horses' feet when you use STRAP VETERINARY and HOOF OINTMENT We guarantee a speedy and positive cure for Collar and Saddle Galls, Wire Cuts, Wounds of all kinds, Burns, Scalds-, Cracked and Inflamed Heels.Grease Hee] Scratches, Speedy Cuts Thrush, Contracted Heels, Toe, Sand and Quarter Cracks, Nail 'Pricks, Car Bruises, Sore Tendons. Corns and Foundered Feel in all forms. We Fay Express Write for testimonials. PRICES— 1 pound can, $1.00; 2 pound can, $1.75; 5 pound can. $4 00 Address a card to 1711 Genessee Street. 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Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, England; Fellow of the Edlnburg Veterinary Medical Society; Graduate of the New Veterinary College Edinburgh; Veterinary Sur- geon to the S. F. Fire Department; Live Stock Inspector forNew Zealand and Australian Colonies at the port of San Francisco; Professor of Equine Medicine, Veterinary Surgery, Veterinary Depart- ment University of California; Ex-President m the California State Veterinary Medical Associa- tion; Veterinary Infirmary, Residence and Office, San Francisco Veterinary Hospital. 1117 Golden Gate Avenue, near Webster St., San Francisco: Telephone West 128 CALIFORNIA Photo Engraving Gompany HIGH CLASS ART IN Half Tones and Line JSngraving Artistic Designing. 506 Mission St.. eor. First, San Francisco You Can't Cut Out A BOG SPAVIN ok THOROUGHPIN, but ABSORBINE will clean tliem off, and you work tlie horse same time. .Does not blister or remove the hair. "Will tell you more ii you write. §2.00 per bottle, delivered. W. F.YOUNG, P. D.F., Springfield, Mass. For sale by Mack & Co., Langley & Mlohaels Co Redington & Co., J. O'Kane, and J. A. McKerr on all of San Francisco. August 1, 19031 <&\xs Qxesfosx anh fjfpwisxtxtux 15 Portable Houses ALL SIZES. Particularly desirable tor Shooting Boxes, Bungalows and Summer Houses. A VERY COnVFnIENT AND INEXPENSIVE HOUSE. " Send for Illustrated Circu- lar and Price List. Burnham— Standeford COMPANY • Washington Street, bet. First and Second, OAKLAND, CAL. San Francisco Office: 40 New Montgomery Street CAMPBELL'S HORSE FOOT REMEDY bestsSedy EVER USED ON HORSES' FEET. IT PENETRATES and DRIES IN Quickly and DOES NOT GUM and FILL UP THE PORES like ta- and oil compounds. It is the GREATEST REMEDY ever used to remove SORENESS aDd FEVER from the foot, and makes it possible to get good services out of a horse working on hard and hot pavements It gives natural nourishment to the foot and incites a rapid, healthy growth— ALL DRYNESS AND BRITTLE- NESS quickly disappears. QUARTER CRACKS and SAND CRACKS are rapidly grown out when directions given in our booklet are followed. It is a SURE CURE for CORNS, CONTRACTED FEET and NAIL WOUNDS if directions are followed It PRESENTS SOUND FEET FROM BECOMING UN- SOUND and GROWS a TOUGH. STRONG. ELASTIC WALL and HEALTHY FROG— A FOOT WHICH WILL STAND WORK on race courses. Many of the best owners and trainers state tbat for track work nothing equals it. In many cases horses have reduced their reoords several seconds, due to its use. It is a CER'J AIN CURE for THRUSH and SCRATCHES We Guarantee That It Will Do What We Claim and Will Refund Money If It Falls. PRICES:— Quarts. $100; Half-Gallon, $1.75; Gallon, $300; :2VS-Gallon, $5.50; Five-Gallon, $10.00. Books giving full directions for Its use and much valuable information as to shoeing are supplied Don't fall to read "ad." giving information concerning Campbell's Iodoform Gall Cure in next Issue of this paper. It is the best- and because of its merits is rapidly displacing all others. J AS. B. CAHPBELL&CO . Manufacturers, 412 W. Madison St., CHICAGO, ILL free. GOOD ONLY UP TO AUGUST 15, 1903 We are pleased to announce that we have made arrangements whereby we are able to renew our °ner°'tbe MAMMOTH CHART, SHOWING SKELETON OF THE HORSE as a handsome premium to new subscribers and others who will pay us $3 for subscription to the Breeder & Sportsman between July 1st and August 15, 1903. This Chart is lithographed- on tinted paper and is 22x28 inches. It will be found, invaluable to every owner of a horse as the names of all the Bones are given, as well as the names of the Tendons and Ligaments of the legs. By studying this Chart almost any lameness can be located and the proper remedies applied. The accompanying engraving will afford an idea of its appearance. No similar Chart has ever before been published. The artist, in preparing this Skeleton, visited the American Veterinary College in New York City and made drawings from actual skeletons, thus insuring ahsoluta accuracy. This Chart sells for One Dollar, but any reader can have it who will remit THRbK DOLLARS BEFORE AUGUST 15, 1903. It will be mailed, carefully packed, in a heavy pasteboard tube Tor safety. Address BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN, 36 Geary St„ San Francisco. STHIPED BASS ANGLERS LAKE MERRITT BOAT HOUSE J. A. FATJO, Proprietor, Will furni&h good boats at reasonable prices. Tackle Live and Clam Baft, etc., and better ac- commodations than ever before offered at Lake Merritt. Take narrow-gauge train to Oakland: street cars or Ave minutes1 walk on East 12th st. to fish- ing water. Get off broad-gauge trains at Oak st. BREEDERS' DIRECTORY. ROSE HOTEL PLEASANTON. CAL. Enlarged, Rebuilt. Twenty-five New Rooms Newly Furnished, Electric Lights, Running Water. Up to date. A, S. OLNEY & SON, Proprietor! HOLSTEINS— Winners of every 7 days' butter contest at State Fair 1899 1st & 2d for aged cows, 4-yr., 3-yr. and 2-yr.-olds; 21 Jerseys and Durhams competing. 5th year my Holstelns have beaten Jerseys for butter. Stock for sale; also pigs. P. H. Burke, 30 Montgomery St., S. F. JERSEYS, HOLSTEINS AND DURHAMS. Dairy Stock specially. Hogs, Poultry. Estab- lished 1876. William Niles & Co.. Los Angeles, Cal. AYRSHJRES— Young Bulls, Cows and Heifers. Registered. From prize winning families. Brown & Brandon Pet a I urn a Cal. FOR SALE. BROKEN DOGS Pointers and Setters W B. COUTTS, Kenwood. BoDoma Co., Cal. SURE SHOT DESTROYS WORMS 2XL The puppy is liable to destrucjtion from worms. 'Tis the critical period in a dog's life. Canine worms meat "sure" destmction when SuRE> Shot is administered. After that, it builds up the growing dog's constitution, develops bone and muscle. It makes thin, puny and weak puppies plump, animated and strong. 50c. by mall, prepaid. SERGEANT'S CONDITION PILLS are the best liked and easiest to give of all alteratives and tonics. Incidentally any disease that a dog is likely to have will be speedily relieved and ulti- mately cured. Of dealers, 50c and $1.00. By mall, prepaid. Sergeant's Carbolic Soft Soap is the "best ever'* and for sale everywhere. 25c. of dealers. By mail 35c. An order, or 8c. in stamps will entitle you to our LATEST Dog Book and Pedigree blank, mailed free. For sale by "All Druggists and Sporting Goods Dealers, F. W. BRAUN & CO., Los Angeles, Cal., Pacific Coast Supply Depot SPRATTS PATENT. DOG CAKES REMEDIES SOAP. NEWARK, N. .). Send (or free copy ol " DOG CULTURE." ST LOUIS, MO. Pacific Coast Branch — 1324 Valencia Street, San Francisco. Agents for " SANITAS " Disinfectant. KENNEL ADVERTISEMENTS. Wandee Kennels' Fox Terriers. WANDEE BLIZZARD, formerly Llthian Bliz- zard (Blizzard-Pop). Fee »20 WANDEE JESTER (Norfolk Velooity-Norfolk Two Step). Fee 810 Puppies and Brood Bitches for sale. Dogs shown by appointment only. Address WANDEE KENNELS, 84-i Harrison St.. San Francisco Cal. At Stud. SMOOTH FOX TERRIER Norfolk Trueman Co© OB SALE OR SWAP-KENNEL OF STAND, " ard bred, registered Greyhounds Stud dog Imp HAWKER iPeter Piper-Ivy Green); bitches- PEARL PASHA (Emtn Pasha-Somelime) and three puppies by Imp Hawker; SANTA ROSA (Btsmark-Flueta") aDd six puppies by Imp Dudley Diamond (Fabulous Fortune-Nordica); SCHIL- LING'S BEST (Master Glnnkirk-Dlana, sister to St. Lawrence); BRIDGET CLEARY (Winged Foot-Tlpperary Lass, litter sister to SaorameDto Boy). Address DR. GAYNOR. Eureka, Cal. IRISH AND SCOTCH TERRIERS. TR1SH AND SCOTCH TERRIER PUPPIES -L at $12 and $15 Sired by Champion Loyne Ruffian and Champion Fighting Mao. Mrs. BRADLEY-DYNE, Saturna P. O , B. C. BULL TERRIERS-FOX TERRIERS. AT STUD— CH. WOODCOTE WONDER. THE world's premier Bull Terrier Prize winning Wonder puppies; Fox Terrien sired by Norfolk Trueman; brood bitches In whelp and puppies for sale. WOODLAWN KENNELS, Geary and Central Ave . San Francisco Phone: Baker 3031. pOLLIE PUPS FOR SALE— BY PRIZE ^ winning Imported sires and dams, fit for bench, ranch or farm Both sexes Prices accord- ing to quality Correspondence solicited: all let- ters cheerfully answered. THOS. S. GRIFFITH, Box 1907, Spokane, Wash. COCKER SPANIELS. N AIROD KENNELS— 132 NINTH AVENUE, near California. Champion bred Cocker Spaniels at stud and for sale. PLUMERIA COCKER KENNELS HAVE Jt removed to their new kennels, 229 Ninth Ave. The dogs In this kennel are conceded to be the best in the West, having defeated all comers, under a number of the best judgt-s Id America. At Stud— Champion HAMPTON GOLDIE (great- est sire of winners alive), PLUMERIA TWEE- DLEPUNCH and others Young and matured stockforsale. Address E C PLUME. 229 Ninth Ave., San Francisco. Small dogs boarded. 'OR SALE-COCKER SPANIEL PUPPIES - by Ch. Hampton Goldle. 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No. TROTTING STAKES. 1— THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA STAKES 2:24 Class $1000 No. 2— THE HOTEL STAKES 2:30 " .... 500 No. 3— THE CATALINA STAKES 2:27 " ..... 500 No. 4— THE WINSHIP STAKES 2:20 " .... 500 No. 5— THE HARRISON STAKES 2:17 " .... 500 No. 6— THE POTTER STAKES 2:14 " .... 500 No. 7— THE QARLAND STAKES 2:12 " ... 500 No. 8— Free=for=AlI Trotting 600 No. 9— Three=Year=01ds Trotting 500 CONSOLATION CLASS LS. «"- PACERS. PACING STAKES. No. 10— THE LOS ANGELES STAKES 2:15 Class $1000 No. 11 — The Green Class (horses without records) 500 No. 12— THE VAN NUYS STAKES 2:25 Class 500 No. 13— THE STIMSON STAKES 2:20 " .... 500 No. 14— THE CANFIELD STAKES 2:18 " .... 500 No. 15— THE SILKWOOD STAKES 2:10 " 500 No. 16 — Free=for-All Pacing $00 TRflTTCRO A PURSE: OF S400 will be eivea for Trotter* eligible to the 2:1 I 1 1 U I I LI 1 Or who have started at this meeting a ad not won first or second money. Horses to be named overnight Entrance fee 6 per cent; nothing from winners Money divided 7O°0', 20%, 10%. Race to take place October 29. A PURSE OF 8400 will be given for Pacers eligible to the 2:16 Class wh have started at this meeting and not won first or second money. Horses to be named overnight. Entrance fee 5 per cent: nothing from winners. Money divided 70%, 20%, 10%. Race to take place October 30 Nominators have the privilege of naming two horses from the same stable or owned by the same person on one entrance fee. Nominators in any race that should fail to fill miy on September 8th transfer their entry to any other class that filled in which their horse is eligible. Entrance 5 per cent, of which 24 per cent must accompany the entry and 2J psr cent to be paid on the opening day of the meeting. MAKE YOUR ENTRY ON TIME And be sure that It Is postmarked not later than September 1, 1903. You can enter the same horse in three or more classes and have plenty of time between races. The length of the meeting permits of the program being arranged so that every horse in attendance can be started in several races Consider This! Added Money Stakes for Running1 Horses -will be published in this paper at an early date. CONDITIONS. Entries to olose Tuesday, September 1, 1903. Entries not declared out at 4 o'clock p m. on the day preceding the race shall be required to start and declarations must be in writing and made at the office of the Secretary at the track. Stakes will be divided into four moneys: 50, 25, ]5 and 10 per cent. Entrance fee Ave per cent of Stake. 2J4 per cent of Stake in cash, draft or cheok MUST ac- company Entry, balance due and must be paid the first day of the meeting. 5 per cent of the amount of the Stake additional from money winners. If there are less then four starters they may contest for the entrance money paid in. to be divided 50, 30 and 20 per cent. The Management reserves the right to declare two starters a walk over. When only two start they may contest for the entrance money paid in, to be divided 66ai per cent to the first and 33H per cent to the second. A horse distancing the field shall only be entitled to first and fourth moneys; but in no other case will a horse be entitled to more than one money. All harness races, unless otherwise specified, mile heats, three in five. Distance in all heats shall be 80 yards, but if the field is more than eight 100 yards- Hopples barred in trotting races, but will be permitted in pacing races. J. W. BROOKS, President. The Association reserves the right to start any heat after the fourth score regardless of «ia position of the horses ° All Stakes not filling satisfactorily to the Board of Direotors may be declared off Racing colors should be claimed with entries, must be named by 5 p. m on the day precedine the raoe. and must be worn on the track in all races. Colors will be registered In the order in which they are received, and if not named, or when colors conflict, drivers will be required to wear cnlnrs selected by the Secretary. The management reserves the right to change the hour or date of any race and the right is reserved to declare off or postpone any or all races on account of the weather or other sufficient cause Conditional entries will be treated the same as regular entries, and nominators held under the rules Any race that may be started and unfinished on last day of the meeting may be declared ended and money divided according to the rank of horses in the summary. Otherwise than as herein specified in these conditions, Rules of the National Trotting Association (of which this Association fs a member), except Rule 4, to govern. Send all communications to CAPT. THOS. B. MERRY. Secretary BOOM B06 BRADBURY BUDLDING, LOS ANGEI.ES, CAt. Pacific Coast Trotting Horse Breeders Association. Gu^^sEED PLEASANTON ?f^?iE9R ENTRIES CLOSE SATURDAY, AUG. 22D. No. 1. No. 2. No. 8. No. 4. No. 5. No. ts. No. 7. TROTTING STAKES. HOKSES TO BE NAMED WITH ENTRY. THE PLEASANTON STAKES, 2:24 Class $800 2:30 Class 300 2:19 Class .. 300 2:14 Class 400 2:11 Class 400 Three-Tear-Olds 350 Two-Tear-Olds 300 PACING STAKES. HORSES TO BE NAMED WITH ENTRT. No. 8. THE L1VERM0RE STAKES, 2:20 Class. $800 No. 9. Green Class 300 No. 10. 2:23 Class 400 No. 11. 2:17 Class 400 No. 12. 2:13 Class 400 No. 13. Free-for-AU iOO No. 14. Three-Tear-Olds 350 No. 15. Two-Tear-Olds 3Do NOTICE: Nominators have the Privilege ot Naming Two Horses from the Same Stable or Owned by the Same Person on one Entrance Fee of wSe^V^^^ «-r Entry ■„ suCh Race to A„y OtHer N. B —It is not the intention of the management to give anv special races at this regular advertised events. Kace6 will be arranged so that horses entered " meeting, and if you want to start jour horses they must be entered in the For conditions see Entry Blanks. Jfembers~Nat"ion;rf r'ottinV Association! " "*" ^^ ""^ eD°Ueh betweeD raee8 t0 s,art in e E. P. HEALD. President. Address all communications to P. W. KELLEY, Sec'y, 36 Geary St., San Francisco. August 8, 1903J iKhe ■gvee&ev emit gtpjortsmtm 3 THE WEEKLY BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN F. W. KELLEY, PROPRIETOR. rurf and Sporting Authority of the Pacific Coast. — OFFICE — 36 GEARY STREET, SAN FRANCISCO. P. O- BOX 2300. Telephone : Black 586. Terms— One Year S3, Six Months 81.75, Tbree Months SI STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. Money snould be sent by postal order, draft or by registered letter addressed to F. W. Kellky, 36 Geary St., San Francisco. Cal. Communications must be accompanied by the writer's name and address, not necessarily for publication, but as a private guarantee of good faith. San Francisco, Saturday, August 8, 1903. VALLEJO WILL OPEN THE CIRCUIT on Thursday next with the best lot of harness horses that has ever congregated at the Navy Yard town's track. There are two races on the program which are alone worth going to Bee. These are the 2:23 trot and the 2:17 pace. The latter will doubtless he held od the opening day and it will bring out a field of horses that cannot be excelled in good looks by any field of like size that will start in the United States this year. And there are a number of them that can pace a mile in 2:15 or better so that fast time is cer- tain. The 2:23 trot is also certain to prove a great race. It will have a big field of starters and will bring out some of the best green horses in training in Cali- fornia this year. All the other races on the program have good fields. The Vallejo track was never in as good shape as it is at the present time and all that is required to make the meeting a big success is a good attendance. Manager Thos. Smith will have every- thing ready when the bell taps for the first race on Thursday next, and we suggest to our San Francifco readers that they cannot pass a pleasanter day than will be afforded by a trip to Vallejo during the meet- ing. Vallejo can be reached by either train or boat. The Southern Pacific trains run to the Navy Yard town, and passengers can take the boats at 7:30 or 10 A. M. from the foot of Market street, which connect wit" these trains at the Oakland mole. Then the steamer Gen. Prisbie, that plies between Mission street wharf and Vallejo, furnishes a delightful bay trip at the small cost of one dollar for the round trip. The Gen. Prisbie leaves San Francisco at 9:45 a.m. landing her passengers in Vallejo by noon, and leaves Vallejo on her return trip at 6 P. M., giving her pas- sengers the entire afternoon to view the races, and reach home by 8 P. M. PLEASANTON, where the best winter training track in the world is located, where more cham- pion trotters and pacers have been made than any- where, and which has held for years and is still en- titled to the name, "The Horse Centre," will be the scene of a high class harness meeting this year in September. The Breeders' association haB accepted the iuvitation of its citizens and will hold a four days' meeting at the historic track during the week im- mediately following the State Fair. The Pleasanton track is not only the best winter training track that has been built in America up to date, but the new management has clearly demonstrated during the past few months that there is no better summer track in California. Work and water have not been spared and the footiDg is as firm and Bafe on all parts of it at the present time as during any part of the winter months. The Breeders Association has prepared an excellent program for the Pleasanton meeting which appears in our advertising columnB to day. Fifteen events have been opened. The Pleasanton Stake, $800 is for 2:24 class trotters and the Livermore Stake, 8800 is for 2:20 class pacers. In addition to these stakes, there are six races for $400, two for $350, and five for $300 each. The entries to these raceB will close Saturday August 22d, which is after the Vallejo meeting and just prior to the opening of the Breeders meeting at Petaluma. Pleasanton is such a con- venient centre for horsemen to meet that there is certain to be a big entry list, and the attendance will doubtless equal that at any meeting held in the State thtB year. A large number of new box stalls have recently been constructed at the Pleasanton track, and manager Kelly says he will have the fastest and beBt track of the circuit when the Breeders call the first race of the meeting. Fair a big succesB this year. The new Board of Di- rectors cannot make every reform necessary at once, but it is doing its best to make the fair what it should be and what it was intended to be. The live stock display will be high class this year, and the county exhibits promise to be ahead of anything heretofore shown. The racing furnisheB the amusement end of the program and harness horse owners especially should see that the harness events have large lists of entries and furnish good contests. The track will be better than it ever haB been. The work being done on it now is just what has been needed for several -years and there is every promise of the track being not only fast but safe. The California State Fair has been one of the State's best institutions. Let all help to improve it this year and make it the equal of any State Fair in the Union. ONE OF THE GREATEST RACE MEETINGS held annually is the autumn meetiDg of the Westchester Racing Association, at Morris Park, NewYoik. Here all the best thoroughbreds of the year congregate and as the races are run under the auspices of the Jockey Club and the National Steeple- chase and Hunt Association they have a class that is equalled at few tracks in the world. In our business columns to-day will be found advertised a list of stakes for this meeting, which are to close at mid- night, Saturday August 15th, and also a number of stakes to be run in 1904, 1905 and 1906. The Withers and the Belmont Stakes for 1905 and 1906 have been increased. The Withers will have $5000 added, and Belmont of 1906 will be a $25,000 stake with the distance restored to a mile and three furlongs. There is every probability that the races of 1905 and 1906 will be run over the new Belmont course and if so it may be run in June, somewhat later in the season than heretofore. Every breeder of thoroughbreds should enter his colts and fillies in the big stakes provided for them. In no other way can he add to their value at the annual sales held each year. A colt eligible to the big Eastern stakes will attract the attention of th« wealthy Eastern buyers when more promising colts that are unstaked will be passed by unnoticed. Re- member the date of closing these stakes is August 15th. LOU DILLON has again lowered her record. Last Friday she trotted a mile at the Cleveland track in 2:02j, lowering her former record three-fourths of a second and leaving but a half second between her preBent mark and the world's championship. Her quarters were in 0:31}, 1:00}, 1:31J and 2:02f. Lou Dillon has never started in public so far but she has lowered her former mark. That she will dethrone Cresceus is believed by nearly every horseman in America, and that she will be the two-minute trotter is expected by some. It is a long way between 2:02 and 2:00 however, and it seems like asking a little too much of the little mare to expect her lo reach the two-minute mark. But she is beyond question the fastest trotting mare the wt_rld has ever seen, and that is glory enough for her first year, even though she fails to trot faster than her present record. Mil- lard Sanders is driving Lou Dillon in all her contests against time, and if any man on earth can get her around the oval in two minutes he is the one that caa accomplish the wonderful feat. There is not a person in California but would throw up his hat and cheer to see him do it. NOTE THE CHANGES in the advertisement of the State Fair this week. Look over the list of purses offered and make as many entries as you can. It is the duty of horsemen to help make the State Program for Breeders Meeting. The Board of Directors of the Pacific Coast Trot- ting Horse Breeders Association met Thursday of this week and arranged the program forits four days' meeting at Petaluma as follows: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26. 1—2:30 Trot 11 eligible 2— Pacific Slope Stakes .22 eligible 3—2:15 Trot 9 eligible THURSDAY, AUGUST 27. 1— Three Year Old Trot 12 eligible 2— Breeders Futurity Pace 3— Free For All Trot (not closed) FRIDAY, AUGUST 28. 1—2:17 Pace 9 eligible 2 — BreederB Futurity Trot 3— Free For All Pace (not closed) SATURDAY, AUGUST 29. 1— Green Class Pace 10 eligible 2 — California Stakes 21 eligible 3— 2:17 Class Trot 7 eligible The list of eligibles for the two big stakes offered by the association are as follows: THE CALIFORNIA STAKES, 2:24 CLASS TROT— $2000. Geo. W. Kingsbury's b g Charles H. C. A. Arvedson's b s Sutter Maid. C. Whitehead's s g Deputy. F. C. Lusk's b g Sproul. S. K. Dougherty 's br m Sonoma Girl J. D. Carr's ch a Larkin W. C. E. Clark's b g Rapides. H. W. Goodall's ch g Dr. Hammond. H. A. Bell's b g H. D. B. Tuttle Bros. ' b h Suomi. W. Mendenhall's b m Rosie Woodburn. Nutwood Stock Farm's ch h T. C. W. G. Durfee's b m Idyllwild. Walnut Grove Stock Farm's br m Daisy B., substi- tuted for The Boquet. P. W. Hodge's bm Una K., substituted for Lady Zombro. John A. Cole's h Jupiter 3., substituted for Rosa- lind. B Croner's gr m Louise Croner, substituted for Erosmont. Wm. Lumsden's b s McPherBOn, substituted for Perkins. Boust & Albertson's b g George G., substituted for Albert X. H. C. Ahler's b g Telephone, substituted for Anna C; S. H. Hoy's b g Moor Rose, substituted for Ora Bel- mont. THE PACIFIC SLOPE STAKES, 2:20 PACE- $1500. Chas. Galindo's ch g Rey del Diablo. C. J. Snyder's br s Jonesa Basler. C. H. Williams' blk s Del Oro. E. D. Dudley's b g Allendale. Fred A. Fanning'B b g Billy F. I. L. Borden's b g N. L. B. S. F. Martin's b g Tom Carneal. Ofiutt & Co.'s r m Mildred O. Robt. Freeman's br m Bullet. W. P. Hammer's b m Dot. L, G. Cater's b g Almerino. B. W. Goodall'B b g Rajah. E. A. LewiB' ch g Edwin S. C. Whitehead's b m The Mrs. Jaa. Sutherland's b g Ben F. Nutwood Stock Farm's br f Miss Georgie. W. S. MaOec's b g Ira. S. A. Eddy's b g Colonel C. H. S. Hogoboom's b h Monroe S. (by Monroe Chief) substituted for Hops. S. Watson's b g Al Sandy, substituted for Cyclone. D. L. Bachant's b g George, substituted for Lady Glen way. The betting privileges have been awarded to J. H. Hurlick & Co. of this city. There will be auction and mutual pools sold but no bookmaking will be per- mitted. The outlook is for the best meeting held by the Breeders in years. Vallejo Entries. Trotting, 2:23 clasB, purse $1000- Tuttle Bros., b s Suomi; B Erkenbrecher, b m Sweet Marie; S. K. Dougherty, br m Sonoma Girl; Martin Carter, ch s T. C; C. Whitehead, s g Deputy; C. F. White, b m Dollexa; J. A. Smith, br g Hank; A. A. Bell, b g H. D. B.; B. Croner, g m Louise Croner; Henry Peters, b m Little Babe; Thos. Smith, ch g Getaway; H. H. Goodall, ch g Dr. Hammond ; Boust & Alberteon, b g Chin Wa; Alex. Brown, br m Daisy B; Boust & Al- bertson, b g George G; C. A. Arvidson, b s Sutter; P. W. Hodges & Co , b m Una K.; L. G. Richards, b g Moor Rose. Pacing, 2:17 class, purse, $1000 — Lee Palmer, 8 g Ben F. ; W. P. Hamner, b m Dot; Fred Fanning, b g Victor; Martin Carter, brm Miss Georgie; J. W. Haile & Co , s m MLs WinD; S. F. Martin, b g Tom Carneal; C. Whitehead, b m The Mrs.; C. W. Welby, ch m Alice Lee; Mrs. W. Maetin, b g Penrose; John Norton, b g'Smuggler; James Howarth, b m Bell Rose; E. D. Dudley.bg Allendale; S. A. Eddy.bg Cuckoo; S. Watson, b g Al Sandy; Mills & Sanders, cb g Monroe S.; H. M. Goodall, b g Rajah; T. C. White, ch m Pinky H. Trotting, 2:27 class, purse, $300— W. G. Durfer, b m Idlewild; F. D. McGregor, b m Gertie H.; Martin Carter, b m Little Branch; L. B. DaDiele, b g Sproul; P. W. Hodges & Co., b m UDa K., and br m Soma; J. Albertson, b g Albert; C. A. ArvidBon, b m Black Wilkes; Wm. Halford, b s Donnybrook; B. Croner, bs Erosmont. The Grissem Stake, trotting: 2:12 class; purse $300— Fred Fanning, g g Ro6elle; E. P. Heald, br s Tom Smith: P. W. Hodges & Co., b 8 Geo. W. McKinney; J. Groom, b s Leige. Pacing, 2:25 clasp; purse $400 — W. L. McDonald, gm Swanhiida: L. G. Carter, b g El Merino; Fred Fan- ning b g Billy F.; C. W. Welby, ch m Alice Lee; W. H. Hillhoufe. s m Maud R ; E. A. Lewis, eh g Edwin S.; Leona Lillard, b s Wild Rote; R. FrPeman. br m Bullet; H. D. Bell, bl m Black Venus; C. H. Williams, ch s Del Oro; D. L. Bachman, b m Lady Glenway; S. A. Eddy, br s Colonel C; C. J. Snider, br s Jonesa Basler. Trotting, 3 minute class; for Vallejo horses— Mi- chael Connollv, b g Dewej; C. F. Green, b m May B.; Thos. Smith, b g Fred P.; Tbos. Smith, Jr., bl m Princess W.; J. L. Smith, b g Roscoe; Joe Covella, b g Rubberneck. Pacing, 2 year olds: Solano County horses— B. F. Rush, b f Siileun; W. L. McDonald, b g Sid Abbott; Geo. V. Kennedy, g f Sweetheart; B Shouse, s c Abe Lincoln. ®tue gveeitev anh gtjKurtemcm "AUGUST 8, 1903 JOTTINGS. \7ALLEJO WILL OPEN THE CIRCUIT on V Thursday next, and some of She best racing ever seen in California will he given. This is not an idle boast, written for advertising purposes, but a state- ment made with all sincerity after looking over the list of eligibles to the purses offered. The 2:23 trot and the 2:17 pace give every prospect of being up to Grand Circuit class. In both these events the class of horses entered is fully equal if not better than has been seen on a California track in the slow classes for years. It need hot surprise anyone if there are ten starters in each race, and as nearly every owner thinks he has a chance for first money the result should be a hot contest aLd fast time. In the 2:23 trot there were seventeen original entries and nearly every one has been paid up on or a substitute named. There are four or five of these entries that have shown miles as good as 2:15 in their work and one or two have beaten this quite a bit. But work-outs in 2:15 are not guarantees that a horse can trot heats in that time in the race, and there will be several Btarters that will not show within ten seconds of their "work- ing" time when they get the word to start for the money. However, I expect to see 2:15 equalled or beaten in the race. All the heats will not be that fast, however, and the horse that trots all his heats as fast as 2:18 will not be behind the money in my opinion. Among the most promising candidates for first money are Capt. Goodall's Dr. Hammond that took a pacing record of 2:14]- last year but is now a clean gaited trotter; Little Babe, a handBome black mare by Bradtmoor that took a mark of 2:25 over the Dixon half mile track this year in the first race in which she ever started; Louise Croner by Wildboy, a gray mare that has shown very fast halves and may be in shape to go the route; Chin Wa a Fresno gelding that haB shown some very fast trials; T. C. by Nutwood Wilkes that has beaten 2:20 several times this spring, and Tom Smith's mare Trilby that is showing well this year. It is not likely that Sweet Marie by McKinney will be here as she started at Seattle last Saturday and she will hardly be shipped south before the Breeders meeting, if then. of wheat and fruit are overshadowing it and not half the interest is attached to the digging of gold as was formerly the case, although there is more of it being done than ever. When Senator Stanford, L. J. Rose, Count Valensin and others were among those who made heavy entry lists each year, and were starting horses for records at every meeting, and selling colts at fabulous prices, the harness horse industry filled a large space in the public eye. Now that 2:15 speed is common and a 2:10 horse no sensation, there is not 80 much talk about trotters and pacers, although there are more stallions in service and more mares bred than ever before. T. W. Barstow of San Jose, who owns the stallion Nearest 2:22 that is an own brother to John A. Mc- Kerron 2:05], was in the city the other day and gave me a picture of a two weeks old colt he owns that holds a world's record. The colt has been named Nearest McKinney as he is by McKinney out of a mare by Nearest. The record he holds is in regard to the manner in which he was bred. His sire and dam were The 2:17 pace for $1000 will probably be held on the opening day of the Vallejo meeting. If there is any money among the harness horse followers in Califor- nia this year this Bhould be a hot betting race with three or four horses selling out, and about six or more in the field. I shall expect to see the field win. Among the entries that have shown winning speed are Rajah that is reported to have beaten 2:08 at San Jose last week, Miss Georgia that is credited with a mile in 2:09], Ben F. that has shaded 2:11, Tom Car- neal that has beaten 2:15 more than once, The Mrs. that was a close second in 2:13 last year on two oc- casions but failed to get a mark, Cuckoo, one of the slickest moving hoppled pacers on the coast, Monroe S. that took a mark of 2:16] last year and has been working quarters in 31 seconds, and several others "too numerous to mention. " As a curtain raiser for the circuit this race will he worth being on hand to see. The program of the Breeders meeting at Petaluma, which is printed in this issue of the Breeder and Sportsman, is one of the best ever arranged for a harness meeting in California. I doubt if there is a stateof the Union, outside of New York and Ohio, where so many local entries could be secured for a four days' meeting. A program like the one ar- ranged for Petaluma by the Breeders would draw five thousand people every day on any of the Grand Cir- cuit tracks. When it is remembered that the pro- grams at Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo and the other places down the Grand Circuit draw horses from all parts of the United States, the showing made by the Breeders and other associations in California each year is wonderful and proves that all the talk about the decadence of the harness horse business here on the coast is unwarranted. It is true that nearly all the big stock farms have gone out of existence, but there are as many individual breeders as ever and the breeding, training and racing of trotters and pacers continues to have a strong hold on the people. There have been more well bred mares bred to good stallions in California during the past three years than during any previous three years of the State's history, and we believe there are more people interested in harness horses now than ever before. The horse breeding in- dustry is in much the same condition as the mining of gold. In "the days of '49," when the creek beds and gulches of California were giving up their stores of the yellow metal to whosoever chose to dig for it, it was the State'B leading industry, but now the raising not within two miles of each oSher when he was got as he is one of the "artificial" colts that are becoming bo numerous. The strange part of it ia, however, that his dam was got in the same way. If anybody besides Mr. Barstow owns a machine colt out of a machine dam the fact has not been published. This colt is a big strong, lusty fellow that stood 43 inches high the day he was two weeks old and as will be seen by his picture herewith is not lacking in good looks. Budd Doble's return to the sulky last week at Cleve. land shows that his hand has not lost its skill, and that after eight years' retirement he is still one of the best reinsmen the country has produced. His first start was with his horse Kinney Lou that is still big and fat and not up to a bruising race.. In two heats won by Caspian in 2:15] and 2:12 Kinney Lou finished fourth in the first heat and third in the second, an ex- cellent showing for a first start and one that gave him third money. On Thursday Mr. Doble started The Roman and won the raee handily. The dispatches state that he was given an ovation by the large crowd present and the applause and cheers continued so long that he was compelled to go into the judges' stand and repeatedly bow his acknowledgements. Like all men who are truly great in their profession Budd Doble is very quiet and extremely modest in his de- meanor and we expect he blushed like a school girl at the reception given him. May he win more races with The Roman and Kinney Lou, both California produc- tions, and lower the world's trotting record for the fourth time before he retires finally from the sulky is the earnest wish of all his California friendi whose name is legion. An experienced Eastern turfman gives these as his ideas of reform: The shortening of racing contests, limiting all races to best two in three contests, with dash races at different distances. Hiring of profes- sional judges and excluding the "prominent citizen" from the judges' stand. Awarding of the four moneys to the horses in accordance with how they finish in each heat — viz., placing a horse that stood 3, 3, 3, ahead of one which stood 2, 9, 9, with the exception of heat winners, who are entitled to be placed owing to the penalty of getting a record. The formation of an association to include only the larger tracks, after the manner of the American Jockey Club, requiring all horses to be registered and all drivers to be licensed. State Agricultural Director J. W. Wilson, who is superintendent of the track at Agricultural Park. Sacramento, states that the track will be in better condition this year than ever before known. Mr. Jones' new track making machine is at work and is doing splendid execution. It iB cutting through the surface of the old track that has been so long com- plained of by horsemen. This will allow the moisture from below to come to the surface so that there will be no "cupping" when the horses are goiDg over it. Mr. Wilson says the track will be ready for training purposes in a few days. — Union. The Seattle Meeting. [From our Special Correspondent.] Favored with beautiful weather and a fast track, the Fall meeting of the King County Fair Association opened auspiciously last Saturday. The meeting is the opening one of the North Pacific Fair Association 1 Circuit, which circuit embraces continuous racing through Oregon, Washington, Idaho and British Columbia until the middle of October. The program consisted of Beven events, the first two of which were special harness races on the dash sys- tem, and judging by the close and exciting contests'"" they both furnished they must be regarded as being already firmly installed as fixtures on the daily card here. The first was a one-mile dash for 2:20 class pacers, and six horses scored down for the word, as follows: Rita H, Ollie M, Harry Hurst, El Rayo, Imp, and Christobel. They got off well together at the first score, went to the quarter in 34, the half in 1:06', the three-quarter in 1:39^, and came home in the or- der above named, Rita H, who was admirably driven by W. G. Durfee, eventually winning after a drive by a neck in the good time of 2:13]. This admirable per- formance adds another to the list of McKinney 2:15 performers. The second event was for 2:16 trotters and a high class field took the word. Owing to Oveta, Will Lane and The Commonwealth being a little short of work it took four scores ere they were finally sent away to a good Btart, a good race ensued to the three-quarter between Sweet Marie, Oveta and Briney K., however the McKinney, when asked, gave that proof of her quality as a race mare that landed her the winner by a length from Oveta, Briney K. third, The Common- wealth fourth, Dr. Bunell fifth and Will Lane sixth. Time— 0:34, 1:09], 1:444, 2:17". This gave Will Durfee his second winning drive and he was loudly applauded upon returning to the stand. The other events call for no particular mention. The harness program is woll filled and all the owners and drivers are wellsatisfiedlwith the track and their surroundings. There are already 90 harness horses here and at least 40 more from Portland, Spokane and British Columbia will arrive before the regular har- ness meeting commences, which will be on August 8th. ^ R. L. From San Jose Track. San Jose, Cal., August 3, 1905: Breeder and Sportsman: — I thought possibly you would like to hear what is going on here as re- gards speed. The horses in the good stable of Captains Goodall and Bennett are stepping some. Dr. Hammond trotted a mile in 2:10" and could have trotted much faster, and Rajah paced a mile in 2:07} and the last quarter a shade better than 30 seconds; they have just shipped away this evening to Vallejo. I have a three year old filly by Barondale with nine weeks' work trotted a mile in 2:29, and quarters in 36 seconds and one-eighth in 17' seconds. She will trot in 2:20 this Fall. I have the greatest 14 months' old colt in America by Barondale. The fifteenth time harnessed I drove him a qua'rter in 46 seconds; the thirtieth time hitched I drove him a quarter in 44 seconds, and the thirty-fourth time hitched I drove him a quarter in 39" seconds barefooted to cart. I am sure in thirty days or less I can drive him a quarter in 35 seconds, a 2:20 gait. Have a ticket on him next year at Detroit in the Chamber of Commerce stake; he will make it good for you. You ought to have been here last night, when the earthquake occurred. I think you would have stepped some yourselves. It was the "darndest" rattling out of the box I ever heard, and did lots of damage to buildings. One can see the effect on most every street. Yours very truly, Tom James. A big sale of broken and unbroken horses has been going on the past week at Miles City, Montana, says an exchange, and the prices obtained have been very satisfactory to raisers. A. B. Clarke is the promoter of the sale and some of the prices obtained are as fol- lows: J. R. McKay sold 22 head at $108 each and 7 at $70 each. A couple of cars sold by E. B. Holt, a car of yearlings at $21 each and a car of mares and colts at $48 each. Buyers were present from Hudson Bay, Alabama, Tennessee, New Orleans and from all over the new northwest. The single method of selling was employed by the local men and better results were obtained than by selling in lots or car lots. Outside- men who have shipped in carloads desire to sell in that shape. About 500 horses have been sold singly to date which would seem a great success. There is no difficulty in disposing of stock in any section of the United States if it is properly advertised in the clasB papers. Audubon 2:03] is going to try and give Father Time an argument for two-minute honors. If right this chestnut horse ought to be able to put up a pretty stiff argument. August 8, 1903] ©He $txet»rc twit ^porteroan Australian Horse Holds World's Record. For the first time since the establishment of a breed of trotting and pacing horses, a world's harness record has been earned by a horse bred outside the United States. On the title page of the Breeder and Sportsman to-day is a photo-engraving of this horse — Almont, a bay stallion by Rothchild out of Puella by Berlin. Almont to»k a three mile paoing record of 6:50 at the Ascot race course, Melbourne, Australia on July 13th, this year. The former record for the distance has been held by the pacer Joe Jefferson since 1891, when he paced the Sioux Falls, Iowa, track, three miles in 7:33} against time for a purse of $10. The trotting record for the distance is held by the mare Nightingale by Mambrino King and is 6:55£. This record was made in 1893. The noted Flora Temple had a three mile record of 7:33| made in 1860. It will be seen that the record of the Australian horse is 43} seconds faster than the American pacing record, and while few will question the prediction that there are American horses capable of getting the record back to this country, it will be no easy task for those in the 2:12 class to which Almont belon gs. Mr. And. Robertsoo, a prominent farrier of Australia arrived in San Francisco on thelaststeamer and left this week for New York. He will remain in the East two or three months during which time he will study the lateBt methods of shoeing trotting and pacing horses. Mr. Robertson is a brother of the trainer of Almont and has written for us the following about the performances of that horse: Editor Breeder and Sportsman: A little news from the other side of the world will doubtless interest you. On June 29th on the A6C0trrace course, Melbourne, for a purse of fifty sovereigns, Almont made a successful attempt to lower The Australian record held by Fritz 2:13. He was driven by Lou Robertson, and covered the distance in 2:12. This establishes a new record for Australia. He went the first half in 1:08 and the last half in 1:04. On July 6th Almont tackled the Australian two- mile record of 4:35, held by Ribbonwood. He was again successful, leaving the two miles behind him in 4:32. A week later, July 13tb, he went out to lower the world's three-mile record. I have not that record at hand, but Almont went the journey in 6:50, nearly at the rate of 2:16 for each mile. If a suitable track can be procured Almont is going to have a fly at the world's pacing two-mile record, held by Chehalis 4:19}. You will doubtless think Robertson is shoot- ing at rather a high mark but he is confident under favorable conditions he caD chip a little bit off that mark. The above performances are no measure of Almont's speed, when I tell you the conditions under which they were registered, you will say with me, it is only reasonable to suppose that he can go much better. In the first place, it was midwinter when these records were put up, and the season being an exceptionally wet and cold one, I don't need to tell you the horse was not at his best, and it must also be remembered the track was not a mile track but some- thing ever one-half mile and a poor one for speed. In his mile of 2:12 and his two miles of 4:32 he was not driven to his limit. He only went out lo do a certain time and he did it easily. I think, Almont's three miles in 6:50 is a wonderful performance, considering the smallness of the track, and that he was trained and driven by a colonial. What would you expect him to do driven by an American on one of your best mile tracks? In a match race two-mile dash for $600, Almont vs. Lightfoot, Almont won easily by over 100 yards; time 4:36. As he was never extended in any part of the race, and the track a turf one, this was a good per- formance. Almont is a colonial bred horse and his sire and dam are also colonial bred, but from imported Ameri- can stock. His pedigree follows: By Rothchild, son of Childe Harold, dam Puella by Berlin, second dam Woodburn Maid by Woodburn. Yours truly, And. Robertson. State Fair Directors Meet. Says the Salinas Journal: "County Clerk J. D. Kalar has purchased of J. A. Trescony of San Lucas the five year old pacing filly by DictatuB out of a mare by Sidney, second dam Kate Ewing 2:21} by Berlin 3514, a son of Reavis' Blackbird 402, third dam Lady Washington by American Boy Jr. This mare is very speedy and we are willing to risk our "hoss" reputa- tion on the prognostication that she will prove a crack-a-jaek. Carl Parsons has also purchased of Mr. Trescony the three year old black pacing gelding out of the same dam by Mr. Trescony 's stallion Robin, sire of Robizola. This colt is a natural pacer, is un- broken, but has a nice way of moving, and on the score of breeding and conformation ought to develop extreme speed." % Jackson's Napa Soda does not tangle the feet. The State Board of Agricultural Directors held a meeting last Saturday, with the following present: President Benjamin Rush, William Johnson, C. W. Paine, William Land, L. J. Rose, James Whittaker, J. W. Wilson, F. H. Burke, E. W. Howard and Thomas Fox. The report of the Committee on Speed Program, both running and harness events, was received and adopted. A communication was received from the John Breuner Company offering to pay a lump sum to the society and make the opening night at the pavilion a free gate. They also agree to advertise this opening night in eight-four country newspapers. The board agreed to the proposition and arranged that the firm should have the opening night at the pavilion for the sum of $500. The secretary was directed to advertise for bids for privileges. The following are the particulars of the call for bids for betting privileges: No. 1. Cash bids for auction pools sold on final result of all races. No. 2. Percentage bid on result of all races. No. 3. Cash bid for auction pools sold on final re- sult of harness races only. No. 4. Percentage bids for auction pools on harness races only; privilege will be allowed to charge a 5 per cent commission on all sales. On a percentage bid a satisfactory bond must be given. No. 5. — Bookmaking privilege only on races, heats and results, both harness and running races, as a whole, six races daily. No. 6. — Open bookmaking privilege on all races, and results, both harness and running events, allowing any reputable bookmakers, six or more, to cut in on the basis of $2700 each for twelve days; if less then pro rata per day; if more, a decreased pro rata. Any reputable individual allowed to cut in on deposit of cash or a certified check of 50 per cent, balance to be paid on Saturday, August 29tb, on or before 5 p. M. Six raceB a day guaranteed. No. 7. — Combination book privilege for the twelve days. No. 8. — Bid for all and every 'betting privilege as a whole. Bids will also be received for the program privilege, for a uniformed band of musicians and for policing the park and pavilion. The bond of Dwight Miller as treasurer of the society was received and approved. On motion of Director Burke, seconded by Director Fox. it was agreed that in every case "where every condition is not filled in stake races, with the advertised conditions, that all such entries be in- eligible to start. After this had been adopted Secretary Lowden announced that under the conditions of this motion only three entries in the Stallion Stake of 1903 would be eligible to start. This brought on a lively discussion, which resulted in the motion being rescinded until the Speed Com- mittee had time to consult with some authority on horse law and find out the exact status of this Stallion Stake at the present time. Director Land presented a contract from a local contractor agreeing to clean up the pavilion, make all repairs to floors and roofs, etc., for the sum of $416. Last year this work cost about $2600. The offer was accepted and the contract let. R. D. Stephens of the Citizens' Fair Committee ap- peared before the board and stated that his committee had been meeting with good success in every way, and then presented a strong argument in favor of lowering the price of admission to the park. His pro- position did not me"t with favor by the members of the board, who held that the prices adopted were low enough. It was pointed out that a family ticket to park and pavilion could be procured for $7.50, or a commutation ticket for twelve admissions to park and pavilion for $10, and that while a single admission to the park would cost $1, it would be the same as that of former years, when it cost 50 cents to enter the the park and 50 cents for a seat in the grand stand. Under the present arrangement the $1 ticket admitted one to all portions of the park and siands. — Sacra- mento Vnion. « The Kenney Bicycle Co., 531 Valencia St., is doing a big business in the McMurray Carts and Sulkies. You not only save money by purchasing a McMurray but get the most durable, best made, and easiest running cart or sulky in the market. Investigation will con- vince a Missourian. * Volunteer's Opinion of Monte Carlo. "Volunteer" of Chicago Horse Renew, visited Detroit during the Blue Ribbon meeting and in a long and interesting letter to his paper containing his observations there, has the following to say of Monte Carlo. "There were many turnovers at Detroit, but in some ways the fall that Monte Carlo gave his admirers was one of the heaviest thuds heard during the week. The only thing that one can say about him is that he acted the part of a sucker horse. In the Erst heat he sailed over to the half in 1:03J, in a sort of see-how- easy-I-can-do-it way that would give the spectator the idea that one of his legs might have been tied up and he could still makes Dan T. and Dr. Strong look like cart horses. But when they came up alongside of him in the stretch and Walker asked him to go on, he simply said: 'Here boys take it away.' He not only stopped to nothing, but he also jumped off his feet, which was an additional surprise, as everybody had said that if he did get beaten he would be beaten on a trot. Walker, I believe, laid the loss of this heat to the fact that he had been so sure of winning it that he did not think it necessary to take his whip with him, but in the next heat when he drew his gad on Monte Carlo on the same spot, while the horse did not break, he stopped just a little bit harder. The experts said that it tvas the footing that beat him, and they were bo Bure of it that almost to a man they declared that he would win the next day, but he prac- tically repeated the exhibition, though perhaps he did not give it up quite so badly. Monte Carlo's gait is indescribably perfect. It absolutely could not be surpassed, and besides, he looks good enough to eat. He bad also tramped all over the two horses that heat him the week before at Windsor. Add to this that the Kingmaker had pronounced him a better horse than Azote, and you can imigine just the effect that his showing had upon his followers. Of course, it remains to be said that a band of prophets have always maintained that Monte Carlo had a soft streak in him; that periodically when the track was right and the day right and he felt like it, he was a 2:05 trotter, but that the rest of the time a geod 2:08 or 2:09 trotter that was game could beat him. This race looks as if they had figured him about right." With due deference to the opinions of the wise men of the East who think Monte Carlo a "sucker" horse, there are many of us here in the West who will pin our faith;to him for a while yet. It would be strange if Monte Carlo remained in first class racing condition all through the season and it is more than likely that he has trained off a little. Perhaps it is this that causes the breaks he has been making in bis races. We think the son of Mendocino will prove before the year is out that he does not belong to the class that give it up when tackled by a faster horse. Last Day at Cleveland. Trotting, 2:27 class, purse $1000. Robinzola, b m, by Robin (Sanders) 1 1 Judge Green, b g (Walker) 2 2 King Simmons, blk h (Bogash) 4 3 Bennie Russell, bh (Kent) 3 4 Crown Princess and Ellenwood also started. Time— 2:12s<, 2:13. Judge Cullen, blk g, by Raven Wilkes (Cares) l 4 l JimFerry.gg (Fraok) 3 1 2 Belle Kuser, b m (Hudson) 2 2 3 Pug.gg (Marrifleld) J 3 4 Crescent and Lady Constantlna also started. Tlme-2:10M,2:10K,2:10H. Trotting, 2:15 class, purse $1000. George Muscovite, b b, by Muscovite ...(Bond) 1 1 Norrle, b g (B. Sbank) 2 8 Joymaker, b h (McCoy) 7 2 Ben Hall, b g (Turner) 3 4 Walter Smith, The Questor, Mattle Smeltz, Miss Fearing, Dick M., Alfred Star and Viometa also started. Time— 2:10^4, 2:11. Pacing. 2:07 class, purse $1000. Winfleld Stratton, ch h, by Saraway. (MoGuire) 1 1 Captain Sphinx, bg (Hopkins) 2 2 Charley Hayt, b h .(Snow) 3 4 Birdlna, b m (Davis) 4 3 Time— 2:07^, 2:06Ji- Pacing, 2:32 class, purse $1000 Ebony King, blk g. by Atlantio King (Bogash) 1 1 Trilby Direct, blk m (Walker) 2 4 Al Bock, blk h .- (Bush) 4 2 Joe Grattan, ch g (McHenry) 3 :l Margaret Warner and Cleopatra also started. Time— 2:10M, 2:11. Trotting, to beat 2:03M- Lou Dillon, ch m, by Sidney Dillon (Sanders) 1 Time 2 Time by quarters— 0:31X, l:00?i, 1:315*. 2:02^. Special exhibition paoing— Dan Patch, br s, by Joe Patcheu. Time by quarters— 0:S0'4, 1:02, 1:33, 2:02K In theChamber of Commerce Stake only one starter, Kingmore, wore hopples. He finished 3-7 in the heats of Tuesday. Another starter, W. O. Foote, pulled the firBt long shaft sulkey ever seen in a Grand Circuit race and finished in 5-6. A well-known starting judge recently asserted that he would much rather start a whole afternoon's pro- gram of professional races than one race for amateurs. "If you wish to lose your friends in short order," said he, "just go to the track or speedway with a lot of them and attempt to get tbem away in good shape in a matinee race." And there is a lot of truth in what he says. A starter has no way of controlling a field of amateur drivers, and if he insists in giving every one an equal chance, or if he gets disgusted and lets them go away to a ragged start, some of them will get mad. It makes little difference which course he takes — he will have less friends when it comeB night than he had in the morning. — Raymond. 6 ®he gveeimv anb gp&ctemtm [August 8, 1903 SN3**>£VD<*"3^ Gs$zay&b><£/s*&& Notes and James Gatoomb now owns Wainscot 2:10J, having paid $10,000 for him. Robizola has won more races than any other horse on the Grand Circuit. Trilby Direct 2:08} is the seventh of the get of Direct 2:05} to enter the 2:10 list. Lily Young 2:09}, is 12 years old and is therefore the oldest trotter to enter the 2:10 list. Kelly Briggs was distanced in the first heat of the race, in which he started at Cleveland. Owyhee 2:11 made a heavy season in his new home in Australia and his owner had to turn mares away. Dan Patch, Lou Dillon, Audubon Boy and John A. McKerron will probably be sent after new records at Readville. The Irst prize for an exhibit made by a county at the State Fair this year will be $500, which is worth trying for. Democracy 2:07}, continues his winning campaign in Manitoba, as he recently beat Harry O. 2:06, in the free for all. There were thirteen final payments made in the Oc- cident Stake for 1903, and the stake will be worth about $3800. James Sutherland of Pleasanton recently sold a fine pair of black carriage horses to a resident of Newman, Cal., for $750. W. H. Gocher will issue a second volume of Tales of the Turf in the fall. It will be a larger volume than the first book. Briney K. by Strathway won at Seattle on Wednes- day of this week and reduced his record to 2:13}. Dish races are the rule at Seattle. The Eureka Fair Association will hold a fair and roxt&mat\ 11 THE FARM Plain Directions for Budding. Budding ie nearly always done on imall seedling trees not larger than half an inch in diameter at the bale. Larger ones, or the small branches of large trees may be budded, but they are rarely suita- ble, because the contrast in iize between the stock and bud ia so great that too rank growth is developed the first year and not as some suppose because the bud will not take on a large stock, for it will if other things are right A weakly, stunted Btock is not fit to receive a bud for if it does grow fast it will rarely make much growth. The bark must peel read- ily or the work will fail. During a very dry time budding is rarely successful, a'tbough after rain has fallen the same stocks may work very easily and the budB take well. The common style is known as shield budd ng and usually done in late sum- mer or early autumn. It may be done any time after the buds on the new growth are well formed and before the stocks have stopped growing. The scions should be cut from trees about which there ie not the sligh test doubt of variety and from the thriftiest part. The whole of the present year's growth should be taken and every leaf cut off quite close to the buds. Any weakly or undeveloped buds near the tip of the shoot should be cut away entirely. Such a scion is called a bud stick. Each variety Bhould be tied in separate bundles and plainly labeled. If they are not to be set at once they should be wrapped in moist cloths or moss and kept in a cool place, if properly packed they may be sent thousands of miles or kept for a week or more in perfect safety. Some tying material should be provided, with which to bind the bark of the stock firmly over the bud. The buds are set three inches from the ground and on any Bide most convenient. If a branch on a larger tree is to be budded, set the bud on the upper tide so the shoot that grows from it the next season may press towards the stock by its own weight rather than from it. A smooth place should be selected to Bet the bud by trimming off all small branches or rubbing off leaves for a distance of three or four inches. This may be done several days beforehand if convenient, in order to have everything ready to do the budding. To cut the bud from the Btock. take it in the left hand and begin to cut about half an inch towards the butt from the bud and go just deep enough to take a little of the wood, and continue the same distance beyond the bud. The knife may be allowed to slope upwards and out, thus severing the bud- shield from the stick ; or, remove the knife when yet in the wood and make a square cut to detach the shield. Some persons take the wood out of the bud, but mrM do not. It takes less time to leave it in and it ie stiffer and may be inserted more quickly and with less danger of injury To set the bud, take it in the right hand and insert the point beneath the raised corners of the bark of the stock and with the corners of the thumb press against the stump of the leaf stem, pushing it entirely under the bark. It should be tied quite soon, beginning from the back Bide and crossing the band back and forth until the bark is bound tightly over the shield, bnt being careful not to cover the bud. There is nothing more to do for at leaBt two weeks, when the bands may be cut, and where any failed they may be re- budded. Stock in Fly-Time. The direct loss occasioned by flies and other insect pests is too seldom considered by many dairymen and stock-raisers. Many of these peats propagate their kind by depositing their eggs in manure. Thus an increase of insects is ordinarily about in proportion to the number of animals kept. Of course, it is impossible to en- tirely exterminate these pests, but some precautions, both in regard to protecting the animals and in keeping their quarters well cleaned and sanitary, will result in a pronounced gain in the comfort, thrift and profit of the stock. Some of the home-made and patent in- sect "scare-alls" have considerable effi- ciency for r» short space of time after application, but the tendency is to make use of them only spadomically, while the following recommendations are valuable in more ways than one. and are more likely to be given systematic attention : The first precaution should be to allow no manure to accumulate in the stables, and to keep in use sufficient absorbents, litter and deodorizers to keep the stables sweet and wholesome, which is impossible where the flooring allows of leakage and accumulation of filth and reeking gases beneath it. The yards and lanes leading to the stables will alio soon become a breeding place for myriads of flies unless kept clean and scraped frequently. The saving in fertilizers from this source ia an item well worth the necessary labor ex- pended. Where the number of stock kept is not too large, it will be found profitable to arrange the stables or sheds with screened and darkened windows and openings, where the stock can go at will for rest and protection during the heat of the day. The colts, and horses when not in use, will especially appreciate and profit by such provision when the bot-flies and other insect torments make many of the daylight hours a worriment and gain and growth an impossibility. Where large dairies are kept, the loss resulting from diminished milk-yield is seriously felt, and the protection of stock is a much more difficult problem. After considerable experience, the writer is con vinced that it is profitable to systemati- cally stable the dairy animals about six hours daily when the flies are most annoy- ing, giving a feed of green cut fodder, or ensilage provided especially for that pur- pose. During the combined annoyance of heat and insect pests cows are much like a goodly portion of humanity in their aversion to exertion. They will frequently lie still fighting flies, and go hungry in- stead of grazing. Especially is this true when pastures are dried up and are unin- viting. Early milking hours morning and evenings, with the animals taken up and stables from about noon until evening milking time, will not materially increase the dairyman's labor after the feeu supply is provided for, and will afford a most grat- ifying surprise in the improved and ex- tended yield from his animalB. Hogs can best be protected by a clean mud-wallow — not a filth-hole, as decribed in a former paper — and sheep may be kept practically free from this particular fly pest by a well tarred salt trough. B. F. W. Thorpe. A Great Feature. In order to secure a large and attractive exhibit of the best individuals from lead- ing cattleherds throught the entire State in all classes the State Agricultural So- ciety's directors have offered greatly increased premiums for all registered breeds and an entirely new classification throughout. The livestock department of last year's fair was quite an educational feature and of great benefit to all classes of breeders, both large and small, for they had the benefit of Professor Carlyle aa to the accepted ideal of type of individuals that are required to win in the show ring and sell for good prices for breeding purposes. This season Professor E. W. Major will be associated with Professor Carlyle in pass- ing upon the livestock exhibits. The judging by these authorities, will be one of the most interesting features of the fair- They will in their talk- set forth the points on which prizes are awarded and afford all information as to the "why and where- fore" of the r decision and answer any questions that exhibitors or interested breeders may request. Seats will be arranged around the judging ring for the convenience of all interested in livestock. Their remarks will be taken down by a stenographer and afterward published. ■ Students of the Agricultural College Stock is largely what it is made by feed. Hogs fed on clover or alfalfa have large bones. They also like charcoal, ashes and salt. All of these build a good, strong frame. Woodland Creamery Report. The report of the secretary of the Wood- land Creamery, a co-operative association, covering all statistics since its organizi- tion, has recently been published and shows an average price of 22>£c per pound for butter for the last five years. The patrona pay 3c per pound for manufactur- ing, thus leaving 19Mc aB the price paid them for the above period. The report also shows that the average has been 4% pounds of butter to every 103 pounds of milk received You must keep the cowb comfortable and happy if you expect good returns from them. will be invited to attend. The educa- tional value to the State can hardly be overestimated. These judges, who are recognized as authorities, ran be relied upon to place before visitors and exhibitors the up-to-date ideal standard required for competition in the show ring for breeding purposes. In dairying, one thing should not be emphasized more than another. Each one has its comparative Importance. They start with the man, then come the cows, utensils, management, feed, etc. Where you find success you usually find them all. They may be acquired one at a time. But all must come with much success. •To.eph E. Wing, who is now making a visit to the flocks and herds of Gieat Britain, says after viewing the lambs on sale at the different meat markets that wi still 1 ave a lot to do to bring our average mutton sheep up to the foreign standard of excellence. Many a man is in the live stock business through a force of circumstance. He suc- ceeds or fails in proportion to the amount of intelligent study and effort he puts forth. Sober up on Jackson's Napa Soda. ADDITIONAL PURSES FOR THE Petaluma Race Meeting OF THE Pacific Coast Trotting Horse Breeders Association Entries to Close Wednesday, Aug. 12. FREE=FOR=ALL TROT $500 FREE-FOR-ALL PACE $500 Conditions same as heretofore advrrllsrd for this meeting. E P. HEA1.D, Pres p. w. KELLET, Sec'y, 36 G-»rj St , San Francisco. HARNESS. SADDLES, WHIPS, ROBES, and Turf Goods. ALWAYS THE BEST FOR THE MONEY. JEPSEN Maxers of Fine Harness at REASONABLE Prices 1145-1147 Market St., San Francisco RED BALL BRAND. Awarded Gold Medal At California State Fair 1892. Every horse owner who values his stock should constantly have a sup- pi; of It on hand. It Improves and beeps took in the pink of condition. Manhattan Pood Co 1 253 FolBom St., San Franc I sco Aik your grocers or dealers for it. Positively Cures Colic, Scouring and Indigestion. C. P. KEKTKLI. Pedigrees Tabulated ^OTT^EE^ Sportsman, M G«»ry itrwt, 8»t> Fr»noi»co, Cal. 12 ®ite gs#j?£fr#trittiir &p0vt&ni^llz%li?gi:?0 In hot weather there is no drink like Jackson's Napa Soda.— plain or in a lem- onade. , ■ v- -. - Good Ones For Sale. pYRUS "WILKES, browo stallion (standard ^-/ bred) by Sable Wilkes, dam Menlo Belle by Menlo 13028; next dam by Speculation 928, etc. Aged 6 years, weighs 1150; sound, now in training and showing speed. Mare by Stambonl, 10 years old, handsome, great buggy mare and high class brood mare, with a i y. o. Zombro Filly, coal black, very hand- some, good size, stylish, fine driver, and a Yearling: Filly by Zombro. Entered in Occi- dent Stakes. Handsome bay in color and very promising. Will Be Sold Cheap. Address J. R. FREEMAN, Red Bluff, Cal. FOR SALE CHEAP. LOCHINVAR 2120 Black Trotting Stallion, 15-2V* hands high. MVRTI P Standard bred Mare by Sterling, it 1 1 iv 1 l,l,, now jn foai t0 Lochinvar 8:20 For particulars write JOHN D. BLAMEY, Grass Valley, Cal. FOR SALE. SIDNEY DILLON FELLY; A GREAT PROS- v- pect; kind and gentle in every way; 3 years old: will weigh about 950; without a fault or blemish. Price $750. 1766 Ninth Avenue, East Oakland. SITUATION WANTED. pOACHMAN OR GROOM— By a thoroughly v-' competent, experienced man Best of recom mendations as to ability, sobriety and honesty. Country or city. Has been with some of the best families in Ireland Address JOHN CONNELLY, care of Mrs. Edwd. Ford, 114 Eugenia St., city. $2QO jkdishah The Beit Low Priced Jeweled Watch Made Non-Magnetic Nickel Silver Case Fully Guarantees For sale by ALL JEWELERS Illustrated Booklet on request, showing COLORED FANCY DIALS The New England Watch Go. Factories— Waterbury, Conn. Olflces— ^ New York, Chicago, San Francisco. FQR TWO-YEAR- OLDS The Horrlcana— 81500 Added 'The Huhricana (Sellisg). Maidens at time of entry. By subscription of $50 each, $20 forfeit, with $1500 added, of which $250 to the second, $150 to the third. Last Ave furlongs of the Eclipse Course. The Ranch-, del P:iso $1500 Added ''The Rancho del Paso. Non-winners of $5000 at time of entry. By subscription of $50 each, $20 forfeit, With 81500 added, of which $250 to the sec- ond, $150 to the third. Named weights. The Eclipse Course. The White Plains Handicap -83000 Added • The White Plains Handicap. By subscrip tion of $50 each, half forfeit, $10 if declared, with $3000 added, of which $400 to the second, $-400 to the third. The Eclipse Course. FOR THREE-YEAR-OLDS The Hunter— 81500 Added 'Tbe Hunter Handicap for Fillies. By sub- scription of $50 each, $20 forfeit, with $1500 added, of which $250 to the second, $150 to the third. The Withers Mile. The Falrvlew— 81500 Added , TheFairvirw (Selling). By subscription of $50 each, $20 forfeit, with $1500 added, of which $250 to the second, $150 to tbe third. Mile and a sixteenth over the hill. The Dixlana— S1500 Added - The Dixlana. Non-winners of $5000 In 1903 at time of entry. By subscription of $50 each, $20 forfeit, with $1500 added, of whioh $25U to the sec- ond, $150 to the third. Named weights. The Withers Mile. The Ramapo Handicap— 83000' Added The Ramapo Handicap. By subscription of $20 each, $10 only if declared, starters $3U addi- tional, with $2000 added, of which $250 to the seo- ond, $150 to the third. Mile and a furlong over the Withers Course. FOR TWO-YEAR-OLDS AND UPWARD The Manhattan Handicap— 8 1800 Added The Manhattan Handicap. By subscription of $<0 each, $10 only if deolared, starters $30 addi- tional, with $1800 added, of which $250 to the sec- ond, $150 to the third.. The Eclipse Course. Autumn Highweight Serial Handicap— 850U0 Added By subscription of $30 eaoh, which shall entitle the entry to start In Tne Bronx, The Westchester and Fordham Highweight Handicaps, on payment of an additional starling fee of $10 for each race. Conditions of the Bronx Highweight Han- dicap. $10 additional for starters, with $1500 added, of which $300 to the second, $200 to the third. Last six furlongs of the Withers Mile. Conditions of the Westchester High- weight Handicap. $10 additional for starters, with $1700 added, of which $300 to the second, $200 to the third. Last six-and-a-half furlongs of the Withers Mile. . Conditions of the Fordham Highweight Handicap. $10 additional for starters, with $1800 added, of which $300 to the second, $200 to the third. Last seven furlongs ol" the Withers Mile. FOR THREE-YEAR-OLDS AND UPWARD The New Rochelle— 81500 Added The New Rochelle (Selling) at 10 pounds above the scale. By subscription of $50 each $20 forfeit, with $1500 added. The Withers Mile. Steeplechases and Hurdle Races Fifth Champion Steeplechase— 810,000 Fifth Champion Steeplechase (Supplement- ary Entry). $50each, $100 additional for starters, with $9000 added, of which $6000 is contributed by gentlemen interested in Steeplechaslng and $3iXo by the Westchester Racing Association.. To the winner $6750. to the second $1500, to the third $750. Named weights. Penalties and allowances. About three miles and a half. Corinthian Open Steeplechase Handicap— Sloop Added The Corinthian Open Steeplechase Handi- cap. To be ridden by Gentlemen Riders qualified under the rules of the N. S. & H. A. or £. H. A. By subscription of $25 each, $15 forfeit, $5 if declared, If entered by August 15, or if entered Monday, September 14, 1903, at $50 each, half lorfeit, $10 only if declared the day before the raoe. with $1000 added, of whioh $200 to the second, $100 to the third; $100 in plate to the rider of the winner. Abont two miles and a half. Autumn Meadpwbrook Handicap Steeple- chase—81000 Added The autumn Meadowbrook Handicap Steeplechase for Hunters, qualified under the rr.les of the N. S. & H. A. or C. H. A. Gentle- men riders. By subscription of $10 each, $ 15 addi- tional for starters, or if entered Monday, Sept 28 1903, at $20 each, $30 additional for starters with $1000 added, of which $200 to the second. $100 to the third. Mr. Belmont to. add $100 in plate to the winner if ridden by a gentleman rider. Horses ridden by professional riders to carry 5 lbs more than the weights allotted by the handicapper About three miles. October Handicap Steeplechase— 81500 - Added The October Steeplechase Handicap By subscription of $20 each, $10 only if declared $30 additional for starters, with $1500 added, of which $250 to second, $150 to the third. About two miles and a half, September Hurdle Selling— 81.000 Added The September Hurdle Selling By sub- scription or $10 each, $J5 additional for starters with $1000 added, of which $200 to the second $100 to the third. Mile and three-quarters over seven flights of hurdles, Saturday, Oct. 1,0 Autumn Hurdle Handicap-81300 Added ^The autumn Hurdle Handicap Bv sub- Supprementary Entries for Autumn Meeting, 1903 FOR TWO-IEAR-OLDS L The Nursery Handicap- S3000 Added bvT2H| MP?heERd»? w°ISA£ *75 **&• " «<»»»">« y « <-?" Ine dav hefore the race If lefr in m tne second, $100 to the third. The Ecjipse Course The Champagne— $5000 Added forfeit «ZJSi? <9oni>itioN). $ioo each, hair SSo to^h?thlrnd'°f w?lcl1 $l00° «° »e second, Withers Mile d' *""" SCT6a rur!o"g8 °f th0 FOR THREE- YEAR OLDS The Jerome— $3000 Added feirtB™»dd^nd. $300 to the third Mile andave-sixteentbsover the hill FOR THREE-YEAR-OLDS AND UPWARD The Municipal Handlcap-82r,00 Added forfeit m^VEJf ^A\DICAP- ll0° each, »»» I0,rIS,,,'*i> lf declared the day before thoracal to' ne*,hlrd°ad.?d«0f Tloh WOO to the0rSeconed ® to the third. Mile and three quartersover the hill. The Morris Park Weight for Age Raee- S30OO Added . ' Tbe Morris Park Weight for a™ r»™ • o™he8 w'ood',f,'0rfe^' wl "Sadd°ed So olata ?Sin, « Woodlawn Vase tor the winner , of which 1904 FOR THEN TWO YEARS OLD To Be Iltm at the Spring Meellnij The Jnvenlle -88000 Added The Juvenile, for two-year-olds bv mWrin tlonof ?I00 each. $50 forfeit. *I0only if declared by January 6, 1904. with $2000 added of wMcniioo to the second if 300 to the third. Mb if™ S£!»cS2!S- "9 Ib?- Last "" '~°* The Fashion— S1500 Added The Fashion, for allies two years old By sub- soriptlon of $50 each, $25 forfeit, $5 only fdeclared by January B, 1904 with $1500 added, of which M00 to the second, $150 to the third. To carry 119 lbs Last four and a half turlongsof the Eclipse Course The Eclipse-84000 Added „rT^?nE„C,,cI>,PS!--'0J 'wo.-year-olds, by subscription of $laO each, $,,i forfeit. $15 only if declare,! hv January 6. 1901, with $1000 added, o which $7M to the second. $300 to the third. The nominator ol the winner to receive $100 out of the starting money. Colts 123 lbs; allies and geldings , lir/iSs Winners of a race of the value of $3500 to oarry 5 EolfpseCourse5' "" "fl * **" 'uri°^°' <»e 1905 FOR THEN THREE YEARS OLD To Be Run <#lhi Spring 'Meeting with a Season- able Probability m June The Wlthers-85000 Added ' TBE Withers, tor three-year olds, foals of 1909 by subscription of $100 each, $50 forfeit, $10 lf de- clared on or before Wednesday, January 6. 1904, or $35 if declared on or before January 6 1905 with $5000 added, of which $1000 to the second, $sS) to the third. Colts, 126 lbs: geldings, 123 lbs- allies 121 lis. The Withers Mile, ' ies' The Ladies— 81000 Added The Ladies, for Allies three years old foals of 1902. by subscription of $100 eaoh, $50 forfeit $10 only lf declared on or before Wednesday. January 6. 1901. or $2a if declared on before January 6 1905 with B-1000 added, of which $750 to the second $150 to the third. To carry 121 lbs. The Withers Mil? The 39th Belmont-810,000 Added 1 The BELMQNT Liability of those entered a& yearlings $2a each, if entered August 15 1903 the only forfeit If declared by January 6. 1905- if 'left i?ca',t,ef ?.a,ni,\7 6' W- a furtner subscription of $a0; if left In after January 6, 1906, a further sub- scription, of $75. All Starterstopay$l50 additional The Westchester Racing Association to add MO 000 of which $1800 to the second, $750 to the third Mr- August Belmont to add plate, of $1000 to the win- ner. The nominator of the winner to receive $1000 out of the subscriptions.. Mile and a quarter. 1906 The -40th Belmont^SSS.Odo <• Tbe 40th Belmont To close for foals of 1903 August 15, 1903 To close for yearlings (foals of 1903) August 15, 1904 To the winner $21 000 to the second $2000, to the third $1000. To the nominator of the winner $1000. Colts to carry 126 lbs sew. ings 123 lbs, Allies 121 lbs. »"»"""». gera- Llability of those entereU as foals. By subscrip- tion of $10 each, the only forfeit if declared by January 6. 1905. If left in after January 6 1905 a further subscription of $25 If left in after Janu-" ary 6, 1906, a-further subscription of $50 each Liabilityof those entered as yearlings Bysub- scriptionof $25 each, if entered as yearlings on August 15. 1904, the only forfeit if declared by- January 6. 1905. If left in after January 6, 1905 a further subscription of $50. If left In alter Janu- ary 6, 1906, a farther subscription of $75 each . - All starters to pay $150 additional. The West- chester Racing Association to add money to make the value of the race $35,000. Mile and 3 furlongs. ■ J1?"1"1!??' ,?atrieafor tte above are received only. under, the conditions as SSotosV'riuS IQTnBW9PdfSn9UbJeCt '° aDd in accordance. wittthe Rules 0° Tht fhpwJtPr1. l'<5 1 ^ e Ri"r?8 aDd- St8eplechases in accordance with Rules of the National Steeplechase-and Hunt Association, i For Entry Blanks address ths BREEDER AND Sportsman, 36 Geary Street, San Francisco, Cal AUGSST 8, 1903] (SKte gveebev atti* g^wtfsrotim 18 Pigs and Poultry. Here is a good combination, always ready -to -turn the waste into money. Three or four well bred broad sows ought to turn considerable profit during the. year with their' litters. Pure bred stock is al- ways worth the money either for sale, breeding or fattening purposes As I see it the summer pro'blem with pigs is easy of solution. The skim milk, house Blops and other wastes supplemented with rape and pumpkins will bring them through to fattening time with very little cash out- lay. The winter season with the brood sows represents more outlay, but a good sumirief will silverplate that. A half acre of rape on rich mo'st soil will keep several shotes busy a good portion of the summer. The poultry business has to be learned, and the way to learn it is to do it. As to the egg or meat production, your knowl- edge of the markets there would be the safest guide. In either case a small be- ginning is most sure of later Buccess, and experience will dictate as to expansion. Corn, oats and potatoes sandwiched with clover and cowpeas are easy of rotation, and, barring potatoes, every pound pro- duced would return to the farm or pocket- book.^- J. E. Jlorse in Rural New Yorker. Just how far can the milk producing machinery of a cow be increased without a breakdown is a very important question to a whole lot of folks out in this country who have not yet acquired the prescience of alfalfa stuffing in connection with cli- matic exuberance. The wild and wooly cow of the range with but small udder capacity knows little of udder troubles, becanse^ though Email it has great resist- ing power to disease and the action of bacteria. It requires'biit little examina- tion of herd records to realize how much time. is lost by udder troubles. - _Garget. in all its hideous forms and names is ah ever, present malady and the lessened -resist- ance of a highly developed glancttogeth r with the increase in number and -poteney of the trouble-producing Dacteria, is bring- ing about a condition that requires careful consideration. Whoever heard of a case of garget among short grass tattle— the kind that a fellow has to "ketch" with a rop:? before they can be milked? Aspringhouseis an ideal place:for milk. The milk, seems better and the cream richer than any other place. However, the separator is driving out the old-fash- ioned method of setting milk for cream. But it will be a long time before every farm has one. Many of us will die of old age before all the spring houses are aban- doned. Alfalfa furnishes ideal pasture for hogs during their growing season. It does the alfalfa no harm and does the hogs good. It is also good for them in the winter. It does them good in any quantity they will eat. Strike! — if they don't give you Jack- son's Napa Soda when you ask for it. f PALACE HOTEL, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA. 3 ^- TOURISTS and" TRAVELERS will, now, with difficulty recognize the famous COURT iqto which for twenty-five years carriages have driven-. This space of over a quarter of an acre has recently, by the addition of very handsome furniture, rugs, chandeliers and tropical plants, been converted into a lounging room— the FINEST IN THE WORLD. The EMPIRE PARLOR— the PALM ROOM, furnished in Cerise, with Billiard and Pool tables for the ladles— the LOUIS XV PARLOR the LADIES WRITING ROOM and numerous other modern Improvements, together with the unexcelled Cuisine and the Most: Convenient Location in the City— all add much to the ever increasing popularity of this* most famous- HOTEL. ■ • - '• JAY-EYE-! Mr. J. I. Case, (Hickory Grove Farm, home j of Jay-Eye-See) Racine, Wis., says: "After try- ; .log every known remedy, I removed a laree * Bunch of two years standing from, a 3-year old j filly, with three applications of Quinn's 0intment.| It is the best preparation I have ever used or heard < of.- I heartily recommend it to all Horsemen. We have hundreds of such testimonials. Price Si. 00 per package. Ask yonr druggist for it. If he does not keep ic we will send prepaid on receipt of price. Address W. B. EDDY & CO., Whitehall, N. Y. TRY IT, - .r,-;-.-^ • ; j Starting Payments Due August 16, 1903, On Two-Year-Olds iiSTERKD IN THE PACIFIC BREEDERS FDTUEITY STAKES 1. 36000 GUARANTEED 1 FOR THE GfiT OF MARES COVERED IN 1900 (FOALS BORN IN 1001) ENTRIES CLOSED SEPTEMBER 1, 1900. To Trot or Pace at 2 years old in 1903 and at 3 years old in 1904 at either or both ages. < MOltEY DIVIDED AS FOLLOWS! 1903. Two-Year-Old Trotters 81250 Two-Year-Old Pacers 750 Nominator Dam of Winner Trot 200 Nominator Dam of Winner Pace 200 1904. Three- Year-Old Trotters 82000 Three- Year-Old Pacers 1O0O Nominator Dam of Winner Trot 200 Nominator Dam of Winner Pace 200 Owner d'f Stallion, sire of Winner of Three- Year-Old Trot, when mare was bred. .8100 Owner df Stallion, sire of Winner of Three-Year-Old Pace, when mare was bred.. 100 Entrance and Payments— $3 to nominate mare on September 1, 1900. *o January 2, 1901. SiOon yearlings January 2, 1902. 810 on two-year olds January 2, 1903 $10 on three-year-olds January 2, 1904. Starting Payments— $25 to start In the two-year.old pace: $35 to start in the two-year-old trot. $35 to start in the threeyear-oldpace. $50 to start in the three-year-old trot. All starting payments to be mads ten days before the first day of the meeting at which the race is to take place. Nomi- nators Taust designate, when making payments to start, whether the horse entered Is a trotter or a pacer Colts that start at twoyearsold are not barred from starting again in the three-year-oid divisions. The $10 payment January 2, 1903, keeps your entry good to January 2, 1904, whether you start at two years old^oi' not. ■ . - ; ■ E. P. HHALO, VreMdent. F. W. KELLEY, Secretary, -^ S6 Geary St:, Sad Framcisco, NEW MODEL THE -BEST IN THE WORLD. O'BRIEN, $ SONS Cor. Golden Gate Ave. and Polk St. SAN FRANCISCO, .CAt FOR SALE. 7>AY HORSE, FIVE YEARS OLD, WITH ^f1 blaclt points, good mane and tail, star in fore- head, good mannered, gentle in all harness, with or without blinds, fearless of cars, steamboats or- automobiles, city broke, weighs 1100' pounds height 16.2, sound, can trot in 2:40, never been Worked for speed, sire Rainbow, Rainbow by Sil- verbow, Silverbow by Robert McGregor, the sire of Cresceus;dam McDonald Maid she by McDonald Chief. This horse is a good prospect for a fast trotter and is an exceptional road horse dow. This horse can be seen in Vallejo; price $350. Apply 16 J. W. HARTZELL, Vallejo Indispertsible Where There Are Children. A qxiick, positive cure for toothache, eevrache, cra,mps &.rvd colic. All who use It re- f olce In its healing properties. For Sale by All Druggists and Harness Dealers, or VITA OIL CO., 1533 Buchanan St., 8. 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Saturday to Monday round-trip tlcke'd at reduced rates. raTnrtSf/«0J^£s~^MarlIet street. Chronicle Building, and Tlburon Ferry. R. X. RYAN, Gen. Pwu. Agt. JVN. Books and Pictures ABOUT California Mountains, Valleys, Canyons, Lakes and Seaside and Vacation Places. Shall It Be A Camp in the Forest A Mountain Lake A Good Hotel and Trout for Breakfast A Seaside Resort Clam Chowder for Dinner The Publications of the Southern Pacific Cover all Desirable Places and answer questions of Distance, Accommodations, Expense, Fares Route, etc. Nothing Left to the Imagination. ' Inquire at INFORMATION BUREAU 613 MARKET STBEET g -r— J" _HQG|C^nt|P0ulTB^HcrT|>,Gft«|l>|,J westicoast; wire VironIwo'rks; Chronic Bronchitis and Cored In Catarrh of tbe Bladder 48 Hours. CAPSULES Superior to Copaiba, Cubeb* or Inj- 14 ©he gvee&sx an$ gpovtztnctxi I August 8, Wu3 GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY. CALIFORNIA STATE FAIR FOR 1303 SACRAMENTO August 31 to September 12, inclusive. Alt Races to be Contested at the State Fair on Days to be Hereafter Designated by the Board of Directors. Entr.es to Close with the Acting Secretary, WED *ESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1903, UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED. TROTTING EVENTS. PUBSE l_2=Year-OIdTrot,am3 $ 400 2—2:24 Class 1000 3— 2:30 Class 500 4—2:17 Class 500 5— Green Trot 500 6—2:11 Class 500 7—2:24 Class Trot,8 *£££".. 700 8— Free=For=AII Trot 1000 PACING EVENTS. 9— 2-Year°Old=Pace, "i-s 10—2:20 Class 11—2:17 Class 12—2:13 Class 13— Free-For=AH 14— 2:20 Class, ^ir" 15— Green Class Pace $ 400 1000 500 500 500 700 . 500 SPECIAL CONDITIONS FOR HARNESS RACES. Entries to above races to close with the Acting Secretary. H Lowden, Sacramento, Wednesday August 12, 1903, when horses are to be named and eligible, except where otherwise stated. °Five per cent entrance and Ave per cent additional from money winners. All races mile heats, three in fire, except otherwise stated. Moneys to be divided 50, 25, 15, and 10 per cent, unless otnerwlse specified in conditions. Ail races to nil satisfactory to the Board of Directors or they may be declared on*. Distance in all heats 80 yards, but if the field Is more than eight, 100 yards. A horse not win alng, or maklog a dead heat la three, to be raled oat bat will retain hla position In inm- mary, except otherwise stated. Five or more to start, or it is optional with the Board to declare race off If there are less than four starters the Society may. If they so deoide, allow them to contest for the entrance moneys only paid in, to be divided 60. 30, and 10 per cent. A horse distancing the field will only be entitled to first and fourth moneys. Hopples barred in trots, but allowed in pacing races, except where otherwise stated. The Society reserves the right to start any heat after the fourth score, regardless of the position of the horses . ._ , , . ., The Board of Directors reserve the right to change the hour and day of any race, except when it becomes necessary to antedate a race, in which instance the nominators will receive three days' notice by mail to address of entry. The right reserved to declare off or postpone any or all races on account of weather or other sufficient cause. Racing colors should be claimed with entries must be named by a p. m. on the day preceding the race, and must be worn on the track in all races. Colors will be registered in the order In which they are received, and if not named, or when colors conflict, drivers will be required to wear colors selected by the Secretary. Drivers must weigh in by 12 o'clock noon day of race they are to drive. The Board reserves the right to inflict penalties for non-compliance with the above conditions. Otherwise than as herein specified, Rules of the National Trotting Association (of which this Sooiety Is a member) to govern. Settlement in full of racing accounts will be made only Mondar, September 14th. RUNNING EVENTS. No 1 TOM FOX STAKE— For all ages. Entrance $10, to accompany nomination; $15 additional for horses not declared by 4 p m. the day preceding the race; $300 added by the Society, of which $50 to second and $25 to third. Six furlongs. No. 2. BELLA VISTA STAKE— For two-year-old fillies. Entrance $10, to accompany nomi- nation; $15 additional If not declared by 4 p. m. the day preceding the race; $300 added by the Society, of which $50 to second and $25 to third. Five furlongs. No 3. THE GOVERNOR'S STAKE— A handicap for three-year-olds and upward Entrance $10, to accompany nomination; $20 additional for horses not declared by 4 p. m the day preceding the race; with $350 added by the Society, of which $70 to second and $30 to third. One mile and a furlong. No 4 GROVE L. JOHNSON SELLING STAKE— For three-year-olds and upward. Entrance $10, to accompany nomination; $15 additional for horses not declared by 4 p. m. the day preceding the race; $300 added by the Society, of which $50 to second and $30 to third. Winner to be sold at auction. No. 5. CALIFORNIA STATE FAIR ANNUAL STAKE— Handicap for two-year-olds. En- trance $iu, to accompany nomination; $20 additional for horses not declared by 4 p. m. the day preceding thexace; with $350 added by the Society, of which $70 to second and $30 to third. Seven furlongs. No 6. THE PRESIDENT'S STAKE— A handicap for three-year-olds and upward. Entrance $15, to accompany nomination; $25 additional for horses not declared by 4 p m. the day preceding the race; $350 added by the Society, of which $70 to second and~$30 to third. One and one-quarter miles No. 7 THE VINCTOK STAKE— For three-year-olds and upward. Entrance $10. to accompany nomination; $20 additional for horses not declared by 4 pm. the day preceding the race; with $350 added "by the Society, of which $70 to second and $30 to third. One mile. No. 8. THE MAC KEY SELLING STAKE— For two-year-olds. Entrance $10, to accompany nomination; $15 additional for oolts not declared by 4 p. m the day preceding the race; with $300 added by the Society, of which $50 to second and $25 to third. Six furlongs The State Agricultural Society's regular and special rules to govern all running races, except where conditions are otherwise All declarations and claims for allowances due at 4pm the day pre' ceding race, unless otherwise specified in conditions Owners and trainers will be held responsible for same Entrance and declaration money to go to winner No added money for less than four starters in different Interests. In selling races, beaten horsesnot liable to claim. Right to use starting gate is reserved. PARK PRIVILEGES. Bids will be received by the Directors up to Saturday, August 15th, at 1:30 p. m., at the oCBce of the Sooiety, new pavilion at 15th and M streets, Sacramento, Cal. Fifty per cent of the amount of each bid must accompany eaoh bid, either cash or a certified cheok. The Directors reserve the right to reject any or all bids. No. 1— Cash bid for Auction Pools sold on final result of all races. No 2— Percentage bid on result of all races No. 3— Cash bid for Auotion Pools sold on final result of harness raoes only. No. 4— Percentage bid for Auotlon Pools on harness races only; privilege will be allowed to charge a 5 per cent commission on all sales. On a percentage bid a satisfactory bond must be given No. 5— Bookmaking Privll.ge only on Raoes, Heats and Results, both Harness and Running Races as a whole six races daily- No 6— Open Bookmaking Privilege on all raoes, heats and results, both harness and running events, allowing any reputable bookmakers, six or more, to out in on the basisof $2700 each for twelve days; if less, then pro rata per day: if more a decreased pro rata. Any reputable individual allowed to cut in on deposit of cash or a certified check of 50 per oent, balance to be paid on Saturday Aueust 29th. on or before 5pm Six raoes a day guaranteed. No. 7— Combination Book Privilege for the twelve day*. No. 8— Bid for ali and every betting privilege as a whole. In event of a person or firm bidding on one or more privileges, one check covering 50 per cent of the aggregate bidB Is all that will be required. BENJ. F. RUSH, President H. LOWDEN, Acting Secretary Sacramento, Cal Notice to Owners and Trainers. Owing to the demand for stabling, the Society will only provide stalls for Special stalls for horses shown for prtmlomi It Is not intended to give any Specials. If you want to start your horses it secure stalls, enter in advertised races. SPECIAL, horses entered In races. THE BAYWOOD STUD THE BUNGALOW, SAN MATEO, CAL (Property ol Jomr Pabbott, Esq.) Imp. Hackney Stallion GREEN'S RUFUS « .«.., Will serve a limited number of Approved Mares, Season 1003 FEE ■ - - «75 Reductions made for two or more mares Manager, WALTER SEALT, 1 The King of Race Horses 'SEARCHLIGHT 2:03" Res. No. 33657. S Will Make a Pall Season -;- FROM AUG. 1 TO OCT. 1, 1903, j* AT PLEASANTON RACE TRACK. TERMS, $50. $ For further particulars address ED. MILLS, Pleasanton, Cal. No Foot-No Horse VETERINARY. All Orders COD. Sample can II. Special Prices to Dealers Horse Sboers and Agents You don't nave to pack horses' feet when yon use STRAP VETERINARY and HOOF OINTMENT. We guarantee a speedy and positive cure for Collar and Saddle Galls, Wire Cuts, Woords of all kinds. Burns, Scalds, Cracked and Inflamed Heels, Grease Heel Scratches, Speedy Cuts. Thrush, Contracted Heels, Toe, Sand and Quarter Cracks, Nail Pricks, Cat Bruises, Sore Teudons, Corns and Foundered Feet In all forms. We Fay Express Write for testimonials. PRICES— 1 pound can, $1.00; 5 pound can- 84.00 2 pound can, $1.75; Address a card to 1711 Genessee Street. Lew Watson & Jones, Office Cotllnghsm Bros. Kansas City, Mo. SUBSCRIBE TO Showing exact position of every horse, Including the favorite, which was either first, second third or fourth at each quarter pole, also positions a1. start. Events reported from all parts of Canada and United States- Issued the 1st and 16th of every month, : from April 15th to October 15th. Pries 60c, 75c. or SI, according to issue. For sale at all principal hotels, news stands and race tracks in the country, and publishers1 office. GOODWIN BROS., 1440 Broadway, N. Y. ANNUAL- SUBSCRIPTION, |18, which includes all semi-monthly editions and two morocco bound semi-annuals. Explanatory circular mailed free. For sale by the Bbsedeb and Sportsman. DR. C. MASOERO VETERINARY SURGEON Graduate of Royal Veterinary College of Turin. INFIRMART AND RESIDENCE— 811 Howard St.: between Fourth and Fifth Sts., San Francisco. Telephone: Main 457. G. A. W. F0LKERS Sucoessor to J. H. A. Folkers & Bro. A FULL SUPPLY OF SURGICAL AND VETERINARY INSTRUMENTS, ETC. 809 Market Street Flood Building, Room 4. San Francisco Ira Barker Dalziel VETERINARY DENTIST Finer Carriage. Sadd le and Roa* Bones for Sale Offlcs and stable: 805 Golden Gate Avenue, Ban Francisco, Cal. Telephone South 051. Dxr. Wm, F. IE!* an. M. R. C. V. S.. F. E. T. H. 8. VETERINARY SURGEON. Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, England; Fellow of the Edlnburg Veterinary Medical Sooiety; Graduate of the New Veterinary College Edinburgh; Veterinary Sur- geon to the S. F. Fire Department; Live Stock tnspe ctor forNew Zealand and Australian Coloniej at the port of San Francisco; Professor of Equine Medicine, Veterinary Surgery, Veterinary Depart- ment University of California; Ex-President oi the California State Veterinary Medical Associa- tion; Veterinary Infirmary, Residence and Office, San Francisco Veterinary Hospital. 1117 Golden Gate Avenue, near Webster St., San Francisco: Telephone West 138. CALIFORNIA Photo Engraving Company HIGH CLASS AST — m — Half Tones and Lint Engraving Artistic DeatiBiaf. WIS HUiloi St.. cor. Pint. S». rnnliM SYNOVITIS IS VERY ANNOYING At least, You can cure it with Absorbing Jr., CURES 111 Strained Joints or Ligaments. Allays all inflammation quickly. Pleasant to use. $1.00 per bottle delivered. Address W. F. YOUNG, P. D. F., SPRINGFIELD, - - MASS. For sale by Mack t Co., Langley k. lfiofetaela Co Redingtoa & Co.. J. O'Ksne, and J. A. MeZerron all of San Francisco. August 8, 19031 ©he Qvselnev anit gtvuvtsuixxn l« BALLISTITF The Standard Dense Powder of the World. laaaaaaai 1901— Wins Second In Grand American Handicap at Targets. 1902— Wins Firat in Grand American Handicap at Targets 1903— Wins during Grand American Handicap week at Kansas City. First Amateur Average in Regular Events Third General Average in Regular Events ILL OF ABOVE ABE AMATEUR RECORDS. Take No One's Word. Try It for Yourself. I u I All A no 75 CHAMBERS ST., NEW YORK CITY U- n ■ LMw Ow V^V-/i Telephone 1747 Franklin. Importers and Dealers In Fire Amu, Ammnnltlon and Fencing Goods. Sole Agents for BALLIST1TE (Dense) and EMPIRE (Bulk) Smokeless Powders and the REBIE GUN. A postal brings catalogue and " Shooting Facts." (third edition) BALLISTITF The Standard Dense Powder of the World. *^^™ CAMPBELL'S EMOLLIO IODOFORM GALL CURE For GALL BACKS and SHOULDERS, CRUPPER SORES and SADDLE GALLS there is none superior. The horse CAN BE WORKED AS USUAL For BARBED WIRE CUTS, CALKS, SCRATCH* . ES, BLOOD POISONED SORES and ABRASIONS OF THE SKIN it has no equal. It is very adhesive and easily applied to a watery as well as a dry sore. Its use will absolutely prevent BLOOD POISON- ING. In this respect there isnoGall;Cure oflered which can justly even claim to be a competitor. We placed it on the market relying wholly on its merit for success, and notwithstanding the fact that comparatively little has been done in the way of advertising the sales of 1900 were 100 per cent great- er than the aggregate sales of Gall Cure preceding that year. This increase was entirely due to its MERITS, and from it we feel justified in saying that it Is THE GALL CURE OF THE 20THCENTURY It is a quick and sure cure f^r those troublesome skin cracks under the fe -^ckv olch injure and often lay up race horses. All Trainers Should Have It In their Stables PRICE:— 3 OZ. BOX, 26c; 1 LB. BOX, 81.00. Read our "ad." on Campbell's Horse Foot Remedy in next issue of this pap*r. JAS. B. CAMPBELL & CO., Mtrs.,412 W. Madison St., Chicago, 111. GOOD ONLY UP TO AUGUST 15, 1903 We are pleased to announce that we have made arrangements whereby we are able to renew our ,LeMAMM0TH CHART, SHOWING SKELETON OF THE HORSE &s a handsome premium to new subscribers and others who will pay us *3 for subscription to the Bheedeb &. Sportsman between July 1st and August IS, 1903. This Chart is lithographed on tinted paper and is 22x28 inches. -It wtil be found invaluable to every owner of a horse, as the names of all the Bones are given, as well as the names of the Tendons and Ligaments of the legs. By studying this Chart almost any lameness can be located and the proper remedies applied. The accompanying engraving will afford an idea of its appearance. No similar Chart has ever before been published. The artist, in preparing this Skeleton, visited the American Veterinary College in New York City and made drawings from actual skeletons, thus insuring absolute accuracy. This Chart sells for One Dollar, but any reader can have it who will 1emit THRtE DOLLARS BEFORE AUGUST 15, 1903. It will be mailed, carefully packed, in a heavy pasteboard tube for safety. Address BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN, 36 Geary St., San Francisco. STRIPED BASS ANGLERS LAKE MERRITT BOAT HOUSE J. A. FATJO, Proprietor, Will furnish good boats at reasonable prices. Tackle. Live and Clam Bait, etc., and better ac- commodations than ever before offered at Lake Merritt. Take narrow-gauge train to Oakland; street ears or five minutes' walk on EBst 12th st. to fish- ing water. Get off broad-gauge trains at Oak st. BREEDERS' DIRECTORY. ROSE HOTEL PLEASANTON, CAX. Enlarged, Rebuilt Twenty-live New. Rooms Newly Furnished. Electric Lights, Banning; Water. Up to date. A. S. OLNET ft SON, - - Proprietor* HOLSTKTNS— Winners of every 7 days' butter contest at State Fair 1890 1st ft Id for aged cows, 4-yr., 8-yr. and 2-yr.-olds; 21 Jerseys and Durhams competing. 6th year my Holsteins have beaten Jerseys for butter. Stock for sale; also plgi. F. H. Burke, 30 Montgomery St., S. F. JERSEYS, HOLSTEINS AND DUEHAM8, Dairy Stock specially. Hogs, Poultry. Estab- lished 1878. William Nilea 6 Co.- Loa Angeles, CaL AVB9HD1E8- Young Bulls, Cows and Heifers. Registered. From prize winning families. Brown ft Brandon Petaluma Cal. PEDIGREES TABULATED And type written Ready for framing Write for prioea. BBXEDiB and SroBTaMAN, SS Geary Street, San Franalseo. Cal. SICK DOCS MADE ytELL Sergeant's Remedies STANDARD THE WORLD OVER. SURE SHOT freea the pup from worms for all tlma to come. A marvelous cure and absolutely certain. I'suscie pre- liminary to the making of good dogs. By mail 60c. Sergeant's Condition Pills impart vigor, vim and life to the dog^ who baa dropped his tail in dejection. His ambition, keen scent, and eye luster will return with their use, be it in treatment either of Mange, Distemper, Chills, Fever, Constipation or Nervous Debility. 50c and $1.00, postpaid, Carbolic "Soft Soap" soothes, cures and eradicates. The very best made. Of dealers, 25c ; by mail 85c. An order or 3c in postage will cause to be delivered free on your desk Our Revised Dog Treatise and a Pedigree blank. For sale by "AH Druggists and Sporting Goods Dealers." F. W. Brann & Co., Los ADgelei, Cal.. Pacific Coast Snuly Opt. S PRATT S PATENT. DOG CAKES REMEDIES SOAP. SEW ARK, N. J. Send for free copy of " DOG CTJLTTJBE." ST LOUIS, HO. Pacific Coast Branch— 132* Valencia Street, San Francisco. Agents for " SANITAS " Disinfectant. KENNEL ADVERTISEMENTS. FOR SALE. BROKEN DOGS Pointers and Setters CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS Advertisements under this head one cent per word per insertion. Cash to accompany order. GREYHOUNDS. W B. COUTTS, Kenwood, Sonoma Co., Cal. Wandee Kennels' Fox Terriers. ffAXDEE BLIZZARD, formerly LI to I an Bliz- zard (Bllzzsrd-Pop). Ee« S*Q WANDEE JESTER (Norfolk Velocity-Norfolk Two Step). Fee »lO Puppies and Brood Bitches for sale. Dogs shown by appointment only. Address WANDEE KENNELS, 844 Harrison St.. San Francisco Cal. FOR SALE OB SWAP-KENNEL OF STAND- x ard bred, registered Greyhounds Stnd dog. imp HANKER i Peter Piper-Ivy Green); bitches PEARL PASHA (Emin Pasha-Someiime) and three puppies by imp Hawker; SANTA ROSA (Bismark-Fleeta) and six puppies by imp Dudley Diamond fFabuIous Fortune-Nordica); SCHIL- LING'S BEST (Master Glenkirk-Diana, sister to St. Lawrence); BRIDGET CLEARV (Winged Foot-Tip perary Lass, litter sister to Sacramento Boy). Address DR. GAYNOR. Eureka, CaL IRISH AND SCOTCH TERRIERS. TRISH AND SCOTCH TEBRIEB PUPPIES x at 813 and $15 Sired by Champion Lovne Ruffian and Champion Fighting Mao. Mas. BRADLEY-DYNE. Saturna P. O . B. C. ST. BERNARDS. At Stud. SMOOTH FOX TERRIER ■VTAXROD KENNELS— REMOVED TO 181 -L" Ninth Avenue, near California— offer for sale the celebrated St. Bernard, LE KING (Champion Le Prince-Sylvia's Lola). At Stud— Champion GRAND MASTER II, admittedly the grandest headed St. Bernard on the Coast. Fee 825. NORFOLK TRUEMAN bull terriers-fox terrtrrs. Coo OA Sireof Garston Prefeot (1st pappy. ~ rcC *iU. reserve winners, Oakland, 1908) Imelda (winners and special for best, S. F., 1802) Isabelle, etc. N. H. HICKMAN, 1767 Page St., San Franoisco. A DELVERTON COCKER KENNELS FRUITVALE THE HOME OF THE CHAMPIONS. Winners of more First and Special prizes in 1902-1903 than all the other Coast kennels combined. Have taken the Special for Best Cocker In show at San Francisco, 1898-99-1900-02-03 Champion HAMPTON PROMISE, black, at stud Winner of Special for best any color, San Francisco, 1903. These kennels have bred many high-olass show dogB, among others Plumerla Portia, conceded to be the best Cocker owned in Plumeria Kennels. Young stock now on hand. AT STUD CUBA OP KENWOOD vQlenbelgh Jr.— Stella) SAM'S BOW (Plain Sam-Dolly Dee II) STOCKDALE KENNELS R. M. DODGE, Manager, Bakersfleld, Kern Co., Boarding. Pointer Puppies and well-broken Dogs for sale. T STUD— CH. WOODCOTE WONDER. THE world's premier Boll Terrier. Prize winning Wonder puppies: FoxTerrlen sired by Norfolk Trueman; brood bitches In whelp and puppies for sale- WOODLAWN KENNELS. Geary and Central Ave , San Francisco Phone: BakerSOSl. COLLIES. pOR SALE— ONE LITTER OF WELL- F marked Collie pups, from registered stock. Prices reasonable. Address H. B. ROBINSON, Yuma, Arizona. pOLLIE PUPS FOR SALE— BY PRIZX *~ winning Imported sires and dams, fit for bench, ranch or farm Both sexea- Prices accord- ing to quality. Correspondence solicited: all let- ters cheerfully answered. THOS. S. GRIFFITH, Box 1907, Spokane, Wash. COCKER SPANIELS. AT T STUD UNTIL SOLD — DELVERTON CAPPI (Ch. Hampton Promise-Undine), win- ner at San Francisco and Oakland shows. Ad- dress C. DU JARDIN. 204 Castro. San Francisco. NAIROD KENNELS— 132 NINTH AVENUI, near California. Champion bred Cooker Spaniels at stud and for sale. pLUMERIA COCKER KENNELS HAVE ■t removed to their new kennels, 229 Ninth Ave. The dogs in this kennel are conceded to be the best in the West, having defeated at) corners, under a number of the best judges in America. At Stud— Champion HAMPTON GOLDIE 'great- est sire of winners alive), PLUMERIA TWEE- DLEPUNCH and others. Young and matured stock for sale- Address E C PLUME. 229 Ninth Ave., San Francisco. Small dogs boarded. TOR SALE— COCKER SPANIEL PTJPPIM -f by Ch. Hampton Goldle- Apply at hm««ar old county and Redwood roads, FnltTtle, Alan 16 ©h£ gveeiiev cmfc &poxt&mcm [August 8, 1903 TELEPHONE-. South 640 m Horse 'boots San Francisco, Cal. *c^- Cablegram; to . President Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, London, July 11, 1903. American Rifles, AMMUNITION and Men won victory to=day over Great Britain, Canada, France, Norway, Australia and Natal, and bring back Palma trophy. (Signed) LIEUT. ALBERT S. JONES, Secretary of the National Rifle Association of America. (Copied from tile N. Y. Herald.) THIS SWEEPING VICTORY for America and the Extraordinary Score of 1570 ont of a Possible 1800 were made with 30-40 Regular Factory Cartridges, Manufactured by the- UNION METALLIC CARTRIDGE COMPANY Selected after Exhaustive Trials, by the American Team, la Preference to All Others for their Wonderful and Extreme Accuracy. SCORES ARE IMPROVED BY USING U. M. C. AMMUNITION THE UNION METALLIC CARTRIDGE COMPANY Pacific Coast Branch Depot I86-8^^^.^18™ AMMUNITION, RIFLES AND SHOTGUNS TflNCHEsm COAST AGENCY: 127-135 FIRST STREET SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. -A.. MTJI-iLER., Agent. The World's Greatest Shooting Record FRED GILBERT, of Spirit Lake, la., since Jan. 1.1902, has shot in competition at 5765 Targets, breaking 5532 or 95.9 per cent, using a PARKER GUN AT ; - Natchez, Miss . . Port Dodge, la . Lakefield, Minn. Sioux City, la.. - Dubuque, la SHOT AT BROKE PER CENT .. 400 396 99 . .. 300 296 98.6 . . 205 203 99 ... 360 351 97 . . 360 351 97 5 THE "OLD RELIABLE" IS RELIABLE. PARKER BROTHERS MERIDEN, CONN N. Y. Salesroom; 32 Warren S t -Send for catalogue. Du Pont Gun Powder SMOKELESS, SHOT GUN and R. \,a , « MILITARY POWDER -■v- Black Powder for Sporting and Blasting Purposes The Reputation of a Hundred Yean ii the Guarantee of DU PONT POWDER " 519 Mission St.. Room 311, San Francisco, Cal O. A. HAJQBT, Agent, Goloher & Go. FISHING Gun Goods WSend lor CmtaJOftu. Tackle 538 MARKET STREETS. F. You can get these Smokeless Powders in FACTORY . . . LOADED . SHELLS DU PONT SHOTGUN RIFLEITE "E. C." BALLISTITE SCHULTZE LAFLIN & RAND HAZARD "INFALLIBLE." What More do you Want? SMITH GUNS LONGEST STRAIGHT RUNS ^^ At S. F. Trap Shooting Association May 23—23—24—25 VAUGHN, - - 72 Straights FECDXKB, - 62 ' « Also longest straight ran and first monies at live birds All Kinds of Ammunition... SaVon . Hunter Arms Co., Fulton, N.Y. PHIL. B. BEKEART CO., San Francisco, Coast Representative CI NEW "EC." NEW "SCHULTZE" SHOTGUN RIFLEITE M»lur»c(Dr«d » THE AMERICAN "E. C." and "SCHULTZE" Gunpowder Co., Ltd. PHTL. B. BEKEAKT CO., Paciflo Coast Kopreientatlre. TOt. SHU No. 7 39 GEARY STREET. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, AUGUST IS, 1903. SUBSCRIPTION THREE DOLLARS A TEAR ^*&JZ*S!*Q3& 8 ®tte grzeiigv axxb gipQvi&man [AUGUST 15, 1908 THE BEST PLACE! THE BEST TRACK! LOS ANGELES RACING LOS ANG THE BIGGEST MEETING! ASSOCIATION Three Weeks' Racing. OCTOBER 10 to 31, inclusive. ENTRIES TO HARNESS RACES CLOSE SEPTEMBER 1, 1903. TROTTING STAKES. rj^ I— THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA STAKES 2:24 Class $1000 No. No. No. No. No. No. N67 2- THE HOTEL STAKES 2:30 3- THE CATALINA STAKES 2:27 4— THE W1NSHIP STAKES 2:20 5-THE HARRISON STAKES 2:17 6— THE POTTER STAKES 2:14 7— THE QARLAND STAKES 2:12 8 — Free-for=AH Trotting .... 500 .... 500 .... 500 .... 500 ... 500 500 600 £^Tfaree=Year=01ds Trotting 500 PACING STAKES. No. 10— THE LOS ANGELES STAKES 2:15 Class $1000 No. 11 — The Green Class (horses without records) 500 No. 12— THE VAN NUYS STAKES 2:25 Class 500 No. 13— THE STIMSON STAKES 2:20 " .... 500 No. 14— THE CANFIELD STAKES 2:18 " 500 No. 15— THE SILKWOOD STAKES 2:10 " ... 500 No. 16 — Free=for=AU Pacing 600 TpOTTrnP A PCRSE OF S400 will be erlven tor Trotter* eligible to the 2:1 I IIU I I LIIOi who have started at this meeting and not won first or second money Horses to be named overnight. Entrance fee 5 per cent; nothing from winners Money divided TO £;, JSO%, 10%. Race to take place October 29. CONSOLATION CLASSES Class PACERS. A PCRSE OF 84O0 will be given for Pacers eligible to the 2:15 Claw wh have started at this meeting and not won first or second money. Horses to be named overnight. Entrance fee 5 per cent: nothing from winners. Money divided 70 . ''u . 10 Race to take place October 30 Nominators have the privilege of naming two horses from the same stable or owned by the same person on one entrance fee. Nominators in any race that should fail to fill may on September 8th transfer their entry to any other class that filled in which their horse is eligible. Entrance 5 per cent, of which 24 per cent must accompany the entry and 2% par cent to be paid on the opening day of the meeting. MAKE YOUR ENTRY ON TIME And be sure that It is postmarked not later than September 1, 1903. ^^ '-0iL ^ i f^. i p« m — ^^m u | fs. I You can enter the same horse in three or more classes and have plenty of time between races. The length of the ^^\tfS IN O I U C. Pi nlwi meeting permits of the program being arranged so that every horse in attendance can be started in several races Added Money Stakes for Running- Horses will be published in this paper at an early date. CONDITIONS. Entries to close Tuesday, September 1, 1903. Entries not declared oat at 4 o'clock p m on the day preceding the race shall be required to start and declarations must be in writlDg and made at the office of the Secretary at tbe track. ■Stakes will bB divided into four moneys: 50. 25, 15 and 10 per cent. Entrance fee five per cent of Stake. 2J$ per cent of Stake in cash drafs or check MUST ac- company Entry, balance due and must be paid the first day of the meeting. 5 per cent of the amount of the Stake additional from money winners. If there are less then four starters they may contest for the entrance money paid in. to be divided 50, 30 and. 20 pt r cent. The Management reserves the right to declare two starters a walk over. When only two start they may contest for the entrance money paid in, to be divided 68 *j per cent to the first and 33H per cent to the second. A horse distancing the field shall only be entitled to first and fourth moneys; but in no other case will a horse be entitled to more than one mnney. All harness races, unless otherwise specified, mile heats, three in five. ■Distance in all heats shall be 80 yards, but if the field is more than eight 100 yards. Hopples barred in trotting races, but will be permitted in pacing races. J. W. BROOKS, President. The Association reserves the right to start any heat after the fourth score, regardless of the position of the horses All Stakes not filling satisfactorily to the Board of Directors may be declared off Racing colors should be claimed with entries, must be named by 5 P m on the day preceding the race, and must be worn on the track in all races. Colors will be registered in the order in which they are received, and if not named, or when colors conflict, drivers will be required to wear colors selected by the Secretary. The management reserves the right to change tbe hour or date of any race and the right Is reserved to declare off or postpone any or all races on account of the weather or other sufficient cause Conditional entries will be treated the same as regular entries, and nominators held under the rules Any race that may be started and unfinished on last day of the meeting mar be declared ended and money divided according to the rank of horses in tbe summary. Otherwise than as herein specified in these conditions, Rules of the National Trotting Association (of which this Association is a member), except Rule 4, to govern. Send all communications to CAPT. THOS. B. MERRY, Secretary ROOM 506 BRADBURY BUILDING, LOS ANGELES, CAI. Pacific Coast Trotting Horse Breeders Association. Gul?^sEED PLEASANTON ^]gS8? ENTRIES CLOSE SATURDAY, AUG. 22D. No. 1. No. 2. No. 3. No. 4. No. 5. No. 6. No. 7. TROTTING STAKES. HORSES TO BE >"A3IED WITH ESIET. THE PLEASANTON STAKES, 2:24 Class ... S800 2:30 Class 300 2:19 Class 300 2:14 Class 400 2:11 Class 400 Three- Year-Olds 350 Two-Year-Olds aOO PACING STAKES. HORSES TO BE N'AiEED WITH ENTBT. No. 8. THE LIVERMORE STAKES, 2:20 Class ..$800 No. 9. Green Class 300 No. 10. 2:23 Class 400 No. 11. 2:17 Class 400 No. 12. 2:13 Class 400 No. 13. Free-for-All 400 No. 14. Three- Year-Olds 350 No. 15. Two-Year-Olds 9Q0 NOTICE: Nominators have the Privilege of Naming Two Horses from the Same Stable or Owned by the Same Person on one Entrance Fee. f ^ Nominators In any Race that should Fail to Fill may, on August 26th. Transfer their Entry in such Race to Any Other of the Above Classes that Filled in which their Horse was Eligible on August 22, 1903. «Jiner N. B — It is not the intention of the management to give anv special races ised events. Races will be -- For conditions see Entry Blanks. E. P. HEALD. President. ^a! races w^fcta^rtUt^en ?£?*££*££"* ^ ent8red * *' Members National Trotting Association. Address all communications to F. W. KEILEY. Secy, 36 Geary St., San Francisco. AUGUST 15, 1903] f&he gveeirev emir giptfrtsmem THE WEEKLY BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN F. W. KELLET, PROPRIETOR. Turf and Sporting Authority of the Pacific Coast. — OFFICE — 36 GEARY STREET, SAN FRANCISCO. P. O. BOX 2300. Telephone: Black 586. Terms— One Tear S3. Six Months 81.75, Three Months 81 STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. Money snould be sent by postal order, draft or by registered letter iddressed to F. W. Kelley, 38 Geary St., San Francisco. Cal. Communications must be accompanied by the writer's name and address, not necessarily tor publication, but as a private guarantee of good faith. San Francisco, Saturday, August 15, 1903. ""THE STAKES of the Westchester Racing associa- * tion close to-day. The Ladies Stake and the WitherB Stake for 1905 and 1906 have been materially raised, and the Belmont Stake of ly06 is made a $25,- 000 event, the race being lengthened to the old dis- tance of a mile and three furlongs. This classic race will probably be run at Belmont Park in 1905 6, and will, in all probability, be run in June, and of this point owners and trainers should make a note for future reference. For the fall meeting there are a large number of stakes all with added money. Full details will be found in the advertising columns of this paper. Address your entries to-day to H. G. Crickmore, The Windsor Arcade, Fifth Avenue, New York. A NUMBER OF STANFORD STUDENTS and several Palo Alto business men who are in- terested in horses are contemplating starting a gentle- man's driving club. The plans, though fairly well developed, are not yet definite. It is thought the track and some of the stables of the old Palo Alto Stock Farm may be procured as club quarters. E. J. Edwards, one of the leading business men in Palo Alto, is pressing the project. He is authority for the statement that by the latter part of September the organization of the club will be complete and the club- house under erection. It is fitting that a gentleman's driving club should be organized at Palo Alto and that its matinee racing should be held on the farm track built by the man who did so much to improve the breed of the American light harness horse. Senator Stanford founded and built up the greatest trotting horse breeding farm in the world, and the horses bred thereon did more to advertise the climate, soil and advantages of California than any other industry ever established here. Now that the breed- ing of horses is to be discontinued there and the last of the horses sold at auction this fall, it is pleasing to know that a driving club is to be organized at the college town as it will serve to keep alive the memories of an industry that brought millions of dollars to California and proved to the world that this State offers more advantages to the breeder of live stock than any other locality in the world. Senator Stanford never gambled on his horses, and always had them driven to win. May the members of the Palo Alto Driving Club emulate his example and make the sport of road driving and matinee racing one of the most popular pastimes of Palo Alto. ALL THE HORSES from the Gabilan Stock Farm of Hon. Jesse D. Carr of Salinas, will be sold by Fred H. Chase i: Co. at the salesyard, corner of Mar- ket street and Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, dur- ing the last week in September. The consignment consists of yearlings, two year olds and three year olds and aged horses including the grandly bred and handsome stallion Boodle Jr. Full particulars next week. Hanford Claims Dates. Hanford, Aug. 11, 1903. Breeder and Sportsman:— The "Central Cali- fornia Fair" claims dates from October 5th to 10th, inclusive, for fair to be held at Hanford, Kings Co., California. All premiums upon agricultural and live stock products to be open to Fresno, Kings, Tulare and Kern counties. Speed programme and races open to all. . Yours respectfully, F. L. Howard, Sec. Answers to Correspondents. Wm. Clark, Medford, Oregon — Who owned Mount Vernon by Nutwood in 1S89, and where is his present residence? Ans. — Mount Vernon was bred by Mr. J. A. McCloud of Stockton, who owned him in 1889. We believe he still resides in Stockton. THE STAKE BOOK for the New California Jockey Club's meeting, which opens November 14th, has been issued. There are fifteen stakes for which added money is given in sums of from $2000 to $3000. The Burns handicap has a guaranteed value of 810,000. All the other stakes have added money. The Opening handicap of one mile is to be run on the first day of the meeting, which is Saturday, November 14th. As already announced, there are to be special overnight handicap and condition races, in which the association will add from $500 to $1000. Entries for the sixteen Btake events close with Secretary Percy W. Treat on October 26th. They are as follows: Burns handicap (guaranteed). $10,000; to be run for February 6, 1904; one and one-quarter miles. Opening handicap; added money, $2000; to be run for November 14, 1903; one mile. Thanksgiving handicap; added money, $2000 to be run for November 3, 1903; one and one-eighth miles. Crocker selling stakes; added money, $2000; to be run for December 12, 1903; seven furlongs. Christmas handicap; added money, $3000; to be run for December 25, 1903; one and one-quarter miles. New Year handicap; added money, $2000; to be run on January 1, 1904; one and one-eighth miles. Follansbee handicap; added money, $2000; to be run for January 9, 1904; seven furlongs. Lissak handicap; added money, $2000; to be run for January 23, 1904; one mile. Adam Andrew selling stakes; added money, $2000; to be run for January 16, 1904; six and one-half fur- longs. California Oaks; added money, $2000; to be run for January 30, 1904; one and one-eighth miles. Palace Hotel handicap; added money, $2000; to be run for February 13, 1904; one and one-eighth miles. California Derby; added money, $2500; to be run for February 22, 1904; one and one-quarter miles. Thornton stakes; added money, $2500; to be run for March 19, 1004; four miles. Bell stakes; added money, $2000; to be run for March 12, 1904; five furlongs. Waterhou6e Cup; added money, $3000; to be run for March 5, 1904; two and one-quarter miles. / Gebhard handicap; added money, $2000; to be run or April 2, 1904; Futurity course. In hot weather there is no drink like Jackson's Napa Soda — plain or in a lemonade. - Two Opinions. "Evidently the majority of race-goers are not in favor of short races. And, as we have before ob- served, it is a costly experiment for a race association. To be required to pay five purses every afternoon, with no increased attendance, is more than the ma- jority of Grand Circuit associations can afford." — American Sportsman. Cleveland tried the two-in-three heat plan, and it is generally conceded that it was a great success and a step in the direction of short, snappy racing — the goal to which harness horse contests in the large cities is inevitably tending, and its adoption eventu- ally is only a matter of time. At Detroit, the week before, the two-in-three system made a strong hit with the public and the horsemen alike. In all but one event the racing was sharp and clean, and laying- up races was practically abolished. The shorter system made quite a change in the betting. The auction selling was shorter than in past years, while the books received an enormous play. The rule re- quiring a horse to win a heat in three or go to the barn also worked to perfection, and every horse in the race through necessity was driven to win. — Ken- tucky Stock Farm. ♦ J. W. Brooks, manager of the new Ascot Park association at Los Angeles, and president of the Los Angeles Jockey Club, returned to that city last week. Mr. Brooks has been absent six weeks in the East, during which time he visited Chicago, New York, Kentucky and other Eastern places. His object in going East was to secure high class horses for the October meeting at Agricultural Park, and in this he has been very successful. He closed contracts with leading horsemen in the East which guarantee to Los Angeles more than 200 of the best horses now racing on the Eastern tracks. Speaking of his October meet- ing Mr. Brooks said: "At the October meeting at Agricultural Park there will be more high-class horses carded for each day's racing than ever have been shown in Southern California. All that Eastern horse owners wanted was a guarantee of fair play and good racing weather, both of which guarantees I was in a position to give, and as a result Los Angeles will see racing such as never has been excelled on the Pacific Coast." • Kinney Lou, under the veteran Budd Doble's guidance, won a great race at Empire track last Wednesday, defeating a field of a dozeu high class trotters and took a record of 2:07}, giving the great stallion McKinnev his eighth 2:10 performer. Kinney Lou was bred by the late John McCord of Sacramento. His dam is McCord's famous old race mare Mary Lou 2:17 by Tom Benton. A mark of 2:05 or better is within Kinney Lou's reach this year and his great showing is a demonstration that Mr Doble's ability as a trainer and driver has not suffered during an absence from the sulky of nearly nine years. Mr. Doble's claim that a great race horse can be trained for a supreme effort without abuse or overwork, which he demonstrated with Dexter, Goldsmith Maid and Nancy Hanks, is again being exemplified by Millard Sanders with Lou Dillon and by himself with Kinney Lou. 3 The Circuit Opens. The California Circuit of harness racing opened at Vallejo on Thursday of this week where a three dayB1 program will be finished to-day. Owing to the fact that this journal goes to press on Friday morning, a full account of the racing, together with the official summaries is necessarily delated until next week. We have only space to briefly record the first day's events which brought out a crowd that was large for Vallejo, but would be considered small in any other town on the circuit. There was a heavy wind blow- ing and on this account the time made in the opening event, the 2:17 pace, was remarkable, and presages high class sport and very fast time in the pacing classes at Petaluma week after next. There were thirteen starters in this race, the bay gelding Cuckoo, by Strathway, being made the favorite by the Fresno and King's county contingent in the early pools. Miss Georgie, by McKinney, had her admirers, however, and she took Cuckoo's place ' as favorite before the race started, while Rajah, by Chas. Derby, and Ben F., by Bradtmoor, bad many followers. Ben F. sold in the field, and a sample pool was as follows: Miss Georgie $11, Cuckoo $10, Rajah $8, Field $10. The auction pools, excellently managed by Hurliok & Co., with Geo. Tuttle as auctioneer, did a good business, and quite a sum of money went through the box. Books were made on the heats and fairly well patronized by the small bettors. There was a long delay in getting the horses started for the first race. When the thirteen horses finally appeared it was two o'clock, and after scoring a few times Mr. J. W. Zibbell's mare Pinkey H. broke her hopples. While they were being repaired she reared and fell, smashing the sulky. Mr Zibbell had not mounted but was knocked down, though not hurt. She was then taken from the track and a new sulky procured, but she reared again, wrecked another sulky and knocked the skin off Mr. Zibbell in several places. He did not attempt to start the cranky animal thereafter and scoring again commenced. As it was the 13th of the month and there were 13 horses in the race the hoodoo was seemingly on in earnest, and Monroe S. driven by Zibbell Jr. took it into his head to do a regular broncho bucking start in front of the grand stand. No Wild West oayuse ever made a better showing, and the crack rider of Buffalo Bill's great show could not put up a better exhibition of grit and keeping his head and seat at the same time. The sulky was smashed to worthlessness but young Zibbell stayed with ii, until the horse was thrown and secured. A big round of applause greeted him as he got to his feet still swinging to the lines. After wait- ing until another bike could be secured, the word was finally given at 3 o'clock, after the crowd had waited an hour and a half. The race is easily described. Rajah went out in the lead as if he was the only horse in the race, but Fred Chadbourne with Ben F. and Cecil with Mist Georgie went after him, and the Derby horse went to a wild break at the far turn when leading and finished in tenth position. Ben F. took the lead and came to the wire easily with Miss Georgie second, also looking to be going easily, but all the rest trying for dear life. Smuggler was third and Tom Carneal, Dot, The Mrs. and Cuckoo so close together that even the judges were a long time in getting them placed before an- nouncement was made. The time was 2:12}. The second heat was much like the first, Rajah, however, making his break earlier, but finishing in the same place. In this heat the mile was made in 2:11 [ against a heavy wind that blew up the stretch and had to be faced by the horses in the last quarter, as well as the first. The third heat went to Ben F. easily in 2:12J. The summary follows: Pacing, 2:17 class, purse $1000. Ben F., b g, by Bradlmoor-by Steinway (Chadbourne) 1 I 1 Miss Georgie brm. by McKinney-Georgie B. 2:12!* (Cecil) 2 2 3 Cuckoo.bg by Strathwsy-by Milton R (Leggett) -4 3 2 Smuggler, b g. by Waldstein (Norton) 3 5 rt The Mrs g-I-T.Rajah 10-10-1, Penrose 11-8-5, Dot 6-*M>, Allendale... 7-9-8 Tom Carneal 5-7-ds Monroe S. 9-o.s. Al Sandy ds. Time— '2:12)4, '-:1IX, 2:12)4. The 2:12 trot had but three starters and was not as fast as it might have been bad either of the horses been able to make Tom Smith stretch bis neck. The horses were placed as follows: Trotting. 2:12 class, purse *300. E. P. Beald's br h Tom Smith by McKinney (Zibbell) 11 1 Rozell 13 2 Liege 3 2 3 Time— 2:20, 2:17, 2:1854 In the pacing event for two year olds Rush & Haile's bay filly Suisun by Demonio paced away from the others very handily and won in straight heats, as follows: Pacing, two year olds, district B. F. Rush's b f Suisun by Demonio (Reams) 1 1 Sweetheart - 2 Abe Lincoln 3 3 Sid Abbott da TIme-2:43, 2:«. . Tidal Wave, the very handsome chestnut colt, by Nutwood Wilkes, has been sold by Mr. J. W. Gardner, his breeder, to Mr. S. S. Bailey of Seattle for $2500. Tidal Wave is one of the best bred three-year-olds on the Coast, his dam being a full sister to Coney 2:02, McKinney 'b fastest performer. Uixe -gvseitev anb ^pcvi&xxxaxx [AUGUST 15, 1903 TSidM Notes and News. M Enter at Pleasanton. Entries close next Saturday. The California horses seem to be winning nearly all the first moneys at Seattle. State Fair harness races closed last Wednesday. The list will he given out next week. Hanford will give a tair and race meetiDg, beginning October 5th and closing October 10th. It is raoorted that Boralma is in "ine condition, and on edge for fast work at the present time. The question among horsemen: "Is Mr. Billings going to corner all the fast trotters and pacers? " . The majority of the horsemen racing on the Grand Circuit are said to favor of the two in three system of racing. One of the smallest of trotters is Princess Sadie 2:20}, who is but 13 hands high and weighs only 623 pounds. An excursion will be run from Ukiah and way stations to Petaluma on Saturday, the last day of the Breeders meeting. Robert Mac 2:10| is the fastest four year old trot- ting gelding to come out since 1900, when Boralma made his record of 2:08. Julia M., by Zombro, whe has been at the Cleveland track all season in W. L. Snow's stable, has blood poison and is not expected to get well. The Pleasanton track is now in perfect condition and it is thought that the trotting and pacing records of 1903 for this State will be made there. A dispatch to the Associated Press from Palo Alto states that the last of the horses at that once great farm, about 160 in number, will be sold this fail. Anaconda does not seem to like his new job as a sandwich horse and will not pace as fast for advertis- ing purposes as he once did for glory and first money. The owner and driver who waits a long time to "make a killing" is a victim in the majority of cases after the killing is over. A bird in the nand is worth several in the woods. Dal Oso, Capt- Williams' fast little pacer by Oro Wilkes, has gone wrong again and will not start at Vallejo to-day, in all probability. He may round to and start later on, however. Joe Thayer, of Lexington, will race the James Madison mare, Confienza, this summer. She has worked right at 2:12 ana is said to be a sure 2:10 trotter before the snow flies. There is more talk among horsemen about the Petaluma meeting than any harness meeting held in California for years. Everything points to a big attendance. It opens on Wednesday, the 26tl. inst. Idyllwild by McKinney won the 2:40 trot in straight heats at Seattle last Wednesday. This is another new standard performer for her sire. W. G. Durfee, who drove her, has won every race in which he has started a horse at Seattle. Petaluma meeting opens Wednesday, August 25th. Royal R. Sheldon 2:04} will make an effort to reduce his record this fall. McKinney is very liable to have ten 2:10 performers before the season is over. McKinney has three new 2:15 performers, and the season is but just fairly opened. The farmer and small breeder who has his horse stock ready for tbe market when four years old will get better as well as quicker returns from his invest- ment than the one whose stock is kept till six years old. Don't forget that a colt which will make a valuable stallion is sure to make a valuable gelding. Small breeders must not expect to be able to compete with large stock farms in supplying the demand for stock horses. The greatest racing ever seen in Oregon should be held during the State Fair at Salem which begins September 14th. Two purses of $2000 each are to be raced for. One is for 2:17 class pacers, the other for 2:20 class trotters. Tuttle Bros.' bay stallion Suomi, that starts forthe first lime this year on the California circuit, is by Zombro 2:11, out of the dam of their great young stallion Stam B. 2:11}. Suomi is a magnificent big four-year-old. E. E. Smathers has purchased the trotter Swift 2:15} from John F. Cockerill. Swift won a matinee race last Saturday, trotting the two heats in 2 091 and 2:08} beating Smathers' Ida Highwood 2:09}~that lately won a matinee race in 2 081, Everybody is surprised at the showing Lord Vin- cent, 2:08}, has been making at Cleveland recently. After Beveral fast miles had set the crowd to talking one day last week, he stepped a mile in 2:08}. with the last half in 1.03. He is entered well and his trainer, W. C. Pattison, expects him to give a good account of himself. It begins to look as if the free-for-all trot for the Breeders meeting will fill with a good field of trotters. If Tom Smith 2:13} Geo. W. McKinney 2:14.1, Rozelle 2:17}, Liege 2:12} and Forest W. 2:14} enter it should be a horse race from start to finish. The Chronicle calls attention to the fact that the record of Ulctma, made at Seattle last week, is not the fastest on record for three and one half furlongs. Judge Thomas' record of 0:401 at Butte, Montana, last year, is a half second faster" than Dlctma's race. We predict that after all the digging is done into the pedigree of Venus, dam of Sidney Dillon, that it will remain as it is now — an uncertain quantity. That she was by Venture or Capt. Webster is certain, but which one will probably always be an unanswered question. The Pacific Slope stake for pacers of the 2:20 class is for $1500, the largest sum ever given for a pacing race in California. It will have a big field of high class horses and fast time may be expected . The race will come off on Wednesday, August 25th, the first day of the Breeders meeting at Petaluma. Three Kentucky Futurity candidates are in train- ing at Cleveland that promise to make it interesting for the three year old trotters this fall. Bert Shank has already been a mile in 2:15 with Del Toro, by Patron 2:14}. Ben Kenney has charge of the other two youngsters, Mary Gage, by Oro Wilkes 2:11, having been a mile in 2:14, last balf in 1:05, while Miss-in-law, by Ponce deLeon 2:13, has trotted a mile in 2:18. One week from to-day entries for the Pleasanton . meeting will close with Secretary F. W. Kelley of the Breeders Association. The purses arenumerous and liberal. There are two of $800 each aDd many others of $400 and $350, bo that an excellent program of racing will be given. The Pleasanton track is the best and fastest in California to-day and will be in superb condition during the meeting. Pleasanton always turns out a big crowd to tbe harness races. It will be one of tbe best meetings of the year on this Coast. Pilot Russell, an lS-year-old brother to Maud S. 2:08}, was recently given away to a man in Elyria, Ohio. As Harold was 20 years old the season that he got Pilot Russell, and Miss Russell was 20 years old when she produced him, Pilot Russell, according to Professor Red field's theory of old age as a speed factor, should be the fastest trotter and most suc- cessful sire that Miss Russell produced by Harold, says Palmer Clark. His only standard performer, however, is Puss Russell 2:271. Perhaps, though, with more age he may prove more successful. The game four-year-old trotter John Taylor, that won the rich M. and M. at Detroit week before last, taking a record of 2:10J, and also won the 2:25 trot at Cleveland last week, is an example of atavism, or "throwing back" for color. HiB sire, Dispute (2.154), is black, but Gen. Wilkes (2.21J). the sire of Dispute, was a gray in color. On Monday next Millard Sanders will drive Lou Dillon 2:02} in an attempt to lower Cresceus' mark of 2:02}. The effort will be made at the Brighton Beach track, New York, and will be the big feature of the opening day of that meeting. On Wednesday at the same track, Myron McHenry will start Dan Patch 1:591 against the world's record of 1:59} held by Star Pointer. B. Croner has purchased from Henry Sanders the black mare Royal Dame by Chas. Derby 2:20, out of Princess (dam of Derby Princess 2:081) by Adminis- trator, second dam Priceless by Volunteer, third dam Silvertail by American Star, fourth dam by Aaron's Grey Messenger. Mr. Croner has sold his stallion Erosmont by Eros out of the dam of I Direct 2:12} to Ben Chaboya. The suppression of betting at the Cleveland meet- ing did not stop tbe racing, but it caused the associa- tion a lot of trouble and expense and kept down the attendance. The result will probably be tbe enact- ment of a just racing law at the next session of tbe Ohio legislature, by which race meetings can be held without interference from the long-haired cranks who think all sport is wicked. The gray gelding Jim Ferry, that got a trotting record of 2 10} at Cleveland last week, is the same horse that last year paced to a record of 2.13} at the early Denver meeting, and regarding whose breeding the Year Book is silent. Jim is eight years ago, and was bred by C. J. Stoddard of Denver, Col. His sire is Orange Wilkes, son of King Wilkes (2 22}), and his dam is Silver Queen, by Bacchus, son of Backman's Idol. Ferry is owned by Messrs. Wright and Stod- dard, Denver, Col. At Joliet, Illinois, on the 7th instant, Charley Clark started his horse Cozad 2:11} in the free for "all trot for a purse of $1000. Tbe race was won by thestallion McKinley by George St Clair in straight heats, the time being 2:10}, 2:12 and 2:111. Cozad was 2-2-6 in the summary and got second money. On the same day D. Frvin started the mare Silk Tie by Silkwood in the 2:14 trot She stood 6-3-4 in tbe summary of the race which went to the gelding Jim Underwood in straight heats in 2:11}, 2:12 and 2:12}. The California Polo and Pony Racing Association was organized at Del Monte last week with a capital stock of $20,000, at $10 per share. Articles of incor- poration will be filed in Sacramento at once and the officers will be elected. The temporary directors are Francis J. Carolan, Charles W. Clark and Thomas A. Driscoll of Burlingame, Rudolph Spreckels of San Francisco, Dr. Eller J. Boeseke and J. L. Colby of Santa Barbara, R. L. Bettner and C. E. Maud of Riverside and W. L. Waring of Santa Monica. Mr. C. A. Durfee and wife will leave on the 15th inst. for a trip to Boston and other cities in the East. It will be Mr. Dnrfee's first trip across the continent in several years. He will visit the Readville track at Boston during the Grand Circuit meeting and will also look in on the harness horses at Charter Oak and other noted tracks before he returns. There are bets offered here now with no takers that if he stops off at the home of McKinney 2:11} and gets a look at the great horse that he owned so long, he will spend all his vacation right there. Had Mr. Durfee been a rich "man it would have taken more money to purchase McKinney from him than was ever paid'for a horse, and he still believes that McKinney is not only the greatest sire that ever lived but that it will be a long time before a greater one is seen in this country. Vance Nuckols is limping! "Carry an accident in- surance, Vance?" asked Scott Hudson. "No," re- sponded Vance, "but I believe Splan did." "What has Splan got to do with you?" queried Scott. "Well," Vance went on, "accident insurance agents used to bother Splan almost to death, but he wouldn't take out a policy. Then one day, when he was pressed hard to take some insurance, he Baid to an agent, 'Vance Nuckols is always getting hurt If you'll write me out a policy on him, I'll take it.' Now, if Splan has the policy, he can collect right away. " — Ky. Stock Farm. The American Sportsman says: "It is now up to the horsemen and breeders of Ohio to make a united movement for a sensible racing law for Ohio. The New York law should be a good basis for action. It is satisfactory to all classes in the Empire State. And now is the time to act. We elect a legislature in November. County fair associations are equally in- terested, as the preseDt law giving county fair asso- ciations a certain money bonus from the Btate treasury, in case no pools are sold, is now claimed to be uncon- stitutional." The law under which the Mayor of Glenville took his ofiiensive action was passed in 1881, and has been practically a dead letter in all the eighty- eight counties of Ohio for many years. Since that law was passed there has been harness raciDg every year on at least forty tracks of Ohio where pools were sold; aDd the best men in the State,, men of affairs, men foremost in business, in the professions, and even in the church, have been promoters and owners of racing plants in which millions of dollars have been invested. A New York paper says: The Speedways Make Markets for Ex-Campaigners. — Formerly, or before the speedway driving became popular, there was no adequate market for speed horses in the "quitting class," but they are dow in good demand, and fair sellers for the speedways of New York, Boston, Phila- delphia and Chicago. In fact, it is notorious that some of the champions on the New York speedway are hor6es that failed to win in tbe Grand Circuit. Take the New York speedway champion Cobweba 2:12, that took his race record in 1894, as an illustra- tion. Also the pacer Silk WoodDut 2:15J, outclassed as a r^ce horse, could beat Quadriga 2:08} in the speedway dash races. In fact, some of the most faint- hearted of quitters have been known to win glory for their masters on the New York drive. Creeping Flower 2:221, that was not even a race winner at these slow figures, won dashes on tbe speedway over many with records close to 2:10. In fact, a good speedway horse commands a price almost as high as a real race horse of equal speed. And this is not a regretable fact, nor does it tend to depreciate the value of game race horses. It demonstrates the theory so often ex- ploited by dealers in speed, that there is a men ready with the money for every horse. It means a safe market for all kinds of speed. That well-established and remarkably successful sales firm, Fasig-Tipton CornpaDy, has lately issued a circular that contains some very interesting facts con- cerning their business in the past. It appears from this that the firm has obtained the highest price ever paid to any sales firm at auction for a trotter, pacer, stallion, mare, gelding, weanling, yearling, two- year-old, three-year-old, four-year-old, five year-old, also the highest average and largest sales. For ODe hundred trotters and pacers sold by them $516,210 was realized, an average of $5,162; for twelve stallions were realized $120,600, an average of $10,050; for seven geldings, with records, $72,600, an average of $10,371; for six mares, two of which were green, $45,100, an average of $7,516; for six brood mares. $21,825, average, $3,637: for five yearling trotters. $21,700, average $4,350: for six two-year-olds, $21,900, average $3,650; forsix three-year-olds, $36,500, average $6,083; for six four-year olds, $27,750, average $4,625. The Messrs. Fasig-Tipton Company have good reason to feel proud of this grand showing, and be- lieve that past achievements will be equaled in future sales. The next sale of this company is styled tbe annual "Old Glory" horse auction. It will be a two weeks' sale, Nov 23d to Dec. 4th, and will be held in MadisoD-square Garden immediately after tbe Dext annual National Horse Show. Entries are now being received, and the outlook is bright for a very success- ful sale. August 15, 1903] ®tte gvee&ev tm& gpovtsman The 2:25 pace at Vallejo to-day should be a corking jod race. There will very likely be six or eight arters and the winner hard to pick. The record of 2:08$ made by Mush, in a winning ice last Monday at Empire City track, shows that jr. Salisbury's big pacer is not as soft as his name, Iter all. Rita H. the handsome McKinney mare sold by Sam [oy of Winters to Byron Erkenbrecher of Los n'eles, won again at Seattle last Monday. She took vo%traight heats and did not have to pace within inr seconds of her record of 2:13} to win. The dropping of one figure makes quite a difference i the price of a horse. Last week the types made us iy that Mr. Juan Gallegos of Mission San Jose, reader of that fast little pacing mare Trilby Direct ;084, received but $500 when he sold ber last month, 'hefact is that $3,500 was the sum paid M. Gallegos >r Trilby Direct when he sold her. Marengo King 2:29} by McKinney, owned by J. H. Brown, Detroit, stepped a mile at the Detroit matinee Saturday in 2:20}. Those who saw this performance say that this good son of McKinney will beat 2:20 before fall. Direct Line 2:25.1 is dead. He was kicked by a mar and so badly injured that be had to be destroyed Direct Line was by Director, dam Lida W. 2:18} (dam of Nutwood Wilkes :2:16J) by Nutwood 2:18$. He was owned at Huntington Park Farm, Cheviot, Ohio. Anent the discussion of the breeding of Venus, dam of Sidney Dillon, which has been going on in some of the Eastern papers recently, Samuel Gamble of this city, who was acquainted with nearly all the owners of the mare, states that, to the best of his recollec- tion, tbelate Count Valensin found, in looking up the mare's breeding, that her dam was bred to Venture and Capt. Webster, both the same year. Valensin investigated the matter as far as he could and finally came to the conclusion that the date of Vodus' birth showed her to be by '■ Capt. Webster, and he so gave it in all his catalogues. A press dispatch sent out from Lexington, states that Prof. W W. Milam had protested first money won by Lady Gail Hamilton 2:11} in the Hartford futurity last fall. The grounds on which the protest is based is that the races were advertised under the N. T. A. rules, whioh provide for two-in-three heats for three-year-old races and under. It will be remem- bered Lady Gail Hamilton won the first heat and John Mac the second and third. Milam claims that the race ended with the third heat, but no one seems to have discovered anything wrong with the race before Lady Gail Hamilton went on and won the fourth and fifth heats and was given first money. The Walla Walla Race Track and Fair Association haB chosen permanent officers to manage its affairs for the coming season in the selection of the follow- ing: Superior Judge Thomas H. Brents, president; R. J. Johnson, vice-president; R. B. Caswell, secre- tary; R. E. Guichard, treasurer. The new Walla Walla race track has just been completed and is a mile track. Joseph McCabe, chairman ol the board of trustees, says the track is one of the fastest on the Coast and that already arrangements are being per- fected for some good races and a rousing fair, which will open October 19th. MUSH 3:08 3-4 by LOTTERY TICKET Audubon Boy 2:03} is the latest aspirant for rorld's honors in the pacing line. He w.ll make a pecial effort to beat the the best on record at his way f going at the coming Readville Grand Circuit meet- lg and some there are who say that this one is the omiog champion. He is counted on by his trainer ,nd those who know him best to cause 2:00 at least to >e hung out by the timers almost any day now. A three year old Dating filly by Nutwood Wilkes itepped a mile in 2:21s at Pleasanton last week, com- ng the last half in 1:06J and the last quarter in 32} ieconds. She is called Irvington Girl and is a full ister to Irvington Boy 2:17j, and Irvington Belle !:18J. The dam of these pacers is Lady Mine by Cali- ornia Nutwood and is out of Lew G. (dam of Bob ngersoll 2:14} and Who Is She 2:25) by Albert W. Onward 2:25}, when Miss Ophelia went into the 2:10 ist with a mark of 2:09} at Columbus, O , enjoyed the >roud position at the head of all sires of 2:10 speed, le then had ten psrformers in that select list. On- ward's 2:10 list reads thus now: Beuzetta 2:06}, On- ward Silver 2:08, Pilatus 2:09} and Cornelia Belle 2:10, rotters; Pearl Onward 2:064, Gazette 2:07}. Colbert :07}, Miss Ophelia 2:09}, Colonel Thornton 2:095 and •lajor Mason 2:09}, pacers. Hope runs high among track managers this season hat both the trottiogand pacing records of theworld 'ill be broken, the first by Lou Dillon and the latter y Djn Patch. Nothing draws crowds like prospect- ?e record breaking, and thefortunateownersof these reat horses will command large sums of money for heir exhibitions. And this is not all. Some people <*lieve, and with reason, that Audubon Boy and 'rince Alert will both step inside the 2:00 ring this ear, In view of what has been accomplished by Lou 'illon in the way of lowering the trotting records uring the past few weeks, Mr. Ketcham. the owner f the champion Cresceus, has awoke to the fact that le record of his famous horse is in danger, and some- ling must be done. A day or two ago Mr. Ketcham anounced that the great Cresceus would be at once Lit into training at the Cleveland track and remain lere until August 27, on which date he will be sent r^inst his record, 2:02}, at Dayton, Ohio. Cresceus ill then go on an exhibition trip through the West hich will end at Omaha, Oct. 1. The contemplated ip to the Pacific coast has been abandoned as satis- ctory dates could not be secured. Mr. Ketcham )w has a new idea in his head and is considering the •oject of taking Cresceus to Honolulu later in the Monte Carlo has again reduced his record and won good race. At the Empire City track on Monday Jt he won the $5000 New York stake for 2:09 class otters, beating Ed Geers' good horse Dan T. and a Id of nine more high-class campaigners. Monte irlo won the first heat in 2:07l, the fastest heat in a 5tting race this year up to that time. Dan T. won e record heat in the same notch making honors *v. Monte Carlo woo the next heat and the race in : 7}. This is the fastest three-heat race of the year. there is anything in this showing that makes Monte 1 rloentitled tothename "sucker horse" which some ' the eastern turf writers have given him, we fail to i it. Any troUer that can win a first and third heat 2:07* and 2:07} in a field of eleven horses is no :ker. He is a race horse. George A. Fuller, the famous trot- ting horse driver, is io a precariou-i condition at his home in Tennessee. ITuller, who is now 75 years old, was stricken at Cleveland some ten days ago, and had to be removed to his Tennessee home. His ailment is prin- cipally disability, brought on by old age. Fuller is among the oldest as well a» the most famous of living trotting horse drivers, and has been a knigut of the sulky for close to hall aedntury. He maue his first big success with J. C. McFerran & Son at the celebrated Glen View Stud Farm, near Louisville, developing there many crack trotters, including the two onetime champions, Orisa and Patron. When the elder Mc- Ferran died and the famous stud was dispersed at public sale, Fuller took charge of a public stable and trained until six or seven years ago, when he went to Russia and took charge of a school for educating trainers. He returned home last September, and though his age was telling on him, started_out with a small string of horses again this season. Fuller is well off. The good showing being made by Dolly Dillon 2:07 oince Bhe became the property of Mr. J. D. Callery of Pittsburg, Pa., is due in a great measure to the at- tention given her by our California trainer Bert Webster, for several years trainer for Mr. C. L. Griffith, owner of the great stallion Bonnie Direct 2:05}. Bert has been in Mr. Callery 's employ since the Blue Ribbon sale at Cleveland last May and has Dolly Dillon and all the rest of Mr. Callery's horses in charge. When Dolly Dillon was turned over to him after the sale her feet were iD bad shape— con- tracted and afflicted with corns, so bad in fact that a mile in 2:25 shortly after the sale lamed her so that she could not get out of the stall. Bert went to work on her feet and the showing she made at the matinee where Mr. Callery drove her a heat in .2:09$, is evidence that the mare is in good shape again. Bert Webster's many Californiafriends will always be glad to hear of his continued success. The first "bicycle sulky" as it was called then, that ever came to California was given its first trial on the Petaluma track. Superintendent Frank Covey of Palo Alto Stock Farm purchased it through the firm of J. O'Kane of this city, and received it in time for the Petaluma meeting which opened August 30th, 1892 It had just arrived at the track when an acci- dent happened to the well known trainer, J. W. Gordon, who was thrown from a sulky and had his leg broken. Mis. F. H. Burke of La Siesta Farm, San Jose, who was present at the fair with the farm's ex- hibit of fine stock, immediately joined with others in arranging a benefit for Mr. Gordon. Superintendent Covey loaned the use of the new bike, it was put in a tent, and Mrs. Burke acted as doorkeeper. Twenty- five cents was charged for admission and a big crowd passed in to inspect the new speed accelerator, and incidentally assist the unfortunate driver. Thus was our first bike put to a much different ubo than it was built for. At that meeting the bike looked very awkward to the spectators present, but should a horse appear in a race at the Petaluma meeting this year hitched to one of the old high wheels the appearance would be more grotesque than that of the bike eleven years ago. In a letter from Cleveland to the Chicago Horse Review, under date of August 3d, Volunteer says: John A. McKerron was turned over to Ben Kenney Thursday morning. The occurrence was a surprise to everyone, including Kenney himself, except a very few. The facts are that "Doc" Tanner felt obliged to give up the horse as his obligations to his matinee patrons madeitimpossible for him to continue to give McKerron thealmost undivided attention he deserves.. It is the intention to start the Boston cup winner against his record and the record of Cresceus alBO, several times before the season closes, the first essay to he made week after next at Brighton Beach and to be followed by others at Readville, Memphis, etc. McKerron is now in magnificent form, all that he Deeds being the addition of the feather edge that a master trainer alone can put on a champion. Mr. Devereux and Tanner, after considering the abilities of various trainers that tbey favored, at last decided on Kenney, whose reputation needs no comment and At Pittsburg, August 4th, the brown geld ing Boodler by Boodle 2:12} beat a field of good trotters in a five-beat race, among them the fast horse, Dr. Book 2:10. The race is described as follows: Dr. Bonk won the Erst heat in the fourth event in 2:16}. Brother Al came at Dr. Book in the stretch, and by a magnificent drive by Mr. John Werner, just nipped the second heat at the wire in 2:16. The third heat was most anybody's at the head of the stretch. Brother Al was seen to swerve, and when be righted himself stag- gered to the width of the track and fell Fortunately, by this time, the others had passed him, and no accident occurred. Mr. Werner had him almost stopped when he fell, and so escaDed uninjured Chas. D. Jacobs won this heat from Dr. Book at the wire in 2:19}. Boodler came on and won the next from Jacobs at the wire in 2:21. The fifth heat Dr. Book was drawn, and just as tho word was given Boodler made a break and was apparently out of it, but by coming the last half in 1:07 won the heat and race, time 2:23. This makes the third hard race won by Boodler this season. The trotting and pacing tra-;k records at Petaluma were both made in 1893, just ten years ago. Adver tiser by Electioneer, trotted to his record of 2:15} in a contest with Father Time on that track August 24th 1893, and two days later Truman, arother 60n of Electioneer took a record in the same mark in the first heat of the free for all trot. Truman took the second heat in 2:15.', and then old Shylock, went on and won the next three heats in 2:16}, 2:17} and 2:19. The time made by Advertiser and Truman have never been beaten by a trotter over the Petaluma track since. At the sine meeting Diablo won the free for all pace in straight, heats, beating the home favorite Plunkett and the Steinway gelding W. Wood io 2:10J, 2:1 2 j and 2:14}. The time made by Diablo in the first, heat is still the pacing record of the track. Will these records be broken at, the Breeders meeting week after next? The probability Is that both will have to go, but it will take pretty good horses to lower them, even though the breeding of trotters and pacers has progressed greatly during the past ten years. BUNSTON by DICTATES Beaten two lengths by Mush in 2:085K whose stable this season is not so large as to preclude his being able to give McKerron the closest attention and best preparation possible. When Tanner made the proposition to Kenney the latter was both sur- prised and gratified. He said that he considered the offer an honor, but had doubts as to whether he ought to accept it, as, while he had trained and driven many horses to fast records, he bad never before in his life undertaken the task of giving a champion a special preparation for record-breaking. Tanner re- plied that he was aware of this, but that Mr. Devereux and himself both felt satisfied that no one else was more competent to do so, Kenney then agreed to take the horse, who was at once turned over to him, and that afternoon he drove him an exhibition mile in 2:07. Messrs. Devereux and Tanner believe that McKerron has been trained over the Cleveland track so long that a change will do him good, and so he will be shipped to Buffalo .vit.h Kenney 's stable and thence taken on East by him. In his 2:07 mile at Cleveland he acted as if he could have beaten his record of 2:05} right then and there, and just bow fast he may trot in a month or so more is an Interesting question. 6 &hss gveebev attfc §v&vi&tncm [August 15, 1903 Empire City Trotting Track. : -.lit horses are at the famous Empire City Track, near Sew York, this week, and have been giving some high class racing. Good weather, ■ ^ptendid track and fast racing were in order the first dav, and the fastest three-heal trot of the sea- son was recorded, with the California horse Monte Carlo as the wiener. Another California horse, the much-talked-about Mush, also scored a win — the first 'of Mb career— and took a record of 2:0Sf. In this race the California-bred horse, Funston by Dictatus, was a. close second in both heats. The summaries of - the" day's races follow: Pacing, 2:18 class, parse $1000. Mush, b g by Lottery Ticket (Walker) 1 1 Funston 1-2, Joe Gratton 3-3. Rector ds. Time— 2:08a. 2:114. Trotting, 3:15 class, parse 31000. George Muscovite, bs by MmcoTlte (Bond) 1 1 Norris 2-2, Prince G.-eenlander 3-1, Muretro 7-3, Ben Hal 4-9, Jim Ferry 9-5. Sonata 5-11. Hie Boy 10-3, The Questor 6-10, Direct View S-7, EarlLne S. 11-8, Lucy Leeds. Time— S10M, 2:093£. Pacing, 2-12 class, purse $1200. Donna McGregor, br m by Body MoGregor (Snow) 6 12 1 -Dart 7-2-1-2. Jessie S. 2-4-3-ro, Jobn F. 5-3-4-ro, Frank Yokum 3-6-ro, Diablito 4-5-ro. Shorty S-dr. Time— -2:06a, 2:08)1. 2:08k, 3:07%. Trotting, 2:09 class, New York Stake, purse §5000. Monte Carlo, b g by Mendocino (Walker) 15 1 Dan T. 2-1-3, Wilque 3-3-2, Dan Wilkes 5-3-4, Dulce Cor 4~4-ro, Walnut Hall 7-6-ro, Masine 6-S-ro, Idolita 10-7-ro, Ida High- wood 8-10-ro, A. J. D. 9-9-ro Baron de Shay ds. Time— 2:074, 2:074, 2:07J£. TUESDAY, AUGUST 11. The Bronx Stake of $5000 for the 2:10 class pacerB was the principal event on Tuesday at Empire track, and resulted in the downfall of the favorite Elastic Pointer that up to this time had gone through the - circuit unbeaten. Dr. Madara took his measure, and the be9t the Pointer horse could earn was fourth money. The only California horse to start during the day was Mr. Salisbury's Monroe. He got second money in the 2:13 class trot, which was won by the mare Merry D. in straight heats. Monroe led into the stretch in both heats but was beaten at the wire. The filly Ethel's Pride by Directum won the three year old colt stake of $2000, defeating Tireless, Mary Gage and-Lord Roberts, three of the crack three year olds of the year The four money winners in this race were all by California bred sires. THE SUMMARIES: Pace, 233 class, best two in three, purse-31000. Al Bock, b s. by Nedwood (Curry) 1 1 - - Ebony! King 2-2, Virginia 3-3, Fred H. 4-1, Ethel Mac ds, Seiva ds. Time— 2:09*f, 2:11. Trot, 2:25 class, for three year olds, Westchester stakes of $2000. ' Ethers Pride, b m. by Directum (Curry) 14 1 Tireless 4^1-2, Mary Gage 2-3-3, Lord Roberts 3-2-4, Blossom ds. Time— 2:135*. 2:164, 2:15. Pace, 2:10 class, best two in three. The Bronx stake of $5C00. Dr Madara, ch g, by Simmons (Hudson) 5 11 Onoto 1-2^3, Miss Willamont S-3-2. Elastic Pointer 3-1-4, Alice lla'pes 4-5-ro, Brown Heels 6-6-ro, Jollscods. Time— 2:07^, 2:08(4, 2: J8. Trotj 2:13 class, best two in three, purse $1000. Merry D, ch m. by Young Jim (A. MoDonald) 1 1 Monroe 2-3, Ltll Bars 4-2, Crescent 3-5. Pug 9-4. Anna Held 5-9 Lady Constantino 7-6, Tudor Chimes 8-3, Allabrieve 11-7, Guy Fortune 10-10, Julia Mason 6-ds Time— 2:10)4, 2:11^. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12. Budd Doble received an ovation on the third day of the Empire meeting when he landed Kinney Lou a victor in the 2:20 class trot for a $5000 purse and gave the handsome son of McKinney and old Mary Lou a record of 2:6"! in the last heat, making him the fifth new standard performer, the fourth new 2:15 per- former and the first new 2:10 performer for his sire this year. Kinney Lou won in straight heats and defeated a big field of high-class trotters, among them John Taylor, winner of the M. is M., Jay McGregor, Senator Mills, Cole Direct and several others that are looked upon as coming 2:05 trotters. Kinney Lou was third choice in the poolB. John Taylor was the contending horse each time, but was fairly beaten on merit by a better and faster horse. When the sport opened, a wind blew half a gale, but kept moderating untillt was a light breeze. Under the conditions the mile paced by Dan Patch was a wonderful perfor- mance. It was practically his first start of the season and he is not yet quite seasoned to carry his great flight of speed far enough. He went the mile in 2:00}, the aecon&'quarter in 0:28>, and the middle half in 0:581," which were a little too fast for this muscles, and the fast quarter cost him all ohance of beating the record of 1:59}. All the races were on the two in three plan. THE SUMMARIES: Pacing, 2:15 class, purse $1000. Alcraife, b g. by Algeron (Allen) 1 1 Kwara 5-2, Mamie Brown 2-5, Luore 3-3, Mercury 5^6. Bessie O 6-4, Mac 7-dr, Don Cozined. Time— 2:13, 2:114. Trotting, 2:20 class, purse $5000 Kinney I -ou, brs, McKinney— Mary Lou (Doble) 1 1 John Taylor 2-2, Jay McGregor S-S, Texas 3-1 1, Senator Mills 4-6 McAdams Jr. 9-4,Lady Patchen ft-5, Margaret Bathgate 5-9 Cole Direct 7-7. Katrinka 10-8, Free Silver 11-10, Marv Joe 12-12 Pat- chen Maidd. Time-2:09, 2:073i. Pacing, 2:05 class, purse 31200. Dariel, b g. by Alcander (McDonald) 1 1 C3rl Wilkes 2-2, Shadow Chimes 3-9, Winfleld Stratton 9-3. Llttle'Squaw 4-4. Charley Hayt 6-5, Don Derby 5-8, Indiana 7-6J Terrace-Queen .8-7, Ananias 10-10. Time— 2:05V, 2:05)4. Trotting. 2:0S class, purse $1200. Prince of Orange, b g, by Prince of India (Cox) 3 11 Rhythmic 1-2-2, Fereno 2-3-S. Time— 2:08«, 2:084, &08«. Special to beat 1:59)4. „ T . Dan Patch, br s, (McHenry) Lost Time— 2:00«. Monroe Salisbury's entry, the bay horse Judge Greene by Directum, bred and owned by Superior Judge W. E. Greene of Oakland, won the 2:23 class trot at Empire on Thursday in straight heats, taking a record of 2:11|. He outclassed his field and none of the eleven horses that started against him could get near him in any part of either heat. Mush was de- feated in the 2:17 pace, but divided second money with Ebony King. Billy Buck, Ed Geers' horse, won his race handely and reduced his record to 2:07. Major Delmar in an effort against time, reduced his record to 2:04 a great performance as the wind was strong. THE SUMMARIES: Trotting, 2:23 class, purse $1000. Judge Green, b h, by Directum (Walker) 1 1 Bessie Birchwood 2-3, Bermuda Maid 10-2, Redwood 3-4. Miss Overton 4-10, Joe N 5-5, Crown Prince 9-6. Lillian R 6-11, Yankee Boy 7-7, Nico n 8-9, Annie Little 11-8. Alberto ds. Time— 2:115i, 2:12V Pacing, 2:0S class, purse $1200. Nervelo, b s, by Colbert (Hudson) 1 8 1 Sufreet 6-1-2. Joe Pointer 2-2-4, Pauline G 4-3-3, Cubanola 3-10- ro, Alberto 9-4-ro, Gvp Walnut 7-5-ro, Dandy Chimes 5-9-ro, Birdina 10-6-ro, Trilby Direct 8-7-ro. Oscar L U-ll-ro. Time— 2:05^, 2:06K, 2:06M Trotting. 2- 12 class, purse $500. Billy Buck, b g, by St Clair (Geers) 1 1 Tiverton 4-2, Promise 2-4, Hawthorne 3-5, Frances B 5-3, Van Zandt 6-6, Direct View ds. Time— 2:07, 2:08)i. Pacing, 2: 17 class, purse $1000. Al Bock, b s, by Ned Wood (Curry) 1 1 Mush 2-3. Ebony King 3-2, Money Musk 4-4, Lucy May ds, Governor Pingree ds Time — 2:08)i, 2:09. Special to beat 2:04?A — Major Delmar won. Time — 2:04. The Seattle Harness Races. [From our Special Correspondent.] On Friday, August 7th, a purse of $300 was offered for a one-mile dash for 2:15 class trotters. It was pro- ductive of a keen contest between Marboy and Mack Mack in which Mr. Clark's gelding ultimately proved the winner, Mac going to a break in the last 50 yards, a protest by Helman on the grounds of crowding in the stretch being disallowed. Marboy. b g, by Delmarch— Daughter (Ted Hayes) 1 Mack Mack, b g, McKinney— Nancy (H. Helman l 2 Chico, bg, Monroe Chief ". (L. Childs) 3 Dr. Bunell. b h, Ingram (J. Lance) 3 Oveta, b m, Caution (J. Ervln) 4 Time— 0:334, 1:07, 1:404,2:15. The first race of the regular harness meeting was decided on Saturday, August 8th. The race in ques- tion was the $1000 for 2:20 trotters which had closed with IS nominations, of which number the highly creditable number of 12 faced the wire. With the possible exception of Sweet Marie, who completely outclassed her field, every horse was con- ceded to have a chance. Prior to the race a protest was filed against Marie's eligibility to entry upon the grounds that she had a record of 2:1S or better taken at a matinee of the Los Angeles Driving Club. Trainer Durfee denied the allegation and the mare started but was barred by the judges in the pools. Briney K., the property of Mr. W. H. Berry, was also pre- tested upon the grounds of being trained in the same stable as Sweet Marie. Both owner and trainer denied same. The field got away on the third score to a good start, Red Skin and Louis Z. showing the way round the first turn. At the half Red Skin and Briney K. were in front, with Sweet Marie third; from there on the mare easily threaded her way to the front and was never headed, winning easily by three lengths in 2:15*. Monicrat, Duke of Waldstein, Louis Z., Idol and Lady Jones were distanced. In the second and third heats Marie won still more easily, quite a contest for second honors resulting in the victory of Briney K., though Red Skin, who had gone an easy mile in the second heat, made quite a showing for that place in in the third heat. Master Delmar showed great speed at times, but was short of work. The second and third heats were trotted in 2:17 and 2:17.' respectively. SUMMARY. The M. & If. stake for 2:30 class trotters, purse $1000. Sweet Marie by McKinney lW. G. Durfee) 1 1 1 Briney K by Strathway (R. A. Smith) 2 2 2 Red Skin by Red Cloak (Sanborn) 3 6 3 Master Delmar by Delmarch (Hayes) 5 3 4 Belladi by Chehalls (Rutherford) 4 4 5 H H H by Allerton (J. W Miller) 6 5 6 Mark Hannabus late Mark Hanna by Planter.. (J. Green) 7 7 7 Monicrat, Duke of Waldstein, Louis 2, Idol and Lady Jones distanced. Time by quarters. 0:33«, 1:07)4. l:41tf, 2:1554 0:34, 1:08)4. 1:41)4, 2:17 0:344, 1:09, 1:434, 2:174 There was a good play in the auctions and with Marie barred, Briney K sold for $20 and the field $24. NOTES. There are over 100 harness horses at Seattle. The one-mile dash races have proved a great success. The horsemen have driven for the money in every heat, and the racing haB been free from suspicion. Briney K. astonished his owner with his speed and gamenes8 in the third heat of the 2:20 trot, as he came from fifth position in the third heat in the stretch and beat Red Skin in a fierce drive to the wire. W. G. Durfee has ridden in front in every heat he has driven. Four winners out of four starts is an auspicious commencement. The wooden spreaders first used on the the pacer Sam Bowers have become very popular and are • largely used on the side wheelers. A. T. Van de Vanter, H. Egbert and W. H. Hare I are the harness race judges at Seattle. Robert Leighton is starter. The 2:17 pace purse ($1000) to be decided Saturday, August loth, is exciting great interest. Highball, Oma A. and Rita H. represent the California entry, i W. A. Clark, Jr.'s, stable of harness horses are' here and will take in the meetings on the North \ Pacific Fair Association Circuit. H. Hellman, who uBed to have the track and train a stable at San Jose, is here with a stable of six head. The pride of the stable is the bay gelding Mack Mack, who was the largest money winner on the circuit last year. MONDAY-, AUGUST 10TH. The Seattle StarPurse for 2:30 class pacers attracted I a large crowd to "The Meadows" this afternoon. Outt of the original entry list of fourteen seven starters took the word. The easy victory of Rita H. in thef1 dash race on August 1st when the daughter of Mc-I Kinney took a record of 2:13} foreshadowing her greatfi chance to place a second first money to her owner'sh credit which she easily accomplished winning the race in straight heats in 2:17} and 2:17}. In the second heat Tidal Wave made a bold bid f^r victory and! Glengarry Patchen showed great speed only to go tc; a badly tangled break from which his driver could not extricate him in time to save his distance. Specu- lation was light and in the few pools sold Rita H. ' brought $50 and the field $25. Summary: The Seattle Star Purse of $500 for 2:30 pacers, two in three. Rita H. by McKinney (WGDurfee) 1 ll Tidal Wave by Nutwood Wilkes (I. C. Mosher) 3 ll Bensurba by Tom Benton (W. Tryon) 2 41 Portia Knight by Vlnmont — (H. Helman) 4 ll Glengarry Patchen by King Patchen (Riplinger) 5d» Eventide by Captain Waters (McLaughlin) ds ■ Princess Chehalis by Chehalls (R. Breeze) da I Time— 0:35, 1:104, 1:44. &17X, 0:35',, 1:10, 1:444, 2:174. The Xorth Pacific Stake for 2:17 pacers, purse $1000)1 to be decided on Saturday is already exciting a largt interest. Rita H. will have to defend her laurel | against such speedy horses as Highball, Harry Hurst Oma A., County Attorney, Ollie M. and others. Robt. Leighton. Last Day at Buffalo. The Buffalo meeting closed on Friday, August 8th and a scandal developed unfortunately in the 2:06 pac that will probably be unsettled until the Board of Re view takes the case up next winter. In this rac Terrace Queen took the first heat from Little Squav and the latter captured the second heat. It looke all right at that stage and Little Squaw became more pronounced favorite. In the third heat Littl1 Squaw broke twice. It did not seem to be altogethe her own fault, particularly as she had paced steadil in the other heats. The judges were not satisfied wit the work of Ceiderberg and they put Ben Kenney u behind the favorite. Then she went out and won tb deciding heat. Presiding Judge Kline wanted to e> pell F. O. Ceiderberg, driver of Little Squaw, but we overruled by the other judges. The other races wei. won in straight heats. Caspain captured the 2:1 pace and Monroe, the big Californian, was a hand winner of the 2:23 trot. Summaries: Trotting. 2:16 class, purse $1000. Caspain. b g. by Patron (Shank) 1 Miss Fearing 2-5, Fred McClung 6-2, Nicollet 5-3. Time— 2:14, 2:13?;. Dick Crowshade and Direct View also started. Pacing. 2:06 class, purse $1200. Little Squaw, b m, by Kenawee Boy (Ceideberg and Kenny) 2 1 2 Charley Hayt 4-3-1-2, Terrace Queen 1-2-3-3, Captain Sphh 3-4-ro. Time— 2:073s, 2:07X, 2:09, 2:094. Trotting. 2:23 class, purse $1000. Monroe.bg, by Seymour Wilkes (Walker) 1 Y'ankee Boy 3-2, Croivn Princess 2-4, Bermuda Maid 4-3. Time— 2:16, 2:15. Pacing, 2:16 class, purse $1000. Ebony King, blk g, by Atlantic King „ (Bogash) 1 I Joe Sibley 2-3, Don Cozlns 5-2, John W. Patterson 3-4. Time— 2:13!;, 2:12. Margaret also started. Cures Bone Spavin. Getchell. Wash., March 3,JS03. Br. B. J. Kendall Co.. Enosburg FalU. Yt. Gentlemen: Please send me a copy of your "Treatise on t Horse and his Diseases ." for which I enclose a two-cent stamp, have used your Kendall's Spavin Cure and it cured Bone Spavi Y'our Spavin Cure is very good. Yours truly. Charles KAPr The Kenney Bicycle Co., 531 Valencia St., is doing big business in the McMurray Carts and Sulkies. Y< not only save money by purchasing a McMurray b get the most durable, best made, and easiest runnii cart or sulky in the market. Investigation will co vince a Missourian. * AUGUST 15, 1903] f&h$ gxezbcv atxb gtpovt&titixti How Lou Dillon Won the Record. The capturing of the world's trotting: record for mares by Lon Dillon at Cleveland on July 31st, 1903, has been written and talked of a great deal, but the first complete accounts of the great feat only reached us by mail last Monday. The following written by "Volunteer" (Editor Hervey of the Bbrse Review,) is the most complete and best of any that have ap- peared in the turf journals, and we reproduce the same for the benefit of our readers. The letter is written under date of July 31st, the evening of the day on which the wonderful little mare made her record. "Volunteer" says: This morning the outlook was anything but good, as the sky was overcast with gray clouds, the wind damp, and gusty, and the prospect for further showers imminent. However, about 10 o'clock the breeze switched around to the northwest, the sky began to clear, and the sun came out. The track was alive with horses all the morning, and from the time that they made in their work it was apparent that the footing was approaching feather edge. Conse- quently it was felt that if the wind would but subside, the wished for opportunity had at last arrived Ow- ing to the continued postponements, the crowd was not large, there probably being not to exceed three thousand people present. Five thirty was the hour set for the trial, which was delayed as late as possible .in the hope that the wind would lie down. This hope, however, proved fruitless, as a strong breeze continued to blow stiffly from the northeast all the afternuoD, the big flags on the grand stand flying in the gale and the tops of the trees in the infleld shaking and tossing. In addition to this, the air was very cold, so much so that it felt more like an afternoon in late September than in July. Almost all the ladies in the boxes were wearing their wraps and many gentlemen could be Been with their overcoats on. The general sentiment was "it's a poor record day," and as the time ap- proached for the trial to be made all hope of success was for the third time given up, and it is probable that had not two postponements been already made, the trial would have been abandoned altogether. But rather than completely disappoint the spectators who had come to the track for the third time in hope to see Lou Dillon trot, Mr. Billings decided that the ■ ■mare should make an effort. No idea was entertained 4 that there was any possibility of her trotting a record- . breaking mile under the conditions, and in conse- quence the announcement was made from the stand that she would trot as fast a mile as possible, but that anything phenomenal need not be expected, as it was cut of the question. The mare first appeared on the track at about four o'clock, hitched to a long-shaft cart, and jogged a 2:30 mile. At five she was given one to sulky in 2:13J, the quarter time being 0:35, 1:09, 1:41 J. It was 5:40 when she came out for the formal attempt. Two pacemakers were employed to assist her, and mapping out the plan of the mile, considerable hesitancy was felt as to the best method to pursue. On account of the strong wind which she would have to breast up the back stretch and around the far turn, it was felt that one pacemaker should precede her to the last-named point In order to break the force of the wind , but as she had never been worked in this manner, Mr. Sanders felt somewhat dubious as to its success; in fact, it was at one time settled that it should not be pursued, but he finally agreed on condition that the pacemaker should keep several lengths in front instead of a few feet, as is customarily the case. The start was given on the first score, the mare moving very fast and strong, preceded by the first pacemaker, driven by Doc Tanner, who was about three lengths in front, while the second, driven by Scott McCoy, was to the outside and trailing several lengths back. Lou Dillon darted away as if upon wings, and took the turn like a swallow and at the most terrific speed, Tanner being obliged to drive the runner furiously in order to keep his position in front. As they reached the quarters, the timers flashed out 30J seconds, and there was a great buzz of excitement from the watching thousands. As Lou Dillon turned into the back stretch and started on the straightaway flight to tha half-mile pole, although she was begin- ning to breast the wind, she accelerated her speed to a gait that was simply dizzy. At the three eighths pole she was trotting such a clip that it seemed as if she would literally run over Tanner and his pace- maker, as she drew to them with a burst of speed that was amazing. Her momentum was so great as they neared the half that Sanders was obliged to call to Tanner to pull out from the pole with the runner, as the mare in her anxiety was beginning to puil out in order to go around him and Millard was obliged to take a strong hold on her to prevent her doing so. Tanner consequently pulled out and let her through. She reached the half in 1:00J, having trotted the second quarter in 0:30*. As the time was flashed, there was a roar from the crowd of "She'll do it, " and the excitement, which had been intense from the start, I began to rise to faver beat. The flying mare now turned intothebend around the far turn, and directly into the teeth of the northeast wind, but she kept on at the same killing clip, and seemed to skim the earth as she scudded around the fast turn close to the rail with both pacemakers thundering at her heels. The third quarter was trotted in 0:31, full against the breeze, and the three-quarters reached in 1:31 J. At this pointtheentireassemblage broke intoloud cheers and hurrahs, for it was felt to be certain that owing to the mare's marvelous gameness her record was surely beaten. As he swung into the home stretch, Sanders brought Lou out into second place and McCoy shot his pacemaker inside her next the pole, while Tanner brought the other up on the outside and so the three started for the wire neck and neck, in one of the most exciting and spectacular drives ever witnessed. They raced through the stretch to the distance with apparently undiminished speed, but at this point it was evident that the mare's effort was beginning to tell on her as she seemed to be slacken- ing her speed a trifle. At the draw gates Millard reached out and flecked her lightly on the neck a couple of times with hie whip. Tanner and McCoy were both ytlling like Comanches to encourage her, and with a last desperate effort she sprang away again and finished on her courage, tired, but dead game in 2:02|. Pandemonium had reigned in the grand stand and on the lawn from the moment she left the three- quarters pole, cheer after cheer greeting her at every step as she came through the stretch. Hundreds of watches were held on her, and the first glance showed to the holders that the record had been broken. It was not necessary to wait for the official announce- ment, bat it was made in a moment — 2:02£. A perfect tornado of applause then broke forth, rolling out in wave after wave of unrestrained enthusiasm As the mare came jogging back in her peculiar dainty wpy she was given a tremendous ovation, while the friends of Mr. Billings and the prominent horsemen present thronged about him and Millard Sanders to tender their congratulations. The three official timers were Messrs. H. E. Chap- man, A. H. Hough and C. S. Britton, of Cleveland, while Mr. W. S. McCrea of Chicago held a fourth watch. Mr. McCrea's watch registered 2:02 3-5; of the other three, two showed 2:02§ and the third 2:02i. A canvass was made among the outside watches held directly under the wire. Mr. Billings himself caught the mile in 2:02 3-5, as did Mr. Fred Hartwell of Chi- cago and Frank Jones of Memphis. Ed Geers caught it 2:02i, Septt Hudson 2:02 3-5, and Murray Howe 2:02$. Of scores of others all but one showed some one of these figures quoted. So far as is known, the only watch that showed as slow as 2:03 was that of M.'E. McHenry, whose timer marked 2:03 flat; but Mr. McHenry said that it seemed habitual with him to time slow on such occasions, for in all the fast miles that he had driven Dan Patch he had, with but a solitary exception, always caught him from a quar- ter to a half second slower than the officials. It is probable that a majority of the watches held upon Lou Dillon caught tne time faster than 2:02|, so the authenticity of the record is perhaps more conclusive than that of any record-breaking mile ever trotted. Mr. Billings is not a demonstrative man by nature, but his happiness was plainly evident and tearB of pure pleasure stood in his eyes as he watched Lou Dillon led out for her cooling walk five minutes after she finished. He had not looked for a mile better than 2:05, and anything as fast as that would have answered his most sanguine expectations. Millard Sanders has the most unlimited confidence in Lou Dillon, having always predicted that she was the fastest trotter that has ever lived, but even he had not anticipated any such mile as the one she trotted. The average opinion in the crowd had been that she would finish in 2:05 to 2:06. Scott Hudson, who had never before seen her go a fast mile, predicted 2:06, but after the finish said that he be- lieved she was destined to trot in 2:00, if not this season, at least next. Mr. Geer?, who has himself driven The Abbot to the world's record and witnessed and timed both of the miles trotted by Cresceus below 2:03 in 1901, said that in his opinion Lou Dillon's mile was undoubtedly the greatest ever trotted and that her beating 2:02^ was merely a matter of thefir6t time she found a perfect day and track. In conversation with M. E. McHenry the latter stated that in his opinion the wind cost Lou Dillon at least a second. He had driven Dan Patch an exhibition mile in 2:021 but a few moments before, and it was hie judgment that a breeze as strong as that prevailing must have cost as small and light a mare as the daughter of Sidney Dillon at least a full second during the half- mile that she was obliged to trot against it. He there- fore gave it as his unqualified opinion that had the day been warmer and there been no wind, the time would have been 2:01 J instead of 2:02$. One of the most striking featureeof the performance was, indeed, the way in which it was received. I have in past years witnessed many record-breaking miles, by the champion trotters and pacers alike, but never before have I seen one received with such exultation and pleasure by every horseman who had the pleasure of witnessing it as was this by Lon Dillon. There seems to be not a trace of jealousy, nor the slightest tend- ency to criticise her, in any quarter. All horsemen unite in paying her the most hearty and spontaneous homage as by far the most wonderful trotter that they have ever seen. Aside from the effect which the wind may have had upon Lou Dillon, Mr. Sanders told me after the finish that she lost at least a half-secnnd on the back -stretch., owing to the inability of the pacemaker in the lead to keep out of her way. When the mare made her terri^ fie burst and came to him so fast, Dear the half, she began to rush and pull out In order to get past him, and in so doing commenced to pull on one rein. In order to steady her Millard was obliged to take a very strong bold upon her, which, he pays, he never has done before in a fast mile, and which, in his judgment, cost her at least a half-second. In fact, it is probable that the pacemaker in the lead was, on the whole, a hindrance rather than a help. In order to have effectually broken the wind he should not have pre- ceded her by more than six feet, but, as previously stated, owing to the mare's unfamiliarity with such a method of prompting it was thought best to keep him several lengths ahead. It is very doubtful if, excepting for the few rods on the back -stretch when she came to him so fast as to be directly behind him, he really broke the effects of the breeze in the least, -•.nd it is probable that she would have gone as fast or faster had he kept at her side or wheel, as b38 been thecasein her previous record-breaking miles. While the mare was visibly tired at the finish, she blew out very quickly, and was not distressed in the least, standing firm on her legs and showiDg no evidences of fatigue. An analysis of the mile reveals the extraordinary gameness and courage of Lou Dillon, as it will be seen that not a single quarter in it was trotted as fast as 0:30. It was a most beautifully rated mile, though in the strict sense it was not really rated, as Mr. Sanders says the mare must always to a great degree be per- mitted to rate herself. Consequently, her extreme flight of speed is not apparent at any place to the reader who scans the fractional time of the per- formance. That it would have been under other con- ditions would undoubtedly have proven the case, and on this account it is generally felt that when con- ditions do favor Bhe must assuredly shatter the world's record. When Ciesceus trotted in 2:02}, he went to the half in 0:59f, and it is the widespread opinion that any time that Lou Dillon reaches the half in 1:00 or better she will come home in at least 1:02. Another thing in estimating the merit of this mile that must be carefully reckoned is the fact that she had been prepared originally and was ready to start upon Wednesday. Yesterday afternoon she was also again held in readiness, being given four miles, the last three of which were trotted in 2:16, 2:14$ and 2:09A, the last quarter of the last mile being trotted in 0:285"- When thedecision was finally reached to make the second postponement, the mare had already been breezed out the first three miles, and after the crowd had left the track late Thursday evening, Sanders brought her out to give her a final heat in about 2:12, with the last quarter in about 0:31. He would have succeeded in this, as he went to the three-quarterpole at the desired rate, but there the runner came to him by agreement to accompany Lou Dillon through the stretch, and she was so full of go that he decided to allow her to step home as fast as she wanted to. Although the wind was then blowing smartly, and directly in her teeth, she came to the wire at a rate of speed never before witnessed in a trotter. A dozen or fifteen gentlemen had remained to witness the heat, and among them only one watch registered as slow as 0:29. This was held by Jas. A. Murphy, of Chicago. Of the others, all showed either 0:28| or 0:28 3-5. The first eighth was caught in 0:14$, and the last in 0:14}. The mare did this entirely of her own free will, as Millard simply gave her her head, and when "Doc" TaDner, who was driving the runner, started to shout encouragement to her near the finish, he told him to desist, as she was going well enough without. It was at first thought by the timers when they looked at their watches that a mistake had been made, as the mare was trotting with what seemed to be the most perfect ease, but comparison immediately showed that they had just witnessed the most wonderful flight of speed ever displayed by a trotter. Several of those present had expected to leave the city that night, but the majority of them at once made up their minds to stay over for her trial next day as they felt assured if the conditions were favorable she was certain to beat 2:03i, and might, if everything favored, -beat 2:02};. That these enthusiasts feel doubly and trebly repaid goes without Raying. In her trial Lou Dillon was rigged as usual. She wore only a white felt bell quarter-boot forward, and a very light shin, ankle and- speedy cut boot behind, and was driven without any check rein. She pulled a brand-new red Faber sulky, built expressly for the trial, which weighed 27 pounds, and Millard Sanders weighed in at 155 pounds. On a hot day drink Jackson's Napa Soda lemonade ttnd bp refreshed. TFILLNOT SCAR OR BLEMISH. GOMBAULPS CAUSTIC BALSAM is itae safest and most effective lotion or blister for ailments c. HORSES and CATTLE and supersedes all cautery or firing. It is prepared exclusively by J. E. Gom- bault, ex-Veterinary Surgeon to the French Government Stud. AxalirMAV RFMEIlY for Kheo- matlim, H|irnln». Sore Throul, etc . il IslnvaJuablo. Every bottle of rnnttlr 1Iitl«nru ford_I» Wamu. j lotion. Price »I.»0 per bottle. Sold by dnifrftl '■■ f|r unt by ex- pre - harKC^paid.'wifi tor iu >!-.- Bend for descriptive circular*. teaUmo- ntals.et'' A Idi TKUWRE5CE-THLUISC0IPAJIT CleitUnd, Ohio ©he fgweefrer attii gjKrrtsrottftt [Adgust 15, 1003 ROD, GUN AND KENNEL. ^&mmm Fishing. Loafing with a rod and line Where the waters swirl about, Whipping up the stream— it's fine When the speckled trout are out. Working' up the sparkling shallows Where the sun the water hallows; Laughing when the fish begin Rolling, tumbling, falling in; Loafing with a rod and line — Ain't it fine! Leaving all our care behind. Leaving all the daily toil; Going out to feel the wind And to hear the ripples boll. Going where the sun Is gleaming, Nature with her joys is teeming- Whipping up and down the stream In a piscatorial dream; Loafing with a rod and line— Ain't it fine! Loafing with a rod and line Where the waters swirl about, Whipping up the stream — It's fine When the speckled trout are out. Recking naught of bisiness trouble While the happy waters bubble, When the speckled trout begin Rolling, tumbling, falling in: Loafing with a rod and line— Ain't it rine: Conducted by J. X. De WITT. moth-proof tin box sold by tackle dealers which answers a 200I purpose. An old angler recommends a flat cardboard or other bos, with a thin layer of wool or wadding, upon which the flies are placed, covering them with a piece of cardboard, which, by means of corks at the corners of the box, is prevented from pressing on them. This cardboard box is then placed in a tin box. Fly Books— Should be perfectly dry and wrapped tightly in in a newspaper. If placed in a cardboard box, which is also wrapped in a newspaper, they will be doubly protected. Hooks— Do not stick their points in cork: and stow them away, for if the atmosphere is slightly damp, or the cork not absolutely dry, rust will occur. The best plan is to wrap the hooks in oiled paper (kero- sene is good ) before putting them away for the winter. Bait-boxes and creels should be thoroughly cleansed with warm soda-water, and when dried it is well to sprinkle them with a little carbolic acid, or a wash of carbolic acid soap can be used. Fish Lines. Care of Tackle in Winter. There are some phases, And occasionally unpardon- able ones, in the general "make up" of an angler, which usually indicate his temperament and the lines he is apt to follow when he goes a-tishing and in the care of his tackle. There is the impetuous, enthusi- astic angler who dashes into the planning of his first outing, and into the stream when he gets there, with the glow of the sport radiating, as it were, from every pore of his body, thoughtless of every condition ex- cept that of being afield and of catching fish. His reel, rod, and water gear are all awry, for ne has given little thought or attention to his tackle during the winter, and is often compelled to buy a new outfit, though the old one would, with care, bave lasted sev- eral seasons. One of his companions on the outing, it may be, is of a more sedate turn of mind but not less sensitive to the enjoyment of his environment and pastime. One of his striking characteristics may be noted in the extreme care with which he tests his leaders before attaching them to the reel line, and the precise lining of the rings and guides of his rod. His entire impedimenta is in perfect order; the click of his fly reel emits no jar or rattle, but is perfect in cadence and in smoothness of action. His rod is straight as an arrow, and its ferrules are bright, and fit into each other with exactness, never becoming metal-bound. He has taken good care of his tackle during the off months of winter; and it would be well if all anglers followed his example, not only because of the economy of it, but in the increased pleasure of a projected fishing trip. For the benefit of the care- less oneB, a few practical directions on the care of tackle in winter are here given: The Rod — A well-made split bamboo or wood rod should last for years if proper care is taken of it. Each joint, after a day's fishing, should be wiped dry very carefully and bent into shape, if it has a set, before putting away; and a drop or two of sperm oil should be rubbed over the rod before going out again with it. When laying a rod aside for the season, it should be carefully examined and all damages re- paired; the ferrules and bands should be thoroughly cleaned and new plugs fitted to the joints. Take the rod apart, wipe the joints dry, and lay them away in their case in an apartment where the temperature will be dry and uniform, not over 50 degrees. If a case is used, do not tie the strings or bands too tightly; this would be likely to berd the tip and second joints. Under no circumstances let the rod stand near the chimney or furnace flue, and the other extreme of cold in a garret or outbuilding should be avoided. Changes of temperature destroy the nliancy and stiff oess of a rod. To insure the continued equal distribution of strength the rod should be laid fiat on the floor or a shelf, instead of being stood on end in a corner, and under no condition should it be left jointed and hung on pegs. The Reel — Should be taken apart, thoroughly cleaned, and then oiled slightly. Put the parts to- gether, and place the reel in a dry drawer or closet of moderate temperature. Lines— All lines should be reeled off and stretched from end to end on a sunny morning, and left in the air for a few hours. They should then be overrun lightly with a bit of woolen cloth or chamois to re- move any taint of mildew or other matter, and then be wound npon the reel, but not too tightly. If frayed portions are discovered, the line should be condemned, and the good parts kept for miscellaneous uses, which will be found frequent enough. Leaders — Will keep for years if laid away in a dark place, where it is not too warm or too damp, but they should be tested before using, and stand a strain of four pounds for bass or trout and at least seven pounds for salmon. Flies — The best thing to keep flies in is a pasteboard box, tightly and closely wrapped in a newspaper. They will then need no moth preventive. There is a The most prevalent parasite inhabiting the black bass is a red-thread worm known as Filaria Solitaria, which infests other fishes than the black bass and is also found in frogs. It is more commonly found during the cold weather, although it may be present at all seasons, particularly in low and sluggish waters. Fishes, as a rule, are much iofested with parasites, and unless present in large quantities in comparison with the bnlk of the fish, do no harm to the fishes as food. When the latter are cooked, the parasites enter into the sum of nutritive matter. Dr. Joseph Leidy, of the University of Pennsylvania, was con- sidered quite an authority on the subject of fish para- sites, ana is reported to have said once in answering a a question on this subject, that he thought the para- sitic worms in fishes improved their flavor as well as nutritious qualities, adding, however, "I confess I prefer the fishes without the parasites, and when I eat the roe of a herring I first scrape off the 'ginger- bread worms' that are usually seen adherent to the surface. For some time past there has been a strange species of fish noticed in a pool near the fish hatchery at Ukiah. One of these fish was gigged recently with a common hay fork and thrown from the spring which is the source of the pool. The specimen was taken to Colonel LaMotte, superintendent of the hatchery, who is an authority on things pertaining to species of fish. He at once pronounced it an Austrian "mirror" carp. This is said to be one of the most toothsome fish known, but the manner in which they came to be planted in this spring is a puzzle. Old settlers have known of this fish being in the spring for many years, but did not give it sufficient thought to ascertain its species. In color it is golden, has a decidedly pretty contour and is almost without scales. The few scales possessed by the fish area dark golden color, making a decide! contrast with the lighter hue of its body. Colonel LaMotteintends to make an investigation and determine, if possible, the manner in which the species came to be transplanted in that vicinity. The railroad fish hatchery has been doing an im- mense business this year and only recently 300,000 young trout were planted in Mendocino County streams. Of these 75,000 were placed in Reeves Miil Creek this week. There are countless thousands of young trout ready for transplanting and they are being sent out as fast as possible. The water in the streams of Mendocino County is unusually low for this season of the year, which is a disadvantage in the placing of young fish. A consignment of 120,000 trout from the State hatchery at Sisson arrived via the Southern Pacific Railroad safely at San Bernardino last week, and under the direction of deputy Fish Comissioner James H. Boyed, the infant fish were hurried to the mountains and safely planted in the mountain streams. There were twelve cans of fish, around each can wag placed a certain amount of ice so that the fish might not die because of the heat. Deputy Fish Commissioner English and an assisstant accompanied the fish to San Bernardino, he says they are the finest specimens of trout ever turned out by the State hatchery. He does not believe they were harmed by the long trip from the northern part of the State, and he also believes that the precautions taken by Mr. Boyed for their transportation to the mountains will result in their being Bafely planted without suffering any loss. The fish were taken to the following mountain streams: Devil canyon. Lytle creek, Bear valley, LRfevre City creek, Warm creek. Daik canyon, Waterman canyon. Little Bear valley, Mill creek, upper Santa Anna, Daer creek and Santa Ana above Bear creek. The fish for the eastern section of the valley were shipped to Craftonville on the same train and loaded into wagons from there. Outings Made Enjoyable. When you go to the country or the mountains, dress your feet properly. Ill fitting and improper dress will spoil your pleasures The Skinner Co . SJ! Market St, have made to special pattern, footwear for men and women that is right for all kinds of outdoor work. The prices will suit your purse as well as the shoes fit your feet. Call and see them. The Self Basting Broiler is one of the New Camp Comforts. It sells for 50 cents, and Skinner has it— Don't fail to see it, if you are going Camping or Hunting during vacation. * The Boy's Gun. Perhaps there is no other piece of mechanism that has ever been invented, for which the average boy baa more admiration than he has for the gun. The reader can doubtless recall with what pride and pleasure he first handled a real fowling-piece, which in all proba- bility he ha6 not outgrown to this day. And it is but natural that a boy should regard a gun with awe and admiration, embodying to his mind, as it does, the utmost of power and force which the skill of man is able to produce. What wonder is it that he should aspire to o^vn one, and look forward with intense longing to the day when he can possess one of his own! Few indeed are the boys that do not manage to get possession of one, in one way or an- other, sooner or later, and the day on which it is pur- j chased is the proudest in all the whole rouDd of a 1 life's history. Many a lad has resorted to ends, in order to raise the money necessary to buy his first gun, which doubtless bring a smile of amusement to his face as he recalls them in after years. And the fact that the prize was so dearly won did not detract from its value when at last secured, may be taken for granted to be only too true. The desire and ambition to own a gun has been the incentive which has inspired many a man in youth to earn his first dollar, and so stirred him to the first real endeavor of his life. But it contains its danger's \ also which are not insignificant, by any means. The first of these is the fact that in his baste to buy, many a lad made his purchase btfore he had succeeded in 1 saving enough money to pay for a respectable piece, and toe con equence was that his arm when pur- : chased was pretty sure to be about as poor and worthless an affair as could be found anywhere in the neighborhood. The second difficulty arose from the circumstance that in nine cases out of ten, the young purchaser! kept his intended bargain strictly to himself, not making bold to tell of h.s aspiration for fear of beicg exposed to ridicule, and thus was compelled to rely upon his own judgment instead of securing the assist- ance of an older and wiser head. When the bargain was finally struck, it was pretty sure to be a poor odc. What utterly worthless and good for nothing affairs have been seen in the hands of boys! The wonder is that we do not hear more often than we do of accidents from these thoroughly untrustworthy pieces which havefound their way into the handsof the young and inexperienced. A veteran of many years experience would hardly make bold to use some of them, so worn and dangerous is their condition, and yet a boy would not hesitate to put them to the test, through ignorance of their character. Horse-pistols, cast away muskets of earlier days, arms rebored and altered.no od€ knows to what ex- tent, rifles made into shot guns and flint locks conver- ted into breech loaders by some ingenious but inex- perienced blacksmith in his leisure hours, these and many more, fire arms of the most unusual sort will be found in the hands of boys, of some of which it would be difficult indeed to trace out the history and origin. '"I can recall from my boyhood days an incident which impressed upon me especially the dangerous character of these odd unreliable arms, for which no one is willing to atand sponsor, "said an old sportsman on this subject. "I was out hunting ducks with a companion of about my own age, and as we were standing on the lake shore, scanning the tossing waters before us for a 6ign of an approaching duck, of a sudden the piece with which my associate was armed, amusket altered from muzzle to breech loader, suddenly went off aB he held it under his arm. Fortunately neither of us was hit with the charge, but the pebbles on the beach at our feet were thrown about in a lively manner, many of them striking us in the legs and feet, and for a moment we both thought that we had been shot. We took the gun to a gun- smith on our return, as the hammer would no longer stay at full cock, and heinformed us that the accident had been occasioned by the crumbling away of the tumbler, it being of soft metal bad given away before the constant pressure of the 6pring. That occurrence opened my eyes to the danger to which an unreliable gun exposes its owner on all occasions, and from that day began my education in the merits of the several makes of guns to be met with on every hand. Relia- bility and superiority were qualifications which had never occurred to me up to that time.*' Now it is a duty which every parent owes to a son, to see to it that he is not trifling with any of the dangerous and untrustworthy apologies for a gun which are more likely to fall into his hands than those of anyone else, simply because an unscrupulous in- dividual is sure to take advantage of his ignorance, if 1 occasion offers. Let a boy have a gun if he wants one. teach him 1 the proper use of it and the correct method of hand- ling it so as not to expose others to danger from it, j and best of all, see that he Is supplied with a new and I reliable and proper piece for his handling There are a number of both shot guns and rifles which are made especially for boys, put onto the market just to meet this very difficulty, which it is here the endeavor to outline, and every dealer carries them in stock — Parker Bros., L. C. Smith, Remington, Winchester or Clabrough makes are standard. These are the guns which should be put into the hands of boys and the worthless trash which so many of them to-day are handling should be taken from them and cast away — into the scrap iron pile. That is where they belong and where these dangerous fire-irons will be out of harm's way. Jackson's Napa Soda is sold in every city, and hamlet in the State. town AUGUST 15, 1903J ®tte gveebev axitr grpmrtsntcm 9 Hank's Mourners. It wa'n't quite Chri stianlike, but when Hank went the way of mortal men No one in all our neighborhood Could say a word that sounded good. No one oould give a hint that he Would find a mild eternity; All ruther 'lowed that, like as not, He'd get his just deserts served hot. The parson, not to go amiss, Just read from Job and Genesis. And, not to stray off in the dark, Made no extempo'ry remark. Without a friend! It struck us hard As we returned past Old Hank's yard, Leaving him in his lonely bed, Where not a single tear was shed. Without a friend: And then a cry That gave our thought at once the lie — A wail of grief that passed all bounds From Hank's three yaller, wuthless hounds. . Ethics of Breeding. Collie Trials at the World's Fair. It is possihle that one of the features at the St. Louis World's Fair next year will be a trial of work- ing Collies. These trials are frequent in England and Scotland and are drawing cards. Similar contests are held on the Continent, particularly in Prance; the dogs competing there are ''sheep dogs" essentially, but whether they are Collies, or a cross-bred dog or not, we are not fully posted. As to the practical value of such trials there can be no question. In the United States such exhibitions are not held as often nor is the intesest shown as extensively as it should be. The bench sho v Collie and the working Collie seem to be essentially different in many respects. As to the former dog, while he seems to be a thing of beauty and a joy forever to his owner, his working qualities, as a rule, are of so latent a nature as to ex- cite either ridicule or disgust when put to the test — generally on claimed abilities to do everything in the drover's field but talk. The dogs which do the work are generally a rather nondescript individual of un- doubted Collie origin and popularly known as a "sheppard dog" and usually called "Shop" by owners and drovers. This latter class of dogs are thought highly of by reason of their intelligence, courage and great work- ing abilities and are valued accordingly. Just what they can do, and how far they can go, in comparison to the working Collies across the sea, and what their particular standard is beside the working Collie, which latter dog is typical of the breed as well as a practical working animal, is a question we are not in position to answer. Possibly some of our readers may be able to shed a little light in this subject, for the development of the working Collie and trials of these dogs is a matter that is worthy of systematic development and organ- ize'), effort to that end. A communication from F. D. Coburn, Chief of the Department of Live Stock, is suggestive of induce- ments for concerted action of breeders and fanciers and is as follows: "Editor Breeder and Sportsman — Dear Sir: — Parties interested in a possible trial of Collie dogs as a feature of the World's Fair in 1904, have suggested the enclosed rules for its government. Is there in your opinion any sufficient interest among the breeders and users of Collie dogB in a public trial of the character named to make it credit- able to and worthy of recognition at a Universal Exposition? This department would be pleased to receive from you any suggestions as to the advisability of such a trial, and rules therefor." The rules already suggested for a possible trial of Collie dogs at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition are the following: The Collie trials will be held under the personal direction of the superintendent in charge, and for these trials blank applications for entry, containing columns for name, age, sex, color-marks, etc., of the dog may be obtained of the secretaries, up to the time of running. Kennels will be provided for the dogs. Ne dog can be entered except for trial. Each dog competing will be required to take five sheep from a pen, drive them a certain distance to another and pen them there. A fresh flock will be provided for each dog. He. in driving, may bark or not as may be his habit, but biting his sheep will be a demerit. Each shepherd may take his dog over the grouDd before the sheep are brought in, and show or tell him what he wants him to do. The shepherd may precede or follow the sheep as he may choose; he will not be permitted to assist his dog, except by voice or gesture. Hallooing, berating, or much bidding, or noise, will detract from the estimate of the performance of the dog. When a dog is working, no other dogs Bhall be present to distract his attention. No person, excepting the person in charge, and the members of the jury, shall enter the sheep ring while the dog is working. The jury will carefully note the disposition and docility of the different flocks of sheep, and make due allowance for those which are more wild than others. Each shepherd will have the privilege of exhibiting the working of his dog by chosing his own kind of work with the sheep after the regular trial has been completed. He may also show the training of his dog for other practical purposes as a farm or house dog. Dogs and bitches fifteen months old, or over, must compete in the aged class. Puppies under fifteen months having competed in the puppy class will also be eligible for entry in the aged class. All ties will be run off on flocks of three sheep. Trnctability, ready obedience, steadiness in driving, gentleness in working the sheep, and general aptitude in the dog for the business before him will have due influence with the jury in making their awards. Oh, she's just a brood bitch, is the passing remark of the breeder who is showing his kennels to the visitor. How often we have heard thi9, and cast our eye upon some faultily constructed female dog that bore but scant resemblance to the crack Bhow dogs of the kennel. Still to one who was familiar with the breed represented by the animal, there might appear certain tokens of strong character and type, which all her conspicuous faults could not hide from the man who knew the game, and then again, and this is more often the caBe, she might have no further excuse for being there beyond the fact that she was a female and could shell out puppies. How many there are of this sort of dog in kennels that ought to be better supplied. It is the result of the idea that any- thing is good enough for a brood bitch, and that per- haps is why we make such slow progress as a dog breeding nation in comparison to the British. The science of breeding has engaged the attention of a few who are interested in the dog cult, and we have had many beautiful theories evolved that look like finding winners — on paper, but somehow these clover chaps who have the game down to mathemati- cal or alphabetical exactness, are never high up in prize lists with their stock, which would argue that nature is not a scholar and has her own homely ways of doing things, and the many inexplicable upsets of carefully laid plans would seem to bear out the accu- sation that Nature is a very contrary jade. Yes, she is at times. We have only a lay kennel man's idea of mixing the different faults and good points so as to bring out what we want as a winner, but of the theories and constructions put upon breeding ethics we think that "Mac Siccor's" deductions embody a lot more horse sense than the average. Furthermore, we know that the writer has been and is one of the most successful breeders of Scottish Terriers on the other side. When in the hunting field, in a strange country, we used to follow the man who rode straight on the line of the hounds, not the man who cut corners with the idea of beating the fox, and the same applies here. The theories that are tangible and that one can see through without a binocular, are the safest to follow, and you get more sport. In our esteemed contempor- ary, "Illustrated Kennel News," "Mac Siccor's" "Ethics of Breeding" is a common sense talk, and the subject is handled with a Darwinian force. This writer takes as his text the difficulty of breed- ing first class Scottish Terriers, but what he says, while it applies, in the beginning of his article, more especially to the breed mentioned, it becomes so gen- eral in its application, that any breeder, if he knows hi» breed intelligently, may readily apply the argu- ments. To more distinctly bring out the points, we have taken the liberty of heading the different para- graphs, says The American Stock-Keeper. difficultyof breeding first class "scotties" Judging from the puppies that are to be seen at shows, the difficulty of breeding first class Scottish Terriers is a great one. The averageis improving, but the first class dog is as rare as ever if not more so. What can we do and whither can we turn to remedy this? I cannot set myself up as an authority, and point the royal road, but it may help matters if one straggler along the thorny way expresses his thoughts and his inferences. SHOW ring failures as brood bitches. The first thing that occurs to me is that few breed- ers are sufficiently particular about the bitches they breed from. We are all tempted to give a bitch that is a failure in the show ring a chance to prove herself at stud. We say to ourselves: " Here's a bitch, Bhort in head, long in back and loose at shoulders; but her sire was a good dog, her dam's Bire a good dog, and if we mate her with a good dog, long in head, closely coupled and good fronted , she should throw us, at any rate, one good pup." But in this we deceive our- selves. I cannot deny it may happen; long shots have a knack of coming off in their turn. All things being equal, an 100 to 1 chance will happen once in every hundred and one times; but should that once be early in the game, it does not increase the proba- bility on a large average, or afford proof that the chance is better than we anticipated. The dam of Isinglass is said to have been sold for £25, but it does not follow that all mares sold for £25 will breed Isin- glasses. To suggest such a thing is absurd, is it not? Yet many people breed on this hypothesis, or an equally illogical one. It is unfair to the dog to expect that he will give to the progeny of the bitch a,l the good points she so lamentably lacks. Poor tellow, he may have faults of his own, sadly in need of correc- tion, and even his good points may not be too firmly fixed in him. He may have been a one-in-a-hundred chance himself— for all practical purposes a sport— and be much in need of a mate possessing his own virtues, in order to fix them more securely in bis strain. Long chances will lead to nothing hut disap- pointment: for a brief period the owner of a happy fluke may flutter like the busy bee in the sur gather- ing in honey, but next generation will And him little further forward than before, and possibly further DAM EQUAL TO SIRE. It is all very well to "Regardez le sieur, "but it is of more importance to "Cherchez la femme, "if I may so use these phrases. The dam should be a breeder's first consideration, and in her he must have something to work upon. There are three kinds of Pitches— the show bitch, the brood bitch, and the rubbishy bitch, and it is not necessary that each indi- vidual should be only allowed to carry one of those tickets. In tact, the good show bitch ought also to be the good brood bitch, while it is no uncommon event to find the rubbishy bitch in the prize list. The title, "a good brood bitch," has to cover a multi- tude of sins, and, as a rule, includes a fine array of faults. The good Bhow bitch should be a good brood bitch, and the good brood bitch should only differ from the good show bitch in having to excess the points most difficult to obtain in the breed in-general, and in the strain from which she comes io particular. While we want iu the show bitch good length of heal and fair strength, we do not want to lose the sense of femininity, and while we want alee bone, we do not want so much as to give the feeling of cloudiness. In the brood bitch we cannot have too much leogth of head or strength of muzzle or bone, as the whole tendency of previous ancestry is toward a diminu- tion of these requirements, which must be counter- acted by excess in the individual. There is room for disagreement as to whether the good brood bitch should be longer in body than the good show bitch but I hope the day will never come for Scottish Ter- riers when an idea of the perfect Bhow bitch will necessitate a body too short for the requirements of successful breeding. We cannot, however, hope to possess nothing but perfect show and brood bitches, and the point of practical value to breeders is, how far we can depart from perfection in the bitches we breed from. VALUE OF PEDIGREE. The answer to this depends largely upon the ancestry from which they come, and brings into review the value of pedigree; but, before going into this, there are one or two general matters worth attention. Some breeders aver they like a brood bitch to be big, heavily-boned, and even a trifle coarse. Heavily-boned is all right, but size is an- other matter. As a rule, our stud dogs are on the big side, and many consider a big dog more likely to impress his good features than a small dog. If this be so, then, in using big bitches we are Ibreeding to size on both sides, and the only thing that will counteract a steady growth of size will be excessive in-breeding, with its attendant evils of loss of physical and nerve force. Ab to coarseness, we have enough of that in Scottish Terriers to make us avoid it as much as ever we can. What is most wanted at the present time is quality, and we can never get that if we use coarse bitches. INFLUENCE OF THE DAM. Does the sire exercise greater influence on the progeny than the dam is also a question of some im- portance, but I must refer the reader to books on the whole question of reproduction. Whatever con- clusion they arrive at, I feel safe in affirming that few breeders give sufficient weight to the influence of the dam and s reference to our most successful sires in the past will show that they possessed dams of consider- able merit. Personally, I am inclined to pay every bit as much respect to the characters of the bitches in a pedigree as to those of the dogs, and I ascribe failure in breeding to too little cognisance being taken of bitches and too much of dogs; therefore, in my estimation of the value of pedigree, I shall place equal value on sire and dam. COMPONENT INFLUENCES. Each individual animal is a component production, the component parts being the sire and dam and their predecessors. While I cannot say how much each generation of ancestry influences the individual, a rough and ready value may be placed on them by putting the influence of the combined parents at one- half, the grandparents at one-quarter, the great- grandparents ot one-eighth, and so on. This gives to each parent the influence of one-quarter and to each grandparent the influence of one-eighth. Before we apply these figures, it must be understood that the repetition of an individual in a pedigree — that le. In- breeding— tends towards an increase iD value of the good and the bad points of that individual. To avoid the abstruse, let us assume we have a bitch too short and weak in head, too big in ears, and too bad in front, to be of any U6e on the Bhow bench, and what have we to decide is, should we breed her? The first question we should aBk is: Has she any virtues in excess, or is she merely a passable bitch with three outstanding faults? If she is so we should condem her, as three prominent faults and no prominent virtue is too much to look to the dog to correct, as well as his own faults, unless there is a plea for mercy to be found in her pedigree. Now, the pedigree must be examined from the point of view of the expected puppies, to whom our bitch in question will have the value of one-quarter according to our table; another quarter will be the sire of our selection the third quarter his ancestry, and the last quarter our bitch 'b ancestry. We know that one-quarter's influence on the prospective puppies is short and weak in head, big in ear, and bad in front, and ivhal we have to in- quire into is whether the percentage of these defects is, or is not, increased by the remaining three-quar- ters. It is very unlikely that our bitch derived her defects from none of her progenitors. It is also un- likely that we will be able to find a sire who has not some of these defects, either in himself or his immedi- ate forebears. Our examination may, in the end, show that short, weak beads are to be traced to one- half of the total value of the puppies, that bad fronts amount to three quarters, and big ears to one-quarter. A mathematical calculation will therefore show that it is ten to one against our puppies having good heads, ears and front: and we have left out entirely the prospects of the union reproducing others of the faults to be found in individual members ef the pedigree. It will be contended, no doubt, that nature does not work on a mathematical basis, but the use I have made of fractions is an idiomatic one, to show in simple form the basis of scientific breeding, and if pedigree is to be of any use to the breeder, it muBt be applied in some such form as shown. (To be continued.) 10 ®hc gvee&ev crofr gtpvvt&nuxxt [August 15, 1903 Irish Terriers. ie who hare not read Mr. Rawdon Lee's work on the ieriMts, of which the last edition recently came out. m3j be interested with some extracts show- - ing pr: ot the breeds. As to color, it seems that the Irish Terrier was of several colors, and we read: " Before railways were introduced, interbreed- ing in certain localities caused a type which might have varied slightly in different districts, and as color w3saminor consideration we so often find puppies, ev=n to the present day, black and tan, gray or brin- dle in color. This does not show bad breeding, but rather the contrary. At an early Irish show, in lb, i, there were classes given for Irish Terriers unoer lilo pounds weignt, clearly showing that small Terriers were fashionable tt en. The foundations of the pres- ent generation of show Terriers are nearly all de- scended from Mr. Waterhouse's Kdliney Boy, and it is a difficult matter to find oDe that has not some drop of his blood in his veins. The red or jellow are now considered the correct color, and the dark puppies are usuallv destroyed; but as tnedam of Killiuey Boy was a rough bUck and tan, color is merely a question of fashion" When red puppies were born in the same litter as black and tans, tne former are nearly always a good bright red; but the black and tans have better coats, invariable as hard as pin wire. I am by no means certain that by not using the latter to breed from we are losing the hard, wiry coats and brighter red color, and, were it not for the art of trimming, miny of our winning Terriers would have coats almost as shaggy as are found on the mountain sheep. Nearly all our "best Terriers trace their pedigrees back to a bitch named Erin, bought by the late Mr. W.Graham of B-ilfast, before being shown at Dublin in 1879. Tnis bitch was, perhaps, tbe best Irish Ter- rier ever -seen, and I very much doubt if any Terrier of to-day is her superior, if her equal." DOINGS IN D0GD0M. It -will he a great pleasure to many of our readers and to the Coast fancy at large to know that a much esteemed sportsman and a royal good fellow, Norman J. Stewart, has arrived again in California. Mr. Ste.vart is at present in San Jose. The Pacific Northwest Field Trials will begin on September 29th. Tbis is earlier than usual, but it is expected that the greater number of birds to be found at tdat time will mora tbao compensate for the earli- ness of thesetrials. Two prizes of $15 and S10 will be given to the handlers starting the largest number of dogs in tbese trials. The Texas State Fair people propose to transfer their franchise to a Texas Kennel Club and furnish it a hall to hold a show in, if held on its grounds during the fair. A Texas dog show is badly needed; it means business for tbe dog fanciers, and thin liberal proposition should be accepted. If it should be a small one, composed of Texas dogs only, it would be a start and worti money to the men who would exhibit. If the rounders or professional handlers are cut out, so much the better. There are men in Dallas or in the state who can superintend it, and if regular cash prizes cannot be paid, then award honors only. The practical utility of usiog Bloodhounds, so called, in the tracking of criminals has again been proven almost useless in the recent attempts to capture the escaped convicts from the Folsom prison. Asa sport, man-hunting with Bluodhounds may be ratherdivert- ing^ as has been shown in Bloodhound trials in this country and England, but for practical purposes in tin diraHioa irresponsible correspondents of the dailies suggest and recommend we must dismiss it from our minds as. so unlikely to prove its value that we miy as vretl&t once remirk that the game is not worth the caddler-ror rather the Bloodhound. Entry blanks for the Nevada field trials have been Sent Out. Dr. C. E. Wilson of Reno, Nev., will furnish further particulars or send entry blanks to sportsmen Interested. Wand ee Kennels are now in charge of Mr. S. Lomas, a cleve Manchester lad not unknown to the English fancy through his connection with a prominent English fancier's establishment. The new kennel- master arrived here last week and is warmly en- dorsed by George Raper. Waodee Kennels will have representatives on the Eastern show circuit this fall and next spring. The Fox Terrier Sea Breeze has arrived here in gooi shaps and is now at the kennels. It will be rememb-red this dog and Champion True were pur- chased for Mr.Harley in England by Mr. Raper. Two Fox T--r:-r bitches, in whelp, were brought . by the way, has been making "f our loc.iX fanciers and breeders ib the we,-tj and has already won a number of fr'pnd.^ b: his pleasant unas-uming manner under which, however, it ;- not difficult to plainly fee that h- t- in "th? \g .,, v ■■ Oieof the bitches he brought but is Sow ion Cnerry. ° We regret to state that John Grace, the veteran coursing jul go. was seriously iniuied while judgine the caursrng; at Cnion Park last Sundav. Enrlv in the running rti the op-n statse event Judge Grac 's ho^se stumbled and fell, carrying his rider down in snch a way that he was pinned under the animal When released from his position under the horse the field stewards found that Grace was badly injured rod he was immediately sent to his home at li Aliister street. Dr. A. T. Leonard, Jr. was called and "*r'i that the veteran had sustained a fracture if all but one rib on the left side, a fractured collar bone and a dislocated shoulder, also on the left side. His injuries are terribly painful, and it will be many weeks before Judge Grace is again in the saddle. An examination of the horse by a veterinary surgeon revealed a peculiar cause for the accident. It is the veterinary's opinion that the animal "over-reached" himself when he settled into his stride as the judge urged him up the field. In doing so the left bind hoof struck the left fore leg behind the knee, splinter- ing the bone and bringing the animal to earth. Fortunately, the horse made no effort to move after he had fallen, and Judge Grace was rtscued from his perilous position without difficulty. For more than thirty-five years John Grace has been judgiDg coursing races, and he is considered one of the best authorities at the sport in America. Dur- ing his career he has passed judgment on more than 80.000 coursing races, refereeing as many as 7000 con- tests in a single season. Grace is now 60 years of age, and his physician is unwilling to forecast the result of his injuries, as on Sunday night the patient was suffer- ing a great deal fromshock. His condition hasshown but little improvement during the week. GOSSIP FOR SPORTSMEN. Mr. John Bradshaw has asked us to state that he has withdrawn from the management of the Pacific Dog Hospital. AT THE TRAPS. There was quite a gathering of sportsmen at Ingle- side last Saturday afternoon, the occasion being the live pigeon shoot of the Hellbender Club for a hand, some silver cup donated to the club by Frank Dickey The trophy was won oy Dr. E. G. McConnell, who grassed 25 pigeons straight, shooting at 29 yards rise. Dr. McConnell shot in splendid form and sur- prised some of the veteran trap-shooters by his clever shooting. Hip Justins scored 24 birds straight. His third bird, heavily hit with both barrels dropped to the ground beyond the boundary fence and was lost. Justins shot at 28 yards. The other shooters in this contest were: Clarence A. Haight, 31 yards, 23 birds out of 25; Ed Donohoe, 32 yards. 22 birds; C. C Nau- man, 36 yards, 22 birds; James V. Coleman, 28 yards. 23 birds; Cal McMahon, 28 yards, 21 birds, and Dr. Birdsall, 26 yards, 20 birds. B. L. Woodward, who had a national reputation as a trap shooter, passed away on tbe 10th inst. at his home in Brockton, Mass., aged 32. He was considered one of the best marksmen in the country and was a member of the Ail-American team which took part in the international shooting contests two years ago in England. The scores in the various events at the Golden Gate Gun Club shoot last Sunday at Ingleside are given below. E. Klevesabl was the winner in the challenge race for the Hibbard trophy. Club race, 25 targets, distance handicap, 50 cents entrance, 7 moneys — Feudnerf 14yds — lint mil 11111 11101 moi— 23 n'orster 18 •• —11111 11111 10111 11111 11011—3 McConnell 18 " — lllll 11111 11191 1IIU1 11111—23 Halghlt 16 •' —00101 11010 lllll lllll inn— 20 Klevesahl 16 " — 11110 lino lllll llool 11101 — do Murdock 18 " —00101 lllll 11011 lllll 01111—20 Golcher 16 " —0U011 lllll lllll 11011 01101 -19 Wands 16 •' —10011 11011 lllll 11100 10111—19 Nauman 80 :* — 01101 lllll OHIO 11010 lllll— 19 Wattles 14 " — 1 101 1 11110 11001 1U0I1 noil— 18 Sylvester 14 •• —lino 10111 0CO1I 01111 10111—18 "Slade" 16 " —lllll 0I1I1 01011 00011 10110—18 Donuhoe 16 " —11101 mil 11011 110.0 10111—18 Iverson 14 " —10110 1001111100 0011101001—14 fSIlver bars Second event, 20 targets, reverse system — Murdock lllll lllll OHIO 11111—18 Halght 10111 mil 11101 11110—17 Golcher 11101 11101 11101 lllll— 17 Nauman 101 1 1 lllll 11010 11111—17 Iverson 10111 Hull Oltll OHIO— IS Sylvester 11100 OHIO OHIO 10011—12 Klevesahl 10101 10101 lUlol limn— 12 Feudner 10111 OHIO 01100 0001 1— II McConnell 01OO 11010 10110 10011—10 Lewis 10001 11000 00000 10001—6 Third event, 20 targets, 1 man up, distance handi- cap, -SI. 40 entrance, 3 moneys — Nauman lllll lllll mil inn— 20 Sylvester lllll mil 01)01 11111—17 Feudner 10001 lllll lllll mil— 17 Haight mil imo mio 10111—17 Lewis lllll lOlll ii no 11010—16 Robertson 10101 1I0II 11110 mil— 15 Golcher % 101 11 0I01I 11011 10111—15 Donohoe 00011 11110 11010 11111—14 Iverson noil 01100 lino 10100—12 Fourth event, doubles, 10 pairs — Nauman 11 11 11 00 II 01 11 10 10 11—15 Golcher 10 10 10 II 11 10 10 10 10 11—13 Donohoe 11 10 10 18 10 10 01 11 10 01—12 Klevesahl II 01 10 01 II 10 10 10 10 10—12 McConnell 11 10 00 10 II 00 01 II 10 10—11 Feudner 11 00 10 (O 10 10 in in 11 00— 9 Haight 10 10 10 10 00 10 00 10 01 II— 9 Fifth event, reverse system, unknown angles, use of both barrels — Haieht mil mil mil 21210—19 Naumnn 10212 12021 MHO III 1 1— 17 Goiehw iron 111000 11211 12111—14 Feudner 00110 01111 11OOI 12012—13 Sixth event, 15 targets, Seargent system — McfVmnell lllll mil 11111-15 Haight 01111 11101 111111—12 Nauman.... mu rmn 10m— 12 Wands lion nnin IIYOft— 9 Golcher 01011 D0110 mil)- 9 Donohoe 10111 01011 11110—11 Seventh event, Challenge contest for C. W. Hibbard trophy. 50 targets, SI 00 entrance — Klevesahl moi 11101 lllll lllll mil _ omi 01111 inn inn 10111-45 Robertson inn mm 10111 11101 non 11111 non mil noni imn— 13 Murdock 01111 mm on 1 1 11110 01 in mm moi mu mro 10111—40 Forster oono 01 in 11111 omn 11m „_ ,, mil loon imn omn 01110— 37 McConnell 10001 10111 mm 01101 omn 11111 01111 00111 01001 11011—34 The angling fraternity find recreation and use for the rod in numberless pleasant resorts these August days. Along the Truckee from Boca to Verdi are located quite a number of local sportsmen who are enjoying the fly-fishing on the famous trout stream. At Big Meadows the fishing is still attractive, one day this week A B. Finch creeled a catch of 33 pounds ol rainbows on flies and light tackle. Reports from the McCloud are inviting, the royal coachman and brown hackles are receiving much attention from the trout in that rushing mountain stream. Eel river is credited with a run of steelhead thus early, this favorite water, however, will receive the close attention of anglers next month. Point Reyes is still a favorite resort of a number of anglers, the stream above the railroad bridge seems to be pretty low. Most of the fish are now caught in the tide water fishing spots. Black bass angling at Duncan's Mills and about Camp Vacation is good enough to induce several of the experts to stay on the Russian river banks for days and weeks. Salmon, and fine big fellows too, are daily being caught in Monterey bay. The best fishing ground seems to be Capitola; barracuta and seabafs are also to be caught. The barracuta are lively customers when one of them has hooked himself on your bone jig. Thomas E. Flynn, of this city, and O. A. Hale, of Petaluma, each hooked and took a 40-pound salmon this week. Monterey bay is full of sardines upon which fish the salmon are fattening. Spoon trolling would be most effective had not the boatmen, every one of them, seemed to demonstrate to the angler just bow slow they can propels boat, hence the baited hook (tbe boatmen sell bait, too) is the caper for the boat. In the launches the sports- men get the proper speed and consequently have much sport with the spoon. Striped bass fishing in and about the bay waters is picking up, a number of fine fish have been caught recently. A 20 pounder was among the fish taken in the "straits." Al M. Cumming caught 20 fish one day this week in San Antone creek. Near Fairville a number of nice fish have been hooked. J. F. Fatjo, a well known and liked local angler, proprietor of the Lake Merritt boat house is away on a honeymoon trip at Point Arena. Meanwhile tbe Lake Merritt bass contingent have been assiduously taking bass out of the lake and wishing "Jack" and his pretty bride all the good luck in the world. Why cast-off and bend were invented was probably not to compel a man to take unnecessary aim, but tb enable him to see his mistake when it arose. When bad shooting comes on, confidence is shaken, and without confidence good shooting cannot be restored. We believe that the ability to align the rib is a ready means to the restoration of confidence. It has often happened with our experiments in trying new guns that we start by doing really good shooting with a gun that we are unable to align Then suddenly shooting goes off; and this very inability to align has always prevented us getting into form again; whereas, with our own guns nothing is easier than this re- covery. The reason is that with a gun that can be aligned we know what we are doing, and where we shoot; whereas, with another weapon we only know we miss, nothing more. Now we are not going to fall into the mistake we condemn, of judging others by our own weaknesses. We prefer to take the majority as our own guide when we can. In advocating bend and cast-off, we are merely repeating the arguments that have influenced all experts, from Joe Manton (the father of modern gunmaking) to the makers of to-day. We have frequently been told that the modern bend and ca6t-off is abnormal, but we do not think it is so. It is the very straight stocked guns that are the outcome of pigeon shooting that are ab- normal. Save the Birds. A recent discovery in Suisun valley shows conclu- sively that the white owl is a valuable bird as an ex- terminator of gophers, and some measure should be taken to protect tbem from the ravages of hunters, who kill them for pastime. Some time ago, says the Solano Republican, some boys found a nest of white owls containing several young ones. A few days later the nest was again visited and near it were found twenty gophers which had been caught and carried there as food for the young by tbe mother owl. It has been the practice of the Japanese ard some of the white boys of the valley to kill these white owls by the wholesale. They are harmless and do no damage to vegetation of any kind. On the contrary, they are of great value as exterminators of gophers and rats, which are nothing but pests. Another bird which should be protected from the hunters is the pht asant, a particular species of which was introduced iD the wooded lands of Gordon valley by E.J. Okell some years ago and the surrounding groves bad become well populated with them, but of late they have been almost exterminated by bunters. They should be protected from indiscriminate shoot- ing. Free!! Free!! Free!! The Polk Miller Drug Co. of Richmond. Va.. whose advertise- ments of "Sergeant's Dog Remedies" are appearing now in the oolumns of this journal, desire us to state that they will furnish absolutely free to our readers a revised copy of their book on " Dogs." which accurately and exhaustively treats of the more frequent diseases with which Dogs are afflicted- Enclose them 3c in stamps to cover cost of mailing the book They hare recently made F W. Braun & Co. of Los Angeles, California, distributing agents for their popular line of "Dog Remedies," and extend an Invitation to all persons having sick dogs to write them describ- ing symptoms, etc Enclose stamp for reply. No charge will t« made for information furnished. August 15, 1903] ®he gvee&ev emir ^pwisntan 11 THE FARM Live Stock at the State Fair. Sacramento, July 29, 1903.— Tbe State Fair of 1903 Will approach nearer than any fair of recent years to the standard which the State Fair of a great agricul- tural State like California ought to strive for. The livestock exhibits, especially, promise to be up to this standard of ex- cellence. .. It has been the policy of the directors to give every incentive to tbe breeders oi -" this State and neighboring States to ex- hibit their herds of improved pure-bred horses, cattle, sheep and swine of every breed by increasing the premiums offered and by a thorough revision of the premium list to meet modern conditions. The State of Iowa will be represented by an exhibit of Clydesdale and Shire horBes and Polled Angus cattle. Nevada will be represented by the well- known Hereford herd of Governor Sparks and the equally weh-known J. Marzen herd of short horns. Up north in Oregon such breeders as Ladd of Portland, owner of the Oak Hill Stock Farm, and W. O. Minor, hoth breeders of short horns and other improved breeds, are preparing to battle for the blue ribbonB. California also will be well represented and her herds will take their share of the honors. The short horns will be out in force, for we hear that Isaac Bird of Mer- ced, J. H. Glide of Sacramento, Eobert Ashburner and the Quinto herd, property of the William H. Howard estate, P. H. Murphy and W. Gibson will all be on band, as well as other breeders of the noble hreed to prove the merit of their respective herds. Whitaker's Herefords from Gait and Cone's herd of Herefords from Eed Bluff will vie with the Alamo herd of Governor Sparks from acroBS the mountains. The Shatter herd and herds of the North and South Jersey associations will compete for honors in the Jersey classes. The Holsteins will have a strong repre- sentation. La Siesta Ranch of San Jose, Pierce Bros, of San Joaquin, Minnewawa Stock Farm of Fresno and other repre- sentative breeders will show. Sheep and Bwine will be legion ; individuals from Ohio, Iowa, Oregon, Illinois and New York will be exhibited. Although the succeBB of an exhibit of this kind depends largely upon the quality of the exhibits a competent. judge is the most important factor. There can be no more instructive object lesson, none more fruitful of results to the farmer and the cattleman than that of an expert of animal industry judging a class of cattle, especially his exposition of the good and bad points of the various individuals. Judging livestock is no haphazard pro- cess of arriving at an opinion as to which is the most pleasing to the eye, but is an exact science, with utilitarian considera- tions as a foundation. A competent judge must be conversant with tbe uses to which each animal or breed is to be pat and must know what type of that breed best fills the requirements. Hence the beef breeds are judged good, bad or indifferent, in the measure that tbey show early maturity, aptitude to fatten, and a dozen other requirements of form, etc. The dairy breeds from an entirely different point of view, and as this applies to the breede it applies to the individual. Professor W. L. Carlyle, ex- pert in Animal Industry of the University of Wisconsin, will be the judge, and associated with him will be Professor E. W. Major of the University of California The judging is the greatest educational feature of the fair, and no farmer or stockman can afford to miss it. Those that had the good fortune to hear Pro- fessor Carlyle, at last year's fair, one and all say that they would not have missed it for anything. The layman will do well also to take advantage of this great opportunity, both for the pleasure derived and for tbe practical knowledge obtained. There is no need for a man being stuck by his butcher with cheap meats when he is paying for choice cuts; no need of his buying for a family cow one fit only for the block. Let him go and learn, and return home a wiser and broader man. E. W. Howard, Vice-President State Board of Agriculture. World's Fair Cow Demonstration. Che cow demonstration proposed as one feature of the World's Fair cattle ex- hibits at St. Louis next year has been definitely arranged, and on a much broader scale than anything of the sort Heretofore attempted. It has been desig- nated as a l'cow demonstration" because, while not in any way neglecting the dairy test idea developed at former world's fairs, it is intended to illustrate in a com- prehensive way the practical adaptabili- ties of the pure-bred cow. The strictly dairy breeds are given opportunities to make a large showing, while features not in the least conflicting with their privi- leges enable the dual-purpose breeds to demonstrate their value for both dairying and beef production. This means a demonstration rather than a competitive test, and will enable each breed partici- pating to show its own peculiar advant- ages. The Jersey, Short-horn, Brown Swiss and French Canadian associations have already entered. Entries will be per. mitted from individuals on behalf of other breeds if received before December 1st. Prizes will be awarded to herds and to in- dividual cows, and entries of from five to twenty-five cowb may be made by repre- sentatives of any one breed. The same cows may compete for herd and individual prizes. The tests will continue '100 days, be- ginning Monday, May 16, 1904, and will be conducted in four classes, designated as Tests A, B( C, and D. Test A is for the demonstration of the economic production of butterfat and butter; B, of milk for all purposes related to dairying; C, of all the products of the cow; and D, for demon- strating the greatest net profit in produc- ing market milk. In Class C the calf will be judged for its beef merits. A cow may be entered in more than one class. Copies of the rules may he had by applying to F. D. Coburn, Chief of De- partment of Live Stock, World's Fair, St. Louis, Mo. The Growing Scarcity. There is food for reflection in the fol- lowing from the last issue of the Breeders Gazette, published in Chicago : "What significance is to be attached to to the presence of such an unusual num- ber of three-year-old drafterB in the wholesale martB? For some weeks past Illinois and Iowa shippers have been paying good prices for drafters of this age in the country and sending them to Chi- cago, where they have been eagerly bought up at prices ranging from .$150 to $210 by Eastern feeders or rather dealers who make a specialty of supplving the Eastern feeders with their stockB each year. In former years quite a good many four-year-olds have gone East as feeders, but never before has a business been made of shipping colts a year younger. What is the more extraordinary is that quite a few of these thr«e-year-olds are mares and that a farmer or breeder should sell a good draft-bred three-year-old fi'ly in these times passes comprehension. Surely that is a most suicidal policy and, what is more, it is a real injury to the breeding interest, for once a filly gets into the hands of the feeder she is lost as a producer for many years, at least for all her best years. It is certain that if shippers and feeders are buying three-year-olds it is because they are sure the supply will be shorter than ever next season and if that is true horses will be higher in price than they are now. What reason then is there for farmers to let go of their colts ? And if there is none when the males are under discussion, what must be said of the sense of the farmer who sells his fillies? We believe that every indication favors still higher values in 1904, whatever may come after that, and in the meantime nothing but the roundest sort of a figure should part a holder from bis good young draft-bred horses. The fillies he should maintain for seed stock or advertise them for sale as such. If the man who has a few well- bred large draft fillies and wants to sell them will advertise them properly he will find ten men ready to purchase every ani- mal he has to offer." Improve by Selecting. All over this country farms and farm- ers have grown poorer through method of selling off continually and not bringing anything back to the land. The same is true to a large extent with all our live stock, poultry included. For years the husker has come along, and eacb time he passes he aelectB tbe very best of all your poultry to buy for the market. By the time he has bought all you have to sell you will have left for your own use the culls of all you grew. This continues un- til we hear you Bay, "the huskster or com- mission man is too particular to buy our stock," when the facts are there are noth- ing left but weeds. Under this way of doing the farm goes to weeds, all the stock goes to weeds, and the farmer and his family into rags. To avoid all this never sell the best of anything unless there is more of it than you need. With fowls be sure to to select all of the best for your breeding and for egg producing, and sell those you do not want. Never Bell tbe best; keep them to breed from. The best are none too good for this. By thus selecting year after year we shall soon have a flock the poor- est of which will excel tbe best of former years — N. P. Farmer. The Silo and Beef Making. Now, when we come to the producing of beef, my knowledge is mostly second- hand ; but I am acquainted with a number of feeders in our rich limestone valleys of southern Pennsylvania who are making beef by the use of silage in combination with other suitable feeds, and they mar- ket the finest animals at the best prices, writes L. W. Lightly in Stockman and Farmer. They sell a lot of hay at big J prices and have more money to spend or put at interest than any one else. For these and other reaBons I believe that silage will reduce the cost of beef produc- tion as much as in dairy products. In growing young dairy animals I found silage to do wonders. Occasionally I meet a man who tells me that silage makes animals delicate and they can not stand the cold. Possibly cattle that are ex- pected to "rough it" had better be fed on dry feed. Succulent feed of any kind has a relaxing effect on the system ; hence it is not in condition to withstand extremes. Whith improved feeding we Bhould adopt improved shelter. Losses From Destructive Insects. Insects are such insignificant things that, even when we know them to be in- jurious, we rarely comprehend the extent of damage they do and the amount of loss they cause us. Dr. H. C McCook, in an article in Barpefs Weekly, gives some figures in this matter that are startling to one who has never studied it. The chinch bug, he says, cause.! a loss of $30,000,000 in 1871, upwards of $10.1,000,000 in 1874, and $80 000,000 in 1877. The Rocky Mountain locust in 1874 destroyed $100,- OOO.QOO of the cropB in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa. The cotton cater- pillar causes an average loss of $15 000,000 in the Southern Statee, while in I860 and 1873 this loss was doubled. The grain weevil inflicts an annual Iobb on ue of $40,000,000, and the codling moth destroys from $30,000,000 to $40,000,000 of our fruit annually. These are but a few of the de- structive insects which are working in our crops, and, if it were possible to compute the damage dene by all, tbe figures given above would appear insignificant. It is a fortunate thing that for most of our de- structive insects nature has provided enemies that keep them in check, or it is doubtful whether these insignificant specks in the animal world would not drive the lord of creation himself off tbe earth. Keep a Few Geese. Senator Chapmen of Illinois, recently performed the unubual feat of topping the Chicago cattle market three times in one day. He forwarded that day three loads of beeves There was one load of short- horns which made $5.60, averaging 1,322 pounds, one load of Herefords which made $5.60, averaging 1,2S1 pounds, and one load of Angus which sold for $5.55 and averaged 1,228 pounds. These cattle sold at the extreme top among receipts of over 24,000 head and the occurrence has never been duplicated. The top price, too, is within a nickel per cwt. of the very high- est made in the Chicago market for three months. Sober up on Jackson's Napa Soda. Geese are scavengers, like sheep. They will thrive in summer on any rough pas- turage accessible to water. A bog mead- ow covered with wild grass just suits them. They will foul more food than they will eat, if allowed to roam with stock in clean meadows. They should not he permitted to have the freedom of the farm, if kept in any considerable numbers. We do not think a large flock requires special facilities, when a small flock can be trusted to take care of themselves for nine months in the year. Geese are as much grazing animals as.horBes or cattle. In summer they need very little grain if they have grass and vegetables. In winter they will enjoy life better and make better breeders in the spring if their diet is composed principally of cut hay, corn stalks and vegetables. For shelter a rough shed with a good roof is all they require. A Toulouse gander and Embden geese make a good market combination. — Exchange. A correspondent of Sural New Xorker writes : "I intend to put clover in our silo and feed during the summer. I do not want to run it through the cutter. Shall I put it in green or let it wilt a little?" In reply, through the same medium, H. E.Cook Bays: "You cannot put the clover in too green. I should expect; if put in uncut, that you would have to use water and do considerable treading unless the amount put in iB large snd conse- quently makes for a heavy pressure. If cut fine the water in the stalks and leaves will equalize and appear as though water had been added. It might be more con- venient and it certainly would handle much easier to allow it to wilt for an hour and then run water on after putting in. We must not forget that all forage plants contain less water than corn and are therefore not as easily kept in the silo. Keep in mind also that silage for immedi- ate use should have the same attention that we give for the winter food. There is often a disposition to use less care when it is to be fed out at once. I thought so mytelf some years ago, but found the error of my way when we fed the stuff. I should, if the job was mine and the quantity not large, cut it and pack it just the same as for winter use." FOR SALE. MIRIAM E , OWN SISTER TO BEN F. 2:t1>*, winner of tbe 3:17 pace at Vallejo, Thursday, August 13th. MIKIAM E. Ih a Tery handsome large black mare, five years old. a natural pacer, and though worked but very little can show great speed. She will bo sold right, Is a flue roadster and a great prospect for a race mare. Is sound and all right every way. Apply to EDW. DINKELSPIEL, Si 13 @:he ^reeiiev anif ^pcnct&man [AUGUST 15, 1903 The Bacon Hog. The bacon bog- has been bred extensive- ly in England for over sisty J ears, and 0f ij,. prominence in the sd States. Toe advancement of this type of beg bas been slow, but it sea-cs only a matter of time until it will hold a bigb place in this country. A few farm- ere have been breeding these hogs and have been succ^seml, states the Dairy Fan ler The Iowa State Agricultural G 'liege keeps a herd of both Tam worth and York- shire hogs and has had good results from this v Our packing houses are demanding the bacon hog, and good prices are paid for tl em. The Morrell Packing Company of Ot. tumwa have been introducing the York- shire hog in the farming district sur- rounding that city, and considerable in- terest is taken in the work. Tnie com- pany formerly shipped a large part of its produce to England in the form of lard, and, seeing the opportunity to sell bacon, ha. undertaken to substitute it in place of its lard exports. The bacon type of hog has often been misconstrued, and in many cases ridi- culed; but this is done more because of lack of knowledge of the real bacon type than anything else. This type does not demand a thin hog. as is otten thought, but a hog with a thick covering of firm flesh. It is, of course, highly important that this flesh be lean, and this will fol- low if the true bacon breeds are raised. The bacon hog must possess extreme length and depth. He must be smooth arid evenly fleshed from the shoulders to the hips, presenting a neat and trim ap- pearance. "While to a large number of people these hogs are still strangers, it would be well for every farmer to watch their progress, as they are becoming more numerous each vear. the manufacture of milk products and of the animals and the quality of their the application of those principles to ac- products. tual practice, to tbe end that they may The successful dairymen are becoming know bow to turn out an improved prod- more and more the ones who make per- uct". The method of instruction and fection of quality their watchword, and by work done will appeal equally to the eo doing are enabled to obtain and retain needs of all those who are manufactur- customers who are willing to allow them ing miik products, whether it be in the a fair margin of profit — Farm and Fire- rancn dairy, using improved appliances, or in the large creamery or cheese fac- tory. The advance in dairy practice has been so rapid and the intimate relation of science to dairying has been shown to be so close during the past few years, that it is difficult for the person in or- dinary practice to fully understand all that has been done and the benefits it may bring him in his work. The Dairy School, with its equipment of modern machinery and in tbe hands of trained instructors, is designed to offer an easy and quick means to come into quick touch with what science is doing for tbe dairy industry and to learn the icfty as well as the hoir of scientific methodB in dairying. side. Tbe question of ''whether to churn Bour or sweet cream" is constantly renewed. It has been demonstrated again and again that good, sweet butter can be churned only from ripened, or cream that has a certain degree of sourness. Experience will tell when it is just right ; then is the time to churn. Strike! — if they don't give you Jack- son's Napa Soda when you ask for it. Live Stock Farming. It has been demonstrated both by expe- rience and practice that the farmer who sells beef, pork and mutton that he has produced from the corn and grass raised and fed on the farm makes more mone\ per acre of his land and per dollar of hie capital than the one who grows only wheat or corn or cotton and sells it, say- Prof. Pamel of Iowa. It is not necessary to entirely discontinue raising these crops, but if we are to produce a surplus to bt- sold in foreign markets it is best to export that surplus in the most condensed and marketable form, as meat and animal products rather than in the original crude and bulky state. In the long run the farmer will make the most money who devotes his fields tn the growing of forage crops to feed stock making use of all the raw pr.'ducts at home, thereby saving not only much of the cost of transportation, but maintain- ing the fertility o( the soil By doing so. corn-belt farmers will maintain their pre- eminence in agricultural lines. Experi- ence of the past few months has shown that tbe men who stuck to feeding and were not tempted by high prices to sell their corn have made the most money. Anvthing that will enhance the productive capacity of our soils for the production of forage conditions will help tbe farmer. Course in Dairying. A special course of instruction in dairy husbandry will be ogered by the TJni- versiiy.if California in connection w th the College of Agriculture, beginning Tuesday, October 6. and closing Thurs- day, December 17, 1903. A similar course was given during the fall of 1902, and was ied by thirty students, representing nearly all sections of the State. This course is designed to meet the needs of all persons who are encaged in the various lines of dairy manufacture Keeping Quality of Butter. Prof. G. L McKay and C. Larsen of Iowa Experiment Station, Ames, have issued Bulletin 71, covering the results of their recent and very thorough investiga- tions into butter quality. Every butter- maker should get this bulletin and learn its contents so thoroughly that he shall forever after be able to use the informa- tion in hia business of butter making. Without going into the details of each experiment, the conclusions reached are presented as follows: 1. Water contains germs which cause butter to deteriorate in quality. 2. These germs can be removed or de- stroyed in a practical and .inexpensive way by two processes, viz. : pasteurization and filtration. 3. Butter washed in pasteurized wash $100 Reward For long years we bave offered to pay this amount for any case of Lameness, Curb. Splint. Contracted Cord, Colic, Distemper, etc. which cannot be cured by Turtles Elixir We bave never been obliged to pay the re- ward for obvious reasons. It's infallible in all cases of ThmsK, Cracked a. nd Grease Keel ana all forms of Lameness. Turtle's American Condition Powders —* specific for impure blood and all diseases arising there- from. Tones up and Invigorates the entire system. Turtle's Family Elixir 'V0,^^,? are.!?; J eiy In the home. « e send a sample free for6c in stamps, merely to pay p -stage. Send at once for our 100-page boot "Veterinary Experi- ence," which we mail free. Tuit|e,sE]iiirCo.,U70'FarrellS(.,SaQFrincisco1C*l. Bf-areofK-callnJElbdn— noDFB^nnlBPbnt Tnttlr'ft. Aro;AaJl blisters; they offer only temporary relief, if any. Vied and Endfrtedby Adams Exfrest Co, Good Ones For Sale. ("'TRUS WILKES, brown stallion (standard *~ brtd) by Sable Wilkes, dam Menlo Belle by water will keep normal much longer than Menlo 13U28; next dam by Speculation &28. etc. , .r . , . . , Aged 6 years, weighs 1150; sound, now In training tlie same butter washed in unpasteurized | and showing speed. -Mare by Stambonl, 10 years old, handsome, great buggy mare and high class brood mare, with a water. 4. Butter made from pasteurized cream and washed in pasteurized water retains its normal flavor about twice as long as Gutter made from unpasteurized cream and wash water. 5. Unwashed butter made from good and well-ripened cream keeps as well and ia some instances better than the same butter when washed in unpasteurized water. 6. Salt improves the keeping quality of butter. 7. It ptys ti pasteurize the wash water as well as the cream. The cost of pasteu- rization of milk and wster after pasteurier has been purchased is about one-tenth o^ a cent per pound of butter. The amount gained p-^r pound of butter by pasteuriza tion when the butter is about a month old is .8 of a cent, leaving a profit of .7 of a cent per pound of butter. 8. Butter of medium firmness loses about .3 per "cent of moisture for every revolution it is worked in excess. 4 y. o Zombro Filly, coal black, very hand- some good size, styli&h. fine driver and a yearling Filly by Zombro. Entered in Occi- dent Stakes. Handsome bay In color and very promising. Will Be Sold Cheap. Address J. K FREEMAN, Bed Blnff, Cal. CAN YOU AFFORD IT? Too certatnlycanrio- afford to hare horses lamed from Spavin, Ring Bone, Splint, Curb, when they may be cored by elmply using Kendall's Spavin Cure. It cures all these and I ail other torros of lameness. Tbinkaboutltand then act. Price PI; 6ror*5. Asa liniment Tor family UBeitnaa no equal. All druggists. Boot "A Treatise in the Horse" mailed free. Address DR. B. J. KENDALL CO.. ENOSBURC FALLS, VT. FOR SALE. Feed and Dairy Products. A good illustration of the influence of food on the quality of dairy products is shown when dairying animals eat garlic in the early spring. The milk of one such animal will Bpoil the product of the entire dairy, and a very few the output of a large creamery or factory. A consideration of these facts shows forcibly the important relation of feeds to products, and Bhould teach us the fully of allowing onr dairy animals to become forced to eat rank-flavored and ill-smelling herbage when pastures are short, or to practice the feeding of equally injurious plants in cured fodders or ensilage. Dairymen of too pronounced instincts of thriftineBs will sometimes feed spoiled fodder from the bottom of the hay or the edges of the silo, and molny grain from the bin, simply because their animals will I SIDNEY DILLON FILLY; A GREAT PROS- >- pect: kind and gentle in every way; 3 years old: will weigh about &5'J: without a fault or blemish Price S750. 1766 Ninth Avenue. East Oakland. SITUATION WANTED. pOACHMAN OR GROOM— By a thoroughly ^ competent, experienced man Best of recom- mendations as to ability, sobriety and honesty. Country or city Has been with some of the best families in Ireland Addre-s JOHN CONNELLY care of Mrs. Edwd. Fcrd, 114 Eugenia St., city. and desire to make themselves more | eat when very hungrv, but such practice fainliar with the principles underlying | is always at the expense of the health Q0C0ANUT OIL CAKE THE BEST FEED FOE STOCK, CHICKENS AND PIGS FOE SALE IS LOTS TO STJrT BY EL DORADO LINSEED OIL WORKS CO 80S California Street, San Francisco, Cal BLAKE, M0FFITT & T0WNE —DEALERS Of- 55-57-59-61 First Street, S. Txlephosb Main 199 For Sale bv *».. u. u^gihts and Harness Dealers, or VITA OIL CO , 3533 Bncbanan St , s F. NEW MODEL 190 J 9>m TOOMEY PATENT 33 to 35 lbs. ^ TRACK SULKIES AND BEST ROAD CART MADE. O'BRIEN & SONS Cor. Golden Gate Ave. and Folk St. SAN FEANCISCO, CAX fTTWITWTK BUSINESS COLLEGE 24 Post Street, San Francisco, Cal. The oldest, the largest, the most popular com- mercial school on the Pacific Coast. 20,000 gradu- ates: 30 teachers: 70 typewriters; over 300 students annually placed in positions. Send for catalogue. E. P. HEALD, President. $2QO P&diskh The Best Low Priced Jeweled Watch Made Non-Magnetic Nickel Silver Case Fully Guaranteed For sale by ALL JEWELERS mustrated Booklet on request, showing COLORED FANCY DIALS The New England Watch Co. Factories— Watertrary, Coon. Offices- New York, Chicago, Sao Fnodftco. AUGUST 15, 1903] &h$ jfceetov txttit $povi&maii Glanders Affect Three Persons. Glanders amoDg human kind is said to be very rare, but that it can be contracted is evidenced by the following report of the State Board of Health of Minnesota: "Early in 1901 a health officer in the northern part of the State," aava the re- port, "telephoned the secretary of the State Board of Health that he had a young man with a very peculiar eruption, suggesting even the possibility of small- pox. This latter disease was excluded. In a few days the young man died. Soon after a brother of this patient was taken ill w th similar symptoms. He too died. "Material was taken from the second patient and sent to the laboratory of the State Board of Health for examination with the result that the disease was shown to be glanders. ** The laboratory worker who had charge of this investigation accidentally became inoculated, and has now been ill with glanders for a year, with a fair prospect of complete recovery- "Examination demonstrated the fact that the first patient received his infec- tion from his own horses that were suffer- ing from glanders. The Becond patient may have had his infection either from his brother's horses or his brother who took care of the patient during his ill- ness." To the eye of one who is not an expert the disease is Baid to resemble small-pox. The illness sometimes begins with a head- ache, followed by disinclination to exer- tion. Vague muscular pains in the back and legs, loss of appetite and diarrhea are other symptoms. Later rose-colored spots similar to those of typhoid fever appear on the patient's body and the patient be- comes talkative and delirious. Color of Percherons. A hoTBeman of La Perche, France, the home of the Percheron, regrets that the American fashion made it an object for French breeders to change the traditiona1 and historic dapple grey color of the Percheron to blactt. He says that in France the old color is still the favorite and likely to ever remain so. No other blood was used to secure the black color, for there have alwayB been some black Percherons, but to increase their num- ber careful selection and preservation of all animals of that color have been prac- ticed since Americans began to demand it. Naturally this Frenchman does not say so, but it is a reasonable inference that in us'ng black Percherons for breed- ing no attention was paid to any point but color, and with what possible result can be easily imagined by those who re- call what the color craze has done with dairy cattle and other livestock in this country. Whenever in the breeding of domestic animals a fad or fa-hion of any kind subordinates everything else to its demands disaster has generally followed. This item would be good if true but the fact is that the Black Belgian was part of the foundation stock used by the French Government to create the original Per- cheron. Hog Cholera. The following is the prescription recom- mended by Dr. Salmon of the Bureau of Animal Industry: One part wood charcoal. One part sulphur. Two parts sodium chloride (salt). Two parts sodium bicarbonate (soda). Two parts sodium hyposulphite. One part sodium sulphate. One part antimony sulphite. Pulverize and mix thoroughly. Dose, one tablespoonful for each 200 pounds weight of hog once a day. A poor, starved, maney calf will not make a good cow, although she may come from a good breed. She should be well fed, well watered and well gentled. Dur- ing the hot summer time she should have plenty of good water, shade, and protec- tion from fliee. A dispatch from Grass Valley, Nev; d i county, says : Despite every effort to pre- vent it, blackleg continues to spread in the vicinity of Chit-ago Park. Wuhin the week it is said over sixty head of cattle died from the disease. Vaccination goes on with all rapidity, and cattlemen are busy collecting and burning carcapsea. The disease is no longer confined to calves, but is attacking full-grown animals. To- day three valuable cows belonging to Wm. George died from blackleg Cattlemen are much alarmed fearing the disease may wipe out a large portion of the herds. The Plumas Bulhtin says : Plumas couniy has begun an action against Whee- ler & Kidenour to collect license on 8 '00 sheep grazed in this county. Tax Col- lector Short demanded the license on these, but the defendants refused to pay on the entire number claiming that 350 ► of the 8000 were lambs and that under the State law as amended by the State Legis- lature they were under no legal obligation to pay a license for pasturing lambs — that a lamb is not a sheep. Hence the suit to collect the license on the 8000. HARNESS. SADDLES, WHIPS, ROBES, and Turf Goods. ALWAYS THE BEST FOR THE MONEY. JEPSEN BROS CO.'nc Matters of Fine Harness at REASONABLE Prices. 1145-1147 Market St., San Francisco £ PALACE HOTEL, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA. 3 TOURISTS and TRAVELERS will, now, with difficulty recognize the famous COURT into which for twenty-five years carriages have driven This space of over a quarter of an acre has recently, by the addition of very handsome furniture, rugs, chandeliers and tropical plants, been converted into a lounging room— the FINEST IN THE WORLD. The EMPIRE PARLOR— the PALM ROOM, furnished in Cerise, with Billiard and Pool tables for the ladies— the LOUIS XV PARLOR the LADIES WRITING ROOM and numerous other modern improvements, together with the unexcelled Cuisine and the Most Convenient Location in the City— all add much to the ever increasing popularity of this most famous HOTEL. « 1am eV> HORSES CURBS, SPLINTS, SPAVINS, WINDPUFFS, —and all enlargements, absolutely removed bv— QUINIM'S Ointment. 22 has the unqualified endorsement of our lead- ing horsemen and veterinarians. MB. C. E. DlNF.HABT, Cashier State Banli, Slayton, Minn., says: "One bottle cared a very bad case of blood spavin on a mare for which I have since been offered $800. I would not be wifrhont it if it cost $5.00 a bottle.'' We have h* idreda of such teAtimoniaU, Price SI. OO per package. Ask your Druggist f or it. be doe j not keep it, we wilfsend prepaid on receipt of pri Address W. B. EDDY A CO., Whitehall, S. Y. If Starting Payments Due August 16, 1903, On Two-Year-Olds ENTERED ISf THE PACIFIC BREEDERS FDTDRITY STAKES I. 1 $6000 GUARANTEED FOR THE GET OF 9IARES COVERED IN 1900 (FOALS BORN IN 1901) ENTRIES CLOSED SEPTEMBER 1, 1900. To Trot or Pace at 2 years old in 3903 and at 3 years old in 1904 at either or both ages. MONEY DIVIDED AS FOLLOWS: 1903. Two-Y ear-Old Trotters 81 250 Two-Tear-Old Pacers 75«> Nominator Dam of Winner Trot 20O Nominator Dam of V Inner Pace 200 1904. Three- Year-Old Trotters 82000 Three-Year Old Pacers IOhO Nominator Dam of Winner Trot 200 Nominator Dum of Winner Pace 200 Owner of Stallion, sire of Winner of Three-Year Old Trot, when man* was bred. .81 OO Ownerof Stallion, sire of Winner of Three- Year-Old Pace, when mare was bred. . 10O Entrance and Payments— $3 to nominate mare on September 1, WOO. 85 January 2. 1901. JiO«n yearlings January 2, I9:'2 8 10 on two-year olds January 2. 1903 $10 on three year olds January 2, 1904. Starting Payments— ii5 to start in the two-year.old pace 835 io start lo the two-year-old trot. 835 to start in the three year-old pace $5') to start in the three-year-old trot. All starting payments to be mad^ ten days before the fl-ia day of the meeting at which the race is to take place. Nomi- nators must designate, when making payments to start, whether the hnr.se entered fa a tr tterora pacer Colts that start at twoyearsold are not barred from starting again In ihe three-year-oid divisions. The $10 payment January 2, 1933, keeps your entry good to January 2, 1904, whether you start at two years old or not. E. P. HEALD, President. F. W. KELLEY, Secretary, 36 Geary St , San Francisco, Pedigrees Tabulated Z£%^^££°^, Sportsman, 36 Geary street, San Francieco, Cal. Hunt and Fish ALONG THE LINE OF THE California & NortliwestBrn By (LESSEE OF THE S. F. & N. P. B. B.) Best Hunting and Fishing in the State Numerous and Popular Resorts Hot and Gold Mineral Springs HEALTH PLEASURE RECREATION Fine Camping Grounds on Beautiful Streams Best Section In California for Frolt and Breeding Farms Uklah, and the Famous Pleasure and Health Resorts in Lake County. Juced^rate's0 MOnaay """"»-»<» «<"»•« at aSSSSS a0n?IT?o3uron<)p,eIrr^yke, ^^ ^^ B. X. BYAN, Gen. Fan. Agt. %f\A. Books and Pictures ABOUT California Mountains, Valleys, Canyons, Lakes and Seaside and Vacation Places. Shall It Be A Camp Io the Forest A Mountain Lake A Good Hotel and Trout for Breakfast or A Seaside Resort and Clam Chowder for Dinner The Publications of the Southern Pacific "overall Desirable Places and answer question* iftaf'tTI^ ^ * scriptlonot $10 each, $15 additional for starters. arvTlaos a furth^ 8j£?.$£J£e aDd thre<^"t«s overmen Chester Racing A&oo.atioj , to adS money to make the value of the race $25,000. Mile and 3 furlongs. fights of hurdles ■ !^P ??- Entries for the above are received only under the conditions as printed, and in all respects subject to and in accordance with the Rules of The Jockey Glub. The Hurdle Races and Steeplechases in accordance with Rules of the National Steeplechase aDd Hunt Association. For Entry Blanks address the Breeder and SPORTSMAN, 36 Geary Street, San Francisco, Cal aQQreB8 me THE BAYWOOD STUD THE BUNGALOW. SAN MATEO, CAU (Property of John Pabbott, Esq.) Imp. Hackney Stallion GREEN'S RUFUS « m Will serve a limited number of Approved Mares, Season 1903 FEE - • - 875 Reductions made for two or more mares. Manager, WALTER SEALY. S The King of Race Horses I m SEARCHLIGHT 2:03 I 4 $ Ses. No. 33657. # | Will Make a Fall Season S FROM AUG. 1 TO OCT. 1, 1903, '$ AT PLEASANT0N RACE TRACK. For further particulars address ED. MILLS, Pleasanton, Cal. fejfe ♦ TERMS, $50. £ I No Foot-No Horse All Orders COD. Sample can SI. Special Prices to Dealers Horse Shoers and Agents You don't have to pack horses' feet when you use STRAP VETERINARY and HOOF ODiTMEST, We guarantee a speedy and positive cure for Collar and Saddle Galls, Wire Cuts, Wounds of all kinds. Burns, Scalds, Cracked and Inflamed Heels, Grease Heel Scratches. Speedy Cuts, Thrush, Contracted Heels, Toe, Sand and Quarter Cracks, Nail Pricks, Car Bruises, Sore Tendons, Corns and Foundered Feet in all forms. We Pay Express Write for testimonials. PRICES— 1 pound oan, $1.00; 2 pound can, 81.75; 5 pound can- $4.00. Address a card to 1711 Genessee Street. Lew Watson & Jones, c32I.Bi»m Br«. Kansas City, Mo. SUBSCRIBE TO VETERINARY. DR. C. MASOERO VETERINARY SURGEON Graduate of Royal Veterinary College of Turin. Infirmary and Residence — 811 Howard St.: between Fourth and Fifth Sts., San FraDcisco. Telephone: Main 457. G. A. W. FOLKERS Successor to J. H. A. Folkers & Bro. A FULL SUPPLY OF SURGICAL AND VETERINARY INSTRUMENTS, ETC. 809 Market Street Flood Building, Room 4. San Francisco Ira Barker Dalziel VETERINARY DENTIST Fancy Carriage. Saddle and Roax*. wm, F. lES&cm. M. R. C. V. S.. F. E. T. M. S. VETERINARY SURGEON. Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, England; Fellow of the Edinburg Veterinary Medical Society; Graduate of the New Veterinary College, Edinburgh; Veterinary Sur- geon to the S. F. Fire Department; Live Suck Inspector forNew Zealand and Australian Colonies at the port of San Francisco; Professor of Equine Medicine, Veterinary Surgery, Veterinary Depart- ment University of California: Ex-President or the California State Veterinary Medical Associa- tion; Veterinary Infirmary, Residence and Office, San Francisco Veterinary Hospital. 1117 Golden Gate Avenue, near Webster St., San Francisco; Telephone West 128. CALIFORNIA Photo Engraving Company HIGH CLASS AST IS Half Tones and Line Engraving Artistic Designing. 606 Mission St.. cor. First, San FranoUow Showing exact position of every horse, including the favorite, which was either first, second third or fourth at each quarter pole, also positions at start. Events reported from all parts of Canada and United States. Issued the 1st and 16th of every month, from April 15th to October 15th. Price 60c, 75c. or $1, according to issue. For sale at all principal hotels, news stands nnj race tracks in the country, and publishers' office. GOODWIN BROS., 1440 Broadway, N. Y. Annual Subscription, $18, which includes all semi monthly editions and two morocco bound semi-annuals. Explanatory circular mailed free. For sale by the Breeder and Sportsman. S^¥i j ■•-*-■" Before sending S'.rfA^f^f £§7§" your horse to the i'&r1^^ S*v sale remove the ,. blemishes with ABSORBINE also carry a bottle with you to use in case of accident in shipping. ABSORBINE will remove the soreness at once in any fresh Bruise or Strain. No blister, no hair gone $2 per bottle, at regu- lar dealers, or delivered. Write lor , pamphlet, w. F.YOUNG, P.D.F., SPRINGFIELD, - MASS. Also manufr of "Taroleum" for Horses Feet. For sale by Mack & Co., Langleyi Ml onsets Co Redington & Co., J. O'Kane. and J. A. MoKerron all of San Francisco. August 15, 19031 <&he $veei>ev anii gfcjKrrtsmtm 15 BALLISTITF The Standard Dense Powder of the World. *^^" STILL LEADS AT THE TRAPS OR IN THE FIELD. Balltstite wins from the limit marks in distance handicaps, at either live birds or flying targets. as it always gives the highest velocities with ihe closest and most even patterns at all ranges, Ballistlte is absolutely unvarying in results being waterproof, smokeless, odorless, without residue, res>ures lower than black powder, unaffected by age or climatic charjges, and never pits, rusts or co rrodes the barrels. Balltstite is sold with above guarantee. Take No One's Word. Try It for Yourself. J. H. LAU &, CO. 75 CHAMBERS ST" NEW YORK CITY GOOD ONLY OP TO AUGUST 17, 1903 We are pleased to announce that we have made arrangements whereby we are able to renew our offer of the _ ■ MAMMOTH CHART, SHOWING SKELETON OF THE HORSE as a handsome premium to new subscribers and others who will pay us S3 for subscription to the Breeder & Sportsman between July 1st and August 17, 1903. This Chart is lithographed on tinted paper and is 23x28 inches. It will be found invaluable to every owner of a horse as the names of all the Bones are given, as well as the names of the Tendons and Ligaments of the legs- By studying this Chart almost any lameness can be located and the proper remedies applied. The accompanying engraving will afford an idea of its appearance. No similar Chart has ever before been published. The artist, in preparing this Skeleton, visited the American Veterinary College in New York City and made drawings from actual skeletons, thus insuring absoluta accuracy. This Chart sells for One Dollar, but any reader can have it who will *emit THRfcE DOLLARS BEFORE AUGUST 17, 1903. It will be mailed, carefully packed, in a heavy pasteboard tube for safety. Address BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN, 36 Geary St., San Francisco. BREEDERS' DIRECTORY. HOLST KINS— Winners of every 7 days' butter coniesi at State Fair 1899 1st & 2d for aged cows, 4-yr.,3-yr. and 2-yr.-olds; 21 Jerseys and Durhams competing- 5th year my Holstelns have beaten Jerseys for butter. Stock lor sale; also pigs. F. H. Burke, 30 Montgomery St., S. F. SThlPED BASS ANGLERS LAKE MERRITT BOAT HOOSE J. A. FATJO, Proprietor, Will furnish good boats at reasonable prices. Tackle Live and Clam Bait. eto. and better ao- JKKSEYS, HOLSTKIN8 AND DURHAMS. commodations than ever before offered at Lake , Dairy Stock specially. Hogs, Poultry. Eatab- Merritt- i Mshed 1876. William Nlles & Co. Los Angeles, Take narrow-gauge train to Oakland; street Cal. cars or five minui es' walk on East I2th st. to fish- ( — ■ Ing water. Get off broad-gauge trains at Oak st. : AYRSHIRE*— Young Bulls, Cows and Heifers Registered. From prize winning families. Brown & Brandon Petalnma Cal ROSE HOTEL PLEASANTON, CAL. Enlarged, Rebuilt Twenty-five New Rooms Newly Furnished. Electric Lights* Running Water. Up to date. . S. OLNEY & SON, Proprietors PEDIGREES TABULATED And type written Ready for framing. "Write for prices. Breeder and Sportsman, 86 Geary Street, 8 an Francisco, Cftl. DOG Telephone 1747 Franklin. Importers and Dealers In Fire Arms, Ammunition and Fencing Goods. Sole Agents for THE REBLE GUN and BALLIST1TE (Dense) and EMPIRB (Bulk) aMOKELbSS POWDERS. A postal brings catalogue and " Shooting Facts." (third edition ) BALLISTITF The Standard Dense Powder of the World. ■^^■I CAMPBELL'S HORSE FOOT REMEDY bestTemedy EVER USED ON HORSES' FEET. IT PENETRATES and DRIES IN quickly and DOES NOT GUM and FILL UP THE PORES like ta- and oil compounds. It is the GREATEST REMEDY ever used to remove SORENESS and FEVER from the foot, and makes it possible to get good services out of a horse working on hard and hot pavements It gives natural nourishment to the foot and incites a rapid, healthy growth— ALL DRYNESS AND BRITTLE- NESS quickly disappears. QUARTER CRACKS and SAND CRACKS are rapidly grown out when directions given in our booklet are followed. It is a SURE CURE for CORNS, CONTRACTED FEET and NAIL WOUNDS if directions are followed It PRESENTS SOUND FEET FROM BECOMING UN- SOUND and GROWS a TOUGH. STRONG. ELASTIC WALL and HEALTHY FROG— A FOOT WHICH WILL STAND WORK on racecourses. Many of the best owners and trainers state tfiat for track work nothing equals it. In many cases horses have reduced their records several seconds, aue to its use. It is a CER'J A1N CURE for THRUSH and SCRATCHES We Guarantee That It Will Do What We Claim aod Will Refund Money if It Falls. PRICES:— Quarts. $100; Half-Gallon, $1.75; Gallon, 83 00; :2&-Gallon, $5 50; Five-Gallon, $10 00. Books giving full directions for Its use and much valuable information as to shoeing are supplied free. Don't fail to read "ad." giving information concerning Campbell's Iodoform Gall Cure in next issue of this paper. It is the best and because of its merits is rapidly displacing all others. JAS. B. CAnPBELL&CO . Manufacturers, 412 W. riadison St., CHICAGO, ILL — IS POSITIVE IN THE PRESENCE OF SERGEANT'S CONDITION PILLS. Lustrous eyes, keen appetite, strength and ambition all reclaimed by this world renowned dog remedy. For torpid liver it is unexcelled. As a general tonic supreme. Mange, Distemper, Chills, Fever and General Debility posi- tively cured by it, and for every sickness to which a dog is subject these pill9 are administered in preference to any other medicine. 60c. and $1.00, postpaid. SERGEANT'S SURE SHOT emancipates the canine from worms and may be depended upon. 60c. by mail. All remedies bearing our stamp are Standard the World Over. An order or 8c. in stamps will bring to your desk free our Revised Dog Treatise and a Pedigree Blank. "Sergeant's Dog Remedies" for sale by all Druggists and Sporting Goods Dealers. F. W. BRAUN & CO., Los Angeles, Cal., Pacific Coast SudpIv Depot SPRATTS PATENT. DOG CAKES REMEDIES SOAP. NEWARK, N. J. Send for free copy of "DOG CULTURE." ST LOUIS, Pacific Coast Branch— 1334 Valencia Street, San Francisco. Agents for "SANITAS" Disinfectant. KENNEL ADVERTISEMENTS. FOR SALE. BROKEN DOGS Pointers and Setters W B. COCTTS, Kenwood, Sonoma Co., Cal. Wandee Kennels' Fox Terriers. WANDEE BLIZZAJRD, formerly Llthian Bliz- zard (Blizzard-Pop). tfee 820 WANDEE JESTEK (Norfolk Veloolty-Norfolk Two Step). Fee 810 Puppies and Brood Bitcbes for sale. Dogs shown by appointment only. Address WANDEE KENNELS, 844 Harrison St.. San Francisco Cal. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS Advertisements under this head one cent per word ■per insertion. Cash to accompany order. GREYHOUNDS. tpOR SALE OR SWAP-KENNEL OF STAND- *- ard bred, registered Greyhounds Stud dog imp HAWKER (Peter Piper-Ivy Green); bttchts- PEARL PASHA (Emin Pasha-Sometime) and three puppies by imp Hawker: SANTA ROSA (Bismark-Fleeta) and six puppies bv imp Dudley Diamond (Fabulous Fortune-Nordica); SCHIL- LING'S BEST (Master Glenkirk-Diaoa, sister to St. Lawrence); BRIDGET CLEARY (Winged Foot-Tipperary Lass, litter sister io Sacramento Boy). Aadress DR. GAYNOR Eureka. Cal. IRISH AND SCOTCH TERRIERS. TRISH AND SCOTCH TERRIER PUPPIES J- at $12 and $15 Sired by Champion Loyne Ruffian and Champion Fighting Mao. Mas. BRADLEY-DYNE. Saturna P- O . B C- At Stud. SMOOTH FOX TERRIER ST, BERNARDS. "AIROD KENNELS— REMOVED TO 13* Ninth Avenue, near California— offer for sale the celebrated St. Bernard, LE KING (Champion Le Prince-Svlvia's Lola). At Stad— Champion GRAND MASTER II. admittedly the grandest headed St Bernard on the Coast. Fee $25. NJ Norfolk Trueman boll iebuees-to hbeilbs. r.„ *")A Sire of Garston Preteot (lstpuppj, rcc JiU. reserve winners, Oakland, 1903) Imelda (winners and special for best, S F., 1902) N. H HICKMAN, 1767 Page St., San Francisco. Isabelle, etc. DELVERTON COCKER KENNELS FRU1TVALE -THE HOME OF THE CHAMPIONS. Winners J- of more First and Special prizes In I9U2-1903 than all the other Coast kennels combined. Have taken the Special for Best Cocker in show at San Francisco, i89WMM9con.OFTAJt .STANDARD DtSINFtCTAKI CO Cleveland O \ T STUD UNTIL SOLD — DELVERTON -^ CAPPI (Ch Hampton Prprnw-Urm n--}, win- ner at San Francisco and Oakland -n ws Ad- dress C. DU JARDIN, 204 Castro, ban Francisco VTAIROD KENNELS— 13"-; NINTH AVENUE, ^ n-ar Califom'a Champion bred Cocker Spaniels at stud aod for sale PLUMERIA COCK SIR KENNELS HAVE 1 removed to their new kennels, H9 Ninth Ave. The dogs to this kenrjei are conceded to bn the best in the West, bavtng deft-uted all compr*. under a nu-T>her of the iie*t fudges In America. At Stud-CbaropioD HAMPTO.N onLDIE <«rr. at- e^t -fr.-nf winner- alive). PLUMERIA TWEE- HLEPUNCH and others Y«sj'^'ir" ^"*r usinj, .. ~ *">ce t),.-j ,■= — "MJiee f_ « ' 1 .::&::;:;..v-— -" ■•"••)&ii**w*--. BOXWOOD. r. s. carsv/oi0, LTMC. WB .ICTlCtFT. From three to five bottles of " SAVE- THE=HORSE" will permanently cure any one case of hip or whirlbone, stifle, shoulder or sweeny lameness, and we will protect any purchaser fully who is willing to see case through, whether it should require three or five bottles. 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Sproul, b g by California Lambart-Clay... (Daniels) 4 4 111 Gertie H., b m by Stone Robin-Redwood (McGregor) 112 2 3 Little Branch, b m by Nutwood Wilkes-Long Branch (Cecil) 5 2 3 4 2 Beckwith Chips, b m by Dexter Pritce-Blackstone (McDonald) 2 3 5 3 4 Donnybrook, b s by Don L-Echo (Corey) 3 5 4 5 5 Time— 2:27)4, 2:26)4, 2:24!=, 2:26, 2:27J£. Trotting, District Roadsters, purse $50. Last two heats trotted on Saturday. Princess W., blkm by Geo. Washington. .(T. Smith) 2 112 1 Roscoe, b g by Rainbow (J Smith) 13 2 12 Dewey, b g by Gaff Topsail (Connolly) 3 2 3 3 3 Time— 2:45)4, 2:44)4, 2:35)4, 2:36, 2:41. SATURDAY, AUG. 15TH. The last day had but one regular 6vent on the card, the 2:25 pace, and it proved a surprise to the wise division that had picked the little hor6e Colonel C. from Hanford as the winner. Colonel C. had lots of speed and managed to win the first heat in 2:15^ after a close finish with the little black stallion Jonesa Basler that had gotten away badly when the word was given. The second heat brought about the surprise, and after a duel from wire to wire, the Basler horse landed first in 2:11 J, fast time for the class. He went on and won the next two heats and the race. In the fourth heat the gate at the first turn was left open and Colonel C. bolted through it and was distanced, thus unfortunately putting him outside the money after he had fought a hard race and taken a record. Second money went to Lady Glenway. A special race finished the program, and while it served to give records to a couple of trotters, did not prove a good race. The summaries: Pacing, 2:25 class, purse $300. Jonesa Basler, bk s, by Robert Basler-Hauiord Medium (Walton) 2 111 Lady Glenway b m. by Glenway-Nephew Jr .(Zibbell) 3 3 2 2 Colonel C. b g, by Glenway-Btsmark fLeggett) l 2 2 d SwaDbilda 4-d, Billy F 5-d, Elmorino 0-d, Maud B d. Time— 2:15)4, 2:11)4, 2:14)4, 2:2IJ£. Special, 2:24 class trotters. Black Jack, b g, by Nushagak... (Spencer) 1 2 1 Trilby, ch m, by Mambrlno Chief Jr (Smith) 2 1 2 Mamie R, b f, by son of Oro Wilkes (Reams) 3 3 3 Time— 3:28)4, 2:21ni, 2:33. The Kenney Bicycle Co., 531 Valencia St., is doing a big business in the McMurray Cart6 and Sulkies. You not only save money by purchasing a McMurray but get the most durable, best made, and easieBt running cart or sulky in the market. Investigation will con- vince a Miesourian. » Sacramento, August lg.— The following are the entries to the trots and paces for the State Fair races, which closed August 12th: Trot, 2:24 class; purse $1,000— B. Croner's Louise Croner, F. J. Ruhstaller's Nippy, G. Gandran's George C, H. A. Bell's H B. D., C. A. Arendon's Sutter, H. Peters' Little Babe, C. W. Whitehead's Deputy, W. H. Lumsden's McPherson, W. W. Men- denhall's Rosie Wood burn, S. K. Daugherty's Sonoma Girl, P. W. Hodges & Co.'s Una K , S. H. Hoy's Moor Rose, Alex Brown's Daisy B., M. H. Ahler's Tele- phone, J. D. Carr's Larkin W , W. H. Grissim's Joe Selby, John A. Cole's Jupiter B , L. H. Todhunter's Zombowyette. Trot, 2:30 class; purse $500— B. Croner's Louise Croner, F. J. Ruhstaller's Nippy, F. C. Lusk's Sproul, W. H. Lumsden's McPherson, W. W. Mendenhall's Rosie Woodburn, C. F. White's Dollexa, S. K. Daugherty's Sonoma Girl, McGtegor & Hocking's Gertie H, P. W. Hodges & Co.'s Una K., W. Hal- ford's Donnybrook, S. H. Hoy's Moor Rose, Alex Brown's Daisy B., J. B. Carr's Larkin W., J. A. Richardson's Getaway, John A. Cole's Jupiter B , Mrs. P. Becker's Tee Dee Cee. Trot, 2:17 class; purse $500— W. H. Lumsden's Mc- Pherson, W. W. Mendenhall's What Is It, P. W. Hodges & Co.'s Potrero, Fred Fanning's Rozelle, F. Gommet's Verona, J. A. Smith's Hank, E. P. Heald's Lady Rowena, Grace Bros.' Ole, A. Ottinger's Zam- bra. Green trot; purse $500— B. Croner's Louise Croner, G Grandan's George C, F. C. Lusk's Sproul, C. Whitehead's Deputy, W. H. Lumsden's McPherson, S. K. Dougherty's Sonoma Girl, P. W. Hodges & Co.'s Sona, W. Halford's Donnybrook, S. H. Hoy's Moor Rose, Alex Brown's Daisy B , J. A. Richard- son's Getaway, John A.Cole's Lady Madison, L: H. Tod hunter's Zombowyette. Trot, 2:11 class; purse $500— W. W. Mendenhall's Forest W., C. F. While'9 Liege, P. W. Hodges & Co.'s Grace Mc K., Fred Fanning's Rozelle, E. P. Heald's Tom Smith, Grace Bros.' Ole. Pace, 2:20 class; purse $1,00— C. J. Snyders Jonesa Basler, Martin Carter's Miss Georgia, S. F. Martin's Tom Carneal, E. A.. Lewis' Edwin S., C. Whitehead's The Mrs., S. A. Eddy's Colonel C. S. Watson's Al Sandy, W. L. McDonald's Swanhilda, W. P. Ham- ner's" Dot, J. D. Carr's Monogram, E. D. Dudley's Alendale, E. P. Heald's Nance O'Neal, L. Bachant's George, Offutt & Co.'s Mildred O , W. S. Maben's Ira, Thomas Charlton's Lady Petrina, Lou Palmer's BenF. Pace, 2:17 class, purse $500— Thomas Norton's Dakan D., Martin Carter's Miss Georgie, Mrs. John Norton's Smuggler, S. A. Eddy's Cuckoo, S. Watson's Al Sandy, W. P. Hamner's Dot, Fred Fanning's Billy F, J. D. Carr's Monogram, W. Mastin's Pen- rose, E. D. Dudley's Alendale J. A.Richardson's Monroe S., W S Maben's Ira, Lou Palmer's Ben F. Pace, 2:13 class, purse $500 — B. Croner's Banker's Daughter, Thomas Norton's Dakan D., Mrs. John Norton's Smuggler, F. J. Ruhstaller's Monroe Bee, Rush & Haile's Demonio, W. Mastin's Penrose, T. C. White's Pinky H., W. S. Maben's Colonel Smith. Green class pace, purse $500 — C. J. Snyder's Jonesa Basler. S. F. Martin's Tom Carneal, E. A. Lpwis's Edwin S., S. A. Eddy's Colonel C, Rush & Haile's Demonio, W. P. Hamner's Joe W., Fred Fanning's Victor Platte, Martin W. Joost's Presumption, L. Bachant's Lady Glenway, Orffut & Co.'s Mildred O., W. S. Maben's Ira, L G. Caten's El Moreno, Thomas Charlton's Lady Petrina. RUNNING STAKES ENTRIES. The following entries have been made to the run- ning stakes: Tom Fox Stake, all ages, six furlongs — H. Stover's Kenilworth and Edinborough, Gilbert & Keating'6 Mountebank and Troy, George Webb's Solon, H. L. Frank's Hagerdon, Duncan Cameron's H. L. Frank, JameB Martin Jr. 's Chileno, L. A. Blasingame's Dug Martin, F. J. Gieseke's Baltest, King, Ward & Co.'s Ora Viva, El Primero Stable's Estoy Lista and Di- vina, W. B. Sink Jr. 's F. E. Shaw and Wiggins, J. D. Miller's E. M. Brattain, C. E. Murray & Co.'s Judge Voorhies, W. P. Magrane's Magrane, Mrs. P. McAn- liffe's Theron. The Governor's Stake, three-year-olds and upward, one mile and a furlong — H. Stover'9 Illowaho, Gilbert & Keating's Cambaceres and Constellator, George Webb's Solon, E. J. Ramsay's Horatius, W. L. Stan- field's Kitty Kelly, L. A. Blasingame's Grafter, King, Ward & Co.'s Ora Viva, El Primero Stable's Divina, C. E. Murray & Co.'s Anvil, Thomas Hums' Mil- waukee. Grove L. Johnson Selling Stake, three-year-olds and upward, one mile — H. Stover's Illowaho, Gilbert & Keating's Mountebank and Cambaceres, George Webb's Solon, E. J. Ramsay's Horatius, Al Leach's Heather Honey, W. L. Stanfield's Kitty Kelly, H. L. Frank's Hagerdon, James Martin Jr. 's Vonzollem, King, Ward & Co.'s Ora Viva, El Primsro Stables' Divina and Estoy Lista, W. Gardner's Chenano, W. B. Sink's, Jr., Glendeoning, W. E, Murray & Co.'s Anvil, W. P. Magrane's Matt Hogan and Ed. Lil- burn. The President's Stake, a handicap for three-year- olds and upward, one and one-quarter miles — H. Stover's Illowaho, Gilbert & Keating's Constellator and Cambaceres, George Webb's Solon, E. J. Ram- say's Horatius, L. A. Blasingame's Grafter, P. Web- ber's Morellito, El Primero Stable's Divina, Thomas Hums' Milwaukee, George St.robel's Admetus. The Vinctor Stake, three-year-olds and upward, one mile — H. Stover's Illowaho and Kenilworth, Gil- bert & Keating's Constellator, George Webb's Solon, Al Leach's Heather Honey, W. E. Stanfield's Kitty Kelly, H. L Frank's Hagerdon, James Martin's Jr., Vanzollern, King. Ward & Co. 's Ora Viva, El Prim- ero Stable's Divina and Estoy Lista, C. E. Murray & Co.'s Judge Voorhies. The Mackey selling stake, t>vo-year-oldB, six fur- longs.—Duncan Cameron's H. L. Frank, W. B. Sink, Jr. 's F. E.Shaw and Wiggins, Col. Monroe Johnson 's Eva D., W. P. Magrane's Magrane. Bella Vista Stake, two-year-old fillies, five furlongs — L. A. Blasingame's Miss May Bowdish, Col. Monroe Johnson's Eva D., J. Gibson's Czarette, W. B. Sink, Jr.'s Wiggins, Bianchi & McGown's Samar, J. D. Miller's Metlakatla, S. Cohen's Annie Mavis. BREEDERS $6ooo FUTURITY. Final Payments on Two-Year Olds to Start at Petaluma. The starting payment has been made on five trotters and three pacers entered in the Pacific Breeders Futurity for foals of 1901 to start in the two- year-old divisions of the $6000 stake. There is $1250 to be awarded to the trotters and an additional $200 to the nominator of the dam of winner. Those on which final payment has been made in this stake are: I. L. Borden'9 b f Ella G. by Hamb. Wilkes, dam Allie Crescoby Washington. C. A. Durfee's bl c Almaden by Direct, dam Rose McKinney by McKinney. W. Mastin's b c Marvin Wilkes by Don Marvin, dam Nora S. by Sable Wilkes. H. W. Meek '8 b f Tabitha by McKinney, dam Fenella by Fallis. Jacob Scbafer's bl f Directrine by Direct, dam Donna by Athadon. But three pacers have been named to start in the division of the stake set aside for the lateral gaited youngsters for which $750 is hung up, and also $200 to the nominator of the winner's dam. The following have been paid up on: Geo. W. Kirkman's gr f My Way by Stoneway, dam Ethel Basler by Robert Basler. E. D. Dudley's brf Friskarina by Bayswater Wilkes, dam Bee by Sterling. J. E. Montgomery's b c. Seymow by Diav:ood, dam Nancy H. by Upstart. Last Day at Empire Track. New York, August 14. — The fifth and closing day of the Grand Circuit meet at Empire Park was marked by the sama high order of racing that has been the feature of the entire week. The fastest mile in a con- test this year was paced by Tom Keene, in the event which brought the sport to a close. During five days, in twenty contests decided, only four miles have been slower than 2:12, and two of these were trotted by three-year-olds. Added to this record is the fastest winning trotting race, that of Monte Carlo, 2:07$, 2:074 and 2:07f; the fastest heat trotted this year in a race, Billy Buck, 2:07J, and the fastest heat paced in a race, Tom Keene, 2:04}. The Roman won the $1200 purse for 2:10 class trotters in straight heats. El Milagro, driven by Mc- Henry was a starter in this event, but was outside the money at the finish. THE SUMMARIES: Trotting, 2: 18 class, purse $1000. CaspiaD, b g, by Patron (Shank) 1 1 Hie Boy 2-3, Dillon Boy 3-2, Judge Green 4-4, John Mc 5-9. Mil- lard Sanders 10-5, Crowshade 7-6, Kamares 6-10, Ida Grey 8-7 Jantina 11-8, Dark Secret 9-11. Time— 2:09)4, 2:10)4. Pacing, 2:13 class, purse $1000. Olive Wood, br g, by Norwood (Phillips) 2 1 1 Strathllne 1-3-2, John W. Patterson 3-2-4. Hero Alcyoner 4-1-3, Dart 5-5-ro, Piccolo dis. Time— 2:09)4, 2:10)4, 2:09)4.. Trotting, olass 2:10, purse $1200. The Roman, b g, by McKinney (Doble) 1 1 Belle Kuser«-4, Palm Leaf 9-2, Wentworth 3-3, Alice Carr 4-6, Nell Gwynne 6-5, Bl Milagro 5-9, Silver Sign 8-7. Authoress 7-8. Time— 2:10, 2:09?i Pacing, 2:20 class, stakes $3000. T. Keene, ch g, by West Edbert (Saunders) 1 I King Direct 3-2, Dick Wllson_2-3, Direct L. dis, Mary Anna dis. Time— 2:04)4, 2:06)4. Admission Day Racing at Tanforan. The members of Golden Gate Park Driving Associ- ation met last Tuesday evening in the Palace Hotel and decided upon the programme for their meeting at Tanforan track on Admission Day. The races are all stake affairs, the owner's subscribing $25 each and the association adding a purse. One race will be for a valuable cup, between Edward Aigeltinger's Dolo- dor and J. Plageman's General Vallejo. The other races are as follows: First race — A. F. Jacobs' Mack, J. Doran's Delia McCarthy, J. O'Kane's Sandow and I. M. Eva's Ethel H. Second race — M. M. Donnelly's Lafayette, J. de la Montanya's Ivy and V. Verelhac's Victor. Third race — M. M. Donnelly's Old Guy, Edward Aigeltinger'6 Fred T., Captain Batchelder's Crescent and D. Mizner's Miss Washington. The cars of the San Mateo electric line will run to the track every five minutes Salinas will doubtless give a three days race meet- ing about the first of October. In hot weather there is no drink like Jackson's Napa Soda — plain or in a lemonade. AtfGiUST $% 1903] ©ke Qxzzbzx tmfc &p0vi&tttixn Brighton Beach Meeting. The Grand Circait horses drew a big crowd to Brighton Beach on Monday. The racing was high- class all through and the duel between John Taylor and Jay McGregor, in the $5000 Hiram Woodruff stake for 2:20 class trotters, took five heats to decide. Lou Dillon's effort to beat her own record failed because she was taken to the half too fast. She trotted the first quarter in 28£ seconds, was at the half in 59 seconds, and at the three-quarters in 1:30^. It was too fast a clip for the little mare and it took her 334 seconds to come home. The horse that trots a mile in two miautee will trot the first quarter much slowerthan 28| seconds. Theday'ssummaries follow: Pacing, 2: 15 class, purse 5 1000. Major C by Coastman [Cox) 2 11 Frank Wilson 1-2-2, Kiowa 3-3-3, Direct L., ds. Time-2:06f4, 2:08, 2:08. Trotting (the Hiram Woodruff stake), 2:20 class, purse $5000. John Taylor, grg. by Dispute (Wilson) 2 2 111 Jay McGregor 1-1-3-2-2, .Lady Patchle 5-3-2-ro, Horace W. Wilson 3-4-5-ro, McAdam Jr. 7-7~J-ro, Senator Mills 4-6-7-ro, Katrinka G. 8-5-6-ro, Nlckelette 6-8-dr, Monroe ds. Time— 2:08&, 2:11, 2:104, 2:13, 2:12?i. Pace, mile-and-one-eighth dash, 2:09 class, purse $1000. Nonamie. b m, by General Boyle (Loomis) 1 Ebony King 2, Diablito 3, Birdina 4, Dart 5, Page Hal 6. Time, 2*25H- Trotting, 2:07 class, purse $1500. Rhythmic, br b, by Oakland Baron (Hudson) 1 1 Fereno 3-2, Monte Carlo 2-5, Prince of Orange 6-3, Susie J. 5-4, Dan T. 4-6. Time- 2:09, 2:07?^. Pacing, one-mile dash, 2:00 class, purse $1000. Prince Alert, b g, by Crown Prince (Demarest) 1 Anaconda 2, Harold H 3, Dan R 4 Time— 2:03. Special trotting exhibition. Lou Dillon, ch m, by Sidney Dillon (M F. Sanders). Time by quarters— 0;28&, U:59, 1:3UM, 2:03?i. New York, August 18.— The main feature of the second day of the Grand Circuit meet at Brighton Baaoh was the Brighton Stake of $10,000 for the 2:10 cla33 pxoars, the largest amount ever offered for a pacing contest. The betting was heavy. The race was won in straight heats by Frank Yoakum. After Tom Keene had finished sixth in the first heat in an easy mile E. E. Smathers bought him at $8000, and the supposition is that it was his money that kept the horse favorite throughout the balance of the race. Tom Keene was third in the race. The Kentucky Stock Farm purse for three-year- old pacers proved a poor contest. Mattie H., the eventual winner, could have distanced the field in the first heat, but her driver chose to prolong the contest. In the third heat he drove the filly out and she fin- ished alone in 2:14^. Summaries: Trotting, 2:15 class, purse $1000. Mosette, bik g by Constantine (John DIckerson) 1 1 Midnight 2-5, Millard Sanders iO-2. Ben Hal 3-3, The Questor 4-i, Admiral Dewey 5-10, Miss Fearing 6-6, Direct View 7-9, Jan- tina 9-7; Kozy 8-8, Sonata ds. Time— 2:12#, 2:11!4. Pacing, 2:10 class, stake $10,000. Frank Yoakum, b g by Parker (Charles Doble) 1 1 1 Al Bock 2-2-8, Tom Keene 6-8-2, Elastic Pointer 3-3-4, Star Hal 4-7-3, King Direct 9-1-7, Armorel 8-5-6, Pelter Patron 10-6-5, Olive Wood 5-9-ds, Brown Heels 7-ds. Time— 2:0654, 2:052£, 2:07^. Trotting, 2:21 class, purse $1000. Crown Princess, ohm by Dexter Prince (Kenney) 1 1 Kamares2-2, Queen Wilkes 3-3, Miss Jeannette 4~i, Bermuda Maid 5-5, Alberto 7-6, Yankee Boy 6-8, Dodie K. 8-7, Miss Overton 10-9, Bessie Beechwood 9-10. Time— 2:13K. 2:14. Pacing, Kentucky Stock je'arm purse, for three-year-olds. Mattie H., bf by AltaVista (McAllister) 1 1 I Ashbourne 2-2-ds, Tomango ds. Time— 2:26^, 2:23&, 2:14^. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19TH. Dan Patch broke all former records on the third day of the Brighton Beach meeting by pacing a mile in 1:59 flat and is now the champion pacer of the world. Ten thousand people saw the performance and shouted and cheered the wonderful horse and his driver Myron McHenry. Many watches caught the mile in 1:58£. The day was not a perfect one as there was quite a breeze blowing, but the track could not have been better. When the quarter pole had been reached the timers huDg out 29i seconds, and by the time it was displayed many watches had clicked at the half and the figures 58$ seconds appeared on the timing stand. At three- quarters 1:291 marked the time. Then for the first time McHenry gathered the hor6e together for a final and decisive Btruggle. Without a falter the king of pacers swept under the wire winner of the highest honors that have yet come to a harness horse. The official time announced was 1:59, but the number of watches on the grounds that had recorded it faster was too great to be counted. In the Kentucky Stock Farm purs:1, S5000, for three year old trotters, Ethel's Pride, daughter of the California bred ex-champion Directum 2:05J, won after a contest of four heats. Mary Gage, the fleet daughter of another California sire, Oro Wilkes, won the first heat and second money. Libbic Queen, daughter of still another California bred sire, Ex- pedition, was third, and all the others were distanced. The Metropolitan Btake of $5000 for 2:20 pacers was drawn out to six heats, and there was a feeling of relief when it was over. Dick Wilson, the favorite, was unsteady and lost three heats from this cause. He won every heat In which he did not make a break. Diablito, Mr. Juan Gallego's gelding by Diablo, won the second heat and third money, taking a mark of 2:08}. Hie Boy was made favorite in the 2:18 class trot and a lot of money went into the poolseller's strong box for him. In the first heat he made a break in the homestretch, and before he was stopped from jump- ing and swerving had hit a competitor and knocked a wheel from under the sulky. The judges allowed him to start again and put up Ben Walker to drive but he fared no better, and this time the horse was sent to the stable. Dillon Boy won the race. " Sum- mary: Pace, 2:07 class, purse $1 jQQ. Mile and a half. Locanda. br s, by Allerton (Brodbine) 1 Winfleld Stratton 2, Onoto 3, Sphinx 4, Sufreet 5, Charley Hayt 6, Berdina 7, Beauseant 8. Time— 3-lbX- Three-year-old class, trotting; Kentucky Stock Farm, purse $5000. Ethel's Pride, b f, by Directum (Curry) 2 I l l Mary Gage 1-2-2-2. Libbie Queen 4-S-l^i, Bob Burdette 3-4-3-d, Grancine d, Blossom d. Time— 2:1654, 2:14, 2:14^, 2:16^. Grand special, to equal or beat the track pacing record, 2:00%; purse $2500. Dan Patch, b h, by Joe Patchen, dam Zelico, by Willtesberry (Myron E. McHenry), first. Time by quarters, 0:29^, 0:583i, i:29# and 1:59. Pace, 2:20 class, Metropolitan $500. Dick Wilson, brs, by Clay King (Wilson) 14 4 12 1 Hal Chaffln 4-3-1-2-1-2, Diablito 2-1-2-3-3-3, Mary Anna 3-2-3-ro, Gilbert H., 5-dr. Time— 2:08, 2:08H. 2:09^, 2:10^, 2:14, 2:12. Trot, 2: 18 class, purse $1C0X Dillon Boy, b h, by Baron Dillon (Hudson) 1 2 1 Ida Gray 7-1-2, Dark Secret 2-1-8, Grace Kellar 6-3-3. Joe N 3-5-7, Nlcklette 5-6-1, Crowshade 4-7-5, Christine G 8-8-6, Hie B^y 9-d. Time— 2:14% 2:13?i, 2:12%. THURSDAY, AUGUST 20TH. Owing to the bad condition of the track, no racing was held Thursday at Brighton Beach and the pro- gram, including the $20,000 Bonner Memorial, went over until Friday. The Seattle Harness Races. (From Our Special Correspondent). Wednesday, August 12th. The matinee purse $500 for 2:40 trotters was decided today, and it resulted in another victory for Cali- fornia trained and owned horses. Our neighbors from the Golden State have so far proved incincible Pools previous to the first heat sold Idyllwild $20 the field $16, in the second $20 to $8 with few takers. In the first heat Captain Clapperton, driven by his owner and trainer Orlando J. Ralph, of Moscow, Idaho, was loudly applauded, but the pace was too warm for the gallant Captain and he ultimately finished behind the flag. Mr. Ralph is a veteran of the Civil War and old enough to claim grand parent- age to the majority of present day drivers. Belladi, the property of Judge Thomas H. Brents of Walla Walla, was easily second best though on account of repeatedly breaking in the second heat was placed last. That it was a horse race the time will show. RESULT. Seattle Star purse of $500 for 2:40 trotters, 2 in 3. Idyllwild, by McKinney (R. A. Smith) 1 l Belladi, by Chehalia (Rutherford) 2 5 Monicrat, by Woodman (Sandford) 5 2 St, Patrick, by Nutwood Wilkes (Hartnagel) 3 4 Louis Z, by Upstart (Donathan) 4 3 Captain Clapperton, by Latah (Ralph) Dis Thelma, by Antrim (Richardson) Dis Time— 0:34^. 1:09, U4SX, 2:17&. 0:35, 1:1014, 1:44^, 2:21. The Meadows purse for 2:14 trotters was the only harness race on the card Friday, August 14th. Out of an original entry of twelve, but five took the word. The first money was certainly a gift for the McKinney mare Sweet Marie, but in order to give the Associa- tion and public what would look on paper a hard race to pick the winner, Mr. W. G. Durfee, in the most sportsmanlike manner, withdrew his mare. Specula- tion, however, proved light. What few pools were sold were mostly on Briney K at $20 and the field $24. After the first heat the betting changed and Mack Mack sold for $20 and the field $16. The start was considerably delayed by Marboy who would do every- thing but trot. AVhen they did get away Mack Mack went to the front and despite a vigorous drive on the part of the driver of Briney K, he was never headed and won by three-quarters of a length. The second heat was a repetition of the first, though Oveta made a bold fight for second honors with Briney K, Marboy who was still on his bad behavior being distanced. The $1000 stake for 2:17 pacera attracted a large number of harness horse lovers to the track Saturday. The weather had been threatening all tho morniDg and just prior to the start a smart shower fell which did not improve the going. Nine horses took tho word. Favoritism was divided prior to the first heat between Oma A. and Highball who sold for $20 and the field $20 after the first heat Rita H. sold for $20 and the field S10 and the same prices ruled for the third, though a good deal of wise money went on Oma A. for that heat. Rita H. had the race won in three Btraights, though in the second it was nip and tuck between her and OlHe M. The time for this heat 2:12A was within one-half second of the track record. In the first heat the driver of Harry Hurst mistook the distance flagman and was shut out much to his and his backers disgust. Avery fair sized Monday's crowd witnessed the Commonwealth purse for 2:30 trotters. A lot of money was invested upon Idylwild again&t the field but in this race the followers of the Calilornia con- tingent were upon the w»roDg horse. Victory remained with a California trained one in the shape of the gelding Red Skin by Red Cloud who receives his education at the hands of "Pap" Mosher. His owner Mr. Steve Bailey is, however, an old time resident of Seattle, and the victory of his horse was loudly cheered by Mr. Bailey 's many friends. Monicrat also owned by another Seattleite, Mr. C. V. O'Brien, finished close up in the first heat. His admirable showing must certainly be ascribed to the way Will Durfee did the teaming, as the horse has never been so fast before in his life. Idylwild seemed a trifle stale and did not move with her usual freedom. Re- sults: The "Meadows Purse1' Tor 2:14 trotters, purse $500. Mack Mack, by McKinney (Helman) 1 1 Briney K, by Strathway (Smith) 2 2 Oreta, by Caution (Ervin) 3 3 Chico, by Monroe Chief (Childs) 5 4 Marboy, by Delmarch (Hayes) 4 Dis Time— 2:14^,2:16. The "North PaciQc Stakes1' for 2:17 pacers, purse $1000. Rita H, by McKinney (\v G Durfee) 1 1 1 Ollie M, by Wesifield (j Ervfn) 4 2 2 Oma A, by Dictatus (I C Mosher) 2 3 3 Adimout, by Altamont (W Miller) 3 5 5 Highball, by Silkwood (G Tnreford) 7 4 4 Miladi B, by Chehalfs (Rutherford) 5 7 6 Polka Dot, by MeDdocino (J Silva) 6 6 dis Bensurba, by Tom Benton ( w Tryon) 8 8 dis Harry Hurst, by Delwin (Van de Vanter) dis County Attorney, by Arthur Wilkes (Hayes) dis Time-2:15, 2:12'/£,2:14i4. The Commonwealth purse for 2:30 trotters, purse $500. Redskin, by Red Cloud (Sanford) 1 1 Monicrat, by Woodman (Durfee) 2 3 Idyllwild, by McKinney (Smith) 3 2 Belladi. by Chehalis (Rutherford) 4 4 St. Patrick, by Nutwood Wilkes (Hartnagel) 5 5 Louis Z, by Upstart (Donathan) 6 ds Time— 2:1614, 2:17. ROBT. LEIGHTON. The Breeding of Sidney Dillon's Bam. E. F. Canfield a driver at Del Monte, writes the Breeder and Sportsman under date of August 18th as follows: Breeder and Sportsman: I see in jour paper articles as to the breeding of Volus. Sabe Harris of Oakland, raised a mare called Venus, and told me that she was by Venture, aud I think he said her dam was by Rattler, a horse that J. M. Learned of lower Sacramento road near Stockton brought from Cottage Grove, between Janesville and Madison, Wisconsin. Learned raised Reliance and other good ones. If Sabe Harris' son Frank is alive he should know the breeding of Venus. E. F. Canfield. James Sullivan, the well known trainer, has tho Willows track leased and has been working quite a number of horses there this spring and summer. Several parties will send him their horses this winter and he will have quite a large string to work for next season. ♦ On a hot day drink Jackson's Napa Soda lemonade ■end be refreshed. Horse Owners Should Use GOMBALLT'S CAUSTIC BALSAM The Great French Veterinary Remedy. A SAFE, SPEEDY & POSITIVE CURB. Prepared exclusively SUPERSEDES ALL CAUTERY OR FIRING. Impossible to produce mi f Can "tic Baloiim will prod morea.-tunl results ilmn a whole bottle of any linfmt 'lit or spavin run- mixture ever made. Every bottle Ot Cml-tlt l(:il»ura sold Is Warranted toglvesatl faction, I'ri.-eSi.iiO per bottle. Sold by ilr.: [ t»y ex- press, charges paid, with full directions for iu ,]..,.. send ror descrlptlvi circular?, testimo- nials, etc. Address THE LAWRENCE-WILLIAMS COMPART, Clertlsnd, Ohio. 8 ®h* gveeirev ani> Qvovtztnan [AUGUST 22, 1903 si ROD, GUN AND KENNEL. Conducted by J. X. De WITT. San H. Coming Events. Bod. April 1-Aug. 15— Close season lor lobsters and crawfish. April l-Nov. 1— Trout season open. April 1-Sept. 10. Oct. 16-Feb. 1— Open season Tor taking steel- head in tidewater. May 1-Sept, 1— Close season for shrimp. July 1-Jan. 1— Open season for black bass. Aug. 29— Saturday Contest No. 11. Class series. Stow lake, 2:30 p. m. Aug. 30— Sunday Contest No. 11. Class series. Stow lake, 10 a.m. Sept. l-Nov. 1 — Close season for crabs. Nov. 15-Sept. 10— Season open for taking salmon above tide water. Gun. July I-Feb. 15— Dove season open. July 15-Nov. 1— Deer season open. Aug. 30— Millwood Gun Club- Blue rocks. Mill Station. Sept. 1-Feb. 15— Open season for mountain quail, grouse and sage hen. Sept. 6— California Wing Club. Live birds. Ingleside. Sept. 13— Golden Gate Gun Club. Blue rooks. Ingleside. Sept. 20— Union Gun Club. Blue rocks. Ingleside. Oat. 15-Feb. 15— Open season .'or quail, ducks, etc. Bench Shows. Aug. 18, 19. 20— Bar Harbor Kennel Club. Bar Harbor, Me. A. H. Lyman, Secretary, Bar Harbor, Me Aug. 25, 26. 27, 28— Gouverneur, N. Y. Geo. M. Ketch, Secretary. Sept. 4, 5— Ottawa Kennel Club. Robert McAllen, Secretary, Ottawa, Can. Sept. 7, 8, 9, 10— Toronto Industrial Exposition. 13th annual show. Dr. A. W. Bell, Secretary, Toronto, Can. _ Oct. 6, 7, 8, 9— Danbury Agricultural Society. Danbury, Conn, john W. Bacon, Treasurer. Oct. 20, 21, 22, 23— Frederick County Agricultural Society. Frederick, Md. J. Roger McSherry, Secretary, Frederick, Md. Oct.— Bench Show in Spokane, Wash. Nov. 3, 4, 5, 6— Ladies Kennel Association or America. Madison Square Garden, New York. Mrs. A. G. Evans, Hon. Seoretary, Westbury, L. I. Nov. 17, 18, 19— Boston Terrier Club. Bostou, Mass. Dec— Bench Show in connection with Poultry Exhibit. Francisco. P. K. L rules Field Trials. Aug. 18— Iowa Field Trial Association. 6th annual trials. Aug. 18— Nebraska Field Trial Association. O'Neil, Neb. H. McCarthy, Seoretary. Aug. 31— Western Canada Club. La Salle, Man. H. S. Ralston, Secretary, Winnepeg, Man. Sept. 1— Brandon Kennel Club. Brandon, Man. J. P. Brisbin, Secretary. Brandon. Man. Sept. l— Minnesota-North Dakota Field Trial Association. 2nd annual trials. Huron. S. D Frank Richards, Secretary. Peever, S D Sept. 8— Manitoba Field Trial Club 17th annual trials. Car- man, Man. Eric Hamber, Secretary. Winnipeg, Man. Sept 29— Paciflo Northwest Field Trial Club 3rd annual trials. Whidby Island, Wash. F. A. Pontius, Secretary, Seattle, Wash. Oct. 26— Sportsman's Field Trial Association. Clare, Mich. E. C. Smith. Secretary, Midland, Mich. Oct. 26— Monongahela Field Trial Association. 9th annual " trials. Washington C. H., O. A. C. Peterson, Secretary, Home- stead, Pa. Oct. 27— Nevada Field Trial Association. Paradise Valley near Winnemucoa, Nev. Dr. C. E. Wilson, Secretary, Elko. Nev. Nov. 2— Michigan Field Trial Association. Annual trials. , Mich. C. D. Stuart, Seoretary, Riverside, Mich. Nov. 2 — Ohio Field Trial Association. 6th annual trials. Ington, C. H., O. G R. Haswell, Secretary, Circleville, O. Nov. 9— Missouri Field Trial Association. Annual trials. , Mo. L S. Eddins, Secretary, Sedalia, Mo. Nov. 9— International Field Trial Association. 15th annual trials. St. Joachim, Ont. W. B. Wells, Honorary Secretary, Chatham, Ont. Nov. 9— Independent Field Trial Club. 5th annual trials. Hut- sonville, Ills. H. S. Humphrey, Secretary, Indianapolis, Ind. Nov. 10 — Western Irish Setter Club. 2d annual trials. , Dr. T. L. Fenn, Secretary, Chicago, 111. Nov. 16 — North American Field Trial Club. 5th annual trials. , Can. Alfred Wigle, Secretary, Windsor, Ont. Nov. 16— Kentucky Field Trial Association. 4th annual trials. , Ky Sam Brown Hays, Secretary, Louisville, Ky. Nov. 16— Illinois Field Trial Association. 5th annual trials. Robinson 111. W. R. Green, Secretary, Marshall, 111. Nov. 16— Connecticut Field Trial Club, Hampton, Conn. F. W. Smith, Secretary, New Haven, Conn. Nov. 16— Pointer Club of America. Holmdel, New Jersey. Lewis, Secretary, New York City. Nov. 23— American ChampionshipField TrialjVssociation. nual trials. Robinson, 111. apolis, Ind. Nov. 30— Virginia Field Trial Association Chas R. Cooke. Secretary, Richmond, Va. Dec. 1— Indiana Field Trial Club. Annual trials. Clay City, Ind., C. F. Yung, Seoretary, Clay City, Ind. Amateur Field Trial Association of Maryland and Dis- trict or Columbia. , Md. Wm. R. Armstrong, Secretary, Baltimore, Md. Deo 5— Continental Field Trial Association. Thomasville, Ga. John White, Secretary, Hempstead, L. I , N. Y. 1904. Jan. Georgiana Field Trial Association, 2d annual trials. Waynesboro, Ga. Jan. 6, 13— Mississippi Field Trial and Gun Club. Inaugural trials. Holly Springs, Miss. Membership Stake, January 6; Derby and All-Age Stake, January 13. W. De Arnold, Tupelo, Miss. Jan. 13— Pacific Coast Field Trials Club. 21st annual trial. , Cal. Albert Qetz, Secretary, 201 Parrott Bldg., S. F. Wash- C. F. An- H. S. Humphrey, Secretary, Indian- Chase City, Va. Dog Owners!! Read This!! We are carrying in the advertising columns of this journal an advertisement of "Sergeant's Dog Remedies," a popular line of preparations for which F. W. Braun & Co. of Los Angeles. Cali- fornia, have been made distributing agents on the Pacific Coast. The goods have few equals and no superiors on the market today having received the highest endorsements of the leading dog men and kennel owners of this country and Canada. They are manufactured by Polk Miller Drug Co of Richmond, Va., who invite all persons having sick dogs to write (enclosing stamp) describing symptoms, and they will cheerfully furnish the best possible advice without any charge whatever. A revises copy of their book on "Dogs" sent free on receipt of 3c in stamps to oover postage. Sober up on Jackson's Napa Soda. My Gentleman. I own a dog who Is a gentleman, By birth most surely, since the creature can Boast of a pedigree, the like of which Holds not a Howard or a Metternich. By breeding Since the walks of life he trod, He never wagged an unkind tale abroad. He never snubbed a nameless cur because Without a friend or credit card he was. By pride. He looks you squarely in the face, Unshrinking, and without a single trace Of either diffidence or arrogant Assertion, such as upstarts often flaunt. By tenderness. The little girl may tear With absolute impunity his hair, And pinch his silken, flowing ears the while He smiles upon her; yes, I've seen him smile. By loyalty. No truer friend than he Has come to prove his friendship's worth to me. He does not fear the master— knows no fear- But loves the man who is his master here. By countenance. If there be nobler eyes, More full of honor, and of honesties, In finer head, on broader shoulders found- Then have I never met the man or hound. Here is the motto on my lifeboat's log: "God grant I may be worthy of my dog! " — New Orleans Timea-Danocrat. Pacific Northwest Derby Entries. Eighteen English Setters and four Pointers com- prise an entry of twenty-two young dogs for the Derby of the Pacific Northwest Field Trial Club. Of these five entries are made by California sportsmen. The All-Age entries close on September 1st. Entry blanks and further information can be obtained from Secretary Frank A. Pontius, Seattle, Wash. The trials will commence at Whidby island on Sep- tember 29th. The Derby list is the following: ENGLISH SETTERS. Fly's Count, by Lady's Count Noble-Fly M.; Fred Lincoln. Cincinnatus' Nat, by Cincinnatus' Pride-Ruth T. Etol; E. B. Roy. Dock, by Roy Montez-Diana Montez; C Wenings. Hick's Lad, by Dock Hick-Woodcraft; J. W. Con- sidine. Hick's Bob, by Dock Hick-Woodcraft; J. W. Con- sidine. Hick's Son, by Dock Hick-Woodcraft; Weismann & Considine. Tony's Tony, by Tony's Boy-Belton Girl; Weismann & Considine. Roy's Lady, by Roy Montez-Victaria Bell II.; Win- ifred W. Davie. Count Whitestone Chief, by Count Whitestone- Sport's May Bell; N. A. Wedeen. Sporting Duchess, by Tony's Boy-Sport's DestiDy; Mrs. A. H. Nelson. Bon Ton Bell, by Lady's Count Noble-Vall's Belle; Charles Humann. Whitestone's Count, by Count Whitestone-Sport's May Belle; Al Wiesmann. Nisqually, by Dick Stamboul-Lulu's Last; R. S. Esk ridge. Uncle Jim, by Count Whitestone-Sport's May Belle; J. A. Peebles. Robert Llewellin, by Llewellin Drake-Miss Maud; T. J. A. Tiedemann. Count Stamboul, by Dick Stamboul-Lulu's Last; F. R. Atkins. Countess, by Dick Stamboul-Lulu's Last; F. R. Atkins. Count's Pearl, by Petrel's Count-Fairland Pet; J. H. Schumacher. POINTERS. Frank M., by Don Graphic- -;C.E. Worden. Sandlewood, by Cuba of Kenwood-Petronella; Dr. A. T. Leonard. Wallace Bruce, by Kenwood Dan-Whisper; James Haywood. Buck A., by Buck of Kent-Queen H.: J. E. Lucas. Prof. J. A. Balmer of Cle-Elum, Wash., will probably be in the saddle at the fourth annual trials of the Pacific Northwest Field Trial Club at Whidby Island nest month. The fact that this will be the fourth successive season that Professor Balmer has officiated at these trials speaks much for his popu- larity and capability. He judged the Pacific Coast trials at Santa Maria in 1902 and was an associate judge in 1894 in company with W. W. Titus and Royal Robinson at the United States trials. Kennel Registry. VISITS. J. C. Berrett's (San Jose) Irish Terrier bitch Norah (Wilmount Highwayman-Endclifle Kitty) to W. R. Whittier's Irish ( ) August 10, 12, 1903. WHELPS. Chas. P Charles1 black Cocker Spaniel bitch Ruby (Black Prince-Margaritta) whelped August 15, 1903, six black puppies (3 dogs) to H. A. Wegener's Ch. Duflenn Pastime (Ch. Viscount- Oh. Polly Pastime). Sheep Dog Trials. We omitted last week to mention that sheep dog trials— supposedly Collies, were an established feature at fairs, etc., in Australia and New Zealand. We cull the following from the New Zealand Weekly Press; this excerpt may be of some little interest to fanciers who believe in the working possibilities of the Collie. Trials of this character, however, we deem more com- mon in a grazing country, such as conditions in the antipodes offer, than will prevail here on this Coast. "A cable message from Sydney announced that Mr. H. T. Little's dog Toss had won second prize at the Sheep Dog Trials in Sydney on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, July 2nd, 3rd, and 4th. There were twenty- nine competitors, aud the qualifying rounds were de- cided on the Thursday and Friday. The awards were made by points, as follows: Under command 30, acti- vity 15, wide-working 15, steadiness 15, putting through hurdles, round poles, and yarding 25; total, 100. The course was round two flags, through hurdles round third flag, through Maltese cross in two different directions, and holding in pen. The time allowed in the qualifying rounds was ten minutes, and in the final a quarter of an hour. Pegs were fixed at hurdles and cross; inside these pegs the "handlers" were not supposed to go, but several of them did and helped their dogs unblushingly. The pegs were dis- carded in the final. The judges, on comparing notes after Thursday's and Friday's competitions, decided that the following seven dogs should compete in the final: Biddy 85 points, Hindhope Jed 83, Blake 83, Chance 80, Toss 79, Boon 77, and Midget 75. Chance led off under perfect command, and did the flags in 2 minutes and the hurdles in 6 minutes. At the cross the dog xas too slow where opportunities offered, and at times kept sheep on the go. Sixty-six points. Midget began well at first flag, but sheep got away for fifty yards. Under fair command, but sub- sequently rushed too much at the gate, and seatkrtd sheep, which went where they wished. A poor go, sixty-three points. Toss, under good command rounded first flag very cleverly, and then took his trio yard by yard, round second flag in lovely style — 4 minutes. Headed well when sheep broke and circled them prettily. Ap proaching a bit too quickly passed gate wrong way, and then did it properly in 74 minutes. Down like a shot when ordered. Keeping sheep ''tight," Toes did first half of cross in 9 minutes. He got them in cross again, but they broke out when everyone was in sus- pense. In 14 minutes the secona half of cross was prettily done. The dog brought sheep quickly to pen, but time was called. He, however, yarded beautifully in a minute over time, and Mr. Little proudly closed the gate. Toss's performance was loudly applauded. Eighty-nine points, Hindhope Jed started nice and quietly, sneakiEg craftily, and not flurryiDg sheep. A small bark was her ODly blemish. Pretty work at flags 3 minutes, splendidly under command' and heading with great judgment. Did gate on her own nicely in 5 minutes. Got sheep quickly tocrossand drovestraight through. First half in 9 minutes, second half in 9| minutes by lovely work, the way she went round and blocked exit being something out of the common. Work at pen was Al; Jed got two sheep in stylishly, but one mule refused to join the others. Her sneaking at the pen was as gentle as a cat after a bird . Loud applause greeted her performance, for which O'Bryan's careful handling had a lot to do. Eighty-nine points. Biddy, from whom much wasexpected, disappointed her admirers. Her sheep broke away and one got into the yard. Driven out she repeated the trick, and was joined by her mates, and presently a dozen sheep cleared out of the yard on to the arena. An appeal for fresh sheep was disallowed, and poor Biddy had to retire practically untried. Boon was too fierce, and rushed sheep, being dis- obedient. Hurdles done in 7 minutes in bad style. She had no idea of cross work, and whatever opening she had was blocked by her handler. In any case she had no hope of winning. Seventy-two points — a liberal award. Blake, the last out, was met by sheep in center of ground, rounded first flag in 2 minutes, but headed sheep when they were going right for second pole 3£ minutes. Commenced only fair, for he refused to steady when directed. Poor work at gate6i minutes. . Got to cross quickly, but circled sheep until they broke, and made no progress. Sixty-five points. The following was the result of the trials: First prize, £15 — King and McLeod's (Hermidale) black and white bitch Hindhope Jed; points, 83 and 89, total 172. Second prize. £5 5s— H. T. Little's (N. Z.) black and white dog T^ss; points, 79 and 89, total 168. Third prize, £4 — King and McLeod's black and white dog Blake; points, S3 and 73, total 156. Fourth prise, £3 — King and McLeod's black bitch Boon; points, 77 and 72, total 149. Fifth prize, £2 — Maiden Brothers' black bitch Chance; points, 80 and 66, total 146. Sixth prize, £1 — Maiden Brothers' black bitch Midgot; points, 75 and 63, total 138." Leon S. Greenebaum's Bull bitch Endcliffe Pleasure is now in the champion class, having made the fol- lowing wins: San Francisco, 5 points; Los Angeles, 1 point; Oakland, 1 point, all in 1902 and the 'Frisco show this year, 5 points. The winner of second in the P. N. W. Field Trials Club Derby in 1901, by Policy Girl, was recently pur- chased by Mr. J. W. Considine from Mr. Cook In man. Mr. Charles Askins will most probably take charge of this bitch. AUGUST 22, 1903J ®he gveebev anii *&p0vt&ma\x 9 Ethics of Breeding. [Continued from Last Week.] This examination, too, will ahow that every time we make use of an unworthy dog or bitch we are intro- ducing an element we shall subsequently have to eliminate, and if we breed from a second-rate dog or bitch we 9hould only do so with the definite object of attaining some merit such animal may have in exces- sive degree, and take care that the puppy we select to keep i9 the one which possesses, in most marked degree, the merit we aim at. Breeding is a matter of compromise, and the bitch must have something to give in exchange for what she takes. Another mat- ter o' importance is that the longer a feature has been in existence the greater power it has of repro- ducing itself. Thus, a fault which has been handed down for several generations is harder to eradicate than one that has been intermittent. The figures themselves bear this out, but the reproductive force is probably greater than is shown by the figures. A good rule, therefore, to set befor i ourselves is, "Never breed from the second generation of a fault." It is a rule circumstances may make it impossible for us to follow; but, none the less, it is a good standard to aim ■ at. The influence of inbreeding also tends to disturb the figures unduly, for it is generally recognized that the close repetition of the same individual in a pedi- gree exercises an increased force. Many breeders have a very primitive idea of the value of inbreeding, or line breeding, as they sometimes call it. I have known a breeder disappointed with the results of the union of the son and daughter of a celebrated sire. Both son and daughter possessed all the faults of the Bire to an extreme extent, and it was possible also to And in ttiem all the faults of the champion's ancestry; yet the breeder failed to realize that what he was in- breeding to was not the virtue of his prototype, but the defects. Considering the forces of inbreeding, it is of additional importance, when we make use of it, that we should be certain that the extranoous blood we use is free from the predominating faults of the animal inbred to, and that the individuals we breed from are strong in the points where the prototype is weak. I do not wish the impression to be formed, from what I have written, that it is no good breeding un- less the breeder possesses, or can afford to possess, bitches of undoubted merit. We cannot command success even with the most perfect brood stock, as there are elements in nature we cannot control; but there are three occasions for the exercise of the breeder's influence — in the selection of the dam, the selection of the sire and the selection of the offspring, and it is in these selections we should leave as little as possible to chance. Should a breeder possess but one bitch, and that an indifferent specimen, and he is unable to afford to purchase a better, he must do his best with what he has by the exercise of the other two opportunities of selection left him; but, if a breeder has two indifferent bitches, I would counsel him to select the least bad and center all his attention upon her and her offspring. Many a breeder, how- ever, has three or four bitches, all of whom possess few claims to merit, and he wastes his time, his tem- per and his money in breeding from the lot. Much less trying to his temper and much less expensive on his purse it would be were he to apply a shotgun to two of them, and, with the additional space and time at his command, endeavor to breed out the faults of the third by careful retention of the puppies nearest his aim, and careful selection of the sires he breeds to. Most breeders spoil their chanceB of success on the show bench by having too many bitches in their pos- session. The small man grumbles because the man with the large kennel sweeps off all the prizes, yet one of our largest, most successful and cleverest breeders once assured me that the man with four selected bitches was in the best position to achieve successful results, and with this dictum I am in entire agreement. If a man can afford to keep and breed from three bitches, he should be sure his three are good ones, or else he should make sure that he has one good one and no bad ones. One good bitch will save its cost, as compared with three indifferent ones, in a very short time, and the result will be very much more satisfactory. He may not have so many weeds to throw upon the market at a guinea or two; but I am not writing in the interests of the dealer, and I feel sure that, even from the pecuniary point of view, he will find discriminating selection of the dam a paying game. Let, therefore, the breeder's watchword be "discard." Let him discard even the best bitch in the litterif she does not possessthose points for which he has been breeding, and possesses even in a slight degree what he is endeavoring to eliminate, provided he has another not, perhaps, so good on the show bench, but whose faults are less fixed in the pedigree, and whose virtues are what he aims at. In the selec- tion of the dam, of the sire and of the puppy, let his motto be "breed to breed." Let the plan he forms be a continuous policy. In conclusion, take the old ad- vice: "Cut your losses and hang on to your profits." In this instance the losses are the "misfits" — discard them ruthlessly; the profits are the successes, do not be tempted to part with them. If you have any defi- nite scheme of breeding, they are of much more value to you than to any one else- Your "cast-off" may be the groundwork of some other breeder's success; but let not that disturb you. If, in piquet, a bad discard is followed by a lucky pick-up. it does not prove you played the right game, and the man who plays the right game consistently will win in the long run. Don't breed for to-day as much as for to-morrow. These remarks on breeding are but sketchy— the subject is immense — in all but one respect they are given with considerable diffidence for daring to deal with the matter at all. The one exception made is largely the cause of the whole a" tide, and that excep- tion is the worthless stuff so largely used by most breeders. lam confident that no great progress will be made with the breed until a far higher standard is set up than exists as to what ought and ought not to be bred from. At present the only qualification seems to be that the animal is of the female sex. DOINGS IN DOGEOM. "The value of a pure bred dog, even for use, over a mongrel, is exemplified in a letter received from New Zealand, says a writer in the Australasian. The cor- respondent in question went out pig hunting with a high class Bull Terrier and a mongrel-bred one, and coming across a boar of considerable reputation, owiDg to repeated failures to get him, a fearful en- counter ensued, the gentleman of formidable tusks again escaping, despite the indomitable courage of the Bull Terrier. Though in the end becoming knocked out through loss of blood, this wonderful bitch, who not only weighs but 40 pound, but had just reared a large litter of puppies, returned again and again to the fight, being severely ripped no less than seven times. Absolutely the only assistance she got from her miserable kennel-mate was the ques- tionable encouragement of much noise, and an occasional snap at the porcine quarters at times when the more dangerous end of their opponent was en- gaged with the Bull Terrier." Blood, indeed, will tell. Jos. E. Terry, of Sacramento, has donated a hand- some silver cup to be given as a prize in one of the stakes at the Nevada field trials. Mr. William Ollard, of Tacoma, writes us as follows concerning Irish Terriers: "Bantry Bawn, a bitch owned by Mr. C. P. Curtis, Tacoma, was served by his Bolton Woods Despot, July 1st, and is now heavy in whelp. Brimscall Doreen whelped August 10th four dogs and one bitch puppy to his Bolton Woods Despot. The pups are coming on fine. Bantry Bawn owns Co. Masterpiece, of New York City, for sire. S100 was paid for Bantry Bawn In New York when she was three months old, and all risks taken by purchaser. Last year, being her first season, she was sent to the Rusbden " Kennels for service, traveling on the round trip over 3000 miles. This, at least, shows we have enthusiasm and the correct qualifications for the growth of the fancy here on the Pacific Coast. However, it will not be necessary to send so far for a stud service again, as the Coast can now boast of most excellent blood and some very typical specimens of the true Irish Terrier. One of the latest importations being Bolton Woods Despot direct from the well known Bolton Woods Kennels, England." San Francisco Fly-Casting Club. Saturday Contest No 10— Stow Lake, August 15, 1903. Wind, southwest. Weather, fair. Events 12 3 4 Young, C. G Brothcrton, T. W..120 Brown, H — 100 Brooks. Dr. W. E... 98 Kenniff, C. B Edwards. G-. C... Kierulfl, T. C .... .100 .101 90 4-12 93 92 6-12 92 9-12 88 8-12 89 91 8-12 90 4-12 89 8-13 90 4-12 83 4-12 86 9-12 90 4-12 88 8-12 87 6-12 88 1-12 So 89 8-12 95 10-12 92 9-12 89 8-12 92 85 88 6-12 89 8-12 89 8-12 81 8-12 85 7-12 99 1 85 74 5 Sunday Contest No. 10— Stow Lake, August 16, 1903. none. Weather, fine. Wind, Events 1 2 3 4 a b c Young, C. G Kenniff, C. R 92 Brother-ton, T. W..112 Kenniff, J. B 118 Golcher, H. C 121 Battu, H 96 Haight.F.M 82 Huyck, C 97 Klerulff, T.C 92 90 8 12 85 8-12 87 6-12 86 7-12 93 8-12 91 8-12 89 2-12 90 5-13 87 8-12 92 4-12 86 8-12 89 6-12 93 8-12 90 4-12 80 10-12 85 7-12 86 4-12 89 8-12 82 6-12 86 1-12 89 4-12 93 84 2-12 88 7-12 86 4-12 85 4-12 79 2-12 82 3-12 85 4-12 90 4-12 78 4-12 84 4-12 93 8-12 84 4-12 86 8-12 85 6-12 34 9 98 1 JS-NOTE: Event 1— Distance Casting, feet. Event 2— Ac- curacy, percentage. Event 3— Dellcaoy, (a) accuracy percentage, (b) delicacy percentage; (c) net percentage. Event 4— Lure cast- ing, percentage. The fractions in lure casting are 15ths. Reports from reliable sources this week give the following angling data: Klamath Sprirjgs, Siskiyou Co. — The trout fishing in Shovel creek this year has been phenomenal. Catches have been made all the way from 100 fish to 400 for a days sport and all caught on the fly. The best killers have been the black gnat, royal coach- man, grizzly king and the hackles tied on No. 12 or 14 hooks. The salmon fishing is just commencing in the Klamath river and promises to be fine this year on account of the dam being a thing of the past at Klamathon. Several fine catches of these game fish have already been made and by reason of their early appearance the sport should be great this year. Capitola and Santa Cruz — Wonderful salmon fish- ing continues, catches averaging from 15 to 60 to the boat and weighing on the average from 4 to 50 pounds. There are immense schools of sardines in the bay and the sport promises to last the rest of the month. Smelt are also running in large quantities and can be caught off any of the wharves running into Monterey bay. Lake Tahoe — Fishing continues good in the lake and with the fine weather that usually occurs in Sep- tember the sportsman will find everything he can wish for by making a trip into this section during that period. Jackson's Napa Soda untangles the feet. Success in Angling. The success of an angler depends largely on the amount of common sense exercised. The hunter when in quest of game exerts all hi» cunning which consists of careful forethought coupled with good judgment. If the game is wary, he takes into consideration the direction of the wind and how he can best approach with the least possible noise or lure the game to him without being seen until the quarry is within range. It is quite probable that fish are possessed of as much instinct or intelligence regarding their self- preservation as most, birds and animals; certainly they are as quick to discern any unnatural movement and take instant fright, and when in this state they have no idea of taking food. It is very rarely the case that the angler gives the proper attention and careful consideration necessary to get within fishing range. The two senses which are most prominent in the organization of fishes are those of feeling and seeing. Most anglers of ex- perience take heed of the latter sense, but the former as a rule is not given due consideration. A heavy jar of any kind in the vicinity of the bank of lake or stream is communicated to the water, and fish will frequently take greater alarm from an unseen dis- turbance than something that can be detected by vision, as in one case thenature of thefoeis unknown, while in the other their instinct has taught them the ways and means to best protect themselves from threatening danger. While it is undoubtedly true that fish will become accustomed to the presence of an angler if he remain quiet, and will return to their usual quarters after a time, still, much time is lost through lack of careful approach before they will again resume feeding. The skill of an angler in hook- ing or landing a fish or the fineness of equipment is of no avail provided they are not in a state of perfect tranquility when the lure is presented. In the art of angling there is scarcely a limit to the amount of skill that can be displayed in all the details necessary for success. It matters little how much time or study one has devoted to the subject, there is constantly some new phase presenting itself or some thing of an interesting nature to be learned. In the preparation of selection of the tackle the skill of one angler over another is really a question of common sense. Eliminate all the scarecrows possible, have your tackle as fine as you can and answer the purpose; give the fish credit for at least enough intelligence not to take anything which exhibits the fraud too promi- nently; always keep as close to nature as the compo- nent parts of your tackle will permit, and use the same caution you would in creeping on a flock of ducks around a bend in the river or any other game that one has to exercise great care and forethought to outwit. It is a common saying with many anglers that they can sit all day with rod in hand in perfect content- ment without getting even a nibble. While there is no question but that to the overwrought mind the refreshing breezes and delightful scenery is invigor- ating and restful, after months of hard labor amidst the humbrum aod clatter of city life, and the sense of relaxation is more than pleasant to contemplate, nevertheless the enjoyment must be infinitely more keen and both mind and body receive greater benefit when a feeling of enthusiasm pervades the system and a desire to excel in this, one of the noblest of sports. Even among the most indifferent, the sensation of a sharp tug on the line and the bend of the rod will set the blood tingling and awaken the dormant energy to a strong desire and determination to win the fight if possible, and land the fish which is bravely and heroically putting forth all his strength and resources to escape from his unknown and unseen foe. When the capture has been effected and the beauty lies before you, one cannot help but admire the pluck and en- durance of the vanquished, and almost wish that he had been the victor. The common sense fisherman will tell you that when fishing from a boat he throws hie bait as far as possible in order to avoid being seen, and also that the condi- tions surrounding the fish may not be disturbed; he will tell you that he endeavors to present the lure in life-like and appetizing manner," and give it a motion approaching nature to the best of his ability. The tackle will be fine, and the hook so well concealed that the fish sees nothing but the bait. The following taken from an unrecalled writer on angling topics aptly illustrates this common-sense principle: "By observation you will soon know that you must not show yourself to the intended capture, and there- fore you must not be too close to the water's edge: if it is necessary for castiDg your fly, you must make yourself as little vissible as possible." After all these points have been taken into con- sideration it will be seen that while skill in the manip- ulation of rod and reel is desirable, and only long years of experience can attain this, that the most important factor and the one which was responsible and contributed most to the weight of the basket on the homeward march was allopathic doses of horse sense applied when and where most needed. Hammocks and Lawn Tents. Minas Prieias hammocks can not be excelled. They are a hand- made Central American product, woven from a light, tough and strong grass fibre and dyed in bright colors with mineral dyes. They are lasting and comfortable; one can roll them up into a small compass the same way as is done with a silk India shawl. Skinner, the Sporting Goods man, B0 1 Market Street, has just re- ceived a new consignment Lawn Umbrellas for outing, camping, prospectors. Invalids, for the summer cottager, etc. 8- foot Bproad, comfortable for two peo- ple Light weight very strong, variegated or solid colors, put up in five minutes. Just seo Skinner about 'em- You'll sur one when you see it. 10 ®tte gveebev anif grpxrtrtemaa [August 22, 1903 GOSSIP FOR SPORTSMEN. Sportsmen who have a taste for venison and are endowed with a sure eye and stout limbs to withstand the labor and fatigue involved in a trip through rough country are amply rewarded these days, the prize for tbe venture being a fat buck. Hunters returning from points far ana near have generally come back to this city, after having had a glorious outing, with a dressed deer or two, or at least a head and antlers. This latter trophy of the chase is generally turned over to a taxidermist and when in the velvet. This head will make a most beautiful mounted specimen. E. N. Hecht and G. H. Taubles have returned from a three weeks' outing in the wilds of Humboldt county They camped at Big Bend on Mad river and on Pilot creek. One four-point buck, a forked horn and a large Pacific blue buck was the big game bag. Doves and trout were not wanting in tbe camp larder by any means. The hunters report plenty of brook trout in Grouse creek, Pilot creek and Mad river. Grouse are also very plentiful in that region. Andrew Jackson and George H. T. Jackson left the city Saturday on a deer hunting trip. Ben Baum and Dove shooting seems to be hardly up to the average of many seasons pa6t. Near this city the hunting fields formerly yielding good dove shooting are ap- parently abandoned by the "cooers." Prospects for good quail shooting tils fall have not been better for years past. Prom almost every sec- tion the reports are that the quail were never more plentiful. The open season for mountain quail and grouse commences on September 1. A more than average good hunting ground for these game birds, it is re- oTt^Sng-^ Y^t^JR &*All ^he-vicinUTorT^oe^hrs subject of many future hunting reminiscences. Among the doughty Nimrods who have bagged bucks recently are John B. Hauer who dropped a fat deer that tipped the scales at 123 pounds when dressed. The buck was secured in one of tbe canyons of the Division ranch below Inverness, Marin county. In the hunting party were J. P. Sweeney, Mr. TJuder- wood of Berkeley and Mr. Beatty of this city. The party hunted over private ground, for which pleasure tbey had a permit. Oa this particular occasion it was a wonder that anything larger in the line of game than a jackrabbit was bagged. And still more wonderful is it that an- other hunting casualty did not take place, for this whole section of the country was on that particular dav alive with hunters, and bullets were flying in every direction. Hauer and his companions took the wise precaution of garlanding their shoulders with red handkerchiefs so that in going through brush or working along the canyon sides or ridges some im- petuous rifleman would not mistake them for deer and send a few leaden messengers of death in their direction. Marin county has been a prolific hunting ground for many deer hunters this season so far. Among the members of the Country, Tamalpais and Point Keyes Sportsmen's clubs over a score of bucks have been accounted for. W. S. Kittle had already secured two bucks up to Wednesday last, when he again went over to the Country Club preserve in tne hope of getting his quota of three deer for the season in the shape of a big buck, in view of this he let several opportunities go by to bring down a small animal. Shortly after the opening of the season on Division ranch, Payne Shafter, Henry Brainerd, ex-Mayor of Petaluma, and Herbert Brainerd brought down a 135- pound buck. The party started on the chase at 10 o'clock a. m. and were back from the hunt at 11 o'clock. Tbe deer was jumped by the dogs and was in range of the trio of huntsmen, who each fired a shot, the three shots each being effective, thus leaving the honor of getting the deer an open one between the hunters. J. J. Moore and Master Moore Satur- day week downed two bucks near Inverness. One was a big three-pointer which weighed 125 pounds, and the other was a 115 pound spike buck. That deer are plentiful and tame in Marin county iB shown by the following incident. Last week a party of Santa Rosa people who had been in camp near Olema saw a buck, accompanied by a doe and well grown fawn, on the public road near Hicks valley. The animals trotted along the road for some distance and finally disappeared in the brush on an adjoining hillside. Recent reports state there are many deer to be found in the southeastern part of Santa Clara county. The big fellows are being driven further back into the hills but tbey are still to be found in accessible locali- ties. Pine Ridge is a place where hunters are meet- ing with good luck at present. A few miles further back on Middle Ridge the bucks are more plentiful while still further back on what is known as Blue Ridge big game is found in abundance. This region is but sparsely populated and very hard to get at, but when one once getB there it is an easy matter to secure game. Tne cool mornings and evenings have had a ten- dency to bring tbe deer more out into the open and it affords hunters a better opportunity of getting their game. Although the past few weeks have yielded good sport, it is expected that the month of Septem- ber will yield far better returns for the sportsmen. Eunters returning from San Mateo county report a scarcity of deer in that country, notwithstanding that the open season iD the county is still young. Those who claim to know say that the reason is that the law has been disregarded, and shooting out of season was indulged in for several weeks prior to August 1st, the date when the county season opentd. It is reported to be the very common practice for hunting parties to be made up about the middle of July each year These parties leave ostensibly on a camDiog and fishing expedition for tbe southern seei.ions of tbe county. The real object, however, is to be in the midst of the good hunting ground for the purpose of getting two weeks' start on the law-abiding sportsman. It is claimed that a good field for a z-vtlous game warden can be found in the southern pirt of Sin Mateo county two weeks before the season opens annu illy. The honors of the chase are by no means entirely monopolized by the sterner sex. Miss Lou Cochrane of San Rafael recently killed in the Blue river basin a buck that weighed 150 pounds. Tbis animbl is the record deer in the county so far this season, and probably will remain so. Sirs. George O Young is the first woman of the season in Santa Clara county to cause a monarch of the forest to fall before her rifle. She, with her hus for a week, deer hunting and trout fishiDg being good in that locality at present. R. Sangster and party left during last week for a month's hunting and fishing in the Big river country, Mendoeino county. The hunters will reach their destination by stage from Ukiah. A singular hunting mishap befell E. A. Boyles of Gridley, Butte county, recently whilst deer shooting in the mountains of Plumas county. A letter from the hunter tells of his strange experience in that wild country. Returning from a day's hunting trip, he stepped into an old mine tunnel, and being attracted by the character of the rock of the walls of the tunnel, he struck a match and walked some distance into the incline. As he turned to go back to the mouth of the opening he saw a deer standing in a patch of light at the entrance to the tunnel. He raised his rifle and fired and immediately a mass of rock fell in front of him and partly covered him. He was not seriously injured, but was horrified to find that his exit had been cut off by a cave which had doubtless been started by the shock following the discharge of the rifle. Boyles then followed the tunnel backward, relieving the darkness by striking matches, and found that it led to a shaft. The timbers of the shaft were rotten and there was no ladder, but there was a chance to climb downward. He let himself down the old shaft and finding another tunnel at the lower level wandered along its leDgth and after squeezing through over parts of the roof that had caved in he reached the outer air near the bed of a creek. The tunnel through which he escaped was an old drainage way and still carried off the water of the miDe, ■making pools through which he had to wade up to his waist. When he got out it was dark, and being confused by his experience be lost his way and did not reach camp until the following morning. State, in which county (Placer) the season begins on September 15th. A recent letter from that section states there never have been so many mountain quail and grouse seen in the vicinity, and the prospects lor sport in September are enticing. Rev. Mr. Gardener and Dr. Logan, retired doctors of divinity, killed two does near Larkspur on the 19th inst. and were arrested deservedly for this, under the circumstances, flagrant violation of the law, and are now in the hands of the law officers. Gardener pleaded guilty before a J. P. on Wednesday night and is subject to a fine of from $25 to $500. Dr. Logan pleaded guilty and was fi^ed $50. In these eases a maximum fine would not be a harsh penalty. Tbe does were killed in a canyon near Mount Tamalpais. After killing tbe deer the carcasses «rere secreted and at night the ministers returned, skinntd the animals, cut off the heads and having made way with the evidence, as they thought, hung the meat up in a tree in sacks. The matter was reported to San Rafael officers by Larkspur residents, with the result that the ministers werearrested. ,rTh™does were illegally killed on the property of Mr. Wm. Kent It is claimed that five does have been killed in that section in ten days. The ground is private property and posted. To prevent, if possible, any further peaching imas-'on with 'tie purpose in view of illegal deer slaughter, steel traps have been set out in different places and tbe chances are strongly that, if the nefarious practice is con- tinued, that some of the malefactors will be caught How would it look if a clergyman had one of his legs ornamented with a bear trap? Whew! AT THE TRAPS. There is reported an abundance of quail and grouse in the vicinity of Lake Tahoe, an old resident of that section reports that he has never seen this kind of game so plentiful before, hunters are also bringing in the same reports. The season for mountain quail and grouse in Placer county, is from September loth to February 15th and the sport will no doubt be of the finest this year. The deer season In Placer county is from September Ht to October 15th and there are several fine places in the vicinity of Lake Tahoe where the bucks are plentiful this year. The trap shooting feature next month will be the Golden Gate Gun Club prize merchandise shoot on September 16 at Ingleside. The program embraces several events, one of which provides for ten classes with five prizes in each class. The many sportsmen friends of C. W. Debenbam a popular trap shooter who has been ill since last January, will be pleased to hear that the stricken man is improving and that his cbanches for permanent recovery are now considered to be good. Salt water anglers are elated over the improving conditions of striped bass fishing. This season, as contrasted with results during corresponding dates last year, is far behind. Some good catches have been made in the "straits'' during the last week. One day Jake Christianson landed a twenty-pounder and several smaller fish. In San Antonio creek, Mr. Al Cumming succeeded in landing twenty bass one day last week. Midshipman slough near its confluence with Sonoma creek has been discovered to be a good bass fishing ground. Among the lucky anglers have been Dr. Ed Knowles, Frank Dolliver, George Banker and others. A number of bass have been taken in the slough near Sear's Point. Edgar Forster, James Maynard, Charles Breidenstein, JuIps Bruns, Ed. Sehultz, J. Suich and John Karney fished Midshipman slough last Sunday. Lake Merritt is still the resort of bass anglers. Charles Hollywood, one day last week, hooked five nice bass in the lake. Floyd Judah and B. Beattie prospected Elkhorn slough from the Empiie Gun Club house Sunday. Theslougb is full of the striped fellows, and the luck of the two anglers justifies the anticipation of much sport for the club members in tbe future. Among the other members who were at the club headquarters on the Monterey preserve were J. P. Sweeney, J B. Hauer, Bert Patrick, L. H. Allen, Mr. Schumacher and others. A party composed of San Jose and San Mateo sportsmen made the biggest salmon catch of the season Sunday at Capitola. The members of the party were County Assessor C. D. Hayward, County Recorder J. F. JohnsoD, County Treasurer P. P. Chamberlain, D. J. Mills and Lon Cook, all of San Mateo county, and Jean Prindiville, H. D. Kooser and Bert Herrington, of San Jose It was early in the morning when the party left the wharf at Capitola in a launch. They headed for tbe favorite fishing grounds about four miles out off Aptos Point. There was a great run of fith and the sportsmen lost no time in beginning to haul tbe big The trap shooting fraternity will cease their at- tention to the elusive blue rock next month The California Wing Club will close their season Septem- ber 6 at Ingleside. The final club conteBt will be at twenty live birds. On Admission Day the Millwood Gun Club will hold a big merchandise shoot at Mill Valley. The closing shootB for the season will uke on place on August 30 and September 27. fellows aboard. Before noon there were 52 fine, large band and a relative by the name of Harry Meeseof this salmon lying in the launch and the party agreed that second and Klevesahl third money. Fine weather drew out a large attendance at the monthly shoot of the Union Gun Club, Sunday la6t, at the Ingleside grounds. Harry Hoyt won the first class medal in the medal shoot. Dr. Hanson and Dr. Hutton tied for the seeond class med al. In the shoot- off, a ten-bird race, Hutton won by a score of 9 to 6. The scores follow: Club race, 25 targets— Iverson 21, G. Sylvester 19 H. Hoyt 18, Gordon 19, Daniels 19, C. Sylvester 22, Fish 19, Leary 16, Hanson 17, E. Klevesahl 15 Lidstone 16, J. H. Hall 21, Robertson 24, Clark 18,' Lewis 16, Haight 21, Justinsl8, Hutton 17, Shreve 9, Birmingham Jr. 2], Donoboe 20, Muller 22, Klevefab'l 15, J. Burns 15, Dr. Hanson 14, Peter Hanson 10, P J Walsh 9, Bell 10, Nickels 7, J. Pisani 17. Robertson won first money. C. Sylvester and Mul- ler divided second. G. Sylvester, GordoD, Daniels and Fish divided third. Lidstone, Lewis aDd Leary, fourth money. P. Hansen and Bell, sixth money. Medal race, handicap, 25 to 30 targets, 16 yards — Fish, 27 targets, broke 23, Robertson 25-19, E. Kleve- sahl 27-19, Leary 28-16, C. SylveBter 26-20, Justina 25- 20, H. Hoyt 27-25, Gordon 27-23, Hutton 27-17, W Hanson 27-21, Haight 26-23, Clark 27-18 Pisani 27-21, Shreve 30^4, Birmingham, Jr. 26-19, Hall 26-20, Iver- son 27-21. George Sylvester 27-23, E Klevesahl 28-24, Muller 26-20, Donohoe 29-20, Lidstone 18-13, Dr Hanson 28-17, T. J. Walsh 30-21. At 18 yards- Daniels 27-21, Lewis 28-11. Added money race, handicap, 20 to 25 targets, 20 being possible— Daniels, 22 targets, broke 21, Gordon 22-17, Iverson 23-20, Hutton 23-17, Justina 22-19, Lidstone 24-15, G Sylvester 23-14, W Hanson 24-19, C. Sylvester 23-23, Brimingham, Jr. 23-12, Donohoe 23-18, Muller 23-17, E. Klevesahl 23-20, Clark 24-13, Haight 20-17, Pisani 23-16, Robertson 20-16, Burns 23-22, Hall 23-18, Irvine 25-19, Fish 23-13, Lewis 25-11, Burfiend 23-17, J. W. Humble 25-13, Byer 25-11. In the shoot-off Daniels won first money, Sylvester city, returned from a deer hunt to the San Antonio valley. M^s. Young was the lucky one of tbe party as she killed a fine buck. Harry Meese had an excit- ing encounter with a large wildcat. The animal came out second best. It was one of the largest specimens of the kind ever seen in that vicinity Otto M. Feudner recently got two big bucks in Plumas county near the Big Meadows. One buck had a set of tbe most symmetrical antlers shown in this city during the present season. They were still they had enough fish to last them several days, for the combined catch netted several hundred pounds. There were several large ones among the number. Hayward hooked a 48i pounder with a rod and reel, and it took him just one hour and ten minutes to land the hig fellow.. Most of the salmon were caught with a rod and reel. All the men are old salmon fishermen but they say the sport tbey had Sunday was better than they had ever before experienced. Second *>dded money race, shot at 20 targets from 16 yards — Daniels 18, Iverson 17, G. Sylvester 16, Hoyt 16, Irvine 12, W. Hansen 16, Robertson 17, C. Sylves- ter 18, Haight 17, Lewis 12, Donohoe 16, Hutton 19, Fish 15. " Dr. Hutton won first money, Daniels and C. Sylves- ter second money. Jackson's Napa Soda is sold in every city, town and hamlet in the State. AtJGTJST 22, 1903] ©He $veebev axitt *&povi&ut Butter has been very high, and so are cows and beef. There are other cau.es. evidently, besides the cost ot grain that have kept the prices of butter at such unusual figures during a time of the year •when they are pretty apt to go the other way. Cows mav not have done as well since last fall as in most seasons, from various causes, and this would to some extent account for the diminished yield of butter and higher prices. At the latter part of April the receipts of the Eastern markets were fully a quarter less than a year ego, and it has been more than this for the previous two months. There is undoubtedly much change being made in soma parts of the country, particularly in the West, from dairying to beef raising. While this might not reduce the number of cows kept, it would naturally tend to a leas production of butter than where strictly dairy breeds of cows are kept. Again, on account of the short crops of corn raised and also of hay in some parts of the country, it is probable that some of the poorer cows were disposed of at the commencement of winter, thus reducing the number to some extent. An argument is also presented by some writers in undertaking to account for the diminished butter product, that the hitherto free pasturage at some places in the West are becoming largely curtailed by sett'ement. While thiB may be the case, yet if these government lands are being taken by the farmers, it would seem that more stock— and especially more cows— would be kept by them than there used to be in years past. The New England Homestead, ir> an article on "Future Dairy PriceB," pro- duces these facts to account for the rise and probable continuance of higher prices for dairy products, which appear to be worthy of credence : The most important factor is the shortage of milch cows in the United States, compared with the popula- tion. While population has gained 22 per cent since 1900, the number of milch cows during the same period gained less than 4 per cent. In ether words, population has increased several timeB as fast aB the number of cows on which dependence must be made for supplies of milk, butter and cheese. This is the average for the whole United States, yet there ia a greater difference in some parts than in others. In Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska and IUiuois population increased nearly 21 per cent in the last decade, while the number of milch cows gained but 5 7 per cent. In New England the gain in num- ber of cows was 8.6 per cent, while the population made a gain of 19 per cent. The poorest showing was in the great dairy States of New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio, where the population increased 19 per cent and the dairy herds only S per cent, or a little more. The increasing amount of milk and •cream that is continually being called for by the people in the citieB and large villages, necessitating the extending of the routes for their collection farther and farther into the country, i9 also a fact that should not be overlooked in this matter of demand and supply. These are some of the causes, at least, that show conclusively that tlere is a deficiency in dairv stock that farmerB should undertake to tupply. The high prices for meat reBults in the feeding of many calves for the butcher. At »uch times it is quite a profitable business, but it should be properly pur- sued. Farmers should not he induced to sell their moat promising heifer calves, even at good prices, for they should be worth much more on the farm for cows, or if not all are wanted, tbey will sell very readily either as heifers or cows to those who desire superior stock. Notes on Foreign Farming. John Redmond, English member of Par- liament, thinks that the very moment the Irish land bill becomes law, and people become owners of the land, the soil of Ireland will produce double the value it produces at present. The normal British hay crop is about ten million tons, worth about $20 per ton. As a specimen of the hay-time wages which are being paid this season in the north of England, we may quote the figures at the Kirkby Stephen hirings last week. First class men receive $S2 to $36 per month, with board and lodgings; second-rate men $22 to $29, and youthB '.75 to $14 50. The annual aheep returna for the year ending April 30, 1902, issued by the govern- ment of New Zealand show that the num- ber of sheep in the colony on that date waa 20,342.727, an increaee of 109,628 aB compared with the previous year. The number of owners was 18,803, of whom 7035 owned less than two hundred sheep, while 131 owners had over twenty tLousand sheep. In Canada there has been a very great demand for farm hands during the last thiee months, but this has now been fairly well satisfied both in the eastern Provinces and the northwest by the large number of emigrants who have arrived in Canada this summer. There will be plenty of work during the next few weeks, but after the harvest is over men must he prepared to find other employment. There is a large demand for female servants all over Canada, but not for female factory hands, who are for the most part poorly paid. It is probable that the sheep-stock in Argentina has reached its maximum number. This is usually stated at 120 millions, an estimate which must be accepted with some distrust until the approaching census confirms it. The bulk of Argentine sheep are Lincoln cross- breds, and the wool produced by thiB type of sheep is that which haa suffered most in the drop in values dating from 1899. In New South Wales good rains have recently fallen, but over a large part of the pastoral districts of the State work has been very seriously hindered by the long drought, and the best opening has been in scrub cutting to keep the starving sheep alive ; the total number of sheep decreased from forty-two millions at the end of 1901 to 25>o millions at the end of 1902, and these great losseB in the pastoral industry affect the general demand for labor. In Victoria the effects of the drought continue, and there is no demand for labor In Queensland the drought haB caused great loaBea in the central diatricts and elsewhere; but since rains have fallen both pastoral and agricultural proapects have improved. The sunflower crop is one of the beat paying in Rusaia, and a good crop is worth, aa it stands in the field, $30 an acre. The seeds are sold by the farmer for about $1 a bushel, then the merchants retail at a good profit. diseases will color the milk or decrease its flow. If animals are healthy the only channel of bacterial invasion ia the teat. Some cows have teats which can best be de- scribed aa leaky, and the entrance through them, of bacteria is made very easy. Too great care cannot be taken that all sur- roundings may be clean and healthy. Care must also be taken during milking that particles of dust and dirt do not enter the pail. As the teat and milk cistern are the seat of the greatest number of bacteria, it is well to reject the first few streams from each teat, as they are rich in bacteria. After being drawn the milk should be immediately transferred from the stable to the room where the milk ia strained, aerated, cooled and stored. As soon aa poBsible the straining Bhould be done. After many experiments, no better strainer has been found than ont made of a wire gauge and four layers ol cheese cloth. No matter with what care milk has been drawn and strained, it will contain some bacteria. Their growth must be becked and it can best be done, by keep- ng the milk cool, as they require warmth to grow and multiply. Sometimes, milk ia heated to the boiling point, to destroy the bacteria, but that method imparts a cooked taste and renders the milk less digestible. If heated to a temperature juat below boiling, the bad effects will not be apparent and the bacteria will be de- stroyed. Transportation of milk, especially long distances to the city, has been a great problem, but the use of refrigerator cars has made it simple. Most roads have their milk trains well equipped and the chief difficulty now is keeping the milk cool after it leaveB tbe milk room and be- fore it reaches the car. Bottled milk put in boxes and covered with ice, will arrive at its destination in better condition than that shipped in cana. — Bulletin Cormeell Experiment Station. boys packages of seed corn, each contain- ing about 5IX) grains. Each boy receiving a package was directed to plant 300 kernels in a square and the remainder of the seed in two rows on the south and west Bides to fertilize and protect the inside rows. Other conditions imposed are that the boy shall cultivate the corn, harvest it and ex- hibit ten ears at his home county Farmers' Institute, the ten or more for exhibition to be taken from the inside square and nowhere else. '"It is further agreed by the boy receiving the corn that he will comply with the rules governing the exhibit of corn at his county institute, and that he will attend at least one session of the institute, and that he will follow, as far as possible, the suggeations on the back of the package in regard to keeping record of growing the corn." Prizea will be awarded next fall and winter to boys exhibiting the beat aamples of corn in their respective counties. The plan is a good one and it has awakened keen in- terest among farm boys in corn-growirig# The market for condensed milk is much greater than most people not ac- quainted with the trade suppose. Be- side that packed in small cases for family use much of the milk is shipped in barrels for consumption by large manu- facturing establishments, such as bis- cuit and ice cream companies. It is said that about ninety per cent of the ice cream manufactured in the large cities is produced from condensed milk. An extraordinary story comes from Montana to the effect that sheep men in two or three districts have recently lost large numbers of sheep from poison being scattered over the grazing groundB. On one range over 2000 sheep died and on another more than half that number. Strike! — if they don't give you Jack- son's Napa Soda when you ask for it. Care and Handling of Milk. Two great problems confront the milk producer. One ia the producing of milk of a certain chemical composition or rich- ness, and the other is tbe producing of milk of a good keeping quality. The one depends on conditions previous to milk- ing, while the other depends largely on care and condition of animal immediately before milking, the operation of milking, the care and handling of the milk after it is drawn, ita storage and its transporta- tion. Tbe presence of bacteria in the milk must be constantly fought. The first source is the udder, itself. If the cow is suffering from any disease, the milk will be in'ected and should not be used. Most Laat spring Secretary A. B. Hostetter of the Illinois FarmerB' Institute distributed among a large number of Illinois farm TEAM FOR SALE. AND ONE 8 YEARS OLD; pACERS-ONE ■*■ bay in color and weigh about 1100 pounds- BILLY F. by Thos. Rvsdyk, dam by Hercules; VICTOR PLATTE by Platte, dam by Romeo W. Well matched for size, color, conformation and disposition. Stylish, good gaited and pleasant drivers. Can show mile better than 2:30 together. Can be seen at the Petaluma track until August 29th- Address FRED FANNING, Petaluma, Cal. CLEARING OUT SALES TUESDAY, SEPT. 22, 1903, At Fred. H. Chase & Co.'s Salesyard, 1732 Market Street, San Francisco. .__ ___> w-tr ^^»TATr HAYWAEDS. CAL., will sell all tils TUI F l\#l P r l\ L3 A L. Standard-bred Horses belonging to the I lit l»lfcfc«» fc-w ■ r-i I •—, Estate, comprising 35 head. There are , _, . r-oirHT^c—q d =; and 6 vaars old— by McKinney, Nutwood Wilkes. Welcome and w (^Harold near ly afl well broken tod"? ? and all halter broken and gentle. The mares have William HaroW^neariy an weii "™ «" ' welcome 2:104. and have been bred back. Among them colts at toot J? y ''\I?„.°atr°I?an-ice l-osS a sister to Cricket 0:10 and many other highly bred ones. "" A Bne tot ol *Sh«lan!fponH>; ! "ll also be sold to close out the horses belonging to the Estate. _ _ . —,—-~*m, r-nnn/l of Hon. jesse d. carr win, GABILAN STOCK FARM «gs0-°Vrearo ^egre^lsryou^sfofkCsesfn^amornra'. ^youn^'stock is by Boodle Jr., Nutwood WUkes and other good sires. THE SALE IS POSITIVE AND WITHOUT RESERVE. as-Send for Catalogues. FEED. H. CHASE & CO. San Francisco. 1732 Market Street, UNDER ELECTRIC LIGHT Grand Auction Sale of Trotting Horses nslsting of Sons and Daughters of Diablo 8:09 1-4. Truman 2:13 i?-C^Rrc*bar3d9lElec?orri:u»tr"ldoi,,El BentOD.Good Gift, Etc, Hart Boswell, Advertiser Some of the Finest Ever Ottered in Calitornia, This is a splendid opportunity to get some of the best br « Si well broken, to be sold this year. Ca.aoguesw,.! be bred as well as the finest looking young- other sales place west of Chicago Sale will take place EVENING SEPT. 14, 1903. MONDAY rasa's s-sai occidental horse exchange, _^ c^* ,.i. h 246 Third St., near Folftom, Sau Frai Horses at salesyard Sept. 12.li. 12 ®tte gveeirev anh gtjKurfcrotcHt f August 22, 1908 Visit to the English Cattle Show. The exhibition of the Royal Agricultural Society is an affair approaching national importance. It is usually attended by hundreds of thousands of visitors, includ- ing sometimes, members of the royal family. Location is near, about six miles out of London, on a well-arranged area of 116 acres. Exhibitions are held earlier in the season than in the United States, the dates including the last week of June. This year the total entries of livestock exceeded 2160. Of 944 cattle the Jerseys made a good show, with 185 entries for the Beven classes. Shorthorns numbered 131, an average Of nineteen per clasB. The remaining entries of cattle, numbering" 682, were included in seventy-six classeB In the sheep classes the Southdowns, Hampshire Downs and Shropshires were well repre- sented, whilst the Eomney Marsh breeders sent in no less than fifty-one entries. The pigs were above the average in numbers, there being 212 entered in twenty-four classes. The total value of prizes offered for livestock, including champion prizes and medals provided by various breed •ocieties, was nearly $40, OOOof which horses are not a very prominent feature. There were collections showing the results of various agricultural experiments From the Eoyal Veterinary College were exhibited sets of English, German and French horse-shoes and preserved speci- mens illustrating the effect of various animal diseases, etc. This year the society adopted the Smith- field plan of only having one judge in the livestock sections instead of two. The rings were lined with spectators from an early hour, a party of French agriculturists being noticed amongst the crowd. Among the American visitors was Joseph E. Wing, a well known Illinois agriculturist, whose impressions of British shows, aB given in a letter to the Breeders' Gazette, as follows, give a vivid idea of the differences com- pared with the great American fairs. HOW IT IMPRESSED AS AMEBICAX. What iB my impression of the show? I like it. It is clean. There is not a bawl- ing fakir there nor a single "side show." The exlubitB alone are the show, and thev are intereFtiog enough so that nothing else is needed. Besides the stock there is a wonderful array of exhibits — machinery, stock foods, greenhouses and rustic sum- mer houses. These latter are beauties, and we could so easily make them. They are portable, and serve for small "after- noon teas" on the lawn. And then there are exhibits of nature study work for the acht ols. The prettiest thing I have seen is the butter exhibit. Imagine a snowy tent with long benches therein, and theBe benches covered thick with fresh-spring ing, delicately green grass, the butter in small bricks setting on white tiles down amid the grass. This grass is from fresh Bown seed, perhaps gotten started a fort- night ago. It is very sweet and clean- looking and beautiful. The feature of issuing a complete and correct catalogue and putting up plain numbers conspicuously over each animal is worthy of all praise. Even the ma- chinery exhibits are so catalogued. And machinery exhibits have generally the price of thearticle in thecatalogue. With such a source of information at hand the Bhow is of many times the value to the people that it would be without. Nearly every one carries his catalogue and studies it. We should imitate this. There is no valid reason why we should not get entries made in time to permit catalogue being made up, and once made it would be a source of profit to exhibitors and exhibi- tion alike I think every American is impressed with the idea of arranging cattle accord- ing to classes. It adds immensely to the value and interest of the Bhow. Objection has been made in America that the ani- mals would be restless, try to fight and all that. I see no trouble at all from that cause here. The daily parades oi animals are most interesting. We could easily adopt that plaD, too. The fact is we have not learned to make of our fairs real shows. Exhibitors feel that they are fcr the purpose of winning prizes. They do not realize their duty toward the associa- tion in the way of making their exhibit attract paying visitors. Thus we must fall back on horBe racing and demoraliz- ing tent ihows to attract paying crowdB. We will change all that in time. Not that the horse part need be dropped. Th y find that useful here ; it is mostly in exhibitions of hunters and hurdle-jump ing contests, a fine sight in its way. The show of sheep is more interesting than with us, from the fact that all the animals are bred on the owners' farms. There is not much buying of show stuff to make the rounds. They have been honestly shorn, and while in short fleece now that only makes them more attrac- tive as mutton sheep. The shepherds feed trifolium (which is our crimson clover), vetches, mangels, oilcake, wheat bran and crushed beans and peas Theyfeed liber- ally, heavily would not be too strong a term. I believe animals and men require more food here, at least can endure more. Following is the text of a dispatch sent out from Washington, D. C. : "There is a probability that the Government may take drastic measures to prevent the in- troduction of foot and mouth disease into this country. Consuls stationed in countries were the disease has been known to exist were cautioned to personally at- tend to the disinfection of hides and wool before they were exported to America, but according to Secretary of Agriculture WilsoD, the effort has been anything but successful. He declares that the Govern- ment will sooner or later be compelled to require this disinfection at ports of entry in this country or else prohibit trade altogether. Argentine and a number of countries in Europe are referred to particularly. 'The danger of outbreak in the United States from the importation of hides and wool,' said the Secretary, 'is imminent in the future. The recent epidemic in the New England States cost the Government $125 000. This is serious from a money standpoint, but if one of the outbreaks should occur in the West or Southwest it would require much more money to eradicate it.' " A number of common plants occurring in some cases as weeds, furnish, when properly collected and cured, crude drugs such as are now imported in large part from Europe and elsewhere. The Bureau of Plant Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture is now engaged in the preparation of a Farmers' Bulletin pointing out the desirability of satisfying the demand for these drugs from domestic sources. The bulletin will contain descrip- tions and cuts of the plants and methods of collecting, handling and curing will be given. In order to increase the effective- ness of the bulletin it is thought DeceBsary to bring the prospective collector in touch with buyers. Therefore circular letters are being sent to dealers in drugs asking if they wish to be included in the list of firms to whom the bureau is authorized to direct those wishing to submit samples and get prices. SITUATION WANTED. ("'OACBMAN OR GROOM— By a thoroughly - competent, experienced man Best of recom mendations as to ability, sobriety and honesty. Country or city. Has been with some of the best families In Ireland. Address JOHN CONNELLY care of Mrs. Edwd. Fcrd, 114 Eugenia St., city. Vita ^Oil Used Between the Heats For all Lameness, soreness, deep-seated pain sprains and bruises Circulates the blood and creates speed. Use it. BEST BY TEST FOR MAN AND BEAST. All Druggists and Harness Dealers or Vita Oil Co., 1533 Buchanan St. San Francisco, Cal. Additional Harness Races. GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY. CALIFORNIA STATE FAIR FOR I903 Aug. 31 to Sept. 12, inclusive. Entries to Close with the Acting Secretary, TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1903. 2:14 CLASS TROTTING" $500 CONSOLATION TROT 2:10 CLASS PACING 2:23 CLASS PACING Conditions same as heretofore published BENJ. F. RUSH, President (For Horses originally entered 1 '( in the Green Class Trot / ■ 400 500 400 Address all communications to H. 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F. & N. P. B. B.) Best Hunting and Fishing In the State Numerous and Popular Resorts Hot and Gold Mineral Springs HEALTH PLEASURE RECREATION Pine Camping Q rounds on Beautiful Streams Best Section In California for Fruit and Breeding Farms Th^1rouie ^ San Rafael, Petaluma, Santa Rosa Ukiah, and the Famous Pleasure and Health Resorts in Lake County. Saturday to Monday round-trip ticket at reduced rates. Ticket Offices-«50 Market Street, Chronicle Building, and Tiburon Ferry. B. X. RYAN, Gen. Pas*. Agt. Books and Pictures ABOUT California Mountains, Valleys. Canyons, Lakes and Seaside and Vacation Places. Shall It Be A Gamp in the Forest A Mountain Lake A Good Hotel and Trout for Breakfast ▲ Seaside Resort Clam Chowder for Dinner The Publications of the Southern Pacific Cover all Desirable Places and answer question* of Distance, Accommodations, Expense, Fares, Route, etc. Nothing Left to the imagination. Inquire at INFORMATION BUREAU 613 MARKET STREET BLAKE, MOFFITT & TOWNE -DEALERS IS— 55-57-59-61 First Street, S. F. TaLSPHONB MAXN 199 AUGUST 22, 1903] ©he gveebev cm& &p&visxxxm% Xu THE BEST PLACE! THE BEST TRACK! LOS ANGELES RACING LOS ANG THE BIGGEST MEETING! ASSOCIATION Three Weeks' Racing. OCTOBER 10 to 31, inclusive. ENTRIES TO HARNESS RACES CLOSE SEPTEMBER 1, 1903. No. No. No. No. No. TROTTING STAKES. I— THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA STAKES 2:24 Class $1000 2- THE HOTEL STAKES 2:30 " .... 500 3-THE CATALINA STAKES 2:27 " .... 500 4— THE WINSH1P STAKES 2:20 " .... 500 5-THE HARRISON STAKES 2:17 " 500 No. 6— THE POTTER STAKES 2:14 " 500 No. 7— THE QARLAND STAKES 2:12 " 500 No. 8— Free=for--All Trotting 600 No. 9— Tbree=Year-01ds Trotting 500 PACING STAKES. No. 10— THE LOS ANGELES STAKES 2:15 Class $1000 No. 11 — The Green Class (horses without records) 500 No. 12— THE VAN NUYS STAKES 2:25 Class No. 13— THE STIMSON STAKES 2:20 " No. 14— THE CANFIELD STAKES 2:18 " No. 15— THE SILKWOOD STAKES 2:10 " No. 16 — Free=for=AIl Pacing 500 500 500 500 600 CONSOLATION CLASSES PACERS, TnnjTrnP A PCRSE OF 8400 will be eriven for Trottera eligible to the 3:17 Class I I1U I ! LIIOi who have started at this meeting and not won first or second money. Horses to be named overnight. Entrance fee 5 per cent; nothing from winners Money divided 70%, 30°o, 10 ' ,. Race to take place October 39, A PCRSE OP 8400 will be given for Pacers eligible to the 3:lfi Class who have started at this meeting and not won first or second money. Horses to be named overnight. Entrance fee 5 per cent: nothing from winners. Money divided 70%', 30°£, 10%. Race to take place October 30 Nominators hare the privilege of naming; two hors9S from the same stable or owned by the same person on one entrance fee. Nominators in any race that should fail to fill may on September 8th transfer their entry to any other class that filled in which their horse is eligible. Entrance 5 per cent, of which 2h per cent must accompany the entry and 2\ p3r cent to be paid on the opening day of the meeting;. MAKE YOUR ENTRY ON TIME And be sure that It is postmarked not later than September 1, 1903. ^^. -^ - - — ^ - «^ _ __ ^T I_l I & I ^ou can enter t*ie same horse in three or more classes and have plenty of time between races. The length of the ^^ ^J |\| O I U El. n H I O ■ meeting permits of the program being arranged so that every horse in attendance can be started in aeveral races Added Money Stakes for Running1 Horses will be published in this paper at an early date. CONDITIONS. Entries to close Tuesday, September 1, 1903. Entries not declared out at 4 o'clock p mod tbe day preceding the race shall be required to start and declarations must be in writing and made at the office of the Secretary at the track. Stakes will be divided into four moneys: 50. ?5, 15 and 10 per ceot. Entrance fee Ave per cent oC Stake. -2\'% per cent of Stake in cash draft or check MUST ac- company Entry, balance due and must be paid the first day of the meeting. 5 per cent of the amount of the Stake additional from money winners. If there are less than four starters they may contest for the entrance money paid in, to be divided 50, 30 and 20 pt r cent. Tte Management reserves the right to declare two starters a walkover. When only two start they may contest for the entrance money paid in, to be divided 6Q93' per cent to the first and 33Lj per cent to the second. A horse distancing the field shall only be entitled to first and fourth moneys; but in no other case will a horse be entitled to more than one money. All harness races, unless otherwise specified, mile heats, three in five. Distance in all heats shall be 80 yards, but if the field is more than eight 100 yards. Hopples barred in trotting races, but will be permitted in pacing races. J. W. BROOKS, President. The Association reserves the right to start any heat after the fourth score, regardless of the position of the horses- All Stakes not filling satisfactorily to the Board of Directors may be declared off. Racing colors should be claimed with entries, must be named by 5 p. it. on the day preceding the race, and must be worn on the track in all races. Colors will be registered in the order in which they are received, and if not named, or when colors conflict, drivers will be required to wear colors selected by the Secretary. The management reserves the right to change the hour or date of any race, and the right is reserved to declare off or postpone any or all races on account of the weather or other sufficient cause Conditional entries will be treated the same as regular entries, and nominators held under the rules. Any race that may be started and unfinished on last day of the meeting may be declared ended and money divided according to the rank of horses in the summary. Otherwise than as herein specified in these conditions, Rules of the National Trotting Association (of which this Association is a member), except Rule 4, to govern. Send all communications to CAPT. THOS. B. MERRY, Secretary, ROOM 506 BEADBOEY BUTLDING, LOS ANGELES, CAI. Pacific Coast Trotting Horse Breeders Association. GuI?aa^seed PLEASANTON W^s%R ENTRIES CLOSE SATURDAY, AUG. 22D. No. No. No. No. No. No. tf No. 7 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. TROTTING STAKES. HORSES TO BE NAMED WITH ENTRY. THE PLEASANTON STAKES, 2:24Class $800 2:30 Class 300 2:19 Class 300 2:14 Class 400 2:11 Class 400 Three-Tear-Olds 350 Two-Tear-Olds aOO PACING STAKES. HORSES TO BE NAMED WITH ENTRY. No. 8. THE LIVERMORE STAKES, 2:20 Class. $800 No. 9. Green Class 300 No. 10. 2:23 Class 400 No. 11. 2:17 Class 400 No. 12. 2:13 Class 400 No. 13. Free-for-All 400 No. 14. Three-Tear-Olds 350 No. 15. Two-Tear-Olds 300 NOTICE: Nominators have the Privilege of Naming Two Horses from the Same Stable or Owned by the Same Person on one Entrance Fee. Nominators in any Race that should Fail to Fill may, on August 26th, Transfer their Entry In such Race to Any Other of the Above Classes that Filled in which their Horse was Eligible on August 22, 1903. N. B — It is not the intention of the management to give any special races at this meeting, and if you want to start your horses they must be entered in the regular advertised events. Races will be arranged so that horses entered in several races will have time enough between races to start in each. For conditions see Entry Blanks. Members National Trotting Association. Address all communications to E. P. HEALD. President. F. W. KELIEY, Sec'y. 36 Geary St., San Francisco 14 &he Qvesfoev atxii *&p&vt$tnmt r August 22, 1903 OREGON STATE FAIR M September 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19. ENTRIES CLOSE AUGUST 25 MOXDAT, SEPTEMBER 14. racing, 2:20 Class, two In three s o0° Trotting, 2:35 Class, tiro In three 500 TUESDAY, SEPSEMBER 15. Trotting, Two-year-olds, two In three (closed) ® 600 Pacing, Inland Empire Stake for Three-year-olds, two In three (closed) 500 Trotting, 3:14 Class, three In five 1000 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16. Pacing, Two-year-olds, two in three (closed) S 400 Pacing, 3:11 Class, three In five 1000 Facing. 2:17 Class, The Greater Salem Stake, three in five (closed) 2000 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17. Trotting. Three-year-olds, Webfoot Stake, two In three (closed) S 500 Pacing, 2:25 Class, two In three ■• 500 Trotting, 2:20 Class, The Lewis and Clarke Stake, three In five (closed) 3000 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18. Pacing, Consolation to 3:17 Pace, two in three •- * 500 Trotting, 3:30 Class, three In five 60° SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 19. Trotting, 2:17 Class, three in five '. * 500 Pacing, 2:15 Class, three in five 500 Trotting, Consolation to 2:20 Trot, two In three 5°° flrAorm Hf*rhv A Handicap for Three-year-olds and upward*; $30 to nominate and $30 \Jicguii uci vy additional to start. Entries close Tuesday, August 35th; weights announced WeJnesday, September 16th. at 10 a. m ; declarations due at 2 p. m. 1 1-4 miles S1000 ffinriitiftriQ Entrance fee 5 per cent of purse and 5 per cent additional from money winners vuuuuiuua. Money divided 50, 25, 15 and 10 per cent of purse. Two or more horses may be entered from the same stable and held only for one entry fee. In case where two or more horses have been named as one entry, and any horses have been separated from the stable from which they were originally entered, and such separation made according to rule, they shall be eligible to start in the race upon the payment of the regular entry fee. A horse entering a class that does not fill maybe transferred to any other class eligible by notifying the Secretary on or before September 5th. A horse not winning a heat in three shall not start ic the fourth heat, except in a field of eight or more starters; then he most win a heat in four or go to the barn. Horses so ruled out shall have a right to a share of the purse according to their rank at the close of the last heat. The board reserves the right to declare off and return first payment in any purse that does not fill satisfactorily. Right reserved to declare two starters a walkover. When only two start they may contest for the entrance money paid in. to be divided 70 per cent to the first and 30 per cent to second horse. A horse distanc- ing the field shall be entitled to first and fourth moneys only, and in do other case shall a horse be entitled to more than one money. Other than specifled, rules of the National Trotting Association, of which this Association is a member, te govern, except hopples not barred on pacers. Running* RflCCS Two Rnnnlng Races will be given each day, with entries to ° * close at 6 p. m. day preceding race. W. H. WEHRUNG, Pres. HILLSBOKO, OREGON. M. D. WISDOM, Sec'y, PORTLAND, OREGON HARNESS. SADDLES, WHIPS, ROBES, and Turf Goods, ALWAYS THE BEST FOR THE MONEY. JEPSEN BROS CO. inc MaKers of Fine Harness at REASONABLE Prices. 1145-1147 Market St. San Francisco ^sTsTaaTsTsTsTateTaTeTsTaT^^ QUINNS OINTMENT) FOR HORSES standsattheheadofallveterinarvremedies. Such troubles as Spavins, Curbs, Windpuffs, Splints, Bunches have no ! terrors for a horse if the master keeps and applies Quinn's Ointment. All J well known horsemen speak of it in the highest terms : Miller.* Sibley of Franklin, Ps owners of St Be], brother of late Bel B07. Trrite, "We have H ysed Qa.nr.'a Ointment with great enopess aod beheveit fulfills oil claimed for it. We cheer- I fullj recommend .t to our friends." For Curbs, Splints, Spavins or Bunches it has no iqjjiL. Price $1.00 per package. Sold by all druggists, or sent by mail. - W. B. EDDY a CO.. WHITEHALL, N. Y. m0^Xar^t^B^is%^^ Awarded Gold Medal At California State Fair 1892. Every horse owner who values his stock should constantly have a sup- ply of it on hand. It improves and keeps stock in the pink of condition. Manhattan Pood Co 3 253 Folaom St., San Francisco ABk your grocers or dealers for it. RED BALL BRAND Positively Cures Colic, Scouring and Indigestion. C. p. KERTEI.T,, Manager. THE BAYWOOD STUD THE BUNGALOW, SAN MATEO, CAL. (Property ol John Parrott, Esq.) Devoted Exclusively to the Breeding and Training of High Stepping Hackney-Bred Harness Horses WALTER SEAIT, Manager. i I I m m ifi. *(* m No Foot-No Horse, VETERINARY. I Orders COD. Sample can 81. Special Prices to Dealers Horse Shoers and Agents You don't have to pack horses' feet when you use STRAP VETERINARY and HOOF OINTMENT. We guarantee a speedy and positive cure for Collar and Saddle Galls, Wire Cuts, Wounds of all kinds, Bums, Scalds, Cracked and Inflamed Heels, Grease Heel Scratohes, Speedy Cuts, Thrush, Contracted Heels, Toe, Sand and Quarter Cracks, Nail Pricks, Car Bruises, Sore Tendons, Corns and Foundered Feet in all forms. We Pay Express Write for testimonials. PRICES— 1 pound can, 81.00; 2 pound can, $1.75; o pound can. $4-00. Address a card to 1711 Genessee Street. Lew Watson & Jones, Gingham Bros. KaDSaS City, MO. SUBSCRIBE TO Showing exact position of every horse, including the favorite, which was either first, second third or fourth at each quarter pole, also positions a? start. Events reported from all parts of Canada and United States. iBsned the 1st and 16th of every roon'li, from April 15th to October 15th. Price 60c, 75c. or SI, according to Issue. For sale at all principal hotels,news stands and race tracks in the country, and publishers' office. GOODWIN BROS., 1440 Broadway, N. Y. Annual Subscription, $18, which includes all semimonthly editions and two morocco bound semi-annuals. Explanatory circular mailed free. For sale by the Breeder and Sportsman. Seldom See a ' big knee like this, but your horse may have a "bunch or bruise on his An- kle, Hock, Stifle, Knee or Throat. ABSORBINE;;^'- without laying the horse up. Circulars if you want them. S2.00 per bottle, delivered. W. F. YOUNG, P. D. F., SprintrfieM. Mass. For sale by Mack & Co., Langley 4 Michoeli Co Redington & Co., J. O'Kane. and J. A. McKerroo all of San Francisco. Chronic Bronchitis and Catarrh of the Bladder Cored In 48 Hoars. CAPSULES The King of Race Horses # 4t SEARCHLIGHT 2:03 Seff. No. 33657. # Will Make a Fall Season # FROM AUG. 1 TO OCT. 1, 1903, T AT PLEASANTON RACE TRACK. TERMS, $50. % For further particulars address ED. MILLS, Pleasanton, Cal. X DR. C. MASOERO VETERINARY SURQEON Graduate of Royal Veterinary College of Turin. Infirmary and Residence— 811 Howard St.: between Fourth and Fifth Sts., San Francisco. Telephone: Main 457. Ira Barker Balziel VETERINARY DENTIST Fancy Carriage. Saddle and Roar* Horses for Sale Office and stable: 605 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, Cal. Telephone South 651. X>xr« wm, F. Ssaxx. M. R. C. V. S.. F. E. T. M. S. VETERINARY SURGEON. Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, England; Fellow of the Edinburg Veterinary Medical Society; Graduate of the New Veterinary College, Edinburgh; Veterinary Sur- geon to the S. F. Fire Department; Live Stock Inspector forNew Zealand and Australian Colonies at the port of San Francisco; Professor of Equine Medicine, Veterinary Surgery, Veterinary Depart- ment University of California: Ex-President ni the California State Veterinary Medical Associa- tion; Veterinary Infirmary, Residence and Office, San Francisco Veterinary Hospital, 1117 Golden Gate Avenue, near Webster St., San Francisco: Telephone West 128. Superior to Copaiba, Cobebe InJeetiM August 22 19031 OIhe gvee&ev emit f&pavt&xxtiixi 16 BALLISTITF The Standard Dense Powder of the World. ■^^— 1901— -Wins Second in Grand American Handicap at Targets. 1903— Wins First in Grand American Handicap at Targets 1903— Wins during Grand American Handicap week at Kansas City. First Amateur Average in Regular Events. Third General Average in Regular Events All Oil' ABOVE ARE AMATEUR RECORDS. Take No One's Word. Try It for Yourself. J H LAU & CO. 75 CHAMBERS ST" NEW YORK CITY Telephone 1747 Franklin. Importers and Dealers In Fire Arms, Ammunition and Fencing Goods. Sole Agents for BALLISTITE (Dense) and EMPIRE (Bulk) Smokeless Powders and the R£BL£ GUN. A postal brings catalogue and -'Shooting Facts." (third edition.) BALLISTITF The Standard Dense Powder of the World. ""^^ CAMPBELL'S EMOLLIO IODOFORM GALL CURE For GALL BACKS and SHOULDERS, CRUPPER SORES and SADDLE GALLS there is none superior. The horse CAN BE WORKED AS USUAL. For BARBED WIRE CUT.S, CALKS, SCRATCH- ES, BLOOD POISONED SORES and ABRASIONS OF THE SKIN it has no equal. It is very adhesive and easily applied to a watery as well as a dry sore. Its use will absolutely prevent BLOOD POISON- ING. In this respect there is no Gall, Cure offered which can justly even claim to be a competitor. We placed it on the market relying wholly on its merit for success, and notwithstanding the fact that comparatively little has been done in the way of advertising the salesof 1900 were 100 per cent great- er than the aggregate sales of Gall Cure preceding that year. This increase was entirely due to its MERITS, and from it we feel justified in saying that it is THE GALL CURE OF THE 20TH CENTU RY It is a quiok and sure cure for those troublesome skin cracks under the fe "-ck v nich injure and often lay up race horses. ; All Trainers Should Have It In Their Stables PRICE:— 3 OZ. BOX, 25c; 1 LB. BOX, S1.00. Read our "ad." on Campbell's Horse Foot Remedy in next issue of this paper. JAS. B. CAMPBELL & CO., Mfrs.,412 W. Madison St., Chicago, III. $2©o Padishah The Best Low Priced Jeweled Watch Made Non-Magnetic Nickel Silver Case Fully Guaranteed For 3ale by ALL JEWELERS Illustrated Booklet on request, showing COLORED FANCY DIALS The New England Watch Go. Factories— Waterbnry, Conn. 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HEALD, President. BREEDERS' DIRECTORY. CALIFORNIA Photo Engraving Company HIGH CLASS ART IK Half Tones arid IAne Engraving Artistic Designing. 506 MLwion St., cor. First, San Fran claoo HOLSTEINS— Winners of every 7 days' butter ! contest at State Pair 1899 1st & 2d for aged cows, 4-yr 3-yr and 2-yr.-olds; 21 Jerseys and Durhams competing. 5th year my Holstelns have beaten 1 Jerseys for butter. Stock for sale; also pigs. F. ' H. Burke. 30 Montgomery St.. S. F. JERSEYS, HOLSTEINS AND DURHAMS. Dairy Stock specially. Hogs, Poultry. Estab- lished 1876. William Niles & Co.: Los Angeles, Cal. AYRSHTRE9— Young Bulls, Cows and Heifers Registered. From prize winning families. Brown A Brandon Petaluma Cal. KM means disordered digestion, and if not promptly attended to will develop into chronic dyspepsia. Sergeant's Condition Pills will improve the appetite by strengthening the stom- ach, and cure indigestion, general debility, nervous- ness, and all disorders arising from impaired digestion. The Pills are a scientific remedy and the standard alterative and tonic in the treatment of Distemper, Mange, Fevers and General Debility. Of dealers, 60c. and $1.00. By mail, prepaid. Sergeant's " Sure Shot" rids the Dog and Puppy of ■worms. Price, 50 cents. Mailed free anywhere. Sergeant's Carbolic " Soft Soap." is the only right kind made. 25c. of dealers. By mail, 35c Our Dog Treatise, revised, and Pedigree blank will be sent on receipt of an order or 3c. in stamps. Our goods for sale by "All Druggists and Sporting Goods Dealers." F. W. BRAUN «& CO., LOS ANGELES, CAL*., Pacific Coast Supply Depot. * ■ G. DANIEL, HELM S. T. SPRATTS PATENT. DOG CAKES REMEDIES SOAP. NEWARK, N. J. Send for free copy of "DOG CULTURE." ST LOUIS, MO. Pacific Coast Branch— 132-4 Valencia Street, San Francisco. Agents for "SANTTAS" Disinfectant. KENNEL ADVERTISEMENTS. FOR SALE. BROKEN DOGS Pointers and Setters Address W B. COTJTTS, Kenwood, Sonoma Co., Cal. Wandee Kennels' Fox Terriers, ffANDEE BLIZZARD, formerly Lithian Bliz- zard (Blizzard-Pop). Fe« 830 WANDEE JESTER (Norfolk Velocity-Norfolk Two Step). F«e *10 Puppies and Brood Bitches for sale. Dogs shown by appointment only. Address WANDEE KENNELS, 844 Harrison St., San Francisco Cal. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS Advertisements under tkis head one cent per word per insertion. Cash to accompany order. IRISH AND SCOTCH TERRIERS. TRISH AND SCOTCH TERRIER PUPPIES -1- at $12 and $15 Sired by Champion Lovne Ruffian and Champion Fighting Mac. Mrs. BRADLEY-DYNE. Saturna P. O , B. C. ST. BERNARDS. "NJAIROD KENNELS— REMOVED TO 133 ■*-' Ninth Avenue, near California— offer for sale the celebrated St. Bernard, LE KING (Champion Le Prlnce-Svlvia's Lola). At Stad— Champion GRAND MASTER II, admittedly the grandest headed St. Bernard on the Coast. Fee $25. At Stud. SMOOTH FOX TEBRIEK Norfolk Trueman p.. Mft Sire of Garston Prefect (1st pappy. Tec Jill, reserve winners, Oakland, 19CBJ. Imelda (winners and special for best, S. F., 1902) Isabella, etc. n_ h mcKHAN 1767 Page St., San Francisco. BULL TERRIERS— FOX TERRIERS. AT STUD-CH. WOODCOTE WONDER. THE -**■ world's premier Bull Terrier Prize winning Wonder puppies; FoxTerrien sired by Norfolk Trueman; brood bitches in whelp and puppies for sale. WOODLAWN KENNELS, Geary and Central Are , San Francisco Phone: Baker 3031 COLLIES. ■17OR SALE— ONE LITTER OF WELL- ■T marked Collie pups, from registered Rtork. Prices reasonable. Address H. H. ROBINSON, Yuma, Arizona. AT STUD CUBA OF- KENWOOD (Qlenbelgh Jr.-Stella) SAM'S BOW (Plain Sam-Dolly Dee II) STOCKDALE KENNELS K. M. DODGE, Manager, Bakersfleld, Kern Co., Boarding. Pointer Puppies and well-broken Dogs for sale. pOLLIE PUPS FOR SALE— BY PRIZE ^ winning imported sires and dams, fit for bench, ranch or farm Both sexes Prices accord- ing to quality Correspondence solicited: all let- ters cheerfully answered. THOS. S. GRIFFITH. Box 1907, Spokane, Wash. COCKER SPAJ.IELS. f/rjS^lW* TO CLRt TH[flMm51AHD*«»OnOF TA« SOLD — DELVERTON CAPPT (Cb. Hampton Promise-Cndlne), win- ner at San Francisco and OaklaDd shows Ad- dress C. DU JARDIN. 201 Castro, San Francisco. NAIROD KENNELS— 133 NINTH AVENUE, near California. Cham Spaniels at stud and for sale. FOR SALE. -irlRIAM E. OWN SISTER TO BEN F 2:ll«, -'■I winner of the 2:17 pace at Vallejo. Thursday. Aucust I3lh. MIRIAM E la a Tery handsome large black mare, five years old. a natural pacer, and I though worked but very little can i-how great speed. She will be sold right. Is a fine roadster and a great prospect for a race mare. la sound and all right every way. Apply to EDW. DINKELSPIEL, Suisun, Cal. FOR SALE. SIDNEY DILLON FILLY; A GREAT PROS- S pect: kind and gentle in every wbj; 8 years old: will weigh about 0.V): without a fault or blemish Price $760. 1786 Ninth Avenue, East Oakland. pLDMERIA COCKER KENNELS HAVE -£ removed to their new kennels, •£# Ninth Ave. The dogs in this kennel are conceded to be the best in the tVest. having defeated all comers, under a number of the best judges In America. At Stud-Champion HAMPTON GOLDIE (great- est alreof winners alive). PLUMERIA TWEE- DLEPUNCH and others Ynuog and matur- d stock forsale. Address E C PLUME. S29 Ninth Ave., San Francisco. Small dogs boarded. T70R SALE— COCKER SPANIEL PUPPIES -T by Ch. Hampton Goldle Apply at junctw ■ old county and Redwood roads. Frul tvale. A lameca PEDIGREES TABULATED And type written Ready for framing Wri*e for prices. BnnDin awd Sportbmaw. 88 Geary Suw San Francisco. 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Ci-* -y c~^— ? •* T~*.S~^~r £-&*+*/ /<>; IT isn't words, it isn't type or page advertisements, it is the truths that ring out sound and clear and impressive — actual results like thiB case from husiness meD. whose standing and reliability can be readily ascertained, which have made "SAVE-THE-HORSE " such a success. Their cured horses are living advertise- ments, absolute certainties as to the possibility of the remedy for your own case, and with every bottle is a guarantee document as binding to protect you as the best legal talent can make it. "SAVE-THE-HORSE" Cures Without Scar, Blemish or Loss of Hair. Can be applied at any time, anywhere, any place, and in all extremes of weather. Horses may be worked as usual with shin or ankle boots, as no harm can result from destruction of hair or scalding of limb. POSITIVELY AND PERMANENTLY CURES Bone and Bog Spavin, Thoroughpin, Ringbone (except low ringbone), Curb, Splint. 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J -uMn^i t^fo/*tM&-f- ervr vk y*~~~*. >Sj-^.au^.u *&£-> »*~> &t£ n-y **~> «fer'iSLr. Jrrtt~.'*z -c~~ *>»« ws.v*m (UclmA. jU- h-kl. J~**ct -k/~* iMm 4.k. -un^Jy *" -*-" ■T.ie Troy chemical Ccapany, . "roy. How York, My dear air3:- Hoting your remartB in your letter"of "the~Il"lhr^ih8t.I' can only say that the hoMroe le ao nearly curea that^I consider hiic practically ao sound ae he has been for years. He sometimes showB a very little lameness for a few stepa when starting from the barn or after he has been standing, but it passes away before he has gone any distance.- I ae now nearly ■tVHough the fourth bo'tlet have one more to use land feel sure he will eet over even the slight trouble before the fifth is used, "save the Horse, is indeed a wonderful remedy, and has in this case done what I did tiot think anything would do. The horsthas no other trouble tut the lamoncss in the hip/and r.o one would notice that(.unleos they were told it had been there. If there are any other question you would like to a3k I shall be glad to reply to them. Very tryly yours IWXiiuAfirtk, D. E. SEWELL, Pacific Coast Agent, 519 MISSION STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. AOGUST 29, 1H03J ©Jre gveeitev cmfc ^fpuvtsmmi THE WEEKLY BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN F, W. KELLEY, PROPRIETOR. rurf and Sporting Authority of the Pacific Coast. — OFFICE — 36 GEARY STREET, SAN FRANCISCO. P. O. BOX 2300. Telephone: Black 586. Terms— One Tear 83. Six Months 81.75. Three Months 81 STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. Money anould be sent by postal order, draft or by registered letter addressed to F. W. KELLEY, 38 Geary St., San Francisco. Cal. Communications must be accompanied by the writer's name and address, not necessarily lor publication, but as a private guarantee of good faith. San Francisco, Saturday, August 29, 1903. LOU DILLON 2:00. A California five year old mare, bred by the late Henry Pierce at the Santa Rosa Stock Farm, Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, Cali- fornia, is the holder of this record that has been the dream of trotting horse breeders for years. She is by Sidney Dillon, sire of Dolly Dillon 2:07, a son of Sidney, and out of Lou Milton, dam of three others in theliBt, by Milton Medium, son of Happy Medium. Lou Dillon is strictly a California production. She is far and away the greatest trotter the world has ever seen, or is likely to see for some time. It is a pity that Mr. Henry Pierce could not have lived to see the first two minute mile trotted by a mare of his own breeding. No breeder of the light harness horse would have taken more genuine satisfaction and pleasure out of the performance than he, and he would have considered the great feat as full payment with a big rate of interest added, for all the time, study and money that he had expended on the breed- ing of the light harness horse. No money would have tempted him to part with l.er, and his aim would have been to lower her record with a son or daughter of the champion mare. But man proposes and God disposes, and though Henry Pierce has crossed the great divide, Lou Dillon has given him the honor of being the breeder of the first two minute trotter, a wreath of laurel for his tomb that, could he look down upon it, would be prized by him as much as any tribute that could be placed there. T^HE DISPERSAL SALES which the Meek Estate * of Haywards and the Gabilan Stock Farm of Salinas have ordered for September 29th, in this city at the popular salesyard of Fred H. Chase & Co., are attracting a great deal of attention. At no sale held in this city for years has there been a collection of sound, standard bred horses that contained so maDy that were thoroughly broken single and double and fit for anyone to drive. There are at least half of the fifty or sixty head consigned that are fit for a lady to drive and they will he Bold entirely on their merits and pedigree. They are not old horses either but young and in their prime in nearly every instance. Their breeding and looks cannot be surpassed by the horseB from any farmB in California, and they will be sold to be just as represented. It will be the beBt opportunity of the year to get something choice and valuable at the buyers' own prices. Catalogues will be out next week and particular mention and descrip- tion given of the horseB in our next issue. THE STATE FAIR will open on Monday next. There will be good racing and large exhibits in every department. The Occident Stake will be trot- ted on the opening day. The total value of the stakes paid in and added money is now $3920, of which $2512 is to go to the winner, $1056 to second and $525 to third. The following have been declared eligible to trot in this event: Alex Brown, b c La Correcta by Arthur B.; T. C. Cabney, br c Grecko by McKinney; Ben Davis, blk f Dixie S. by Zolock; G. W. Kingsbury, b e D. E. Kuight by Lynmont; La Siesta Ranch, b c Search Me by Searchlight; P.W. Hodges, bcOwynex by Steinway; B. Chaboya, b f Tuna by JameB Madi- son; J. Smith, blk c Duplicate by McKinney; L. H. Todhunter, br o The Jester by Zomhro; Valencia Stock Farm, blk o Amado by Direct Heir; J. A. Richardson, b c Swift B. by Stam B.; J. de La Mon- tanya, ch c Bromwell by Sidney Dillon. LOS ANGELES ENTRIES will close on Tuesday next, September 1st, and every Californian who has a trotter or pacer in training to race should have one or more entries in the events advertised in this issue. The Los Angeles meeting will be one of the best on the circuit and no pains are to be spared to make every- thing pleasant and agreeable for the horsemen who at- tend the meeting which comes off in October. Thare has been but little opportunity for harness racing in California this year and the Los AngeleB Association deserves great credit for announcing such a liberal pro- gram. It offers the best opportunity from this on to win purses of good value, and a liberal entry list will make the racing good at this the last meeting of the year. Don't let the date slip your mind but fill out your blanks and get them mailed on Tuesday. PLEASANTON entries failed to fill and a new pro- gram has been arranged and purBeB are re- opened to close Tuesday next, September 1st. As all records made at Vallejo and Petaluma as well as those made on the first two days of the State Fair will bar the horseB making them from competing in classes slower than their records, there will be a good chance for the horses that have not won heats prior to the date of closing to get some of the money at Pleasanton. See the advertisement in this issue. AX/ILLIAM MURRAY, owner of the stallion * 7 Diablo 2:09}, and for many years past a promi- nent horseman of California, died at Salem, on Friday, August 21st, of typhoid fever. Mr. Murray was a native of Canada and aged about fifty years. Few men were better known or had more friends among the horsemen of this Coast than genial "Bill" Murray. For several years he was connected with the Oakwood Park Stock Farm and while there purchased Diablo as a colt, trained and drove him to his record and owned him at the time of his death. Mr. Murray reBided at Pleasanton for several years, but three years ago moved to Woodland, Yolo county, where Diablo had an extensive patronage. Mr. Murray was a born horseman and few men ever lived who could command obeyance from horses with as quiet de- meanor or more kindness than he, and yet he held complete mastery over them. Bill Murray was a genial, whole souled, honest man. May the turf rest lightly over him. AT HIS FIRST ATTEMPT to lower his record ** this year the California bred stallion John A. McKerron by Nutwood Wilkes has knocked a half second off his former record and now has a mark of 2:04f and is the second fastest trotting stallion in the world. That he will still further reduce this record is as certain as he keeps in condition and meets with no accidents, and he will likely equal the record of 2:02} held by CresceuB. Should ho lower it a little Califor- nia will have the honor of producing the fastest trot- ting stallion in the world as well as the fastest trotting mare. Here's good luck to him and hoping he may do it. CRESCEUS must be reckoned with. He is no has- been by a good deal. In his Drst start this year at the Dayton, Ohio, half mile track, he lowered the former world's record of 2:09} held by himself, to 2:08}. This is a great performance for his first time out this year, and stamps him as all right and in line to tackle the 2:00 mark of Lou Dillon, which he will doubtless be trained to equal or reduce if possible. Wm. G. Layng's Coming Sale. On Monday evening, September 14th, this well known auctioneer will sell about fifty head of finely bred trotters and pacers at the Occidental Horse Ex- change, 246 Third street. In the consignments are more sons and daughters of McKinney 2:11} and Diablo 2:09} than have ever been collected at a place before. Besides these are pefectly broken, not afraid of cars or automobiles. All of them can show quarters in from 33 to 38 seconds. These are all stylish, handsome and sound. One of them, Don Fulano by McKinney 2:11}, is, without doubt, the finest and most promising green McKinney trotter in this city. Then there are sons and daughters of Hart Boswell, Advertiser 2:15}, CbaB. Derby 2:20, Montesol son of McKinney 2:11}, Direct 2:05J, Falrose 2:191, Bayswater Wilkes, Antevolo 2:19.], Cubit, El Benton, Brigadier 2:211, mares with foals by their sides, and no finer individuals were ever offered or will be this year at public auction. There are three four and five year olds that have everything in thoir favor. Many are from the Rockbridge Stock Farm, which was recently sold to the Realty Syndicate; Bome are from Woodland, some from San Jose and others from San Francisco. These horses have been kept for some time in readiness for the Bale because Mr. Layng was so busy attending to the closing out sales of the late Henry Pierce's horses, he could not attend to it. Be- sides these there will be sold some buggies, harness, saddles, etc., belonging to the estate of T. Hunsaker. Catalogues will be isBued next Wednesday. Lou Dillon Not Brutally Scourged. The wonderful flight of speed exhibited by C. K. G. Billings great trotting mare, Lou Dillon, Monday afternoon at Brighton, was something to remember for a lifetime. She did more than was expected of her, considering that the track was not exactly to her liking, and trotted the fasteBt half ever seen on any track. She was urged a little going to the wire; but that she was brutally whipped by her driver, as was stated in two morning papers, was a monstrous stretch of some one's imagination — the work of the small-minded kicker that can see evil in everything. Millard Sanders, who drove and trained the mare, said he was somewhat used to the work of kickers and knockers, and did not mind straight and fair criticism . but that the story of his brutal use of the whip went far beyond the pale of criticism and was scarcely worthy of notice. "I swished the whip over the mare's back and struck the shafts with it. She would have been pretty well striped if I had plied the whip according to a couple of reports, but there was not a mark on her. "I might be open to criticism for going to the half so fast. In fact, I went there much faster than I wanted to; but it could not be helped. Mr. Tanner driving the runner, came too close and fast behind for which he can not be blamed, and the mare pulled me so that I had to let her go. He could not have been aware of the fact and drove the runner just as he thought was right I am satisfied that the mare's pulling, however, took more out of her than her rate of speed did." That explains what so many horsemen could not understand. "Sanders was criticised for going to the half too fast," Baid a popular road driver. "We find it quite easy to find fault sitting back here and looking on; but I think we would have more right to criticise if we would wait until we have developed as much speed as Sanders has. He has shown by his work that he knows what he is about. When we do half as well we can talk." — "Marque" in Horse Review. No Longer Necessary. If one takes into consideration the time that is being made over the trotting tracks of the present season, it would seem that there is no reason for the making up of a 2:30 list any more. At one of the big meetingB held some time ago one of the prominent drivers on the Grand Circuit thus expressed himself: "Unless a man has a trotter that could step in 2:10, or a pacer capable of 2:05, he had better stay at home." No one will agree with this statement be- cause he has placed the speed rate too low for the harness horse to be raced profitably, but, as one writer puts it, "not so much too low as might at first appear." No one at the present time regards a 2:30 trotter, or a 2:25 pacer, in any sense of the term, as a fast horse, and if that is the extent of an animal's speed he is worth absolutely nothing as a racing machine, nor of no more value than a three minute horse would have been a decade or two ago. Every year brings its changes and probably in the speed of harness horses it is more marked than in any other field. Years back when the 2:30 table was first adopted as the standard it was of much value, hut that day has long passed, and a compilation of such records not only brings extra work to the compilers, occupies much space in the Year Books, but it really is of no interest to any one. It is merely a lot of deadwood encumbering the published volumes. The proper authorities could well give this matter a little consideration. — Spirit of Vie West. Has a Great Future. Abbie Strathmoro by Strathmore now has a record of 2:07}. In the opinion of Harry K. Devereux, Harry Mc- Kerron, the two year old son of John A. McKerron, the colt who surprised everyone at Glenville a few days ago by trotting a half mile in 1 :09}, will be a 2:10 trotter as a three year old. "I do not believe I ever saw a better trotter at his age," Baid Mr. Devereux, a few days ago. "He haB all the characteristics of John A., and will, in my opinion, be a worthy son of a worthy sire. The youngster is owned by Fred F. Camp of Homer, O., and nothing could tempt Mr. Camp to part with the great colt. Mr. Camp is a wealthy farmer and Harry McKerron is h!s pet. He became his owner rather accidentally. His brother owned the mare Henrietta G. 2:19, by Elyria, and brought her to Cleveland to be bred to McKerron when the latter had not achieved the fame he has at the present time. She was the first mare to be bred to the Boston cup winner and Harry McKerron was the result. Deciding to go out of the breeding busi- ness, Mr. Camp sold both mare and colt to his brother, who says that he expects to see the day when Harry will trot to a faster mark than bis sire ever did. On the day the colt trotted his half in 1:09} Mr. Camp was present with a large number of his neighbors, whom he brought up from Homer to see the youngster perform." ^pxrtrtsmon f AOGDST 29, 1»0S W JOTTINGS. if HE TWO MINUTE TROTTER has arrived. T Her name is Lou Dillon and she is a product of the glorious climate of California, as her sire ana dam were before her. She did not come down "through a long line of illustrious ancestors" that had been bred to eventually produce the two minute trotter, nor is she the result of any theory or plan by which such an animal was to be produced. Like Topsy she "just growed," although she has the advantage over that creature of having her parentage known. It was at famous Readville Park near Boston that she per- formed the wonderful feat of covering 5280 yards in 120 seconds of time, and the date was Monday, August 24th. She was driven by Millard Sanders who has had her in charge since December 1901, and to his masterly skill in preparing and educating the dainty, willful little Miss, is much of the credit of the great performance due. While Lou Dillon haB been more than once heralded by some of the more enthusiastic as the two minute trotter there are very few who really believed she would so soon prove i", and any- one who had possessed the temerity to wager money on her trotting a mile in two minutes could have had thousands of dollars covered at odds of ten to one. It is only a few weeks since the anti two minute theorist Dr. Geo. H. Bailey of Portland, Maine, offered to wager that neither Lou Dillon nor any other trotter would accomplish the feat this year or nest, and while there were many who were ready to combat the Doctor's theory with pen and tongue, there were none ready to cover his money, or in other words to back their judgment with their coin. In fact, the two minute trotter has arrived a little sooner than was expected by even the most enthusiastic and optimistic of breeders and trainers, but she is here in the flesh and is California bred and born. So much has been written during the past few months of Lou Dillon, her pedigree and performances, that her mile in two minutes is not surprising to the public even though it was net expected. Now that the wonderful feat of trotting a mile in two minutes has been accomplished, the manner in which it was done will be studied by those who look for this record to be still further reduced. The time by seconds for each quarter was as follows: First 305, second 30J, third 303, fourth 29. The supreme effort was wisely left to the last, and when the last burst of speed was demanded of the little mare, she had "something left" as none of the previous quarters had been trotted at her limit. In a previous trial she had covered the first quarter in 28| seconds, which is faster than any other trotter has shown. In her two minute mile, consequently, she did not reach the limit of her speed at any time and it was this harbor- ing of resources, as it were, that enabled her to accomplish the mighty task. In his greatest mile, Cresceus went to the first quarter pole in 29| seconds, was at the hslf in 0:59|, at the three quarters in 1:30], and was then so tired that it took him just 32 seconds to reach the wire. His mile in 2:02} was a world beat- ing performance, but had Cresceus gone away a little slower he would now have a record nearer the two minute mark by considerable than the one he now holds. No horse, be he runner or trotter, can speed at his limit for a full mile. The accomplishment of the theoretical trotting horse breeding enthusiast's dream of a mile in two minutes is the greatest encouragement ever given the practical trainer, breeder and owner, as it is the work of a mare whose breeders never expected her to be a record breaker until she had demonstrated her wonderful speed. For years the family of Sidney, her paternal grandsire, has been called a "soft" family by four-fifths of the horsemen who race. Sidney Dillon waB not considered even by his owners, to be a two minute sire, as they bred their best mares, or those they considered the best to other stallions. When Lou Dillon was two years old she was offered for the insignificant sum of $150 with no takers, and only when Geo. Ramage began working her, was it finally ascertained that her speed was marvelous. She was then given to Millard Sanders to handle when a three year old and now she is the first and only two minute trotter. Her sire Sidney Dillon could neither pace nor trot (and he had both gaits) fast : -ough to be looked upon as a profitable horse to race and he was bred to Lou Milton because he was the only stalilon on the place when the time came to breed her. Lou Milton was a good looking, highly nervous mare, that was of no account as a race mar',. Mart Rollins of Santa Rosa talked with Thos. Boiler, then Superintendent of the Santa Rosa Stock Far n about her, and Mr. Bonner advised Mr. Pierce to buy her at the price asked— $1000. Mr. Pierce in- structed Mr. Bonner to offer $800 for her, which he did and got her. After Lou Dillon was foaled, Lou Milton was bred to Beau B. because Beau B's suck- lings were a better looking lot that year than were the Sidney Dillons. Thus I hold that the breeding of Lou Dillon was more accident than anything else and here is where the encouragement to the trainers and owners comes in. There is much in breeding as blood will tell, but it takes training to ascertain whether horses are trotters or not. Would the best expert on harness horse breeding that ever lived have predicted that a horse by the unregistered horse St. Clair out of a mare by Cleveland another unregistered horse, would win some of the best races on the Grand Circuit this year, get a mark of 2:07J and sell for $15,000? As the boys says, "Not on your life." And yet that is the history of Billy Buck 2:07}. He is well bred— all good horses are, but he was unknown until he was trained. Lou Dillon was born great, but without the primary training she got from George Ramage. and the finishing course she received in Millard Sanders speed school, she would not now be the two minute trotter, holder of the world's record, and very acme of the harness horse breeders' aim and desire. There are hundreds of horses with 2:10 in their reach that will never get a standard record just as true as there are "flowers born to blush unseen, and waste their sweetness on the desert air." So I claim that training is the thing that is most necessary in the broduction of race horses. There iB now no excuse for the existence of a poorly bred harness horse. Every State that makes any preten- tions to the breeding of the American trotter or pacer has stallions and mares within its borders that are able to produce other two minute horseB. But the world will not know it unless the colts and fillies are trained. It takes a great war to produce great generals, and Alexander, Napoleon, Wellington, Grant and Lee would now be unknown names in military history, were it not that actual warfare fur- nished the opportunities for them to become great. A combination of circumstances has made Lou Dillon. First she had the blood in ber veins, then the California climate and soil helped her to grow Btrong and muscular, and then she fell into the hands of men who knew how to develop all her faculties and conserve all her powers. They conditioned and fitted her and then Bhe was given the opportunity to show what she could do. She stands to-day witnout a peer and, perhaps, the most highly valued piece of horseflesh in the world. And right here I want to say, and it will give every Californian pleasure to know, that the story wired here last week of the little mare's abuse by her driver at Brighton Beach is indignantly denied by all horse- men who were present on that occasion. Owing to the condition of the track it was announced from the stand that Lou Dillon would not be sent to beat her record but would show a fast mile. She went away so fast that Sanders had to pull her very bard to keep her back, and it was this pull and her great speed that took so much out of her that she could not finish the last quarter at her speed. Sanders simply cracked the whip on the shafts of the bike and there was not a mark on her delicate hide when she was unhitched. Several of the New York paperB denounced the foolish attack that was made on Mr. Sanders, and we will say for his California friends that none of them believed it in the first place. Bonner Memorial Went to Hawthorne. NEW YORK, August 21. — The mare Hawthorne, driven by Scott Hudson, won the $20,000 Bonner Memorial at Brighton Beach to-day. The largest crowd of the trotting season cheered itself hoarse when the young man from Kentucky carried his charge home ahead of all others in the rich stake. Enthusiasts had gone to Brighton confident all was over save the shouting, that Billy Buck, the favorite, was as good as bracketed, and that to Ed Geers be- longed the victor's wreath. So thought the public generally. The amount wagered on this raci, first to last, ranks with the largest ever bet on a single con- test in the history of harness racing, and probably one-fourth of the whole sum was the money of Smathers, who paid $15,000 for Billy Buck a few days previous to the race. Just how much he wagered is a matter of conjecture, but one commissioner alone placed $10,000 for him on Thursday, aside from the large sum the owner is credited with betting in person on that day. To day he wagered a large additional Bum. A conservative estimate of the amount he put into the pool-sellers' box would be $25,000. Of course it was lost, for there was never a chance to hedge a dollar. Billy Buck sold for $1000 to $700 for the field. The favorite won the Erst heat by half a length from Jim Ferry, with Swift a close third, but in the second he was beaten in a close and excitiog finish by a rank outsider, Hawthorne, with Tiverton second. In the third heat at the first turn, Swift stumbled and swerved into Hawthorne, and both went do*n, the horses being soon caught. In the meantime, Kinney Lou had got the lead, and won the heat by a narrow margin, amidst a volley of cheers for thedriver, Budd Doble. For the lourth heat, Kinney Lou led to the top of the home stretch, with Billy Buck and Hawthorne close up, but here Hawthorne came up with a splendid burst of speed and won easily by a length. The next heat was close from start to finish, Hawthorne win- ning by two lengths, with the other two tired out. She sold for $190 in a $2000 pool. The opening event of the day, the 2:03 pace, was won by Dariel. Dan R. was made favorite at $100; Harold H., $80; Dariel, $50. Al Bock merely jogged two heats to win the 2:24 class pace. The 2:09 class trot went to Maxine in three heats. The John H. Shults $5000 stake for 2:25 class four year old trotters, was won by the California gelding, Judge Green, in straight heats. Wainscolt, the $10,- 000 young trotter, that J. Y. Gatcomb bought to win the M. and M. stake at Detroit, got second money. Dillon Boy won the 2:16 class trot in three driving finishes. The meeting closes tomorrow with a good programme. Major Delmar will be sent to beat the world's trotting-race record. Summaries: Pacing, 2:03 class, parse 81000. Dariel, b m, by Alcantara (A. P McDonald) 2 1 I Harold H. 1-2-2, Dan R. dr. Time— 2:0454, J: 12, 2:09. Trotting, 2:12 class, the Bonner Memorial 820,000, 3 in 5 Hawthorne, rn m. by Jay Bird (Hudson) 10 1 12 1 1 Billy Buck 1-3-8-2-2, Kinney Lou 6-6-1-3-3. Tiverton 7-2-2. Jim Ferry 2-8-6, Frances B. 5-7-5, Promise 9-1-3, El Milagro 8-12-7, Geo. Muscovite 13-5-1, Judge Cullen 4-13-11, John Mc 11-9-10, Authoress 12-11-9, Swift 3-10-dr. Time— 2:083£, 2:08£, 2:095i, 2:09, 2-Mii Pacing. 2:24 class, purse 81000. Al Bock, blk s, by Nedwood (Curry) 1 1 Fred H. 4-2, Ethel Mac 2-6, Burnadet 3-3. Virginia 6-s, Blon Girl 5-5. Time— 2:1154, 2:11. Trotting, 2:09 class, purse 81000. Maxine, b m, by Jack Daw (Ecker) 1 8 1 Wen tworth 5-1-2, Baron de Shay 2-1-4, Walnut Hall 7-2-3 Wilqne 4-3-5, Dulce Cor 3-10-6, Idolita 6-5-10, Palm Lear 8-9-7, A.J D. 9-6-9, The Roman 10-7-8. Time— 2:08X, 2:C7M. 2:09*. Pacing, 2:12 class, purse 81000. Strathline, b g by Online (Burns) 1 1 Jessie S. 2-2, Page Hal 3-4, Mary Anna 9-3, Dan L. 4-8. John W. Patterson 5-7, John F. 8-5, Don Cozine 10-6, Piccolo 6-as Hero Alexander 7-ds. Time— 2:084, M754. Trotting. 2:25 class, the John H. Shults stake, 85000 Judge Green, b g by Directum (Walker) 1 1 l Wainscolt 3-2-2, Margaret Bathgate 2-1-3, Boreazejle 4-3-4 Hive 5-6-5, Miss Rosedale 6-56. Time— %U3f, 2:1054, 2:1054. Trotting, 2:16 class, purse 81000. Dillon Boy, b h by Baron Dillon (Hudson) 2 I 1 Millard Sanders 4-1-2, Fred McClung 3-3-3. Bermuda Maid 7-6-1 Direct View 8-5-5, Ben Hal 5-7-6, Free Silver 6-8-7, Prince Green' lander 1-2-ds. Time— £09X, 2:104, &12S4. Pacing, 2:08 class. 154 mile dash purse 81000. Nervolo. b h by Colbert (Hudson) 1 Albert 2, Locanda 3. Miss Willamoot I, Brown Heels 5, Beraioa 6, Trilby Direct 7, Council Chimes 8, Nooamie 9, Suireet 10. Time— 2:38. New York, Aug. 22.— The closing day of the Grand Circuit meeting at Brighton Beacb was not marked by any sensational performances. Every race save one was won in straight heats, and that would have been but for an offending horse tbat spoiled the first start and caused the favorite, Major Delmar, to break and narrowly miss the distance flag. Joe Pointer 2:05J, who swamped his backers last week at Empire Park, was not made favorite in the 2:05 pace, but Carl Wilkes was selected as the good thing. When it came to the racing, Joe Pointer was at his best form and he won each heat. Every starter in the 2:13 class trot had friends, and and it proved the best betting race of the day. Masetto made short work of the event and won it in fast time and easy fashion. The 2:17 class pace can scarcely be called a race. Al Bock made his third start for the week and jogged two heats for his share of the money. The others followed as best they could. In the 2:04 trot Prince of Orange took the first teat, but Major Delmar won the other two hea*s and the race. The pacing dasb, at half a mile, had only two starters and was easily won by Prince Alert. Sum- maries: Pacing. 2:05 class, purse 81000. Joe Pointer, b s, by Star Pointer (McClary) 1 1 Terrace Queen 2-5, Carl Wilkes 6-2. Winfleld Stratton 4-3, Shadow Chimes 3-6, Little Squaw 7-1, Roemer5-7, Charley Hayt Dis. Time— 2:07, 2:06. Trotting. 2:13 olass, purse 81000. Mesetto. blk g, by Constantine (Dickerson) 1 1 Lill Barr 2-5. Mary D. 5-2 Guy Fortune 3=3, Crescent 4-6, Pug 10-1, Allabrieve 6-8. Anna Held 7-10. Lady Constantine 8*-9, Mon- roe 9-7, Oxford Chimes Dis. Time— 2:10>j, 2:104. Pacing, 2:17 class, purse 81000. Al Bock, blk s, by Nedwood (Curry) 1 1 Bertha W. 2-2, Direct L. 3-3. Time— 2:139;, 2:11. Trotting, 2:04 class, purse 82500. Major Delmar, b g:. by Delmar (A. P. McDonald) 4 11 Prince of Orange 1-4-2, Rhythmic 3-2-3. Monte Carlo 2-3-4. Time— 2:0954, 2:0754. 2:07«. Pacing dash, half mile. Prince Alert, b g, by Crown Prince (Demarest) 1 Anaconda 2. Time— 0:59 5<. Jackson's Napa Soda does not tangle the feet. AUGUST 29, 1903] ®he gveeitev tmir ^povtsntan In the last heat of the 2:15 pace at Greensburg, Pa., on the 12th Lust., the bay m ire Miss Carrie Lansing, owned by A. L. Walter of Canal Dover, Ohio, broke her leg. She was sold the week previous for $4500. Lou Dillon. She's the two minute trotter. And is California bred. Ben F. 2:11} is a high-class race horse. Lucre 2:13j is out of the dam of Searchlight 2:03}. John R. Gantry 2:00J has a new 2:15 performer in Dart2:13J. Little Squaw 2:01 now holds the world's record for pacing mares. It is proposed to hold a four days race meeting at Hollister this fall. Mush was 15 to 1 in the books when he won at Empire City Park. Judge Greene 2:10} by Directum is the beat four year old trotter of the year so far. The Dauve- show and trotting mare Viometa 2:14} has been turned over to Millard Sanders to train. During the Empire City Track meeting 40,000 peo- ple paid for admission at the gate $1 each. $100,000 is to be offered for forty-two races at the Kentucky Trotting Horse Breeders meeting this year. Arion and Nancy Hanks, sire and dam of the three- year-old colt Lord Roberts, cost J. Malcolm Forbes $166,000. Beauseant's record is now 2:06£. The 6on of Bow Bells is wonderfully fast, but about as erratic as they make them. Iloilo 2:15 by Weloome2:10J looks like a coming 2:10 trotter. He is good looking, good gaited and a stayer from Stayville. Jonesa Basler carried a wire screen at Petaluma to prevent the dirt from hitting his nose, but it seemed to retard his speed. Major Delmar's mark of 2:04 made at Empire track was made so cleverly that it is thought the gelding record is within his reach. David Lamar of New York has sold his Speedway horses, including Nathan Straus 2:05} and others, and has retired from the game. Irene W. 2:14} is a new 2:15 performer for Wald- 9tein. She made this record in the fifth heat of the 2:25 pace at Pekin, Illinois, last month. The report that E. E. Smathers had purchased the noted trotter Swift from J. F. Cockerill of New York is denied. Swift is still owned by Cockerill. Oh, "lovely" Lou. Lou Dillon, how could you be so mean, To waken Dr. Bailey from his "two-minute" dream And smash all his derisions as well as records, too, By trotting in two minutes, Lou Dillon, ' lovely" Lou? The Occident Stake will be decided on Monday next, opening day of the State Fair. It is worth $3800 and Swift B., a son of Stam B. will probably be the favorite. Ed. Lafferty, who has been handling several two year olds for Mr. E. J. Molero of Monterey, has turned them out and will not take them up again until along in the winter. Kinney Lou 2:07} was bred by the late John L. McCord of Sacramento, and not by Douglas Cone as some of the San Francisco daily papers have re- peatedly stated. Vita Oil is in demand by the leading horsemen. Will Durfee sent a telegram to the Vita Oil Company last Wednesday for a half gallon to be sent him by express immediately. _ Bertina 2:20} by Directum out of a mare by Pied- mont is winning some good races over the half mile tracks in Ohio and Pennsylvania. She was bred by the Green estate at Dublin, Cal. Dave McDonald, Pittsburg, Pa., has bought of Homer Sewell, Mansfield, Ohio, the bay trotter Alme- rion 2:19} by Clayone 2:12} for $4000, and will race him ior a wealthy Pittsburg matinee man. Welcome's get are as game as pebbles. Note lloilo's race at Petaluma last Wednesday. There will be several Welcomes in the Meek Estate sale at Chase & Co's salesyard in this city September 29th. Budd Dsble won another $5000 race with Kinney Lou at Readville on Monday last. Kinney Lou stepped out in 2:11}, 2:08J and 2:09}, winning in straight heats. The time is the record for the stake — the Blue Hill. Cozad, owned and driven by Charles E. Clark of Fresno, won the 2:12 trot at Decatur, Illinois, August 19th. The purse was worth $500 and there were four starters. Gavatta won the first heat in 2:12}, and Cozad took the remainirg three in 2:13}, 2:13? and 2:14. Robert I. by Hambletonian Wilkes, won tbe 2:10 pace at Decatur, Illinois, August 18th, in straight heats defeating the favorite, Joe Interest, and a field of nine other fast pacers. Robert I. reduced his record in the second heat to 2:08}. He was driven by Julian. The handsome mare Rosie Woodburn that W. W. Mendenhall resurrected this year did very well in her first start at Petaluma, where she won second money and was second each heat to Deputy. Rosie Wood- burn is just ten years old and will get a mark close to 2:15 this year. Mush 2:08} was a very sick horse at Empire track suon after reaching therefrom Pleasanton. "Marque" of the Horse Review quotes Mr. Salisbury as saying recently "I want to put 150 pounds more flesh on Mush's big frame and then I will show you a high class 2:06 pacer." O. G. Fairchild, of Geyserville, Sonoma county, has leased for three years the stallion By Mack son of McKinney 2:11} and By By by Nutwood. By the terms of the lease Mr. Fairchild will become 'owner of a half interest in the horse at the time of the ex- piration of the lease. Mr. J. De La Montanya, owner of the good three- i ear-old Bromwell, by Sidney Dillon, entered in the Occident stake, has purchased a handsome white enameled sulky, of the McMurray make from the Kenney Bicycle Company, to which Bromwell will be hitched next Monday. Looks now as if The Monk would represent the Billings stable in the race for the Challenge Trophy at Cleveland. The gelding has been showing very fast in his work lately, having trotted a mile in 2:07. Some good judges look upon Chase as The Monk's most formidable competitor. Four new McMurray sulkies were received by the Kenney Bicycle Co., 531 Valencia street, San Fran- cisco, this week. Two are finished in white enamel and trimmed with gold. The others are enameled a beautiful carmine. Six carts of the same make and that can't be beat were received on the same car. The prices are right. Ukiahwill hold a five days' race meeting in October. There will be purses for trotters, pacers and runners and all classes will be provided for. Ukiah holds one of thebest of the smaller county fairs, and has a half mile track that is not only safe but fast and is kept in the pink of condition. A good list of purses will be advertised shortly. One of the handsomest horses ever seen on a track is the gelding Allendale by Falrose, that Sam Hoy is racing for Mr. E. Dudley of Dixon. Allendale is a little outclassed by such pacers as Ben F. , Miss Georgie and Col. C, but he can about 2:16 three times and might show a mile in 2:12, He wears no hopples and the fewest boots and iB a picture in or out of harness. Samuel Gamble says that if he owned Lou Dillon he would breed her next year to Directum 2:05}, the following year to John A. McKerron 2:05} and the year after that to Stam B. 2:11}. If the last named should be the sire of a filly from this union, the filly would be bred to Directum. The produce from such matings Mr. Gamble would confidently expect to be a heritage worth leaving to his posterity. William Harold 2:13}, sire of Janice 2:08} is a son of Sidney, as is Sidney Dillon sire of the only two minute trotter. Get some of the Sidney blood if you want to breed extreme epeed. At the Meek Estate sale in this city September 29tb, there will be some highly bred sons and daughters of William Harold offered. There is a full sister to Janice in the consignment, also Fenella, the dam of that great mare. Before the great race won by Monte Carlo at Em- pire track he was a big favorite in the pools, which Bold as follows Monte Carlo $100, Dulce Cor $50, Walnut Hall $50, Dan T. $40, Idolita$25, Ida High- wood $25, Wilque $25, and the field comprising four horses $25. It is pretty good betting where the back- ers of the favorite can get $240 to $100 for their money. This shows the advantage of the auction pool system. Little Thome 2:04} won the first heat of a race at Beloit, Wisconsin, last week in 2:17}, and was then beaten by Robert Wilkes in 2:18*, 2:16} and 2:13J. The little fellow should have a year or two's rest. Deputy 2:15} won his race easily at Petaluma. He is a big, rangy and rather angular sorrel gelding, and a clean gaited trotter that seemed to consider a mile in his record time an easy task. Charley White- head gave him an admirable drive. The eighteen year old stallion Monroe S. 2:20 by Monroe Chief was a starter in the 2:20 pace at Peta- luma Wednesday. Of course, he was up against the best pacer9 on the circuit and did not finish inside the money, but the game old fellow was up close to it. He finished fourth in the second heat and stood to win fourth money but the next heat he was sixth which made him fifth in the summary. Hi Hogoboom gave the old horse a good drive, and thought it not good judgment to start him, but to accommodate tbe owner, an old friend, agreed to sit behind him in the race. We have a lot of second-hand bike buggies, runa- bouts, and top buggies for sale. Also a lot of carts and buggies from the Studebaker fire which are slightly damaged by smoke, all of which are bargains at the prices asked. Call and see them before they are all gone. Also an elegant turn-under surry with rubber tires and canopy top, with pole and shafts, at the Kenney Bicycle Co., 531 Valencia street, S. F. Phone Church 971. Little Princ6 Direct 2:07 showed very fine this year in his early work, but while being led by a stable boy at Cleveland, he slipped into a ditch and threw out a curb. McHenry was, of course; very much disap- pointed, but had the ailiog limb fired at once, and for two weeks gave tne Little Prince slow work only. He has been stepping him some lately and while a mile in 2:11 is the best he has had, he shows no ill effects from the curb, which is fast disappearing. At Lexington, Kentucky, August 13tb, the four year old filly Angle by Axtell, was driven a public trial in 2:10. This is the fastest mile ever trotted over the Kentucky Breeders' Association track this early in the season, and few 4-year-old fillies have ever beaten it in trotting racing history. Angle is owned by J. J. McDonald, Cuthbert, Ga. She is out of Lena Rivers, by Gambonito, 2:19} son of Gambetta Wilkes. Angle will not be raced this year, but reserved for the M. and M. and other big events of 1904. One of the features of the opening day of the Breeders meeting at Petaluma was a handsome blue silk badge worn by visitors from Santa Rosa. It was printed in gold letters with the inscription "Lou Dillon, record two minutes flat, bred at Santa Rosa Stock Farm, Santa Rosa, Cal.'' Nearly every Santa Rosan wore one — and among those especially proud of the adornment was Dr. William Finlaw, proprietor of the Rosedale Stock Farm, the home of Washing- ton McKinney, St. Whips and Daly 2:15. Sweet Marie has been protested nearly every time she has started up north and there must be consider- able money tied up with the National Trotting Asso- ciation on her account. Will Durfee, her trainer and driver, carries with him, however, affidavits of the officers of the Los Angeles Driving Club, in which it is stated that she has no record that bars her from the classes in which she is entered as all her perform- ances at Loo Angeles were strictly matinee affairs and in no case were the rules in regard to records and bars violated. Those who thought that Miss Georgie might have won at Vallejo where she met Ben F. and got second money, had their suspicions removed at Petaluma. Ceorgie B. was driven for all she was worth at the latter place on Wednesday, but there was no time that Ben F. did not have the speed to go by her. She led to the half in l:05i in the third heat, but when Fred Chadbourne gave the gelding bis head he sailed by the McKinney mare with ease. Miss Georgie is a good mare, fast and game, but she will have to im- prove considerable to beat the Bradtmoor pacer. Dan Patch 1:59, the champion pacer, is a brown stallion, 7 years old, bred by Dan A. Messner, Oxford, Ind.; sired by Joe Patchen (p ) 2:01}, dam Zelica by Wilkesberry 2:30, grandson of George Wilkes 2:22; grandam Abdallah Belle by Pacing Abdallah. son of Alexander's Abdallah. He is owned by M. W. Sav- age of Minneapolis, Minn., who bought him from M. E. Sturges of New York for $60,000 last fall. Dan Patch has never lost a race in the four years he has been on the turf and was defeated in but two heats, the first ot which was in his four-year-old form, when he was laid up, and the second when hitched to a new sulky his hock struck the axle-bar and he was pulled up. M. E. McHenry, the Illinois driver, has driven him in all of his great races and trips against the watch. Just before his retirement fjom the command of the United States Army, Gen. Nelson A. Miles issued an order forbidding the docking of tails of army horses. "Any alterations in the length or shape of the tails, manes or forelocks of public horses by dock- ing, banging or clipping is hereby prohibited, and only such reasonable trimming and plucking as mav be necessary to prevent shagginess of appearance will be permitted." The army regulations forbid the purchase of docked.tailed horses by purchasing agents, but it would appear that some officers, under the influence of fashion or for some other reason, have docked their horses after coming into their hands. Nothing presents a more ragged , unkempt appearance than a cavalcade of horses part with flowing tails and part docked, and it is no wonder that the docking of tails of army horses has been forbidden. N. W. Hubinger has transferred the trotter Metallas 2:11 from the stable of E. F. Geers to that of John Hussey. The son of Mambrino King cost Mr. HubiD- ger $12,000 two years ago, when, to all appearances, he was one of the greatest trotting stallions on the turf, but he has never been able to earn his campaign- ing expenses since. Last season John Hufsc.v had the horse and after a lot of work he got him to going steady and right, and along in September he could Btep three heats right around 2:07, and appeared to be in a way to fulfill the brilliant future that had been predicted for him. This spring, however, in Geers' hands he has not been what be was expected to be, and, so far as known, his fastest mile just equaled his record of 2:11. Hussey will endeavor to straighten him out again and get him to earning some money foi his owner. If any man can do It be can, for, as shown by the perseverance and patience he displayed in getting the blind pacer, Elnstic Pointer, to race kindly, no other trainer excrr in tbe qualities essential to succeed with 1 Metallas' kind. 6 ©he gvee&ev attb gpxrtrtemcm [August 29, 1903 GOOD RACING AT PETALUMA. Trotting Horse Breeders Association Holding Successful Meet. Kenilworth Park, as Mr. Harry Stover has named his splendid property once owned by the Sonoma and Marin Agricultural Society at Petaluma, presented a lively scene on Wednesday of thiB week when the Pacific Coast Trotting Association opened its annual meeting. About two hundred trotters and pacers were stabled at the track, and a good attendance in the grand stand and the betting ring gave something like the oldtime appearance to the place where some of the moat hotly contested harness racing and the heaviest kind of betting were the rule ten or twelve years ago. The track was rather bard but fast and good time was the rule in every event. In the Judge's stand Director A. H. Cohen presided aDd acted as starter assisted by Director Robert S. Brown and Dr. McClay of Petaluma, all these gentlemen being thorough horsemen and filling their positions in a dignified and able manner. President E. P. Heald and Secretary F. W. Kelley looked after the details and saw that everything was in smooth running order, and there were very few hitches and little delay in getting off the program of three races carded for the opening day. Hurlick & Co. of San Francisco handled the betting which was by means of auction pools on the results and pari mutuels on the heats. A brass band furnished excellent music and kept the crowd entertained between heats. The day was almost ideal for racing and though quite a breeze came up in the afternoon, which the horses had to face on the back stretch, it was not strong enough to prevent fast time in all the events. The first race on the program was the 2:30 trot for a guaranteed stake of $500, in which there were seven starters. Before the race the sorrel gelding Deputy by Derby Ash, owned by Deputy Sheriff Mart Smith of Stockton, Cal., and trained and driven by Charles Whitehead, ruled favorite at about two to one, over the others sold in the field. In drawing for positions Rosie Woodburn drew the pole, with Deputy second, Lady Zombro next, Gertie H. in fourth position, Telephone fifth, the three year old Swift B. sixth and Dollexa on the outside. The story of the race is soon told. Deputy won in three straight heats in 2:1S, 2:15 and 2:17J. Rosie Woodburn was a good second each time, and the three year old Swift B. by Stam B. made a good showing considering the time the heats were trotted in and the faot that he was in against a field of aged horses. He was rather unsteady but showed speed and won third money. The main event of the day was the Pacific Slope stake, $1500, for 2:20 class pacers. There were twelve starters. In the auctions Ben P. ruled favorite at $20 against $5 for Rajah, Miss Georgie $3, JoneBa Basler $3, and the field $3. The Mrs. won the draw for the pole with Dot next, Monroe S. in third place, Rajah fourth, N. L. B. Ifth, Allendale sixth in the first tier and Ben F., Miss Georgie, Jonesa Basler, Colonel C, Ira and George in the order named in the second tier. At the half mile pole Ben F. was in fifth position and then Chadbourne began his drive. He went around the leaders one after another, catching Miss Georgie half way down the stretch, paced the last quarter in 30^ seconds and landed winner in 2:12 pulled up. It was seen that he outclassed his field and there was not much betting on the remaining heats. Ben. F. took the second heat handily in 2:11 J. In the third heat Cecil pursued a little different tactics with Miss Georgie. He took her out in front as soon as he got the word and drove her for all she was worth. She led Ben F. at the quarter about three lengths and Bet sail for the half at increased speed. Ben F. took things easily, but increased his speed a little and when the half was reached in 1:054 Miss Georgie was not more than a length in front of him. He was soon lapped on her and on entering the stretch she made a break and he came away and won by three or four lengths with his driver talking him back in 2:lli. Miss Georgie took second money, Colonel C. third and The Mrs. fourth. Of the twelvestarters six were distanced before the race was finished. The 2:15 class trot for a purse of $1000 was the only race of the day that the talent failed to guess. There were but five starters and of these the Silas Skinner gelding Ole was made favorite, but by bunching all the others in the field even money was played against his chanches. Iloilo drew the pole, Louise Croner second, Ole third, Verona fourth and Geo. W. Mc- Kinney had outside position. Ole took the first and sei ond heats rather handily, the gray mare Louise Croner showing fast to the head of the stretch but s' opping badly coming home although Brown used s whip at a lively rate. When coming out for the i ird heat, McDonald gave Iloilo a couple of sharp cuts with the whip and the son of Welcome seemed to suddenly come to a realization of the fact that he could trot. When they were given the word Mc- Donald began driving and lifting Iloilo from the start, and he soon had Ole tip toeing. It waB a horse race between the two until about two hundred yards from the wire, when Ole went to a tired break and Iloilo sailed home in 2:15 rather handily. Ihere was an effort to hedge on the part of the bettors who were in wrong and pools sold lively for a while. Iloilo took the two remaining heats and first money. The summaries: Trotting, 2:30 class, stake $500. Deputy, sg, by Derby Ash-dam by Priam (Whitehead) 1 1 1 Rosie Woodburn. b m, by Easter Wilkes (Carlinj 2 2 2 SwiftB., bg, by Stam B (Zlbble) 3 4 3 Dollexa, b m, bv Alexis (Groom) 5 4 3 Gertie H., bm, by Stone Robin (McGregor) 4 5 5 Telephone, b g, by Direct (Frellson) ds Lady Zombro, b m, by Zombro (Hodges) ds Time by quartern: First heat 3354, 1:0815, 1:43. 2:18 Secondheat...33, 1:08, 1:41,2:15 Third heat.... 33)4, 1:0714, 1:43: 2:1714 Pacing, 2:20 class, Pacific Slope stake $1500. Ben F., bg, by Bradtmoor-dam by Steinway (Chadbourne) 1 1 t Miss Georgie, br m, by McKinney (Cecil) 2 2 3 Colonel C , b g, by Glenway (Leggelt) 3 3 4 The Mrs , b m, by Derby Ash (Whitehead) 9 7 3 Monroe S . b s, by Monroe Chief (Hogoboom) 5 4 6 Jonesa Basler. br s, by Robert Basler (Walton) 6 5 5 Dot, b m, by Falrose (Hamner) 4 6 ds George, b g, by Loeber (Zlbble) 7 8 ds N. L. B , ch g, by Diablo (H.Brown) 8 ds Alendale.bg, by Falrose. (Hoy) ds Rajah, b g, by Chas Derby (Goodall) ds Ira, bg. by Iris (Maben) ds Time by quarters: First heat 34, 1:07)4, 1:405;, 2:12 Second heat... 33-^ 1:061$. 1:39, 2:M'; Third heat ....33a, 1:0514, 1:39, 2:1114 Trotting, 2:15 class, stake $1000. Iloilo, b g, by Welcome-dam by Nutwood Wilkes (McDonald) 4 4 111 Ole, b g, by Silas Skinner-dam bv Nutwood. .(Quinn) 112 3 3 Louise Croner, grm, by Wild Boy (W.Brown) 2 3 4 2 2 Verona, b m, by Nutwood Wilkes (Frellson) 3 2 3 5 5 Geo. W. McKinney, b s. by McKtnney (Hodges) 5 5 5 4 4 Time— 2:15!-4, 2:17X, 2:15, 2:15H, 2:19)4. SECOND DAY, THURSDAY. Alone, the five-year-old pacing mare by Nearest, own brother to John A. McKerron, furnished a sensa- tion at the track on Thursday by pacing a half mile in 59} seconds. She was driven by her breeder, owner and trainer, Mr. T. W. Barstow of San Jose. Her performance is the best ever seen in California, and aroused the enthusiasm of all present. It need not surprise anyone if the mare takes the world's record for her sex at the pacing gait when she starts at Petaluma to-day. A happy coincidence is the fact that on the same day that Alone paced a half in 59* seconds at Petaluma, John A. McKerron, brother of her sire, reduced his trotting record at Read ville to 2:04|. Three raceB were carded for the second day. The first was the three-year-old trot, in which there were five starters. Tuna, a filly by James Madison, owned and driven by Harry Sanders was the favorite. She made a break in the first heat and it went to Little Branch, a daughter of Nutwood Wilkes, in 2:223. Tuna won the next three heats and the race, however. The two-year-old pacing division of the Pacific Breeders $6000 Futurity had but three starters — Seymow, a bay colt by Diawood 2:11, owned by J. E. Montgomery of Davisville, California, was the winner in straight heats in the good time of 2:27} and 2:23. She was driven by Chas. Spencer. Second money went to Friskerina, a daughter of Bayswater Wilkes, owned by E. D. Dudley of Dixon, Cal., and driven by Sam Hoy. My Way, a gray filly by Steinway, was distanced in the second heat, and first and third money went to the owner of Seymow. As Mr. Dudley was the original nominator of the dam of his filly, he received $200 additional from the stake making his gross earnings by her win, $6S7.50. The free for all trot was won by the gray gelding Rozelle, beating the favorite Tom Smith who acted badly. The time was not fast and the race not a good one. The summaries: First race, three year old trotting stake, heats, 3 in 5: value $600. Tuna, b f, bv James Madison-Ituna by Steinway (H.Sanders) 4 111 Little Branch, b I, by Nutwood Wilkes, dam by Long Branch (Cecil) 13 2 2 Duplicate, blk c, by McKinney (J. Smith) 2 2 5 4 D. E Knight, b g. by Lynmont (Abies) 3 4 3 5 Owynix, b c, by Owyhee - (Hodges) o 5 4 3 Time— 2:2!?4, 2:24 a, 2-.26X, 2:24)<. Second race, two year old pacing division, Breeders' Futurity stakes: heats, 2 in 3; value $750 Seymow, b c, by Diawood-Nanoy H., by Upstart. ..(Spencer) 1 1 Friskarina, br f , by Bayswater- Wilkes (Hoy) 2 2 My Way, gr f, by Stoneway (Walton) 3 d Time— 2:27}*, 2:23. Third race, free for all trotting stake; heats, 3 in 5: value $5C0. Rozelle, gr g. by Bob Mason (Sampsell) 14 11 Tom Smith, brh, by McKinney (J. W. Zlbble) 4 13 4 Forrest W. br g. by Wayland W (Carlin) 2 2 3 2 Grace McK, br m, by McKinney (Hodges) 3 3 4 3 Time-2:17?4", 3:1814, 2:17»j, 2:22. Seattle Harness Races. [FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT] The Kenney Bicycle Co., 531 Valencia St., is doing a big business in the McMurray Carts and Sulkies. You not only save money by purchasing a McMurray but get the most durable, best made, and easiest running cart or sulky in the market. Investigation will con vince a Missourian. In hot weather there is no drink like Jackson's Napa Soda — plain or in a lemonade. August 19. — The special pace for 2:10 pacers pro- duced more ante-post speculation than any other harness event so far decided at the meeting. Prior to the first heat the selling was: Sam Bowers $10, Le Roi $8 and the field $4. In the second heat Sam Bowers brought $10 and the field $10. Favored by the pole Francisco won the first heat in 2:12J, a terrific drive to the wire resulting in his vic- tory by a head from Le Roi, who was a neck in front of Bowers. The second heat was a display of gameness on the part of Martha B. seldom excelled. Starkey was second and Le Roi, who was given an easy mile, third, Sam Bowers, who was badly cut off, being fourth. The judges sere not satisfied with the Bhowing made by Le Roi and called upon Sanford to take Childs' seat in the Bulky. Their judgment was veri- fied and Le Roi won easily. In the fourth and deciding heal Le Roi unfortu- nately cast a shoe at the half when going easily. This undoubtedly militated against his chances greatly, and he was ultimately easily beaten in the slow time of 2:16f. The 2:25 pace proved another gift for the Durfee stable, Rita H. having no trouble in winning in straight heats. Purse of $350 for 2: 10 class pacers Martha B, by Ashland Wilkes (Miller) 5 12 1 Le Roi, by Altamont (Childs and Sanford) 2 8 12 Francisco, by Caution (Leroui) 15 6 3 Starkay, by Chehalis (Keith) 6 2 4 ro Sam Bowers, by Ham. Mambrino (Lance) 3 4 3 ro The Freak, by Black Stranger (Donathan) 7 6 5 ro Harry Hurst by Delwin (Durfee) 4 w Time-2:12H, 2:1414, 2:I4M, 2:16;;, The Seattle Kennel Club purse of $500 for 2:25 pacers. Rita H, by McKinney , (Durfee) 1 1 Oma A, by Dictatus (I C Mosher) 2 2 Polka Dot, by Mendocino (W Tryon) 3 4 Portia Knight by Vinmont (Helman) 5 3 Princess Chehalis. by Chehalis (Breeze) 4 ds Alcounter, by Encounter (Thompson) 6 ds Time-2:15!4, 2:13. August 20th— The Sheriff Cudihee purse for 2:17 trotters was decided to-day, the race was deemed a gift for Sweet Marie, and she easily acquitted herEelf of the task. Prior to the start a protest was filed against Sweet Marie and Briney K. both starting, the contention being that both are controlled and under the management of the same stable. Sweet Marie, by McKtnney (Dorfee) 1 1 Briney K., by Strathway (Smith) 2 2 The Commonwealth, by Shadeland Onward (J Green) 3 4 Master Delmar, by Delmarch (Hayes) 4 2 H. H H., by Allerton (Mii:er) 5 6 Dr. Bunnell, by Ingram (Lance) 6 5 Time— 35, 1:0814. 1:42J£, 3:16W. 3414. 1:08)4, 1:43, 2:I5S£. The above is the third cor secutive victory of Sweet Marie at the meeting and she looks to have all the events on the Circuit for which she is entered com- pletely at her mercy. TRACK NOTES. W. H. Berry, the owner of Briny K. left for his home in Los Angeles on Sunday. Jas Misner has taken Lady Jones, Harry Marvin, and Lord Kitchener by Zombro to Salem. The purse races at Everett and Whatcom did not fill and have been reopened. The 2:10 pacers felt the heat very much, and this, no doubt, accounts for the poor time made. The track is improving, but with five running races daily can hardly be kept in harness horse condition. AUGUST 24TH. The 2:15 pace on Saturday was productive of a duel royal between Oma A. and Ollie M. in which, thanks to her indomitable gameness in two hard drives, the latter proved victorious, though her victory was attained but by scant margins. Francisco, who dis- played a phenomenal burst of speed in a 2:10 special, failed to finish near the third. Harry Hurst, well driven by Green, though forced to take an overland route, was close up in each heat, and should be tabbed as a candidate for 2:10 honors before the season ends. The FreaK and County Attorney both found the pace too warm and finished behind the flag in the second heat. Pools Eold prior to the first heat Oma A. $10, the field $10. For the third heat Ollie M. had prefer- ence at $10, and the field $10. The Argus purse on Monday was another gift for Sweet Marie, and her presence seemed to imbue the drivers with an oppressive listlessness from which they could not free themselves. With Sweet Marie barred, pools sold Red Skin $10, and the field $10, and this was the market price after the first heat in which Mr. Bailey's gelding had to put up with thiid position to Marie and Belladi. The "Post Intelligencer" purse of $500 for 2:15 pacers Ollie M , by Westfield (Jas Ervin 2 1 i Oma A. by Dictatus (Jas Sandford) 12 2 Francisco, by Caution (OF. Leroux) 3 3 5 Harry Hurst, by Delwin (J.Green) 4 4a Starkey, by Chehalis'. (W.Keith) 6 5 4 The Freak by Black Stranger (Donaihanl 5 Dis County Attorney, by Arthur Wilkes (Hayes) 7 Dls Time-2:13)4, 2:14M. 2:16. The "Argus Purse" of $500 for 2:25 class trotters. Sweet Marie, by McKinney (W G. Durfee) 1 1 Belladi. by Chehalis (Rutherford) 2 2 Red Skin, by Red Cloak (Mother) 3 6 Mark Hannabus, by Planter (J.Green) 6 3 St. Patrick, by Nutwood Wilkes (Hartnagel) 4 5 Monicrat, by Woodman (Sandford) 5 4 Time— 2:153;, 2:2014. ROBT. LEIGHTON. AUGUST 29, 1903] ®h£ gtveebev cmtr gijttrrtsman Readville Summaries. MONDAY, AUGUST 24. Trotting, 2:30 class, the Blue Hill stake, $5000. Kinney Lou, or s by McKinney (Doble) 1 1 1 Patcnen Maid 2-3-2, Margaret Bathgate 4-2-3, Katrlnka GH4. Texas 5-4-5, Boreazelle 6-5-6, Mc Adams Jr. 7-6-7, Prince Caton 8-7-8, KyrHlie da. Crowshade ds. Time— 2:11X, 2:08J£, 2:MM Pacing, 2:08 class, purse $1500. Nervolo, bs by Colbert '. (Hudson) 1 1 Locanda 2-2, Kavalle 3-3, Terrill S 4-5, Dandy Chimes 6-4, Armorel 5-7. Sufreet 7-6, Council Chimes 8-8. Time— 2:06'.f, 2:06K- Paoing, 2:16 class, purse $1000. A! Bock, blk s by Nedwood (Curry) 1 1 Cen:rigio 2-3, Merry Master 5-2, Lucy May 3-1, Lexington 4-5, Double Z. ds. Time— 2:10, 2:09K. Trotting, 2:14 class, purse $1500. Dillon Boy, b h by Baron Dillon (Hudson) 1 1 The Questor 3-2, Norrie 0-3, Dreamer 4-5, Prince Greenlander 9-4, Oxford Chimes 7-6, Admiral Dewey 8-7. Crescent 2-ds, Summer Fern 6-ds. Time— 2:09^, 2:09m- Trotting, to beat 2:02S£. Lou Dillon, ch m by Sidney Dillon-Lou Milton by Milton Medium (Millard Sanders) 1 Time— Quarter 30^. hair 1:00^, three-quarters 1:31, mile 3:00. Kain prevented any racing at Readville on Tuesday. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26. The Norfolk, 2:24 class, pacing, purse $5000— Elastic Pointer won the firit, third and fourlh heats in 2:1:% 2:13}^ 2:13J|. Pan Michael won the Becond heat in 2.11l4, Trilby Direct, Page Hal and Mary Anna also staited. 2:12 class trotting, purse $1500— Belle Ku2er won the second and third heats in 2:13% 2:13<4. Promise won the first heat in 2:13. Van Zandt, Lill Bars, Anna Held. Dainty Daffo, Dick Berry, Robizola, Silver Glow and Tudor Chimes also started. 2:10 clas , trotting, purse $2000— McKin ley won the second and third heats in 2:12%, 2:13. Jim Ferry won the first heat in 2:13. Nell Gwynne, Wentworth, The Roman, Palm Leaf, Wilque and A J D also Btarted. 2:11 class, pacing, purse $1000 — Frank Yoakum won two Btraight heats in 2:09%, 2:09K- King Direct, Onota, Diablito, Bob, Ebony ixing, Jessie S and Clay- mos also started. THURSDAY, AUGUST 27. The Massachusetts, 2:12 class trotting, purse $15,- 000; best three in five— Billy Buck won the second, third and fourth heats in 2:07|, 2:08£, 2:09i. Swift won the first heat in 2:08J. Caspian, Hawthorne, Mary D., Tiverton, George Muscovite, AuthoreEs, El Milagro, Erances B., Wainscott and Judge Cullen also started. 2:20 class trotting, purse $1500; best two in three- Queen Wilkes won two Btraight heats in 2:11 J, 2:11J. DodieK., Ida Gray, Kamares, Albert C, Lizzie A., Deadwood, Trico, Dark Secret, Tonga Bermuda, Maid Dreamwold, Oxford Boy andKyrillic also Btarted. 2:16 class trotting, purse $3000; best three in five — Vlazetto won the first, fourth and fifth heats in 2:09, 2:11,2:10}. Jay McGregor won the second and third heats in 2:09}, 2:08J. Lady Patchie, John Mac, Msllard Saunders, Navidad, Horace W. Wilson and Direct View also started. The Tyro, three year olds, $2000; best two in three —Sadie Mc won two straight heats in 2:12}, 2:15. Mary Gage, Blossom, Oakley Baron and Sporty also started. Pacing to beat 1:59. Dan Patch, bs, by Joe Patcnen Lost Time— H, 0:30M: per bottle. Sold uv drugjrIvU, or sent by >•«- press, charges ,,,'mi. wlili full dirtCttOM use. Send for desctietlve chvulars, testlnrn- nlals. efc. Addn THE U WHENCE- WIL1 1 4*S COMPANT, Clanland, Ohio. mhe Qvtstosx atiSy ^cvi&man [AcGnsTj29, U03 ROD, GUN AND KENNEL. Conducted by J. X. De WITT. sm?m!mmmmmm*^mmmmm^m Trout Fishing on Rapid Streams. Having stated, in a previous article, that the trout in small rapid streams are generally feeding, and that their food is various, it will behoove us well to con- sider our best means of taking advantage of the trout's voracity, and of accommodating our resources to the variable desires of the fish, in order that we may not only always select the bait which by preference he may be taking in most abundance at any particular time, but also that we may employ that which will assist us most materially in attracting him, and favor our own seclusion and deception. As to the resources we have of varying our allure- ments, we have only to remember that the trout feedB on all fi>h smaller than bimself, on all insects found on or near the water, or such as in passing over fall into the water, as well as worms, grubs of all sorts, and the spawn of other fish. Having then so large an assortment for our selection, it will be well for us as early as possible to understand wny at one time one bait should be adopted and another at another time, before attempting to learn the mode of using each particular bait. And as a preliminary point, let us briefly consider which of all ttiese articles of food is best adapted for deceiving the lish. And perhaps, to one not practically acquainted with our art, toe solution of the question may Eeem obvious, and to depend simply on the fondness of the trout for anv one article in" particular, which of all others would'therefore appear to be most advantageous to the fisherman as a bait. This has in part been alluded to before, and we mentioned that the vora- cious trout is not solely and at all times guided by simple appetite, or peculiar inclinations and love of any article of food; but that he may be excited to feed by the particular manner of his prey, tempting him by greater attraction or conspieuity, so that one of many small flieB or fish will often be especially selected, not for any apparent superiority in condi- tion or appearance in form, but simply from arousing the trout's beligerent passions, or awakening him from indifference by extraordinary provocation. Hence, in our determination of a bait, we must find one that will not only be agreeable to the fish as a viand, but one, which of all others, will be most ex- citing to him; nor is this all, for inasmuch as a third party is to be introduced, namely — the fisherman himself — no little attention must be given to the im- portance of his share in the proceeding; consequently, the bait must not only be of all others the most allur- ing in every way, but of all others be such as is best adapted to the process and use the fisherman will adopt, besides being favorable to his own convenience. IE we turn our attention to the natural fly, it would appear from what we have remarked, that it would best answer the purposes required as far as the fish is concerned, (and this is true of it as an enticement;) but we should find the living fly very troublesome to use on rapid streams, from its delicate structure giv- ing much annoyance in constantly necessitating a change of bait; every fish that touches it, independ- ently of the action o( the water itself, taking it off, besides being inconvenient to obtain at all times in sufficient numbers. We want, then, that which will be as attractive and enticing as the natural fly, and be more convenient to the fisherman. Next would suggest itself fern webs, and some beetles, and in them many objections are done away with, and certainly a most excellent bait is before us, but these cannot be obtained at all times, and the trout will only take them at particular seasons. But as we intend to remark specially on each particular bait, we now proceed with the flies, and finding incon- venience in the natural delicacy of the living fly, call art to our assistance, and imitate the insect we should otherwise use, — imitate with precision when we wish and are obliged to rely solely on cur deceptive power, as in slow water, or deep and still streams; but where we wish rather to take advantage of the natural in- firmity of the trout, their voracity — and are able to do bo without exposing too much of our deception, as in rapid streams, we so far imitate nature in general appearance and color, as to lead the trout to imagine an insect, or at least something eatable is before him, but rely more upon our bait as an attraction, than an actual deception of a particular fly, and its manner of employment, as an excitement to the fish, which from his habits, we judge he cannot resist. And taking still water, and shallow rapid streams or cascades, as two extremes, we would say with regard to artificial flies, that in still water we should rely upon the deceptive power of the fly, and judge of the value of flies by their representation and exactness of simili- tude to the natural insect. "Whereas in rapid stream- lets, we should rely mainly on our mode of using the artificial fly, whose good qualities would consist in the greatest conspicuity. provided such did not so far exceed the likeness of anything natural and edible as to frighten the trout. And as in rivers we find every gradation of distinction between the still waters and rapid brooks, so shall we hereafter observe every degree of indifference between the gaudy, conspicuous, and insulting bait for the rapid— and the sober, quiet, deceptive, artificial fly, for the still water. Again, as regards baits, we have worms, slugs acd small fish — as minnows; which are usually such stimu- lants to the gustatory and predatory dispositions of the trout as few, even the oldest and most cunning can resist. And every fisherman ambitious of captur- ing large trout ought to be made acquainted with the use of these baits — as for bottom fishing no legitimate means of capture is equal to the minnow or worm. We would advise every student in the art of fishing to make himself well acquainted with the beEt methods of using the natural, the artificial fly, the worm and the minnow, with such resources as these, provided there be rapidity of stream, and plenty of trout, a good day's sport may at any time with certainty be relied on. In using each and all of these baits, we have one constant difficulty to overcome, with some greater than others, but more or less ever to be contended with, never to be forgotten, and this is to avoid alarming the trout. We shall find so far as our bait alone is cobcerned that the trout is not by any means easily frightened; but we must ever remember that the trout most mercifully to him is endowed with a wonderfully acute sense, viz , that of vision. To what extent trout hear or smell we do not pretend to decide, these senses, however, much or little de- veloped, will not either assist or oppose us in our practice: but the wonderful aeuteneEs of the sight of trout will be found the greatest difficulty we have to contend with, and most especially careiul must we always be to prevent the trout seeing us, not only our whole body but not even a hair of our head, and to avoid causing any unnatural movements of familiar objects within his range of vision, as well as to avoid frightening any other trout below where the fish we want to catch is lying, lest he should start off and in his terror tell his brethren something is moving, a stranger is in proximity. In order to prevent the trout seeing us in our ap- proach, which must be for subsequent success as near to him as possible, the simple precaution of fishing whenever we can, up, or against the streams will be of the greatest assistance to us. The position of the trout's eye in his head, and the mechanical arrange- ments of muscles for moving the globe of the eye. are such as to be best adapted for observing objects im- mediately above, or above and in front of, the heads he sees indeed upward and forwards, but cannot direct his eye to take in rays of light falling from be- hind forwards, or only to a very limited extent, con- sequently the lower in height we are, and the more immediately behind the trout we are placed, the less able will he be to see us. We must then have recourse to every stratagem to obtain such a position, and in advancing, for example, to any spot we believe to contain a trout, we should place ourselves as nearly on the level of the water as possible, below it if we can, and proceed if even obliged to crawl on the ground from below, upwards, or aB regards the direc- tion of the fish, from behind, forwards. Should a high bank border the stream, rather than stand high above the eye of the trout and far off, we had better get down to the water's edge below where he is lying, and then cautiously make our advance, and in so doing keep the rod out of view. A thousand points in detail of means of secluding ourselves might be enumerated, such as getting behind trees, stones, rocks, into ditches or deep gutters, of our most ap- propriate dress, etc., all of which common sense suffi- ciently indicates, and which will be attended to and adopted, provided the priociple of always avoiding the sharp and watchful eye of the trout be remem- bered. In "The Art of Angling," by Charles Bowlker, published in London in 1830, appears the following quaint lines, which may be old to some readers, but will doubtless prove new to many more. SIGNS OF BAIN. [Forty reasons for not accepting the invitation of a friend to make an excursion with him.] B\ THE LATE DR. JENNER. 1. The hollow winds begin to blow, 2. The clouds look black, the grass is low; 3. The soot ialls down, the spaniels sleep, 4. And spiders from their cobwebs peep. 5. Last night the sun went pale to bed, 6. The moon in haloes hid her head; 7. The boding shepherd heaves a sigh, 8. For see, a rainbow spans the sky. 9. The walls are damp, the ditches smell. 10. Closed is the pink-eyed pimpernel. 11. Hark how the chairs and tables crack, 12. Old Betty's joints are on the rack: 13. Loud quack the ducks, the peacocks cry, 14. The distant hills are seeming nigh. 15. How restless are the snorting swine, 16. How busy flies disturb the ktne; 17. Low o'er the grass the swallow wings: IS. The cricket, too, how sharp he sings; 19. Puss on the hearth with velvet paws, 20. Sits weeping o'er her whiskered iaws. 21. Through the clear stream the fishes rise, 22. And nimbly catch th' unconscious flies. 2:-. The glow-worms numerous and bright, 24. Illumined the dewy dell last night. 25. At dusk the squalid toad was seen, 26. Hopping and crawling o'er the green. 27. The whirling wind the dust obeys, 28. And in the rapid eddy plays. 29. The frog has changed his yellow vest, 30 And in a russet coat is drest, 31. Though June, the air is cold and still: 32- The mellow blackbird's voice is shrill. 33. My dog. so altered in his taste. 34 Quits mutton bones on grass to feast: 35. And see yon rooks, how odd their flight— 36 They imitate the gliding kite. 37. And seem precipitate to fall, 38. As if they felt the piercing ball 39. 'Twill surely rain. I see. with sorrow, 40. Our jaunt must be put off to-morrow. Nevada Field Trials Derby Entries. Dr. C. E. Wilson, secretary of the Nevada Field Trials Club, writes us that the entries for the Nevada Derby comprises eight Pointers and eleven Setters, nineteen all told. This is indeed an encouraging sand-off for the initial sagebrush trials. Entry blanks for the All-Age stake, etc., and further information may be obtained by addressing Dr. C. E. Wilson. Elko, Nev. The list comprises the following: ENGLISH SETTERS. John Schumacher's (Los Angeles) white, black and tan bitch Valita (California Bell Boy-Rod's Lark), whelped April 20, 1902. Breeder, W. W. Van Arsdale. Alexander Hamilton's (San Francisco) black and white dog Lady's Lad (Clipper W.-Lady), whelped June 16, 1902. Breeder, J. E. Terry, Sacramento. W. W. Van Arsdale's (San Francisco) white and orange bitch Count's Gilt (Count's Mark-Verona Schoolgirl), whelped April 10, 1902. Breeder, owner. Same owner's black, white and tan dog Klamath (California Bell Boy-Rod's Lark), whelped April 20, 1902. Breeder, owner. Same owner's white, black and tan bitch Keepsake (California Bell Boy-Peach Blossom), whelped August 22, 1902. Breeder, owner. C. E. Worden's (San Francisco) black, white and tan bitch Count's Cash (Count Whitestone-Sport's Belle), whelped July 12, 1902. Breeder, C. Black- burn, Olathe, Kan. H. H. Dunn's (Elko, Nev.) white, black and tan bitch Hoosier Belle (Marie's Sport-Fairyland Queen), whelped June, 1902. Breeder, W. J. Baughn, Ridge- ville, Ind. Dr. C. E. Wilson's (Elko, Nev.) lemon and white bitch Rosie O'Grady (Marie's Sport-Isabella Maid), whelped April, 1902. Breeder, H. B. Ledbetter, Mis- souri. Same owner's black, white and tan bitch Sweet Marie. Same breeding. J. W. Considine's (Seattle) black, white and tan bitch Hick's Bab (Doc Hick-Woodcraft), Whelped May 23, 1902. Breeder, owner. T. J. A. Tiedemann's (San Francisco) white, black and tan dog Robert Llewellvn (Llewellyn Drake-Miss Maud), whelped July 30, 1902. Breeder, Thomas Plimley, Victoria, B. C. POINTERS. Stockdale Kennels' (Bakersfield, Cal.) black and white bitch Dodge's Stella II (Cuba Jr.-Winnipeg Fly), whelped February 8, 1902. Breeder, owner. Same owner's liver and white bitch Cuba's Ivy wood (Ch. Cuba of Kenwood-Petronella), whelped January 22, 1902. Breeder, owner. Same owner's liver and white dog Cuba's Sinew (Ch. Cuba of Kenwood-Florida), whelped April 2, 1902. Breeder, owner. W. B. Coutt's (Kenwood, Cal.) black and white dog Glen Rose (Glendale-Ken wood Rose) whelped April 12, 1902. Breeder, owner. Dr. A. T. Leonard's (San Francisco) liver and while dog Wallace Bruce (Kenwood Dan-Whisper), whelped September 10, 1902. Breeder, Tod Sloan. W. W. Van Arsdale's white and liver bitch Senorita (Dr. Daniels-Nancy Jingo), whelped June 30, 1902. Breeder, owner. Bango. C. A. Sage's black and white dog Sport ( whelped July — , 1902. Breeder, S. H. Stone, Ogden, Utah. DOINGS IN DOGDOM. Delverton Cappi is too good a little Cocker to he overlooked by breeders and should do well in the stud. Djring Mr. Byron Erkenbrecher's visit to this city, last week, he purchased a handsome little Cocker Spaniel from Woodlawn Kennels. The dog is a year old, house broken and a most companionable and in- telligent little pal We feel safe in stating that he will go over any Cocker in Southern California. Thos. S. Griffiths writes us from Spokane as fol- lows: "I have just received word from my superin- tendent that Craigmore Ethel, by Imp. Brendane Ranger, whelped nine puppies at her new borne. They are sired by the prize winner Imp. Braebrad Commander. There are four dogs and five bitches. There ought to be some prize winners in this litter. They are all nicely marked and coming on finely." Something for Nothing The Polk Miller Drug Co., of Richmond, Va., are manufacturers of Sergeant's Dog Remedies, the most popular line of preparations, intended for dogs, on the market today, having received the high- est endorsements of the leading dog men and kennel owners in this country and Canada. Read their advertisements appearing in the columns of our journal each issue- The Arm referred to will mail you absolutely free, a copy of their celebrated book on Dogs if yon will forward 3 cents to cover postag*e. If your dog is sick, write them, enclosing stamp, and describe the symptoms as accurately as you can. They will cheerfully furnish the best Information on the subject without charge. F. W Braun & Co.. of Los ADgeles, California, have reoently been made distributing agents for Sergeant's Dog Remedies on the Pacific Coast. Jackson's Napa Soda untangles the feet. Moccasins. Bicycle Goods. Jackback moccasins are the best article in this line ever offered sportsmen in this cily- Thick, flexible bottoms, durable, easy fitting, just the thing for still hunting, camping and outing com- fort They are so superior to what is usually sold as moccasins there is no' comparison on merit Skinner has them. The Skinner Co., 801 Market St.. are unpacking and putting on sale everything in the bicycle sundry line. They are agents for the cheapest and best tires ever shown in this city and It looks almost incredible that such goods can be produced for the prices they are selling them. * AUGUST 29, 1903, ®hc gxeebev cm& gftwrrtsman 9 The Winchester Automatic Rifle. The Winchester Model 1903 is a ten-shot, automatic, hammerless, takedown rifle, adapted to a new .22 cali- ber rim.fi.re cartridge loaded with smokeless powder and the Winchester greaseless bullet. It is simple in construction and operation, and is the first auto- matic rifle on the market and the only automatic arm using the inexpensive rimfire ammunition that can be easily taken down. The rifle has grace of outline, light weight, certainty of operation, ease of manipula- tion and novelty of action, making it a most desirable and up-to-date gun. There are innumerable uses for which the Winchester automatic rifle will be found particularly well adapted, among them being wing shooting or fancy shooting. We predict with the advent of this gun a new era in rifle shooting. It will be used by true lovers of sport in open places upon moving game — ducks, geese and small animals — in many places where shot guns are now used. Its loading without movement of the firer enables con- tinued accurate aim and rapid discharge heretofore unknown, and only to be appreciated after trial. One brain shot with this gun instantly killed a horse, and a hog weighing 370 pounds was also killed at one shot. In the automatic action of the Model 1903, there are no moving parts outside the gun to injure the hands, catch in the clothing, brush, etc., and, being simple is no game bird more active or sprightly than the valley quail, and it seems to be continually moving about, running hither and thither, and animated by a mental activity apparently as great, continually chirping and twittering and squeakiDg to itself. It is a beautiful bird, with its slaty blue and cinnamons, and its handsome crest. It is not quite so plump as the Bob White, but is a trifle longer and racier in build. Some think that it is swifter upon the wing than Bob White, but this is hardly the case, the greater apparent difficulty in shooting it arising not so much from its spread of wing as the twists and angles of its flight, and the difficulties of the cover in which it is found. In grouse or quail shooting the sportsmen has now and again found himself engaged in a bit of sidehill shooting, and has noticed how much more frequent are his misses than upon the level ground. Bob White is in many cases shot over level country and not on steep mountain sides or canyon faces. By comparison the soberer bird and its environment has rather the best of it over its gaudy cousin, with its painted uniform and its crest like that of a militia colonel. In nearly all ways ex- cept that of personal appearance this bird of the southwest suffers in a sporting comparison with the Bob White quail, and the only redeeming feature is or was, the great numbers in which the valley quail is found. Yet this latter feature is not altogether a recommendation, for it seems to be the rule of nature that when a large number of animals are gathered together there is greater wariness and shyness. The Winchester Automatic .23, Model 1903. in construction, it is not apt to get out of order with any ordinary use. After filling the magazine and throwing a cartridge into the chamber, all that it is necessary to do to shoot the ten cartridges that the magazine holds is to pull and release the trigger for each shot. The rifle can be shot as fast as the trigger can be pulled; and with its rapidity of fire is combined the accuracy for which all Winchester rifles are famous. When a shot is fired, the recoil from the exploded cartridge ejects the empty shell, cocks the hammer and throws a fresh cartridge into the chamber. The Winchester Model 1903 automatic rifle is made with blued trimmings, a plain walnut stock and fore- arm, not checked, and a 20-inch round barrel, fitted ; with open front and rear sights. Weight about 5^ pounds. The stock is 13J inches long: drop at comb, If inches; drop at heel, 3£ inches; length of gun over all, 36 inches. Fancy walnut stocks and forearms and plain or fancy walnut pistol grip stocks, checked or unchecked, are the only variations from the standard gun that will be furnished. The California, or Valley Quail. In the California, or valley quail we have another instance of an interesting American game bird once formerly abundant, and now surviving in numbers materially lessened and with habits that have sus- tained somewhat of a change. Twenty years ago these birds were found in many regions of California in numbers such as fairly to surpass belief. A bag of 50, 100, 200, even 250 quail a day to the gun was not only possible, but not unusual. The bird itself, although not so toothsome as the Bob White quail, offering, as it does a flesh somewhat dryer and less savory than that of its Eastern cousin, none the less was edible and none the less abundant. Hence it was deemed the legitimate prey of the market hunter?, and it is no doubt that the continuous shooting at all seasons by the market hunters did more to cut down the numbers of the valley qunil than all other causes combined, although naturally the great numbers and the accessibility of the bird caused it to be pursned very generally by resident and visiting sportsmen. For once in a way the tre- mendous fecundity of the glorious State of California was not sufficient to the demands mads upon it. Presently localities which had once swarmed with these birds showed but a few scattered flocks. The species seemed to be about to disappear, such was the relative disparity between the numbers in the past and in the present. Then came a more sensible view of the situation and a better appreciation of the value of this beautiful bird. To-day there is a limit of twenty-five birds to the day to the gun, and it is only fair to say that the man who kills his limit has done a good day's work. There are many shooters in different parts of the country who have tacitly set for themselves the limit of twenty-five game birds a day, no matter what the species, whether of ducks, quail or grouse, and the doctrine of twenty-five head a day, no more, is an excellent one to promulgate in the3e times. The valley quail is not altogether a creature of the lowlands, although it resorts to the valleys and to the neighborhood of the ranches in great numbers. It overruns the low mountain ranges and may be found up to five thousand or six thousand feet elevation in the mountains. It's natural home is in the chemisal and cactus shrub, native to its range, and well enough suited does it seem to survive in that environment. There great bands of elk or antelope, the great flocks of wild geese or of the packed prairie grouse are much harder to approach than small bodies of these same creatures. Hence, although the valley quail is to be found in numbers, this fact does not always signify the best of sport. The bird itself never had its thoroughbred racing outline for naught. It is a racer, and upon foot it is nearly as swift as upon wing. Its first thought when seeking safety is to run, and unless closely pursued the birds will not take to wing. Followed hard and put up they will alight running, and unless the follower be sound of wind and swift of foot they are apt to run quite away from him before he gets up with them at all. Such sport of wing shooting as is afforded by the valley quail is rather incidental and occasional than regular, and is due not so much to settled habits on the part of the bird as to occasional deviation from habits which may be called settled and determinable Its pursuit is difficult to be sure, but it requires something more than sheer difficulty of capture to entitle a bird to a high reputa- tion as a sporting factor. As an exactor of good wing shooting skill the quality of this quail cannot be denied, for it offers to the gun all kinds of sudden and unexpected angles, up hill and down hill, out above the canyons, around behind the clumps of cactus, and now and again low and close to the chaparral. These complications in its flight constitute practically the only recommendation of the bird from the wing shooter. There are those who do not scorn to shoot the valley quail upon the run, and it is to be imagined that many a tenderfoot new at this sort of quail shooting has not scorned to swell his bag in that way. Yet this is mot sport, even where it is difficult as wing shooting and the sporting conscience does not reconcile itself to the idea of shooting a feathered creature upon the ground, no matter if it be but touching the ground occasionally and in the higher places. The valley quail does not present much inducement for the use of the hunting dog, and indeed to the ordinary pointer or setter of the East, unused to the hot, dry climbing and sharp elevations of the south- western regions it is a puzzle and an annoyance, and rare indeed is it that the Eastern dog doss not wear himself out to no avail in his first experience with the birds. Suppose that one runs across a great band of these valley quail— perhaps several hundred or more than a thousand of them, as might once easily have been the case. The birds themselves are so abundant as to require no dog for their discovery. Indeed they announce their presence by a continued series of chirps and clucks. Thither the sportsman bends his steps, his dog all excitement, for even that hot, dry air is full of the scent where the birds have crossed and criss-crossed. At fifty, sixty or seventy yards, perhaps at even greater range, the birds b?gin to take wing, the scattered ones on the edges of the flock being the first to arise, usually out of range. Both hunter and dog press on, both somewhat excited. At last with a great rolling roar a cloud of blue rises and breaks over the nearest elevation. Perhaps the flight extends upon the average not more than a couple of hundred yards. The shooter, if he is an Easterner acquainted only with the habits of the Bob White quail, believes now that he has a day's sport cut out for him and close at hand. Vain hope! When he reaches the spot where he first saw his great mass of color go down he finds scarcely a bird, for they have all taken to their feet again and have run as fast as deer. The poor dog, hurrying thither and thither, is perturbed as much as his master, and a few hours of this repeated is usually enough to take his measure. It is not enough fO" either dog or shooter to get an occasional sight of the wild rising bird, or an occasional sniff at a bird occasionally put in pocket. There Is too much excitement, too much hard climbing, too much hot sunshine and too much hurry and confusion to call this very good fun for dog or man, and during his first few experiences at this sort of thing the beginner is apt to be much confused and not a little disgusted. There is, however, always a way of outwitting any game creature, and a careful study of the habits of this bird will enable the sportsman to hunt it to better effect. The old timer who is out for a day 's shooting on valley quail is not particular about the first or perhaps second rise of the big bodies of birds. His attempt is to get as close to the flock and as quickly as possible. Then he runs among them, fires over them rapidly, and often, perhaps, tbe second or third rise, he finds the birds are cowed, perturbed or sub- dued. The great bulk of the flock may go on, or the outlyiog stragglers may run away, yet none the less he will find himself in the middle of a few acres of ground over which there may be scattered 200 or 300 quail which, for a time at least, will lie close enough to be hunted by the dog and accounted for by the man in something like sportsmanlike fashion. Under such circumstances the pointing dog is useful and agree- able, and it is under such surroundings that a big bag of these birds is most apt to be made. Of course in a country where there are literally hundreds of quail running about hither and yon it would be sur- prising if one did not get occasional shots even when he least expected it, or at more or less practical ranges. Yet this does not represent any problem solved, any situation mastered, nor any 5-port reduced to what might be called a sporting system. The whole thing is too apt to be called a sprinting match. It is far enough for a sportsman to run, red in the face and shouting to his dog, but when the sportsman and the dog are obliged to engage in a foot race to get up with the game, the latter does not resolve itself into a pleasing and enjoyable fashion of shoot- ing, however excellent it may be as a means of physical training. The above remarks as to great numbers of valley quail apply rather to the old days than to the present time. Nowadays the present flocks of quail are not so common and one is more apt to find not more than a few score birds at best in one of the bands which he puts up. He will find it far more difficult to find the birds now than formerly, for they seem to have learned wisdom with the years and do not engage in the same riot of glad sounds which formerly marked their con- courses. Today if they fancy that the hunter is about, they stand and watch him and hold their peace. If he comes their way they take to their legs at even greater speed than of yore, running farther and faster, and they lie worse, giving longer rises to the gun. Whereas, once their fligbt was not longer than that of the Bob White, they may now fly a quarter of a mile instead of 100 yards or so. They may top a little crest, and then instead of alighting, go on across the next crest hundreds of yards and then having alighted, they may take to their heels and put yet more space between them and their pur- suer. Under such surroundings a bag of 30 or 40 birds is a good one. The dog is more useful now than of yore, since the birds are not so easily discovered. It requires a highly specialized dog,, one of good lungs and tireless legs and a great fund of patience. True, this sort of shooting takes one out of doors, and it is sport at flying feathers, yet not sport to compare with the steady, dignified and regular methods which are so possible and so enjoyable in some of the better Bob White rtgions. such as those of the Southern States. None the less the valley quail is desirable of retention as a game bird, and it is pleasing to believe that it is coming more and more into its rights in the big Pacific country, and that it will long endure as one of the native Californians. Indeed, the species is be- coming more abundant now than it was a few years ago for the market shooting has been regulated to some extent and the laws are better enforced. The valley quail feeds on such seeds and small in- sects and grains as may be found in the wild country or cultivated fields. When not molested it becomes quite tame and shows something of the fearlessness of the Bob White quail. When alarmed these birds have a sort of chirping note, something like a sharp llquit-quit!" mingled with many moans and croaks of o-o-o-s and u-u-s. Scattered in the cover the birds rapidly run together, and their assembly call is a picturesque mingling of consonantal and vowelful voicings, sometimes sounding like ''o-wy-o," or, again, like ' kuk-kuk-koo." There is something at- tractive, indeed fascinating, about this beautiful and animated bird. It is certainly a hustler and able to lake care of itself, like everything and everybody on the Pacific slope. Its pursuit is no occupation for a laggard, and after one has learned to lay aside the traditions of his earlier shooting on the Bob White quail, the sport gains an interest of its own. The country beyond the Sierras is an empire of itself, with ways of its own, different from the rest of the United States, and this one may expect when he goes there even for the enjoyment of the sports of the field. If he be not too much bigot, and if he possess that catholicity of Bpirit which enables the real sportsman to enjoy himself wherever he may be or whatever may be the game, he will soon learn to like this pursuit of the running game bird. As to his proper equipment, he should have a care to go dressed light, for the work will be somewhat exacting and the climbing a bit warm. His gun may be the 12 gauge or something smaller if he is accustomed to it. No 8 is the right shot for all the quail family upon the average, one day with another, and for proper wing shooting at partridges the double cylinder, or cylinder and modified choke in the right gun; yet in this sort of shooting, where the range is apt to be a long one for some or all of the time, there will be many who prefer the closer shooting bore, which at least they fancy will give them better aver- age results, although the latter statement is much lo be doubted if the cylinder be used day in and day out. The Valley Quail (Laphortyx Californicus). Com- mon names:" Valley quail; California quail. Descrip- tion: The short, upright crest is black. Anterior portion of the body and upper parts plumbeoup. Wings and back tinted with olive brown. Ad' 10 ®He gveebev anif gtpxxrtemcm [August 29, 1903 half of head burnished yellow. Shafts of the stiff feathers black; a transverse white band passes back of the side of the crown. Top and back of head light brown, chin and throat black, marked out by a white band, which begins behind the eye and runs down the side ot the neck. Belly pale buff, with round orange brown patch in middle. Side feathers like those of the back, streaked entirely with white. Tall colors buff, broadly streaked with brown. Female smaller, except that the white of the head is absent. The feathers of the throat in the female are burnished yellow tinged with brown, ihe buff and orange brown of the belly is wanting m the female. The crest is shorter. . _ Length: 9 50; wing, 4 32; tail, 4.12; weight, 8 OUOC6S Range: The valleys and foothills of the Pacific coast states, and as far south as Cape St. Lucas. Habits: The favorite abodes of the bird may be found in the grain fields of the lower lands, in the thickets along 6he streams, and in general in the close covers of the lower altitudes. The male bird oc- casionally perches on a stump or branch near the nest of the female and utters its cry, less melodious than that of the Bob White: commonly a sort of "kuek-kuek kuck-kuek-kee." This bird does not frequent the deeper forest not the upper ranges of the mountains. It is a prolific breeder, generally hatching its brood in June. It has been successfully introduced in Washington, near Puget Bound, at- tempts of this nature having been made as early as 1857. This bird when put up frequently perches in trees, after the less occasional fashion of the Bob White quail. It is easily domesticated. The nest is usually made of grass, and is built sometimes quite in the open, though more frequently under some bush or shrub. Eggs, 12 to 16 in number, varying in markings, but yellowish white, spotted with dark brown. — E. Sough in Texas Field. The Working Collie. The working Collie is beginning to take hold of the public mind and particularly the minds of those who own Collies. Now, the average owner of Collies, I think, hardly realizes the extent of the interest that would be created by exhibitions of working Collies and not too many that own Collies know much about their abilities or working propensities. Of course, like the sporting dogs, Collies that work are of all sizes, shapes and colors, and it is as often as not "handsome is as handsome does, "but the point of beauty is a factor that can be studied in the working dog as well as in the show dog, and it has never been satisfactorily proved that it is necessary for a Collie to be homely to be a good working dog. Having had quite a little experience with working do°"S I may say that some of the handsomest were the best in the field. A very handsome dog that won second at Birmingham, England, was the sire of a very beautiful dog that was, as a worker, phenomenal. This young dog later took prizes in good company and was himself the sire of good workers also as good looking. I am now talking of away back in the seventies. Many of the early Black and Tans that were good looking and very good workers were small, as we look at Collies now, with the tan a very light lemon color and not much of it, and many that had good dogs wanted them as correctly marked as the Black and Tan Terriers or the Gordon Setter. Many .of these dogs were not so profusely coated yet had not the Gordon Setter blood in them. In opposition to these were dogs that carried a heavy coat and a big frill. Again, the smooth was much as we see him to-day, is an old sort and as often as not a good worker; for there was no marketable value to a smooth Collie unless he could work, and these dogs until lately were not much in evidenee as show dogs and so have not been bred so very many years without being worked. As we said before, working dogs are of many sorts and sizes and of many different colors, though there is little doubt that the character that the Collie had for Bmartness largely helped him in his early bid for popularity as a show dog and companion; and there is little doubt but that if the Collie was demonstrated at work, for instance, at our Fall fairs, which are usually well fitted for the purpose with racecourses, which are laid out on most of the grounds, and would be admirable places for the trials, and the public could obtain a splendid view of the trials from the grand stand, it would greatly help the breed. Pew people have much idea of the severity of the trials given to really expert dogs or the great intelligence displayed by them or the perfection of the combina- tion between dog and man. Many owners that have a dog are satisfied when they have a dog that will drive cows, but the bright- est and best Collies, as seen in their own country, are not much used for cattle but for sheep; and it is when working the timid, rather stupid and perverse animal, the sheep, that the Collie shows his wonderful ability. One instance of the peculiarities of sheep is well instanced and well known to the rancher out West viz., that in taking a bunch of sheep any distance along a trail, and where many water courses are en countered, the sheep vary a great deal in the way they take these; and it is a common occurrence that when coming to a large and dangerous river with a swift current, the sheep will go over at the first or second attempt, though the bank of the river is far distant and the shore not so easy to see. But when coming sometimes to a small creek, that each and every sheep could easily jump over, the flock will stay there a week before the spirit moves them to cross this stream, that would hardly wet their feet, yet they will take the big river without any hesita- tion. Why the sheep is thus we none of us know, but it is just such idiosyncracies as this that, multiplied, have made the working sheepdog what he is, an ani- mal with a keenness of insight into the moods of his sheep and with a knowledge of their peculiarities that ii often far beyond that of his master; and in fact in penning sheep at a trial the master of the dog may be ever so clever, but if the dog has not a mind of his own and his eye fixed on every movement, and the slightest movement of the sheep, the penning cannot be done. So smart are these dogs that often when the sheep cannot be driven into the pen, and as often as not they cannot, the dog pretends to rush them and gets them on the flight and backing away from him — as a sheep will do while bluffing with his head — and the first thing the sheep know is that the dog has backed them into the pen without their knowing it. The distance to be traveled at trials, and the time, are matters of choice, but in Australia, probably, the hardest course is mapped out, and there the dog has to take three wild and strange sheep from different flocks round a course mapped out with flags and through hurdles laid out in a maltese cross, and then into the pen with an opening eighteen irches wide for agate. Many stories are told of the intelligence of the sheepdog, but they have senses and insight that is not vouchsafed to man, who not having these senses cannot gauge them. For instance, when driving sheep in Australia to the coast to sell, in bands of 2,000 or so in a band, it is often necessary to go through the runs of other owners. On the passage through these runs it is not uncommon to accident- ally pick up two or three strays, but before leaving the stranger's run these must be taken out of the band and left behind. In order -to do this the sheep are sent through a narrow gateway and the dog is stationed at this gate with orders to take out the strays, and this he does with consummate ease and like a flash. His master would be inoapable of telling which were his own, at any rate not with anything like the certainty of the dog nor with a thousandth part of the speed or accuracy with which a dog will pick three or four strays out of a flock of 2,000. In Scotland at the fairs when thesheepare brought from the mountains to be sold they are held in the open market square or in a large field, perhaps with- out any pens, and as often as not one sheep of a flock will dart away from his herd and into another band, but the dog is away after him like a shot, and runs, if need be, over the backs of the other sheep and pins his sheep by the ear and brings it back to the proper flock in short order. As I said before, we want different dogs for differ- ent kinds of work. We want a dog for the wild black-faced mountain sheep, and another for the sheep of the lowlands, where the sheep are bigger, heavier and more docile; but with any kind of sheep that want difficult handling we do not want a dog that heels, but one that goes at the head of the sheep to turn them. When a sheep suddenly leaves a flock a dog that is only a heeler, or cow dog, runs at the sheep's tail and drives him out of the country, not back to his flock; the good sheepdog goes in front of the sheep, eets at his nose and barks iu the sheep's face and will not leave it till he turns it and heads it for the flock. A dog I once owned was clever with lambs on the prairie. And knowing that when a lamb that had gone to sleep and let the flock drift away from it, when aroused would run for miles if suddenly dis- turbed, he had adopted a mode of action of his own. When told to hunt a stray, he located the tuft of grass or bush that held the lamb; then keeping his eye on the main flock he would draw up to the lamb like a cat stealing on a mouse or bird, and getting olose to the lamb he quietly stuck his nose under the lamb and tossed him up in the air; so that when he lit running — and which was his first instinct — he should be started running in the direction of the flock and would soon find himself in the band before he knew it. Having accomplished this feat the dog would turn round and show his teeth and grin and shake with laughter at his own smartnesB. When the flock was far away and Bob found a stray he caught it without further ceremony, put it down and Bat on it till eome one came and relieved him. This dog had a genius for saving himself trouble and in this way often showed wonderful brain power, especially when he was getting old. The old country shepherd takes the puppy out when about four months old and the pup absorbs his knowledge by degrees and from the older dogs, and these latter often take the law into their own hands and administer the necessary chastisement to the puppies if they do not behave themselves, and thus relieve the master of the trouble. Oneof the best sheepdog trainers lever knew never whipped his dogs, but if one behaved very badly he put a rope round his neck and hung it up for a short time just clear of the ground and scolded it. For, as he said, flogging them made them afraid of the hand that beat them, and it was good-by to waving from a distance or hand signals at even short or long distances. — Field and Fancy. AT THE TRAPS. A blue rock shoot will be given by the California Powder Works on the grounds of the Home Gun Club at Pinole to-morrow. The affair is strictly an invitation shoot and promises to be well attended by shooters. The California Wing Club final shoot for the season took place last Sunday at Ingleside. High average for the club season of 1903 was won by C. C. Nauman, who lost but four birds out of a total of 100 in seven shoots. He was decidedly aided by shooter's luck on Sunday as he apparently did not shoot up to form. Three birds retrieved after they had been practically given up, saved the cup for him, and cut Ed. Donohoe out of first honors. One pigeon circled about, threaten- ing to fly beyond the fence, but finally fell dead within bounds. Another bird was only saved from landing out of bounds by striking the fence a bare margin of an inch or two from the top and fell back in- side to count. The third pigeon, badly hit, lit in some weeds, got entangled therein and could not escape. This bird was strong enough to get away and was thought to be the bird to spoil Nau- man's straight. Ed Donohoe scored straight and shot in fine form, in fact outshot his club competitors on this day, he was but two birds behind Nauman for the season. G W. Gibson, Dr. A. M. Barker and Dr. E. G. McConnell also scored straight strings. Tie day was somewhai warm and unfavorable for the sport. The birds supplied were only an averaging lot. Following the club race an eight bird pool was shot in which eight shooters each grassed clean. The scores and handicap follow: Clubjnatch, 20 pigeons, distance handicap, $150 added, 7 moneys, high guns — Nauman 33 yds-22112 12222 21222 22222— £0 Donohoe 32 '• —11222 12222 22223 22222-2J G,Ibs°n 30 " —21222 22221 22112 22221-2(1 McConnell 29 " —12212 21111 1111122221-20 Barker 29 " —11122 21122 12122 5222I-S0 Stone 29 " —22212 2112121111 11222-20 gekeart 28 " —22222 22222 222.2 12222-20 galgbt 30 " —22222 2222(1 22232 12221—19 H C Golcher 30 " —22122 11121 11222 22022—19 W. J.Golcher 29 '• -12211 12110 1 1 122 221 12-19 Demy.. 29 '• -122112121*1112112221-19 Klevesahl 26 " -11111 12121 1 1 121 llnn-19 Murdoch 31 " -2*111 112112 22221 11121-18 H.E Holmes 30 " -02212 22222 22122 12202-18 G. Sylvester (guest) 30 " —12211 11112 ]2U0 112*1-18 W. Hanson (guest) 30 " -20121 11222 11121 l»222— 18 Justms 29 " -0-222 21212 11222 22222-18 Feudner 32 •' —11122 22222 22222 2*200— 17 SJ'fds 28 " -2212*20121 111*2 21211-17 Walsh . . 28 " -121*2 11101 21110 21010-15 Buehne (guest) 30 '• —22001 22202 ll*U) ill 12- H Eight bird match, $5 entrance, club shoot, distarce handicap, high guns — Haignt 21112 111-8 £eane 11112 112-8 Nauman IlnI |S2-8 McConnell 11112 122—8 Donohoe '.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'..". 22221 221-8 Derby 12111221-8 Stone 221 12 122-8 Barker ,2,22 222-8 «'?S?P 11212 120—7 Shields 2S211 0°l— 7 Bekeart '.'.'.'.'.'. '.'.'.'..'. 02222 222-7 Ledslone 32002 101 — 5 The following are the averages of the shooters of the Davisville Blue Rock Club up to date for the gold and silver medals to be given to the highest and second highest average, the award to be made on October 1st for the season, which will close on that date. F. P. Smith has a strong lead thus far for the gold medal: F. P. Smith 91 1-5, Jones S63, G. Hoag 86 2-5, P. Hoag 86, H. Zentner 85, D. Grieve 82 2-5, Ed . Fissell 80 4-5, Harold Zentner 70. J Montgomery 79, C. Snider 78, Wm. Grieve 72j, E. Montgomery'(i6S, Doc Burnett 60. Coming Events. Bod. April 1-Aug 15— Close season for lobsters and crawfish. April 1-Nov. 1— Trout season open. April 1-Sept. 10. Oct. 16-Feb. 1— Open season ror taking steel- bead in tidewater. May 1-S-rt. - Close season for shrimp. July 1-Jan. 1— Open season for black bass. Aug. 29-Saturday Contest No. II. Class series. Stow lake. 2:30 p. m. ' Aug. 30— Sunday Contest No. II. Class series. Stow lake, 10 a.m. Sept. 1-Nov. 1— Close season for crabs. Nov. 15-Sept. 10— Season open for taking salmon above tide water. July 1-Feb. 15— Dove season open. July 15-Nov. 1— Deer season open. Aug. 30— Millwood Gun Club Blue rocks. Mill Station. Sept. 1-Feb. 15— Open season for mountain quail, grouse and sage hen. Sept. 13— Golden Gate Gun Club. Blue rocks. Ingleside. Sept. 20— Union Gun Club. Blue rocks. Ingleside. Oct. 15-Feb. 15— Open season .'or quail, ducks, etc. Bench Shows. Aug. 18, 19. 20— Bar Harbor Kennel Club. Bar Harbor, Me. A. H. Lyman, Secretary, Bar Harbor, Me Aug. 25, 26. 27, 28— Gouverneur, N Y. Geo. M. Ketch, Secretary. Sept. 4, 5— Ottawa Kennel Club. Robert McAllen, Secretary. Ottawa, Can. Sept. 7, 8, 9, 10— Toronto Industrial Exposition. 13th annual show. Dr. A. W. Bell. Secretary, Toronto, Can. Oct. 6, 7, 8, 9— Danbury Agricultural Society. Danbury, Conn. John W. Bacon, Treasurer. Oct. 20, 21, 22, 23— Frederick County Agricultural Society. Frederick, Md. J. Roger McSherry, Seorotary, Frederick, Md. ' Oot. — Bench Show in Spokane, Wash. Nov. 8, 4, 5, 6— Ladies Kennel Association ot America. Madison Square Garden, New York. Mrs. A. G. Evans, Hon. Secretary, Westbury, L. I. Nov. 17, 18, 19— Boston Terrier Club. Boston, Mass. Dec —Bench Show in connection with Poultry Exhibit. San Francisco. P. K. L rules Field Trials. Aug. 18— Iowa Field Trial Association 6th annual trials. Aug. 18— Nebraska Field Trial Association. O'Neil, Neb. H H. McCarthy, Seoretary. Aug. 31— Western Canada Club. La Salle, Man. H. S. Ralston, Secretary, Winnepeg, Man. Sept. 1— Brandon Kennel Club. Brandon, Man. J. P Brisbin, Secretary. Brandon, Man. Sept. 1— Minnesol a-North Dakota Field Trial Association. 2nd annual trials. Huron, S. D Frank Richards, Secretary. Peever. S.D Sept. 8— Manitoba Field Trial Club 17th annual trials. Car- man, Man. Eric Hamber, Secretary. Winnipeg. Man Sept 29— Pacifio Northwest Field Trial Club 3rd annual trials Whidby Island, Wash F. A Pontius, Secretary, Seattle, Wash. Oct. 26— Sportsman's Field Trial Association. Clare, Mich. E. C. Smith. Secretary, Midland, Mich Oct. 26— Monongahela Field Trial Association 9th annual trials Washington C. H., O. A. C Peterson, Secretary. Home- stead, Pa Oct. 27— Nevada Field Trial Association. Paradise Valley near Winnemucca, Nev. Dr. C. E. Wilson, Secretary, Elko. Nev. Jackson's Napa Soda is sold in every city, town ard hamlet in the State. AUGUST 29. 1903J ®he gveebev anif ^povt&tnan 11 Poultry Notes. Too much weight is und esired in owls. All hard food is better for poultry haa all soft food. When fowls lay soft eggs give plenty ■ f lime and green food. Sunflower seed fed in small quantities mpart a beautiful gloss to the plumage. While ducks are apparently very ;reedy in their habits at the same time hey are easily satisfied. It will lessen disease amoDg poultry if ,11 of the buildings are kept covered- nth whitewash put on thick. All breeds of fowls have certain strong joints in their favor. So that purpose oust always be considered. When a large number of fowls are ;ept under one roof the dangers of dis- ase are very materially increased. One of the best things in which to et a hen at this time is a thick turf a oot or more square turned upside down. Wheat, chiefly owing to the amount if nutriment and albumen it contains, s the griin to feed for the production if eggs. Sail all of the old hens, especially the poorest layers and all that for any rea- son it is unprofitable to keep longer. In breeding fancy chickens it is best to mark the young chickens while they are with the hen to avoid possible mis- takes. Good food and care are essential to success in poultry raising, but there is no necessity in constantly fussing with them. In nearly all cases fowls confined in close quarters should have soft food ! once a day; early in the morning is a good time to give it. 1 While there may be some advantage I occasionally in cross-breeding, in a ma- jority of cases it is throwing away good blood for mongrel. | Since roosts, platforms and nests are the principal rendezvous for lice, they should be easy of access and so arranged ! as to be readily cleaned. FOR SALE. THE PACING MARE SWANH1LDA. She Is J- a handsome bay, coming seven years old, a natural pacer and with but little track work can pace a mile below 2:20 with ease. Gentle and kind and has been d'iven by ladies to buggy. She is a fine roadster and with proper training will make a great race mare. For pedigree and further particulars address W. L. MCDONALD, Concord, Cal. To Close Tuesday, Sept. 1, 1903 Pacific Coast Trotting Horse Breeders Association Race Meeting AT PLEASANTON September 16, 17, 18 and 19 Entries Close Sept. 1st. programme: FIRST DAY, SEPTEMBER 16. 1. 2:30 Class Trotting- Stakes $300 2. Green Class Pacing: Stakes (Horses wimont records) 300 ». 2:11 Class Trotting Stakes 400 SECOND DAY, SEPTEMBER 17. 4. 2:19 Class Trotting Stakes $300 5. Free-for-All Pacinsr Stakes 400 8. 2:20 Class Pacing- Stakes 600 THIRD DAY, SEPTEMBER 18. 7. 2:17 Class Paciner Stakes $400 3. Three-year-old Trottinar Stakes 300 8. 2:13 Class Paciner Stakes 400 FOURTH DAY, SEPTEMBER 19. 10. 2:23 Class Trotting Stakes $600 11. 2:23 Class Pacing; Stakes 300 12. 2:14 Class Trotting Stakes 400 Conditions same aB heretofore advertised for this meeting. Entries to close with GEO. A. KELLY, Pieasanton, and with the Secretary. E. P. HEALD, President. F. W. KELLEY, Secretary. ^ THE BAYWOOO STUD ^P^V^^vlak ™E BUNCALOW- SAN MATEO, CAL ffl f~ f \^ V©ft (Property of JOHN Pabrott, Esq.) m r>Ctr] 1^31 Devote.1 Exclusively to the Breeding anil Training of M IE I -■ — r- W High Stepping Hackney-Bred Harness Horses WALTER SEJLT, Manager. Millard Sanders WHO DEVELOPED Lou Dillon THE LONG LOOKED-FOR 2-MINUTE TROTTER RECOMMENDS 2=oz Bottles, SOc; 6=oz size, $1.00; Quart cans, $3.00. AM Druggists and Harness Dealers, or VITA OIL CO., 1533 Buchanan St., San Francisco. J. A. MoKerron and J. O'Kane, Agts CLEARING OUT SALES TUESDAY, SEPT. 29, 1903, At Fred. H. Chase & Co.'s Salesyard. 1732 Market Street, San Francisco. THE MEEK ESTATE, HAVWARDS, CAL., will sell all tha Standard-bred Horses belonging to the Estate, comprising 35 bead. There are Fillies, Mares and Geldings— 3 4. 5 and 6 years old— by McKlnney, Nutwood Wilkes. Welcome and William Harold, nearly all well broken to drive and all halter broken and gentle- The mares have colts at foot by William Harold 2:13^ and Welcome 2:104, and have been bred back. Among them are the dam and a full sister to Janice 2:08«, a sister to Cricket 3:10 and manr other highly bred ones. A fine lot of Shetland Ponies will also be sold to close out the horses belonging to the Estate. OF HON. JESSE D. CARR will, at this time, close out all its Trotting-bred Horses. Th re are 25 head of Yearlings, Two-year-olds and Three-year-olds,; also a few highly bred Mares and Geldings; Also the grand young Stallion BOODLE Jh. ty Boodle out of Nina B bv Electioneer. He is one of the greatest young stock horses In California. The young stock is by Boodle Jr , Nutwood Wilkes and other good sires. GABILAN STOCK FARM THE SALE IS POSITIVE AND WITHOUT RESERVE .85- Send for Catalogues FRED. H. CHASE & CO. 1732 Market Street, San Francisco. ~ Your stable is not complete without Quinn's Ointment. An infallible cure for all ordi« nary horse afflictions. Follow the example set by the leading horsemen of the world and your stable shelf will always hold a bottle of Quinn's Ointment A. L. Thomas, Sept. Canton Farm, Jollet, 111., remarks, • "I enclose yon amount for six bottles of Qui tin's Ointment. After one year's trial most confess it does all yon claim for it." For Corbs, Splints, Spavins, Windpoffs or Bunches. Price $i.oo per package. Sold by all druggists, or sent by mail. W. B. EDDY & CO.. Whitehall. N. Y. Wv^ffffr^^r1V^ri^VV^nr^r^r>V^rH^^r'r»'»rAH Pacing 6 No. 9— Three=Year=01ds Trotting 500 CONSOLATION CLASSES. TRflTTFRS A PDBSE OF St0(> w'u be eiven tor Trottera eligible to the 8:17 Class □ AfCDC I II U I I LN Oi who have started at this meeting; and not won first or second money. TMULIlui Horses to be named overnight Entrance fee 5 per cent; nothing from winners Money divided 70°£, 30%', 10%. Race to take place October 29. A PCBSE OF S4O0 win be given for Pacers eligible to the 3:15 Class w have started at this meeting and not won first or second money. Horse! be named overnight. Entrance fee 5 per cent: nothing from winners. Moi divided 70.%, 20%, 10%. Race to take place October 30 Nominators have the privilege of naming two horses from the same stable or owned by the same person on one entrance fee. Nominators in any race that should fail to fill may on September 8th transfer their entry to any other class that filled in which their horse is eligible. Entrance 5 per cent, of which 2i per cent must accompany the entry and 21 per cent to be paid on the opening day of the meeting. MAKE YOUR ENTRY ON TIME And be sure that It is postmarked not later than September I, 1903. You can enter the same horse in three or more classes and have plenty of time between races. The length of t meeting permits of the program being arranged .so that every horse in attendance can be started in several rac Consider This! CONDITIO* S. Entries to close Tuesday, September 1, 1903. Entries not declared out at 4 o'clock p m on the day preceding the race shall be required to start and declarations must be in writing and made at the office of the Secretary at the track. Stakes will be divided into four moneys: 50. 25, 15 and 10 per cent. Entrance fee five per cent of Stake. 2;: per cent of Stake in cash- draft or cheofe MUST ac- company Entry, balance due and must be paid the first day of the meeting. 5 per cent of the amount of the Stake additional from money winners- If there are less than four starters they may contest for the entrance money paid in to be divided 50, 30 and 20 ptr cent. Tte Management reserves the right to declare two starters a walkover. When only two start they may contest for the entrance money paid in, to be divided 66S' per cent to the first and 33H per cent to the second. A horse distancing the field shall only be entitled to first and fourth moneys; but in no other case will a horse be entitled to more than one money. All harness races, unless otherwise specified, mile heats, three in five. Distance in all heats shall be 80 yards, but if the field is more than eight 100 yards- Hopples barred in trotting races, but will be permitted in pacing races. The Association reserves the right to start any heat after the fourth score, regard less of position of the horses All Stakes not filling satisfactorily to the Board of Directors may be declared off- Racing colors should be claimed with entries, must be named by 5 p. si. on the day preceding t race, and must be worn on the track in all races. Colors will be registered in the order in whi they are received, and if not named, or when colors conflict, drivers will be required to wear col- selected by the Secretary. The management reserves the right to change the hour or date of any race, and the righ reserved to declare off or postpone any or all races on account of the weather or other sufficient cai Conditional entries will be treated the same as regular entries, and nominators held under rules. Any race that may be started and unfinished on last day of the meeting may be deolared en< and money divided according to the rank of horses in the summary. Otherwise than as herein specified in these coudi lions, Rules of the National Trotting Associat (of which this Association is a member), except Rule 4, to govern. Entries Close September 19, 1903. I nc Ancrplpc Hprhv S 5 no ADDED. For Three -year-olds. Entrance ?I0: £30 addi- Lua rtiigcics uci U.> . tional to start. $500 added, of which S75 to second and $50 to third. Colts to carry 132 lbs ; geldings, 119 lbs.; fillies. 117 lbs. Winners in 1903, of a stake of the value of $1100, to carry 3 lbs ; of two such or one of $3000, 5 lbs. extra. Non-winners of a stakes in 1903 allowed 5 lbs.: non-winners of a race of $500 in 1903. 8 lbs. Non-winners of a race of $400 in 1903,10 lbs- Maidens 17 lbs. Allowances not accumulative. One mile and a quarter Innnthan flnh QtaLrAc *4oo ADDED. For Two -year-olds. Entrance $5; $25 addi- juiiamau wiuu OiarvCS. tional to start. 8*00 added, of which $60 to second and $40 to third. Winners of a stake ot the value of $1000 to carry 3 lbs.; of two of any value, 5 lbs extra. Non- winners of a stake allowed 3 lbs.; and if such have not won three races. 5 lbs.; two races, 8 lbs. Maidens, 15 lbs. Five and a hmlf farlonga Trip Thanclnr ^Allinrr CtaL-ac 84O0 ADDED For Three-year-olds and upward IDC WQdllMUr veiling SiaKeS. Entrance $5: $25 additional to start. $100 added, of which $60 to second and $40 ttrthird. The winner to be sold at auction. Those entered to be sold for $1803 to carry weight for age. Allowances: lib for each$i00 to$I000; then 2 lbs. for each $100 to $300 Winners of a race or the valne of $900,orof two races other than selling purses after the closing of this stakes not to be entered for less than $800. Starters to be named with selling price, through the entry bos the day preceding the race, at the usual time of closing. Seven furlongs Trip Pncnrlpnn ^tflkpc S«oo ADDED. For all aees. Entrance $5: $25 additions. l lie raaaucuo oiarv&s. slart. $400 added, of which $63 to second and $40 to third T The Mott Handicap. year-olds to carry 100 lbs , three-year-olds, 115 lbs ; four-year-olds and upward, 120 Jbs Non-wlno of a race of $o00 in value this year allowed 5 lbs; or $300. 8 lbs. Maidens, 12 lbs. Allowances accumulative. six furloi 8400 ADDED. For three-year- old* and upward- Entra $5: $25 additional to start $400 added, of which $60 to second 1 $40 to third. Weights to be announced at 10 a. m. the day berore the race Winners of other tha selling purse race after the announcement of the weights to carry 5 lbs. extra One mile and a slxteei THp T nifO- Rpflfh Hflnfiiffln 8*60 ADDED. For all ages Enttance $5; $25 II1C LOIIg DCaiU lldllUltdp. ditional to start. $100 addedTof which $60 to second 1 $40 to third. Weights to be announced at 10 a. m. the day before the race. Winners of other tha selling purse race after the announcement of the weights to carry 5 lbs extra Six f nrioi The Santa Anita Handicap. %iZ£?D£%Fll^r^l?r^p^ Weights to be announced two days before the race Winners of other than a selling purse race the announcement of the weights to carry 5 lbs. extra. One mile and a I uric J. W. BROOKS, Overnight Handicaps and Special Races to Suit All Classes of Horses. Send all communications to President. CAPT. THOS. B. MERRY, Secretary, BOOM B06 BBADBTKY BUH.DING, LOS ANGELES, CAI HARNESS. SADDLES, WHIPS, ROBES, and Turf Goods, n ALWAYS THE BEST FOR THE MONEY. $ The King of Race Horses SEARCHLIGHT 2:03 4 Segr. Xo. 33657. Will Make a Fall Season FROM AUG. 1 TO OCT. 1. 1903, ($ AT PLEASANTON RACE TRACK. TERMS, $50 ■J PLK^^^F l\| C3^\^3^D C^C^J (INC.) X For further particulars address MaKers of Fine Harness at REASONABLE Prices. 1145-1147 Market St. San Francisco MILLS, Pleasanton, Cai. August 29 1903 1 QLiie gveezev anit gp&vtaman 15 BALLISTITF The Standard Dense Powder of the World. *^^" STILL LEADS AT THE TRAPS OR IN THE FIELD. Ballistite wins from the limit marks in distance handicaps, at either live birds or flying targets, as it always gives the highest velocities with the closest and most even patterns at all ranges, Ballistite is absolutely unvarying in results being waterproof, smokeless, odorless, without residue, re-Mures lower than black powder. unaffected by age or climatic changes, and never pits, rusts or orrodes the barrels. 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Fe« 8*0 ■WANDEE JESTER (Norfolk Veloolty-Norfolk Two Step). Fee »10 Puppies and Brood Bitches for sale. Dogs shown by appointment only. Address wandee kennels, 844 Harrison St., San Francisco Cal. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS Advertisements under this head one cent per word per insertion. Cash to accompany order. IRISH AND SCOTCH TERRIERS. TRISH AND SCOTCH TERRIER PUPPIES -1- at $12 and $15 Sired by Champion Loyne Rnfflan and Champion Fighting Mac. Mrs. BRADLEY-DYNE. Saturna P.O,B. C. ST. BERNARDS. 1NJAIROD KENNELS— REMOVED TO 133 ■*-* Ninth Avenue, near California— offer for sale the celebrated St. Bernard, LE KING (Champion Le Prince-Sylvia's Lola). At S tad— Champion GRAND MASTER II, admittedly the grandest headed St. Bernard on the Coast. Fee 825. BULL TERRIERS— FOX TERRIERS. AT At Stud. SMOOTH FOX TERRIER Norfolk Trueman Cp« MA Sire of Garston Prefect (1st puppy, rcc 4>£V. reserve winners, Oakland, 1902>: Imelda (winners and special for best, S. F., 1902) Isabella, etc. N. H. 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SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1903. SUBSCRIPTION THREE DOLLARS A YEAR IIS «« - ALMADEN 2:22 1-4 Black Colt by Dlr«ct 2:05 1-2, dam Rose McKlnney by McKlnney 2:11 1-4 Winner of Two-Year-Old Trotting Division of First Pacific Breeders 86000 Futurity at Fetalum» Owned by Mrs C. A. Dorfee. Driven by J. W. Zlbble 2 f&he gveebev trofr gfcportemcttt [September 5, 180B THE BEST PLACE! THE BEST TRACK! THE BIGGEST MEETING! LOS ANGELES RACING ASSOCIATION LOS ANGELES Three Weeks' Racing. OCTOBER 10 to 31, inclusive. Entries Close September 19^ 1908 - Jonathan Club Stakes. I rtc Ann-aloe Hot-K' 85H0 ADDED. For Three year-olds. Entrance $10: S30 addi- LUa /illgClcs ucruy. tional to start. $500 added, of which $75 to second and $50 to third. Colts to carry 122 lbs ; geldings, 119 lbs.; fillies 117 lbs. Winners in 1903, of a stake of the value of $1100, to carry 3 lbs : of two such or one of $3000. 5 lbs. extra. Non-winners of a stakes in 1903 allowed .5 lbs.: non-winners of a race of $500 in 1903, S lbs. Non-winners of a race of $-100 in 1903. 10 lbs- Maidens 17 lbs. Allowances not accumulative One nille and a quarter 940 ft ADDED. For Two -year-olds. Entrance $5; $35 addi- tional to start. $400 added, of which $60 to second and $10 to third. Winners of a stake of the value of $1000 to carry 3 lbs.; of two of any value, 5 lbs extra Non- winners of a stake allowed 3 lbs.; and if such have not won three races. 5 lbs; two races. 8 lbs. Maidens. 15 lbs. Five and a half furlongs TUt* rhgnclnr 0 ADDED. For all ages. Entrance $5; $25 ad- 1 lie LUIIg UCdtU Udliuiiap. ditfonal to start. $400 added, of which $60 to second and *40. to third. Weights to be announced at 10 a. m. the day before the race. Winners of oth^r than a selling purse race after the announcement of the weights to carry 5 lbs extra Six furlongs The Sflflta Anita Hanriiran MOO ADDED. For three-years-old and upward I I1C 341113 AUlld HdDUltdp. Entrance $5; $25 additional to start $400 added". Weights to be announced two days before the race Winners of other than a selling purse race after the announcement of the weights to carry 5 lbs. extra. One mile and a furlong Overnight Handicaps and Special Races to Snit All Classes of Horses. Send all communications to J. W. BROOKS, President. CAPT. THOS. B. MERRY, Secretary, ROOM 506 BRADBURY BUILDING, LOS ANGELES, CAL. M. E. McHenry WHO DRIVES Dan Patch THE WORLD'S CHAMPION PACER d:59> RECOMMENDS Under Electric Light! AUCTION SALE OF TROTTING HORSES Consisting of Sons and Daughters of McKinney 2:11 1-4, Diablo 2:09 1-4, Truman 2:12. Hart Boswell, Advertiser 2:15 1-4, Richards Elector, Lostrldon, El Benton, Good Gift, Etc. Some of the Finest Ever Offered in California. This is a splendid opportunity to get some of the best bred as well as the finest looking young- sters (all well broken) to be sold this year. Catalogues will be itsued immediately. Any one having horses they wish to dispose of at this great sale will have an opportunity by sending tome for blanks and terms of sale This will be one of the best sales to he held, and as it will take place after the State Fair closes and before the Breeders meeting at Pleasanton begins, owners should not hesitate to list their horses. The fine location, splendid box stalls, and myriads of electric lights and magnificent pavilion with its 1000 chairs where all visitors can see these horses offers advantages not approached by any other sales place west of Chicago. Sale will take place MONDAY EVENING, SEPT. 14, 1903. OCCIDENTAL HORSE EXCHANGE, 246 Third St , near Folsom, San Francisco WM. G. LA.YNG, Auctioneer. Commencing promptly at ¥ o*clock at the famous Horses at salesyard Sept. 12tb. f PALACE HOTEL, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA. 5 TOURISTS and TRAVELERS will, now, with difficulty recognize the famous COURT into which for twenty-five years carriages have driven. This space of over a quarter of an acre has recently, by the addition of very handsome furniture, rugs, chandeliers and tropical plants, been converted into a lounging room— the FINEST IN THE WORLD. The EMPIRE PARLOR— the PALM ROOM, furnished in Cerise, with Billiard and Pool tables for ihe ladles— the LOUIS XV PARLOR the LADIES WRITING ROOM and numerous other modern improvements, together with the unexcelled Cuisine and the Most Convenient Location in the City— all add much to the ever increasing popularity of this most famous HOTEL. »• LEADING HORSEMEN JAY-EYE-SEE 2=oz Bottles, 50c; 6=02 size, $1.00; Quart cans, $3.00. All Druggists and Harness Dealers, or VITA OIL CO., 1533 Buchanan St., San Francisco. J. A. McKerron and J. O'Karie, Agts Pg|Hj j 0"f£PC T'shlJ IflfCfl aDd type written rea-dy for framing Sportsman, 3« Qt*,ry (treat, 8»n Fr»noi»co, C»l. W B.EDDY & CO WHITEHALL. NEW YORK \w. Ma. J. I. Case, (Hickory Grove Farm, home \ of Jay-Eye-See) Racine, Wis., says: "After try- ; ing every known remedy, I removed a large j Bunch of two years standing from aS-year old = Ally, with three applications of i Quinn's Ointment I It is the best preparation I have ever used or heard { of. I heartily recommend it to all Horsemen. < We have hundreds of such testimonials. \ Price $1.00 per package. Ask your druggist for ir. If he does not keep It we will send prepaid on receipt of price. "Address ". JS. EDDY & CO., Whitehall, N. Y. ■ •urns RED BALL BRAND. Awarded Gold Medal At California State Fair 1893. Every horse owner who ralues his stock should constantly have a sup- ply of it on hand. It improves and beeps stock in the pink of condition. Manhattan Pood Co 1253 Folsom St., San Francisco Ask your grocers or dealers for it. Positively Cures Colic, Scouring and Indigestion. C. P. EXBTELL, Manager. September 5, 1903] (Khe gveebev emir *&p0xt&tn L Frank, 1U8, by Mariner-Plumeria (Hlldebrand). I to 2, flrst; Annie Marie, b f. 105 (Tullett). 3 to 2, second: Metlakatla, br t, 105 (Burke), 6 tol , third. Time, 1:01%, Zyret 105, Homeric 108 and Eva D. 105 also ran. Six furlongs, selling, purse $225— V. Gilbert's oh g Troy. 110, by Shannon-Lulu IV (Hildebrand), 4 to 1, first; Royal F.,brh, 110 (Bennett), 20 to 1, second: Flamero, ch g, 107 (Tullett). 7 to 1. third. Time. I:M3£ Honduran 104, E M. Brattain 113, Kitty Kelly 105 and Wandering Boy 1 12 also ran One mile, selling, purse $225— George Martin's, b m Dollie Welthoff, 105, by Dark Days-Flora Myers (Henderson), 2 to I. first; DavidS.bg.HO (Burke), 5 to 2. second: Cambaceres, blkg, 115 (Howisnn) 3 to 2, th'.rd. Malpalqulia 105, Gold Scratch 110, Dr. Short 1 10, Dark Secret 103 and Cheoano 103 also ran. TUESIVA-Yy-SEBT. 1. A fair attendance saw some ordinary racing on the second day. The $500 purse for green class trotters brought out but five starters of the thirteen originally entered. George G. the Fresno horse, on his Peta- luma showing was made him a big favorite, and he won in straight heats, with Deputy second each timr. The 2:13 pace was declared off owiDg to numerous scratches and a dash race at a mile and ah eighth substituted for pacers. Frank Wright's Margaretta by Direct won it handily. Five running races were also on the card. The summaries: Trotting, green class, purse $500. George G. b g, by" Home ward-dam by Junio. . . (Albertson) 1 1 1 Deputy, ch g, by Derby A^h (Whitehead) 2 2 2 Louise Croner, grin, by Wild Boy (Croner) 3 3 3 Sproul, b g, by California Lambert (Daniels) 4 d. Moor Rose, b g, by Falrose ..(Hoy) d. Time— 2:15. 2:16, 2:18. Special pace, mile and an eighth dash, purse $225. Margaretta, blk m, by Direct-Rosita A (Wright) 1 Colonel Smith, ch g. by Red Regent (Maben) 2 Penrose, b g, by Falrose ■. (Masten) 3 Smuggler, b g, by Waldstein (Norton) 4 Monogram, gr m, by Falrmount (Bunch) 5 Time— 2:29. BUSSING. Maidens, four and a half furlongs, purse $:00— Charlie Schweit- zer, b g by Libertine-Atosa, 106 (Powell), 3 to t, won; Dr. Birdsall, HI (See). 3 to 1, second; Dusty Rhodes. 106 (Tullett). 3 to 1, third. Time, 0:56 Maude Brown, Easter Lady, Pat Bulger, Honovia, Hope Morgan, also ran. Tom Fox stake, sis furlongs— Kenilworth, br h. by SirMbdred- Imp. Queen Bess, 122 (See), walkover. All ages, selling, five and a half furlongs, purse $250- St Pbilli- pina, b m, bv St Carlo-Bessie W., 109 (Frawley), 3 to 10, won; Elfin. King. 102 (Henderson), 6 to 1, second; Quidado, 112 (Slaughter), 20 to 1, third. Time, 1:07. Isabellita, Merwan, also ran. Seven and a half furloDgs, purse $'200— Chileno. ch g, by Tenny- Chemuck, 104 (Henderson), 7 to 10. won; Dark Secret, 10-1 (Hllde- brand) 10 to 1, second; Dr Shorb. 112 (Smart) 25 to 1, third. Time. 1:31*4 Flamolo, Legal Maxim, Little Gun and Buck Taylor also ran. Five and a half furlongs, purse $225— Mamie, ch f, by Thornhfll- Lady Jackson, 99 (Crossthwaite), 10 to 1, won; Dwightway, 112 (Powell). 2',i to 1. second: Doris, 88 (Hildebrand), even, third. Time, 1:03. Light Braid, Duke, Marmonduke and St. Wilde also run. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 2. Ringling Bros. Circus played an afternoon and evening engagement at Sacramento the third day of the State Fair and it took the crowd, the races at the park and the exhibit at the pavilion getting but a slim attendance. There was but one harness race on the.program at the track, a dash of a mile and a half in which five horses started. The race was won by Joe Cuicello's Petaluma discovery, the road horse Dan Frazier, by Secretary. The time was 3:32J, a 2:20 gait. Five running races completed the program. The summaries: Trotting, one mile and a half dash, 2:20 class, purse $225. Dan Frazier. b g, by Secretary -dam by An teeo. ...... (Cuicello) 1 Dollexa, bm, by Alexis (Groom) 2 Mamie Elizabeth ..(Mabtn) 3 Lad* Madison, b m, by James Madison (Ward) 4 Portrero, b h, by Redondo (Hodges) 5 Time— 3324*.- RUNNING. Maidens- five furlongs, purse $225— Wandering Boy, b g, by Bru- tus-Wandering Nun 112 (See), 4 to 1. won; Piratical 106 (Tullett), 6 to 1, second: Samar 93 (Hildebrand), even, third. Time, l.:0l». Little Secret. Wiggins, Vonzollern, Hondaran, Royal Copper, J. T. S and Cheoano aUo ran. Selling, all ages, flvo furlongs, purse $225— Glendennlng, ch g, bySt Carlo-Glenlenet 112 (Hildebrand), 210 l.won; E M Brat- tain 117 /Burr), 1 to 3, second; Maresa 107 (Chandler), 8 to 1, third. Time. 1:00. Miss Remaen and Meteors also ran. Six furlongs, selling; purse, $225— Tamm, b e, by Lew Weir- Brook 108 (Frawley). 3 to 1, won: Gold Scratch 114 (Bennett), 3 to 1 second; Legal Maxim 114 (Tullett), 2 to 1, third Time, 1:15^. Dwight Way. Dark Secret. Dug Martin arid Little Gun also ran." Five furlongs, selling; purse, $225— Royal F, c h g, by Royal Flush-Slydell ill (See),2$£ to 1. won; Little Margaret 104 (Jack- son), 7 to 5, second; Annie Marie 92 (Hildebrand), 2 to 1, third. Time, 1:01. Hercules also ran. Seven furloogs selling: purse. $235 -Kitty Kel|y, b m, by Apache-Play Toy 10y (Chandler). 3 to 1, won; Judge Voorhles 106 (Powell), even, second; Flamero 107 (Tullett), 2!4 to 1, third. Time, I:27|4. Illowaho also ran. A Correction From Mr. Ira Pierce. The Kenney Bicycle Co., 531 Valencia St., is doing a big business in the McNiurray Carts and Sulkies. You not only save money by purchasing a McMurray but get the most durable, best made, and easiest running cart or sulky in the market. Investigation will con vlnce a Missourian. * Editor Breeder and Sportsman:— In order that the statement made in your esteemed journal of last week may not mislead those who do not know the facts regarding the great sire, Sidney Dillon, I wish you would correct the following statement: The sire, Sidney Dillon, could neither pace nor trot (and he had both gaits) fast enough to be looked upon as a profitable horse to race, and he was bred to Lou Milton because he was the only stallion on the place when the time came to breed her. Lou Milton was a good looking, highjy nervous mare that was of no account as a race mare. * * * * After Lou Dillon was foaled Lou Milton was bred to Beau B. because Beau B.'s sucklings were a better looking lot that year than were the Sidney Dillons, Sidney Dillon was a Utile mixed -gaiteiZ, like most of the fast trotters, when the late John Rogers took him in hand. It was not long before he trotted three heats in one day in 2:24, 2:23 and 2:21|, last quarter In 32 seconds. When Rogers was stricken with his last illness, Charles Neulinger, Sidney Dillon's attend- ant, jogged and drove him miles repeatedly in 2:25, and a more perfect trotter was never hitched to a sulky. Rogers wanted to race him, and would have done so had he not been taken ill. Lou Milton trotted miles in 2:25 and Quarters in 32 seconds. Mart Rollins of Santa Rosa can verify this. William Corbitt of San Mateo saw this mare trot and offered $2500 for her, but Mr. McFadyen, her owner, would not de- liver her in San Francisco, so the trade fell through I tried for a year to get her and finally succeeded. She was bred to Bay Rose 2:20£ and had a colt that trotted a trial in 2:25 as a three-year-old. This youngster was sent East and sold. The following year (1897) she was bred to Sidney Dillon and the produce was Lou Dillon, the champion. The next year she was bred to L. W. Russell and the produce was a filly which trotted quarters for Millard F. San- ders in 33 seconds. The next year she had a filly by Beau B., now a three-year old, that has not been trained. The reason Lou Milton was bred to these stallions was because I considered her a very high- class mare and I wanted to give the Santa Rosa Stock Farm stallions a reputation. There were other stal- lions on the farm when Sidney Dillon was bred to Lou Milton. All of Lou Milton's produce were fast. She was bred to Anteeo 2:16|and.had three good perform- ers. When I bought her she was in foal to Silver Bow, but the produce, a filly, met with an accident and was killed. I believe that the Russell and Beau B. fillies will show that I made no mistake in purchas- ing-Lou Milton. Respectfully yours, _ Ira Pierce. Curry and Alix. Jack Curry is "near about daffy" in regard to a three year old filly by Directum out of Ecstasy. "She has as much speed as Alix, and just as sweet tempered and good gaited," says Jack. In speaking of Alix, and how he sweetened up her disposition, which as a two and a three year old was none too good when it came to standing still in harness, turning around, etc., Curry said, "I had become acquainted with about a dozen nice girls in Kenosha, and when I jogged the liitle mare it was about town on the roads. Every now and then I would meet one of thegirls who would nearly always have some valuable piece of information to impart to me, and when I would dare to stop it was only for an instant, for about the second time Alix would toss her head; if I didn't give her the signal to go on, she would rear up aad throw herself overback wards. Sol had to figure out some plan to correct this, to me, very serious fault. One morning I filled my pocket with loaf sugar, and the first girl I met 1 threw her a lump of sugar and told her to feed it to the mare. She did so and it worked like a charm. I called on some of the girls, and they always liked to pet the mare and humor her by feeding her sugar. In this way she was made reliable, and often when jogging her she would see a woman coming towards her, she would "siddle" up to her and would seem greatly disappointed if she did not get the usual lump of sugar and caresses. It was a shame and kind of hurt, too, when she lost the honor of queen of all the trotters. Worked Wonders on the "Epitomist" Experi- mental Farm. We had several of our best horses laid up from lameness, the result.or various causes- One from being severely kicked by in- other horse and the other from a severe wrenohlng or strain were readily cured with Uombauit's Caustic Balsam, and none were laid up long— thanks to this great remedy which we would not think of belog witnout for several times its price, and It Is not a cheap preparation either It ha* simply worked wondori for us. and by having ft on band for immediate use has undoubtedly saved us from navlng two very bad cripples on our bands.— Man- ager Dairy Department. Epitombt Experiment StatlOD, Spencer. Ind. [In A'jri'-'itt'ir'jl Bpitombt for October. 1902] Strike!— if they don't give Soda when you ask for it. you Jackson's Nara Combination George 2:18, an old time pacer of un- known parentage, died at Tacoma recently. 6 ©he Qveebev txxxh gfcjMrrtsrotmt [September 5, 1903 3X2 GNfrara=e-s=>ez3<**>a; Tuna won the Occident. Notes and News. Both Stam B.'s were in the money. The record of the stake was not lowered, however. Creseeus trotted the Galesburg Illinois track last Wednesday in 2:06}. The Park Brew Stake, worth $10,000, was won by Star Hal in straight heats. In answer to an inquiry we will state that William- son's Belmont died July 4tb, 3865. Sixteen thousand people saw Dan Patch pace a mile in 2:00 flat at St. Paul laBt Monday. Trilby Direct scored again Thursday. She won the $2000 pace at Providence, pacing the second heat in 2:081. Billy Buck took the $10,000 Roger Williams stake and Providence in straight heats. Time 2:08}, 2:094 and 2:10. John Mi 2:14} won his weekly $1000 2:30 pacing stake on the Gas Belt circuit last week — the sixth in succession. Nervolo's mile and a quarter in 2:38 — rate of 2:06 2 5 for the entire distance — shows what an extremely high-class horse he is. Judge MeKiDney 2:23} by McKinney, the latest standard performer for this good sire, is owned by O. Eisaman, of Allegheny, Pa. Bessie B. 2:19} is a new standard pacer for Robert McGregor 2:171. The sire of Cresceus2:02} now lacks but two of the century mark. A pair of three year old trotters by Parole 2:16 worked a mile side by side in 2:19}, last half in 1:06}, during the recent Davenport, Iowa, meeting. Diablito won a good race at Providence on the opening dav- Mr. Gallegos' gelding took the third, fourth and fifth heats in 2:10, 2:111 and 2:11. The purse was $2000. John A. McKerron 2:05} was to start against his record at Readville but during a work-out got a piece of gravel in his tendon boot, which chafed his leg and left a sore place. - Bill Frazier 2:14, who is being driven on the road by Capt. Caine, of Seattle, is said to possess as much speed as ever, and will be given a trial mile against his record this fall. Mr. Billings drove Lou Dillon at the Inter-City matinee at Cleveland last Tuesday against her former wagon record of 2:04}. She lowered the record a quarter of a second. El Diablo is winning the free for alls in the Central Missouri Circuit. Over the good half-mile track at Columbia the hobbled chestnut gelding paced three heats in 2:13f, 2:12}, 2:131. Margaretta 2:12}, Mr. Frank E. Wright's pacing mare by Direct that won the mile and an eighth dash in. 2:29 at the State Fair last Tuesday paced the first mile of the race in 2:12 flat. Lou Dillon was fittingly crowned Queen of the turf at the Cleveland Inter-City matinee. She was led on the track and a beautiful floral blanket was placed over her amid the plaudits of the crowd. Terrell S. 2:08} and the once great Roan Wilkes 2:04} indulged in a five heat battle at North Conway, N. H., Aug 13th, which Terrell won. Roan Wilkes made the fastest time, 2:111, in the third heat. May Ayers, full sister to Jasper Ayers, reduced her record of 2:31 to 2:23} at the Petaluma meeting, and had she been accompanied by a horse of her own speed, she would have received a mark of 2:20 or better. J ames Thompson left for the East last Tuesday with Col J. C. Kirkpatrick's horses Clipper 2:06, Mendo- vena by Mendocino, and the bay gelding Mell S. by Strathway that the Colonel recently purchased from M0:6 Hart. Adbell 2:23 the champion yearling trotler has a 2:10 performer. Rowellan took a record of 2:09} in a winning race at Providence Monday. Rowellan was hred at Palo Alto Stock Farm and is out of Rowena 2:191 by Azmoor. In describing the 2:04 trot won by Major Delmar at Brighton Beach, an Eastern paper thus refers to Monte Carlo: In scoring for the first heat Monte Carlo exhibited the temper he had shown earlier in . the w^ek, when the scoring was prolonged fully half an hour. He reared and balked when called on to go down for the word, and it was only after lone and pat;ent work on the part of his driver, "Jack" Curry, that he got off on a trot, eight lengths behind the others. Little Branch by Nutwood Wilkes looks as if she would be a very fa9t trotter when she has her growth and a little more age. She won a heat at Petaluma in 2:22} and gave Tuna, the winner of the Occident stake a hard race. Little Brarch is a very promising three year old. The first race for the new Cleveland Gold Cup was won by Mr. C. K. Billings for the Cleveland Club with the Monk. He took the first and fourth heats in 2:11} and 2:13}. Wauban won the second heat in 2:12 and Dolly Dillon took the third in 2:111. There were but three starters. Ben Kenney was thrown from his bike in a race at Providence fast Monday and very severely injured having his hip dislocated and an arm broken. He but recently took charge of John A. McKerron and some other trainer will have to be secured to further lower that horses record. The turf club at Winnipeg, Man., are planning for a big early meeting next year, to follow Denver. Xhey will offer larger purses than heretofore, and will take entire charge of bonding horses from the States. They will also convey horses from the nearby Northern cities free of charge. James Berryman has removed to Pleasanlon with his string of seven colts and is greatly pleased with the track there which he says is like velvet and kept so all the time. Mr. Berryman's colts that he is working are by Welcome, Lottery Ticket, Silver Bow Jr., Silver Wood, Oseta and Engeneer. After the Seattle races, the Rural Spirit remarked: "If harness racing is to be made popular on this circuit and the breeding industry encouraged, associa- tions will have to give them an equal show with the runners. One harness race a day is only a farce, and does not mean anything for the sport, for sport's sake.'' Dan Burns, one of the best looking horses ever hooked to a bike was given a pacing record of 2:15 against time at the Breeders meeting. He is by Wel- come out of Linda by Hawthorne and is to be sold at the dispersal sale of the Meek Estate horses, which takes place Tuesday evening, September 29tb, at 1732 Market street, by electric light. Grace Brothers' bay gelding Ole won the 2:11 trot at Sacramento Thursday, beating Forest W., Rozelle and Tom Smith. The last named drew the pole, but was not on his stride when started and went to a break just after the word was given and was dis tanced. Ole trotted his heats in 2:16, 2:151 and 2:151, a good performance for the Sacramento track. Al Mac Don aid purchased yesterday from the Meek Estate for W. W. Mendenhall, the trotting gelding Iloilo 2:15 by Welcome. IloUo is one of the best look- ing and best gaited trotters that has appeared in California for some time and his record d?es not measure his speed by a good deal. He is one of the sort that would sell for a big price in the East. W. G. Durfee made eight starts at Seattle and won eight races, the best showing made by any American trainer this year. Mr. Durfee has in bis string at present Coronado, Sweet Marie, Zolock and Reta H., a quartette of McKinneys that all have a chance to enter the 2:10 list. Mr. Durfee will race through the Northern circuit from Salem, Oregon, to Boise, Idaho. Three trotters, the property of John H. Shults, owner of Shultshurst Farm, were given records dur- ing the Brighton meeting, by John Cheney. All are by Axworthy 2:151, and two of them are out of the extraordinary broodmare Kell, by Estell Eric whose death was recently reported. She is now the dam of eight standard performers, three of which have records better than 2:10 Budd Doblesays: "The Empire City plan of mak- ing all races best two in three is, I believe, a good thing on the whole. Now and then it may operate unfairly in a large field. A driver may be unable, through pocketings. ill luck at the start, or an unfor- tunate break, to get the best out of his horse, and here the rule works injury. But in a small field the plan is excellent. All in all, I am in favor of it." Marvin Wilkes, the two year old trotter by Don Marvin that Walter Masten started in the Breeders Futurity at Petaluma is a rattling good youngster, but he did not make much of a showing against Almaden the winner of the stake, as the latter out- classed him. But in a field of ordinary two year olds, Marvin Wilkes would make them all look cheap and be has the making of a 2:10 trotter if nothing happens him A subscriber wants to know the records of the fastest trotter, pacer and runner. They are Lou Dillon 2:00 trotting, Dan Patch 1:59 pacing, and Salvator 1:351 running. Lou Dillon was driven by Millard Sanders, Dan Patch by Myron McHenry and Salvator was ridden by jockey Bergen. The trotting and pacing records were made this year. The run- ning record August 2S 1890, on the Monmouth Park straight track. Millard Sanders, driver of the fastest trotter and Myron McHenry. driver of the fastest pacer, have both used Vita Oil 'or years. Toe tremendous strain required to get into condition to break records often makes horses sore, and Sanders and McHenry have found that Vita Oil will take the soreness out. If Lou Dillon and Dan Patch could talk they would say a good word for the great California remedy and it has given relief to both. Now that the Pleasanton meeting has been de- clared off, horsemen will have a chance to enter and race at Oakland, the Golden Gate Association having come to the front with a program for seven days' racing. Entries close Monday, September 14th. In answer to an inquiry we will state that Amelia 2:22}, chestnut mare by Rustic made her record in 1893 at Vacaville, California Her dam is not given in the Year Book but was by Gen. McClellan 144, second dam by the thoroughbred horse Bayswater. Amelia is now owned by Mr. C. J. Sharon of "this city who also owns three of her produce as follows: A five year old gelding by Ouiboul 2:22}, a two year old colt by Stam B. 2:11} and a suckling filly by Ouiboul. For horses that are so thoroughly broken that any body can drive them, the Meek Estate sale at Fred H. Chase & Co.'s salesyard on Tuesday evening, September 29tb. will be the best sale held in San Francisco for many years. There are a dozen mares to be sold that are not only grandly bred, but splen- did individuals and broke to use on the road or at any kind of work. They are not useless old mares either, but young and vigorous and regular breeders. These are the sort to buy for profit. The mare Lady Glenway owned by Mr. Bachant of Fresno broke the ankle of one of ber hind legs in her race at Petaluma on Saturday. Mr. Bachant gave the handsome little mare to Mr. Ed Voris of the Petaluma shoe factory on condiiion that Mr. Voiia would never permit her to be abused or sell her to anyone for use unless she fully recovered. Mr. Voris promised and had a veterinary put the mare in a sling, reset the bones and put the leg in a plaster ca-t. It is thought she will recover the use of her leg. Lady Glenway is only four years old. She worked out a mile in 2:13; last week and Mr. Bachant had been offered $1500 for her. Tanner, in driving Lou Dillon's pace maker, used the same sulky he used in pacing Dan Patch at Brighton Beach. From the sulky seat to a point near the ground he had a piece of canvas 9tretched be- tween the wheels. This aroused some adverse com- ment from some who thought Tanner was trying to introduce a wind shield into the record breaking business. It was U6ed simply to keep the mud from flying back and hitting the trotter. It didn't help the mare in the least, because she was too far behind to get any benefit from it. Tanner was always at leaBt three lengths ahead of the mare with his runner, as attested by numerous photographs of the record mile taken at all points of 'he track. M. Delano, who trained and drove Stam B. 2:11} to his record, is one of the closest students of pedigree in California and no man subscribes for or reads more trotting horse papersthan he. In the BREEDER and Sportsman office, one day last week, he stated that in his opinion the mares to be sold at the Meek Estate dispersal sale were about the best bred lot offered by a farm in California, "for,"said he, "Mr. Meek started with the best foundation — Williamson's Belmont mares that were race winners themselves." Nearly every horse on the Meek farm is a descendant of Bonnie Belle by Williamson's Belmont, one of the best race mares ever sired by that great horse, or Witch (the dam of Cricket 2:10) by Dolphin a son of the Eaton Horse 122. Unlike Creseeus, Nancy Hanks, Maud S. and other champions of the past, Lou Dillon'6 development has been solely in the direction of extreme speed, without the wearing-out process of preparing her for heat racing, says an exchange. Another thing is that she requires no weight or artificial appliances to balance her. All her shoes together are not much heavier than one of the front shoes worn by Maud S. Lou Dillon carries five ounce plates forward and three ounce on each hind foot, with a piece of leather between shoe and foot to break the concussion. Only light bell quarter boots and hind shin boots, with a speedy cut attachment, are used. The mare trots without a checkrein, but wears a standing martingale to keep her from tossing her head. Speaking of Dan Patch's future, M. E. McHenry said that he would not be satisfied till all the world's pacing records in sight have been broken by the champion. "First of all I want to set the pacing record of 1:58 or better," said Mr. McHenry, "and then I will try for the wagon record and possibly the pacing team record, if a suitable mate can be found for him. The one record which the old timers point to and say will never be equalled is Johnston's high wheel record of 2:06}. This will go with the others when I can get around to it. Then there is the two- mile record of 4:19}, held by Chehalis 2:04}. These things may seems an arduous task but remember the greatest pacing horse the turf has known is the one that will be asked to accomplish them." The trotting turf has known few greater trotters than Major Delmar, and his recently acquired record of 2:04 places him in the front rank of all the trotting geldings known to the books, says the Stock Farm. Major Delmar won more money in stakes and purses in 1902 than any trotter in training that season. He started in twelve races and won nine, all in straight heats. He was beaten by Rhythmic, Anzella and Ozanam. Geldings have played no unimportant part in the world's trotting history. The first trotter to acquire a record of 2:10 was the gelding Jay Eye See, and since his day among the geldings tbat have attained to great prominence mav be mentioned Azote 2:04}. The Abbot 2:03}, The Monk 2:05}, Lord Derbv 2:05}. Chain Shot 2:061; Prince of Orange 2:071, Nico 2:08}, Captor 2:09}, Dan T. 2:071, Baron de Shav 2:08}, Billy Buck 2:07}, Chase 2:07}. Boralma 2:07, John Nolan 2:08, York Boy 2:08}, Nutbearer 2:09}, The Roman 2:09}, John Taylor 2:10}, Monte Carlo 2:07}, and Maior Delmar 2:04. September 5, 1903] ®he gveebev emir grptftrtemcm Breeders Meeting -Official Summaries Petaluma Track. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26. Trotting, 2:30 class, stake *50O. Deputy, s g. by Derby Ash-dam by Priam.... (Whitehead) Rosie Woodburn, b m by Easter Wilkes £ar'!D) SwittB.bg. byStamB l?.'D™ Dollexa, bm, by A.exts ....toroom) Gertie H . b m, by Stone Robin (McGregor! Telepbone.bg. by Direct (Fne!i™D' Lady Zombro, b m, by Zombro (Hodges j Time— 2:18, 2:15, 2:17';. Pacing, 2:20 class, Pacific Slope Stake SI500 BenF bg by Bradtmoor-damby Steinway (Chadbonrne) Miss Georgie. br m. by McKinney (Cecil j Colonel C. b g. by Ulenway JiASf^SL't) Tne Mrs , b m, by Derby Ash (Whitehead Monroes., b s. by Monroe Cniet (Hogoboom Jooesa Basler, br s, by Robert Basler ( tt al ton ) George, b g. by Loeber (Zil Dbiei Dot.bm byFalrose ;- 1:51, 2:25H- Second heat— 0:36^4, 1:1254, 1:48, 2:22*. Trotting, roadsters owned in district, $150. DanFraser.bg by Secretary-dam by Anteeo. . (Cuicello) 1 Lena Holly, blkm, by Mountain Boy (Grimes) ■ Lauy B, brm, by Harris' Asnley ,v,"o(Ho?) Let Him Be, bh, by Fairmount (G Smith) Alameda Maid, gr m, by Eros (Walton) Time-2:25, 2:24* 2:20tf. 1 1 3 3 2 2 5ds i dt 2 2 3ds ds 9 1 1 1 3 3 5 2 2 3 4 6 8 5 5 4 6 7 10 dr 9dr 7 7dr 1 ds SATURDAY, AUGUST 59. Pacing, green class, purse $500. Edwin S , ch g, by Dr Hicks-by La Harp (Daniels) 2 Colonel C, bg, by Ulenway-by Nephew Jr. ..(Leggett) 1 Lady Glen way. b m, by Glenway ....(Zibbie) 3 Mildred O , rn m, by Secretary (Moore) 4 TomCarneal, b g. by Diablo (Trefry) d Joe W., b h, by Bay Prince. (Hamner) d Time-2:13ii, 2:l7yj, 2:14«. 2:14«. Trotting, The California, 2:24 class, stake $2000. George G ,bg, by Homeward-dam by Jnnio .(Albertson) 1 Deputy chg. by Derby Ash-dam by Priam(Whitehead) 11 Dr. Hammond, ch g, by Chas. Derby (Hughes) 4 Rosie Woodburn, b m by Easier Wilkes (Carllo) 3 Una K., bm, by McKinney (Hodges) 6 * Louise Croner. grm, by Wild Boy (Brown) 10 10 Sutter, b s, by Noonday (Donnelly) 8 8 Daisy B , b m, by Waldstein (Spencer) 2 2 Telephone, b g, by Direct (Frellson) " Jupiter B . b h ( Ward i Moor Rose, b g. bv Fairose (Hoy) Time by quarters: „„ ,«,„.. Firstheat 35'/,, M$H, 'MU, 2A4'> Second beat... 33'S, 1:06, 1:39 2:I3H Third heat 3314, 1:06. 1:3914.2:1214 Fourtbheat....33, l:05'i, l:3a]2, 2:12 i Trotting, 2:17 class, purse $500. Rozelle, gr g, by Bob Mason-dam by A. W. Richmond (Sampsell) 111 What Is It, grg, by Direct (McD.mald) 2 2 2 Hank. bg. by Vasto (J Smith! 3 3 3 Portrero, b s, by Redondo (Hodges) 4 4 4 Time— 2:18!4, 2:18*4, 2-.WH- RECORDS MADE AGAINST TIME. During the meeting trotters and pacers started against time and made records as follows: PACERS Alone b m, by Nearest-dam by Cbrisman's Hambletonian (Half mile) 0:59iJ Dan Burns, b h, by Welcome-Linda by Hawthorne 2:15 Demonlo, ch s, by Chas. Derby-Bertha by Alcantara 2: 17 TROTTERS Fancy, b m. by Welcomi-Nancv by Delegate 2:27 Dollexa bm. by Alexi>-Dolly Withers by Aberdeen 2:2HS Emmv Lou, bm. by Welcome-Hybla by Director 2:25 Bertba R . b m. by Daly-Cygnet by steinway 2:224; Saint Whips b h, by Whip -Ag«ie G. by Ansel 2:31 May Ayers, b m, by Iris-dam by Altimont 2:231f several owners declined to 9tart, but six came fcr the word with the result that half that number had the distance flag in front of them when the winner passed the wire. OUie M's previous campaigns amongst the Oregon mists stood her in good stead and she eventually proved an easy winner from Ama A., .Maplemont wt o had finished stroDgly in the first heat going to a bad break through wrenching off a shoe in the sticky go- ing and also getting the ' Bau,ner." The Association had the pleasure of paying but two moneys, though they would rather have had a contest with all the starters finishing. The Seattle Times Purse for 2:12 trotters was de- cided on Thursday, improved weather conditions justifying Mr. Durfee starting Sweet Marie, and she easily won in two heatsin 2:17} and 2:15}. The latter must be considered a great performance as the track was at least seven seconds slow. Mack Mack was easily second best, and it is somewhat hard lines for Mr. Helman that he has such a formidable antagon- ist in all the classes on the circuit, to which his horse is eligible. Tfie Debut Stakes for two-year-old district bred colts and fillies was also decided. McManus the old pilot of Prince Direct introduced to public notice a half sister of the world's double team champion, in the shape of a very handsome well grown and shapely black filly by Montana Director out of the famous old Rosie C. Another year's growth will do wonders for this youngster and she is built on the right lines to follow her illustrious brother's footsteps. The winner proved to be Loveless by Lovelace owned by Mr. E. B. Tongue of Hillsborough, Oregon, a son of the late Congressman Tongue who did so much to popularise the breeding and racing of the harness horse through Oregon and Washington. Possibly the most interesting race of the meeting took place to-day, Friday, when the City Council Purse for 2:10 pacers was decided. Opinions were divided as to whether Martha B., Le Roi or Sam Bowers would prove the winner. With the way war d- ness of her sex Martha B. declined to yield pride of place for even one heat and despite game efforts on the parts of Le Roi in the first and Sam Bowers in the second heat, she won in two straight heats, in the good time of 2:12* and 2:UJ. Mr. Miller deserves great credit for the way ha stood off the rushes in both heats. A good deal of money changed hands on the race, speculation prior to the first heat ruling at Le Roi $20 Sam Bowers $10 and the field $5. In the second Sam Bowers sold favorite. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26. The Profanity Hill Purse of $500, for 2:20 class pacers. Ollie M., by Westfleld (Jas Ervin) 1 1 Ama A., by Dictaius (Mother) 3 2 Maplemont. by Altamont (Wm Miller) 2 ds Millard Sanders Springs a New One. '"Marque" in Horse Review Rainy days are conductive to conversation, and it was during the rainy Thursday afternoon at Brighton tnat the time-worn argument of the relative speed of the wagon and aulky hitch was reargued by a group of drivers. Ail the old reasons for or against either vehicle were advanced when Millard Sanders sprung a new one. It was new at lea9t to all that heard it and I am pretty certain it is a view that needs only consideration to make one think there is something in it. "I want to ask,'! said Sanders, "why we sit on our horses' tails." Someone answered that he didn't know, unless it was to keep the horse from striking them in the face with it. Sanders then asked, "Well, if the horse wants his tail in that position, why do we prevent him from having it there?" This set every- one to thinking and Millard explained that the idea wasn't original with him but was that of an old gentleman in California who was a crank on animal anatomy and the various uses nature intended each part of an animal's structure for. According to his theory, sitting on a horse's tail tended to throw it out of balance and disturb its steering gear. A horse's tail plays the same part for him that a rudder does for a ship or a tail for a kite. When a greyhound starts after a rabbit his tail is tucked between his legs, but when the rabbit turns and the dog follows him the tail immediately switches and points in the opposite direction from that of the dog's flight. The Californian's investigations were carried on exten- sively and when he found that drivers sat on their horse's tails and expected the best results from them in the way of speed he was shocked by their ignorance of natural laws. Sanders' own experience since getting the informa- tion has been that when his horses had free use of their tails they required less weight and little check, ing. Lou Dillon 2:02} is always hitched well out to the ends of the thills and her tail rests in Sander's lap when she is speeding. When Mr. Billings broke the wagon record with her she was hitched far enough from the cross-bar to permit her tail to switch at will. The matter is so simple and seems so reasonable that it will be well to give it a trial. The good race horse Dan T. 2:08} hasn't much tail, but what little he has stands nearlv straight in the air when Mr. Geers is training him. I doubt very much if he could trot at all with his tail tied down. Little Squaw 2:04J is another example of this. When she is finishing a hot heat her tail is swinging like a fan. Great Success. El Rio, by Nephew. Jr (J Lance) ds Portia Knight, by Vinmont (Helman) ds Polka Dot, by Mendocino (Tryon) ds Time-37>j, l:.13?i, l:4S'i- 2:22^ 3454, 1:09, 1:4354, 2:2054 THURSDAY, AUGUST 27. The Seattle Times Purse of $500 for 2:12 class trotters. Sweet Marie, by McKinney (Durfee) 1 . Mack Mack, by McKinney (Helman) 2 : Briney K., by Strathway (Smith) 4 . The Commonwealth, by Shadeland Onward (J.Green) 3 ; Oveta, by Caution ,i5r.vin) ? Chico, by Monroe Chief (Chiids) o v, Dr Bunell, bv Ingram (Lance) ds Time-34^. 1:09, 1:43, 2:I7« 34>4. 1:08. 1:4154, 2:15K The Debut Stakes for t wo year old pacers, purse $300. Loveless, by Lovelace (Rutherford) 1 Free Love, by Lovelace (Bradford) 3 MamlfC . by Montana Director (McMaous) 2 Jules Redel, by Westfleld (J.Green) 4 Time— 2:3ti-f, 2:3th. FRIDAY. AUGUST 28TH. The City Council Purse for 2:10 pacers, purse $500. Martha B , by Ashland Wilkes (Miller) 1 Sam Bowers, by Ham. Mambrlno (Lance) 3 Le Roi. by Altamont IChllds) 2 Francisco, by Caution (Leroox) 4 Harry Hurst, by Dalwin iGreen) o The Freak, by Black Stranger (Oonathan) ds Time— 33, 1:1 8a, 1:40. 2:12 . 34-;, 1:07, 1:41, 2:14(4 ROBT. LEIGHTON. B 260 West 128th Street, New York City. N. y , March 8, 1903. B. J. Kendall Co . Enosburg Falls, 17. Gentlemen:— Would you be kind enough to send me one of your "Treatise on the Horse and His Diseases." such as you give out through the drug stores to adverti-e your K«*r>dalrs Spavin Cure, which I think a great deal of ? / hare us? — well I lost the five million, but did not have to pay up because he did not have the doughnut to make good. Talk about luck, my brother got tired waiting and wanted a match and came over to my stand and woke me up and got the match and was smoking my last cigar, when suddenly 1 e threw down that cigar and placed a shell into his rifle and ran around a little clump of brush in answer to a slight noise he heard in the thicket and then I heard him Sre. Well, I was on the firing line in three seconds and saw an enormous deer down and attempting to rise again. I fired five shots, two taking effect. Approaching closer, the deer was defiant and looked dangerous; another shot, of mercy, dropped the poor devil dead. We examined his feet the first thing and sure enough there was the crooked toe, and the enormous antlers, four feet long with a five foot spread and five points on one side and six on the other. It was the "Outlaw." We were all delighted. Cook told us there was another one in the brush and then he stationed the other boys again but I stayed with the "Outlaw. " It was food for reflection alone there in the mountains, miles from civilization. A bawk passed over darting swiftly after some small birds screaming to cover, a jay on the flat below me feasting on grasshoppers. I thought of the fish hawk I had seen the day before car-ying a trout In its talons, and of the constant vigil of the doe to protect her fawns from the wild cats and panthers. I tell you the survival of the fittest is the order of events in nature's wilderness. At my feet lay "Outlaw," the most magnificent speci- men of animal life I have ever seen. I don't believe I was happy, and I moralized to myself and said: "If you were alive again, old boy, dammed if I'd shoot you." I heard a shot, just one shot, from over the ridge and presently out came Joe Hessick for a horse and a rope to carry out another deer which my brother had. shot I was again full of excitement and scanned the fringe of the glade for another shot, my finger on the trigger nervously. What manoer of men are we sportsman*? "Outlaw" dressed at 206 pounds and waB in just fair condition. This noble animal had been so frequently wounded and hunted that he never had a chance to get fat. The Klamath Indians stood verily in awe of this buck, and long ago had ceased to hunt him, believing that he had a charmed life and that he could not be taken by ordinary means and that it was "bad medicine" to molest him. The other buck . was fat and in splendid condition and tipped the beam at 232 pounds. His antlers were magnificent and had five points The hunting party was composed of Dr. Clyde Payne, the narrator of the foregoing story, Dr. Redmond Payne, both of this city, J. W. Rooch, Joseph Hessick and George Cook. The trip took a week, the territory covered in the hunt was found within the radius of twenty-five miles of Klamath Hot Springs. "Outlaw's " head and hide is now in the hands of H. F. Lorquin, the taxidermist. The buck will be skillfully mounted, life -size, by the artist and will have an honored place inthe home of John I. Sabin, Esq. to whom the trophy has been presented by hi9 son-in-law, Dr. R. Payne San Francisco Fly-Casting Club. Saturday Contest Xo. 11— Stow Lake, August 29. 1903. southwest. Weather, rair. Sunday Contest No. 11— Stow Lake, August 30, 1903. Events 12 3 Young, C. G Battu. H 97 KenDiff, C R Lane. G W Halght. F. M Sperry. A. B 101 Blade, AW 91 Foulks. G H 102 Brooks. Dr. W 98 Reed.F.H Golcher. H. C 124)4 Brother-ton. T. W- . 183 KieruIfl.T C 106 Kenniff, J. B 120 a b C 93 8-18 91 8-18 81 8-12 66 8-12 96 4 88 98 4-18 77 6-12 64 11-18 96 5 93 8-12 98 85 10-12 88 11-12 98 6 91 72 6-12 81 9-18 7-1 4-12 85 4-18 73 4-12 79 4-12 82 4-12 84 4-18 65 74 8-12 82 8-12 85 4-12 71 8-12 78 6-12 90 8-12 92 8-12 75 10-12 84 3 12 89 8-12 88 8-12 88 8-12 87 8-18 88 90 8-12 86 8-18 Be s-is 89 4-12 84 8 18 88 9-12 89 4-12 98 M -12 89 4-18 98 9 84 8-12 85 8-12 BO : -a 83 3-18 85 2 91 8-18 89 87 «-12 86 1-12 95 9 ,05-XOTE: Event 1 — Distance Casting, feet. Event 2— Ac- curacy percentage. Event 3— Delicacy, (a) accuracy percentage, (b) delicacy percentage: (c) net percentage. Event 4— Lure cast- ing, percentage. The fractions in lure casting are laths Bench Show at Spokane. The SpoKane Kennel Club, which is a member of the Pacific Kennel League, will hold its first annual bench show October 7 to 10, inclusive, at Spokane, Wash., in connection with the Spokane Interstate Fair The officers of the club are: President, T. S. Griffith; vice-president, John M. Buud; treasurer, A. B. Jackson; secretary, A. C. Klein; bench show com- mittee. A. B. Jackson, A. F. Wisemann, H. W. Peel, L. C. Walker, C. M. Graves and Dr. E. L. Kimball; veterinary, Dr. Pike: judge, Hon. E. Davies Entries will close September 20. First, second and third prices are offered in all classes, a silver medal, bronze medal and diploma respectively. A number of special cash prizes are offered by the Spokane Kennel Club, viz: Twenty dollars each to the following: Handler show- ing largest string from California; ditto, from British Columbia; ditto, from Washington outside of Spokane; ditto, from Oregon; Ten dollars for handler showing largest string of dogs in show. A Dumber of other valuable specials are also offered. The Pacific Kennel League's rules for the government of dog shows will govern this show. Nevada Field Trials. It is possible that Henry L. Betten will be selected to judge the Nevada field trials. Mr. Betten is a well known Coast breeder and handler of English Setters and would undoubtedly give the Sagebrush trials a most satisfactory judging. The attendance of local and CoaBl sportEtnen in Paradise Valley promises to be a good one^ The grounds are said to be excellent and birds are plenti- ful. Dr C. E. Wilson has already left Elko and is now located in Paradise, Humboldt County. Nevada, at which place he may be addressed until the trials are finished. . Moccasins. Bicycle Goods. Jackbuck moccasins are the best article in this line ever offered sportsmen in tbis city. Thick, flexible bottoms: durable, easy fitting, just the thing for still hunting, camping and outing com- fort They are so superior to what is usually sold as moccasins there is no comparison on merit- Skinner has them. The Skinner Co., 801 Market St., are unpackiog and -putting on sale everything in the bicycle sundry line. They are agents for the cheapest and best tires ever shown in this city and It looks almost incredible that such goods can be produced for the prices they are selling them. September 5, 1903J ffthe gveebev atxb gipjortemcm 9 Teaching a Retriever. Few occupations are more interesting or more profitable to the sportsman than the education of a dog — but often enough the intelligence bestowed upon the bringing up of the creature i3 less than its own. Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Smith's magazine article on "Retrievers and how to break them," may, there- fore, be commended to every sportsman and particu- larly to every trainer. A retriever, the well-informed author lays down, should be an "all-round" dog in the widest acceptation of the term. He should behave himself like a gentleman in the house, he should enter a dogcart, boat, train, or motor-car with equanimity; he should run in couples, answer to whistle, enter his kennel instantly when told, and do many other things of more or less importance, which the exercise of a little patience and common-sense will teach him; and not the least useful lesson he can learn is to look on sheep and chickens without excitement, even when, the sheep suddenly take fright and bolt in all direc- tions, this part of his education being perfected by taking him into an enclosure in the lambing season. You need not, when you do so, be the least solicitous for the safety of the lambs. It is your dog you must take care of; for should he show an inclination either for lamb or mutton, the ewes will soon settle the question, and establish a funk which, in nine cases out of ten, is permanent. A gun-shy dog, it goes without saying, is useless to a sportsman. The vary mention of the word carries consternation with is. The wretched animal proved to be suffering from this vice, or disease, or whatever you please to call it, is straightway doomed to destruction; and were he the handsomest and best-tempered clog in the kennel, the sentence is ruthlessly carried out without loss of time. A gun-shy dog is simply a timid dog mis- managed In breaking. The same dog would almost to a certainty be a whip-shy dog, or an umbreiia- suddenly-opened-in-his-face-shy dog, to make rather a long adjective of it. Dogs and human beings are in no wise different from one another in some important particulars. Some are constitutionally bold, others timid, and the more timid a dog is, the greater the distanoe should ba between him and the gun when he hears it for the first time, and when you propose to accustom him to the sound of it. If trainers appreciated this axiom, and would take a little trouble, a gun-shy dog would be a rara avis indeed; and I am bold enough to say that any dog can be put beyond the possibility of be- coming gun-shy in half a dozen lessons of ten minutes each, Some trainers and keepers take a considerable amount of trouble in teaching their dogs to fetch and carry; but it never enters iDto their calculations that a puppy may fail in the most important particular, or that it is in their power to avert what possibly may happen on the first day of the season. A young and rather timid dog is taken out, generally on a curd; a right and left, perhaps from more than one gun, is suddenly fired nearly over his back. The noise frightens him, the restraint of the cord makes matters worse, and he is thoroughly cowed, "Damn the brute, he's gun-shy," says some intelligent sports- man; "shoot him." "So he is, "says Donald. "That is a peety; the very puppy the maister picket oot for hissel' — the best looking o' the lot. " Neither he nor his master, when he draws him aside that evening and tells him with bated breath the result of the puppy's first day, has the slightest idea that anyone has been wanting iu his duty. It is a dispensation of Providence — the puppy has "turned out" gun-shy, and the beautiful young dog's first day is also his last. Gun-shyness in a dog is no more hereditary than train-shyness in a horse. The gun-shy dog and the train-shy horse have been made so by mismanage- ment. Both can be cured, and can be also made in time to look on their pet aversions, the gun and the train, with equanimity — nay, more, in the case of the dog with affection; but take my advice, educate the animals in question properly; you will find it very much easier than curing them when spoilt. If you have a pair of young horses that have never seen a train, to put them in the family barouche containing the wife of your bosom, drive them to a level crossing, and after fastening them to the gates, wait con- tentellyfor the approach of the "Flying Express, " would be— putting it mildly — injudicious.. Instead of adopting this plan, you halt your horses on the approach of a train at some considerable distance from the line, and if they are not frightened, take them a little nearer on the next opportunity; or — what is better — you turn them out when still young into a field by the side of the railway, and leave them absolutely free and unfettered to gallop away as far as they like when they hear the engine coming. The very fact their being free robs the situation of half its terrors, the gallop gets shorter day by day, and before very long they take little or no notice of its approach. Pursue the same tactics with your dog when accustoming him to the gun. The modus operandi— simple enough in all conscience — should be as follows: Take him into a courtyard with a gate to it. or into a field behind a wire fence, or into any enclosed space where he can see what is going on outside. Do not restrain him by a cord or chain. Leave him free to run about or retreat should he feel so inclined. Send your keeper a long way off — say 150 yards (the more timid the dog remember the greater should be the distance) — make him fire a shot, watch the dog, and you will at once see how much nearer — if at all — the shot should be fired next time. After a few shots he will probably be eager to get up to the gun, more Especially if you make the day a pleasant one, and give him something to look for. A thing I detested and eschewed altogether was a whip; now I am never without one. because I have learned how to use it. If you see a dog afraid of a keeper when he cracks his whip, or skulking behind, or inclined to bolt, you can have no surer proof of the man's imbecility and cruelty. When you call to a dog and crack a whip to emphasize your order, he should come bounding up to you. not run away from you. "Here I am," he says; "I've done nothing wrong, ani I'm not afraid." He should look on the whip — and dogs which have been broken by a capable, even-tempered, and hu- mane keeper do look on it— simply as a deterrent. They know when they deserve punishment, and they know when they don't; and it is beautiful to see a bold and dashing, yet perfectly steady, dog, with as much confidence in his master as his master has in him — a dog which, after his education is finished, is never touched with the whip from one year's end to the other. Kennel Suggestions. Outside of the skin diseases perhaps there is no more common trouble in dogs than retention of urine. Dogs are seen to suffer but really there is little done by the average dog owner to ameliorate the trouble. After his attempts the dog goes about as usual and little more is thought of the matter until the owner happens to notice the dog again. This is a mistake and instant advice should be obtained and a cure attempted. Constipation is also one of the general troubles dogs are afflicted with that do not receive the atten- tion that their danger to the dog entitle them to. In Ashmont's new book on kennel diseases, there is a very good chapter on this trouble that, if neglected, leads to all manner of harm to the general system. We are convinced that kennel owners do not observe their dog's habits sufficiently and in only this way may the careful owner be advised of his dog's general health and condition internally. During the first day3 of a fever of any kind con- stipation is the rule, although in occasional instances diarrhoea occurs. The former is then purely a symp- tom, and the essential t<*pnt.mpt)t but a part of that Champion Hanover Monarch required by the existing disease. Herein, therefore, it will be considered only as an independent affection. It has a great variety of causes; and since many of them are identical with those that act in the same way among members of the human family, and with which all must be quite familiar, it is merely necessary to dwell on the influences which generally give rise to the affection in dogs. The first appears in the diet when it consists largely of substances which are capable of being absorbed into the blood, and leave but little to pass out by the bowels. For example, a dog fed almost wholly on meat would not have near the usual amount of refuse; or, strictly speaking, he would naturally be costive, this term meaning that not only are the movements less frequent than natural, but of less amount. And the effect would be the same were he denied sufficient food. Another common cause is deprivation of sufficient pure, fresh drinking-water, in consequence of which the blood in some degree is lacking in this very essential constituent, the secretory action of the glands of the large intestines is less powerful than it ought to be, and there is an over-dry state of the lining membrane throughout the bowels. As a con- sequence of all this the fecal matter Is dryer and harder, and its expulsion more difficult. Lack of sufficient exercise is another cause of con- stipation; indeed, lazy indoor pets are especially prone to the affection. But with them there are doubtless other causes equally active, and notably neatness and restraint; their outings being dependent upon the convenience and caprices of their owners rather than their own wants. And if nature's prompt ings are continually disregarded or resisted, the in- evitable result is a lessening of the sensibility of the lower bowel, also of its contractility and expulsive power; and the constipation in corresponding degree becomes more pronounced and unconquerable. A uniform and unvaried diet, day after day, tends to impair the activity of the bowels. So, too, the habitual use of very coarse foods; the bowels becom- ing fatigued, as it were, by the continued strain or effort made to expel so large a residue. It is only within the last decade that physicians have duly appreciated the possibilities of self-poison- ing, and the frequency with which it occurs. For instance, food substances that are ordinarily easily and well disposed of, under certain conditions and in consequence of impairment of some one or more of the organs concerned in the process of digestion, may undergo deleterious changes, and the poisons be absorbed and seriously affeot the entire system. Con- stipation furnishes another illustration of self-poison- ing. Let the refuse be too long retained in the upper parts of the large intestine, and not only is its fluid portion largely absorbed and taken up by the blood, but there is likely some absorption of the poisonous solids as well. And hereby is explained many in- stances of so-called "biliousness," that are character- ized by loss of appetite, foul breath, languor, etc., the same being merely cases of self-poisoning attributable to imperfect action on the part of the bowels. As a rule, the remedy for constipation should be in th6 feeding-pan. Assuming that the diet consists principally of meat, substances which furnish a large amount of refuse should enter into it in goodly quantity; and of these such vegetables as cabbages and the so called greens — spinach, dandelioD, nettle- tops, beet tops, and the like — are the most service- able. Certain breads also act well in the same way; the coase qualities, which contain the braD, tend lo prevent clogging, keep the bowels active, and assist in the assimilation of other foods. On tne other hand, the popular "white bread" made from fine wheat flour favors constipation. The various meals, as Indian, also have a beneficial action oh a sluggish bowel, provided always they are not given to excess. Indeed, let a dog affected with constipation be fed on, say, two parts meat, one part Graham bread, or one of the meals, and one part vegetables; unless they are diseased his bowels should come right. But of course it may be necessary to in- crease or decrease from time to time the proportions of these laxative constituents, as their action is de- ficient or excessive. - Exercise has rightly been termed the "grand elim- inator of waste," and without it not only the bowels but all other excretory organs are more or less indo- lent. Consequently this simple remedy must be ap- plied in goodly amount in every case of constipation. As implied in the foregoing, dogs should always be well suppled with pure, fresh drinking water, for otherwise not only are their bowels likely to be slug- gish, but their general health must be impaired. In truth, under the deprivation, nutrition can never be good; the victims invariably lose flesh, fall off in coat, and sooner or later suffer from disease, which as a rule first attacks the tkin. While habitual treatment should consist of dietetic and hygienic measures, oftentimes it will be necessary to at once relieve the constipation, and in such in- stances medicines must generally be given. Of the many remedies of this nature castor oil is the most popular. It is certainly efficient, but there are some objections to its use except in selected cases, and sweet or olive oil, alone or with an equal quantity of the syrup of buckthorn, acts quite as powerfully and leaves the bowels in rather better condition. The syrup of buckthorn is rightly highly esteemed as a cathartic. Combined with sweet oil, a table- spoonful of each maybe given to the dogs of large Bize. Double that quantity»of the buckthorn might be given if used alone, and brisk and free action is desired. . In attacks of sickness in which there is fever it is generally advisable to unload the bowels, and then calcined magnesia acts well, either alone or combined with powdered rhubarb. The dose of the former is a full teaspoonful for large dogs: and if a good purging is deemed necessary, with it should be mixed nearly half a teaspoonful of the latter. 4.mong the purgatives in pill form the so-called compound cathartic pill is as good as any If the bowels are not irritated; and thiee for dogs of the largest size, two for the medium, and one for fox- terriers and the like, are suitable doses. As for the smallest toys, magnesia Ib the best for them. In occasional cases the retained refuse is so dry and hard, that cathartics are very slow in having their effect; and in such, also in every instance in which it is desirable to have the bowels move at once, an injection should be given. For the purpose a simple and efficient mixture may be made of strong soapsuds and water, to which has been added a teaspoonful of molasses and the same quantity of table-salt. As an injection, sweet oil also acts speedily and well when generous quantities are used. A cupful would be none too much for the largest breeds. Another efficient remedy is glycerine, of which oDly a little need be injected to move the bowels — from a teaspoon- ful to a tablespoonful, according to the size of the patient. Copies of Ashmont's new work on Kennel Diseases can be procured at the office of the Breeder and Sportsman. This book has been long in prepara- tion and is valuable to all dog owners It is devoid of technical terms and so compiled as to be valuable and helpful. Price 83. Free!! Free!! Free!! The Polk Miller Drug Co of Richmond, Va., whoso advertlse- meotsof -'Sergeant's Dog Remedies" are appearing now in the columns of this journal, desire us to state that they will furnish abgoluMy free to our readers a revised copy of their book on "Dogs." which accurately and exhaustively treats of the more frequent diseases with which Dogs are afflicted. Enclose them Sc lo stamps to cover cost of mailing the book. They have recently made F. W. Brauo &. Co. of Los Angeles. California, distributing agents for their popular line of "Dog Remedies." and extend an invitation to all persons having sick doge 10 write them describ- ing symptoms, eto Enclose stamp for reply. No cbargo will bo made for information furnished. Jackson's Napa Soda is sold in every city, towo and hamlet in the State. 10 the gveebev emir gtjttrtrtemou [September 5, 1903 DOINGS IN D0GE0M. Beach Hill Kennels, San J use, have recently been reinforced with some grand new Collies. Miss Dolla Boaca has, until recently, been for many years past a well known exhibitor of Collies ana familiar figure at our bouon snows. In taking a more active interest a cam in doggy affairs she has secured, among others, taat good dug Cnampion Hanover Munarch. In a letter to the Kennel euitur she states: "I am starling in a yearly 'ad' in the kennel depart- ment of the Breedek and sportsman, so I trust a few words on tuo uuiugs in ban Jose ana The Beach Hill Kennels in particular will not be amiss. I have puroha.-ed that smart fellow Cnampion Hanover Monarcn. He arrived in grand shape a week ago and is belter in ever\ way than I expected. Monarch is a son ui Cnampiun Eilwyn Astrologer and bis dam is Cnampion Old Hall Moo , a full sister to Champion Old tlall Auuiiral tnat we all know. Monarch was bred oy Ja=. Dalgleisb of Scotland and since being brougnt to this country has won eighteen hrsts in- cluding wins at New York. Pittsburg and Cnicago. He is tne sire of Winnetka Princess who last winter won at New York, tne Collie Club, New Jersey, etc., the specials fur best American brea b.tch. He is also sire of Progress Lassie tde dam of Bon Ami Hope, of Bon Ami Beauty, and other good ones. He is a per- fectly marked sable and white, has immense coat. He is very stylish and full of life and energy. With his grand breeding and indiviauality and sweet dis- position, every bit a Collie, he should do the breed in California a wnole lot ol goc*." A representative of the American Field last fall paid a visit to the Winnetka Collie Kennels and speaks of this dog in the following words: 'When driving to tne kennels we were met by that Mr. Norman J. Stewart is now located in San Jose. 16 yds., 20, 18-38; Lewis 16 yds., 18, 14-3:; He brought out here with him from England a stylish ^ black toy Pom, a rattling good Old English Sheep Kincannon Dog and a fine Bull bitch. Leon S. Greenebaum's Bulldog King Commando is on his way to the Ellsgy Kennels, having been shipped this week by Mr. Harry Lacy from Hebden Kennels. AT THE TRAPS. good dog, Champion Hanuver Monarch, which came targets out uf 40 — :__ - . i A t. A ~n .li(H..nlln in 1^ . .. .r. . . . .— 'I ' h . . n-S — — ..»..- .. A large gathering of trap-shooters was in attend- ance at me oluerocK shoot ol the Home Gun Cluo on tne Calilurnia PowOer WurKs shouting grounus at Pinole last .Sunday. The affair was an Invitation snoot auu everything was uone by the Pinole sports- men tu make tncir guests' visit enjoyable. A sub- stantial luucn was served and blueruuks were iur- nishea free tu the shooters, la the program uf seven events ana auriug extra pool shoots no lesstbanlo,- OUU clay pigeons were sniashea. The main event of tne day wa9 the C. P. W. cup race. Tnis tropny was a large and nandsome silver affair, the. aesigo being emblematic of shotgun prowess, it was doDalea by tte powder company. Forty-two contestants entered this race. Tne snoot was at fifty targets per man, distance handicap, en- trance free. Fred Feuaner of this city won the prize on a score of 44 breaks. The next high men wore C. C. Nauman, J. L. Woods of Pinole anu Fred J. Stone of Fresno with 43 each, and R. C. Reed of this city, G. Sylvester and Leu Kincannon with 42 Dreakseach. Auuther cup was also shot lor in a separate pool. Sixteen men entered. The highest tolal score in events 2 ana 3 determined the winner, which proved to be George Sylvester of this city, who broke 3T 16 yds., 24, 18—42; Franzen 16 yds., 22, 19-41; C Sylves- ter Is yds , 20, J6-36; Iverson 18 yds., 19 20-39; Hum- phry ]•; yds , 18, 12-30; Parker 16 yds., 18, 15-33; Han- son 16 yds.. 20. 18-38; Fish 16 yds., 19, 14-33: Patrick 16 vds. 15, 13-28; McDonald 16 yds., IS, 17-35; Pisani 16 yds., 18. 16-29; Leavell 16 yds., 15, 16-31; Burns 18 yds., 21. 18-39; Joost 16 yds., 12, 10-22; Nauman 20 yds., 22, 21-43; Birmingham 16 vds., 16, 16-3°- G Sylvester 18 yds., 20. 22-42; Wood" 16 vds 24 1SM3- Stonel6yds , 23. 20-43; Grim 16 yds.. 7, 17-24, Jeffreys 16 yds., 21, 13-34; Tormev 16 yds.' 16, 12-28; Christian 16 yds., 17, 16-33; Hansen 16 vds., 9, 9-18; F. Brant 16 yds., 12, 15-27; Lidstone 16 vds., 14, 10-24; J. Broder 16 yds , 17. 14-31; Wollam 16 vds., 10, w-10: Hart 16 yds., 9.6-15; Buysen 16 yds , 14, 7-21; FeudnerlS vds 23, 21-44: Hall 16 yds, 21, 16-37. ' Event 7. 20 birds, 10 singles and 5 doubles, $1 00 entrance, 3 moneys. 50, 30 and 20 per cent— Ross 14 7 singles, 7 on doubles; Haight 11. 6-5; Robertson U, 6-8: Lewis 13, 7-6; Iverson 13. 7-6; G Sylvester 17 9-8; Franzen 17, 10-7; Hovt 16, 10-6; Stone 16 8-8: Diniels 17. 9-8: Hanson 15, 7-8; Leavell 11 5-6- C Sylvester 11, 6-5; Reed 17. 9-8: Burns 13. 8-5; Wood 10, 6-4; Kincannon 10, 5-5; Bermingham 11, 7-4. Cup race determined by scores in events 2 and 3 Entrance SI 00, 40 birds— G Sylvester 37 ;19-18) Fish 29, Reed 33, Robertson 43, Ha'mm 32, C Svlvester 29 Lewis 27, Hoy 1 33, Hutton 30, F Feudner "35, Daniels 24, Hall 25. Lidstone 24, Burns 29, Iverson 33, Franzen 33, Stone 30. A live bird shoot is on for Monday at Ingleside. Entrance will be free, birds to be paid "for. A hand- some silver cup will be put up for the high gun. After the cup event, pools will be shot. raciog toward us, and fuunu no difficulty in keeping up with and going anead of the fast mare attacned to the rig. Hanover looked fat when seen racing alongside of us, out when we arrived at tne kennels, on examination, proved that it was his lmmeuse coat and frill that conveyed the gross impression. He cer- tainly is a wonderfully cualtd aog, ana while low be- iog (hi- owner tells us) uut uf cuat, he has as much coat as many when in lull bloom. He is a lovely sable The winners of the different races were: Seconu event (the first race was a practice shoot) — C. C. Naumao, drst money, $12; George Sylvester, second muauj, S9; W. Hanson ana Harry Huyi, third money, $3 each; Fred Feudner, Dr. Hutton, R. L. Parker and F. A. Hodapp, fourth money, 60 cents each. Third event — M. J. Iverson and W. R Murdock, first money, $5.10 each; F. Feuaner, George FranzeD and white, with wbite face and blaze, white lurelegs, and G. Svlvester, secund money, $2.55 tacb; R. C. frill and shuulder.-, white hinaltgs and white tip to tail. In fast, he is an ideally marked Cullie and full of life. His breeding cannut be surpassed, his sire being Champiun Ellwyn Astrologer and his dam Champion Old Hall Mooo la his pedigree on his sire's sine he has such dogs as Sefton Hero, Ormskirk Amazement and Edgbaston Marvel, and un his dam's side be has Finsbury Pilot, Rufford Ormonde, Soutbport Perfec- tion, Ormskirk Chriss, etc., names familiar to any pe.- son versed in Collie lore. He has sixteen first prizes to his credit, several of them being in winners'classes, and das came under the jurisdiction of such judges as Jarrett, Mortimer, Watson, Davidson and Long, all of whom know a good Collie. He is only a little over three years of age, therefore is at the height of his vigor. As a stockgetter he cannot be surpassed; we saw several of his get at the kennels, aged from two months up to a year and a half. After him came another good dog in Winnetka Wonder. Next we saw five pretty puppies, two and half months old, by Hanover Monarch out of Sun On the 9th inst. the Millwood Gun Club will hold a big prize shoot. In the main race at 20 targets, 75 cents entrance, the shooter making the h ghest score will have first pick from the ''bag," next highest, second pick, etc. The "picks'1 win=go in order of scores until all the prizes are taken. This is rather a unique way of determining a shoot, the lowest score is then placed on par with the highest. The second event will be a four man team shoot, 20 birds per man, members of the team to bedetermined by draw. The prize 6hoot will begin at 10 a. m. Reed and R. L. Parker, third money, $2.55 each; L. Leavell, F. A. Hodapp, J. Burns, Le Kincannon, T. L. Lewis and C. C, Nauman, fourth money, 35 cents each. Fourth event — Clarence Sylvester, first money, $7.50; R. C. Reed, C. C. Nauman and J. Burns, second money, $1 50 each; D. Daniels, T. L. Lewis, G. Syl- vester and J. Hall, third money, 75 cents each. Fifth event, under sealed conditions: For every bird broken the shooter paid 10 cents; for those he stein 14, Bearing 20, Johnson 18, John 19, Hauer 20, missed he was refunded 10 cents. The money balance Mersfelder 21, Christian 17. Dr. Murphee 15. Turpin 15. in the pool after this shoot was over amounted to „Te.am „ri£e< 1" targets per man — Price 9, Van At the Millwood Gun Club shoot last Sunday the following scores were shot: Club badge race, 25 targets— Collins 2], Price 17, Ashland IS. Haas 14, Kewell 15, Bearing 19, Van Nnrden 22, Falkerstein 8, Mersfclder 21. Orr cup race, 25 targets— Ashland 17, Kewell ]9, Haas 23, Van Norden 21, Price 25. Collins 18, Falken- 1.50, and was divided by the two lowest scores, E. MuDunald and G. Gaxiola, who were trap shooting novices and only broke one bird out of ten each shut at. Seventh event: This race was shot at ten singles and five pairs — twenty targets in all. In this race R. C. Reed oia some pretty double shooting. Franzen, Daniels, Reed and Georgs Sylvester won and divided first money, $8.50; H. T. Hoyt and F. J. Stone second shine Phyllis, she by Brandane Rigutaway out of money, $5.10; and Billy Hanson third money, $3 40. Brandane Victoria, three tricolors and two sables. The affair was under the direction of John Birming- ham, Jr., who was ably assisted by Jack Hall, A. M. Ashenfeldttr, Frank Moore, H. Boysen, B. W sables. Oae is a tricolor dog and is very promising in regard to length of nead, carriage of ears and expression. He is a wonder for so young a dog. One very nice tri- color puppy is sold to Miss M. G. Vigilioi of Louis- ville, Ky., which, if it lives, will do credit to his fair mistress. Mr Higginson owns a V6ry nice lot of bitches, all in good ondition and in fair coat for this time of year. But the pick of the lot is a year-old bitch named Winnetka Princess, and she well deserves the name. She is a daughter of the lord of the harem, Hanover Mooarch, and is certain to do credit to her sire. She has a beautiful long, lean head, perfect ears, nice expression, and Is of good size. She will be shown at the coming Winter and Spring shows and should do some winning. Hanover Monarch will be at the disposal of good bitches. The stud fee has been placed at a reasonable figure in the hope that Coast fanciers will take ad- vantage of the service of a good young dog. A TacoTia bitch is already booked for him sometime next month. N->ver before, on the Pacific Coast, have fanciers and dog lovers had so good an opportunity to get h»gh class Fox Terriers a- is now offered by Wandee Kennels. Litters of puppies are due and on hand and a number are coming in from walk, so in order to nuke room for the new arrivals some of the older Stevens, T. H. Reed, Billy Hanson and the only "Duke" Evans. A summary of scores in the programmed events is the fulluwing: Event 2, 20 bird pool, $1 entrance, 4 moneys, 40, 30, 20 and 10 per cent— M J Iverson 14, G Sjlveslerll, G FraDZen 15, J Burns 13, J Pisani 13, P Hansen 8, W A searls 11, R C Baird 16, F Feuaner 17, M J Lid- stone 11, B Patrick S, C C Juster 12, D Daniels 15. J Bermingham, Jr, 9, C C Nauman 20, S C Fish 14, W A Robertson 17, C Sylvester 16, T L Lewis 11, H T Hoyt 18. W Hanson 18, Dr J A Hutton 17, R N Tohde 12, R L Parker 17, A Humphrey 14, F J Stone 15, R C Reed 16, F A Hodapp 17, L Kincannon 15, J C F Hall 13. Event 3, Jack rabbit pool, 20 birds, $2 entrance, 10 cents refunded for every broken target balance to high guns — Button 13, Stone 15, Reed 17, Hodapp 16, Lidstone 13, Baird 15, Fish 15, Robertson 16, C Sylvester 13, Lewis 16, Hoyt 15 Hanson 14, Feudner 18, Searls 11, Patrick 8. Daniels 9, Hall 12, Parker 17, C A Haight 15, J Ross 12, Nauman 16, Bermingham 12, Kincannon 16, L Leavell 16, Burns 16, Pisani 15, n' nzen IS. Iverson 19, G Svlvester 18, WRMurdock 19. Event 4, 15 birds, each shooter used a gun other than his own, 50 cents entrance, 3 moneys, 50. 30 and Norden 8, Hauer 8, Collins 9. Orr 7. Total 41. Haas 8. Mersfelder 7, Ashland 6, Kewell 8, Turpin 5. Total 34. On the 13th inst the Golden Gate Gun Club will hold a big prize shoot at Ingleside. A large list of valuable and useful articles will be put up for the the shooters. The Hellbender Club is composed of a coterie of genial spirits all of them crack trap shots. Last Saturday the m mbers met at Ingleside and indulged in some live bird shooting Tbe honors of the day for a time laid between C C. Nauman and Dr. E. G. MeConnell who each grassed twenty-three out of twenty-five birds, shotting from the tbirty-four yard mark. On the shoot-off Naumao dropped ten straight, the Doctor could only get seven out of his string. C. A. Haight, thirty-two yards scored twenty-two, Ed Donohoe, thirty two y = rds, twenty Hip Justins, twenty-eight yards grassed twenty-ore birds. dogs mint gi So said Mr Lomas, the kennelmaster, 20 per cant — Daniels 12, Hoyt 10, Tobde 8. A Humph- whenhelefta new "ad" on our desk this week. ' r«ys 9, Ross 11, Reed 14, Juster 7, Parker 6 A "els, Butte, Mont., make a liheral reys 9, Koss 11, rieed 14, Juster 7, Parker 6, A Jeffreys 11, L Tormey 10, F Joost 5, W Christian 11, H A Grim 4, Haight 9 C Sylvester 15, Robertson 10, Hutton 10. Fish 9, Bermingham 9, Nauman 14, Diamond K^n nff-jrin kennel ltsh bei lor u u Burns 14, B W Stevens ,. EventS, Jockey shoot, seated conditions. 10 birds, The first Ch. Romany Rye litter on the. Coast was SI. 00 entrance— Reed 10, Ross 7, Juster 8. Haight 8, whelped at Delverton Kennels, Fruitvale, Cal., by the Robertson 7, Murdrck 8, J L Woods 3, McDnnald l' pirti-enlored bitch Paprika, which Mrs. W. C.Ral- Wollam 5. Jeffreys 8, Kincannon 6, Lewis 6. Iverson Kennel Registry. WHELPS. Delverton Kennels black and white Cocker Spaniel bitch Paprika (Prpppr-Quc-nle) whelped August 2.=, 190.1. Ave Dapples (2 dogs) to Midkifl Kennels' Cb. Romany Rye (Tbe Chief-Ch. Blue Belle n.) SALES. Delverton Kennels sold a black Cocker Spaniel pnppy (Cb. Hamo on Promise-Baby Ora) to W. B Dozier, (Redding) August 16. 1903 Delverton Kennels sold a red Cocker Spaniel puppy (Cb Hamp- ton Promise-Baby Ora) to W B Dozier. (Redding) August 16. 1903. De'verton Kennels sold a black Cocker Spaniel dog puppy (Cb. Hampton Promise-Baby Ora) to Mr. Parker, (Los Angeles) August 20. 1910 Bearh Hill KeDnels (San Jnse) sold a dog and bitch pup (Spartan-Ursula) to Lewis Smith. (Fresno) August — , 1903 Beach Hill KeDnels sold a dog pup (Sparlan-TranwTD Janet) and a bitcb pup (Clifton S -Maxine) to T. D. Walrad. (Stockton) August — , 1903. VISITS. Delverton Kennn's' red Cocker Spaniel bitch Floradora (Ch. Hampton Goldie-Cb. Priccess Flavin) to same owners' Ch Hamp- ton Promi-e (Black Duke H-Ch Gaiety Girl) Augr.st 23, 1903 Mr Patterson's black Cocker Spaniel bitch Minerva (Cb. Wood land Duke-Myrtle) to Delverton Kennels' Ch. Hampton Promise (Black Dake U-Ch. Gaiety Girl) Ju:y 30, 1903. ston purchased from Midkiff Kennels some little time back. Two dogs and three bitches comprise a Utter which, if ores* nt indie itions are any criterion should produce some more than ordinarily good ones. A show in San Jose next November under P. K. L. rules is among- the possibilities. This is what we like to see. A. circuit of home shows on the Coast would do much to revive interest. San Jose should have 300 or more entries. Pisani 9, Franzen 8, Dariels 8, Hutton 8. G Syl- vester 6, Burns 6, Parker 7, Humphreys 7, Gaxicola 1. Nauman 9, Patricks, Patrick 8, Feudner 9, Ho3ant> 8, Ludwig4. vy Event 6, California Powder Works Cup, 50 birds (in two sections of 25 each) distance handicap, en- trance free, high gun. ties to shrot t ff. 42 entries Daniels 18 yards, 19. 18-37: Hovt 16 yds , 19. 16-35; Ross 16 yds., 15, -v-15: Reed 18 yds . 22." 20-42; Juster 16 yds., 15, w-15; Haight 18 vdV. 19. 20-39: Murdock IS yds., 18, 22-40 Robertson 18 yds., 17, 19-36; Hutton Coming Events. Sod. April 1-Sept. 10. Oct. 16-Feb. 1— Open season (or taking steel- head in tidewater. April 1-Nov. 1 — Trout season open. July 1-Jan. 1— Open season for black b3SS. Aug 15-April 1— Open season for lobsters and crawfish. Sept. 1-Nov 1 — Close season for crabs. Sept 1-May 1— Open season for shrimp. Sept 10-Oct IS Close seasoD in tidewater for steelbead. Sept 12— Saturday CoDtest No. 12. Class series. Stow lake. 2:30 p m Sept. 13— Sunday Contest No. 12. a.m. Class series. Stow lake, 10 September 5, 1903] ®He $veeif&c a«t» ^vovisman 11 THE FARM. have not much hope of doing tbe other fellows very much good, even if we could reach them. Our only hope ie in reach- ing their boye. Are You Farming For a Living or as a Business? Wallace's Farmer. There are two classes of farmers : one which farms because they do not know how to do anything else and because it is the easiest way to make a living and get along some how for the time being. The other class farm, not so much for a living, as because it is their chosen business. They do not think of getting along some- how, but of getting ahead, accumulating, improving the farm, increasing its fertil- ity, all with the object of making it a better manu acturing plant and a better business proposition. The man who farms as a business adopts business methodB as far as they are applicable to farm operations, keeps books, knows his income and outgo, takes an inventory of stock, has system in all his methods, and knows approximately what every crop each year has cost him in cash or its equivalent in labo\ We . have small hopes of a man who is simply farming as a means of getting through the world somehow . Our paBt experience is that he does not take hold of the prob- lems that are represented to him from week to week in the farmer's papers. The probability is that he does not take a farmer's paper at all and would not read it if he did. He wants some paper that is cheap and will not compel him to think too much, and won't get after him. It is the man who farms as a business, farming for dear life, farming to make a success of it and to make a success of him- self and family, that is the kind of farmer we are looking for. We can get his at- tention. These men may not believe all we say ; they differ from us in a good many things, and we think none the less of them for that, but we can do them some good. We Economy in Feeding. There is no economy in starvation. We feed stock not for the purpose of merely keeping them alive but for the purpose of converting that feed into something of greater intrinsic value. Twenty dollar pieces are a much more convenient medium of exchange than haystacks. And haystacks reach not the full height of their glory till they are converted into gold Now the longer it takes to produce that transformation the greater the loss of economy. A cow bawling for food is constantly wasting more strength than the owner could afford to let her spare. The miller can expect no flour with no grain in the hopper. Why look for a pail of milk from a bundle of dry bones? We have known men to farm it with an old slab sided team, when a few bushels of oats would have been worth more than a new plow point. There is nothing to be gained by starvation. Of course we are not to overfeed. The economy of feeding comes in through the right use of right material in due quantities. Well cut feed sprinkled with bran is one source of economy in feeding. Pro- viding that the cutting machine can be run without too much expenditure of time. Cut feed will unquestionably go farther than uncut feed. There is little or no waste. To carry out this plan we must have the feeding stable conveniently ar- ranged. The arrangement should be such that the work can be accomplishe 1 with the least time and effort. Dispatch has money in it. This is as true in farm- ing as foot racing or railroading. Feed what the cow will relish and in quantities sufficient for good nourishment and of the kind of material that will pro- duce the best results and economy is assured. Jackson's Napa Soda does not tangle the feet. Mutton Chops. Weed out the old ewes and feed to turn into mutton before cold weather comes. It does not pay to keep a ewe after she begins to show signs of age unless she is an especially good breeder and mother. Pick out the lambs and wethers that you intend to turn off and put them by themselves where they can have a fatten- ing feed. Put them in uniform lots. They will feed together better, will fatten more evenly and sell to better advantage. Ev.ry flock master should haveastand- ard of excellence and keep this in mind in culling his flock. This is the only way in which to improve the flock. It is useless to try to breed a fine, uni- form flock of sheep from the runts and culls. Have the ewes gaining in flesh at mat- ing time Better results can be looked for in this way than if the ewes are thin and half hearted. For Sale GRAY GELDING, 16 hands high, "double gaited; paces or trots. Apply to Breeder and Sportsman. RACES! RACES! RACES! Central California Fair To be held in HAN FORD oct. 5 to io $3000 IN PURSES ALL ENTRIES CLOSE SEPTEMBER 15th Entrance Fee IO Per Cent of Purse. No. 1— Trotting, 2:40 class, mile heats, 3 in 5 $100 No. 2 — Running, quarter mile and repeat 75 No. 3— Gentleman's Road Race... 75 No. 4 — Running, three-quarters dash 100 No. 5— Trotting, 2:30 class 200 No. 6 — Running, half mile and re- peat 100 No. 7— Running, three-eighths dash 60 No. 8— Pacing, 2:30 class 200 No. 9— Trotting, half mile, two- year-olds 100 No. 10 No. 11 No. 12- No. 13 No. 14- No. 15- No. 16 No. 17- No. 18- No. 19- No. 20 -Running, half mile dash..$ 75 -Pacing, 2:35 class 150 -Mile dash..- ]25 -Pacing, 2:20 class, mile heats 300 -Running, three-eighths and repeat 90 -Five-eighths mile dash 75 -Trotting, 2:25 class 250 -Pacing, 2:10 class 350 -Running, seven-eighths dash 125 -Trotting, 2:20 class 300 -Running, half mile dash.. 75 Exhibitors' premium list open to Kern, Tulare, Fresno and Kings counties. All concessions will be sold and closed on or before September 25th. "Write to Secretary for Premium List and further information. F. L. HOWARD, Sec'y. N. P. DUNCAN, Pres. GOLDEN GATE RACE MEETING California Jockey- Club Track OAKLAND SEVEN DAYS RACING SEPTEMBER 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 and 28 ENTRIES CLOSE MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1903 Where a horse is entered in several events Races will be put far enough apart to permit starting in each. LIST OF HARNESS RACES, TROTTING. 1— FREE-FOR-ALL $300 2—2:10 CLASS 250 3—2:14 CLASS 250 4—2:18 CLASS 250 5—2:19 CLASS 300 6—2:23 CLASS 250 7— THREE=YEAR-OLDS 250 PACING. 8— FREE=FOR=ALL $300 9— 2:10 CLASS 250 10— 2:12 CLASS 250 11—2:15 CLASS 250 12— 2:17 CLASS 300 13— 2:23 CLASS 250 14— 2:25CLASS " 250 In addition to the Harness Events Three Running Races will be given Each Day. CONDITIONS. Entries to close Monday, September 14, 1903, when horses are to be named, and to be eligible to the class in which they are entered Stakes not filling satisfactory to the management may be declared ofl- Stakes will be divided into four moneys: 50, 25, 15 and 10 per cent. Entrance 5 per cent, and 5 per cent of the amouDt of the Slake will be deducted from each money won. The management reserves the right to declare two starters a walk over. When only two start they may contest for the entrance money paid in, to be divided fiev per cent to the first and 33' i per cent to the second horse. A horse distancing the field shall be entitled to first and fourth moneys only, and in no other case will a horse be entitled to more than ODe money. The management reserves the right to change the hour aod day of any race, except when it be- comes necessary to ante-date a race, in which instance the nominators will receive three days notice by mail To address of entry. The right reserved to declare off or postpone any or all races on account of weather or other sufficient cause. For Entry Blanks and further particulars address PoslTio1.oTthie8honrses.reSerreS tbe "^ '"^""^ he" »'■" '»° fourth score.regBrd.es, of the Entries not declared out by 5 o'clock p. m on the day preceding Iho raoo shall h» r»onl«i . start and declarations must be in writing and made at the office of the SecrJury at the track ° When there Is more than one entry to any Stake by any ono person or In one interest ,b.|i„r, „ be started must be named by 5 o'clock p si. on the das' preccdlrg tli.- race 'merest, tne horse to Trotting and ruclogcolors must be named by; ,,, .„ lhe (l8y procaine the ra™ ,.„,i must be worn upon the track Colors will he register, ,1 In the order In which they „°? received Hopples barred In trotting races, but will be permitted In paclm; races received. Conditional entries will be treated same as regular entries and nominators held under tb, ml.. Any race that may bo started and unfinished on last day of the meeting may Bode "aredenj", and money divided according to the rank of horses in the summary ucciarea ended / , Otherwise than as herein specified in these conditions, N'atlonal Trotting Association Ruin (of which this association Is a member) except Rule 4, to govern. ^«w«iuiion itub-s, JOS. I. DIMOND, Secretary, 457 Twelfth St., Oakland, Ca! is ffike gxeebev mxb gtytrxismcm I September 5, 1903 THE WORLD'S BEST JERSEYS. Best of Cows Assembled in Illinois in Training for World's Fair Dairv Test. The most valuable berd oi Jersey cattle ever assembled at any one point may be Been on a model farm at Jerseyville, Jer- sey county, Illinois. Toe worth of this berd can- only be approximated, for the cattle are not for sale. An offer of J15.000 for a single member was promptly de- clined and not an animal would bring lets than $500 if placed on the market to-day. The cows are the property of individual members of the American Jersey Cattle Club and tbey are assembled because they are the best qualified to make up a berd that will represent the Jersey breed in the great dairy demonstration arranged for the World's Fair at St. Louis in 1904 by F D. Coburn, Chief of Live Stock. TJnequaled care and attention is being given these cattle. No athlete trained for an event requiring the development of strength, endurance and skill ever re- ceived more attention than is being be- stowed on these full-blood Jerseys. Wuen the Louisiana Purchase Exposition opens its gates on April 30th. next year, the herd will have been in constant .training for a pronounced ideal for the purpose and there the work of getting the Jerseys in condition is going forward. C.T. GraveB of Maitland, Mo., a well- known breeder of Jersey cattle, and an expert on all matters pertaining to the dairy, was selected to take charge of ope- rations, and with his family he moved to Jerseyville e rly in 1903 and began the interesting work. It waB planned to con- struct on Mr. Auten's farm a model dairy and accessories, and under Mr. Graves' personal di ections this has been done. First he designed a cow stable which was completed early in July, and it is probable that not another barn in the world is as complete in every respect as this. It is a square with stable wings on the north and west. The north wing has stalls for twenty-four cows, and the west wing has stalls for twelve cows and six roomy box stalls. The barn and stables are marvels of convenience and cleanliness. An electric plant in a separate building furnishes light and power. The numerous windows are perfectly screened and eiectric fans, numerously placed, keep the air in con stant motion. There are no unpleasant odors and the stalls extend the full length of the wings. Tne cows are so placed that their heads are at the rows of win- 15-foot promenade extends around the barn, aDd the visitor may Eee every cow and may observe the feeding and milking. A Bcreen protects the animals, behind 1 which no one save the attendants can go. I Every -ounce of food and water given each cow will be carefully weighed and a record kept. A huge silo will be built adjoining the stables A field of twenty acres of corn is now growing near Clayton, and this will be stored in the great silo for food nextsummer. Alfalfa will also be brought from Colorado. All feeding and milking will be done in the stables. The milk will be turned over to the dairy department, and in a model dairy in the Palace of Agriculture it will be converted into butter and cheese, and a careful record oi each cow's participa- tion in the teBt will be kept. With the herd will be Flying Fox. the famoue Jersey bull owned by Thomas W. LawBon of Boston. Mr. Lawson recently refused an offer ot $15,0J0 for the bull. Among the prominent Jersey cattle breeders who have made entries are C. J. Hood of Lowell, Mass., and George Van- derbilt of Biltmore, N. C. If a cow doe=n't pay her board, let some one else board her. full year, and will be in the pink of condi- tion. Twenty-five cows will participate in the teBt at the World's Fair and fifteen cows are held in reserve, to be substituted should occasion require. Great caution and jiidgment'was exercised in the Belec- tiOD of these candidates. The committee was free to select from any of the 250,000 registered Jereys in America, and the animals thus-come from all sections of the United States. The owners of the cattle are prosperons, and they and the Jersey club to which they belong determined to spire no ex- pense in making a perfect showing. The cows, selected from widely separated points, some coming from Maine and some from Oregon, some from the north and others from the south, could not give satisfactory results until they were accus- tomed to the St. Louis climate, so a piint near St. Louis was desired for assembling the herd, and as A. O. Auten of Evanston, III., a memberof the club, tendered the u"e. gratuitously of his 400-acre farm on tue outskirts of Jerseyville, his proposition was accepted. This farm, forty miles from St. Louis, ■ ud one of the beet in Illinois, has been A Typical Jersey Bull ' dowe, and tbe air they breathe ie always ] pure and fresh from the fragrant fields. The floors are ell concrete. Between the rows of cowa, at their rear, is a granitoid passage way, affording the cows' care- takers plenty of room to work at feeding and milking time. The mangers are also of concrete, and are different from anything ever before designed. Tbe walls slope toward the cow's head, and while the tendency is for • the animal to push the food away from her, the sloping walls bring it right back. A gate is at the cow's head. It is so ar- ranged that it may be put forward or back so as to fit the cow's length and keep her rear hoofs on the edge of the floor of the stail, adj dning which is a gutter. A chain at the back passes under the hollow of the cow's rear legs, preventing her from stepping into the gutter, which slopes toward the center. On the Jersey farm there is a creamery and many other conveniences, all of which will be duplicated or improved upon when the World's Fair stables are erected for the final test. In all former dairy te^ts at interna- tional expositions the Btables have not been open to the public. At St. Louie a The Way Cream is Obtained. [Churla Sarding-i This hand separator movement, which just at present is upsetting all the old- fashioned theories about how the world's butter should be made, is raising at the same time some veiy interesting and im- portant problems as to the best way to handle the product fr-un the dairy farm to the churn, which will very soon be crying aloud for solution. Most of us who are 1 now taking the initiative in the move- ment in any large way have been more concerned about volume of business than anything else. Indeed the growth in many qualities has been so rapid that it has been practically impossible to work out a system for the proper care of cream. The demand for machines has been so great that many creameries have been content simply to place the machine with the farmer, show bim as quickly as possi- ble how to skim milk, take his note and go out to the next man, simply ihrowing a circular of instruction about shipping at I him and telling him to send in his cream. , Of course this sort of thing is going to | make trouble. We hear frequently of separator agentB, who in their zeal to place a machine and settle for it even go so far as to tell the farmer that once a day is often enough to wash it. This pernic- ious idea comes, as a matter of course, from agents of those machines which are difficult to clean and is in answer to the farmer's query about how he is to be ex- pected to keep such a wonderfully lot of complicated junk clean and sweet. The truth of the matter is the farmer does not as a rule succeed in keeping it clean and sweet, even though he washes it twice a day. If you think he doee, just stick vonr nose into one of those patent protected split wing contraptions, with forty pieceB or more inside the bowl, after the house- wife has spent an hour or so doing her best to make it clean. You will find that nioe limes out of ten there i9 plenty o' good, strong starter left hidden some- where within the devious recesses of that marvelous device. Some creameries are trying to blow this starter out after the cream reaches the factory. I am not pre- pared to say that there is no virtue in either of these plans, for I have not tried them, preferring to let the other fellow do that kind of experimenting, but my can- did opinion is that the time to pasteurize is before tbe cream becomeB sour and if that is done theie will be no need of blow- ing it and the question of quality will be solved for good and all. The Interests Should be Mutual. The last census informs us that the percentage of American farms operated by tenants ie thirty-five, or more than one-thi'd The increase in twenty years amounts to 10 per cent, and since 1S90, of 7 per cent, showing that the rate of in- crease is growing higher ae time passes. This shows that we are drifting toward a system of landlordism. It is not denied that tenant farming is bad for the farm, and that farms worked by tenants not only do not increase in value, but often decrease in value compared with farms worked by owners. The common custom of landlords is to spend ae little of money or labor as possible to make the farm at- tractive to the better class of tenants. What is wanted is the cash where money rent is stipulated or tl e lion's share of the crop when that is the agreed rental. Therefore tbe less the landlord spends in making the farm a good one, the greater his net profit at the end of the lease. Some landlords provide all needed con- veniences for their tenants, such as com- fortable houses, vegetable gardens, fruit trees, poultry house6, lots, Btables and pens for live Btock, with a little ornamen- tation about the tenement thereon to please the wife and children. On farms thus managed the best tenants will be found, and they remain until ready to move into a home of their own and culti- vate their own acres. The tenant of the skin-flint landlord has to change his place and his landlord before be will be able to buy a home. There are many ways in which the landlord may benefit his tenant while benefiting himself. He can counsel with him, unselfishly advise him. He can furnish him reading matter that will in- crease his crope, for farmers as well as farms need fertilizing. He should advise the tenant to take good agricultural papers, to attend and participate in farmers' institutes, and in every way he can encourage bim to do better farming. For, between landlord and tenant there should be such a community of inter- est that what is fofthe benefit of one, is also for the benefit of the other. — Fann and Ranch. When more eggs than chickens are desired the proper kinds of fowls must be kept to produce them, while if an abundance of meat is wanted different breeds must be kept. — Texas Farm. If you have no ice this summer, by a separator. It can be bought cheaper tban ice can be handled, anyway. SEPTEMBER 5, 1903^ &he gveeitev tmii &pavi&ntan 18 Dehorning Dairy Cattle. A bulletin on the dehorning of stock. No. 78, has been gotten out by Prof. G. F. Doane, of the Maryland agricultural experiment station. Some of the points of interest are are as follows : The first dehorning in this country, on a large scale of which there is any record, was done by an Illinois farmer, who was engaged in the production of beef cattle. Previous to this there has been suffi- cient experience in the neces.ary Burgical work of veterinarians to know that the horns would be removed from a mature animal without any particular danger to its life. At different places in Europe, dehorning had been practiced for a num- ber of years and it is very likely that it was the reports from these places that first led to the practice in this country. It was not long after the first dehorn- ing in Illinois that its advanlages were realized and the practice spread rapidly. The beef herds were the first dehorned, and then the dairy herds, as it was seen that, at times, horns were a disadvantage among milking stock. The idea spread east and west, to some extent, and now, in any part of the country, herds of de- horned cattle are a familiar sight; while, in the middle West, among the large beef amount of butterfat produced by the cows was as much or more than it would have been had the cows not been dehorned. At another time &t the same station, twelve cows were dehorned at a loss of 5 per cent in the total yield of milk six days after dehorning, and a gain of 4 per cent in the total amount of fat produced in the same time. A record of the weights of the cows before and after showed practically no loss due to the cperation. At the Minnesota station nine cows produced 7 per cent less .rnilk in three milkings following dehorning than they had given in the three previous milkings, and produced 3 per cent less total butter- fat in the same period. Six cows which had been kept where they could see the excitement and smell the blood, lost 3 per cent in their milk yield and 1 per cent in their total butterfat in the same time, showing that the slight loss of the dehorned cows was due prrtially to ex- citement. A weak feature in this record was that three milkings were selected, making two nights' and one morning's milking in one period, and two mornings' and one night's milking in the other period. Cows seldom give the same at morning and night, and the test nearly always varies at these two milkings. At the Georgia station nine cows made the cows came back to their natural flow | of milk in less than a week, often in two days. Judging from this there is no amount of pain suffered by the cow, and practically no loss in product resulting from the operation. It must be empha- sized that as far as our knowledge of the dairy cow goes at the present da<-, we would be practically sure that any pro- tracted pain, or any great physical shock, would lead to a material reduction in the amount of milk produced. It seems that the excitement of struggling with the cows operated on, and handling them in a manner to which they are not accustomed, is almost as operative in reducing the milk flow as the dehorning itself. latter preferably. The calves are taken at seven to ten days o'd. and at first are fed twice a day on a ration of three pounds whole milk and one-half pound of the above mixture, in a few days— four to seven, depending on how the calf thrives it is put on the full ration of calf meal. Wheat flour tends to keep the bowels from becoming too loose. Cocoanut meal con- tains 20 per cent protein and 9 per cent fat. C. G. F. Raising Calves Without Milk. It is an extremely unwite policy to feed for veal or for beef the heifer calves from valuable and good milking cows. There are far too many unprofitable cows in the country, and the heifer calyes from good milkers onght to be grown to take the place of their mothers when their days of usefulness shall cease, and also to replace the poor cows. As milk is an article of diet in increasing demand, many farmers are desirous of getting the calves off their natural food as early as possible, and the , Dairy Pointers. You cannot clean dirty milk. Clean milk never comes from a dirty can. Sal soda is better than soap for cleaning dairy utensils. Care of milk and cream has much to do with price received for butter. You cannot get milk from a starved cow. Unless your cows turn their feed into milk instead of beef, they have no place in the dairy ba.m. —Eptiomisl. In buying a flock of sheep be sure to get strong, healthy animals. Do not buy sheep that have been fed for show. They have been overstimulated and you can't keep them up to it. :>>,:^m0"' ■ PWHCESS UV ^rABWIXUT A Famous Holstein Cow raisers and even among the dairymen, the great majority of the herds are dehorned. Especially is this true among trie working i heads of cattle. In show herds the con- sideration of the natural appearance of the animal retains the horns. At a number of the experiment stations exact records of the daily milk yield be- fore and after dehorning have been kept. In a few instances the per cent of butter- 1 fat has also been noted at each milking! for a few days before and after dehorning, and from these we can make a pretty fair eetimate of the effect of dehorning on the dairy cow. At the Wisconsin experiment station a record of ten cows was kept for the four milkings before dehorning, and for milk- ings immediately following dehorning. The ten gave 289 3 pounds in the four milkings before, and 243 6 pounds in the four milkingB after dehorning— a loss of 45.7 pounds or 16 per cent. Each cow was tested much lower the milking immedi- ately after dehorning than it had tested the two milkings before dehorning. But the test gradually increased until it was much higher than it had been in the milk- ings previous to dehorning, and the actual an actual gain in milk yield the day fol- lowing dehorning. At the Tennessee tastion, nineteen cows were dehorned, and in ten days they lost only 34.2 pounds of milk from a total previous ten days' yield of 2,784.8 pounds. The New York station, at Cornel), found that five cows loBt an average of a pound a dav for four days following dehorning. Seven cows not dehorned lost an average of one-half pound a day in the same time. One of the dehorned cows lost an average of four pounda per day in the record time. At the North Dakota station fourteen cows were dehorned. Most of them fell off in their milk slightly, but gained in percent of butter fat, and at the fourth milking all were back to their normal flow. The fourteen cows made about one pound less in the two days following de- horning than they bad made in the two previous days. From these reports it appears that there is a very small percentage of loss in the total amount of milk produced, and very little, if any. loss in the total fat produced in the first few milking9 following dehorn- ing. In the majority of recorded trials problem to be solved is how to keep and grow the young animals. S-everal excellent calf meals and milk substitutes are on the market, and a man may now sell all his milk and still raise the calves from his best cows, so as to build up and strengthen his own herd, and also supply better material, if he has it, to his. neighbors for the same purpose. Some persons, however, prefer their own mixtures. The following formula will make a very fair milk substitute, Flour 16-- pounds, linseed meal 33*3 pounds, finely crushed linseed cake fifty pounds. Two and a half pounds of this mixture per day will be required for each calf. Scald it in boiling water, then add enough more water to make two gallons, and add a little sugar and salt before feeding. As the result of a considerable amount of experimental work, the following mix- ture is said to give most satisfactory re- sults: Wheat flour, 30 pounds; cocoanut meal, 25 pounds; nutrium, 20 pounds; linseed meal, 2 pounds; dried blood, 2 pounds. One pound of this is added to six pounds of hot water, stirred for a few moments, allowed to cool to 100°, then fed to the calf from a pail or calf-feeder, the i FOR SALE. AflRIAM E .OWN SISTER TO BEN" F 2:11*. ■^* winner of ihe 2:17 race at Valleji>, Thursday, August )3in MIRIaM E is a very handsome large black marc, tWe years old. a natural pacer, and though worb-d but very llttlfl can »-hnw great speed She will be sold right Is a One roadster and a great prospect for a race mare. Is sound and all right every way. Apply to EDW. DTNKELSPIEL, Suisuo, Cal. NEW MODEL THE BEST IN THE WORLD. O'BRIEN & SONS Cor. Golden Gate Ave. and Polk St. SAX FBA>CISCO. CAL ®he ^veeitev ixtt& ^pnvt&tnan f September 6, 1903 THE BAYWOOD STUD THE BUNGALOW, SAN MATEO, CAL (Property o( John Pabeott, Esq.) devoted Exclusively to the Breeding and Training of ligh. Stepping Hackney-Bred Harness Horses WALTER SEALY, Manager. Hunt and Fish ALONG THE LINE OF THE .Dr.Smith^ r. viir. >♦*. ..-♦*. gfc ^fe £t£ i*ii'ii*i « # • The King of Race Horses I , # 4i SEARCHLIGHT 2:03 Ses. No. 33657. Will Make a Fall Season FROM AUG. 1 TO OCT. 1, 1903, AT PLEASANTON RACE TRACK. TERMS, $50 $ For further particulars address ED. MILLS, Pleasanton, Cal. ^ HARNESS. SADDLES, WHIPS, ROBES, and Turf Goods, ALWAYS THE BEST FOR THE MONEY. JEPSEN BROS CO..NC. Maxers of Fine Harness at REASONABLE Prices. 1145-1147 Market St. San Francisco CLEARING OUT SALES TUESDAY, SEPT. 29, 1903, AT 7145 P. M., BY ELECTRIC LIGHT At Fred. H. Chase & Co.'s Salesyard, 1732 Market Street, San Francisco. THE MEEK ESTATE, HAYWARDS, CAL., will sell all tha Standard- bred Horses belonging to the Estate, comprising 35 head. There are Ffllies, Mares and Geldings— 3 4, 5 and 6 years old— by MoKmney, Nutwood Wilkes. Welcome and William Harold, nearly all well broken to drive and all halter broken and gentle. The mares nave colts at foot by William Harold S:I3!4 and Welcome 2:10&, and have been bred back. Among them are the dam and a full sister to Janice a:U8^, a sister to Cricket 2:10 and many other highly bred ones. A fine lot of Shetland Ponies will also be sold to close out the horses belonging to the Estate. of Hon. JESSE D. CARR will, at this time, close out all its Trotting-bred Horses Th re are 25 head of Yearlings, Two-year-olds and Three-year-olds,; also a few highly bred Mures and Geldings; Also the grand young Stallirm BOODLE Jr. ty Boodle out of Nina B by Electioneer. He is one of the greatest young stock horses in California. The young stock is by Boodle Jr., Nutwood Wilkes and other good sires. THE SALE IS POSITIVE AND WITHOUT RESERVE. 3&~ Send for Catalogues. GABILAN STOCK FARM FRED. H. CHASE & CO. 1732 Market Street, Saa Francisco. rcrarcra BUSINESS COLLEGE 24 Post Street, San Francisco, Cal. The oldest, the largest, the most popular com- toerotal school on the Pacific Coast. 20,000 gradu- ates; 30 teachers: 70 typewriters; over 300 students annually placed in positions. Send for catalogue. £. V. HEALP. President. (I.ESSEE OF THE S. F. & N. P. R. K.) 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Gentle and Idnd and has been d iven by ladies to buggy. She is a fine roadster aDd with proper training will maltp a great race mare For pedigree and further particulars address W. L. MCDONALD, Concord, Cal. BLAKE, MOFFITT & TOWNE -DEALERS IN- HOLSTEINS— Winners of every 7 days' butter contest at State Fair 1899 1st & 2d for aged cows, *-yr.,3-yr. and 2-yr.-olds; 21 Jerseys and Durhams competing. 5th year my Holsteins have beaten Jerseys for butter. Stock for sale: also pigs. F. H. Burke, 80 Montgomery St. S. F. JKKsET!?,Hl»LsrhI.NS AND DUKHAM8. Dairy Stock specially. Hogs, Poultry. Estab- lished 1876. William Ntles & Co. Los Angeles, Cal. AVKSUIKES-Young Hulls, Cows and Heifers. Registered. From prize winning families. Brown * Brandon Petaluma Cal, 55 57-59-61 First Street, S. F. Telephone Main 199 PEDIGREES TABULATED And type written Ready for framing. Wri*-e for prices. Breeder and Sportsman, as Geary Street, San Francisco, Cal. COLLIES. The BEACH HILL Kennels 955 First St, San Jose CHAMPION HANOVER MONARCH (A. K. C. S. B. 59i»8) by tbe great sire Ch. Eiiwyn Astrologer from '*h Old Hall Moon. j-ee #15. Pictures and Pc-digree upon applica- tion. High-class Puppies for sale. FOR SALE. qpO MAKE ROOM FOR PUPPIES COMING -1- in from walk, a draft of SMOOTH Fox Terriers DOGS AND BITCHES. For prices and particulars apply Wandee Kennels 25th Ave. near Lake St. AT STUD FOR SALE. BROKEN DOGS Pointers and Setters Address W E. COUTTS. Kenwood. SoDoma Co., Cal. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS Advertisements under this head one cent per word •per insertion. Cash to armmpnny ordtr. ENGl ISH SETTERS. 9 ENGLISH SUTTER PUPPIES, WHEl PED ** May 2; black, white and tan; dam, Lads Swe-iheart (Count Dan~tone— Speckle Lady); si e V-ctor L Gladstone (Champion Gladstone Boy— Judo): high altitude for developing lungs; should make champions: sh poed on approval. Wrirp for pedigrees DIAMOND KENNELS, Box 205, Butte. Mont. TRTrn Po., Pointer Puppies and well-brokeD *t ' , Boarding. Dogs for sale °^ DOGS WITH PWNOE to curi men mm 5tandau>oh of ta* Mnd rot cncuuu. TunnoMuu we nu mnu ■STANDARD DISINFECTANT CO Cltvti&nd O BULL TERRIERS-FOX TERRIERS. AT STUD-CH WOODOOTE WONDER THE ■"- wor d's prem'er Bull Terrier Prize winning Wonder puppies: F..x Terrier » sir*-d by Norfolk Trueman: brnnd hitches inwh^lpand puppies for sale WoODLAWN KENNF.LS. G-»rv and Central Ave , San Francisco Phone: Baker SOf 1 pOLLIE PUPS FOR SALE— BY PRIZE ^--' winning Imported slrrs and dams, fli Tor bench raoebor farm Bnlh-exi-s PHrc- acrord- ingtoquallty Correspondpncp solicit* d: all In- ters ch^erfuilv aa*wer*-d THOS. S. GRIFFITH. Box 1907, Spokane, Wash. COCKER SPANIELS. AT STUD UNTIL SOLD - DELVERTON" ■**- CAPPI (Ch Hnmptno PrnmNp-Undini*). win- ner at Sao Francisco and Oakland !-h»w.4 Ad- dress C. DU JARDI.N. 201 Castro. San Francisco. NAIROD KENNELS- 132 NINTH AVENUE, n»-ar California Champion bred Cocker Spaniels at stud and for f-ale. T70R SALE-COCKER SPANTKl T by Ch. HamptoD Goldle. Apply at lut old county and Redwood roods, Frultvalo, A J.. 16 (&he gveeftev cmi* fgpcnctetncm [September 5, 1903 ORSE BOOTS 203-20- San Francisco, CaL^0^ Cablegram to President Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, London, July 11, 1903. American Rifles. AMMUNITION and Men won victory to=day over Great Britain, Canada, France, Norway, Australia and Natal, and bring back Palma trophy. (Signed) LIEUT. ALBERT S. JONES, (Copied from th. n. T. Herald.) Secretary of the National Rifle Association of America. THIS SWEEPING VICTORY for America and the Extraordinary Score of 1670 ont of a Possible 1800 were made with 30-40 Regular Factory Cartridges, Manufactured by the UNION METALLIC CARTRIDGE COMPANY Selected after Exhaustive Trials, by the American Team, In Preference to All Others for their Wonderful and Extreme Accuracy. SCORES ARE IMPROVED BY USING U. M. C. AMMUNITION THE UNION METALLIC CARTRIDGE COMPANY Pacific Coast Branch Depot l86-88^.8^1'^.^^^01800 AMMUNITION, RIFLES AND SHOTGUNS PACIFIC COAST AGENCY: 127-135 FIRST STREET. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. A. MULIjEFI, Agent. The World's Greatest Shooting Record FRED GILBERT, of Spirit Lake, la., since Jan. 1,1902, has shot in competition at 5765 Targets, breaking 5532 or 95.9 per cent, using a PARKER GUN AT SHOT AT BROKE PER CENT Natchez, Mies 400 396 ...... 99 Fort Dodge, la 300 296 98.6 Lakefield, Minn 205 203 99 Sioux City, la 360 351 97 Dubuque, la 360 351 97 5 THE "OLD RELIABLE" IS RELIABLE. PARKER BROTHERS MERIDEN, CONN Send tor catalogue. N. Y. Salesroom; 32 Warren St Du Pont Gun Powder SMOKELESS, SHOT GUN and 01 , „ MILITARY POWDER Black Powder for Sporting and Blasting Purposes The Reputation of a Hundred Yean U the Guarantee of DU PONT POWDER * B^9 Mi«8ion St., Boom 311, San Fraaclaoa, Cal. You can get these Smokeless Powders in SELBY FACTORY . . LOADED SHELLS DU PONT " E. C." SCHULTZE HAZARD SHOTGUN RIFLEITE BALLISTITE LAFLIN & RAND "INFALLIBLE." What More do you Want? O. A. HAISHT, Ajraat. Clabrough, Golcher & Go. GUNS /ffe£«, FISHING Gun Goods W Oimd for Gtt&lofiM, Tackle 030 MARKET STREETS. F. SMITH GUNS LONGEST STRAIGHT RUNS ^^ At S. F. Trap Shooting Association May 22—23— 34— 2S VAUGHN, - - 73 Straights FEUDNKR, - G3 « Also longest straight run and first monies at live birds All Kinds of Ammunition Hunter Arms Co., Fulton, N. Y. PHIL. B. BEKEART CO., San Francisco, Coast Representative Catalog on application to CC NEW "E. C." NEW "SCHULTZE" SHOTGUN RIFLEITE -«..«,«<, » THE AMERICAN "E. C." and "SCHULTZE" Gunpowder Co.,Lti. PHIL. B. BEKEART CO., Paclflo Coait RepreiSDt»tiT«, TOX. VTTTT. No. 11. 36 GIABY STREET. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1903. SUBSCRIPTION THREE DOLLARS A TEAR ^w^^^@^ 5u> THE GOLDEN TROPHY. Offered by the Gentlemen'B Driving Club of Cleveland, Ohio. Valued at $5000. Contains about $2000 worth of fine gold— nearly ten pounds. Must be won three times by the same club. Won first time, September 1, 1903, for Cleveland Club, by The Monk 2:05?, driven by Mr. C. K. G. Billings. $ ADDED. For Two-year-olds. Entrance *o; *25 addi- JOndlOaU C1UD olaKCS. tional to start. iiuO added, of which £*Q to second andSiOto third. Winners of a stake ol the value of $1000 to carry 3 lbs ; of two of any value. 5 lbs extra Non- winners of a stake allowed 3 lbs.; and if such have not won three races. 5 lbs; two races. 8 lbs. Maidens. 15 lbs Five and a half forloDga TL- rUondnf Collin rr CtaL'^c 8400 ADDED For Three-j ear-olds and upward Ine tnaOSlOr Selling MaKeS. Entrance 15: K5 additional to start. *t00 aaded, of which $60 to second and S40 to third The winner to be sold at auction. Those entered to be sold for *IS00 to carry weight for age. Allowances: lib for eachSlOO to?1000; then21bs. for each $100 to-3300 Winners of a race of the value of *900,orof two races other than selling purses after the closing of this stakes not to be entered for less than £800. Starters to be named with selling price, through the entry box the day preceding the race, at the usual time of closing. Seven furlongs The Pasadena Stakes. ft£° tSJXXk The Long Beach Handicap. For all ages. Entrance ?5: *25 additional to added, of which *60 to second and $40 to third Two- year-olds to carry 100 lbs , three-year-olds. 115 lbs : four-year-olds and upward, 120 lbs Non-winners of a race of SoOO in value this year allowed 5 lbs: ot £300. 8 lbs. Maidens, 13 lbs. Allowances not accumulative- Six furlongs Thp Mntr HanHiran 8400 ADDED. For thr«e-year olds and upwaid Entrance 1UC 1HUU lldliuiiau. ;5: ?35 additional to start £400 added, of which ?«0 to second and *40 to third Weights to be announced at 10 a. m. tha day before the race. Winners of other than a selling purse race after the announcement of the weights to carry 5 lbs. extra. One mile and a sixteenth S400 ADDED. For all ages. Entrance $5; 525 ad* ditional to start- *i00 added, of which *» to second and $40 to third. Weights to be announced at 10 a. m. the day before the race. Winners of other than a selling purse race after the announcement of the weights to carry 5 lbs extra. Six furlongs Thp Canta Anita Hanrliran 840P ADDED. For three-years-old and upward IDC ;>dll id Alllld lldllULLdp. Entrance so: $25 additional to start. $40u added. Weights to be announced two days before the race Winners of other than a selling purse race after the announcement of the weights to carry 5 lbs. extra. One mile and a furlong J. W. BROOKS, Overnight Handicaps and Special Races to Suit All Classes of Horses. Send all communications to President. CAPT. THOS. B. MERRY, Secretary, ROOK 506 BBADBCRV BUILDING. LOS ANGELES, CAL. Budd Doble, Scott Hudson Monroe Salisbury, Ed Geers, Doc Tanner, Millard Sanders and M. E. McHenry DrJmhfrs ita Under Electric Light! AUCTION SALE OF TROTTING HORSES I Consisting of Sons and Daughters of McKinney 2:11 1-4, Diablo 2:09 1-4, Truman 2:12. Hart Boswell, Advertiser 12:15 1-4, Richards Elector, LustridoD, El Benton, Good Gift, Etc. Some of the Finest Ever Offered in California. This is a splendid opportunity to get some of the best bred as well as the finest looking young- sters (all well broken) to be sold this year. Catalogues will be issued immediately. Any one having horses they wish to dispose of at This great sale will have an opportunity by sending to me for blanks and terms of sale This will be one of the best sales to be held, and as it will take place after the StateFair closes and before the Breeders meeting at Pleasanton begins, ownersshould not hesitate to list their horses. The fine location, splendid box stalls, and myriads of electric lights and magnificent pavilion with its 1000 chairs where all visitors can see these horses offers advantages not approached by any other sales place west of Chicago. Sale will take place MONDAY EVENING, SEPT. 14, 1903. &K OCCIDENTAL HORSE EXCHANGE, 246 Third St , near Folsom, San Francisco WM. G. LAYNG. Auctioneer. ! Horses at salesyard Sept. 12th. Cures Pain the great (California Liniment FOR Aches and Pains Lameness and Soreness BECAUSE IT'S THE BEST MONEY CAN BUY FOR MAN OR BEAST. WONT YOU TRY IT? 2=oz Bottles, 50c; 6=oz size, $1.00: Quart cans, $3.00. AH Druggists and Harness Dealers, or VITA OIL CO., 1533 Buchanan St., San Francisco. J. A. MoKerron and J. O'Kane, Agts PALACE HOTEL, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA. TOURISTS and TRAVELERS will, now, with difficulty recognize the famous COURT into which for twenty-five years carriages have driven. This space of over a quarter of an acre has recently, by the addition of very handsome furniture, rags, chandeliers and tropical plants, been converted into a lounging room— the FINEST IX THE WORLD. The EMPIRE PARLOR— the PALM ROOM, furnished in Cerise, with Billiard and Pool tables for the ladies— the LOUIS XV PARLOR the LADIES WRITING ROOM and numerous other modern improvements, together with the unexcelled Cuisine and the Most Convenient Location in the City— all add much to the ever increasing popularity of this most famous HOTEL. LAME Loured $ v CURBS, SPLINTS, SPAVINS, WINDPUFFS, — and all enlargements, absolutely removed by— QUINN'S Ointment. It has the unqualified endorsement of our lead- ing horsemen and veterinarians. Me, C. E. DrSEHABT, Cashier Slate Bant, Slayton, Minn., says: "One bottle cored a very bad case of blood spavin on a mare for vhicb I have since been offered 3*mj. I would not be without it if it cost $5.00 a bottle." Wekaceh. idreds of rue&UJKimonials, a $1.00 per packace. Ask yonr Drajrgist forit. oes not keep it, we vrillVend prepaid on receipt of pri .V. B. EDDY A. CO., Whitehall. S. Y. Pedigrees Tabulated ^T^^^l^^ Sportsman, 36 Geary ■treat, San Francisco, Cal. Awarded Gold Medal At California State Fair 1893. Every horse owner who values his stock should constantly have a sup- ply of it on hand. It improves and keeps -■;■::> in the pink of condition. Tiaabattaa Food Co RfT j"\ DAI I OD A M r\ ! 353 Folsom St., San Francisco C- U QMLL DnMllU. a st your grocers or dealers for it. Positively Cures Colic, Scouring and Indigestion. C. P. KI'KTELL, Manager September 12, 1903] ®he gveeisev anb gftwrtsmtm THE WEEKLY BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN P. W. KELLEY, Pbopbdtiok. rurf and Sporting Authority ot the Pacific Coast. — office — 36 QEARY STREET, SAN FRANCISCO. P. O- BOX 2300. Telephone: Blacfe 586. TermB— One Tear 83, Six Months 81.75. Three Months 81 STRICTLY LN ADVANCE. Money snould be sent by postal order, draft or by registered letter addressed to F. W. Kelley, 36 Geary St., San Francisco. Cal. Communications must be accompanied by the writer's name and address, not necessarily for publication, but as a private guarantee of good faith. San Francisco, Saturday, Sept. 12, igo3. PRESIDENT BEN F. RUSH of the California State Agricultural Society expresses the opinion that seven days at the most is a long enough time for racing at the State Fair to continue each year. Prof. Carlyle who came here from Colorado to judge the cattle exhibits at the State Fair says that two weeks is too long to keep the aDlmals penned in the sheds at Agricultural Park; that one week is long enough •and would draw a larger list of entries. This journal has been agitating a one-week State Fair for some time and it begins to look as if the next fair will not be for more than seven days. The program of racing given at the fair this year, had it been put into six days would have been very satisfactory to the horse- men and the spectators, as all the made-up skate races would have been eliminated. The present Board of Directors contemplate many imDrovements and innovations next year which they could not bring about this year owing to the fact that vacancies on the Board were unfilled until too late to accomplish anything. They have saved many thousands of dol- lars in expenses, however, and it is barely possible that the fair will not 6how a deficit this year as has been the almost constant rule for years past. A good fair of one week with the syndicate booking elimin- ated and no races given, either running or trotting, except those that are regularly filled before the fair opens, will make the State Fair a popular and profit- able institution. a number by the great Nutwood Wilkes, and by Dic- tatus, Lottery, Ecce, Mambrino Jr., Fairmont and Thor, a son of Electioneer. There has not been a sale held in years for which so many applications have come in for catalogues as breeders recognize that few such opportunities as this sale affords are ever offered. The catalogues will be ready by the first of next week. Send your name and address to Fred H. Chase & Co., 1732 Market street, San Francisco, if you want one. Remember that the sale will take place by electric light on Tuesday evening, September 29th. THE SACRAMENTO TRACK has been in better shape this year than for many seasons. It has been often said that the old track was worn out and that it would never again be fast until it was entirely recoated with new soil. A few weeks before the fair opened, however, "Pap" Jones of Fresno arrived at the Capital city with a track machine of his own in- vention. He showed it to Director Wilson who super- intends the track this year, and Mr. Wilson imme- diately concluded it was worth a trial and put Mr. Jones at work. The machine and Jones and Wilson made a great combination, as the track has been fast and good throughout the two weeks of harness and running races. As iB usual, about ten or twelve feet of the track has been cut up next the pole for the runners and this has made the harness horses go a long mile which has prevented them making as fast time as they otherwise were capable of. There has been little complaint from any of the horsemen, however, except the owners of a few "dickey legged" runners who wanted the whole width of the track harrowed deeply to accommodate their skates. It is very noticeable, however, that in every running race the sound horses are invariably taken out on the hard part of the stretch when they are being ridden out to win. The mare Divina that took the record for mares last Monday, by running a mile in 1:38}, ran her mile on the hard ground the most of the distance. CATALOGUES WILL BE READY by the first of the week for the big sale of horses from the Meek estate and the Gabilan Stock Farm. There are sixty horses catalogued in all, and we can say without reserve that a better looking, better bred or more useful lot of horses has never been consigned to a sale in California. The Meek estate horses are thirty-five in number and by such stallions as McKin- ney, Direct, Hawthorne, Guide, Richards Elector, Sidney, Fallis, Wm. Harold, Welcome, Azmoor and Steinway. The Gabilan farm sends twenty-five to the Bale, including that very handsome and grandly bred young horse Boodle Jr., that in good hands can earn from 81000 to $2000 yearly in the stud, as his breeding and conformation are of the sort to attract the patronage of those who breed for good looks, sub- stance and size as well as speed. Besides several young horBes by Boodle Jr., Mr. Carr has consigned "yHAT ELECTIONEER BLOOD cannot be kept * back. Now comes Major Delmar, a grandson of the old hero of Palo Alto and trots the Syracuse track in 2:011, putting him second to none but Lou Dillon and three-quarters of a second ahead of the mighty Cresceus who now standB third in the list of the fastest trotters. Major Delmar is a six year old gelding and is by Del Mar 2:I6J, son of Electioneer and the great brood mare Sontag Dixie, dam of five in the list. Sontag Dixie was by Toronto Sontag, out of Dixie, a daughter of the thorough- bred horse Billy TowneB. Dixie's dam was by the thoroughbred Sir Charles, son of Sir Archy. Del Mar was a horse bred by the late Senator Stanford according to his idea of having the thorough- bred close up, as in Palo Alto 2:08| and others. That Lou Dillon, a mare with a largequantity of thorough- bred blood in her veins has been the first to reach the two minute mark and Major Delmar the son of a horse bred that way, holds the next fastest record, is a pretty good vindication of the Senator's theories of breeding. OWNERS OF RUNNERS Bhould not forget that entries to the stakes offered by the Los Angeles Racing Association will close September 19th which falls on Wednesday next. There are seven stakes. The Los Angeles Derby has $500 added, the others have $400 added. The meeting opens October 10th and ends on the 31st. No bar will be placed on horses starting at this meeting by any other association. Ben F.'s Record. Ben F. the first 2:10 hor3e of the year in California is nearly twelve years old and from his behavior since coming into Fred Chadbourne's hands no one would imagine that he was once a bad actor. It is said that he was not half so bad as he has been painted, how- ever, and that two or three runaways when a young- ster are the extent of his bad behavior. However, a good story is told in this connection by President Ben. F. Rush of the State Agricultural Society who bred this pacer and for whom he was named. Mr. Rush states that while a number of visitors to the State Fair this year were passing around the stalls inspecting the horses a group of ladies and gentlemen stopped in front of Ben. F.'s stall. After admiring him and being told that he won every start he had made this year, one of the ladies asked : 11 What is his record? ' ' A swipe from one of the stables ffhose horse had been shut out by the son of Bradtmoor in one of the races, and who knew of his former record for smash- ing things, immediately answered the lady's query as follows: "Eighteen buggies, three carts, and the Lord knows how many sulkies." It is needless to add that the swipe exaggerated a little, but "the laugh went round." The beBt drivers sometimes do things that make them look like amateurB, says the Morse World. During the Buffalo meeting two of the best known and most skillful drivers following the Grand Circuit, each lOBt a race by turning to Bee what was going on in the rear. In each case the look back was taken in the stretch during a heat that, if won, would have given the race to the driver who looked back. A young driver, fresh from the half-mile tracks, would have been laughed at had he acted similarly, but few seemed to notice these experts when they lost races in this manner. « There is a grandly bred young colt running at the Bide of its dam at Nutwood Stock Farm. The mare is the property of James Faris, Jr., of Sacramento, and was bred at Palo \lto Farm. Her name is Edith and she iB by Geo. Wilkes, one of that great aire's few remaining daughters. She is the dam of Idolita 2 :09| and also of the Bire Hummer. The colt at her side is by Monbells. son of Mendocino and Beautiful Bells. Edith is 22 years old but is a vigorous mare and was bred to Nutwood Wilkes this year. * The person who buys the gray pacing mare Mono- gram 2 :24J that will be offered at the sale of Hon. Jesse D. Carr's horBes in this city, Tuesday evening, September 29tb, will get a pacer that but very few will head on the road. She has a regular whirlwind brush of speed, and can show a quarter in 30 seconds almost any time. She is a straight, easy goer, a nice driver and has a perfectly clean set of legs that are as hard as nails. The sale is at 1732 Market street, by electric light. Golden Gate Park Driving Club Races. A good program of harness racing was given by the Golden Gate Park Driving Association at Tan- foran Park on Wednesday, September 9th. The main event was to have been the match race between F. P. Plageman's bay gelding Gen. Vallejo and Edw. Aigeltinger's bay gelding Dolador for $500 a side. Mr. Plageman's horse was lame and was taken from the track the day before Dolador was ready to race and waa driven around the track by Job. Cuicello. Mr. Aigeltinger was awarded the race and claims the money which is his by all rules. The summary of the day'6 racing is aa follows: Three-minute class— First heat, Old Guy won, Miss Washington second, Fred T. third. Time, 2:48. Sec- ond heat, Bane order. Time, 2:38; purse $115. Second race, 2:25 class— First heat, Sandow won, Mack second, Delia McCarthy third, Ethel H. fourth. Time, 2:21£. Second heat, Delia McCarthy won, Mack second, Ethel H. third. Sandow fourth. Time, 2:223; purse $175. Third, match race between E. H. Aigeltinger's Dolador and F. P. Plageman's General Vallejo, given to Dolador by default. Fourth, 2:30 class— First heat, Victor won, Lafay- ette second, Victor Ivy third. Time 2:31. Second heat, Ivy won, Lafayette second, Victor distanced. Time, 2:32J. Third heat, Ivy won, Lafayette second, Victor third. Time, 2:3H. Betting was conducted by means of a mutual box, ticketB being sold for $2 each. Old Guy paid $2.85 and $2.65; Sandow, $4.25 and $3 90, the field in the second heat paying $6.45; Victor, $3.40, and the field the same in the second heat, Ivy being a prohibitive favorite in the last. The following persons served as officers: Judges, G. L. Swett, L. Richardson, W. Thompson: starter, R. Ledgett; timers, A. B. Spreckels, I. B. Dalziel, T. Crowley; marshal, John Holland; secretary, Fred W. Thompson. The New Track at Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Express of last Tuesday contained the following : "This morning work was begun on the foundation for the new steel grandstand to be erected at Ascot Park, on Slauson avenue. This is to be the central figure at this new place of amusement, and it will be the finest in the country. It will cost about $75,000. The stand will face east, extending 300 feet along the track, and is to be 107 feet wide. Inside the building will be lavatories and dressing rooms for women, a club room for men and a thoroughly equipped restaurant where meals will be served at all times. North of the grandstand, and connected with it by a covered walk, will be the saddling paddock. Opposite the stand, and from thirty to fifty feet from the outside fence of the track will be the row of barns for horses. There will be twenty-five of these barns, several of them containing twenty stalls and the others forty stalls. They will be perfectly ventilated and a trainer or owner can stand in the doorway of the stall and watch a race around the track. Fifteen of these barns are practically completed and the framework is up for five more. It is expected that the park will be in condition for the opening Christmas day, and it will represent an expenditure of more than $250,000, exclusive of the cost of 160 acres of land. The park will be reached by five electric car lines, and it is probable that two or three of these will be run into the grounds to a point within 100 feet of the grand stand. These lines touching the park are the Maple avenue, Central avenue, Main street, San Pedro street and Long Beach. Ample provision has been made against fire, as the club owns the water works on the ground, and it will be used for irrigating purposes as well as for fire pro- tection. The barns are being built in an orchard of walnut trees, and these will be irrigated. Lawns are being laid out, and the entire park will be beautified in every way. J. W. Brooks, manager of the asso- ciation, hae been East, where he arranged for a large number of the fast and famous horses of the country to race here this winter. He promises that the meet- ing at Ascot Park will surpass any ever given on the coast." » The Fastest Running Mare. The State Fair this year has developed the fastest running mare in the United States. This is Divina, a four year old brown filly bred by John Mackay, Superintendent of the Rancbo del Paso. She is by the imported sire Bassetlaw and her dam is Angelique by imported Darebin or Warwick, second dam Alti- tude by Alarm, third dam Beresina by Kentucky. Divina ran a mile on Monday laBt with 106 pounds up in 1:38} and on Thursday carrying 114 pounds won the mile handicap in 1:39 eased up. CALIFORNIA STATE FAIR. Tuna, Winner of Occident Stake, Also Wins the Stanford. The Breeder and Sportsman's report of the racing at the State Fair closed last week with the third day's program. On ThurEday, the /ourth day, there was hut ODe harness event, the 2:11 class trot, in which four horses faced the starter. In scoriDg Tom Smith had the pole, but was behind when the word was given and went to a break and got the flag in the first heat. Ole, the gelding by Silas Skinner owned by Grace Brothers of Santa Rosa; won the race in straight heats, with Forrest W. second and Rozelle third. There was nothing particularly start- ling about the race, except that Ole cut his record to 2:15.'. in the second heat and trotted the third in the same notch. THURSDAY, SEPT. 3D. Trotting. 2:11 class, purse $500. Ole, bg. by Silas Skinner. Eveline by Nutwood... (Qumij) 1 l 1 Forrest W, b g. by Wayland W (McDonald) a 3 2 Rozelle grg. by Bob Mason 05K.l,,e,) 2 2 3 Tom Smith, b h, by McKinney (Zibble) d Time— 2:16, 2:1514, 2:154. RUNNING. Four and a hall furlongs, selling, purse 1225-Dusty Rhodes, ch c. by Magnet-Oeneva, 106 (Frawlnj).2 to 1 won; Dr. Birdsall 106 (See). 2 to 1, second; Doris, 108 (Tullett) 2 to I. third Time0:o6S4. Pat Bulger, Easier Lady, Homeric and Maude Browne also ran. One mile. Grove L. Johnson stake, selling— Hagerdon. b g, by Esher-Lady Richmond. 106 (Burk), 11 to 5, won; Horatius, 107 (Powell). 3 to 1. second; Kitty Kelly, 99 (Chandler). 3 to 1, third. Time, l:40!s Ora Viva Anvil and Heather Honey also ran. Di- vina left at post. Five furlongs, selling, purse $225— Metlakatla, b f, by Brutus- Imp. Miowera, 97 (Jackson), 8 to 5, won; Jack Richelieu Jr., Ill (Powell), 3S to I, second; Elfin King, 107 (Henderson), 11 to 10, third Time, 1:01K- Light Braid, Miss Dividend, Duke and Buck Taylor also ran. Seven furlongs, selling, purse $225— Dolly Weithofl", b m. by Dark Days-Annie Myers, 110 (Frawley), 8 too, won; Chileno, 110 (Hen- derson), 2 to 1, second; Davis S, 110 (Chandler), 4 to 1. third. Time, 1:37. Malplaquet, Troy and Flamero also ran. Seven furlongs, selling, purse $225— Teufel, c g, by Foul Shot- Amelia May, 115 (Frawley) 2 to 1, won: Wandering Boy. 115 (Powell), 3 to 2. second: Isabellas. 106 (See), 2 to 1, third Time. 1:28J4. Flamolo, Strombolets. Vonzollern and Chenano also ran. FRIDAY, SEPT. 4TH. There were two good harness races on Friday. George G. was the winner of the first, the 2:24 class trot, in straight heats. He did not have to equal his Fetaluma record by three seconds, but he showed that he outclasses all the trotters on the circuit against which he has thus far started or probably will start this year. In the second race, for pacers of the 2:13 class, six horses started. Banker's Daughter, by a streak of good luck, got to the front and won the heat in 2:15. The next three heats went to Demonio, the brother to Diablo that had won a heat in 2:11J on the first day of the fair and was afterwards withdrawn from the race. Demonio won on Friday very handily, how- ever, a9 his field did not seem able to make him step anywhere near his limit. The summaries: Trotting, 2:24 class, purse $1000. George'.G., b g. by Homeward-dam by Junio. ..(Albertson) 1 1 1 Jupiter B., b g. by Gen Beverley (Ward) 5 3 2 RoBie Woodburn, b m, by Easter Wilkes (Carlin) 6 2 3 Sutter, b s, by Noonday (Donnelly) 2 4 4 Deputy, ch g, by Derby Ash (Whitehead) 5 3 5 Telephone, b g, by Direct (Frellson) 4 d Tlme-2:16K, 2:15H' 2:16^. Pacing, 2:13 class, purse $500. Demonio, b h, by Charles Derby-Bertha (Hoy) 4 111 Banker's Daughter, b m, by Arthur Wilkes — (Croner) 14 4 2 Colonel Smith, ch g. by Red Regent (Maben) 3 2 3s Penrose, b g, by Falrose (Martin) 3 2 3s Smuggler, b g, by Waldsteln (Norton) 5 3d Pinky H., ch m, by Desterwood (Zibble) 6 d Time— 2:15, 2:14, 2:16«, 2:204. RUNNING Five furlongs, selling, purse $225— J. T. S , b g, by King William- Miss Modred 106 (Tullett) 8 to 1 won: Piratical 106 (Jackson) 2 to 3 socond; Maude Browne 93 (Chsndler) 6 to 1 third. Time, 1:0131. Gsddls. Ssmar and Pst Bulger also ran Four and one-half furlongs, selling, purse $225 — Hercules, oh g, by Kit Carson Jr , unkowon 1 16 (Frawley) 3 to 2 won; Annie Marie 94 (Hlldebrand) 2to 1 second: Maresa 113 (Chandler) 3 to 2 third. Time, 0:544. Meteors snd Gold Scrstch slso rsn. Five and one-half furlongs, selling, purse $225— Dwlghtway, ch g, by The Judge-Malakawao 110 IBoxeman) 6to 1 won; Legsl Maxim 110 (Tullett) S to 5 second; Quidado 110 (Slaughter) 5 to 2 third. Time. 1:08^. Siaro, Merwan, St. Wilda. Flamolo and Buok Taylor also ran. - One mile, selling, purse $225— Camhaceres, blk g, by Idalium- Candldll2 (Powell) 8 to 5 won; David S. 113 (Chandler) 3 to 1 second: Iras 99 (Hlldebrand) 5 to 1 third. Time, 1:41^ Tamm, Tanae, Bill Young and Illawaho also ran SATURDAY, SEPT. 5TH. The closing day of the first week of the State Fair did not draw the usual Saturday crowd. There was but one harness race, while six running events were on the card. It cannot be said that "the runners draw the crowd," as they don't — at the State Fair at least. The harness race brought out a good field of pacers as $1000 was the purse for horses of the 2:20 class. For some reason or other Miss Georgie was made favorite, but those who have watched this mare at her races believe she is Dot the mare she was at Pleasanton prior to the opening of the circuit, and there is little warrant in making her favorite over Ben F. Eleven horses started and to the surprise of n >arly every one present Walter Maben's gelding Ira by Iri9 won the first heat in 2:10A, and every horse of 1 he eleven was inside the flag. Jenesa Basler was econd, Ben F. third, The Mrs. fourth, and the others unched up pretty well in the rear. Every horse in the race went a good mile in this heat. The hand- some horse Allendale was placer* tenth, yet he went the mile a shade better than 2:13. After the Erst heat Ben P. being in a good position, went out and made it three straight. Edwin S. made a good showing ia the race landing second twice and took third money. The race was an easy one for Ben F. after the first heat. Six running races concluded the day's sport. The summary: Pacing 2:20 class, purse $1000 Ben F, b g, by Bradtmooo, dam by Steinway ....,.„... (Chadbournej 3 111 Ira, b g, by Iris (Maben) 15 7 2 Edwin S. ch g, by Dr. Hicks (Daniels) 5 2 2 ro Jonesa Basler, blk s, by Robert Basler (Walton) 2 3 o ro The Mrs, bm, by Derby Ash (Whitehead) 4 6 8 ro Miss Georgie. brm by McKinney (Cecil) 6 7 4 ro Colonel C, b g. by Gienway (Liggett) 7 4 3 ro Swanhilde. b m. bv Orkney Wilkes (Owens) 8 9 10 ro Alendale, bg. by Falrose (Hoy) 10 8 6 ro Nance O'Neil.bm. by Pilot Prince (W Zibble) II 10 9 ro George, bg, by Loeber (Bu^hants) 9 11 w Time— 2:1014, 2:11, 2:13^, 2:15&. RUNNING Five furlongs, selling, purse $225— Pat Bulger, b c. by Prince Rudn] ph- Larksome, 108 ( Frawley ) , 20 to 1 . won: Ch arley Schwei t zer ill (Henderson). 8 to 5, second: Nora, 108, (Chandler), 3 to 1, third. Time. 1:03 Dusty Rhodes, Ruvia, Eva D and Doris also ran. Five furlongs, selling, purse $225— Elfin King, b h, by King William-Circe. Ill, (Jackson), 2 to I. won: Jack Richelieu Jr . 117, (Powell) 2 to 1, second: Jim Gore III. I IT. (Howson), 5 to 1, third Time, 1:02. Mamie. Nellie May, Honduran, Miss Dividend and Malplaquet also ran. Mile, selling. pursR $225— Dug Martin, bg, by Wernberg-Fallen Princess. 102, (Crosihwaite).Sto 1, won;Dr Sharb, 107. (Slaughter) 6 to I, second; Dwight Way. 112. (Bozeman),4 to l, third. Time, 1:43. Teufel and Dark Secret also ran. Six furlongs, selling, purse $225— Blissful, ch f. by Magnet-Bliss, 103 (Chandler), 6 to 5 won; Little Margaret, 98, (Jackson), 2% to 1, second; Blondura, 103, (Henderson). 20 to 1, third. Time, 1:13*4. St. Philliplna also ran. Seven furlongs, free handicap, purse $300— Horatius, b c, bv Odd-Fel low-Hind a, 108. (Powell), 4 to 5. won; Glendenning. 105, (Stuart), 6 to 5, second; The Miller, 100, (Hlldebrand), 4 to 1, third- Time, 1:38*4. Montebank also ran. One mile, selling, purse $225— Solon, b g, by Clerelad-Arelhusa, 112, (Howson), 2f.; to 1, won; Iilawaho, 113 (See), 7 to 5, second; Anvil, 102, (Hildebrand),3 to 1, third. Time. 1:41. Cambaceres and Iras also ran. MONDAY, SEPT. 7th. The Stanford Stake was the drawing card for the opening day of the second week of the fair. There were six starters in this event which had a value of $2210, divided into four moneys. By the conditions of this stake a horse distancing the field getB only first money and in no event can a horse get more than one money. Consequently Tuna, the winner, received hut 50 percent of the stake, or $1105, Swift B. that was second each heat got $552 50 and the balance of the stake $452.50 reverted to the State Agricultural Society. When the race was called six good looking three- year-olds scored for the word. It was conceded that Tuna, the James Madison filly, had the beat chance to win and she was made favorite although there was enough play on the others to give her backers even money against their wagerB. Tuna and Swift B. were the only ones that figured in the race when the summary was made up as all the rest were distanced. Zibble, the driver of Swift B., adopted the same tac- tics as in the Occident Stake. He hooked on to Tuna with Mb gelding and made her race from wire to wire. In the first heat the pace was a hot one for three-year-olds trotting out at least fifteen feet from the pole. Coming down the home stretch Swift B. was carried' to a break and Tuna won in 2:l(5o, the fastest time even made in either the Stanford or Oc- cident Stake. She won by a couple of lengths. D. E. Knight and Owynex were both distanced. The Jesler was third and La Correcta fourth. In the second heat Swift B. again collared Tuna going round the first turn and they trotted like a double team for seven-eighths of a mile. Here Tuna went to a break and dropped back at least twenty yards. Mr. Zibble thought he had the heat won and let his colt ease up a little. The Jester was not far back on the outside and Zibble turned his head to see how fast he was coming. He overlooked Henry Sanders and Tuna, and right there lost a heat he might have won, as Sanders had picked the little mare up and was coming at a 2:12 gait. Tuna gained the whole distance by the time the draw gate was reached and had her nose at Zibble's shoulder before he saw her. He shook up Swift B. but the gelding broke and Tuna beat him out by six feet in 2:21£. The time would have been faster had not both the leaders made the breaks they did. La Correcta was distanced in this heat, but The Jester was well inside the flag and trotted a good heat. The third heat was another duel between Tuna and Swift B. and was as pretty a race as was ever seen for this stake. They went lapped the entire mile, Tuna beating the gelding out by less than half a length. Going round the first turn The Jester made an unfortunate break and finished behind the flag. Tuna was bred at the Oakwood Park Stock Farm was purchased from the farm by L. C. Crellin of Pleasanton who sold her to Ben Chaboya, the well known trainer. Mr. Chaboya sold her about a month or so ago to Henry Sanders, who won the three year old stake at the Breeders meeting and the Occident Stake with her, and then sold her to Mr. J. De La Montanya of San Francisco the night before the f September 12, 1003 Stanford Stake was trotted for $3000. Mr. Sanders handled the filly in a masterly manner and deserves great credit for the manner in which he landed her a winner over a competitor that fought every inch of the way with her. Six running events completed the day's program. The summaries: Trotting. Three Year Olds, Stanford Stake for 1903. Value of stake $2210. J. De La Montanya's b f. Tuna, by James Madi*on-Ituna by Steinway (Sanders) 1 l 1 SwiftB.,bc, by Stam B (Zibble) 2 2 3 The Jester, br c, by StamB (Becker) 3 3d LaComecta b f, by Arthur B (Spencer) 4 d D E. Knight, bg. by Lymont....: (Abies) d Owynex, b c, by Owyhee (Hodges) d Time— 2:I6'4, 2:21!*, 2:20"-* RUNNING. Five furlongs, selling, purse $225— Dusty Rhodes, c f, by Magnet- Geneva, 111 (Bozemant, 4 to 1, won; Pat Bulger, ill (Frawley), 5 to 1, second: Doris, 108 (Tullett), 2 to 1. third. Time, 1:02^. Samar, Easter Lady and Nora also ran. Six furlongs, selling, purse $225— Jack Richelieu, Jr , g g, by Jaok Richelieu-Una B. 112 (Tullett). 3*4 to I, won; Iras, 103 (Hlldebrand), even, second; Madame Bishop, 109 iChandler),5 to 1. third. Time, 1:(5<4. Quidado, Merwan. Chenano and Miss Remsen also ran Seven furlongs, selling, purse $225— Tamm, b c, by Tew Wur- Brook. 108 (See), 8 to 5 won; Dark Seoret, 114 (Hlldebrand), 8 to 1, second; Wandering Boy, 114 (Powell), 3 to 2, third. Time, 1:2»H- J T S, Isabellita, Light Braid and Rubino also ran. Governor Pardee handicap, one mile— Dlvina, b m, by Basset- law-Angelique, 106 (L. Jackson), 2y. to 1. won; Hagerdon, 112 (Burk), 13 to 10. second; Horatius, 110 (Powell), 3 to 1. third Time. 1:38%. Solon, Chileno and Grafter also ran. Six furlongs, selling, purse $225— Maresa, chm, by True Briton- Mayetta. 109 (Hlldebrand), 8 to 5, won: Gold Scratch, 112 (See). 6 to l. second; Limber Jim. 112 (Powell), 3 to 1, third. Time, l:M3tf. Ei Pilot c. Honduran, Bill Young and Mountebank also ran. One mile, selling, purse $825 — Heather Honey, br f, by Odd Fellow-Annie Clark, 102 (Henderson), 7 to 1, won; Dolly Wefthoff, 109 (See). 6 to 5, second; Kitty Kelly, 109 (Chandler). 9 to 5. third. Time. l:41'i Judge Voorhies also ran. TUESDAY, SEPT. 8. Thi§ was drummers day at the State Fair and a race was put on for the knights of the grip sack that drew five Btarters and proved quite a betting race with Mr. H. C. Bell's horse Candy Joe as the favorite. He took the race in straight heats. The 2:30 trot had five starters, with Rosie Wood- burn the favorite. Louise Croner went out after the first heat with a rush and landed in 2:22 with Jupiter B. second, and the favorite third. Rosie Woodburn remained the favorite, however, and landed the next three easily. In the second heat she trotted a splen- did mile and took a record of 2:16, but did not have to trot better than 2:22A thereafter to beat the others. Four running races made of the day's program. The summaries: Drummers' Special. Candy Joe (H C.Bell) l l Duke Cameo (G. T. Logan) 2 2 Yolo Belle (E. P. Peart) 4 3 Harry R (L. S. Upson) 3 4 CharlesS (J. H Dolan) 5 5 Time -2:31. 2:27H Trot, 2.30 class, purse $500 Rosie Woodburn, b m, by Easter Wilkes. dam:by Gold Nut (Cariin) 3 111 Louise Croner, gr m, by Wlldboy (Croner) 13 4 2 Jupiter B.. b g, by Gen Beverley (Ward) 2 2 2ro Dollexa, b m. by Alexis (J. Groom) 4 5 S ro Moor Rose, b g by Falrose (Hoy) 5 4 5 ro Time-2:22. 2:16, 2:22!4, 2:24^. RUNNING. Five furlongs, purse $225— Royal F., b h, by Royal FJush-Slydell 112 (See), .11 to 10, won; Hercules 112 (Frawley), 9 to 5, second; Skirmish 109 (Chandler), 4 to 1, third. Time, 1:00 ',4. Skip Me and Von Zoliern also ran. One mile, selling, purse $225— Illawaho, b h, by Iroquois-Sif Jr- 110 (See), 3 to 5 won; Anvil 97 (Hlldebrand), 2% to I.seoond: Cambaceres 107 (Powell), 8 to 1, third. Time, 1:40&. Constellator also ran. Five furlongs, Bella Vista stake, for two year old fillies— Wiggins, b f, by Sam Lucas-Collatine 103 (Stuart), 3 to 1, won; Annie Maria 115 (Frawley). 8 to 5, second; Eva D 100 (Chandler). 20 to I, third. Time, 1:01H Czarette, Miss May Bowdish and Metlakatla also ran. Six furlongs, selling, purse $825— Teufel. c g, by Foul Shot- Amelia May, 110 (Frawley), 2 to 1, won; Elfin King 110 (Jackson), 2 to I, second; Bill Young 112 (Chandler) 15 to 1, third. Time. 1:14*4, Miss Vera. Malplaquet, Myrtle H. and Dwigct Way also ran. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 9. While there was a fair attendance on Wednesday, it fell far short of what was expected for a legal holiday crowd. Two pacing races made up the part of the program devoted to the harness horses; and five running races filled out the card. The first race was for 2:12 class pacers and had five Btarters — Margaretta, Jonesa Basler, Penrose, Col. Smith and Banker's Daughter. Mr. F. E. Wright waB up behind his mare Margaretta, and the Sacra- mento Driving Club members Were ready to back this combination with their money. They made Marga- retta a favorite at even money over the others and the black daughter of Direct won in handy style in two straight heats. Ben F. won his fourth race of the circuit by annex- ing the 2:17 pace in straight heats. Pools on him were sold at $20 to $5 for the fields Miss Georgie was second in each heat, and it did not look as if she was driven verv hard to win. The summaries; Pacing. 2:12 class, purse $500. Margaretta, blk m, by Direct-Rosita A (Wright) 1 1 Jonesa Basler, blk s by Robert Basler (Walton) 4 2 Penrose, b g, by Falrose (W. Maslin) 3 5 Colonel Smith, ch g, by Red Regent (W. S. Maben) 3 4 Banker's Daughter, b m, by Arthur Wilkes (B. Croner) 5 3 Time— 2:12»4, 2:13. Pacing, 2:17 class, purse $500. Ben F., b g, by Bradtmoor-dam by St9inway.(Chadoorne) 1 l 1 Miss Georgie. br m, by McKinney (Cecil) 2 2 2 Ira, bg, by Iris (Maben) 3 3 4 Cuckoo, b g, by Strathway (Liggett) 6 4 3 Alendale, bg, by Falrose (Hoy) 5 6 5 Monroe S. , ch g, by Dictator Wilkes (Zibble) 4 5 w Time— 2:10, 2:10^, 2:18. SEPTBMBBB 12, 1903] ®he gJreefcer imfc Qpovtatnan Five rurloogs, selling, purse $225— Doris, oh f , by Creighton-Folly 109 (Tullett), 11 to 5, woo; Kva D 109 (Chandler). 3 to 1, second; Dr. Birdsall 112 (See), 4 to 5, third. Time, 1:01?.;. Hope Morgan, Honoma and Ruvla also ran. Five furlongs, selling, puree $225— Meteora, ch m, by Magnet- Laura O'Connor 109 (Bozeman) 3 to 2, won; Nellie May 109 (Chandler), 3 to 1, second; Miss Dividend 109 (Frawley).S to I, third. Time, 1:01. lsabelllta, Malplaquet, Light Braid, Little Qun and Little Secret also ran Six furlongs, selling, purse $225— El Piloto, br g, by Gano- Claudimoro 114 (Frawley). 2 to 1, won; Gold Soratch, 114 (See) even money, second; Iras 106 (Chandler), 9 to 5, third. Time, 1:14. Piratical also ran Six furlongs, selling, purse $225— Legal Maxim, b g, by Basset- law-Mlss Maxim 112 (Tullett), 3to 2, won;Dug Martin 111 (Crosth- waite), 7 Co 1, second: Dusty Rhodes 91 (Chandler), 3 to 1, third. Time, 1:15&. Mamie Samar and Pat Bulger also ran- Loval S Left at the post ODe Mile, selling, purse $225— David S , b g, by Midlothian- Tul- tuda 112 (Chandler), even money, won; Mountebrnk 112 (Frawley), 5 to 2, second: The Miller 112 (HUdebrand), 2 to 1, third. Time, 1:40>§. Dr. Sharb and Limber Jim also ran. The Queen. Tuna, the Double Stake Winner. When Mr. James De La Montanya of this city pur- caased the three year-old Occident Stake winner, Tuna, on Sunday last from Henry Sanders of Pleas- anton he did so with the idea that she could win the Stanford Stake to be trotted the next day. Mr. Mon- tauya paid $3000 for the filly, according to those who ought to know, and probably double that amount would not tempt him to part with her now. She had won the rich Occident Stake on Monday, the opening- day of the fair, after a fierce battle with the Stam B. gelding Swift B. In this race Mr. Montanya'e colt Bromwell by Sidney Dillon had been distanced, and ne wisely considered that the best way to win the Stanford Stake on the following Monday was to buy Tuna. Negotiations were opened with Mr. Sanders by Jos. Cuicello, who is trainer for Mr. Montanya, and on Sunday the sale was made, Sanders agreeing to drive Tuna in the stake. As our readers probably all know by this time, Tuna won the race and shut out every other starter but Swift B. She should have had first, third and fourth money, but under the conditions of the Stanford Stake the winner is only entitled to first money, even though distancing the field, and in no case can any horse win more than one money. Consequently Tuna placed but $1105 to her credit by this win. Henry Sanders made a good turn when he pur- chased Tuna. He paid Ben Chaboya$700 and another horse for her about two months ago. At Petaluma he won $260 net with her in the three year old race, and the win in the Occident Stake netted him $2512. With the $3000 he received for her added, his profit od the Utile mare is $4772, quite a neat turn to make on a three year old in two months. Tuna is a full sister to the filly Confienza that the late John Blue purchased for Ed. Gaylord of Denver, and gave a three year old record of 2:21 £ at Denver, July 2, 1902. Her sire is James Madison 2:17| and her dam Ituna by Steinway, second dam Nettie Ward by Echo, third dam the Mill mare by Goldfinder, son of Boston, fourth dam by Langford son of Williamson's Belmont. Ituna, the dam of this good filly, is a com- paratively young matron, being but nine years old. She was bred at the Oak wood Park Stock Farm and was first bred to El Benton 13,397, and produced a filly in 1897. Her next foal was Confienza by James Madison in 1899, and the next Tuna, winner of the Occident and Stanford Stakes. Ituna had a very handsome foal this year by Stam B. 2:11£ and was bred to Bonnie Direct 2:05]. Oregon State Fair. Monday next, September 14th, the Oregon State Pair will open with every prospect of its being the best fair ever held in the northwest. The stock ex- hibits will be high class and extensive while the rac- ing will probably furnish the best contests on the coast this year. The program of harness events, in which many California horses have been entered and the entries already published in a previous issue of the Breeder and Sportsman, is as follows: Monday — 2:20 pace, $500, nine entries; 2:25 trot, $500, seven entries. Tuesday — Two*year-old trot, $600, eight entries; three-year-old pace, $500, twelve entries; two-year- old pace, $400, seven entries. Wednesday— 2:11 pace, $1000, twelve entries; 2:17 pace, $2000, twenty-five entries. Thursday — Three-year-old trot, $500, eighteen en- tries; 2:20 trot $2000, twenty-six entries. Friday — consolation pace for non-money winners in 2:17 class, $500; 2:30 trot, $500, seven entries. Saturday — 2:17 trot, $500, seven entries; consola- tion trot for non-money winners in 2:20 class, $500. The Kenney Bicycle Co., 531 Valencia St., iB doing a big business in the McMurray Carts and Sulkies. You not only save money by purchasing a McMurray but get the most durable, beet made, and easiest running cart or sulky in the market. Investigation will con vince a Misaourian. « Bear the crown to Lou Dillon, the Queen of the Turf, That startled the world when she turned Readvllle Park With her hoof beats as swift as the sobs of the surf, When wind bends the trees and the storm clouds are dark. Tbe big star in her face and her coat of old gold Were wet with her sweat when the crowd orled "She'll win:* But each stride was as true and her actiou as bold As when the bell tapped for the trial to begin. In the rosy-hued past a few looked for ihe day A irotter would march to the two-minute score, Until Lou Dillon found the blue ribbon of clay As soft as a glove and as firm as a Moor. The salt air was as crisp as a morning in June, The flag on the stables hung limp to the pole. The surroundings all showed the time most opportune, 'Twas grasped, the mare started, she flashed to tbe goal. 'Twas the hope of her breeder to raise such a horse; He saw her developed and trot in 2:08. When death claimed him it made tbe sole strain of remorse Wbicb clung to the mile at the two-minute rate. When his stable was scattered the matinee king, Who loves a fast horse for the road or the park. Was enthused with her speed, bid her off in the ring, And trained her and raced her to lower the mark. 'Tisof Billings I speak, the new king of the road, Successor to Bonner, the road drivers' dean, And, in Billings, Dame Nature has reaped what she sowed, His father owned Princess, and he has the Queen, Hartford, Conn. W. H. Gocber. Trotting, 2:12 olass, purse $1000 (first heat raced Friday). Promlse.bg, by Silver Chimes-Boca, by Stranger.. (Andrews) 1 1 Belle Kuser 3-2, VanZandt2-9, Co z ad 8-3, Dick Berry 4-8, Llll Bars 9-4, Pug 5-5, Dainty DalTo 6-7, Anna Held 7-H, Crescent 10-dr. Time— 2:11 'i, -n \ Trotting, 2:08 clasB, purse $1500, best two In three. Dan T., b g, by Crawford-dam by Hull (Geers) 1 1 Prince of Orange 4-2 *, Rhythmic 2-4*, Fere no 3-3, Baron da Shay 5-5. Time— 2:07?.; 2:10?.;. * Divided second and third moneys Pacing, 2:16 class, purse $1000, best three in five (five heats race Friday.) Aunie M., blk m, by Gambry-dam untraced (C- Doble) 3 3 2 13 2 1 Merrymaster 5-1-4-3-3-1-2, Lord Gentry 4-6-7-4-1-4-3 Centrltlc l-2-l-6-5-3-dr. Barbardette 6-l-3-2-i~ro, Cotillion 2-5-5-5-dr, Double Z. 7-7-6-dr, Joe Sibley 8- -8-dr. Time— a:09'4, 2:07>4. 2:09'£, 2:10*1. 2:13?;, 2:11. 2:14. Purse divided as horses stand. Pacing, 2:19 class, purse $1000, best three In five Henry N , b g, by Phalmore-Anna C. (Blanchard) I Direct L. 2-2, Jim Kyle 4-3, B. S Dillon 3-5 , Margaret W. 5 Mamie Brown 6-6, Lucio May ds Time— 2:13»i, 2:1314. Purse divided as horses stand. Providence Grand Circuit Races. Jackson's Napa Soda untangles the fe«t. TUESDAY, SEPT. 1. 2: 19 trot, best three in Ave, purse $aO00 Navldad, blk g, by Sable Wilkes .(Carpenter) 117 2 2 3 1 Kamares 4-2-1-3-5-2-4, Cole Direot 7-6-4-4-1-1-2, Guy Fortune 3-4-2-1-3-1-3, Margaret Bathgate 2-3-3-6-4-dr, Prince Satan 8-5- 5-5-dr, Free Silver 5-7-6-dr, Hattte Mack 6-8 dr. Time— 2:\la, 2:12»£, S:12J£, 2:I3tf, 2:12V4, 2:15 2:12. 2:20 pace, three in five, purse $2000. Dlabolito b g, by Dlablito-Jeta Richmond by Soudan (Walker) 4 2 111 Mary Anna 1-1-3-3-2, Page Hal 3-3-2-2-3, Fred H, 2-2-4-dr, Cascade dr. Time— 2:12»4. 2:10l4. 2:10, 2:11*4, 2:11 2:06 pace, best two in three, purse $1500. Joe Pointer, bh, by Star Pointer (Cary) 4 1 1 Nervolo 1-2-2, Roamer 2-8-7. Terrace Queen 3-3-3, Sufreet b-4-4, Riley B. 6-5-6, Sir Alcantara 7-6-5. Charley Hay, 8-7-ds, Prince Direct ds. Time— 2:06?.;, 2:07, 2:07 2:15 trot, best two Id three, purse $1000. Rowellan, b g, by Adbell-Rowena by Azmoor (Golden) I 1 The Questor 5-2, Ben Hal 2-5, Dillon Boy 3-3, Midnight 4-J, Marion W1lke 6-7. Dreamer7-8 Millard Sanders 9-6, Katrina G. 8-10, Direct View 10-9. Time— 2:11, 2:09 %. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2D. Trot, 2:25 class, purse $2000. Caspian, bg, by Patron (B. Shank) 1 1 1 Texas 2-2-2, Judge Green 6-3-3, Miss Jeanett 3-5-J Wainscott 4-1-5, Estuary 5-6-ds. Tlme-2:14, 2:12%, 2:11££. Pace, 2:11 class, Park Brew Stake, purse $10,000. Star Hal, br h. by Brown Hal (Snow) 1 1 1 Miss Willamont 2-3-2, King Direct 3-2-3, Armorel 6-4-4, Peeler Patron 4-6-7, Elastic Pointer 5-7-5, Dick Wilson 7-5-6 Time-2:07!4, 2:06^, 2:08. Trot, 2:10 class, purse $1500. H:iwthorne, rom, by Jay Bird (Budson) 1 1 Dr. Strong 3-2, Walnut Hall 2-5. Mary D. 6-3, The Roman 4-6, Wilque 5-8, Paim Leaf 9-4, McKinley 7-10, Jim Ferry 10-7, Frances B. 8-9. Time— 2:C9Vi, 2:08?i. Pace, 2: 13 class, purse $1000. Johnny Wiseman, b g, by Nelson Wilkes (Cox) 6 1 I Theron Powers 1-3-5, Knox's Gelatine Lad 3-4-2, Sagwa 2-9-3, Rockport 4-2-4, Kiowa 5-5-6, Alvin R. 8-8-7, Midway 11-7-8, Frank Wilson 10-6-dr, Margaret W. 7- 10-dr, Guy Red 9-d, Minnie Bright d Time— 2:10, 2:08^, 2:11. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3D. Trot, 2:14 class, Roger William's Stake of $10,000. Billy Buok, b g, by St. Clair (Geers) I 1 I Jay McGregor 2-2-2, Masetto 4-3-7, Authoress 7-8-3, Fred Mc- Clung 3-6-9, Norrie 6-5-4, Kinney Lou 10-4-6, John Mo 5-7-10, Ox- ford Chimes 9-10-5, Patchen Maid 11-9-11, Ladie Patchie 8-11-8. Time— 2:08?i, 2:09/s, 2:10. Pace, 2:15 class, purse $2000 Trilby Direot, blk m. by Direct (Curry) 2 111 Sadie Baron 1-2-2-2, Edith May 4-3-3-3, Harry D. 3-1-4-4. Time-2:09*f, 2:0814, 2:10tf, fe.UK. Pace, 2:08 class, purse $1000. Locanda, br s, by Allertoo (Brodtrue) I 10 I Albert 10-1-2, Louise G. 2-2-5, Nonamie 4-3-4. Al Bock 3-4-7, Terrlll S. 5-5-3, Council Chimes 6-7-6, Baron Rogers 8-6-8, Dandy Chimes 7-8-9, Mush 1 1-9-10, Brown Heels d, Carthage Girl d. Time— 2:07, 2:07, 2:07tf. Trot, 2:18 class, purse $1000 Dillon Boy, b a, by Baron Dillon (Hudson) 1 1 Redwood 2-3, Grace Keller 4-2, Nlckelette 3-4, Nanlta 5-5, Hie Boy 6-7, Dupuytren 7-6, Crowshade d. Time-2:13?i, 2:11!, FRIDAY, SEPT. 4. Trotting, 2:24 class, purse $1000, three in five Kamares b g, by Kremlln-Mosqulte, by Lancelot (A. P. McDonald) 15 11 Klnley Mao 3-1-3-J, Horace Wilson, 2-2-5-2, Bermuda Maid 5-3- 2-3, Alberto 4-1-4-5 Time— fel4=l£i 2:1-1?;, 2:16!*', 2:13?.,'. Pacing, free for all, pnrse $1000, two in three. Prince Alert, b g, by Crown Prince-Till (Damarest) 4 1 I Dan R. 1-5-5, Harold H. 3-2-2, Darlel 2-3-4, Knox's Gelatine King 5-4-4. Time— 2:01 -Jit 2:03?i, 3:08*4. Special— Major Delmar, b g, by Delmas-Expeotation, by Auto- graph, to beat his own record of 2:04 (A. P. McDonald) 2:02!S- SATURDAY, SEPT. 5 A heavy thunder shower swept over Narragansett Park, Satur- day afternoon, and cut short the racing program, causing the 2:16 and 2:19 pacing olasses to be decided where they stood, according to the rule forbidding races to be postponed over Sunday. The 2:10 class pace was not started at all, and was declared oft Sum- maries: Sanders Their Hero. [Boston Post, August 25.] Millard Sanders, "the only man who ever rode be- hind the two-minute trotter." has had, in many ways, a remarkable turf record. At the Hotel Essex, laet evening, where most of tbe visiting horsemen are stopping", Sanders was the hero of the hour. Tele- grams and telephone messages poured in from all parts of the city, and later in tbe evening dozens of telegrams arrived from New York, Washington, Baltimore, Chicago and even as far We6t as San Francisco, where Sanders niakes his home. Bell boys and waiters never honored a pugilistic champion or star ball player more than they did the modest driver of Lou Dillon. Fellow drivers and horsemen noted throughout the country vied with each other in tendering their congratulations and Sanders tried ia vain to escape by keeping to bis room. Sanders would tell his admirers that the credit belonged to Lou Dillon and that Scott McCoy and Mr. Tanner, who drove the runners that paced Lou Dillon, deserve much of the praise. Sanders was easily the proudest man in Boston last evening, and when he said that he was happier than if he was President of the United States it was said with such feeliDg and depth that his auditors were impressed with his sincerity. When Sanders sold Lou Dillon he went on record as saying that he would rather own and drive her than to become President of this country. 'Last night he confirmed the state- ment and qualified it by remarking: that there have been other Presidents besides Theodore Roosevelt, but he was the only man who ever held the reins on a 2:00 trotter. Born in Georgia 47 years ago, Sanders has never earned a dollar in the world outside of the horse trot- ting business, and he has never worked a day during his life except in the horse line. He began to drive and train horses when ody seven years old, and has probably established more records than any other driver. His first important race was in 1885, when be drove Clingstone against the famous Patron and won. Patron's owners wanted a return match, which was granted, and again Patron went down to Oefeat. Later he drove Clingstone to victory against Belle Hamlin and soon after Sanders drove Guy to his record of 2:10^ to a high wheel sulky. In California he developed four yearlings into world's champions, Rosedale, Frou-Frou, Fausta and William Sydney, all of whose marks were under 2:30. He developed and drove Jay Eff Bee and Idah, mak- ing in all six yearlings with marks of 2:30 or better. When it is taken into consideration that there are not a dozen yearlings with marks of 2:30 or better and that Sanders has driven six of them, it can be easily seen what skill he possesses. For twelve years be held the world's four-in-hand record of 2:36, and at present holds the world's tandem record of 2:32, made by Mambrino Sparkle and William H. In thelast two years he has brought and raced from California four trotters with marks of under 2:10, Lou Dillon, Dolly Dillon, Anzella and Janice. Cali- fornia is his home at present, although he has raced in every State in the Union. Sanders weighed yesterday 154 pounds and stands about 5 feet 7 inches in height. Finds It All It is Claimed to Be. Minominee, Mk'h.. April 3, 1901. W, /'". Young] Springfield, ^f^t8s. D«ar Sir:— I have used a bottle of Absorbine and find it to be all you claim Tor It. Yours truly, Pbid J. TtJFTS. Absorbine 42 per bottle, express prepaid. Address W. F. YOUNG, P.D. P., Springfield, Maas. In 1806 Yankee trotted a mile in 2:59 and in com menting on the performance it was Baid: "The frail gig he drew weighed scarcely 100 pounds and no one cared to trust himself to ride in it." In hot weather there is no drink like Jackaon's Napa Soda — plain or In a lemonade. 6 ®Jte gveeb&c trofr &v£fvt&tnan [September 12, 1903 m Notes and News. They call it the "Skindicate" book at Sacramento. Kinney Lou 2:07J is the fastest new trotter of the year. Anzella 2:06J is lame and has been thrown out of training. The Airship, 2:11 pacing, now carries a record of 2:135- trotting. Lexington will have an open betting ring at the October meeting. George Ketcham has purchased a white automobile to be used as a pacemaker for Cresceus 2:02]. The Hollister Race Track Association will give a fall race meeting of four days commencing September 23d. Fourteen races have been advertised and a good meeting should be the result. The Hollister track is in first claBS shape and everything will be made con- venient and pleasant for horsemen. Ai Charter Oak track, Hartford, last Tuesday the McKinney Btallion Ben Liebes, won the $1500 purse for the 2:23 class trotters in straight heats without being pressed any part of the mile. The heats were in 2:17, 2:19J and 2:17J. Ben Liebes has been in Ed Geera string since last May and this is his first start. McKinney 2:11] has five trotters in the 2:10 list No other stallion has more than four. Dolly Dillon 2:07 has reduced the trotting record for the Pittsburg matinee meetings to 2:09*. Here are the eighths of Lou Dillon's mile: (1st) 15]-, (2d) 15, (3d) 15, (4th) 15}, (5th) 15, (6th) 15}, (7th) 15, (8th) 14. El Primo, "the guideless pacing wonder, " will be sold at the Occidental Horse "Exchange next Monday night. Crown Princess 2:13], by Dexter Prince, was bred by Mr. A. B. Spreckles and is owned by Mr. Bailey of the great Barnum & Bailey Circus. Th^re should be a rule to prevent great horses from being used in races simply to advertise some gimcrack manufacturing firm. It is not true sport. C F. Bunch who has quite a string of horses at Sacramento will again locate at Pleasanton after the racing is over and ivill train a public stable there. If you want a frrst-class stallion or broodmare that is standard and bred right, attend the sale next Mon- day night at the Occidental Horse Exchange. Cata- logues are issued. The catalogues of Wm. G. Layng's great sale next Monday night contain the names and descriptions of some of the choicest trotters and pacers ever offered at auction in California. Mr. Casper Redfield has doubtless got this item in his scrap book: "Jay Bird was twenty years old when he got Hawthorne 2:08$. his fastest performer, and her dam was twenty three years of age." John Dickerson gave seven trotters standard rec- ords in one day at a recent New York meeting. Five of them were by the stallon Bellini, making a total of eight he has marked so far this season to the credit of this great son of Artillery. Lou Dillon is to start .to-day at Cleveland to beat the record of Maud S. 2:08$, to high wheel sulky which was made at the same place July 30, 1885, a little more than eighteen years ago. Lou Dillon worked out a mile to the high wheels last Wednesday in 2:10*. Budd Doble met with an accident at Hartford last Tuesday. He had won two heats with The Roman, and in the fifth heat of the race a boot came loose on his horse, throwing The Roman near the half-mile post. Doble was slightly bruised, and his horse waB distanced. At a meeting which will be held on Long Island next week the races will be for both trotters and pacers. The management has decided that the pacer outclasses the trotter three seconds in point of speed so that a trotter with a mark of 2:15 can race with pacers of the 2:18 class. There are seven McKinneys ranging from three to six years of age, four Diablos, besides about forty others sired by the most famous Btallions in California, having size, cclor, soundness, and all are thoroughly broken, to be sold at Layng's great sale next Monday night. Mr. Layng says there is not a cull nor a cripple nor an unsound horse in the consignnent. To the late Pierre Lorillard is attributed the fol- lowing epigram, which certainly has more than a molieum of truth in it: "In this world, if you live lot. g enough, you will grow tired of everything, of men and women, of yachts and dinnerB, of politics and money making; but when the fascination of the r jehorse gets into the blood it never leaves. It is t. ■} greatest sport and the poorest business ever de- vised by man." Dan Patch broke the world's pacing record of 2:04] on a half-mile track on the Lima, Ohio, driving track last Monday afternoon in the presence of 10,000 per- sons. Better time would have been made but Mc- Henry had to hold him upon the last turn on account of his nearly breaking. Time by quarters, 0:31, 1:01, l:32i,2:04. John J. Scannel, owner of The Abbott 2:03], Idolita 2:09]-, and others, is very much annoyed about the reports that the famous gelding has seen better days. He says that the horBe is in better condition than at any time since he has had him. He also says that he expects The Abbott to lower his record before the season is over. There are three fillies, two by Dictalus and one by Boodle Jr., all from first-class mares, that are entered in the Breeders $6000 Futurity for next year, and that will be Bold at the clearing out sale of Gabilan Stock Farm at Fred H. Chase & Co. 's salesyard, 1732 Market street, San Francisco, Tuesday evening, Sept. 29, 1903. Here is a chance to get a prospective stake winner at your own price. Larkin W. the four year old gelding by Boodle Jr., that will be in the sale of the Gabilan Farm horses at Fred H. Chase & Co. 's salesyard, 1732 Market street, on Tuesday evening, Sept. 29th, is a Bplendid young horse and a great prospect. He is not only a good looker but is one of those good gaited flat footed trotters that is a pleasure to drive. He trotted a quarter in 34 seconds at the Sacramento track last week. The other day fifty carloads of range horses was sold at auction at St. Louis. The top price of the sale was realized by a few head of broken horses at $53, while the highest price for a full load of range horses was $49 50. One carload of very choice, fat, small or rather medium horses were bought by a southern buyer at $40 and several loads went at from $31.50 to $36' Weanlings sold at $10 and yearlings at $12 to $14. An exchange says: "The practice of having the pace-maker precede the trotter or pacer and thus act as a wind shield in trials against time seems legitimate when it is remembered that the same thing is done every day in races. Ed Geers almost invariably takes advantage of the principle when he drives a race, trailing close behind the leaders nearly the full mile and then pulling out and making his drive through the stretch. " Here's another evidence that the Sidney blood backed up by the right kind of thoroughbred is all right. Al Bock, the pacer that has beer such a good winner on the Grand Circuit is out of Countess by Sidney, grandsm Gray Dale (dam of Longworth 2:19) by Hollenback's American Boy, Jr., third dam Grey Poll by Winfield Scott, son of Everett Everett 81, fourth dam Sorrel Poll by Sir Henry and Sfth dam, a daughter of Printer. Billy Buck won the famouB Charter Oak stake worth $10,000 at Hartford Thursday. Mr. Geers landed him at the wire first three times in succession and the time was 2:07$, 2:09} and 2:11. This lowers the former record for the stake. There is a prospect of a hot race at Hollister during the meeting there this month between a couple of yearlings. One is by McKinney, the other by Dio- tatus Medium. Both are said to be 2:30 trotters, and a balf-mile in 1:15 isoertain if they come together. SIDNEY DILLON Sire of LOU DILLOK, the Two-Minute Trotter Stipulator, the black horse by Titus own brother to Direct 2:05*, dam Grace Kaiser, dam of Coney 2:02, reduced his record to 2:13] and won a good race at Monmouth, Illinois on Thursday of last week. He started in the 2:12 pace for a purse of $300 and after Jackmont had won the first two heats in 2:12] and 2:10], Stipulator took the next three in 2:13], 2:15] and 2:15. Pretty good time for a half mile track. The daily papers have nearly all stated that Rio Alto won the Stanford stake in 2:16]. This is a mis- take. Rio Alto won the $5000 stake for three vear- olds at the State Fair in 1894 in 2:21J, 2:214 and z:20J.. His record is 2:164 and was made at San Jose Novem- ber 2d of the same year in a race for three year olds which was won by John Bury. Rio Alto took the first and second heats in 2:16J and 2.19. John Bury won the next three in 2:22, 2:23* and 2:23*. Lildine Wilkes, the name given a two year old filly by Nutwood Wilkes, should be a rare good one on her breeding. Her dam is by Boodle, Becond dam by Carr's Mambrino, third dam by Owen Dale and fourth dam by Williamson'B Belmont. This is the sort to raise another two-minute trotter from. She is to be sold at the clearance sale of Hon. Jesse D. Carr'B horses which will take place at Fred H. Chase & Co. 's salesyard, 1732 Market street, in this city, Tuesday evening, September 29th, by electric light. What a wonderful horseman is this Budd Doble! Thirty-Bix years ago he drove Dexter to a world's record of 2:17]. Seven years latter he drove Gold- smith Maid to another world's record of 2:14. Twenty years later he again drives a champion trotter, Nancy Hanks 2:04. Now almost ten years after that, he drives Kinney Lou to victory in a great race- Is it any wonder that the horse world cheers this perennial reinsman? When trotting racing was in its infancy Budd Doble was a lad and for forty years he has been a conspicuous horseman, conspicuous for his rare ability as a trainer, his skill as a driver and his strict integrity in business. Forty years in the sulky — what wonders time has wrought in that period.— Kentucky Stock Farm. The breeding of the good four year old Judge Green 2:10] now in Monroe Salisbury's string is as follows: Sire Directum 2:05], dam by Anteeo Jr. 22372, second dam by Geo. M. Patchen Jr. 31, third dam by Primus 255, fourth dam Fannie McCourtie, said to be by Harry Clay 45. Anteeo Jr. was by Anteeo 2:16], dam Lady Signal by Signal 3327, second dam by Langford thoroughbred son of Williamson'sJ3elmont. Primus 255 was by Marshall Chief 452 and was brought to California from Michigan in 1864 or 1865 by Jesse Wall. Margaretta, the black pacing mare by Direct 2:05J that has won both her starts at Sacramento during the State Fair, is said by Farmer Bunch, who has been training her, to be an exact match to the mare Trilby Direct that Mr. Juan Gallegos 6old over East this year and that has taken a record of 2:08$. Bunch says that as Direct Hal and Prince Direct, both sons of Direct took the pacing team record last year, it would be quite a novelty if Trilby Direct and Mar- garetta two daughters of the same sire could be hitched together and sent for the team record for pacing mares. Bunch is confident they could pace together in 2:10 or better. September- 12, 1903] ®he gveebev anit gtpxxrteman Los Angeles Entry List. Everything looks favorable for a big meeting at Los Angeles in October. The harness events have filled well, and there will be a large number of the best runners on hand to compete in the stake races and overnight events. The entries to the harness races are as follows: Southern California Stakes. 2:24 trot, $1000, 10 en- tries—Cornelius D.,Babe, Andy McKinney, Jupiter B. or Lady MadisOD, Lady Zombro, Rosie Woodburn, Sutter, Zombowyette, Tee Dee Cee, Louise Croner. Hotel Stakes, 2:30 trot S500, 10 entries— Cornelius D , Babe, Fortune, Lady Gypsy, Jupiter B. or Lady Madison, Mamie Elizabeth, Rosie Woodburn, Sutter, Zomboyette, Tee Dee Cee, Louise Croner. Winship Stakes, 2:20 trot, $500, 10 entries— Andy McKinney, Dan Eraser, Rozell. Potrero, What Is It, Hank, Sweet Mario, Coronado, Red Skin. The Potter Stakes, 2:14 trot, $500, 10 entries— Li- monero, Dan Fraser, Rozell, Geo. W. McKinney, For- rest W. or What Is It, Ole, Hank, Sweet Marie, Cor- onado. Iloilo. The Garland Stakes, 2:12 trot, $500, 7 entries— Ro- zelle, Geo. W. McKinney, Ole, George G., Sweet Marie, Coronado, Iloilo. Free for all trot — did not fill. Three year old trot, $500, 4 entries— Dixie S , Rexie, Owynex, The Jester. The Los Angeles Stakes, 2:15 pace— did not fill. Green class pace, $500, 11 entries— Wood B., San Gabriel Prince, El Mont, Highball, Robt. Wood, Toughnut, Victor Platte or Billie F , Ira, Florodora, Penrose, Tidal Wave. The Van Nuys Stakes, 2:25 pace, $500, 11 entries- Wood B., Otto Z., San Gabriel Prince or Riverside Wood, El Mont, Lilly Mack, Highball, Robt. Wood, Toughnut, Victor Platte or Billie F., Ira, Tidal Wave. The Stimson Stakes, 2:20 pace, $500, 10 entries- El Mont, Lilly Mack, Highball, Proctor, Toughnut, Victor Platte or Billie F., Ira, Florodora, Monroe S., L. W. The Canfield Stakes, 2:18 pace, $500, 7 entries- Highball, Proctor, Victor Platte or Billie F., Ira, Penrose, Monroe S., L. W. Silkwood Stakes, 2:10 pace, $500, 7 entries— Mid- night, Jonesa Basler, Kelly Briggs or Margaretta, Zolock, Rita H., Ama A., Martha B. Free for all pace — did not fill. Racing at Petaluma. J The San Francisco Driving Club held a meeting at Petaluma on Wednesday last, Admission Day, which was largely attended. J. Windrow, T. Corcoran and M. Sullivan were the judges. W. Kenney acted as starter. The following is the summary: Trotting, 2:40 class. BillEMsworlb (O Taylorj I 1 Ben (J E. Finch) 2 2 Mike (J W. McTlgue) 4 3 Dexterity (G. Davenport) 3 5 Monkey {W. R Peas) 6 4 LawrenceW (A. Wolff) 5 6 . Time— 2:25, S:26 Trotting, 2:25 olass. Clara I (S. Sprague) 1 1 King V (S. Shottler) 2 2 Dock (S Watson) 3 3 Cicero (Lieginger) 4 4 Time— 2:f»J£, 2:2n. Trotting, green class. Monaca (B. I.evy) 1 1 Lulu Lass (E. Buck) 2 2 Lady Dinna (H. Bbottler) 3 3 Time— 2:33»£. 2:34. Pacing, free for all. Al Sandy (S.Watson) 2 1 1 Echora Wilkes {B. Smith) I 2 3 DanAlden (C Becker) 3 3 2 Time— 2:22, 2:20, 2:22H. Pacing and Trotting, Petaluma road horses. Eden Vale (J. Zazzai) 1 2 1 Lena Holly (.1. Grimes) 2 i 3 JimChase (J. Lawler) 4 3 2 Alameda Maid (J. Garrtty) 3 4 4 Time— 2:25, 2:16. 2:18. Running, one-quarter of a mile— Happy Bad (Day) won, Black Diamond (Neuman) second, Cricket (Harvey) third, Chutes (Mora) fourth. Time— 0:26;-;. Saddle horse race, one-quarter of a mile— White Stockings (Danz) won, Pajamas (Johnson) second. Yellow Maid (Legraffe) third. Time— 0:25. Goshen Jim Redivivus. Every California horseman will remember the big pacer Goshen Jim by Moses S. that came up from the San Joaquin valley three years ago and 9wept through the California circuit winning nearly every start he made aDd taking a record of 2:10} in a second heat at Stockton. The next year Jim Thompson took him East and started in the Grand Circuit at Detroit with the big fellow but failed to win a heat with him that year and the horse was sold. An amateur driver by the name of Mr. Albert Gluck who lives in Minnesota, now owns the horse and on Tues- day the first instant started him in a race at the Minnesota State Fair track at St. Paul for a silver cup offered for horses owned and driven by amateurs. There were four starterB in the race, Goshen Jim 2:104, Angus Oh So 2:12}, Prince Stevens 2:16} and Red Strath 2:13. Mr. Gluck took Goshen Jim out in front when the word was given and won in two straight heats. The first was in 2:14J, but in the second he gave the big fellow his head and he paced the mile in 2:08}, three seconds lower than the fastest mile ever driven in Minnesota by an amateur. This shows what amateurs can do with a horBe after he has been given up by professional trainers as a "has been." GoBhen Jim got a little too much of the racing game and was a bad actor his second year out, but a year on the road has brought all his old time speed back to him and he drops into the 2:10 list in a manner that shows him to be something of a race horBe yot. Goshen Jim is the first 2:10 performer for Moses S. 2:191, son of Hawthorne. Hollister Races. The Hollister races which are to be held during four days commencing Wednesday, September 23d will attract quite a number of the horses that have been racing at the State Fair and elsewhere. Entries will close Tuesday next, September 15th with A. D. Shaw, Secretary, Hollister. The program of race9 is as follows: Colt stakes, added money; Green pacers, for district horses, $200; 2:30 trotting, $200; 2:40 trotting, $150; 2:17 trotting, $200; Free for all trotting, $250; 2:24 trotting, $200; Green pacing, $200; 2:25 pacing, $200; 2:17 pacing, $200; Free for all pacing, $250; Yearling race (mixed) 2 in 3 $100; Buggy horses owned in county, $150; One-fourth mile running, saddle horses owned in county, $50. Hartford Summaries. MONDAY, SEPT. 7. Pacing, 2:30 class, purse $3000. King Direct, blk h by Direct (Geers) 1 1 1 Dr. Madara 3-2-2, Elastic Pointer 2-3-3. Time— 2:0% 2:09«, 2:09H. Paoing, 2:14 class, purse $1500. Sagwa, b g by Saywa (Berry) 1 1 1 Kiowa 2-3-2, Alvin R. 3-2-3. Time— 2:11, 2:!3tf, 2:15H. Hartford Futjrity Stake, for foals or 1900, $7500, of which 56000 to winner; best 2 in 3. SadleMc. b f by Peter the Great (McDonald) 4 1 1 Ethel's Pride 1-2-3, Lord Roberts 7-3-4. Sportie 5-4-ds, Delight 6-5-ds, Lizzie A. 2-ds, Miss Inlaw 3-ds. Time— 2:14«, 2:12?i, 2:11V4. TrESDAY, SEPT. 8. Trotting, 2:10 class, purse $1500— (five heats Monday),. Dr. Strong, g g by Strong Boy (Benvon) 6 6 112 2 1 McKinley 7-1-5-3-1-1-2, Caspian 2-3^2-5-4-ro George Muscovite 3-5-3-4-5-ro, Nell Gwynoe 4-3-6-6-3-ro, The Roman 1-1-4-2-ds, Edgewood 5-7-7-dr. Mary D. ds. Time-2:10H, 2:10, 2.11&, 2:12Jf, 2:15X, 2:1214. 2:14>.<. Pacing, 2:09 class, Nutmeg Stake, $3000. Sufreet, blk m by Alcantara (Eckers) 4 111 Joe Pointer 1-3-2-2, Cubanola 2-2-3-3, Onote 3-6-4-4, Miss Willa- mont 5-4-ds, Brown Heels 6-a-ds. Time— 2:08J£, 2:073<, S:08?i, 2:10SS. Trotting, 2:23 class, purse $3000. Ben Liebes, b s by McKinney (Geers) 1 I 1 Missjeanette ...(Eckers) 2 2 2 Time— 2:17^4, 2:19. 2:17K. Pacing, 2:12 class, purse $1500. Pan Michael, ch s by Boreal (Hyde) 1 1 I Jessie S. 3-2-2. C. O. D. 5-4-3, Midway 7-3-4, Hal E. 2-5-ds, Page Hal 4-ds, Lord Gentry 6-ds. Time-2:I0H, 2:10*4, 2:11. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 9. Trotting, 2:19 class; purse $3000. Jay McGregor, b h, by Jay Hawker (Hudson) 14 11 Katrinka 3-1-3-5; Navidad 5-5-2-2; Margaret Bathgate 2-3-4-1; Cole Direct 4-2-5-3 Time— 2:13!*, 2:14»j, 2:13!i, 2:14?i. Hartford Futurity, pacing division, for foals of 1900; purse $250), of which $2000 to the winner, two best in three. Daphne Direct, blk f. by Direct (Curry) 1 1 Eliza Douglass 2-2; Beadel 3-dls; Woodbird dis; Silver Patch dls: John McEwen dis. Time— 2:15^, 2:15. Trotting, 2:14 class; purse $1500 TheCutster, b g, by Mambrino King (Geers) 2 116 1 Dreamer 1-2-4-5-4; Millard Sanders 4-6-5-2-2; Crescent 5-5-2-1-3; Oxford Chimes 3-3-5-3-S; Direct View 6-1-3-4-5. Time— 2:14'4, 2:13^,2:15' =, 2:15*, 2:14':. A Study of Dan Patch's Pedigree. Now that Dan Patch is champion his pedigree will be studied more carefully than ever by students of the breeding problem, says the American Horse Breeder. He is an inbred Wilkes. He traces directly through both sire and dam to Rjsdyk's Hambletonlan and Dolly Spanker's renowned son, George Wilkes 2:22. His sire, Joe Patchen 2:01], is one of the most impres- sive and grandest horses that we have ever seen. His paternal grandsire, Patchen Wilkes, has a trotting record of 2:29J. The sire of Patchen Wilkes was George Wilkes 2>22. The dam of Patchen Wilkes 2:29J, Kitty Patchen was closely inbred to Mambrino Patchen 58 (Herr'B). Her sire was Mambrino Patchen 58, and her dam, the great brood mare Betty Brown, was also by Mambrino Patchen. Betty Brown herself is an example of close inbreed- ing. Her sire, Mambrino Patchen 58, was a son of Mambrino Chief 11, and her dam, Pickles, was a daughter of Mambrino Chief. The dam of Pickles was by Brown's Bellfounder, one of the best bred sons of imported Bellfounder, and her second dam was by the renowned four-mile race horse Grey Eagle. As the dam of Mambrino Patchen was by the noted race-winner Gano, whose sire was the famous four- mile race-winning thoroughbred American Eclipse, and whose dam, Betsy Richards, was a daughter of Sir Archy, the famous race horse and most successful progenitor of race horses in America in his day, Dan Patch 1 :59 is fortified through his sire with a good supply of the stoutest racing blood ever found in America. The dam of this wonderful champion, Dan Patch 1:59, is Zelica. Her sire was Wilkesberry 2:30, and her dam was by Pacing Abdallah,ason of Alexander's Abdallah 15. Wilkesberry is credited with a trotting record of 2:30. His sire was Young Jim, one of the most blood-like sons of George Wilkes. The dam of Young Jim was Lady Lear, dam of Jim Erving 2:23, and her sire, Lear's Sir William, was by Howard's Sir Charles, by Clinton, he by the same Sir Charles, by Sir Arehy, that got the renowned old four-mile race-winner and record-breaker Wagner. The dam of Wilkesberry 2:30, was quite closely in- bred to the Clay strain. Her sire was American Clay 34, and her dam was by Amos, Cassius M. Clay, Jr., sire of the noted old trotter American Girl 2:16}. American Clay was by Strader's Ca6sius M. Clay, Jr. His dam was by imported Tranby. His second dam was by Aratus, a son of Director by Sir Archy. His third dam was by Josephus, and Josephus was by Rob Roy, a son of Sir Archy, while his dam, Flora, was by Florizel, a very distinguished race winner, and the same son of imported Diomed that got the dam of the famous long-distance race horse Boston. The fourth dam of American Clay 34 was by Colum- bus, another son of Sir Archy. In addition to his rich inheritance from Rysdyk's Hambletonian, Mambrino Chief, Clay and the best of thoroughbreds, Dan Patch 1:59, also inherits a strain of Vermont Black Hawk blood and two Btrains of Long Island Black Hawk, through Joe Young 2:18, sire of the dam of Joe Patchen 2:04}. Dan Patch is not only bred right for the world's champion, but has an inheritance that entitles him to transmit and perpetuate champion Bpeed when favored with the right kind of mares. ♦ On a hot day drink Jackson's Napa Soda lemonade and be refreshed. When she trotted her champion mile, Lou Dillon wore a 4J ounce shoe in front, with a light leather pad under it, and a 2i ounce shoe behind. She had on quarter boots and shin boots, and scalper attach- ment behind. Sanders says, as a matter of fact, she doesn't require a boot of any kind, but he Bimply put them on as a matter of precaution He says, too, that she is such a natural trotter that she will go about as well barefooted as with shoes. And in con- nection with Lou Dillon, H. K. Devereux tells some- thing that may not be Out of place here: After Mr. Billings bought Lou Dillon she went into Tanner's stable, and they let up on her for some ten days. The first time that Tanner hitched her to the sulky she stepped a mile in 2:15, and she stopped so badly in the stretch that he was very much crestfallen over it. Sanders happened out at the track about that time. Tanner ran across him and asked him if he would like to jjo to 'work on Lou Dillon. Sanders said he would. Tanner told him to start right in, and he turned the maretiver to Sanders to train and prepare for fast miles, with the result that the public have seen the most marvelous exhibition of speed from her in the past month ever shown by a trotter, and to cap the climax she trots a' mile in two minutes. — American Horse Breeder. Strikel — if they don't give you Jackson's Napa Soda when you aek for it. Warranted to give satisfaction. GOMBAULT'S CAUSTIC BALSAM A safe, speeily anil positive on i Curb, Splint. Sweeny. Capped Hock, Strained Tendons. Founder, Wind Puffs, and all lameness from Spavin, Ringbone and other bony tumors. Cures all skin diseases or Parasites. Thrush. Diphtheria. Removes all Bunches from Horses or Cattle. I- Invnluable Bver> bottle of Caimllc H;il-:ini intediofrlretatitftarilan Price VI. SO iht bottle Soli! bi druinrlKt*. 01 sent by ei press charges paid, with roll direction* ror n» ,-, Bend lot dew ripllire rln mans i- nlals, etc Addrea TEE UWRENCE-WlLLIiXSCOa'Pm.CleTeUDd. 0hiu ®he Qxeeinev unit gtpxnrfcrotatt (.SEPTEMBER 12, 1103 ROD, GUN AND KENNEL. Conducted by J. X. De WITT. The Barefoot Fisher Boy. WJaere sumachs nodding to and fro Their crimson tassels spread The wary trout is lying low Blue is the sky o'erhead. The barefoot fisher knows how best To lure them from their haunts; No tackling grand attends his quest- It's only fish he wants. A goodly string is dangling down His brier-embroider'd calves; He'li do some city Izaak brown— 'Twill not be done by halves. Alack, the fish are in the pan. The barefoot fisher's gay; He eats them like a little man- No Izaak passed his way. — Horace Seymour Keller. The Golden Plover. Save the Birds! Articles irom the pen of Mrs. Josephine Clifford McCraekin which appeared in the columns of this Journal, elicited a response from Mrs. Alma Keith, a San Francisco milliner. This action of the city tradeswoman seems to be in disparaging contrast to the deference the trade and dealers have paid public sentiment and the Federal and State laws in other cities of this country, notably so in Cincinnati. In the latter city, we will mention, several arrests and convictions of divers milliners for illegally having certain skins and plumage of indige- nous Bong birds in tbeir possession might possibly have had something to do in bringing about a change in the hearts of those who were commercially interested in the destruction of song birds. The cause is progressing materially in the East in favor of the protection of song and insectivorous birds, and a like condition hereBhould have the unanimous support of our citizens generally. Mrs. Keith, evidently, is unacquainted with the methods employed by the plumage hunter, or she would not have committed herself in defense or en- dorsement of so cillous a vocation, the pursuit of which IB tainted with cruel and brutal features of bo gross a nature as to meet with universal condemna- tion. The following vigorouB reply appeared in the San Jose Mercury of August 18th; "Editor Mercury-Herald: It was only on my return from a visit to the coast that the Mercury-Herald of July 26th containing a lady's criticism on song bird protection came into my hands and I beg that you grant me space for a few words of reply. Without malice and with no unkind feeling toward this lady, I must still speak in defense of the stand taken by the Ladies' Forest and Song Bird Protective Association. Two wrongs never yet made one right, and we are perfectly consistent when we object to the killing of song or plumage birds for the purpoEe of cooking and eating them, as well as for the purpose of trimming women's hats. We do not ineist on having bluejays killed on account of their harsh voices, but we are doing all in our power to save both song and plumage birdB and feel that we are carrying out the principle advocated by our government — national and local — that those ordinances shall obtain which confer the greatest amount of good on the largest number of individuals. There are many more farmers, orchardists and grain growers in these United States than there are milliners and their employes, and what these manu- facture out of slaughtered birds and their feathers are only articles of luxury and can be more easily dis- pensed* with than fruits, vegetables and grain for bread. And vegetables, grain and fruit, we maintain, will be destroyed by insects, worms and caterpillars if the song and plumage bird is killed off: hence our war on the 'milliner-hunter' of whom I have spoken with contempt. That a milliner must have artistic taste in order to be successful I am well aware of, nor do I say one word to belittle the occupation, and it needs not the added explanation that women in this manner often support those dependent on them. We are all wage- earners — the king on his throne, Teddy Roosevelt in his chair of state, the generalat thehead of the army, and the editor on his tripod, while the hodcarrier climbing the ladder with his load of bricks is entitled to as much respect as are these others. But the fel- low who goes out as "milliner-hunter," knowing that he is breaking the law when he carries trap and net with which to snare harmlesB birds and tear off their wings while still alive and puts their eyes out or pulls off the entire skin with the fBathers, is not a wage- earner, but a miscreant and the most contemptible being the sun shines on. So far from taking back one single word I have written or said about this claBB of people, I am rather proud of the articles published in Breeder and Sportsman of July 18th and July 25th, in which I have expressed with still greater emphasis my opinions on this subject. For although I write and act only in conformity with the wishes and views of car association, I consider myself personally respon- ble for every word I write or say. Josephine Clifford McCraekin, President Ladies' Forest and Song Bird Protective Association o. Santa Cruz County." This bird, sometimes locally known aB the frost bird, bullhead or bullhead plover, is perhaps the most widely traveled of all the game birds which offer sport to the inhabitants of the United States. Altogether migratory in its nature, it appears far to the North, in the Great Slave Lake country and through the arctic regions of the coast of Labrador, or generally in that remote Sub-Arctic North of which we know so little, the land of long winterB but of swift, hot summers. It reaches its northern limits sometime in the latter portion of the month of May and before the middle of the month of June. By the first of September it is again to befound, Bouth bound, with its young raised brood, crossing the timbered zone, and heading almost as far to the South as it has been to the North. It reaches the lower Bhores of Patagonia in its Southern migration, and is very abundant in the pampas of the Argentine Republic. It crosses the Southern states, crosses Mexico and Central America, and even works as far to the west- ward as the Hawaiian Islands. It is found on the Pacific Coast, but is not numerous there. From its eaBtern coast it deviates as far as the Bermudas and the West Indies. It winters in theBe warmer regions of the southern country, and returning once more begins its long journey, under that strange compelling migratory instinct whose intensification is one of those things for which even science does not attempt adequate explanation. There are two great natural fly-ways of the golden plover, that of the Atlantic coast and that of the Mississippi valley, these being indeed great fly-ways for all the water fowl as well as for thiB strange migratory upland bird. Upon the eastern coast it usually makes its appearance in the fall about September 11th, the time of the first frost, whence the name of "froBt bird." It crosses the State of New York and is found at scattered spots in the Middle States, in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and so on south. It Is counted upon as a more or less steady factor of sport In such regions as it visits in its migratory movements, and is a bird perhapB better understood by the Eastern sportsman than by his brother of the West. To-day, however, it is perhaDS in the middle western regions of the United States that the sport of golden plover shooting may be best enjoyed, although even there it is not what it formerly was. The great Mississippi valley flight formerly was composed of thousands upon thousands of these birds. Audubon reports a most remarkable flight of golden plover which he saw near New Orleans, and describes graphically the destruction made in the ranks of the birds. That was in the muzzle-loading days, of course. Since that time the muzzle-loaders and breech-loaders have kept steadily at work upon the golden plover, twice a year, from south to north, and from north to south, across the American continent, so that to-day the bird is in no wiBe so numerous as it was a couple of decadeaago. The golden plover does not seem to accommodate itself tothe advance of civilization as does the grouse or the Bob White quail, nor yet does it seem to alter its fly-ways, it numbers not bo many now, less each year, yet Btill holding the old aerial ways and still existing as a fairly abundant species of a distinctly interesting nature. The golden plover, more especially in the height of the brooding season, when the plumage is at its best, is a handsome bird. At that timeitB breast is a deep black and its back is mottled with brown and gold, from which latter color its popular name is derived. Its plumage, shot full of this mass of yellow flecks is striking and beautiful, although the bird itself lacks the raciness and game-like contour which seem to speak from every line of the Bob White quail or the lusty grouse. Simple, fatuous, unsuspicious and con- fiding, this bird has no great sporting quality of its own. It does not seem to change its habitB with the change of the years, although it may become a little more wary in localities where it is steadily pursued. It has not learned, like the ruffed grouse, the value of individual initiative. Strictly gregarious, it goes forth in large numbers and announces its whereabouts plainly and confidently. Moreover, so far from seeking out deep and pro- tective covering or even chosing a feeding ground with which its own plumage would harmonize after the scheme of protective coloration, this plover has the habit of exposing itself in the most open manner upon the short grasses of the early meadows, or the burned-over tracks where there is absolutely no cover to conceal, its plump little figure. To be sure, it will not allow the hunter to walk up deliberately and pot it upon the ground, yet it seems to have no concerted plan of defense. As a species it would be doomed to speedy extermination were it not for its migratory nature. On the table it is delicate and desirable — not so much so aB the woodcoek, not so much so as the quail or the grouse, but still enough bo aB lo cause it to command a price in the markets about even with that of the Wilson snipe. In bulk it is between that of the latter bird and the full grown Bob White quial. Its food is made up of tender grasses and of insects found among tbose grasses. It is very fond of a bit of country which has been burned off and upon which, in the early spring, a new growth of short grass appears. It feeds alBO to some extent upon the winter wheat fields of the Middle West, or may now and again be seen stalking about in close packed ranks upon the pasture grounds. Showing dark against the general background, its round, full body renders it a mark tempting to the upland shooter. It is during its northbound flight that the golden plover tarries longest at the latitude of the temperate zones, and it is during that time that these birds are shot in greatest numbers in those parts of the United States which it visitB. The first flight comes in at the 42nd parallel — that which crosses well up in the states of Illinois. Indiana and Michigan — at about the middle or the latter half of April. The last week- of April iB that which ordinarily witnesses the greatest flight, and the first two weeks in May were tbose in whioh the bird was most successfully hunted in the early timeB, preceding the day of the more rigorous game laws in the Western states. Whether in the spring or in the fall, the habits of the bird are pretty much the same, although in the fall the young birds, not yet full plumaged and still more innocent and credulous than their thick witted parents, offer easy prey to the upland hunter. There are three ways of hunting the golden plover, only one of which can be counted productive of great sport or be described as a proper one for the pursuit of the bird. Fly-way shooting is in some localities practical, and of course it offers a certain degree of skill; yet this is too uncertain in these days of scarcity to entitle it to much regard as a means of taking the golden plover. Its only possibility rests in the fact that these birds, for some mysterious reason, appear to have regular crossing places at any given section. Thus the old fly-way across upper Indiana, west of the town of Renssalaer, Gillman, 111., was another place, situated on the high rolling prairies, which waB always crossed by these birds on the northern flight. The fly-way then came in west of the Calumet country, at the foot of Lake Michigan, the flat high ridges which bound the second beach of Lake Michi- gan. The little town of Summit, located by a short distance from the city of Chicago — indeed now within the confines of that city — was directly in this northern fly-way, and even to-day the birds hang about this locality as though they could not accommodate them- selves to the changes wrought by the advancing civilization of modern times. The Desplaines valley was followed on to the north by the old northbound fligh t of plover, and the high prairies located to the west of the great city of Chicago were touched upon the way. Thence on across Wisconsin the unpren pathway of the air led on and on, until finally the birds made their way to the extreme Arctic country which is their summer home. Thus, anyone living fifty miles west of Chicago might miss a great part of the flight of the golden plover, and anyone residing fifty miles- ea=t of Gill- man, 111., might in his turn miss the few dsj s which represented the cream of the Bport on any given spring. There were even certain fields, certain swales or ridgeB, which seemed to have been selected by the birds as their land marks. The sportsman well acquainted with this well established fly-way, or similar ones elsewhere, was able now and again to post himself in some convenient hedge or behind some little blind and secure fairly good sport at golden plover Bhooting when the flight was at its best; say in the latter part of April. It might be for only a few days in the week, perhaps only for a few hours on one oi two days, yet while it lasted one could easily understand the description of Audu- bon as applied to the distinctive fly-way shootirg in Louisiana long ago. Yet another form of pursuing golden plover is that of stalking it by the aid of a horse, preferably by a team and vehicle. Although these birds while feed- ing will not ordinarily allow a shooter to walk up to them within range, they now and again will permit one to drive close enough to shoot them. This method, of course, has gone out of vogue in the later days of smaller fields and more numerous fences, and it never was entitled to be called more then a make- shift in the pursuit of this bird. Sometimes a party of three or four guns would go out across the prairies in the early days, and by dint of diligently following up a flock time and again would be able to kill fifty or sixty, or even one hundred, of these handsome and fat little birds in the course of an afternoon's shooting. It has been long since such a thing has been possible in any part of the Mississippi valley — that is to say, possible with any sort of regularity although now and again there might be a chance day when the flight dropped in, during which a good bag of golden plover might be made in this fashion. The most sportsmanlike form of pursuing the sport of Bhooting the golden plover is by means of blind and decoys, precisely as one hunts ducks, with the exception that the decoys are placed out upon the dry hills and not in the neighborhood of swamps and waterways. There iB no bird in the world which de- coys more handsomely than the golden plover, and providing that one has studied the species carefully, he can have at times very exciting sport in this sort of decoy shooting. In the first place he must under- stand the habits of the birds and must, of course, have located their natural fly-way and their feeding grounds. In the next place he must be able to imi- tate the call of the birds, and to imitate it in such way that it can be heard at a great distance. Unless he be a good caller he will lose the greater part of his sport, for a really good imitation of the rote of the golden plover can be sent down wind a distance of three-quarters of a mile, or even a mile, and the birds will readily come to the note at no matter what dis- tance they hear it, when they are swinging around aimlessly across the country in Bearch of feeding grounds. The call itself is not difficult of fairly close imitation, being a shrill repetition of the note "wheet, wheet, wheet, wheet wheet!" Some callers produce this note by means of an artificial call, but the best September 12, 1903, ®Jte gveebev ctntf gtpotrtsman 9 sail, and the one which can be heard farthest, is the Doe made by the human mouth — unassisted in case of the market shooter in any way except by a pair of more or less dirty finge.s thrust well within the mouth. The golden plover shooter, whether he be putting out his decoys upon the coast country or upon the high ridges of the western prairies, will pursue pretty much the same course in his operations. His blind Bhould not be a big one. In fact a few sticks or weeds, or a slight screen of waving grass, will prove sufficient for him. Here, as In every other form of decoy or calling shooting, the great disideratum is to keep as motionless as possible. As to the decoys, in putting them out two things should be remembered. The Bhooter does not want to shoot single birds, but wants to kill several at a shot, this being the wholesale character of all this plover shooting. In the next place, tbe shooter must remember that any bird when drawing to decoys will alight against the wind. The expert plover shooter, therefore, will not put out his decoys either directly down the wind or at right angles to the course of the wind, but will so locate them that as the birds swing against the wind they will present to him, at a distance of perhaps thirty or forty yards, not the side of the flock nor the bead of the flock, but tbe oblique quartering diameter of the main body of the birds. It is this raking shot, tearing through from corner to corner of the packed mass of birds, which is the most destructive one, as a practiced plover shooter knows very well. It is the skillful market hunter who has devised this deadly arrangement of the decoys. As for the sportsman pure and simple, he may not be so careful, and may put out his decoys as he likes, caring only to swing the birds over him in any sort of direction, and close enough for him to stop them with right and left. The sport is in seeing tbe birds decoy. The description of the arrangement of decoys is simply given to show the most deadly form of this sort of shooting. Suppose now that the plover shooter has taken his place in his blind. If he be an old time market shooter, he will mutiny if you ask him for permission to join him in his blind. He knows perfectly well that, left alone, he will kill more birds than if Borne sportsmen join him. He has the patience of his craft and knows'how to withhold his fire until just that fatal instant when the cylinder bore will mow down the greatest possible number of these gold-backed beauties as they draw in over his painted mockeries. He knows that if you join him you will shoot at the birds while they are passing around behind you, or sboot before the flock lines out and comes into the decoys. He does not want you, but perhaps, if you offer to make it right with him, he will tolerate you. Then perhaps you may learn some curious and inter- esting things as to the versatility and high degree of cunning of man as a hunter. It is only one more instance of sport highly specialized. There are all kinds of preference among shooters of the country. Some do not care for anything but big game, and others pick out certain species of big game as the object of their skill. One man may be a devotee of the ruffed grouse, another may care for nothing but woodcock, or yet another have the most pronounced leaning toward the sport of wild fowl shooting in its diversified forms. There are not in the West many men who understand decoy shooting for plover. Plierht bird shooting or indeed almost any other kind of flock shooting, is, in the interior of the United State?, less followed than it is in the coast regions. Your market hunter, therefore, whom you have dis- covered and whose consent you finally secured to allow you to join him in hi9 blind, is something of a rarity himself, and his society is not without interest on that account. — E. Hough in Texas Field. Cocker circles are out of gear among the fancy up North as will appear from the following which was recently published in the Victoria Daily Colonist, under the caption of "The Cocker Spaniel Fancy" — according to Hodgson: Sir — As a breeder of the Cocker Spaniel, may I in trude on your valuable space to lay before Mr. Hodg- son some aspects of the case that he has evidently overlooked, and I do so, quite independent of the recent open air show, or the awards there given, as through circumstances our kennel of Cockers was unable to be bencbed, and I myself, much to my regret, was prevented from attending. I feel convinced that it is foolish to rush into print and make broad statements, such as 'local Cocker Spaniel fanciers have got mixed up in this breed,' without being able to back it up, and it is most unfair to local men. Now, Sir, we, in this town, have pro- duced Cocker Spaniel fanciers who are legion; men of keen intelligence, and fully capable of ably interpret- ing the standard, for instance, Messrs. Harry Wright, Cryderman, Geo. Jay, W. J. McKeown, Dr. Milne, Dr. Duncan, Dr. Garesche, and many others, who have spent in the aggregate several thousand dollars on improving this breed, some of whom have per- sonally visited Eastern kennels for this object, and all these gentlemen have practically accepted the Btandard put out by the American Spaniel Club, as the type of a perfect spaniel, and mark you here that the English stand ird is not the accepted one on the American continent, so far, for type and ideals, and that myth, the "perfect dog," but to breed him, or to buy him, is a much more difficult matter, and if Mr. Hodgson had been able to put ub on the track of some patent machine to produee dogs true to type, he would have cunferred a boon, in place of the sore- ness that seems to have resulted from the judging at that show. Boldness is not so great a virtue as tact, aad far more valuable results can be attained by attending kennel meetings and personally holding to your views, than rushing into the press, and informing breeders )f years standing that their experience and knowl- adge is all wrong, bacause it is not, according to Hodgson. Henry Oswald Litchfield, Royal Pastime Cocker Kennels. Nebraska Field Trials. Under most favorable auspices the second annual trials of the Nebraska Field Trial Club were run last month. Seventy-four dogs started, in two stakes, out of 145 nominated. The grounds were generally favorable to the sport, but birds were not overlv plentiful. Some of the heats were run without any birds being found. Dogs that showed the proper class in such heats were taken into the succeeding series and given an opportunity on pointing, etc. Northern Huntress was cast off in a no bird heat against Lakefield Rod. A report of the trial states that "it was apparent, however, that the pride of the Pacific Coast, was not in fit condition to run, as she lacked the snap that characterized her work in the Pacific Northwest Club's trialB." The judges were Capt. J. W. Baughn of Ridgeville, Ind.. and William Elliott, of Salem, la. Osseeo, fourth in the Derby, was credited with being the class dog of the stake. He is a handsome black, white and tan and beautifully ticked. He is almost full brother to J. W. Considine's Doc Hick — by the same sire Count Rodstone, out of a bitch sired by Marie's Sport, which was out of Nona H., the dam of Dick Hick. The entries in each stake, order of running and winners are given in the following summaries: O'Neill, Neb., August 18, 1903.— Nebraska Field Trial Association's second annual Derby, for Pointers and Setters, born on or after January 1, 1902; $5 to nominate and $10 additional to start. Purse $500, divided as follows: One hundred and fifty dollars to first, $125 to second, $100 to third, $75 to fourth and $50 to fifth. Seventy-eight nominations, thirty-two starters, nineteen Setters, thirteen Pointers. Judges, W. J. Baughn and William Elliott. Osseeo, white, black and tan English Setter dog (Count Rodstone- Marie's Dot). Ed Garr, handler; Dr. E. R. Hickerson, owner. With Buckle, white and lemon Pointer dog (Pat's Boy-Spot S.). W. B. Stafford, handler and owner. Robert Rodfield, white, black and tan English Setter dog (Rod" fie Id-Rose field). J T. Johnson & Sons, owners; C. W. Mungen handler. With Pioneer, white and orange English Setter dog (Count Whttestone- Bonnle Doone). Titus-Hoover Kennels, owners; Er Shelley, handler. Kate Cyrano, white and black Pointer bitch (King Cyrauo-Josie Brighton). Dr. H. W. Arndt. owner; Ed Garr, handler With Trixte's Pearl, white, black and tan English Setter dog (Sport's Gath-Kingston's Trisle). C. D Stuart, owner; Asher Cady, handler. Dervish Girl, white, black and tan English Setter bitch (Robert Count Gladsione-Fleety A.). American-Llewellln Kennels, owners; W. W. Updike, handler. With Laketleld Pride, white and orange English Setter dog (Cowley's Rodfleld's Pride-Phoebe Whitestone). Lakefleld Kennels, own- ers; Jack Gude, handler. Phoebe's Rod, white and orange English Setter dog (Cowley's Rodfleld's Prlde-Phcebe Whitestone). Louis Hilsendegen, owner; W. J Wilson, handler. With Baby Ale, white and lemon ticked Pointer bitch (Jingo's Coin- FaminAle). George C. Cooper, owner; W.D.Gilchrist, han- dler. Keno: white and black Pointer dog (Lad of Hugo-Tick's Dot). J. S Oviugton, owner; J. H. McPharlan, handler. With Topsy's Dot, white and lemon Pointer bitch (Tris S.-Topsy). A. A Walters, owner; W. J. Wilson, handler. Belle Oakley, white, black and tan English Setter bitch (Marie's Sport-Sister Oakley). A F. Young, owner; W. J. Wilson, han- dler. With Chevalier's Pride, white and orange English Setter dog (High- land Chevalier-Martha Washington). H. N. Brosius, owner; Ed Garr, handler. Brett's Sport, white and black English Setter dog (Sport's Count Danstone-Pride's Belle). WilllamBrett, owner; Charles Asklns. handler. With Chesterfield Sue, white, black and tan English Setter bitch (Jack- Tignor's Vic). J. C. Tignor owner; Nat B Nesbitt, handler. Countess Sue, white, black and tan English Setter bitch (Missouri Gale-Thier's Sue) W. W. Henry, owner and handler. With Katie Jingo, white and liver Pointer bitch (Lad of Jingo-Lyman's Trinket). J. T. Jones, agent and handler. Katie Jingo, white and liver Pointer bitch (Lad of Jingo-Hal's Belle). C. F. Nelson, owner: Ed Garr, handler. With Trap, white and black Pointer dog, breeding unknown. Z. H. McPharlan, owner and handler. Sport's Dan, black, white and tan Pointer dog (Marie's Sport- Spotty Gladstone). A. Albaugh, owner and handler. With Ruby Stone, white, black and tao English Setter bitch (Victor Count Gladstone-Ruby Danstone). R. D. McDougal, owner; D. C. White, handler. Ortiz Masterpiece, white, black and tan English Setter dog (Rod- field-Gadfly). N. B. Guthrie (Ortiz Fruit Farm), owner; George McLln, handler. With Lad's Meally, white and liver Pointer bitch (Lad or Jingo-Mar- garet). W. P Austin, owner; A B. Caldwell, handler. Copper Coin, white and liver Pointer dog (Lad of Jingo-Hal's Belle) W. P. Austin, owner; A B. Caldwell, handler. With Oakley Hill's Pride, white, black and tan English Setter bitch - (Oakley Hill-Gleam's Daisy). Mrs. J.W.Cowley, owner; Er Shelley, handler. Rap's Pointer, white and liver Pointer dog (Young Rip Rap-Miss Pointer). Er Shelley, owner and handler. With Jingo's Rock, black and white Pointer dog (Devonshire Rock- Jingo's Jane). N. T. Depaw, owner. Plain Res. black, white ana tan Euglfsh Setter dog (Dan Bo- ThelmaS). Tnomas Griffiths, owner; Nat B. Nesbitt, handler. With Raohel Rodfield, white, black and tan English Setter bitch (Cin- cinnatus' Pride -Florence Rodfield). John O. Bahde, owner; A. Albaugh. handler. Gem's Oakley, white, black and tan English Setter dog (Oakley Hill-Gemof Noble). Dlllman & Munger, owners; W.C. Munger. handler. With La Belle, white and orange English Setter bitch fPrimeMintater- Sport's Lady). W. W. Henry; owner and handler. II Ruby Stone with Oakley Hill's Pride. Brett's Sport with Plain Rex Lad's Meally with Chesterfield's Sue. DervlBh Girl with Trap Lakefleld's Pride with Osseeo. Topsy's Dot with Pioneer. Osseeo with Chesterfield's Sue. Uervl&h Girl with Lad's Meallj. os>eeo with Chesterfield's Sue. 1st, Plain Res; 2d, Lad's Meally; 3d. Brett's Sport; nh, equal 5th, Dervibh Girl and Chesterfield's Sue. O'Neill, Neb , August 21, 1903.— Nebraska Field Trial Association's second annual All-Age Stake, for Pointers and Setters that have never won a prize in- any open trial. Purse, $500. Five dollars to nomi- nate and SlO-additional to start. Divided as follows: One hundred and fifty dollars to first, $125 to second, $100 to third, $75 to fourth and $50 to fifth. Sixty- seven nominations, forty-two English Setters, twenty- four Pointers and one Irish Setter. Forty-two starters. Grade's Rodfield, black, white and tan English Setter bitch (Rod- fleld-Gracie Gladstone). John A.Strang, owner; Nat B Nes- bitt, handler. With Elm's Sport, white and black English Setter dog (Rod Noble- Fancy May). R J. Dorant, owner; ErSholley, handler. Dad's Frank, white and lemon English Setter dog (Mat Ellis- Belle Wilson II). Nitta Yuma Kennels, owners; Ed Garr, han- dler. With Question, white, black and tan English Setter bitch (Why Not- Agnes Wakt field). P. Lorillard, owner; Will Tucker, handler. Patentee, white, black and tan English Setter dog (Lady's Count Gladstone-Sue Hope). Nichols & Hersey, owners; Austin Albaugh, handler. With Jessie Rodfleld's Count Gladstone, white and orange English Set- ter dog (Lady's Count Gladstone-Jessie Rodfield). Jesse Sher- wood, owner; Er Shelley, handler. Sport's Boy Jr., white and lemon English Setter dog (Sport's Boy- Queen W. H.). F. A Warnke, owner; A. Albaugh, handler. With Ripstone Jingo, black and white Pointer dog (RIpstone-Jingo's Lady). C. T. Phillips, owner; E S. Munger, handler. Victor Okaw, white, black and tan English Setter dog (Lady's Count Gladstone- Vic's Vic). Dr. N. B. Paulter, owner; W- D. Gilchrist, handler. With Abdallah Rodfield, white, black and tan English Setter bitch (Rodfield-Gracle Gladstone). C. J. Bair, owner; N. B. Nesbitt, handler. Sank, white and black Pointer dog, breeding unknown. Dr. J. E. Summers, owner; J. H. McPharlln, handler. With Ortiz King, white, black and tan English Setter dog (Lady's Count Gladstone-Ortiz Vic's Vic). N. B. Guthrie, owner: Geo. McLin, handler. Northern Huntress, white, black and tan English Setter bitch (Joe Cammlng-Mecca II). T. J. A. Tiedeman, owner; Er Shel- ley, handler. With Lakefield Rod, white and black English Setter dog (Rodfleld- Kate N.). Lakefield Kennels, owners; John Dude, handler. Jingo's Jones, white and liver Pointer dog (Jingo's Joy-Ltght of Kent). H. L. Bacon, M. D., owner; W. D. Gilchrist, handler. With Alford's John, white and liver Pointer dog (Dave Kent-Cleade). Faust & Dickey, owners: J. T. Jones, handler. Alpine Lad, white and liver Pointer dog (Lad of Jingo-Fanny Flash). Charles Proctor, owner; Ed Garr, handler. With McKinley. white, black and tan English Setter dog (Hickory Gladstone-Thelma S.) Thomas Griffiths, owner; Nat B. Nes- bitt, handler. Sir Rodney, white, black and tan English Setter dog (Rodfield- Farette Pride). W. N. Nees, owner; George McLln, handler. With Dan Stuart, white, black and tan English Setter dog (Count Dan- stone-Minnie A.). C. D. Stuart, owner; Asher Cady. handler. Chief Other Day, white and liver Pointer dog (Sabine's Rip Rap- Susie's Dottle). H. M. Giles, owner; Nat B. Nesbitt, handler. With Kraai's King Dodo, white, black and tan English Setter dog (King Bo-Cllpingo). E. E. Kraai, owner; Asher Cady, handler. Lad of Jingo, white and liver Pointer dog (Jingo-Dot'a Pearl). W. P. Austin, owner: A. B. Caldwell, handler. With Sam B., white and lemon Pointer dog (Jingo's Light-Phi). W- C. Banks, owner; D. C. White, handler. Prince Danstone, white, black and ta^ ticked English Setter dog (Count Danstone-Rosefleld). Joseph Becker, owner; E. S. Mun- ger, handler. With Jack D , black, white and ticked Pointer dog (Jack-Fannie). Dr. J. E. Summers, ownei ; J. H. McPharlln, handler. Fantasma II, red Irish Setter bitch (Don Juan- Watson's Fan). R. DeB. Smith, owner; J. H. McPharlln, handler. With May Fly, white and orange English Setter dog (May Prince- Glory), G. O. Smith, owner; A. B. Caldwell, handler Slap Dash, black, white and tan English Setter dog (Lady's Count Gladstone-Maude). P. Lorlllard, owner; Will Tucker, handler. With Hal's Pearl, liver and white Pointer dog (Hal Pointer-Dot). Charles Asklns, agent and handler. Prince Lyndon, black, white and tan English Setter dog (Marie's Sport-West Wind). John Cowley, owner; Er Shelley, handler. With Blue Danstone, blue belton English Setter dog (Count Danstone- Fairland Dot). T. A. Turner, owner; W. D Gilchrist, handler. Jingo's Jerry, white and liver Polnterdog (J In go -Rose Le Hessen). John Otten, owner; Ed Garr handler. With Sport's Lady, white, black and tan English Setter bitch (Marie's Sport-Jeannette M,). W. W. Henry, owner and handler. Sure Shot, white, black and tan English Setter dog (Lady's Count Glads tone- Jessie Rodfield). J. W. Canaday owner: Charles Askios, handler. With Sport Webster, white, black and tan English Setter dog (Marie's Sport-Peg's Girl). F. Towlerton, owner; W. D. Gilchrist, haLdler. Jingo's Mike, white and liver Pointer dog ( Jingo-Nellie Croxteth). Smith &, De Paw, owners; Ed Garr, handler. With Captain Jack, white, black and tan English Setter dog (Colonel R -Spot's Girl). .owner; John Gude, handler. Pride of Rcdfleld, white, black and tan English Setter dog (Rod- field-Sue Gladstone II). Dr. F. W. Samuel, owner; Ed Garr, handler. With Count's Clip, white, black and tan English Setter bitch (Lady's Count Gladstone-Jessie Rodfield). Charles Asklns, agent and handier- Boy Blue, white, black and ticked English Setter dog (Natty Boy-Net Henry). W. W. Henry, owner and handler. With Mascot, white and liver Polnterdog (Young Rip Rap-Gay Estill). J, Hayward Jr., owner; W. D. Gilchrist, handler. II Jingo's Jerry with Grade's Rodfield. Captain Jaok with Elm's Sport. Bine Danstone with Dad's Frank Alpine Lad with Prince Lyndon MoKtnley with Victor Okaw. Sport Webster with Boy Blue. Alford's John with Slap Dash. Sure Shot with Mascot. 1st, Prince Lyndon; -id, Alpine Lad; 3d, MoKloley: tance handicaps were as follows: Compagno Handicap Trophy shoot, 25 pigeons, en- trance free, birds paid for only, high gun — W,G Keane 30 yds— 11112 11211 11211 21112 11221-8 , C A Haight 32 E Fay 30 RCReed -a C C Xauinan S4 Dr A T Derby 30 J V Coleman 29 J L Woods 27 Ed Donohoe 32 JFHall 88 C Sylvester 89 W J Golcher 30 J Bermingham, Jr 27 W Hanson 29 M O Feudner 34 T L Lewis 28 -2222* 22222 12212 22222 23112- —21121 21121 2*211 21211 22222— H , —11111 12110 21311 21122 21111— U 1 —21211 12211 22*21 22222 11102— M | -22211 12112 22222 22221 12*21 -H ■ -21111 12201 12112 21111 11120—43 1 —21111 11110 121*2 11121 11121—23 —22222 02*22 22221 22102 22222-a — H210 01*11 12111 1121* 12121— a ■ —12121 1*21* 122*2 22220 21122-21 1 -01211 12111 02011 *2222 1 pill— » -11*10 20122 22*12 21122 21111-20 —22000 11211 21212 0*100 12211-18 II —222*2 22222 120w -1! — 200w — | 1 1 Six bird pool, $2.50 entrance, 3 moneys, high guns — WJGolcher 11U12—6 EFav 102112-s Ed Donohoe 222112—6 M O Feudner 120202— i CC Xauman 212212—6 WGKeane. .20012—1 C A Haight.... 112222-6 W J Ltdstone !022IOO-S J V Coleman *211ll— 5 Fifty-two shooters were in attendance at the mer- chandise shoot of the Millwood Gun Club on Wednes- day. Nearly every shooter who entered won a pme, the distribution of which was on the grab bag system. The numbers for each prize were placed in a bag, the highest score took the first pick followed in succession by the next high scores. The entries and scores made in the prize shoot at 20 targets, entrance 75 cents, were: Hunt 11, Lewis 12, Beattie 16, Leary 14, Walpert 19, Iverson 19, G. SylveBter 17, C. H. Kewell 14, F. Kewell », Turpin 11, Mersfelder 15, Gordon 19, Collins 17, Patrick 10, Shreve 7, White 18, Van Norden 11, Falkenstein 4, F. Kewell 5, W. Price 15, Zeiner 15, Farrell 10, Sollom 7, E. Klevesahl 18, Fisher 1], O. Feudner 17, Johns 14, Murdoch 18, Forster 18, Kerrison 15, Ashlin 16, C. H. Kewell 14, Smith 16, Ostrander 19, Daniels Ifi, Price 15, Baum 12, Defenbach 14, Patrick 10. In a four man race, names drawn from a hat; 20> birds to a man, the winners were: W. Murdoch 17, H. Hoyt 17, S. Leary 14, C. H. Kewell 15. Coming Events. April 1-Sept. 10. Oct. 16-Feb. 1— Open season (or taking steel head in tidewater. April 1-Nov. 1 — Trout season open- July 1-Jan. l— Open season for black bass. Aug. 15-April 1— Open season for lobsters and crawfish. Sept. 1-Nov. 1— Close season lor crabs. Sept. l-May 1— Open season for shrimp. Sept. 10-Oct. 16 -Close season in tidewater for steelhead. Sept. 12— Saturday Contest No. 12. Class series. Stow lake 2:30 p. m. Sept. 13^-Sunday Contest No. 12. Class seriea. Stow lake, 1' a.m. Nov. water. 15-Sept. 10— Season open for taking salmon above tldt Gun. July 1-Feb. 15— Dove season open. July 15-Nov. 1— Deer season open. Sept. 9— Millwood Gun Club. Blue rocks. Mill Station. Sept. 1-Feb. 15 — Open season for mountain quail, grouse ant,' sage hen. Sept. 13— Golden Gate Gun Club. Blue rocks. Ingleside. Sept. 20— Union Gun Club. Blue rocks- Ingleside. Oct. 15-Feb. 15— Open season .'or quail, ducks, etc. Bench Shows. Sept. 4, 5— Ottawa Kennel Club. Robert McAilen, Secretary Ottawa, Can. — Sept. 7, 8, 9, 10— Toronto Industrial Imposition, 13th annua show. Dr. A. W. Bell, Secretary. Toronto, Can. Oct. 6, 7, 8, 9— Danbury Agricultural Society. Danbury, Conn Tohn W. Bacon, Treasurer. Oct. 20, 21, 22, 23— Frederick County Agricultural Society Frederick, Md. J. Roger McSherry, Secretary, Frederick, Md. Oct.— Bench Show in Spokane. Wash. Nov. 3, 4, 5, 6— Ladies Kennel Associatioa of America. Madiso Square Garden, New York. Mrs. A. G. Evans, Hon. Seoretarj Westbury. L. I. Nov. 17, 18, 19— Boston Terrier Club. Boston, Mass. Dec —Bench Show in connection with Poultry Exhibit. Sa Francisco. P. K. L rules Field Trials. Aug. 31— Western Canada Club. La Salle, Man. H. S. Ralstoi Secretary, Winnepeg, Man. Sept. 1— Brandon Kennel Club. Brandon, Man. J. P. Brisbli Secretary. Brandon. Man. September 12, 1903] ®he Qvesifev croo ^povtBtnan 11 THE FARM. Getting the Cows. If dairymen would depend upon raising their dairy animals themselves, the re- sult would be much more satisfactory, as a rule, than to buy from stockmen or speculators in a haphazard way any "pick-ups" that are offered. In order to begin right in rearing our own dairy stock, calves should be selected whose granddams on both sides had a good record at the pail or churn ; then there will be a reasonable hope that the calf will evolve into a profitable member of the dairy. If we are in the dairy business for milk, then- the attention is drawn toward the animal which will turn her food and energies into furnishing an looking through "blue glasses" now, would not have been the case if they had not trusted to oatward appearance, in- stead of making an accurate and adequate test of their herd. Cull out those profit- leas 'rubber cows" and let the survival of the fittest be the motto of dairymen in general.— A. C. McPhereon in Country Gentleman Treatment of Colic. Green feed is apt to cause colic in horses. On this subject a prominent veterinarian says : "It is of great importance in the treat- ment of colic to first ascertain what has brought on the attack. If it is due to the consumption of a quantity of dry food, and there is reason to believe there is a hardened mass of dry, undigested feed in the intestines, common sense will tell us that this mass needs to be moved. "Therefore, more is needed than mere stimulants. Physic is demanded. And what shall this physic be? Shall it be Roan Bulls and Red Bulls. abundance of milk; but if the aim of the aioe8 7 jjo, because they increase the dairyman be cream or butter, he does not care whether the amount of milk be large or small, so it yields a proper amount of hotter fat. But if the dairyman deems the rearing of calves only a ' side issue," and as a result gives only indifferent treatment, he might just as well buy his cows; for a stunted calf is a pitiable ob- ject and will never fulfill its destiny, no matter what its after-treatment maybe. Extravagance in the feeding of the calf is pardonable — parsimoniousness, never. Extravagant feeding— it would be so called by many— means milk fresh from the cow or new milk for at least three weeks after the birth of the calf; and the calf that is (not worth what new milk it can consume during the first -few weefai'of its life is not worth the rearing. Let me emphasize that the first weeks of the calf's existence determine its value later.on. I advocate lettingihe calf remain with its mother* for a day or two, not from any sentiment on the subject, although I con- fess to a feeling of pity when the cow's maternal instinct is ignored and the off- spring is removed from her sight as soon as born, but I believe it tends towards the betterment of both cow and calf, besides being more natural. When the calf iB removed from the mother, be it sooner or later, if the season is cool, then a stall should be given which insures light, is clean and, last but not least, is warm. The new-born animal, whether of high or low degree, is a "creation of warmth." Therefore, the calves stall should provide warmth. The food of the calf should be }f the same temperature as the blood of its mother upon which it was nourished jntil its birth— blood warm. New milk s richer than blood— at least the milk rom a good cow is — so it is best to lilute the new milk with water to a •easonable extent. Solid food is not fit or the stomach of a young calf, but at a ■easonable age, sweet skim-milk may be substituted for new milk gradually— the meaning process should be a slow one. ^.ater on, corn meal may be added, lead- ng to corn ensilage, clover hay, etc. The decline in dairy profits can be raced to keeping unprofitable cows. lue88W0rk has been the cause of more iilurea in dairying than any other one hing, and almost in no kind of business i it more necessary to be accurate The mount of butter fat per day which each idividual ot the dairy herd yields ought } be known by the owner of such herd, f the Babcock test cadnot be.applied, ien use a home-made test, thus: Keep ie milk from each cow separate, and eigh the butter when churned. This tat, applied once a month, will give the »lue of the cow in butter fats. You will lubtleas be surprised fn making this St. The cow which you consider the leader" of the herd will probably be und anything but a "leader" in yield of itter fat, while the cow of most un- omising appearance proves to be the ^st cow of the herd. ' This has happened . many cases. Many dairymen are four times a day secretionB of the mucous membranes, and are so far good, but not sufficient to wet up that dry mass. 'What then shall it be? Oil oil, oil every time, sufficient to soften up and emulsify this mass of dry food. How much, it may be asked. It is difficult to Bay. "But start with a pint of pure, raw linseed oil (never boiled). Give with a round teaspoonful of ginger, and if there is much pain add an ounce of sulphuric ether, or half an ounce of hydrate of chloral dissolved in water and add. "In an hour repeat, and continue to repeat until there is a natural rumbling of the bowel?. "Also use the syringe by injecting a gallon of warm, soapy water up the rectum, and repeat hourly until the pain succumbs or a passage is made. In bad cases wring cloths out of hot water and apply to the abdomen. "In cases where the attack may be due to the consumption of a quantity of soft food or to drinking much cold water, digeslion is in a measure stopped and certain gases are formed by chemical action. "Nothing will better neutralize the gas thus generated than half an ounce of carbonate of ammonia dissolved in a pint of water and poured down from a bottle. ThiB will relieve the bloat, and can be repeated hourly. "Also, if the pain is severe, give the hydrate of chloral as before recommended, with the ginger, and repeat if necessary every half hour until the pain is relieved." fortable. Wcod or dry earth is preferable. Food and water for dairy cows should always be clean. Filthy water and food injures the cow's health, thereby prevent- ing her doing her best. While it is best never to let the calf suck, it should be given its mother's milk for three or four days. Then it should have new milk for three or four weeks. If the calf received one-half the atten - tioo given a pig it would give more prof- itable results. On most farms they are turned out to rustle for themselves. The hands should not be used in work- ing butter, as the warmth in them makes the butter oily. Working butter with the hands is also uncleanly. Where cows are kept up all the time, the stables should be cleaned twice a day. Cows are naturally neat, and do not enjoy unclean stables nor unpleasant odors. Dairying and hog raising is a paying combination, with dividends sure. Do not feed warm milk today and cold milk tomorrow. Feed warm milk all the time. Screens are used in many dairy barns to keep out the flies. The flies are a nuisance. The cows would soon pay for A prominent California breeder of Shorthorn cattle recently referred to the popular fondness of Western breeders for red cattle as 'a kind of a fad." Now, although we heartily agree with him that the roan is the most typical of the breed and, in fact, is a color to which advanced breeders are very partial, yet the stockmen of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas are given to breeding bulls of a solid red color for several reasons that under the conditions will be admitted to be sound. In a range country such as Southern Arizona, New Mexico, Western Texas and Northern Mexico, cattle must necessarily travel long distances to water and back again to the feed. The hot Bun con- tinually beating down upon them pro- duces the light, bleached out colors so frequently met with in the e cattle. These conditions give you a class of stock in which light colors inevitably predomi- nate. Now it is the opinion of our older range men that there is a decided ten- dency for roan bulls to produce roan or spotted offspring. A roan bull, therefore, combined with the influence of climate, might, in a h«rd of poorly graded, or un- graded, Western cows, produce what we | the wire in the increased amount of milk, formerly termed a 'calico-colored" bunch The most important part of the day's of cattle. For these reasons we know that ; work comes in the morning and evening range men in these districts like a very ! when the cows are to be milked. Take dark red bull. Even with the Hereford, | plenty of time, be kind and quiet, and we have time and again seen range men , seek in every way for the best results, show preference for the bnll with the "Over and above all," says a writer, deepest color of red.— Fresno TAve Stock ' "we want educated men to handle dairy and Dairy Journal. Great Sale of Beef. Red Bluff Sentinel says : "John Finnel' recently closed one of the largest sales oi beef ever made in the State, as the deal amounted to about $125,000. Tehama county is not only famed for its fruit, grain, lumber and wocd, but it produces the finest quality of beef, and the big band sold by Mr. Finnell is a fine lot of cattle. He sold 2500 beef steers to the Western Meat Co. of San Francisco at ? cents a pound, and the steers will average about $50 each. They are to be delivered at the rate of 400 a week and the first 400 has already been shipped from Tehama." It is conceded that the operation of pasteurization of milk affects deleteri- ously its value as food, though to what extent is a question. Dr. Salmon does not believe this to a very great extent. He admits that the medical profession has very generally taken the ground that pasteurization is harmful to milk. Milk, he says, should be produced by sufficient- ly clean methods to need no pasteuriza- tion ; but if it is impossible to procure milk of known cleanliness, then the slight loss in food value from the pasteurization will be overbalanced by the knowledge that the process has Killed the hurtful germs. Pasteurized milk or cream is that which has been heated to a tempera- ture of about 155 deg. F., which does not kill all bacteria, but only those which are in a vegetating condition and ready to begin their activity at once. Sterilized milk or cream, speaking exactly, is that in which all the germs have been destroyed (usually bv repeated boiling, 212 deg. F.), but in dairy practice the term is applied to milk or cream which has been heated once to a temperature of about 212 deg. F. Many of the best dairy cows, when first fresh, are milked three times a day for a month or two. When teBts for butter are being made they are milked as often as Dairy Notes. Sorghum is greatly relished by cows. It temporarily increases the flow of milk. As the pastures increase or diminish, the grain ration should be increased or diminished. The good cow, or the bad one, like a boy, is large'y made in what bis parents and grand parents were. The plan of having cows lie on a cement floor is not natural, and cannot be com- cattle from calfhood to maturity, whose reliability will insure the proper raising and development of their capabilities. A New York dairyman feeds his cows three times a day ; feeding corn silage night and morning, hay at noon, with grain three times a day — equal parts of dried brewery grains, wheat bran and gluten meal. One of the reasons given for taking- the Philippine Islands was that it would benefit our trade. Most of the butter that is now used in those islands comes 'rom Australia, and but little comes from this country. Although the cost of these islands has already reached well up toward the billion dollar mark, and this sum has been paid by the American people, not a dairyman in the United States can get a pound of his butter into those islands unless he pays Z\ cents a pound duty on it. That is, before an American dairyman can send his butter from one part of the United States to snother part of our country, he must pay a duty of 21 cents a pound for the privilege of doing so. — Farmers Tribune. Jackson's Napa Soda does not tangle the feet VETERINARY PIXINE CURES Irease Heel, Scratches and Hoot' Kot.-chr'ohic, ulcerated.) 'complicated-of the most deep seated character; Cracked or chapped teats, caked bag, cow pox and all inflammatory vaffections of the udder; Saddle and Collar Galls, Hopple i Chafes, and Abscesses, Old chronic Sores, the result i of pressure by badly fitting harness or by irritating masses [of dirt, sweat and hair under the harness. It makes a positive and permanent cure by producing healthy granulations, building up new cellular tissues, healing naturally from the bo'toin without scab or scar and stimulating growth of hair, natural color. It penetrates, soothes and heals while horse works. Absolutly Guaranteed. Money back ii i'. fails. 2 oz. 25c 8oz. oOe; ' 51b. pkg. J4.00. At all Dealers or sent prepaid. ^send 10c for sample Troy Chemical Cc BOX AND BOOKLET. TROli N. 1 12 @£tte gxee&ev unit gtpxurfcsroatt I September 12, IMS The Model Shorthorn. The following interesting description of the model shorthorn is given by an expert in the English Live Stock Journal: "A model shorthorn should, I think combine the good points for which sev- eral of the leading strains are respectively remarkable. In a bull the head is a feature of the highest importance. The forehead is very wide between the eyes and a little dished. Under it the face tapers gradual- ly to the muzzle, where it becomes slightly wider round in the nostrils, which are prominent and full. The nose is of a rich flesh color tint, and any blueness or spots are to be condemned. Curling hair on the carp is becoming to a bull. The eyes are prominent, bright, and bold looking, showing high blood and spirited character. The ears are rather long, thin, erect, and well covered with hair. The horns, which are of a creamy and waxlike color, and sometimes inclined to be flat, spring well from the coronet, are short and thick, and, with age, bend rather inward towards the face. Upward growing horns are very objectionable, and destroy the contour of a head which may be otherwise well formed. There is always much grandeur displayed in the head of a high claBs bull, and every really great sire that ever lived possessed it. . "Thomas Bates, and indeed, all great breeders, attached great importance to the head of a sire, being assured that it indicated, more than anything else, his value as a stock getter. He selected Belvedere to cross the Duchesses chiefly on account of his grand head, and the double cross of that bull resulted in the production of the royal prize winner, Duke of Northumberland, which was admitted by breeders of different parties to be one of the best bulls they had ever seen. "His head and crest, his very promi- nent eyes, and the general grandeur of his appearance and gait were never for- gotten by many of the eminent breeders who admired him. The ideal head must be, so to speak, well chiseled, yet dis- playing all the strength and vigor which go to make up a thoroughly masculine appearance and expression. "The head is nicelv set on to the neck, which is wide, of good length, deep and muscular, with a strong development of crest which adds immensely to the ap- pearance of a bull. The neck vein is well filled out, so as to carry the neck back into the shoulders, without any appear- ance of hollowneBB at their junction. "The breast is wide, fall, prominent, and deep, so that the dewlap is not far from the ground. Richard Booth used to say that a 'bull should stand with his forelegs well outside him.' "A bull's shoulders should be wide and strong, yet not coarse. They need not be too fine at the points, for this iB heiferlike, but they must be oblique, sloping back, and wide on top, where they should melt, as it were, into the crops, which must also be wide and well fleshed. From the crops to the fore- arm, that is to say, in the girth, there must be little or no depression or slack- ness, but the foreribs should come out as wide as the shoulders. "The animal is then thick through the heart and wide of chest, an essential to good constitution. The forelegs are short, the arm being very stout and wide, and the bone is fine below the knee.' ' From the shoulder to the tail the line is straight, the back is wide and level, the ribs growing out roundly from it and extending well back towards the hips, which muBt not be too wide in a bull, else he would be found fault with as being cow hipped. "The ribs are deep and the flank thick, heavy, and well let down, so that the underline from behind the forearm to the junction of the flank with the hind leg will be straight. Thus there are even lines under and over "The hindquarters are long and wide, the rumps, so valuable aa meat, being well filled and almost concealing the prom inence of the hiDS. The tail is set on neatly and well covered at its root, no lumpiness being seen. The twist is wide and deep, and the thighs heavily fleshed down to the hocks, an essential point in a sire, but seldom seen at its best. 'The hocks and hind legs are straight and wide apart, the legs being short and set firmly on the ground. The hair is abundant, of fine texture, soft and mossy. A rich color, red or roan, is an important point. Deep flesh is one of the greatest essentials in a Shorthorn. There must be abundance of heavy flesh of fine quality. "The skin must not be thin; it should be rather thick and soft, and there should be felt underneath it that peculiar mellow- ness which is an evidence of thriftiness, and a faculty to produce beef with a moderate expenditure of food, or, in other words, to make beef economica'ly. "The female Shorthorn has, of course, most of the characteristics which belong to males. The head of the female is finer, longer, smaller, and more tapering. It is full of gentleness and beautiful feminine character. "The eyes are more placid, and the hornB are much smaller and gracefully bent or curled. Again, the neck is thinner and much finer at its junction with the head. The brisket is not so deep as it becomes a bull to have it. "A heifer's Bhoulders are very neat, and not bo Btrong or wide as those of the male ; they are also thinner at the top where they join the crops. Mr. Carr, in speaking of a handsome heifer, said that 'ahe had shoulders like a salmon.' A heifer does not need the amount of beef to the hocks which is looked for in a bull, and, furthermore, it is no fault in a cow to be rather wide of her hips, but she muet not teextravagant in that point, as it would be injurious to symmetry. "The udder should extend well forward, and have well formed and square set teats of moderate size, and placed well apart." The Oregon experiment station in an endeavor to learn the value of different crops for sheep feed and to determine the amount of mutton that could be pro- duced on an acre found that a combina- tion of corn for silage, clover for hay and oats for grain feed grown on an acre in the proportions of corn sixteen per cent, clover 31 per cent and oats 53 per cent would feed one sheep for 630 days. They also found that fall wheat could be pastured quite closely in early spring without serious injury and could be made to very profitably supplement the grain feed in fattening for market at that time. On one plot of l^a acres a gain of $8 in value of meat was produced by pasturing the wheat two weeks, while on an adjoin- ing plot the same size but not pastured, the yield of wheat was only one bushel greater than on the pastured lot. In the great wheat belts much profit can be made out of sheep and the fertility of the soil can be increased at the same time. Sober up on Jackson's Napa Soda. Save-The-Horse,,SpavinCure. I. laa"! word*, h Isn't type or pajje advertisement--; it U the iruilw thai rin« oul sound and clear and iinpremtc actual result* from businou men whoea BUndin;; and reliability cu be readily ascertained — which have mmAt "Savt-the-Horw" such a (iwotsa. Tbeir cured horaea are living Bdvcrtisciiienw, absolute certainties as to the pos- sibility of tha remedy in your own case, and with every Iwttle ii a guarantee document as binding to protect you as tha boat legal talent coula.malce it. _ Tha fire Iron is uncertain and inrariably only afyrravatea the disease or injury; blistering is leas eRi.-c.hvc than the flra Iron, and both neoawiUta laying op tha norsa from four weeks to several months. Mercurial and poisonous compounds produce irreparabla injury. "'S»»«-th«-Hor»o" eliminate* all thnaa factors; Cures without scar, blemish or loas of hair, can be applied ut any time, aoywher% any pluce, ami lo all conditions and eTtlmmca of weather. Horses may tie worked as usual with shin or ankle boots, as no harm can result Irom destruction ot hair or scalding of limb. Positively and Permanently Cures Bona and Bog Spavin, Thoroughpln, Rlnjbona tuwpi lo* ringbone). Curb, Splint, Capped Hock, Windpuff, Shoe Boll, weak end Spraineel Tendons and all Lameness.. . ..... j £5.00 par Bottle. Written cuaranteo unlh every bottle given under our seal and sij.-nature, constructed .solely to satisfy and protect yoa fully. Need of «econd bottlu i» almost improbable, e.xetpt in rarest of cases. Send for booklet oud copy of guarantee. If your case is diflcrmt than described in our booklet or advertising we will advise vou frankly aa to the possibility of the remedy effecting a cure. Give explicit particulars. Give lie Teterinarian's diagnosis, if ha la eompetent. Inform ui fully aa to the age. development, location of .-.welling-., lameness, previous ueatment and describe the way tha horsx carries and holds leg. f&.OO pw bottle at all.. druggists and dealers, or ant express prepaid. TROY CHEMICAL CO., TROY, N. Y.,also Manufacturers of Veterinary Purine. A Body Wash that will take out and prevent colds, pneu- monia, etc., is abso- lutely essential to the race horse owner. Txittle's, Elixir will do all of these things better and more surely than any like preparation ever known. As a Lefi Wash it keeps the speed end of a horse always in perfect tune. Apply to legs and bandage lightly. Sponge the body with it and throw on light blanket. Tuttle' 8 American Condition Powder*— A specific for impure blood and all diseases arising therefrom. Tuttle-s Fa.nv.ly Elixir S,'-^ We send a sample free for 6c In stamps, merely to pay Send at once for our 100-page boob, "Veterinary Ex- perience." which we mall free. TutlIe'sEllxlrCo.,437 O'Farrell St. ,SaoFrancl*w,Ctl. Beware of so-called l-Hxirs— none B-ennliielintTntt1#*a. Avoid all blisters; they offer only temporary relief, If any . Hunt and Fish aI.ONQ THM LINK OF TBB California & Nortnwestern Ry (LESSEE OF THE S. F. A N. P. R. B.) 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No. 1 — Trotting, 2:40 class, mile heats, 3 in 5 $100 No. 2 — Running, quarter mile and repeat 75 No. 3 — Gentleman's Road Race... 75 Nor 4 — Running, three-quarters dash 100 No. 5— Trotting, 2:30 class 200 No. 6 — Running, halt mile and re- peat 100 No. 7 — Running, three-eighths dash 60 No. 8— Pacing, 2:30 class 200 No. 9— Trotting, half mile, two- year-olds 100 No. 10 — Running, half mile dash.S 75 No. 11— Pacing, 2:35 class 150 No. 12— Mile dash 125 No. 13— Pacing, 2:20 class, mile heats 300 No. 14 — Running, three-eighths and repeat 90 No. 15— Five-eighths mile dash 75 No. 16— Trotting, 2:25 class 250 No. 17— Pacing, 2:10 class 350 No. 18 — Running, seven-eighths dash 125 No. 19— Trotting, 2:20 class 300 No. 20 — Running, half mile dash.. 75 Exhibitors' premium list open to Kern, Tulare, Fresno and Kings counties. All concessions wil be sold and closed on or before September 25th. Write to Secretary for Premium List and further information. F. L. HOWARD, Sec'y. N. P. DUNCAN, Pres. Bocks and Pictures ABOUT California Mountains, Valleys, Canyons, Lakes and Seaside! and Vacation Places. Shall It Be A Camp in the Forest A Mountain Lake A Good Hotel and Trout for Breakfast A Seaside Resort and Clam Chowder for Dinne The Publications of the Southern Pacific; I CoTer all Desirable Places and answer quest loi of Distance, Accommodations, Expense, Fare Route, etc Nothing Left to the Imagination. Inquire at INFORMATION BUREAU 813 MARKET STREET £0C0ANUT OIL CAKE THE BEST FEED FOB STOCK, CHICKENS AND PIOS FOB SALS IN LOTS TO SUIT BT EL DORADO LINSEED OIL WORKS CO S08 California S tr«et, Ban FranoUco. Ol SEPTEMBER 12, 1903] ©He gveetiev onto &p0vt*mau 18 Short Course in Husbandry. Berkeley, August 31. — Th» agricultural allege has just issued its announcement >r the BLort course to be given in dairy- ig, horticulture and agriculture this fall. Any person over seventeen years of age nd possessed of a common grammar ;hool education is eligible to elect the nurse. The term will open October 6 nd run to December 17. The curriculum t as follows : "Physics and Chemistry of Soils," rofeBsors E. W. Hilgard and R. H. oughridge; "Fertilizers," ProfesBor oughridge ; "Grasses and Forage Plants,'1 rofessor E J. Wickson; "Sugar Beet nlture," Professor G. W. Shaw; Farmers' Business Methods," C. A. olmore; "California Horticulture," rofeesor Wickson; "Plant Propaga- ;on," Professor A. V. Stubenrauch; Viticulture," Professor E. H. Twight; Economic Entomology," Professor C. J. Woodworth; "Scale Insects," Pro- lasor Woodworth and E. F. Quayle; Insecticidec," Professor F. R. Calby; Milk and Its Products," Professor F. W. [ajor, ; ' Dairy Bacteriology," Professor ,. R. Ward; "Dairy Chemistry,' Pro- iBBor M. E. Jaffa; "Breeds and Breed" ag," Professor Major ; ''Veterinary cience," Professor Ward; "Feeding 'arm Animals," Professors Jaffa and [ajor; "Human Foods," Professor Jaffa. quality of the milk. It is as rich while feeding in pasture as on dry feed in winter, and its composition varies but little from day to day. These tests will surprise some people. It is almost uni- versally believed that turning a cow on green pasture in spring will increase the milk yield, and that the milk is richer as the calf is older. It must be remembered that in these tests the cows were given the maximum feed, both in quantity and quality, and they got nothing more ex- cept variety, when they were pastured than they did when they were kept up. Period of Largest Flow. Everybody knows that a cow when eeli will give more milk than when the tlf is old, but lometimes it is desirable ) know at what time a cow will make er best record. From 239 records it was mnd that the largest flow of milk is given uring the second and third week, begin- ing four days after calving. Tests for ye years show that a cow's milk is as ich when a heifer as when she iB matured. he milk is as rich the first month as it ia iter, except during the last few weeks hen she is drying off. There is very ttle difference in the season as to the Cures Spavins like music. Read (he testimony below and then resolve to suffer no longer from Spavin, Rinpbone, Splints, Curbs and all other forms of Lameness. Kendall'* Cures them all. Hersey, Maine, Jan. 1, 1003. Dr. 8. J. Kendall Co., Gentlemen:— 1 have used your Kendall's Spavin Cure and It work* like magic on Spavlna. Will you be so kind as to Bend me one of your "Treatise on the Horse and hie Diseases." Very truly yours, H. D. DARLING. Price S 1 ; aix far *5. As a liniment for famllr nse It has no equal. Askyourdrupeist for KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE, also "A Treatise on the Horse," the book free, or address PH. ». J. KENDALL CO., CNOSBURC FALLS, VT. NEW MODEL 1903 BEST ROAD CART MADE, O'BRIEN & SONS Cor. Golden Gate Ave. and Polk St. SAN FRANCISCO. CAL OREGON STATE FAIR SALEM September 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19. ENTRIES CLOSE AUGUST 25. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14. Paciug, 2:20 Class, two In three « flu0 Trotting, 2:26 Class, two In three 0OO TUESDAY, SEPSEMBER 15. Trotting, Two-year-olds, two In three (closed) g 600 Pacing. Inland Empire Stake for Three-year-olds, two In three (closed) 500 Trotting, 2:14 Class, three In five 1000 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16. Pacing, Two year-olds , two In three (closed) s 400 Pacing, 3:11 Class, three in eve , 1000 racing, 2:17 Class, The Greater Salem Stake, three In five (closed) 2000 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 7. Trotting. Three-year-olds, Webfoot Stake, two In three (closed) 9 BOO Pacing, 2:25 Class, two In three 600 Trotting, 2:20 Class, The Leu i- and Clarke Stake, three In five (closed).... 2000 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18. Pacing. Consolation to 2:17 Pace, two In three ^ 500 Trotting, 2:30 Class, three In five .........' 600 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19. Trotting, 2:17 Class, three In five > 500 Pacing, 2:15 Class, three In five 500 Trotting, Consolation to 2:20 Trot, two In three 500 OreOTHl Dprhv A handicap for Three-year-olds and upward*; $30 to nominate and 830 ",v»v" UWWJ additional to start. Entries close Tuesday, August 25th; weights announced Wednesday, September 16th, at 10 a. m ; declarations due at 2 d m 1 1-4 miles - 01OOO Conditions Entrance fee 5 per oent of purse and 5 per cent, additional from money winners wuuiuvua. Money divided 50, 25, 15 and 10 per cent of purse. Two or more horses may be entered from the same atable and held only for one entry fee. In case where two or more horses have been named as one entry, and any horses have been separated from the stable from which they were originally entered, and such separation made acoording to rule, they shall be eligible to start in the race upon the payment of the regular entry fee. A horse entering a class that does not fill may be transferred to any other olass eligible by notifying the Secretary on or before September 5th A horse not winning a heat in three shall not start in the fourth heat, except In a field of eight or more starters; then he must win a heat in four or go to the barn. Horses so ruled out shall have a right to a share of the purse according to their rank at the close of the last heat. The board reserves the right to declare off and return first payment in any purse that does not fill satisfactorily. Right reserved to declare two starters a walk-over. When only two start they may oontest for the entrance money paid in, to be divided 70 per cent to the first and 30 per oent to second horse. A horse distanc- ing the field shall be entitled to first and fourth moneys only, and in no other case shall a horse be entitled to more than one money. Other than specified, rules of the National Trotting Association of which this Association is a member, to govern, except hopples not barred on pacers. Running RaCeS, TW° Runnln£ Races will be given each day, with entries to * close at 6 p. m. day preceding race. W. H. WEHRUNG, Pros. M. D. WISDOM, Soc'y, HII.I.SBORO, OREGON. PORTLAND, OREGON. GOLDEN GATE RACE MEETING California Jockey- Club Track OAKLAND SEVEN DAYS RACING SEPTEMBER 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 and 26 ENTRIES CLOSE MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1903 Where a horse is entered in several events Races will be put far enough apart to permit starting in each. LIST OF HARNESS RACES. TROTTING. 1— FREE-FOR-ALL $300 2—2:10 CLASS 250 3—2:14 CLASS 250 4—2:18 CLASS 250 5—2:19 CLASS 300 6—2:23 CLASS 250 7— THREE-YEAR-OLDS 250 PACING. 8— FREE=F0R=ALL $300 9—2:10 CLASS 250 10— 2:12 CLASS 250 11—2:15 CLASS 250 12— 2:17 CLASS 300 13— 2:23 CLASS 250 14— 2:25 CLASS 250 In addition to the Harness Events Three Running Races will be given Each Day. CONDITIONS Entries to close Monday, September 14, 1903, when horses are to be named, and to be eligible to ie class in which they are entered Stakes not filling satisfactory to the management may be declared off. Stakes will be divided into (our moneys: 50, 25, 15 and 10 per cent. Entrance 5 per cent, and 5 per cent of the amount of the Stake will be deducted from each money on. Tte management reserves the right to declare two starters a walk over. When only two start iey may contest for the entrance money paid in, to be divided W, per cent to tbe first and 33 'j per ent to the second horse. A horse distancing the field shall be entitled to first and fourth moneys Qly. and In no other case will a horse be entitled to more than one money. The management reserves the right to change tbe hour and day of any race, except when it be- irnes necessary to ante-date a race, in wbloh instance the nominators will receive three days notice y mail *o address of entry. The right reserved to declare off or postpone any or all races on account or weather or other efficient cause. For Entry Blank* and further particulars addree* The management reserves the right to start any heat after the fourth score, regardless of the position of the horses- Entries not declared out by 5 o'clock p. in on the day preceding the race shall bo required to start and declarations must be in writing and made at the ofrloeof the Secretary at the track. When there Is more than one entry to any Stake by any one person or in one interest, the horse to be started must be named by 5 o'clock p m. on the day preceding the race. Trotting and racing colors must be named by 5 o'clock p. m. on the day preceding tho race and must be worn upon the track Colors will be registered In the order In which they are received. Hupplcs barred in trotting races, but will be permitted In pacing races. Conditional entries will be treated same as regular entries and nominators held under the rules. Any race that may be started and unfinished on last day of tbe meeting may be declared ended and money divided according to the rank of horses In the summary. Otherwise than as herein specified in these conditions, National Trotting Association Rules, (of which this association 1b a member) except Rule 4, to govern. JOS. I. DIMOND, Secretary, 457 Twelfth St., Oakland, Cal. ©ite <§veeitev arts gppjcivx&maxi I September 12, 19j THE 8AYW00D STUD THE BUNGALOW, SAN MATEO, CAL (Property ol John Pasbott, Esq.) Devoted Exclusively to the Breeding and Training of High Stepping Hackney-Bred Harness Horses WAI/TEK SEAI.Y, Manager. ##*#########1#########*NN The King of Race Horses SEARCHLIGHT 2:03 If ^es. No. 33657. { Will Make a Fall Season FROM AUG. 1 TO OCT. 1. 1903, % ^ AT PLEASANTON RACE TRACK. TERMS, $50 # * For further particulars address ED. MILLS, Pleasanton, Cal. # SEE OUR POWER GROOMING & CUPPING MACHINE IN OPERATION. Our 2=Minute HARNESS Is the Best. CALL AND SEE IT. JEPSEN BROS CO. (INC.) ESTABLISHED THIRTY YEARS. 1145-1147 Market St. San Francisco CLEARING OUT SALES TUESDAY, SEPT. 29, 1903, AT 7145 P. M., BY ELECTRIC LIGHT At Fred. H. Chase & Co.'s Salesyard. 1732 Market Street, San Francisco. THE MEEK ESTATE, GABILAN STOCK FARM HAYWARDS, CAL., will sell all tha Standard-bred Horses belonging to the Estate, comprising 35 head. There are Fillies, Mares and Geldings— 3. 4, 5 and 6 years old— by McKinney, Nutwood Wilkes. Welcome and William Harold, nearly all well broken to drive and all halter broken and gentle. The mares have colts at foot by William Harold 2:13(4 and Welcome 2:10!;;, and have been bred back. Among them are the dam and a tull sister to Janice 2:U8^, a sister to Cricket 2:10 and many other highly bred ones. A fine lot of Shetland Ponies will also be sold to close out the horses belonging to the Estate. OF HON. JESSE D. CARR will, at this time, close out all its Trottlng-bred Horses Th re are 25 head of Yearlings, Two-year-olds and Three-year-olds,; also a few highly bred Mares and Geldings; Also the grand young Stallion BOODLE Jr. ty Boodle out of Nina B. by Electioneer. He is one of the greatest young stock horses in California. The young stock is by Eoodle Jr., Nutwood Wilkes and other good sires. THE SALE IS POSITIVE AND WITHOUT RESERVE, -Send for Catalogues. FRED. H. CHASE & CO. 1732 Market Street, San Francisco. [rerun BUSINESS COLLEGE 24 Post Street, San Francisco, Cal. The oldest, the largest, the most popular com. wercial -ohool on the Pacific Coast. 20,000 gradu- ates; 30 teaohers: 70 typewriters; over 300 students annually plaoed in positions. Send for catalogue. E. P. HEALD, President. Advice on Oiling Roads. The following article was written by James W. Abbott for the Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. : The utility of crude petroleum on pub- lic highways waB first tested by the su- pervisors of Los Angeles county in 1898. Sis miles were oiled, and from this the practice has grown in favor all over Call fornia. More than twenty-five countieB use it satisfactorily. Oil was used primarily to lay duBt, but it also prevents the roads from becoming muddy during the rainy season. One treatment lasts through the season. If tretted again during the following year the roads will remain in good condition in this State for two seasons. Oil is used not only to bind together praticles of dust, but also the coareer portions of the soil, forming a tough stratum. When the stratum is broken it is repaired until a strong, impervious road is secured. The stratum grows harder and firmer until a first class road is the result. Oiling roads is the first consideration toward economy. Oiled roads are im- pervious to water and will not wash but the expense of construction is money thrown away if the oil is applied to wet soil. It will not adhere, and the ground will become flaky or lumpy, and the oil will not evenly distribute. Where the work is properly done no washing will occur Some percautions should be considered. The oiled roads should not be. used before ready, as oil and lumps will be picked up by vehicles. Soil from oiled roads after ""some months' application produces no Btain on clean muslin Bicycles run better. Oil- ing gives the roads a seal brown color, easy f r eyes. Oiling preserves the plank- ing for wooden bridges, affording pro- tection to it from water and vehicles. The road should be prepared to slope about four inches to every eight feet from the center to the Bide. The road is then thoroughly wet with a road sprink- ler and rolled with a light roller and then left undisturbed until the water diies, but good results may be obtained otherwise After the road surface has dried it is well to use a Bharp toothed harrow to loosen it to a depth of three inches; this will insure an oil cruBt three inches in thickness, provided the soil will absorb the oil to that depth, which may be determined by a slight experi- ment. While the roads are being treated to oil travel must be kept off of them. A special sprinkler must be used. After oiling the roads the soil is Btirred. The road can be used in about two days after treatment. On hard soil, not porus clay nor macadam, the oil is bestf applied aff.er heating o good results come from the oil heated by the sun after its application on road. For the oil that remains on the surface in this case a coating of sand must be used. The road can thus be built up 'ayer after layer. Ordinarily for a sixteen-foot roadway between 250 and 400 barrels of oil of forty- two gallons each are required to the mite. Two applications would probably be sufficient for a porus or clayety soil. Upon macadam one coat of oil is enough. After the crust has formed twenty-five barrels to the mile will keep the roads in repair. As the "stitch in time" is to the needlewoman, so is timely repair to the oiled roads. It is economy to oil the roads. The practice saves wear and tear of horses and vehicles and cost of keeping roadB in shape. From the standpoint of health and gene al comfort oiled roads are a succeBS. If you cannot afford a good bull of a dairy breed, get some of your neighbors to olub in with you and get one. It will pay you. »' Regularity, cleanliness and good cows are important factors in successful dairying. .Dr.Smitlrs^ On the Circuit f Takes out soreness, pain, | cures cuts and sprains. Never tails to bring [home the money. Get a Bottle, You'll like it. BEST BY TEST FOR MAN AND BEAST. All Druggists and Harness Dealers or Vita Oil Co., 1533 Buchanan St. San Francisco, Cal. SUBSCRIBE TO ShowiDg exact position of every horse, including the favorite, which was either first, second third or fourth at each quarter pole, also positions al start. Events reported from all parts of Canada and United States. • Issued the 1st and l6tli of every liionUi, from April loth to October loth. Price 60c, 75c. or $1, according to Issue. For pale at all principal hotels, news stands and i race tracks in the country, and publishers' office.; GOODWIN BROS., 1440 Broadway, N. Y. Annual Subscription, $18, which include; all semi monthly editions and two morocco bound semi-annuals. HJxplgTiQ&yy circular mailed free. For sale by the Breeder and Sportsman. Absorb, ne will absorb all SOFT BUNCHES { WIND- PUFFS, Thoroughpin, Shoe Boil, Capped Hock, Bog Spavin, Swollen Glands, and removes the inflamma- tion and bunch. Re- stores the cir- culation in any thick* ened tissne without removing the hair. Used by- Winning Trainers. All . . Reliable Dealers keep it in stock. Of Regular Dealers or W. P. YOUNG, P. D. F„ SprinLThVld. 31a— For sale by Mack ft Co., Langley&Michaeli C Redington & Co., J. O'Kane, and J. A. McKerro all of San Francisco CALIFORNIA Photo Engraving Compaq HIGH CLASS ART IN Half Tones and Mne JSngravin Artistic Designing. 506 Mlislon St., cor. First, San FranoUo* September 12 1908 1 ©he gveebev attfc ^ppvtsxnan 16 BALLISTITF The Standard Dense Powder of the World. ^^^ STILL LEADS AT THE TRAPS OR IN THE FIELD. Ballistlte wtns from the limi t marks in distance handicaps, at either live birds or Hying targets, as it always gives the highest velocities with the olosest and most even patterns at all ranges, Ballistlte Is absolutely unvarying in results being waterproof, smokeless, odorless, without residue, res#ures lower than black powder, unaffected by age orolimatic changes, and never pits, rusts or orrodes the barrels. Ballistlte Is sold with above guarantee. Take No One's Word. Try It for Yourself. 75 CHAMBERS ST., NEW YORK CITY LAU &, CO- W» n» ^-T^%^ \** \S'\fu Telephone 1747 Franklin. Importer! and Dealers In Fire Arms, Ammunition and Fencing Goods. Sole Agents for THE REBLE GUN and BALLISTITE (Dense) and EMPIRE (Bulk) SMOKELESS POWDERS. A postal brings catalogue and ;l Shooting Faots." (third edition.) BALLISTITF The Standard Dense Powder of the World. "^^ CAMPBELL'S HORSE EOOT REMEDY best" remedy EVER USED ON HORSES' FEET. IT PENETRATES and DRIES IN quiokly and DOES NOT GUM and FILL UP THE PORES like tar and oil compounds. It is the GREATEST REMEDY ever used to remove SORENESS and FEVER from the foot, and makes it possible to get good services out of a horse working on hard and hot pavements. It gives natural nourishment to the foot and incites a rapid, healthy growth— ALL DRYNESS AND BRITTLE- NESS quickly disappears. QUARTER CRACKS and SAND CRACKS are rapidly grown out when directions given in our booklet are followed. It is a SURE CURE for CORNS, CONTRACTED FEET and NAIL WOUNDS if directions are followed. It PRE.VEKTS SOUND FEET FROM BECOMING UN- SOUND and GROWS a TOUGH, STRONG. ELASTIC WALL and HEALTHY FROG— A FOOT WHICH WILL STAND WORK on race courses. Many of the best owners and trainers state that for track work nothing equals it. In many cases horses have reduced their records several seconds, due to its use. It is a CER'J AIN CURE for THRUSH and SCRATCHES We Ouaranice That It Will Do What We Claim and Will Refund Money If It Falls. PRICKS:— Quarts, $100; Half-Gallon, $1.75; Gallon, $300; ;2W-Gallon, $5.50; Five-Gallon, $10.00. Books giving full directions for its use and much valuable information as to shoeing are supplied reeDon't fail to read "ad " giving information concerning Campbell's Iodoform Gall Cure In next ssue of this paper. It Is the best Ind because of its merits is rapidly displacing all others. [AS. B. CAHPBELL&CO . Manufacturers, 412 W.ITadison St., CHICAGO. ILL W il R IGEBESRS I 19 FREMONIsfTsAN FRANCJSCoTT7" VETERINARY. STRIPED BASS ANGLERS LAKE MERRITT BOAT HOUSE J. A. FATJO, Proprietor, Will furnish good boats at reasonable prices Tackle Live and Clam Bait, etc., and better ac- commodations than ever before offered at Lake Merritt. Take narrow-gauge train to Oakland: street oars or five minutes1 walk on East 12th st. to fish- ing water. Get off broad-gauge trains at Oak st. DR. C. MASOERO VETERINARY SURGEON Graduate of Royal Veterinary College of Turin. 'FIRMARY A2TD RESIDENCE— 811 Howard St.: between Fourth and Fifth Sts., San Francisco. Telephone: Main 457. Ira Barker Balziel VETERINARY DENTIST incy Carrlage.Sflddle and Ron** Horses for Sale Office and stable: 005 Golden Gate Avenue, San anclsco, Cal. Telephone South 651. M. R. C. V. S.. F. E. T. M. S. VETERINARY SURGEON. Member of the Royal College of Veterinary irgeona, England; Fellow of the Edinburg iterinary Medical Society; Graduate of the New iterinary College, Edinburgh; Veterinary Sur- on to the S, F. Fire Department; Live Stock spector forNew Zealand and AustralianColonlea theportof San Francisco; Professor of Equine xlicine, Veterinary Surgery, Veterinary Depart- mt University of California; Ex-President m i California State Veterinary Medical Associa- n; Veterinary Infirmary, Residence and Office, a Franoiaco Veterinary Hospital, 1117 Golden te Avenue, near 'Webster St., San Francisco: lephone West 128. ROSE HOTEL PLEASANTON. CAL. Enlarged, Rebuilt. Twenty-five New Rooms Newly Furnished. Electric Lights, Running Water. Up to date. A. S. OLNEY A SON Proprietors Chronic Bronchitis and Catarrh of the Bladder Cured in 48 Hours. CAPSULES SICK DOGS MADE ytELL $ergeanf$ Remedies] STANDARD THE WORLD OVER. SURE SHOT frees the pup from worms for all tim« to come. A marvelous cure and absolutely certain. Its use is pre- liminary to the making of good dogs. By mail 50c. Sergeants Condition Pills impart vigor, vim and life to the dog who has dropped his tail in dejection. His ambition, keen scent, and eye luster will return with their use, be it in treatment either of Mange, Distemper, Chills, Fever, Constipation or Nervous Debility. 50c and $1.00, postpaid. Carbolic "Soft Soap" soothes, cures and eradicates, ,£;-_ The very best made. Of dealers/jjJJ 25c ; by mail 35c. An order or\J|* 3c in postage "will cause to be delivered free on your desk Our Revised Dog Treatise and a Pedigree blank. For sale by "Ail Druggists and Sporting Goods Dealers." F. W. Braun 4 Co., Lbs Angelet, Cal., Pacific Coast Sniply SPRATTS PATENT. DOG CAKES REMEDIES SOAP. NEWARK, N. J. Send for tree copy of "DOO CULTURE." ST. LOCIS, Pacific Coast Branch— 1324 Valencia Street, San Francisco. Agents for " SANITAS " Disinfectant. KENNEL ADVERTISEMENTS. COIililEI First St. San Jose CHAMPION HANOVER MONARCH (A. K. C. 8. B. 6998) by tbe great stre Ch. Ellwyn Astrologer from Ch Old Hall Moon. Fee »15. Pictures and Pedigree upon applica- tion. Hlgli-olass Puppies for sale. FOR SALE. '■pO MAKE ROOM FOR PUPPIES COMING x in from walk, a draft of SMOOTH Fox Terriers DOGS AND BITCHES. For prices and particulars apply Waimdee Kennels 25th Ave. near Lake St. AT STUD FOR SALE. BROKEN DOGS Pointers and Setters AddresB W B. COCTT8, Kenwood, Sonoma Co., Cal. Sapvlor to Copaiba. Cabebe or Injeetlea BREEDERS' DIRECTORY. I olsteins— Winners of ererj 7 days' butter i teal at State Fair 1899 1st & 2d for aged cows, i r., 8-yr. and 2-yr.-olds; 21 Jerseys and Durhams ; upettng. 5th year my Holstefns hare beaten > wys for batter. Stock for sale; also pigs. F. Burke, 80 Montgomery St., S. F. , ERSETS.HOLSTEINB AND DtRHAMS. try Stock specially. Hogs, Poultry. Estab- wd 187«. William Niles & Co.; Los Angeles, < R8HIRES— Young Bulls, Oows and Heifers. runered. From prize winning families. Brown trandon Petaluma Cal. FOR SALE. THE PACING MARE 8WANHILDA. She is J- a handsome bay, comiDg seven years old, a natural pacer and with but little track work can pace a mile below 2:20 with ease. Gentle and kind and has been d'ivfjn by ladies to buggy. She Is a fine roadster and with proper training will make a great race mare. For pedigree and further particulars address W. L. MCDONALD, Concord, Cal. BLAKE, M0FFITT & TOWNE -DIALEES r5- 55-57-59-61 First Street, S. F. T»IJtPHONB Mahv 199 PEDIGREES TABULATED And type written Ready for framing. Write for prices. Brikir ard SroBTiMAK, X Geary Street, ■en fraaeiaeo, Oal. Wandee Kennels' Fox Terriers, WANDEE BLIZZARD, formerly Llthian Bliz- zard (Blizzard-Pop). Fee S30 WANDEE JESTER (Norfolk Velocity-Norfolk Two Step). Fee »lO Puppies and Brood Bitches for sale. Dogs shown by appointment only. Address WANDEE KENNELS, 844 Harrison St., San Francisco Cal. At Stud. SMOOTH FOX TERRIER Norfolk Trueman Sen* 47A Sire of Gareton Prefect (1st puppy, rCC 4>£U. reserve winners, Oakland, 1902) Imelda (winners and special for best, S. F., 1902} Isabelle, etc N. H HICKMAN, 1767 Page St.. San Franoisco. AT STUD CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS Advertisements vnder this head one cent per word ■per insertion. Cash to accompany order. COCKER SPANIELS. rpWO CHOICE COCKER BROOD BITCHES, L also puppies, by Ch. Dufferln Pastime, for sale. Address, or call. C. F. CHARLES, 3917 Sacra- mento Street, San Francisco. \T STUD UNTIL SOLD — DELVERTON -"- CAPPI (Ch. Hampton Promise-Undlne), win ner at San Francisco and Oakland shows. Ad- drpcsC DU.TARDIN. 204 Castro. San Franclsco- ■VTAIROD KENNELS— 132 NINTH AVENUE, ' -^ near California. Champion bred Cocker Spaniels at stud and for sale. xpOR SALE— COCKER SPANIEL PUPPIES x by Ch. Hampton Goldie. Apply it junction old county and Redwood roads, Fruit vale, Alamed • ENGLISH SETTERS. O ENGLISH SETTER PUPPIES, WHELPED " May 2; black, white and tan; dam, Lads Sweetheart (Count Danstoue— Speckle Lady); sire, Victor L Gladstone (Champion Gladstone Boy— Juno); high altitude for developing lungs; should make champions: shipped on approval. Write for pedigrees DIAMOND KENNELS, Box 205, Butte, Mont. IRISH AND SCOTCH TERRIERS. TRISH AND SCOTCH TERRIER PUPPIES ■*- at $12 and $15 Sired by Champion Loyne Ruffian and Champion Fighting Mao. Mrs. BRADLEY-DYNE. Satuma P. O . B. C. ST. BERNARDS. CUBA OF- KENWOOD (Qlenbeigh Jr.— Stella) SAM'S BOW (Plain Sam-Dolly Dee II) STOCKDALE KENNELS U. M. DODGE, Manager, Bakersficld, Kern Co., Boarding. Pointer Puppies and well-broken Dogs for sale. ^wanitd^ w>os mm fiance j*^W»^ '© cuRt tum mm 5TA*DAi»oaor u* v STANDARD DIAINrtCTANTCQ Clcwlond Q NAIROD KENNELS— REMOVED TO 138 Ninth Avenue, near California— offer for sale the celebrated St. Bernard, LE KING (Champion Le Prinoe-Sylvla's Lola). At Stud— Champion GRAND MASTER U, admittedly the grandest headed St Bernard on the Coast. Fee 125. BULL TERRIERS— FOX TERRIERS. \ T STUD— CH. WOODCOTE WONDER, THE - v world's premier Bull Terrier. Prize wlnnine Wonder puppies; Fox Terrleri sired by Norfolk Trueman; brood bitches in whelp and puppies for sale. WOODLAWN KENNELS. Geary and Central Ave. , San Francisco Phone: Baker 308 1 COLLI F.S. pOLLIE PUPS FOR SALE-BY PRIZE *•-■' winning imported sires and dams, fit for bench, ranch or farm Bothsexes. PriceB accord- ing to quality. Correspondence solicited: all let- ters cheerfully answered. THOS. S.GRIFFITH, Box 1907, Spokane, Wash. 16 ©its gvseifsv ctttb gp0vt&tnixn [September 12, l»03 . TELEPHONE: South 640 m HORSE WSlb San Francisco, Cal.^0^ Cablegram to President Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, London, July II, 1903. American Rifles. AMMUNITION and Men won victory to=day over Great Britain, Canada, France, Norway, Australia and Natal, and bring back Palma trophy. (Signed) LIEUT. ALBERT S. JONES, (copied from the N. x. Herald.) Secretary of the National Rifle Association of America. THIS SWEEPING TICTOBT for America and the Extraordinary Score of 1570 ont of a Possible 1800 were made with 30-40 Regular Factory Cartridges, Manufactured by the UNION METALLIC CARTRIDGE COMPANY Selected after Exhaustive Trials, by the American Team, In Preference to AJ1 Others for their Wonderful and Extreme Accuracy. SCORES ARE IMPROVED BY USING U. M. C. AMMUNITION THE UNION METALLIC CARTRIDGE COMPANY Pacific Coast Branch \LwU'™™"*&"ZE££tm>° .. WINCHESTER LEADER" SHELLS LEAD At the Third Annual Target Tournament of the Dominion of Canada Trap Shooting and Game Protective Association, held in Toronto, August 12th to 15th, inclusive, winnings were made as follows: Hich average for day by Mr. Higgtnson of Buckingham, Quebec. Two Men Team Championship of Canada, SO targets per man. won by Messrs. McGHI and Wakefield of Toronto, with score of 37 High average for day won by F Westbrooke of Brantford. Parker Gun won by J. Hovey of Clinton, who also won high average 4th Day: Grand Canadian Handicap, 100 targets, won by Mr. Craig of Sherbrooke. with a score of 93. 1st Day: 2d Day: 3d Day: "Mall Trophy," the most important trap shooting trophy in Canada, emblematic of r\ve Man Team Championship of Canada, won by Brantford Gun Club Team, with score of 222 out of 250. The Montreal Rolling Mills Company Cup. emblematic of Individual Championship of Canada, won by Mr. Bain of Winnipeg, with a score of 48 out of SO targets. High average for the day— * "Beresford Cigar" Cup— won by Mr. Hovey. All these splendid victories were won with Winchester "Leader" Shells, and are a forcible testimony to the uniformity of these goods. PACIFIC COAST AGENCY: 127-135 FIRST STREET -A.. MULLER, Agent, SAX FRANCISCO, CAL. Du Pont Gun Powder SMOKELESS, SHOT GUN and MILITARY POWDER Black Powder for Sporting and Blasting Purposes The Reputation of a Hundred Yean ie the Guarantee of DU PONT POWDER 519 Mission St., Room 311, San Francisco. Cal. 0. A HAIOHT, Acant, Clabrough, Goloher & Go. RUNS Gun Goods FISHING Tackle d lor Catalogue. S38 MARKET STREETS. F The World's Greatest Shooting Record. FRED GILBERT, of Spirit Lake, Ia„ sinceJan. 1.1902, has shot in competition at 5765 Targets, breaking 5532 or 95.9 per cent, using a PARKER GUN AT SHOT AT Natchez, Misb 400 Fort Dodge, la 300 Lakefield. Minn 205 Sioux City, la 360 Dubuque, la 360 THE "OLD RELIABLE" IS RELIABLE. PARKER BROTHERS MERIDEN, CONN Send for catalogue . N . T. Salesroom; S3 Warren St. AT BROKE PER CENT 396 .. 99 296 .. 98.6 203 .. 99 351 .. 97 351 .. 97 5 SMITH GUNS LONGEST STRAIGHT RUNS At S. F. Trap Shootlogi Association May 3i— 33— 34— 3S VAUGHN, - - 73 Straight, FBUDSKK, - 63 Also longest straight rori and first modes at live bird* SMITH QUNS are made tor All Kinds of Ammunition... apapfe0onto Hunter Arms Co., Fulton, N.Y PHIL. B. BEKEART CO.. San Francisco. Coast Representative CC NEW"E,C," NEW "SCHULTZE" SHOTGUN RIFLEITE MtBufieturtd * THE AMERICAN "E. C." and "SCHULTZE" Gunpowder Co., Ltt PHIL. B BEKEART CO., PaolOc Coast RepreseiitstlTi You can get these Smokeless Powders in FACTORY • • . ^ LJ |~ I I C LOADED ..OPILL Lw SHOTGUN RIFLEITE BALLISTITE LAFLIN imp. Loyalist. Vestige, b m. 1895 (dam of Stand Pat), by imp. Great Tom-Valerian by Vandal. Bred toT; Commoner. Wanda, ch m. 1882 (a great stake winner and dam of winners), by imp. Mortemer-Minnie Minor Lexington, Bred to The Commoner. Bay Colt by The Commoner-All Mine. Bay Filly by The Commoner-Euphrasia. Chestnut Colt by The Commoner- Great Annie. Chestnut Colt by The Commoner-imp Landslip. Chestnut Colt by The Commoner-Lythe. Bay Colt by The Commoner-Mountain Mis'. Chestnut Colt by The Commoner-Maud Ward. Chestnut Colt by The Commoner-Penitence H. Chestnut Colt by The Commoner-Pretense. Chestnut Colt by The Commoner-Piazza. Chestnut Colt by The Commoner-Satellilo. "Weanlings. Bay Colt by The Commoner-Treacle. Bay Filly by The Commoner-Tulla Fonso. Bay Filly by The Commoner-Vestige. Bay Colt by imp. Tithonus-Dumpling. Bay Colt by imp. Tithonus-Valeriaua. Chestnut Colt by imp Madison-En amel- Bay Filly by Loyalist-Armiel. Chestnut Filly by Loyalist-Miss Courtney. Bay Colt by Loyalist-Talaria. Bay-Colt by Inspector B -Balance All II. Bay Colt by Inspector B.-Guildeana. Bay Filly by Inspector B.-Sub Rosa. Bay Colt by Inspector B.-Prettiwit. Chestnut Filly by Huron-Endurahce. Chestnut Filly by Huron-Loyal Marie. Chestnut Filly by Huron-Lorena Mac. Bay Colt by Huron-Maud Blackburn. Chestnut Colt by Huron-Nellie Grand. Brown Colt by Huron-Nellie Van. Bay Colt by Huron-Taffeta. Bay Colt by Huron-Tommie Belle. Bay Filly by imp. Madison- Flexible. For Catalogues apply to FASIG-TIPTON CO. MADISON SQUARE GARDE NEW YORK, N. Y. September 19, 1903] ®hc gvee&ev ante gipjcnrtemcm 3 THE WEEKLY BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN F. W. KELLEY, PROPRIETOR. furf and Sporting Authority of the Pacific Coast. — OFFICE— 36 QEARY STREET, SAN FRANCISCO. P. O. BOX 2300. Telephone: Black 586. Terms— One Year 83. Six Months SI. 75. Three Months SI STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. Money snould be sent by postal order, draft or by registered letter addressed to F. W. Kelley, 36 Geary St., San Francisco. Cal. Communications must be accompanied by the writer's name and address, not necessarily for publication, but as a private guarantee of good faith. San Francisco, Saturday, Sept. 19, 1903. CATALOGUES ARE OUT for the big dual dis- persal sales of the Meek Estate and Gabilan Stock Farm to take place on Tuesday evening, Sep- tember 29th at Fred H. Chase & Co. 's iron pavilion at 1732 Market street, San Francisco. There has not been a sale announced in years where a better bred lot of horses haB been offered at auction. T tie Meek Estate animals are nearly all thoroughly broken, and when this is said it means that the horses are broken so that any person who can handle a pair of lines can drive them. They are broke to steam and electric cars and many of the handsomest and best bred mares in the consignment can be driven by children. These are the horses that are profitable to buy, as they can be put into use at once and will earn a profit for their owners on the road or at light farm work. Many of the best bred and best lookers of the con- signment have hauled fruit and vegetables from the Meek Farm to the railroad stations and have not found the loads too heavy for them. Some have even been worked to light plow6 and harrows, and others have pulled a surrey full of children to and from school. There are no old superannuated mares or horses in this consignment but all without exception are strong and vigorous. The consignment of Mr. Jesse D. Carr's Gabilan Farm are mostly young horses, but they are grand lookers and royally bred. Theie are several thatwill make high class road horses. There is Monogram, a gray mare that has a pacing record of 2-24} and can now show a quarter in 30 aeconds. She is a wonder- fully fast mare in a brush on the road and seems to have her speed all the time. Larkin W. is a very handsome gelding that is a square trotter and equal to a record of 2:20. He should make some one a great road horse. The stallion Boodle Jr. has proved hi« value as a stock horse and will be a good money earner in any good man's hands. He has size, style and breeding to recommend him. The colts and fillies by Nutwood Wilkes in this sale are grandly bred and very promising. We advise those who have not received catalogues to apply at once to Fred H. Chase & Co. for them, at the demand is large already. This is without doubt one of the best opportunities to secure choicely bred and good looking horses that has been offered for some time. 'THIRD PAYMENT of So will be due and must be * paid by Thursday, October 1st, this year, on the colts and fillies entered in the Pacific Breeders $6000 Futurity for foals of this year. This stake closed last year. There is a substitution clause in the conditions which permits a nominator, in case his mare has proven barren or had a dead foal, to substitute an- other colt or sell the nomination. Now the way to get your money back is not to forfeit. Pay up, and then sell the nomination if your colt is dead. If you do not pay you are out of it; but if you do there is a good chance to get your money back, as you have until April 1st, nest year, to substitute. THE BELLE MEADE STUD. What horseman has not heard of this great thoroughbred breed- ing farm, owned by the late Gen. William H. Jackson, and located near Nashville, Tennessee. Since the General died, it was hoped the great farm would be kept up, but it will be dispersed and all the great stallions and brood mares will go under the hammer. On the opposite page will be found a full list of the stallions and mares to be sold by the Fasig-Tipton Company at their paddocks at Sheepshead Bay, October 13th and 14th. Among the stallions to be sold is Imported Loyalist. This horse is a fullbrother to Paradox, being by Sterling out of Casuistry, by The Miner. Sterling is the sire of many cracks, in- cluding Isonomy, Enterprise, Enthusiast, and Har- vester. The first of Loyalist's get to 6tart was the brilliant Lissak, that is now a very successful sire. Another stallion to be sold is The Commoner that met and defeated the best of his time and retired with many rich stakes to his credit. The Commoner is by the great Hanover that is destined to be one of the greatest progenitors of speed that ever lived. The Commoner started 32 times and won 18 races. He was unplaced but four times. Huron, son of Iroquois, Inspector B. by Enquirer, and Mont d'Or by Rayon d'Or are also to be sold. There are sixty-four brood mares, representing one of the grandest collections of producers that was ever gathered on one farm, besides about 35 weanlings, foals of this year. Cali- fornia breeders who want to bid at this sale should Bend their commissions to the Fasig-Tipton Company If they cannot be present. Horses at the World's Fair. The 893,640 allotted for horses, asses and mules at the World's Fair is divided among twenty-four classes as follows: Trotter, Thoroughbred, Percheron, French Draft, Clydesdale and Shire horses, $6,205 each; jacks and jennets, $5, 425; French Coach, Ger- man Coach, Hackney, Morgan, Belgian and Saddle horses, S4.390 each; Suffolk: Punch and Arabian, $1,115 each; mules, $3,415; Shetland ponies, $3,410; ponies in harness, $900. Harness horses are allotted $4,800. Roadsters are given $1,700, divided equally between "roadsters for dealers" and "roadsters for others." Business horseB have been given $2,315 and horses of commerce have $1,485. These sums are ex- clusive of any special prizes. The class for German Coach includes East Friesland Coach, Hanoverian, Holstein Coach, Oldenburg Coach and Trakehnen. Under the English Coach are included the Cleveland Bay and Yorkshire Coach. The American Percheron Horse Breeders & Ira- porters Association has set aside $2,000 for special prizes for Percherons at the World's Fair. The association has suggested to Chief Coburn an arrange- ment of this sum for an offering of thirty-seven prizes to provide a number of classes for the especial en- couragement of American breeders and of the display of stock bred by exhibitors. The National Ereneh Draft Horse Association has offered $1000 in World's Fair special prizes for that breed. The total amount in regular and special prizes for Percheron and French Draft horses is $15,410. The "horse of commerce" class in the World's Fair prize list provides a new and deserved recognition of the market types of horses. "This class, " the prize list announces, "provides for an exhibit of horses of the leading types that find a ready sale at trade centers and that are especially deserving of the atten- tion of breeders who appreciate the advantages of a profitable home and foreign market for all worthy specimens. ' ' In this class a first prize of $75, a second of $50, a third of $40 and highly commended and com- mended awards are offered for artillery, cavalry, coach, saddle, omnibus and fire department horses and for drafters, expressers and roadsters. Exhibits in this class are confined to geldings four years old or over with the exception that mares will be eligible in the section for saddle horses. Animals will be shown in harness or under saddle. Judges in this class will be experienced buyers on the market or United States army officers. The World's Fair classification for horses presents a remarkable series of awards in the breeding rings, offering nearly $80,000 for these classes alone. A single stallion may win $500 solely on his individual merit in any of the more important classes. As the sire of pure bred colts he may win $100 additional, and in the stud rings he may help to win $750 more. The appropriations for grade geldings and mares by recorded sires aggregate $10,840 in the World's Fair breeding rings. The Record of Maud S. Shattered. That dainty and wonderful piece of horseflesh, Lou Dillon, the first and only two-minute trotter, bas taken a tilt at another record and shattered it com- pletely. This time it is the high wheel sulky record that the Santa Rosa Stock Farm mare has met and lowered. Since Maua S. the chestnut daughter of Harold trotted a mile hitched to a high wheel sulky at the Glen ville track July 30th, 1885, covering the distance in 2:08} seconds her performance has been held up as one that no other champion could dupli- cate. TheadveDtof the high wheel sulky in 1892 has helped lower the trotting record by stages until the two minute mark was finally reached by the Cali- fornia mare Lou Dillon, at Readville, on the 24th of last month, but during all the intervening eighteen years the record of Maud S. to high wheels has been referred to as the one performance that seemed to be unbeatable. In 1891 the mare Sunol, by Electioneer, bred at Palo Alto, trotted a mile over the Stockton course, hitched to a high wheel sulky, in 2:08} a half second faster than Maud S.'s record, but the fact that the performance was over a kite shaped track ihas led the sticklers for "similar conditions" to re- fuse to recognize it as a lowering of the time made by the famous daughter of Harold and Miss Russell. At the same Glenville track at Cleveland, however, where Maud S. performed her record breaking con- test against time, Mr. C. K. G. Billings saw that time lowered three and three quarters seconds on Satur- day last by his beautiful and peerless little mare Lou Dillon, driven by Millard Sanders who has trained her for and driven her in all her races. The dainty Lou was hitched on this occasion to one of the old style sulkies weighing eight pounds more than the one Maud S. pulled on her trip against the watch. It was none of the new fangled ball bearing kind but one of the old axle type, with steel tires on the wheels and bearing the weight of Beveral years. Lou Dillon's mile to this hitch was in 2:05 flat and the fractional time was 0:32}, 1:04, 1:35, 2:05, or giving it by quarters 0:32}, 0:31$, 0:31, 0:30, showing a con- stantly increasing speed for every quarter of the distance. Lou Dillon is truly a thrice crowned queen of the trotting turf, holding the worlds record to bike sulky, high wheels and wagon. She is indeed a wonderful mare. • A Testimonial. Bbeeder and Sportsman:— I have just received a catalogue of the Meek Estate sale to be held Sep- tember 29th and conducted by that well-known sales firm, Fred. H. Chase & Co. I was pleaBed beyond measure to note the simplicity of details and the royal blood for sale as compiled within its covers. Thit sale of stock is from one of the best known atook farms in the State. The Meek Estate is certainly one of the most highly respected breeders of California. Breeders and lovers of the light harness horses within the borders of this great horse producing state need not fear any of the statements in regard to thiB sale. This stock farm is located nearHaywards, Cal., has been prominently identified with the breeding Industry for more than a dozen years, during which time they have bred some phenomenally speedy animals. The establishment was founded by a gentle- man of observation and intelligence, and above all we can place implicit reliance in all the statements I believe that William Harold will become a very useful, and successful sire in the near future. First from the fact that Sidney, his sire, has for years ranked as one of the very greateat of speed producers. Second, Harold was himself a very fast horse on a pace, with good trotting action. Third because he has a very rich Bpeed inheritance from the beBt branches of Hambletonian 10, and thoroughbred families and in addition to that his renowned dam Cricket 2:10, pacing, is a speed producer and by the only Steinway 2:25} at three years old. Welcome, pacing record 2:10A, his farm companion is a stallion that the breeders and horsemen should not pass by, his royal blood lines must be useful to all breeders of the light and heavy harness. I really do look for many prizes to be drawn at that Bale September 29th, as they are bred in lines of blood of the speedest quality. Yours, Samuel Gamble. Answers to Correspondents. W. & B., Olympia, Wash. — There is no stallion registered by the name of Redwood that is by Mar- wood and out of a mare by Commoner. There may be a horse of that breeding, but he is not registered under the name of Redwood. Robert Noble, Fortuna, Cal. — We can find no thoroughbred stallion registered by the name of Wellsworth. Grand Moor was got by the Moor 870, dam Vashti by Mambrino Patchen 58; g. d. Kate Taber by Mambrino Messenger (Dunkin Horse) son of Mambrino Paymaster; g. g. d., a mare of Messenger descent. He was bred by the late L.J. Rose, San Gabriel, California. Gaviota a three year old chestnut filly bred by Mr- A. B. Spreckels at his Napa Stock Farm won agood race at Gravesend on Thursday last at 50 to 1. The race was at a mile and seventy yards and was run in 1:47 1-5. Gaviota is by Mr. Spreckels' handsome stallion imported Crighton that took the first prize two years in succession at the San Francisco Horse Show in the thoroughbred class. Gaviota 's dam ia Nellie Bell by Prince of Norfolk. At St. Paul, Minnesota, on the 5th instant, in the 2:09 pace for a purse of $1000, Robert I got second money, El Diablo third and DIodene fourth. As there were nine starters in the race, and the heats were in 2:081, 2:08 and 2:11, the three California horses mentioned made a good showing. Robert I. is being driven in his racea over East by Willis Julian, who was with W. G. Durfee laat year and took care of Petigru. One of the greatest racea on the Grand Circuit this year was fought out Thursday at Readville track between Nervolo and Locanda in the 2:08 class pace. There were five heats, the first two going to Locanda and the others to Nervolo. The track was heavy and there was a high wind, but the time was 2:0flJ. 2:05}, 2:08}, 2:06} and 2:1U. e«te gveebev nub gpovtztnctn f September 19, 1*03 Los Angeles Harness Progam. On September l8t the Los Angeles Racing Asso- ciation closed and declared fourteen stakes filled, amounting to $8800. It is the intention of the Asso- ciation to give one harness race each day of their meeting which commences on October 10th and endB October 31st. To complete their program they will require three more races. The classes for these three races will be determined after the horses reach the track. They will be for 8500 each, which will make the total amount given to trotters and pacers over $10,000. The list of the entries was published last week and the following is the arrangement of the program: Saturday, October 10— The Hotel Stakes, 2:30 trot- ters, $500. Monday, October 12— Three year old trot, $500. Tuesday, October 13— The Van Nuys Stakes, 2:25 pacers, $500. Wednesday, October 14— The Southern California Stakes, 2:24 trotters, $1000. Thursday, October 15 — Not closed. Friday, October 16— The Canfield Stakes, 2:18 pacers, $500. Saturday, October 17— The Winship Stakes, 2:20 trotters, $500. Monday, October 19 — Not closed. Tuesday, October 20 — Not closed. Wednesday, October 21— The Catalina Stakes, 2:27 trotters, $500. Thursday, October 22 — The Los Angeles Stakes, 2:15 pacers, $1000. Friday, October 23— The Green Class Pace, $500. Saturday, October 24 — The Harrison Stakes, 2:17 trotters, $500. Monday, October 26— The Silkwood Stakes, 2:10 pacers, $500. Tuesday, October 27— The Potter Stakes, 2:14 trot- ters, $500. Wednesday, October 28— The Stimson Stakes, 2:20 pacers, $500. Thursday, October 29— The Consolation Trot, $400. Friday, October 30— The Consolation Pace, $400. Saturday, October 31— The Garland Stakes, 2:12 trotters, $500. At the close of the State Fair three carloads of harness horBes left for Los Angeles and a number of trottera and pacers will be present at the meeting that are now racing in Oregon. The race going public in Southern California and especially in the vicinity of Los Angeles has always been partial to harness racing and it is the intention of the Los Angeles Association to give the harness end of the meeting as good a show as possible and to limit the betting to auctions on the result and mutuel pools on heats. A Great Three Year Old. The best three year old trotter of the year by con- siderable is the bay filly Sadie Mac that won the Hartford Futurity and defeated that other good filly Ethel's Pride in a four heat race. The time of the last heat 2:11} is the three year old record of the year. Sadie Mac is not only one of the fastest three year olds ever produced, but she is one of best bred ones having an inheritance of early trotting speed that is intense. Her sire is Peter the Great that took a three year old record of 2:124 when winning the Kentucky Futurity, and reducfd that record to 2:071 the following year as a four year old. Peter the Great is a son of Happy Medium out of the great brood mare Santos by Grand Sentinel. The dam of Sadie Mac is Fannella 2:16J that took her record this year. Fanella is by Arion 2:071, that still holds the worlds two year old trotting record of 2:101 made to a high wheel sulky. The dam of Fanella is Directress 2:281 by Director 2:17, sire of Directum 2:05£ the champion four year old trotter. The dam of Direc- tress was Aloha by A. W. Richmond and her gran- dam Guadalupe by Crichton, a son of imp. Glencoe. It will be seen that the blood lines of Sadie Mac's dam are intensely Caiifornian. The Horse World in speaking of this remarkable filly says: "Sadie Mac is a bay filly, 15J hands high, with black points, and is what horsemen would call an Electioneer-gaited trotter. By this is meant full round action forward with not much hock action, and a line trotter. She wears few boots, quarter aDd shin forward, and shin and ankle boots behind; a six-ounce shoe forward and four-ounce behind. She drives on an ea9y rein and seem3 to know nothing but trot, having never made a break. She has stepped an eighth in better than 15 seconds, and a quarter in 30 seconds. A sounder one "was never foaled. " The Layng Combination Sale. One of the most successful combination sales held in this city for some time came off at the Occidental Horse Exchange on Monday eveniDg last, at which time Auctioneer William G. Layng disposed of fifty- four head for different parties. The total amount received was $8605, an average of $159, which was an excellent average and shows that there is a good demand for hor9es that will make fair drivers. Only one of the horses had a record, but for size and good lookB they averaged well. The pavilion wascrowded, there being probably 2000 people present. The sum- mary of the sale follows: Agnes T., b m, 1898, by Ibex 10,675, dam by Tilton Almont; lo C. M. Finch lor $145. Ruby L.bm, 1895, by Del Rey 2:23, dam by Bills Campbell; to Sam Hables for $145. Ruby's First, b 1, 1900, by Alexander Button, dam by Del Rey; to R. Teddy lor 8180. Ruby's Second, b f, 1901, by Alexander Button, dam by Del Rey; to J. J. Murphy for-3150. Hinshaw, b g, 1896, by Chas. Derby; to Leroy Hough for $190. Cordie N., b m, 1897, by McKinney, dam Knighthood by Briga" dier; to Andrew Clunie for $275 Det B, b g 1901, by Alexander Button, dam Cordie N. by Mc- Kinney; to F. C. Talbot for $90. Kitty B, 2:21)4, b m, by Sidney, to J. Faris for $100. Miss Masten, b f, 1902, by Gossiper Jr, dam by Mambrino Wilkes; to George Ryan for $90. Nellie Coil, br f, 1901, by Falrose, dam Director Maid by Direc" tor; to Robert Pringle for $85. Don Fulano, b g. 1897, by McKinney, dam Nora D. by Del Sur; to Andrew Clunie for $100. Chris Knight, b g, 1900, by Falrose, dam Agnes T. by Ibex; to William Kent for $225. Herbert, b g. 1901, by Falrose, dam Agnes T. by Ibex; to George Maloney for $155. Chas McKinney, b g, 1897, by McKinney, dam Hawthorne Maid, by Hawthorne; to Henry Schultz for $170. Lomo Wilkes, b c, 1901, by Linwood Wilkes, dam Flora B. by Whalebone: to Chas. Becker for $185. Primrose, ch m, 1899, by Green's Rufus, dam by Nugget 1398; to George Maloney for $170. Poco, b g, 1897, by Fairmont, dam untraoed; to G. E. Purdon for $150. Jim Black, b g, 1901, by Alexander Button, dam Gift by Elec- tion; to J. N. Batt for $90. Lucre, b g, 1901, by Boodle, dam Wild Bee by Piedmont; to George Samuels for $85. Queen Mab, ch f, 1900, by Diablo 2:09M. dam Mab by Napa Wilkes: to Dr. I. B. Dalzlel for $135. Silk Hose, blk m, 1896, by Silkwood, son of Nutwood; to A. Bard- muss Jr. for $130. Taffy, b g, 1898. by Hart Boswell, dam Trilby by Truman; to K. 0'Gradyfor$155. Monte Galindo, b g, by Montesol, dam by Abbotsford Jr.; to H. Trask for $70. Billy Truman, brg, 1900, by Gossiper Jr., dam by Truman; to W. A. Preston for $100. Bay mare, to Scott & Van Arnsdale for $125. Bay mare, to F. Neilson for $95. Sancho, b g, 1899: to J. D. West for $80. Duke, cb g, 1897; to O. Welsman for $225. Marach, b g, 1896, by Nephew Jr.; to Chas. Fay for $85. Kalgoolte, ch m, 1898, by El Benton, dam Lurline by Stelnway; to A. J. Montell for $135. Trilby, b m, 1895, by Truman, dam Wild Bee by Piedmont; to Charles Fay for $75. Woodland, b g, 1899, by Falrose, dam by Alex. Button; to C. D. Bates Jr. for $185* Black Beauty, blk m, 1700 lbs; to Charles Fay for $165. King Clarence, br g, 1897, by Clarence Wilkes, dam by Tilton Almont; to J. B. Hoit for $125. Waxreno, b m. 1899, by Senator B , dam Maud Merrill by An- tevolo: to Chas Fay for $250. Alta S., b m, 1897, by Alexander ButtoD, dam Fannie by Tinner; to William Kent for $250. Gertie A., ch m, 1898. by Diablo, dam Lola, said to b3 by Sidney; to Victor Verilhac for $345 Lassie Grannard, br f, 1900, by McKinney, dam Igo by Antevolo; to Mr. Coakley forSHO. Tom Snider, br g. 1895, by Ibex, dam by Alexander Button; to M. A Walden for $135. Josie R, b m, 1897, by Alexander Button, dam by Cubit; to J. Perry for $175. Evening Star, b m. 1898 by McKinney, dam Mountain Hare by Young Venture; to Dr. R. Felt for $170. Lady Rhemke, b f, 1902, by Gossiper Jr , dam Belle by Mambrino Wilkes; to George Maloney for $120. Crescendo, b f, 1901, by Gossiper Jr., dam by Alcona 730; to H. F.Ble then for $100. Evergreen, b m, 1898, by McKinney, dam Lady Bird by Win- wood; to W. J. Irvine for $170. Egg Nog, b m, 1899, by MoKinnev. dam Lady Bird by Winwood; to W. J. Irvine for $180. Mabel McKinley, b m, 1897, by Little Mid, dam by Arthurton Wilkes; toC. Hansen for $65- Cyrus Wilkes, b s, 1897, by Sable Wilkes, dam Menlo Belle 2:30, by Menlo; to W. J Irvine for $200. Billy F., b g, 1897. by Thos. Rysdyk, dam by Hercules, to Pastene Produce Co. for $225. Prince Wilkes, blk g, 1898, by Aptos Wilkes, bam by Dexter Prince; to W J. Landers for $160. Martin, b g, to J. W. Miller for $135. Early Bird, b g, 1896, by Euos 2:25^; to Fred Harkins for $260. Black Diamond, blk g, toC Masters for $140. Hampton, b g, 1895, by Enos, dam by Mountain Boy: to J. Mullen for 8210. Miss Rea. b m, 1896, by Antinous; to Le Roy Hough for $220. Sixteen other horses not catalogued were sold at fair prices. Athalie's Seventh Standard Performer. Dariel, the beautiful mare by Alcander, equalled the world's pacing record for mares of 2:091 at the New York State Fair, last Tuesday. She earned the record in the first heat of the 2:05 pace. The Kenney Bicycle Co., 531 Valencia St., is doing a big business in the McMurray Carts and Sulkies. You not only save money by purchasing a McMurray but get the most durable, best made, and easiest running cart or sulky in the market. Investigation will con vince a Missourian. When Walter Maben won the first heat of the 2:20 pace at the California State Fair on the 5th instant with the four-year-old Ira by Iris, giving him a record of 2:10}, he also gave to Geo. Warlow's great brood mare Athalie by Harkaway, her seventh stan- dard performer. On the title page of this issue of the Breeder and Sportsman is a photo engraving of this grand old mare taken last year which shows what a well preserved mare she is at the age of seven- teen years. The names of her produce that have taken records are as follows: Athanio 2:091, Ira2:10J, Athnio 2:141, Athavis 2:18}, Athinx 2:20, Athablo 2:24} and Athadon 2:27, the last named making Mb record as a yearling to a high wheel sulky. Athanio took a record of 2:10 in this country and reduced this to 2:091 after he was exported to Austria. He is the sire of The Aristocrat 2:161. Athadon, whose yearling record of 2:27 in 1891 was the fastest made by a colt that year, is the sire of Sue 2:12}, ListerUe 2:13} and Donatrine 2:26J, all trotters, besides the pacer Daken D. 2:16}. It will be seen that Athalie is founding a family that is destined to be one of the most famous in brood mare history. Although the Year Book gives the breeding of the dam of Athalie as untraced, research has established the pedigree as follows: She was called Mag and was owned by H. C. Stone of Jacksonville, Kentucky, who bred her to the stallion Harkaway 11,808, son of Strathmore and Wait-a-Bit by Basil Duke, the pro duce being Athalie. Mag was by Alcalde 103, son of Mambrino Chief 11 and a mare by Pilot Jr. 12. Mag's dam was by Cy Kinney Vandal and her grand- dam by Bold Hornet. Ira, the seventh of Athalie's produce to enter the list was foaled March 2, 1899, and this is his first sea- son out. Walter Maben, who trains him, states that he is ona of the most level headed young horses he has ever driven, and believes he can give him a mark of 2:05 next year. Ira is owned by Mr. Joseph Chan- celor of this city, who is one of the firm of Chancelor and Canfield that has made a fortune in Coalinga and Bakersfield oil properties. Trotting in New Zealand. A report of the annual conference of the Affiliated Trotting Clubs of New Zealand reached us by the last mail from the antipodes. It was held at Well- ington July 14th and showB that the 6port of harness racing is in a very flourishing condition in that country. The Metropolitan Trotting Club seems to be the leader. It gave four meetings during the year, with a total of eleven days racing during which 89 races were pulled off, an average of a little over eight races per day. The added money given over and above the entrance fees at these meetings was a little over $32,000. The betting is all done by means of the totalisator, which handled during the eleven days the sum of $350,000. These figures show that there is good betting on the harness races at Canterbury. Many clubs have but one day's racing during the year, but there are always from six to eight events on the card. There were in all New Zealand 32 meet- ings during the year, which gave 58 dayB of raciDg and 439 races. The total amount of added money given during the year was close to $90,000 ard the amount of money wagered in the totalisator was in round numbers $800,000. Another Race Killed. Jackson's Napa Soda untangles the feet. In the list of harness races filled for the Los Angeles meeting that was printed last week, the 2:15 class pace was given as having failed to fill. This was an error. There were but five entries but the race will go. ThoEe entered are Highball, blk g, by Silkwood, dam by Harvester; Colonel Smith, ch g, by Red Regent, dam by Ashland Wilkes; Athnio, br g, by Junio, dam Athalie by Harkaway; Tidal Wave, ch c, by Nutwood Wilkes, dam by McKinney; Penrose, b g, by Falrose, dam by Brigadier. •■ Sam Freeman writes as follows of Louise Mac, the little mare that Mr. A. B. Gwathmey of New York at onetime tried to buy Mr. A. B. Spreckels' mare Dione 2:071 to mate: "The fast little trotter, Louise Mac 2:091, formerly one of A. B. Gwathmey 'a Speed- way and matinee string, has been cutting nnite a swath in the races of the Pittsburg matinee ciuu. She was bought tor the purpose of racing for the Pitts- burg champion cup and was taken to the "Smoky City" last year, prepared and driven by W. S. Steele, and won the race under very adverse circumstances. Some of the mombers of the club held the opinion that her victory was somewhat of a fluke; but they bought the trotter, Col. Wilkes, to beat her this year, although he did not start in the race the other .day. Dolly Dillon 2:07, was selected to beat her, however, and Josephine Dixon 2:101, was ala0 started against her. They made a great effort and a hard race, but under the skillful driving of Mr. Steele, the swift daughter of Little Corporal won the race and the cup for the gecond time." September 19, 1903] ©He gveebev cmb ^pcvtstman Another good three year old has shown up in the filly Lizzie A., that won the $2000 trot fo- foals of 1900 at ReadvlUe last Tuesday. Lizzie won in two 8tralght heats in 2:18* and 2:14*. She is a daughter of the Santa Rosa bred horse Alfre d G. by Anteeo. Hanford's fair and race meeting will open October 5th. The demand for serviceable horses is increasing every day. ' The HolliBter fair and race meeting will open on Wednesday next. Birdina 2:08$ and Al Bock 2:08$ are both out of daughters of Sidney 2:19$. Centrific 2:09* is the tenth 2:10 performer for the great stallion Baron Wilkes. Billy Buck is the biggest money winner of the year, having over $25,000 to his credit. Highball by Silkwood took a record of 2:11* in the 2:20 class pace at Salem, Oregon, last Monday. A very handsomely illustrated State Fair number was issued by the North Pacific Rural Spirit last week. Jack Curry was fined $250 for drawing Crescent from the 2:12 trot at Providence without permission of the judges. Katrinka G., full sister to Chas. Derby 2:20, Klata- wah 2:05} and others, took a record of 2:14$ at Hart- ford in the 2:19 class trot. Eighteen thousand dollars has been offered Dr. J. C. McCoy for his three year old filly Ethel's Pride. The offer was refused. Dariel equalled the world's best record for pacing mares, 2:04$, in the 2:05 pace at Hartford on Tuesday, and came right back in 2:041. Edith W. 2:05 earned the half mile track pacing record for mares in the free for all pace at Anderson, Indiana, by winning a heat in 2:07. A four year old by Bow Bells 2:19$ out of Sorrentot dam of Jay Hawker 2:14$, etc., in training in Ken- tucky, is very fast at the pacing gait. J. M. Nelson has sold to C. A. Sarber, of Cleveland, the trotting gelding Richard S. 2:18 by Grover Clay, dam Belle by Whippleton. He will be used in the matinees by Mr. Sarber. E. E. Smathers made owner W. S.. Harms an offer of $30,000 for the champion gelding Major Delmar 2:00$ this week, but the offer was declined. The Electioneer family holds the record for fast trotting geldings. Azote 2:04$, the Abbot 2:03$ and Major Delmar 2:00$ are all grandsons of Electioneer. The Oakland race meeting opens to-day. There will be one harness race and five or more running races each day. The races will be over-night events. C. W. Williams, of Galesburg, 111., has a four year old filly by Expedition 2:15$, dam Minna Wilkes, dam of the pacers Mustard 2:08} and Refina 2:08}, that is trotting quarters in her work in 32 seconds. The trotting mare Julia M. by Zombro, who was at the Glenville track last spring in W. L. Snow's Btable and who came nearly dying from blood poison, has been sent to her owner, having fully recovered. John A. MeKerron knocked another quarter of a second off his record at Syracuse, New York, on the 7th inst, and President Roosevelt was there to see him do it. The stallion's record is now 2:04$. Prince Alert smashed all former half-mile records last week at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania by pacing a milu in 2:03} over the half-mile track there. His fractional time was 31}, 1:02}, 1:33}, 2:03}, the last quarter being in 30 seconds. Tidal Wave, the very handsome chestnut colt by Nutwood Wilkes, out of a siBter to Coney 2:02 by McKinney, won the Inland Empire Stake, $500, for three year old pacers at the Oregon State Pair last Tuesday. The best time was 2:21}. One of the cleanest gaited horses that has shown up In California this yearis the pacer Edwin S., that took a record of 2:14$ the day "be won the green class pace at Petaluma. He does not wear a boot of any kind p*>d never toucheB a hair when speeding. The mare Our Lady by NeareBt 2:22 that the late Dr. O'Rear purchased when he came to California to pass on McKinney for H. B Gentry, has been sold to Mr. Gentry by MrB. O'Rear for $2000. Our Lady 'a weanling by McKinney was included in the sale. M. Henry of Hay wards has gone to Pleasanton with two prominent colts by his horse Educator and will put them in training there. George Ramage has also taken a couple of youngsters to Pleasanton to train. They are both by Sidney Dillon and out of Oakley Russell by Happy Russell. They are the property of Geary & Grindell of Alameda county. The owners of Major Delmar 2:00$ offered before the gelding's record was better than 2:04, to match him against any trotter in the world for from $5000 to $20,000 a side, the race to be a mile dash, two heats in three or three best in five. The offer is Btill ODen. The chestnut mare Peggy from Paris, is the general utility horse in Mr. Billing's stable. She has trotted a mile in 2:30, has been seen at the horse shows as a high actor, and was one of the pacemakers when Lou Dillon trotted her record breaking mile at Readville. It is probable that Jack Curry will come West with Monroe Salisbury when the latter returns to Pleasan- ton with his string and will train Mr. Salisbury's horses at Pleasanton next winter. Mr. Salisbury and Ben Walker parted company at Providence, ac- cording to an Eastern paper. Most of the harness horses at the State Fair were shipped direct to Los Angeles for the race meeting that commences there on October 10th. By shipping direct to Los Angeles a considerable saving was made in freights. The few of the horses that were shipped to Oakland and were entered there were not enough to fill the races for the Golden Gate race meeting; consequently it was decided to declare off all of the races originally advertised for Oakland, and the management decided to give over-night events for the horses present. Hon. Jesse D. Carr's Gabilan Stock Farm olearance sale is attracting much attention from buyers. The young stallion Boodle Jr. should be in demand, as he is not only a grand-looking young horse but a pro- ducer of good-looking colts. The fillies and colts to be sold are by Buch speed producers as Nutwood Wilkes, Dictatus and other sires, and all out of well- bred mares. These horses will all be at the sales- yard, 1732 Market street, San Francisco, on the 26th inst. Prior to that time they can be seen at the Gabilan Farm, near Salinas. Another of the descendents of old Mary by Flaxtail got into the 2:20 list at Petaluma, September 9th, at the meeting of the San Francisco Driving Club which was held on that date. This was Clara I. a daughter of Apex 2:26, he by Prompter out of Mary. Clara I. took a record of 2 :19$ at Petaluma. Diablo 2:09 is still at Salem, Oregon, where he made a good season this year. Mrs. William Murray has received several offers for the great son of Chas. Derby since the death of her husband, but has not yet decided whether she will sell the stallion or retain him and locate him permanently at Woodland. The Los Angeles Driving Club is arranging for a grand matinee on Thanksgiving Day this year and proposes to make it one of the best ever held by this popular club. Not only will there be many horses entered but the class will be better than ever and it is believed that all the club's records will be broken. George Ketcham has purchased of W. E. Taylor, of Washington C H, O., the trotting ma re Annie Burns, paying for her the modest sum of $750. The mare has a record of 2:08$, and two years ago won $15,000 on the Grand Circuit. After that season she went lame, and has shown no speed since. She will be used for breeding purposes. Geo. W. Hughes, formerly of this State, has been located In Oregon for the past few years and though working steadily at his trade of blacksmithiDg, finds time occasionally to work a horse or two for speed. He trained a very promising pacer last spring for Mr. F. P. Norton of Marshfield, and thinks he is a sure 2:10 horse barring accidents. The horse is by Coeur d'Alene, dam by Altamout. Swift B. won second money in the 2:25 trot at the Oregon State Fair on the opening day. This makes three Mondays in succession that this three year old has started and won second money each time. The first was in the Occident Stake, Monday, August 31st at Sacramento, the second in the Stanford Stake the following Monday at the same place, and the third time at Salem, Oregon, last Monday. Among the trotters to enter the 2:10 list this year are Kinney Lou 2:07$ by MoKinney, Jay McGregor 2:08} by Jay Hawker, Dillon Boy 2:09$ by Baron Dillon, Swift 2:08$ by Antonio, Masetto 2:09 by Con- stantino, Hawthorne 2:08$ by Jay Bird, Prince Green- lander 2:09$ by Greenlander, Caspian 2:07$ by Patron, George Muscovite 2:09$ by Muscovite, Alliewood 2:09* by Allle Wilkes, and Lou Dillon 2:00 by Sidney Dillon. Col. E. H. Greely's young stallion Columbo, that took the blue ribbon In the class for stallions six years old and over at the late meeting of the Eastern Horse Breeders Association, is inbred to both the Wilkes and Electioneer strains, and is from producing ancestors on both sides. His sire Bingen 2:06$ is by May King 2:20 son of Electioneer. His dam is by Allerton 2:09$, and hia second dam a full ai8ter of Gov. Stanford 2:21, by Electioneer. Stipulator, the Lob Angeles pacer by Titus, own brother to Direct 2:05}, is improving as the season progresses At Milwaukee on the 12th inst he started in the 2:12 pace, and after acting badly in two heats, got steady and won the next three, beating a field of nine good horses. Stipulator reduced his record to 2:11$ in ttie third beat, ttie fastest of the race. The slowest heat waa the last in 2:13$. El Diablo started in the same race but was behind the money. If you want to look over any of the horses to be sold by the Meek Estate at Fred H. Chase & Co's 6alesyard in this city Tuesday evening, September 29th, take a run over to Haywards any day before the 26th, and they will be shown to you by the Super- intendent Geo. Gray. The farm is only a half mile from Haywards and is reached by the Southern Pacific steam line or the Haywards electric line. The horses will be brought to the salesyard on the 26tb in6t. The railroad made a rate of a little over $5 per horse for the horses shipped from Sacramento to Los Angeles after the State Fair was over, and many horsemen took advantage of the rate to send their strings to the Bouthern metropolis instead of waiting to take part in other meetings that might be given in this section. The Los Angeles meeting will open October 10th and promises to be one of the most suc- cessful ever held there. While there will he but one harness race each day, the class of horses competing will make the racing good and som6 close contests with fast time may be expected. The annual race for the European trotting cham- pionship was won at Baden near Vienna, Austria, August 16th, by the four year old colt Wig Wag by Wiggins out of Edgelight by Edgemark, second dam Birthmark by Kentucky Prince. Wig Wag took a record of 2:16$ last year as a three year old and was sold by Douglas Thomas for export to Europe. He is now owned by Mr. Louis W. Winans, the well known American resident of England. Wig Wag beat Caid, Freund Fritz, Contralto, Away, Alice Russell and Prosperity Bill. Wig Wag was driven by Andy Mc- Dowell. The best heat won by Wig Wag waa 2:13 3-5. Authoreaa trotted into the 2:10 liat at Syraoues, August 31st, taking a record of 2:09$. This makes her dam, Lucy Homer, also dam of Lecco 2:09$, the third mare that haB produced two 2:10 trotters, and the first and only one that has produced two that have both beaten 2:10. Lucy Homer is by Homer, Bon of Mambrino Patchen and her dam was Din nie 2:25, by Rochester, son of Aberdeen. The big $2000 stake for 2:17 class pacers which was decided at the Oregon State Fair last Wednesday went to the mare Rita K. by McKinney, owned by Mr. Byron Erkenbrecher of Los Angeles and driven by W. G. Durfee. This is Rita H's fifth start and fifth win this year, and she is proving one of the gam- est and most consistent of the McKinneys. Mr, Erkenbrecher is highly pleased with her. He pur- chased her from Mr. S. H. Hoy of Winters, who bred her. Her dam is Smut by Prompter. Mr. Hoy owns a half brother to her by Bayswater Wilkes that he says shows more speed than Rita H. did with the same amount of work, and he believes him to be a very high-class horse. At the sale of the Meek Estate horses to come off at Fred H. Chase & Co's salesyard 1732 Market street, Tuesday evening, September 29th, among other grandly bred ones to be sold is a five year old mare named Molly Mac, by McKinney 2:11$, dam Fontanita by Antevolo, second dam Fontana, the dam of Silas Skinner 2:17 (sire of Ole 2:15), Flora Belle 2:25 and San Diego, sire of Lottie 2:15. Molly Mac Is a good looking bay mare that has been used on the road and was trained some. She showed a quarter in 33 seconds and should make a fast trotter. Her blood lines are unsurpassed, as she is from producing families on both sides. Fontanita, dam of this mare is to be sold at the same Bale. Hawthorne's victory in the Bonner Memorial has directed general attention to her Bire. The Jay Bird tribe has contributed to the trotting turf not a few of its brilliant lighta. From his own loins have come Hawthorne 2:08$, Allerton 2:09$, Early Bird 2:10, Rose Croix 2:11$, Miss Jay 2:11*, Invader 2:11$, Ed Winter 2:12$, Jay Hawker 2:14$, while from his sons have come the following: From Allerton — Gayton 2:08$, Alves 2:09*, Altoka2:10$, Precision 2:10$. From Jay Hawker-Jay McGregor 2:08$, Susie J. 2:06*, Country Jay 2:10}, Nella Jay [3) 2:14$. From Jack Daw— Maxine (4) 2:08$. From Eagle Bird— Eagle Flanagan 2:07}, Alamito 2:10}, Monbars 2:11$. Very few pacers have been Bired by Jay Bird and his sons. The old horse himself has sired but six pacers out of a total of over eighty standard performers. Jack Daw is not credited with a single pacer; Allerton has sired twenty-three out of a total of one hundred performers; Eagle Bird ten out of a total of forty-two standard performers, and Jay Hawker none. Aristo 2:17$, by Nushagak that won both the Ocol- dent and Stanford stakes last year, Is one of the greatest prospects for a 2:05 trotter there is in Cali- fornia. He has grown and filled out into a grand look- ing four year old. He has been trained this year but not with the intention of starting him. At the State Fair he was in Chas. Spencer's string of horses from the Walnut Stock Farm and was worked out one morning in 2:11, stepping the last half in 1:03$ with a dozen watches held on him. A bonafide offer of $7500 was made for him by a gentleman who was representing a wealthy Eastern horseman, but the offer was declined. Aristo has the size, color, gait, speed and good looks that make him a very high class horse, and that he is a race horse was proven last year when he beat his fields in the three year old stakes in a handy fashion although two weeks before this race was trotted he was such a sick colt that it was though impossible to get bim ready for those races. Spencer believes that Aristo will trot in 2:05 or 2:06 next year barring accidents. 8 &h$ $xttbtxt ant* &p0vt&man [September 19, 1903 Close of the State Fair. The racing program during- the last three days of the California State Fair, which closed last Saturday, was not such as to arouse enthusiasm among admir- ers of harness horses. On Thursday there was one harness race, the 2:17 class trot, which had a field of seven starters. The race was won by the Silas Skin- ner gelding Ole in straight heats and good time — 2:15$, 2:16 and 2:17. Lady Rowena was second and Rozell third. After this race was over eight running races occupied the rest of the afternoon. On Friday the program was devoted entirely to the runners, and on Saturday one harness race, a conso- lation purse for the green class trotters, opened a program that was otherwise made up of six running races. This race went to the stallion Sutter by Noon- day in straight heats, the best time being 2:22. The summaries: THURSDAY, SEPT. lOTH. Trotting, 2:17 class, purse $500. Ole, b g, by Silas Skinner-Eveline (Grace) 1 1 1 Lady Rowena, b m, by Pilot Prince (Zibblej 2 2 4 Rozell. gr g, by Bob Mason (Fanning) 5 5 S Verona, b m, by Nutwood Wilkes (Uarnet) 4 3 3 What Is It, grg, by Direct (Carlin) 3 4 5 Potrero, b a, by Redondo (Hodges) 7 w Hank, b g, by Vasto (J. Smith) 6 ds Time— 2:15&, 2:16, 2:17. RUNNING. Five furlongs, selling, purse, $225— Nellie May, ch m, by The Bishop-Easter Sunday, 109, (Howson), 3 to 1, won; Blondura, 103, (Chandler), 7 to 5, second; Miss Dividend, 109, (Frawley), 3 to 1, third. Time, 1:02. Tom Mitchell, Quidado, Honduran and Light Braid also ran. Five furlongs, selling, purse, $225— Hercules, ch g, by Kit Carson Jr.-Unknown, 117, (Frawley), 6 lo 5, won; Maresa. 114, (Hilde- brand), 8 to 5, second; Skirmish, 114, (Hobart),4 to 1, third. Time, i:0i.M'i- Matalakla and Skip Me also ran. One mile, handicap, purse, $500— Divina, by Bassetlaw-Ange- lique. 114, (L. Jackson), 3 to 4, won; Horatius. 107 (Powell), 8 to 5, second; Step Around, 85, (Lewis), third. Time, 1:39. Hagerdon also ran. One mile and one-eighth, the Governor's stake— Grafter, b g, by Cicero-Leap Year. Walkover. Six furlongs, stallion stake, for two year olds— Instructor, b c, by Brutus-Imitation, 118, (See), 7 to 10, won; Dr Rowell, 113, (Howson), 2 to 1, second; Eva D, 107, (Chandler), 15 to 1. third Time, 1: 15. H. L. Frank, Dr. Birdsall and Zenonian also ran Six furlongs, selling, purse $235— Ultruda, b g, unknown, 116 (Lewis) 8 to 5, won; Montebank, ill (Frawley) 3 to 2, second; Cambaceres. 116 (Howson) 3i4 to I. third. Time, i:iiys. Jack Richelieu Jr., The Miller and Myrtle H. also ran. One mile and 100 yards, selling, purse $225— Miss Vera, brf by Amigo-Fame, 109 (See) 3 to 2, won; Dark Seeret, 112 (HUdebrand) 3l/a to 1, second; Dwightway, 112 (Bozeman) 7 to 1, third. Time 1.48. Dr. Sharb, Malplaquet and Bill Young also ran. One mile., handicap; nurse $300— Solon, b g, by Clieveden-Are- thusa, 116 (Howson) 4 to 1, won; Chileno, 100 (Henderson) 3 to I. second; Kitty Kelly, 105 (Chandler) 8 to 5, third. Time, 1:40, I-llawaho and Constellator also ran. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER llTH. RUNNING Five furlongs, selling, purse $225— Ruvia, c f, by Rubicon- Leonara II. 115 (Lewis), 8 to 1, won; Pat Bulger, 108 (Frawley) 6 to 5, seeond; Charlie Schweitzer, lt;8 (Burke), 6 to 5 third. Time 1:03 Nora also ran. Five furlongs, selling, purse $225— Czarette, b f, by Bloomsberry- Czarina, 89 (Hildebrand); 4 to 5, won; St. Wilda, 107 (Frawley) 6 to 1, second; Little Secret, 104 (Lewis), 6 to 1' third. Time, 1:02«. Winifred, Weir, Samar and Frierliene also ran. Oue mile, purse $225— Meehanus, ch h,by Golden Garter-Fedelma 112 (L. Jackson), 4 to 5, won: David S , 112 (Chandler) 2 to l' second; Anvil, 102 (Hildebrand), 6 to 5, third. Time, 1-40^ No others. Five furlongs, selling, purse $225— Miss Dividend.bm.by Almont- Maggie W., 107 (Frawley) , 7 to 2, won; Mamie, 102 "(Jackson) , 10 to 1, second; Quadado, 110 (Bozeman), 5 to 2, third. Time, !-02li' Doris, Dusty Rhodes, Taona and Tom Mitchell also ran. Six furlongs, selling, purse $225— Madame Bishop, oh m by The Bishop-Easter Lady, 105 (Chandler), 4 to 1, won; Tamm 110 (Frawley), 3 to 5, second; Royal S., 1 10 (Hildebrand) 5 to 1, third Time, 1:143*1 Roltaire, Rubino and Isabellita also ran. Six furlongs, selling, purse §225— EI Piloto, b g, by Gano-Claudi- moro, 110 (Frawley), 8 to 5, won: Judge Voorhies, 107 (Powell), 8 to 5, second; Mareaa, 110 (Hildebrand), 3 to 1, third Time M3»-i Wandering Boy and Gold Scratch also ran. SATURDAY, SEPT. 12. First race— Consolation purse for green trotters. Sutter, ch h, by Noonday-Eva B. .". (Donnelly) 1 l l ?•?■!■•-,-. (Bell) 3 2 2 Lady Madison (Ward) 4 3 3 Mary Elizabeth .'(Maben) 2 4 4 Moor Rose (Hoy) 5 5 5 Time— 2:24, 2:22, 2:22%. Second race— Five and a half furlongs; selling; purse $225 J S toltes1 chm Madame Bishop, by The Bishop-Easter Lady, 105 (Chandler), even, first; Dwightway, 114 (Bozeman), 7tol, second- Roltaire, 105 (Lewis), 5 to 1, third Time, 1:033£. Billy Young Ora Viva, Malplaquet and Quidado a:so ran. Third race— Five and a half furlongs; selling; purse $225. B F Hobart'soti m Skirmish, by War Song-Lady Lyons, 113 (Powell) fntc0,1^?,ri!tLSkip Me- 112 (Tuilett) 8 to 1, second; Little Margaret. 106 (Hildebrand), 5 to 4, -.third. Time, i:07£. Gold Scratch and bteparound also ran Fourth race-One mile and a quarter; President's stake G Webb s b g Solon, by Clieveden-Arethusa, 102 (Powell), even" rufiaR ^°\ ,108t {lt0£so%)< even' second; Cambaceres, 90 (HUdebrand) 4 to 1. third. Time, 2:07*. Constellator also ran Fifth race-Five furlongs; handicap; purse $225. Elmwood Farmsbo Instructor, by Brutus-Imitation. 120 (Seel, 1 to 2 first- Annie Mane H3 (Bozeman) 2 to I, second; Metlabatla. 100 (Jack- son), 2 to 1, third. Time, 1:013*. Miss May Bowdish also ran Sixth race— Five and one half furlongs; selling- Durspaaas t D. Milling g E E. Brattain.by CaptivVLeoSlOS^Bwk)' weJ* flrst; Bl.ssful. 104 (Chandler). 7 to 5, second; Glendenn ngTl?3 (HUdebrand) 2 to 1, third. Time, 1:06!>S: Royal F. also ran Seventh race-Seven furlongs; selling; purse $225 C. Mulhol- ^m^.b,M ^pSS Vfi*' by Amieo-Pame. Ill (See) 5 to 3. first; The ^l le.C'-1l4 (P?well), even, -econd; Limber Jim 114 (Frawlevl 8 g.i^,£ j,1?,8^?4- B!oDdura aM Miss Rems- »&»* ••> — The Ukiah Race Meeting will open Tuesday, Octo- ber 13th and continue five days. The events are mostly for running horses at short distanoes, owing to the fact that the meeting was not arranged for until too late to prepare a good program for trotterB. On the fourth day there is a purse of $200 for trotters, and on the fifth day a free for all trot for a purse of $350. Entrees to the races are all over night. Ukiah has one of the beBt half mile tracks in the State. In hot weather there is no drink like Jackson's Napa Soda — plain or in a lemonade. Major Delmar 2:00 1-4. This is a wonderful year for harness horses. Nearly every record that amounts to anything has been smashed and when the new Year Book is made up there will be more changes in the Table of Fastest Records than have been made for years. At Syracuse, New York, on Friday of last week the gelding Major Dolmar, driven by Alta McDonald, sailed out to beat his previous record of 2:01S made the week previous on the same track, and not only accomplished the feat, but trotted the mile in 2:00}, just a quarter of a second slower than the mile made by Lou Dillon that has set the whole world by the ears, and made her name a household word all over the horse world. This remarkable exhibition of speed was made in the presence of an immense crowd of people who nearly went wild when the result was announced and it was realized that Lou Dillon, the two-minute trotter, alone Btood between Major Delmar and the world's trotting record, and that by only a quarter of a second. The early actions of Delmar did not promise the splendid achievement which was to follow. Twice McDonald nodded his head as he drove Delmar down the stretch accompanied by a runner, and twice did the gelding break, first at the eighth and theD at the quarter pole, and was returned for another start. This time there was no fluke. With the regularity Tidal Wave 3:14 1-4 by Nutwood Wlike of clock work Delmar settled down to his work. The quarter was reached in 0:31 J, the same time made by Delmar in Wednesday's trial. Soon after passing the quarter pole the gelding faltered slightly, but soon recovered himself and reached the half in 1:01, having gained three quarters of a second over his time on Wednesday. At the half Delmar and his running mate were joined by a second runner, and the real contest began. Side by side flew the three horses, while the spectators almost held their breath in sus- pense. Glances at watches showed that the third quarter had been done in 0:29}, and a mighty cheer went up. Coming into the stretch McDonald gave Delmar a [light touch with the whip and the gelding in response made a magnificent spurt, which brought him under the wire in 2:00}. Both driver and horse were enthusiastically cheered. Oregon State Fair Races. The California horses are winning all the big purses at the Oregon State Fair this year. The Fair opened on Monday of this week. High Ball, the Los AngeleB pacer by Silkwood, took first money; Cristabel, an Oakwood Park mare by Chas. Derby, won second; and Harry Hurst, a son of Sam Gamble's broken legged horse Delwin, was third. Highball took a record of 2:lli in this race. The 2:20 trot went to Helen Norte, an Oregon mare, and Swift B. by Stam B,, was second. On Tuesday the two year old trot was first on the program and was won by Lovely Dell, a filly by Love- lace. The Inland Empire stake for three year olds was won by the chestnut colt Tidal Wave, son of Nutwood Wilkes. The two year old trot went to Loveless, a filly by Lovedell. Wednesday saw the big $2000 Greater Salem stake for pacers of the 2:17 class decided. The winner was Rita H. by McKinney, owned by Byron Erkenbrecher of Los Angeles, and driven by Will Durfee. It was a straight heat affair and the mare reduced her record to 2:12. The great northern champion of last year, Sam Bowers, was looked upon to win the $1000 purse for 2:11 pacers on the same day, but Durfee captured the race with Zolock, Bon Davies' good son of Mc- Kinney. The best time was 2:11 j. According to a dispatch from Salem sent by the Associated Press, there was an unfortunate occurrence on Thursday when the Lewis & Clark $2000 trot for horses of the 2:20 class came off. W. G. Durfee won the first heat with Sweet Marie, and was third in the sec- ond heat which was won by Dr. Hammond. The judges charged Durfee with pulling his mare and ordered him to turn her over to another driver. This he refused to do and started to take her from the track. A marshal tried to prevent him from taking the mare from the course, and a fight ensued but was stopped before anyone was hurt. Durfee was then permitted to leave the track with his mare. All bets on the race were declared off. The race then went to Dr. Hammond, with Briney K. second and Beladi third. The same evening the judges, Robert Leighton, R' L. Harriman and W. O. Trine, permanently suspended Durfee and the mare Sweet Marie. The Webfoot Stake of $500 for three year old trot- ters was won by Swift B. son of Stam B. His beBt heat was 2:161, a new mark for him and equalling the record made by Tuna when she defeated him at Sacramento last week. Helen Norto was second. Tidal Wave by Nutwood Wilkes won his second race of the week by annexing the 2:25 pace and re- ducing his record to 2:14}. Full summaries of the races at the Oregon Fair will not reach us until next week. Death of Wilton 2:191-4. Pony Racing Association. The California Polo and Pony Racing Association kas been incorporated under the laws of this State. There are one thousand shares of stock of a par value of $25 each. In order to promote the breeding of fine pony stock the association will plan races after the character of the futurities given by the leading jockey clubs. Charles Clark has offered a $1000 gold cup for a pony stallion race, and there also is to be an annual pony race for mares for a $1000 trophy. According to present plans there will be winter meetings at Rivei- side and Burlingame, beginning January 4, and February 22, respectively. Summer meetings are being planned for Santa Barbara and Del Monte. Officers of the association are: President, C. W. Clark; vice-presidents, Francis J. Carolan and Rudolph Spreckles; secretary, Thomas A. Driscoll; treasurer, R. M. Tobin; directors, John C. Cravens of Pasadena, C. Maud of Los Angeles, G. L. Waring of Santa Monica, John L. Colby of Santa Barbara, E. J. Boesake of Santa Barbara and Robert Lee Bettner of Riverside. Wilton, one of the handsomest of the sons of Geo. Wilkes, died of pneumonia an the farm of his owner, J. D Grover, Georgetown, Kentucky, on the 17th of last month. Wilton was foaled in 1880 and his dam was Alley who was also the dam of Albert France 2:20}, and grandam of Earl Baltic 2:17, Baroness Russell 2:231, Baron Russell 2:24} and Alpha Sparks 2:24J. Alley was by Hambletonian 10, and her dam was Lady Griswold by Flying MorgaD. W. L. Sim- mons bred Wilton, and the horse at the age of twenty- three was the sire of ninety-eight standard trotters and fifteen standard pacers, while thirteen of hia daughters have produced seventeen trotters and two pacers in the list. The most celebrated trotters cred- ited to Wilton are Bessie Wilton 2:09}, Moquette 2:10, Rubber 2:10, Dainty Daffo 2:13}, Wilask 2:11J, Lady Wilton 2:11 J, Town Lady 2:11J, Mackey 2:13J, Silicon 2:13J, Al Kalone 2:14} and Ernest Wilton 2:15. Wil- ton's greatest pacers are Will.Leyburn 2:06 and Vera Capel 2:07}. Among the most celebrated of those produced by his daughters are Cayton 2:08}, Dorothy Redmond 2:10} and Lady Thisbe 2:11}, and the fol- lowing of his sons have made reputations for them- selves as sires: Bernadotte, Ernest Wilton, Moquette Red Wilton, Wilton W. and Wilmarch. Jackson's Napa Soda is sold in every city, town and hamlet in the State. A New York paper says that Theodore Maxfield will come to California with Monroe Salisbury to work that gentleman's horses at Pleasanton during the winter. Maxfield has been at East View Farm in the employ of James Butler for some time. Mr. Butler and Mr. Salisbury are interested together in several horses. SEPTEMBER 19, 1903] ®he gveeitev unit gipxurtemcm Readville Summaries. Care of the Horse's Foot. The Grand Circuit horBes are back at Readville rain this week for the New England Trotting HorBe reeders Association meeting. The feature of the oening day was the attempt of Major Delmar to ,'wer his record of 2:001 made at Syracuse the pre- ious week. The day was favorable in every way ad while the great gelding failed to lower the record a trotted a mile in 2:00} and was loudly cheered, he two-year-old Tolara by Bingen won the two-year- Id trot and took a record of 2:171 in the second heat, [onroe Salisbury's colt California Cresceus by Men- ocino was second. Judge Green won third money i the four-year-old trot which went to Margaret athgate in fast time. The summaries: Trotting, foals ot 1901. two in three; purse $1000. olara. b t, by BingeD ■■ (Titer) l l California Cresceus 2-2; Pierpont Morgan dis. Time-2:19J£, 2:17H. Trotting, f03ls 011889, three in five; purse $2000. ircaret Bathgate, b m, by Silent Brook (Titer) 1 11 WamscoTt 2-2S4; Judge Green S-3-2; Kyvlllic 5-5-1; I Live 4-dis. Time— 2:13, 2:11K,2:11X- Paoing, 2:07 class, two in three; purse $1000. RiorC b h. by Coastman (Cox) l l Locanda 2-2; Sphinx S. 3-3; Surfree 4-6; Maior Muscovite 7-!; rince Direct 5-5; Trilby Direct 6-7. Time— 2:04ri, 2:04. Trotting, 2:13 olass. two in three; purse $1000. ... romise blk g. by Silver Chimes (Andrews) 1 1 Crescent 2-3; Guy Fortune, 4-!; Pug 3-4; Alcy 5-5; Anna Held 6-6. Time— 2:10K, 2:11. Special against time, trotting to beat 2:00«— Major Delmar, b (McDonald). Time-X.0:302i; «. 1:00*; U, l:30x;mile,200X. TUESDAY, SEPT. 15. George Starr was thrown from his sulky and sverely injured in the second heat of the 2:13 pace Tuesday. He was driving Double Z. and had just urned into the back stretch close to the pole when he nigh wheel of the sulky struck a board which xtended from the railing, throwing him to the 'round. While lying on the ground he was run iver by the sulky of Burr Oak, while the horse went •long driverless. He was examined by a doctor who tad him removed to a hospital, suffering from inter- lal injuries and bruises about the head. Cozad was he only California horse to start during the day and le made a poor showing, finishing next to last in the 1:11 trot. Fast time was made by the winner, how- iver, in every heat. The summaries: Pace, 2:20 olass, purse 8200C. >an Michael, ch s, by Boreal (Hyde) 1 1 1 Cascade 2-3-4, Mush 5-2-5, Day Book 8-6-2, Dr. Madara 4-5-3, Jim Jyle 3-4-6, Dick Wilson 6-7-7. Young Bayard 7-8-ds. w Time-3:075£, 2:08S. 2:08«. Trot, foals ol 1900, purse $2000. Lizzie A. ro f. by Alfred G (Cox) 1 1 Sporty 4-2, Lord Roberts 2-5, Leonando 3-4, Delight 6-3, Libby jueen,!W. Time-2:18K, 2-.UH. Trot, 2:11 olass, purse 81000 ,„.„,, McKinley.bs, by George St. Clair (Boone) 2 11 Belle Kuser 1-2-3, Nell Gywnne 4-3-5, Van Zandt 8-4-4, Edge- wood 5-6-6, Cozad 6-5-8 Halite Rocket 7-7-7. -""-«, Tlme-2:08, 2:08^, 2:07*. Pace, 2:18 class, purse $1000. Daphne Direct, blk m by Direct (Curry) 1 1 Direct L. 4-!, Burr Oak 3-3, Double Z. 2-d. Time-2:13M, 2;14>£.i WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 16. A new two heat record for this year was made in the 2:09 class trot at Readville on Wednesday by Caspian, a son of Patron. He won his race in straight heats, both in 2:07J. There were ten starters in the race, The Roman and Idolita being the last two in the final summary. Budd Doble won a heat and see»nd money in the $2000 trot for horses of the 2:20 class with Kinney Lou, but was beaten by Jay McGregor. The day's summaries follow: Trotting, 2:20 olass, purse, $2000; three in five. Jay McGregor, b h, by Jay Hawker (Hudson) 2 111 Kinney Lou 1-2-2-3, John Taylor 3-3-1-2, Navldad 5-5-3-1, K»- mares4-4-d. „ „ , Ttme-»:09S4, 2:08H, 2:10x, 2:11«. Paoing, 2:13 class, purse 81000; two in three. Claymore, b g, by Claycops .(Knapp) 2 1 1 Centriflo 1-2-5, Ecstatic 4-3-2, Hale 3-4-3, Don Cozlne 5-5-4. Time— 2:09, 2:07K, 2:10X. Trotting, 2:19 class, purse $1000; two in three. Alberto, ch g, by Bollini (Dlckerson) 1 1 Miss Jeanette 2-2, Christine Bellew 3-3, Tonga5-l. Blaok Beauty 4-5. Kaholana 7-6, Claude V 6-8, Crowshade 9-7, Delgola 8-9, The General dis. Timo-2:15><, 2:1324 The 2:09 class, trotting, two in three; purse $1000 Caspian, b g, by Patron (Shank) 1 1 Hawthorne 2-3, Maxine 5-2, Dulce 3-4, George Muscovite 4-5, Alice Carr 6-9, Lord Vincent 10-5, Wentworth 7-8, The Roman 9-7, Idolita 8-10. TIme-2:07«, 2:07*. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17. Trot, 2:14 class, purse $3000. Masetto. blk g, by Constantino (Dlckerson) 1 1 1 Norrie 3-2-2, Dillon Boy 3-3-3. John Mao 5-4-1, Nuk Berry 4-6-6, Direct View 6-5-5, Oxford Chimes d. Time— 2:lli4, 2:10K, 2:10J£. Pace, 2:08 class, purse 82000. Nervolo, bh, by Colbert (Hudson) 2 2 111 Loeanda 1-1-2-3-3, Terrili S. 4-3-3-3-3. Miss Willamont 3-d, Dlabiito 5-d, Brown Heels 6-d. Time— 2MU, 2:05?I. 2:08S, 2:06»£, 2:11W- Trot, 2:15 class, purse $1000. Rowellan, b g, by Abdell (Golden) 1 1 Millard Sanders 2-2. Midnight 6-3, Dreamer 3-6, Mary Rachael 4-5, Katrinka G. 5-4, Helgar d. Time— 2:18k, 2:11*. Trot, amateur, to wagon. Aokerland.bg (C. H. Belledeap) 1 1 Silver Glow 3-2, Crowshade 2-5, Fashion 4-3, Altwood 5-4. Time— 2:15, 2:14*. Sober up on Jackson's Maps Soda. The general treatment of the foot of the horse when suffering from various diseases, says a writer in The Field, has been described in several previous articles; it now remains to consider what steps should be taken in dealing with a horse whose feet are sound for the purpose of keeping them as far as possible in that desirable condition. It will be obvious that the feet are, of all the organs of the body, most un- fortunately situated as soon as tbe animal is brought under the influence of domestication. The respira- tory organs may be kept in fairly good condition by careful attention to ventilation, the regulation of the amount of exertion which the animals is called upon to undergo, and the same thing may be said of the organs concerned in the circulation of the blood. Derangement of the digestive organs may be averted by attention to the quality and quantity of food which ihe animal consumes; but, in the case of the feet, it is a matter of necessity that certain disturbing influences must be accepted to render the animal capable of working either as a draught horse, hunter, or hack. In the first place, the horse cannot be left, as he would be in a natural condition, with his hoofs unprotected, as the difference between the surface on which the animal would tread in a state of nature and that of the modern road, good or bad, is such that in ordinary circumstances the ground surface of the foot would be worn through, and the horse there- by rendered useless in the course of a few days; and it must have been recognized from the first that as soon as the horse was brought into use it was neceE- sary to protect the feet by artificial means. The primitive idea of strapping sandals to the feet was very soon abandoned as ineffectual, and as an out- come of various experiments it was at length deter- mined that the only possible method of saving the hoofs from destruction was the attachment to the bottom of the organs of an iron plate or ring held in position by the use of nails driven through the horny material and clenched on the surface of the wall of the foot, very much in the same way that a carpenter would attach any hard substance, iron or anything else, to a piece of wood. So far as protection was concerned, this method answered admirably, but by raising the foot from the ground by the interposition of a piece of metal, a result followed which was probably not thought of at the time, namely, the natural wear of the horse's foot being prevented, excessive growth from above down- wards took place, and it became necessary to remove the shoe and cut away the excess of horny material before it could be re-applied . From a cursory view of the matter it would seem that the attachment of a small portion of the protecting iron to the bottom of a horse's foot was a comparatively unimportant matter, not likely to be attended with any mischief, but in reality the process of shoeing, as it is called, with its attendant use of the knife and rasp to cut away the superflous horn, and so represent as nearly as possible the natural wear of the foot, has been the cause of all the ills from which the foot has suffered, and to some extent continues to 6uffer still. Most likely if the mechanic had been content to rasp or otherwise get rid of tbe additional growth of horn and apply the Ishoe without any further cutting or rasping of the horn everything would have gone well. Somehow the idea seems to have entered the head of the shoeing smith, by whatever name he might have been called, that before the shoe was applied the whole of the hard, rough horn of the sole of the foot must be cut away until the surface became concave) and thus removed altogether from contact with the ground. Certain other trimmings of the part soon became fashionable, such as paring the frogs, cutting away a certain amount of horn between the broad part of the frogs and the heel, and finally altering the shape of the foot to meet the taste of the owner by scraping, cutting or rasping until the desired form was Becured. It is in only comparatively recent years that this custom has been abolished, and even now all that can be said in favor of the mOBt perfect system of shoeing which is adopted is that it is a necessary evil. Again, the feet invariably suffer from the hard roads on which the horBe is compelled to travel, and, as a consequence of the severe concussion to which the organB are sometimeB exposed, various morbid conditions of a sub-acute or chronic character are from time to time developed, rendering the horse temporarily, and in some cases permanently, lame. It is, as a matter of course, impossible to alter this Btate of things; but, by care in shoeing and by keep- ing the feet in the condition which is most favorable for resisting the adverse influences, a great deal of the mischief may be escaped. To this end the ordi- nary precautions which are fortunately taken by ex- perienced shoeing smiths in preparing the feet and fitting and fastening the shoe are in the highest de- gree helpful. The old-faBhioned idea of keeping the bottom of the feet soft by stopping has long since been abandoned, and it is now perfectly well under- stood by most owners of horses who take any interest in their animals that the natural and most desirable condition of the bottom of the horse's foot is one of hardness instead of softness, and that so far from its being desirable to reduce the bulK of the frogs and to cut away the bottom of the sole so as to keep both from contact with the ground, the ideal syBtem of shoeing will provide for the preservation of these parts in their entirety, so that the horse may tread upon a flat surface, of which the shoe forms the boun- dary. It is constantly a subject of remark that the feet and joints of the horse Buffer from the practice, which in large establishments can hardly be avoided, of making the floor of the stable on an incline from the front of the stall where the manger is placed back to the channel which.forms the main drain. In small establishments this difficulty is disposed of by the use of a central drain, which terminates on the outside of the building. The flooring being inclined from all sides toward the centre renders it possible for the animal always to keep his feet on the same level either in a box or stall. The loose box, it need hardly be observed, is most conducive to the healthy condition of the feet, as it allows the animal an amount of freedom of movement which is impossible when the horse is tied by the head in the front of a narrow stall. Most horses are compelled to spend a large portion of the twenty-four hours in the stable, even those animals which are worked most severely, and the result naturally is that when they are unable to move about the stationary position has a tendency to produce congestion of the vessels of the feet, laying the foundation for contraction, brittle hoofs, an! other disorders. In the general management of the horse's foot in the stable all hoof ointments excepting for ornamental purposes — that is, with a view of giv- ing a temporary polish to the hoof, may safely be dis- carded. The only good they can poBSibly do is to prevent a certain amount of evaporation. The appli- cation of cold water to the feet from time to time is the only kind of dressing which need be applied, If, is not desirable that the horn should be allowed to become extremely dry, and in hot, dry seasons the frequent use of water is a necessity. An Eastern paper Bays: "The pacing mare Alone, which is thought by some people in California to have speed enough at the pace to dethrone Dan Patch, recently went half a mile in 59} seconds in a flight against the watch. Sixty days after Dan Patch was placed in training this spring he went the same dis- tance in 57J Beconds.'' While "some people" here in California know that Alone is a wonderfully fast mare and beileve her able when juBt right to shade Lady of the Manor's record of 2:04J a little, there are none within our knowledge who ever entertained tho idea that she can dethrone Dan Patch. It will take a horse that can show a half mile in 57 seconds to do that in our opinion. We Californians may claim much in the horse line, but we do not claim every- thing in sight. Boodle Jr., Monogram by Fairmont, and Larkin W. by Boodle Jr. are all at the Oakland track in charge of Farmer Bunch, who will be pleased to Bhow them at any time prior to September 26th, when they are to be removed to Fred H. Chased Co.' salesyard, 1732 Market street, San Francisco. They are to be sold at the clearance Bale of Hon. Jesse D. Carr's Gabilan Stock Farm on the 29th of September. Parties wanting choice animals should take a look at these horses. 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The fourth annual Held triala of the South Dakota Field Trials Association which were held near Sioux "Falls, the last- week in August, seem to have been the subject of some little criticism in the Eastern journals. One account states: "The ranee of ground was con- stricted, with the obvious result that the same ground had to be gone over day after day, and the already wild prairie chickens were made wilder than ever. Then lagain the larrangements ;were not what they might have been, nothing had been arranged in the shape of quarters for visitors, and owners and visitors had to hunt the town for rooms and accommodation for their dog's when they arrived. This was not all. even the liverymen had formed a combine, and practically refused to rent 'their horses out, and many of the handlers were obliged to borrow from their more fortunate friends. The judging was not at all satisfactory, and despite tbe many letters written against the Field Trial Handlers' Association, the latter organization must be approved of only to hold in check so great a farce as this meeting proved in the matter of judging. The meeting was poorly attended. Among the prominent visitors were: Hon. C. W. Mullan, Attorney General of the State of Iowa, and O. W. Miller, both of Waterloo; W. W. Titus, West Point, Miss.; W, J. Baughn, Ridgeville, Ind.; 'C. D. Stuart, Benton Harbor, Mich.; F. L. Bills, Urbana, 111. The weather was against the association also. Rain fell on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, prolonging the trials and making them not only tedious but unsatisfactory. The Derby was won by Rap's Pointer, by Young Rip Rap, out of Miss Pointer. Rip ran in the Nebraska Derby, where he distinguished himself but failed to get into the money. He is a very wise puppy on birds and handles them like an old dog. Plain Rex, second, was the winner of the Nebraska Derby. He also is wise on his game, but he will never make a classy dog, from the fact that he is not built that way. Third fell to Sport's Dan, a big black, white and tan dog, with a whole lot of Setter character. He is good on his birds, is fairly fast and a good ranger. Sport's Dan is by Marie's Sport. Lad's Meally, fourth, should have been second. There was no question about this in the eyes of those who followed the running closely. The judges, so it seemed at least, tried to run her off her legs but didn't do it. In speed and range she was the equal of any dog in the stake, and while she frittered away some time with small birds, it must be borne in mind that she is a mere baby, both in size and age. Meally won second place in the Derby at O'Neill. The All-Age and Subscription stakes were won by the English Setter dog McKinley, owned by Thomas Griffith of Grand Forks, S. D. McKinley has but two faults, to our way of thinking, one of which is that he drop9 to his points, and being one of the widest, coupled with consistent, ranging dogs we have ever seen on the prairies, much time is lost when he is down on a covey point in searching for him. Twenty minutes was consumed looking for him in one of his trials. The other fault is that he has very little tail action while running. When on scent he has a merry tail action. But aside from hiB qualities as a bird dog he is a beautiful animal, is nicely marked and has a lovely disposition. He is probably the equal, if not the superior, on prairie chickens of any dog living. Game as the proverbial pebble, he goes fast and wide, and when he points it is generally with exact preci- sion and confidence. Capt. Jack, placed second, we 6ay placed, as he did not win the position. He, like some others we might mention, is a newspaper dog. He has any amount of quality, is fast, stylish, a smooth running dog, but his bird work has never been good, and until he shows us something more in this line we will believe he should have fought it out with some othei* dogs in the stake for fourth place. He should never have been placed over Alpine Lad or Lad of Jingo, third and fourth placed dogs. Alpine Lad ran very con- sistently, and hiB bird work was of the right sort; so was that of Lad of Jingo's when he had an oppor- tunity. McKinley practically had no competition in the Subscription stake. He was in a class all by him- self and has earned undying fame among his kind by winning over some of the best dogs of past seasons. Cowley's Rodfield Pride, second, was not in fighting trim. He was 80ft, and, after a few minutes' run, slackened both speed and range. Third place was given to siport's Count Danstone, a grand going dog, but his work on birds was abominable for such a high-class dog. There is no better handler than Jack Gude. Contra to the foregoing is the review by one of the judges, Mr. C. B. Whitford, whostates: "It took sixteen trials, including the bye, to find the four winners among the seventeen dog6 which started in the South Dakota Derby. This amount of running was made necessary because of the scarcity of birds. During the running of these sixteen trials in three series, fifteen points and fifteen flushes were made, as the judges would not place dogs which did not point, no matter how much "class" they might have, it may , be readily seen that they had a difficult ta9k in making their selections, and in order to do justice to all the dogs by giving them an opportunity on game, .they were forced to run some of the youngsters rather long trials. . . . . . , In the end, however, all had been given a fair trial on game, and the four dogs selected for the places were clearly entitled to them. The order m which they were placed was generally acceptable to the competitors and the best judges who had followed the running closely. ," ., As between Plain Rex, Sport's Dan and Lad s Meally, respectively second, third and fourth there was room for a difference of opinion as ttey were separated by very close margins. Lad's Meally was the choice of the "gallery" for second long before she had finished her second trial, and she was never out of favor for the place by those who had been im- Dressed with her persistent way of going. The difference, however, between the judges and the critics respecting her merit was due largely to a difference of opinion as to wherein the point ceases and the flush begins. It may be said in this connection that the judges are "class" judges and tried hard to place the class dogs. But they held that a class bird dog that would not find and point birds had no right to be named among the winners. Lad's Meally was given a third trial, and after making one point was taken up. Plain Rex and Sports Dan placed over her were not nearly bo fast, but both ran with great judgment. Plain Rex was a little the best in this respect, but not -quite so stylish on game as Sports Dan. Both are good bird finders and behave well on game. The judges had no difficulty in placing Raps Pointer firBt and Lads Meally fourth, but between Plain Rex and and Sport's Dan there was very little difference. Another thing of importance happened in the running of the Derby that deserves special considera- tion, first, because it was rather unusual; second, because there was objection to it, and finally because it was a good thing and was in effect the carrying out of a request made by the handlers in form of a rule. I cannot quote the rule, but the sum and substance of it is that the judges give all dogs a good opportunity to Bhow their quality on game and not to take them up when birds are scarce in an allotted time on the pretext that they have had equal opportunities. The judges ran Lad's Meally one hour in her Becond trial without getting any result on birds by which they could fairly place the dog or put her out of the stake. They might have said she had a fair chance and put her out. But they chose rather to run her further because bird B were scarce and she appeared to be trying hard. Thpy gave her another long race, and as soon as she pointed Bhe was taken up. Had any one charged that she had been favored a little by having Buch an unusual opportunity to show what she could do on game, I would have felt at least that there was much ground upon which to base the charge. But when her handler and others com- plained that she had been overworked to her dis- advantage I felt like asking the Handlers' Association to reprimand their member who complained at judges who had carried out one of their rules. In fact, the carrying out of the one rule involved the carrying out of the other. I would suggest that the handlers put these two good rules together and then add another good one, something like this: "Any handler who objects to the carrying out of these rules by judges shall be reprimanded by the Hand- lers'Association, the reprimand to be made public. " If the handlers are going to make running rules they should see to it that they are respected by the hand- lers themselves. Before dismissing the Derby let me say that it looked easier to the judges at the end of the first series than it did at the end of the second. Much was expected of Cleopatra, Oakley Hill's Pride and Copper Coin. They had lots of class, but after they had been thoroughly tried it was found they were lacking in quality on birds. It was therefore neces- sary to run many dogs until those were found that showed a well balanced performance. McKinley stood alone in the AH-Age Stake. There were several stars down in this stake, but they be- haved badly on game. Capsain Jack placed second, had one good point to his credit and made one flush. He went wide and fast and was easily the most stylish dog in the stake. He goes with his head well up, has good tail action, is always bold and never potters. There is more oharacter in one of his flushes than there is in several points some dogB wiggle into. His single point was not seen by the majority of the spec- tators, although it was made in plain view. The dog stopped. Gude held up his hand to call attention to the point, the judges recognized him by holding up their hands, and finally waived him on. Gude walked in and put up a small covey. Captain Jack mean- while drawing up with him, stopping as the birds flushed. The orowd saw the end of the performance and did not credit Captain Jack with the good piece of work he did. And for that reoson thought he was placed too high in the list of awards. While Capfiain Jack was on his birds Alpine Lad was pointing out a single bird close by, to which point the attention of the crowd was directed. Just a mo- ment before Alpine Lad had flushed single birds twice in succession. Before the flushes he had run on both sides and very close to birds that were flushed bv the wagons as they came up. It was all very poor "work on the part of Alpine Lad, so poor, in fact, his hand- ler complained at the time that the scenting conditions were so poor a dog could sot do good work — passing birds he should have pointed, and flushing two single birds he should have pointed — put Alpine Lad in third instead of second place. As a result of his running he had two points to his credit, two flushes a«d two falsi points. He had good pace and range and showed himself a persistent hunter. However, he lacks style when compared with Captain Jack and puts his nose-! ■to the ground occasionally. " Sioux Falls, S. D., August 18, 1903.— South Da- kota Field Trial Association's fourth annual 'Derby for Pointers and Setters, born on or after January 1, 1902. Entries closed July 31, with thirty-eight en- tries, seventeen of which started, five Pointers and twelve English Setters. The purse consisted of the entry fees, less expenses, the stakes pro rata of the trial, divided as follows: Thirty-two and one-half per cent to first, 27 J percent to second, 22$ per cent, to third, 17$ per cent to fourth. Judges, C. B. Whit- ford, L. Stuehmer and E. H. Gregory. Oakley Hill's Pride, white, black and tan English Setter dog (Oakley Hill-Gleam's Daisy). Mrs. John Crowley, owner; Er. Shelley, handler. With Topsy's Dot, white and lemon Pointer bitch (Tris S-Topsy). A. A. Walters, owner; W. J. Wilson, handler. Pioneer, white and orange English Setter dog (Count Whitestone- Gracie Gladstone). Titus-Hoover Kennels, owners; Er Shelley, handler. With Sport's Dan, white, black and tan English Setter dog (Marie's Sport-Spotty Gladstone). A. Albaugh, owner and handler. Rachel Rodfield, white, black and tan English Setter bitch (Cln- cinnatus' Pride-Florence Rodfield). With Piquet, white and liver Pointer bitch (Fryphoon-Rancocos Belle) W. H. Hammond, agent and handler. Oath's Lady, white, black and tan English Setter bitch (Sport's Gath-Bessie Perry). Albert Lieber, owner; Lockwood, handler. With Kalmla Black-patch, white, black, tan and ticked bitch (Murrow- Kalmia Hope). R. Kelley, owner; W. H Hammond, handler. Miss Irish, white and oraoge English Setter bitch (Ruby's Dan- Snowflake III). Arthur Stearn, owner; W. H. Hammond, hand- ler. With Plain Res, white, black and tan English Setter dog (Dan Bo- TbelmaS). Thomas Griffiths owner; Nat Nesbitt, handler. Rap's Pointer, white and liver Pointer dog (Young Rip Rap-Miss Pointer). Er Shelley, owner and handler. With Lakefield Pride, white and orange English Setter dog (Rodfield Pride-Phoebe Wind'em). Lakefleld Kennels, owners- J. Gude, handler. Peggy, white, black and tan English Setter bitch (Domino'* Mark-Pet). Arthur Stearn, owner; W. H. Hammond, handler. With Cleopatra, white, black and tan English Setter bitch (Tony Boy- Lady Clinton) F. P. Harter, owner; Er Shelley, handler. Lad's Meally, white and liver Pointer dog (Lad of Jingo-Mar- garet). W. P. Austin, owner; A. B. Caldwell, handler. With Cornell, black, white and tan English setter dog (Rodfield ) I. T. Carter, agent and handler. Copper Coin, white and liver Pointer dog (Lad of Jingo-Hal's Belle). W. P. Austin, owner; A. B. Caldwell, handler. II Oakley Hill's Pride with Sport's Dan. Plain Res with Rap's Pointer. Peggy with Lad's Meally. Cleopatra with Copper Coin. Ill Plain Res with Cleopatra. Pioneer with Lad's Meally. Sport's Dan with Copper Coin. Rap's Pointer, a bye. RESULT. 1st, Rap's Pointer; 2d, Plain Res; 3d, Sport's Dan; 4th, La> Meally. Sioux Falls, S. D., August 28, 1903.— Sou Dakota Field Trial Association's fourth annual All Age Stake for Pointers and Setters which have n won a prize in open field trials. Entries closed Jul; 31st with sixty-four dogs, sixteen of which started five Pointers and eleven English Setters. The pun consisted of the entry fees, less the stake's pro ra' expenses of the trial, divided as follows: Thirty-t1 and one-half per cent to first, 27 J per cent to secon 22$ per cent to third and 17J per cent to fourt Judges, C. B. Whitford and L. Stuehmer. May Fly. imported white and orange English Setter dog (M Prince-Glory). G. O. Smith, owner; A. B. Caldwell, handler. With Chief Other Day, white and liver Pointer dog (Sabine's Rip Ra; Susie's Dottie). H. M. Giles, owner; Nat B. Nesbit, handler. Pride of Rodfield, white, black and tan English Setter dog (Rol field-Sue Gladstone II). Dr. F. W. Samuel, owner; Ed Garr, handler. With Lakefleld Rod, whi te, black and tan English Setter dog (Rodfleld- Kate N.). Lakefleld Kennels, owners; Jack Gude, handler Jingo's Jerry, white and liver Pointer dog (Jingo-Rose LeHessen). John Otten, owner; Ed Garr, handler. With Lad of Jingo, white and liver Pointer dog (Jingo-Dot's Pearl). W P Austin, owner: A. B Caldwell handler Prince Lyndon, white, black and tan English Setter dog (Marie's Sport-West Wind). John Cowley, owner; Er Shelley, handler. With McKinley, white, black and tan English Setter dog (Hickory Gladstone-Thelma S.). Thomas Griffiths, owner; NatB. Nesbitt, handler. Jingo's Mike, white and liver Pointer dog (Jingo-Nellie Crosteth). Smith & Da Pauw, owners; Ed Garr, handler. With Northern Huntress, white, blaok and tan English Setter bitoh| ( Joe Cumming-Mecca II) . Tudor J. A. Tiedemann, owner; Er Shelley, handler. Dad's Frank, white and lemon English Setter dog (Mat Ellis-I Belle Wilson II). Nitta Yuma Kennels, owners; Ed Garr handler. With Patentee, white, black and tan English Setter dog (Lady's Count Gladstone-Sue Hope). Nichols & Heisey, owners; A. Albaugh handler. Jessie Rodfleld's Count Gladstone (Lady's Count Gladstone-Jessie Rodfield). Jesse Sherwood, owner; Er Shelley, handler. With Sport's Boy Jr., white and lemon English Setter dog (Sport's Boy- Queen W. H.). Frank A Warnke, owner; A. Albaugh, handler Alpine Lad, white and liver Pointer dog (Lad of Jingo-Fanny Flash) . Charles Proctor, owner; Ed Garr, handler. With Captain *Jack, white, black and tan English Setter dog (Colone R.-Sport's Girl). A. M. Masters, owner; Jack Gude, handler. II McKialey with Jingo's Jerry Lad of Jingo with Northern Huntress. Jessie Rodfleld's Count Gladstone with Alpine Lad. Captain Jack with Sport's Boy Jr. HI Lad of Jingo with Alpine Lad. . McKinley with Captain Jack. RESULT. 1st, McKinley: 3d, Captain Jack; 3d, Alpine Lad; 4th, Lad o Jingo. September 19, 1903] ®tt£ gtveebev axib gtp-curtemcm 9 Sioux Falls S. D., August, 29, 1903 -South Dakota Field Trial Association's Subscription Stake, for Setters and Pointers, regardless of previous win- nings $10 dollars to nominate and $15 to start. Seven starters, five English Setters and two Pointers. The purse consisted of the nominating fee, less 5 per cent for expanses, the money being divided as follows: 50, 30 and 20 per cent. Sport's Count Danstone, "white, black and tan English Setter dog (Count Danstone : — ). William Brett, owner; J. A. Gude, handler. With PrlDce Lyndon, blaok, white and tan English Setter dog (Marie's Sport-West Wind). John Cowley, owner; Er Shelley, handler. Four Spot, white and black Pointer dog (Sir Royal Dan-Queen of Lilitz). Dr. E. L Denison, owner; L C. Hawley, handler. With McKinley, white, black and tan English Setter dog r(Hickory Gladstone-Thelma S.) Thos. Griffith, owner; Nat B. Nesbip, handler. Cowley's RodOeld's Pride, white and orange English Setter dog (Rodfleld-Sport's Belle). John Cowley, owner;' Er Shelley. handler. With Jingo's Rippo, white and liver Pointer bitch (Jingo-Rippo). Dr. G T. Page, owner and handler. Count Whitestone. white and lemon English Setter dog (Lady's Count Gladstone-Jessie Rodaeld). Titus-Hoover Kennels, owners; Er Shelley, handler. A bye. IL,» ; „ ;1, , McKinley with Sport's Count; Danstone. Count Whitestone with GpwJey'sRodfield'sPrlde. 1st, McKinley: 2d, Cowley'3 RodQeld's Pride; 3d, Sport's Count Danstone. Victoria Show. The first open air dog show held under the auspices of the Victoria Kennel Club, took place Saturday afternoon, August 22, at the Caledonia grounds. There was a fair attendance and much interest was taken in the dogs there on exhibition. The judges, who gave great satisfaction to the exhibitors, were Mr. C. B. Yandell, of Seattle, and G. C. Hodgson, of Manchester, England. During the afternoon the pacing dog King Edward, in a small sulky, was sent against a horse, and gave a good exhibition. There was an assuring number of entries, about 150 in all, and all were of local dogs, there being no entries from outside places. In the English Setter class it was noticeable that there was a new prize-winner, a puppy of Mr. T. P. McConnell, owner of the Victoria Belle, the former prize-winner,* won first place over that dog, and also C. E. Minor's Zolo Montez. Wandee Rjvdlry (formerly Saltscar Revelry) turned up for best in Fox Terriers quite handily. The show was under P. K. L. rules and medals were given for the best in each breed. Entrance was 50 cents and 25 cents. AWARDS. ' St Bernards — Puppy dogs — 1 Mrs H E Davies' Victoria Chief. Open dogs— 1 W F Hall's His Highr ness. Winners, dogs — 1 Victoria Chief, res His High- ness. Bulldogs — Open — 1 J Sweeney's Barney. Greyhounds— Open— 1 Dr G L Milne's, Jeff, 2 F Leroy's Trenna. Collies — Puppy dogs— 1 L Becket's Shep, 2 Walter EastoD 's Boy. Novice dogs— 1 Shep, 2 Roy, 3 William Dee's John's Prince. Limit dogs — 1 Haggard Bros' Woodman Ranger. Open dogs — 1 Woodman Ranger, 2 Prince. Winners, dogs— 1 Shep, res Woodman Ranger. Open bitches— 2 Rev E G Millers' Lassie. Scottish Terriers— Limit dog6— 1 Mrs W A Ward's Tatters. Bull Terriers — Novice dogs — 1 W W Murray'B Jerrie. Open dogs — 1 Harry Keown's Walter. Win- ners— 1 Walter, res Jerrie. Fox Terriers (smooth coated) — Puppy dogs — 1 Mrs J J Bostock's Result, 2 Mrs H HAhderson's Tim, 3 H Hern'B Kitchener. Novice dogs— 1 Result, 2 Tim. Limit dogs — 1 Geo Florence's Wandee Revelry, 2 W F Hall's Cadger of Oaks, 3 Tim. Open dogs— 1 Wan- dee Revelry, 2 Geo Florence's Gen Buller. Winners, dogs — 1 Wandee Revelry, res Cadger of Oaks. Novice bitches— 1 W A Cruise's Dolly. Limit bitches — 1 Dolly. Open bitches — 1 Mrs J J Bostock's Remi- niscence, z Dolly. Winners, bitches — 1 Reminiscence, (also special for best fox terrier in show) res Dolly. Irish. Terriers — Puppy dogs — 1 J Rogers' Pat. -Novice dogs — 1 E Carlow's Punch, 2 Pat. Limit and open dogs — J R C Hall's Nipper, 2 Punoh, 3 Pat. Winners, dogs — 1 Nipper, res Punch. Nipper, second special prize, to best Irish Terrier. Cocker Spaniels (black) — Novice dogs— 1 C E Stephen's Silver King, 2 F C Clyde's Prince, 3 Mrs W Savage's Victor. Limit dogs — 1 Silver King, 2 Phil A Goodwin'B Douglas, 3 Prince. Open dogs — 1 Silver King, 2 PriDce. Winners, dogs — 1 Silver King, res Douglas. Novice bitches — 1 Dr G L Milne'B Princess Beatrice. Limit bitches — 1 Mrs Ross' Princess Chic. Open hitches— 1 Mrs C A Goodwin's Little Dorrit. Winners, bitches — 1 Little Dorrit, res Princess Chic. Cocker Spaniels (other than black)— OpeD dogs — 2 Dr G L Milne's Red Rex. Puppy bitches— 1 Mrs J W Creighton'B Jessamond Ravenel,2 Mrs Trimen's Little Duchess. Limit bitches — 1 J W Creighton's Jessa- mond Ruby, 2 Dr A J Garesche's Jessamine Opal, 3 Miss Goodwin'B Pippin. Open bitches — 1 J W Creigh- ton's Jessamine Pearl, 2 Pippin, 3 Jessamond Ravenel. Winners, bitches— 1 Jessamond Ruby, res Jessamond Pearl. Cocker Spaniels (parti color) — Limit and winners — 1 Miss Skinner's Bonnie Charlie. Special prize for best Cocker Spaniel in the show was won by J W Creighton's Jessamond Pearl. Irish Water Spaniels— Puppy dogs — 1 C P Le- Lievre's Mike L; 2 A W Vowell's Judge. Novice dogs — 1 Mrs G F Dunn's Murphy. Limit and open dogs — 1 G F Dunn's Tim Dee; 2 Murphy. Winners dogs— 1 Tim Dee, res Mike L. Novice limit open winner bitches— 1 H J Dunn's Jane Dee. English Setters— Puppy dogs — 1 T P McConnel's Count Rego; 2 W Armstrong's Dandy; 3 AG Davies' -St Nicholas, v h c R G Monteith's Rob. Novice dogs — 1 Count Rego; 2 H Twyman'B Mafeking; 3 H E Davies' Curnow Shag Dee, h c L McBurnie's Jack. Limit dogs — 1 Mafeking; 2 Miss Davies1 Blue Rock. Open dogs — 1 Count Rego; 2 Mafeking. Winners dogs— 1 Count Rego, res Mafeking, Count Rego won ■the open prize for the best English Setter in the show. Puppy bitches— 1 R R Watson's Mascine. TSTo vice bitches — 1 Dr Fagan's Molly; 2 A G Davies' Lady Minto. Limit and open bitches— 1 T P Mc- Connell's Albert's Rosalind; 2 C E Minor's Zolo Mon- tez; 3 T P McConnell's Victoria Belle. Winners bitches — 1 Albert's Rosalind. Reserve, Zolo Montez. Gordon Setters — Puppy dogs — 1 J W Fletcher's Shot; 2 H G Ross' Booze. Open and winners dogs— 1 R Porter's Sport. Novice bitches — 1 L Camsusa's Belle. Limit bitches— 1 S W 3odley's Heather Nell; 2 Belle. Winners bitches— 1 Heather Nell, res Belle. Special for best Gordon Setter in the show was won by Heather Nell. Irish Setters — Novice dogs — 1 J K Bellamy's Dan. Limit dogs — 1 George Jay's Mike; 2 J R Jennings' Laddie; 3 J Cottle's Patrick. Open dogs — 1 Dr Gar- esche's Hector; 2 Mike; 3 Patrick. Winners, dogs — 1 Hector: res Mike. Hector won the special prize ' for the best Irish Setter in the show. Puppy bitches — 1 R Stewart's Lady Pat. Limit, open and winners bitches— 1 S Creech's Nelly. Pointers — Novice dogs- 1 F Bowness' Wasco Imp; 2 H Donkin's Victoria Joe. Limit, open and winners dogs — 1 Victoria Joe; 2 Wasco Imp. Novice bitches — 1 F Bowness' Alberta Queen. Limit bitches--l F A Futcher's Duchess; 2 Alberta Queen. Winners bitches — 1 Duchess; res Alberta Queen. F. A- Futcher's Duchess won special prize for beBt Pointer in the show. Skye Terriers — Open — 1 Mrs Gavin Burns' York; 2 Mrs Burns' Kelpie. The retrieving contest was won by J R Jennings' Irish Setter Laddie. San Francisco Fly-Casting Club. Saturoat Contest No. 12— Stow Lake, Sept. 12, 1903. Wind west. Weather, fair. Judges, Messrs. T. C. Kierulff and W. E. Brooks; Referee, Mr. Kenniff; Clerk, Mr. Brotherton. Events 1 Young, C. G Kenniff, C. R 100 Brotherton, T. W..112 Kierulff, T. C 94 Brooks, Dr. W. E...U1 87 4-12 89 8-12 88 4 12 89 93 89 93 4-12 91 2-12 86 8-12 84 3-12 86 8-12 85 8-12 85 98 4 12 86 8-12 82 612 85 80 8-12 82 6-12 81 7-12 98 3 95 9 89 3 Sunday Contest No. 12— Stow Lake, Sept. 13, 1903. Wind, none. Weather, fair Events Young, C. G Brooks, Dr. W. E -.100 Brotherton, T. W..112 Kenniff, C. R 110 Golcher.H.C 112 Huyck, C 92 Haight, P.M 89 Kenniff, J. B 109 Sperry, H. B 101 87 8-12 90 88 4-12 89 2-12 84 87 8-12 85 10-12 86 9-12 88 8-12 91 90 90 6-12 89 91 4-12 87 6-12 89 5-12 84 4-12 87 4-12 85 10-12 86 7-12 88 8-1S 90 8-12 77 6-12 84 1-12 88 86 8-12 78 4-12 82 6-12 88 4-12 88 8-12 87 6-12 88 1-12 88 79 2-12 83 7-12 ■8S-NOTE: Event 1— Distance Casting, feet. Event 3— Ac- curacy; percentage. Event 3 — Delicacy, (a) accuracy percentage, (b) delicaoy percentage; (c) net percentage. Event 4— Lure cast- ing, percentage. The fractions in lure casting are 15ths. AT THE TRAPS. The Union Gun Club shoot to-morrow will be the final club blue rock meeting at IngleBide for this season. The main features of the shoot will be the contests for permanent individual ownership of the club medals. A number of shooters have each won the different medals once, the conteBt, therefore, promises to be a close one. Another interesting feature will be the shoot for a prize donated by T. L. Lewis and H. T. Hoyt. On Wednesday last at Ingleside in a match at 50 live birds Mr. James V. Coleman succeeded in out shooting Mr. W. G. Keane, the Australian wing shot who recently won the Compagno cup. Mr. Coleman's Bcore was 44 out of 50, he won the match by 4 birds. The Golden Gate Gun Club trap Bhoot at Ingleside Sunday was attended by over 80 sportsmeD, a number of them coming from distant points to take part in the club's final blue rock shoot for this season. The first event shot was the regular monthly club Bhoot. For this occasion the shooters had 50 targets instead of 25 to shoot at. The club purse of $100 and the Hibbard Bilver cup were the prizes in this race. The olub purBe was Bplit into five moneys. C. C. Nauman, who scored 49 birds, took first money, $25; C A. Haight and E. Klevesahl, with 47 breaks each, divided second money and received $18.50 each. Third money, $14, was annexed by W. J. Golcher with 45 cracked targets. Ed Donohoe, 43 birds was alone in fourth money, $11. Otto Feudnerand G. Gibson, the Colusa expert, divided fifth money, $11. E. Kleve- sahl distinguished himself by winning the Hibbard trophy for the second time, the highest club score in this race counted for the cup. This prize must be won three times individually before becoming any shooter's exclusive trophy. Nauman and Klevesahl also won gold club bars for straight runs of 35 targets each. Haight won a gold bar for a string of 25 straight, and Golcher was awarded a Bilver bar for breaking 15 straight. The club high average cup was won by Nauman, who scored 18G breaks out of a total of 200 clay pigeons shot at in the Beven regular monthly club shoots this season. The second event was the feature of the day. It was a shoot for a wholesale collection of merchandise prizes, which embraced a miscellaneous lot of articles, enough to stock a small store. This race was open to all. Each shooter shot at 20 targets and was privileged to enter as often as he desired. One hundred and twelve entries were made in this match, thus accounting for over 2100 shots hied at the mud saucers thrown from the bulkheads. The distribu tion of the prizes was By claBB shooting, ten classes, with numerous prizes in each class, this arrangement gave many of the shooterB a chance for some kind of a trophy. - C. C. Nauman and A. J. Webb scored clean and won first and second prizes in the first class. The first prize was a high grade Remington shotgun. In the second class, 19 breaks each, Haight won first and Leo Kincannon of Pinole won second prize. Third class, 18 each, E. Klevesahl, O. Feudner, R. C. Reed, D. Danieli, J. Karney and Dave Thorn took six prizes in the order named. Fourth class, 17 breaks, F. Feudner, Ed. Donohoe, B. Beveridge, Ed. Schultz and Dr. Hutton won in the order given. Fifth class, 16 breaks, E. KerriBon, J. Magistrini of Sacramento. Ed. Forster, H. Muller, J. Potter, "Slade," H. JustinB and B. Burnett took eight prize seriatim. Sixth class, 15 breaks, J. Beattle, G. Gibson, F. KiDg, B. Patrick, J, O'Hara and W. J. Lidstone of Pinole were winners of Beven prizes. Seventh class, 14 breaks, G. Sylvester, J. Bruns, G. Gordon, H. Hesse, B. Bowen and J. Pisani were the prize winners in the order given. Eighth class, 13 breaks, H. T. Hoyt, M. J. Iverson, C. Carlson, F. Walpert, and W. R. Murdock were the winners. Ninth class, 12 breaks, F. A. Hodapp of Martinez, W. H. Price, C. Clark, G. Herring and George Franzen were in line for the prize awards. Tenth class, 11 breaks, C. H. Kewell, Eng Forster, L. Lansing and T. L. Lewis divided what was left on the list. Forty-four shooters shot in the next event for a silver cup. The conditions were sealed and obligated the men who broke 13. 14 or 15 pigeons to shoot again, as follows: 15 birds at 18 yards, 14 birds at 16 yards and 13 birds at 14 yards. Nauman and Haight scored straight in the first shoot. Twelve men were in the shoot off which was finally won by Nauman after shooting off the last ties with Webb and Gibson. Twenty-eight men faced the traps in the last event of tbe day, a novelty race, 25 clay pigeons shot as fol- lows: 5 pairs at 16 yards, 5 singles at 14 yardB, 5 singles at 16 and 5 at 18 yards. D. Daniels, with 23 ' birds, won first money. Nauman and Reed won second with 22 breaks each, Webb, Sylvester and Kincannon, 21 birds, third money. Haight. 20 birds, fourth money. J. Karney and E. Klevesall, 19 each, fifth money. The scores and entries in each event were the fol- lowing: Final monthly club shoot, 1903, $100 added, 5 moneys, high guns, members only: Nauman 49, Haight 47, Klevesahl 47, Golcher 45, Donohoe 43, Feudner 42, Gibson 42, Murdock 41, "Slade" 39, E. F. Forster 38, WandB 37, Sylvester 37, Justins 36, Iverson 33. Re-entry merchandise shoot, 20 birds. Best scores to count, $1.00 entrance, 112 entries, class shooting, 10 classes: Nauman 20, Webb 20, Kincannon 19, Haight 19, Daniels 18, O Feudner 18, Karney 18, Thorn 18, Reed 18, E. Klevesall 18, F. Feudner 17, Hutton 17, Beve- ridge 17, Donohoe 17, Schultz 17, Potter 16, Kerrison ' 16, Slade 16, Justins 16, Magistrini 16, Burnett 16, Ed Forster 16, Muller 16, Lidstone 15, Beattie 15, Gibson 15, Patrick 15, O'Hara 15, King 15, Hesse 14, Bowen 14, Sylvester 14, Bruns 14, Gordon 14, Pisani 14, Mur- dock 13,.Montoya 13, Iverson 13, Hoyt 13, Walpert 13, Ashland 13, Carlson 13, Ostrander 13, Franzen 12, Price 12, Hodapp 12, Hunt 12, Clark 12, Fischer 12, Herring 12, Burns 12, LewiB 11, Kewell 11, Hayes 11, H. Klevesahl 11, Lansing 11, Eug Forster 11, Burnell 10, Wands 10, Bell 10, Grim 9, Dr. Sylvester. Cup shoot, sealed conditions, 15 targets — Nauman 15, Haight 15, Webb 14, Kincannon 14, Lewis 14, Gibson 14, Hoyt 14, Pisani 13, Reed 13, Karney 13, Donohoe 13, Justins 13, Gordon 12, Bruns 12, Schultz 12, O. Feudner 12, Ostrander 12, Kewell 12, Justins 12, Potter 12, Carroll 12, Kerrison 12, Iverson 12, Golcher 11, Donohoe 11, Beattie 11, Hunt 11, Ed Forster 1], Clark 10, Hansen 10, Burnell 10, Hesse 10, Ashland 10, Franzen 10, Hutton 10r-Price 0, Hodapp 9, Walpert 9, Fischer 8, Hayes 8, Grim 8, Lidstone 7, Patrick 7, Childs6. Novelty shoot, 25 targets — DanielB 23, Nauman 22, Reed 22, Webb 21, Kincannon 21, Sylvester 21, Haight 20, Karney 19, E. Klevesahl 19, Potter 18, H. Klevesahl 18, Hoyt 17, Schultz 17, Forster 17, Donohoe 16, Ashland 16, Justins 16, Iverson 16, Beattie 15. Gibson 15, Hutton 14, Pisani 14, Burns 14, Franzen 13, Price 13, Lewis 13, Hesse 12, Patrick 12. DOINGS IN DOGEOM. British Columbia sportsmen have for some time been discussing the advisability of forming a field trial club to run trials on Mongolian pheasants, and at a meeting held at Vancouver, August 15th, the British Columbia Field Trial Club was organized and the following officers elected: J. M. Bowell, president; R. D. Cowan, Thomas Plimley, H. S. Rotson,- D. Sweedie, vice-presidents; C. Cocking, treasurer; N. F. Lynne, secretary. Field trial grounds located in the vicinity of Steve- ston, fifteen miles south of Vancouver, were decided on to hold the initial trials, and it is claimed tbe first in America to run on pheasants. Owing to the late start made this season, it was considered advisable to make the first competition a provincial affulr, open only to dogB owned in British Columbia. The club intends running a Derby and AlI-Aj-e Stake, and has been promised the support of all the ©he ^veeitev onto grjwrtsfmatt [September 19, l»»3 10 won't wait to be pointed; but I tMk "»ey wili many. Instances, if handled properly, but that win reEntriL0cblose6deSeptember 15th, and trials commence October 9th. A drought has made Paradise valley as dry js the ^S«ssK^d;SrS^ ly both Nevada and outside Coast sportsmen and a successful first meeting means much for the weliare of the sport in Nevada. Wandee Kennels, according to the following press dispatch purchased the Fox Terrier Champion Raby Coastguard: m . .. New York, September 17.— Fox Terrier enthus- iasts will be surprised to hear that the famous Eng- lish champion. Raby Coastguard, is destined for this country. Baby Coastguard has been purchased from George Raper by Mr. C.K. Harley of San Francisco, and will probably make his first appearance in this country at the Danbury show, the first week in Octo- Mr. Harley, His reputed, paid S3,000 for him and John Lucas was very unfortunate £ having t£ at the verv last moment, cut out his trip to wfliouj Sa7dwU a string of dogs for the Northwes tria^ The last goodbys and greetings had bee in ^d here in this city and everybody supposed thatthe Mt. View Kennels' string was off on the *ram-but ais temper, that scourge of the young dog cropped up and it was all off with Munzie for the Washington field trials. Too bad! A bench show here in December, 2nd to 5th is now a settled fixture. The show will be given under the Lspicls of the Pacific Collie and Old English Sheep Dog Club and will be held at the Mechanics' Pavilion in conjunction with the Oakland Poultry Association. The Oakland "feather" fanciers will hold the first "chicken" show given in this city for arcade. For several years past, the California Collie i Club i has held a dog show at the same time and place (Oakland) as the annual poultry show. The Oakland pavilion was recently torn down and there being no other suitable place across the bay, it was determined to hold the poultry exhibition in this city 4. number of the fowl fanciers are also inter- ested in do°-gy affairs, naturally the doggy fellows selected to ereet their tents on this side of the bay. in the enthusiastic hope and reasonable expectation that the combined show will be the success and pass off on the same plane of pleasant associations and features such as have prevailed at their past Oakland shows. __ We have heard some few expressions of criticism, tinged with disappointment, at this move. The inti- mation being that it was designed to impair the foot- hold of the local club and, in fact, finally supplant the A. K. C. on the Coast, and eventually oust the parent kennel interests entirely. This view, we are crediblv informed, is entirely erroneous, the show here in December was prompted entirely by the conditions above stated and is the accident of time and change more than the creation of design. The Pacific Collie and Old English Sheep Dog Club was organized this month in San Jose and is intended to be a Coast club, in distinction to a purely local speci- alty club. The officers are: P. W. Morse, of Santa Cruz, president; Chas. R Harker, of San Jose, vice-presi- dent; Norman J. Stewart, of San Jose, secretary: O. 0. Albee, J. C. Berrett, and Chas. R. Harker, bench show committee. Tberewillalso be a ladies' auxiliary committee. The club has started off with a showing of strength and a good list of membership. We will probably have more complete information next week, the organization having not been completed in several details at this writing. The California Collie Club is still vigorous and has a large list of membership. The club's exhibit will ba In evidence at the December show. Beach Hills Kennels' Ch. Hanover Monarch is in demand, apparently. A bitch from Tacoma and two other bitches were sent to the San Jose doglast week. A Borzoi kennel will soon be established by a San JoEe fancier. .* GOSSIP FOR SPORTSMEN The deer season in the following counties will close on October 1st: Mendocino, Monterey, San Benito, San Mateo, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz. Indications for good duck shooting this fall are assuring. Already the vanguard of the northern flight is noticed in bunches of birdB flying about here ana there to get the lay of the feeding grounds. Home birds have bred plentifully in the bay counties' marshes and the tule regions. The opening of the season in Oregon on the 1st inst. was commenced with a vigorous bombardment that has not at all abated. This will tend to send lots of ducks south sooner than they would come naturally. Mrs. W. W. Van Arsdale recently bagged a spike buck whilst hunting near Fort Bragg. The head will be mounted as a souvenir of the lady's markmanship and woodcraft. Sea trout have been taken in plentiful numbers at various places along the Marin shores this week. The cove at the end of Belvedere island has been a favorite resort for salt water anglers The fish are all of nice size and in fine condition. This fish is a handsome colored and beautifully spotted fish. It will take a red fly on a No. 4 to 6 hook and a spinning spoon as well as bait. With light tackle they will put up a lively fight. It is a bottom feeding fish; in quiet water, where there is not much current, one can get down with a light line and sinker. A kennel club is to be organized in San Jose within a fortnight. __^_^ Ch. Woodcote Wonder, never in better fettle nor looking finer since his arrival on the Coast nearly three years ago, was sent to Bonnybred Kennels, New York, a week ago yesterday. With the sturdy old champion went American Belle and two Woodcote Wonder-Newmarket Queen bitch puppies, Woodlawn Dorcas and Woodlawn Phyllis. Belle was in splendid shape and should prove a valuable brood bitch in Mr. Wackerman's kennels. The two young bitches had been placed out and reserved by John Bradshaw, for they were the most promising of any Wonder puppies he has yet seen — that they must havebeeD good ones is evidenced by Wonder's sons and daughters that have been shown here and on the Coast, for they have beaten all of the Coast bred dogs as well as dogs from the East, and promise to hold their own for some time yet. Belle is, without doubt, the best bitch of her age on the Coast. Her departure is a distinct loss to the breeders and fanciers on the Coast. The price paid Woodlawn Kennels was a good one, one report claims $1500. Through thi6 purchase Bonnybred Kennels have now the best stock of Bull Terriers in the United States or Canada. The recent importation of the be-t bred young stud dogs that could be procured on the other side, will possibly put the kennels in the lead in this country or England for Bull Terriers. The purchase of Woodcote Wonder by the New York Kennels was in keeping with the spirit of enterprise they have shown from the start. Thev have some of Wonder's best sons and daughters and to be consistent put up a little bunch of money to keep the head of the family where he would be a'star feature. Recent reports from Santa Clara county according to the San Jose Jtfercury state: There has been a decided cessation in the cannon- ading of deer in the mountains during the past week, owing to the fact that attractions of the holidays and rush of work in the fruit orchards has kept sportsmen from going out in search of game. But now that the season is drawing to a close and hunting is better than at any time since the season for deer opened, there will be a general exodus of sportsmen to the hills during the next few days. Only three more weeks remains of the open season for deer in this country, and many large parties are being made up to go out during the remaining days in search after big game. Many of the hunters are preparing to go over back of Mount Hamilton in the vicinity of Blackbird valley, where deer are very plentiful. Reports are that the deer are feeding on acorns, which are beginning to drop in great quanti- ties, and that the big bucks can frequently be seen feeding during the day time. The running season is now beginning and the bucks are becoming restless and are running about over the country, making them easy marks for the sportsmen's rifles. The big fires which have been raging in the moun- tains from Los Gatos south to Morgan Hill have been very detrimental to hunting. All the game has been driven back into the inaccessible canyons for shelter. One of the largest deer of the season was bagged the other day a few miles below Sargents Station by Attorney Ed Rea of San Jose. The buck was a monster, weighing over 200 pounds. His antlers were the largest seen in this county for years, they having thirteen points, seven on one side and six on the other. The antlers were sent to San FranciBco to be mounted. The lucky hunter returned to San Joeo for more supplies and left almost immediately for the scene of his successful chase. S. F. Beroal killed a 165-pound buck a few miles below Kings City laBt week. He states that deer are very numerous in that Bection. C. Avlia, an old and experienced hunter, who re- sides near Kings City, was in this city during the week and a large party of San Joseans are going to return wiih him for a couple of weeks' hunt. Avlia knows the Kings River country well and acts as guide to many hunters during the season. P. G. Legue bagged a fat buck back of Mount Hamilton during the week. L. Maggini and C. Beffa have returned from an extensive trip through Cala- veras and Tuolumne counties. They even went so far as Nevada during their outing. They report ex- cellent hunting in the Sierras and especially on the Nevada side, where many deer are beingkilled by the Indians for their hides. The Passing of a Pioneer Sportsman. Julius Francis Bekeart, veteran sportsman and as kindly hearted an old gentleman as we have ever met, passed to his final reward, in this city on September 4th. Mr Bekeart will be well and lovingly remembered by many sportsmen, for his little store on Fourth street near Howard was the Mecca, three decades ago, of about all the younger shooters and fishermen of thiB city. There was no powder (black powder in those days) that could equal the brands he sold and his duck and quail Bhot was sworn by. He was the fidus achates of legions of youthB when it came to repairing or pur- chasing firearms, for who could w« get who so skill- fully would repair the miscellaneous collection of modern and antique guns, pistols and rifles, such as were in vogue those days, and as for bargains in new guns and trades, we believed kind Providence had especially deputised the genial gunsmith to minister to our anxious desires, and he did. For this and his kindly hearted ways and his goodly advice on sport- ing topics, young and old loved "Old Man Bekeart." He waB born in London, England, in 1822. Coming to this country while a youth, he afterwards entered and served apprenticeship at gunmaking with Joseph Hall, a well known gunsmith of that lime, on Long Island, New York. After learning the art he was engaged for a time at Ilion, New York, in the Rem- ington gun works. This famous establishment at that time employed a force of seven men besides Mr. Remington, Sr., the latter, during Mr. Btkeart's engagement, used to grind the gun barrels. Subse- quently, he went to Syracuse where he was employed by Rector, a riflemaker of renown. In 1844, Mr. Bekeart opened a gun and sporting goods business at at 118 Fulton Street, New York. When General Fremont's expedition was organized, Mr. Bekeart was engaged to accompany the Path- finder and his sturdy men as the armorer of the the enterprise. He was, however, stricken with fever and remained in Saint Jo, Mo., until he recovered. When he was on his feet again, being imbued with the Bpirit of adventure and enterprise, part of the virile Western atmosphere, he turned his footsteps southward, becoming, in fact, a journeyman gun- smith and riflemaker. While at Baton Rouge, he determined to espouBe the cause of his adopted country and enlisted for service in the Mexican War under Col. Davis, Company A, 2nd Regiment. He served through the war bravely and with honor, and was in a number of battles and in different arduous campaigns. After being mustered out he returned to New York ana from there set out for this State in 1848, arriving in this city April 1st, 1849. From here he went to Embarcadero and Sutter's Fort, now Sacramento. From thence he went to Coloma, El Dorado county — this historic spot was where Sutter's mill was then located, where Marshall electrified the civilized world by his discovery of a shining nugget of gold in the mill race. Mr. Bekeart mioed and conducted a gun store at Coloma and Placerville until 1865. After the placer mines petered out In that section he came back to San Francisco in 1865. He opened a gun Btore first on Fourth street subsequently removing to Third street near Folsom where he remained until he re- tired fr»m business in 1890. His demise, tie result of old age, took place at the residence of his son Phil B. Bekeart in thiB city. Mr. Bekeart was a member of both the Mexican Veteran Society and the Society of California Pioneers. He was a good linquist, speaking Spanish, German and French fluently. For his Bervice in the Mexican War he received the usual amount of land scrip. The land which this particular scrip called for was located in Indiana, this section is now in the heart of the city of Indianapolis and worth millions of dollars. The original Beript waB sold by Mr. Bekeart to a broker in New York for a trifling Bum. Fall Shooting Outfits. Open season for docks and qoail is leas than a month off— It's a short time, so get ready early. Skinner has some decoyw, wooden and ct-nvas pneumatic, that cannot be beat. Racine built dack boats, to see one is to want it. Rain coats, hats and pants of a special cole color. The latest wrinkle in ammunition cases leather or metallic. For upland shooting, he has the proper thing In comfortable clothing and footwear. See Skinner. 601 Market street, for a complete outfit for the shooting season. The announcement that the Marysville Gun Club would hold a big blue rock tournament in that city on Sunday, October 11, 1903, had the effect of bring- ing a number of shooterB before the traps Sunday afternoon and excellent Bcores were made. A meet- ing of the club was held on the 13th in6t and arrange- ments for the big shoot will soon be perfected. The following scores were made Sunday: J. L.Hare 10, A. Woodworth 9, Ed Heisch 9, C. Lipp 9, Herman Berg 8, W. Bedeau 8, F. S. Marshall 8, G. Peacock 7, J. S. Collins 7, Dr. Smith 7. SALES. The Beach Hill Kennels (San Jose) have sold a sable and whit* Collie bitch puppy (Spartan-Westridge Star) to W. D. Rutherfort (San Jose) September 14, 1903. VISITS. Beach Hill Kennels' sable and white Collie btlch Pensarn Ora (Imp. Pensarn Guard-Shadeland Daisy) to same owner's Ch. Hanover Monarch (Ch. Ellwvn Astrologer-Ch. Old Hall Moon) September3, 1903. Geo. N. Bentley's (Sacramento) sable, and whise Collie bitch New Mexico Flora 55961 (Snowball n-Shadeland Lillie) to Beach Hill Kennels' Ch Hanover Monarch (On. Ellwyn Astrologer-Ch. Old Hs.ll Moon) September 11, 1903. Something for Nothing. The Polk Miller Drug Co., of Richmond, Vs . are manufacturers of Sergeant's Dog Remedies, the most popular line of preparatioia, Intended for dogs, on the market today, having received the high- est endorsements of the leading dog men and kennel owners in thiB country and Canada. Read their advertisements appearing in the columns of our journal each issue. The firm referred to will mail you absolutely free, a copy of their celebrated book on Dogs if yol will forward 3 cents to cover postage. If your dog is sick, write them, enclosing stamp, and describe the symptoms as accurately as yon can They will cheerfully furnish the best information on the subject without charge. F. W Braun & Co., of Los Angela*, California, have recently been made dietrlbutlng agent* for Bergeant'i Dog B*medi*9 on the Pacing OoMt. September 19, 1903] ®hs gvee&ev cmfc %tp&vt#man IX THE FARM. Live Stock Notes. Pumpkins make good feed tor all kinl of stock. Fattening stock should be fed often. Do not feed more than they will eat up clean. Sow rape in mid-July. It will be avail- able for fall pasture, and is excellent for sheep. Oats and bran make a better feed for horses at work than corn, during the hot weather. Corn as a food for hogs is all right. Do not use it exclusively. Use judgment in feeding Well-oiled machinery and wagons is a kindness to the team and an economy to the owner. Ashes, in which there is a liberal sup- ply of charcoal and salt, should be kept where hogs can get it. If you eucceed in raising stock vou wil I have to provide better shelter than a barb wire fence. Feed skim milk to hogs. It will give them strong bone and a good foundation for development. As population increases in density the steer as a food producer disappears and the cow increases in number. Every farm has room for a few sheep. They will material y improve your pasture as no other animal can. Young pigs should not be stunted by ■hort feed and dry pastures. It takes a longtime for them to get over it. Skeletons of famous horses mounted on frames are to be included in the exhibit of Kentucky at the WorH's Fair. Good feeding means all the stock will eat without waste or loss of appetite. It takeB close watching to accomplish this. Horses that are to be fattened should be taught to take water before the morn- ing meal. In fattening, water has an important part. Brood sows of desirable qualities should be kept for several years, and two of these qualities should be a quiet disposition and good milking qualities. The highest priced carload of work horses ever sold on the Chicago market were produced by a combination of Shire and Percheron blood The most perfect carriage horse was a cross between a French Coach and trotting blood. Young pigs make rapid growth on a ration of skim milk fed in one-third corn meal and two-thirds wheat middlings. Let them run on a clover pasture, if you have one. Trotting horoes are sold higher in the United States than in any other country. The time in which the horse can make a given distance offsets everything else. Speed is valued above beauty. If selection could be made, a brood sow should be the fairest of a good litter from a good sow. When she farrows she should be carefui of her pigs, a good nurse, and should have brought a fair number. Clipping the long hair from horses is practiced to add to their appearance and comfort. A sheared horse needs a blan- ket for a while after he has thus been robbed of his coat, if the weather is cold. Corn or corn meal, if fed in large quan- tities, is too fattening for growing stock. Bran and oats are better. Sows which prove profitable should be kept for several years. Not every female hog makes a good mother. The colt should be taught to stay at home. It is a source of annoyance to both man and colt when the colt is allowed to fo1 low the mare four or five miles to town and back. You can easily teach it to stay at home. Probably it is more profitable to breed good draft horses than any other kind. There is always ready sale for them at a good price. Heavy horses require no more time, nor feed, than inferior weights There is a movement among Eastern horsemen to encourage the long jump at faire, instead of the high jump. It would require some new conditions in the way of trackage for starting and lighting. But tbeie will be easy to meet. It is predicted that thirty-six feet, or more, will be attained. 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In this way he reduces his outlay to a minimum and giveB himself an opportu- nity to realize on a variety of products. probably will produce daughters that will make a 20-pound record, or better, in the same time. In selecting my dairy herd I have spent three or four days looking over 200 different cows." Chicken Chatter. Dairymen are becoming more particu- lar in selecting their cows. One says: "When possible I find animals that are able to make a record of 20 pounds of butter, or more, in seven days. They The best perch is flat. Sell your surplus cockerels. Dry feed is best for little chicks. Norrow perches cause deformed birds. Give salt to the poultry, but put it in the mash. See that the chickens have daily some kind of green food. It is the pullets that do the fall and early winter laying. After a rain is the time to scatter lime around the poultry-yards. 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NtWbLL, Pacific Coast Agent, 519 Mission St., San Francisco 12 @Chc gxseZf&c cm& gppx*xrtema*t I September 19, 1908 Xwe Stock Awards—State Fair at Sacramento, 1903. HORSES. CLASS I— THOROUGHBREDS. Best 4-year-old and over stallion— 1, B W Cavanagb, Sacramento, Kavei- ston; 2, Mrs. O. A.'Biaffchi, Sacramento, ^esTii-year-old stallion— W. B. Sink Jr.. Sacramento, The Fog. Best 2-year-old stallion— 1, Mrs. u. A. Bianchi, Inspector Monro; 2 Stanfield & Ellis, Emery viile, AHdrew b. COOK. Best 1-year-old stallion— Mrs. u. A. Bianchi; unnamed. BeBt stallion under 1 year— V MrB. u. A. Bianohi, unnamed; 2, B. W. Cava- nagb, unnamed. ■ " Bast 4-year-old and over mare— 1, Mrs. O. A. Bianchi, Lavena C; 2, B. W. Cav- anagh, Claude T. , Best 2-year-old mare— 1, Mrs. O. A. Bi- anchi, unnamed; 2, P. Davey, San Jose, BeBt 1-year-old mare— 1 and 2, MrB. O. A. Bianchi, unnamed. Best thorouehbred dam and 2 colts- Mrs. O. A Bianchi, Lavena C. and 4 colts. • Best stallion and 5 colts, other than thoroughbreds— Mrs. P. Beckers, Los Angeles, Zombro and 5 colts. Best mare and 2 colts, other than thor- oughbreds—Mrs. E. W. Callendine, Sac- ramento, Abbie Woodnut and 2 colts. CLASS II— STANDARD TROTTERS. Best stallion 4 years old and over— 1, Mrs. P. Beckers, Zombro; 2, S. C. Tryon, Sacramento, Azmoor; 3, Wm. Duncan, Chico, Kentucky Baron. Best atallion 3 years old— MrB. E. W. Callendine, Guy Nut. Best stallion 2 years old— 1, James Coffin, San Francisco, Cassian; 2, S. TJ. Mitchell, Sacramento. Peter J. Best stallion 1 year old— Mrs. E. W. Callendine, Sir Carlton. Best mare 4 years old and over— 1, Mrs. L. H. Tod hunter, Sacramento, Zombroette; 2, Mrs. E. W. Callendine, Abbie Woodnut; 3, same owner, Lady Keating. Best mare 1 year old— 1, Mrs. E. W. Callendine, Lady Cavetta; 2, Mrs. L. H. Tod hunter, Zomatella. -novelty-. CLASS VI Best single horse, rig and equipment — John Breuner Co., Sacramento, Follis and rig. DRAUGHT HORSES. CLASS VI— NORMANS AND PERCHERONS Best stallion 4 years old and over — 1, Clyde Chipman, Covina, Obus; 2, R. W. Hanson, Rio Vista, Esparto; 3, I. Chris- tie, Sacramento, Champion. Best stallion 3 years old — 1, Oakwood Stock Farm, Lathrop, Vanquisher: 2, same owner, Michel; 3, H. S. Pankey, Santa Ana, Keota Remembrance. Best stallion 1 year old — Clyde Chip- man, Romeu. Best mare 4 years old and over — Clyde Chipman, Kalona. Best mare 3 years old — Clyde Chip- man, Alameda. CLASS IX— CLYDESDALES. Best stallion 4 years old and over — C. O. Stanton, Keota, Ja , Raymond. CLASS X— ENGLISH SHIRES. Best stallion 4 years old and over — W. B. Hardman, Volta, Scropton Fashion. CLASS XI — COACH HORSES. Best stallion 4 years old and over — 1, Oakwood Stock Farm, Regent; 2, J. Crouch & Sons, Lafayette, Ind., Azman. CLASS XII— MISCELLANEOUS. BeBt gelding 4 years old and over — 1, Louis Ruff, Marysville, Prince; 2, H. S. Moddison, Broderick, Joe; 3, Mrs. T. B. C. Sielcken, Calistoga, Dandy. Beet gelding 3 years old — 1, H. S. Mod- dison, Ned; 2, H. H. Wilson, Marysville. Joe. Best gelding 1 year old—], H. H. Wil- son, Tom; 2, Louis Ruff, Pete. Best mare 4 years old and over — 1, B. C. Trefry, Sacramento, Pet; 2, Louis Ruff, Dolly; 3, H. H. Wilson, Kate. Best mare 3 years old — 1, H. S. Mod- dison, Jane; 2, H. H. Wilson, Lilly. Best mare 2 years old — 1, A. Bonis, Broderick, Susie; 2, H. S. Moddison, Mascell; 3, same owner, Belle. Best mare 1 year old — A. Ennis, Fanny. Best mare under 1 year — A. Ennis, JeBsie. CLASS XIII— WORK TEAMS. Frank Ruhstaller, Sacramento, span of grays. CLASS XIV— DRAUGHT SWEEPSTAKES Mare and 1 of her colts — A. Ennis, CLASS XV— GRADE DRAUGHTS. Beat mare with colt at side— 1, W. B. Hardman, Volta, Hattie and colt; 2, A. Ennis, May and colt; 3, W. B. Hardman, Queen and colt. Best mare 3 years old— Clyde Chip- man, Nellie. w „ „ d Best mare 2 years old— W. B. Hard- man, Bonita. Best colt foal— 1, A. Ennis, no name; 2, John Abbey, Honcut, Butte. Best team of chunks between 2o00 and 3200—1, Louis Ruff, span of grays; 2, H. H. Wilson, black and gray. CLASS XVI— GRADE COACH. Best brood mare with foal at side — 1, H. H. Wilson, Brigadier and filly; 2, H. S. Maddison, Josie and filly. Best mare or gelding 3 years old and over— 1, H. H. Wilson, Daisy; 2, Louis Ruff, Blaze. Best mare or gelding 2 years old— 1, H. H. Wilson, Collie; 2, Louis Ruff, Queen. Best mare or gelding 1 year old— 1, Louis Ruff, Fanny; 2, H. S. Wilson, DBest colt foal— 1, H. H. Wilson, Marys- ville, no name; 2, H. H. Wilson, Marys- ville, no name. CLASS XVII — NON REGISTERED ROAD- STERS. BeBt brood mare with foal — 1, H. H. Wilson, Queen and colt; 2, H. S. Moddi- son, Pet and colt. Best mare or gelding 3 years old — 1, W. A. Caswell, Sacramento, Light; 2, Mrs. E. W. Bates, Sacramento, Datoura C.; 3, Henry Muller, Stockton, Sister Thorne. . „ ... Best colt foal— 1, H. S. Moddison, no name; 2, H. S. Wilson, no name. CLASS XVIII— SADDLE HORSES. Best saddle horse— Dr. J. T. Cox, Sac- ramento, King John. CLASS XIX— PONIES. Best span Canadian ponies— D. Diers- sen, Sacramento. 1 span of ponies. Best single pony — Jerome Clark, Sac- ramento, one pony. CLASS XX— JACKS AND JENNIES. Best jack 3 years old and over— 1, Louis Ruff, Diamond; 2, H. H. Wilson, Cleveland. Best jack 1 vear old— 1, H. H. Wilson. S. O. B.; 2, Louis Ruff, Dandy. SPECIAL — STALLIONS NOT REGIS- TERED. Best stallion 3 years old and -ever— 1. H. H. Wilson, Nutwood; 2, H. H. Wil- son, Boxwood; 3, R. W. Hanson, Rio Vista, Montezuma. Best stallion under 3 years— 1, Oak- wood Stock Farm, Lathrop, Babe; 2, Oakwood Stock Farm, Lathrop, Patriot; 3, W. B. Hardman, Volta, Babe Scopton. May and 2 colts. CATTLE. CLASS I— SHORTHORNS. (OPEN CLASS) Best bull 3 years and over — 1, Joseph Marzen, Lovelocks, Nev., Blythe Victor; 2, The California Pastoral & Agricul- tural Co. Ltd. Merced, Davenport Duke. Best bull 2 years old — 1, John Sparkt, Reno, Nov., Nonpareil Alamo; 2, Est. Wm. H. Howard, San Francisco, Royal Fashion; 3, Joseph Marzen, Matshall's Combination. Best bull 18 and under 24 months — 1, Est. Wm. H. Howard, Chief of Valley View IV; 2, Est. Wm. H. Howard, King Spicy 38th; 3, J. H. Glide & Son, Sacra- mento, Chief of Valley View V. Best bull 12 and under IS months — 1, Joseph Marzen, Emperor; 2, C. P. & A. Co., Ltd. McCollough; 3, P. H. Murphy & Sons, Perkins, Beaumont VII. Best bull under 12 months — 1, Est. Wm. H. Howard, King Spicy 50th; 2, Est. Wm. H. Howard, King Spicy 53rd; 3, Joseph Marzen, Humboldt Victor 41st. Best cow 3 yearB «ld and over — 1, Joseph Marzen, Amelia B. David SIX: 2, Est. Wm. H. Howard, Ramona X; 3, Est. Wm. H. Howard, Mystery SKIS. Best cow 2 years old— 1, Joseph Mar- zen. Humboldt Rose VII; 2, Est. Wm. H. ' Howard, Dandalion XSVIII; 3, Joseph Marzen, Meadowmaid ~X\ I. Best heifer 18 and under 24 months — 1, C. P. & A. Co. Ltd., Beauty; 2, Est. Wm. H. Howard, Spicy Hopeful II; 3, C. P. & A. Co. Ltd. Wyndhault II. Best heifer 12 and under IS months — 1, Est. Wm. H. Howard. Spicy Hopeful III; 2, P. H. Murphy & Sons, Amethvst: 3, P. H. Murphy & Sons, Bracelet XVI. . Best heifer under 12 months — 1. Est. Wm. H. Howard, Miss Harold SSXII1; 2, Est. Wm.H. Howard, Spicvs Ramona II: 3, Est. Wm. H. Howard, Hopeful LXXVI. Exhibitor's old herd — 1, Joseph Mar- zen, Blythe Victor and 4; 2, Est. Wm. H. Howard, Royal Fashion and 4; 3, C. P. & A. Co. Ltd, Davenport Duke and 4. 1 Breeder's young herd — Est. Wm. H. Howard, Chief Valley View IV and 4; 2, Est Wm. H. Howard, Kiog Spicy XXX and 4; 3, C. P. & A. Co. Ltd. Baron II Get' of sire— 1, Joseph Marzen; 2, Es- tate Wm. H. Howard; 3, C. P. & A. Co. Ltd. __ „ Produce of dam— 1, Est. Wm. H. Howard; 2, Est. Wm. H. Howard; 3, Joseph Marzen. CHAMPIONS. Bull over 3 years — Joseph Marzen, Blythe Victor. Bull 2 years— John Sparks, Nonpareil Alamo. ' > v Bull 1 year old— Est. Wm. H. Howard, Chief of VaUey View IV. . Cows 3 years old and over— Joseph Marzen, Amelia B. David XIX. / Cow 2 years old — Joseph Marzen, Humboldt Rose VII. ~ Cow under 2 yearB — C. P. & A. Co., Ltd., Beauty. CLASS la, SHORTHORNS, (STATE CLASS). Bull 3 years old and over— 1, H. Glide& Son, Sacramento, Nevada Boy XXXIX; 2. C. P. & A. Co., Ltd., Davenport Duke. ' Bull 2 years Old— 1, Estate Wm. H. Howard, Royal Fashion; 2, C. P. & A. Co., Ltd., Kenmore; 3, same owner, Spectator. Bull ISand under 24 months— 1, Estate Wm. H. Howard, Chief of Valley View IV; 2, same owner, King Spicy XXXVIII; 3, J. H. Glide & Son, Chief of Valley View V. Bull 12 and under 18 months — 1, C. P. & A. Co., Ltd., Sexton's Lad; same owner, McCollough; 3, same owner, Young Robert II. Bull under 12 months — 1, Estate Wm. H. Howard, King Spicy L: 2, same owner, King Spicy LIII; 3, P. H. Murphy & Sons, General Lee IV. Cowthreeyearsold and over — 1, Estate Wm. H. Howard, Ramona X; 2, same owner, Mystery XXIS; 3, C. P. & A. Co., Coptic. Cow 2 j ears old — 1, Estate Wm. H. Howard, Dandalion XXVIIi; 2, C P. & A. Co., Ltd., Little Heroine; 3, Estate Wm. H. Howard, Hopeful LXIV. Cow under 18 and 24 months — 1, C. P. & A. Co., Ltd.. Beauty; 2, Estate Wm. H. Howard, Spicy's Hopeful II; 3, C. P. & A. Co., Ltd., Windhault II. Cow under 12 and 18 months — 1, Estate Wm. H. Howard, Spicy's Hopeful III; 2, P. H. Murphy & Sons, Amethyst; 3, same owner. Bracelet XVI. Heifer calf under 12 months—], Estate Wm. H. Howard, Miss Harold XXXIII; 2, same owner, Spicy's Ramona II; 3, same owner, Hopeful LXXVI. Exhibitor's herd— 1, Estate Wm. H. Howard, Royal Fashion and 4; 2, C. P. & A. Co., Ltd., Davenport Duke and 4. Breeder's young herd — 1, Estate Wm. H. Howard, Chief Valley View LV and 4; 2, same owner, King Spicy XXX and 4; 3, C. P. & A. Co., Ltd., Baron II. Get of sire — 1. Estate Wm. H.Howard, King Spicy SXX and 4; 2, C. P. & A. Co., Ltd., Davenport Duke and 4; 3, P. H. Murphy & Sons, Baron Gwynne and 4. Produce of dam — ], Estate Wia. H. Howard, Mystery XXVIII and 2; 2, same owner, Hopeful XLVIII; 3, P. H. Murphy & Sons, Agatha and 2. CLASS VI— HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN. Bull 3 years old and over — ], J. W. CLASS III— HEREFORDS. Bull three years and over — John Sparks, Reno, Nevada, Perfection II. Bull 2 years old — John Sparks, Beau Donald. Bull 18 and under 24 months — 1, John Sparks, Gem Alamo; 2, Joseph Marzen, Lovelocks Nev, Humboldt Duke XXIX. Bull calf 12 and under 18 months — 1, John Sparks, Gallant Alamo: 2. Joseph Marzen, Humboldt Duke XSXII. Bull calf under 12 months — John Sparks, Lee Alamo. Cow 3 years and over — John Sparks, Phoebe Alamo. Cow 2 years old — John Sparks, Lady Hesiod XXXIX. Heifer 18 and under 24 months— John Sparks, Diste Alamo. Heifer ]2 and under 18 months — John Sparks, Dawn Alamo. Heifer calf under 12 months — John Sparks, MisB Perfection. Exhibitor's herd — John Sparks, Per- fection II and 4. Breeder's young herd — John Sparks, Gem Alamo and others. Set of sire — John Sparks, Perfection II and 4. Produceof dam — John Sparks, Phoebe and Louise Alamo. Champion bull 3 years and over — John Sparks, Perfection II. Champion bull 2 years old — John Sparks, Gem Alamo. Champion bull 2 years old — John Sparks, Beau Donald XLI. Champion cow three years old and over — John Sparks, Phoebe Alamo. Champion cow 2 years old — John Sparks, Lady Hesiod XXXIX. Champion heifer under 2 years — John Sparks, Miss Perfection. Rea, San Jose, Brigadier of La Siesta; 2, Mrs. M. E. Gubhay, San Jose, Mich- thildus of La Siesta. Bull 2 years old— 1, Gubbay, The ArigeluB; 2, Rea, Cossack of La Siesta. Bull 1 year old — 1, Rea, Prince Merce- des Julip Pieterteje; 2, Gubbay, Loyal Knight of La Siesta. Bull calf 6 months and under 1 year — 1, Rea, unnamed; 2, Gubbay, Earl de Kol of La Siesta. Bull calf under 6 months — 1, Gubbay, unnamed; 2, Rea, unnamed. Cow 3 years and over — 1, Gubbay, Gaiety of La Siesta; 2, Rea, Cream Pot. Cow 2 vears old — 1, Rea, Vendome; 2, Gubbay, Hight Yulah VII. Heifer 1 year old — 1, Rea, Midnight de Kol; 2, Gubbay, Lill de Kol. Heifer calf 6 months and under 1 year — 1, Rea, unnamed; 2, Gubbay, unnamed. Heifer calf under 6 months — 1, Gubbay, unnamed; 2, Rea, unnamed. Exhibitor's herd— 1, Gubbay, Mich- thildus of L. S. and 4; 2, Rea, Brigadier and 4. Breeder's young herd — 1, Gubbay, Earl de Kol of L. S. and 4; 2, Rea, Prince Mercedes Pletertje and 4. Get of sire— 1, Mrs. M. E. Gubbay; 2, J. W. Rea. Produce of dam — 1, J. W. Rea; 2, Mrs. M. E. Gubbay. Champion bull over 3 years — James W. Rea, Brigadier of La SieBta. Champion bull 2 years old — Mrs. M. E. Gubbay, The Angelus. Champion bull under 2 years — James W. Rea, Mercedes Julip Pietertje. Champion cow 3 years old and over- Mrs. M. E. Gubbay, Gaiety of La Siesta. Champion cow 2 years old — James W. Rea, Cleopatra Vendome. Champion cow under 2 years — James W. Rea, Midnight de Kol. CLASS VII— JERSEYS. Bull 3 years old and over — 1, James Horsburg, San Francisco, Prince of Santa Ysabel;2, Alex Chisholm, Jacinto, Lord Marigold. Bull ] year old — 1, Alex Chisholm, Cocinino; 2, Thomas Waite, Perkins, Ciayboy. Bull calf over 6 and under 12 months — Alex Chisholm, Sunny Jim Marigold. Bull calf under 6 months — Alex Chis- holm, Geronimo Marigold. Cow 3 years old and over — 1, Alex . Chisholm, Dot's Violet W.; 2, Thomas Waite, Race W.; 3, Thomas. Waite, Little Lucy. Cow 2 years old — Thomas Waite, Beauty W. Cow 1 year old — 1, Alex Chisholm, Violet Dot Pedro; 2 same owner,. Bertha's Queen Marigold; 3, same owner, Beauty Marigold. Calf 6 and under 12 months — Alex. Chisholm, Lulu Marigold. Calf under 6 months — 1, Alex Chis- holm, Chico Marigold; 2, Thomas Waite, Lillian W.; 3, same owner, unnamed. Breeder's herd — Alex Chisholm, Sunny Jim Marigold and 4. Get of sire — Alex Chisholm. Produceof dam— 1, Alex Chiaholm; 2, Thomas Waite; 3, same owner. Champion bull 3 years old and over — James Horsburgh, San Fjamcisco, Santa Ysabel. Champion bull under 2 years — Alex ChiBholm, Sunny Jim Marigold. Champion cow 3 years old — Alex Chis- holm, Dot's Violet W. Champion cow under 2 years old—-' Alex Chisholm, Violet's Dot Pedro. CLASS VIII — AYRSHIRES. Best cow three years old and over — George Bement, Melrose, Libby B. Champion cow three years old and over — George Bement, Libby B. CLASS XI — GRAND SWEEPSTAKES. BEEF BREEDS. Aged herd — 1, John Sparks, Reno, I Nev., Perfection III and 4; 2, Joseph Marzen, Lovelocks, Nev., Blythe Victor and 4. Young herd — 1, John Sparks, Gem Alano and 4; 2, Estate of Wm. H. How- ard, San Francisco, King Spicy and 4. CLASS XII-^GRAND SWEEPSTAKES. DAIRY BREEDS. Aged herd— 1, Mrs. M. E. Gubbay, San Jose, Michthildus of La Siesta and 4; 2, James W. Rea, San Jose, Brigadier of Vendome and 4. Young herd — 1, Alex Chisholm, Sunny Jim Marigold and 4; 2. James W. Rea, Prince Mei cedes Julip Pietertje and 4. SHEEP. CLASS II- -FRENCH MERINO. old and over — J. H. Ram 2 years Glide & Son, Ram No. 193. Ram 1 year old— J. H. Glide & Son, Glide's Choice. September 19, 1903] t&he gveebev emir gi^rotrtemau 18 Ewe 2 years old and over— J. H. Glide z Sod, no name. CLASS III— SOUTHDOWNS. Ram 2 years old and over— Thomas iVaite. unnamed. Ram 1 year old— 1, Geo. Bement, Ladd, Jo. 136; 2, C. C. Perkins, Sacramento, ;alifornia Boy. Ram under 1 year— 1, Thos. Waite, ret. Tryon; 2, George Bement, No. 24; Thos. Waite, Master Joe. ' Ewe 2 years old— 1, George Bement, Jo. 18; 2, Thos. Waite, Nina I.; 3, Geo. Semen t, No. 26. Ewe 1 year old— 1, George Bement, 3weNo. 19; 2, Thomas Waite, Nillie II; !, same owner, Nillie 1. Ewe under 1 year— 1 Thomas Waite, losa I.; 2, George Bement, Ewe No. a,. Flock— 1, Thomas Waite, Oregon Boy ,nd 4 ewes; 2, George Bement, Ladd No. 38 and 4 ewes. Pen of 4 lambs— Thomas Waite, One 'eRam of any age— Thomas Waite, 3 Ewe'of any age— George Bement, Ewe ■Jo. M. CLASS IV SHROPSHIRE. Ram 2 years old and over— J. H. Glide I Son, unnamed. CLASS V— HAMPSHIRE DOWNS. Ram 2 years old and over— J. H. Glide it Son, Spartan. Ram 1 year old— J. H. Glide & Son. CLASS VI— PERSIAN. Ram 2 years old— C. P. Bailey, San °Ram 1 year old— C. P. Bailey. Ram under I year— C. P. Bailey. Ewe 2 years old— C. P. Bailey. Ewe 1 year old— C. P. Bailey. Ewe under 1 year— C. P. Bailey. Flock— C. P. Bailey. Pen of 4 lambs— C. P. Bailey. Ram of any age— C. P. Bailey. Ewe of any age— C. P. Bailey. CLASS XIV— ANGORA GOATS. Buck 2 years and over — 1, C. P. Bailey' 2. C. E. Bailey, San Jose. Buck 1 year old— 1, C. P. Bailey; 2, 2. E. Bailev. Buck under 1 year— 1, C. P. Bailey; 2, D. E. Bailey. Doe 2 years and over— 1, C. P. Bailey; 2, C. E. Bailey. Doe 1 year old— 1, C. P. Bailey, 2, C. E. Bailey. Doe under 1 year— 1, C. P. Bailey; 2, C. E. Bailey. SWINE. CLASS I— BERKSHIRE. Boar 2 years and over— 1, C. W. Reed, 3an Francisco, Rio Bonita Prince; 2, Thomas Waite, Perkins, Baron Victor; 5, C. C. Perkins, Sacramento, unnamed. Boar 1 year old— 1, C. W. Reed, White Lug; 2, C. C. Perkins.Faahion Prince;-3, same owner, Fashion Imperial. Boar under 1 year and over6 months — 1, W. C. Murphy & Bro., Perkins, Prince of PerkTns;""2-,_erG. "Perkins, Fashion Duke; 3, same owner, Emerald Fashion. Boar under 6 months— 1, C. U. Perkins, unnamed; 2, same owner, unnamed; 3, same owner, unnamed. Sow 2 years and over— 1, C. C. Per- kinB, Sacramento Queen; 2, Thomas Waite, Lady W. ; 3, C. C. Perkins, Moline Sow 1 year old— 1, C. C. Perkins, Belle; 2, C. W. Reed, Peg Wofnngton; 3, C. C. Perkins, Fashion Princess. Sow 6 months and under 1 year — 1, C. C. Perkins, Fashion Duchess; 2, same owner, Fashion Heiress; 3, W. C Murphy & Cro., Bella Perkins. Sow under 6 months— C. C. Perkins, unnamed. Produce of dam— 1, W. C. Murphy & Bro., Perkins Farm and progeny; 2, C. \V. Reed, Sans Souci and progeny; 3, Thomas Waite, Lady Gentry and progeny. Get of sire— 1, C. W. Reed, Rio Bonita Prince's 4 pigs; 2, C. C. Perkins, Hielier Oxford's 4 pigs. Boar and 4 of his get under 1 year — 1, C. C. Perkins, Hielier Oxford and 4 pigs; 2, Thomas Waite, Baron Victor and 4 pigs. Champion boar of any age — 1, C. W. Reed, Rio Bonita Prince; 2, same owner, White Lug. Champion sow of any age — 1, C. W. Reed, Bracegirdle; 2, W. C. Murphy & Bro., Bella Perkins. CLASS II, ESSEX. Boar 2 years old and over — Geo. Bement, Melrose, Ohio Major. Boar 1 year old — Geo. Bement, Eureka Chief. Boar under 6 months — Geo. Bement Jeffries. Sow 2 years old and over — Geo Bement, Black Patti. Sowlyearold — Geo. Bement, Tremer's Jim. Sow 6 months and under 1 year — Geo. Bement, Black Diamond. Sow under 6 months — Geo. Bement, Hazel. Boar and 4 of his get under 1 year — Geo. Bement, Ohio Major and 4 pigs. .Champion boaranyage — Geo. Bement, Ohio Major. Champion sow auy age — Geo. Bement, Black Patti. CLASS III, POLAND CHINA. Boar 2 years old and over — 1, W. R. McCaslin, Cosumnes, Chief Guy; 2. Clark & BiBhop, Kingsburg, O. K. I Know. Boar 1 year old — 1, Clark & Bishop, Black Hawk; 2, Clark & Bishop, Eureka; 3, P. H. Murphy & Sons, Sunshine I Know. Boar 6 months and under 1 year — 1, Clark & Bishop, O. K. Boy; 2, P. H. Murphy & Sons, Chief Wilks; 3. Clark & Bishop, Ringtail. Boar under 6 months — rl, W. R. Mc- Caslin, unnamed; 2, Clark & Bishop, Black 0. K ; 3, P. H. Murphy & Sons, unnamed Sow 2 years and over — 1, Clark & Bishop, Blackhawk Tip; 2, W. R. Mc- Caslin,. Midnight; 3, same owner, Black Maud. Sow 1 year old — 1, Clark & Bishop, Blackhawk Prize; 2, same owner,;Black I Am; 3, W. R. McCaslin. Fedora. Sow six months and under 1 vear — 1, W. R. McCaslin, Darkness; 2, Clark & Bishop, O. K. Lady; 3, same owner, Beauty. Sow under 6 monthB— 1, W. R. Mc- Caslin, unnamed; 2, Clark & Bishop, un- named; 3, P. H. Murphy & Sons, Lady I Know. Produceof sow — P. H. Murphy & Sons, Lady Ideal and pigs. Get of sire— 1, W. R. McCaslin, Chief Guy and 4 pigs. Boar and 4 of his get under 1 year — 1, Clark & Bishop, 4 and 4 pigs; 2, P. H. Murphy, Sunshine I Know and 4 pigs; 3, Clark & Bishop, O. K. I Know and 4 pigs. Champion boar any age — 1, W. R. Mc- Caslin, Chief Guy; 2, Clark & Bishop, Blackhawk. Champion sow any age — 1, Clark & Bishop, Blackhawk Prize; 2, W. R. Mc- Caslin, Midnight. CLASS VII— OHIO IMPROVED CHESTER. Boar 1 year old — Alex Gordon, Hiieneme, Onward. Boar 6 months and under 1 year — Alex Gordon, Duke. Boar under 6 months — Alex Gordon, unnamed. Sow 2 years old and over — Alex Gor- don, Jane. Sow 1 year old — Alex Gordon, Bess. Sow 6 months and under 1 year — Alex Gordon, unnamed. Sow under 6 months — Alex Gordon, unnamed. Best boar and 4 pigs under 1 year — Alex Gordon, unnamed. Champion boarany age — Alex Gordon Onward. Champion sow any age — Alex Gordon, Jane. • In making butter for market arrange it so that the customer will have the original package. Pound packages sell more easily than butter put up in bulk Sober up on Jackson's Napa Soda. Horses allowed to stand in wet stables will probably be troubled with soft hoofs. If the stable is kept dry there is uaually little trouble from this cause. Hunt and Fish ALONG THS LINE OF THE Books and Pictures ABOUT California Mountain, Valleys, Canyons, Lakes and Seaside and Vacation Places. Shall It Be A Camp In the Forest A Mountain Lake A Good Hotel and Trout for Breakfast or A Seaside Resort and Clam Chowder for Dinner The Publications of the Southern Pacific Cover all Desirable Places and answer question*, of Distance, Accommodations, Expense, Fares, Route, etc. Nothing Left to the Imagination. Inquire at INFORMATION BUREAU 613 MARKET STREET (LESSEE OF TTTE S. F. & N. P. R. R.) Best Hunting and Fishing in tbe State Numerous and Popular Resorts Hot and Gold Mineral Springs HEALTH PLEASURE RECREATION Pine Camping Grounds on Beautiful Streams i I Beat Section In California for Fruit and Breeding Farms The route to San Rafael, Petaluma, Santa Rosa TJklah, and the Famous Pleasure and Health Resorts in Lake County. Saturday to Monday round-trip tickets at reduced rates. Ticket Offices— 650 Market Street, Chronicle Building, and Tiburon Ferry. R. X. RTAN, Gen. Pass. Agt. NEW MODEL THE BEST IN THE WORLD. O'BRIEN & SONS Cor. Golden Gate Ave. and Polk St. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL THE BEST PLAGE! THE BEST TRACK! THE BIGGEST MEETING! LOS ANGELES RACING ASSOCIATION LiOS ANGELES Three Weeks' Racing. OCTOBER 10 to 31, inclusive. ESntries Close September 19, 1903. Los Angeles Derby. ■,£•,; Jonathan Club Stakes. ADDED. For Three -year-olds. Entrance $10: 850 addi- to start. $500 added, of which $7& to second and $50 to third. Colts to carry 122 lbs ; geldings, 119 lbs.; Allies. 117 lbs. Winners in 1903, of a stake or tbe value of $1100, to carry 3 lbs ; of two such or one of $3000, 5 lbs. extra. Non-winners of a stakes in 1903 allowed 5 lbs: non-winners of a race of $500 in 1903. 8 lbs. Non-winners of a race of $400 in 1903. 10 lbs- Maidens 17 lbs. Allowances not accumulative. One mile and a quarter 8400 ADDED For Two •year-olds. Entrance $5; S2o addi- tional to start. 8400 added, of which $60 to second and $40 to third. Winners of a stake ot the value of $1000 to carry 3 lbs.: of two of any value, 5 lbs extra Non- winners of a stake allowed 3 lbs ; and if such have not won three races. 5 lbs; two races, 8 lbs. Maidens, 15 lbs. Five and » hftlt furlongs THp rtiancW (spllinn- ^tatVpC *400 ADDED For Three-year-olds and upward IDC L>ndnS10r OClling oldKCa. Entrance $5: $25 additional to start. $100 added, of which $60 to second and $40 to third The winner to be sold at auction. Those entered to be sold for 81800 to carry weight forage. Allowances: lib for each$l00 to $1000; then 2 lbs. for each $100 to $30d Winners of a race of the value of $900, or of two races other than selling purses after the closing of this stakes not to be entered for less than $800. Starters to be named with selling price, through the entry box the day preceding the race, at the usual time of closing. Seven furlongs The Mott Handicap. Trip PflsaHpria ^fakpc »*00 ADDED. For all ages. Entrance $5; $25 additional to 1 uc raaauciia otarves. startK $400 added, of which $60 to second and $40 to third. Two- year-olds to carry 100 lbs , three-year-olds, 115 lbs ; four-year-olds and upward, 120 lbs Non-winners of a race of $500 in value this year allowed -5. _lbs; or $300, S lbs. Maidens, 12 lbs. Allowanoesnot accumulative. Six furlonja 8400 ADDED. For three-year-olds and upward. Entrance $5; $25 additional to start $400 added, of which $60 to second and *40 to third. Weights to be announced at 10 a. m. the day before the race Winnersof other than a selling purse race after the announcement of the weights to carry 5 lbs extra. One tulle and m, sixteenth Thp I nno- Rpnrh HandlYfln •40° ADDED- For »» »*<*- Entrance $5; $25 ad- 1 UC LUIIg DCdLll liailUU.au. ditional to start. *400 added, of which $80 to second and $40 to third. Weights to be announced at 10 a. m. the day before the race. Winners of other than a selling purse race after the announcement of the weights to carry 5 lbs extra. Six forloogB TUp Canta Anita HanHiran S400 ADDED. For three-years-old and upward I I1C oailia t\Ulia liailUliau. Entrance $5; $25 additional to start. $400 added. Weights to be announced two days before the race. Winners of other than a selling purse race after the announcement of tbe weights to carry 5 lbs. extra. One mile »od a f orlong Overnight Handicaps and Special Races to Suit All Classes of Horses. Seed all communications to J. W. BROOKS, President. CAPT. THOS. B. MERRY, Secretary, BOOM «06 BRADBURY BUILDING, LOS ANGELES. CAL. m ®ke gveebev cmii f&pavt&man I September it, l»u, THE BAYWOOD STUD THE BUNGALOW, SAN MATEO, CAL (Property of John Pabeott, Esq.) Devoted Exclusively to the Breeding and Training of aigh Stepping Hackney-Bred Harness Horses WAIiTEK SEALT, Manager. S The King of Race Horses I m m SEARCHLIGHT » Bes. No. 33657. Will Make a Fall Season FROM AUG. 1 TO OCT. 1, 1903, AT PLEASANTON RACE TRACK. TERMS, $50 For further particulars address ED. MILLS, Pleasanton, Cal. i'i ?♦* f I • *#? I m SEE OUR POWER M GROOMING jt & CLIPPING Jgk MACHINE MM IN OPERATION, ISL Our 2=Minute 1 Jff " HARNESS \W Is the Best. ~ CALL AND SEE IT JEPSEN BROS CO. (INC.) ESTABLISHED THIRTY YEARS. 1145-1147 Market St. San Francisco CLEARING OUT SALES TUESDAY, SEPT. 29, 1903, AT 7145 P. M., BY ELECTRIC LIGHT At Fred. H. Chase & Co.'s Salesyard, 1732 Market Street, San Francisco. THE MEEK ESTATE, HAYWARDS, CAL.., will sell all the Standard-bred Horses belonging to the Estate, comprising 35 head. There are Fillies, Mares and Geldings— 3, 4, 5 and 6 years old— by McKinney, Nutwood Wilkes. Welcome and William Harold, nearly all well broken to drive and all halter broken and gentle. The mares have colts at foot by William Harold Z:tSH and Welcome 2:10& and have been bred back. Among them are the dam and a full sister to Janice 2:08V£, a sister to Cricket 2: to and many other highly bred ones. A fine lot of Shetland Ponies will also be sold to close out the horses belonging to the Estate. OF HON. JESSE D. CARR will, at this time, close out all its Trotting-bred Horses. Th=re are 25 head of Yearlings, Two-year-olds and Three-year-olds,; also a few highly bred Mares and Geldings: Also the grand young Stallion BOODLE Jr. ty Boodle out of Nina B. by Electioneer. He is one of the greatest young stock horses in California. The young stock is by Boodle Jr., Nutwood Wilkes and other good sires. THE SALE IS POSITIVE AND WITHOUT RESERVE. GABILAN STOCK FARM -Send for Catalogues. FRED. H. CHASE & CO. 1732 Market Street, San Francisco. BUSINESS COLLEGE 24 Post Street, San Francisco, Cal. The oldest, the largest, the most popular com- mercial =ohool on the Pacific Coast. 20,000 gradu- ates; 90 teachers: 70 typewriters; over 300 students annually placed In positions. Send for catalogue. E. P. HEALD, President. budd doble, scott hudson Monroe Salisbury, Ed Geers, Doc Tanner, Millard Sanders and M. E. McHenry 2=oz Bottles, 50c; 6=oz size, $1.00; Quart cans, $3.00. All Druggists and Harness Dealers, or VITA OIL CO., 1533 Buchanan St., San Francisco. J. A. McKerron and J. O'Kane, Agts f PALACE HOTEL, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA. 3 TOURISTS and TRAVELERS will, now, with difficulty recognize the famous COURT into which for twenty-five years carriages have driven. This space of over a quarter of an acre has recently, by the addition of very handsome furniture, rugs, chandeliers and tropical plants, been converted into a lounging room— the FINEST IN THE WORLD. The EMPIRE PARLOR— the PALM ROOM, furnished in Cerise, with Billiard and Pool tables for the ladies— the LOUIS XV PARLOR the LADIES WRITING ROOM and numerous other modern improvements, together with the unexcelled Cuisine and the Most Convenient Location in the City— all add much to the ever increasing popularity of this most famous HOTEL. .fr^ToTeTQTo?*?^^^ QUINNS OINTMENT! FOR HORSES stands at the head of all veterinary remedies. Such troubles I as Spavins, Curbs, "Windpuffs, Splints, Bunches have no| terrors for a horse if the master keeps and applies Qu-inn's Ointment. All \ well known horsemen speak of it in the highest terms : Miller & Sibley of Franklin, Pa., owners of St. Bel, brother of late Bel Boy, write, "We have nsedQainn's Ointment with great snccess and believe it fulfills all claimed for it. We cheer- folly recommend it to oar friends." For Curbs, Splints, Spavins or Bnnches it has no equal. Price $1.00 per package. Sold by all druggists, or sent by mail. STS^H ^ W. e. EDDY A CO,, WHITEHALL, N. Y. ' \\\\w } Pedigrees Tabulated T£S^£r£Z£?!Z Sportsman, U Ge»ry (tract, S»c Franoieco, C*l. JH September 19, 19081 (&he gveeitev tmfc grjwrtssmcm 15 BALLISTITF The Standard Dense Powder of the World. ^^^™ 1901— Wins Second in Grand American Handtoap at Targets. 1903— Wins First in Grand American Handicap at Targets. 1903— Wins during Grand American Handicap week at Kansas City. First Amateur Average in Regular Events. Third General Average in Regular Events ALL OF ABOVE ARE AMATEUR RECORDS. Take No One's Word. Try It for Yourself. 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We placed it on the market relying wholly on its merit for success, and notwithstanding the faot that comparatively little has been done in the way of advertising the salesof 1600 were 100 per cent great- er than the aggregate sales of Gall Cure preceding that year. This increase was entirely due to its MERITS, and from it we feel justified in saying that It is THE GALL CURE OF THE 20TH CENTU RY It is a quick and sure cure for those troublesome skin oracks under the fe ^ck v oi eh Injure and often lay up race horses. ; All Trainers Should Have It lo Their Stables FRIGE:— 3 OZ. BOX, 25c; 1 LB. BOX, ¥1.00. Read our "ad." on Campbell's Horse Foot Remedy in next issue of this paper. JAS. B. CAMPBELL & CO., Mfrs.,412 W. Madison St., Chicago, III. FT E. 1ST C .JWKTjCOAST] WIRE-fe iRONWORKS VETERINARY. DR. C. MASOERO VETERINARY SURQEON Graduate of Royal Veterinary College of Turin, Infirmary and Residence— 811 Howard St.: between Fourth and Fifth Sts. , San Franclsoo. Telephone: Main 457. Ira Barker Balziel VETERINARY DENTIST Fancy Carriage, Saddle and Roa<< Horses for Sale Office and stable: 605 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, Cal. Telephone South 651. Dxr. Wm, F. Sgau. M. R. C. V. S., F. E. T. M. S. VETERINARY SURGEON. Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, England; Fellow of the Edlnburg Veterinary Medical Society; Graduate of the New Veterinary College Edinburgh; Veterinary Sur- geon to the S. F. Fire Department; Live Stock inspector forNew Zealand and Australian Colonies at the port of San Francisco; Professor of Equine Medicine, Veterinary Surgery, Veterinary Depart- ment University of California; Es-Presldent m the California State Veterinary Medical Associa- tion; Veterinary Infirmary, Residence and Office, San Francisco Veterinary Hospital. 1117 Golden Gate Avenue, near Webster St., San Francisco: Telephone West 128. BREEDERS' DIRECTORY. HOLSTEINS— Winners of every 7 days' butter contest at State Fair 1899 1st & 3d for aged cows, 4-yr., 3-yr. and 2-yr.-olds; 21 Jerseys and Durhams competing. 5th year my Holstefns have beaten Jerseya for butter. Stock for sale; also pigs. F H. Burke, 80 Montgomery St., S. F. JERSEYS, HOLSTEINS AND DURRAMH. Dairy Stock specially. Hogs, Poultry. Estab- lished 187S. William Niles &, Co.. Los Angeles Cal. AYRSHIRE*— Young Bulls, Cows and Heifers Kaciatared. From prize winning families. Brown • Brandon Potaluma Cal. ROSE HOTEL PLEASANTON, CAL. "Enlarged, Rebuilt. Twenty-five New Rooms Newly Furnished. Electric Lights, Running Water. Up to date. A. S. OLNEY & SON Proprietors FOR SALE. rpHE PACING MARE 8WANHILDA. Sh( J- a handsome bay, coming seven years old, a natural pacer and with but little track work can pace a mile below 2:20 with ease. Gentle and kind and has been driven by ladies to buggy. She is a fine roadster and with proper training will make a great race mare. For pedigree and further particulars address W. L. MCDONALD, Concord, Cal. BLAKE, MOFFITT & TOWNE -DEALERS IN- 55-57-59-61 First Street, S. F. Tmlxphoni Main 190 ABSORBINE, JR., Will Remove And Cure a Asjf&L Weeping Sinew '^r' or Gangloin Quickly. Cures any strain of the liga- ments or muscles. Proof if you want it, $1.00 per bottle delivered. MASnjFACTUBED BY W. F. YOUNG, P. D. F-, SPRINGFIELD, - • MAS*. For sale by Mack A Co., Langley & Mlohaali Co Redlngton & Co., J. O'Kane, and J. A. McKerron all of San Francisco. Chronic Bronchitis and Catarrh of the Bladder Cored In 48 Hoars. SrvNty CAPSULES Afloat fimpsrlor to Copaiba, Cobefafl or InjMttM DOG IS POSITIVE IN THE PRESENCE OF SERGEANT'S CONDITION PILLS. Lustrous eyes, keen appetite, strength and ambition all reclaimed by this ■world renowned dog remedy. For torpid liver it is unexcelled. As a general tonic supreme. Mange, Distemper, Chills, Fever and General Debility posi- tively cured by it, and for every sickness to which a dog is subject these pills are administered in preference to any other medicine. 60c. and f 1.00, postpaid. SERGEANT'S SURE SHOT emancipates the canine from worms and may be depended upon. 60c by mail. All remedies bearing our stamp are Standard the World Over. An order or 3c. in stamps will bring to your desk free our Revised Dog Treatise and a Pedigree Blank. "Sergeant's Dog Remedies" for sale by all Druggists and Sporting Goods Dealers. F. W. BRAUN ft CO., Los Angeles, Cal., Pacific Coast Supply Depot SPRATTS PATENT. DOG CAKES REMEDIES SOAP. NEWARK, N. J, Send for free copy of "DOG CULTURE." ST. LOUIS, MO. Pacific Coast Branch— 1334- Valencia Street, San Francisco. Agents for "SANITAS" Disinfectant. KENNEL ADVERTISEMENTS. OOLLIES. The BEACH HILL Kennels 955 First St. San Jose CHAMPION HANOVER MONARCH (A. K. C. S. B. 5998) by the great sire Ch- Ellwyn Astrologer from Ch. Old Hall Moon- Fee 815, Pictures and Pedigree upon applica- tion. High-class Puppies for sale. AT STUD FOR SALE. rrO MAKE ROOM FOR PUPPIES COMING •*- in from walk, a draft of SMOOTH Fox Terriers DOGS AND BITCHES. For prices and particulars apply Wandee Kennels 25th Ave. near Lake St. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS Advertisements under this head one cent per word per insertion. Cash to accompany order. COCEER SPANIELS. FOR SALE. BROKEN DOGS Pointers and Setters 'pWO CHOICE COCKER BROOD BITCHES, -t also puppies, by Ch. Dufferin Pastime, for sale. Address, or call, C. F. CHARLES, 3917 Sacra- mento Street, San Francisco. A T STUD UNTIL SOLD — DELVERTON ■"- CAPPI (Ch. Hampton Promise-Undine), win ner at San Franoisco and Oakland shows. Ad* dress C. DU JARDIN. 204 Castro, San Francisco" Ni W. B. COUTTS, Kenwood, Sonoma Co., Cal. AIROD KENNELS— 132 NINTH AVENUE, near California. Champion bred Cooker Spaniels at stud and for sale. FOR SALE— COOKER SPANIEL PUPPIES by Ch. Hampton Goldie. Apply at junction old county and Redwood roads, Frnftvale, Alameda Wandee Kennels' Fox Terriers. WANDEE BLIZZARD, formerly Lithian Bliz- zard (Blizzard-Pop). Fee 820 WANDEE JESTER (Norfolk Velooity-Norfolk Two Step). Fee 810 Puppies and Brood Bitches for sale. Dogs shown by appointment only. Addreas WANDEE KENNELS, 844 Harrison St., San Francisco Cal. At Stud. SMOOTH FOX TERRIER Norfolk Trueman pOA MA Sire of Gareton Prefect (1st puppy. rCC 4>LV. reserve winners, Oakland, I902»: Imelda (winners and special for beBt, S. F., 1902) Isabelle, etc. „ __„ „ N. H. HICKMAN, 1767 Page St., San Franolsco. AT STUD CUBA OF- KENWOOD (Qlenbelgh Jr.-Stella) SAM'S BOW (Plain Sam-Dolly Dee II) STOGKDALE KENNELS K. M. DODOE, Manager, Bakemfleld, Kern Co., Boarding. Pointer Puppies and well-broken Dogs for sale- ENGLISH SETTERS. May 2; black, white and tan; dam, Lads Sweetheart (Count Danstone— Speckle Lady); sire, Victor L Gladstone (Champion Gladstone Boy— Juno): high altitude for developing lungs; should make champions; shipped on approval. Write for pedigrees DIAMOND KENNELS, Bos 205, Butte, Mont. IRISH AND SCOTCH TERRIERS. TRISH AND SCOTCH TERRIER PUPPIES ■*- at $12 and $15. Sired by Champion Loyne Ruffian and Champion Fighting Mao. Mrs. BRADLEY-DYNE. Saturna P. O , B. O. ST. BERNARDS. 131 Ninth Avenue, near California— offer for sale the celebrated St- Bernard, LE KING (Champion Le Prince-Sylvia's Lola). At Stud— Cnamplon GRAND MASTER II, admittedly the grandest headed St. Bernard on the Coast. Fee t25. COLLIES. pOLLIE PUPS FOR SALE-BY PRIZE ^ winning imported sirea and dams, fit for bench, ranchorfarm Bothsexea. Pricesaooord- Ing to quality. Correspondence solicited; all let- ters cheerfully answered. THOS. S. GRIFFITH, Bos 1907, Spokane, Wash. PEDIGREES TABULATED And type written Ready for framing. 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SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1903. SCBSCBIFTION THREE DOLLARS A TEAR 2 ©hi? gveeitvc axiii grpturtsman [September 26, 1803 ABSOLUTE DISPERSAL OF THE WORLD FAMOUS BELLE MEADE STUD TO CLOSE ESTATES OF THE LATE Gen. W. H. JACKSON and W. H. JACKSON Jr. FASIG-TIPTON CO.'S SALE PADDOCKS SHEEPSHEAD BAY, NEW YORK Beginning: Each Day at 12 Noon. WILLIAM EASTON, Auctioneer. Stallions. Mont d'Or, b. b... 1895, by imp. Rayon d'Or-Mount Vernon by imp. Uhlan. The Commoner, eh. h., 1892, by Hanover-Margerine by Algerine. Loyalist, (imp.) b. h., 1SS5, by Sterling-Casuistry by The Miner. Huron, br. h., 1889, by Iroquois-Brunette by imp. Bonnie Scotland. Inspector B.. b. h., ISs;, by Enquirer-Colossa by Colossus. Brood Mares. Ada B., chm, IStsS (dam of Van Ness and Lelia Barr and sister lo the dam of Ascension, .ve). by Himyar-Adonia by imp. The Ill-Used;' imp. Adosinda by Beadsman. Bred to imp Loyalist. A r ml el, b ra, 1887 (dam of the stake winners Rodermond and Armament, &c), by Bramble-Amerlque by imp. Glengarry: Arizona by Lexington. Bred to The Commoner. All Mine, b m, 1*99 (half sister to the stake, winners Gotham and Geisha I. by Longstreet-Trade Wind by imp. Great Tom; Sue Wynnt "oy Vandal. Bred to Inspector B. Augusta III, b m, 1891 (sister to Kennel and Beckon), by Bishop-KennebecU by imp. Glengarry; Kathleen, dam of George Kinney. Bced to Inspector B. Ailene, b m, 1883 (dam of five winners), by imp. Highlander-Atblene by Pat Malloy. Bred to Huron. Al Lone, b m, 1891 (a frequent winner), by imp Albert-Fronie Louise by imp. Glengarry. Bred to Inspector B. Annie Lauretta, br m, 1895 (a frequent winner), by Emperor-Sif by imp. Pizarro; Susan Ann, dam of Thora. Not bred. Balance All II, b m. 1S99 (a stake winner), by Luke Blackburn-Ailene by imp. Highlander. Bred to Inspector B. Beulah F„ ch m, 1835, by Bramble-Longa light by Longfellow; Skyligbt by Jack Malone. Bred to The Commoner. Clara Bauer, b m, 1831 (a stake winner), by Blazas-Bettie Prince by imp. Glengarry: Sally Polk by imp. Glenelg. Bred to Huron. Cantolet. ch m, 1885 (dam of four winners), by imp. Kantaka-Springlet by imp. Australian. Bred to imp. Loyalist. Dumpling;, ch m, 1895 (dam of Emalhion), by imp. Great Tom-Blue Dress by Enquirer; Bribery by imp. Bonnie Scotland- Bred to Inspector B. Endurance, br m, 1887 (dam of the stake winner Plucky, &c), by Enquirer- Ana lyne by Jack Malone- Bred to imp Loyalist Euphrasia, b m, 1895, by imp. Great Tom-Eridurance by Enquirer. Bred to The Commoner. Enamel, b m, TS57 (dam of Joe Martin and Irene), by Enquirer-Lucy C. by Luke Blackburn: Hattie B by imp. Glengarry. Bred to imp. Loyalist. Florence E, br m, 1882 (a stake winner and dam of the stake winner Floronso &c), by Reform- Emily Faller by imp Eclipse Bred" to The Commoner. Fanny Elisler, b m. 1892 (half sister to Sir Walter), by imp. Sir Modred-La Scala by Joe Hooker: Abbey by Norfolk. Bred to Inspector B. Flexible, ch m, 1891 (a winner and half sister to Clorita, &c). by imp. Great Tom-Lythe (sister to Egmont) by Enquirer. Bred to imp Loyalist. Uuildeana. ch m, 1897 (half sister to Ben Harrison and from the family of Advance Guard, 48 wins), by imp, Great Tom-Guildean by Ballinkeel. Bred to The Commoner. Great Annie, cbm 1892 (dam of Tammanv Chief i, by imp Great Tom- Annie C by Foster. From the family of Irish Lad, Advance Guard. &c. Bred to The Commoner. Grade J., oh m, 1887 (dam of the frequent winner Corialis), by imp. Great Tom-Alaska by Hiawatha. Bred to The Commoner. Highland Lassie, b m, 1883 (dam of American Lady. Cnickamauga. &c), by imp. Highlander^ Algeria by Abd-el-Kader. Family of Ballyhoo Be*; Meadowthorpe, ic. Bred to imp. Loyalist. Inspectress, b m, 1887 (dam of Approved and sister to Inspector B., &c), by Enquirer-Colossa by Colossus Bred to Huron Irony, br m, 188S (dam of Kitty Tan, Loyalty, &c), by Iroquois-Planchette by Brown Dick. Bred to Inspector B Laura Ethel, br m. 1896 (dam of Turnpike), by Bramble-Lady Wayward by Virgil— Levity family. Bred to The Commoner. Lizzie English, ch m. 1889 (dam of Nobleman, &e). by Bramble-Guildean by Ballinkeel— family of Proctor Knott, Bootjack. &c. Bred to imp. Loyalist. Loyal Marie, b m, 1896 (half sister to Bliss, Beatitude, Ac), by imp. Loyalist-Mariposa (dam of 12 winners). Bred to Inspector B Lorena Mac. ch m, 1891 (dam of Mo Albert, Jcc), by Onondaga-Lida Stanhope (a great race mare) by Waverly. Bred to Inspector B. La Dochess, br m. 1891 (half sister to Cli2jrd, 42 wins) by Iroquois-Duchess by Kingfisher. Bred to imp. Loyalist. Lythe, ch m, 188S (dam of Clorita, &c), by Enquirer-Mileta (dam of Egmont, 18 wins) by Muggins. Bred to imp. Loyalist. Landslip (imp.), brm, 1890 (dam of Small Jack. II wins), by Lowland Chief-Gwendreath bv Man- caster. Bred to imp. Loyalist. Mountain Mist, b m, 1897 {half sister to Mont d'Or, &o), by Magnetizer-Mount Vernon by imp. Uhlan. Bred to The Commoner. Margo. b m, 1884 (dam of five winners), by Frogtown-Bettie by Gen. Longstreet. Bred to Orlando Maud Blackburn, b m, 1897 (sister to Hugh Penny, Luke Ward, &c), by Luke Blackburn-Maud Ward by Springbok. Bred to Huron. Monte viso. ch m, \*t:> (dam of Monte Himyar, &c), by Forester-Mountain Range by Longfellow— the Levity family. Bred to imp. Loyalist. Ma Belle, b m, 1888 (winner of 33 races, dam of Tenny Belle. &c), by imp Charaxus-Ada Belle (dam of Charade, 35 wins* by Eolu6. Bred to The Commoner Miss Courtney, ch m, 1883 (a winner and dam of Ida Ledford. 31 wins), by Blarney-Marvie B. by Longfellow. Bred to The Commoner. Miss Modish, b m, 1894 (dam of winners), by imp. Sir Modred-Tulare by Monarchist. Bred to Inspector B. Miss Ryan, b m, 1*87 (dam of winners), by Enquirer-Brie a-Brac by imp. BoDnie Scotland. Bred t«i imp Loyalist. Maud Ward, br m, 1886 (dam of Hugh Penny, 49 wins, &c), by Springbok-Annie Love by imp Glenelg. Bred to The Commoner. New Era. ch m, 1894 (dam of Virgie d'Or), by imp. Great Tom-Netroma by imp. Highlander; Miss Dance by War Dance. Bred to Inspector B. Nellie Grand, ch m, 1892 (sister to Advance Guard, 48 wins), by imp. Great Tom-Nellie Van (19 wins) by Enquirer Bred to Huron. Nltetls, ch m, 1893 (dam of Left Bower, 18 wins), by imp. Great Tom-Netroma by imp Highlander. Bred to The Commoner. Nellie Van. ch m, 1SS3 (19 wins and dam of Advance Guard, 48 wins; Freddie L. T.,20 wins, &c), by Enquirer-Orphan Girl by Muggins. Bred to The Commoner. Piazza bm. 1888 idam of Collins, 25 wins, &c). by imp. Pizzaro-Maud L. by Bertram-Myopia by imp. Macaroon. Bred to The Commoner- Prettnvit. ch m, 1888 (a winner), by Spendthrift-Attractive by Kentucky— Alarm's family. Bred to The Commoner. Penitence II, ch m. 1896. by imp Great Tom-Irrepentance by Iroquois; Merci by imp. Woodlands Bred to The Commoner. Pretence, ch m, 1886 (dam of The Parader, winner of the Realization Stakes, &.c, and six other winners), by Plenfpo. Bred to The Commoner. Pansy Blossom, br m, 1887 (Jam of Sergeant, The Bobby, &c). by Bramble-Pansy by imp. Glen- garry. Bred to Inspector B. Salalre, ch m, 1891 (a winner), by Salvator-Sozodont by Longfellow; Sally Morgan by Revenue. Bred to imp Loyalist. SuLsun, brm, 1894 (a stake winner of 14 racesl, by Strathmore-Beatrice by imp. Bonnie Scotland— Banastar's family. Bred to The Commoner. Sob Rosa, b m, 1891 (a winner), by imp. Sir Modred-Rosa G- (dam of eight winners) by Lelnster; Ada A. by Asteroid. Bred to Inspector B. Satellite, brm 1831 (a winner and dam of winners), by Luke Blackburn-Marvie B. by Longfellow. Bred to The Commoner. Slf Jr., bm, 1832 (dam of winders), by Emperor-Sif by imp. Pizarro; Susan Ann by Lexington— I bora's family. Bied to Inspector B. Rosa Buckden, b m, 1886 (dam of five winners), by imp. Rossi fer-Krick by imp. Buckden Bred to Inspector B Tulla Fonso, b m, 1896 (a winner), by Fonso-Talla Blackburn (35 winners) by Luke Blackburn- Levity family. Bred to The Commoner. Treacle, b m. 1835 (half sister to Buck Massie's dam), by imp. Great Tom-Triangle by Gilroy. Bred to The Commoner. Touch Not. b m. 1834 (dam of Tom Kenny, &c). by Tremont-Touch-Me-Not by imp Great Tom. Bred to The Commoner. Taffeta, ch m, 1S31 (dam of Dr. Riddle. &c), by imp. Great Tom-Bridesmaid by imp. Bonnie Scot- land—Levity family. Bred to imp. Loyalist. Talaria, ch m, 1891 (dam of Amoroso), by imp. Great Tom-Vanilla by Jack Malone. Bred t° Inspector B. Tommie Belle, b m. 1887 (dam of eight winners), by imp. Great Tom-Bonnie Belle by imp Bonnie Scotland. Bred to Inspector B. Valeriana, b m. 1894 (dam of Sans Pareil II), by imp. Great Tom-Valerian by Vandal. Bred to imp. Loyalist. Vestige, b m, 1895 (dam of Stand Pat), by imp. Great Tom-Valerian by Vandal. Bred to The Commoner. Wanda, ch m, 1883 (a great stake winner and dam of winners), by imp. Mortemer-Minnie Minor by Lexington. Bred to The Commoner. Bay Colt by The Commoner-All Mine. Bay Filly by The Commoner-Euphrasia. (. hestnut Colt by The Commoner-Great Annie. Chestnut Colt by The Commoner-imp. Landslip. Chestnut Colt by The Commoner-Lythe. Bay Colt by The Commoner-Mountain Mis*. Chestnut Colt by The Commoner-Maud Ward. Ches"aut Colt by The Commoner-Penitence II- CheE .oat Colt by The Commoner-Pretense. put up to fill the demand. San Jose and Santa Rosa are also talked about very favorably by some of the leading horsemen and it is said both places will have some of thecrickerjack strings. Nearly every trainer one meets at the present time has his eyes turned wist- fully eastward and vows he will go there to race next season if he has any sort of string by tbe time entries for the big stakes close. If, however, a movement that is now under way comes to anything, theie will be so many announcements of California meetings made by February 1st, next year, that most of the California trainer^ will conclude the home circuit is worth racing on, an 1 the eastern begira will be con- J fined to a few strings containing material worth pay- ing entrances on in the big stakes and purses. The movement toward the formation of a harness circuit in California that has been talked about re- cently is not all talk. The plan is to get five or six of the principal tracks to become members and an- nounce programs not later tban February 1st. Purses and stakes will range from $500 to $2000. A circuit of this magnitude, in addition to the Breeders meeting and the State Fair will make training worth while once more in California. And there will be no syndicate bookmaking on this circuit. The Western Horseman says: Another son of Beauti- ful Btrils has joined the list of stallions that are sires of 2:10 race trotters. Adbell, yearling record of 2:23}, is represented by Rowellan 2:09}, a winner at Provi- dence. Adbell was one of the youDger sons of Beauti- ful Bells, and was sired by the Indiana stallion. Ad- vertiser 2:15}, son of Electioneer. Other mares may become the oams of ten 2:30 trotters; one mare has already equaled the record of Beautiful Bells so far as numbers of standard performers are concerned, but it will be many a long year before any other mare with ten in the list is represented by as many sons who are the sires of extreme speed. Beautiful Bells is certainly in a class to herself. She is the only mare in the world that is the dam of ten 2:30 trotters. She is the dam of the world's champion trotting yearling, Adbell 2:23}. She 1-: tbe dam of Chimes, with more trotters in the 2:06 list than any sire, living or dead. Eight of her sons are sites of speed; four of them 6ires of 2:10 performers. Several of her grandsons are sires of 2:10 performers, and three at least of ber grandaughters are dams of 2:10 performers. Ten 2:30 trotters should be glory sufficient for one mare, but when the other features are added it may be clearly seen that Beautiful Bells, by The Moor, is far and away the greatest broodmare known to students of harness horse statistics. A curious complication has arisen in connection with the Matron Futurity opened by the Terre Haule Trotting Association some years ago. When this association, so the story is told, decided to give no more trotting meetings but to cbaDge over to a fair with running races and so forth, it declared the futurity off and refunded money. An lowaD, Noah Woods, Waterloo, declined to receive bis check and notified the association that be would be on bard with his colt ready for tbe word. This be did, pre- sented himself in tbe stand and demanded to be given the word. The judges told him they were engaged with running races, so tbe Iowan told bis driver io score down, gave tbe word himself and tee k tte^ time. Now he says he will briDg suit for the money, proba- bly about $7000, the officials having no "right to declare off tbe stake without the consent tf & 11 concerned. * A curious story attaches to the trotting mare Fan- ella and her produce Todd and Sadie Mac Fanella was begotten at tbe time her sire, Arion 2:07j, stood at a fee of $2500. The mare was later sold at auction for $525. At that time she had at foot ihe colt Todd, by Bingen 2:06}, and had been bred to Peter the Great 2:07}. Todd as a two year old showed a mile in public in just a fraction slower than 2:20 and was sold for $4000, his purchaser refusing, it is said, $17,000 for him. The mare foaled to the service of Peter tbe Great the filly Sadie Mac, which is the fastest three year old seen out this season and which now has a mark of 2:114. Sadie also brought $4000 and the original purchaser still owns Fanella. As she did not get with foal this spring she was put in training ard recently took a record of 2:13. The smashing of records that has been going on this year on the Grand Circuit has undoubtedly The Kenney Bicycle Co., 531 Valencia St., is doing a big business in theMcMurray CartB and Sulkies. You not only save money by purchasing a McMurray but get the most durable, best made, and easiest running cart or sulky in the market. Investigation will con vince a Missourian. # Jackson's Napa Soda untangles the feet. September 26, 1903] ©its gtveeliev cmb ^ppvt&mati 5 THE SALEM MEETING. Tremendous Crowds Witness Racing at Oregon State Capital. [from our special correspondent) Salem, Or., Sept. 14, 1903.— The annual State fair and race meeting commenced to-day. The purse list aggregates $15,000 in purses, of which the major por- tion is given to the harness races. The Greater Salem Stakes for 2:17 pacers and the Lewis & Clark Stakes for 2:20 trotters are the leading eventB of the program. Each is for the respectable purse of $2000. The liberality displayed has been amply rewarded by liberal entries from California, Montana, Colorado, Idaho, and other States. The track was never in better condition, and when the bell sounded for the 2:20 pace, the opening event of the meeting, there was a larger crowd present than ever before on opening day. The judges were Robert Leighton, who also acted as starter in the harness races, and Messrs. Westgate and Redmond. The timers' stand was occupied by Messrs. Kiger, Tongue and Durbin. In the Grst heat Highball was somewhat unsteady, fourscores being necessary ere they got the word. However, when they did go, Highball made the pace to the half, where Rockford broke badly. HereChris- tabel moved up in front and a battle royal between Mr. Clark's mare and Highball ensued until the latter left his feet. Christabel won by a length from Harry Hurst, who closed very strODgly, in the good time of2:lH. In the second heat Christabel and Hurst went to the half as a team. Here the mare broke badly and Highball, who was pacing perfectly, moved to the front and was never headed, eventually winning, pulling up, in 2:12}. The third heat was a jog for Highball, Christabel being hopelessly tired and only just saving her dis- tance. Time, 2:13£. The 2:25 trot had five starters and was productive ot two sensational finishes between Helen Norte and Swift B. The heats in 2:17 and 2:17J were two seconds faster than three-year-olds had ever before trotted here. Every excuse must be made for Swift B., as he was only just off the cars, and in both heats he went like a raoehorse. He was admirably driven by Willard Zibbell, whose initial effort it was behind the Golt. The summaries: Pacing, 2:20 class, purse $500. Highball by Silkwood (Jas. Sandford) 5 l 1 Christabel by Charles Derby (Hayes) 1 3 4 Harry Hurst by Delwln (J. Green) 2 2 2 PolkaDot by Mendocino (J. Silvaj 4 4 3 Rockford by Caution (Tilden) ds Vision by Vanquish (Lindsey) ds Time— 33, 1:05, 1:3754- 2:1154- 3354, 1:06*, 1:40*. 2:12*. 34, 1:06*. 1:393£, 2:13*. Trotting, 2:25 class, purse $500. Helen Norte by Del Norte (Rutherford) 1 I Swift B byStam B (Zibbell) 3 2 Bay Leal by Telephone (Hayes) 2 3 Mark Hannabus by Planter (J. Green) 4 4 Package by Pactolus (Tilden) ds Time— 34&. 3:10, 1:14, 2:17. 3554. 1:10, l:44«, 2:17*. TUESDAY, SEPT. loTH. Three harness races were on the card Tuesday, all for the youngsters. There was a trot for the two year olds, besides a three year old pace and a two year old pace. Daughters of Lovelace won both the two year old events. The three year old pace went to Tidal Wave, a grandly bred and very handsome young stallion by Nutwood "Wilkes, out of a full sister to Coney 2:02. The summaries: Trotting, two year olds, purse 860U. Lovely Dell, by Lovelace (Hellman) I 1 Royal Satin, by Bonner N. B (Green) 2 2 Dr. Jones, by Capt. Jones (Sandford) 3 ds Dave Hanna, by Mark flanna (Tilden) 4 ds Time— 43*, 1:26'/,, 2:04. ±47%. 40%. 1:18%, 1:57',, 2:37 Pacing, three year olds, purse, $50u. Tidal Wave, by Nutwood Wilkes (Mosher) l 1 Halite Hinges, by Prlcemont (Hellman) 2 2 Louie B . by Lovelace (Tryon) 3 3 Economizer, by Ohas Derby (Stiver) 4 4 Bessie L , by Montana Director (O'Brien) 5 5 Annex and King Alexis distanced. Time-35. 1:11, 1:454, 2:21',. 3454, 1:10*. 1:49%, 2:28. Pacing, two year olds, purse $400- Loveless, by Lovelace (Rutherford) 1 1 Prtcemark, by Prlcemont (Hellman) 2 2 Time— 3:064, 3:04. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 16TH. The 2:17 Greater Salem Stakes was the piece de re- sistance today, and in honor of the event and Salem day, all the stores closed, and in fact the entire popu- lation seemed on the Fair grounds. That large stakes are appreciated is evidenced by the fact that there were no fewer than 28 subscribers to this stake thus making a handsome profit to the association. Twelve horses took the word. Pools over night sold Highball 85 and the field $10. Considerable delay was occasioned through the vagaries of Highball (who was on his baa behavior) ere the start was effected. However when he did condescend to pace the son of Silkwood would not be denied and quickly threading his way through, placed a handsome gap between himself and his field and won easily. In the second heat Rita H. stalled off Highball and won amidst loud applause. An unavoidable collision between Harry Hurst and Rajah occurred just after the start, and on account of the large number of horses starting, though both finished behind the flag, they were allowed to start in the third heat. The third heat was easily won by Rita H. In the fourth she only secured winning honors by a head from Ama A. Highball who absolutely refused to pace, was distanced. The 2:11 pace was won by Zolocb over the favorite Sam Bowers, the best time 2:12 being slow for this class of pacers. The 2:25 pace was won in straight heats by Tidal Wave who was well driven by I. C. Mosher, who was loudly applauded by the occupants of the stand at the conclusion of the race. It is safe to say the old veteran never received any more satisfaction in his life than this prompt recognition of appreciation on his old camping ground. Summaries: The Greater Salem stakes for 2:1? class pacers,3in 5, purse J2000. Rila H., by McKinney W. Durfee) Sill OaieM.,by Wesifield ^.(J.Ervin) 5 4 2 3 County Attorney, by Arthur Wilkes (Hayes) 2 5 4 6 Oma A., by Director. (Hogaboom) 7 6 7 2 Bensurba, by Tom Benton (Tryon) 3 3 8 4 The Mrs., by Derby Ash (Whitehead) 6 8 5 5 Monroe S , by Dictator Wilkes. (Zibbell) 4 7 6w High Ball, by Silkwood (J Sandford) 1 2 3 ds Harry Hurst, by Delwin (J Green) 10 12 9 ds Rajah, by Charles Derby (Gooda:i) 13 9 ds Vision, by Vanquish (Lindsey) 9 ds Mtladi B.. by Cnehalis (Rutherford) 11 ds Polka Dot, by Mendocino (W. Trine) 13 w Portia Knight, by Vinmont (Helman) ds Time— 33'/i 1:0754 VAOy, 2:1354 34 1:07£ 1:41 2-14 34 1:0754 1:41 2:H;. 33 1:06* 1:39*4 2:12 Pacing, 2:11 class, purse SIC00. Zolock, by McKinney ( W. Durfee) 2 4 111 Sam Bowers, by Ham Mambrino (J. Lance) 4 12 2 2 Martha B.. by Ashland Wilkes (J. W. Miller) 13 4 3 3 LeRoi, by Altamont (L Childs) 3 3 3 ro Eaglet ta, by Ketchum (J Sandford) ds Time— 33 l:05'i 1-39', 2:12 33 1:06* 1:3954 2:12 33 1:0654 1:4054 2:11* 34 1:084 1:42 2:14*4 34* 1:08* 1:42*4 2:15?i Pacing, 2:25 class, purse $500. Tidal Wave, by Nutwood Wilkes (Mosher) 1 l Prince Tom. by Tom V (W Durfee) 2 3 Portia Knight, by Vinmont (Helman) 3 2 Geo D.% by Del Norte (Thompson) 4 5 Rockford. by Caution (Tilden i 5 4 Princess Chehalts, by Chehalis (D. Bruze) 6 ds Jessie M.. unknown (Davidson) ds Time— 32 1:05*4 1:39;; 2:14* 34 1:0754- 1:41*4 2:15*4 THURSDAY. SEPT. 1TTH. To-day was Portland day and that city sent up a contingent some five or sis thousand strong to repre- sent it. and witness the division ot the $2000 Lewis & Clark Stake for 2:20 class trotters. The race unfortunately resulted in a fiasco. After winning the first heat and shutting out five of the field, Sweet Marie in the second heat was not driven out and finished third to Dr. Hammond and Briny K. The judges were so dissatisfied with Durfee's driving that they decided to substitute another driver. This Durfee absolutely refused to allow, preferring to with- draw the mare and suffer the extreme penalty rather than permit a stranger to drive. A rather riotous scene ensued and the upshot was the mare was ordered from the track, which left the race at the mercy of Dr. Hammond. The judges after carefully considering- the case in all its aspeets ruled Durfee and the mare off. They considered the case too grave an infringement of the rules to admit of a lighter penalty. The Consolation pace for non money winners in the Greater Salem Stakes produced another exciting contest, as after again winning the first heat High- ball went to the bad aDd eventually had to put up with second position. The winner Vision is trained by another veteran of the trotting turf in Luke Lindsey, who has been raciDg horses on the Lone Oak track for twenty years. It took five heats to decide the 2:30 trot, both Get- away and St. Patrick being tired and lame. The meeting has been the most successful ever held in Oregon, and the running races have been free from the taint of suspicion. Summaries: The Webfoot stakes, 3 year old trotters, ?500. Swift B. by Stam B (Zibbell) 1 1 Helen Norte, by Del Norte (Rutherford) 2 2 Time— 35, 1:1154, l:40'/4, 2:21*. 33, 1:07, VAlHi 2:16*. The Lewis and Clark Stake, 2:20 class trotters, purse 82000. Dr Hammond, by Cbas Derby (Hugtes) 3 111 Briny K. by Slrathway (R A Smith) 2 -„* 1 -' Beiladl. by Chehalis {Rutherford) 4 4 3 3 Sweet Marie, by McKinnev (W Durfee) 1 3 dr Marbov, by Delmar (Haves) 5 dr Louis 2, by Upstart (C P Webb) dis HHH. by Allerton (J W Miller) dls Deputv. by Derby Ash (Whitehead! dig MarkHannabup. by Planter (J Green) dls Idol, by Copper King (Helman) dls Time-33, 1:08, 1:40, 2:13'. -. 33. 1:05. 1:39, &I2J4. 33*. 1:05*. 1:304, 2:13!i. 38H. 1:08^. 1:*3, 2:18. Pacing. Consolation for 2:17 class, *5O0. Vision, by Vanquish (Lindsey) 7 1 1 Highball, by Silkwood (Hogaboom) 1 5 1 Bensurba. by Tom Benton... (W Tryon) 2 7 3 Monroe S. by Dictator Wilkes ...(Zibbell) ^ 2 7 Rajah, by Chas Derby fGoodall) 3 3 5 Portia Knight, by Vinmont (Helman) 5 4 B The Mrs, by Derby Ash (Whitehead) 9 6 4 Mfladi B, by Chehalis (Rutherford) dls TIme-3254, 1:05*. 1:39. 2:12*4. 33*, 1:05*. 1:3914, 2;i5't 33',, 1:06, 1:4054, 2:i.V4. Trotting, 2:30 class, purse $500. Getaway, by Strathway (Zibbell) 3 1 I 3 I St Patrick, by Nutwood Wilkes (Hartnagel) 12 3 12 Lord Kitchener, by Zombro..., (Mlsner) 2 3 2 2 ro Time— 38U, HlttJ*. 1:534. 2:J9*. 37V4, 1:14. 1:49. 2:84*. 36*4, 1:I2*£, 1-47*. 2:24*. 38*. 1:15. 1:52, 2:29 37*. 1:13*. 150, 3:2854 SATURDAY. SEPT. 19. To-day was the closing day of the fair aDd a more than ordinary large crowd turned out to witness the decision of the 2:17 and 2:20 consolation trots. In the 2:17 class Master Delmar was very unsteady and refused repeatedly to trot. He was finally sent off, and breaking badly at the turn, swerved to the out- side causing The Commonwealth to collide with him. Hayes' sulky was so badly damaged that he was unable to finish. The judges took the view that the collision was unavoidable and allowed him to continue in the race which he afterwards won. The consolation 2:20 trot was won by Deputy in two straight heats, though H. H. H and Idol gave him a battle royal before conceding him first honors. The betting both on the running and harness events during the week has been strictly confined to auctions and mutuals, and the management and public weie both well satisfied with the mediums of speculation. The purses and stakes were all paid promptly, and the horsemen left thoroughly satisfied with their visit to the Blue Ribbon Fair. The occupants of the judges stand were: Robt. Leighton, presiding judge; W. O. TriDe and C. W. Redmond, associate judges; timekeepers, Messrs Sam Jones, R. Kiger and W. Durbin; clerk of the course, Frank Davy; starter in the running races, W. Hogo- boom. The summaries follow: Trotting, 2:17 class, purse $£00. Master Delmar by Delmarch (Ted Hayes) 4 112 1 Red Skin by Red Cloak ( Hogoboom) 13 2 12 Idyllwild by McKinney (R.A.Smith) 1 3 2 ro The Commonwealth by Shadeland Onward (J. Green) 3 4 4 ro Dr. Bunell by Ingram (J. Lance) ds Time— 34, 1:07, 1:41*, 2:16-S£. 34*4, 1:08. 1:4354, 2:1754. 34, 1:0854. 1:43, 2:1754- 335S, 1:08, 1:4354, 2:18*. 36, 1:12, 1:46, 2:1954. Trotting, consolation, 2:20 class, purse £500. Deputy by Derby Ash (C. Wnitehead) l I H. H.H. by Allerton {J.W.Miller) 2 3 Idol by Copper King (Elroy Smith) 3 2 Marli Hannabus by Planter (Fred Broober) 4 4 Louis Z. by Upstart (J. Erwin) 5 5 Time— 34*, 1:08, 1:43*, 2:1854- 34£, 1:073£, 1:«*. 2:1954. Last Two Days at Hartford. THrRSDAY, SEPT. 10. Trotting 2:16 class, purse $1500. Belle Kuser. br m. by Colonel Kuser (Hudson) 12 11 Primrose 2-1-2-2. Pug 3-3-3-3, Dainty Dado 4-4-4-4, Cozad dis. Time— 2:10*, 2:11, 2:11*, 2:12J£. Pacing. 2:08 class, purse $1500. Locanda. brh, by Allerton (Brodbine) 2 111 Triiby Direct 1-1-3-1, Strathline 5-2-2-3, Nonamie 3-3-4-2. Dandy Chimes 4-a-5-5. Time— 2:1054, 2:09j£, 2:1154, 2:1354- Trottlng, 2:09 class. Charter Oak stake; worth $10,000. BlllyBuck.bg, by St Clair (Geers) 1 1 1 Walnut Hall 2-2-9, Hawthorne 8-3-2, Swift 9-5-3, Dulce Cor 3-7-6, Baron Deshav 5-1-1. Idollta 4-6-10. Maiine 6-8-0. Monte Carlo 10-11-7. Lord Vincent 11-9-8, Jig Ferry 12-iO-n, Prince Green- lander 7-2-d. Time— 9:07J4. 2:07!;, 2:11. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER llTH. Old Colony, 2:30 trot, purse $3000. Judge Green, b g, by Directum (Curry and Walker) 12 11 Texas 3-3-2-3, Prince Calon 4-1-3-2. Patcheu Maid d. Time— 2:14, 2:13, 8:1454, 2:20*. 2:10 pace, purse $1500. Star Hal, brh. by Brown Hal (Suow) 1 1 1 John T. 2-3-2, Jestie S 5-3-4, Olive Wood 3-1-3, Brswn Heels 4-5-5 Time— 2:09?i, : 2:05 pace, purse $1500, best two In three Nervolo, b h, by Colbert (Hudson) 1 1 Carl Wilkes 2-3, Terrace Queen 3-2, Fanny Dill ard 4-5, Riley B 5-1 Time-2:06*, 2:06*. 2:(.t7 trot, purse $1500, best two In three. DanT., b g. by Crawiord (Geers) 4 1 1 Fereno 1-3-3, Susie J. 2-4-2. Charley Herr 3-2-4, Monte Carlo 5-5- d, Rhythmic d. Time— 2:0754, 2:08*. 2:10. Homer Davenport, the noted cartoonist, who for some months had charge of the Barb stallion which the Sultan of Morocco sent to this country to be shown at the St. Louis world's fair, recently sent as a present to the Sultan the roan pacing gelding Edward W., 2:21 i, which was well known to patrons of the Speedway, as be was driven in many brushes last year by Mr. Davenport. Last month Mr. Davenport re- ceived a paper, published in Tangier, which contains a news Item to the effect that Mr. Langermann had arrived in that city *itb a celebrated roan "racking" horse from America, sent as a present to the Sultan. The "racking'* horse stood the voyage in fine style and that the present Is highly appreciated by the Sultan was evidenced by the fact that he sent 1500 of his best soldiers to escort the horse from Tangier to Fez, nearly 200 miles inland. Edward W. is a erood pacer, having taken his record at Chatham, N. V., in the fall of 1899 and has shown greater speed than that on the Harlem river drive*, but he was never noted as a "racker," although he may develop speed at that way of going if the great son-of-tbe-Prophet elects t< use him under saddle. — ZVoWOT and 1' 6 &he gveebev aixb *$paxi&max\ Gee whiz! Prince Alert 1:57! A quarter-mile track is being built on the infield of the Empire City course near New York with the objeet in view of using it for the Westchester Horse Show which as announced is to be held at Empire City Park this fall. The three year old filly Daphne Direct that won the pacing division of the Hartford Futurity, is another 2:15 performer to the credit of Direct. In the same race Silver Patch, a full brother to Dan Patch 1:59, was distanced in the second heat. And he wear6 hopples! Get a move on, Mr. Dan Patch! When will this record smashing end"? Meek and Carr sales next Tuesday. Monroe 2:12',, the big trotter in the Salisbury string, is in the hospital. Lou Dillon's strides when she trotted the mile in 2:00 were 19 feet, 3 inches. Directum 2:051 has made a season to 66 mares this year in his Minnesota home. Cp to Saturdav last, Mr. Geers had counted the earnings of Billy'Buck at $30,600. Geers' winnings to date for the season are $51,280. Hudson is a close second with $50,290. Did Prince Alert do it to prevent that assessment of Dan Patch from being raised too high? Notwithstanding the small fields, the Grand Circuit at Charter Oak, Hartford, was a financial success. The four year old filly by Sable Wilkes 2:18, dam AlLx 2:03|, is a pacer. The two year old filly by Hand- spring 2:18J, dam Alix, is a trotter, and resembles her dam, both in conformation and gait. Vita Oil is being used on the horses in the Russian Czar's racing stables. American trainers are employed there and American trainers know what is best to cure lameness and muscular soreness in horses. Say. Dan Patch, Come np to scratch And make a mighty spurt: Beat 1:57 Or lose horse heaven— Now held by Prince Alert: One of the best opportunities offered in years to secure well broke standard bred horses and mares will be at the sale of the Meek Estate and Gabilan Farm horses at Fred H. Chase & Co.'s big iron pavilion nest Tuesday evening, Sept. 29th. The sale will open at 7:45 P. M. [September 26, 190S The pacer Al Sandy, that is well known to those who have attended the meetings of the Golden Gate Park Driving Association, is offered for sale. He can i pace heats around 2:18 and is a good prospect to race. He can brush very fast on the road. Doc 2:28, a good i looking black pacer that can lower his record several i seconds and is an excellent roai horse, is also offend • for sale. Applyto Mr. S. Watson, 235 Douglas street, this city. The Central California Fair opens at Hanford, October 5th. There will be four or more races each I day, and the largest gathering of pure bred live stock P ever exhibited in that part of California. Ten i thousand people attended the Hanford Fair last year I in one day, and it is one of the greatest fairs held oa I the Coast. Persons desirous of making a paviiion or I live stock exhibit at this fair should apply for space < at once. F. L. Howard, Hanford, is secretary. Trotting the laBt half of a mile in 1:024 and finish- ing through the home stretch at a 2:00 clip, Brayton Ives' bay mare Nora McKinney by McKinney won a wagon race in sensational style at the meetirg of the New York Driving Club at Empire City Park, Satur- day. She was driven by her owner. Larkin W. by Boodle Jr. haB the making of a great road horse. He is only four years old and is a flat- footed trotter that can speed a 2:20 gait. He will be sold at the clearance sale of Hon. Jesse D Carr's Gabilan Farm horses at Fred H. Chase & Co.'s sales- yard 1732 Market street, next Tuesday evening. A McKinney stallion and a team are offered for sale by a Santa Rosa advertiser. See advertising columns. The opinion of the majority of horsemen who have seen the fast three year old Sadie Mac 2:11} race say that she will surely step a mile in 2:10 later in the fall if any of the three year olds are fast enough to make her step. Baron Dillon 2:12 has three new 2:10 performers to his credit this year in George A. Fuller 2:08}, Baron Rogers 2:08}, and Dillon Boy 2:09}. The latter is in the stable of Scott Hudson and is the best trotter in his stable. Wm. Loeb, Jr., secretary to the President, has pur chased for the White House stable a team of hand- some bay horses. They are 16 hands high and suit- able for heavy carriage work. They have been bought to replace two old horses in the White House stables, one of which has been condemned. The con- demned horse is Ramrod, which has, it is said, been in service in the White House stables for almost twenty years. General Tracy said some time ago that "there was every reason why a horse with developed speed is to be preferred over one that has not been developed. Every required habit receives strength and intensity by use, and an animal that is trained to a particular use is more likely to transmit to his offspring a nat- ural tendency to that habit than one who has not been so trained. The horses of the United States sur- pass the horses of every other nation because our peo- ple almost universallv drive the light harness horse." M. E. McHenry, after driving Dan Patch in 1:59, said: "I first took charge of Dan Patch in 1901. It was not long before I knew he was a wonderful horse. Last year I was convinced two minutes would not stop him. He paced the Boston track in 1:59, and the. Providence track in 1:59}. I Baid this spring that I The Gentleman's Magazine of 1737 contains notice of the accidental death of a cart gelding owned by Richard Fendall, of the Grange, Southwark. London, England. The horse died from the effects of a cut on the knee, he having somehow got into a difficulty with a large garden bell glass used for forcing melon*. This horse had been forty-four years in Mr. Fen- dall's possession, and had been the property of bis former owner for fifteen vears, whence it would sef m Fanella (dam of Sadie Mac 2:1H) by Arion 2:07|, trotted to a record of 2:13 at Readville, September 14th. There will be ten or twelve starters in the Transyl- vania this year. Billy Buck will be a starter in all probability. Lou Dillon will make her next public appearance at Lexington during the October meeting in an effort to beat her own record of 2:00. Mack Mack won his race and reduced his record to 2:14| at Portland last Wednesday. This makes the fifth new 2:15 performer for McKinney this year. In a matinee race at Brunots Island track, of Pitts- burg, Dolly Dillon 2:07 trotted a mile in 2:10, making ,t the fastest heat trotted over that track this year. It is said that J. F. Cockerill will not permit Swift 2:08J to race hereafter in professional events, but will drive him a mile at the Empire City meeting next week against his record. D. C. Palmeler thinks that Barongale is a better and faster three year old than Peter Sterling 2:11 A. He must be "hot stuff" if that's the case. He will be a starter in the Kentucky Futurity. At the coming trotting and pacing meeting at Lex- ington, Ky., the first race is to be called daily at 12:30. Secretary Shanklin hopes by this means to secure the completion of the program each day. In October, Ed Geers will sever his connection with the Village Farm racing stable, and locate in Mem- phis, where he has leased capacious stables. Mr. Geers has been with the Village Farm since 1891. The New Champion Pacer, Prince Alert 1:57 thought Dan oapable of a mile in 1:57, and I stick to it." Zombro 2:11 made a good showing at the California State Fair. He won first prize for the best standard stallion four years old or over, and the gold medal for best standard trotting stallion with five of his get. His colt Tee Dee Cee took a record of 2:19S, thus giv- ing this young horse four in the list. The mare Italia by Zombro took a matinee record of 2:11?. in a winning race at Cleveland recently. he was fifty -nine years old when he met with the accident which caused his death. Championship honors are claimed for the young trotting sire Red Medium which is owned in Indianola, 111. This horse is six years old and last year when he was five his two year old son Red Timoka took a record of 2:27 trotting. A short time ago at the Decatur meeting three more of the get of Red Medium took standard records, giving the six year old sire no less than four performers in the standard circle. To top off with, Red Medium was given a record of 2:23} which he took in a very easy mile. This stallion is by Red Wilkes, dam Camille 2:20}, by Happy Medium, second dam Bess, by Volunteer, third dam Jennie by American Star, the two last named mares being noted producers of speed in their day. Walter Hine, a member of the Road Drivers' Asso- ciation of Philadelphia, has loffered $60,000 for Lou Dillon, but it is a certainty that she will be owned by Mr. Billings as long as he HveB, and it is doubtless if three times that amount would get him to part with his queen of the track. Mr. Hine said: "It has long been my ambition to own the fastest horse in the world, and last night I sent to C. K. G. Billings, the owner of Lou Dillion, a written bid of $60,000 for the mare. Probably Mr. Billings is proud of the honor of owning the fastest trotter in the world and may not sell. I have had no encouragement, but merely made the offer as a flyer, so to speak. I know shecan again repeat her performance by trotting another mile in 2 :00 or maybe a little better. Mr. Chas. E. Berry of Kelseyville, Lake county, Cal., is the owner of a colt foaled this year that he considers as well bred as any youngster in that section. He is by Tago 32975, son of San Diego 8776, and his dam is a mare by Count Anteeo, grandam Tickets by Milton Medium. As Milton Medium was owned in Lake county and made several seasons there, there are quite a number of his daughters and their pro- duce still owned in that section. Since Lou Dillon made her record of two minutes the Milton Medium stock has bad quite a boom in Lake county. Mr. T. J. Drais of Farrington has been in the city this week and was a caller at this office. Mr. Drais in- forms us that he will send his stallion Guy McKinney to Pleasanton this winter to have him trained with a view to giving him a record. Guy McKinney is one of the grandest individuals in California and his breeding is unsurpassed. He is by McKinney 2:11}, dam by Guy Wilkes 2:15J, second dam bv Onward, third dam "by Mambrino Patchen, fourth dam by Houghton's Privateer andjifth dam by Abdallah 15. Guj McKinnoy hasspeed, but has never been regularly trained although with a little handling he showed a 2:20 gait. Thomas W. Murphy, who has been campaigning a number of horses for James Butler, proprietor of the East View Farm, has had a most successful season, and has only been outside the money three or four times out of the large number of races in which he has started and of which he has won about thirty. Last week he added to an already long list of win- ning races one with Marie's Baby by Directum Kelly 2:08}, winning a seven-heat race with her and giving her a new record of 2:20}, the mare being the first of the get of this son of Direct 2:05J to take a record. Murphy has expressed the opinion that Marie's Baby is one of the gamest trotters he ever drove. September 2b, 1903] ©h£ gveeitev emit gfpcvt&mcm EMPIRE CITY TRACK. Prince Alert Lowers the World's Pacing Record Two Seconds. NEW York, Sept. 23.— Prince Alert, the pacing hero of a hundred races and the champion of a score of half-mile tracks, went against the world's pacing record of 1:59, held by Dan Patch, and beat it most decisively to-day at the Empire City track. It was the first day of the autumn meeting of the Empire City Trotting Club, and in addition to a strong card of four races Prince Alert was billed for what looked like the impossible feat of beating the record. Prince Alert had recently won the half-mile track champion- ship in z:03A, which had been won only the week be- fore by Dan Patch in 2:04, and good judges were sanguine of his success. The weather and the track were perfect, and the wind, which was high early in the day, subsided, so that the conditions were favor- able. Mart Demarest, the trainer and driver of the Prince, on accouDt of overweight decided to get John Curry to drive, and Demarest drove the thorough- bred pacemaker with the wind shield sulky. At the third time the starter gave the word, and pacing like a perfect piece of machinery Prince Alert shot away to the quarter pole in 29} seconds. As he reached the backst- etch he increased his speed, and was at the half in 58 seconds. Then the crowd realized that they were witnessing the fastest mile of the century, and cheers and shouts of "Come on!" came from the spectators in the grand stand and on the lawn. With- out a break he flashed by the three-quarter pole in 1:26}, and without any urging came on with a superb burst of sp=ed, crossing the wire in 1:57. Summary: Pacing, 2:0S class, purse $800 — Nonamie won two straight heats in 2:UtjJ, 2:07J . Armorel, Trilby Direct, Berdina, Olivewood, Gold Brick, Merry Master and Cubanola also started. Special against time to beat the world's pacing record of 1:59 — Prince Alert, b g. by Crown Prince (Curry) won. Time— 0:1:9*, 0:58, 1:26J, 1:57. Time by quarters— 0:29i. 0:28J, 0:28~J, 0:30|. Trotting, 2:08 class, purse $800 — Swift won two straight heats in 2:08J, 2:07. George Muscovite, Weatworth and Idolita also started. Pacing, 2:25 class, purse $600 — Susie G. won the second and third heats in 2:14i, 2:151. Jean M. won the first heat in 2:15. Ogden Smith and Manuel A. also started. Trotting, 2:20 class, purse $500 — Dark Secret won two straight hea'tsin 2:151, 2:13|. Carnage, Maconomo, Hazel P., Fruitition, King Muscovite and Possibility also staried. Sept. 24 — The big event at the Empire City track to-day was the effort of Major Delmar to beat his own record of 2:00}. Before his trial it was announced that he had been bought for$40,000by E E. Smathers, the owner of Lord Derby, McChesney and other fast horses. In his effort he went to the quarter in 0:30J, half in 0:59| and the three-quarters in 1:29$. There he broke and came home in 2:05. He will go again Friday. Summary: 2:30 class trot, purse $500 — Leonora won second and third heats in 2:18!, 2.19. Leonata won the first heat in 2:15$. Dal Gregor, Biuer, Majestic, Delgoa, Miss Hibbard, Northland, Carolyn, Minnie Bradstreet and Miss James also started. 2:11 pace, purse $500 — Annie M. won two straight heats in 2:1H, 2:14}. Piccolo, Tommy Wilton, Hal B., Hero, Alcyron and Lucreek also started. Special against time to beat 2:00} — Major Delmar. Time, 2:05. 2:15 pace, purse $500 — Little Fred won two straight heats in 2:09}, 2:11}. Daphne Direct, Garnet, B. O. S., Clover, B. S. Dillon, Sultana. Tommy N., Cinder, Sloppy Weather and Warren B. also started. 2:16 clas9 trot, purse S500 — Annie Litlle won two straight heats in 2:12}. Millard Sanders, Direct View, Dark Secret, Sonata and Wild Wind also started. Columbus Races. Columbus, (O.), Sept. 21 — The grand circuit meet- ing at the Columbus Driving Park opened to-day. The weather to-day was clear and warm and the track fast. The attendance was the largest ever re- corded on an opening day at thelocal track. Summary': Trot, 2:12 class, purse $1000— Bell Kuser won three straight heats in 2:12J, 2:11}, 2:09*. Patchen Maid, Topsy, Fanforan, Norman, Baron Bell and Robizola also started. Pacing, 2:22 class, three io five, purse $1000 — King Direct won the second, third and fourth heats in 2:09}, 2:09$, 2:13$. Tom Keene won the first heat in 2:08} and was distanced in the third. Hazel Banks, Dick Wilson and Fred H. also started. Trotting, 2:14 class, purse $2000— Jay McGregor de- feated The Questor in two straight heats. Time, 2:09}, 2:08. Pacing, 2:21 class, purse $800 — Cotillon won in two straight heats in 2:12}, 2:10. Dutch Mowry, Sadie Hal, Johnny O., Margaret Warner, Charles C., Fan- tim, Irish Elder. Foxy Quiller, Jimmy O., May Sber- bert, Go Direct, Angus, Pointer. Winnie King and Bare Boy also started. Sept. 22.— Fanny Dillard of the W. L. Snow stable became the champion of pacing mares when she circled the Columbus track this afternoon in 2:033, half a second better than the best efforts of Ladv of Manor, Mazette and Dariel. The race was the 2:06 pace, and it was bitterly fought. Major C. was th 10-to-4 favorite, and he was laid up in the fiist heat, Joe Pointer winning in a drive from Fanny Dillaid. Major C. shot to the front in the second heat, and was carried to the half by Captain SphiDX in 1:01}. Here both horses gave it up, and Fanny Dillaid set sail for what proved to be a record. The time by quarters were 0:30, 1:01}, 1:32J, 2:03$. The mare had no trouble in beating Joe Pointer home in the last heat. John Taylor won the 2:23 trot easily. He was a 4 to-1 favorite. Victory came to Billy Buck in the 2:17 trot, and the horse acted as if the two heats were nothing more than a work-out. John M. was sold at even money with the field in the 2:15 pace. He was never in danger of losing. Summaries: Trotting, 2:23 class, purse $2000— John Taylor won three straight heats in 2:13$, 2:12 and 2:14. Cole Di- rect, Belle Sligo, Ben Palto and Kingmount also started. Pacing, 2:06 class, purse $800 — Joe Pointer won first heat in 2:05}; Fannie Dillard won second and third in 2:035 and 2:05; Terrace Oueen, Capt. Sphinx. Harry O., Riley B., Larrie Ginter, Allerson and Major C. also started. Trotting, 2:17 class, purse $2000— Billy Buck won in two straight heats. John Mac and Dillon Boy also started. Time— 2:09 and 2 :10. Pacing, 2:15 class, purse $1000 — John M. won in three straight heats. R. On Time, Columbia Hal, Queen of Spades, Daisy Elder, Ethel Mack, American Boy, Roxie T.. Robert &., Star Onward, Credette, Robert M. and Colonel Taylor alio started. Time — 2:09$, 2:09} and 2:09}. Sept 23. — Ten thousand persons witnessed the grand circuit races at tho Columbus Driving Park to-day. The special attraction was Dan Patch's race against time to beat his record of 1:59. The track was fast and the weather perfect, but the best the pacer could do was 1:591. The 2:0S class pace was un finished after five heats had been paced in fast time." Nervolo, Winfield Stratton and New Richmond were the heat winners. Summary: Trotting, 2:11 class, purse $2000— McKinley won the second, third and fourth htats in 2:07}, 2:07}, 2:071. Hawthorne won the first heat in 2:101. Dr. Strong and Dorothy Redmond also started. Trotting, 2:21 class, purse $S0O — Bessie Brown won the first and third heats in 2:131, 2:13}. Bermuda Maid won the second heat in 2:14}. Allen W., Winnie Right, Kirkwood Jr. and Crescent Route also started. Pacing. 2:17 class, purse $800 — Black Pete won two straight heats in 2.11'}, 2:081. Tess, Hard Case, Rose Mason, Allie EL, May Sherry, Walter H., Charlie C, Dutch Mowry, C. O. D , Geers, Judge Pryor, Holly Dillon, Jimmie O, BarrBoy, Mary Gordon, Margaret Warner, Line o Gold and Maurice also started. Special to beat 1:59 — Dan Patch paced in 1:591. Sept. 24. — The contest between The Questor and Norrie io the 2:15 trot was the feature of the Grand Circuit Meeting to-day. The race went to five heats and was won by the Questor, the favorite, who won the first heat from Midnight in a drive, lost the next two to Norrie, and then, in a desperate whipping finish, won the fourth aDd fifth heats and the race. The judges gave Gray Gem the second heat of the 2:19 trot, when the spectators thought O. I. had clearly won. A protest went up and then the officials moved their station to the outside of the track and there was no more trouble. Gray Gem was an even money favorite and had no fight after the second heat. Summary: Pacing, 2:08 class, purse $2000 (five heats Wednes- day)— Nervolo|won the first, fifth and sixth heats in 2:061, 2:07$, 2:08}. Winfield Stratton won the second and fourth heats in 2:07$, 2:07; . New Richmond, Surfeet, Piochem Wilkes, Council Chimes, Colonel Loomis and Jolisco also started. Pacing, 2:13 class, two in three, purse $2000 — Star Hal won two straight heats in 2:09}, 2:09;. Dolly Carr was second. Page Hal, Lady Bollebrook and Little Sphinx also started. Trotting, 2:19 class, purse $1000— Gray Gem won the second, third and fourth heats in 2:12$, 2:13$, 2:13}. O. I. won the first heat in 2:13',. The Parson, Almerion, Laundry Boy, Brownie Wilton, Monticola, Poindexter, Gayosa, Factor J. and Countess Alice also started. Pacing, 2:04 class, purse $800 — Harold H. won two straight heats io 2:06}, 2:08. Little Squaw and Edith W. also started. Trotting, 2:15 class, purse $800— The Questor won the first, fourth and fifth heats in 2:11}, 2:11 ', 2:13. Norrie won the second and third heats in 2:12}, 1:12}. Midnight, Walter Smith, Stockton, Pat Ford, Dick M . Maggie V. and Poteen also started. The Monk and Equity broke the pole -ecord of 2:12} made by Belle Hamlin and Honest George when they trotted the Cleveland race track last Saturday in 2:00}. Belle Hamlin and Globe were bred at Vil- lage Farm and were owned by the Messrs. C. J. and Harry Hamlin when they broke the pole record. The Monk and Equity were also bred at Village Farm, but are owned by C. K. G. Billings. Alta McDonald, who drives Major Delmar 2:00}, is said to be anxious to trot a match of heats, two in three, with the gelding against Lou Dillon 2:00. He is said to be willing to wager $10,000 against a similar amount that Delmar can win. As it is well known that Mr. Billings, who owns the queen, never races his horses for money there is small likelihood of the match taking place. Horse Breeding. Sec'y ol Agricol Perhaps in no other one line of work has there been such a lack of systematic study among farmers in America, and in the practical application of known principles, as in horse breeding. Farmers through- out the entire country have practiced haphazard methods of breeding for many years. They simply bred and reared horses without any regard to the demands of the consumer. In any business which is carried on without any definite purpose or object in view sooner or later a crisis will come. DuriDg the years of 1893 to 1896, inclusive, the farmers of this country were taught a valuable lesson pertaining to the advisability of breeding horses at random Nearly every farmer in this country had unsalable horses on his farm — horses that, while sound, were of no class and could not be sold even at low figures. As a result of this depression farmers came to the conclusion the horse market was gone forever, aid they quit breeding and disposed of their surplus stock, by selling at low figures, giving away or de- stroying their horses. In a few years these same men were in the market as horse buyers, when horses were scarce and hard to secure even at high prices. A reaction has taken place and farmers are once more breeding horses, the majority of them in the same old way. If the present methods of horse breed- ing are not changed, history will surely repeat itself. Farmers should profit by past mistakes and aim to produce horses for a definite purpose. They should cater to the demands of the consumer, who will take care of the surplus horses. If one I ut leek back and studies the market, he will be convinced there never was a time, even when depression was at its worst, when a good individual of any of the recognized classes would not fetch a fair price and the time is far distant when such will not be the case. Horse breeding, when judiciously carried on, has always been and is likely to be a reasonably profitable business for the American farmer. The great danger in the business is that at the present time, owing to the fact that horses are scarce, the horse of I o particular breed or class is comn atdirjg a fair piici, and many farmers are led to regard a horse of this kind as a profitable animal to produce. Such horses should not be bred, because, even when the greatest care and precaution postibleare taken in breeding for definite types, there will always be a large number of the so-called misfits, which are the first class of horses to be affected by overproduction or any other thing that is likely to cause a depression in the market. If horses are bred with a definite object in view the breeder will not be seriously affected by overpro- duction. There has always been, and there always will be, a fair demand for any of the recognized market types of horses. One of the greatest evils in the horse-breeding business is the patronage of the impure bred sire, whose services can be had at a low fee. Nothing but pure bred sires of the highest quality should be used. Under existing conditions there are at least four distinct classes of horses which farmers can profit- ably produce. The first and most important is the heavy draft horse, next the carriage or coach horse, then the roadster horse, and the saddle horse. There is a market for other classes of horses at the present time, but none of them command high prices, and most of them are the misfits which are bound to ap pear from time to time in tbe effort to produce horses of the first four classes mentioned. Warranted to Give Satisfaction, Gombault's Caustic Balsam ' « Has Imitators But No Competitors. A Safe, Speedy and Positive Curt? for Curb. Splint. Sweeny, Capped Hock, Strained Tendons, Founder, Wind F f :i:id all lameness from Spavin, Ringbone and ofher bony tumors. Cures all akin diseases or Parasites. Thrush, Diphtheria. Removes all Bunches from Horses or Cattle. As a Human Remedy for Rheumatism. Sprains, Sore Throat, etc.. it Is lufmlaablo. Erery bottle ol Caustic Balsam sold U TVarranfcl ■ res paid. wiin I •riptiiro circulars, tcFilmoniuUi, etc. Address The Lawrence-Williams Co., Cleveland, 0. <£he ^reefcer mx»> gtpcrrtsmrttt (September fM, 1903 ROD, GUN AND KENNEL. C:-lzc:ti :r J. X. DeWlTT. ^^C^^-^^r ^^^ ISS iftJfis^-Ka1^ Story of an Invention Dear to the Angler. m\> for fifteen minutes'* '~L--_ziz7 Meek passed away at Frankfort, Ky., she room, Meek replied. ET;rv i;_;: = ;i reihred :ue: re red 1:=: e :::eur. : : r I..".' '."I,"!".-"'- . IVi "..Ir probably no other man has contributed so much to then chanced the position ; r e e r ' rr e r : '-'. j::f: ~ z '. r r r ilrlr i.'ii'if:^ r r - laZ2=c . ': : r : -: pleasure.; angling The strangest part ofthestory of the life of this man, who, fa 7 bis iueu.ion of the :r,ru:_f Meet reel r:u;hr :::_: i ue~ ere. in the pursuit of game fish, is that he himwlf was no fisher- rre,r err ule frier i = ::. r .e:rh r: iueve.u:e . r ^hl:h he joined them on their fishing trips. r- e :-•; Ideei reel -;, -e,uuii,:rured > ISM =:tij- Biglit rears ago. It was one morning in March 1835, just after the is fa iu ;-;er.;u;i-'= strei— ■ hid :-:.: ti bite free:.- Her Meet nth his brother, J. F. Meek, had a little watch-making shop In Frankfort- Oa that morning. Judge Mason Brown, a son of John Brown, aide-de-camp to Lafayette and the first Senator from Kentucky, sauntered into the shop where Ben Meek and his brother were at work repair- -ir ^at:r.e=. -Me --re "e,e e,r e: _ , .- -rr- and the conversation naturally drifted to the subject of fishing-. According to Judge Brown, the only drawback to the sport was the lack of a satisfactory reel. -T will make you a reel, Judge, which shall leave nothing to be desired by the most exacting fisher- mr u.r Me u remarked. ."..re Brown accepted the offer, and the Erst M:ei reel i was eh : rtlj afterwards , made. The reel was a reve- lation to fishermen, for it and he told all his friends and neighbors of the reel. Orders began to come in so frequently that the Meek brothers buOt an addition to their little shop for the manufacture of tie reele ireu Meet e: : r -..'; = :=.:: e : _:ree : ~e: : r e ~it:h- raab-ing business to his brother, and devoted him- ee II to the manufacture of the reels. A party of New York sportsmen once visited the s h : r i:i :. r I:;..:: r : h . e- man in the party bought one of the reels and carried it home. Soon thereafter ■_:ier; :erur ; : : re e :':: - England. Thus the fame of the reel spread, until now orders are received from ere: j country in the world. From the location of the factory, the reels became known as the Frankfort reel. In 1SS2, Mr. Meek moved to Louisville, and, up to e.-_ 7eere e,ro. sqq o!q gentleman manufactured the reels in ■ little erop on Seventh street, between Wal- nut and Chestirt Sir: years ago he was forced to : his work on account of advancing age. He sold the rights of the manufacture and all his machinery, which he had designed himself, to a stock company. He received enough for the inven- mfort for the remainder of his j his work, he returned to his t. where he died in July, 1901. reels he made are still in active :: ..',:.e :\:ru hue reel ee rue: e ork. "'You agreed So pay re :: i : .: :ei: re ~ : .: leert The Englishman handed med the back of the vatch- lr: ::.: :reer: : : it He :: e rrieei :i reel : r e : eee rerr.ee w-r. : left ^llh: rr a Meek was proud of his workmanship. It was his boast that in the sixty-two yeais he manufactured reels he never lost a cent from a bad customer. This was remarkable, because, whenever he received an order, whether is was from New York or Australia, whether he had ever heard of the purchaser or not, re . ru rre: .-".:." eer: :re reel ■ -When a man gets one of my reels, ' ' he used to say. '-he will open the package, and. when be finds out the kind of reel he has, the chances in Dine cases out of ten are that he will send me a check for it. If he does not, the first time he is out on the river-bank ::e::r tuere wiD :e i eure.1. nee eeeee: :: his :: re:. =nce from that reel. He will wind np his line and go home and send me the money." And she old man's faith in his reel as a conscience awakener was never disappointed. The revolution which was introduced into reel making by Ben Meek and his brother is that of spiral gearing. With a reel having a spiral gearing, skill- fully made and applied, the angler can handle an eight-pound fish with as much ease as he could a four- pound 6-h with a reel having an ordinary gearing. Mr. Meek was also the pioneer in jewelling the pivot bearings of fi-hing reels in such a manner as to have Raccoon Straits, a Famous But Fishing Resort. the r rots run directly on the jewels. The care used by Mr. Meek in the manufacture of his reels will appear when it is told Bhas he and his two sons counted seven as the extreme number of fishing reels that ; h e 7 ■: : u 1 : : : — j 1 e re i u : u e rre : ■ n t h t:;r ',: caz u.~ . i - --. = .- givin old home it i rani A. nururer :f the . xise a-i :rr tide." 2,r Maei -ee :-iti: :ir rr_er er: -r- parently cared nothing for money. He refused to take out a patent on his reel. "If any man can make a reel as well as I can, he is welcome to all the money he can make from if he was wont to remark with a Itnet en.le -eee urged to patent his invention. He el his reels hee. 7 r.-ovided the purchaser did not eeh :ie price when rlTtng the order. To ha~e the ! zgered him. It is told that £. title 1 Englishman — ith i fondness for fast horses was mak- ing a tour of the American race tracks about twelve ."0. He owned a complicated stop watch, for which he had paid a fabulous price- It got out of repair often, and he took it to the be&t watchmakers wheneve: he rent to have it repaired Heweut t: Louisville to attend the races and whilst there took -,ue sriteh t: e. ;e — -ier ere then .- but :i- u,: in :r^.e country who e,u -■::-.: hie: watch rri that :e ereu Mees.'" the told him. The two went to the little ehop on Seventh street l.'eee: wasbnsjal bis workbench. '•Can yoa repair this wasch'r " the Englishman ^e : r^ei-rr S U IMeek The latter exarr . - and replied that he could. "What will it cost me,'' the euiu ieked. Meek's face flushed, and he care- Iae'ly replied that it woald cost tlOO. The English- - : as once agreed to the price, and asked how soon tt > work would be done. "In about fifteen minutes," ei led Meek. Tie nobleman at once began So object paying Meek An Important Fish Hatchery. The California Northwestern Railway Co. have had a very successful season with their fish hatchery and spawning station work at Ukiab and Willitsic Mendo- cino countv. The backward spring retarded the seasonal run of trout at their spawning station about one month later than usual, and fears were enter- tained that the catch would prove very light, but the copious rain fall during the early part of March changed conditions materially, and resulted in a very successful catch cf eggs, amounting to over a million. The fish taken at this station are of the "rainbow" variety, locally called "steel bead " and are considered among sportsmen to be of the finest variety of trout on the Pacific Coast. Being indigenous to these waters, they are already acclimated to their environ- ment and grow more rapidly and make more vigorous fish than any of the introduced varieties. Under favorable conditions of food and water usually attain- ing a growth of eight inches in twelvemonths from the egg, and make good sport for the angler the fol- ;-.:: eeee:i irirr their rle.u::zr; The work of the spawning station consists in the capture of the wild fish on their way to their spawn- ing beds, relieving them of their eggs and then putting the eggs through the eying process ; they are then transferred to the hatchery at Ekiab, where their incubation is finished and the fish reared until they are large enough to transfer to the streams. This work of distribution has been successfully accom- plished and the large number of streams stocked this season assure the lovers of sport an abundant field in which to test their prowess when the season opens m — On a hot day drink Jackson's Napa Soda lemonade and be refreshed. Bock cod fishing along the Marin shores is reported to be excellent. The striped bass anglers have been getting fair catches at Rodeo wharf recently. John Butler starts for Eel river today. Col. C. G. Young is at present at Point Arena, enjoying steel- head fishing in the Garcia. Immense schools of smelt are now running in the bay and wharf anglers are catching big strings of these excellent fish daily. Sausalito and Tiburon are good place; for a day's smelt fishing. l.eee 1 le::.:: : r :z . v, :: ': e e; : e; . . : :: - lerr-r number of bass fishermen. Resulis have been good, the fish taken, however, rarely run over six or seven pounds, and usually average about three pounds. The final class re-entries of the San Francisco Fly- Casting Club will take place this afternoon and to- morrow morning at Slow lake. The cast-off and final meetings at the lakeside for this season are dated for October 3rd and ith. Trout fishing still holds good in many streams. The Truckee. McCloud and Cpper Sacramento are yet attractive to anglers who find some of the most pleasant fishing of the year just now on these grand streams. Nearby resorts, Sonoma creek and Oltma creek can still be counted on for a fair catch of trout. Reports from Eel river state that sleelheads, in large schools are running up the river. Big fish are fairly numerous and have given much sport to ang lers who trolled for them in boats or who fished the deep pools. Salmon roe has been the most tempting lure found so far. The autumn run of big steeiheads should begin pretty soon now. A pumping plant has been placed in the Santa Cruz tannery, she proprieter of which was arrested last month for allowing waste tanbark water to run into the San Lorenzo river. This prior nuisance and recent violation of law was, it is claimed, the means of annually destroying thousands of fish. The pur- chase of a 1600 pump is not too much of a hardship on the tanner for forty years destruction of fish. The action is in »he nature of a compromise on a prosecution ssarted by W. W. Richards, A. E. Mocker and other sportsmen, for the abatement of the nuis- ance and law violation. The possibilities of fall sport in the vicinity of Klamath Hot Springs are enthusiastically described in the following communication from a well known young local sportsman, Mr. Floyd Judah: "Have had a most elegant time so far and sport has been fine. Mr. Lembkey, my friend from Wash- ington, D. C, and myself got in last night from a hunt with Geo Cook, the celebrated guide, and we brought in a magnificent specimen of the black tail deer which we killed about six miles from the hotel, on the high slopes overhanging Shovel Creek, and the wildest and roughest spot on earth. The buck weighed 175 pounds dressed and he had six points on one side of his horns and seven on the other. He came from the same country where the famous "Out- law" was killed by Drs. Redmond and Clyde Payne on August 30th. The buck we got showed marks of na: row escapes from hunters in the past and we only got him after a long and hard trip. The fishing has been very good also and I have been getting some fine rainbows ranging from one to three pounds in weight, and all of them put up a game fight in the rushing Klamath. Before the 10th inst I had great sport with the salmon which are running up the Klamath in immense numbers this year and are in good condition as there is now no obstructions in the river to hold them back. I got hold of an eight pounder fresh from the sea on the Tth and be gave me a big fight before he was landed. I have caught several others ranging from two pounds no to eight and some have been taken up to twelve, fifteen and even twenty-five pounds, all on rod and reel. The brcok trout fishing on Shovel Creek is good this year and the best results were had with the royal coachman fly: the best fishing is found at a distance of from six to ten miles from the hotel I have caught several nice messes, also had great sport in the Klamath with big rainbows which are now running and can be taken on a spoon, the No 3 Wil- son copper and silver proving the best killer." Mr. Judah and party went from the Springs to Pelican bay, where the "sport is at its best at present. A Paradise for Anglers and Hunters. The California Northwestern Railway aave jost issued a neat and attractive illustrated booklet de- scriptive of the transportation facilities for Marin, Sonoma, Mendocino and Lake counties in which are located the Marin, Sonoma, Santa Rosa, Russian river, Ukiah and Willits valleys, which regions are full of interest and attraction for the hunter and errer The illustrations portray a short and interesting trip, six miles across the bay to Tiburon. and thence nine miles by rail to San Rafael, said to be the prettiest suburb in California. Two views shown depict the striped bass fishing grounds in Tiburon cove and Raccoon straits Copies can be procured at No. 650 Market street, or by addressing R. X. Ryan, General Passenger Agent. Mutual Life Ins. Bldg., Cor. Sansome and California streets, San Francisco. EPTEMBERl26,il903] (fthe gveebev utttr ^yovtsmaxx 9 An Alaskan Dog Case. ."hat is a dog? Most people would consider this r, but a United States District Judge in Alaska £ over 4000 words to define the canine in question, j m.tD who is accused of stealing the animal was satisfied with this elaborate elucidation, and has 3d the United States Circuit Court of Appeals to 3 upon it. "A dog is a chattel," says the Ala&kan st. Maybe it is, but that doesn't keep a dog thief of jail. ecause Congress failed to enumerate a dog in the (gory of four-footed things, the theft ol which Lid constitute larceny anywhere else in the United tea, one of the strongest cases ever carried up to United States Court of Appeals for this district received this week. P. C. Burkal, a resident of town of Rampart, Alaska, was arrested during July and charged with the theft of a dog. The tice of the Peace of that place committed him, and kal appealed the matter to the United States irict Court of Alaska. Not receiving satisfaction a this tribunal, his attorney carried the case up he higher court. arkal, in his petition, claims that he is reslained ialiberty and imprisoned in the jail at Rampart United States Marshal George G. Perry. He »es that he is held on a pretended commitment of Jndley Green, a Justice of the Peace at Rampart, i complaint of larceny, viz: the stealing of a dog. 9 imprisonment, he declares, is illegal, because facts as adduced in the Justice's court were ifficient to constitute a crime. oited States District Judge Wickersham of Alaska lered an elaborate opinion, covering some twenty ewritten pages. seems that dog flesh in Alaska is of some work- value, the canine that Burkal is accused of steal- was listed at $34, and for the crime of stealing the nal the Justice sentenced him to nine months at i labor io the Rampart Jail. ldge Wickersham emitted the following jewels in vering his opinion: rhe dog is not specifically mentioned, in the statute .laska among the animals or other property sub- to larceny. If it is property whose taking is eny, it must be because it is included in the mean- of "goods and chattels" whose taking is made eny by Section 41 of the Penal Code. * * * iion 43 does not specifically mention swine or ip as the subject of larceny, yet it will not be ned that they may be taken without punishment. ?ld dust is not mentioned in either section, yet as never been doubted that its theft might be ished as larceny. A distinction, however, is id between the theft of these classes of property that of dogs, and this distinction is based upon allegation that swine, sheep and gold dust are >wty, the theft of which is punishable at common while the taking of a dog never was and is not larceny at common law. Nevertheless, a dog is a »tel. * Whoever has made even the atest study of the ethnology of Alaska or has in to its present development a minute's thought ws that the dog has been, next to man, the most ortant factor in its past and present history. * When the news of the discovery of the adike and Nome gold fields attracted thousands of arican miners into this region, he was found to be most ready, useful and active animal in aiding n to reach the mines From that day to this he been the constant companion of the prospector, miner and the freighter, and without his aid and »city the efforts of even American miners to )lop the gold fields must have languished. He served the cause of justice and aided in the blishment of the courts, and the' judge of this t has traveled hundreds of miles along Alaska seach winter, upon vehicles drawn by the dogs, le performance of his official duties, ist winter a whole population of civilized men women invaded the dense wilderness of the Tan- Valley, crossing the snowy mountains amid the ards of Arctic blasts, and established permanent is and mining camps there, depending upon the able animal as their sole beast of burden and only as of transportation. Hundreds of animals of best breeds have been imported into the territory i the States as well as from the British territories, the dog has a fixed and definite value as a beast arden in Alaska, second to no other animal. He the far northland what the horse was to the de- pment of the great plains west of the Mississippi. tnnot be presumed that Congress was ignorant of ilatory and value to the people of Alaska when it ed the Penal Code. This court will not, by a «d construction, exclude the dog from the pro- on of the Penal Code of Alaska nor ought it to do mc* to the well established rule of decisions de- ng the animal not the subject of larceny under lommoD law. >wever, I am satisfied that in our condition in territory a dog is property of a high pecuniary e. and is the subject of larceny under the very ciple upon which the common law determined question. le prisoner at the bar was rightfully tried and icted for the larceny of a dog and cannot be dis- ged upon hebeas corpus." >w that learned body, the United States Circuit ■t of Appeals, is asked to answer the question, latis a dog? " Upon their definition dependsthe ty of one P. C. Burkal. By the time the decision indered, no doubt he will have long served his mce, but he will have the satisfaction of knowiDg I a dog is, if he can get the idea from a decision of r thousand words or so. e appellate tribunal might, with equal con- ocy, answer defendant's appeal with the ques- "What is a Jackass? " Time will be saved and i conserved in reply, by the laconic use of the e personal pronoun; to which the Alaskan Dis- Judge might add, "Concurred, canis lobsteribus, us curiae." Minnesota—North Dakota Field Trials. The second annual trials of the Minnesota-North Dakota Field Trials Club was run at Huron, N. D. commencing on the 1st inst. The meeting is generally credited with being a successful one. Weather con- ditions were pleasant, but rain would have been welcome, in laying the dust, this being quite a draw- back to the working of the dogs. The Derby was not as satisfactory as the All-Age. In the former stake few chickens were found wbich left bird work at a minimum. The All-Age was run on better ground, grass and stubble, which produced more game. Jessie Rodfield's Count Gladstone, winner of the Derby, was unplaced at the Nebraska All-Age and went as far as the second heat of the South Dakota All-Age. He afterwards did not get any further than the first heat in the All-Age at thiB meeting. Speck's Jingo Boy took secohd in the Derby. Copper Coin, third, stayed until the third heal of the South Dakota Derby and was unplaced at the Nebraska trials. This dog is spoken of very highly by Eastern critics. Lad's Meally, fourth, was al60 fourth in the Derby at South Dakota and second in the same stake at O'Neill. This dog is expected to do great work on quails. She is already credited with being one of the best on chickens put down this season. Alford'sJobn turned up winner of the All Age, just a place over McKinley who won the South Dakota All-Age and likewise second in the Nebraska All-Age. Lad of Jingo, a well known field trial per- former took third and Alpine Lad fourth, a reversal of the South Dakota result. Alpine Lad was given a second over McKinley at Nebraska. The class of the Minnesota All-Age winners is referred to as of a very high standard. Summaries of the two st3kes run are the following: Huron, S. D , Sept 2, 1903.— Minnesota-North Dakota Field Trials Club Derby Stake, for Setters and Pointers whelped on and after September 2, 1901, that have not won first place at any field trial prior to July 1, 1903. Entries closed August 2, 1903. Five dollars forfeit and S10 for starters for non-residents of Minnesota and North Dakota and all members, S10 forfeit and $10 for starters for residents that are cot members at time of entry. Judges, N. Wallace of FarmingtOD, Conn., E. E. Magoon of Muskegon, Mich., and Dr W. A. Moore of Minneapolis, Minn. Copper Coin, liver and white Pointer dog (Lad of Jingo-Hal's Belle). W. P. Austin, owner; A. B. Caldwell, handler. "With Lakefleld's Pride, orange and white English Setter dog (Cowley's Rodfield's Pride-Phoebe Whitestone). Lakefleld Kennels, own- ers; J. Gude, handler. Peggy, black, white and tan English Setter bitch (Domino's Mark-Pet). Arthur Stern, owner; W. H. Hammond, handler With Count's Clip, black, white and tan EDglish Setter bitoh (Lady's Count Gladstone- Jessie Bodfield). Charles Askins, agent; J. H. Jomson, handler. Speck's Jingo Boy, liver and white Pointer dog (Young Rip Rap- Speck's Jingo). Mrs. CharlesHyde, owner: J. T. Jones, handler. With Cleopatra, black, white and tan English Setter bitch (Tony Bov- Lady Clinton). F. P. Harter, owner; E. Shelley, handler. Jessie Rodfield's Count Gladstone, black, white and tan English Setter dog (Lady's Count Gladstone-Jessie Rodfleld). E. Shellev, agent and handler. With General Jackson, orange and white English Setter dog (Count Glad-Donna Rodfleld). Dr. O. R. Wright, owner and handler. Baby Ale, liver and white Pointer bitch (Jingo's Coin-Fannie Ale). George Cooper, owner; W. D. Gilchrist, handler. With Valley Girl, liver and white Pointer bitch (King Cyrano-Josie Brighton). Gus Clay, owner and handler. Brett's Sport, black and white English Setter dog (Sport's Count Dans tone-Pride's Belle). Charles Askins, agent; J. H. Johnson, handler. With Verona Chief, black, white and tan English Setter dog (Iroquois Chief-Verona Spice). Verona Kennels, owners; F. Richards, handler. Superior's Queen, black, white and tan English Setter bitch (Fulton's Rod Count Gladstone-Oakley Belle Gladstone). L. R. Fulton owner; Frank Diamond, handler. With Miss Irish, orange and white English Setter bitch (Ruby's Dan- Snowflake HI). Arthur Stern, owner; W. H. Hammond, handler. Dervish Girl, black, white and tan English Setter bitch ( Sobert Count Gladstone-Fleety A.). *American-Llewellin Kennels, owners; W. W. Updike, handler. With Osseeo, white, black and tan English Setterdog (Count Danstone- Marie'sDot). Dr. E. R. Hickerson, owner; Ed Garr, handler. Kate Cyrano, black and white Pointer bitch (Kiug Cyrano-Josie Brighton). Dr. H. W. Arndt, owner; Ed Garr, handler. With Pioneer, orange and white EDglish Setter dog (Count Whltestone- Gracie Gladstone). T. Kelts, owner; E Shelley, handler. Lad's Meally, liver and white Pointer bitch (Lad of Jingo- Margaret). W. P. Austin, owner; A. B. Caldwell, handler. With Oakley Hill's Pride, black and white English Setter dog (Oakley Hill-Gleam's Daisy). Mrs. John Cowley, owner; E. Shelley, handler. Verona Dot, lemon and white English Setter bitch (Count White- stone-Verona Gladstone). Verona Kennels, owners; F. Richards, handler. With Pearl's Cloe, liver and white Pointer bitch (Jingo's Pearl-Ruby's Cloe). Albert Lieber, owner; F. C. Lockhart, handler. Piquet, liver and white Pointer bitch (Fryphoon-Rancocas Belle). W- H. Hammond, agent and handler. With Flintatone, white, black and tan English Setter dog (Robert Count Gladstone ). American-Llewellln Kennels, owners; W. Updike, handler Plain Rex. black, white and tan English Setter dog (Dan Bo- Thelma S.) . Thomas Griffith, owner; Nat B. Xesbitt, handler. With Rap's Pointer, liver and white dog (Young Rip Rap-Miss Pointer). E. Shelley, owner and handler. II Jessie Rodfield's Count Gladstone with Lad's Meally. Verona Chief with Copper Coin. Speck's Jingo Boy with Pioneer. Osseeo with Brett's '.Sport- General Jackson with Dervish Girl. Kate Cyrano with Pearl's Cloe. Baby Ale with Miss Irish. Ill Copper Coin with Pioneer. Lad's Meally with Osseeo. Jessie Rodfield's Count Gladstone with Speck's Jingo Boy. RESULT. 1st. Jessie Rodfield's Count Gladstone; 2d, Speck's Jingo Boy; 3d, Copper Coin; -ith, Lad'a Meally. Huron, S. d., September 4, 1903— Minnesota-North Dakota Field Trial Association's All-Age Stake, for Setters and Pointers of any age that have not won first place at any recognized field trials in any previous year. Entries close August 2, ]903. Five dollars forfeit and $10 starter for non residents of Minnesota and North Dakota and all members. Ten dollars for- feit and 810 for residents tbat are not members at the time of entry. Fnll payment of membership fee will be applied as part payment of one starting fee for the current year in either of above stakes. Domino III. black, white and tan English Setter dog (Domino- Littie Laundress). Arthur Stern, owner; W. H Hammond handler. With , Von Rip, black and white Pointer aog (Young Rip Rap-Miss Von Gull). — Armstrong, agent: J. T. Jones, handler. McKinley, black, white and tan English Setter dog (Hickory Gladstone-Thelma S.) Thomas Griffith, owner; Nat B NesbUt handler. With Lakefleld Rod, black and white English Salter dog (Rodfleld-Kate N.) Lakefield Kennels, owners; John Gude, handler. Philadelphia, black, white and tan English Setter dog (Cincin- natus1 Pride ). E. A. Burden, owner Frank'Ricbards handler. With Chief Oth^r Day. liver and white Pointer dog (Sabine's Rip R-ip- Susie'e Oottie). H. M- Giles, owner; Nat B. Nesbltt, handler. Sure Shot, black white, tan and ticked English Setter dog (Lady's Count Gladstone-Jessie RodSeld). Charles Askins agent a'o.t handler. With Pride of Rodfleld, black, white and tan English Setter dog (Red- field-Lou Gladstone II) Dr. F. W. Samuel, owner Ed Garr handler. Teddy Hotspur, black and white Pointer dog (Plain Sam \ Verona Kennels, owners; Frank Richards, handler With Slap Dash, black, white and tan English Setter dog (Lady's Count Gladstone-Maude). P. Lorillard, owner; Will Tucker, handler. Josie Brighton, black and white Pointer bitch (Brighton Joe- Jingo's Floraj. Gus Clay, owner and handler. With Blue Danstone, blue bel ton English Setterdog (Count Danstone- FairlandDot). T. A. Turner owner; W. D. Gilchrist, handler. May FJy, orange and white English Setter dog (May Prince- Glory*. G. O. Smith, owner; A. B. Caldwell, handler. With Verona Cap, orange and white English Setter dog {Lady's Count Gladstone IV-Daisy Croft). Verona Kennels, owners; Frank Richards, handler. Lady Babbie, black, wbi»e and tan English Setter hitch (Lady's Count Gladstone-Maude). P. Lorillard. owner; Will Tacker handler. With Jingo's Mike, liver and white Pointer dog (Jingo-Pat's Nellie) Thomas Smith, owner; Ed Garr, handler. Jingo's Jerry, liver and white Pointer dog (Jingo-Rose Le Hes- sen). John Allen, owner; Ed Garr, handler. With SamB, lemon and white Pointer dog (Jingo's Light-Phi) W C Banks, owner W. D. Gilchrist, handler. Alford's John, liver and white Pointer dog (Dave Kent-Cleade) Foust <£ Dickey, owners; J. T. Jones, hand'er. Witn Prince Lynden. black, white and tan English Setter dog ^Marie's Sport-West Wind). J. Cowley, owner; E. Shelley, handler. Jessie Rodfield's Count Gladstone, orange and white English Setterdog (Lady's Count Gladstone-Jossie Rodfleld). J Sher- wood, owner; E. Shelley, handler. With Lad of Jingo, liver and white Pointer dog (Jingo-Dot's Pearl) W. P. Austin, owner; A. B. Caldwell, handler. Sport's Boy Jr., lemon aad white English Setterdog (Sport's Boy- QneenWH). Frank Warnke. owner; A Albaugh, handler. With Victor Okaw, black, white and tan English Setter dog (Lady's Count Gladstone-Vic's Vic). N. B. Pantler, owner; W. D. Gil- christ, handler. Verona P. Gladstone, black, white and tan English Setter bitch (Count Gladstone IV-Countess K.). Verona Kennels owners- F. Richards, handler. With Sport Webster, black, white and tan English Setter dog (Marie's Sport-Peg's Girl). F. Towlerton, owner; W. D. Gilchrist, han- dler. Dad's Frank, lemon and white English Setter dog (Mat Ellis-Belle Wilson II). Nltta Yuma Kennels, owners; Ed Garr handler With Rip's Lass, black, white and ticked Pointer bitch (Young Rip Rap- Garth). Keller & Rlson, owners; W. D. Gilchrist, handler. Rush of Sam H, black, white and ticked Pointer dog (Rush of Sam- Lady C). W. W. Collins, owner; J. T. Jones, handler. With Alpine Lad, liver and white Pointer dog (Lad of Jingo-Fanny Flash). Charles Proctor, owner; Ed Garr, handler. King Dodo, black, white and tan English Setter dog (King Bo- CUperigo). E. E. Kraal, owner; , handler. rr. McKinley with Alford's John. Sure Shot with Lad of Jingo. Jingo's Jerry with Sam B. Alpine Lad with Jingo's Jerry. 1st, Alford's John; 2d, McKinley; 3d, Lad or Jingo; 4th Alpine Lad. DOINGS IN DOGDOM. C. F. Charles advertises for sale, two good Cocker Spaniel brood bitches and some fine Ch. Dufferin Pastime puppies. Concerning Wandee Kennels' new one the wire hair Raby Coastguard, Mr. J. J. Pirn, who judged at the Darlington Show, England, last July, says: "The show of Fox Terriers was aa usual a good one. The wire-hairs (particularly in the open dog class) were, I hear, the best show of the year. Open dogs, (wire- hairs) a grand class. Raper's Raby Coastguard, first and championship, a grand terrier, with such quality! His skull is perhaps a little thick, but is set off with such perfect ears, eye and expression, grand bone, legs, feet and front, good coat, etern, and a perfect size. Brumby's Briar Sportsman, 2nd, a beautiful hard coated young dog, with perfect neck, shoulders, bone, body, front, legs, feet, body and hind-end, good long head, wanting more coat on muzzle, and but for his ears might have woo, they want to wrinkle and tick upon head; time may or may not help this. HorsmHn's Briar Cackler, 3rd, is still the good dog he was; a little thick in skull and wavy in coat, about his only faults, front, bone, neck and shoulders Al. Warburton's Northfield Knockout, reserve, another grand terrier, with the very best head, eye. ear, and expression, his coat, legs and feet told against him in this highest company, but he will win many more prizes, all the same. The Duchess' Captain of Notts io ©he gxesifitv axtif ^povis-nxan [September 26, Idol vhc another grand terrier, had to go back for size, Le^as looking at his best. Winder's Sailor Pnnee, vbc I never Remember seeing before, he is quite a nice one, and will wia in most classes. I do not re- member ever judging four Champion dogs in a class before." The Pacific Northwest field trials will start at Whidby island, near Seattle, on next Tuesday. The initial open air show in this State will be held bv the California Collie Club at Oak Grove, the country residence of Mr. and Mrs O. J Albee wiose kind permission has been given for the holding of a one day show early in February next. A meeting will be held in San Jose on the evening of the 30th inst. for the purpose of organizing a kennel club. The prize list for the third annual bench show of the Ladies Kennel Association of America, is a very lnTeheem05ernprUe.iB each class will be US ,M0 and 85, and there is a magniicent list of special prizes. The classification is very liberal in all breeds, there being twenty classes in Cocker Spaniels; eleven in Field Spaniels: twelve in Curly Poodles; fifteen in Bulldogs: thirteen in Bull Terriers: sixteen in Beatles; twelve ia Pomeranians; eleven m Collies; twelve in French Bulldogs and Boston Terriers; thirteen in Pointers; ten in English Setters; eleven in Great Danes, and a similar liberality in the rest of The officers of the Ladies Kennel Association at iresent are, President Mrs. James L. Kernochan, Vice-President Mrs, J J. Vatable, Treasurer Mrs. Perry Belmont, Secretary Mrs. D. W. Evans. The Do» Show Committee is as follows: Mrs. James L. Kernochan, Mrs. D. W. Evans and Miss L. Alger Mr E. W. Oldham is Superintendent of the Show and Dr. Thos G. Sherwood is the Veterinarian. The judging will be done by Mr. Harding Cox, Eogland, Mr. James Mortimer, Hempstead, L. I., and Mr. H. W. Lacy, Boston, Mass. From the foregoing it will be seen that like the previous shows give d by the ladies this one will be a success, and no effort will be spared by the com- mittees cr the superintendent to eclipse their own record in dog shows. "Dof Society News" is the head under which a de- partment in a Benton Harbor, Mich., newspaper is conducted. The matter is collected and edited by a bright youDg woman, and she has made the news- paper hit of Michigan's chief fruit-shipping port. The reporter, in making her rounds about the city, was told so much about pet dogs, cats and horses that she was provided with an item or two each day, and publishing them she found that they made friends and subscribers for the paper, so she is keep- ing it up. The doings of dogs of all degrees are accurately chronicled. The city has a large number of blooded dogs, and when an item about one gets into print it creates more talk than does a paragraph about a human being. Kennel Registry. WHELPS. Dr. O. P. Roller's R. C. St. Bernard bitch Lady Lucile II. (Duke D.-Princess Louise), whelped September lo, 19J3. nine puppies (4 dogs) to Nairod Kennels' Ch. GraDd Master n. (Cb. Grand Master-BonDie Doone). Nairod Kennels' black Cocker Spaniel bitch Imp (Black Trophy -Stella Silk), whelped September 15. 1903. four black puppies (2 dogs) lo Plumeria Kennels" Ch. Hampton Goldie (Ch. .*ed Mack- Hampton Queen Readie). VISITS. Nairod Kennels' black Cooker Spaniel bitch Xairod Maid (Wooland Jersev-Woodland Countess) to Wm F. Roeder's black Cocker Spaniel Res (Ch. DuHerin Pastime-Sweetheart) September 19, 1903. ♦ Free!! Freell Free!! AT THE TRAPS. GOSSIP FOR SPORTSMEN The Polk Miller Drug Co. of Richmond, Va., whose advertise- ments of ■■Sergeant's Dog Remedies" are appearing now in the oolumns of this journal, desire us to state that they will furnish absolutely free to our readers a revised copy of their book on " Dogs." which accurately and exhaustively treats of the more frequent diseases with which Dogs are afflicted. Enclose them 3c in stamps to cover cost of mailing the book. They have recently made P. W. Braun&Co. of Los Angeles, California, distributing agents for their popular line of " Dog Remedies." and extend an invitation to all persons having sick dogs lo write them describ- ing symptoms, etc. Enclose stamp for reply. No charge will be made for information furnished. Coming Events. The feature of the Union Gun Club blue rock shoot at Ingleside, Sunday, was the contest for the Phil B. Bekeart trophy between George Sylvester and C. C. Nauman. The race was at 100 targets and was won by Nauman, who broke 91 blue rocks against Syl- vester's score of 84. This trophy has now been won three times bv Mr. >.auman. The prize, an elegant silver cup, is a perpetual challenge trophy, the holder is bound by the conditions to enter a race and defend his title against anv and all comers before the traps. Theconditions are 100 targets at 16 yards rise, each challenger to post $5 before the race. The winner of each shoot to receive the challenge money posted and the loser or losers to pay for the birds. The cup was first shot for July 15, 1901, at Ingleside. The initial winner was A. J. Webb, who scored 94 out of 100. The other contestants and scores made were: M. O. Feudner 90, Fred Feudner 54, C. A. Haight 83, Ed Schultz 88, J. Bruns 83 and W. J. Golcher 88. The next race took place August 19. 1901. It was between Webb and Feudner. Webb won again, the score being 95 to 93. On September 22d, M. J. Iver- son broke 93 birds and won the cup, beating C. C. Nauman 89, A. J. Webb 90, Mr. Denzell 90 and G. Sylvester S4. The next contention for the cup was February 22. 1903. Nauman broke 96 targets and won over M. J. Iverson 73, O. Feudner 85, G. W. Gibson 72, G. Syl- vester S9, and Captain Whitworth, U. S. Army, B8. Another smokeless powder argument was had on April 10, this year, wben Nauman again captured the trophy with a record of 92 against D. Daniels 86, Iverson 84. T. L. Lewis 47, Jack Fanning 85 and G. Sylvester S3. The cup is still open to competition, which will take place when the season opens again next year. All the above shoots took place at Ingle- side. The final shoot of the Millwood Gun Club will take place to-morrow near Mill Valley. The John R. Orr trophy, the M. O. Feudner medal and the club badge will be shot for by the winners respectively of these prizes at each of the club monthly shoots this season. April l-Sept. 10. Oct. 16-Feb. 1— Open season for taking steel- nead in tidewater. April 1-Nov. !— Trout season open. July 1-Jan. '.—Open season for black bass. Aug. 15-April 1— Open season for lobsters and craVflsh. Sept. 1-Nov. 1 — Close season for crabs. Sept. 1-May 1— Open season for shrimp. Sept. 10-Oct. 16 -Close season in tidewater for steelbead. Sept. 26— Saturday Contest. Class re-entries. Stow lake 2:30 p. m Sept. 27— Sunday Contest. Class re-entries. Stow lake, 10 a. m. Nov. 15-Sept. 10— Season open for taking salmon above tide water. Gun. July 1-Feb. 15— Dove season open. July 15-Nov. 1— Deer season open. Sept. 1-Feb. 15— Open season for mountain quail grouse and sage hen. S«pt. 27— Millwood Gun Club. Blue rocks. Mill Station. Oct. 15-Feb. 15— Open season .'or quail, ducks, etc. Bench Shows. Oct. 6, 7, 8, 9— Danbury Agricultural Society. Danbury, Conn John W. Bacon, Treasurer. I, 81, R, 23-Frederick County Agricultural Society Frederick, Md. J. Roger McSherry, Secretary, Frederick, Md. ' Oct.— Bench Show in Spokane, Wash. Tne Union Gun Club closed the club trap season for this year at Ing»eside last Sunday. M. J. Iverson was the winner of first medal and F. Herring second medal each shooter having won these particular trophies oftenest during the year. Club race, re-entry, 25 targets — Hoyt 22. Walpert 15, Kincannon 18. Patrick 13, Knick 14, "Slade" 22, Jansen 18, Daniels 23, Leary 16, C. Sylvester 16. Hut- ton 17, Fish 19, Lidstone 16, F. Feudner 21, G. Sylves- ter 23, Iverson 21, Nauman 22, Shurtliff 15, Lewis 12, Fuller 19, W. Hansen 15, Gordon 19, Pisani 19, H. Klevesahl 14, Westphall IS, Pratt 10, Wallam 13, Liebert 16, Walsh 14, P. Finnochio 16, Shreve 9, Bnrns 14, Mastersoo 15, Herring 11, Barber 9, Muller 19, E. Klevesahl in, W. Robertson 23. Winners first class — Daniels. Sylvester and Robert- son. Second class — Hoyt and Nauman. Third class — Fish, Fuller, Gordon, Pizzani and Muller. Fourth class— H. Sylvester, Leary, Liebert, P. Finnochio and E. Klevesahl. Fifth class— Patrick and Wallam. Sixth class — Shreve and Barber. Club handicap medal race, 25 to 30 birds — Leary 17, Fish 17, Walpert 21, Hutton 18, Jansen 21, Kincannon 20, C. Sylvester 26 Patrick 19, Lidstone 14, Knick 20, Iverson (18 yards; 22. Daniels (18 yards) 16, Gordon (IS yards) 17, Hoyt (IS yards: 16, Lewis (18 yards) 17, P. Finnochio (18 yards) 19, Nauman 17, Fuller 16, Gaorge Sylvester IS. W. Hansen 14, Herring 17, Pisani 16, Liebert 5, Wallam 17, Walsh 15. Westphal 20, Barber 16, Burns 16, Muller (18 yards) 16, Robert- son 25. Added money race. 16 yards rise, handicap on birds, 20 being possible— Kincannon shot at 23, broke 20; Gordon 23-19, E. Klevesahl 23-16, W.Hansen 25-19. Patrick 25-18, Lidstone 24-19, Fish 23-20, Hoyt 21-18, Finnochio 24-20, Hutton 23-18, Iverson 21-20 F Feudner 22-20, C. Sylvester 21-18. Burns 24-13, G. Sylvester 21-16, Knick 25-19, Nauman 20-1], Daniels 20-18, Walpert 23-13, Robinson 22-19, Mastereon 25- 18. King 23-22. Lso Kincannon, C. S. Fish, M. J. Iverson and F. Feudner were the winners in this race. Shoot at five pairs of doubles— Sylvester 8, Barber 2, Patrick 6, Westphal 6, Pisani 4, Masterson 3, Lind- stoneS, King 6. Team shoot. 4 men, 15 targets per man — E. Klevesahl, captain, 12: C. Sylvester 12: \Iur- dock 12; Knick, 10. Total 46. Finnochio, captain, 13; Masterson, 11: Daniels 13- Hutton, 8. Total 45. Nauman, captain, 15; Walpert, 11: Kincannon, 12- Westphal, 6. Total 44. Pratt, captain, 7; F Feudner, 13; Gordon 14- Fuller, 10. Total 44. Burns, captain, 8; H. Klevesahl, 9; Lewis, 7; Wallom 9. Total 33. ' Fish, captain, 6: Pisani, 7: Patrick, 9: Herrin» 10 Total 32. ■ ei • Iverson, captain, 11: Barber, 4; Lidstone, 7- T Walsh. 9. Total 31. ' W. Hansen, captain, 6: G. Sylvester, 10: Hovt, 10' Liebert, 3. Total 29. it, Dr. J. A. Hutton of Berkeley won a special 100-bird match, the scores being Dr. Hutton 92, Barber 90 and Wallam 80. C. C. Nauman scored 94 out of 100 targets in a con- test with G. Sylvester for the Phil B. Bekeart challenge cup; the latter broke 84 tareets. . Fall Shooting Outfits. Open season for ducks and quail is less than a month off— it's a short time, so get ready early. Skinner has some decoy-- wooden and canvas pneumatic, that cannot be beat. Racine built duck- boats, to see one is to want it. Rain coats, hats and pants of a special tule color. The latest wrinkle in ammunition cases n3^r,„C"',nif,tall;CU-For upIand sh°°«bS- °e has the proper 'hS in comfortable clothing and footwear. See Skinner Sui Market Btreet, for a complete outfit for the shooting season MarK<=t Mountain quail and grouse are very plentiful n Truekee. Frank Rutherford of Marysville recer bagged 20 quail and 4 grouse in a day's shooting the banks of Pole creek. At a meeting of the Solano Board of Supervis this week the matter of strictly enforcing the gal laws was brought up, it having been reported th . had been violations of the same in certain parts of county. The Supervisors have decided to take evi[ precaution this year to prevent the killing of gat before the season opens, making special reference ' the duck hunting season, which commences on Octo , 15th. All officers of the county will be instructed \ keep a keen lookout for all violators of the law. The Watsonville Rod and Gun Club proposes take a band in aidiog Game Warden Reed to eofo the game laws in that part of Santa Cruz corn The hunting of game out of the season sho ' deemed an obsolete custom. Live specimens of mountain quail, cinnamon u butterball and "ring neck" ducks are desired for Eastern collector. The editor would feel urn obligations if any one who is able to furnish th birds would send in a communication staling parti lars. Shooting wild pigs is the latest hunting divers of big Jim Jeffries, the champion pugilist. Accompanied by his old-time friend, Dave Bran Jeffries left Los Angeles this week for Yuma, » the double purpose of inspecting a promising min claim, and shooting a few of the wild bogs which . rapidly making the Lower California couitry fam. among lovers of dangerous game. The party of two is making a flying trip this til and will probably be gone only a week, but tbis abundant time to allow the pair two or three day first class sport. At Yuma, tbey took a boat, wilh an Indian gui already engaged, and went down the liver ii Mexico. About thirty miles run on the 6wift curr> of the Colorado will take them into first class count On each side of the river are extensive tule marst Millions of ducks, geese, bay snipe and other wa birds may be found in the Colorado estuary the j. round. On the low hills which fringe the water cou are innumerable bands of quail and occasional dt But it is in the tules themselves that the characters game of the section is found. Herds of hundreds of big black pigs, not the he* coarse swine of the pen, clean built, athletic cht with tusks several inches long, keen as razors, e the speed of a deer, dangerous game to hunt, as v as splendid meat wben in the larder, make th home in the river marshes. Their origin is rat. doubtful, but those familiar with the country belli they are the progeny of escaped domestic hogs, l wild and gone back to the state of nature. Anr< who has seen a Georgia razorback boar can ha good idea of what these wild Colorado hogs look 11 As their principal food is the pungent tule roots' creatures attain a peculiar delicate and pleas j flavor, it is said, and being on the run much of ' time they do not become greasy like most hot dim pork. They form the principal food of the min who live in this section, and hunters report it is p sible to pay the expenses of a trip and equipment shooting hogs and selling theircarcasses to these c sumers, who are too busy to kill their own meat. Hunting the Colorado river pigs is a work of enou real danger to satisfy nearly any pursuer of big gai Like their smaller cousins, the peccaries, tbey very fierce when disturbed. Their speed and agilj makes them a different proposition from an ordin;1 hog They lay in the tules all day and hunters «l make a business of pursuing them, have a small pi of muzzled dogs, half Hound, half Bull Terrier, wb are slipped in to rout out the porkers. Without j muzzles, they would get into a fight with the b-1 and be killed, butwith their jaws closed they can o root and worry the game uutil it bursts from the ti with a series of loud grunts and starts across cleared land for another lair, perhaps some bundr of yards away. At these times the hunters get! their deadly work, and often a dozen hogs will strewn in front of a pair of shooters as the tropl of one drive. The danger of hunting lies in the direction j pigs take when coming out of the tules. If tl should head direct for the hunters, there is ev< prospect of a band-to-hand encounter, and perb;i fatal injury. For this reason hunters usually sh from horse-back, or erect small platforms using i this purpose the stubby trees of the country wbenel practicable. Often when repeatedly routed out ' hogs become very ugly, and go out of their wayi make trouble. Some Los Angeles shooters who 0] tried the Colorado pig game report being treed ov, night by a drove of them, and the sensation of gna' ing tusks, frothing mouths, and occasional blows | the tree butt was by na means a pleasant one. A Road Into the Big Basin. At a recent meeting of the Santa Cruz Boarc Supervisors it was by resolution declared to be intention of the Board to construct the Boulder Cni and Pescadero road, providing that deeds for an. obstructed right of way be given to the com and that this county (Santa Cruz) complete the r< from the Santa Cruz county line to Pescadero. ' wards the cost of construction, $6000, the sum of $2 has been subscribed. Jackson's Napa Soda is sold in every city, to and bamlet in the State. September 2t.. 1903] ®he gxeeftev atva &pcvt&xn(m 11 THE FARM. District Fairs Needed. Mr. E C. Peart, one o£ the leading merchants and stock raisers of Colusa county, writes as follows to the Sacra- mento Bee: Permit me space to express my opinion in regard to your State Fair that has just closed. I am reliably informed it fell below, both in attendance and enthusiasm, any fair held in years at your beautiful city. In order to make the State Fair or any other enterprise at the State Capital a drawing card or success, it is important to interest the people from every section of the State. You cannot succeed by in- teresting your home people only, you have them with you, anyway . Allow me to say, the greatest drawback to you this season and one that will con- tinue to grow, was the lack of district fairs. The district fair is simply a feeder to your State fair. Show me an enterprising stock raiser who could afford to keep or put a string of good racing material in condition simply to attend and compete at a State fair. It cakes time, money and enter- prise to condition stock of his clas=. With district fairs they have the means of com- peting at different places for purses and premiums. Let us take, for instance, twenty or thirty counties in California that hold these Fairs Each locality has good stock. When they start around the circuit; each particular place has a large following, and with each meeting the interest in the Fairs increase After these District Fairs are ove , they all look forward to a gala time at State Fair. This is your success. Every man has influence. When there is interest you get the people; when the interest dies out people remain at home. That was the case this year. How about District Fairs in 1903? Did we hear of aDy? I think not. To what cause do we attribute this? A County Fair must be an agricultural fair. It cannot be held without State aid. You will remember we have had a small appropriation for such fairs for several years until 1903. This money has been expended strictly within the letter of the law, viz , for premiums on stock and agricultural products. Not one penny of these appropriations is allowed to go for Bpeed contests. Did the State treat the people right in 1903 in not allowing these appropriations as hereto- fore for said Fairs? I voice my senti- ments, and think I can get 10,000 good American cit zens and voters of California who will indorse my ideas. Men that are interested in breeding and raising line stock who will say, "No," emphati- cally "No." Next, does it change the rate of taxa- tion to make these small appropriations? BK If we will look back a few years, I think every taxpayer will say no. Then, we must have these appro- priations back with increased amounts. Otherwise you will be forced by cir- cumstances over which the dear people have no control, to turn the Agricultural Park track over to the Automobile Asso- ciation, where the machines may run at a two-minute gait. But I would tremble to see my good friend the Governor, and Commissioner Ryan, on one, as the ex- plosion of a tire would land a man in eternity without even a chance to say good-bye to his mother-in-law. E. C. Peart. Colusa, September 15th. Xo definite time caa be specified for breeding stock. When they are large enough and strong enough, breed. Feeding and Breeding flogs. To begin with one must have hogs which are good feeders, prolific and with strong constitutions. For a good many years I have been raisiDg Duroc-Jerseys and Ind them very satisfactory, writes H. P. Hartman in Orange Judd Farmer. The sows are good mothers, farrow large litters of pigs and this breed is quite free from disease. I never keep a sow that does not raise from 18 to 20 pigB a year. Last summer four of my Duroc sows farrowed 42 pigs and raised 38 of them. I do not breed them for a litter. My sows run on a pasture all the time. I think this has much to do with their being able to raise large litters. I run them in a 30-acre weeds pasture and then supply in addi- tion rye or rape for greer feed and use slop stuff and bran, but seldom feed much corn until the pigs are four to six months old. I feed turnips to all my breeding stock during the winter and spring, until the grass comes. This gives them a variety and in my opinion is instrumental in building up good bone. Anyone can put fat on hogs, but it re- quires some skill to secure a good frame. I took a trip through Kansas recently and found that many Kansas farmers had fed little but corn a.nd kept their sows too fat. As a result they secured small litters and pigs which were not healthy. That kind of hog raising does not pay. Feed less corn and more oats and bran. I use single hog houses for my sows, measuring 7x7 feet, with a slanting roof 5 feet above the ground in front and 3 feet above at the back. I place a 2x4 as a fender 6 inches from the wall all around, to keep the sows from killing their young pigs. Begin with the pigs when three or four weeks old They will soon learn to eat a mixture of bran and milk and this will make them grow very rapidly. Make a thick slop of this and add a handful of oil meal to each pail of the mixture. 1 have had pigs weigh 40 to 60 pounds at two montbB old, at which time I begin feeding a little corn. For two months more I feed corn rather lightly and then if I want to send my hogs to market, I begin to feed more heavily, often securing a 200' pound pig at six months. However, if you want to keep the pigs as breeders, do not crowd them so rap dly. A breeding pig need not weigh more than 150 pounds at six months and 175 to 200 pounds at eight to ten months. Causes of Tainted Milk. The Swiss scientist, Dr. Gerber, gives the following causes of bad or tainted milk: 1. Poor, decayed fodders, or irrational methods of feeding. 2. Poor, dirty water used for drinking water or for the washing of utensils. 3. Foul air in cow stable, or the cows lying in their own dung. 4. Lack of cleanliness in milking; ma- nure particles on udder. 5. Keeping the milk long in too warm, poorly ventilated and dirty places. G. Neglecting to cool the milk rapidly directly after milking. 7. Lack of cleanliness in the care of the milk, from which causes the greater num- ber of milk taints arise. 8. Poor transportation facilities. 9. Sick cows, udder diseases, etc 10. Cows being in heat. 11. Mixing freBh and old milk in the same can. 12. Rusty tin pails and tin cans. Experts estimate that Great Britain will this year have to import 210,000,000 bushels of wheat to supplement the crop, which is estimated at 40,000,000 bushels. Crop conditions in France in- dicate that the British appetite for bread will 1 ave to be satisfied from the American crop. Jackson's Napa Soda does not tangle the feet. Dairymen's Union. The dairymen of the counties about the bay who furnish milk to the markets of San Francisco have for several months been doing their business under a com- bination of interests. They have organized under the title of the Kay Counties Com- mercial Company and have offices at 405 Front street. The company includes dairy- men of Marin, Alameda, Contra Costa, San Joaquin, San Mateo, Santa Clara and San Francisco countiep, and at present it controls about 90 per cent of the milk that is shipped to this city and delivered by retailers. Last February the company was incorporated. It buys the milk from the producers at a fixed price delivered in the city, and it sells to the dealers and deliverers. The directors of the company are M. T. Frietas, a large milk shipper of Marin county and commission merchant of this city who is also its president; R. D. Hatch of Novato; M. Johnson, who has a herd of about a thousand cows in San Joaquin county; N. Hansen of San Fran- cisco; F. Machado of San Mateo and F. Pohlman cf Alvarado. F. J. McGuire is the secretary and business agent of the company. Sixty of the largest dairymen in these counties are interested in the company. This company was formed shortly after efforts were started to absorb the interest of the various milk distributors of the city into one large concern. Its inception was mainly due to the fact that the city dealers had united and raised the prices of milk to the consumers and the pro- ducers concluded that if the consumers were obliged to pay more for the product they should at least share in the increase. The company by its effert? now disposes of the milk to the distributors and the city dealers at 14 cents a gallon, while a short time ago the price the producers received was only 10 cents. Thecompany on the strength of this increased price contracts with the dealers and deliverers that it will supply them with milk of the best quality and it demands of the shippers that the milk sent to the city shall at least be of a standard of three and six-tenths of butter fat and it is the pur- pose of the company to employ an expert to test clOBely all the milk that the com- pany receives and puts out. In raising hand-fed animals, one of the greatest mistakes is in expecting them to eat too much. Live Stock Notes. A mule gets along better than a horse because he looks out for himself better. Pigs confined in a pen need plenty of green food; give them weeds, green corn, green fruit, etc. Fat, corn-fed sows are apt to have small litters of pigs: those in lower flesh are more prolific. In handling fractious cattle a rope around the horns gives a man a great advantage. But nothing subdues like persistent kind treatment. In Japan stable doors oper at the front and the horse is backed into his stall. When needed, the door is opened and the horse is led out. Few things have been found equal to skim milk and ground oats as a ration for hogs. Corn is too fattening unless ithe object is to fatteD. Eastern papers say that the fad for dockiDg horses is on the wane. Horse I shows, also, have taken action against it j and require all horses to have long tails. In Europe horse beans are common < feed for horses, and are considered the I necessary food for ttum when perfoim- ing long journeys or severe labor. We read of a cattle raiser who pro- vides a shed in the pasture for his stock. It is hung with burlap sacks, so that they may walk between tbem and rub off the flies. It is a growing opinion that teams need water, when at work, oftener than three times a day, and should have op- portunity to take a small drink every time a man is thirsty. Much care should be taken of a sow with her first brood, because what she -does then will largely determine what she will do hereafter. One litter of pigs a year is enough for her. In feeding horses, it is recommended that hay be fed first, followed by grain. They say that it is like eating Die and cake first, to feed grain first and the substantial afterward. When horses rest at noon, the har- ness shonld be taken off. If the work has been heavy, the shoulders should be bathed with cold water. This should be done especially in the evening. FOR SALE. ~~~ •-pHE PACING GELDING, AL SANDX 3:26 *- by Wayland W\, dam Rapid Ann by Overland. Can pace three heais better than 2:30. Can brush very fast on the road. Also the black pacing gelding, DOC 2:28, one of the best roadsters in the city. Can lower his record several seconds. Both horses are excellent prospects to race. For prices and further particulars address S. WATSON, 235 Douglas street, San Francisco. CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FAIR! F'A.IFLl at HAN FORD cal OCTOBER 5 to 10, 1903 The Only Agricultural Fair held in the State This Fall (outside of Sacramento). Four or More Horse Races every day. Automobile Races. Motor Bicycle Races. The Largest Gathering of Pure Bred Live Stock ever exhibited in Central California. Persons deslrlog to make Pavilion Display or Live Stock Exhibits should apply at once for space and stall room. Premium List sent on application. F. L. HOWARD, Secy. N. P. DUNCAN, Pre 12 @he gveeZftv onfc Ztp&vt&xncm I September 26, 1903 Waste of Dairy Products on Farms. Year in and year out the farmers who make butter ior market accept a lower price 'or it than the creameries demand and get. Fresh creamery butter will average 23 or 24 cents per pound during tbe entire year in California. 1-arm butter sells for an average of less than 13 cents and down as low as ten cents per pound. Why this difference? SxmbaWs ..plains it: In "the first place, it cannot be supposed that the farmer's wife, who makes most of the farm butter, can use starters, pasteurize cream, etc., under present con- ditions. This is impractical for they sel- dom make more than 3 to 5 pounds at a churning; and. further, if they did try these creamery methods the probabilities are the butter would be no better than at present, for one needs special training in theBe methods. But it is a fact that the greater portion of farm dairy butter is very poor, and it is also a fact that this same butter could be made considerably better if different methods were used. In the first place, the cream should be taken from a single day's milking. Skim it thick and dilute with good, clean tweet milk till it is what we would call good table cream. Pat this into a cylindrical-shaped can and 8"t this can in water tempered to 65 degrees F. Allow it to stand over night. As a usual thing you will find the cream sour in the morning, and, if care has been taken, the BOur flavor is clean and sharp. Cool this cream to 5S degrees F. and chum. As soon as the butter breaks and the granules be. come the size of a grain of wheat, stop churning. Draw off the butter milk, running it through a Btrainer so that the fine particles of butter will not he wasted. Now waBh the butter with good, clean water tempered at 52(3 56 degrees F. After allowing the butter to stand in the water for a few minutes draw off the water in the same manner as the butter milk was drawn. Place the butter upon the butter worker or in tbe bowl and then sprinkle good dairy salt over it evenly. Now work for a few minutes at a time, until the salt is all dissolved and evenly distributed throughout the butter. This will require about one hour, but do not work it more than five times during this hoar nor longer than two or three minutes at a time. If this method is followed your butter will generally be very good. Do not under any consideration churn your butter until it gatherB up into a lump. When you do this it is impossible to wash out all the butter milk, and in addition, considerable- casein is incor- porated in the butter. Casein and butter milk prevent butter from Keeping— this being one of the most prominent charac- teristics of farm butter— it will not keep. Do not attempt to work all the water out of the butter — the more water left in the butter, the better will he its flavor and the longer it will generally keep. ■-♦ Variety and Palatability. rape in connection with either grass or sown sorghum, no corn is fed. On the other hand, should the supply of forage be deficient in leguminous plants, a mixed slop of skim-milk, ground oats, shorts and barley is fed at least once a day. Strictly speaking, rape is not a legume, but in feeding value as a green forage it ranks nest to clover and tbe soybean as a feed for growing hogB and brood sows. I always try to feed what the animals like best, and where one has a large variety, he will find that the appetites of hogB, are as variable as those of men. When the pigs are old enough to need a more 6olid diet than their mother's milk, if kept on pasture they have every opportunity to gather what suits them best. We often feed in addition to reg- ular diet a slop of ground cereals, in a pen separate from the sows. In winter, the diet is as varied as in summer. Of course, a little more grain is fed, as it is necessary to provide some heat producing element to the ration. But rootE of all kinds are utilized, clover hay, sorghum from the stack or silo, alfalfa hay, pumpkins, stock melons or anvthiDg the animals will eat in this line. I find it not only economical, hut much better for the digestive organs of the bogs as well. We have not had a diseased hog on oar premises in years, and attribute it to the new method of feeding — C. B. Barrett. Lumpy Jaw. This disease more often affects cattle than other animals. It is due to a fungus sometimes called the ray fungus or actinomycosis. The fungus occurs upon grasB and other vegetation and it is only when it becomes introduced into the tissues that it causeB trouble. The disease cornea from eating and outside sources and is not contagious in the usual sense of the word. Several animals may become affected while on tbe same pasture, but this is due to all being exposed alike. Some years the number of cases is greater than others, owing to the greater develop, ment of this fungus The disease affects the jaw more than other parts, due to the fact that the tissueB are sometimes broken in the act of chewing and thus permitting infection. Any part of tbe body may be attacked. The disease is comparatively easy to treat. A drachm of iodide of potash is given twice a day for two weeks to twenty dayB. For cattle weighing twelve hundred pounds or more the dose is somewhat increased, and lessened for calves. If pus be present in the lump, it should be let oat by inciBion. In a few refractory cases a second period of treat- ment may be required after resting for ten days. About eighty per CPnt of recoveries may be expected. Affected animals should be kept away from the healthy and off the pasture field. In the case of milch cows the milk should not be used.— A. W. Bitting. Veterinarian, Purdue University Experiment Station. It costs as much to feed a mongrel aB a thoroughbred and without as good returns for the money spent. Why not Eave money by keeping the best? Saves Money Saves Horses The Test of Time serves to show that for Spavins, Ring Bones, Curbs, Splints and all farms of Lameness nothing is sure bat Kendall's Spavin Cure. When men write like the below after years of experience they know what they are talk- ing about. Silvtrtea, ObL. J»a. 4, 1903. Dr. R. J. Ktcfljll Co., Entxbnij FiJK. Tl Deu Sir*; — EmrUJra SpATiii Con tat rweiTT jttn Lu t>MS my rTjfr-fJl for both bancs isd "'in, and Hat ale-ay* ctt>iti r °i tii fa lien. Terj trait J can, W. H. SISSOS. Price PI; 6 for 85. As a liniment for family ase it has no equal. AlldruppiEts. Book "A Treatise on ths Horse" mailed free. Address DR. B. J. KE1DALL CO., EhOSEURG FAILS, VT. WESTCHESTER RAGING ASSOCIATION (UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE JOCKEY CI.CB.) Race Course, Morris Park, Westchester, N. Y. Office, Room 201, 571 Fifth Avenue, New York "The Windsor Arcade." THE EIGHTH National Stallion Race WITH $5000 ADDED To Be Run For by Then Two-Year-Olds During the SPRING MEETING of 1905 ENTRIES FOR STALLIONS TO CLOSE AND NAME Thursday, October 1, 1903 In bog raising, one of tbe most difficult lesEons for the beginner to learn, is the importance of furnishing, throogbout the entire year, a large variety of good, whole- some food. His one idea usually is corn, or corn and ewill, possibly; at any rate, corn forms the basis of the dietary. The writer, after long experience and repeated trials has discarded the old grain feeding system, except at fattening time. I now pay more attention to nitro- genous, or muecle-forming foode and green paatur?. The sow before farrowing is kept on pasture during the spring, summer and fall months, with little or no grain according to the quality of green food furnished by the pasture. If there is a goodly proportion of alfalfa, clover or McKinney Stallion AND Fast Road Team FOR SALE. STALLION TWO YEARS OLD. Dam one of the be9t bred mares in the State. Colt only fairly broken and can show quarters better than forty secondg. Large and handsome. Entered in all California stakes. Team well matched, gentle and sound. Will sell separately. Well-broken sin- gle, and very fast. JAMES H. GKAT, Santa Kosa, CaL Conditions for Entry of Stallions. Nominations of Stallions to close and name by midnight of Thursday, October 1, 1903, by subscription of S50 each, or only $25 each for stallions which have not sired a winner prior to December 15, 1903. Of the subscriptions for Stallions the nominators of the sires of the first, second and third horses shall receive 25 per cent, 15 per cent and 10 per cent, respectively. The remaining 50 per ceDt to the winner. Conditions for the Entry of Foals of 1903, to Close and Name by Midnight, Tuesday, December 15, 1903. Foals of 1903, the progeny of Stallions duly nominated to be entered and named by midnight of Tuesday, December 15, 1903. Colts and Geldings at $10 each, Fillies at $5 each, the only forfeit if declared by December 15, 1901. If left in after December 15, 1904, and declared by April 20, 1905, Colts and Geldings to pay $30 each, Fillie9 $15 each. If left in after April 20, 1905, Colts and Geldings to pay $60 each, Fillies $30 each. Starters — Colts, Geldings and Fillies to piy $100 each additional. The Westchester Racing Association to add $5000 and the remaining 50 per cent of the Stallion entrances, of which $1200 to the second and $600 to the third. The nominator of the winner to receive $1000 out of the subscriptions and starting money. Of the subscriptions for Stallions, the nominators of the sires of the first, second and third horses shall receive 25 per cent, 15 per cent and 10 per cent, respectively. Colts to carry 122 lbs., GeldingB and Fillies 119 lbs. The Droluce of Stallions which have not produced a winner prior to Decem- ber 15, 1903, allowed 5 lbs. if claimed at time of entry. By filing with the West- chester Racing Association, prior to December 1. 1904. an accepted transfer of the foal's entry, the original subscriber shall be released from liability as to the en- gagement of the horse, except for the original forfeit of $10 or $5. LAST ITTE FURLONGS OF THE ECLIPSE COUBSE 1906, The Eighth Matron, for Mares covered in 1903, Foals of 1904, to run at the Autumn Meeting, 1906, will close Tuesday, December 15, 1903, for which entry blanks will be duly mailed. For Entry Blanks apply at the office of the Breeder and Sportsman, 36 Geary Streetj San Francisco, Ca!. H. G. CRICKMORE, Clerk of the Course. c PALACE HOTEL, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA. "N TOURISTS and TRAVELERS will, now, wito difficulty recognize the famous COURT into which for twenty-five years carriages have driven. This space of over a quarter of an acre has recently, by the addition of very handsome furniture, rags, chandeliers and tropical plants, been converted Into a lounging room— the FINEST IX THE WORLD. The EMPIRE PARLOR— the PALM ROOM, furnished in Cerise, witb Billiard aDd Pool tables for the ladles— the LOUIS XV PARLOR the LADIES WRITING ROOM and numerous other modern Improvements, together with the unexcelled Cuisine and the Most Convenient Location in the City — all add much to the ever increasing popularity of this most famous HOTEL. FOR SALE. Three Standard-Bred Trotting Stallions WILKES STOCK. One Seal Brown, 16 hands, foaled May 2. 1898; first dam Fearless by Fallis 4781 (record 223 : second dam Jean Perault bv Signal 3327 One Oolden Bay. Id. 1 hands, foaled Marco 5, 1698; first dam Signal by Del Sur 1038 (record 2-241 dam of Guy Line 2:29?^; second dam Lady Sig- nal by Signal 3527. ' fc One Brown, whitepoints. 16.1 hands. foaled April ill brother to the bay. These colts are all sired bv Prince Airlee 28045 son of Guy Wilkes 2807 (record 8:15m), and bred bv Win. Corbltt. San Mateo, Cal. They are pure gaited ana show wonderful speed for the little work they have done. For further particulars apply to P. H. MoEVOY, Menlo Park, CaL I Your stable is not complete without Qninn's I Ointment. An infallible cure for all ordi- - nary horse afflictions. Follow the example ~ set by the leading horsemen of the world and your stable shelf will always hold a bottle of Quinn's Ointment A. L. Thomas, Snpt. Canton Farm, Joliet, BL, remarks, lenclose rou amount for sir bottles of Qa tan1 s Ointment. After one .year's trial must confess it does all yon claim for it. For Curbs, Splints, Spavins, Windpnffa or Bunches. Price $i.oo per package. Sold by all druggists, or sent by mail. | W. B. EDDY & CO., Whitehall, N. Y. W. B. EDDY & CO, VVVVWrVVVVVVVVIrVVWV TRY IT. SEPTEMBER;26, 1903] &hs gveebev onto gpaxtsfntaxt IS Chicken Chatter. Never fail to feed your birds a well- cooked mash once a day. Specialists are the order of the day ; specialize and be successful. Keep chicks of the same age together ; especially at the feeding time. Both chickens and orchard wi 1 profit by the chickens having free range there. After caponizmg give freely of water but sparingly of food for two or three days. Stone drinking-vessels keep the water cooler than tin, and therefore are better for the birds Sunflowers furnish fine shade in the chicken-yard and the seeds make excellent food for the fowls. Well-ventilated bouses where there are no draughts, with clean roosts, nest boxes and floors, assure health. Add to this perfect absence of damp- ness within the house, and the impossi- bility for insect vermin to exist, and all will be well A tablespoon ful of linseed meal added to the mixed feed three times a week is very beneficial for moulting fowls. Corn and cornmeal fed to fowlB two weeks before killing them for market will make them heavier and of better qualitv. Cockerels to be caponized should be kept without food and water from twenty- four to forty-eight hours before the opera- tion. Save your two best spring cockerels for next year'a breeding; it is a mistake to keep the late hatched ones that in all probability will be stunted. It in always best to have a covering of clean, dry soil or sand scattered over the floor. This can be so easily sifted and screened and kept clean. Sober up on Jackson's Napa Soda. NEW MODEL 1903 BEST ROAD CART MADE. O'BRIEN & SONS Cor. Golden Gate Ave. and Polk St. SAN FRANCISCO, CAt FOR SALE. 'pHK PACING MARE 9WANHILDA. Sbe is 1 a handsome bay, coming seven years old, a natural pacer and with but little track work can pace a mile below 2:20 with ease. Gentle and kind and has been driven by ladles to buggy. She is a fine roadster and with proper training will make a great race mare. For pedigree and further particulars address W. L. MCDONALD, Concord, Cal. WEST.COAST. WIRE'jfc IRONIwOrS, [ 19 FREMONT. SISAN FRANCJSCO. , BREEDERS' DIRECTORY. HOXSTEIN8— Winners of every 7 days' butter contest at State Fair 1899 1st & 2d for aged cows, *-yr-, 8-yr. and 2-yr.-olds; 21 Jerseys and Durhama competing. 5th year my Holsteins have beaten Jerseys for butter." Stock for sale; also pigs. F. H. Burke, 80 Montgomery St., S. F. JERSEYS, HOLSTEINS AND DURHAM3. Dairy Stock specially. Hogs, Poultry. Estab- lished 1878. William Niles & Co.. Los Angeles, CaL Turtle's Elixir has drawn the following expressions of endorsement from Its grateful users in every state and terri- tory In the Union. Invaluable for man or beast . Gives Immediate relief. Unequaled for Colic. Very satisfactory results. Best for Spavio. Shoe Boil removed. Uouldn'I be without it. Never lost a hair. Saved a beap of money. Speedily relieves pain. $5000 REWARD for every oneof the above endorsements that can be proven spurious. Tuttle'6 Elixir for use in the stable. Tuttle's Family Elixir for use in the home. Both are unequaled remedies. Fifty cents buys either at any drop store. Sara- pie free for 6c in stamps — to pay postape. Used and endorsed by Adams Express Co. Turtles Elixir Co., 437 O'Farrell St, San Francisco, Cal. Reimr* of alt so-rnl'ed Eliiirs. none genuine font Tottiel Hunt and Fish ALONG THE LINE OF TBS (LESSEE OF THE S. F. & N. P. R. B.) Best Hunting and Fishing In the State Numerous and Popular Resorts Hot and Cold Mineral Springs HEALTH PLEASURE RECREATION Fine Camping Grounds on Beautiful Streams Best Section in California for Fruit and Breeding Farms The route to San Rafael, Petaluma, Santa Rosa Ukiah, and the Famous Pleasure and Health Resorts In Lake County. Saturday to Monday round-trip ticke*s at reduced rates. Ticket Offices— «S0 Market Street, Chronlole Building, and Tiburon Ferry. B. X. RYAN, Gen. Pass. Agt. Books and Pictures ABOUT California Mountains, Valleys. Canyons, Lakes and Seaside and Vacation Places. A Camp In ihe Forest A Mountain Lake A Good Hotel Trout for Breakfast A Seaside Itesort and Clam Chowder for Dinner The Publications or ihe ] Southern Pacific Coverall Desirable Places and answer question* of Distance, Accommodations. Expense, Fares, Route, etc. Nothing Left to tbe imagination. Inquire at INFORMATION BUREAU 613 MARKET STREET AYBSmBBS- Young Bulls. Oows and Hollera. awlAtered. From prize winning families. Brown ■ Brudon Potilnma C«L £0COANUT OIL CAKE THE BEST FEED FOB STOCK, CHICKENS AND PIGS FOB SAL1 TJT LOTS TO SUIT BT EL DORADO LINSEED OIL WORKS CO 808 California. Street, San Franolioo, Oal. Third Payment $5.00 EACH DUE AND MUST BE PAID BY THURSDAY, OCTOBER I, 1903, mi entries iu the Pacific Breeders Futurity Stakes No. '■'<, $6000, for get of mares covered 1902, foals of 1903. Stake closed December 1, 1902. Don't Fail to Make It! Remember the substitution clause: Should your mare have proved barren, or had a dead foal, you can sell your nomination at any time up to April 1, 1904, in case you have nothing to substitute. DON'T FORFEIT, BUT PAT UP. F. W. KELLEY, Sec'y. 36 Geary St.. S. F. It Isn't words, ft bn'i fyjre or page advertisements; it I* the truths that rin^' <™t sound jnd clear and impressive — artun.1 resulta from business men whose standing and reliability can be readily ascertained — which have made "Save-the-Horw" such a. success. Their cured hones ore living idvertnauenia, absolute certainties as 10 the pos- sibility of the remedy in your own case, and with every bottle U a guarantee document as binding to protect you as "the beat legal talent could, make it. The fire iron is uncertain and inrariably only aggravates the disease or injury; blistering ia less effective than ilia fire Iron, and both necessitate laying up the norse from four weeks to several months. Mercurial and poisonous compound* produce irreparable injury. "Save -the- Horse" eliminates all these factors; Cures without scar, hleinish or loss of hair, can be applied at any time, anywhere, any place, and in all conditions and extremes of weather. Horses may be worked as usual with shin or ankle boors, as no harm can result Irom destruction nl hair or scalding of limb. Positively and Permanently Cures Bone and Bog Spavin, Thoroughpin, Ringbone lauepi lo» riogboo**. Curb, Splint, Capped Hock, Windpuff, Shoe Boil, weak and Sprained Tendons and all Lameness. S5.00 per Bottle. Written guarantee 'villi every bottle given under our sea) and signature, constructed .solely to satisfy and protect you fully. Need of second bottle i» almost improbable, except in rarest of cases. Send for booklet and copy of guarantee. If your case is diftwi-nt than described in our book I el or advertising we will advise you frankly as to ihe possibility ot the remedy effecting a cure Give explicit particulars. Give tbe veterinarian's diagnosis, if he ia competent. Inform us fullv as in ihe age. development, loeuiiun of swellings, lameness, previous treatment and describe ih« way the horse carries and holds leg. f i.00 per boitle ai aH_ druggists and dealers, or sent express prepaid. TROY CHEMICAL CO., TROY, N. Y.,also Manufacturers of Veterinary ftnae. D. E. NEWELL, Pacific Coast Agent, 519 Mission St., San Francisco VETERINARY PIXINE CURES Ireaae Heel, Scratches and Hoof Rot,-chi!onic, ulcerated^ fcomplicated-of the most deep seated character; Cracked or chapped teats, caked bag,* cow pox and all inflammatory [^affections of the udder; Saddle and Collar Galls, Hopple i Chafes , and Abscesses, Old chronic Sores, the result i of pressure by badly fitting harness or by irritating masses (of dirt, sweat and hair under the harness. It makes a positive and permanent ^cure by producing healthy granulations, building up new cellular tissues, healing naturally from the _ bottom without scab or scar and stimulating growth of hair, natural color. It penetrates, soothes and heals while horse works. .Absolutly Guaranteed. Mopey back if it fails. 2 oz. 25c;' .8oz. 50c;" 51b. pkg. $4.00. 'At all Dealers or sent prepaid. .send toe for sample Troy Chemical Co1 ""■OX AND BOOKLET^ TROY, N. Y. D. K. INbWtLL, Pacific Coast Agent, 519 Mission St., San Francisco RED BALL BRAND. Awarded Gold Medal AtCaJlfornlaState Fair 1892. Every horseowner who values his stock should constantly have a sup- ply of It on hand. It improves and keeps itock In the pink of 'condition. Manhattan Food Co 1 253 Folsom St., San Franclneo Ask your grocers or dealers for it. Positively Cures Colic, Scouring and Indigestion. C. P. KERTELL, Manager Pedigrees Tabulated X^^-gZSlZ Sportsmam, It Q«arj itreet, Sao FranoUco, Cal. ®tte gveebev ani* gftwrtsman [September 2b, 190 i THE BAYWOOD STUD THE BUNGALOW, SAN MATEO, CAL (Property ol jobs Pabbott, Esq.) DeTOted EscluRlvely to the Breeding and Training of High Stepping Hackney-Bred Harness Horses WALTER SEAI.Y, Manager. m # The King of Race Horses | SEARCHLIGHT 2:03 . * Se?. No. 33657. Will Make a Fall Season FROM AUG. 1 TO OCT. 1, 1903, AT PLEASANTON RACE TRACK. m TERMS. $50. 0 For further particulars address ED. MILLS, Pleasanton, Cal. SADDLES Turf Goods Always the Best for the Money. JEPSEN BROS CO. (INC.^ 1145-47 Market St. San Francisco CLEARING OUT SALES TUESDAY, SEPT. 29, 1903, AT 7145 P. M., BY ELECTRIC LIGHT At Fred. H. Chase & Co.'s Salesyard. 1732 Market Street, San Francisco. THE MEEK ESTATE, BAYWAEDS, CAL., will sell all tha Standard-bred Horses belonging to the Estate, comprising 35 head. There are Fillies, Mares and Geldings— 3 4. 5 and 6 years old— by McKinney, Xutwood Wilkes. Welcome and William Harold, nearly all well broken to drive and all halter broken and gentle. The mares have colts at foot by William Harold 2:\3H and Welcome 2:10^, and have been bred back. Among them are the dam and a full sister to Janice *£08tf, a sister to Cricket 2:10 and many other highly bred ones. A fine lot of Shetland Ponies will also be sold to close out the horses belonging to the Estate. of Hon JESSE D.CARR will, at this time, close out all its Trotting-bred Horses- Th re are GABILAN STOCK FARM head of Yearlings, Two- year-olds and Three-year-olds,; also a fewhighly bred Mares and Geldfngs; Boodle out of Xina b' by Electioneer. He is one of Also the grand young Stallion BOODLE Jr. l.v the gr- l .■■■■:. California. The youn, and other good sires. THE BALK IS POSITIVE AND 49- Send for Catalogues. stock is by Boodle Jr., Nutwood Wilkes WITHOUT RESERVE. FRED. H. CHASE & CO. 1732 Market Street, San Francisco. mm BUSINESS COLLEGE 24 Post Street, San Francisco, Cal. The eldest, the largest, the most popular com- ■icrcla*. -ahool on the Pacific Coast. 20,000 gradu- ates: 30 teachers: TO typewriters; over 300 students annually placed In positions. Send for catalogue. E. P. HE A LP. President. The Means of Getting a Living. The attitude of the people toward farm- ing and farm life and their estimate of them have greatly changed in the past few years. It is a change which betokens better things and better conditions of liv- ing for a far larger number of human be- ings. Formerly the general notion was that farming was a dull, simple, uninter- esting kind of drudgery— simply a means of getting a living for people who could not get it any other way. And the farmer was by too many regarded an out-of date, simple-minded, old-fashioned kind of per- son. Anybody could farm — one did not have to learn how. but just knew how without learning. There was not much to learn about it anyway. There was no science, no art about it. We did not go to school to learn how to farm better, but to learn how to do something else. Only those people farmed who could not make something else go. This has all changed. Now we regard agriculture as the great first business in the world. Now we see that in its prac- tice and in its processes the best of minds may find full, profitable and ennobling exercise for every faculty. Now we know that farm life may be made the safest happiest, most satisfactory of any. Now we know that in no country and at no time can civi'ization take and hold a sin- gle step in advance of agriculture. Now we know that the state and condition of agriculture at any time, in any country, is the just measure of the state of its civ- ilization. We see and know that agri- culture goes before all, gives life to all. sustains all that is of worth and use in what we call civilization. We know that every other trade, art, profession, craft or calling whatsoever ie secondary to and dependent upon agriculture, because none could have being, place or use until agri- ulture gave it birth and sustenance. Agriculture is the mother and father of them all. We are astonished that we did not sooner see it in this light. Formerly we built colleges and universities to fit oar youth for anything and everything except farming. Now we have in the United States and territories mo e than fifty colleges and stations equipped and manned_ to acquire agricultural knowl- edge, develop agricultural science and to teach this science and disseminate this knowledge. In the world there are nearly a thousand such institutions wherein every other science is made to subserve the maBter science of agriculture. Are we not near to a time when, instead of being astonished at meeting intelligent farmers, it will be a matter of astonish- ment and even of sadness to meet any who are not intelligent? Already we begin to expect of the farmers we meet that they look and speak and act as men who know and understand, honor and magnify their great calling to farm. — £, E. Merrick. Points of a Good Feeder. The whole body of a good feeder must have length and roundness, giving what is generally termed a deep barrel. The deep barrel gives room for the capacious paunch in which the material is gathered from which the blood is derived ; and yet the belly will not hang down. It also gives a wide breast projecting well in front of the fore limbs, showing sufficient room for the neart and lungs to perform their proper functions. The animal should be ribbed home — that is, there should be very little space between the ribs and hip bone. This shows a pro- pensity to fatten. The neck should be large where it joins the shoulders and taper well to where it joins the bead. The legs should be moderately short and the bones not large, they should be fleshy to the knee and hock, but not below. The hoofs should be small, the horns fine and the ears thin, eyes prominent and bright. The hide should be thin, mellow and movable and covered with fine, soft hair. It will make considerable differ- ence in the possible profits whether or not the right kind of cattle are selected for feeding. No -racing stable should be without the greatest of all horse liniments. Cures Rheumatism, Sprains, Cuts, Bruises, Cramps, Colic, Stiffness, Soreness, Aches and Pains. A single trial will prove all we could say. All Druggists and Harness Dealers or Vita Oil Co., 1533 Buchanan St. San Francisco, Cal. J. A. McKerron and J, O'Kane, Agts SUBSCRIBE TO Showing exact position of every horse, including the favorite, which was either first, second third or fourth at each quarter pole, also positions at start. Events reported from all parts of Canada and United States. Issued the 1st and 16th of every month, from April 15th to October 15th. Price 60c, 75c. or $1, according to issoe. For sale at all principal hotels, news stands and race tracks in the country, atfd publishers' office. GOODWIN" EBOS., 1440 Broadway, N. Y. Annual Subscription, lis, which includes all semi monthly editions and two morocco bound semi-annuals. Explanatory circular" mailed free. For sale by the Breeder ixd Sportsman. To cure a Wind Puff or Strained Joint: Steam the part with very hot water for 20 minutes, rub dry and applv ABSORBS once or twice a day, rubbing it in. At night saturate the hair full of the following wash: 1 oz. ABSOKBIVE, 1a pint vinegar and I1;, pints water, cover with a layer of cotton and bandadge over. Repeat as above until cured. ABSOBBIN'E sold by regu- lar dealers or delivered for §3 per bottle. Mfg. by W. F. YOUNG, R.D. F., Sprinirfield, Mass. Also manufacturer of Taroleum for horses* feet. For sale by Mack & Co., Langley& Michaels Co Redington & Co., J. O'Kane. and J. A. McKerron all of San Francisco CALIFORNIA Photo Engraving Company HIGH CLASS ART ES Mali Tones, and Line Engraving Artistic Designing. 506 Mission St.. cor. First, San Francises „. EPTEMBER 26 19031 ©He ^vtfsber anii gfp&Yt&xnan 15 lhe World's Greatest Shooting Record. FRED GILBERT, of Spirit Lake, la., since Jan. 1, 1902, has shot in competition at 5765 Targets, breaking 5532 or 95.9 per cent, using a PARKER GUN AT SHOT AT Natchez, Miss 400 Fort Dodge, la 300 Lakefield, Minn 205 Sioux City, la 360 Dubuque, la 360 THE "OLD RELIABLE" IS RELIABLE. MERIDEN, CONN AT BROKE PER CENT 396 .. 99 296 .. 98.6 203 .. 99 351 9T 97 5 FARKER BROTHERS Sand for catalogue - N. T. Salesroom, 33 Warren St. BALLISTITF The Standard Dense Powder of the World. ^^^ STILL LEADS AT THE TRAPS OR IN THE FIELD. Baliistite wins from the limit marks in distance handicaps, at either live birds or dying targets. it always gives the highest velocities with the closest and most even patterns at all ranges, i listite is absolutely unvarying in results, being waterproof, smokeless, odorless, without residue, r«ares lower than black powder, unafleoted by age or climatic changes, and never pits, rusts or wits the barrels. Baliistite is sold with above guarantee. Take No One's Word. Try It for Yourself. W I All A m 75 CHAMBERS ST„ NEW YORK CITY ■ ■■■ lU/Aw W WWi Telephone 1747 Franklin. Importers and Dealers In Fire Arms, Ammunition and Fencing Good*. Sole Agents for THE REBLE GUN and BALLISTITE (Dense) and EMPIRE (Bulk, SMOKELESS POWDERS. A postal brings catalogue and "Shooting Facts" (third edition) BALLISTITF The Standard Dense Powder of the World. ^^^" HEW "E. C." NEW "SCHULTZE" SHOTGUN RIFLEITE — w THE MERICM "E. C." Hid "SCHULTZE" Gunpowder Co., Ltd PHIL. B BEKEAKT CO.. Pacific Coast lUpreaontatlTa IIMPBELL'S HORSE FOOT REMEDY best" remedy EVER USED ON HORSES' FEET. IT PENETRATES and DRIES IN quickly and DOES NOT GUM and FILL UP THE PORES like tar and oil compounds. It is the GREATEST REMEDY ever used to remove SORENESS and FEVER from the foot, and makes it possible to get good services out of a horse working on hard and hot pavements. It gives natural nourishment to the foot and incites a rapid, healthy growth— ALL DRYNESS AND BRITTLE- NESS quickly disappears. QUARTER CRACKS and SAND CRACKS are rapidly grown out when directions given in our booklet are followed. It is a SURE CURE for CORNS, CONTRACTED FEET and NAIL WOUNDS if directions are followed. It PRETEXTS SOUND FEET FROM BECOMING UN- SOUND and GROWS a TOUGH. STRONG. ELASTIC WALL and HEALTHY FROG— A FOOT WHICH WILL STAND WORK on race courses. Many of the best owners and trainers state that for track work nothing equals it- In many cases horses have reduced their records several seconds, due to its use. It is a CER'J AIN CURE for THRUSH and SCRATCHES We Guarantee That It Will Do What We Claim and Will Refund Money If It Fails. PRICES:— Quarts. $1 00: Half-Gallon, gl. 75; Gallon, 8300; '.2^-Gallon, $5.50; Five-Gallon, $10.00. Books giving full directions for its use and much valuable information as to shoeing are supplied b . Don't fall to read "ad.11 giving information concerning Campbell's Iodoform Gall Cure in nest U e of this paper. It is the best and because of its merits is rapidly displacing all others. JS. B. CAflPBELL&CO . Manufacturers, 412 W.nadison St., CHICAGO. ILL ADOGSPOORWTI^ means disordered digestion, and if not promptly attended to will develop into chronic dyspepsia. Sergeant's Condition Pills will improve the appetite by strengthening the stom- ach, and cure indigestion, general debility, nervous- ness, and all disorders arising from impaired digestion. The Pills are a scientific remedy and the standard alterative and tonic in the treatment of Distemper, Mange, Fevers and General Debility. Of dealers, 60c. and $1.00. By mail, prepaid. Sergeant's "Sure Shot" rids the Dog and Puppy of ■worms. Price, 60 cents. Mailed free anywhere. Sergeant's Carbolic " Soft Soap." is the only right kind made. 25c. of dealers. By mail, S5c. Our Dog Treatise, revised, and Pedigree blank will be sent on receipt of an order or 3c. in stamps. Our goods for sale by "All Druggists and Sporting Goods Dealers." F. W. BRAUN & CO., LOS ANGELES, CaL., Pacific Coast Supply I>epol. /£ G. DANIEL. HELM H.T. SPRATTS PATENT. DOG CAKES REMEDIES SOAP. NEWARK, N. J. Send for free copy of "DOG CULTURE." ST. LOUIS, Pacific Coast Branch— 1334 Valencia Street, San Francisco. Agents for "SANITAS" Disinfectant. KENNEL ADVERTISEMENTS. COLLIES. The BEACH HILL Kennels 955 First St. San Jose CHAMPION HANOVER MONARCH (A, K. C. S. B. 5998) by the great sire Cb. Ellwyn Astrologer from Ch. Old Hall Moon. Fee *15. Pictures and Pedigree upon applica- tion. High-class Puppies for sale. AT STDD FOR SALE. BROKEN DOGS Pointers and Setters Address W B. COCTTS, Kenwood. SoDoma Co., Cal. VETERINARY. IR. C. MASOERO VETERINARY SURGEON C *-■*** erf Royal Veterinary bOege of Turin. (1.RMARY AND RESIDENCE— 8 1 1 Howard St.: letween Fourth and Filth Sts.. San Francisco, 'lephone: Main 457. l*a Barker Dalziel i VETERINARY DENTIST * :y Carriage. Saddle and Roa^ Horses for Sale Ice and stable: 605 Golden Gate Avenue, San * iclsco. Cal. Telephone South 651. It. \A/xxl, F. Egan, M. R. C. V. S-. F. E. Y. M. S. VETERINARY SURGEON. , imber of the Royal College of Veierinary *' eons, England; Fellow of the Edlnburg 1 rinary Medical Society; Graduate of the New * rinary College Edinburgh; Veterinary Sur- lj to the S. F. Fire Department; Live Stock actor forNew Zealand and Australian Colonies J e port of San Francisco; Professor of Equine Icine, Veterinary Surgery, Veterinary Depart- 1 i University of California: Ex-President m -alifornia State Veterinary Medical Assocla- Veterinary Infirmary, Residence and Office, '■' Francisco Veterinary Hospital. 111? Golden ■ i Avenue, near Webster St., San Francisco: phone West 128. ROSE HOTEL PLEASANTON. CAL. Enlarged, Rebnilt. Twenty-live New Rooms Newly Furnished. Electric Lights, Rnnning Water. Up to date. . OLNET & SON Proprietors AT Wandee Kennels' Fox Terriers. WANDEE BLIZZARD, formerly Llthlan Bliz- zard (Blizzard-Pop). Fee S'40 WANDEE JESTER (Norfolk Velocity-Norfolk Two Step). Eee 810 Puppies and Brood Bitches for sale. Dogs shown by appointment only. Address WANDEE KENNELS, K i 1 Harrison St., San Francisco Cal. FOR SALE. T^O MAKE ROOM FOR PUPPIES COMING x in from walk, a draft of SMOOTH Fox Terriers DOGS AND BITCHES. For prices and particulars apply Wandee Kennels 25th Ave. near Lake St. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS Advertisements under this head one cent per word ver insertion. Cash to accompany order. COCKER SPANIELS. TWO CHOICE COCKER BROOD BITCHES, x also puppies, by Cb. DuQerfn Pastime, for sale. Address, or call. C F. CHARLES, ?917 Sacra- mento Street, San Francisco. ■NTAIROD KENNELS— 133 NINTH AVENUE, -^ near California. Champion bred Cocker Spaniels at stud and for sale- L7OR SALE— COCKER SPANIEL PUPPIES -1- by Cb. Hampton Goldie. Apply at junction old county and Redwood roads. Frultvale, Alameda ENGLISH SETTERS o ENGLISH SETTER PUPPIES, WHELPED " May 2: black, white and tan; dam, Ladj i Sweetheart (Count Dan*;tone — Speckle Lady): i sire. Victor L Gladstone (Champion Gladstone I Boy— Juno): high altitude for developing lungs; | should make champions: shipped on approval. i Write for pedigrees DIAMOND KENNELS, Box 205, Butte. Mont. IRISH AND SCOTCH TERRIERS. Chronic Bronchitis and Catarrh of the Bladder Cured in 48 Hours. CAPSULES At Sttjd. SMOOTH FOX TERRIER Norfolk Trueman CpP *70 Sire of Garston Prefect (1st puppy, rcc $L\). reserve winners, Oakland, 1902* Imelda (winners and special for best, S. F., 1902) Isabelle, etc. N. H HICKMAN, 179? Page St., San Francisco. AT STUD -Superior to Copaiba. Cubebs or LoJe«tt*« PEDIGREES TABULATED And type written Ready for framing. Wri*« for prices. Bbrder and Sportbilajt, 88 Geary Street, San Francisco, Cal. CUBA OF KENWOOD (Glenbeigh Jr.-8tella) SAM'S BOW (Plain Sam-Dolly Dee II) STOGKDALE KENNELS TRJSH AND SCOTCH TERRIER PUPPIES •*• at 812 and $15 Sired by Champion Loyoe Ruffian and Champion Fighting Mao. Mas. BRADLEY-DYNE. Saturna P. O , B. C. ST. BERNARDS XA AIROD KENNELS— REMOVED TO 13» Ninth Avenue, near California— offer for sale the celebrated St. Bernard, LE KING (Champion Le Prince-Svlvla's Lola). At Stud— Champion GRAND MASTER II, admittedly the erandest headed St. Bernard on the Coast. Fee $25. COLLIES. COLLIE PUPS FOR SALE— BY PRIZE winning imported sires and dams, fit for bench, ranch or farm Both sexes. Prices accord- ing toquallty. Correspondence solicited: all let- ters cheerfully aoswered. THOS. S. GRIFFITH. Box 1907, Spokane. Wash. Boarding. Dogs for sate. *ger, Bakersfleld, Kern Co., Pointer Puppies and well-broken BLAKE, M0FFITT & TOWNE -DEALERS IS- 55-57-59-61 First Street, S. F. Tbxiphon* Maiw 1W ©he gvee&ev cmfc gftwrfesroton [September 28, log Cablegram to President Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, London, July II, 1003. American Rifles. AMMUNITION and Men won victory to=day over Great Britain, Canada, France, Norway, Australia and Natal, and bring back Palma trophy. (Signed) LIEUT. ALBERT S. JONES, (copied from U.S.T. Herald.) Secretary of the National Rifle Association of America. THIS SWEEPING VICTORY for America and the Extraordinary Score of 1570 out of a Possible 1800 were made with 30-40 Regular Factory Cartridge!, Manufactured bv th UNION METALLIC CARTRIDGE COMPANY Selected after Exhaustive Trials, by the American Team, In Preference to All Others for their Wonderful and Extreme Accuracy. SCORES ARE IMPROVED BV USING U. M. C. AMMUNITION THE UNION METALLIC CARTRIDGE COMPANY Pacific Coast Branch Oepot:86•88EFIKRSDT^E8ASaFo^eN;CISC, tt WINCHESTER LEADER" SHELLS LEAD At the Third Annual Target Tournament of the Dominion of Canada Trap Shooting and Game Protective Association, held in Toronto, August 12*.* to 15th, inclusive, winnings were made as follows: 1st Day: High average for day by Mr. Higglnson of ^'.IC^Lingham, Quebec. 2d Day: Two Men Team Championship ol Canada, 20 targets per man. won by Messrs. McGLU and Wakefield of Toronto, with score of 37. High average for day won by F. Westbrooke of Brantford. 3d Day: Parker Gun **-on by J. Hovey of Clinton, who also won high average. 4th Day: Grand Canadian Handicap, 100 targets, won by Mr. Craig of Sherbrooke, Tilth a score of 93. "Mail Trophy," the most Important trap shooting trophy in Canada, emblematic i Vive Man Team Championship of Canada, won by Brantford Gun Chi Team, with score of 222 oat of 250. The Montreal Boiling Mills Company Cup, emblematic of Individual Championship*! Canada, won by Mr. Bain of Winnipeg, with a score of 48 out of 60 target) High average for the day — "Beresford Cigar" Cup— won by Mr. Hovey. All these splendid victories were won with Winchester "Leader" Shells, and are a forcible testimony to the uniformity of these goods. PACIFIC COAST AGENCY: 127-135 FIRST STREET. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. -A.. MITT Hi Hi EH, Agent. Loaded in O. r». -\7*7". JSaaa.c*3aColej Winning Highest Average at All Shoots. IT IOr WAST THE BEST ASK FOE California Powder Works FACTORY LOADED SHELLS. IT Four Dealer don't keep them write the CALIFORNIA POWDER WORKS— Office 330 Market St., San Francisco Manof.ctnrer. of HERCULES DT.NAMITE. HERCULES GELATINE CHAMPION IMPROVED BLASTING. BLACK BLASTING. BLACK SPORTING. .,^.„c SMOKELESS and MILITARY SMOKELESS Alia Bell CAPS and FUSE. Glabrough, (Meter & Go. GUNS X^jf^^ FISHING Gun Goods «Wk1 tor Catalan*. Tackle S3« MARKET STREETS. F. You can get these Smokeless Powders in FACTORY . . LOADED SHELLS dtj poirr "E. C." SCHTJXTZE TTA7-.AWT1 SHOTGUN RIFLEITE BALLISTITE LAFLIN McKinney 2:11^, dam Edwina 2:21 H, by Sidney, to W. F. Klein for $230. Edwina 2:31}$, ch m, 1891, by Sidney, dam Lady Bell, by Chief- tain 721, to A. K Buckman for $300. Nancy blk m. 1890, bv Delegate, dam Fly by Jonathan, to Geo. B.M.Gray for $145. Fenella, b m, 1889, by Fallis 4781, dam Patti by Nutwood, to James Faris, Jr.. for $260. Judlth.br m, 1897, by William Harold 2:13M. dam Fenella by Fallis, to James Faris, Jr., for $215 Dan Burns 2:15, br g, 1899, by William Harold, dam Linda by Hawthorne, to King Hedley lor $450. Bay gelding 1899, by Azmoor 2:20%, dam Elsie by Gen. Benton, to J. B. Hoyt lor $155. Carmelita, br m, 1892, by Steinway, dam Witch by Dolphin, -to "W. Bellini lor $130. Swift, b g, 1898, by Welcome, dam Vidu, by Grand Moor, to J. H. Glide for$230. Ethel, b f, 1899, by Welcome, dam Norella by Lustre 2:22, to Chas. Havens for $210. Alberta, b f, 1901, by Welcome, dam Norella by Lustre, to H. Schotler ior $125 Norella, b m, 1892, by Lustre 2:22, dam Eleanor by Richard's Elector to C- K. Nessen lor $120. Welbird, br f, 1900, by Welcome, dam by Cleveland Bay stallion, to E.B Stone for $125. De-vey, b g. 1900, by Welcome, dam Lenora by Lustre, to Jos. Culcellofor$215. Miriam, b f, 1900, by William Harold, dam Eleanor by Richard's Elector, to J. B. Hoy t lor $1*5. Birdie b m, 1899 by Welcome, dam by Cleveland Bay stallion, to Geo. B. M. Gray for $160. Lucy Long, b m, 1899, by Welcome, dam Luoy by Combination, lo J. Bonney for $175. _ Louisa, brm, by Welcome, dam Lenora by Lustre, toJ.H. Glide for $275. „ m Rose, b m, 1894, by Will Tricks, dam by Local Option, to W. Bellini for $80. Tom, b g, 1895, by Bay Rose, dam Belle Isle by Piedmont, to J. H. Glide for $160. Sis, ch m, 1895, by Will Tricks, dam Adeline by Roe Allen, to L. M. Ladd for $135- Fred, b g, 1900, by Welcome, dam Kate by Jim Lick, to. J. Paul- sen for $100. , „ Dick, br g, 1900, by Welcome, dam Belle by King, to E. B. Stone for $150. Fontanlta, brm, 1888, by Antevolo 2-.19S4, dam Fontana by AI- mont 33, to C. J Schuster for $65. Molly Mac, bm, 1898, by McKinney 2:11*. dam Fontanita by Antevolo, to Jos. Cuicello for $300 Total for 29 head $5277, an average of $201. CONSIGNMENT OF J. D. CAEH, Cheerful, brf, 1901, by Boodle Jr., dam Delight by Eugeneer to Geo- Dally for $80. Laiia. b f. 1901, by Boodle Jr,, dam Alameda C. by Gabilan, to R. W Kenney for $95. Larkin W-. ch g, 1899, by Boodle Jr., dam Isabella McCa by Lottery, to Eugene Cerciat for $500. Monogram, gr m, 1896, by Fairmont, dam Nancy H. by imp. Lawyer, to J D. Hannah for $275. Mercedes, ch f, 1891. by Dictatus 2:17, dam Nina B. by Elec- tioneer, to R. Brown for$]25. Hermanita. b f, 1901, by Boodle Jr., dam Martha by Mambrino Jr., to A. E. Buokman for $60. Neva G., brf, 1901, by Boodle 2:12%, dam Surprise by Abbots- ford, to C. L Jones for $75. Lildine Wilkes, chf, 1901, by Nutwood Wilkes, dam Lildine by Boodle to James Faris, Jr for $130. Selim br g 1901, by Boodle Jr., dam Epha by Eugeneer, to John McCormick for $102.50. Uncle Ned, b g, 1901, by Boodle Jr., dam Sausal Maid by Gabilan. to R. W. Kenney for$45. Kumtucks, bf, 1901, by Dictatus 2:17, dam Juanlta by Bay Rum, to Dan McCormick for $147.50. „._.__ . T Peggotty, b f, 1901, by Boodle Jr., dam Flora by Reno, to James Gold Coin, b g, 1900, by Boodle, Jr., dam Isabella McCa by Lottery to G. W. Hind for $300. Del Monte, b g. 1900, by Boodle, Jr., dam Rita V. by Direot Line, to G W Hind for $150. Lady Bird, b f. 1901. by Boodle. Jr., dam Lady Palmer by Carr's Mambrino, to A. L. Murphy for $60 * Esperanza, br f, 1901, by Boodle, Jr., dam Flossie byCarr's Mam- brino, to W. Bellini for $60. Oliver C, blk g, 1899, by Ecce 15,993, dam Eunlque by Carr'a Mambrino.'to The Swift Co. for $125m f ■ Kitty S , ch f, 1900. by Nutwood Wilkes, dam Flossie by Carr's Mambrino'to Jos Cuicello for $300. i Martha D m. 1896, by Mambrino, Jr., dam Gabilan Maid, by Carr's Mambrino, to Dan McCarty for$72 50, Dora, b m, 1890, by Reno, dam Martha by Mambrino Jr., to G. W. S°Lady°Paimer bm. 1887, by Curr's Mambrino, dam Victress by Luclona. loH Boremeo for$25 ,„,*,„„ Total for 21 head, $2842 50, an average of $135 33. At the conclusion of this sale seven geldings and mares, the property of different parties, were sold at prices varying from $100 to $200. While it will be at least a year before the half mile oval speed track is constructed in Golden Gate Park, it will be one of the most perfect tracks in the country when completed. The track will be eighty feet wide and thrown up well on the turns. In the infield there will be a lawn covered polo field, a cinder path and athletic grounds for collegiate and public school field days. It will be a great acquisition to San Francisco's great park. Passing of Palo Alto. Palo Alto has been selling and weeding out for years, and the breeding stud has been gradually re- duced until now it is a fraction of what it was ten years ago. With the decrease in numbers came an increase in quality, for there was always the hope that on a reduced scale the breeding of trotters would be continued indefinitely at the world-famous estab- lishment. Such, however, is not to be, for the final dispersal takes place at the "Old Glory" auction next November in Madison Square Garden. There is not a stallion or mare now remaining in this far-famed stud that is not of special value from a breeding stand- point. The stallions include MonbelU 2:33* by Mendocino 2:19$ out of Beautiful BellB 2:29$; Nazote 2:28$ the brother of Azote 2:01£, and Exioneer, a six year old black by Boodle 2:124, out of Expressive 2:12$ at three years. Among the mares are eight daughters of Electioneer with records — all from great broodmares — three of them already noted as dams of winners There are five mares by Palo Alto 2:08|— four with records be- low 2:20 as two and three year olds. The advanced breeder who believes in early speed would class these as practically priceless — more especially when the merit of their dams is taken into account. The fifth is Aerolite from Mannette (dam of Arion (4) 2:07|), now with foal to Mendocino 2: 19 J, Bire of Monte Carlo 2:074. Two of the famous speed producers are Elden (3) 2:19$, dam of Eleata 2:08$ (largest winner of 1901), and Rowena (3) 2:17, dam of Rowellan 2:09£ (winner of Horse Review Stake at three years, defeating Hawthorne, etc.) Lulu Wilkes, dam of Advertiser 2:10' , with a daughter and granddaughter, are in the sale. There are two daughters of Elsie and one of Elaine 2:20, her dam. This is the most successful line of three generations of great broodmares that exists— Green Mountain Maid, Elaine, Elsie. Wildmont (2) 2:27 and Sweetwater (2) 2:26 are out of champion trot- ting fillies, viz: Wildflower (2) 2:21 and Manzanita (4) 2:16. Beautiful Bells 2:29$, the greatest mother of trotters, has a daughter and two granddaughters in the consignment. Besides these are daughters of Clarabel, May Queen 2:20, Columbine, Lady Ellen 2:29$, Sprite, Emma Robson, Suzette 2:23$, Lucyneer, Esther, Ashby — all good broodmares. Sunalito by Advertiser 2:154, out of Waxana, dam of Sunol 2:08J will not be overlooked. TheBe mares have been bred to Nutwood Wilkes 2:16$ (sire of John A. McKerron 2:04$), Mendocino 2:19£ (sire of Monte Carlo 2:07$), Monbells 2:23$ (youngest son of Beautiful BellB 2:29$), or Nazote (the brother of Azote 2:04|). Everett, Wash., Summaries. SEPT. 8TH TO llTH. Trotting, 2:40 olass, purse $500. Idyllwild bm, by McKinney (Smith) 1 Red Skin, ch g, by Red Cloak (Hogoboom) 4 St. Patrick, ch g, by Nutwood Wilkes (Hartnagle and Helman) 5 Louis Z., b g, by Upstart (Erwin) 2 Beladi, bm, by Chehalia (Rutherford) 3 Time— 2-2I?i, 8:213*. 2:20%. Trotting, 2:20 class, purse $250. Idoi.brh, by Copper Klncr (Helman) Helen Norte, b f, by Del Norte (Rutherford) S Duke of Waldstein, ch g, by Waldsteln (Erwin) H. H. H., ch m, by Allerton (Miller) Time-2:37. 2:361a- Paolng,2:17 class, purse $300. OllleM., b m, by Westfleld (Erwin) Starkey, b g, by Chehalis (Keith) Maplemont, br h, by Prlcemont (Miller) MiladiB., blk m, by Chehalis (Rutherford) Time— 2:31, 2:3514. Pacing, 2:25 olass, purse $500: Portia Knight, b m, by Vinmont (Helman) 1 Prince Tom, br g, by Tom V (Webb) 2 Direct C.brh, by Direct (Breeze) 3 Time— 2:24, 2:29%, 2:30. Trotting, 2: 13 olass, purse $500. Mack Mack, b g, by McKinney (Helmnn) 1 Briney K.. b g. by Strathway (Smith) 2 Oveta, bm, by Caution (Erwin) 3 Chlco. b g, by Monroe Chief (Childs) 4 Time— 2:21, 2:22%, 2:25. Pacing, 2:10 olass, purse $500. LeRol, b g. by Altamont (Childs) 1 Martha B, by As- land Wilkes (Miller) 2 Starkey, b g, by Chehalis (Keith) 4 Francisco, b g, by Caution ...(Leroux) 3 Eagletta, b m, by Ketchum (Rutherford) 5 Time-2:17=tf, 2:20, 2:23*- 2 8 4 dr 1 I 2 2 3 3 4 4 The members of the Los Angeles Driving; Club will hold their annual meeting next Monday. At that time officers will be elected, reports of the present officers read and plans made for the season's racing, which is to open as UBual Thanksgiving Day, with a matinee. The club is in a prosperous condition and has on its membership roll owners of many of the speedy animals in Southern California. Others have applied for membership and next year gives promise of being the best in the history of the organization. This club has done more to create interest in harness racing in Los Angeles than any other organization. At the time the club was organized races were given about once a year, at the fair meeting. Enthusiasts In this sport took hold of it. and the driving club was the result. Now the matinees of the club are well attended and the interest taken is great. The fact that the horses are started and raced on merit and for love of the Bport makes it all the more pleasing. — Los Angeles Express. -THE CENTURY MAGAZINE'S EDITOR has 1 been buncoed. A fellow by the name of John Gilmer Speed has written, and the aforesaid maga- zine has printed in its September, number an article entitled "The Horse in America," which is featured as the leading article of that issue, but is simply an advertisement. Mr. Speed probably was aware that few people know much of the technical side of horse breeding, (the esteemed editor of the Century doubt- less among them) and has cunningly foisted upon the magazine an article that is conspicuous for its mis- statements and very ingeniously worded and illus- trated to advertisethebreedingfarmof Mr. Randolph Huntington, a very worthy gentleman who has spent a lortune vainly trying to produce a type of horse that is certainly in demand, but which is produced, as the records of the horse shows Drove, by other men who have less money but the practical common sense that teaches them to use the blood of the American trotter to accomplish their purpose. Mr. •Tohn Gilmer Speed for some reason has formed a great dislike to the American trottiDg horse, and to those who breed, own or train them. He says the latter "are looked upon with suspicion" and "visited with social exclusion, " making it very evident that such men as the late Robert Bonner, Senator Stan- ford, B. F. Tracy, Senator Jodbs, and others too numerous to mention did not move in his set. He makes an attack upon Hambletonian 10 presumably because the Hero of Chester is dead, and does it so viciously and dramatically tbat one can almost see his heels striking the dead lion's carcass and hear the exulting hee-haws with which he accompanies the onslaught. The entire burden of Mr. Speed's song is that the American trotter is a failure for anything but the race track and that he is a failure there, as according to his figures but two per cent of those bred have speed enough to earn anything. He asserts that the Ulays, the Morgans and the Gold- dusts are the only American horses that can repro- duce their type, and makes the brilliant statement tbat the Morgan type was fixed by Arabian blood before the birth of the horse Justin Morgan that has been supposed to have founded the family. Mr. Speed also claims that it is the blood of the Arab horse, the horse of the desert, that alone can establish a type, and to show to his readers what this type is he reproduces in his article a couple of fixed up and exaggerated drawings of the two stallions sent Presi- dent U. S. Grant by the Sultan of Turkey in 1879. He also prints several photo-engraviDgs of Mr. Hunt- ington's Americo-Arab horses that show them to be pretty fair looking specimens but not the equal in looks, size, substance or quality of hundreds, yes thousands of standard bred trotters that are seen on the tracks and in the salesrings every day. Among other statements made by Mr. Speed is this: "The American trotting horses have not the substance for carriage horses." If he will look the Horse Show Blue Book through carefully he will find that nearly all the blue ribbon winners in the carriage daises are trotting bred, and a large proportion standard and registered. Again he says:' "They are coupled too long to carry weight under the saddle," and yet the English, German and French army experts assart that the American cavalry is the best mounted in the world and every horseman knows that a vast majority of the horses used in the American army were sired bv American trotting bred stallions. Mr. Speed should start himself out on a lour of investigation before he writes another article on a subject he knows so little about. Let him take his note book and pencil and go through the streets of any American city or the parks where the people drive. Let him stop all persons that are driving good looking horses of the types most de- sirable for carriage, trap, coach, gig, brougham, run- about, surry or speed wagon and ask how the horses drawing the vehicles are bred. If he will pursue this search honestly for one day or one week, he will not only have learned something about horses, but he will have a list of names long enough to convince him that the trotting bred horse is the horse used most by Americans and that he fills the bill as to size, style. conformation, endurance and everything else that goes to make up the rich man's or the poor man's ideal horse. .Mr. John Gilmer Speed evidently made the editor of the Century believe he is an authority on matters pertaining to the American horse, but from his article in question ooe is led to surmise that all his knowledge of horses was gained in his early child- hood, and consisted of committing to memory and &he gvegtoev emir gftrartemem reciting some Friday afternoon Caroline Elizabeth Norton's poem entitled "The Arab to His Horse," and beginning "My beautiful, my beautiful; thou startdest meekly by, With proudly arched and glossy neck and dark and Sirs eye." After any person at all acquainted with the Ameri- can trotting bred horse reads the Century article he will naturally ask himself the question, "If one of the leading American magazines publishes such utter rot on the question of horse breeding, is it not likely that it prints articles on other subjects that, while given out as the work of experts, may be as untrue and mis- leading as this one of Mr. John Gilmer Speed's?" and like the historical razors peddled by "a fellow in a market town," simply made to sell. It is now thought that Lou Milton, the dam of Lou Dillon 2:00, is again in foal to Sid rey Dillon. It was thought the old mare was beyond the age of useful- ness, but Mr. William G. Layng, who is preparing a catalogue of all the stock remaining on the Santa Rosa Stock Farm, tells me that Lou Milton gives every. indication of being in foal once more. Frank Turner, superintendent of the farm, told me some time ago that the old mare has been ic splendid shape this year, and one would never guess her to be more than ten or twelve years old. If she should produce a brother or sister to Lou Dillon the value of the foal would be almost priceless, aDd the chances are that the old mare would breed again. An effort is being made to trace, if possible, the pedigree of Lou Mil- ton's dam. There are many people, who claim to be acquainted with the facts, who say that the Ralston mare was not her dam, but that a mare once owned in Lake county is entitled to the honor of having produced Lou Milton. The fact that Milton Medium was owned in Lake county and made several seasons there lends color to this theory, and it may be that something definite may yet be learned about the grandam of the first two-minute trotter. There are two or three parties who have been corresponded with in the matter who may be able to give reliable and accurate testimony, and the pedigree of Lou Dillon may yet be cleared up. The writer has received letters from several different parties who claim to know something of the mare's pedigree, but until further investigation is had and more definite proof furnished I do not feel justified in publishing these claims. Now that Major Delmar has trotted a mile in two minutes and tied the world's record made August 24th by Lou Dillon, he is being given considerable space in the papers, but as my friend Sam Gamble says, not half as much as he deserves. Major Delmar is a great horse, in my opinion a greater trotter than Lou Dillon if the records are taken as the test. It may be that in the future contests against the scythe bearer that the little California mare will still further lower the record and set a mark that even Major Delmar cannot reach, aDd I hope so, as she is purely a California production, but at preseut the son of Delmar has it over her a little. In the first place he is a game and tried race horse. Last year he was campaigned on the Grand Circuit and won nine races and $22,625 in purses, ending the season with that memorable race at Memphis where he beat Monte Carlo and others in the novelty race taking the first heat, a mile, in 2:05}, the second heat, a mile and an eighth in 2:22} and the third heat, a half mile in 1:01}. This year Major Delmar has trotted four heats better than 2:01, which is more than Lou Dillon has done. He has also equalled her record of 2:00. On Friday last he accomplished this feat at Empire City Track and a comparison of the quarters of his mile with those of Lou Dillon will be interesting 1QE !«B 3QK 4yR LouDillon 30^ 301/, 30W 29 MajorDelmar go\4 28V4 30 " 3~l The elapsed time at each quarter was as follows: X ¥> % mile $?nDiH°? 30* 1:00?-, 1:31 2:00 MajorDelmar 30Vi 0:59 j: >g £00 Major Delmar went the first quarter a quarter of a second slower than Lou DUIod, but trotted the next quarter two full seconds faster than she did, getting to the half a second and three-fourths sooner. This wonderful flight of speed did not stop him much, as he took but 30 seconds to negotiate the third quarter and was two seconds ahead of Lou Dillon at that point. The tremendous pace told on him, however, and the last quarter was in 31 seconds, just two seconds slower than the finish of the daughter of Lou Dillon. Had the three-quarter pole been reached in l:30iDstead of 1:59, Major Delmar would very likely have been able to lower the world's record a shade under two minutes. Lou Dillon's mile was the most perfectly rated of aDy mile trotted by a record breaker in recent years. There is much satisfaction to Cali- fornia breeders in the fact that the first two minute trotter is strictly California bred, and the second has a California bred stallion for a sire. A strange coinci- fOcTOBIR 3, 1803 dence is that neither Mr. Henry Pierce, the breede of Lou DUIod, nor Mr. W. E. Spiers, the breeder Major Delmar, lived to see the two minute mile trotted Since the little Santa Rosa mare made her woDder- ful mile the daily press all over the country has been filled with accounts of "brothers" and "sisters" to Lou Dillon that are in Iraiuing here and there. Lou Dillon has no brother or sister. There are quite a J number of the get of Sidney Dillon in training in« California and elsewhere, but Lou Dillon is the only foal Lou Milton has produced to the cover of Sidney Dillon I saw in a Chicago daily not long since tha a full sister to Lou Dillon called Crosscut was owned in British Columbia. Now, Crosscut was bred at th Santa Rosa Stock Farm, but she is by Beau B. 2:16 out of Paceta 2:26 by Lone Pine, and about the onl; close relationship she bears to Lou Dillon ie that bo probably played in the same yard when she was I weanling in 1901 that "Dainty Lou" played in a fed years before. ■■: A Handsome Son of Direct 2:05 1 2. The sons aDd daughters of Direct 2:05}, "the little black rascal." as Mr. Monroe Salisbury usually called him have made a great showing this year. No less than ten new performers have been added to bis standard list, and two of them have records below 2:10, giviog him eight in that exclusive list. The Directs starting in the races this year have shown that they possess that bull dog quality for which the family is famous. On the front page of this issue is a I receot picture of I. Direct 2:12} one of the best bred and gamest of all the sods of Direct, and odb that should now have a mark close to 2:05. I. Direct is now owned by the wealthy young real estate and mining owner and speculator of this city Mr. Mabry McMahao, who has had him turned out at his place near San Mateo for several months and intend! put- ting him in the stud next season. Two weeks ago Mr. McMahan felt compelled to decline an offer of $5000 for this handsome young stallion made by gentleman who desired to place him at the head of a stock farm. I Direct has won somebard fought race?, and all California horsemen will remember his game fight for the now famous heat won by the ringer Walter K. in 2:08 at Santa Rosa in 1900, which heat led to the identity of Walter K. being discovered. In that heat I. Direct was but a length behiDd Walter K. at the finish and his mile was in 2:08}. Ed Lafferty, who trained him that season says no gamer horse | than I. Direct ever started, and if raced again should j get in the 2:10 liBt. He is one of the best bred sons of Direct, his dam ! being Francisca (dam also of Sable Frances 2:15}, | Guycisca 2:26 and Earl Medium, sire of Maybud 2:13J, Tom Martin 2:14}, Kanawha Star 2:14}, etc.) by Al- L mont 33, second dam Frances Breckenridge by SeDli- nel, third dam by Bayard 53, fourth dam Luna by Swigert's LexingtoD, and fifth dam the famous mare Eagless by imported Glencoe. Mr. McMahan has owned some good horses during the last five or six years, among them Tom Ryder 2:13}, that with Bille Button held the team race record of 2:16} for eight years. Prince Almont 2:13J, I Bishop Hero 2:21, for several years bolder of the world's five mile record, Chris. Peterson 2:13} and Jesse P. 2:19}, but in I. Direct he has the best oDe he has ever owned. A Fast Baby at Hollister. Hollister, Sept. 28, 1903. Breeder and Sportsman:— The four days' races here were well attended. The sensation of the whole program was the exhibition one quarter mile pace by Al Wilson's yearling Little Medium, sired by R. P. Lathrop's Dictatus Medium 32499. The little fellow fairly flew down the stretch, the cheering and hand clapping deterring him somewhat, as he was not accustomed to it, but, nevertheless, on a soft track with a heavy wind, he paced the quarter of a mile in 38} seconds, a 2:33 gait. He had previously gooe the same distance in 36} seconds, 2:26 gait, Out this day he was a trifle timid. He is a bright bay, good size, level headed, aod a race horse from the word go. His dam is Little One by Benton Boy and from a Patchen mare. Little ODe has a record of 2:30, made on Hollister track. This is the first Dictatus Medium colt to be trained, but several others will be worked very sood. Dictatus Medium, the sire, has worked out in 2:12 and is well known as a game race horse, and is as well bred as any in California. His sire ifl Dictatus aDd his dam Belle Medium, the dam of Stam B. 2:11}. Respectfully. Observer. On a hot day drink Jackson's Napa Soda lemonade and be refreshed. October 3, 1903] &he $v€sl*£V cmt> gtpxurfceman Pleasanton Track News. [Pleasanton Times, Sept. 26.] J. D. SpriDger has purchased a 4-year-old paciDg mare by Nutwood Wilkes, dam by Forrest-Clay, that looks like a real good prospect. She had but limited handling and that by an amateur, yet she stepped a mile previous to the sale in 2:19. Mr. Henry of Haywards has brought a striDg of well bred youngsters to the track. Among them is a 3-year-old by Searchlight and a 2-year-old by Mc- Kinney that are usually promising. George Ramage, the man who broke and partially developed the queen of trotters, the only Lou Dillon, has recently located here with a number of green colts sired by Diablo 2:09], "Welcome 2:10* and Sidney Dillon. George Berryman, who has been located for several years at the Alameda track, brought his horses over here a few days ago and is -so well pleased with the track and climate that he regrets that he did not come here a long time ago. Searchlight is in his new quarters and the great horse seems to be well pleased with his surroundings. He travels not less than ten miles a day in his pao% dock, rolls in the dirt and has a good time generally. The track has been good all summer. No one has been heard to make any kick about its condition, something very unusual. But the fact that such is the case is proof positive that it has been a first-class training track all the time and it is better now than it has ever been. Ed. Mills has in his stable a green trotter by Chas. Derby that looks and acts like the real thing. He has a world of speed and is one of the best gaited horses ever seen. He wears no check, no boots, goes low headed and is on the trot all the time. He alsc has another Derby hor^e that never makes any mis^ takes, a 2-year-old pacer that stepped a quarter witl less than four weeks work in 30£ seconds and is gooc for a mile in 2:15 any day. Barney Simpson has Arner, a full brother to the great Diablo, in training. He paced a mile the other day in 2:15 and looks like a coming 2:l0 pacer. Dr. Boucher drove his 3-year-old colt, Bert Logan, a mile in 2:19J ond day last week. This colt has no knockers, everybody likes him and why shouldn't they. He is by Colbert 2:07J; dam, that great race mare Miss Logan 2:06£. H. H. Dunlap stepped his 4-year-old Dexter Prince, pacer, a half last Wednesday in 1:04|. He is the making of a very fast horse and Mr. Dunlap likes him pretty well as is evidenced by the fact that he re- fused $1,000 in cash for him a few days ago. The many frienda of C. L. Crellin will be glad to hear that he ia now out of danger and is rapidly re- covering from the severe attack of pneumonia which he had. Henry Sanders has purchased the cottage on Angela street formerly owned by Col. J. C. Kirk- patrick. Mr. Sanders will occupy his new home shortly while Mr. Kirkpatrick will build a modern villa cottage on his lot on Rose Avenue opposite the race track. Bee Chaboya sold recently to Mose Hart the three- year-old trotter by James Madison 2:17, dam by Steinway, 2nd dam by Electioneer. Mose has a fac- ulty of picking up good prospects. Ben refused $1,000 the other day for a three-year-old Madison 6Hy. He thinks she is better than Tuna, which he sold to Henry Sanders and with whom Mr. Sanders won both the Occident and Stanford stakes. Martin Carter and his trainer Wm. Cecil ware visit- ors at the track last Thursday. They report Miss Georgiebig and strong after her campaign. Charles Griffith has two yearlings that are a credit to their sire, Bonnie Direct. One is a trotter, dam Petrina by Piedmont; the other a pacer, dam by Al- tamont. C. L. Crellin has sent his colt Sunlight by Search- light 2:03}, dam Geraldine 2.10A to Barney Simpson to train. Searchwarrant by Searchlight has been taken up and is again in training. This is the best colt sired by Searehlight up to date and unless all signs fail will make a great race horse. Ed. Mills offered $15,000 for Lou Dillon last Janu- ary, when some friends critized his judgment in offer- ing so large a price for her, he remarked that shewas worth more money than all the horses on the race track. Mr. J. B. Iverson of Salinas has sent his mare Anita I., sired by Princeneer, dam Salinas Bell, dam of Dictatress 2:09] and three other standard performers to be bred to Searchlight 2:03', This is the nine- teenth mare bred to this popular stallion this fall, making 99 mares to him so far during the entire season of 1903. Henry Sanders has purchased from the Oakwood Park Stock Farm u very promising two year old trotting colt sired by the great trotting horse Owyhee 2:11 dam by Sweepstake. This colt is entered in about $70,000 worth of stakes to be trotted for in his three year old form. Mr. Geo. Kelly received word from the only "Far- mer -' Bunch that he would be here with a stable of eight head within a few days. Can't keep them away. The indications at present are that every stall will be full and more wanted. This is where the winners are made, no other track in the country hav- ing turned out as many good ones this season. District Fairs Help State Fair. The' Woodland Democrat, one of the leading interior jonrnals says: "The abolition of the district fairs was fatal to the success of the State Fair. Owners of harness horses sent them out of the State or failed to put them in training. No horseman cares to put his trotting and pacing animals in condition for a single meeting. If there had been a circuit of ten or twelve good meetings more harness horses would have been entered in the State Fair harness events than ever before." "As it was the harness horses entered were nearly all of an inferior class. On several days there was but one harness race. Occasionally a special race was arranged, but in order to do this it was necessary to divide the money among all the entries." "The general public not being specially interested in the poolbos, likes a harness race. The gamblers prefer running races because they can get quick actior on their money. The public soon lost interest in racing cards made up of one trot or one pace and five or six running races, in nearly all of which the horses were a sorry lot of selling platers. As a result the attendance at the park was very poor." "The attendance at the pavilion was not much better. This was due to a variety of causes, one of which we cannot resist the temptation to name. One whole wing of the second floor was devoted to a vaudeville show that was so utterly devoid of merit that nobody had the patience to watch one entire performance. W hat an excuse or apology the directors can offer for such a rank imposition on the public we have never been able to learn." "The State Fair can only succeed by encouraging district fairB. If the district fairs are to be abolished the State Fairs should go with them. Of course, only such districts as give honest fairs should be en- couraged. Ten or twelve should be the limit. The money appropriated could not be expended to a better advantage, if the districts comply with the law. So strong is the sentiment in favor of district fairs that no man will hereafter be elected governor who openly declares in favor of their abolition." Eureka Races. Trotting, 3:00 class, parse $125. Dewey W.. bg, by Wayland W 2 I 1 Robert G., b g, by Antbem l 2 2 Maybe, blkm, by Beecher 3 3 3 Del Reno, b g, by Thos. Rysdyk 4 4 4 Time— 2:46, 2:41, 2:42*4. Trot or pace, 0:40 class, purse $160. Belle Sevenoaks, gr m, by John Sevenoaks-Fallis l 2 1 l Young Monterey, b c, by Monterey-Waldstein 2 12 2 Dewey W„ b g byWaylandW , 4 3 3 3 Jack Sibald, bs, by Dudley 3 4 4 4 Time— 2:28*4, 2:24*4, 2:32, 2:31. Trot or pace, Two Year Olds, stake $126. Ameda, b c, by Waldste in-Dud ley l i Lady Llsteln, n i , by Waldsteln 3 o Jim Whitney, blk c, by Wayland W 2 3 Time— 3:00, 2:58. Trotting. 2:25 class, purse $150. Lady Petrina, b m, by Directum-Petrina by Piedmont. 2 1 I I Cassiar, br s, by Soudan-Carrie Malone 1 2 2 2 Maud Sears, brm, by Wayland W 4 3 4 3 Gossip, gr s, by Gossiper 3 4 3 dr Time— 2:26. 2:29, 2:29';, 2:27. Trotting. 2:30 class, purse $250. Quint nils, bs, by Anthem 3 1 1 1 Dewey W, b g, by Wayland W 14 2 2 Redwood Maid, bm, by Waldsteln 2 2 5 4 Robert G, b h, by Anthem 5 3 3 5 Aurora Dawn, s m, by Dawn 4 5 4 3 Maybe, blk m, by Beecher 6 d Time-2:34*J, 2:37. 2:3454, 2:35. Trot or pace, free for all, purse $500. Nellie R., bm. by Wayland W.-Whippleton 2 3 1 1 1 Fredericksburg, ch g. by Nephew Jr 1 1 2 3 3 Banker's Daughter, b m, by Arthur Wilkes 3 3 3 2 2 Jack W., ch s, by Waldsteln 4 4 dr Time-2:17H, 2:18, 2:18, 2:18*4. 2:21. RUNNING. One mile, purse $225 — Meadow Lark won, Zem Zem second. Sally Green and Prince A. also ran. Time, 1:46. One-hair mile, purse $60— Bill Nye won, Cora L. F. second, Dennis third. Time, 0:4y;:. One-'iuarter mile heats, purse $75— Roadwarmer i-1, Cora L F. 2-2. Dupan 3-3. Time, 0:25, 0:25. One-half mile heats, purse $125— Meadow Lark 2-2-1-1, Road- wanner 3-1-3-2, Bill Nye, Jr. 1-3-2-3, Cora L. F. 4-dr. Time. 0:50, 0:50, 0:50, 0:51 Five furlcngs, purse $80— Sally Green won, Zem Zem second, Roadwarmer third. Time, 1:03*4. Five furlongs, purse $75— Cora L. F. won, Dennis second. Prince A. third. Time, 1:03*4.. The Kenney Bicycle Co., 531 Valencia St., is doing a big business in the McMurray Carts and Sulkies. You not ODly Bave money by purchasing a McMurray but get the moBt durable, best made, and easiest running cart or sulky in the market. Investigation will con vine© a MisBOurian. « Hollister Races. [Hollister Advanoe] The thirteenth annual race meetiDg at Hollister closed Saturday, with the largest attendance seen at the track in years. The Bport was good throughout the week, and the contests were fairly exciting. General satisfaction waB expressed to the managment. Visiting horsemen returned kome well pleased with the treatment accorded them. Hardly had the home- ward crowd ceased pouring through the gatea Satur- day evening, when every bill or claim against the meeting was paid. The purses were paid in cash, from the judges'stand, immediately after the decision was announced. The judges were Messrs. L. M. Ladd, E. D. Beyland, Wm. Higby and J. C. Storm. The timers— R. P. Lathrop, E. Wright and J. C. Struve. Saturday afternoon, A. G. Willson's Little Medium by Dictatus Medium was given an exhibition quarter. Like a veteran this handsome yearling went the route in 39 seconds. The saddle horse races were productive of much amusement. The Sweepstakes was carried off by a lad from San Juan, who appeared at the gate minus the price of admission, upon agreeing to enter in the race.- As he went up to the post, riding bareback with a Spanish bit, he did not create any great ex- citement. At the drop of the Hag he was off like a bullet, and never stopped ridiDg with hands, feet and voice until he was under the wire, with the entire field strung out behind him like a funeral procession. A match was then made between the lad's horse and Wright's Rattle weed, ridden by an expert. Rattleweed started like a scared wolf and cut the boy off the pole, but the lad pulled out and won out by a nose in a driving finish. All of which tended lo put the crowd in an exceeding good humor. SUMJIARIES. WEDNESDAY. SEPT. 28D. Two year old Colt Stake, 2 in 3, $170. Kalar's Maggie Glynn by Robin j 1 Iverson's Signa •» 2 Time— 2:53*;, 2:56. 2:15 Mixed, 3 in 5, purse $150 Ferguson's Inferno, by Diablo 1 1 1 Owens' Swanhilda, by Orkney Wilkes 2 2 :i Cuicello's Dan Frazter, by Secretary 3 3 2 Lerglnger's Sable Le Grand 5 4 5 Time— 2:19, 2:17**, 2:1**4- Special Mixed, 3 in 5, $100. Mann's Don 1 1 1 Wight's Black Diamond 2 3 2 Driscoll's DIcto 3 2 3 Carr's Queen Mab 4 4 4 Time— 2:36, 2:34, 2:30. THURSDAY, SEPT. 24TH. Green Pace, 3 in 5, $150. Driscoll's Sister Patty 5 2 I 1 I Kalar's San Lucas Maid, by Dictatus 1 1 2 2 2 Tracy's Flora B 2 3 3 4 3 Storm's Muldoon 4 5 5 d Holmes' Sister Thorn 3 4 4 3 4 Time— 2:2614, 2:21*4. 2:30, 2:27*4, 225. Special Trot or Pace, 3 in 5, $150 Lieginger's Cicero, by Brentwood 4 1 1 1 Dwain's Shelby, by Wilkes Moor 13 2 3 Holmes'H.D.B 3 2 5 2 Blessing's John Smoker 3 4 3 5 Collins' Maud Muller 5 5 4 4 Time— 2:24*4, 2:29?^, 2:26. 2:32. Running three-eighths dash, $32.50. Lawless' Little Jennie Waterbnry's Humerus — German's Peg Along 3 Time— 39*4- Running quarter dash, $35. Jerry Wright's Rattleweed 1 Bill Jeffries' Roaney 2 Tom Young's Pinto 3 Ben Jeffries' Delia C 4 Time— 27 >, FRIDAY, SEPT. 25TH. 2:20 special, 3 in 5, purse $140. Cuicello's Dan Frazier. by Secretary 1 1 1 Owens" Swanhilda 8 3 l' Holmes'H.D.B 2 2 4 Lieginger's Monaco 4 3 3 Time— 2:23*i. 831S4, 0:23V Buggy horse race, 3 in 5. purse $60. Sanchez's Little Injun 113 2 1 Jeffries' Wash Billy 2 3 13 2 Ladd's Starlight 3 2 2 1 A Time-2:5:'.., 2:iy, 2:54, 2:51',, 2:4t»»4. Special trot or pace, 3 in 5. purse $30. Blessing Bros.' Smoker 1121 Driscoll's Dicto 4 3 14 Mann's Don 2 4 3 2 Collins' Maud Muller 3 J a :t Time-2:32, 2:28, 2:30';, 2:28'4. Match run, 500 yards, purse $27.50. Wright's Rattleweed 1 Young's Pinto 2 Jeffries' Roaney 3 Time— 42*4. SATURDAY, SEPT. *t>TH. Special pace, 3 in 5, purse $100- Drlscoll's Sister Patty 1 1 1 Kalar's San Lucas Maid 2 2 _• Tracy's Flora B 3 4 3 Mann's Dollv Brown 4 3 4 Time-2^2, 2:25, 2:22*4. Special. 3 in 5. purse 1100. Fox's Sable Le Grand - 1 1 ! Lleginger's Monaco - - 3 Dwaln'sSbelby 3 3 \ Holmes" Sister Thorn 1 1 3 Time— 2:27:„ 2:2*14 - Quarter dash, sweepstakes $25— Twit obeli's San Juanlta flr^t- Tom Young's Pinto. Ojeda's Dick, Jewries' Roaney and He Atom's Fanny. M also ran. Matoh race. «iu»rler dash, Rattleweed and San Juanlta. won by the latter ^ - - Jackson's Napa Soda untangles the fe*t a fate gveebev cm& ^pxjri^mcw [October 3, ■ 1909 Another two minute trotter. His sire was bred at Palo Alto. The California blood will get to the front. Coronado won at Portland last week and reduced his record to 2:18}. Margaret Bath jate, 2:11}, is the fastest four year old filly of the year. Simmassie, 2:08}, is the third new 2:10 performer out of a Sidney mare. Foxie Curd, 2:07i, is another fast pacer to the credit of Gambetta "Wilkes, 2:19}. Direct Hal, 2:04}, will not be raced this year, as he has been sent back to Village Farm. The Los Angeles meeting will open next Saturday. There is every prospect for a good meeting. They are now Baying that Prince Alert iB a dope horse, and cannot do his best unleBB given a "ball." Eula Mac, by McKinney, won a matinee race to wagon at Pittsburg, Pa., August 8th, in 2:16} and 2:17}. B. S. Dillon, a pacer by Sidney DUIod, sire of Lou Dillon, took a half-mile track record of 2:16} week before last. Dolly Dillon 2:07 will start at Lexington and Mem- phis. The daughter of Sidney Dillon ib said to be in great form. Polka Dot, the pacing mare by Mendocino won at North Yakima, Washington. The heats were in 2:14}. 2:15 and 2:14}. McKinney is credited with seven new performers this year, which makes his total list number fifty-five standard performers. The trotting race record of the year is 2:07}, made by four different horses, Billy Buch, Major Delmar, McKinley and Caspian, in order. The Chicago Morse Review says tnat the stallion John A. McKerron 2:04} is suffering from a splint and will not be started again this year. Electioneer has not increased his number of 2:30 performers this year, neither has Nutwood. Onward so far has one new one to his credit. When they catch a fellow ringing a horse in a race in Michigan they send him to jail as it is a felony according to the laws of that State. The Pacific Breeders Futurity Stake No. 4 has been opened. Its value like its predecessors Is $6000, but the entrance fee has been reduced to 82. Earalma, by Earl, is the dam of two 2:10 perform- ers, Boralma, 2:07 trotter, and Pan Michael, 2:07} pacer. Both were sired by Boreal, 2:15|. James Butler, owner of East View Farm, recently sold the fast pacer, Don Derby, 2:04}, to James A. Murphy, of Chicago. He will be used on the New York speedway. Joe Interest has Btarted eleven times this year and won nine races for Dick McMahon and now has a record of 2:09}. He will be raced at Columbus, Oak- ley and Memphis. Rita H. has aDOtber race to her credit. She took the free for all pace at North Yakima on Wednesday last and reduced her record to 2:11} in the last heat. She has not lost a race this year. On Wednesday of this week Mr. Springer, of Pleas- anton, drove his gelding Billy Red, that he purchased from Mose Hart, a half in 1:01}. The first quarter was in 31} and the last in 30 seconds. The green trotter Graydon, by Day Bell, the dead eon of Palo Alto 2:08} and Beautiful Bells 2:29J, won a 81000 stake for 2:30 horBes at Plattsburg. N. Y., Sept. 11th, trotting the second, third and fourth heats over the half-mile track in 2:20}, 2:18}, 2:19. It is said that the Ohio State Fair at Columbus, last month, cleared over $10,000, and the New York State Fair, at Syracuse, at least $30,000. And it was the harness races that brought the crowds. — Horse Review. J. R. Albertson, of Fresno, has moved his string of horses to Pleasanton where he will spend the winter. The gelding George G. 2:12} is at the head of the Btring. Mr. Albertson had shipped to him from San Francisco this week a filly by Steinway and one by Charles Derby, both pacers and owned by Mr. W. Van Arsdale of this city, also a chestnut gelding by Sidney Dillon, the property of Dan McCarthy. Swift B. 2:16}, the three year old by Stam B.. was started in the 2:14 trot at North Yakima last Thurs- day and got third monev. Mack Mack won tne race in 2:14}. Swift B. is a good three year old in 3ny company. The Hollister races were well attended and every- body went away well satisfied with the way the meet- ing was managed. It has been determined to give a good meeting next year and larger purses will be offered. Birchtwig, formerly owned in Denver, Btarted at Roswell, New Mexico, the other day to break the territorial record of 2:14} and lowered it at first to 2:12} and again to 2:09. Birchtwig is a pacer with a record of 2:08}. A week ago Saturday A. 3. Gwathmey's two good trotters, Senator Mills 2:12} and Tiverton 2:11}, were driven a mile at Empire track, to pole, in 2:18. It was the first mile they had been stepped together and they did it very easily. The Horse Review $5000 stake for three year olds was won at Cincinnati last Monday by Ethel's Pride, bay filly by Directum. Her fastest heat in the race was 2:15. This seems to be a great year for fillies as they have won nearly all the big stakes. The longest race on the Grand Circuit to date was the 2:19 trot at Providence — seven heats. It was won by the black gelding Navidad, his three winning heats being 2:1]}, 2:12} and 2:12. the first and last beats of the race being the fastest. Navidad is by Sable Wilkes 2:18. At the Westchester Horse Show several four in hands were raced against time. The horses were put to their utmost speed on the run, and the finishes were very exciting. The winning team was driven by Alfred De Cernea and covered the distance in 36} seconds. Diablo 2:09} won first prize for the best standard bred stallion at the Oregon State Fair. He is a grand looking horse, and his win was for the best individu- ality, breeding and quality. Diablo has won first prize in every ring in which he haB been shown He made a splendid season in Oregon thiB year. Joe Cuicello objects to the printed reports of the Occident Stake which put his three year old Brom- well by Sidney Dillon among those that were dis- tanced. Bromwell did not start in the stake, in fact he has never started. The mistake was made by having "dis" put opposite Bromwell's name in the summary instead of "dr." Heatherbloom, the high jumping horse, made a new world's record at the Bryn Mawr horse show, near Philadelphia, September 25th. He cleared the bars at 7 feet 8 inches, winning $250 and a costly cup. He was ridden by Dick Donnelly. The sum of $1000 is offered by the Chicago Horse Show for a jump of eight feet and it is thought Heatherbloom can win the prize An error was made by the judges at the Eureka fair in allowing the running horse Meadow Lark to Btart in the third heat of a half mile and repeat race although he had neither won or made a dead heat in either of the oreviouB heats. According to the rules governing running races Meadow Lark should have been sent to the barn, and the next heat contested for by the heat winners. A new world's record for a three heat race by two year old trotters was set at Cincinnati this week in the Horse Review stake The first heat was won by Grace Bond by the Bondsman out of Grace Boyd by Ashland Wilkes in 2:14}, and the next two heats and the race went to Alta Axworthy, a filly by Axworthy 2:15} out of Alta Thomas by Nutpine 2:15}. These two heats were in 2:15} and 2:16}. VetTryon and Walter Masten havechanged places. Mr. Tryon has leased the Woodland track and wiil take hiB string of harness horses there to train, and Mr. Masten has moved to Sacramento with his good Btallion Falrose and his Btring of pacers and trotters. There iB a rumor current in Woodland that Super- intendent John Mackay, of Rancho del Paso, will pur- chase the "Woodland track property, but the rumor has not been confirmed. Confienza, record of 2:21} as a three-year-old, own sister to Tuna, 2:16} winner of this year'B Occident and Stanford stakes, is a very fast four-year-old. At Lexington. Kentucky, one day last week. Confienza stepped a mile in 2:10}. last half in 1:05} and last quarter in 32} seconds. She is owned by Edwin Gay- lord, of Denver, and iB in Jos. Thayer's string. Ituna, the dam of these fillies, iB but nine years old. Con- fienza was foaled when Ituna was five years old and Tuna the following year. Quite a crowd of spectators was at the five eighths track at Sixteenth street station, Oakland, last Sun- day, to witness a race between several Oakland borseB. Tho most exciting contest was between Mr. Doran's Delia McCarthy, Mr. Bafcer's bay pacer and Mr. Moran's bay mare by Grand Moor. Mr. Doran's mare won in straight heats. M-. Bellingall, Jr., in- tended to start in this contest with his mare by Sec- retary, but just as they were getting ready to "score his mare pulled a shoe and he drove home to reset it. He did not get back until they were scoring for the second heat and started with them and beat them all out. The time made for the five eighths was around 1:40 each heat. There will be several contests at the same track tomorrow. The three heats paced in the free for all at Prov dence is not the world's record for three heats. Tfc best three heats ever paced are 2:02, 2:02}, :03}, mad by Anaconda and Coney (who won the first heat) sj Detroit, July 17, 1901. A. H. Miller, the Buffalo man who for sever years has owned and raced trotters and pacers, ha | become an enthusiastic automobilist, and will thl fall Bell all his horses. He owns, among othen Council Chimes 2:12}, Julia M. by Zombro and H«: Ladyship, a fast three year old by Wilkes Boy. Mr. J. W. Zibbell, who had a string of horses on th i circuit this year, has located for the present at 34' 20th avenue, this city, near Point Lobos avenue where he has a half dozen horses, among them Lotli Smart 2:07}, Tom Smith 2:13}, Nance O'Neil 2:231 Lady Rowena 2:18, Allesandro two year old recori 2:40, McKinney Jr., a six year old stallion by Mc Kinney out of Nora Y. by Admiral, and one or twc more." Mr. Zibbell intends building a training am sale stable near the Chutes and close to one of th< main entrances to Golden Gate Park, which bi declares is the greatest place to winter horteB he ha yet Been, and says he is ready to buy, sell and trail track and road horses. The Napa Register of last week says: "Henry T Oxnard,the sugar magnate, one of themost prominen men of Southern California and a prospective cacdi date for United States Senator to succeed Senato Bard, will move from Lexington, Kentucky, to Napi valley, his famous stock farm. Mr. Oxnard was ii Napa Sunday advising with Mr. A. B. Spreckels oi the Bubject. He has practically, if not actually, pur chased over 800 acres near Napa, will immediate!} begin the expenditure of some $150,000 in improve ments thereon, and will also commence soon the issl of moving his thoroughbreds frt m Kentucky to tbeii new home in this valley. Mr. Oxnard ib the owner o Bracelet, the $15,000 broodmare, the dam of St. Val entine: also of Songstress, Wealth, Lux Castor. 8r< other famouB racerB. His decision to locate his fam near Napa is a great thing for this city and oounty. as it will be even more extensive than the big inslitu tion of Mr Spreckels south of town." There is alsc Borne talk of Mr. Spreckels purchasing the Napa raoi track property. If he does be wiil make it a mode! training track for his thoroughbreds. Empire City Track. New York, Sept. 25. — Pacing, 2:18 class, purse $500— Arzillewon the second and third beats in 2:12}, 2:12}. Joe S. Nelson won the first heat in 2:13}. George RV Beck, Burr Oak, San Freta, Rose Electrite, David Muscovi te and Clover also startt d . Trotting^ 2:12 class, purse $800 — Marion Wilkes won the first and third heats in 2:08}, 2:11. Promise won the second heat in 2:10. Queen Wilkes, Van Zandt, Edgewood and Nell Gwynne also started. Special, to beat 2:00}— Major Delmar, b g, by Delmar-Expectation, bv Autograph (McDonald) won. Time— 0:30}. 0:59, 1 :29, 2:00. Time by quarters— 0:30J. 0:28}. 0:30, 0:31. Sept. 26. — Trotting, 2:18 class, purse $500(unfinisttc from Friday) — Byrnie won first and thiid heats it 2:13*, 2:15. Alfonso Maid won the second heat ir 2:12}. Joe N., Cordovan, Ballerton, Hie Boy aid started. Pacing, 2:09 class, purse $500 (unfinished from Frl day) — Theron Powers won the thiid and fcuitl heats in 2:08}, 2:11}. Nonaraie won the first heat in 2:08*. Birdina won'the second heat in 2:09}. Diablito,! Gyp", Walnut, Gold Brick and Frielmont also started Pacing, 2:13 class, pur6e $500 — Don Cozine won the second and third heats in 2:10, 2:12}. Garnet won the first heat in 2:10. Indiana John, J. W. Patterson. Little Fred, Piccolo, Lucre and Hero Alcyoner also] started Trotting, 2:13 class, purse $500 — Allabiiene won the first and fourth heats in 2:10}, 2:12}. Direct View, won the third heat in 2:14}. Crescent won the Becond heat in 2:11}. Pug and Annie Little also started. Pacing, 2:05 class, purse $800 — Dariel won in two straight heats in 2:05}, 2:05. Shadow Chimes, Sir Alcantara and Frank Yoakum also started. Columbus Races. Colcmbus, Ohio, Sept. 25. — Favorites swept the card at the getaway day of the Grand Circuit meet- ing, but Tom Keene was the only horse to win with- out a desperate Btruggle. Summary: Pacing, 2:10 class, purEe $2000, two in three — Tom Keene won two straight heats in 2:08}, 2:10. Ravenai Wilkes, Hal Cbaffin. Dick Willson, Go Direct, Fredi H, Purity and Ella H also started. Second and thirdl money divided. Trotting, 2:07 class, purse $1000, two in three — Dan1 T won the second and fourth heatBin 2:07}. Rythmic won the first heat in 2:06}. Charley won the third: heat in 2.08}. Foreno and Prince of Orange also; Btarted. Second and third money divided. Pacing, 2:10 clasB, purse $800, three in five — Johnny Wiseman won second, third ai.d fourth heats in 2 08}, 2:07}, 2:07}. G W D won first heat in 2:10. Foxy Curd, Mary Anna, Joe Interest. Cascade, Jolisco, Illinois, Star Pugh, Alvina Wilkes, Kingsmore, Honest John, Salem, Red Patchen and Byrl WilkeE also started Trotting, 2:09 class, purse $800, two in three — Wal- nut Hall won third and fourth heats in 2:10}, 2:11. Belle Kuser won second heat in 2:08}. Mabel Onward won first heat in 2:09}. Maxine and Lord Vincent also started. In hot weather there is no drink like Jackson's Napa Soda — plain or in a lemonade. OCTOBER 3, 1903] f&he gveebev axxb grpurtfimrtn Will Trot in 1:50. "The American trotting horse will trot a mile in 1 minute and 50 seconds. He will never make better time than that, and it may take fifty years for him to reach thatBpeed," says Prof. Wm H. Brewer of Yale University, in reference to the coming trotter. Mr. Brewer is professor of agriculture at the Shef- field Scientific School, and twenty-five years ago he 129; in the 2:21 or better were 68; in the 2:19 or better made the prophecy to his class that the two-, were 24; in the 2:17 or better were 9, and in the 2:15 minute trotter would appear in the first decade of or better were 4. the 20th century. When Lou Dillon recently made In reference to the taciDg horse, Prof. Brewer says that time many of the former students recalled Prof, that practically the limit in time has been reached said that of them all Top Gallant, who made the first mile in 2:40, was regarded as perhaps the most wonderful trotter, and even now he says old men will refer to 2:40 as surprising time. In 1878, about the time that Prof. Brewer predicted tne coming two-minute trotter, his table had over 1000 horses in the 2:30 or better class. In the 2:25 or better class were 270; in the 2:23 class or better were Brewer s prophecy, and wrote to him calling hii attention to the fact. His calculations were based on a mathematical chart with tracings of the different speeds of the famous trotting horses of the country. In speaking of that prophecy Prof. Brewer says: "As a professor of agriculture in the Sheffield Scientific School, I have every year delivered a series of lectures to my classes on 'Breeding.' In this con- nection I have been particularly interested in horses, and as far back as '66 I began to make tables of the records of trotting horses and collect all the data possible on the subject. "About 10 years later, when I had accumulated considerable material along this line, I told my pupils one day that breeding was sure to develop the two- minute trotter, and that, according to the mathe- matical curve I had drawn, he should appear some time during the earlier portion of the 20th century. I did not feel confident of my mathematical ability to state the time more definitely than that. "At that time there were leBS than 1000 horses that could trot in 2:30 or better. I began cataloguing the horses when there were less than 200 in this class, and I kept up the work until, in 1878, according to my table, there were 1025 trotting horses who had made a record of 2:30 or better. "In making out this table from which I deduced my mathematical curve I had to depend on written "The racing horse," continued he, 'as a breed has reached its ultimate limit of perfection. I do not ex- pect that the time of the racing horse will be im- proved, for 2000 racing hoises have come within 5} seconds of the best lime made, while never have more than twelve trotting hor&es ever come within 5} sec- onds of the best time. This shows that the trotting horse has not reached its limit, while the racing horse has." When asked if he regarded the wind Bhield used this year as an unfair advantage that the present trotters had over those of former years, Prof. Brewer said that while it might make a second or two dif- ference in some cases, he was under the impression that it made little difference. Prof . Brewer is a lover of horses and is intensely interested in their development. He has the largest library in New England, if not in the country, on horses. The University of Pennsylvania claims the largest and best library in the country on horse- manship, but on the animals themselves Prof. Brewer's private collection is unsurpassed. Grand Circuit Racing at Oakley Park. N. Cincinnati, Sept. 28. — The Grand Circuit meeting opened at Oakley Park this afternoon under favorable auspices. The weather waB superb and track moderately fast. The sport was first class, though evidence largely for the horses that trotted before the five events which made up the card were decided 1843. Up to that time there were no stud books kept in straight heats. Four favorites won. Summary: and no records authentically taken, bo that my de- The Horse Review purse $5000, for 3 year old trot- ductions were on 'records' after 1843, and on time tors, three in five— Ethel's^Pride won three straight made before that period. "For my information in regard to the earlier horses I have searched through libraries and newspaper files, and collected large numbers of books. But comparatively little attention was paid to the trot- ting horse in the early part of the century. Racing was forbidden by law in many of the northern states, and it was this ruling against racing that developed the American trotting horse. "Up to that time the only horses bred for racing were the racing horses or runners. Horse racing was the vogue in England and was the sport of the aristo- crat. In New England it was associated with every- thing aristocratic, and was therefore frowned upon. At that time there was no notion of any kind of a race with only one horse. A horse race was a run- ning match. To this day horses are the only animals that ever race alone. "With the strict law prohibiting racing in Con- necticut and New York, men began to take interest in horses that would make a good clip on the road. A good deacon who frowned on horse raciog generally could see no harm in letting his friend hold his watch while he trotted his horse a mile in the best time possible. "The first printed account of a trotting race that I know of wa9 in the Connecticut Record of June 19, 1806, when the following notice appeared: " 'Fa9t trotting — Yesterday afternoon the Haerlem race oourse of one mile's distance was trotted around in 2 minutes and 59 seconds by a horse called Yankey, from N»w Haven, a rate of Bpeed, it is believed, never before excelled in the country. — W. T. Spectator.' "To evade the law these trotting races were ad- vertised as trials of speed, and to this day the country fairs refer to their ' trials of speed' in advertising their horse races. "The first trotting for money recorded is said to have taken place in New York. Frank Forester says that trotting for money began in 1818, when at a jockey club dinner Col. Bond of Maryland bet Maj. Jones of Long Island that ' no horse could be produced that could trot a mile in three minutes." There waB much side betting, and the odds against it were heavy. But Boston Blue won handsomely, and Col. Bond lost his $1000.'' In his records of horses from 1808 down to the present time Prof. Brewer has the names and time of of all the racers who were the starB of their time. He has the "record" of each horse, where made, and the data, and of the earlier horses the places at which they made their reputations and the time in which they trotted. In Bpeaking of the famous trotters, Prof. Brewer heata in 2:15, 2:17}, 2:16. Baron Gale, Delight, J Blakemore and Sporty also started Trotting, 2:11 class, purse $1200, two in three— Dr. Strong won two straight heats in 2:10}, 2:09*. Mary D., Marion Wilkes, Norman B. McKinley, Palm Leaf, Belle Kuser, Fanfare and Dorothy Redmond also started. Trotting, 2:19 class, three in five, the Queen Cit/ purse $2000 — Jay McGregor won three straight heats in 2:12}, 2:12*, 2:10J. Kinney Lou, Lady Patchie, Patchen Maid, Katrinka G., Margaret Bartbgate, Cole Direct, Judge Green, and Annie Dillon also started. Pacing, 2:25 class, two in three, purse $1000 — Direc- tum Miller won two straight heats in 2:101, 2:11. Dutch Mowry, Ethel Mack, Lady May, Margaret W., Angus Pointer, Stein, Doctor B., Jimmy O, Mary Gordon, Wilson Girl, and Line of Gold also started. Pacing, 2:11 class, two in three, purse $1000 — Jessie S. won two straight heats in 2:09}, 2:11}. Mr. Marvin, Lazarre, Illinois, Stipulator and Cascade Dove aho started. Sept. 29.— The Ohio Stake of $5000, three heats of one mile each for trotters of the 2:09 class at the Grand Circuit meet at Oakley to-day proved a dis- appointment. Caspian won easily. The Horse Review purse of $3000 for two year old trotters went to Alta Axworthy after she had lost the first heat to Grace Bond. It was the best race of the day and resulted in the establishment of a new world's record for the three fastest heats ever trotted by two year olds. Summary: The Horse Review, purse $3000, for two year old trotters, two in three — Alta Axworthy won the sec-' ond and third heats in 2:15}, 2:16}. Grace Bond won the firBt heat in 2:14 3-5. The Hermit, Madge Wild- fire, Alice Edgar, California Cresceus, Bequeath, Jessie Renyon and Major Oucthlein also started. 2:08 pace, purse $1200, two in tnree — Council Chimes won the second and fourth heats In 2:08}, 2:09}. Larry Ginter won the third heat in 2:08. Baron Rogers won the first heat in 2:07}. Allerson, Johnny Wiseman, Robert I., Trilby Direct, Dick Wilson, Mustard, Padden Wilkes, Dora Delpha, Hal C'haffin and Cambria Maid also started. 2:09 trot, the Ohio Stake, $5000, three heats of one mile each — Caspian won the first and second heats in 2:09}, 2:10*. Hawthorne won the third heat in 2:09}. The Roman, Dulce Cor, Maxine and Walnut Hal also started. The money was divided, Caspian $2250, Hawthorne $1800, The Roman $400, Dolce Cor $550. 2:30 trot, purse $1000, two in three — Bessie Brown won two straight heats in 2:15}, 2:13}. Baron Wedge- wood, Alberta. Bessie Kinley, Sidnut, Clara Belle, Gayoso and Grocery Maid also started. 2:19 pace, purse $1000, two in three— Irish Elder won two straight heats in 2:12}, 2:13}. COD, Hard Case, Cotillon, Charley C, Judge Pryor, Holly Dillon, Walter H., Kate ReDals, Line o' Gold, Belle Mac, Flicker, Money Musk, Direct L. and Ola Mape6 also started. Cincinnati, Sept. 30. — Major Delmar was driven by Alta McDonald againBt the world 's trotting record of 2:00 at Oakley Park today and completed the mile in 2:00}, which is his fourth mile this season better than 2:01 and the fastest mile ever trotted in Ohio. The track was in grand shape, but there was a stiff breeze blowing up the stretch. The first eighth was passed in 0:15, but Delmar shifted from the trot to the pace. McDonald pulled him up and came back. The next time he came down he was going steadily, but seemingly not so fast. He drew in closer to the rail as they rounded the first turn, but the track was deeper there and Mc- Donald pulled out a yard or so by the time they got to the quarter in 0:30}. Along the back stretch the game little gelding struck a most perfect stride and he fairly flew. He made the half in 0:59}. Around the far turn he came with a swing that set the great crowd cheering lustily. As regularly as a piece of machinery he strode past the three-quarters in 1:29}. The runner in front tired so perceptibly about 200 yards from the wire that McDonald was forced to pull out for fear of a spill. Under the wire he came as strong as he went away and was striding with astonishing ease. The time, 2:00}, was received with a great demonstration. Summary: The Horse Review purse $1000, for three year old pacers, three in five — Miss Daphne Direct won three straight heats in 2:11*, 2:18, 2:13. Eliza Douglas and Tomango also Btarted. Trotting, 2:06 class, two in three, purse $1200— Ferae won two straight heats in 2:08 and 2:06}. Susie J., Charlie Herr, Rhythmic, Prince of Orange and Dan T. also started. Trotting, 2:14 class, three in five, purse $2000 — George Muscovite won second, third and fourth heats in 2:10, 2:11}, 2:12}. Jay McGregor won first heat in 2:12. Norrie, John Mc. and Miss Jeannette also Btarted. To beat the world's trotting record of 2:00, Major Delmar, b g, by Delmar (A. McDonald), lost. Time, 2:00}. Time by quarters, 0:30}, 0:59}, 1:29}, 2:00}. Pacing, 2:10 class, two in three, purse $1000— Foxy Curd won two straight heats in 2:09, 2:07. Lizzie H., Mary Anna, Star Pugh, G. W. D. and Joe Interest also started. Pacing, 2:15 class, two in three, purse $1000 — John M. won two straight heats in 2:09, 2:10*. Hazel Banks, On Time, Queen of Spades, Credette, Tess, Colonel Tyler, Star Onward and Taylor H. also started. Oct. 1. — There was great racing at Oakley Park to- day. The four heats in the 2:20 pace were hotly con- tested by Pan Michael and King Direct, and ia the last three it took the decision of the judges to deter- mine the winner. Scott Hudson, with Guy Fortune up, upset all calculations in the 2:23 trot. He took it in two heats. Dan Patch was driven by Myron McHenry against his pacing record of 1:59, but failed to beat it. Summary: The Buckeye, 2:20 pace, purse $2000— Pan Michael won second, third and fourth heats in 2:09}, 2:10, 2:09}. King Direct won first heat in 2:09$. Diablita, Fantine, Jim Kyle, Mary Gordon, Go Direct and King- more also started. 2:06 pace, purse $1200 — Fannie Dillard won second and third heats in 2:06*, 2:07}. Terrace Queen won first heat in 2:08}. Nervola, Riley B,, Winfield Stratton and Roamer also started. 2:13 trot, purse $1000 — Guy Fortune won two straight heats in 2:12}, 2:11*. The Questor, Norrie, Topsy, Crescent, Dodie K., Kent, Pug, Walter Smith, De- claimer and Newton also started. To beat his recoid of 1:59, pacing — Dan Patch.br s, by Joe Patchen (Myron McHenry) lost. Time by quarters, 0:30}, 0:59*, 1:30}, 2:01}. 2:20 tros, purse $1000 — The Parson won two straight heats in 2:14*, 2:15. Miss Leo Rex, Claymont, Ballast, Bermuda Maid, Allan W. and Tonga also started. WILL NOT SCAR OR BLEMISH. GOMBAULT'S CAUSTIC BALSAM Is the safest and most effective lotion or blister for ailments cJ HORSES and CATTLE and supersedes all cautery or 6ring. It is prepared exclusively by J. E. Gom- bault, ex-Veterinary Surgeon to the French Government Stud. As a HUMAN BEMEDT for Btaea- mutlim, Sprains, 8orc Throat, etc.. Is EverrUbottie of Cnaatlc Balaam sold !■ Warranted to (rive satisfaction. Price gl.oO per bottle- Sold by drutrKljt*, or sent by ex- press charge* paid, with full directions for lt« Sue. 'Send for descriptive circulars, testimo- nials, etc. Address tHI UW&IICI-WIL1U1S COJttUT. Omlttd, Ohi» &he &ve&sv cmi* gyavtstnG** [October 3, 1803 Sunday, September 20th, 1903— SHOT AT name 15 25 — 25- 25 iS 25 15 20 25 ROD, GUN AND KENNEL. Conducted by J. X. D« WITT. Arizona Blue Rock Tournament. The eleventh annual tournament of the Arizona Sportsmen '3 Association took place last week at Prescott, Arizona. The tournament started Friday morning, Septem- ber ISth, and continued three days. The tournament was given under the auspices of the Prescott Gun Club, unuor thedirection of Jake Marks, M. E. Morin, H. C. Burmister and D. D. McDonald, who were the officers for the past year of the Arizona Sportsmen's Association. The club furnished free lunch to the participants and their ladieB during the tournament. A stand was also conducted and soft drinks dispensed. Phoenix was ably represented by J. M. Aitken, H. n. Harrison, W. L. Pinney, W. D. Tanner and Del Morrell. Jerome sent over the old stand-bys, W. C. Miller, A. S. Knoblock, T. E. Campbell, L. A. Hawkins and W. A. Jordan, all good fellows and gun pointers. An Arizona tournament would not be complete without the same representatives from Jerome. Tucson sent Dr. Purcell, Chas. Weber and Julian. The three shooters added very much to the success of the shoot. Bisbee was represented only by Ike Ives. Mr. Ives is an excellent shot and an honorable sportsman. E. W. Muller, of the Big Bug country, was on hand and shot a stiff game, making a great showing on the last day. Prescott was represented by a number of shooters, some of whom shot in every event during the whole tournament. Marks, Pickett, Morin, BurmiBter, Mc- Donald, Merideth, Archambeau, Manderfelt, Bate, Wilson and Hildreth, all of Prescott, shot in the tournament. W. H. Seaver, representative of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, was on hand early for the shoot and stayed until the last target was broken. He had his tent stretched on the grounds and gener- ously allowed the shooters who choosed so to do to use the gun rack inside its shade, and make the tent a general headquarters as well. This tent is an advertisement for the Winchester Company, and has been stretched on many a blue rock battle-held. Thursday afternoon previous to the tournament, most of the shooters went out to the grounds to shoot a few targets in order to get used to the grounds. Ives shot strong and broke 96 out of 100 shot at. Several other good scores were made, but Mr. Ives was high by a large majority. Mr. Ives had the shooters '"buffaloed" that afternoon. They thought '.hat "Ike" would not miss any the following day, but he did, "shooter's luck" possibly. The principal events of the first day included the shoot for the Gwynne trophy and the Individual Championship medal. The Gwynne trophy was won by the Prescott team with the splendid score of 87 out of 90. The three men.were Morin, Burmister and McDonald. Morin broke a straight 30, Burmister 29 and McDonald 28. This score, it is believed, will probably stand for years to come. As the Gwynne trophy was one of the best prizes and represented the three-man-team championship, the Prescott team felt jubilant. The next medal shot for was the Individual Cham- pionship medal. The contest was at 50 targets to each shooter. Tanner and Morin tied with 48 each. In the shoot-off at 10 targets Morin won with a straight. Tanner, it was claimed, possibly would have won the medal bad he not failed to shoot at one of his targets. He did not shoot at a target after he had called "pull" and the rules were against him. Only for that faux pas he might have won out. Morin is very steady when in a tight place like shooting off a tie. Prescott again felt good over the victory of Mr. Morin. The second day of the shoot, Saturday, was a very delightful day. The wind blew in fitful gusts in the afternoon, however, making the targets more diffi- cult to locate, but at that they were broken by the thousands. The main event of the second day was the race for the team championship of the territory. The Copper Queen event was also a very important affair, as the winner would be entitled to hold the fine cup for a year. Morin started off on one of his good gaits and broke a straight. He had to have that straight, for Aitken, Tanner, McDonald, Purcell and Morrell all made 24. Morin won the cup at Bisbee, last year. also. When the big shoot for the team championship was called all was excitement. It was generally anti- cipated that there would be some good scores made and a close contest for the diamond badge. Phoenix had four good shots, Jerome was always there with the goods when it oame to team medals. Prescott felt confident of pulling down the big plum. The event was one each team had determined to -win, which they did. The team scores and entries w 11 be found below. Another important event was the tniss-and-out. Aitken stood up the longest in this event and won the whole purse, $3S. Several shooters stood in line until fifteen had been shot and broken to the man. Then they began to drop out. Aitken also won the pump-gun in the Winsor event. The automatic re- peating pistol, in the Brown Bios, event, went to Morrell with a straight score of 25. The third and last day of the tournament was one of the most interesting days of the shoot in many respects. The McVeagh Handicap event, distance handicap, was a very exciting race. The contestants were handicapped according to the scores made by the various individuals in the shoot up to that time. Aitken, Tanner, Morin and Burmister shot from 22 yards; Morrell, Harrison, Hawkins and Campbell shot from 21 yards; Miller, Ives, McDonald, Muller, Julian and Knoblock shot from Is yards, and Bate from 14 yards. Tanner won the medal with a score of 23 out of 25. The Razzle Dazzle event, in which the use of both barrels was allowed, Tanner, Webber and Ives broke straight. Aitken, McDonald and Seaver made 24 The last event of the tournament, the Two-Man championship event, formerly shot by one_ high average man and one who bad made less than 70 per cent, was changed to fit the occasion, allowing of one man who had shot under 80 and one who had shot over 80 per cent. The entries were Harrison and Bate; Aitken and Hastings; Miller and Knoblock; Campbell and Emerson; Burmister and Marks; Morin and Archambeau; Tanner and Pinney. Tanner and Pinney walked off with the prize in a canter. Pinney, who was the entry as the low man, broke 24, while Tanner only broke 22. That won the meial with the best score ever made in this event. The longest run made during the tournament was 60, made by Weber. He made 85 straight, counting the 85 made in the-Razzle Dazzel event, but that run did not count in the high average events. Morin and Seaver each made 50, while Aitken made 55. Tanner made 54. Other runs of 40 and upwards were made by several shooters. The high average for the shoot was carried off by Tanner with the very good average of 95J per cent. There has never been made such an average in the territory in a three-days' shoot. The ane carving set given under sealed conditions by Mr. Sessions, was won by Knoblock. The gun case given by McVeagh also under sealed conditions was won by McDonald. He and Ives were tied and McDonald won in the shoot-off. The gun case given by the Pacific Steel and Hardware Company was won by Miller. Pickett won 250 cartridges in the same event. The Sweepstake medal was won by Weber. Tanner and Weber tied for the medal and Weber won in the shoot-off with a straight score. Tanner made 9. The following are summaries of the scores made during the tournament: Friday, September 18, 1903— SHOT AT NAME 10 15 20 30 SO 50 15 15 15 Aitken n 14 18 Miller 10 14 16 26 Tanner 9 13 19 25 Campbell 10 13 20 24 Jordan 8 10 18 Harrison 9 15 18 28 McDonald 7 11 17 28 Seaver 9 14 18 Burmister 8 14 17 29 Morin 9 14 20 30 Knoblock 8 10 16 Hawkins 10 14 18 27 Weber 9 14 16 Muller 6 9 14 Purcell 5 13 12 Ives 8 14 18 Meredith 9 10 13 Pickett 6 13 19 Archambeau 7 8 14 Morrell 10 14 20 26 Julian 6 10 18 Marks Sessions Bate Saturday, September 19, 1903— Aitken 11 23 21 23 24 20 15 .18 24 Miller 14 23 23 22 24 12 20 20 Tanner 15 24 23 24 25 25 14 20 22 Campbell 14 22 22 22 21 19 13 20 31 Jordan 13 21 SI "23- IS Harrison 12 21 22 20 21 22 15 17 23 Marks 17 McDonald 11 20 17 25 24 20 II 19 Seaver 14 24 21 24 24 14 19 Burmister 13 23 21 25 21 23 14 19 22 Morin 13 19 20 21 23 22 12 17 23 Knoblock II 22 17 21 22 12 18 SI Hawkins 13 23 22 24 21 20 10 ... .. Hastings 20 Weber 11 21 24 25 25 15 18 Mailer 12 17 .. 24 22. 22 15 19 Ives 12 21 17 22 25 23 13 19 " Pickett 18 22 24 11 18 Emerson 14 13 15 Arobambeau 20 Morrell 14 22 19 25 23 22 14 Julian 9 17 .. 19 Manderfeld 13 .. 21 • .. 23 13 16 Bate 10 .. 20 18 Pinney 17 ..- 24 Hildreth 14 IK In the entire tournament, in events which count for average, the following scores were made: NAMK. SHOT AT RKOKE M1SSKI, Tanner 445 421 24 Seaver 445 406 39 Burmister.... 445 406 39 Aitken 445 401 14 Morrell 415 luu 45 Morin 4J:. 397 48 Campbell 445 39u 55 Harrison 445 338 57 Miller : 445 281 64 McDonald 445 37.1 72 Knoblock 445 334 111 Hawkins 425 :«4 61 Muller 395 318 77 Ives 395 340 55 Weber 400 346 54 Pickett 406 338 67 Jordan 380 317 63 Purcell 320 256 64 Julian 210 147 63 Meredith 220 139 SI Archambeau 145 104 41 Pinney 125 93 32 Sessions 85 48 37 Hildreth 105 91 14 Manderleld 100 86 14 Emerson 80 62 18 Marks 65 34 31 Bate 30 21 9 is 46 21 11 12 If, 33 22 10 11 17 48 24 15 l.i 19 40 23 13 is 18 40 24 13 12 19 42 23 14 14 15 44 20 13 11 J* 41 24 14 14 IK 45 24 15 13 19 48 23 12 13 14 Xi 18 10 9 16 43 21 14 14 19 44 20 12 14 14 19 H IS 17 41 18 12 13 14 21 12 11 16 28 12 8 5 17 44 18 12 12 15 17 11 IS 14 44 23 11 Id NAMK 15 SHOT AT 50 25 15 J 1 48 48 43 Aitken Miller 14 Tanner 14 Campbell 15 Jordan 8 Julian 10 McDonald 11 Knoblock 9 Seaver 15 Burmister 15 Morin 13 Hawkins 14 Weber 15 Purcell 11 Ives 11 Pickett 14 Morrell 13 Muller. 12 Harrison 9 Pinney 9 Sessions 8 Wilson Archambeau Emerson Meredith 9 jjj Marks n Hildreth 21 Team shoot, championship of Arizona: Prescott— Burmister 47, Morin 45, Pickett 44. Mc- Donald 44. Total 180. Phoenix— Aitken 42, Tanner 49, Morrell 44, Harri- son 44. Total 179. Jerome— Miller 48, Campbell 43, Hawkins 42, Jor- dan 44. Total 177. 22 22 34 21 22 16 23 16 25 23 30 22 18 24 23 23 24 17 21 21 ■-'4 24 21 21 17 17 19 23 24 22 22 19 31 21 21 19 24 35 21 16 21 20 SO 24 17 24 19 23 16 1'J '.'. 16 2li 16 SO 18 ".'3 16 24 20 21 15 21 17 20 20 211 18 16 18 ii 17 21 19 18 16 I'l 17 21 AT THE TRAPS. The members of the Millwood Gun Club held their closing blue rock shoot for this season at Mill Valley last Sunday. A good attendance of shotgun en- thusiasts enjoyed a pleasant day and smashed clay pigeons in the various events. The features of the meeting were the contests for three prizes. For the club gold badge the highest score, 23 out of 25 targets, made Captain George Collins the winner. William I_. Arnold won the John K. Orr trophy. This was his third victory in this contest, he having won it twice before. His score was 23 breaks out of 25 targets. The other competitors in this race were W. H. Price, R. Haas, and R Van Norden, who had each won the trophy at one of the previous monthly shootB. Clarence J. Ashland was the winner of the M. O. Feudner medal. He broke 22 out of 25 targets shot at. The other contestants in this race were W. H. Price, George Collins, C. J. Ash- land, James Newlands and R. Haas, each shooter having won the medal once at a previous monthly shoot. Two of these trophies are now the indviidual property of the owners. The club badge will be shot for every month during the next trapseason as usual. The scores made in the club race at 25 targets were: C. H. Kewell, 18; W. J. Bearing, 17; R. Van Norden, 20; A. Childs, 15; George Collins, 23; W. H. Price, 16; J. NewlandB, 16; C. J. Ashland, 19; W. Falkenstein 17; R. Haas, 22; C. J. Ashland, 20; G. A. Urquhart, 15; J. K. Orr, 17. A five-man team shoot at 15 targets per man was won by W. L. Arnold, G. Collins, W. H. Price, J. K. Orr, and J. Newlands on the score of 49 out of 75 targets. C. J. AshlaDd, R. Haai, R. Van Norden, W. J. Bearing and C. H. Kewell scored 36. George Collins was captain for the day. W. L. Arnold won the high average prize. The club will wind up the season with a banquet on October 9th. Under the auspices of the Jack6on Miners' Union, a blue rock shoot took place on September 20th, at Peek's Hill, near Jackson, Amador county. Thirty shooters entered the shoot for two prizes. The first prize was won by Mr. Meeks who scored 21 out of 25 targets. For the second prize, M. D. Nixon. A. Grainger and F. Valvo tried with 19 each out of 25; Grainger won on the shoot-off. The scores made were the following: First squad, 25 targets — C. Gilbert 16, L Balovich 11, Wm. Fuller 12, Gus Laverone 10, C. Valvo 19, J. Giusti 12. Second squad — C. E. Jarvis 17, T. K. Norman 18, Geo. Poggi 17, C. Arditto 15, Dr. Wilson 9, M. S Union 19. Third squad— O. Richling 6. F. Valvo 12, Mr. Dal Porto 14, Geo. Thomas 19, F. Fuller 12. Fourth squad — Dan Bona 15, F. A. Giannini IS, Ed Giannini 11. John Holtz 14, J. Garbarini 11, Herbert Meeks 21. Fifth squad— W. C. Hess 11, Dr. Herrick 8, Henry Learn 4, Chas. McKenney 10, John Milovich 4, Jas. Poggi 2. _ A Hint on Gun Repairing. Get your gun overhauled or repaired nowl Do not wait until the last day, for you may be disappointed and net have your favorite gun to shoot with on the 15th— close ac hand. See Skinner for high class gunsmithing and repairing. Everything in this line done promptly and satisfactorily. Be forehanded and have your gun in proper working order. Skinner's place is at 801 Market street, the big sporting goods emporium. Sober up on Jackson's Nap* Soda. October 3, 1903J ®h£ Qxsebsv anif ^pnvtsman 9 Manitoba Field Trials. The seventeenth annual trials of the Manitoba Field Trials Club began at Carman on the 8th inst. and were finished the Friday following. They were, it is reported, the most successful ever held by the club. The quality of the dogs was very high in nearly every case, particularly was it so with the Derby dogs. It is stated in this respect, that it is doubtful if ever a higher classed Derby has Btarted in America. Among the sportsmen present were Thomas John- son, Eric Hamber, Chas Archibald, Jos Lemon, F . W Scott and G A Carruthers of Winnipeg, F W Ellis and Johu Wooton, Manitoba, R Adams, Virden, Man., Mr. and Mrs. C K Brown, Franklin, Po., N C Hall, ^Louisville, H T Ellis, Windsor, Ont., W A Hodgkins, . T W Alexander, D E Rose, J M Avent, J Bishop and C E Buckle. J The judges were W W Titus, W F Ellis and H T Bevau. Mr. Ashford who had been selected as one of the judges was unable to be present. Local sportsmen will be interested in the showing made by Mr. Flynn's Pointer, Senator P who closed the Champion Stake with that good Setter Mohawk, taking practically second place. For this stake the weather conditions were most excellent and birds were plentiful, and the almost perfect bird work of every dog in the stake, coupled with the great heats of Mohawk and Senator P, made it a grand wind-up of a most successful trial. Prince Rodney — Tony Man. — Prince Rodney, handled by Rose, and Tony Man, handled by Avent, were cast off at 7:40. Both dogs went away at a good pace, and were soon out of sight. When found, both were on the course pointing, each having a large covey. Bird work then followed rapidly, Tony Man making twelve points in his heat without a break. Prince, in a long cast, found two coveys, altogether finding four coveys in his heat of one hour. Up at 8:40. Judge — Ortiz Lad. — Judge, handled by E. Hamber, and Ortiz Lad, handled by Rose, were put down at 9:25. Lad soon found a covey in the scrub and shortly afterwards another in the stubble, doing good work. Judge found another covey in toe same place, and not forty yards further on found still another, being steady in each case. Lad made a good cast and pointed, being steady, and later on found two singles. Ortiz Lad's range was good. Judge tired a little at the end of the hour heat. Up at 10:25 Four Spot — Senator P. — Four Spot, handled by Archibald, and Senator P handled by Rose, were put down at 10:05. Senator started out in his oldtime prairie style, making wonderful casts at a killing speed. He found a covey, a beautiful find, and then worked up to a single, which he held. Spot pointed a single, which flushed wild, and then found a brace. Both dogs flushed singles while locating coveys twice, but were steady to balance of covey. Both made good covey finds towards the close of the heat. Senator ranged far and wide his full hour, while Spot's range and speed were only fair. Up at 11:30. Mohawk, handled by Avent, ran the bye. Down at 11:35. Mohawk ran his full hour with magnificent speed and range, never slacking in the least, never stopping only to point. The heat was one succession of brilliant casts, ranging from a quarter to three- quarters of a mile on either side, and being well in hand all the time. He ran as he never ran in any trials before; no matter how far out, working to his han dler. He found three coveys in his heat, doing clean bird work. In one case he drew a little too close, causing an outlying bird to flush. Up at 12:25. After a long rest at lunch, the judges decided to run Mohawk and Senator P. for the final teBt. Mohawk — Senator P. — They were put down at 2:50 to fight it out. Both went at merry clip. Mohawk kept the same brilliant ranging that characterized his previous heat, while Senator before the heat was over, showed the effeot of his previous race. Mohawk overran a single, Senator found one and pointed it in great style. He again pointed, but handler failed to flush. Mohawk then, on a very long cast pointed and found a covey. Up at 3:20. The judges then awarded the stake to Mohawk, which he won in the cleanest, fairest way. Summaries of the three stakes are the following: Carman, Man., September 8, 1903 — Manitoba Field Trial Club's Derby, for Setters and Pointers whelped on or after January 1, 1902. Purse $325; firet, $150; second, $100; third, $50; fourth, $25. Five dollars forfeit, $10 additioual for starters. Twenty- two Setters and five Pointers. JudgeB. W. W. Titus, West Point, Miss, and W. F. Ellis, Manitoba. Wassa, black, white and tan English Setter bitch (pedigree not trlven). F. G. J. McArthur, owner; Charles Archibald, handler. With Arab, liver and white Pointer dog (Young Jingo- Toxic). Char- lottesville Field Trial Kennels, owners; C. E. Buckle, handler. Manitoba Gale, liver and white Pointer dog (Jones' Judge-May). Thomas Johnson, owner; Hodgtns, handler; withdrawn. With Laurel Wlnd'em, taken up to run later with Blue Belle. TJocle Bam, black, white and tan English Setter dog (Uncle E- MlnDle R). C. K. Brown, owner; D. E. Rose, handler. With Laura Wind^em, orange and white English Setter bitch (Tony Boy-Leda Wind'em). H. S. Bevan, owner and handler. Chippewa, black, white and tan English Setter dog: (Tony Boy- Lady Rachel). Avent & Duryea, owoers; J. M. Avent, handler. With Pembina Lass, black white and tan English Setter bitch (Lady's Count Gladstone-Rose Thiers). T. W. Alexander, owner and handler. Algonquin, black, white and tan English Setter dog (Prime Mlu- ister-Clip Wind'em). Avent & Duryea, owners; J. M. Avent, handler. With Rivauna Phil, Uver and white Pointer dog (Radnor-Chit-Chat). McMurdo &, Hamber, owners; E. Hamber, handler. Itaska, black, white and tan English Setter bitch (Prime Mfn- ister-Zuma). Avnnt & Duryea, owners; J. M. Avent, handler. With Imperial, black white and tan English Setterdog (TTncle R-Cam). J Lemon, owner; D. E. Rose, handler. Pembina Billy, black, white and tan English Setter dog (Lady's Count Gladstone-Rose Thiers). T. W. Alexander, owner and handler. With Rod, black, white and tan English Setterdog (RodBeld ). E. Raimer, owner; D. E. Rose, handler. Chandi, blue belton English Setter bitch (Mohawk-Belle of Hard- bargain). Charlottesville Field Trial Keanels, owners; C. E. Buckle, handler. With Cam's Pink, black and white English Setterbitch (Uncle B-Cam). J. Lemon, owner; D. E. Rose, handler. Nawab, orange belton English Setter dog (Mohawk-Belle of Hardbargain). Charlottesville Field Trial Kennels, owners; C. E. Buckle, handler. With Mac, black, white and tan English Setterdog (pedigree not given). Clarence McKay, owner; W. J. Giles, hindler. Guy, black, white and tan English Setter dog (pedigree not given). Clarence Mackay, owner; M. J. Giles, handler. With Highland Mary, orange and white Pointer bitch (Young Jingo- Brown's Belle Pointer). C. K. Brown, owner; D. E. Rose, handler. Hickory, black, white and tan English Setter dog (Mohawk- Bonnie Lit). John Wootton, owner: J M Avent, handler. With Margaret J., black, white and tan English Setter bitch {Lady's Count Gladstone-Polly M.). Patrick Henry, owner; H. S Bevan, handler. Shawnee, black, white and tan English Setter bitch (Tony Boy - Cado). Avent & Duryea, owners; J. M. Avent, handler. With Pembina Blue, black, white and tan English Setter dog (Rbuibe Dan Wind'em-Amonio's Queen). T. W. Alexandler, owner and handler. Blue Belle, black and white English Setter dog (Mohawk-Bonnie Lit). John Wootten, owner; J M. Avent, handler. With Laurel Wind'em, orange and white English Setterbitch (Tony Boy-Leda Wind'em). H. S. Bevan owner and handler. Lanark Lad, lemon and white English Setter dog (Tony Boy- Pink T.). Fred W. Scott, owner; Charles Archibald, handler, a bve. II Arab with Itaska. Cam's Pink with Chippewa. Uncle Sam with Shawnee. Blue Belle with Margaret F. RESULT 1st, Uncle Sam; 2d, Shawnee: 3rd, Chippewa; equal 4th, Cam's Pink, Blue Belle. Carman, Man., Sept. 10, 1903.— Manitoba Field Trial Club's All-Age Stake for Setters and Pointers which have not won first place at any of the following trials: Eastern, Continental, United States and Mani- toba, in any previous year. Purse $325; first $150; second $100; third $50; fourth $25. Five dollars for- feit. Ten dollars for starters. Twenty-seven starters, twenty-one English Setters and six Pointers. Judges, W. W. Titus and H. T Bevan, Somerville, Tenn. Manitoba Sport, black and white Pointer dog i Sport IV-Queenie). A, Gale, owner; W. A. Hodgins, handler. With Sheriff, black and white Pointer dog (Bang Ill-Manitoba Belle). Hamber & Code, owners; E. Hamber, handler. Senator P. Jr., lemon and white Pointer dog (Senator P.-Winnipeg Belle). Thomas Johnson, owner; W A. Hodgins, handler. With Snowflake, black, white and tan English Setter bitch (Tony Boy- Maid o' the Morn). W. F. EUis. owner and handler. Oakley's Magic, black, white and tan English Setter bitch (Oakley Hill-Nellie C). J. Lemon, owner; D E. Rose, handler. With Landore, black, white and tan English Setter dog (Val Lit- Duchess). T. W. Alexander, owner and handler. Judge, liver and white Pointer dog (Bang Ill-Manitoba Belle). Hamber & Code, owners; E Hamber, handler. With Alambaugh, black, white and tan English Setter dog (Dash Antonio-Lark). Charlottesville Field Trial Kennels, owners; C. E. Buckle, handler. Granite City, black, white and tan English Setter dog (Sport's Gath-Nettie Kirby). J. Lemon, owner; C. Archibald, handler. With Lucille R , black, white and tan English Setter bitch (Oakley Hill-Nellie C). J. M. Watson, owner; D. E. Rose, handler. Prince Rodney, black, white and tan English Setter dog (Lady's Count Gladstone-Jessie Rodfield). Charles Cooke, owner: D. E. Rose, handler. With Iroquois, black, white and tan English Setter dog (Tony Boy- Cado). Avent & Duryea, owners; J. M. Avent, handler. Ortiz Lad, lemon and white English Setterdog (Rodfleld-Grace G. Darling). T)r. C. I. Snoop, owner; D. E. Rose, handler. With Red Jacket, black, white and tan English Setterdog {Tony Boy- Cado). Avent & Duryea, owners; J. M, Avent, handler. Mohawk, black, white and tan English Setter dog (Tony Boy- Countess Meteor). Avent & Duryea, owners; J. M. Avent, handler. With Star Bcndhu, black, white and tan English Setter dog (Dick Bondhu-Bonnle Lit). John Wootton, handler. Roxie Lit, black, white and tan English Setter bitch (Minto- Bonnie Lit). John Wootton, owner and handler. With Pembina Lady, black, white and tan English Setter bitch (Lady's Count Gladstone-Rose Thiers). T. W. Alexander, owner and handler. Portia, blaok, white and tan English Setter bitch (Sport's Gath- Pansy B). Paul Rainey, owner; D. E. Rose, handler. With Count Gathstone, black, white and tan English Setterdog (Lady's Count Gladstone-Marklin). Fred W. Scott, owner and handler; withdrawn. Lane's Jingo, orange and white Pointer dog (Jingo's Light-Ruby). B. Forbes, owner; D. E. Rose, handler. With Vlrden's Diana, liver, white and tan Pointer hitch (Truubndour- Rlpple). Robert Adamson, owner; Henry Blshoprigg, handler. Lanark Lady, black, white and tan English Setter bitch (Lady's Count Gladstone-Rod's Zetta). Fred W. Scott, owner; C. Archi- bald, handler. With Manitoba Chief, Uver and white Pointer dog (Manitoba Shot- Rose). Thomas Johnson, owner; W. A. Hodgins. handler Youma, black, white and tan English Setter bitch (Tony Boy- May Blue). Avent & Duryea, owners; J. M. Avent, handler. With Count Gathstone, described above. II Mohawk with Prince Rodney. Tony Man with Ortiz Lad. Red Jacket with Alambaugh. Portia with Youma. Ill Alambaugh with Tony Man. Prince Rodney with Ortiz Lad. RESIT,!'. 1st, Portia; &1. Prince Rodney; .'Id, Tony Man; equal Ith, Alam- baugh and Ortiz Lad. Carman, Man., September 11, 1903 — Manitoba Field Trial Club's Championship Stake, for Setters and Pointers. Open only to dogs which have won a place in competition in field trials. Nominations to be made on or before August 1, 1903. Five dollars forfeit; $10 starters. Puree to consist of total en- trance fees and a gold medal. Seven atarterB, four English Setters and three Pointers; one hour heats. Judges, Messrs. Titus and Bevan. Tony Man, black, white and tan English Setter dog (Tony Boy- May Blue). Avent & Duryea, owners; J. M. Avent, handler With Prince Rodney, black, white and tan English Setter dog (Lady's Count Gladstone-Jessie Rodfield). Charles B. Cooke, pwner; D E. Rose, handler. Judge, liver and white Pointer dog (Bang HI-Manitoba Belle) Hamber & Code, owners; E. Hamber, handler. With Ortiz. Lad, lemon and white English Setter dog (Rodfleld-Grace G. Darllngi. Dr. C. I. Shoop. owner: D. K. Rose, handler. Senator P., lemon and white Pointer dog (Captain B.-Queen B.) J W. Flynn, owner; D. E. Rose, handler. With Four Spot, black and white Pointer dog (Sir Royal Dan-Queen of Lilitz). Dr. E. Denlson, owner: C. Archibald, handler. Mohawk, black, white and tan English Setter dog (Tony Boy- Countess Meteor). Avent & Duryea, owners; J. M. Avent, handler II Mohawk with Senator P. itE'-rr.T 1st, Mohawk. DOINGS IN DOGDOM. At a recent meeting of the National Beagle Club , . f America, it was decided that the Fourteenth Annual Trials of the Club, which will commence on Novem- ber 9th, 1903, be held at Howardsville, Albemarle County, Virginia. Howardsville is between Rich- mond and Lynchburg, distant from Richmond, about ninety miles. Full details and information concern- ing these trials will be given through the sporting papers from time to time, or upon application to the Secretary of the Club, Chas. R. Stevenson, 106 Mar- ket St., Camden, N. J. It may often have been noticed with what apparent satisfaction dogs will devour freshly-grown grass. It may not be generally known, except by those well versed in the culture of dogs, that grass is a necessity to them if they are to keep themselves in a:ood health. It acts in two ways with them when they are indisposed, the juice of the grass acting as a cooling medicine, whilst the fibre causes them to vomit any offending matter from their stomachs. It appears to be a natural condition of the dog to be able to vomit easily: in fact, many bitches can swallow food and throw it up at will for their puppies when the latter are two energetic in their endeavor to get milk. Puppies when a month old have very sharp nails, the mothers suffering agony when allowing them to take sustenance, and they very soon leave them to get their food in some other way. Whilst on the subject of rearing puppies-, it may be remarked that for all breeds of dogs where great size is a consideration a little raw meat scraped fine should be given them; in fact, when they appear not to be digesting their food properly, a small quantity of raw meat given three or four times a day, and nothing else, will generally put them right again. The more naturally a dog is fed the better it will be in health. The Cocker Spaniel is the subject of much discus- sion at the present time, writes Mr. Fred Gresham. Judges have for some time past been advocating a short-back Spaniel as the correct type; but now we find some prominent breeders and exhibitors declar- ing that the Cocker should be a minature Field Spanitl, somewhat long in the back, and with the head of a field Spaniel. This is indirect contradiction to the standard by which Cockers have of late been judged. The fact is, the Field Spaniel is the dog whose confor- mation requires alteration, more than the Cocker; but they have both been bred to the opposite extreme. The Westminster Kennel Club bench show is now a fixture for Madison Square Garden, New York, February 10-13, 1901. The Danbury show begins next Tuesday, following which will come the Frederick, Md., show, October 20th. The star fall show will open at New York on November 3rd, under the auspices of the Ladies Kennel Association of America Following which the Long Island Kennel Club will open on the 10th at Brooklyn, The Boston Terrier Club will hold a specialty show at Boston, November 17, 19, after which the Philadelphia show will wind up the season for this year, November 25-2S. The Western Canada Kennel Club'B annual held trials were run at La Salle, Man., on August 31. W. C. Lee was in the saddle for both the Derby and the All-age. Fred McArthur's English Setter bltob Wassa was first in the Derby. <;. A. Carruther'e Pointer dog Sirdar Trinket (Young Rip Rap-Trin- ket's Bang) won second and F. W. Scott's Setter dog Lanark's Lad won third place. The All-age winners were: first, Hamber and Code's Pointer dog Judge (Bang Ill-Manitoba Belle), second G. A. Carrutner's Pointer bitch Fleet, third. Fred Scott's Setter dog Count Gathstone. The Eastern field trial circuit promises to be a very successful one this season. For the Eastern Field Trial Club's Derby sixty-five young dogs are entered, eleven Pointers and fifty-four Setters. The International Field Trial Derby has twenty nominations, fifteen English Setters and five Pointers. For the Georgia Field Trial Club Derby ten Point- ers and four English Setters are entered. Thirty-four Knglioh Setters and eight Pointers make up the list of Derby nominations for the Con- tinental Field Trial Club. Ch. Raby Coastguard will probably be entered in in the L K A. show at New Vnrk next month. Bark- by Ben and Coastguard should make a fine rave if they come together, which is more than like 10 ®,he gveebev unit ^povtzman [October 2, 1M3 Wandee Kennel8 will also, it is ™»0nrned' *%• 8°™ other good ones at this show and on the Eastern "coasteuard is a young dog well thought of by the fanov He was claimed by George Raper, at an EnSU show this year where he had been entered by the Duchess of Newcastle. The catalogue price was £200 The only litter by Coastguard in this country is one out of Alfreton Flirt, owned by Cairnsmuir Sennels there is five puppies in the litter and all are d nine- nicelv up to last reports. Mri Chai K. Harley, we hear, is desirous of ]0ln- ing the Ladies' Kennel Association of New York. Mr. W. Ballantyne writes us from Central City, Colorado, as follows: Pi„<.«« "BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN-Dear Sir. Please insert the enclosed advertisement in your next issue T have sold the past week three Irish Terrier bitches in whelp oCh. ^oyal Sportsman, and two maidens to MBPoter of Denver. Also the St. Bernard hat I advertised in your paper, he goes to New \ ork City where he was raised. I have coming two Irish Terrier bitches and a dog, one bitch by Breda Mud- dler and one by Balmoral Bill, both from the 'old sod 'The ° log's pedigree I have not had, but he is suitable for thf bitches. They have all done a bit of inning over there, and I think that I should now have some 'Micks' second to none on the Coast. GOSSIP FOR SPORTSMEN The California Powder Works advertisement will be found on page 15. The attention of sportsmen is called to their factory loaded "Pattern" shells This shell is charged with C. P. W. smokeless-a load that makes a superb pattern. At a recent shoot at Pinole a number of local shooters experimented with "Pattern" loads and were unanimous in endorsing the strong shooting qualities of this load. The record large-game bag for this season was made within two weeks by Dr. E. G. McConnell, Dr. Bonner McConnell and Dr. Birdsall of this city, who, with Ed McNulty and Clem Patterson of Yreka, have been on a hunting trip in the Siskiyot mountains. The party returned September 25th. On the hunt they bagged fourteen bucks and eighteen bears, black and cinnamon. This is a record bag for that region. The hunters had the services of an Indian guide. Dr. E G. McConnell is familiar with the country hunted over, and lias organized an annual hunting party for that region for many seasons past. Striped bass anglers have been jubilant over the prospects ot good fishing again in the "straits" and around Angel Island. Last Saturday evening ten fish were taken and the following morning seventeen more were landed. The twenty-seven bass weighed 273 pounds, an average of over ten pounds. The largest fishes scaled eighteen pounds. They were t iken on the "fog bell" course, the "westside" and at Petticoat point, Angel Island, all on Wilson 6 and 7 spoons. This take of big bass is looked upon as an indication of the fall appearance of the larje fellows, in our hay and tributary waters, from the ocean, it is the bjlief among the more experienced anglers that the large bass put to sea after Bpawning and stay out ia the ocean waters until fall. The fishing- has been good in the waters mentioned and about Belvedere all this week. The fish seemed to b3 plentiful everywhere about the Marin shores and are evidently not running in schools. Al Cumming recently in three trips to San Antonio slough caught 76 bass, they were, however, rather smafl fish. The bass fishing in the sloughs, Saa Pablo bay and adjacent waters should be good from now on until the rains, the water is very clear now. Raports from Rodeo and Point Richmond state that the bass are being caught at each place fre- quently. Lake Merritt bas9 fishing is still good, most of the fish are caught in the evening however. Wild ducks are plentiful in many of the marsh and tule districts of the bay counties. Early arrival of sprig and teal are ncted everywhere. Mallard and teal ducks have also bred numerously this season. The noted Pringle ponds were black with duck9 one day this week and the Stewart ponds contained more ducks than were on the Suiiun marsh, it was esti- mated. Widgeon ducks are also very numerous thus early in the season, these birds are probably Oregon ducks, a9 it is most too soon for the appearance of the real northern flight of widgeon Gray geese have also appeared, this variety will be followed by brant, then white geese will come and lastly the honkers will make their appearance, theBe latter are the latest arrivals here in the fall and they are the first variety of the species to get away in the spring. The Montezuma Gun Club, recently organized, will shoot ducks this season near Collinsville. The mem- bers are W. W. Richards, Bert Wyman, J. L. Nickel T. J. Walsh and "Billy" Swain. The club preserve! near Collinsville, embraces some 600 acres, upon which 1e located a winding tule fringed pond three- fourths of a mile, long that has the reputation of being second to none for duck shooting. A snipe patch nearby is said to be one of the best in the State. The club house is a comfortably furnished two story six roomed cottage with a nine foot glass enclosed porch in front. The kitchen and dining room is located on the upper floor. The club house is fitted up so that the members can take their respective wives to a resort where they will find all the comforts of home. The members are all cooks and do rot propose to allow the women folks to get near the cook stove. In improving the house and grounds, etc., $2000 has been expended. The cottage is but ten minutes walk from the steamer landing. Canvasback ducks can be shot within 150 yards of the club porch, in fact, last winter teal were shot from the front door. Five blinds have been made and "position" will be taken by the shooters by lot. When two or more shooters are in the club blinds, the aggregate bag for the day will be divided, so that when a member is in a blind on the pond that is given the "go by" by the ducks, he can complacently see his companions burning powder for his benefit. One day last winter Mr. and Mrs. Walsh bagged sixty-eight "cans" at one blind, of these the madam dropped eighteen. The members' wives are all good shots, Mrs. Richards being quite an adept with the rifle as well. We believe that in no other part of the United States within easy traveling distance of a large city can a district be found wherein one day a sportsman may bag four kinds of feathered game and basket three varieties of trout such as can be found in and about Webber lake and Sierra Valley. Within a radius of sixteen miles of Webber lake Al Cummings last week shot English snipe in the marshy snipe patches, a short distance away in sagebrush covered country he had the pleasure of bagging sage hens and in the chemise and brushy foothills adjacent he turned his attention to mountain quail and grouse. In the streams of that district Eastern red speckled brook trout, rainbow and cutthroat trout rose to the fly. Surely this is a country that an Eastern sports- man would not believe could be found — and only a day's journey away from this city. Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Cumming and George LoweD- berg have just returned from a three weeks' outing in the Sierra fairyland. Mr. Cumming states that the fishing in Webber and adjacent lakes will be good from now on until November 1, when the season closes. The trout fishing in Fordyce, White Rock, French and Webber lakes was excellent for two weeks past. The fact that there is now most excellent black bass fishing in Lake of the Woods will be hailed with delight by anglers. Forty or fifty bass were placed in this water eight or nine years ago aDd the fish have thriven and multiplied amazingly. The lake has not been fished successfully in the past. Possibly the right methods were not used. However, C. J. Stovel, an expert angler of this city, took a turn at the fish two weeks ago. His catch for one day was twenty-three fish, averaging nearly two pounds each. On two other days he caught seventeen and seven bass respectively. His largest fish weighed five pounds. This is, indeed, a whopping big bass for California. Mr. Cummings caught ten bass one day. They weighed twenty-two and a half pounds. The bass in thiB lake will average from one and three- quarter to two pounds. Cummings was too late for good results in bass fishing as the cold weather had commenced. The trout fishing in Fordyce lake was exceptionally good. This lake was drained four or five years ago, since thefl the fish have thriven and multiplied. Mountain quail and grouse were very plentiful having bred exceedingly well this year. The country abounds in natural cover for the birds, chemise and high chapparal cover the Sierra foot hills densely, this gives the birds ample refuge adjacent to water and feeding grounds. These birds can always be counted on to frequent this section. There is only about three weeks' shooting obtainable there, and that is whilst the birds are traveling, coming through the valley on their way to a refuge at a lower altitude on the approach of cold weather. This period is generally from September 1st to the 25th according to the season, sometimes the birds leave that section as early as the 15th of September. Mr. Cumming besides enjoying two days' snipe shooting, getting limit bags each day also had a couple of days' grouse shooting at Meadow lake, twelve miles from Webber, bagging the limit daily. He intended to get a third day's shooting but was the victim of a ludicrous adventure. His horse, a knowing mountain animal, had actually untied, with his teeth, a knotted rope, and took the road back to Webber lake. This left the sportsman the alternative of taking "shank's mare" back to the hotel, which he did early in the day, and had the pleasure of follow- ing the trail left by the runaway's dragging stake rope for eleven miles to a gate in a barbed wire fence. The gate stopped the animal on that course, but not until futile effortB had apparently been made to break through. The horse was afterwards found hiding in the brush some 200 yards away from the gate and near the fence Cumming says that he never really enjoyed a long walk until he tried this "hike. ' ' English snipe were not so numerous this year as in past seasons. The lakes mentioned and Sierra valley have been recently the resort for rest during the southerly flight of thousands of wild duck6. Plover, curlew and two varieties of fresh water rail were also observed to be numerous during the stay of Mr. Gumming in that section. Live Bird Shoot at Pinole. The Home Gun Club will hold a big live bird shoot at Pinole to-morrow. The club grounds are well adapted for pigeon shooting and the Pinole shooters are a hospitable lot af sportsmen. A number of local shooters, C. A. Haight , C. G Nauman and others, will go over to the shoot on an early train in the morning Birds will be trapped at $3 per dozen. We under- stand the management have procured a supply of strong pigeons. The shoot will start at 9 o'clock Pool shooting will follow the regular events. Local shooters intending to be present can take the S P 7 A. M., or Santa Fe 7:30 A. M. boat from the foot of Market St. Jackson's Napa Soda is sold in every city, town and. hamtat in the State. Huntress and Wounded Buck Fight to Finisl A story comes by way of Ukiah detailing a sens; tional fight between a wounded buck and a Mendocir county Diana, Mrs. Tomlinson of Philo, who wf> severely injured a week ago in a hand-to-hoof combi with a wounded deer. Mrs. TomlinEon, who is a wel known sportswoman, started on a hunt, accompanie' by her dog. The dog jumped up a fine fourpointc and Mrs. Tomlinson immediately dropped hini Rushing up to the fallen animal, she reached to ct his throat, as is the custom with hunters. The dee> however, was only wounded and at the first touch < the knife waB upon his feet. Then the battle for life commenced, the deer usin , his sharp forefeet and his horns as weapons. Th dog tried to aid, but was killed by the deer. For sei eral minutes the flght continued, Mrs. Tomlinsoi who is a strong woman, never releasing her hold o' the antlers. The animal fiLally weakened from th loss of blood from his wounds and sank to the grounc Mrs. Tomlinson, although weak from the exertio and suffering from Beveral cuts inflicted by the horr, and hoofs of the deer, managed to make her way t her home. Her husband later returned for the dee: The head will be mounted and kept as a cherishe trophy of the chase. Mrs. Tomlinson 's feat was a the more remarkable as several men in that regio have been crippled for life in similar encounters i various times. The enraged animal must have been badly wounde by Mrs. Tomlinson's shot, elie she never could hav mastered the infuriated buck by a hold on hisantleri. For, if there is anything a deer can show his strengt '■ and agility by, it is his extraordinary ability to shak, off any hold on his horns. San Francisco Fly-Casting Club. Saturday Contest. Re Entry— Stow Lake, Sept. 28, 19ft1 Wind west. Weather, cloudy. Judges, Messrs. Klerulff and Brotherton. Events 12 3 Brotherton, T. W..126 Brotherton. T. W. . Edwards, G. O 100 Edwards, G. C — — KterullT, T. C 103 Young, C. G Young, C. G 92 8-12 89 93 4-13 91 2-12 86 8-12 94 8-12 85 10- 12 90 3-12 89 4-12 89 88 83 8-12 90 8-12 89 8 12 85 10-12 84 9-12 82 6-12 i 86 7-12 82 6 12 : 86 1-12 83 I 75 1 Sunday Contest. Re-Entry— Stow Lake, Sept. 27, 190; Wind. west. Weather, cloudy. Events Haigbt, P.M Haight. F. M Brooks. Dr. W. E.. Kennlff.C.R Brotherton, T. W. Brotherton, T. W. KenniH, J. B Kennlff, J. B KierulfJ, T. C... . Kierulff, T. O Blade, A. M Blade, A. M 88 103 120 121 82 4-12 86 8-12 86 4-13 88 76 8-12 85 81 6-12 86 6-12 123 92 8-12 92 8-13 75 10-12 84 3-13 100 94 88 86 83 84 8-l> 85 4-12 69 4-12 87 4-12 89 8-12 86 8-12 83 4-12 83 4-12 89 2-12 7S 4-12 73 4-12 85 6-12 89 5-12 80 78 4-12 82 I 91 I 95 i 98 i 84 f 88 1 £3*N0TE: Event 1— Distance Casting, feet. Event 2— Ac euraoy: percentage. Event 3 — Delicacy, (a) accuracy percentage (b) delioacy percentage; (c) net percentage. Event 4 — Lure cast ing, percentage. The fractions In lure oasting are I5ths. Coming Events. April 1-Sept. 10. Oct. 16-Feb. 1— Open season for taking stee nead in tidewater. April 1-Nov. 1— Trout season open. July 1-Jan. 1— Open season for black bass. Aug. la-April 1— Open season for lobsters and crawfish. Sept. 1-Nov. 1— Close season for crabs. Sept. 1-May 1— Open season for shrimp. Sept. 10-Oct. 16— Close season In tidewater for steelhead. Oct. 3— Saturday Contest. Cast-off. Stow lake, 2:80 p. n Oct. 4— Sunday Contest. Cast-off. Stow lake, 10 a. m. Not. 15-Sept. JO— Season open for taking salmon above tfd, water- Gun. July 1-Feb. 15— Dove season open. July 15-Nov. 1— Deer season open. Sept. 1-Feb. 15 — Open season for mountain quail, grouse an sage hen. Sept. 27— Millwood Gun Club. Blue rocks. Mill Station. Oct. 15-Feb. 15 — Open season .'or quail, ducks, etc. Bench Shows. Oct 6, 7, 8, 9— Danbury Agricultural Society. Danbury, Conn d"ohn W. Bacon, Treasurer. Oct. 20, 21, 22, 23— Frederick County Agricultural SocletJ Frederick, Md. J. Roger McSherry, Seoretary, Frederick, Md. Oct. 7, 8, 9, 10— Bench Show in Spokane, Wash. Nov. 3, 4, 5, 6 — Ladies Kennel Association of America. Madfso Square Garden, New York. Mrs. A. G. Evans, Hon. Seoretarj Westbury, L. I. Nov. 17, 18, 19— Boston Terrle* Club. Boston, Mass. Dee 2, 3, 4. 5— Bench Show in connection with Poultry Exhibl" San Francisco. P. K. L. rules Field Trials. Sept 29— Pacific Northwest Field Trial Club 3rd annual trial; Whidby Island. Wash. F. A. Pontius, Secretary, Seattle, Wasl Dog Owners!! Read This!! We are carrying in the advertising columns of this journal a advertisement of "Sergeant's Dog Remedies," a popular line c preparations for whioh F. W. Braun & Co. of Los Angeles, Call fornia, have been made distributing agents on the Paoiflc Coast The goods have few equals and no superiors on the market todaj having received the highest endorsements of the leading dogma and kennel owners of this country and Canada. They are manufactured by Polk Miller Drug Co of Richmond Va., who invite all persons having sick dogs to write (enolosini stamp) describing symptoms, and they will cheerfully furnish tta best possible advice without any charge whatever. A revtw oopy of their book on "Dogs" sent free on receipt of So in stamp* t cover postage. OCTOBEB 3, 1903] ©he gveeitev cmo gppxjrtsmctn 11 THE FARM. Live Stock Farming. Prof. Painel of the Iowa Experiment Station urgea that stock farming ia the most profitable. He aaye : "It has been demonstrated both by ex- perience and practice that the farmer who sellB beef, pork and mutton that he has produced from the corn and grass raised and fed on the farm makes more money per acre of his land and per dollar of his capital than the one who grows only wheat or corn or cotton and sells it. It is not necessary to entirely discontinue rais- ing these crops, but if we are to produce a surplus to be sold in foreign markets it is best to expert that surplus in the most condensed and marketable form, as meat and animal products, rather than in the or ginal crude and bulky state. "In the long run the farmer will make the most monev who devotes his fields to the growing of forage crops to feed stock, making use of all the raw products at home, thereby saving not only much of the coat of transportation, but maintain- ing the fertility of the soil. By doing so, corn-belt farmers will maintain their pre- eminence in agricultural lines. Experi- ence of the past few months has shown that the men who stuck to feeding and were not tempted by high prices to sell their corn have made the most money. Anything that will enhance the produc. tive capacity of our soils for the produc- tion for forage conditions will help the farmer. Poultry Notes. Don't feed too much wet food ; dry food is the best for a purpose. Wheat and oats as a mixed feed, are hard to surpasa as a food for egga. Some poultrymen recommend oil meal as a food for hens during the moulting season. Chickens forced in growth do not breed as well as those who take it a little more slowly. Fowls confined to narrow limits are apt to get too fat if well fed, and they will not lay. Coopa of turkeys, ducks and chicks are recommended for melon patches, to keep off the bugs. Pure breeds, and only one kind at a time, for everyday practical purposes is the advice of a poultryman. Cellars are being used largely for incu- bator chickens. An even temperature is more easily maintained. In raising fowla for the market those that are the best layers, the best setters, and mature early are the best. Hot weather does not agree with little chicks. Those hatched when the weather is warm do not grow rapidly. When hens stop laving change their feed for a few days. This will frequently cause them to resume business. Moulting season is hard on the flock; bat thoBe which stand it the best are the best hens. Select them for next year. It iB said that women make the best poultry raisers, because they are more considerate of the wanta of their flocks then men. Fowls do not seem to tire of milk, and there is not any more danger of them get- ting too much than of getting too much water. To have good poultry is no longer a "fad." It is the result of a growing con viction that it paya, and everyone wants what pays. Speaking of insectiverous birds, none are superior to chickens, duck or turkeys. If near a melon or squash patch, very few bugs would escape. Color of plumage is a matter of prefer- ence only. A brown Leghorn will lay just aB well as a white Leghorn. The principal thing being that she is Leg- horn. Some fail in the poultry business be- cause they do not make a product for the market which they have. Those who cater to their market usually sell all they can produce. Some use the plan of having their fowls roost in trees during the warm weather; if they have no trees, the perches are moved out of the chicken house for weeks at a time. It is Borne troub'e, but in order to preserve the health of the fowls, the droppings should be taken from the house daily or covered with dry earth. Use lime and ashes freely. When dressing a chicken, it will save washing the table or a meat board if a newspaper is spread down to work upon. When through throw the refuse away and burn the paper. The poultry business is as well adapted to elderly persons as to the young. A hen will lay as well for an old woman as for a handsome young girl, or aa well for a boy as for a man. A fancier says that he would rather take care of three thousand broilers in February and March than one thousand in June, and advises that we should be- gin hatching in early winter and push for the first market. Corn is fattening and Blow of digeBtion. It makes good feed for the setting hen, aa it haa a tendency to keep her fat and warm. She should be well fed every time she comes off, and a good dust bath should be near. One reaBon that some flocks breed up so slowly is that the chickens are hatched from immature Btock. Only the eggs from the best layers should be set. Some pullets lay at four months old. They should be put in a pen by themselves, when mature, and their eggs set. Model Dairy Farm. [Santa Clara Journal.] The Board of Trade of Palo Alto haa proposed a novel scheme, the success of which will be watched with interest. Profiting by the terri ble scourge of t yphoid fever that almost paralyzed industries there laat apring, caused, aa the physicians declared, by impure milk, the board now proposes to organize a co-operative dairy farm to be run on scientific principles and strict sanitary conditions. The proposition is to form a stock company composed of experienced dairymen, and under the instructions of the State Dairy Commissioner, they will establish and maintain a high class dairy farm where none but pure milk and cream can be ob- tained. The effort will be watched with interest by other parts of the State. NEW MODEL When the fat of cream is removed every 100 pounds of skim milk contains about 90 per cent of water and ten per cent of solids. The solids contain about 3 5 per cent of casein and 4.5 per cent of milk sugar with small proportions of fat and albumen, as the fat can not be en- tirely removed. The milk Bugar re- mains in whey when it separates and the casein in curds or cheesy matter, al- though both contain Bmall percentages of fat, albumen, etc. The whey will pro- mote the formation of fat, while the curds supply the elements for growth of muscle. It is an advantage to feed the two substances together, adding bran and seasoning slightly with salt. If the skim becomes sour and ferments it should not be used at all. The proper plan is to use the skim when fresh or but slightly sour. Small bones in a large hog ia a con- dition that should not be desired. If the bones are very light, is is a fact that the percentage of flesh covers the deficiency. But would it not be better to have still more flesh supported by still stronger and heavier bones? A big hog should have big bones, and little hogs little bones. Our best breeders and judges insist on strong limbs and good sized bones as necessary to the vigor and symmetry of the hog. All vessels which have contained milk must be at once rinsed with pure, cold water. To pour hot water od them be- fore this is done results in milk being scalded on, as is sometimes seen in the yellowish white substances firmly adher- ing to the inner surfaces of pails, tin strainers, etc, which have been thus treated. If they can not be washed at once, fill with cold water and allow them to remain thus until they can be attended to. Salt rubbed dry over tin surfaces re- moves the yellow coating when present but it is much better to use preventive means. Salt is also excellent as a means of cleansing the meshes of the wire gauze in the strainer if it has become stopped. The cause of this is scalding before it has become perfectly cleansed. The boi'ing water cooks the particles lodged in the meshes. The Swiss cheese made in this country differs from the real Swiss in not having the gases so largely developed and hence in being a more solid cheese and contain ing fewer and smaller holes. It is also marketed when only three to four months old whereas the genuine Swiss cheese is kept in the curing cave for eight or nine months which allows it to develop a richer and more aromatic flavor. Here again however, the western taste for a freBh and comparatively mild flavor in cheese is met by the domestic manufacturer. None of our California manufacturers of imita- tion foreign cheese have a cave in which to ripen their goods after they are made. Beef from cattle twelve to twenty-four months old if well fattened is in more de- mand than that from animals six to eighteen months older. One reason for it is that there is not a great deal of it on the market. It is very seldom that the market is overstocked with good, fat yearling steers or heifers, yet through a very large portion of the year they com mand as high a price as the 1200 to 1,300 I pound steer of similar quality. Just now ' the packers are not disposed to pay a fair price for any kind of beeves. Diversified farming does not stop at crop grown from the soil, bat should in- clude a diversity of live stock. Some good cattle, a few good capacious brood mares, some good breeding hogs, a few or more sheep, goats and 'owls of diverse sorts, Bhould be fouDd on every farm, for they do not interfere or conflict with each other. There is a place for each, and a farm ia incomplete without a stock of each sort. FOR SALE. THE PACING GELDING, AL SANDY 2:26 -L by Wayland W-, dam Rapid Ann by Overland. Can pace three heals better than 2;20. Can brush Tery fast on the road. Also the black pacing gelding, DOC 2:38, one of the best roadsters In the city. Can lower his record several seconds. Both horses are excellent prospects to race. For prices and further particulars address S. WATSON, 235 i Douglas street, San Franoisco. The Woodland Creamery distributed $8,467 among its patrons during the month of August. This ia at the rate of over one hundred thousand dollars a year for the dairymen who taKe their milk to that creamery. FOR SALE. rpHK PACING MARE 8WANHILDA. She is J- a handsome bay, coming seven years old, a natural pacer and with but little track work can pace a mile below 2:20 with ease. Gentle and kind and has been driven by ladies to buggy. She is a fine roadster and with proper training will make a great race mare. For pedigree and further particulars address W. L.MCDONALD, Concord, Cal. BLAKE, M0FF1TT & TOWNE -DEALEBS IN- 55-57-59-61 First Street, S. F. TiLtPHOSi Main 199 THE BEST IN THE WORLD. O'BRIEN & SONS Cor. Golden Gate Ave. and Polk St. SAN FKANCISCO, CAI, Hunt and Fish ALONG TBI LINE OF THB (LESSEE OF THE S. F. & N. P. B. E.) 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Inquire at INFORMATION BUREAU 613 SUBSET 8TREET £0C0ANUT OIL CAKE THB BEST FKE.D FOB STOCK, CHICKENS AND PIQS FOR SALB IN LOTS TO SCIT BY EL DORADO LINSEED OIL WORKS 808 California Street, San Franc 13 ®He gxee&ev cati> &paxi&mcm [October 3, 1903 Pedigrees of This Season's "Stars." [BY RALPH H. TOZEB.J The present season has been a notable one, ma racing way. and it is aoubt.'ul if so many American soeea marvels were ever out in a single season as that of 190™ Africander, son of Imp. Star Ruby and Afric Queen, and bred at Kancho del Paso, was heralded as6 the champion three-year-od of the season one month ago, but had to be retired for a "me, ana it was feared he would not be seen again for many months but is rounding to, and mil doubtless face fee barrier again before the Washington mee ,n« comes to a close. While Africander was making a memorable record for himself tliroutli wmnmffsoveral of the great racing fixtures from older horses, Dick Welles came out at Washington Park and ran six fur- lon^s in 1-114 5 over a circular track, establishing a S record, then reeled off a mile in 1:38 flat with astounding ease, later, at Harlem, clipping a fifth of a second from Alian-a-Qale's world s record at a mile, putting the mark at 1:37 2-5. There is no room to doubt that Welles could have run the distance in about 1-38 4-5 had Grand Opera been able to make the bav son of King Eric and Tea's Over extend himself. \sil was he won without the use of steel or catgut, with his ears pricking, and now even the Easterners are of the opinion that Africander would have to play sccond violin if Richard were to be pitted against the California colt. Dick Welles' record to date for 1903, is twelve wins in thirteen starts, his only defeat being when sent over a muddy track, a sort of course the lon°--striding, frictionless, closeto-the-ground runner could never negotiate. As Respess' colt has won at a mile and a furlong in good company and in fast time, there is no reason to believe he cannot stay as well as sprint. His owner has refused 840,000 for his speed machine, and declares he is not anxious to part with the three-year-old even if $50,000 was the desideratum. And, taking the 860,000 paid for the four-year-old Hermis into consideration, Welles is worth $100,000. I Harkaway Fellowcraft (the first horse to beat 7:20 in a four-mile race), Enquirer (champion race horse and one of the leading sires), imp. Australian (who has head the list of sires in America), imp. Leamington (seven times at the head of the stallion list) and Lexington (who. W38 first even oftener than Leamington, his rival). Then there is the blood of War Dance, sire of Modesty, first winner of the American Derby, also of f Virgil by Vandal I Florence by LesiDgta f Imp. Bonnie Scotland i Bourbon Belle..] hy Iag0 I Ella D. by Vandal I Imp. Australian ,„ „ ,. by West Australian j Pellowcralt -; •* | King Tom. by Economist Imp. Kng Ernest (Pocahontas 5 [Ernestine. f Parmesan. (Imp. Cyclone | dam of -{ Cynosure, Pampero. (Typhoon... Easter Sunday k ** etc. ; Hindoo... ; | Hanover. ! Bourbon Belle.. [ King Alfonso. . Tea Rose dam of John Scott I Tuberose. by Glencoe l Touchstone by Camel (Lady Geraldine by The Colonel T Sweetmeat by Gladiator [Gruyere by Verulam I Wild Dayrell by Ion ' (Midia by Scutari \ Virgil by Vandal (Florence by Lexingtn I Imp. Bonnie Scotland bv lago 1 LEllaD. by Vandal I Imp. Phaeton by King Tom i Merry Sunshine by Storm I' Vigil by Virgil be by Vandal [Hindoo. ILady Reel. j Spc-ulLim. 1 I Roseberv \ I (Ladylike.. s L Aerolite by Lexington f Enquirer ,_ . f, by imp. Leamington I Mannie Grey ... J F ( Lizzie G- by War Danee ( Vedette by Voltigeur (Doraliee by Alarm or Orlando I Newminster by Touchstone (Zuleika by Muley Moloch ( Doncaster by Stockwell Buttercup by imp. Glen Athol dam of Gold Cap, Buttress, Mary Louise Fifth dam. Bay Flower (dam of Ivy Leaf, Gain, Glengarifle, Bayadere, etc.) by Lexington; sixth dam, Bay Leaf (dam of Bay- wood, Beacon, Bayswater, Preakness, Niagara, Bingaman, eic ) by imp. Yorkshire; seventh dam, imp. Maria Black byFilnoda Puta. etc. Filling the public eye iust now, along with Dick Welles, are the two year olds Hamburg Belle, who beat Leonidas a scant head for the rich Futurity, and Highball, also the four year olds, Water-boy and Mc- Chesney. For some time it was claimed the latter was dodging Waterboy, but when "Big Mae," at his second and third Eastern attempts) beat The Picket Hermis, Heno and other fleet ones, and in hollow fashion, the tables turned, and the cry went up that the Haggin horse was doing the artful dodger act. Indeed it looks very much that way, and unless the owner of Rancho del Paso and Eimendorf recedes from his present position McChesney will be regarded as the champion of the year on the all aged division. Below will be found the tabulated pedigrees of the turf stars, Hamburg Belle. Leonidas, Waterboy and McChesney, the racing marvels of the year. A peculiar feature is that all are from young mothers. The Futurity winner's dam was foaled in 1891, Leon- idas' mother in 1*94, Dick Welles' and Waterboy's in 1893 and McChesney's in 18<->2, the oldest therefore being twelve years of age, the youngest nine. Imp. Isiac, imp. Boise, Zealandla and Tea's Over never raced, while McChesney 's mama, Manola Mason, lined up to the barrier just once. This will set breed- ers to thinking, and doubtless they will ask them- selves the question, "If I desire to breed a champion had I not better use for stud purposes a mare that is in full possession of all her vitality instead of a famous race mare that has been campaigned hard for three or more season'.'" Both Hamburg Belle and Leonidas are not only by the champion race horse Hamburg, and from hisirst crop of yoiiDgsters to race, but the seventh dam of both was Lady Moore Carew (by Tramp), mother of Mendicant, winner of the Oaks and St. Leger and ihim of Beadsman, winner of the Derby. Hamburg, to my mind, is bred to succeed his sire, Hanover, as the champion sire of America, there being not a weak link in his pedigree chain for six generations or more, while in the first three removes one observes Hanover (champion race horse and sire), Hindoo (champion rarer and high class sire , Virgil (champion sire), Vandal (e;rand race horse and second only to Lexing- ton, in his day, at tbe stud), imp. Bonnie Scotland (who headed the list of winning sires in America), f Hindoo . f Hanover.. I Bourbon Belle.. LLady Reel. (Mannie Grey, fLordClifden. i Hampton.. 1 Lady Langden. { Doncaster. . stone St. Leger winner. Hampton's dam Lady Lang- den, threw Sir Bevys, winner of the Derby. She was from the famous racer Haricot whose mother was the wonderful Queen Mary, dam also of Blink Bonny (Derby and Oaks) imp. Bonnie Scotland and seven other stake horses. Both Dick Welles and McChesney have the King Ernest cross close up, and in addition Welles has crosses of Hanover, King Alfonso, Virgil, Lexington and Imp. Yorkshire, all at the top of the winning sires' list of America in their day. Dick Welles comes from the family that gave us Bramble, Brambaletta, Beacon, Bayswater, Preakness and many other renowned racers. The second and third dams of Respess' colt threw nothing of great racing reputa- f Sweetmeat fMacaronl by Gladiator I Jocose by Pantaloon | Bend Or.. ( Rouge Rose I , by Thormanbv Limp. Isis dam of f Hermit Crisis. Isidor, ! by Newmimler Isia, Inishfree (.Shotover -, J Eng^sh^De'rby.^^^^T^^^H^ 2000 Guineas, etc {g d of- Raverisbury) Fifth dam, Vaga (dam of Belphcebe) by Stockwell; sixth dam. Mendicant (winner of Oaks and St. Leger and dam of Beadsman) by Touchstone; seventh dam. Lady Moore Carew by Tramp, etc. L' Argentine, War Song, Ella T., Blue Grass Belle and others that have made much track and stud history in this country. Then look at the famous mares in Hamburg's pedigree— Mannie Grey (dam of Domino, Correction, etc.). Bourbon Belle, Ella D. (next to Mollie Jackson Vandal's best racing daugh- ter), Lizzie G. (dam of Faustus and Good ISight) and Aerolite (dam of Fellowcraft, Rutherford, Miser aDd Spendthrift and sister to the turf queen Idlewild, dam of Wildidle). On the dam's side Hamburg Belle is equally well bred and more in the fashion desired by breeders now- a-days. Rosebery, sire of the dam, was a great stake 1 orseby the famous sire Speculum, who headed the list in England and was a "cup horse" of world-wide renown by Vedette, the best "cup horse" of his day as well as being winner of the 2000 Guineas as a three year old. ADd Vedette was by Voltigeur, winner of the Derby and St. Leger and the only horse that ever showed heels to The Flying Dutchman. Imp. Isis, grand am of Hamburg Belle, threw the stake horses Isidor, Isia and Inishfree, and was by the champion race horse and sire, Bend Or (sire of imp. Ormonde and imp. Golden Garter) out of Shotoverrone of the very few mares that ever won the Derby at Epsom. She also won the 2000 Guineas and other rich stakes [Virgil by Vandal (Florence by Lexingtn (Imp. Bonnie Scotland by lago (EllaD. by Vandal f Imp. Australian Fellowcraft \ by We3t Australian Aerolite by Lexington I Imp. Buttermere : dam of Bitter Root and I Barcamere [ Thorwater. . f Tbormanby by Melbourne or Wlndhound (stake winner j and dam of (.Fairwater Derwentwater by Loup Garou stake winner (stake winner, and and sire of dam of Fairminster, stake winners Eau de Vie, Stock- here) water) Fifth dam. The Bloomer (dam o"f Ely, etc ) by Melbourne: sixth dam. Lady Sarah (a winner and dam of Rylstcne, etc.) by Veloci- pede; seventh dam, Lady Moore Carew by Tramp, etc. and was by Hermit, winner of the Derby, he by the St. Leger winner, XewminEter, and he' in turn by Touchstone, winner of the St. Leger and twice vic- torious in the Doncaster Cup. Bend Or was by the Derby and Ascot Cup winner Doncaster, he by Stock- well, winner of the St. Leger, he in turn by The Baron, winner of the St. Leger. Bend Or's dam, Royal Rose, was by Thormanby winner of the Derby! etc. It may be news to most people that A. Joseph's fast little mare, Ishtar, is a half-sister to Hamburg Belle; but she is, being by Sam Lucas-imp. Isiac. Leonidas is bred somewhat similar to Hamburg Belle on the dam's side, but his mother, imp. Boise now but Dine years of age, was by Hampton, a great race horse, unbeatable at four and five years of°age Hampton by the St. Leger winner Lord Clifden, he by Newminster (St. Leger winner), hiB sire Touch- (Derby. etc.) [Imp. Macaroon.. I Jersey Lass ( Imp.Top Gallant ; i Chanticleer 1 Songstress ' b* Irisn Birdcalcher Mrs, Carter by Hutnplin-y King Tuiu fImp.Ki)gErnesl by Harkaway [Ernestine by Touchstone I Imp. Australian (Jersey Belle -\ b* West Australian I. Aerolite byLexfnglou Oxford | Sterling ' by Irish Birdcatcuer I Whisper by Flatcatcher I Adventurer . j, by Newminster S I 15 LKatherine M. . . dam of Gallatin, The ParrotMouthed Fair Princess. etc. Imp. Glen Athol Betsy Hunter... dam of Kate Mattingly Joe Johnson, Shortlellow, Miss Hunter, etc i Sea GuU by Lifeboat [ Blair Athol by Stookwell { Greta by Voltigeur (Oliver by Wagner (Blue Bell by Chorister dam of Julia Matttngly, Bessie Lee, Songs- tress, Songbird, etc. Fifth dam, Blue Filly (Fiatt) (dam of Kate Hunter. Liz Morgan, Hunter's Glencoe, etc.) by imp. Hedgeiord; sixth dam. Lady Thompkins by American Eclipse; seventh dam. Katy Ann by Ogle's Oscar; eighth dam. Medoc's dam by imp Expedition, etc. tion, but they did not have many foals, hence had little chance to distinguish themselves at the stud. The fourth dam threw Gold Cup, mother of Oro, Grady and Flush of Gold, well-known performers on this Coast. Waterboy is a beautifully bred big horse, but while his sire is a tried-and-not-found-wanting stallion from the great Queen Mary family and was a phenomenal f Stockwell (St. Albans j by Tbe Baron (St. Leger) [Bribery by The Libe. f Springfield I Marsyas by Orlando (Veridis J I Maid of Palmyra by Pyrrhus I I Newminster by Touchstone f Hermit. Wharfdale. ; Bonnie Doon. {Enquirer by imp. Leamington Lizzie G. by "War Dance [Newminster .j by Touchstone L The Slave by Melbourne [Kettledrum by Rataplan ^Haricot by Lanercost [ Stockwell ! by The Baron t Marigold by Teddington I Traducer. "Imp. SirModred-| I Idalia. f Alarm. Roke dam of TheCorinthian, Monastic I Rokee dam of Rochelle, Rondeau, Judge Wardell [seclusion by Tadmor ,' Rapid Rhone 1 by Young Melbourne L Queen Mary by Gladiator f The Libel by Pantaloon ( Arethusa by Elis f Cambuscan (by Newminster Dulcibella flmp. Eclipse J by Orlando 1 Imp. Maud by Stockwell [ Waverly by imp. Australian (Rosaline by Commodore dam of Banburg, Rosa H , Meteor. Melrose. Estelle Whitney Fifth dam. Fanny Wells (dam of Jils Johnson, etc.) by imp. Sovereign; sixth dam, Reel (about the greatest of all American brood mares) by imp. Glencoe; seventh dam, imp Gallopade by Catton, etc. race horse himself, the second and third dams, by great sires of dams, could not be called top-notchers in the line of producing stake horses. The fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh dams of Waterboy, howerer, were producers of world-wide reputation from the famous "Dance family" that gave us Domino, Correc- tion, Glidelia, Farand ole, Lecompte, War Dance, Hamburg aDd scores of other celebrities of turf and stud. McChesney comes from a good line, but his dam, Manola Mason, bo tbe story goes, came within an ace of being apart of thebad broodmare consignment sold South without pedigree, with the hope that the identity of the various supposed "failures'' would become lost in the mists of obscurity. She was too young to be condemned, though, aDd McChesney came out in the fall of his two-year-old form and "saved her bacon." Now, as the mother of "Big Mac" and First Mason, she is justly highly prized. McChesney iB stoutly as well as fashionably bred, and outside of his grand dam his first nine dams could be called "gilt-edged" producers. Macduff, his sire, was a stud success, and Macduff's second dam, Jersey Belle was an own sister to Spend thrift, Miser, Ruther- ford and Fellowcraft. October 3, 1903] &he gveebev cm& gftwri*mtm 18 Even at this late day occasionally a farmer asks if a silo is profitable on a farm. Of course these question oskers do not read the papers, at least they do not read farr \ papers, or they would not ask such a question. The silo is one of the greatest inventions of the age, en- abling a farmer to preserve his feed crops io a succulent and practically green state all the year round, so that it can be consumed by the cattle with the least possible amount of waste. Every farmer should keep cattle, and silage is a most excellent food for them, and cheaper than any other except pasturage. The wonder is that so many farmers voluntarily try to get along without silos. A horse trainer says that a youug horse should not be driven over the same road too often. He may go well over that road, but may make trouble over some other. Drive him over differ- ent roads, and teach him to go wherever he is guided. One of the most important things with young pigs is to get them to grow- ing well. This can be best accomplished by giving good care to the mother. Plenty of sloppy feed will make a large yield of milk. I Jackson's Napa Soda does not tangle 1 the feet *£jP& TRADE MARK l*AW. *^ SPAVIN CURE < Oakland, C ix , Aug, 24, I I had a horse with a very bad thoroughpin, I got a bottle of "Save-the-Horse" from Garrett & Taggart of Oakland; used the same according to directions, and wheo It wa< all used up the thor- oughpin was still there. I thought of all the doctor had told me— that it could not he cured— and let the horse go. After this I saw the horse, and his leg was improved fo much that I got him back, bought another bottle of "Save-the-Horse." and two-thirds of that bottle cured him sound as ever Since theD. while working a colt for speed, it hit one knee a,nd ruptured a blood vessel I tried the balance of the bottle of 'Save-the-Horse" on it. and it has Improved so much that T thiDk it will cure that also. Please send me another bottle. Both cases were given up as incurable by three or four of our best vetinarians. The thoroughpin was treated by three expert veterinary surgeons without any result exefipt terrible torture to the horse. The leg was badly burned by such treatment, and I was compelled to apply lard and sweet oil to stop the burn, and to this day the horse is badlv tearred. HARRY D. BROWN. 266 Second St., Oakland, Cat- September 7th, at the Fasig-Tipton sales at Sheepsbead Bay, Long Island, N. Y.. a yearling by Esher-Excellenza was being sold by Mr. William Easton, and when the animal was led into the ring he said: "This horse ha9 been suffering from a bog spavin, of which practically no trace remains. He wa« treated with that remedy called "Save-the-Horse, " which all of you know, and it did save the horse— that is, It cttred him. Now you know lots of great horses, Morel lo and others, were success- fully raced, and there is no reason to expect that this colt will ever take a lame step " The bidding then opened at $5ii0. and the colt was sold for?800 to Mr. J D. Smith. VETERINARY PIXINE CURES Irease Heel, Scratches and Hoof Rot,-chj2onic, ulcerated^ ^complicated-of the most deep seated character; Cracked or chapped teats, caked bag, cow pox and all inflammatory Tections of the udder; Saddle and Collar Galls, Hopple Chafes , and Abscesses, Old chronic Sores, the result of pressure by badly fitting harness or by irritating masses 'of dirt, sweat and hair under J:he harness. It makes a ' positive^and permanent cure', by producing healthy granulations, building up new cellular tissues, healing naturally from the bottom" without scab or scar and stimulating growth of hair, natural color. It penetrates, soothes and heals while horse works. .Absolutly Guaranteed. Mojiey back if it fails. -2 oz. 25c; . 8oz.^50c; " 51b. pkg. $4.00. t At all Dealers or sent prepaid. k*EN^io^FORSAM ple Troy Chemical Co BOX AND BOOKLET! TROY, N. Y. ~^- >M^ VETERINARY PIXINE Sj^; „* D. E. NEWELL, Pacific Coast Agent, 519 Mission St., San Francisco "SAVE-THE-HORSE" Cures Without Scar, Blemish or Loss of Hair "Save-the-Horse" can be applied at any time, anywhere, any plaue. and in all conditions and extremes of weather Horses may be worked as usual with shin or ankle boots, as no harm ean result from destruction of hair or scalding of limb. S5.00 T»JSXl BOTTLE. Written guarantee with every bottle given under our seal and signature, constructed solely to satisfy and protect you fully. Need of second bottle is almost improbable, except in rarest ol oncesj Copy of booklet and guarantee sent upon application. POSITIVELY AND PERMANENTLY CURES Bone and Bag Spavin, Thoroughpin. Riogbone (except low ringbone), Curb. Splint. Capped Hock- Windpufr, Shoe Boil, Weak and Sprained Tendons and all Lameness. If you have a case different than described in our booklst or advertising v& will advise you frankly as to the possibility of the rjniedy effecting a cure Give explicit particulars. Give the veterinarian's diagnosis if he is com- petent Inform ui fully as to theatre, development, location and swellings, lameness, action and pre- vious treatment. $5-00 a bottle at all druggists and dealers, or sent express prepaid. Troy Chemical Co, Manufacturers, Troy, NY- D. E. NEWELL, Pacific Coast Agent, 519 Mission St., San Francisco c PALACE HOTEL, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA. TOURISTS and TRAVELERS will, now, with difficulty recognize the famous COURT into which for twenty-five years carriages have driven. This space of over a quarter of an acre has recently, by the addition of very handsome furniture, rugs, chandeliers and tropical plants, been converted into a lounging room— the FINEST IN THE WORLD. The EMPIRE PARLOR— the PALM ROOM, furnished in Cerise, with Billiard aod Pool tables for the ladles— the LOUIS XV PARLOR the LADIES WRITING ROOM and numerous other modern improvements, together with the unexcelled Cuisine and the Most Convenient Location in the City— all add much to the ever increasing popularity of this most famous HOTEL. ENTRANCE FEE REDUCED TO $2. $6000 Pacific Breeders Futurity No. 4. S6000 GUARANTEED BY THE GUARANTEED Pacific Coast Trotting Horse Breeders Association FOR FOALS OF MARES BRED IN 1903. TO TROT OR PACE AT TWO AND THREE YEARS OLD. ENTRIES TO CLOSE NOVEMBER 2, 1903. Only $2 to Nominate Mare. $3250 for Trottinsr Foals. $1750 for Pacinsr Foals, and $200 for Owners of Stallions, $2000 for Three-Year=01d Trotters. 200 for Nominator of Dam of Winner of Three=Year=01d Trot. 1250 for Two-Year=Old Trotters. 200 for Nominator of Dam of Winner of Two=Year=01d Trot. 100 to Owner of Stallion, Sire of Winner of Three-Year=Old Trot when Mare was bred. $1000 200 750 200 100 $800 to Nominators of Dams of Winners Money Divided as Follows: for Three=Year»01d Pacers. for the Nominator of Dam of Winner of Three=Year=0ld Pace, for Two=Year=01d Pacers. for Nominator of Dam of Winner of Two-Year=Old Pace. to Owner of Stallion, Sire of Winner of Three-Year=Old Pace when Mare was bred. ENTRANCE AND PAIMlliTS-Ji to nominate Mare on November 2, 1903, wben name, color, description of mare and stallion bred to must be given. $5 March I, 1901 kntkanu*. ajmu »"■ yearlings March 1, 1005. $10 on two year-olds March I, 1906. $10 on three-year-olds March 1, 1007. ,T.BTI„r, J.AYTWENTS-J25 to start in the two-vear-old pace. $35 to start in the two-year-old trot. $35 to start In the three-year-old pace. $50 to start In the tbree-year old Irol STARTING PAYMENTS a~3 to start 'J^* ™ »™b0omB5e ten dajs Detore ,ne Qrst day of the meeting at which the race Is to take place. Nominators Mast Designate Wh.n Making Payment, to Start Whether the Horse Entered Is a Trotter or Pacer. Colt, that Start at Two Tears Old are Not Barred from Starting Again In the Three-Tear-Old Divisions 15 November I, i9oi. Jioon All starling CONDITIONS. The races for Two-Year-Olds will be mile heats (2 in 3), and for Three-Year Olds 3 In 5. Distance for Two-Year-Olds, 150 jards: for Thee- Year-Olds, lOOyards. „.,,,„ ,ho _»„ „. f„.i hips It a mare proves barren, or slips, or has a dead foal or twins, or if either the mare or foal dies before March 1, 1905, her nominator may transfer his nomination or substitute another marc or foal regardless of ownership: but there will be no return of a payment, nor will any entry ba liable for mbre than amount paid In or contracted for. In entries the name, color and pedigree of mare must be given; also the name of the horse to which she was bred In 1903. Entries must be accompanied by the entrance tee. „,„„_,„„„, „. , ho <3tnkea the Should the amount of entrance money received be In excess of the amount of the 'Stakes he excess will be added, less the cost of postage stamps, printing and advertising, to the Stakes for the E. P. HEAID, President. Three- Year-Old divisions in proportion to the amount offered In each division Nominators liable only for amounts paid In. Failure to make any payment forfeits all previous payments. Hopples will not be barred In pacing races Right reserved to declare off or reopen these Stakes In case the number of entries received Is not satisfactory to the Board of Directors Money divided in each division of the stake 50. 25, 15 and 10 per cent. There will be no more moneys In each division than there are starters. Entries open to the world; membership In thp Association not reY & CO., Whitehall, N. Y. TRY IT. t>£»H i n-fa^C Ta K« 1 1 qIaH and ty?e Tritten r6ad7 for framing rCUl^lCCS 1 dUUldlCU write for prioer Breedez dk Spobtsman, 36 Gear j street. Sac Franoisco, Cal. MOW BUSINESS COLLEGE 24 Post Street, San Francisco, Cal. The oldest, the largest, the most popular com- mercial r:3hool on the Pacific Coast. 20,000 gradu- ates; SO teaohers: 70 typewriters; over 300 students r*uually plaoed in positions. Send for catalogue. E. P. HEALP, President. One of the moBt serious faults of the average American farmer is his lack of knowledge and determined purpose in the care of young stock. We judge of a man's understanding of any question by the way he does his work. Look over the calves at three, six or twelve months of age in nine out of ten of our American farms. Note their unthrifty, scrawny ill fed looks, and then judge what must be the real knowledge of calf raising pos seBsed by their owners. Some will say that the owners of these calveB do not do half as well as they know. In our opinion that is not the fact. The real difficulty is that they do not half know what they ought to know about these things and consequently their work is half done. They have never resolutely set themselves to study what it means to rear a calf well. When a man is thoroughly saturated with the knowledge of a thing it holds him up to better work. In March last two men came into thiB neighborhood looking for grade dairy calves, says a correspondent of Hoard's Dairyman. They were men who knew what they wanted. They purchaeed seven grade Guernsey heifere, dropped last fall, of one man and paid him an average of $24.28 for the lot. At the same time they said they could purchase calves of the same breeding and age of neighboring farmers for from $10 to $15 apiece. What made this difference in price? Simply the way the calves were handled. The seven calves were handled as follows : 1. They were kept dry and clean with plenty of fresh dry bedding every day and their quarters were kept well disinfected 2. They were fed skim milk, freih fr--m the separator, after the first ten days, with a little ground flaxseed and blood meal added. When the milk waB fed they were put in stancbionB and the milk Bet before them in pails. Afterward they were given a small feed of oatB, followed by alfalfa hay. But the great care was to keep them dry and clean. As Boon as they were through eating their oats they were let out of th«ir stanchions and ran together loose in the compartment. They were fed milk morning and evening. When sold they were in fine, clean, thrifty condition, but not fat. Ti-ey consumed apiece in the tix months they were kept about 3,500 pounds of skim milk, $1 worth of oats, $2 worth of alfalfa hay and flax- seed meal and 50 cents' worth of blood meal After paying for the oats, hay. flaxseed meal and blood meal, $3.50, and allowing for the value of the calf when a week old — the price allowed by calf buyers — we have $17.78 per calf as pay for 3,500 pounds of Bkim milk and the labor. Twelve calves were kept in the com- partment. Does it pay to make a little study of calf life? When some babies in Seattle, Washing, ton, died from cholera infantum the city chemist analyzed the milk taken from the dairies and was present at a trial as the chief witneBB for the State. He came to the court room with a bottle containing the gaBtric juices of a stomach. He poured half of the fluid into another bot- tle and added a very small amount of for- formaldehyde — less than is contained in half a pint of milk Bold by adulterators. He than produced a hard-boiled egg and splitting it in half placed a portion in each bottle. The half placed in the bottle con- taining the pure gaBtric juices digested in a short time while that placed in the bot- tle containing the drop of formaldehyde remained just as it was put in and would remain so he exclaimed for a long time. He then explained that the amount of poison contained in the bottles was not so great as that in the milk analyzed, One-half pint of adulterated milk is enough to poison an adult. Sober up on Jackson's Napa Soda. Vita *Oil Used Between the Heats For all Lameness, soreness, deep-seated pain sprains and bruises Circulates the blood and creates speed. Use it. All Druggists and Harness Dealers or Vita Oil Co., 1533 Buchanan St. San Francisco, Cal. J. A, McKerron and J, O'Kane. Agts FOR SALE. Three Standard-Bred Trotting Stallions WILKES STOCK. One Seal Brown, 16 hands, foaled May 2, 1898; first dam Fearless by Fallis 4781 (record 2:23); second dam Jean Perault by Signal 3327. One Golden Bay, 16. 1 bands, foaled March 5, 1898; first dam Signal by Del Sur 1098 (record 2:24), dam of Guy Line 2:299i; Becond dam Lady Sig- nal by Signal 3327. One Brown, whitepoints, 16.1 hands.foaled April, 1899; full brother to the bay. These colts are all stred by Prince Airlee 28045, son of Guy Wilkes 2807 (record 2:15H). and bred by Wm. Corbftt, San Mateo, Cal. They are pure gaited and show wonderful speed for the little work they have done. For further particulars apply to P. H. McEVOY, Menlo Park, Cal. NjC iWESJ|Cp«T WIR Vy IRONWORKS M9FR.r:M0NT;.ST..5An FRANCISCO. ], . __A ^i - Accidents Will happen. The cote will get hurt. Any Soft, Inflamed Bunch can be removed in a pleasing manner with Absorbine. $2.00 PER BOTTLE, DELIVERED. W. F. YOUNG, P. D. F., Springfield, Mass. For sale by Mack* Co., Langley&Miehaeli Co Redlngton & Co., J. O'Kane, and J. A. McKerroo all of San Francisco CALIFORNIA Photo Engraving Company HIGH CLASS AST nr HaXf Tones and Line Engraving Artistio Designing. 906 Mission St., cor. First, San Franclsc* BREEDERS' DIRECTORY. HOLSTEXNS— Winners of every 7 days' buttes contest at State Fair 1899 1st & 2d for aged cows; 4-yr., 3-yr. and 2-yr.-olds; 21 Jerseys and Durhams competing. 5th year my Holsteins have beaten Jerseys for butter. Stock for sale; also pigs. 1?. H. Burke, 30 Montgomery St., S. F. JERSEYS, HOLSTEINS AND DUEHAM3. Dairy Stock specially. Hogs, Poultry. Bstan- I llahed 1876. William Niles & Co.. Los Angeles, I Cal. I AYRSHXKES— Young Bulla, Oowa and Heifer*. Registered. From prize winning familial. Brown I * Brandon petaloma Cal. October 3, 1903] ©He gxeelsev cmfc *&pavtsitnm\ 15 BALLISTITF The Standard Dense Powder of the World. *^^" 901— Wins Second in Grand Amerioan Handicap at Targets. 190»— Wins First in Grand American Handicap at Targets. 1903— Wins during Grand American Handicap week at Kansas City, irst Amateur Average in Regular Events. Third General Average in Regular Events ALL OF ABOVE ARE AMATEUR RECORDS. Take No One's Word. Try It for Yourself. i u l ah A no 75 CHAMBERS ST., NEW YORK CITY /. rl» LMU Ob WV^« Telephone 1747 Franklin. Importers and Dealers In Fire Arms, Ammunition and Fencing Goods. .ole Agents for BALLISTITE (Dense) and EMPIRE (Bulk) Smokeless Powders and the RUBLE GUN. A postal brings catalogue and "ShootlDg Pacts" (third edition) BALLISTITF The Standard Dense Powder of the World. ^^^ NEW "E. C." NEW "SCHULTZE" SHOTGUN RIFLEITE » THE AHERICM "E. C." and "SCHULTZE" Sunpowder Co., LU fuufae tired PHIL B BEEEART CO., Paoiflo Coast Representative [he World's Greatest Shooting Record. FRED GILBERT, of Spirit Lake, la., since Jan. 1,1902, has shot in competition at 5765 Targets, breaking 5532 or 95.9 per cent, using a PARKER GUN AT SHOT AT Natchez, Miss 400 . . . Fort Dodge, la 300 Lakefield, Minn 205 Sioux City, la 360 Dubuque, la 360 . . . THE "OLD RELIABLE" IS BROKE ... 396 .. . .. 296 . . . 203 . . . .. 351 ., . . 351 . . PER CENT 99 98.6 99 97 97.5 OLD 'ARKER BROTHERS Send for catalogue. RELIABLE. MERIDEN, CONN N. Y. Salesroom, 32 Warren St. JAMPBELL'S EM0LLI0 IODOFORM GALL CURE For GALL BACKS and SHOULDERS, CRUPPER SORES and SADDLE GALLS there is none superior. I The horse CAN BE WORKED AS USUAL ' For BARBED WIRE CUTS, CALKS, SCRATCH- ES, BLOOD POISONED SORES and ABRASIONS OF THE SKIN it has no equal. It is very adhesive and easily applied to a watery as well as a dry sore. Its use will absolutely prevent BLOOD POISON- ING. In this respect there is no Gall Cure offered which oan justly even claim to be a competitor. We placed it on the market relying wholly on its merit (or success, and notwithstanding the fact that comparatively little has been done in the way of advertising the salesof 1900 were 100 per cent great- er than the aggregate sales of Gall Cure preceding that year. This increase was entirely due to its. MERITS, and from it we feel justified in saying that it is THE GALL CURE OF THE 20TH CENTURY It is a quick and sure cure for those troublesome skin oracks under the fe -cb v nieh injure and often lay up race horses. ; All Trainers Should Have It In Their Stables PRICE:— 3 OZ. BOX, 35c; 1 LB. BOX, 91,00. Read our "ad.1' on Campbell's Horse Foot Remedy In next Issue of this pap*- r. IAS. B. CAMPBELL & CO., Mfrs.,412 W. Madison St., Chicago, 111. VETERINARY. DR. C. MASOERO VETERINARY SURGEON Graduate of Boyal Veterinary College of Turin. Wirmary ajid Rbsidence— 811 Howard St.: between Fourth and Fifth Sts., San Francisco. Telephone: Main 457. Cra Barker Dalziel VETERINARY DENTIST fluey CarrlagcSadd le and Roar1 Horses for Sale Office and stable: 605 Golden Gate Avenue, San rancisco, Cal. Telephone South 851. Mr R. c. V. S.. F. : Y. M. S. VETERINARY SURGEOV. Member of the Royal College of Veterinary urgeons, England; Fellow of the Edinbu.-g eterinary Medical Society; Graduate of the New eterinary C« -Liege, Edinburgh; Veterinary Sur- »n to the S..F. Fire Department; Live Stock ispector forNew Zealand and Australian Coloniei ■ *J»8 Port of San Francisco; Professor of Equine edtcine, Veterinary Surgery, Veterinary Depart- ent University of California: Ex-President ni e California State Veterinary Medical Associa- an; Veterinary Infirmary, Residence and Office, in Francisco Veterinary Hospital. 1117 Golden ate Avenue, near Webster St., San Francisco: Jlephona West 138. ROSE HOTEL PLEASANTON, CAL. Enlarged, Rebuilt. Twenty-five New Rooms Newly Furnished. Electric Lights, Running Water. Up to date. A. S. OLNEY & SON Proprietors Chronic Bronchitis and Catarrh of the Bladder Cared in 48 Hoars. CAPSULES Superior to Copaiba, Cubeos or injection PEDIGREES TABULATED And type written Ready for framing. Write, for prloea. Breeder and Sfobtiman, 80 Geary Street, Sen FranoUoo, Cal. SURE SHOT DESTROYS WORMS 7;jv> r n The puppy is liable to destruction from worms. 'Tis the critical period in a dog's life, Canine worms meet "sure" destruction when Is administered. After that, it builds up the growing dog's constitution, develops bone and muscle. It makes thin, puny and weak puppies plump, animated and strong. 50c. by mall, prepaid, SERGEANT'S CONDITION PILLS are the best liked and easiest to give of all alteratives and tonics. Incidentally any disease that a dog is likely to have will be speedily relieved and ulti- matelycured. Of dealers, 50c and $1.00. By mall, prepaid. Sergeant's Carbolic Soft Soap is the "best ever" and for sale everywhere. 25c. of dealers. By mail 35c. An order, or 8c. in stamps will entitle you to our I.ATEST Dog Book and Pedigree blank, mailed frbB. For sale by "All Druggists and Sporting Good. Dealer., F. W. BRAUN & CO., Los Angeles, Cal., PacltlC Coast SuPJly SPRATTS PATENT. DOG CAKES REMEDIES SOAP. NEWARK, N. J. Send for free copy of " DOG CULTURE." ST. LOUIS, MO. Pacific Coast Branch— 1324 Valencia Street, San Francisco. Agents for " SANITAS " Disinfectant. KENNEL ADVERTISEMENTS. COLLIES. The BEACH HILL Kennels 955 First St. San Jose CHAMPION HANOVER MONARCH (A. K. C, 8. B. 6998) by the great sire Ch. Ellwyn Astrologer from Ch Old Hall Moon. Fee #15. Pictures and Pedigree upon applica- tion. High-class Puppies for sale. FOR SALE. rjyO MAKE ROOM FOR PUPPIES COMING -1- in from walk, a draft of SMOOTH Fox Terriers DOGS AND BITCHES. For prices and particulars apply Waimdee Kennels 25th Ave. near Lake St. AT STOD CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS I Advertisements under this head one cent par word I per insertion. Cash to accompany order. FOR SALE. BROKEN DOGS Pointers and Setters W. B. COCTTS, Kenwood, Sonoma Co., Cal. Wandee Kennels' Fox Terriers. WANDEE BLIZZARD, formerly Llthlan Bliz- zard (Blizzard-Pop). Fee 8»0 WANDEE JESTER (Norfolk Velooity-Norfolk Two Step). Fee 8X0 Puppies and Brood Bitches for sale. Dogs shown by appointment only. Address WANDEE KENNELS, 8*4 Harrison St.. San Franciaoo Cal. At Stud. SMOOTH FOX TERREEB Norfolk Trueman Caa Z7(l Sire of Garston Prefect (1st puppy TCC J)£V. reserve winners, Oakland, 19031 Imelda (winners and special for beBt, S. F., 1802) Isabelle, eto. N. H. HICKMAN, 1767 Page St., San Francisco. AT STUD CUBA Oh KENWOOD (Glenbelgh Jr.— Stella) SAM'S BOW (Plain Sam-Dolly Dee II) STOCKDALE KENNELS K. M. DODGE, Manager, Bakersfleld, Kern Co., Boarding. Pointer Puppies and well-broken Dogs for sale. _^VD0*by4Q IRISH TERRIERS. ROYAL SPORTSMAN. This dog has beaten most of the English cracks, inoludlng Ch. Bolton Woods Mixer. He is eight years old, but as good at stud as ever. He is like a two-year-old and la good for several years, as all my bitches are by him. Must dispose of him. I have one bitch pup out of the last litter by him that will make his- tory if she lives. To save correspondence the first draft for $25 gets him This offer will not appear again W. BALLANTYNE, Central City, Colorado. COCKER SPANIELS. TSJAIROD KENNELS— 133. NINTH AVENUE. ■^ near California. Champion bred Cooker Spaniels at stud and for sale. OR SALE— COOKER SPANIEL PUPPIES by Ch. Hampton Goldie. Apply at junotloa old aounty and Redwood roads, Fruftvale, Alameda Y° ENGLISH SETTERS. o ENGLISH SETTER PUPPIES, WHELPED " May 2; black, white and tan; dam, Lads Sweetheart (Count Danstone— Speckle Lady); sire, Victor L Gladstone (Champion Gladstone Boy— Juno); high altitude for developing lungs; should make ohamplons; shipped on approval. Write for pedigrees DIAMOND KENNELS, Bos 205, Butte. Mont. , IRISH AND SCOTCH TERRIERS. TR1SH AND SCOTCH TERRIER PUPPIES J- at $12 and 815 Sired by Champion Loyne Ruffian and Champion Fighting Mao. MRS. BRADLEY-DYNE. Saturna P. O , B. C. ST. BERNARD: NAIROD KENNELS— REMOVED TO 18» Ninth Avenue, near Californli -offer for sale the celebrated St. Bernard, LE KLNG (Champion Le Prince-Sylvia's Lola). At Stdd-Cbampfon GRAND MASTER II, admittedly the grandest headed St. Bernard on the Coast. Fee $35. COLLIES. COLLIE PUPS FOR SALE-BY PRIZE v winning imported sires and dams, ot for bench, ranch or farm BothsexeB. Prices aooord- inK to 0'iality Correspondence solicited; all let- ter cheerfully answered. THOS. S.GRIFFITH, Box 1907, Spokane, Wash. ©he gveebev mit* *&pcrvtetmxn [October 3, 1903 me, HORSE BOOTS ason San Francisco, CaL^^Es Cablegram to President Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, London, July II, 1903. American Rifles. AMMUNITION and Men won victory to=day over Great Britain, Canada, France, Norway, Australia and Natal, and bring back Palma trophy. (Signed) LIEUT. ALBERT S.. JONES, (copse* from tu. ». t. Herald.) Secretary of the National Rifle Association of America. THIS SWEEPING VICTORY for America and the Extraordinary Score of 1570 oat of a Possible 1800 were made with 30-40 Regular Factory Cartridges, Manufactured by the UNION METALLIC CARTRIDGE COMPANY Selected after Exhaustive Trials, by the American Team, in Preference to AH Others for their Wonderful and Extreme Accuracy. SCORES ARE IMPROVED BY USING U. M. C. AMMUNITION THE UNION METALLIC CARTRIDGE COMPANY Pacific Coast Branch Depot {••-'^^^S^!'^ cc WINCHESTER LEADER" SHELLS LEAD At the Third Annual Target Tournament of the Dominion of Canada Trap Shooting and Game Protective Association, held in Toronto, August 12th to 15th, inclusive, winnings were made as follows: 1st I>»y: ad Day: 3d Day: 4th Day: nierh average for day by Mr. Higglnson of Buckingham, Quebec. Two Men Team Championship of Canada, 30 targets per man, won by Messrs. McGill and Wakefield of Toronto, with score of 37. High average for day won by F. Westbrooke of Brantford. Parker Gun won by J. Hovey of Clinton, who also won high average. Grand Canadian Handicap, 100 targets, won by Mr. Craig of Sherbrooke. with a score of 93. "Mall Trophy," the most Important trap shooting trophy in Canada, emblematic of Five Man Team Championship of Canada, won by Brantford Gun Clnfo Team, with score of 228 ont of 250. The Montreal Rolling Mills Company Cup, emblematic of Individual Championship of Canada, won by Mr. Bain of Winnipeg, with a score of 48 out of SO targets. High average for the day— "Beresford Cigar" Cup— won by Mr. Hovey. All these splendid victories were won with Winchester "Leader" Shells, and are a forcible testimony to the uniformity of these goods. PACIFIC COAST AGENCY: 127-135 FIRST STREET. -£l. IMTTIL.IjrEn, Agent. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. Loaded iaa O. IP. H.7V. Sia3.ols.elei Winning Highest Average at All Shoots. IF TOIJ WANT THE BEST ASK FOR California Powder Works FACTORY LOADED SHELLS. 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SCHULTZE T¥47/H»Ti SHOTGUN RIFLEITE BALLISTITE LAFLIN & RAND "INFALLIBLE." ad lor Ofttaloana. 63S MARKET STREETS. F. What More do yon Want? . »-^v#T— ?v TOIi. TTT.T1T. No. IS. 3« GEARY STREET. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1903. SUBSCRIPTION THREE DOLLARS A TEAR 2 @ta gvee&ex emit gtpavi&mcm fOCTOBER 10, 1903 ENTRANCE FEE REDUCED TO $2. $6000 Pacific Breeders Futurity No. 4. $6000 GUARANTEED BY THE GUARANTEED Pacific Coast Trotting Horse Breeders Association FOR FOALS OF MARES BRED IN 1903. TO TROT OR PACE AT TWO AND THREE YEARS OLD. ENTRIES TO CLOSE NOVEMBER 2, 1903. Only $2 to Nominate Mare, $3250 for Trotting- Foals. $1750 for Pacing: Foals, and $200 for Owners of Stallions. $800 to Nominators of Dams of Winners Money Divided as Follows: $2000 for Three=Year=01d Trotters. 200 for Nominator of Dam of Winner of Three=Year=01d Trot. 1250 for Two=Year=01d Trotters. 200 for Nominator of Dam of Winner of Two=Year=Old Trot. 100 to Owner of Stallion, Sire of Winner of Three* Year=01d Trot when Mare was bred. $1000 for Three=Year=01d Pacers. 200 for the Nominator of Dam of Winner of Three=Year=Old Pace. 750 for Two=Year=01d Pacers. 200 for Nominator of Dam of Winner of Two= Year-Old Pace. 100 to Owner of Stallion, Sire of Winner of Three=Year=Old Pace when Mare was bred. All starling ENTRANCE AND PAYMENTS— $2 to nominate Mare on November 2, 1903, when name, color, description of mare and stallion bred to must be given. $5 March 1, 190i. $o November I, I9(>i $io on yearlings March J, 1905. $10 on two-year-olds March I, 1906. $10 on three-year-olds March I, 1907. STARTING PAYMENTS— $25 to start ia the two-year-old pace. $35 to start in the two-year-old trot. $35 to start In the three-year-old pace. $50 to start in the three-year-old trot. payments to be made ten days before the first day of the meeting at which the race is to take plaoe. Nominators Mast Designate Wh«n Making Payments to Start Whether the Horse Entered Is a Trotter or Pacer. Colts that Start at Two Years Old are Not Barred from Starting Again In the Three- Year-Old Divisions CONDITIONS. The races for Two- Year-Olds will be mile heats (2 in 3), and for Three-Year-Olds 3 in 5. Distance for Two- Year-Olds, 150 yards; for Th.ee-Year-OIds, 100 yards. If a mare proves barren, or slips, or has a dead foal, or twins, or if either the mare or foal dies before March 1, 1905, her nominator may transfer bis nomination or substitute another mare or foal, regardless of ownership; but there will be no return of a payment, nor will any entry b3 liable for more than amount paid in or contracted for. In entries the name, color and pedigree of mare must be given; also the name of the horse to which she was bred in 1903. Entries must be accompanied by the entrance fee. Should the amount of entrance money received be in excess of the amount of the Stakes the excess will be added, less the cost of postage stamps, printing and advertising, to the Stakes for the Three- Year-Old divisions in proportion to the amount offered in each division. Nominators liable only for amounts paid in. Failure to make any payment forfeits all previous payments. Hopples will not be barred in pacing races Right reserved to declare off or reopen these Stakes in case the number of entries received is not satisfactory to the Board of Directors Money divided in each division of the stake 50, 25. 15 and 10 per cent. There will be no more moneys in each division than there are starters. Entries open to the world; membership In the Association not required to enter, but no horse owned in the State of California will be allowed to start until the owner has become a mem- ber. Horses owned outside of the State of California are eligible to start regardless of membership. E. P. HEALD. President. F. W. KELLEY, Secretary. m>^S9^ trade mark ^S2s% **9^ SPAVIN CURE x Oakland, Cai~. Aug. 34, 1903. I had a horse with a very bad thoroughpin, I got a bottle of ''Save-the-Horse" from Garrett & Taggart of Oakland; used the same according io directions, and when it wa' all used up the thor- oughpin was still there. T thought of all the doctor had told me— that it could not be cured— and let the horse go. After this I saw the horse, and ais leg was improved so much that I got him back, i>ought another bottle of "Save-the-Horse," and two-thirds of that bottle cured him sound as ever. Since then, while working a colt for speed, it hit one knee and ruptured a blood vessel I tried the balance of the bottle of ' Save-the-Horse" on it, and it has improved so much that I think it will cure that also. Please send me another bottle. Both cases were given up as incurable by three or four of our best vetinarians. The thoroughpin was treated by three expert veterinary surgeons without any result except terrible torture to the horse. The leg was badly burned by such treatment, and I was compelled to apply lard and sweet oil to stop the burn, and to this day the horse is badlv scarred. HARRY D. BROWN. 266 Second St., Oakland, Cal. September 7th, at the Fasig-Tipton sales at Sheepshead Bay. Long Island, N. Y.. a yearling by Esher-Excellenza was being sold by Mr. William Easton, and when the animal was led into the ring he said: "This horse has been sufferiner from a bog spavin, of which practically no trace remains. He wai treated with that remedy called "Save-the-Horse," which all of you know, and it did save the borse— that is, it aired him". Now you know lots of great horses, Morello and other?, were success- fully raced, and there is no reason to expect that this colt will ever take a lame step" The bidding then opened at $250, and the colt wassold for $800 to Mr. J. D. Smith. "SAVE-THE-HORSE" Cures Without Scar, Blemish or Loss of Hair 'Save-the-Horse" can be applied at any time, anywhere, anv place, and in all conditions and extremes of weather. Horses may be worked sis usual with shin or ankle boots, as no harm ean result from destruction of hair or scalding of limb. S5.00 I»ESrt BOTTLE. 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F. Pedigrees Tabulated SrOKTSMAX, 3< Geary iVreet, San Francisco, and type written ready for framing Write for prioM. Breeder an» Cal. OCTOBER 10, 1903] f&he gveeirev anif gtpjjrtsmmx 3 THE WEEKLY BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN F. W. KEL.LEY, PROPBIETOE. Turf and Sporting Authority of the Pacific Coast. — OFFICE — 36 GEARY STREET, SAN FRANCISCO. P. O- BOX 2300. Telephone: Black 586. erms— One Year S3, Six Mouths 81.75, Three Months SI STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. Money snould be sent by postal order, draft or by registered letter addressed to F. W. Kelley, 36 Geary St., San Francisco. Cal. Communications must be accompanied by the writer's name and address, not necessarily for publication, but as a private guarantee of good faith. San Francisco, Saturday, Oct. io, 1903. IT ONLY COSTS TWO DOLLARS to nominate a I mare in the Pacific Breeders Futurity No. 4, which closes on the second day of next month, for mares bred this year. This is the fourth renewal of a most popular stake and as- the entrance fee has been re- duced to $2, should ba more popular and receive a larger entry list than ever before. That entries in futurity stakes pay was pretty .veil demonstrated this week when a filly was sold for $20,000 (because it was pretty certain she would win one. This was Sadie Mac that won the Kentucky Futurity last Thursday. First money was $10,000, but Mr. Smathers desired to win the great stake and paid twice that amount for the filly he thought could turn the trick. His confi- dence in her was not misplaced. Had Sadie Mac not been eligible to start in the great event for three year olds, she would not have sold for half the money. C. A. Durfee's entry in the two year old division of the Breeders Futurity trotted this year at the Peta- luma meeting won SS25, and Mr. Durfee could have sold him for three times that amount had he been willing to part with him. Colts that are not eligible to start in stakes bring less money than those that are entered and paid up on — other things being equal. Eligibility to good stakes attracts buyers with money. Don't forget this. When you breed a mare to a good stallion you should enter the produce in stakes no matter whether you ever intend to race it or not. It costs but $32, in small and infrequent installments, to nominate a mare and carry her foal until it is a two year old in the Pacific Breeders Futurity No. 4. Now just turn this over in your mind. Suppose your mare bred this year drops a foal that when it is a two year old can show a 2:20 gait.. You are not hav- ing it regularly trained because you don't believein racing two year olds. You are having it broke and worked a little, however, and are willing to sell if you get your price. As you undoubtedly expected when you paid the stallion owner the service fee, the colt is a natural trotter and with but little handling shows a 2:20 gait for an eighth of a mile. Is there any ques- tion but your price will be easier to get when you in- form prospective buyers that the colt is paid up and eligible to win a 3take worth $825 as a two year old? Don't you think the $32 it has cost you will make a difference in the price you can get for him? Think it over and nominate your mare on November 2nd. THE WHITNEY STUD is the title of a beautifully printed and splendid bound volume, for which the Hon. W. C. Whitneyof New York has our thanks The book cantains tabulated pedigree and full history of each stallion and mare owned by this gentleman, easily the most prominent figure in thoroughbred breeding and racing in America. It is the most valu- able contribution to thoroughbred literature that has been made in years. Iq a brief preface to the work Mr. Whitney says: " Count Lehndorf, in his admir- able little book of 'Recollections' called attention in 1883 to the desirability of breeding only from race mares if one wished to minimize the elements of un- certainty and increase the chances of success. * * Investigations I have made corroborated the theory to my satisfactian and therefore sought io know, as to my stud, what the racing record was, not only of Its individual members, but of tbeir families. Hence this volume, intended originally for my own greater inconvenience. As these records grew upon my hands I saw that they contained valuable historic matter likely to be interesting and useful to others. They show, among other things, a complete record of some of the great American racing families not here- tofore completed, and so I have printed them for pri- vate circulation among my friends." Three stallions and eighty-one mares are given place in this magnifi- cent volume, and of the mares only twelve are with- out racing records. Sixty-four of the mares ran in 2482 races, won over twenty-five per cent of them, and were placed in thirty-six per cent of the remainder. f&r. Whitney says "It does not neoes-"-.'' v follow that these animals will be successes in the stud, as many things may prevent that; but from such mares, under favorable conditions, great successes come." Future historians and statisticians of the perfor- mances of thoroughbred horses, will realize more than anyone possible can at this time, the great value of the information within the covers of "The Whitney Stud."' Mr. Whitney has left his impress upon the political history of his country, especially on that portion of it which treats of the present great navy of the United States, and since his identification with the breeding and racing of the thoroughbred horse, his efforts have been, as they were with the navy, directed toward improvement in every department. Mr. Whitney is a grand figure — a true American gentleman and sportsman in the very highest and best conception of the term. State Fair Directors Meet. Mr. Byron Erkenbrecher Los Angeles Driving Club. The annual meeting of the Los Angeles Driving Club was held last Monday evening. The Los Angeles Express says that it was the mo3t successful meeting of the organization ever held and was well attended. The enthusiasm manifested in the club and its future is a promise of good times for the public and members. The usual banquet was given, when stories were told and ."horse talk" indulged in. Later the meeting was called to order for work, and Secretary Ralph Hagan read his an Dual report. Treasurer Erken- brecher reported that there was $2500 in the treas- ury and that the finances of the club were in splen- did condition. Dr. J. H. Shankland, who was president last year, an- nounced his re- tirement from offi- cial position, and the voting for offi- cers followed. This did not take long, and it soon was announced that Mr. Byron Erkenbrecher had been elected president; Dr. William Dodge, vice- president; Dr. Ralph Hagan, secretary; Mrs. F. E. Chandler, assistant secretary, and Mr. C. A. Canfield, treasurer. As a board of directors the following were selected: William Garland, H. G. Bundrum, J. A. Fairchild, J. A. Edmonds, H. N. Henderson, Thomas Hughes, Dr. W. W. Hitchcock. Considerable discussion ensued regarding the Thanksgiving Day matinee that is to open the racing season of the club. Every member is thoroughly en- thusiasticin regard to the matter, and it is proposed to make the matinee the best ever given. It is pro- posed to have Byron Erkenbrecher's mare Rita H., who has a mark of 2:11} and has won six straight races up north, meet Sweet Marie, William Garland's speedy performer. Lexington Meeting Opens. They are having bad luck at LexingtOD this year In addition to the gloom cast over the whole State of Kentucky by the death of Secretary Shanklin the week previous to the opening of the Kentucky Trot- ting Horse Breeders Association, a heavy rain storm visited that section and made the postponement of the opening for one day absolutely necessary. Racing began on Wednesday but rain again fell and but one heat each in three races were finished. On Thursday good weather prevailed but the track was very heavy and slow. Sadie Mac, E. E. Smathers1 recent purchase, won the historic Kentucky Futurity for three year olds, purse $14,000, without apparent effort in three straight heats, going the last mile in 2:13^, which is two seconds short of the record made by Fereno three years ago. She won by several lengths in each heat and only at one time was her contention for the crown in danger, and that was in the first seven- eighths of the first milo when Ethel's Pride kept nose to nose with her. Grace Bond, favorite for second place, won the two- year-old futurity, purse $5000, in two straight heats, going the first heat in 2:17?. Jessie Benyon won second money. Nervola won the Tennessee, 2:08 pacing, purse $3000, in three heats out of four. Major C. taking the third heat. Fereno won the 2:07 trotting purse of $1500 in two straight heats. The 2:11 class pacing, purse $1000, was won by John M. in two straight heats. Bessie Brown, the ruling favorite, easily carried off first honors in 2:21 cla9S trotting, purse $1000. The State Board of Agricultural met last Saturday afternoon at 1 o'clock, in executive session, and spent the largest portion of the session in considering and awarding the contract and lease for Agricultural Park. All the members of the board were present except Mr. Covey. Three bids were made and long considered. Tom Norton $2050, James Martin $2100, and Haub &. Kuchler $2305. The bid of the latter firm was ac- cepted and the lease awarded accordingly to John Haub and Fred Huchler. The finances of the Agricultural Society were con- sidered, but no final balance sheet was struck, and in- hibition was placed upon the Secretary against giv- ing out any figures at present, as the board will meet on the 24th inst. at 1 p. m., and will then be prepared to give to the public an exact statement of the finan- cial condition of the society. It has been ascertained, however, that the late fair paid expenses and left the society $1000 to the good. That, with the allowance made it for the McKinley closure the previous year, and the regular appropria- tion, enables the society to indulge in a most hopeful outlook. All labor bills have been paid and all charges for premiums also, while the society will pay off $10,000 of its back indebtedness — indeed, it is said that the payment has been already practically ef- fected. The understanding is that the directorate is encouraged and pleased by its present condition, and the outlook for the future. John Haub, the senior of the firm of new lessees of Agricultural Park, said last night to a Union re- porter, that his firm proposes to secure the services of a first-class superintendent to put the race track in Al condition. The stables will be so fitted as to be inviting for owners of the horses to keep them on the grounds, and general repairs will be made as needed. At the spring race meets Haub & Kuhler will hold, there will be very strong invitation for the presence of fine strings of speedy horses. There will be per- mitted no syndicate bookmakiDg, and all poolselling will be auction. Mr. Haub also said that his firm purposes to put the grounds into good condition for other sporting events, sharp shootiDg, auto and cycle racing, athletic entertainments, etc., to invite events in such sports frequently. — Sacramento Union. Portland, Or. Summaries. [Meeting Sept. 22 to 26 ll)U3.j Pacing, 2:18 class, purse $400. Bensurba, b g, by Tom Benton-Jas. Madison (Tryoa) tf 1 1 Portia Knight, b m, by Vinmont-Duroc Prince.. (Helman) J 2 3 Polka Dot, b m by Mendocino-Antevolo (Silva) 5 3a Maplemont, b g, by Prieemont-Maple Leaf (Miller) 3 6 5 Couniv Attorney, bg.by Arthur Wilkes-Til ton's Almout. . (Hayes) I 5 4 Prince Tom, blk g, by Tom V.-Duroc Prince (Webb) 1 4 d The. Mrs., b m, by Derby Ash-Hawthorne — (Whitehead) ds Time— 2:16>4, 2:16, 2:20. Trotting, 2:23 class, purse $400. Beladi.b m, by Chehalis-Cautfon (Rutherford) I I Mark Hannabus, b s. by Planter-Kitty Ham (Green) 2 :t H. H. H , cum, by Allerton-Egmont (Miller) 3 a Bay Leaf, cb m, by Telephone-Planet (Hayes) 4 1 Harry Marvin, b g, by Don Marvin-Alexander (Misner) ds Getaway, ch g, by Strath way-Dexter Prince (Zibbell) ds Time— 2:20, 2:19. Trotting, 2:14 class, purse $400. Mack Mack, b g, by McKinney-Gen. McClellan — (Helman) 1 1 Briney K. b g, by Stratbway-Unknown (Smith) 2 2 Oveta, b m. by Caution-Unknown (Ervin) 3 3 Swift B, bg, by Stam B-Waldstein (Zibbell) 4 4 Deputy, b m. by Derby Ash-Priam (Whitehead) 5 5 Time-2:H3i,.2:17. Pacing, 2:23 class, purse $400. Harry Hurst, ch g, by Del win-Unknown (Green) 1 I Bensurba. b g, by Tom BeDton-Jas. Madison (Tryon ) J 3 Polka Dot, b m. by Mendocino-Antevolo (Sllva PriDce Tom, blk g, by Tom V.-Duroc Prince ( Webb) 4 4 Time— 2:I5H', 2-.14J*. Special trot and pace, purse $200. Economizer, b m, by Cbas Derby-Economy (Silva) 4 .1 t 1 Hallie Hiages, bm, by Pricemont-Mollle Vaughn (Helman) 1 2 .' 3 Helen Norte, bm by Del Norte. (Rutherford) 2 I 3 2 Taffeta Silk, cb m, by Lemon t-Nellie Mac (Green) 3 J is Tlme-2:20M, 2:20, 2:24^, 2:24V 1 1 ■2 a 3 3 ds 3 3 I 4 Pacing, 2:14 class, purse 2400. Ollte M-. b m by Westaeld-Cau lion ( Ervin) Monroes , ch g by Dictator Wilkes-Hawthorne.. . .(Zibbell) Vision, b g by Vanquish (Lindsey) Polka Dot.cb g by Mendocino-Maud Merrill (Silva) Time— 3:I4M, 2:16*4. Trotting, 2:19 class, purse $400. Coronado, blks by McKinney (Hartoagel) Beladi, b m by Chehalis-Cautiou (Rutherford) The Commonwealth, b s by Shadelaod Onward (Green) Master Delmar, b g by Delmarch .(Hayes) Time-2:I8*, 2:I8H- Pacing, 2:08 class, purse $400. LeRof, b g by Almont-Lady Ophir (Sbield) 1 Sam Bowers, ch g by Ham. Mambrino-Unkoown (Lance) 3 Zolock, blks by MoKinney-Gazelle (Helman) -' Hobo, b g, unknown Taylor) 1 Time-2:l2',i, 2:1P,, Trotting, 2:20 class, purse $200. Package, bs by Pactolus-Phatlas (Tilden) Idol, b m by Copper King-Tempest (Helman) Phil N. bgby Bonner N. B (Simpson i Harry Marvin, b g by Don Marvin-Unknown (Green) Sunrise, br s by Antrim (i'uyne) Lord Kitchener, blk s by Zombro-Albfon (Misner) County Attorney, b g bv Arthur Wilkes Tilton's Alnnmt (Hayes) ' ~ Time— a-JW, a In hot weather there is no drink like Jackson's Napa Soda — plain or in a lemonade. 1 1 „• 1 6 -• i$3te gveeitev anii gftwrrfcwttim fOCTOBEK 10, 1(01 TRACING THE PEDIGREES of record breakers has a charm for moat men who are at all inter- ested in the blood lines of horses. There is a pleasure in sitting down and tabulating the pedigree of an aeimal that has accomplished some great feat on the oval track, and when a cross iB found that leads to the woods, nothing is more fascinating than following up the various trails pointed out by those who are supposed to know something of the facts, even though a majority of them lead to forests where they are lost in darknesB and impenetrable swamps. Since Lou Dillon made herself world famous by her mile in two minutes at Readville, her breeding has been under discussion wherever horsemen have gathered. Her dam, Lou Milton, the dam of three others with records, has been in the Great Broodmare list Bince Volume 6 of the Year Book was issued. That was in 1890, the year that Ethel Mack and Redwood, two of her produce by Anteeo took records. In that volume Lou Milton's pedigree was given us by Milton Medium, dam Ply, not traced, and it has not been changed in the records since and may never be. In the old stud cards of Redwood, Ply was described as the Ralston mare, supposed to be a thoroughbred. She was called the Ralston mare because at one time she had been the property of the late William C. Ralston of San Francisco. This seemed to be all that anyone knew of Ply and it is not on record that any very determined effort was ever made to trace her breeding any further. A few weekB ago the writer received a letter from Mr. Chas. E. Berry of Kelseyville in which it was stated that there were two mares in Lake county years ago, one of which was afterwards claimed to be the dam of Lou Milton, and was owned by Green Thompson, now of Santa Rosa. The first oppor- tunity I had to visit Santa Rosa came on Saturday last, and I embraced it. Reaching the pretty City of Roses, I hunted up my friend Dr. Summerfield, the well known veterinarian of that city, who kindly helped me find Mr. Thompson. As I had suspected, he proved to be an acquaintance of my boyhood days, and after old times had been recalled, I stated my mission and Mr. Thompson told me the story of Lou Milton. In 1880, Green Thompson was living at Pine Flat, which is in Sonoma county close to the Napa and Lake county lines. His friend John Mendenhall, of Lake county, then owned Milton Medium, 6on of Happy Medium, and believed him to be a great horse. Mendenhall became involved and wished to go to Oregon with Milton Medium expecting to make money with him there in races and in the stud . Before leavin g Mendenhall turned seventeen colts and fillies by Milton Medium, and the mare Fly in foal to that stallion over to Mr. Thompson for $1000, with the understanding between them that on his return he could have them back by return of the money and payment of the pasture bill on the stock. Mr. Men- denhall at that time told Mr. Thompson that he had purohased Fly from Mr. J. S. Kimball, the well known oarriage manufacturer of San FranciBco, to whom she had been presented by William C. Ralston. That if he never returned, to take great care of the mare and her coming foal as they would be valuable property. Mr. Thompson describes Fly as a dark chestnut mare about 15.3 hands high, one hind foot white nearly to the ankle. She had a star, and a strip that started a little below the star and extended to the nose where it broadened out. Mr. Thompson describes her as almost a counterpart of Lou Milton in conformation, was mixed gaited when jogging and could trot a 2:30 gait. The only thing Mr. Thompson can remember in regard to her breeding was that it was said she had Belmont blood in her veins, but whether it wsb Williamson's Belmont or Belmont 64 he does not know. The following spring, when she waB 12 years old Fly foaled a filly now known as Lou Milton, the only foal she ever had. When the filly was bix weeks old, hisbojs were riding Fly one day and reaching home juBt at dinner time tied the mare to the fence and went in to dine. When dinner waB over Mr. Thomp- son went out and found tha mare dead. She had lain down and in an effort to roll over had choked to death as she was tied on a side hill. Mr. Thompson took the filly and raised her on cow's milk. He stateB that she was a beautiful little thing and he naturally be- come very much attached to her. When she was a three year old he had her well broken and she could Bhow a great deal of speed at the trot. Mr. Thomp- son in those days owned a horse or two that he ran jn sprint races. He was at Healdsburg the spring that Lou Milton was a three year old. Charlie Bromfield, well known then, owned a yellow horBe that he considered quite a half-mile runner, and was training him at the Healdsburg track. One morning Thompson chaffed Bromfield about his yellow horse and remarked that his trotting mare could beat him So, in fun, he put a boy on Lou Milton and though Bhe had never been run under saddle before, she beat the yellow horse at his own game, finishing about thirty yards in front of him and running the half mile in about 54 seconds as he remembers Mr. Thompson then gave her to Hellman Bros, to train at the trotting gait, but she went lame and he after- wards sold her to Mr. A. McFayden, of Santa Rosa, who raised three standard performers from her and then sold her to the Santa Rosa Stock Farm, Mart Rollins, who was always a great admirer of the mare, making a long and finally successful effort to induce Pierce Bros, to buy her. Mr. Thompson told me that Mr. McFayden tried to trace the pedigree of the Ralston mare when he owned Lou Milton, but was unsuccessful. Ab John Mendenhall, J. S. Kimball and W. C. RalBton are all dead it will be very hard to establish the mare's breeding with certainty. On my return from Santa Rosa I told Samuel Gamble what Mr. Thompson said about the Ralston mare and her successive ownerB. Mr. Gamble remembered a chestnut mare owned by Kimball of the same description as that given of the Ralston mare by Mr. Thompson, and said aa an effort was once made to sell her to the late Dan Cook, he might be able to find some record of her in his old papers. He searched and found an old memorandum book in which he had written: "Kimball mare, a chestnut by Red Iron, known as Daniel's McClellan." That was all. There was nothing about the dam or any other particulars and it might have referred to the dam of Lou Milton or it might not. The stallion Red Iron is recorded in Wallace's Register aa Gen. McClellan 144, and was owned by Seneca Daniels, who brought him to California. In another old book Mr. Gamble found the following memorandum: "Kim- ball's mare, Lady Butterfield by John Nelson, dam that should never have been introduced on a trotting or any other track, and it is to be hoped it will be ridiculed until all wind shields are consigned to the junk pile. When Major Delmar trotted his mile in 2:00} without the wind shield, he finished stronger than he did when he made the mile in two minutes with its aid. Help or no help, it should have no place in future trials. Records made with it will be looked upon as trials of speed that wore not genuine contests. Major Delmar Following the wind Shield by Geo. M. Patchen, Jr." It may be there are men now living in California who have some definite knowledge of the Kimball mare, and the description furnished by Mr. Thompson would easily lead to her identification if there are any who remember her and can furnish any clue to her breeding. With the facts known about the mare and her ownership it does not look like an impossible task to ascertain how the dam of Lou Milton was bred, and I hope that any who know anything of old Fly, the Kimball mare, will kindly send such facts as they know to thiB office that the breeding on the dam's side of the first two- minute trotter may be further traced. The wind shield ae an aid to record breakers is just now the principal topic of discussion with horsemen. Lou Dillon was not aided by one when Bhe made her two minute mile, but Major Delmar had one of the new contrivances pulled in front of him when making his mile in two minutes and there was also one in front of Prince Alert for a little more than three- fourths of the journey when he paced to the world's record of 1:57 at Empire City track. I say "a little more than three-fourthB" because it is Btated that when the runner reached the three- quarters pole he was all out, and Mart Demarest, who was driving him, had to pull to one side to ke6p Prince Alert from pacing over the thoroughbred. The heavy draft had been too much for the runner, and he waa very tired from pulling the canvas shield. The wind shield is a piece of canvaB about three feet in height. It is stretched on a frame made in the form of a half circle and reBts on the shaftB in front of the driver whoae head juat appears above it. There are two small holes in the canvas through which the reins pass. There iB much diversity of opinion as to whether this shield helps to any great extent the horse that followB it, but there is no question that it le8sens the atmospheric preasure on a horse that keeps close behind it, and consequently aids him in a more or less degree. It is a contrivance When the telegraph reported the expulsion of the California driver, W. G. Durfee, and the mare Sweet Marie, at the Oregon Stat* Fair last month, there mu much surprise manifested in this part of California, as "Billy" had up to that time won nearly every heat in which he had started a horse on the North Pacific Circuit, and fuller reports of the race were anxiously awaited by all interetted in harness racing. Without referring to the official summaries, I believe Durfee won every race at Seattle in which he was up behind any of the horseB in his own string, and many were figuring on his making a clean score up north. The $2000 Lewis & Clarke Stake was the leading feature of the entire northern circuit, and that Durfee was accused of deliberately "laying up" a heat in it with Sweet Marie caused lots of surprise here, as those who have seen the mare in her races are of the opin- ion that Bhe is not one of the sort to make a long contest with, but will make her belt showing in racei of fewest heats. That Durfee wanted to win the big stake is pretty generally conceded, and while there may be some question as to whether or not he laid up the heat, the expulsion was doubtless made because Mr. Durfee refused to permit a driver selected by the judges to drive Sweet Marie, and took her from the track. A gentleman who waB at Salem at the time this unfortunate affair occurred told me the other day that Durfee's refusal to turn his mare over to the driver selected by the judges was because said driver was not on good terms with Durfee, and the latter be- lieved he would go out with the mare, drive her from wire to wire and probably "mark her for life,'' at the same time jeopardizing her chances to win first money in the race. This gentleman further stated that Durfee was willing some other driver should pilot the mare, and so told the judges, but that it was their selection or none, and consequently Mr. Durfee faced expulsion rather than to have Sweet Marie driven by one whom he considered his enemy. The Pacific Mural Spirit, the organ of the North Pacific Circuit, has thus far printed no comments on the affair, and whether or not Mr. Durfee has taken an appeal from the ruling of the Salem judges has not yet been stated. One of the Portland papeis, in describing the finish of the second heat in the race in question, stated that Dr. Hammond won the heat "a nose in front of Briney K., and Sweet Marie at Briney's throat-latch." This was a pretty finely drawn finish for a driver to make that was laying up a heat, and as the papers all agree Durfee was driving at the finish, the "laying up" must have been earlier in the heat. The same journal states that Durfee pulled out at the half when leading to let Briney K. through, the inference being that he wanted to let the Strath- way gelding get a heat so as to insure him second money over Dr. Hammond, As this heat was trotted a full second faster than the first, it is possible tha* Sweet Marie waB doing her "level d — dest, "aspoo? old Pete Brandow used to remark. Captain Toir Merry, one of the most observing of turf writers writei as followB on this matter in Pacific Sportiw Neivs, a new candidate for public favor published ir Los AngeleB: William G. Durfee, of Los Angeles, was ruled off a' Salem, Or., on the 17th because his mare, Sweet Marie, won the first heat of a race and could finish no better than second afterwards. Nobody whc knowa Mr. Durfee believes he would do anything crooked with that mare. She belongs to a very wealthy man and Durfee could have hia horses for the rest of his life. This ruling means a loss of at least $6000 to Durfee for the next year, unless he is reinstated meanwhile. Our own idea is that the mare, having already won several hard races, had grown stale and being pitted againBt a horBe that has been constantly improving, found the game too hard for her. Durfee has always driven Bquarely here and, in our belief, drove to win up there. The horae, Dr. Hammond, which beat ber, is owned by Bennett & Goodall. It is not alone in the performances of Lou Dillon that the blood of Happy Medium has been prominent this season, says Horse World. Belle Kuser 2:08 has for a grandam a mare by Happy Medium; Margaret Bathgate 2:1]}, the fastest four-year-old trotting filly of the year, is out of a mare by Happy Medium; Lizzie A. 2:13J, one of the great three-year-olds of the year, is out of a mare by Happy Medium, and Lord Roberts, another great three-year-old, is out of a daughter of that horse. It has been some time since Happy Medium blood waB regarded as really fashion- able, but it appears in the pedigrees of extremely fast performers with uniformity enough to impress breed- ers with its great worth when combined with other strains. October 10, 1903] ®Hc gveeii&c tmfc ^vavtsman PACIFIC BREEDERS FUTURITY STAKES No. 3, $6000 GUARANTEED, FOR FOALS OF MARES BRED IN 1902. Third Payments of 85 each were made October 1, 1903, on the following 186 Foals of .Hares bred In 1902: NOMINATOR. EN'THY. SIRE. DAM. Adams, J C be .'On Stanley Leonore McKInney Adams, JO br o McKInney Lady Rivers Adams, JC be McKInney Lillian Welborn t Allen, Henry F b f Decora Kinney Monogram Glide Aidrioh, J L Nushagak Dorothy Airord, WB rn f TJUllia MoKinney BenjiiS Anderson, JN b (Delia Derby Charles Derby ....Norah D Arroqui, Juan P Aimonada Kit tie Rioe Archer, EC Guy MoKinney Edith Arvedson, C A br f Sutter Anna Phelps Arvedson, C A blk f Sutter Lady Phelps fBalkwill, JR so Sablo Athablo Satin Slipper +Batohelder, N P b f Meridian Corlnne Nellson fBabcock, G E b f Strathway Lady Estel Baraiow, T W b f S V B Nearest Princess Alrlle Barstow, Mrs S V bro Nearest McKInney McKInney Maud J Bellingall, P W so Good Friday Nutwood Wilkes Mi Ma Beckers, Geo T br f McKInney Whisper Beckers, Geo T br f Zomildale Zombro Lovedale Berkey, Tfl Azmoor Belle Berkey, Tfl Azmoor Sid Bedard, Thos Nutwood Wilkes Daisy B Binder, Eugene P br 1 Silklock Zolock Pernwood Borden, I L Diablo Allie Cresco Borden, I L Diablo Alice Bell Bohon, Jos H br f Zona B Zolook Hy tu Bowman, DrI L b c Diablo B Diablo Black Baby Brace, H b t Miss Brace McKInney Babe Brown, Alex Nushagak Everette Brown, Alex Nushagak Redflower Brown, Alex Nushagak Bonny Derby Bryson, D Guy McKInney Bernice S Brents, Thos H b f Magladi Del Norte Laurelia Byrne, P C Director H Inez Carter, Martin T C Ingar Carter, Martin Nutwood Wilkes Bessie C Carter, Martin Nutwood Wilkes Lew G Carter, Martin Stam B Lida W Carter, Martin Zolock Georgie B Carter, Martin T C Queen C fCone Ranoh Co be Kinney Lou Kitty Marvin Cole, John A be High Warden On Stanley Nettie Glenn Conklin, A L Richmond Chief Edna R Colombet, JP bo McKInney by Bay wood Cressey, Geo A so L W Russell Elsie Crowley, T J be Islam Owyhee Lottie Parks Donohoe, ChasL f Miss Iran Alto Iran Alto Veronica Drats, T J b o Drais MoKinney Guy McBUaney Blanch Ward Durfee.C A MoKinney Llllle Duke, Oscar br o Poverty Row Straihway Mississippi Dudley, ED chc Diablo Bee Dudley, ED oh o Diablo Babe Durham, J E b INacio Maid Comet Wilkes — Qlideaway Elkus, Albert oh f Estelle Rose Azmoor Rosa Gold Fanning, Fred b cFred F Kewanna Volo fParnum Dr C E eh o Magee'sson of Diablo. .Bessie Roan Felt, Dr R br c Sain Direct Bonnie Direot Sain Filly Felt.DrR Expect Cygnet Frary, F N Kinnay Lou Ruth tFrohberg, Paul bo The Bohemian Athaneer Diamond Girl Garaide, Root bf McKInney Althea GarriBon, O D Annita D Nutwood Wilkes Lucile Gommet, F br c McKInney Zorella •Granger, Ralph bf Solace MoKinney El Mae Granger & Detord b f Twilight Zombro Ottie Chew Granger & Deford blk c Goodart Zombro Linnet Granger & Deford gr c True Grey Zombro Topsy Greeley, R P M blkf Sukey Mac McKInney Winnie Wilkes Griffith, C L — Bonnie Direct Nettie O Griffith, C L Bonnie Direct Ginger Greene, W E bo — *.... Zombro Diavola Graham, W H bf Tennohlka Athablo Lectia Griffin, Mrs Ben bike Tom Belle BayBwater Wilkes Claribel flahn.F 7. brc Owyhee Nellie Emmoline Hahn, Henry MoKinney Henrietta Hall, C A Barondale EttaB Heald, E P Tom Smith Honor Hill, Mrs J G rn c Rlohmond Chief Nancy Ross fHollenbeek, Geo J blk f Dorathey Bonner Nushagak Winnie Hogoboom, HS Diablo by Waldstein Hoy, S H — Bayswater Wilkes by Advertiser Hoy, S H ■ Bayswater Wilkea Coupon Iverson, J B b f McKInney Ruby Iverson, J B blk c Robin Ivoneer Iverson, J B b f Chas. Derby Dagmar Iverson, J B br c Barondale Wllhelmlne Iverson, J B br c Eugeneer Roseate Jonas, Orville O be Ariel Neernut Midget Johnson. J W Falrose Annie tJordan.WmF Elect Moore Kitty E Keefer.MC bo Diablo Bessie Rankin Kirkpatrlck. J C Bonnie DIrecj Azalla Kreig, W C eh f Nearer Nearest Mormon Girl ENTRY. SIRE. DAM. NOMINATOH. Logie, J R oh f Neernut Daisy Wonder McAleer, Owen blk o Torry Coronado Eva Wilkes Molnerny, E A bf Mary Logan Diablo Effle Logan Markham, Andrew Wash McKInney Lady Bulger Martin, S F Stam B Highland Maid Macdonald, Greer eh c Hades Prince Daedallon ..., Queenie Mlnturn, J as W br c Reliance Teheran Kamona ♦Minturn, Jas W b f James Monroe Stella Mitchell, S U br o Bartje Azmoor Elsl Moore, Mrs Eva G ■ Iran Alto May Montgomery, T S McKInney Dixie Morgan, Wm b c Crisis Zombro .Nellie K tMoon, Frank Aloyo Princess Besaum Moon, Frank Monbells Idlemay Murphy, M A Zombro Nellie Bly O'Brien, Thos s f Faugh-a-Ballagh Wilkes. Nutwood Wilkes May Horgan Oakwood Park Stock Farm ..ch f Owyhee Bertha Oakwood Park Stock Farm ..be Chas Derby lone Oakwood Park Stock Farm ..blk f Chas Derby Pippa Oakwood Park Stock Farm ..b o Chas Derby Abanteeo Oakwood Park Stock Farm . .br f Chas Derby Naulahka Oakwood Park Stock Farm ..b o Stam B Katie Stelnway Oakwood Park Stock Farm . .b f StamB Ituna Ott, John sc Count Valensin Sidmoor Belle Owen, MrsC A oh f Lady McGregor Strathway Zadie McGregor Peterman, Geo C bf Wm Harold Columbia Peart. EC bf Dlawood White Stocking Purcell, Thos b f Lady Goldstein Goldstein Lady Moor Peel, Howell W blk f Spokane Lass Zombro Maud Meridlth Peel, Howell W br t Nadlne Z Zombro Detamont Peel, Howell W b c Brich Hills King Zombro Hazel May Ramsey, FA be Zolock Emallne fRamsay, T H b f Kinney Lou Silvia fRea, Jas W f Mrs Weller McKInney Much Better tRea, Jas W c Alto Kinney McKinney Irantilia tRehmke, Wm b f Hamb Wilkes by Waldstein Reed, A L Jim Rea Catklna Rosedale Stock Farm — ■ Wash McKinney Dalia Rosedale Stock Farm Wash McKinney by Daly Rowen, John ch o Monochrome Clarion Rowen, John be Monochrome Mission Bell Runyon, Mrs Sol b o Nushagak Altwood Santa Rosa Stock Farm Sidney Dillon BIscara Santa Rosa Stock Farm Sidney Dillon Bye Bye Santa Rosa Stock Farm Sidney Dillon Carlotta Wilkes Santa Rosa Stock Farm Sidney Dillon By Guy *Santa Rosa Stock Farm Sidney Dillon Guycara Santa Rosa Stock Farm Sidney Dillon Pansy Santa Robb Stock Farm Sidney Dillon Rose Russelli Sharp, W C Falrose Princess Irene Shippee, W A Nutwood Wilkes Dolly Shannon, CM bo Athadon Lady Grandlssimo Silva, Charles be Flyaway Azmoor .Swlftblrd Smith, Dr C Edgar blk c Rey Direct Lady Mack Smith, Thomas — Nutwood Wilkes Daisy S. Snow, A Geib Zombro Alcazette Stetson, J B br f Kinney Mo Cappy Woodline Stimmel. H G blk f Hattie S Gry Falcon Abble Ham Struve, Lawrence Monterey Cleopatra Stump, John A br f Rah Rah Wash McKinney Bessie S. Sylvester. HW b c Robert Derby Royal Derby Almira Thayer, Chas H so Charley Ford Neernut LeeCrowell Thornton, J J Warspite Kitty Hays Thwalt, Tom Zombro Lillian M •Topham, E s f Monterey Blanche T. Torrey, J H Zombro Pet Torrey, J H Zombro Dulcet Torrey, J H ■ Neernut Manilla Todhunter, L H Zombro The Silver Bell Todhunter, L H Zombro Itella Tryon, S C Azmoor Annie Murry Tryon, S C : Azmoor Topsy Tut tie. Dr Jay b f Zoe Lolie Zombro Kismet Tuttle, Dr Jay Zombro Malsie Tattle Bros Nutwood WilkeB Belle Medium Tuttle Bros b f Stam B Laurel ♦Valencia Stock Farm br f Derby Heir Glendoveer fValencia Stock Farm blk f Direct Heir Irene Benefit t Valencia Stock Farm blk f Direot Heir Rosedrop Venza, Chas blk c Black Beauty Neernut Belle, Jr Wallace, Jas C b c O K Kewanna Ophelia Warlow, Geo L be Jacolitas Athablo Narcola Wakefield, J W bf Diabelle Diablo Bell Wood Williams, CH blkf Del Oro Royal Net ♦Williams. C H br f Del Oro Signet Williams, C H be McKInney Net Willits, W Cadallc Zombro Helen Dunlap Wills, Dr LeMo>ne .....b c Julius LeMoyne Conifer Bonnie Ela Wills, Dr LeMoyne , Conifer Del Ela Wills, Dl- LeMoyne b f Siskiyou Conifer Del Amo Wills, Dr LeMoyne bf Inez Conifer Lunaca Wills, Dr LeMoyne blk c Black Cloud Zombro Pastora Wright, F E Azmoor Iva W. * Designates substitution. f Designates transfer of nomination. Washington State Fair Races. North Yakima, Sept. 29, 1903. The Annual State Fair opened to-day, and all the best atables of harness horses on the circuit are in attendance. Judging by to-day't results close finishes and fast time will be in order throughout the meet- ing. The officials of the meeting are: Presiding judge and starter in the harness events, T. L. Oliver of Seattle; associate judges, Dr. W. H. Haw, of North Yakima, and Robt. Leighton of Vancouver, B. C. The latter also officiates as starter in the running races. Trotting, 2:19 class, purse $500. The Commonwealth, by Shadeland Onward .(J. Green) 16 11 Master Delmar, by Delmarch (HayeB) 3 12 2 Idol (H. Helman) 5 2 4 8 Beladi. , (Rutherford) 2 5 6 6 Coronado (Ervln) 4 8 3 5 BelleStorm (Magulre) 6 4 5 4 Time— 2:18H, 2:16, 2:17tf, 2:1?# Pacing, three year olds, purse $300. Economises by Chas. Derby-Echo (R. A. Smith) Hallie HlngeB (H. Helman) Loney Dell (Rhtherford) King Alexis (Naylor) Time-2:21H", 2:18M, 2:1814. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 30TH. Two harness races were decided today, first honors in which were both taken hy California owned and trained horses. The firBt the 2:18 pace waB won by the Sacramento owned "Polka Dot" and the Becond, the free for all pace, by that good McKinney mare Rita H., who has already secured a large proportion of this Circuit's first moneys. Results: 2:18 paoe, 3 in 5, purse t500. Polka Dot, by Mendoolno (Jas. Erwin) 1 I 1 Bensurba (W- Tryon) 2 3 1 2 4 ds 3 ds 3 2 Portia Knight (H. Helman) County Attorney (Hayes) dis Time— 2:14M. 2:15, 2:14j*. Free for all paoe, special, 2 in 3, purse $250. BUa H, by MoKinney (Hartnagel) 1 1 MonroeS. .. (Zlbbellj 8 8 Sam Bowers (Lance) 5 2 Francisco (Leroux) 3 4 Starkey (Thompson) 4 5 Time— 2:152£, 2:1IM- THURSDAY, OCT. 1. The 2:14 trot today waB a mere exercise jog for Mack Mack, Briney K being content with secend money, the others were hopelessly outclassed. A special had been generously offered by the manage- ment and had filled with a well classed entry list of 7. However, through the usual disagreement about the "divide" only four horses appeared on the track. The management Bavoring of their intentions wisely declared the race off and substituted two Indian races, which certainly gave the large crowd ample amusement. It is too bad that a good card should be Bpoiled and the horse loving public defrauded of the amusement that they have paid to see, by the selfish, unsportsmanlike policy of one or two owners, who are always the first to approach the management for the addition of special purse* to the regular card , and who when their wUhes are acceded to, refuse to "race horses." 2:14 trot, 3 In 5, purse $600. Mack Mack, by McKinney (Helman) 1 1 1 Briney K (R.A.Smith) 2 3 2 Oveta (Irwin) 4 2 5 Swift B (Zlbbellj 3 4 3 Dr. Bunell (Lance) 5 5 4 Time— 3-A4H, 2:15tf, 2:15*. The meeting came to an end to day with two very interesting harneBB raceB and several running races. That harneBB racing is the popular sport here with the attending public was evinced by the large number of people who left the stand aftnr the decision of the two eventB in question. The racing throughout the week has been clean, with no laying up of heats, and every horse contending as keenly for place as for first homors. It was expected that existing track records would be lowered in the 2:11 pace but an exceedingly high wind retarded the accomplishment of this, still the time for the three heats, 2:12, 2:12 and 2:12J, will show the consistency of the race. Sam Bowers made a gallant effort in the last heat only to succumb by half a length to FranciBCO, who was well teamed by his owner and trainer C. F. Leroux of Walla Walla. Result: Pacing, 2:11 class, purse $600. Franclsoo by Caution (C. F. Lerous) 111 Sam Bowers (J. Lance) 4 2 J Starkey (Thompson) 2 3 5 OlUeM (Erwin) 3 4 4 Zolock (Helman) 5 6 8 MarthaB (Miller) 6 5 6 Monroe S (Zibble) ds Time— 2:12, 2:12, 2:12J4. . Trotting, 2:23 class, purse $500. Belle Storm by Storm (MoGuIre) 1 1 I Belladi (Rutherford) 12 2 H.H.H (Miller) 4 8 3 MarkHannabus (Green) 8 4 4 Time— 2:20, 2:18^. 2:20. Most of the horses left to-night for Spokane and La Grande, where the next meetings of the circuit takes place. Robt. Leighton. Satisfactory in Every Case. What better testimony to the virtues of Absorblne does any- body want than la contained In th* following epistle from a re- sponsible Hrm; 50 Shelby St , Detroit, Mich, Jan. 22, 1903. W. F. Young, Springfield, Mass. Dear Sir:— The men In our employ have used a good deal of your Absorblne. and it has done satisfactory work In every case. Yours very truly, JOHN J. KERBY CO. Absorblne, 13 per bottle, express prepaid. Address W. F. YOUNG, P. D. F., Springfield, Mass. The Kenney Bicycle Co., 531 Valencia St., is doing a big business in the McMurray Carts and Sulkies. You not only Bave money by purchasing a McMurray but get the most durable, best made, and easiest running cart or sulky in the market. Investigation will con vlnce a Missourian. « On a hot day drink Jackson's Napa Soda Umonad* and be refreshed. ®he gveebev anb gtjttrrtematt tOCTOBEE 10, 1903 Notes and News. Los Angeles meeting opens to-day. Mr. C. A. Harrison, of Los Angeles, was in town last week. Mr. Harrison attended the recent fair at Eureka, Humboldt county and says it was a big suc- cess. He says a new race track is to be built at Eureka before the next fair which will be up-to-date in all its appointments. He states that among the horses he saw racing at Eureka, the mare Petrina by Directum attracted his attention most, and he says she will bear watching as she is certainly a coming fast one. Don Derby is the kingpin pacer on the New York Speedway. __ TJkiah meeting begins next Tuesday and continues through the week. Geers is shaping up Onward Silver 2:0S for an attempt to beat his record at Memphis. Sadie Mac won the Kentucky Futurity. Mr. E. E. Smathers purchased ber for $20,000 two days before the race came off. Direct 2.05J is now credited with 34 trotters and 28 pacers that have made records in standard time, and eight of them are in the 2. 10 list. The record for pacing mares is now 2:03} and be- longs to the Hal family, Fannie Dillard having taken that mark at the Columbus meeting. The champion records for trotting and pacing geldings and stallions were all made against time. The record for pacing mares, however, was made by Fanny Dfllard in a race. It is 2:033. The Readville track has offered $25,000 for a race between Lou Dillon and Major Delmar. If the owners do not care to race for money the track is willing to hang up a gold vase that will cost that amount. The 2:07 trot last week at Columbus, O., was a very hard fought race. Rythmic won the first heat and lowered his record to 2:06}. It is very likely that he will not be raced next year but will make a season in the stud. Third payment has been made on 186 colts and fillies in the Pacific Breeders Futurity $6000 Stake No. 3 for the produce of mares bred in 1902. Thi6 is an excellent showing. The full list appears elsewhere in this paper. The businessmen of Syracuse, N. Y., are talking of raising a purse of $10,000 to be turned over to the management of the New York State Fair with the understanding that it is to be offered for competition for the fast trotters of 1904. Frank Caton has been training and racing horses in Russia for the last ten years. In appreciation of his good work in the sulky the Moscow Driving Club presented him with a massive punch bowl with tray and eight cups of gold and silver. The announcement of the Western Horseman's $6200 no entry-fee futurity stake for harness speed bred foals of 1904 will appear in the Breeder and Sportsman of October 24th, and will interest every light harness horse breeder, both large and small. Major Delmar is undoubtedly one of the greatest trotters that the turf has ever seen. No other trotter ever showed three such miles in one week as his mile in 2:014 at Syracuse September 9th, again in 2:01 J at the same track two days later on the 11th, and his mile in 2:001 at Readville on the 14th. These wonder- ful miles were all made within five days and without any wind shield. And yet great as he is we believe Lou Dillon will trot to a mark that he will be unable to equal. Prof. K. Imai, of the Imperial University of Tokyo, Japan, has arrived in Lexington, Ky., for an indefinite stay for the purpose of studying American methods of horse breeding, principally the trotting horse. Like the other Japs who preceded him some months ago, he is an official representative of the government of the Mikado, and whatever knowledge he may acquire is to be introduced into the government breeding establishments in Japan. He has been in Europe on a similar mission. Fred H. Chase & Co. will hold a sale of draft and drrving horses at 1732 Market street Monday evening, October 12th. Mr. R. H. Nason, one of the leading breeders and farmers of Solano county is retiring on account of extreme age, being 84, and consigns all his horses. There are forty head of draft horses, from four to seven years old, besides four driving horses, two with records of 2:17 and 2:17} respectively. The same evening Mr. Chase will sell all the horses an 3 rigs of the Alta Stables, San Rafael. Hanford is holding one of the old fashioned country fairs this week that is being largely attended. The exhibits include all the products of that section of the State and the daily attendance has been large. There are 526 individual displays of fine stock and fifty-two varieties of fruits, vegetables and grain, all grown in Kings county, are shown. Sixty horses have been entered in the various races on the programme. Mr. T. C. White of Fresno has officiated as presiding judge of the races. The stock is being judged by Professor True of the University of Nevada. Welchman, a chestnut gelding by Diablo, has been winning races all through the New England circuit recently. He now has a record of 2:22} and is said to be a very promising trotter. His dam is Rachel Welch by -William L. and he was bred by C. L. Griffith. Allerton 2.09 is now credited with 82 trotters and 26 pacers that have made records in standard time, a total of 108. Not a bad showing for a 17-year-old inbred Wilkes sire, whose dam was by a horse full of thoroughbred and whose third dam was by a thoroughbred. .. Gambetta Wilkes 2.19} gets another 2.10 performer in the stallion Don Cozine, who just stepped into the select circle at Empire City Park last Saturday, with a. mile in 2.10. This makes the ninth of the get of the son of George Wilkes 2.22 and Jewell to take records in 2.10. John H. Brown, of Detroit, Mich., has a seven year old green horse by Sidney Dillon, sire of Lou Dillon 2:00, that worked a mile the other day at the trot in 2:11}. He is being trained by Frank Cares and Frank says he will have a sayso about the slow trotting stakes next year. E. Cotton Smith, the man that makes that great pain remover, Vita Oil, has gone to Los Angeles and will call on all the horsemen at the big meeting which opens there to-day. Mr. Smith is pushing the sales of Vita Oil and finds it easy work, as every person that uses it once, takes the precaution to keep it on hand at all times thereafter and recommends it to his friends. One of the most remarkable performances of the season by a green horse was when Baron Grattan, a four year old gelding by Grattan 2:13, recently paced two heats in 2:06} and 2:07. The last half of the mile was paced in 1:01}, and the last quarter in 30 seconds. When it is taken into consideration that this fellow is a late colt, having been foaled in September, the performance is all the more remarkable. An exchange says: "An illustration of adding in- sult to injury occured duringtheProvidence meeting. The stables of Snow and Geers were close together. Star Hal's mascot is a game rooster. After the third heat of the race and Star Hal had won, the rooster walked over to the stall of the defeated King Direct and stepped into the doorway of that horse's stall, let a crow out of him that could be heard for a city block: and then strutting back to the stable of Star Hal, flew upon his trunk and repeated the process of calling him out. " Opie Reed tells of an attorney in Kentucky who was driving along the road one day when his horse shied and broke one of the shafts of the buggy. He was wondering what he should do when an old darky came along. The darky saw the trouble, went to the side of the road, cut a hickory switch and peeled it. With the peeling he bound the broken shaft together so that it was strong enough for the journey to be resumed. The attorney gave the negro a coin and at the same time thanked him. "I would never have thought of mending it that way," he said. "I 'spect not," replied the darky: "some men is jest naturally smarter than others." S. H. Hot has his favorite Kelly Briggs 2:10} back in his iold stall at Winters. Kelly Briggs is still owned by Mr. F. E. Wright of Sacramento who has placed him in Mr, Hoy's charge to condition for the races next year. Kelly came back to California with a big knee, the result of a mix-up in a race at Cleve- land last summer, when Farmer Bunch had him east. Hoy has been giving this knee, the hot water treat- ment and has reduced it to almost its normal condi- tion. If Kelly Briggs comes out all right Hoy will probably race him next year, and has implicit faith in the little fellow getting a mark of 2:06 or better and no man who knows Sam Hoy ever accused him of being over enthusiastic about any of his horses. Bayswater Wilkes, sire of Kelly Briggs is reported by Mr. Hoy to be in splendid shape after a good season in the stud. Sam has a number of young horses by him that are showing well and will be out next year. It may be that he will take Bayswater Wilkes to Woodland for the season of 1904. Wood- land is only about eighteen miles from bis present home, and in the same county. There are a number of owners of well bred mares living in that vicinity who own colts and fillies by Bayswater Wilkes and want more of them, so they have been importuning Mr. Hoy to bring the son of Sable Wilkes to Wood- land for the season of next year. Sam has not yet fully decided to make the move, but the probability is that he will do so. The family of Sable Wilkes has made an excellent showing in the East this year. Rev. W. J. Speers of Oakland, Cal., a minister who has a love for a horse and always drives a good one, is the owner of a weanling filly by Waldstein, dam Sadie Moor by the Grand Moor, that is the largest and prettiest thing of her age in Alameda county, and is a credit to both her sire and dam. Sadie Moor is in foal to Guy McKinDey, a horse that Mr. Speers says is one of the grandest stallions he ever saw. The race won by Dan T. at Columbus last Friday is the fastest four-heat race ever trotted , and lowers the previous record made by Lord Derby last season at Readville by a good margin. The Columbus race was trotted in 2.06J, 2.07}, 2.08}, 2.07}, an average of 2.07J; the former record was 2.06}, 2.07}, 2. 08J, 2.09, the average being 2.081-16. Another fast four-heat race last week was the one won by McKiDley, also at Columbus, the average time for which was but one- eighth of a second slower than those of Lord Derby's race. The main difference between Dan T.'s race and Lord Derby's is that the latter was a three-in- flve, while Dar T.'s was a two-in-three. There was another hot race at the five-eighths track at Sixteenth street station, Oakland, on Sunday last. There were four starters. Messrs. Bellingall, (senior and junior) both driving mares by Secretary, Mr. J. T. Moran with his Grand Moor mare and Mr. Hein with a Guy Wilkes horse. All were trotters ex- cept Mr Moran's mare. The heats were best two in three, once around the track. Bellingall, Sr. took the first heat, Mr. Hein the second, and Bellingall, Jr. the third. The fourth heat was a dead heat between Bellingall, the younger and Mr. Hein. The race then went over until the following Sunday. The heats were trotted around 1:30, a 2:24 gait. The contest was solely for sport, being neither for money nor marbles. Fanny Dillard, that lowered the world's champion record for pacing mares to 2.03} at Columbus, O., on the 22d inst.. was got by Hal Dillard 2 04}, son of Brown Hal 2.12J. Her dam, the great brood mare Ellen M., that also produced Hal B. 2.04}, was by Blue Boy, a son of Wilson's Blue Bull, and out of Punch, a daughter of Wilson's Blue Bull. The Blue Bulls were at one time considered soft, but the produce of this inbred mare, Ellen M., are game enough, and have plenty of endurance. MoBt of the foals that Blue Bull got during the first of his stud career were undoubtedly from an inferior class of mares. It is not surprising that many of the produce of such mares should not prove game race-winners. — Am. Horse JBreeder. It was announced in San Diego recently that A. G. Spalding, the well-known Chicago manufacturer of sporting goods, who is now residing at Point Loma, has bought out practically the entire interest in the Belmont Breeders Association, and has also purchased from Colonel A. G. Gassed the 250 acres of land bor- dering on False bay, known as the Pacific Beach race track. The final move was made September 18th, when the old board of directors resigned and in their places A. G Spalding was elected president, Keith Spalding secretary and Charles T. Hewitt manager. The old race track, which was considered one of the best in the State, will be entirely refitted and remod- eled, and after this work has been completed the public will be given an opportunity to inspect the selected lot of registered saddle stock now at the track, headed by the stallion Rex Montgomery. The name of the new association will be changed to the "American Saddle-Horse Breeding Farm," and it is Spalding's intention to establish a breeding farm which will add much to California's reputation for high-class stock. - - There are three trotters and ten pacers that have beaten 2:03 and of these eleven are descendants of Hambletonian 10. The trotters are Lou Dillon 2:00, Major Delmar 2:00. and Cresceus 2:02}. The pacers are Prince Alert 1:57, Dan Patch 1:59, Star Pointer 1:59}, John R. Gentry 2:00J, Joe Patchen 2:01}. Little Bov2:01}, Robert J. 2:01.1, Anaconda 2:01}, Dan R. 2:01} and Coney 2:02. The two that are not directly descended from Hambletonian are Star Pointer and Dan R. Prince Alert, Major Delmar, Joe Patchen, Little Boy aud Robert J. are the same relative dis- tance removed from Hambletonian, being great- grandsons, in the next remove, or great-great-grand- sons, come Dan Patch, John R. Gentry, Anaconda, Coney and Cresceus. While Lou Dillon is the furthest removed from the "Hero of Chester, " she being a great-great-great-grand aughter. Cassiar, brown pacing stallion by Soudan, dam Carrie Malone, by Steinway, took a record of 2:25 over the Ferndale half-mile track at the meeting held there last month. Cassiar is a handsome big ten year old stallion that had not been used in the stud or trained until Mr. W. J. East, of Fortuna, Hum- boldt county, purchased him laBt year from Mr. Wattles of Healdsburg. Mr. East had bred Cassiar to quite a number of mares last year and this spring, and concluded to train him. The stallion showed lots of speed and his marks of 2:25 should be 1:15 or better next year if he is trained and raced. Cassiar is one of the best bred stallioLS in the country. Bis sire Sou- dan was by Sultan out of Lady Babcock by Hamble- tonian 7:25. Carrie Malone, the dam of Cassiar, is an own sister to Chas. Derby 2:20, Klatawah 2:05S, Katrinka G. 2:14} and others, her dam being the famous Katie G. by Electioneer. A dispatch from Lexington, Kentucky, dated Octo- ber 2d, says that E. W. Shanklin, Secretary of the Kentucky Trotting Horse Breeders Association, dropped dead that evening from heart disease. The sad occurrence is particularly unfortunate as the wide-awake horseman was just on the eve of what seemed to be the crowning effort of his life — in fact, the hard work in connection with it is no doubt in a measure responsible for his untimely death. He had been working like a beaver to make the meeting of the Breeders Association, which opened Wednesday, the best in its hiBtory, and n'ad succeeded in receiv- ing a wonderfully large entry list, averaging twenty- four in each class. He had also broken the conserva- tive policy of the association anent exhibition miles, and had secured the champion pacer and champion - trotter, both to go against their records. In addition to this he was also engaged in planning a great sale of horses during the meeting, under the auspices of Shanklin & Walker, having dissolved the partner- ship so well known to horsemen of Woodard & Shanklin last year. He has been secretary of the Breeders Association just two years, having been elected after Horace W. Wilson, the former secretary, went to New York. His selection at that time was proof of the management's belief in his ability, as he was chosen out of many applications from the best in. that line in the country. October 10, 1903] ®Jte gtveeitev crnb gpavtstncm Close of Grand Circuit. Cincinnati, Oct. 2.— Prince Alert paced a mile in 2:01f at Oakley Park this afternoon without the wind shield and over a track that was rendered a full two seconds slow heeause of the rain of last night. The gelding was accompanied by but one runner. Mart Demarest drove him. The racing dragged through- out the afternoon and when darkness came only two events had been finished. Summary: Pacing 2:17 class, purse $1000 — Daniel J. won second and third heats in 2:10}, 2:11J. Directum Miller won first heat in 2:101. Etnel Mack, Irish Elder, COD, Dutch Mowry, Black Pet, Money Musk and Charlie C also started. Pacing, 2:02 class, purse $1500— Harold H won second and third heats in 2:05, 2:06. Daniel won first heat in 2.07. Dan R and Captain Sphinx also started. To b°at 1:59 pacing — Prince Alert (Mart Demarest), lost. Time by quarters, :30}, 1:00}, 1:51$, 2:01|. October 3. — At the meeting of the Oakley Park the last of the Grand Circuit of 1903 was brought to a successful close this afternoon. The splendid sun and high wind of the morning had dried the track out until it was at its best for Major Delmar's trial against time, which E. E. Smathers came here to witness. The best the Major could do was 2:03. Driver AHa McDonald came on the track with Major Delmar at 4 o'clock. Two thoroughbreds, ridden by Jockeys Mclntyre and Kane, accompanied the gelding. The second time down McDonald nodded for the word. Major Delmar. went to the quarter in 0:30}, to the Pacing, 2:16 class, purse $1000— Black Pet won in in straight heats. Time 2:11} and 2:08}. Angus Pointer, Fred H., Hard Case, Ravenna WilkeB, Judge Hughes and Star Onward also started. Trotting, 2:18 class, pur6e $1000— Gray Gem won in straight heats. Time 2:13 and 2:12J. Grace Keller, Bonner and Prince Caton mlso started. From Old Virginia. Richmond, Va., Sept. 20, 1903. California trotting blood is popular in Virginia now and is likely to be even more so as the seasons pro- gress. One of the handsomest and most bloodlike of trotting sires in the State is Kelly 2:27, son of Elec- tioneer and famous thoroughbred Esther, dam of Expressive 2:12J. He is owned by James Cox, of the beautiful Belgravia Farm, near Mt. Jackson. Helen Wilmer, the chestnut filly by Kelly and the great broodmare Erena 2:19} by Alcyone, is a rare good looking specimen and is of exquisite quality and finish. She gives promise of making a trotter, too, and is now being developed with care. One of the matrons at Belgravia is the Palo Alto bred mare Libby Whips, a bay of massive build, by Whips from Amrah, the dam of Electwood 2:29}, by Nutwood. She is in foal to Kelly. By odds, however, just now the most popular stal- lions in the whole State are Colonel Sidney and Sid- ney Prince 2:21 j in the stud of Floyd Brothers, Bride- town, by whom they were purchased from the estate Robert I. 2:08 3-4 by Hamb. Wilkes A California Horse that lias Raced Well In the Bast This Year half in 0:59}, to the three-quarters in 1:301, and the mile in 2:03. The 2:09 pace, which came over from Friday with four heats decided, went to Baron Rogers easily. Jolisco's hobbles broke and Driver McConnell fell out of the sulky. In the stretch Joe Pointer* the original favorite, made a break. Gray Gem had the distinction of winning two races in one day. He took the deciding heat in the 2:16 trot at 1:30 o'clock, and two hours later he annexed the 2:18 trot. John H., a prohibitive favorite, won the 2:13 pace in straight heats. Charles Marvin drove Great Spirit to a straight-heat victory in the 2:23 trot, and Black Let took the 2:16 pace in the same easy fashion. Summaries: Pacing, 2:09 class, purse $2000, four heats Friday- Baron Rogers won third, fourth and fifth heats in 2:09}, 2:10 and 2:081, Jolisco won first and second heats in 2:09 and 2:10. Joe Pointar, Trilby Direct, Milton, Cubanola, Jolisco, Sol Loomis, Robert I., Miss Wilamont, Royal Wilkes and Sufreet also started. Trotting, .2:1(1 class, purse $1000, one heat Friday- Gray Gem won two straight heats. Time — 2:11], 2:09J. Gracie Keller, Pat Ford, Partbia, Millard San- ders, Almerion, Austin Boy, Ben Potts and Direct View also started. Pacing, 2:13 class, purse $1000— John. M. won in straight heats. Time— 2:10, 2:09',. Dolly Carr, Czarina W., Cousin Madge, Daphne Direct, Taylor H., Illinois and Credette also started. Trotting, 2:23 class, purse $1000— Great Spirit won in straight heats. Time— 2:10 and 2:091. Bessie Brown, Bermuda Maid, Alberto, Ax Delight, Bessie Birchwood, Winnie Wright, Anna Dillon, Hemenway, Yankee Boy, and Grocery Maid also started. of the late G. Valensin, their breeder. Both are by Sidney 2:19}, the former out of Maud R., dam of Sibyl 2:27J, by Hambletpnian 725, and the latter from Crown Point Maid, dam of Sidney Maid, by Crown Point. This blood is better liked now, of course, see- ing that Sidney Dillon, another son of Sidney, is credited with Lou Dillon 2:00. Both are sireB of standard speed, but the get of Sidney Prince come early and his book has been filled to overflowing for several seasonB past and mares turned away. The Messrs. Floyd purchased last fall in New York, to be used as a stock horse after being developed, the good looking colt Rod Oliver, by Electrite, dam the great producer Lady May, by Port Leonard Rod Oliver is a full brother to the chestnut gelding Blondie 2:13}, owned by the former Virginian, Mr. A. B. Gwathmey of New York, and one of the fastest horses in that well-known amateur reinsman's private stable. In the matter of ownership and ability as a reinsman Mr. Gwathmey stands at the head of all Virginians, He, too, is partial to blood from the "Golden State," because four of his fastest horses are by California bred sires, Senator Mills 2:12}, winner of the Clay Stake this season, being by Electrite, as is Blondie, while Tudor Chimes 2:13 is a 6on of ChimeB, and Forney 2:19} is by Sidney Prince, dam by Bendee, son of General Benton. Forney can trot a half in one minute and conditioned to carry his speed further I look for him to t.rot below 2:10 another season. The crack race performer of the Gwathmey stable, how- ever, is Tiverton 2:11}, the bay gelding by Gailileo Rex, who has been timed on different occasions this season in 2:08 or better. While being driven to polr. in 1902 Tiverton and Tudor Chimes made a great pair and the same is likely to be said of the Gailileo Rex horse and Senator Mills when Mr. Gwathmey hooks them double some fine day and shows a mile close to 2:10. As a road horse there is not the superior of the Senator in New York City and Mr. Gwathmey values him in proportion. w. J. Carter. ♦ - The Shortage in Draft Stock. A short time ago mention was made in these col- umns of the large number of three-year-old horses that are being sold in the Chicago market to buyers who make a specialty of supplying draft feeders to Eastern professional fitters. At the time the last paragraph was printed it seemed as though a serious drain was being made on the resources of the breeding districts, but then information was not at hand in full. Now we are informed that the Increase in re- ceipts in Chicago consists almost wholly of these three-year-old horses, and that farmers are being paid prices which tempt them to part not only with the colts hut with the fillies. Attention has been called time and again in this department to the fact that there is bound to be a much greater shortage of draft horses of marketable age next year than there is this year, and yet the sale of the three-year olds seems to go on unabated. It may be good policy for breeders to sell their colts for $150 to $200 at three years of age, but it would seem after all that it would be better business to keep them another year and get $100 more for them in addition to the work they will do between now and 1904. If the Eastern professional fitters are buying three-year olds it is because they cannot get five-year-olds, or even four-year-olds, and that being true there must be a shortage of market- able prospects in the breeding localities. Hence there is little doubt that we are approaching the famine of good draft horses which has been so often foretold by the best posted men in the trade. T(. the man who has studied the matter from the days of low prices to the present it appears that horses are going higher in price by many dollars than they have ever been in thiB country. — Breeders' Gazette. Don't Like the Wind Shield. M. W. Savage, owner of Dan Patch, Directum and Roy Wilkes, objects to the manner in which Prince Alert made his record of 1:57. He says: " In the minds of people who understand the facts Dan Patch is still the champion pacer, because he will be judged by his wonderful miles under natural conditions, just as horses race every day. I certainly must protest that the freak mile of Prince Alert, made at the Em- pire City track, ia not entitled to official recognition except as a freak mile made by a hoppled pacer be- hind a large canvas wind shield which entirely broke the resistance of the atmosphere. If Prince Alert will come out from behind his wind shield and pace a mile in less than 1:59, I will take off my hat to him as the 'hopple champion.' If he will lay aside hopples and 'strong drink' and beat 1:59,1 will hail him as champion pacer; but until he meets these conditions I do not believe he has any right to the title 'cham- pion,'and I am sure that every fair-thinking horse- man will admit that position is correct and that Dan Patch is still the champion harness horse of the world." Horse Owners Should Use GOMBALLT'S CAUSTIC BALSAM The Great French Veterinary Remedy. A SAFE, SPEEDY 4 POSITIVE CURE. Prepared exclusively by J. E. 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Auspicious is the first of October, and pheasant shooting1 begins on both sides of the world— that is to say, it begins in Oregon for those pure souls who prefer a clear conscience to a broken law, and would rather carry a gun openly and fear no man, pockets full or empty, than have to take the gun apart and pocket the pieces and slink into town by back lanes and alley ways for fear of the game warden and his deputies — because the first of October had not dawned. I know a man who thought to himself and bragged to a friend that the game laws could not be enforced, writes Wallis Nash in the Portland Oregortian. So he took time by the forelock and started in two weeks ahead of the law-set day. Him the game warden "laid for," and met, coming into town with the heads of six China pheasants sticking out of the skirt- pockets of his jacket. It is reported of that sad day that the sportsman had to mortgage his home for $350 to pay a $300 fine and $50 for the expenses of his trial. Now he believes the gamelawscan beenforced, and so do I. "Broken with impunity?" '"Of course, often, when the deputy wardens' eyes are shut and when folks tell him, and he believes, that this sort of law never has been carried out and never will be while so many love killing China pheasants out of season." But let us get on to our China pheasants. This kind of talk about enforcing laws belongs better to us poor dwellers in Portland than to the happy few who are spending the too swift hours of this bright day in the grain fields and copses of the Wil- lamette valley. Every one knows that this pheasant of ours is the Ring-necked, or Chinese, or Denny. The last name it ought to bear after the Consul who brought these new settlers from their Chinese home and turned loose, I think it was ten pairs of them, in Western Oregon. We used to wonder if they would not all be killed off the very first season, for surely their bright colors seemed to make them an eas} maik for the hunter for the pot, who lived then as 1 expect he lives yet, in every third farmhouse in these broad valley lands. But law protected them, and also, it is but fair to say, a generally diffused sense that these birds were a gift to all of us, and so it would be an ungentlemanly and unsportsmanlike piece of greediness and selfishness to spoil the chances of their spreading by killing off these few first visitors. And the mildness of our climate and the bold fight- ing nature of the bird, did the rest of it, so they lived and thrived and multiplied. The poor native birds put up a losing fight with them from the start. The big dusky grouse that one used to ihear "boom- ing" in the cool mornings and misty evenings in the fence corners of the grain field b and along the draws and undrained swampy bits of our great valley, what has become of him? Twenty years ago one could, and did, go out and get ten or fifteen of these at almost any time in September or early October. And then our ruffed grouse or native pheasant. He 'drums'' still But like the brown humans before the all conquering white man, these pretty birds have retired farther and deeper into the recesses of our hilly woodland, and there maintain themselves where the imported bird does not care to follow. Two broods a year and a dozen in a brood, no wonder that they multiplied so fast! What beautieB they are as one sees the bright dash of scarlet in the head and the clear white collar shine in the sunlight as he looks boldly at you over the top of the wheat stubble: But if you Btop the buggy, gun in hand, and climb the fence, thinking him an easy prey, how he fools you. Fly? Not much; he runs and skulks along the furrow, out of sight in an instant, so that it is a fast dog and one up to his tricks that can force him to take wing. No man can run him down or get him up against his will, and that has been and is the salvation of him. Without a dog, and a good one, it Is all but hopeless to hunt him, unless you fancy an all-day trai ip for one or two chance shots as the birds fly across the road. In strange contrast with his English cousin, the Chinese pheasant prefers the open fields. The corn patch near the farmhouse has great charms for him, or the grassy ditch, dry of water in our long Summer and early Fall, with its thick growth of weeds and timothy. He fears not man and haunts the vegetable garden. 'It used to be said of him that he did more harm to grain and vegetables than he was worth, but he has outlived that slander, as bis crop full of weed seeds, bugs and grasshoppers at most times of the year will prove him the friend of man 3old and aggressive, he will join the chickens close to the barn- yard, and fight with the king of the poultry for supremacy. With his sharp Bpurs, high courage, strong legs and active habits he is no mean foe and a battle royal between the wild and the tame bird is a sight to see. The best dog to UBe is a fast modern Pointer not one of the heavy lumbering sort, who putters along at a Blow lope or trot, and thinks more of the manner of hiB going than of the pace he can put on. Mr. Pheasant just laughs at nim, and you will see him pop over the fence before thedog is within half a field of him. But with the light-going, up-standiog dog, liver and white, or yellow and white, who rapidly crosses back and forth in front of his master, and having struck the bird's scent presses quickly after him and gives him no time for his tricks, the turn of the game is the other way, the pheasant has to take wing, whether he likes it or not, and the gun gets its chance. The shots are nearly always long ones at the old birds, they take the best of caie of them- selves, but often the brood of just grown youngsters gets scared at finding the dog among them, squat down end fly up one at a time to their certain death by a steady shot. I ought not to forget in telling of dogs, that the Gordon Setter, black and tan, if well bred, is just as fast as the Pointer, and generally less headstrong, more obedient and is easily, to my taste, the king of bird dogs. But the red Irish Setter is not far behind the Gordon and seems to be more easily obtained in this state. Many of us remember the red Setter, which was the constant companion of the good sports- man and good friend, the late J. W. Whalley. How that dog shone at work and play. And the Setter is so handsome and gentle and well behaved that I have known many drawing room ornaments admitted and aDproved by the ladies of the house. Good luck, then, to the good sportsman. He is no tresspasser, but for either love or money he has the right to start his dog and himself and his friend these lovely mornings, with which Oregon is now favoring us, from one of those cozy farmhouses, em- bedded in its orchard, now heavj with red and golden fruit, which abound in almost all the eight counties of this Williamette Valley. The fields are wide, the wheat stubbles only ankle high, the birds are plenti- ful and a long, hard tramp is before them. But close to the farmstead is the corn patch, its leaves already rustling in the soft breeze. And here is the first chance. Pedro, or Spot, or Laura pulls short up before a hundred yards is behind and the eager look of the eye and the tense drawn muscles of the crouch- ing frame tell the tale. Quietly the guns move up, for here the birds will have to fly, not run, in this well-fenced lot. At the farthest end, in a moment, up flies the father of the brood, too near for him, though, and the Bhot tells. At the shot three or four youngsters flutter up and away, but pay toll with two of their number and the rest the sportsmen see skim- ming away in a long flight across the wide wheat fields. A good beginning, and so near the house that the bird s can he left in the cool rather than be packed along in a close pocket or dangled from a belt, to be struck and half spoiled whenever a fenceis climbed. Then comes the wheat field and the dog is soon drawing on scent, and eagerly the sportsmen follow him; butit is a weary while before the birds are seen, and often have to be followed for distant flight after distant flight before they can be made to rise within shot of the gun. But therein the distance is a low copse of rose bushes and thick undergrowth, and there the guns get another chance. And so on and on while the sun is rot on one's back and the healthy sweat pours off one's face, and city legs get the least bit weary until welcome lunch time comes. For young birds and early in the season the afternoon is often the best time, so there is no rest for the wicked and the shadows lengthen on two weary men and a very tired dog. The blue lines of the far distant mountains grow distinct as the sun draws nearer to them, th" air is absolutely still and clear, the stubble seems to hang around and catch the tripping feet, and home and rest are welcome indeed. Washington Field Trials. The Pacific Northwest field trials were run last week at Whidby island, near Seattle. There was a good attendance of sportsmen and the meeting was a very successful one. Prof. John A. Balmer of Cle-Elum, Washington, judged both the Derby and All-Age Stakes. Prof. Balmer has judged every trials the club has had. Uncle Jim, (Count Whitestone-Sport's May Belle) an English Setter owned by J. A. Peebles of Seattle, won first in the Derby. John H. Schumacher of Los Angeles, owns the winner of second place, the Eng- lish Setter Valita (California Bell Boy-Rod's Lurk). Third money was divided between two English Set- ters, Cincinnatus Nat (Ch. Cincinnatus Pride-Ruth T.) owned by E. B. Roy of Seattle, and Count White- stone's Chief (Count Whitestone-Sport's May Belle) owned by N. A. Weeden. The All-Age was won by The Lady (Ch. Count Gladstone IT-Peachmark) Joseph E. Terry's game English Setter bitch. This win is all the more re- markable as Lady was put down just 60 days after whelping a litter of puppies. Lady won the Pacific Coast Members' Stake this year and was first in the Derby and second in the All-Age two years ago. The Seattle dog Fleet owned by William Paulsell was second in the All-Age and Kilgariff (Orion-Mary Lou) was third. Kilgariff was a sensational winner "of the Derby at Bakersfield last January. He is a wide ranger and worker and it was almost decided not to run him in the Northwest All-Age for the reason that the grounds at Whidby island were rather circum- scribed and it was believed he would get off into the adjacent heavy brush or timber in search of birds and would thus have his chances handicapped for a place. It seems the dog had more wisdom than he was credited with. He is also owned by Mr. Terry. A detailed account of the trials was received too late for publication in this issue. The Home Gun Club held the initial club live bird shoot at Pinole on the 4th inst. In the main event of the day nineteen shooters lined up. The race was at twelve birds, $5 entrance. C. C. Nauman and Clarence Sylvester were the high guns in this event. Nauman grassed all his birds in each event he entered. Leo Kincannon scored straight in a six bird match, but did not keep up his gait in the twelve bird race. C. Sylvester and "Jack" Hall each did some excellent shooting. The traps were looked after by W. R. Murdock. The birds supplied were good flyers and the shoot was voted a success by the Bhooters in attendance. Besides the Pirole shooters present, a number of trap shots from the city and other points took part in the shoot. It is the intention of the club to have the grounds fitted up for live bird shoots, which will be one of the features for next year. The scores made Sunday are the following: Event No. 1, 6 pigeons, $2. SO entrance, 3 moneys, distance handicap — yds yds J. Bermingham Jr. .30— 1211*2— 5 W.B.Stevens 26— C. Sylvester 30—111212—6 W. Hanson 30—212122—6 L. Wood 30—121212—6 A. Jeffreys 26—110111-5 J. C F Hall 30—122021—5 Dr. Hutton 26— «22121— 5 K. K Smith 26-02J021— 4 * Dead out Event No. 2, 6 pigeons — Haight 221122—6 Hotton 220120—4 Nauman 21 1231— 6 Jeffreys 1 10010—3 Smith 001222— i Hall 102200-3 Wood »121ll— 5 Packer loom— 4 Sylvester 102211—5 Birmingham 121201—5 Hansen 222011— 5 Event No. 3, 6 pigeons, $2.50 entrance, 3 moneys — Wood 012122—5 Nanman 222111— c Smith 022211—5 Haight 021122—5 Huber 200220— 3 Button 212*11—5 Masterson 11*201 — 1 Birmingham 110101 — 1 Wattles 110110—1 Pisani 11*112—5 F. Knaurt 021111 — 5 McDonald 110*12—4 H.Knaaft 112011—5 Han en 222202—5 Kincannon 112011—6 Hall 211202— 5 Sylvester 221212—6 Event No. 4, 12 pigeons, $5 entrance, 3 moneys, dis- tance handicap — Dr. Hutton 28 yds— 01121 22022 10— 9 Hall 28 •• —102010022121—8 Sylvester 30 " —12212 22222 01—11 N'auman 34 ■■ — 12112 11211 12— 12 Birmingham 32 '■ —12120 10210 12—9 McDonald 28 " —21*2112*2101—9 Kincannon 28 " —20120 00120 11—7 Huber 28 " —1020120010 01—6 Hansen 30 " —22222 20121 (JO— 9 Parker 30 " —12122 2020*12—9 Jeffreys 27 " —21022 2021111—10 F. Knault 27 " —2220112212 10—10 H.KnauIt 27 " -00201 11012 21— 8 Woods 30 " —22212 222*121—10 Haight 32 " —20102 12220 21—9 Pisani 28 " —21222 02-00 22— 8 Masterson 28 " —201011022100—7 Wattles 28 •' —01202 11122 00—8 Fish 29 " —21010 2100101—7 Six bird shoot — Haight 222102—5 Sylvester 21*220—4 Hutton 11012*— 4 Hall 120122—5 Birmingham 11*010—3 Smith 211111—6 XaumBn 221122—6 Woods 11210O— 4 W.Hansen 212112—6 Six bird shoot — Hall 22212*— 5 Kincannon 122C02— 4 Birmingham 111102—5 Woods 011*12—4 Haight 021222—5 Hutton 12*120—4 Xauman 211112—6 Smith 101012 — 4 Hansen 212112—6 The Marysville Gun Club will hold a blue rock tournament tomorrow. Some recent Sunday practice scores by members are the following: Result? with double birds were poor, scoreB averag- ing low. At 10 single birds the following scores were made: J. Weber 10, E. Barthe 10. George Peacock 9, George Phillips 9, J. L. Hare 9, J. C. Haugh 9, W. Bedeau 9, Frank Bremer 8, Jack Colford 8. T. Giblin 8, W. Spillman 8, Frank Marshal 7, Ed Heisch 7, R. Moncur 7, H. Onstott 6, K. Gordon 6, Clark Mc- Quaid 6. The following scores were made by members of th° Marysville Gun Club in blue rock practice lar* Sunday: E. Barthe 11111 11111— 10 J. C. Spillman 11110 mil— 9 J. Giblin 11111 01111— 9 W. Spillman Ollll mil— 9 J- Weber 11111 11101— I J.S.Collins 11110 01111— 8 W. Bedeau 11101 lion— 8 G. Peacock 11 101 11 1 10— 8 E.F.White 11111 01110—8 F. S. Marshall 01101 01111— 7 A projected live pigeon shoot at Blue Island, Chicago, was interfered with recently by John G. Shortall and three other agents of the Illinois Humane Society. The projectors of the shoot were notified that they would all be arrested if they wounded any pigeons without killing them and the event was declared off. The shoot had been arranged by mem- bers of several gun clubs and a park at Blue Island was selected as the place for holding it. It was to have begun early in the afternoon and just as the names of the first marksmen were being called the agents of the Humane Society appeared. There was a consultation of the gun club officials and it was finally decided to call the meet off. It ia impossible in an event of that Blind to cause the instant death of birds that have been shot and the sportsmen argued that there was not enough sport in th6 event to pay for the consequent trouble of being arrested. Several of the members of the Watsonville Rod and Gun Club visited the club grounds last Sunday with a view to breaking a few records as well as blue- rockB. The latter were shattered to some extent but the former were not lowered to any preceptible de- gree. The first prize was won by James Johnson and in shooting off a tie with Victor Petersen, T. J. Albright won third medal. The complete score out of a possible 20 targets was as follows: James John- son 15, T. N. Alford 14, T. J. Albright 13, Victor Petersen 13, Emel Malmgren 12, J. E. Willoughby 12, A. L. Bixby 10, Henry Schroder 10, James Redman 10. October 10, 1903j f&hz gveeb&c anlt f&povtsntan e GOSSIP FOR SPORTSMEN Sportsmen will be glad to know that the trip from Klamath Hot Springs to Pelican bay, a portion of Klamath lake, in Oregon, can now be made easily and in a satisfactory manner. The region round about Klamath Hot Springs is noted for its fishing and hunting, and should the hunter or angler desire to go farther north into Oregon the route here given will take him into a fish and game country of abundance. From Klimath Hot Springs there are seven miles of staging to the Klamath Lake Railway, and then a ten-mile ride to Pokegama, thence by stage twenty miles to Keno, on the Klamath river. Prom this point the trip up the river to the Calls, a distance of twenty miles, is made in a launch. The journey is continued above the falls by launch, thirty miles up to and through the turgid green tule-colored waters of Klamath lake to the ice cold crystal reaches of Pelican bay. Mr. Floyd Judah of this city and W. I. Lembkey, United States custodian at Pribilov Island, recently left the Hot Springs, where they had been successful in bagging deer and catcning trout and salmon, for a continuance of the outing on and about Pelican bay. A stay of three days at Pokegama was made in the ''white city," where Al Liudley, a former shining light of the diamond field, holds sway over a hotel, every department of which is under canvas among the tall pines close to the Klamath river. Mountain quail were numerous and afforded good sport one day. In Fall creek the day following sixty brook trout running from nine to eleven inches in length were taken. Continuing the trip to Pelican bay, while the launch was speeding through this grand fishing water, large rainbow trout, five to eight pound fish, were fre- quently seen swimming around and underneath the boat. A number of these fish, in splendid condition, running from two to five pounds, were taken on trolling lines. From 125 to 150 feet of line and a No. 2 royal coachman or professor fly was found to be the proper tackle. Pelican bay is fed by a number of large springs, whose perennial torrents burst through the -iaady bittoaa of the b ly and make this portion of the lake an ideal resort for anglers. The water here is always at a temperature of from 42 to 44 degrees. At Pelican bay several dozen English snipe were shot and mallard ducks were found in abundance. Klamath lake is a noted breeding ground for mallard, where the birds find a favorite food — the wocus root. Immense flocks of widgeon, teal and sprig were making their appearance at the lake two weeks ago. These birdB will shortly come south and entertain California sportsmen. Dr. Julian L. Waller has just returned from a deer hunting and fishing trip in the country along the Me- Cloud river, twenty seven miles above Bairds. In the hunting party were the doctor, William Ellery, George Ellery, John Ellery and Mr. Blatchley of this city. The camp larder was supplied with trout by Mr. Blatchley, and the doctor furnished the venison. He killed three deer — a Pacific buck, weighing 175 pounds; a 90-pound spike buck, and a three pointer that scaled 125 pounds. George Ellery bagged two small black bears. The regular annual meeting of the American River Fish and Gima Association was held last Saturday at Newcastle. This association was formed in the fall of 1901, among the residents and property holders on the western side of the American river, in Placer county, and it extends for about ten miles along the river and west of that stream to and in places beyond the Auburn and Folaom county road, with an average width of about three miles The reports showed a great increase in game within the limits of the preserve, five deer having been killed within the week preceding the day of the meeting, while quail and other small game show rapid increase. In the matter of placing a fish ladder at the State Prison at Folsom it was decided to take up the sub- ject vigorously, and to insist that the State Fish Com- missioners give this the attention that has long since been promised. The people of Placer county living above the Folsom dam do not know why they have been so long ignored in this matter, and they do not propose to any longer submit to such imposition, and the wealthy private corporation that has so long maintained this obstruction will be asked to "come off the perch." ' The fact that large quantities of dead salmon have been recently observed lining the banks of the Klamath river proves that the fish are now, for the first time in years, able to swim up the Klamath to the various spawning grounds of the river and its tributaries. Salmon have this season gone up to and through Lake Klamath into the Williamson river and up to its headwaters to spawning beds that have here- tofore been inaccessible, whilst the dam at Pokegama obstructed their progress up stream. Since the dam was destroyed things have changed in favor of the fiBh and the fraternity of anglers. The dead fish seen on the Klamath river were all spent fish. The salmon, unlike the steelhead, after spawning, soon dies, but a very small percentage of the males, kelts, so-called, ever reach salt water again. The female salmon invariably dies after spawning. The officers of the Jackson, Amador county, Fish and Game Protection Association recently wrote to the Standard Electric Company for permission to stock Tabeau reservoir with black bass; this species of fish being selected as the most suitable under the circumstances. Early last week an answer was re- ceived from Frank Pierce, the president, stating that the advice of the engineers of the company was against the proposition, and the project could not be enter- tained at present. The precise ground for declining the proposition was not stated. Whether it was feared the fish might get into the pipe and interfere with the flow of water, or whether the tramping of anglers on the banks of the reservoir might increase the risk of breakage, is not known. The project of fishing in Tabeau reservoir has gone a glimmering for the present. As a change of management has taken place in the company, it may be that the matter will be brought up again in the near future. The salmon season in Monterey was a disappoint ment this year, the fish caught in the early part of the summer being all unitormly small and not desir- able for packing. This being unusual, the Sacra- mento river people took counsel with the Fish Commission, and were informed that the fish caught this year were of a variety imported from the Kennebec river in Maine twenty-seven years ago and planted in California waters. From that time to the present these fish, which were planted here for the benefit of sportsmen, on account of their gameness and the readiness with which they take the bait, have practically been lost sight of. and their appear- ance in large numbers this year was a great surprise to the Fish Commission. Later in the season (much later than usual) the large Quinnat, or Chinook salmon, which come regu- larly to Monterey bay, made their appearance, and of these a fair pack was made. This run of the fish also afforded anglers greater sport than was had for years past. The Big Basin in Santa Cruz county, a tract em- bracing altogether about 65,000 acres of territory, is regarded by the comparatively few lucky sportsmen who are familiar with its hunting and fishing possi- bilities as an ideal region in every respect — for the hunter, angler, camper and all those who love nature and who study and follow the teachings of the school of out doorB. As a deer hunting resort this country cannot be excelled, on the slopes of the hogback between the Waddell and Gazos creeks, a tract some twelve miles long, level and hard as a street pavement on the top, which is above the timber line, the hunter can alwayB find bucks among the chalk cliffs rising back from the redwood and chaparral covered terraces commencing at the creek banks. W. W. Richards, a well-known local devotee of rod and gun, has exoloited that region for bucks recently with success. Sportsmen who have camped there this season, had "meat hanging in camp all the time." This region is good for a California lion or wildcat almost any time. Thousands of red foxes also make this country their habitat, when their favorite food, manzanita berries, is in season. Bears were plentiful years ago, but are now pretty well killed off. " Old Man" Waddell, a lumberman, after wnom Waddell creek is named, was killed in Bear Valley, another good deer hunting ground, by an immense grizzly bear some years ago. Mr. Richards, and a party of San Jose members of the Sampervirens Club, composed of Dr. Osborne, Dr. Walker, E. E. Goodrich and Mr. H. Harris, have se- lected a tract on the confines of the Basin, which will give the club a camping ground, comprising about 100 acres. Mr. Richards and Ben Mad dock, a woods- man and hunter, who has lived in the Big Basin for years, have recently cut some trails into good hunt- ing and fishing territory. A road from Santa Cruz to Pescadero through the Big Basin will soon be commenced bv the Santa Cruz Supervisors. When the highway is completed it will be a boon to outing parties and sportsmen. In the Federal Court at Los Angeles Judge Ross decided a case last week which is of interest to sports- men. The case in point was in reference to the limit bag on game. The Judge decided that the supervis- ors of any county can not alter the wording of the general law, which places a limit of twenty -five on the number of quail a sportsman may kill in one day; that the supervisors may close the season if they please, but must not increase or decrease the number of birds granted by State law. Champion pugilist Jim Jeffries is quite an ardent sportsman. He returned to Los Angeles last week after having enjoyed a short hunting trip in the Colorado river "bottoms." He gavea rather graphic account of his experiences, 6aying: "We did the thing right. Got a 20-foot boat of the kind they U6e on the Colorado at Yuma, and it carried the five men in our party nicely. Talk about your game countries, why that Colorado River is the grandest thing I ever saw. We started out killing ducks and geese for "grub" with our guns, but the big Indian, Frank, who was my Bpecial guide, told us to take sticks to them, as it was cheaper. Without any bother, we could get all we could eat that way. ADd I never saw such ducks. Why they were as fat as butter, and nearly all young ones, just getting able to travel around. There is every kind of water bird tuere that I ever saw before, and some that I never saw anywhere else. "I got two big wild hogs myself. Frank, the Indian guide, is a bigger fellow than I am — six feet four tall, and as strong as an ox. He had a pack of dogs, and they did good work whenever we were anywhere near the hogs. "One of mine was a big boar that I first caught a glimpse of lying in the tules. There are tules all over that country, and they are the highest I ever saw; twenty feet loog some of them. Well, I tried to get a shot at that pig, but he was too quick for me. I could see his tusks, and knew he was a boar, and a big one, so I naturally wanted to go in and get him. Frank wouldn't hear of it; said the hogs would eat me and him and the dogs and everything else. Finally I said I was going into the tules after the pig, and Frank says "all right, you bossy man," and in he came, too. I wouldn't want a better guide than that fellow. Well, to make a long story short, I killed the pig at the first shot. They die pretty easy if you happen to hit them just right. He was a whaling big fellow, but for some reason was too thin to be much good. I didn't get to eat any pig meat to amount to anything while there. "Along the edges of the Colorado, below the American line, where it is a fine big stream, there is a lot of the finest grass and cattle feed I ever looked at. The cattlemen use it now, but deer are very plentiful there and other game in it, too. In some places the deer have trampled regular runways through the tules. If I had had more time I would have shot some of those big blacktails. Everything we got except that pig, seemed to be in fine shape. The ducks breed there by the million, and even the young ones are fat. "The worst complaint I have to make about the place is the mosquitoes. They are just as plentiful as everything else. And they are always hungry. The cattlemen told me they sometimes killed the cattle for them, and I believe it, for they nearly carried Dave and I off several times. Finally we got out in the river and anchored to a snag at night, then we did not suffer from them so much. "Talk about raining. We don't know what rains are here. Ono afternoon about 4 o'clock while Brandt, Martinez, Frank and I were in the boat, an electrical storm broke over our heads. I was scared. We had ten pounds of dynamite in the boat, and in would have been all off if some of the lightning had hit near us. But it didn't. The rain hurt us worse than anything else. From 4 that afternoon to 6 the next morning it came down like pouring water out of a pail, I guess it was what they call a cloudburst. We had to bale out the boat. It would havesunk her if we hadn't worked lively. In half a minute I was drenched to the skin. The rain came driven by a gale of wind and it was about the nastiest storm I ever saw. They eay it usually rains that way down there. "There is as good fishing in the Colorado country as there is shooting. We got a lot of fine mullet; one jumped into the boat and hit my arm. "Along the shore the coyotes come out and look at you as if they were not a bit afraid. I never saw such a hunter's country in my life. Some day I'll go back there again. It sure can't be beat." Bulldogs at the Crystal Palace. The London Bulldog Society held its twelfth annual show at the Crystal Palace on Tuesday and Wednes- day, September 8th and 9th, when there was quite a representative collection of exhibits, although some of the best known winners were conspicuous by their absence. The entry was not quite so large as that obtained at last year's exhlbit;on, but 137 dogs, rep- resenting more than double that number of entries, were bonched in the center transept. Of this total, however, seventeen were French Bulldogs, all of which had bat ears, there being no representatives of the toy Bulldog, for which classes had been arranged. Mr. W. G. Smartt judged the large Bulldogs and Mr. H. C. Brooke the small, the former taking great care in selecting the winners, it being late in theafternoon of Tuesday before the final awards were made. Commencing with the open class for dogs exceeding 45 pounds, Mrs. Marley provided the winner in Felton Prince, an active, good all round Bulldog, with the exception that he should have a wider underjaw; he was, however, somewhat closely pressed by Mrs. Waterlow's Nuthurst Doctor, who is also a good mover and a typical heavy-weight Bulldog; he is superior in skull to the third prize winner, Mr. G. R. Murrell's Lord Burley. Mrs. Marley was again to the front in the corresponding class for bitches with Felton Duchess, who, in body and head properties, cannot be improved, but she is faulty in carriage of ears; Mrs. Ford's Flora Venn, who was second, is also the right stamp, but she is scarcely so active as Mr. W. J. Pegg's Woodcote Sweetface, who was next in order. This was a difficult class to judge as there were several good bulldogs in competition, notably Mr. Atkinson Jewett's Floradora, who has a capital head, but fails somewhat in body, Dr. J. H. Skeen's Cypripedin, and Mr. G. W. Richard's Daisy Dump- ling. In open dogs not over 45 lbs. the first and second were easily found in Mrs. W. H. Ford's Lord Milner and Mr. G. Milledge's Master Merlin — the former sturdy in build and short in the back, with well placed shoulders; the latter remarkably good in head and wrinkle for a puppy, but rather too small. This is the puppy that created such a sensation when he was first exhibited at the Bulldog Club Show at Ken- sington. Mr. Pegg's well-known Woodcote Cervantes was third, and Mr. J Knewstubb's Black Mask re- serve, the latter io poor condition, but a sound, use- ful dog. Of the remainder Mr. A. Fergusson's Swashbuckler was the best, but this dog still wants more spring of ribs. In bitches not over 40 lbs. Mrs. Ford's Lady Letty, who won, was shown too fat, a much better mover being Mrs. Crocker's Buddug; the latter, however, was not quite so short in the back, a remark which also applies to Mr. Atkimon Jowett's KentiBh Pride, who was third, but has a well-finished face. Next came the limit classes, when in large-sized dogs Mr. C H. Chandler's Jabberation was the winner, with Mrs. Marley 's Felton Baron second, who is superior in head "outdoes not stand nor move so well. Florodd'a stepped up to first in bitches, and then in medium weight dogs Mrs. Mar- ley's Felton Regent and Mr. Pegg's Woodcote Conso- lation were first and second, with Lord Burley again third. Following Lady Lettie in medium weight bitches was Mr. Dack's Amber DucheBS, a young bitch of considerable merit. Nothing new came out in light weight dogs, and the pick of the bitches was Mr. P. May's Prima Donna. juBt a fair all-round specimen. The chief wlnnerB in id ®he gveebev cutb gtpovi&ntaxi [October 10, 1693 „„„;,.«»« n-nre Mr Harrv Lavton's Royal Britain's Pridf Mr G K Murreirs Miss May Matador Mrs. ?avlo'r's Juniper, and Mrs. Clarke's Mersham Soda and most of the same dogs came °*« «"",n .j"" iuoior classes. The championships with the chief special prizes were won respectively by Mrs. Marley'e Femon Prince and Mrs. Ford's Lady Lettie, the latter exhibitor winning the breeder's challenge cup or the best dog with Lord MUner and Mrs Crocker that for the best bitch with Buddug, and Mrs. Mar- lev ca-ried off the medals for both braces and teams. Of the French Bulldogs under 281es., Mrs. Gregory had the best in Beau of Ashfield, having a slight advantage in squareness of muzzle over Lady Lewis Harpton Crib. Neither is quite so good m body for- mation as Mr. Cbas. Waterlow's Bobs, who was third; and in bitches Mr. O. P. Traherne s Petite Suzette just managed to score overMrs. Waterlow s Coquette the forme? being somewhat shorter in back. Beau of Ashfield won again in dogs under 24 lbs., with Mrs. Traherne's Pas a verv good second, thelatter squarer in muzzle than most ol the breed and more cobby in build The bitches of the same weight were a repe- tition. Mrs. Waterlow had the best brace, and Lady Lewis the best team. The Pacific Collie and Old English Sheep Dog Club are getting up county cups for the best dog from each couuty. This is a new form of special prize and we think'should promote a friendly and healthy rivalry between the counties. Sacramento, Los Angeles, Santa Cruz and Santa Clara counties have already donated cups and the club hopes that the fanciers of Alameda and San Francisco counties will not allow themselves to be unrepresented in the cup competition. "The Call of the Wild" is the story of a man who was sewed up in a dog skin. So far as the book has any practical worth from a '-doggy" standpoint it is absolute rot. The tale is strung out on sensational lines, the basis of which is a spoonful of fact, blown up with bushels of gas. DOINGS IN DOGEOM. In the departure of Mr. J. H. Dorian, this week, for a permanent residence in Chicago, the ranks of the local fancy and particularly the Cocker Spaniel Club, have lost the direct support of an enthusiastic, painstaking fancier and a thorough sportsman. Mr. Dorian, since his advent among local doggy circles has been most agreeably prominent in support of doo-gy affairs not only in this city but on the Coast as well. Mr Dorian has been enviably successful as a breeder and exhibitor of St. Bernards and Cocker Spaniels and leaves here with the good wishes of a host of friends, both socially and in business circles. Jessie Gladstone III, a well bred and thoroughly broken English Setter, was killed by a train near Chico last week. She was owned by O. H. P. Sheets, a popular member of the Soto Gun Club. The premium list for the December show of the Pacific Collie and Old English Sheep Dog Club in this city, December 2-5, will go to press October 16th. The officers of the club are: P.W.Morse, President: Cbas. R. Harker, Vice-President; Norman J. Stewart, Secretary-Treasurer; C. R. Harker, O. J. Albeo and J. C. Berrett, Bench Show Committee. The ladies' auxilliary committee consists of Miss Delia Beach, of San Jose; Miss Sargent, of Sargents; Mrs. Bradlev-Dyne, of Saturna P. O., B. O; Mrs. W. W. Peaslee.'of Portland, Or., and Mrs. J. H. Dorian. The judges for the show will be an Eastern selection. Mr. J. C. Berrett will act as Superintendent. Entries for the Danbury Agricultural Society's twenty-second annual show this week numbered a total of 504. Under the supervision of Mr. James Mortimer the show promises to be a successful and interesting one. The fact that Wandee Kennels will have a dog or two in the show makes the exhibition more than usually interesting to local dogdom. The list of entries is" as follows: Bloodhounds 10, Mastiffs 2, St. Bernards 22, Great Danes 11, Russian Wolf- hounds 14, Greyhounds 3, Pointers 26, English Setters 50, Irish Setters 14, Gordon Setters 12, Clumber Spaniels 12, Field Spaniel 1, Cocker Snaniel 4, Collies (rough") 36, Collies (smooth) 12, Old English Sheep- dogs 6, Poodles 7, Bulldogs IS, French Bulldogs 8, Bull Terriers 15, Airedale Terriers 11, Dalmatians 6, Chow Chows 1, Boston Terriers 19, Beagles 5, Dach- shunds 11, Fox Terriers (smooth) 42, Fox Terriers (wire; 28, Irish Terriers 19, Scottish Terriers 21, Welch Terriers 9, Black -and-Tan Terrier 1, Whippet X, Yorkshire Terrier 1, Toy Terriers 4, Pomeranians 14, Toy Spaniels 22, Miscellaneous 5. Total 504. Mrs. Rosenberg has a stray Foxhound which came to her house recently. Whose dog is it? Mr. Charles R. Stevenson, lecretary of the National Beagle Club of America, writes us that at a recent meeting of the club Mr. Charles Quynn of Frederick, Md., and Mr. Thomas Shallcross of Providence, R. I., were appointed Judges to judge at the fourteenth annual field trials of the club, which will commence on November 9. 1903, at Howardsville, Albemarle county, Virginia. The Pacific Collie & O. E. Sheep-Dog Club ask us to state in the columns of the Breeder & Sports- man that its premium list goes to press on the 16th of this month and that any members or friends of the club who have not already donated a special prize, but who may wish to do so, are requested to advise the Secretary, Mr. N. J. Stewart, Polhemus St., San Jose, before that date. Cups and trophies have already been donated by friends of the club in such numbers as to assure that every breed will have at least some extra Drizes to compete for. Ihe judges have not yet been definately settled on, but in all probability all but one or two breeds will be taken by a prominent Eastern judge. We hear that several Eastern and at least one Eng- lish dog have been bought and are coming out to trv conclusions with our Coast dogs at the December 3ho.v. Sometimes these purchases are disappointing to their owners when the judging is over, but they are ot the greatest benefit to Pacific Coast dogdom at large and for this reason we are always glad to hear of the arrival of noted dogs on the Coast. Opening of the Shooting Season. Next Thursday, October 15th, will usher in the fall shooting season. Indications for good quail shooting have not been better for years past. The season has been most favorable for the valley quail and the birds have bred numerously, such is the report from almost every section of the State frequented by the bird. Ducks also have bred plentifully in the home breeding grounds. In the marshes of the bay counties, the tule districts of the Sacramento and San Joaquin, mallard and teal are much in evidence. Sprig, teal and quite a few widgeon, all Northern visitors, have been gradually coming in for three or four weeks past. The ponds in some portions of the Suisun marshes have been "black" with ducks re- cently. In fact, the birds have been reported ex- ceedingly numerous upon all of the preserves which have been baited for them. For several weeks past sportsmen have been get- ting ready in gleeful anticipation of the opening days. Dogs have been conditioned, guns and hunting togs, etc., made ready for upland shooting. The sportsmen who prefer the marsh and waterways for their shoot- ing.'have had club houses, shacks and arks placed in order and stocked, boatsand skiffs have been fixed up. decoys painted, and blinds erected, ponds have been cleared and baited up and everything is in readiness for the opening day of the season. As we go to press a heavy southeast storm with attendant rain squalls is coming up, should the weather conditions be bad for twenty-four or forty- eight hours it will be all off for the duck hunter on Thursday, for by that time the birds will be pretty well scattered. Quail hunting will not receive the set back that duck shooting will by a heavy storm. Should the storm be a general one, it will expediate the arrival of the northern Bight. Black bass fishing near Hilton on the Russian river is excellent at present. John McGill and C. F. Farley sent ten fish to this city, one day this week, that averaged nearly three pounds weight each. Live minnows was the bait used. Good trout fishine can now be had near Cisco. Salmon grilse have been caught at Powell street wharf this week. ♦ TRADE NOTES. We acknowledge the receipt from the E. I. Du Pont Company, Wilmington, Del., of a set of twelve hand- some half tone pictures of game birds and game animals. The set is a very artistic one, the drawings of birds and animals beiDg lifelike. There has been such a heavy demand from sportsmen for these pictures, that the appropriation of complimentary copies was speedily exhausted Sets can now be pro- cured by sportsmen desiring them, onlv by forward- ing 24 cents to prepay postage — the set is an expensive one and the Du Pont Powder Company have decided that, in view of the great demand, those desiring them should pay the postage. with the team to England and was present when the .team used this ammunition, both at practice and in the match. It is of moment to note that the team took this ammunition, which is paid for, in preference to the Government ammunition wnich is supplied free. The particular merit of this ammunition, aside from the great accuracy of loading, is the Thomas bullet, which gets its name fiom the Company's Inspector mentioned. Striped bass fishing has been very good during the week and many large fish have been taken in the "straits" and about Angel Island and Belvedere. The best catches have been made early in the morn- ing and late in the evening. Last Sunday there was over 300 pounds of splendid fish, displayed at the ark of the Pacific Striped Bass Club. It was a big feather in Uncle Sam's cap when re- cently at Bibley, England, in an International contest the American team of marksmen won the Palma Trophy match. And the general public became greatly interested when Lieutenant Albert S. Jones, Secretary of the National Rifle Association of America, wired to President Roosevelt at Oyster Bay that American rifles, ammunition and men won against Great Britain, Canada, France, Norway, Australia and Natal and would bring back the Palma Trophy. Seven governments sent teams of eight men each, and the result of the contest attracted attention to the fact that the American team used ammunition that was manufactured by the Union Metallio Cartridge Company of Bridgeport, Conn. The score of the American team was 1570 out of a possible 1S00 at S00, 900 and 1000 yards. The next highest score made was 1555, made by the team of Great Britain. The extraordinary score of the American team was in a great measure due to the use of the .30-40 regular factory cartridges, made by the U. M. C. Co. Heretofore the riflemen have insisted upon loading their own shells for such contests, but after an ex- haustive trial, however, it was decided to use the cartridges of the Company in question, because of their uniformity and extreme accuracy. Mr. W. M. Thomas, Chief Inspector for the U. M. C. Co., went A letter from W. H. Seaver, dated PreBCOtt, Ari- zona, states: ;'In regard to tne Eleventh Annual Tournament of the Arizona Sportsmen's Association, which was held in this city on the 18th, 19th and 20th inst., would say that Winchester 'pump' guns and Winchester 'Leader'' shells carried ofi the honors. Of the 28 shooters wbo shot in this tournament, 25 shot Winchester 'Leader' shells and 14 Winchester 'pump' guns. The first, second and third high averages of the tournament were made by shooters using our 'pump' guns and 'leader' shells, Mr. W. D. Tanner, of Phoenix, being first on average with 421 out of 445 shot at, H. C. Burmister, of Prescott. and W. H. Seaver, of San Francisco, tied on second average on 406 out of 445 shot at. The high average for squad shooting for the tournament was captured by the Winchester 'pump' gun squad composed of D. D. Mc- Donald, H. C. Burmister and M. E. Morin of Prescott, Dr. L. A. Hawkins and J. A. Knobltck of Jerome, ■and W. H. Seaver of San Francisco. All members of this squad shot Winchester 'pump' guns and Win- chester 'Leader' shells. The three man Gwynne Trophy, 30 targets per man, was won by the Prescott team, composed of Messrs. M. E. Morin, H. C. Bur- mister and D. D. McDonald, all members of the Win- chester 'pump' gun squad, with the splendid score of ST out of 90. The individual championship medal, emblematic of tbe champion wing shot of Arizona, was tied for by W. D. Tanner, of Phoenix, and M. E. Morin, of Prescott, on scores of 48 out of 50. In the shoot-off Mr. Morin won. Both gentlemen shot Win- chester 'pump' guns and Winchester 'Leader' shells. Mr. Morin also captured the Copper Queen Trophy with this same combination on a scare of 25 straight. The four man team championship diamond medal, shot for on the second day of the tournament, was captured by the Prescott team, composed of H. C. Burmister, M. E. Morin, T. M. Pickett and D. D. Mc- Donald with the score of 180 out of 200. Three of the four men in this team shot Winchester 'pump' guns and all four used tbe 'Leader' shells. The McVeagh handicap medal, shot for on the last day of the tour- nament, was won by W. D. Tanner, of Phoenix, shoot- ing from the 22 yard mark on the score of 23 out of a possible 25. Mr. Tanner, as stated before, used our g-un and shells. " Coming Events. Bod. April 1-Sept. 10. Oct. 16-Feb. 1— Open season tor taking steel- nead in tidewater. April 1-Nov. 1— Trout season open. July 1-Jan. 1— Open season for black bass. Aug. 15-April 1— Open season for lobsters and crawfish. Sept. 1-Nov. 1— Close season for crabs, Sept. 1-May 1— Open season Tor shrimp. Sept. 10-Oct. 16— Close season in tidewater for steelhead. Nov. 15-Sept. 10— Season open for taking salmon above tld« water. God July 1-Feb. 15— Dove season open. July 15-Nov. l— Deer season open. Sept. 1-Feb. 15 — Open season for mountain quail, grouse and sage hen. Sept. 27— Millwood Gun Club. Blue rocks. Mill Station. Oct. 15-Feb. 15— Open season .'or quail, ducks, etc. Bench. Shows. Oct. 6, 7, 8, 9— Danbury Agricultural Society. Danbury, Conn. Tohn W. Bacon, Treasurer. Oct. 20, 21, 22, 23— Frederick County Agricultural Society. Frederick, Md. J. Roger McSherry, Secretary, Frederick, Mu. Oct. 7, 8. 9, 10— Bench Show in Spokane, Wash. Nov. 3, 4, 5, 6— Ladies Kennel Association of America. Madison Square Garden, New York. Mrs. A. G. Evans, Hon. Secretary, Westbury, L. I. Nov. 17, 18, 19— Boston Terrier Club. Boston, Mass. Dec 2. 3. 4. 5— Bench Show in connection with Poultry Exhibit, San Francisco. P. K. L rules Field Trials. Oct. 9— British Columbia Field Trial Club. Inaugural trials. Stevenson, B. C. N. F. Lynne, Secretary, Vancouver, B. C. Oct. 26— Sportsman's Field Trial Association. Clare, Mich. E. C. Smith, Secretary, Midland, Mich. Oct. 26— Monongahela Field Trial Association. 9th annual trials. Washington C. H., O. A. C. Peterson, Secretary. Home- stead, Pa. Oct. 27— Nevada Field Trial Association. Paradise Valley near Winnemucca, Nev. Dr. C. E. Wilson, Secretary, Elko, Nev. Xov. 2— Michigan Field Trial Association. Annual trials. , Mich. C. D. Stuart, Secretary, Blverside, Mich. A Hint on Gun Repairing. Get your gun overhauled or repaired now: Do not wait until the last dav, for you may be disappointed and net have your favorite gun to shoot with on the 15th— close at hand. See Skinner for high class gunsmithing and repairing. Everything in this line done promptly and satisfactorily. Be forehanded and have your gun in proper* working order. Skinner's place is at 801 Market street, the big sporting goods emporium. Something for Nothing. The Polk Miller Drug Co., of Richmond, Va., are manufacturers of Sergeant's Dog Remedies, the most popular line of preparations, intended for dogs, on the market today, having received the high- est endorsements of the leading dog men and kennel owners in this country and Canada. Read their advertisements appearing in the columns of our journal each issue. The firm referred to will mail you absolutely free, a copy of their celebrated book on Dogs if yoi will forward 3 cents to cover postage- If your dog is sick, writ* them, enclosing stamp, and describe the symptoms as accurately as vou can They will cheerfully furnish the best information on the* subject without charge- F- W Braun & Co., of Los Angeles, California, have recently been made distributing agents for Sergeant's Do* Remedies on the Pacific Coast. Jackson's Napa Soda is sold in every city, towu and hamlet in the State, OCTOBER 10, 1903] ®h£ gveebev anX> ^povi&ntan il WHERE THE HEN REIGNS. Petaluma, California, the Greatest Chicken Raising Town in the World. [BY BAMILTON WRIGHT-l $3500 a day, for eggs alone; that 'a what Petaluma, California, receives in cash on an average each day throughout the year. Petaluma has a population under 4000, but with its million chicken in- habitants, it is, from a hen's point of view, the metropolis of the world. No other district of even ten times the terri- tory can approximate the chicken out- put of Petaluma. Poultry raising is a leading industry and if all the hens in the little city and its immediate environs were to form one huge composite hen, this gigantic fowl would weigh more than 225 tons. 850,000 of tie fowls are white Leghorns (as given by the last chicken census) and almost everyone who has an acre or two of land raises chickens on an extensive scale. For the student of poultry raisiDg on a large basis Petaluma affords a unique and profitable study. The city supplies more than one-half the poultry and eggs used in California and it sends a great quantity of eggs and chilled fowls to the East, as well as to the Hawaii and the Philippines. As a producer of breakfast foods Petaluma is a rival of Battle Creek and this break- fast food is all the product of the great American hen. Along with its giant chicken business, Petaluma boasts of the largest incubator factory in the world and there are more incubator manufactories in Petaluma than in any single city. One sees thousands of cases in Petaluma and thousands of wire chicken crates. Signs announcing "Poultry Feed"and "Poultry Supplies" are conspicuous. Petaluma is a cash town. Its merchants pay spot cash for all farm products from a dozen eggs, or a hundred oases, to a thousand tons of hay. This is because eggs are perish- able. The poultry business has been a gold cure for financial stagnation. It has fixed business on a cash basis. The hens of Petaluma consume over $450,000 worth' of prepared feed each year. Those within a radius of fourteen miles at $3,300,000 (approximately) worth of feed. There are within this radius 7,650,000 fowls. On April 23d Peta- luma Commission Merchants paid $5,- 800 cash for eggs; and for the week ending March 27th they paid out $18,- 450 for poultry products, not includ- ing direct shipments which would increase the amount to $25,000 for the week. Petaluma is 36 miles from San Francisco. A great portion of its poultry trade is done with that city. Two stern-wheel steamers, the "Gold'' and the "Napa City" make daily trips and 38 sailing vessels assist in carrying eggs. The "Gold" and "Napa City" carry an average throughout the year from 500 to 700 oases of eggs, each case containing from 30 to 36 dozen eggs. Besides this they are often loaded down to the water line by additional chicken crates. Sometimes the load is so heavy that it reaches from the lower deck to a level with the pilot house of the good- sized packets which carry the daily loads. It costs ten cents to ship a crate of eggs to San Francisco, the empty crate being returned free. Petaluma has the largest chicken ranch in the world. This ranch-has on itB premises 13,000 laying hens besides thousands of young chicks in the brooders and brooder houses. The poultry ranches vary in size from those of 300 to 2000 hens kept within city limits or so close at hand as to form practically a part of the city to the average big ranch of 3000 to 5000 hens with fifteen minutes' or half hour's drive from the steamboat landing. It takes an enor- mous quantity c-f feed to keep these ranches supplied. Some of the poultry men buy feed in quantities up to 2000 sacks at a single purchase. It is esti- mated conservatively that each hen yields an annual net income of 75 cents. Of course in exceptional seasons the average will equal or exceed one dollar. By selling all hens over three years old, young cockerels and broilers, the poul- try rancher is able to meet all current expenses and to pay the interest on his plant. It is the hens who lay the gold«n eggs and fromjthe eggs in Petaluma come most of the profits. White Leg- horn are raised in Petaluma because they lay white eggs, and these eggs sell better than any other varieties; they are uniform in size and please the housewife better than when the eggs are differently shaded, although perhaps larger. Poultry raising on a large scale is an interesting industry. There is as much difference between the methods of the man who raises a few dozen or a few hundred chickens and the man who raises them by the thousands, as there is between the small dairyman and the great 'stock rancher. The big poultry rancher buys his feed at wholesale. It takes a ton of wheat and a ton of middlings per month to feed one thousand chickens up to the profitable laying point. The big poultry rancher buys his feed by the carload ; he sells the stray feathers, the empty egg shells from the incubators and the guano. The sale from all of these makes an appreciable reduction in the running and this undressed, for none of the poultry ranchers in the Petaluma dis- trict overdress their own poultry. This is all done by the shippers and commis- sion houses. Thousandsof cratesot live chickens are sent to San Francisco. On a large chicken ranch the chickens are moved to a new plot of ground every three months. The "running" ground is divided into four plots, two of the plots being grass runways and two be- ing gravel. After the chickens have been moved from one runway it is ploughed and sown to grass, alfalfa or kale. At the end of three months this has sufficiently grown to allow the fowls plenty of green while the gravel runway havinglainidleis nowperfectly sanitary. The climate of Petaluma appears to be suited to the most vigorous growth. Ordinary fowl ailments are almost un- known on a well conducted ranch. Petaluma is hut 17 miles from Santa Rosa, where is located the experiment farm of Luther Burbank, the great plant breeder and hybridizer. The success with which all rarities of plants from every quarter of the globe can be grown vigorously is indicative of the vigor of fowl life. 1 Not all persons are equally successful. I met an old German rancher, Mr. Schroeder, who lives on the outskirts of Petaluma. Starting with a very small property, within a few years he has built up a large chicken ranch. When he had but 500 hens he was selling as many eggs as some of his neighbors who had four times his stock. He attributes his success to his feeding, which, while generous, is so graded as to produce the highest fruitfulneBS. "Give your How to Fatten Chickens. Ground oats may be an excellent arti cle for fattening, but I am at a loss to understand why a change of feed to something el6e would not promote appe- tite and result favorably. The great object Is to have the fowls eat an abundance of something which will fatten, and as there are other things besides oats which will do this, it would seem an, improvement to the plan to alternate occasionally. Certainly in case the fowls showed any symptoms of being cloyed by confinement to a steady diet. It is hopeless to attempt to fatten chickens while they are at liberty. They must be put in a proper coop; and this, like most other poultry appurtenances, need not be expensive. To fatten twelve fowls, a coop may be three feet long, eighteen inches high, and eighteen inches wide made entirely of bars. No part solid, neither top, sides nor bottom. Discretion must be used, according to the size of chicken put up. They do not want room; indeed, the closer they are the better, provided they can all stand up at the same time. Care must be taken to put up such as have been accustomed to be together, or they will fight. If one is quarrelsome it is better to remove it at once, or, like other bad examples, it sood finds imitators. A diseased chicken should not be cooped. The food should be ground oats, and may either be put in a trough or on a flat board running along the front of the coop. Never inside.. Food should be Watching a Brash on the Speedway in Golden Gate Park expenses. The eggBhells alone are worth $1.60 a bushel. There are nine establishments in Petaluma which pack eggs and chill dressed poultry so that it may be shipped a long distance. The hen in Petaluma is too dignified and valuable a creature to devote her time in hatching chicks. All she does is to keep on laying until the end of the third year when she is sold for market- able purposes. The duties of maternity are all performed by incubators and brooders, and on some big poultry ranches near Petaluma one will find a half dozen incubators and as many brooders and brooder houses all filled with chicks. Small balls of down just from the incubator or little white, wild chirping creatures that swarm to the other side of the brooder house in affright the moment a strange voice sounds within. There are always a number of cats on every chicken ranch to keep the ranch free from rats and other vermin. One sees very few roosters in Petaluma, it being generally con- sidered a useless expense to keep many of them the year round. Youog frying males bring 30 cents wholesale; hens bring 25 cents and 30 cents at eight and ten weeks. Young fries, if well grown, bring 20 cents. These prices are the the very lowest. The winter and early spring eggs have sold at 50 cents a dozen. Good spring fries have brought 75 cents for all that could be produced chickens enough 80 that they won't run themselves thin, but not so much as to make them over fat" is Mr. Schroeder's motto. But then his very world is bound up in chickens. He knows the subtleties of the ar-ogant hen. Everybody knows that a cow when fresh will give more milk than when the calf is older but sometimes it is de- sirable to know at what time a cow will make her record. From 233 records it was found that the largest flow of milk is given during the second and third week, beginning four days aftercalving. Tests for five years show that a cow's milk is as rich when a heifer as when matured. The milk is as rich the first month as later except during the last few weeks when the cow is drying off. There is very little difference in the season as to the quality of the milk. It is as rich while feeding on pasture as on dry feed in winter and its composition varies but little from day to day. These tests will surprise some people. It is almost universally believed that turn, ing a cow on green pasture in the spring will increase the milk yield and that the milk is richer as the calf grows older. It must be remembered that in these tests the cows were given the maximum feed both in quantity and quality and they derived nothing more except variety when they were pastured than they did when they were kept up. mixed with water or milk, the latter is better. It should be well soaked, form- ing a pulp as loose as can be, provided it does not run off the board. They must be well fed four times a day, the first time soon after daybreak as may be possible or convenient, and then at intervals of four hours. Each meal should be as much and no more than they can eat up clean. . When they' have done feeding, the board should be turned over and some b gravel may be spread. It causes them to feed and thrive. After a fortnight of this treatment, you will have good fat fowls. If, how- ever, there are only five or six to be fattened they must not have as much room as though there were twelve. Nothing is easier than to allow them the proper space, as it is only necessary to have two or three pieceB of wood to pass between the bars and form a partition. This may also serve when fowls are-up to different degrees of fatness. This re- quires attention, or fowls will not keep fat and healthy. As soon as the fowl is sufficiently fattened, it must be killed, or sold, otherwise it will be a loss in its reaction. If fowls are intended for market, of course they are or may be fa'.tened all at once; but for home consumption, it is better to put them up at such intervals as will suit the time when they v. -i required for the table. — Dr. L. 5. To, Rockport, Ind. 12 ®he gxee&ev tmfc gtpaxt&matx [October 10, 190S A Dairyman's Good Income. The following experience of a successful Wisconsin dairyman was related at the recent meeting of the Gurnsey Breeder's Association at Athens, Wis., bv H. D. Griswold of West Salem, Wis: "Choose a herd sire that has a mother and a grandmother and as many more relations as possible that were good milk and butter producers," advised Mr. Gris- wold. "Get the very best you can. Then get a scale and a Babcock test and know what each cow is doing. Cull out the poor ones and keep the best always. Keep up that practice with your heifers Ton cannot buy good cows; there is only one way to get them, and that is to raise them. Then comes good feed and plenty of it, warm and well lighted stable and constant, careful care. "Now, to illustrate along this line I will give yon a little of my own experi- ence. In 1889 I bought my first Gurnsey sire. I had then one Holstein cow, one Jersey and three or four Shorthorns. I find by my books that my total receipts for butter that year were $138.86. In 1S91 I got a babcock tester, the first one that ever came to our town. I found that year that my cows were making 365 pounds of butter each; I then had nine. I increased the number till in 1902 I had twenty-one cows. I have increased the average production Der cow to 424 pounds each. I have increased my receipts from S13S.86 in 1S89 to $1,937.43 in 1902. "I now have twenty-five cows, and in the month of May just passed we got 5,700 pounds of cream, testing twenty per cent butter fat, with no other feed than grass and a little ensilage. TheEe twenty- five cows are all grade Gurnseys but five. I have three Jerseys and two full-blood Gurnsey heifers All but three were raised by myself on the farm and have never been off the place. Six of the twenty-five are two-year-old heifers. "I tell you this not to boast, but to let you know what we are doing to-day, in- stead of giving you some has-been tale. We have the same little fifty-acre farm that we had in 1889 but we have built onto the barn four times, have built two silos, and the farm is increasing in productiveness. But you will say it has taken a long time, over ten years. True, but you have to work at something, and dairying is no harder than any other work. The land must he kept up with some kind of stock, and what can you do better? Did you ever think that an in- come of $2000 on a little farm in the country is better than twice that in the city? Then the boys are interested in good stock, as they cannot be in scrub stock. And this daily association with these dumb animals makes a man better. He has to anticipate their wants; he has to take lots of steps and do countless little things for their welfare and comfort, and theBe daily duties make him more thoughtful of others, and he becomes a better huiband and father and citizen." The Best Beef From Young Stock. As the years go by we can notice a grow- ing demand for young Btock to feed and many people prefer calves for this pur- pose. As the use of bulls of the improved beef breeds increases it Bhould be easier to fill the demand for prime calves. It is quite certain also that with the increase of good blood the demand for well bred calveB will multiply. No feeder who ever prepared a lot of well bred top calves will ever be content to feed scrubs or older cattle again. The profitable feeding of cattle is not by any means as general as may be supposed. When a man takes our range cattle and buys the feed required to fatten them there can be no more haz- ardous speculation. When a man avoids overstocking and intelligently raises his own cattle as well as the alfalfa to fatten them, carefully saving the manure and returning it to the soil, the business is without risk. The secret of profit in feeding calves is this : The same feed that will carry an ordinary two year old eteer and make it gain two pounds a day will carry three well bred calves the same length of time and each calf will gain two pounds a day or better. The natural growth of the well bred calf is the element that offsets the heavier weight bought lower in the older steer and eold higher when finished. If the older steer is bought too high it iB sure always to be too high. If a well bred calf is bought high natural growth at a trifling cost modifies the price. There are scores of feeders down in thecornbelt who take calves that will average between 350 and 450 pounds in November and make them weigh 1100 pounds by the November following, while §ome make them weigh 1200 pounds and a few make them weigh from 1300 to 1400 pounds. The day is coming when the great waste of beef now annually thrown away by starving and roughing cattle through the winter will be looKed upon as a barbarous method of the past. MoBt feeding cattle will be taken from their dams at weaning time and put at once on feed, for nothing but neglect or starvation need prevent good steers of Shorthorn or Hereford blood from being made to weigh 1200 pounds at eighteen months of age. Those of thi6 age have proved conclusively that such ripened beef not only brings the highest market price but is produced at the very lowest cost. While some of our misguided enthusi- asts are calculating upon the establish- ment of independent packing companies throughout the west by enlisting the sympathies of the cattle barona the scheme would look more plausible if they would begin operations at the other end of the lane. By this we mean that before the packing houses are built the science of making beef by means of the resources at hand should be pounded into every man who owns a hoof until be can under- stand the matter. We can not kill until we fatten and to do this stock growers must study the farm papers and acquaint themselves with the economic uses of such things as alfalfa, beet pulp, peas, barley, epeltz and rye besides the various root crops and many forage plants with which the most of them are as yet unfamiliar. — Field and Fawn. Value of Manure. Feeding the Colts. Feed as near as you can a balanced ration consisting of a variety of feeds, using oats, bran, a little corn iu the winter, and roots, if you have them. I prefer clover hay, if cut early and clean, with some timothy and corn fodder, and plenty of graBS in season, and always a place where they can get exercise. Jj fed all they can clean up and digest well they will always be ready for the market. If not sold when three years old they should be broken to drive, and put the draft colt at light farm work, and thev will pay for the keeping for the next year. Then they Bhould be fed for the market, and that means they should have about two hundred more pounds of flesh than they usually have in the average farmer's care. Then they will bring from $25 to S50 more per head than they would if sold while still thin. In fact, there iB no better business for a stock feeder or far- mer than to feed draft horses for the mar- ket, as a good, growthy young draft horse, if properly fed, will put on flesh at the rate of one hundred pounds per month for two or three months. When they are put up for feeding give them light rations on the start and Igradually increase the ration until they get all they will eat and properly digest. H. A. Bbiggs. Did you ever stop to think what pro- portion of her keeping a hen pays in fertilizer? From each pen of fifty hens I gather each week a good, big bushel of droppings — that is, fifty-two bushels per year for fifty hens, or a little over a bushel per hen. This bushel of drop- pings is well worth 25 centB. It would sell for that in almost any neighbor- hood, or if you raise your own grain it is worth more than that for your own use. Now add to this the amount of droppings in litter, which should be saved, and we have at least 5 centB more, or 30 cents per hen each year. Allowing that it costs $1 to keep a hen a year, our hen has paid us nearly one-third of her keep in the best fertilizer on earth. What other live Btock on the farm will do this? Now as our hen has paid us 30 centB in ferlilizer and it costs us SI to keep her, we must get 70 cents from her before we make any money. Let us figure eggs at 20 cents per dozen, which is a fair average, and we must get three and a half dozen of eggs from each hen before we begin to realize a profit. Aa we are figuring on a basis of eggs, let us say that our hen is a Leghorn. The average Leghorn will lay twelve dozen eggs a year, and after de- ducting the three and a half dozen we have left eight and a half dozan eggs at 20 cents per dozen, or $1 70 as net profit. But wait a minute. Remember our hen is a thoroughbred Leghorn (we would keep nothing but thoroughbred birds., so we may sell a dozen of her eggs at $2 for hatching, thus increasing our profit $1.80, making it $3.50, or she might hatch ue a brood of ten chicks worth at least $2 and give us the same result. I know that under ordinary circam- stances it does not cost a dollar to keep a Leghorn hen a year, and I know that if one is careful in selecting his breeding stock he can build up a strain of Leghorna that will lay fourteen or fifteen dozen eggs a year instead of twelve and that by cater- ing to a fancy trade he can average 25 or 30 cents per dozen instead of 20 cents, but I only wished to take a fair average to prove that "biddy" is a money maker when properly cared for and given due credit for what she produces. — S. E Smith in Reliable Poidtry Journal. Silos up to Date. Cattle Choke on Beets. The Santa Maria Times says : Reports by people who are traveling between Santa Maria and Guadalupe state that on an average three or four steers die every week on the beet fields where the cattle are feeding on beet tops and such, beets as were either too small or too large to be harvested. In trying to swallow the beets the cattle become choked on account of the beets sticking in their throats. Men are employed on the ranch who are continually watching the stock, and when a steer shows signs of becoming choked the men'force the beet down the animal's throat by means of a Btiff rubber hose. However, as there are a great many cattle on the ranch, it is impossible to watch all, and every now and then one keels over. Removing Alkali From Soil. Late experience has thown strong light on new sides of the silo problem. Many of the early built silos have had time to show their weak points. Some styles fash- ionable for a time have proved poor keepers, wasteful of the ensilage and not durable. Many a cheap Bilo has proved a costly investment. If a saving of $50 on a first coBt causes a needleBS waste each year of $20 worth of silage, the builder is paying fortv per cent on his saving, a ruinous rate. Although cheap siloa some- times pay, good ones pay better Most new silos are built partly below ground, Bay three to seven feet, which ie aB far as drainage and convenience in feeding the contents will uaually permit. A start below ground gives a Bupport of earth, where the strain ia greatest, helpa to protect from frost, and brings the top of the silo within reach of a short carrier. Air tightness and close packing ap- pear to be the only positive essentials. A cylinder of galvanized iron no larger than a flour barrel will keep green stuff well for hens, if stored in a barn cellar or other protected places. Wet brew- ers' grain can be kept in the same way until wanted for feeding. Also apple pomace and similar material. Brick silos cost half as much again as stone, wood with lining of brick or gal- vanized costB about as much as stone. It is more frost proof but leas durable. A cheap wooden silo can be built for two-thirds the cost of stone, but Is not very durable. Wooden stave silos can be had ready made from manufacturers, but they are not cheaper than home- made silos of equal quality and require more attention than the ordinary ground silos. Cheaply made silos have been shown to be decidedly more wasteful than a silo well built and of standard pattern. Depth is strongly insisted on; a deep silo holds more, because the contents pack more solid at the bottom. With a deep silo, the loss at the top ia leas in proportion than with shallow silos. There is smaller loss from alow feeding, because the closely packed silage keeps out the air. Where whitewash ia used it should be neatly and carefully put on bo as not to scale off. It should be well made so as not to rub off on your clothes. Use a Bpray if possible. The cow when nervous or restive should never be struck. Professor W. H. Hellman, of the de- partment of agriculture, recently an- nounced that he has found a method by which alkali can be removed from soil. For ten months past he has been con- ducting experiments on the worst alkali land in Utah, and although the results of his work have not been given out officially as yet, he admits that his tests have proven successful. It is probable tha., through Professor Hellman's in- vestigation, millions of acres of land, now barren and unfruitful, may be re- claimed and become productive. — Sun set Ulagazine for October. o Sober up on Jackson's Napa Soda. The biggest and most successful stock raiser in England ia "Squire Wettin," who iB said to make about $200,000 per year on his cattle. The " 'squire" is a great lover of pure bred Btock and has some of the beat in the world, as is evidenced by the fact that he takea about all the prizes at the Royal shows. The " 'squire" gives considerable personal attention to hie herds, but would give more if it were not for another steady job he has on his hands. This occupation is that of reigning over Great Britain, for ■' 'Squire Wettin ' is none other than King Edward VII. His royal highness ia a splendid judge of cattle and there is nothing in his private affairs he cares more for than his live stock. A woman operates one of the most successful stock ranches in Arizona, eleven mileB from Preseott. Her father moved there from Dlinois in 1896, for his health. He died two years later, leaving a mortgage of $15,000 on the ranch, nis oldest child, Annette, took up the work, and since then the herd has multiplied threefold, Bhe has added 550 acres to the range, has paid off her mortgage, and is~'making money, having sold as much as $14,000 worth of steers in two months. Her younger sister iB her partner and the two girla wear men's clotheB when attending to business. Thirty or forty miles a day in the saddle is not ususual with them. Feed regularly. Never overfe»d. Do not feed any heating or fattening food to the old fowls in summer. When the fowls do not appear to be hungry cut down the feed until they are inclined to eat. OOTOBEB 10, 1903] &he gxeebsv cmii &pavt&maxt 18 Hog Cholera. We are now at the season of the year when cholera is more or leiia prevalent over a large portion of the corn and hog states of the west, and every farmer should be on his guard, says Wallace's Farmer. He has two things to consider : FirBt, how to prevent cholera; second, what to do when his herd becomes in- fected. Bear in mind that hog cholera is a germ disease and you cannot have the disease unleis you have the germ intro- duced. It is not always possible to prevent the introduction of the germ. It may be carried by rats, cows, dogs, but is moit frequently carried from farm to farm by farmers themselves; sometimes by thra hing outfits that come from cholera infected farms and spread the disease ; at other times and not infrequently by peddlers of dead hogs who come snooping around the healthy herd like buzzards after carrion to find if you have any dead hogs to sell. Set thedog on these fellows ; they have no business about the farm anyhow. Another very common source of infection is by visitors, either socially or farmers whose hogs are affected and who come around to Bee how their neigh- bors' hogs fare. Keep visitors away from the hog yards in cholera times. Keep the man who has cholera on his farm outside the gate. Do not let your wife's relations come to see you if their hogs have the cholera. You cannot afiord it. The far- mer whose buildings are located near the center of his farm and off the main road is less liable to attacks of the disease than the farmer who liveB on the main road. The farmer whose hogs have access to a stream of considerable size is more liable than those who live away from a stream and whose hogs are watered from a deep well. Bear in mind that unless the germ is in some way introduced into the herd the hogs cannot take the cholera, although they may have some disease that looks very much like it. If your hogi do take the cholera and yon find by post-mortem examination that it is a genuine case — evidenced by a high temperature of 104 to 107, by ulcers on the small intestines from the size of a pin head to the size of a nickle, or from the filling up of the lungs with cheesy matter, then you have business on hand. We have paBsed through three or four ■iegea of it, and if cholera attacks our herd this year, which it may, we shall adopt the following policy: First, sell off all the shoats that are of saleable size, taking whatever price we can get ; second, kill the little pigs. They are not worth a cent a dozen when the cholera is around. Third, turn everything else out on to the clover meadow and absolutely shut off all grain feed of every kind. Let them have all the pumpkins they want, but nothing else. Why? The hog has an incarnate appetite and will eat after it has been eick two or three days. It can not digest what it eats, and this indi- gested matter becomes foreign matter. Grasa is cooling, laxative and satisfies hunger for the time being. We would not sell a good brood bow because cholera has attacked the herd. The probability is that in severe cases you will lose half of them, but they will be the half most susceptible to disease, and the brood sow that has once come through the cholera ia valuable for two reasons: First, becauBe it ia proof that the animal has strong resisting power ; in other words, an unusually strong con- stitution ; second, because brood sows having once passed through the cholera are immune and may be kept for several years, provided, of course, cholera does not interfere with their breeding, which it sometimes does. If so, they can be sold for pork. We would not buy any remedies. The government remedy might be used on general principles, but it is not really a remedy for the disease. If our conscience compelled us to do something, or if the wife insisted on it, we would buy some medicine and set it on the mantle, but would follow the course prescribed of Btarvation. It will Bet the hoga back a month, but better do that than increase the death rate by giving them feed after they are not in a condition to digest it. After the disease has done its work clean out all yards and stables, disinfect with lime and diluted sulphur and carbolic acid, and don't buy any new hogs for three months. Defects in the Show Ring. During the past month I have been at- tending county a^d state fairs which gave me the opportunity of meeting a large number of exhibitors from different sections. Among them were a good many plain farmers, who are striving success- fully to better their condition by improv- ments along the line of breeding better stock as well as a large number of we'l known professional breeders of all kinds of live stock and a very few speculators, whose only object seems to be to buy and sell whatever and wherever they can. It also gave me an excellent opportunity to aee and know what other people are doing and how tbey do it. Since coming home I have been think- ing of the things I saw and some of the impressions I received, and I do not know of a single idea I formed that was new to me — only a deeper, more firm con- viction of the truth of the old ideas or doctrineB that the best breeders of live Btock in all countries have firmly held in all their work of improvement. I was particularly interested in the sheep ex- hibited. At one fair there were three exhibitors of delaine merinos. In the aged ram class one owner brought out a seven-year-old buck as big as an ox but with the thinneat, moat open fleece of wool I ever saw on a merino. He bought the animal when young on account oi extreme aize and had always uaed it aince as a stock ram. The result was that the owner did not receive a prize ribbon in the class and not a sheep in hi8 flock was worth S3. They were absolutely worthless for any purpose for which sheep should be kept. How much better it would have been if this man seven years ago had bought a dense fleeced ram of good type and breeding and gone on improving bis flock all these years. In one of the sheep classes I was looking to aee the agea of a string of breeding ewes In one pair I found a ewe with a parrot mouth. The owner colored up some and explained that she was an inbred ewe. I bad forgotten about it until in a class of younger ewes I found another ooe with the same defect and the owner told me that the old ewe waB given to breeding parrot-mouthed lambs. Did it pay him to make such a miatake and where will the results cease ? One exhibitor seemed to feel aggrieved because he had not re- ceived the blue ribbon. He called my attention to the fact that his ram had clean yellow hoofa with not a streak of black to be found on them and he also told me that the chop folds were of the most fashionable form, all of which I knew but that particular breeder had paid more attention to some of these minor points than to producing a strong vigorous animal. Lack of constitution was apparent in hia entire flock. It mattere nothing to me, when I put on my overcoat on a cool morning, jurt what was the color of the hoofs of the sheep that grew the wool nor the atyle of the folda on its neck. What I am after is warmth. It matters little to me, when I have a chop for breakfast, just what was the style of the head and face-covering of the sheep that produced it or whether the cow that furnished the milk and butter had a black tongue and Bwitch or not. It is well to look carefully after the fancy points in all our pure-bred stock and be sure that the peculiar char- acteristics of the breed are not lacking, but I am fully convinced that some breed- ers are paying more attention to Benseless fads than to the practical utility of their animals. — W. L. Ford. Dairy Notes. The hog is almost a necessary adjunct to the paying dairyifarm. Eaatern countries are becoming larger and larger customers for American con- densed milk. Churning should always be carried on in a moderate temperature. An increase of feed improves rather the quantity than the quality of the milk. With all due respect to the gentle bull, he ahould never be trusted. Have any of our readers ever tried Turkish toweling to strain milk? Wash the butter thoroughly and there will seldom be trouble about mottled butter. A heifer ia apt to form her life's milk- ing habits after the first calf. A little extra time spent then means money later. Light colored butter and white milk are the natural results of summer feed. Green food gives a rich appearance to both, but cannot be obtained the year round. If the public could be educated up to this fact a great temptation to adulteration would be ended. The small expense incurred in purchas- ing a dairy thermometer ia in no way commensurate with the improved results from its use. Few modern industries are successful without the utilization of by-producta. The by product of the dairy ia milk, which uan be converted in pork or used in rais- ing ea'ves. Help the cow in her efforts to make you money. The oleo manufacturers seemed to have dropped their campaign of education, in which they subsidized country papera to relate stories of dairymen who Bold their butter and bought oleo, because they liked it better than the real thing. At one time we saw numerous stories of this kind in our country exchanges, but lately they have disappeared. Within recent yean many changes have taken place in buttermaking. It was formerly supposed that most any one who was neat and tidy could make good butter. Since investigations have been pursued along scientific lines we find that it requires skilled labor, 8ays Stockman and Farmer. The men who are pursuing dairying at our schools now are possibly twenty-five per cent in advance both in education and skill of the students who took dairy work seven or eight years ago. As we look the country over we find the people who have become famous in the dairy world are men of unusual intelli- gence, who would undoubtedly have made asuccesa in most any other line of busl ness.— Orchard and Farm. oiling Horses in being shipped about from place to place on a circuit, subject to all kinds of weather and consequent changes in temperature are very like* ly to fall sick, chill8,coiiARKER BROTHERS Send for catalogue- RELIABLE. MERIDEN, CONN Bf. Y. 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AMMUNITION THE UNION METALLIC CARTRIDGE COMPANY Pacific Coast Branch Depot: 86-88 FIRST ST.. SAX FRANCISCO E. K. DEAKE, Manager. f. WINCHESTER LEADER" SHELLS LEAD At the Third Annual Target Tournament of the Dominion of Canada Trap Shooting and Game Protective Association, ' held in Toronto, August 12th to 15th, inclusive, winnings were made as follows: 1st Day: 2d Day: 3d Day: 4th Day: Hieh average for day by Mr. Higginson of Buckingham, Quebec. Two Men Team Championship of Canada, SO targets per man. won by Messrs. McGiU and Wakefield of Toronto, with score of 37. High average for day won by F. Westbrooke of Brautford. Parker Gun "won by J. Hovey of Clinton, who also won high average. Grand Canadian Handicap, 100 targets, won by Mr. Craig of Sherbrooke, with a score of 93. ".Mail Trophy," the most important trap shooting trophy In Canada, emblematic of Five Man Team Championship of Canada, won by Brantford Gun Club Team, with score of 323 out of 2SO. The Montreal Boiling Mills Company Cup, emblematic of Individual Championship of Canada, won by Mr. Bain of Winnipeg, with a score of 48 out of 60 targets. High average for the day— "Bereslord Cigar" Cup— won by Mr. Hovey. All these splendid victories were won with Winchester "Leader" Shells, and are a forcible testimony to the uniformity of these goods. PACIFIC COAST AGENCY: 127-135 FIRST STREET SAN FRANCISCO. CAL. -A.. ^ITTHiIliIEin., Agent. Loaded, in O. 3=». ^7\7". Smolieless. Winning Highest Averagre at All Shoots. if tot; wa>t the best ask fob California Powder Works FACTORY LOADED SHELLS. If Tour Dealer don't keep them write the CALIFORNIA POWDER WORKS-Office 330 Market St., San Francisco Manufacturers of HEBCUI.ES DTSASQIE, HEBCULES GELATINE, CHAMPION IMPKOVED BLASTING, BLACK BLASTING, BLACK SPOKTLNG. C. P. W. SMOKELESS and MHJTAKY SMOKELESS Alio sell CAPS and FUSE. Clabrough, Golcher & Go. GUNS Gun Goods FISHING Tackle Du Pont Gun Powder SMOKELESS, SHOT GUN and MILITARY POWDER Black Powder for Sporting and Blasting Purposes Che Reputation of a Hundred Tears is the Guarantee of DU PONT POWDER 519 Mission St., Boom 311, San Franolso*, Cal. You can get these Smokeless Powders in FACTORY . . LOADED SHELLS DTJ PONT " E. C." SCHTTLTZE HAZARD SHOTGUN RIFLEITE BAIII8TITX LAFLIN 0,UUU closing. ^75 to start; $10 forfeit; $3000 added, of which $S00 to second and $250 to third. Added Weights to be announced three days prior to the race. Winners of other than a selling purse after the announcement of weights to carry 5 lbs. extra To be run Friday Decembers.-.. 1W3. One Mile and a Quarter C3 (\f\(\ THE WATERHOUSE CUP.— A handicap for two year-olds and upward at time of clos 3>0,VUU ing. 575 to start; $10 forfeit; $3000 added, of which $600 to second and $250 to third: the Added fourth to save starting fee. Weights to be announced three days prior to the race W m- ners of other than a selling purse after the announcement of weights to carry 5 lbs. extra. To be run Saturday, March 5, 1904. Two and One-Quarter Miles C? CAA THE CALIFORNIA DERBY.— Three-year-olds of 1904 (now two-year-olds). $75 to start. OAjOUu itio forfeit: $2500 added, of which $500 to second and $250 to third. Winners of a stakes for Added two-year-olds in 1903 or for three-year-olds in 1904 after the dosing of this stakes to carry 5 lbs extra. Others that have not won at any time a stakesof $2O00or tworacesof $1000each allowed 5 lbs; maidens, 12 lbs. To be run Monday, February 22, 1904. One Mile and a Quarter C? CAA THE THORNTON STAKES— For two-year-olds and upward at time of closing. $60 to Jit»jW start: $10 forfeit; $2500 added, of which $500 to second, $300 to third, the fourth to save Added starting fee. Three- rear-olds to carry 86 lbs.; four-year-olds, 109 lbs.: five-year-olds, 115 lbs.; six-year-olds and over, 116 lbs.; (usual sex allowance). This stakes will be reopened 15 days before the date it is to be run for, entries to be received at $50 each: $75 additional to start. To be run Saturday, March 19, 1904. tfour Miles O AAA THE THANKSGIVING HANDICAP.— A handicap for three-year-olds and upward at Oi.UUU time 0f closing. $60 to start; $10 forfeit; $2000 added, of which $400 to second and $200 to Added third. Weights to be announced three days prior to the race- Winners of other than a selling purse after the announcement of weights to carry 5 lbs. extra. To be run Thursday, Novem- ber 86 1903. One Mile and a Furlong C9 AAA THE CALIFORNIA OAKS.— For three-year-old fillies of 1904 {now two-year-olds). $60 ■p£,VUU t0 start; -510 forfeit; $2000 added, of which $400 to second and $200 to third- Winners of a Added stakes for two-year-olds in 1903 or for three-year-olds in 1904 after the closing of this stakes to carry 5 lbs. extra. Others that have not won at any time a stakes of $1500 or two stakes of any value in 1903-1904 allowed 5 lbs.; maidens. 12 lbs. To be run Saturday, January 30, 1904 One Mile and a Furlong C? AAA THE OPENING HANDICAP.— A handicap for three year olds and upward at time of 5i,WU olosing. $60 to start; $10 forfeit; $2000 added, of which $400 to second and $200 to third Added 1903. Weights to be published Monday, November 9th, To be run Saturday, November 14, One Mile •2? ftftft THE NEW YEAR HANDICAP.— A handicap for two-year-olds and upward at time of Jli.UUU closing. $60 to start; $10 forfeit; $2000 added, of which $400 to second and $200 to thiid. Added Weights to be announced three days prior to the race. Winners of other than a selling purse after the announcement of weights to carry 5 lbs. extra. To be run Friday, January 1. 1904. One Mile and a Furlong L i\j\j\j $2000 added, of which $400 to second and $200 to third. Horses that have run three or more Added times and have not won three races allowed 3 lbs.; two, 5 lbs ; one, 8 lbs.: beaten maid, ens. 12 lbs. To be run Saturday, March 13, 1904. Five Furlonj§ €? AAA THE GEBHARD HANDICAP— For two-year-olds (now yearlings). $60 to start; *io OijvVU forfeit: $2000 added, of which $400 to second and $200 to third. Weights to be announced Added three days prior to the race Winners of other than a selling purse after announcement j of weights to carry five pounds extra. To be run Saturday, April 2, 1904. Futurity Course (170 feet less than %) £,VUU closing. $60 to start; $10 forfeit; $2000 added, of whioh $400 to second and $200 to third. Added The winner to be sold at auction. Those entered to be sold for $3000 to carry"weight for age. Allowances: l lb. for each $200 to $2000; then 1 lb. for each $100 to $500. Winners of a race of the value of $900 or of two races other than selling purses after the closing of this stakes not to be entered for less than $1200. Starters to be named, with selling price, through the entry box the day preceding the race at the usual time of closing and those so named will be liable for starting fee. To be run Saturday, December 12, 1903. Seven Furlongs three or four more high-class roadsters and gentlemen's driving horses. Johny Ries four year old and Bert Logan three year old paced a mile together the other day in 2:19 and a quarter in 0:31}. Dr. Boucher is training a very fast three year old pacer by Hector 2:25, dam by Kilarney, owned by Eugene Lindley of Dixon, Cal. This colt stepped a half a few days ago in 1:06. Lecco 2:09} is being jogged on the road to buggy every day. He is without a doubt the handsomest trotting stallion in California, and one of the best bred ones in America. His half sister Authoress got a record this year of 2:09}, making his dam a double producer of 2:10 trotters. In the lot of Rey Direct colts that George Davis sold to Henry Sanders are a number of extra fine lookers and Mr. Sanders will without a doubt find some among them that will prove very fast and worth more than the entire bunch cost him. Barney Simpson has just taken up a three year old gelding sired by Don Derby 2:04}, dam by Guide 2:16}. This colt is a Btout, substantial looking fellow, and while he has been driven but a few times, takes to the pace like a duck to water. He may be the one Barney has been looking for. Fred Chadbourne has a promising three year old trotter by L. W. Russell, dam by Lone Pine 2:18, that is quite a trotter for the amount of training he has had. His owner told Fred the other day that if he would drive him a quarter in 35 seconds he would give him a split second stop watch. He did the trick and got the watch. Ben Chaboya has a new addition to his stable in the black stallion Guy McKinney by McKinney 2:11}, dam by Guy Wilkes 2:15}, next dam by Onward 2:25}, next dam by Mambrino Patchen. This is a magnifi- cently bred horse and if he is as good as his breeding indicates ought to make a great trotter and sire. Harness Racing at Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Race Meeting opened last Satur- day with a big attendance, the local dailies estimat- ing the crowd at 7000. While it cannot be considered a harness meeting, as there are five or more running races each day and never more than one and some- times no harness race on the program, still the events for trotters and pacers have furnished good contests and proved quite interesting. The harness race is called first, and the syndicate book does not lay odds against the contestants. On the opening day the Hotel Stakes, $500 for trotters of the 2:30 class, was the event for harness horses, and gave George T. Beckers an opportunity of winning three straight heats and first money with his good four year old Zombowyette by Zombro, dam Silver Bells by Silver Bow. It will be remembered that Zombowyette won third money in the Occident and second money in the Stanford stakes last year at the State Fair. In the Hotel Stakes last Saturday Lady Madison was the favorite, but was distanced in the first heat and Zom- bowyette won the race very handily. On Monday the harness event was declared off as it failed to fill to the satisfaction of the management which desires every harness event to be a contest if possible. On Tuesday there was a $500 purse for pacers of the 2:25 class to open the program. There were six starters in this event, Walter Maben's horse Ira by Iris being the favorite on account of the extreme speed he had "shown at Sacramento where he won a heat in 2:10}. The wi6e ones were not good guessers however, as the Nutwood Wilkes three year old Tidal Wave won the face rather easily. He took the first heat in 2:15 flat, but was third in the second which went to Ira in 2:14. The judges called driver Mosher to the stand and gave him a little talk about the punishment that would certainly follow a ridein third place when a little effort would place him in front, and he went out and took the next two heats. On Wednesday, Bix horBes started in the 2:20 trot for a purse of $1000. W. W. Mendenhall's mare Rosie Woodburn by Easter Wilkes took the race in straight heats, the fastest being the second in 2:174. Sutter the stallion by Noonday was second, and Lady Zom- bro, a filly in P. W. Hodges' string took third money. The result of the harness events up to and includ- ing Wednesday's races are as follows: Saturday, Oct. 10— Trotting, Hotel Stakes, $500, 2:30 class. Zombowyette, b m, by Zombro (Beckers) 1 1 1 Babe (Phillips) 2 2a Mamie Elizabeth (MabeD) 3 3 3 Fortune, Lady Gipsy and Lady Madison also started. Time— 2:22>4, 2:23, 2:23. Tuesday, Oct. 13— Pacing, 2:25 class, purse $500. Tidal Wave, ch c, by Nutwood Wilkes (Mosher) 13 11 Ira, b g, by Iris (Maben) 2 1 - .a High Ball, Victor Platte, Wood B. and Otto Z. also starred Time— 2:15^4, 3:14, 2:15, 2:18H. Wednesday, Oot 14— Trotting, 2:20 class, purse $1000. Rosie Woodburn, b m, by Easter Wilkes (McDonald) I 1 l Sutter, b s. by Noonday (Donnelly) 3 2 3 Lady Zombro, b m, by Zombro (Hodges) 2 6 5- Zomboyette, Jupiter B. and Babe also started. Time— 2:18, 2:1?^, 2:19)4. A Good Trotter in Humboldt. "Best Blister I Ever Saw." Adocsti, Mich., Sept. 3, 1902. The Lawrence-Williams Co., Cleveland. O. I bought a bottle of your Gombault's Caustic Balsam. It ia the best blister I ever saw. W. J. PARSONS. The October 2d issue of the Standard, printed at Eureka, Humboldt county, California, contained the following: "Dr. John J. Gaynor's green buggy horse Morosco in a work-out at South Park yesterday trotted his second heat in 2:18 and the third in 2:17}, and still had several seconds 'up his sleeve.' This horse, if entered, evidently had the free-for-all at his mercy for both heats yesterday were not only taster than the fastest heat in the free-for-all, but they were the two fastest consecutive heats ever moved by a Wayland W. on South Park track. The track yesterday was several seconds 6lower than on free-for-allday and is generally recognized as five seconds slow in the best of condition. Morosco finished the last } of his last mile at a two minute gait. " Morosco, the horse referred to above is a raogy brown horse, a live trotter, and with machine-like, frictionless gait. He wears no boots and touches no- where. HiB gait is so smooth and easy that onlookers usually aBk when seeing him work, "How fast would that horse move were they to ask him to try?" Horsemen who have been on the coast circuit for years pronounce him one of the best gaited and most promising trotters they have seen for sometime. He is by Wayland W. out of Lady Moor by Grand Moor, It is said there has never been a Wayland W., not excepting the old horBe himself, that ever was able to turn the South Park, Eureka, track better than 2:18}. The track ia so slow and heavy that it takes a big strong horBe to make fast time over it. Jack W. turned it in 2:15}, which was three secondslower than his record made elsewhere. Morosco will be sent to a trainer in the spring, and that he will be in the 2:10 list before the end of next year is considered pretty certain. Strike!— if they don't give you Jackson'B Napa Soda when you ask for it. 3 ©he gvee&ev cmb gtpaxtstncm [October 17, lMl Notes and News. Lou Dillon 2:01| to wagon. The fastest Russian Orloff trotting record is 2:14}. Monte Carlo 2:07}, winner of the fastest six heats ever trotted. Directum has five new ones in the list this year and all have records below 2:15. According to an Eastern exchange Major Delmar was gelded because of his bad temper. What has become of the Memphis shoe? IbH wait- ing until it gets back home to break a record? There is an average of- over twenty entries to the races on the program of the Memphis meeting. Chehalis 2:04} is being raced in the free for all classes on the half mile tracks of New England. T. C. Cabney of Eureka will remove his string of horses, eight in number, to Pleasanton next month. Ben W.alkerstood fifth on the list of winning drivers on the Grand Circuit this year, with $19,875 to his credit. Kinney Lou 2:07} has won but two races on the Grand Circuit this year, but he has over $10,000 to his credit. Before being shipped to Lexington, Ky., Lou Dillon 2:00, was stepped a half in 0:58} and the laBt quarter in 28} seconds. The two minute record will be beaten at Memphis next week if the weather and Lou Dillon are both in proper condition. The fastest mile trotted in a race this year was the 2:06} made by Fereno in her race at Cincinnati. Fereno's granaam is the dam of McKinney 2:11}. James Golden, who drove the five year old gelding Rowellan by Adbell, out of Rowenaby Azmoor a mile in 2:09} this season, thinks he can drive him a mile in 2:07 or better. A rubber tired, turn under canopy top surrey In fine order is for sale cheap. Also a doctor's pneu- matic tire top buggy. Apply to the Kenney Bicycle Company at 531 Valencia street. Robizola was just outside the money in the 2:13 trot at Lexington on Friday last. Five heats were trotted and were elose to the same notch, the fastest 2:10} and the slowest 2:11}. Norrie won the race. W. B. McDonald, owner and driver of Gray Gem was taken from his sulky at Lexington last Monday and Scott Hudson substituted. Gray Gem then won the race and McDonald was suspended for a year. Alone 2.09} by Nearest 2:22, paced a quarter in 27 4-5 records at San Jose last Saturday, last eighth in 13 seconds. She was hitched to a light road wagon, and had do pace maker or wind shield. She is a flyer. Trilby Direct 2:08} and, Diablito 2:08J were sent East by Mr. Juan Gallegos of Mission San Jose who bred them. They were green pacers when they started, but have two races each to their credit and have won a total of $7,475. Lou Dillon worked a last half in 58} seconds, with the last quarter in 28} seconds at Cleveland before she was shipped to Lexington. She will beat two minutes belore the season is ended if she has ordinary luck and finds weather and tracks favorable. Entrance to the Pacific Breeders Futurity Stake No. 4 has been fixed at $2, a reduction of SI from the entrance fee to former stakes. Don't miss this oppor- tunity. The stake closes November 2d and is for the produce of mares bred this year. Jim Thompson got fourth money with the Strath- way gelding, John Caldwell, at Lexington last Fri- day. "Jeems" took considerable satisfaction out of the fact that he beat Ed Geers in the race, the latter being fifth in the summary with Tonga. There were twelve starters in the race. It is reported that Millard Sanders has engaged ten stalls at Pleasanton and will be back about the first of December. There is much speculation as to whether he will bring Lou Dillon back with him to winter her in California. It is hoped that he will. Although the Register and Year Book say nothing regarding the breeding of Major Delmar's third dam, it is stated upon good authority that she was by Prophet, Jr., a horse of Black Hawk breeding, and that his fourth dam was by Vermont Hambletonian. The National Trotting Association is distributing half-tone engravings of Fred Wilton 2:09}. This is the horse that has been on a ringing tour throughout the East under the name6 of Ormus, Finley'Ross, Frank Derby, Rock Wilkes, Brooklyn Boy, Noah R , and Elzaged. The Directs are doing well this season. Among then is Almaden 2:22}, the fastest two year old trotting colt; Daphne Direct 2:15, the fastest three jefijt old pacing filly; King Direct 2:09}. the fastest fo> r year old pacing colt; and Trilby Direct 2:08}, the ff. ..teat new pacing mare. An Eastern man who has every chance to know says that the reason the European market is not so good for trotters as formerly is not so much due to the high prices or the general quality of the goods, but to the number of gold bricks which have been sent across the water as the real article. If Lou Dillon 2:00 and Major Delmar 2:00 meet in the contest for the Memphis cup next week, California money will be on the little chestnut mare. There are some enthusiastic admirers of the daughter of Sidney Dillon who think that she can choke the Major with a fifty-foot rope in a dash at any distance from a quarter of a mile up. Kinney Lou 2:07}, by McKinney, with $10,250 to his credit is the leading money winning trotter from Cali- fornia this year, and Judge Green 2:10} by Directum stands second with $6,550 won. The leading money winning pacer from this State is Trilby Direct 2:08} by Direct that won S3.675, and Diablito 2:08* by Diablo is second with $3,675. The sale of horses at Fred H. Chase & Co.'s sales- yard, last Monday evening, was very successful. The thirty-five horses" consigned by R. H. Nason of Dixon brought an average of $175 per head. They were nearly all draft horses weighing from 1400 to 1700 pounds, although four or five trotting bred horses were among them. The latter brought from $150 to S230. Mr. James Butler will sell about forty of the East- view Farm horses, the get of Direct 2:05J and Directum Kelly 2:08}, at the Old Glory sale, at Madison Square Garden, in November. The consignment will consist of yearlings two year olds and three year olds, by the above sires, while a number of record horEes that made successful campaigns during the season will also be offered, Charles Hewitt, general manager of the American Park at Pacific Beach, near San Diego, known in the past as the Pacific Beach racetrack, has gone to Ken- tucky for the purpose of securing another carload of blooded horsesforthe breeding and training quarters. Men are at work makiDg improvements at the track and grounds. A shipment of blooded Kentucky horses is expected next week. Your mare bred this year should be named in the Pacific Breeders Futurity Stake No. 4, for which S6000 -is guaranteed by the Pacific Coast Horse Breeders Association. It only costs $2 to name the mare and she need not be registered or standard. If you have bred her to a horse wi h the idea of getting a foal that will pace or trot, put her in the stake. It will pay if you want to sell the foal, and it will pay big if the foal is fast enough to win any portion of the stake. The stake closes November 2d. Remember the date. The idea prevails with many horse owners who are new to the business that the entry of mares in trotting and pacing futurity stakes will not be received unless the mares are registered. This is an error. No regis- tration is required The mare must be identified, that is all. In all trottiDg and pacing futurities there are many mares and foals entered that are not and cannot be registered and big stakes are often won by unregistered colts. Owners of unregistered mares need not hesitate to enter them in stakes, as the entries will be received if other conditions are com- plied with. The free for all trot which came off at Los ADgeles Thursday of this week was won by Iloilo, the good looking gelding sired by W. E. Meek's stallion Wel- come 2:10J. Iloilo was sold a few weeks ago to parties who placed him in Al McDonald's charge. In the race in question McDonald entered and drove Forre6t W. and Hughes was up behind Iloilo. Forrest W. won the first heat. A protest was then made that McDonald owned Iloilo and that the horse was not being driven to win. The judges of the Los Angeles meeting are men who will not allow any violation of the rules if they can help it, and put up Walter Maben to drive Iloilo. The Welcome gelding won the npxt three heats handily in faster time than he had been beaten the first heat. The dispatches do not state whether any fines were imposed. Robert Smyth, father of Robert A. Smyth sportiDg editor of the "Call, died in this city last Saturday after an illness, extending over several days. The deceased was 80 years of age, and has been connected with the firm of Haggin & Tevis for twenty years. He was a noted horseman, and had full charge of the horse department of the Haggin ranch in Kern county. Deceased leaves a wife, son and daughter. Secretary Murray Howe, of the Memphis Trotting Association, has declared that he will not allow any wind shield to be used in any record breaking attempts against "Father Time, "as he thinks that records made in that manner are on a par with the records made on the kite shaped tracks. When Major Delmar and Lou Dillon go against the watch they will have to make their trials in the customary way. There is a good young trotter up at Santa Rosa that is for sale. Mart Rollins is working him at the track there for Dr. Clark, who owns Robizola. He is a four year old and a good Bquare trotter that has already shown a mile handily in 2:25. He iB by Lin- wood Wilkes out of a registered mare by Silas Skinner 2:17. This is good blood and the gelding shows it. This is an excellent opportunity to get a very promising horse for a low figure. A regular meeting of the Board of Review will he held at the Murray Hill Hotel, New York, at 11 o'clock a. m., on Tuesday, December 1st, 1903, in accordance with the By-Laws. The President author- izes the announcement, according to precedent, that either an adjourned or a special meeting of the Board will be held in New York, N. Y., in the early spring of 1904, to accommodate those whose convenience or necessities will be served thereby. All communica- tions intended for the consideration of the Board at the December meeting must be forwarded to the Secretary not later than Nov. 16, and all parties who desire that their cases should be acted on at the spring meeting should immediately notify the Secre- tary to that effect. The Board of Review is em- powered to act Id place of the full Board with the same authority and jurisdiction, and at the above meeting will eonsidei business arising in each and all of the districts. Added money in large amounts makes the list of stakes offered for the winter meetiEg of the New California Jockey Club -the most attractive ever ad- vertised on this Coast. The meeting will open Novem- ber 14th and the list of sixteen stakes will be found on the opposite page. It is headed by the Burns Handicap which iB guaranteed to be worth $10,000 and is the greatest race each year on the Pacific Coast. In all other stakes the added money is from $2000 to $3000, and the total amount of stake money is $43,000. There will be no purse of less than $400 at this great meetiDg and overnight handicaps and special races will have from $500 to $1000 added to the entrance money. Racing will be over the club's splendidly appointed tracks at Ingleside, Tanforan and Oakland. From reports received by Secretary Treat there will be more Eastern stables than ever at this meeting, and more bookmakers have signified their intention of cutting in than have been on the block heretofore in California. Entries to the stakes advertised will elose Monday, October 26th. Rush & Halle, proprietors of the Suisun Stock Farm, have engaged the services of Mannie Reams, and will have all the colts and young horses on the farm developed. Heretofore the horses raised on this farm have been sold without being developed for speed, but the proprietors have concluded it will pay to have them handled by an experienced man and Mr. Reams is a very competent and successful trainer. Messrs. Rush &: Haile own a number of high class mates, tome of which they purchased at the closing out sale of the Corbitt farm at San Mateo. They own the Btallion Demonio 2:11}, own brother to Diablo 2:09}, also several young stallions of royal breeding. Edward F. Parker passed away at his home in Stockton, Cal., last Sunday morning, aged 56 years. For years he had been a sufferer with pulmonary troubles, and for some time had only just existed, his health being very poor. He had been connected with the grocery firm of Hedges & Buck for years. A mother, Mrs. M. D. Parker and a brother, W. H. Parker, are left to mourn his loss. The deceased left quite an estate it is understood. He was a quiet, un- assuming man, and had many friends. The deceased was a Mason and his remains were shipped to Maine for interment, after funeral services held in Stockton last Tuesday Mr. Parker was a great admirer of the trotting horse and though not openly identified in the owner- ship of many, his money paid for many stallions and brood mares that were taken to San Joaquin county years ago, and his enterprise added much to the values of the horses bred there in recent years, Mr. Parker was a true friend and one whose word was as good 38 gold. EFFECTUAL The most effectual remedy in use for the cure of ailments of horses and cattle is GOMBAULT'S CAUSTIC BALSAM Used as a Blister or Lotion. This preferred remedy is prepared ex- clusively by J. E. Gombanlt, ei-Veterinary Surgeon to the French Government Stud. As a HIMAX EElkTEDT for Rhea- matUm, Sprains, Sore Throat, etc, it is invaluable. Every bottle of Caustic Balsam solqis "Warranted to give satisfaction- Price SloO per bottle. Sold bv dmpsists, or sent by ei- press. charges paid. "with fall directions for its use- Send for descr±ative circulars, testimo- nials, etc Address EE LiVBBiCE-WILLIAXS M¥?iST, Cleveland, OMo. October 17, 1903] ®ke gveebev anb &pQvt&man LEXINGTON'S BIG MEETING. Lou Dillon Reduces the World's Wagon Record to 2:01 3 4 on Saturday. There ha9 been great racing at the track of the Kentucky Trotting Horse Breeders Association dur- ing the annual meeting which opened on Wednesday last although a heavy rainfall prevented the program of the opening day being completed, and the track was slow during the first few days. California horses have been fewer in number at Lexington this year than for several seasons past, but what the; have lacked in quantity they have fully made up in Quality, and one of them the incomparable Lou Dillon has broken all previous wagon records by trotting a mile pulling four wheels in 2:01}, something that was considered a few years ago to be beyond the power of any horse that either trotted or paced. The first notable event of the meeting was the winning of the Kentucky Futurity on Thursday of last week by Sadie Mac, daughter of Peter the Great. She took this great annual event in three straight heats and won handily in 2:15, 2:15J and 2:12}. On the same day the two year old division of the same stake went to another filly, Grace Bond by The Bondsman. Her time was 2:17J and 2:19 and the filly Alta Axworthy that beat Grace Bond in the Horse Review Futurity in 2:15J after the latter had won the first heat in 2:14}, had to be content with third money, Jessie Benyon getting second prize. On Friday the Transylvania was trotted. There were seven starters lor the 36000 classic. The winner and Bert Webster landed Dolly Dillon third the first heat which was in 2:06}. Th« fastest six heats ever trotted occurred in the McDowell stake 0 ' S5000 for 2:10 trotters, on Wednes- day, and then darkness compelled a postponement until Thursday. The race was finally won by Monte Carlo and his three heats were all in 2:07}. Monte Carlo finished in front in the fourth htat, but on complaint of Scott Hudson, driver of Hawthorne, was set back to fourth position in that heat. Hud- son claimed that Ben Walker struck Hawthorne on the nose with his whip, causing her to break. The heat would have given the race to Monte Carl} then, had he not been set back, and there was considerable feeling manifested by the crowd in favoi of Walker. The summary of the race shows that it was hotly contested from start to finish. Monte Carlo was the contending horse in every heat and outgamed them all. The time of the six heats on the first day aver- aged 2:08 7-12, and the average for the race 2:081. This race stamps Monte Carlo as the best horse 0/ his class on th« Grand Circuit, with the possible excep- tion of Billy Buck. The racing has been high-class every day thus far. The results up to and including the races of Thursday of this week are as follows: THURSDAY, OCT. 8. The Tennessee, 2:08 pace, purse 83000 (one heat paced Wednesday) — Nervolo won first, second and fourth heats in 2:07}, 2:09, 2:09}. Major C. won third heat in 2:10. King Direct, Tom Keene, Sufreet, Miss Willamont, Dick Wilson and Dora Papha also started. 2:07 class, trotting, purse 81500 ^one heat trotted MONTE CARLO 3:07 1-4, "Winner of the Fastest Seven-Heat Race Ever Trotted turned up in Cassian a son of Patron, who won in straight heats. Scott Hudson's mare Hawthorne that had been tipped to win, was fom-th, and Budd Doble'B horse Kinney Lou, after finishing fifth twice, was withdrawn. The same day Mr. H. K. Devereux of Cleveland, drove the chestnut gelding Dan R. in the free for all pace to wagon and made the second heat in 2:01}. Saturday last wa9 a great day at Lexington as the wagon record was smashed twice during the after- noon. Mr. E. E. Smathers took the first fall out of it with Major Delmar 2:00. He started to beat Lou Dillon's record of 2:04} and in spite oi the fact that a strong wind prevailed completed the mile in 2:03}, knocking a half lecond from the record of the dainty California mare. She was not to be denied the championship, however, and five minutes later was brought on the track driven by her owner, Mr. C. K. G. Billings. She reached the half when given the word in 1:01. exactly the time required by the Major in his effort, but showed her superior gameness by coming the last half in sixty seconds and three quarters, a quarter of a second less time than she took for the first half. The crowd went wild when the figures were displayed. On the same day Prince Alert tried to lower the record of Dan Patch, but 1:59$ was the best he could do. All these trials were without the wind shield. On Monday Billy Buck and Caspian fought it out in the Walnut Hall cup race, and after Caspian had nosed Billy out the first heat, Geers went to the front in the next three. In the 2:06 trot Fereno trotted a great race and won in very fast time. Prince of Orange won & heat and was second in the others in this race, Wednesday) — Fereno won two straight heats in 2:11} 2:13}. Rhythmic, Prince of Orange, Dolly Dillon and Susie J. also started. 2:11 class, pacing, purse $1000 (one heat paced Wednesday) — John M. won two straight heatsin 2:11, 2:11}. Cascade, Lizzie H., Mary Anna, Jessie S. and Bald Hornet also started. Kentucky Futurity, three year olds, purse 814,000— Sadie Mac won three straight heats in 2:15, 2:15}, 2:12}. Baron Gale, Katherine A., Lizzie A., Mary Gage, Emily Letcher, Delight, Ethel's Pride, Diadem and Sporty also started. 2:11 class, trotting, 81000 — Bessie Brown won three straight heats in 2:17, 2:15}, 2:13}. Baron Wedge- wood, Bessie Birchwood, Lucky Jim, Claymont, Ete Delight, Ellen W. Redwood, Fine Edge, Alexander Campbell and Regal Baron also started. The Futurity, for two year olds, $5000— Grace Bond won two straight heats in 2:17}, 2:19. Jessie Benyon, Alta Axworthy, Bequeath, The Hermit, California Cresceus and Alice Edgar also started. FRIDAY, OCT. 9. 2:13 trotting, purse 81000— Norrie won the first, third and fourth heats in 2:11}, 2:10}, 2:10*. Gray Gem won the second heat in 2:10}. Marion Wilkes, Topsy, Robizola, The Questor, Walter Smith, Pug, Guy Fortune, Tonse and Porto Rico also started. 2:25 trotting, purse 81000 — Great Spirit won three straight heats in 2:14, 2:14}, 2:14}. Laundry Boy, Bermuda Maid, John Caldwell, Tonga, Grocery Maid, Kirkwood Jr., The Crescent, Bessie Kennev, Miss Primity, Eunice G. and George H. also started. The Transylvania, 2:12 trotting, purse $8000— Caspian won three straight 1 eats in 2:11, 2:09}, 2:10}. Kent, Dillon Boy, Hawthorne, John Mc, George Muscovite and Kinney Lou also started. 2:19 pace, purse 81000 — Directum Miller won two won two straight heatsin 2:10, 2:08}.. Fantine, C. O. D., Reaper, Dutch Mowry, Ethel Mac, Gaiety, Red Bird, Mary Gordon, Go" Direct, Stine, Charley C, Cotillon and Money Musk also started. Free for all pacing to wagon— Dan R. defeated Greenline in two straight heats. Time, 2:15}, 2:04}. SATURDAY, OCT. 10. 2:06 pace, purse 81500— Terrace Queen won the second, third and fourth heats in 2:08}. 2:10, 2:09}. Cubanola won the first heat in 2:08. Trilby Direct, Riley B, Sphinx S, Clipper and Allerton also started. 2:24 trot, purse $2000— Jay McGregor defeated Patchen Maid in three straight heats. Time, 2:11}, 2:1]}, 2:11. 2:15 pace, purse 81000— John M. won two straight heats in 2:10, 2:11. Dr. Marvin, Ravenna Wilkes, Conroy, Daphne Direct, Credette, Vyzole and Go Direct also started. 2:21 trot, purse $1500— McKinley won two straight heats in 2:09}, 2:08}. Dr. Strong, Belle Kuser, Mary D, Dorothy Redmond, Jim Underwood, Dodie K. Palm Leaf and Fanfaron also started. 2:10 trot, amateur, wagon race — Queen Wilkes won two straight heats in 2:15. Wauban and Louise Jefferson also started. ■ Exhibition miles to wagon, trotting — Major Delmar, b g (E. E. Smathers). Quarter, :31; half, 1:01; three-quarters, 1:31; mile, 2:03}. Lou Dillon, ch m (C. K. G. Billings). Quarter :31 half, 1:01; three-quarters, 1:30}; mile, 2:01}. Pacing— Prince Alert, b g (Demarest). Quarter, :30}; half, 1:00: three-quarters, 1:29}, mile, 1:59}. MONDAY, OCT 12. Trotting, 2:14 class, purse $1000 — Marion WilkeB won the first, second and fifth heats in 2:09}, 2:10, 2:10. Norrie won the third and fourth heats in 2;10, 2:10. Direct View, Millard Sanders, Austin Boy, Walter Smith, Porto Rico and Oneonta also started. Trotting, 2:18 class, purse 81000 — Gray Gem won the first, second and fifth heats in 2:10}, 2:12}, 2.12}. Gracie Kellar won the third and fourth heats in 2:10J, 2:11}. Margaret Bathgate, O. I., The Parson, Clay- mont, Ballast Victor Jr., Bonner and Coronadon also started. Trofting, three year olds, purse 81500 — Diadem won the second and third heats in 2:13}, 2:18}. Circus Girl won the first heat in 2:14} and was distanced in the second. Nanie Holland and Hilgar al90 started. Trotting, 2:15 class, Walnut Hall Farm Cup, purse 33000 — Billy Buck won the second, third and fourth heats in 2:07}, 2:09, 2:1]}. Caspian won the firBt heat in 2:09}. Tonso, Dillon Boy, Lady Patchen, Mazetto, George Muscovite, John Mc and Guy Fortune also started. Trotting, 2:06 class, purse 81500 — Fereno won the first and third heats in 2:06}, 2:07}. Prince of Orange won the second heat in 2:06}. Rhythmic, Dolly Dillon and Charlie Herr also started. TUESDAY, OCT. 13. 2:25 pace,- purse 31000 — Directum Miller won the first, third and fourth heats in 2:10, 2:09, 2:11. Line o' Gold won the second heat in 2:07}. Mary Gordon, Angus Pointer, Stein, Ethel Mc, Ben Jay, Ralph and Nathalie Brown also started. 2:29 trotting, purse 32000 — Patchen Maid won the third, fourth and fifth heats in 2:11}, 2:12}, 2:13}. Judge Green won the first and second heats in 2:10}, 2:10}. Bessie Brown, Prince Caton, Texas and Al- berto also started. 2:08 pace, purse $1500 — Majorie won two straight heats in 2:05}, 2:06. Cascade, Foxie Curd, Jong Direct, Mustard, Milton S, Council Chimes, Jessie S, Cambria Mail, Miss Millamont, Pinchem Wilkes and Cubanola also started. 2:17 pace, purse S1000 — Cotillion won the second, fifth and sixth heats in 2:10}, 2:14}, 2:14. Dutch Mowry won the first heat in 2:10}. Irish Jack won the third heat in 2:11}. Reaver won the fourth heat in 2:14} Money Musk, C. O. D., Charley C, Direct L and Alley H also started. 2:13 trotting, purse 31000 — Kirkwood Jr. won two straight heats in 2:13}, 2:11}. Axdelight, Great Spirit, Bessie Birchwood, Bermuda Maid, Laundry Boy, Sidnut, Tonga, Grocery Maid, John Caldwell, Belle Rose and Bessie Kenney also started. 2:20 trot to wagon (amateur drivers) — Dr. Time won two straight heats in 2:16}, 2:19}. Briggs, Pa- elario and Galen also started. WEDNESDAY, OCT. 14. 2:13 class, pacing, purse $1000 — Bald Hornet won three straight heats in 2:10, 2:07}, 2:07}. Dr. Marvin, Doctor H., Stipulator, Midway, Westre, Vyzole and Credette also started. The Lexington two year old trotting, purse $2000 — Grace Bond won two straight heats in 2:17}, 2:14}. Jessie Benyon, California Cresceus, Alice Edgar, Fatty Felix, Totara and Bequeath also started. About 2:25, trotting, to wagon, amateur drivers — Eulalia K. won the second and third heats in 2:25, 2:25}. Diana S. won the first heat in 2:28}. Red Leaf, Watson and Pence also started. THURSDAY, OCT. 15. McDowell stakes for 2:10 trotters, purse 35000 (six heats Wednesday) — Monte Carlo won the first, sec- ond and seventh heats each in 2:07}. Dr. Strong won the fifth and sixth heats in 2:09}, 2:13}. Hawthorne won the third and fourth heats in 2:06}, 2:08}. The Roman, Walnut Hall and Dan T. also started. Pacing, 2:20 class, Wilson Stakes, purse $2000— Hal Chaffln won the first, second and fourth heats In 2:07, 2:06}, 2:09}. Foxie Curd won the third heat in 2:10. Pan Michael, Mary Anna, Fantine and Mush also started* Trotting, 2:16 class, purse $1000— Gracie Keller won three straight heats in 2:12}, 2:12}, 2:11. Direct View, Millard Sanders, Bonner, Austin Boy, Margaret Bathgate, Coronation and Victor Jr. also started- Pacing, 2:02 class, pnrse $2000— Harold H. won two straight heats in 2:05}, 2:04}. Nervolo, Dan R. and Shadow Chimes also started. ®tw $v&zifsv anif Qparttiman [October 17, 1S03 * ROD, GUN AND KENNEL. Conducted by J. X. De WITT. tmmmmmm^m^m^i^M^M Magnitude of the Fur Trade. The United States leads the world as a producer of furs. Last year nearly one-half of the entire out- put of marketable peltiies was furnished by this country, and three-fourths of our enormous production was derived from animals that live in the water. These figures are reliable, beiDg supplied by the United States Pish Commission, which is on the point of publishing a special bulletin on the subject, from the pen of Charges H. Stevenson. It will be news to most people that so large a pro- portion of our furs is obtained from aquatic animals, but formerly it was much greater, the diminished numbers of beaver, fur seal and otter having greatly reduced the relative supply of marine and fresh water pelts. Today the rnoBt important fur-bearing creature seems to be ths musk-rat, which contributes over 5,000,000 of its skins annually. Muskrat pelts cost only 10 to 20 cents apiece, but they are utilized on a great scale in the imitation of more valuable furs. From the Middle Ages up to 1600 Russia was the great source of furs for the world, but the discovery of the resources of North America changed the current of the trade, and this continent soon became the important fur territory. Much of the prominence in this regard formerly possessed by the Czar's dominions was lost by the sale of Alaska to" the United States. For the production of aquatic furs this country is especially notable, and in 1902 it yielded SO per cent of the muskrat, 70 per cent of the mink, 35 per cent of the otter, 30 per cent of the fur seal, and 12 per cent of the beaver marketed. Canada comes next after us, but with less than half the output. Mr. Stevenson says that, if all of the muskrat skins taken last year were sewn together so as to make one piece, the latter would equal in area all other kinds of furs put together. Another very important fur- beariDg animal is the nutria, or "coypu" — a small beaver like creature found in large numbers in South America, where about 2,000,000 are killed annually. The most valuable aquatic fur is that of the sea otter, which sells as hign as $1200 a skin, but the spe- cies has been so far reduced in numbers that not more than 600 are captured in a twelve- month. As regards the total value of the product, the beaver was for- merly by far the most important contributor to the trade. Later, and up to 1890, the fur seal outranked all others; but today the mink is ahead. New York City is the great fur centre of this coun- t-y, not only for the accumulation of raw goods but for dressing, dyeing and manufacturing. Indeed, thit metropolis leads the world as a consumer of furs, more money being spent on them than in any other c.ty on the globe. The supply comes almost entirely from hunters and trappers, and the skins ilin the rough" are far from attractive in appearance. They are greasy and dirty, and the first thing required in their manipulation is a thorough cleaning. Then the skin must be made soft and pliable, and in the case of some kinds of pelts, such as the fur seal, the over hair has to be plucked out or otherwise removed, so as to reveal the beauti- ful under coat. The pelts are soaked in salt water to soften them, and then are scraped with a dull knife on a piece of hard wood, to break up the texture of the skin and make it pliable. Then, if the skin is very thick it is shaved to thinness, and the under side is rubbed with fat to soften it further. Next comes the process of "tubbing." The skins, with some sawdust, are pat into half- hogsheads, in which they are trodden by workmen for a long time with their bare feet, to render them still more pliable. A machine is sometimes used for doing this part of the wo-k, but with less satisfactory results. Finally, the pelts are put into a revolving drum, with sawdust, to remove the grease from them, and after they have been beaten out to get rid of the sawdust, the fur is combed with a steel comb, which completes the pro- cess. A very important part of the business of preparing furs for market consists in dyeing. Fashion demands certain shades — 3uch, for example, as a lustrous blackish brown for sealskin, which is a color un- known in nature. Beaver and otter are "silvered" by passing lightly over them a solution of sulphuric acid. A golden yellow tint is produced by the use of peroxide of hydrogen. Dyed furs, as a rule, are of inferior durability, and soon fade, but expert chemists are doing their best to improve the processes. There are only a few successful fur dyers in the world, and the recipes for the dyes they use are kept secret. Last year this country produced 5,000,000 muskrat skins. The fur of this little animal is dense and soft, somewhat like that of a beaver, but shorter and less fine. It is concealed by long brown overhair on the back and sides, and is generally drab blue; but in Alaska there is a kind of muskrat with fur of a light silver color, and in the Chesapeake and Delaware regions are found so-called "black muskrats, " the pelts of which are highly valued. Under the skill of the fur dresser and dyer muskrat pelts are made to imitate with wonderful accuracy beaver, otter and fur seal, according to treatment. Black muskrat skins go mostly to Russia, where they are used for coat linings. Mr. Stevenson says that the muskrat pelts produced by the United States and Canada during the 19th century numbered about 250,000,000— enough to make a blanket covering nearly 4000 acres. Thirty years ago mink fur was very fashionable and correspondingly high in price. Attempts were made to rear the animals in confinement, but they re- sulted in failure, owing chiefly to the fact that the females fought each other and frequently killed their young. Few furs surpass that of the mink in richness of coloring, quality and durability; yet, owing to the capricionsness of fashion, the pelt of the mink sells to-day at one-sixth of the price it brought in 1860. During the 17th and 18th centuries the principal use of aquatic furs in Europe was in the making of the fashionable "beaver" hats — so called because beaver fur was the chief material employed. Some beaver fur is still utilized by hat-makers in the manu- facture of very light soft hats, which sell at whole sale for $80 to $90 a dozen. There is still a small de- mand for the old-style beaver-napped hats, shaped like the silk hat, as headgear for guards on drags and coaches. The muskrat and nutria are largely used for high-grade hats. Fish leathers are now being largely manufactured. TheskinB of some sharks are studded with horny protuberances which are so hard as to take a polish like stone. They are waterproof, and are used for covering jewel boxes and card cases, as well as for a great variety of ornamental articles. The hide of the "diamond shark" is employed for covering the sword grips of German officers. X Paris manufacturer has made a reputation by tanning the skin of a species of Malabar shark into morocco, and the green leather called "shagreen," made from the skin of the angel shark of the Mediterranean, has long been a familiar article of commerce. Good leathers can be made from the skins of cod and salmon, and the hide of the wolf fish is being largely used for cardcases and shopping bags. In Egypt fish skins from the Red sea are utilized for shoe soles, and eel skins are extensively employed in Europe for binding books, while in Tartary dried and oiled fish skins serve as a substitute for glass in win- dows. Sturgeon skin affords a handsome ornamenntal leather, and the hide of the armored gar fish is much valued, being covered with horny plates which may be polished to an ivorylike finish. Along the Yukon river in Alaska the skins of the salmon and cod are utilized as clothing, the mateiial resempling kid in appearance and softneBS, while almost as tough as parchment. Even the skins of frogs and toad 6 are being employed to some extent, two or three factories in France paying much attention to tanning them for cardcases and other fancy articles. Blue Rock Tournament at Marysville. 1 he Marysville Gun Club held its first blue rock tournament Sunday and it was a success in every par- ticular. There were a large number of shooters pres- ent, Sacramento. Red Bluff. Davisville. Chico. San Francisco, Wheatland, Oroville, Gridlej, Yuba City, and a number from the country precints being repre- sented, says the Daily Democrat. While the day was not as perfect as could be de- sired, a swift north wind prevailing, many excellent scores were made, and the event will be remembered as one of the most successful meets ever held in this city. The visitors were pleased by the manner in which everything was handled by the Marysville boys, and were loud in their praises of the hospitality extended and splendid way that entertainment was famished. It is estimated that more than one hundred shooters faced the traps during the day in the different events, and the attendance of spectators was large. All in all the tournament was successfully handled and was a credit to the club. The following events were shot and the winners in each race were; Fir6t event — 15 blue rocks; entrance, $1.50; firBt money, $15; second money, $10; third money, $5. J. E. Haugh, H. Hazelbush and J. W. Giblin each broke 14; F. P. Smith, D. Grieve, A. Johnson and J. W. Godfrey scored 13, and F. Newbert, G. A. John- son, G. W. Gibson and T. S. Boalt 12. Second event — 20 blue rocks; entrance, $2; first money, $20; second money, $12.50; third money, $7.50; fourth money, $2.50. F. Luther, J. W. Humble, J. J. Weber broke 19; F. P. Smith and J. W. Godfrey 18; J. E. Haugh, J. W. Giblin and A. G. Arnold 17; W. Grieve, D. Grieve, F. S. Marshall and Frank Lipp 16. Third event — 20 blue rocks; entrance, $2.50. Club medal to be contested for by the Bportsmen of Sacra- mento Valley. Winner to take two thirds of next year'B entrance. Side pool, $2 entrance, 50 per cent, 30 per cent, 20 per cent to second, third and fourth high guns. T. S. Boalt of Gridley 19, and F. P. Smith, W. Grieve and H. Hazelbush IS. Fourth event— 20 blue rocks; entrance, $2.50, first money, $40; second money, $25; third money, $15; fourth money $5. J. H. Durst of Wheatland and J. E. Haugh divided on 19 birds. G. A. Johnson, H. Hazelbush, A. G. Arnold 18, F. P. Smith, W. Bedeau, Thad S. Boalt, E. Barthe, J. A. Bailey 17, F. New- bert, W. Grieve, E. Fissue, G. W. Gibson, J. M, Hotchkiss, A. Johnson, J. W. Giblin, J. Hare, C. Mc- Alpine 16. Fifth event — 20 blue rocks; entrance, $1. Cham- pionship of Northern California— Kimball & Upson Company medal — winner to receive one-third this entrance, two-thirds of next entrance. F. Newbert, J. E. Haugh and J. W. Humble each scored 19, and it was decided that the scores in the next event Bhould declare the winner. Humble of Biggs, won by a score of 14r Newbert making 13 and Haugh 11. Both medals went to Gridley. Sixth event— 15 blue rocks; entrance, $6. Team shoot for six men for championship of northern Cali- fornia. Winning team to receive one-third of this year's entrance and two-thirds of next. As it was nearly 5 o'clock the scoreB in this even decided the winners in the merchandise shoot. Grid ley won the team shoot, the scores being as follows Gridley, 77: Oroville, 71; Daviaville, 61; Marysvill 59; Red Bluff, 44. Seventh event — Merchandise Bhoot — 15 blue rocks: entrance, $1. Class shooting, 5 classes: J. W. God- frey of Oroville, firBt prize with 15, gun case; Bailey and Humble 14. Grieve, Arnold, Luther, Newbert 13. George Johnson. Derby, Herman Berg, Smith 12. John Giblin, J. E. Haugh, J H. Durst, 11. In the evening about 100 Bportsmen gathered around the banquet board in the dining room of the United States Hotel and enjoyed the excellent menu that bad been prepared by the Marysville boys. J. W. Stewart, president of the club, acted in the role of toast-master, and the following gentlemen responded to his call Boone Epperson, of Red Bluff; Dr. J. H. Barr; F. P. Smith, of San Francisco; Deputy Fish Commissioner! H. T. Payne, president of the State Game and FisI Protective Association, and F. Newbert of Sacr; mento. Each gentleman was listened to with rap attention, especially Mr. Payne, who after telling good story on Boone Epperson, made an interestin, address on the subject of protecting game and th coming convention to be held in Paso Robles nex month. He complimented the club on their succesi ful shoot and hoped to see many of those present Paso Robles. The Marysville orchestra rendered selections 0 music during the progress of the elaborate feast, th was a fitting and thoughtful climax to a day of ex cellent sport. Several invited guests were presen' and every one declared the Marysville boys royal en tertainers. Three rousing cheers, proposed by Epper son, were responded to with a will, and the banquei closed. A list of the shooters at the Marysville Gun Clut tournament last Sunday and the guns, powder anc shells used is the following: PLACE GUN POWDBB SHELL SHOOTER J. W. Humble... J. W. Godfrey. . . J. M. Hotchkiss G. A. Johnson... £. Steadman... H. Hazelbush..., A. G. Arnold... W. McAlpine.. ., F. S- Marshall.. W. B. Bedeau. . G.P McAlpine. W. H. Spillman. J. E. Haugh G.W.Gibson..., W.M.Stone.... G. W. Peacock. W. Greive R. F. White J. W. Giblin D. Roberts Boone Epperson S. S. Bolt J. S.Collins Bert Collins F Luther D. E. Fetrow H. Berg E. L. Fissel.... J. D Greive J. C Spillane.. F.P.Smith.... F. A. Smith S.Fowg J. H. Durst F. M. Newbert . . J. W. Stewart .. E. Barthe A. Johnston S. Derby ! F. Lipp F E Manchester. L. E. Hazen T. L. Lewis Gridley L. C. Smith. Oroville L. C. Smith. Marysville Winchester. Chico L.C.Smith. Bi ggs Remington . Biggs Letever... . San Francisco.. L. C. Smith Marysville Winchester. Marysville L. C. Smith. Marysville Remington. .Marysville Winchester Marysville Winchester. Gridley L. C. Smith. Williams Purdy Davis L. C. Smith. Marysville Syracuse Davisville L. C. Smith.. Mary-ville.! Remington Yuba City.. .. Winchester. .Oroville L C. Smith.. Red Bluff L.C.Smith. Gridley ...Winchester.. Marysville Syracuse Marvsville Syracuse — Live Oak L. C. Smit*.. Marysville Ithaca .Marysville Winchester . .Davisville Parker Davisville L. C.Smith.. Marvsville Colt Davisville L. C. Smith.. Marysville Remington.. Oroville. Greener Wheatland Clabrough... Sacramento Winchester. Marvsville Clabrough. . Marysville L.C. Smith. Oroville L. C Smith.. Oroville Winchester.. Marysville Clabrough. . San Francisco. .Remington.. Sacramento — Remington . . San Francisco.. Remington.. .Du Pont . . .Du Pont.. .Du Pont., Du Pont.. Du Pont... .Ballistiie. Ballistlte. Du Pont. . DuPont... .Du Pont... .Du Pont .. .Infallible. ■'EC" Du Pont. . Ballistlte. DuPont... DuPont... Du Pont ~ DuPont... Du Pont.. DuPont. . Du Pont.. DuPont... DuPont... DuPont... Du Pont... Du Pont.. . Infallible. Infallible Du Pont... Infallible. DuPont.. Du Pont .. Du Pont... Infallible. Du Pont... Du Pont . . Du Pont. . Infallible. DuPont... Du Pont. Infallible. Smokeless .Magic .Repeate .Magic .Magic Magic .Acme .Acme .Magic .Majestic .Majestic .Magic .Monarch .Leader .Magic .Leader .Majestic .Leader .Magic .Magio Magic .Magic Magic Magic .Magic Magic .Magic .Magic .Monarch .Monarch .Magic .Leader .Magic .Magic .Magic .Leader .Magic Magic .Magic .Monarch ,Ma:ic .Magic .Monarch U. M. C- Kennel Registry. SALES. Beach Hill Kennels (San Jose) have sold the sable and white Collie bitch puppy Penelope (Spartan-Ursula) whelped June 26, 1903, to Mr. Greenwalt (San Jose) Sept. 26, 1903. Beach Hill Kennels have sold a sable and white Collie bitch puppy (Spartan-West ridge Star) whelped July 16, 1903, to Mrs E. S. Menzies (Thermalito, Butte Co.. Cal.) Oct. 11, 1903. Beach Hill Kennels have sold the sable and white Collie bitch Tranwyn Briar (Spartan-Pensarn Ora) whelped April 1, 1903, to Mr. W.W.Sweeney (Los Angeles) Oct. 9 190:'. VISITS. W. W. Moore's Fox Terrier bitch Vina Belle (Ch. Alden Swagger-Ch. Alden Jewel) to I. G. Morgan's Ch. 'Niola Daddy (Hunton Bridegroom-Beacon Tartress), October 8, 1903. Free!! Free!l Free!! The Polk Miller Drug Co. of Richmond, Va., whose advertise- ments of -'Sergeant's Dog Remedies" are appearing now in the oolumns of this journal, desire us to state that they will furnish absolutely free to our readers a revised copy of their book on "Dogs," which accurately and exhaustively treats of the more frequent diseases with which Dogs are afflicted. Enclose them 3c in stamps to cover cost of mailing the book. They have recently made F. W. Braun & Co. of Los Angeles, California, distributing agents for their popular line of "Dog Remedies." and extend an Invitation to all persons having sick dogs to write them describ- ing symptoms, etc. Enclose stamp for reply. No charge will be made for information furnished. Jackson's Napa Soda untangles the feet. OOTOBEB 17, 1903j ®He gveebev anit gipavtsmaxx Game Laws for 1903. The United States Department of Agriculture have issued in Farmers' Bulletin 180, compiled by T. S. Palmer, Henry Oldys and R. W. Williams, Jr., a most comprehensive and useful publication for sports- men particularly as well as for the general public. The bulletin contains the Federal and State game laws up to 1903, and is a complete summary of the provisions relating to seasons, shipment, sale and licenses. The object of the present bulletin is to present for ready reference a brief summary of the provisions of the various State laws which primarily form the basis of the Lacey act and which govern the trade in game, namely, those relating to close seasons, licenses, ship- ment, and sale. The large edition in which the bulletin is issued makes such condensation necessary; hence the various provisions have been tabulated, and those relating to methods of capture of game and such as are essentially local in their application omitted. These will be found in the published laws of the different States, copies of which may be ob- tained from secretaries of state, and in many cases from State fish and game wardens. A list of State game officials is published as Circular No. 40, Bio- logical Survey, U. S. Department of Agriculture. Special editions of game laws may often be had on application to State officers, and synopses arranged especially for the use of sportsmen are issued by certain railroad companies, game associations, aDd private publishers. As a rule these abstracts do not give all the provisions relating to shipment and sale, except, possibly, for the State in which each is issued. In order to make the bulletin more useful several new features have been introduced. A summary has been added showing the more important provisions affecting nonresident sportsmen, such as license, bag limits, and limitations on the amount of game which may be carried from the State. Two new maps have been added showing States that permit export of game for propagation and those that limit the amount of game that may be killed. The map Bhowing the prohibitions against export of game has been modi- fied so as to discriminate between States which pro- hibits shipment of all game protected by the State and those which prohibit shipment of some, but not all, and also to indicate the States which allow non- residents the privilege of carrying game with them from the State. The map showing nonresident licenses has been changed so as to show the States which prohibit nonresidents from hunting, those which issue licenses at fixed rates, and those which have conditional licenses dependent on the amount required by the State in which the applicant is a resident. An Old Irish Sportsman Called Away. Robert Smyth, who in his day was one of the most remarkable horsemen in Ireland, passed away in this city Saturday at the advanced age of 80 years. Up to a month ago, Mr. Smyth was fresh and vigor- ous and enjoyed walking 'or riding. He gradually declined until the end came. He leaves a wife and daughter and a son, Robert Asheton Smyth, sporting editor of The Call. Mr. Smyth was essentially an outdoor man, know- ing nature as it is given few men to know her. He filled but two positions during a residence of twenty- Beven years on this Coast. He was with ex-Governor Milton S. Latham at Menlo Park until the latter's death, and then entered the employ of Haggin & Tevis at Stockdale, Kern county. He retired from active work eight years ago. Mr. Smyth was born at Inch, County Cork, Ireland, in 1823. As a schoolboy he was passionately fond of hunting and was exceptionally well mounted. He hunted without intermission until 1866, during which time the sport reached its highest development. The peasantry favored it, and there was no hint of the wire fence which in recent years has in a degree ruined English and Irish hunting. Mr. Smyth owned and hunted for many years at Lisquinlan House, Castlemartyr, one of the fastest pack of Harriers in Ireland. They had many famous runs, one in particular, some twenty miles after a deer, being famed in song and story. Among the packs with which he hunted were: Lord Fermoy's Foxhounds, Lord Fermoy master, Trabolgan, Whitegate, Cork. Union Foxhounds, Robert Fitzgerald Uniacke master, Castletown, Keleigh. These packs are now called the Union Hunt. Mountford Longfield's Staghounds, Mountford Long- field master, Castlemary, Cloyne. John Webb Roche'B Harriers, Rochemount. Whitegate. The Rev. William Bowles' Foxhounds, The Rev. William BowleB master, Springfield, Castlemartyr. Captain Rowland's Har- riers, Captain Rowland master, Kilbay, Cloyne. Mr. Wakeham's Harriers, Spring Hill, Carigtwohill. John Courtney's Harriers, Ballyedmund, Middletown. The famous Duhallowe pack, Lord Doneraile master at that period. South Union Foxhounds, Thomas Knowles master, Oatlands, Kinsale. Edmund Fitz- gerald's Harriers, Clonmult, Middletown. John Smith's Harriers, Rathcourcey, Middletown. Richard Tonson Rye's Foxhounds of Ryecourt. « Secretary Chas. R. Stevenson writes: "The four- teenth annual field trials of the National Beagle Club of America, will commence on November 9, 1903, at Howardsville, Albemarle county, Virginia, at the in- vitation of Dr. and Mrs. Henry Dickson Burns and General and Mrs T.M.Logan, on their plantations known as 'Dungannon' and ' Algoma', where all members of the club and all those making entries will be their guests during the trials. " It is the desire of the club that all members of club and all persons making entries who expect to at tend the trials, will so notify the secretary as soon aB possible, and also state the number of dogs which they exprct to enter, so that ample accommodation? may be arrauged." Spokane Bench Show. The dog show at the Inter State Fair held at Spokane, Wash., last week was the initial bench show for that city and was successful to a degree, there being nearly 200 entries. Mr. D. E. Davies, of Dewdney, B. C, judged all classes. The show was held under P. K. L. rules. The awards were as follows: COLLIES— Open and winners' dogs— 1 Thos S Griffiths' (Spokane) Imp Lenzie Prince. Puppy bitches — 1 Thos S Griffiths' (Spokane) Rippowam Miss Tuffet. Novice limit and open bitches — 1 Rip- powam Miss Tuffet, 2 Thos S Griffiths' (Spokane) Imp Craigmore Caroline. Cup for best Collie in the show, Rippowam Miss Tuffet. Cup for best Collie dog Imp Lenzie Prince. Collies (Tri-colors) — Open and winners' dogs — 1 and res, Thos S Griffiths' (Spo- kane) Imp Rippowam Archer. BLOODHOUNDS— Open dogs— land cup for best, Thos S Griffiths' (Spokane) Spokane. IRISH SETTERS— Puppy dogs— 1 C E Jordan's (Spokane) Patrick Henry. Limit dogs — 1 George Jay's (Victoria, B C) Mike. Open dogs — 1 Mike, 2 Dr A J Garisch's (Victoria, B C) Ch Hector II, 3 J M Bunn's (Spokane) Patsey, res J P M Richards' (Spokane) Ned II. Winners, dogs— 1 Mike, res Ch Hector II. Limit bitches — 1C W Wagner's (Spokane) Babe, 2 S Creech's (Victoria, B C) Nellie. Open and winners, bitches — 1 Babe, 2 Nellie. The A W Doland silver cup for the best Irish Setter was won by Mike. CHESAPEAKE BAY DOGS— Novice— 1 William Cochran's (Spokane) General, 2 George T Crane's (Spokane) Donald. IRISH WATER SPANIELS— Puppy dogs— 1 F H Mason's (Spokane) Buller. Limit and open dogs — 1 John Riplinger's (Seattle) Dooley Prince. Winners, dogs — 1 Buller, res Dooley Prince. COCKER SPANIELS (Black)— Puppy dogs (not over 20 pounds)— 1 Mrs Mae O'DonnelPs Nig, 2 JD Cbickering's Teddy. Novice dogs — 1 Mrs Moore's Lake Shore Bob, 2 J F Booth's Sam II. Novice bitches — 1 Theodore Kielliofer's Flo K. Open and winners' bitches — 1 Mrs C K Goodwin's (Victoria, B C) Little Dorritt, 2 Flo K. Cocker Spaniel (other than black) — Puppy dogs — 1 J V Pohlam's (Spokane) Hooley. Novice dogs — 1 Mrs Harry Green's Blondy. Limit dogs— 1 C W Sharpless' (Seattle) Ben Ora, 2 Mrs Harry Green'B (Spokane) Blondy. Open dogs — 1 Hooley, 2 J F Booth's Sam II. The Washington Cracker Company cup for the best Cocker Spaniel dog was won by Ben Ora. Puppy bitches — 1 O W Sharpless' (Seattle) Freckles. Limit bitches — Freck- les. Open and winner's bitches — 1 Freckles, 2 C W Sharpless' (Seattle) Pattern. TheBoothe-McClintock silver cup for the best Cocker Spaniel bitch was won by Little Dorritt. FOX TERRIERS -Novice dogs— 1 W F Hall's (Victoria, B. C.) Cadger of Oaks. Limit dogs — 1 Cad- ger of Oaks. Open dogs — 1 George Florence's (Vic- toria, B C.)Wandee Revelry. Winners, dogs — 1 W F Hall's Cadger of Oaks, res George Florence's Wandee Revelry. The White House Dry Goods Com- pany silver cup was won by Cadger of Oaks. Puppy novice and open bitches— 1 H O Smith's (Seattle) Queen. The Mose Oppenheimer silver cup for the best Fox Terrier bitch was won by Queen. IRISH TERRIERS— Puppy dogs— 1 Jay P Graves' Teddy Leeds, 2 J P Graves' Hilo Kid. Open dogs— UP Graves' Teddy Leeds, 2 J P Graves' Iro King. Winners, dogs — 1 Teddy Leeds. The A. B. Jackson silver cup for the beBt Irish Terrier dog was won by Teddy Leeds. Puppy bitches — 1 Jay P Graves' Honolulu Irene, 2 J P Graves' Irish Palola. Open bitches — 1 J P Gravss' Iroquois Flirt. The John M Bunn silver cup for the best Irish Terrier bitch was won by Honolulu Irene. BOSTON TERRIERS— Open dogs— 1 J H Wilmot's Gas House. Puppy, limit and open bitches — 1 Mrs W C Ufford's Pattie II. The Jay P GraveB' silver cup for the best Boston Terrier on exhibition was won by Pattie II. DASCHCND— Open and winners, dogs— 1 Gus Meese'B Totem. SCOTCH TERRIERS— James Dunkin silver cup won by J H Travers' Kootenai Baby. MISCELLANEOUS— 1 George Tlnto's (Seattle) Lanelle (Old English Sheep Dog), 2CH Carlson's Jack (Ru-sian Wolfhound), 3F Pugh'slrwin (Russian Wolfhound). A Coast Fancier in Chicago. Mr. J. H. Dorian writes us from Chicago, where he is now located in charge of the Chicago office of the Columbia Phonograph Company. Mr. Dorian's pred- ecessor at Chicago has been transferred to the New B York office. Mr. Dorian was, previous to managing the San Francisco branch, assistant manager of the large establishment at Chicago. In a circular noting changes in the company's service it is Btated that Mr. Dorian "has demonstrated his ability in every position in which he has been tried." "Kennel Editor Breeder and Sportsman:— Confirming the verbal instructions given your col- lector just before leaving San Francisco, when, I paid him your bill of Sept. 1st covering my account to that date; kindly discontinue my advertisement in Breeder and Sportsman if it has not already been done, and send me bill. The enclosed clipping will explain the reason for this step. I had hoped to get in to see you before leaving, but found every minute filled up, and had to even bring some work with me to complete en route. I have sold all my Cockers ex- cept one female brought with me as a pet; have dis- posed of the St. Bernard Le King to Mr. William Wallace of 125 Geary St., and shall bring Ch. Grand Master II, East, as soon as I am settled here and have a place for him. Champions Alta Rachel and Gypsy Lee II are temporarily with Mr. H. H. Stanley, con- nected with our San Francisco establishment. I have not yet decided whether I will keep them or not. Rachel will probably remain with Mr. Stanley. Gypsy I may possibly bring East. Both will shortly be bred to Grand Master II. I had a very pleasant visit from Messrs. Stewart, Harker and Albee just before leaving San Francisco and regret very much indeed that I cannot co-operate with them in their effort to make the coming San Francisco Bench Show the succesa I am sure it will be.' I have tried to express to them, however, my very genuine interest in the enterprise, and my' ap- preciation of the many courtesies received at their hands, and those of Coast Fanciers generally. May they all 'livelong and prosper;' and may the day be not long distant when 'the lion and the lamb shall lie down together' to the growth and profit of Coast dog- dom in general, and our canine friends in particular. Until that happy day, believe me, with kindest per- sonal regards, and hearty appreciation of the many courtesies received at your hands. Very sincerely yours, J. H. DORIAN." The Northwest Field Trials. The fourth annual field trials of the Pacific North- west Field Trials Club were run on the same grounds, near Coupeville, Whidby island, Wash., that were the scene of the club's previous meetings. The meet- ing took two days, September 29th and 30th to dis- pose of three stakes. There was a good attendance of club members and visiting sportsmen at the trials. Weather conditions for a week previous to the trials caused the quail to seek cover in the heavy brush and not until the second day of the running could the birds be found in their accustomed haunts numerous enough to satisfy the spectators and handlers and give the dogs opportunity to show their class. For a week previous a heavy downpour of rain had delayed harvest work and the fresh stubble was so wet that at first but few bevies of quail were found on the ground where they were known usually to be plentiful. The lack of quail on ground that under ordinary circumstances was well provided with excellent quail stubble was rather disappointing.. This made the running slow and uneven, for in several heats promis- ing young dogs could not do any work on birds and the judge necessarily took a line on their field trial form as shown in style, range, speed and going. Prof. J. A. Balmer of Cle-Elum, Wash., was again in the saddle and judged with the same discretion and capability that has distinguished Mb judging at each of the three previous trials of this club. W hen a field trial judge adopts as the standard for a field trial dog great natural ability and the "class" that is a promi- nent quality expected and recognized by field trial devotees and when personal prejudice and bias are eliminated then there can be no exception to the results announced by a judge who works on those lines. At the reqular annual meeting of the club, follow- ing the taials, the officers elected for the ensuing year were: J. A. Peebles of Seattle, President; L. B^ Youngs, C. L. Lundy and E. B. Roy of Seattle, and T. J. A. Tiedemann of San Francisco, Vice-Presidents; John Riplinger of Seattle, Secretary-Treasuier; F. A. Pontius, J. W. Considine, C. B. Yandell, F. R. Atkins and N. A. Weeden of Seattle, Board of Gover- nors. Among the visitors from distant. cities present at the trials were: Mr. John A. .Schumacher of Los Angeles, Mr. Thomas Plimley of Victoria, B. C, Mr. Jos. E. Terry of Sacramento, Dr. E. F. Tucker of Portland and Miss Winnifred Davie6 of Victoria, B. C. The Derby was run with fourteen starters (12 English Setters and 2 Pointers) out of twenty-six nominations. The quality of the dogs in the stake this year was superior in a degree to that shown at any of the previous club trials. The purse, which amounted to nearly $200 was awarded 50 per cent to first, 30 per cent and 20 per cent to second and third. J. A. Peebles' English Setter dog Uncle Jim (Count Whitestone-Sport's May Belle) showed high- claBS speed and range. John H.Schumacher's Eng- lish Setter bitch Valita (Bell Boy-Rod's Lark) second, was handled by W. B. Coults very cleverly, she showed good form and redeemed the promise of her youth and showed the style expected of a Rod's Lark puppy. E. B. Roy's English Setter dog Cincin- nati Nat (Ch. Cincinnatus Pride-Ruth T. Etol) divided third with N. A. Weeden'B Erglish Setter dog Count Whitestone's Chief (Count Whitestone- Spor-'s May Belle). Nat was the popular performer of the stake. He is a handsome white, black and tan and works with a showy pace, range and style, and was always staunch and snappy in point work. Eight starters (7 English Setters and 1 Pointer) out of thirteen nominations made up the complement of dogs in the All-Age Stake. More birds were found in this event than in the Derby. Jos. E. Terry's English Setter bitch Lady (Ch Count Gladstone-Peachmark) winner of first, notwithstanding recent maternal duties captured first. She is a catchy worker, popu- lar with the spectators and is a splendid goer with stylish action combined with great ranging qualities and speed. Her work on birds was a feature of the trials. She was handled by Coutts. Fleet, (Dashing Fleet-White Bawn) an English Setter dog owned by W. B. PaulsellB, took second money after showiDg consistent quality all through. The winner of third turned up in Kilgarlf (Orion-Mary Lou) Jos. E. Terry's English Setter dog winner of tbe Pacific Derby this year. "Kil" is a speedy wide ranger and was started somewhat reluctantly, it being believed that he would get away in tbe heavy cover close by the wood fringed stubble and would be accordingly 10 ©he $veeinev ant &p0vt#num [October 17, 1993 handicapped. He showed that he knew what he was about and confined his investigation to the open ''The1 Members' Stake had five dogs in the running, (4 English Setters and 1 Pointer). J. W. Considine s Hick's Lad and Hick's Bab (Doc Hick-Woodcraft), won first and second, C. Wemng s English Setter dog Doc Montez (Roy Montez-Diana Montez) won third. The prizes were handsome sliver trophies donated by the members. _,, The first brace put down in this stake was Hick s Bab with Doc Montez, then came Hick's Lad with Lady's Count Noble. K. C. Rip, the Pointer, ran a byThe club offered a $25 purse to the handlers put- ting in the largest strings in the Derby Handler Hansen took first, $15, and Handler Coutts received second prize, $10. Coutts turned the tables m the Si-Age and took first prize $15,for the largest string, whilst Hansen received the second prize, $10. The duality and breeding of the dogs run in these trials is of a high standard as will be noted in the following list and order of running of the heats in the Derby and All-Age: DERBy I Hick's Lad, English Setter dog (Doe Hick- Woodcraft). J. W. cVnsldine, Seattle, owner; Harden, handler. Bon Ton Belle, English Setter hitch (Lady's Count NoWe-Val's Belle) Chas. Herman. Vancouver, owner; Sweetser, handler. Glen Rose, Pointer dog (Glendale-Kenwood Rose). W. B. Coutts, Kenwood, Cal., owner and handler. With Rov's Lady. English Setter bitch (Roy Montez-Victoria Belle II). Miss W Davifs, Victoria, B. C, owner; Sweetser, handler. Lady's Lad, English Setter dog (Clipper W.-Lady). W. B. Coutts, owner and handler. With Cincinnatus Nat, English Setter dog (Ch. Cincinnatus Pride- Ruth r.Etol). E. B Roy, Seattle, owner; Hansen, handler. Hick's Bab English Setter bitch (Doc Hick-Woodcraft). J. W Considine, Seattle, owner; Hansen, handler. With Valita English Setter bitch (Bell Boy-Rod's Lark). J. H. Schumacher, Los Angeles, owner; Coutts handler.' Tony's Tony, English Setter dog (Tony Boy-Belton Girl). Weise- man and Considine, Seattle, owners; Hansen, handler. With Bsugo, Pointer dog (Glendale-Kenwood Rose), W. B. Coutts, y,*7ner and handler. Uncle Jim, English Setter dog (Count Whitestone-Sporfs May Belle). J. A. Peebles, Seattle, owner; Kyle, handler. ' With Count Whitestone's Chief, English Setter dog (Count Whitestone- Sport's May Belle). N. A. Weeden, Seattle, owner; Hansen, handler. Doc Montez, English Setter dog (Roy Montez-Diana Montez). C. Wening, Seattle, owner; Hansen, handler. With Robert Llewellin, English Setter dog (Drake Llewellin-Miss Maud). T. J. A. Tiedemann, San Franoiseo, owner. n Glen Rose with Cincinnatus Nat. Hick's Bab with Lady's Lad. Roy's Lady with Count Whitestone's Chief. Uncle Jim with Valita. RESULT 1st, Uncle Jim; 2d, Valita; 3d, Cincinnatus Nat; 4th, Whitestone's Chief. ALL AGE I Lola Montez, English Setter bitch (Llewellin Drake-Zola Montez) J. W. Considine, Seattle, owner; Hansen handler. With Lady, English Setter bitch (Ch Count Gladstone IV-Peachmark). Jos. E. Terry, Sacramento, owner; Coutts handler. Miss Rip, Pointer bitch (Young Rip Rap-Jingo's Lass). W. B. Coutts, owner and handler. With Bushranger, English Setter dog (Highland Fleet-Jersey Queen). F. J. Pratt, Jr., owner; Kyle, handler. Harry H., English Setter dog (Why Not-Sue). C. E. Worden San Francisco, owner; Coutts, handler With Lady's Count Noble, English Setter dog (Lady's Count Gladstone- Lady Noble). Green and Weiseman, owners; Hansen, handler. Fleet. English Setter dog (Dashing Fleet-White Bawn). W. Paulsen's, Seattle, owner; Hansen, handler. With Kiigarir, English Setter dog (Orion-Mary Lou). Jos. E. Terry, Sacramento, owner; CoULts, handler. II. Harry H. with Lady Lola Montez with Kilgarif Lady with Fleet. RESULT. 1, Lady; 2, Fleet; 3, Kilgarif. trophies for the best dog and bitch bred and owned in Sacramento county, and shown at the December bench show. MrB. Bradley-Dyne of Victoria offers a cup for the best Irish Terrier owned by a lady. DOINGS IN DOGDOM. Mr. James Cole, of Kansas City, will judge all breeds at the coming dog show to be held in the Mechanics Pavilion, San Francisco, Dec. 2d to 5th. Mr. Cole while a stranger to San Francisco, has judged at Sacramento, Seattle and Portland, and we understand gave great satisfaction. The Oakland Poultry Association, which will manage the poultry department of the combined show, are assured of an entry of over 2000 birds. This very nearly doubles the largest poultry entry ever previously made on the Coast. One of the features of the poultry department will be a number of in cubatorb of different makes, all hatching out chickens during the show. The artificial mothers, or brooders as they are called, will be shown brooding the young chicks, in fact every stage of incubation and raising, from the egg to the matured winner in his cage will be shown. The oat department of the show will be managed by the San Francisco Cat Club of which Mrs. N. Stewart, 33 Market street, is secretary. This will be the club's first effort in giving a show, but as it has been promised the hearty support and co-operation of the Pacific Cat Club, an entry even surpassing that of last year is confidently expected. The cats will be benched in the Art Gallery, away from all the noise and danger of too close proximity to the dogs. The Art Gallery is entirely shut off from the main hall so l.hat exhibitors need have no fear for their pets. Mr. B. W. Cavanaugh and Mr. H. Wachorst of Sacramento have both donated handsome silver A large entry of Northern dogs has been assured, and it is exDected that several of the Pointers and EDglish Setters who have been carrying everything before them on the bench and in the field, at the Northern shows and field trials will at last come down to try conclusions with our California dogs. As we have mentioned in the BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN, the North is very strong in the sport- ing classes, and unfortunately in December we can hardly hope to see California's best sporting dogs on the bench; we trust, however, that a few really good ones may be got together to give the Northern fanciers that competition which true fanciers, such as they, always desire. Phil C. Meyer will enter a Dachshund and a Boston Terrier at the Pacific Collie and O. E. Sheep Dog Show. Collies are in steady demand. The Glen Tana Ken- nels swept the board at the recent Spokane show. Beach Hill Kennels, San Jose, report several sales in the Kennel Registry. Champion Le King is announced in stud in the classified ads. on page 15. King Commando, Endcliffe Pleasure and two other BulldogB will be the Ellesgy Kennels' entry for the December bench show. dette and Colonel E. F. Preston, bagged 120 ducks on the Peyton ponds. Another party consisting of Dr. A. F. Derby, Dalton Harrison, Achille Roob, Cal C. McMahon, A. M. Shields, Louis THub, Al Cumming, F. A. Hopke and J. J. Winner, members of the Field and Tule Club, had a good shoot on their preserve near Cordelia, killing 265 ducks, most- ly widgeon. Otto Feudner, Ed Feudner and C. H. McBride bagged 150 birds at the Stewart ponds, each securing the limit. A party of Oakland sportsmen, consisting of A. A. Moore Sr., W. S. Goodfellow, Arthur Goodfellow,' Wickham Havers, John C. Klein, Howard Havens, Charles Wetherbill and A. A. Moore Jr., bagged about twenty birds each on the Tomassini ponds. Herman Oelrichs, with a party of friends as his guests, had a good shoot on his preserve at Cygnus. Among the Suisun sportsmen the following bags are reported: Herman Perkins and J. C. Murphy of the King Gun Club, 82; W. H. Bryan, Leonard Prior, George C. Gordon, J. L. Emigh, M. Dinkelspiel, C. H. Downing and A. W. Olf of the Armijo Club, 50; Lewis Pierce, Chaa. B. Elliott and Harvey Dulton, 72 on the Boynton ponds; JacK Wilson, Ed Whitby, Guy Stewart and Don Reeves, 110 on the Stewart ponds' Dr. J. J. Pfister and Walter Cooper, 25; Gene Losh and Jake Anderson, 40; Dr. S. G. Bransford, J. D. Cerkel and H. B. Muzzy, 145; Jack Morgan and Sheriff James A. Keys, 60; Tom Grennan, Tim Corcoran and Bob Waterman, 150; Fred Rush and Dr. Everts Down- ing, 35. Seven members of the Spooney Gun Club secured the limit near Mt. Eden, the combined bag being 350 ducks. Those present were L. R. Larzelere, Dr E. N. Short, George Morse, Dr. E. T. Mervy, Rod Guyett, Mr. Woif and Mr. Brommer. The members of the Pastime Club who were out were: George Carlson, John BeBt, Fred Bell, John Castle, Carson Lewis, Fanzer, Cook and Johnson. George Franzen and wife and some guests had a good day's sport at his ark. H. Vollmer, John Walker and Tom Vincent al60 returned from Alvarado heavily laden. George H. Newman, Fred Stanley, Ed Mouldrop and C. N. Davis secured the limit near Mount Eden. 'I Enow Where That Bevy Is!" Current number of American Stock-Keeper states: On account of the great demand for the service of Ch. Woodcote Wonder, Bonnybred Kennels feel obliged to raise the fee to $50. Their desire is to have every customer satisfied and they will not resort to the mean practice of substitution, therefore to save a strain on the dog they are forced to raise the fee. Opening of the Shooting Season. Sportsmen who favored duck shooting for their first hunt of the season Thursday seem to have had a shade the best of it over the quail hunting con- tingent. The weather conditions were not by any means conducive to lively duck shooting, in most of the marshes the hunters were kept as busy fighting mosquitoes as they were engaged in Bhooting ducks. By ten o'clock most of the duck shooting on the preserves was over. On the Alameda marshes many hunters pottered about all day now and then getting a shot at a "straggler." Nearly all of thesportsmen who went to the club preserves and shot on baited ponds had good shooting, many of them getting the limit bag. On the Suisun, Sonoma and Petaluma marshes the reception the duckB received caused the quackers to finally seek safety out on the bay waters. On the south east shore marshes of San FranciBCO bay the birds soon found that the deep water regions were ideal health resorts. The duckB bagged on the Alameda Bide were sprig, teal and spoonbills princi- pally with a few widgeon and a stray canvasback here and there. On the northern marshes the birds shot were mainly Bprig and teal, widgeon were fairly plentiful, but generally flew high. The recent storm drove quite a number of birds south, but still there was enough birds about the baited pouds to keep the guns busy. Most of the quail hunters selected favorite places in Marin and Sonoma counties for their shooting. Among these sportsmen results were uneven and according to location. The knowing sportsmen were familiar with the ground hunted over and knew where to find birds. Others took general chances and got but few birds. The hot weather was againBt the quail hunter however, who found frequently that the birdB had an exasperating method of taking to the trees and eluding both the dogs and their masters. All in all, the opening day for local shooters, at least, was auBpicious and the outlook for good fall and winter shooting is nearly all that could bedesired. To-day and tomorrow the main body of sportsmen will be out, at the time of going to press the weather indications were very favorable for both quail and duck Bhooting. Among the many shooters who were out on Thurs- day may be mentioned: The members of the Pringle Gun Club, Len D. Owens, Amby Buckley, Frank Maskey, John Bour- Coming Events. April 1-Sept. 10. Oct. 16-Feb. 1— Open season tor taking steel- head in tidewater. April 1-Nov. 1— Trout season open. July 1-Jan. 1— Open season for black bass. Aug. 15-April 1— Open season for lobsters and crawfish. Sept. 1-Nov. 1— Close season for crabs. Sept. 1-May 1— Open season for shrimp. Sept. 10-Oct. 16— Close season in tidewater for steelhead. Nov. 15-Sept. 10— Season open for taking salmon above tidt water. Gnn. July 1-Feb. 15 — Dove season open. July 15-Nov. 1— Deer season open. Sept. 1-Feb. 15— Open season for mountain quail, grouse and sago hen. • Oot. 15-Feb. 15 — Open season .'or quail, duoks. etc. Bench Snows. Oct. 20, 21, 22, 23— Frederick County Agricultural Society. Frederick, Md. J. Roger McSherry, Seoretary, Frederlok, Md. Nov. 3, 4, 5, 6— Ladies Kennel Association of America. Madison Square Garden, New York. Mrs. A. G. Evans, Hon. Seoretary, Westbury, L. I. Nov. 17, 18, 19— Boston Terrier Club. Boston, Mass. Dec. 2. 3, 4. 5— Paolfic Collie and Old English Sheep Dog Club. Bench Show in connection with Poultry Exhibit. San Francisco. P. K. L. rules Field Trials. Oct. 26— Sportsman's Field Trial Assooiation. Clare, Mich. E. O. Smith, Secretary, Midland, Mioh. Oct. 26— Monongahela Field Trial Assooiation. 9th annual trials. Washington C. H., O. A. C. Peterson, Secretary, Home- stead, Pa. Nov. 2— Michigan Field Trial Assooiation. Annual trials. , Mioh. C. D. Stuart, Seoretary, Riverside, Mioh. Nov. 2— Ohio Field Trial Association. 6th annual trials. Wash- ington, C. H., O. G R. Haswell, Secretary, Circleville, O. Nov. 9— Missouri Field Trial Association. Annual trialB. , Mo. L. S. Eddins, Seoretary, Sedalia. Mo. Nov. 9— International Field Trial Association. 15th annual trials. St. Joachim, Ont. W. B. Wells, Honorary Secretary, Chatham, Ont. Nov. 9— Independent Field Trial Club. 5th annual trials. Hut- sonville, Ills. H. S. Humphrey, Secretary, Indianapolis, Ind. Nov. 10— Western Irish Setter Club. 2d annual trials. , Dr. T. L. Fenn, Secretary, Chicago, 111. Nov. 10— Connecticut Field Trial Club, Hampton, Conn. F. W. Smith, Secretary, New Haven, Conn. Nov. 16— North American Field Trial Club. 5th annual trials. -, Can. Alfred Wigle, Secretary, Windsor, Ont. Nov. 16 — Kentuoky Field Trial Association. 4th annual trials. , Ky Sam Brown Hays, Secretary, Louisville, Ky. Nov. 16 — Illinois Field Trial Association. 5th annual trials. Robinson III. W. R. Green, Secretary, Marshall, 111. Nov. 16— Pointer Club of America. Holmdel, New Jersey. C. F. Lewis, Secretary, New York City. Nov. 17— Nevada Field Trial Association. Paradise Valley near Winnemucca, Nev. Dr. C. E. Wilson, Secretary, Elko. Nev. Nov. 23— American Championship Field Trial Association. An- nual trials. Robinson, 111. H. S. Humphrey, Secretary, Indian- apolis, Ind. Nov. 30— Virginia Field Trial Association, Chase City, Va. Chas R. Cooke. Secretary, Richmond, Va. Dec. 1— Indiana Field Trial Club. Annual trials. Clay City, Ind., C. F.Yung, Seoretary, Clay City, Ind. Amateur Field Trial Association of Maryland and Dis- trict of Columbia. — — , Md. Wm. R. Armstrong, Secretary, Baltimore, Md. Deo. 5 — Continental Field Trial Association. Thomasville, Ga. John White, Seoretary, Hempstead, L. I , N. Y. Duck and Quail Outfits. Skinner, this week, had the record sale of sportsmen's outfits, ammunition and guns. A large stock of goods put in for the open- ing of the season was not sufficient for the unusual demand for hunting suits, rubber bootl and hunters' footwear, canvas and folding wooden decoys, gun cases and a new design of leather- covered shell boxes. One make of shotguns was sold out entirely. Skinner's place is 801 Market street. You oan get anything there you need for duck or quail shooting. Send for a catalogue, if you haven't the time to come, and try a mail order. October 17, 1903] ©:jte gvee&ev cmt> &p0vtenttxn 11 Alfalfa to be the Leading Product. The overshadowing question interest- ing every one seeking a permanent home in California is "What can I produce from the soil that will bring a sure and iteady return for the money invested and the labor expended?" The ringing answer ;omes unchallenged from the alfalfa aeldi of the famous San Joaquin and Sacramento valley, where the actual returns are from five to ten crops a year, yielding from ten to fifteen tons per acre, ind where five crops are cut and there is 'razing for the herd for six months of She year. The price of the hay will be from $S to $12 a ton, if sold in that form, but if fed to the herd or to dairy stock, 10 other crop— gold, fruit nor grain — will be more remunerative The dairy is the idjnnct of the alfalfa field. Twenty acres >f alfalfa will keep thirty head of cows, ind each cow will return a net proceed )f from $5 to $8 per month for butter ilone, leaving the by-products for the :onsumption of other stock on the ranch. Chis is no idle statement, and it gathers emulative fo ce from the fact that it is lot raising a single few months' crop, but i perpetual crop under the genial skies ind prodigious supplies of water that iring unitedly the marvelous resultB. It is not disparagement to compare he achievements of the past with the jossibilities and actualities of the present ind near future. California's fruits, nines and stores of grain have amazed ind delighted the eyes of the world, and t iB not visionary to expect that not only ruits and mines and grain will continue o stand preeminent, but in addition the lairy productions of the State will rival hem in supremacy and challenge the TOrld to excel them. The quality wi >e superior by reason of the fact that he continuous growth of the fields will >e fresh and nutritious. Produced from he thousands of acres of land especially idapted to raising alfalfa ; nurtured by he snow-fed mountain streams or un- easing artesian well, alfalfa presents a eality in the achievement of future con- laest in the cycle of the coming kingdom if progress. The future possibilities to le realized in the domain of the dairy an hardly be hinted in this brief sketch, r even compassed by words. The fever ir gold, the victories of California pro- nets, past and present, her oncoming onquest of the markets of the world and be long and glowing commercial advance- lent in the past are incidents that wdl ale before the future achievements from er great and growing dairy productions. Dairying iB becoming a very prominent idustry about Modesto, because of the ivorable conditions and excellent profits, wenty acres in alfalfa will support thirty >ws, and one man at a salary of $35 per lonth will milk and care for the herd, he milk will bring at the creamery from 1.50 to $7 a month per cow, according to le grade of the cow. The skimmed milk, sturned and fed to calves and hogs, will fford an income sufficient to meet ex- enses, leaving the returns from the •eamery net profit. Modesto creamery itrons received an average of 24.1 cents pound for butter fat furnished in 1902. he land can be purchased in small tracts t from $35 to $50 per acre, and can be raded, checked and planted to alfalfa 'rfrom $6 to $10 per acre -for $6 if the tan does the work himself, $10 under intract. Planted in the fall, alfalfa i.tainB a fine stand by spring, and is good >r seven years without resowing, yield- ig five crops annually, each crop one id a half tons to the acre, and affording isturage after the curing season. With few acres in alfalfa, and a few cowb Ceres and a model $10,000 creamery at Modesto, with skimming stations here and there. Another product providing a ready and early source of income is the sweet potato. It is produced to perfection in the Bandy Boil and by aid of irrigation, the crop maturing in four months. The yield is from eighty to two hundred sacks to the acre, Icommanding an average price of about 90 cents per sack. Land producing sweet potatoes is invariably choice land for peaches, which are always in demand by the canneries at prices affording net profit from $75 to $150 per acre. Melons beans, corn and like products also yield abundantly on this land. "Within five yearB land prices should double and in ten yearB treble. Owning the water, as it does, in perpetuity, the source exhaustless, the supply bountiful, within twenty years the land and water right will inevitably command $250 per acre. Land planted to alfalfa in such districts sells at $60 to $100 [per acre, and the glorious climate of California goes with the deed.— Pacific Fruit World. Animals With Pedigree. We often hear farmers and stock raisers Bav that they care nothing for pedigree. They forget that is by a system of registra- tion that well bred animals have been brought up to their present high standard of excellence and that the animal is what is claimed for it. If it were not for the pedigree system farmers would often be imposed upon by unscrupulous breeders by having half bloods or grades put off on them as full bloods, writes W. J. Hayes in Midland Farmer. Grade animals have passed with many as full bloodi, and in fact from their appearance they some- times pass the most careful observer as genuine. High grade animals are quite as good in many respects as full bloods, but they are not good breeders. They cannot be dependend upon to stamp their good qualities upon their offspring. The full blood is prepotent over the grade animals, and to grade up a herd we must use full blood males. To be sure new blood is genuine, require a pedigree. This must of course be backed up by good individuality. It is true enough that an inferior animal cannot be made a valuable one by pedigree alone. But the good Dairy Notes. [From Dairy and Creamery.] Sour skim milk does not make good calf feed. Individuality counts for more than numbers in a dairy herd. Souring changes the auger in milk to lactic acid. This decreases feeding value. Tinware for keeping milk is preferable to stone or earthenware, and is cheapea. Too many cows Bhould not be kept; comfort should not be sacrificed to num- bers. Never allow animals of other species to be kept in the same room with milch cows. A cow with a long pedigree will not fill your pocketbook unless she ia a pro- ducer. Unless a cow turnB her food into but- ter and not flesh she haB no place in the dairy. If fed right, 190 poundB of skimmilk has a feeding value equal to half a bushel of corn. Cowb regularly and thoroughly milked are a profitable investment if the cowb are good. At an auction Bale recently the great Holstein-Fresian cow, Segis Inka, sold for $1,600. Dogs, cats and loafers should not be allowed around the barn, especially at milking time. The true dairy cow — one that is worth keeping— is easily affected by unfavor- able conditions. Clover hay is the best of all hays for dairy cows, some say, if cut at the right time and cured. At least every two months scrub your mangers with water and soap, lye or washing powder. Hot water poured into dairy milk ves- sels cooks the cheesy matter and makes it gum'and stick. The only certain indication of a profit- able cow is to see that she giveB a large yield of rich milk. A cement floor for the cow stable iB a sanitary floor. It should be more or less rough to prevent the cows from slipping. A dairy cow that is worthy the name always shows her excellence, in form, in color, or in trie size and shape of the udder. Plenty of veins on the udder is a sign that it is not fleshy, and is one of the signs of a good milk cow. The larger and have good cows without being aware of the fact, because he does not give proper management. One duty of the farmer to his children is often neglected. Teaching the boys to milk properly. MoBt of the boys teach themselves in a haphazard way. Not one in ten makes an expert milker. A good dairy cow is made by intelligent breeding and feeding. She does not come by chance. It takes seven vears of steady, watchful attention after birth to bring a cow to her best in the production of milk. The bitter taiut in cream caused from the cow eating ordinary weeds, can be re- moved by mixing the cream with two or more parts of water at any temperature above 70 degrees F. and running it through a separator. Many modern methods add very much to comfort and ■ convenience of both cus- tomer and dairyman. Quart bottles, ice boxes, rubber tires for milk wagons, etc., have revolutionized the old-fashioned milk business. Every dairyman can easily find the yield of his cows by keeping small scaleB in the barn where he can weigh the milk of each cow as milked. By keeping a record you can soon locate your producers and non-producers. Milk and butter take on impurities and odors quicker than any other product, hence the necessity of warding it off. Borax is considered an excellent disin- fectant. It is pure and cleansing and kills germs which cause milk to sour. An aggressive dairyman says: "Dairy farming is taxing business. It keeps us at home morning and evening every day, but it makes the farm, and with prices eueh as they have been of late, it will make us if we attend to business intel- ligently." ■ ♦. . A Model Creamery. individual whose registered family history shows a line of ancestry from which these ! more crooked the better. excellent qualities have been inherited The Pierce Land and Stock Company recently completed at their Riverside dairy on Rough and Ready Island, near Stockton, one of the finest private cream- eries on the Pacific coast. The building is of Spanish style of architecture, a model of neatness and sanitary perfection with porcelain tubs and tanks for hold- ing milk and cream, cement floors and tiled walls. The building contains two cold Btorage rooms and every modern con- can be trusted to transmit these favorable ' and stimulate each other If properly venience in keeping with the splendid The milk flow and the appetite increase milking stables for the production of a high grade sanitary product. o - No positive rule can be set down for feeding henB for egg production for the farm. Stunted Pigs. traits to his offspring While undoubtedly managed each will reach the full, opacity too much stress is often laid on pedigree of the cow and may be kept there, alone, it will be a fortunate day when I To KeeP the dair-v supplied wiih good more farmers come to a realization of the milk cow8 is one ol the moat difficult importance of the pedigree. We shall ! taakB oE toe dairyman. He needs to be ', simple reason that all the breeds cannot then look for a marked improvement in a judge of cows aa well as a good finan- 1 be treated alike. Of course there may be the quality of the animalB found on the cier- I a general formula given for the best Professor Tracy of Mississippi found results. The asiatics cannot be treated that from a good milker following a poor like the mediterraneans for example, one the milk flow was increased from five . They are almost opposite in nature and cows by 244 pounds in two weeks. and habit. Again the Plymouth Rocks | Cut teats are easily healed by the use and Wyandottes seem to come between herited disability to make use of the food o{ a mUe carbo,ized vaaeline. If badly the two so we have three distinct divisons S™'!l'..P"SI'T.f!!n^ cutthe edSes Bhould be drawn together ' and they should be treated in entirely and fastened so that they will heal different ways. Meat is necessary and evenly. j is almost indispensable in the fall and Rinse all vessels with cold water before winter. It takes the place of Insects, scalding or steaming. This is more grasshoppers, worms, ets., and is hence necessary in washing woodenware, such another natural food. It must however as churns and trays than in treating tin be fed judiciously. Three time a week surfaces. is about right. Green cut-bone, sheep's The bottle testis simple. Place the' heads, beef scraps, pluck or anything Sometimes these are caused by an in- conditions after birth. If they are watched, it will be found that the other pigs are driving them from the teats and later from the trough, says Farmers' Review. Having once become weakened they are Iobs able than the other pigs to fight for their food and have to be satisfied with short rations. It is evidently a part of the plan of nature to eliminate the weakling as a breeder. However, these same pigs, if given a chance at the teats and the trough, often develop into good sized bogs and prove profitable. We would not, however, advise using such an animal as a breeder. The hint tha* nature has given us should be taken. We agree with her in wanting for breeders only the most vigorous. a else that is meat, will supply the dema'nd. Ananalysis of milk in Scotland dem- onstrated that morning'B milk contained 3.2 per cent fat and 9.2 solids not fat. ■ief period. There is a creamery at ' and 8.9 per cent solids not fat. same amount of milk from each cow in fruit jar. The cream will show which is the richest. Although not an accurate teBt, it is comparative. Accuracy in dealing with temperatures and cleanliness in handling milk and milk vessels will alone secure a high quality in butter or cheese. This seems so simple that many people will never try to understand why or how this is true. McKinney Stallion For Sale. There are many cows that give larger r> ay colt with black points, foaled quantities of milk on some farms than on £, &&% « $ SBS3J A'S'aS'jiSSs Others. Thia is due to better varieties of P« by Sargent's Quleo Sabo; 3d dam, BlackSwan am and more conifoi quarters. An indifferent farmer FOR SALE. pERFECT PARK HORSE, 7 YEARS OLD. ■*■ by Dexter Prince out of mare by Speculation; chestnut sorrel, 15 2% ami weighs I05O Has mark of 2:25 and can show 2:2tJ gait. Can pall buggy mile out In 2:80. Pure-gafted trotter and is gentle and without blemish. Good looker and pleasant to drive. Sold for want of u^e. Inquire at the Dexter Prince Stables, Grove St., near Baker. mily is assured of a living within a very | Evening's milk ^contained 4.5 per cent fat ^, more grainYnd mo7{comfo7teWe ^SS^'^^S^^n^f^g^^ may 231 North First St., San Jose, Cal. 12 mvz gve&cv anii &pcivt&man [October 17, 1903 A Mule Has Advantages. The advantage of a mule over ahorse is, he can be taught to turn shorter, thus preventing the breaking down of vegeta- bles or other plants. He can go m rougher places, is not affected by heat as badly as the horse and requires less atten- tion in the way of currying, rubbing, etc. His feet being smaller, he can walk closer to the growing plants. To make a good mule worth from $50 to $80 at wean- ing time, or from $140 to $160 as a two year old, he should be foaled from a large mare in April or May. He should run with the dam until October 1, then be weaned. At this time he should beat least 52 inches. Put him in a shed with plenty light and feed oats with clover and timothy hay. Too much corn, fevers the legs and produces scratches. The next summer he should have access to p-sture, with a little corn each day until cold weather, when he should be brought back to the barn. At two or two and one- half years old he should be 16 hands high, fat and ready for market. When feeding, care Bhould be given to keep the system cool with green siuff, and keep out scratches. The following is a good cure: Take equal partB of blue ttone, white vitrol and verdigris, grind together with equal parts of soapstone, mix with warm water until about as thin as paste, apply with a swab on the end of a stick about three times a week. Mule colts are no more troublesome than horse colts. The colts run with their mothers, but a sepa- rate pasture is required for two year old mules. — Exchange, California Farms. "There are 72,542 farms in California with an average size of 397.4 acres," says an article .compiled for the California Promotion Committee. 1492 of theBe farms are under three acres in extent ; 5342 are between three and • ten acres ; 8236 are between ten and twenty acres The larger farms are as follows : 13,110 are between twenty and fifty acres ; there are 8067 between fifty and one hundred acreB and 13,196 farms between one hun- dred and one hundred and seventy-five acres. There are 4635 farms ranging from one hundred and seventy-five to two hundred and sixty acres ; 8370 between two hundred and five hundred acres; 5329 between five hundred and one thou- sand and 4753 farms more than a thousand acres in extent. Of the 72,452 farms in California 19,048 are devoted to hay and grain, 18,537 to fruits, 15,418 to live stock, 8,686 to dairy produce, 3.045 to vegetables, 386 to Bugar, 208 to flower plants, 141 to nursery pro- ducts, 7072 to miscellaneous products and one to tobacco. flaky character and because it he'ps lighten the ration. It is less digestible than the heavier feeds, yet seems to aid digaation. The remainder must be made up of cottonseed and linseed or cottonseed and gluten. One of the be;t rations we have used contained five pounds of bran, one and one-half pounds of cottonseed and one and one-half pounds of linseed meals. — Joseph L. Hills |director Vermont Experi- ment Station. Bran in the Cow's Ration. My judgment is that bran should make up at least one-half by weight of a cow's ration. I like it, not because it is par- ticularly rich, but because of its ligbt( Alfalfa Does It. The Newman Index reports that the Jocal New Era creamery paid $7000 for butter fat for the month ending Septem- ber 15. The Hygeia in the same vicinity $3000 and the skimming station of the Encinal creamery in Alameda, also lo- cated at Newman, paid $4000. In addition to these sources of revenue, many dairy- men, most of them big ones, ship cream direct to the cities. Sober up on Jackson's Napa Soda. Well made MILK CANS well filled NOT AT THE WELL, BUT FROM THE SILO. Let Us Tell You How This Can BEST Be Done. OUR CANS Have Advantages Id construction which yoa will appreciate when explained. G.GlinKo. 34-36 MAIN ST, SAN FRANCISCO 133 N. 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I had a horse with a very bad thoroughpin, I got a bottle of "Save-the-Horse" from Garrett & Taggart of Oakland; used the same according to directions, and when it wa« all used uptbetbor- ougbpin was still there. I thought of all the doctor had told me— that it could not be cured — and let the horse go. After this I saw the horse, and his leg was improved so much that I got him baok, bought another bottle of "Save-the-Horse," and two-thirds of that bottle cured him sound as ever. Since then, while working a colt for speed, it hit one knee and ruptured a blood vessel. I tried the balance of the bottle of 'Save-the-Horse" on it, and it has improved so much that I think it will cure that also. Please send me another bottle. Both cases were given up as incurable by three or four of our bestvetinarians. The thoroughpin was treated by three expert veterinary surgeons without any result except terrible torture to the horse. The leg was badly burned by such treatment, and I was compelled to apply lard and sweet oil to stop the burn, and to this day the horse is badly scarred. HARRY D. BROWN, 266 Second St., Oakland, Cal. f September 7th, at the Fasig-TIpton sales at Sheepshead Bay, Long Island, N. Y., a yearling by Esher-Excellenza was being sold by Mr. William Easton, and when the animal was led into the ring he said: "This horse has been suffering from a bog spavin, of which practically no trace remains. He was treated with that remedy called "Save-the-Horse," which all of you know, and it did save the horse— that is, it cured him. Now you know lots of great horses. Morel lo and others, were success- fully raced, and there is no reason to expect that this colt will ever take a lame step." The bidding then opened at $250, and the colt was sold for $800 to Mr. J. D. Smith. I D. E. 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Breeder an» Sportsman, 38 Geary street, Sao Franjisco, Cal. f PALACE HOTEL, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA. 5 TOURISTS and TRAVELERS will, now, with difficulty recognize the famous COURT into which for twenty-five years carriages have driven. This space of over a quarter of an acre has recently, by the addition of very handsome furniture, rugs, chandeliers and tropical plants, been converted into a lounging room— the FINEST IN THE WORLD. The EMPIRE PARLOR— the PALM ROOM, furnished in Cerise, with Billiard and Pool tables for the ladies— the LOUIS XV PARLOR the LADIES WRITING ROOM and numerous other modern improvements, together with the unexcelled Cuisine and the Most Convenient Location in the City— all add much to the ever increasing popularity of this most famous HOTEL. October 17, 1903] &h& gveefrev ottfcr ^pmrtsmcm 13 The Bone of the Hog. ThiB ia a part of the hog which pro- duces much diecuasion, as we have three divisions on the bone question. Some breeders want the heavy bone others the light bone, and others the medium bone. The different expert associations will meet throughout the next two months, and breeders will study the hog, bone and all. The following points on bone, taken from an exchange, present the question in an interesting manner, and are worthy of your attention : Size of "bone does not seem to be the index of its strength. There is a fine- ness of structure in bone that is neces- sary to greatest strength. This quality of bone goes with highest vitality or completest development of all the parts that go to make up the animal of highest type and fullest development. No man has yet Been the bullock of abnormally large bone take a prize at the fat-stock show for the best beast on ''oot or on the block, and until the animal law of growth is changed, no man ever will find prize winners among the big, spongy-boned brutes. The animal of highest vitality is the one with strength of muscle, bone, fiber and every vital organ above the average.- The big spongy bone ^always means low vitality. Its texture and coarseness is an index of flesh and skin. The coarse boned beast is a poor handler. Quality of bone is of first importance, and it seems impossible to find this along with abnormal bigness. The size and quality of bone may be affected by char- acter of feed, but this cannot wholly over- come the inherited effect of selection and hereditary. The highest quality of bone is the product of good breeding and judici- ous feeding. The eye cannot always detect the quality of bone in the living animal, but the practiced eye along with the practiced hand, can tell much of the quality and texture. The extremes of bigness and smallness of bone are to be avoided. Each has its objections. The bone of greatest excellence is found between the two extremes. After the breeders have been selected let it be borne in mind that quality is easily affected by feeding. This means the feed must not be all corn, or of the fat forming kind, but must furnish the elements for making bone and fibre as well as fat. The Nebraska and Utah experiments are showing that alfalfa or middlings or grass should always be fed with corn, as they bo balance the ration as to insure better and cheaper growth and greater vitality, because of better bone and vital organs. the same sources will be over $100 for the entire herd of twenty-eight. These re suits do not come from feeding expensive feeds or excessive feeding. They are not due to fine barns or unusual treatment of any kind. But they are the result of doing the right thing at the right tim« and in the proper way. We will try to teach these methods in our short winter course, of which we are now mailing an- nouncements. Brighton Beach Racing Association EVENTS OF 1904-1905 Sacramento canneries have put up this Beason ao far, over four million pounds of tomatoes; this would make 83,000 cases worth $166,000, which is a nice little sum as a side issue. The bends and low lands along- the Sacra- mento river from Red Bluff down, pro duce the finest tomatoes in the world with less trouble and cost, yet carload after carload of catsup and like products come to California from the eastern States each year. — Willows Journal. FOR SALE. -pOUR-YEAR-OLD BAY GELDrNG BY LIN- " wood Wilkes 2:20; dam, the standard and reg- istered mare Juauita Skinner by Silas Skinner 2:17; second dam, Gipsey by Echo 462; third dam, Jean by Black Hawk 767. This gelding is a good gaited, square trotter, and with but little work has trotted a mile in 2:25 on the Santa Rosa track. Is an excellent prospect and will be sold reason- able. Apply to Dr. J. W. CLARK, Santa Rosa Hunt and Fish ALONG THE DINE OF THE Califorma & NorlliwestBrn By (LESSEE OF THE S. F. & N. P. K. K.) Best Hunting and Fishing In the State Numerous and Popular Resorts Hot and Gold Mineral Springs HEALTH PLEASURE RECREATION Pine Camping Grounds on Beautiful Streams Best Section In California for Fruit and Breeding: Farms The route to San Rafael, Petaluma, Santa Rosa Ukiah, and the Famous Pleasure and Health Resorts in Lake County. Saturday to Monday round-trip ticket at reduced rates. Ticket Offices— 850 Market Street, Chronicle Building, and Tiburon Ferry. K. X. RYAN, Gen. Pass. Agt. To Close on Monday, November 2, 1903 TO BE RUN IN 1904. THE BRIGHTON JUNIOR STAKES (Guaranteed gross value, $15,000) FOB TWO-YEAR-OLDS NOW YEARLINGS By subscription of $250 each, half forfeit. If deolared by March 15, 1904, $35; by May 15, 1904, $75 The Association to add $2500 The sec- ond horse to receive $2000 and the third horse $1000 out of the stakes. Winners of a race of the value of $5000 to carry 3 pounds extra; of two races of $5000 or one of $10,000, 5 pounds extra. Non-winners of a race, of the value of $2500. allowed 5 pounds; of a race of the value of $2000," allowed 7 pounds; of a race of the value of $1000, allowed 10 pounds; of a race of the value of $700, allowed J5 pounds. Six Furlongs. - , THE NEPTUNE STAKES (Guaranteed gross value, $7500) SSSa-SESS NOW YEARLINGS. By subscription of $150each, half forfeit. If declared by March 15, 1904, I $25; by May 15, 1904, $50. The Association to add $1500, The second horse to receive $1000 and * the third horse $500 out of tne stakes. Winners of a race of the value of $5000 to carry 8 lbs extra; of two races or $5000. or one of $10,000, 5 lbs extra. Non-winners of a race of the value of $2500 allowed 5 lbs; of $1500, allowel 7 lbs; of $1000, allowed 10 lbs; of $700, allowed 15 lbs. Six FurloDgs. THE VENUS STAKES (Guaranteed gross value, $7500) £>g Til.™* NOW YEARLINGS. By subscription of $150 each, half forfeit. If declared by Mareh 15, 1904' $25; by May 15, 1904, $50- The Association to add $1500. The second horse to receive $1000 and the third horse $500 out of the stakes. Winners of a race ot the value of $2500 to carry 3 lbs extra: of a race of the value of $4000, 5 lbs extra. Non-winners of a race of the value of $1500 allowed 5 lbs: of $1000, allowed 8 lbs; of $700, allowed 12 lbs. Maidens allowed 15 lbs. Five Furlongs. TO BE RUN IN 1905. THE BRIGHTON DERBY ^Guaranteed gross value, $15,000) ISKSfSi," NOW YEARLINGS By subscription of $250 each, half forfeit. If declared by January 1, 1905, $35; by May 15. 1905, $75. The Association to add $5000. The second horse to receive $2000 and the third horse $1000 out of the stakes. Non-winners of a race of the value of $2000 in 1905 allowed 8 lbs; or a race of the value of $1000 in 1905 allowed 11 lbs; of a race of the value of $700 in 1905 allowed 14 lbs. One Mile and a Half. THE IROQUOIS STAKES (Guaranteed gross value, $75M)5Kb™»" NOW YEARLINGS- Bv subscription of $150 each, half forfeit. If declared by January], 1905, $25; by May 15, 1905, $50. The Association to add $1500. The second horse to receive $1000 and the third horse $500 out of the stakes. Non-winners of a race of the value of $2000 in 1905 allowed 7 lbs; ot a race of the value of $1500 in 1905 allowed 10 lbs; of a race of the value of $800 in 1905 allowed 15 lbs. One Mile and a Quarter. THE BRIGHTON OAKS (Guaranteed gross value, $7500) KabSSS FILLIBS NOW IEAELIN6S. Br subscription of $150 each, half forfeit. If declared" by Ja'nuary r. 1905. $25; by May 15. 1905. $50. The Association to add $1500. The second horse to receive $1000 and the third horse $500 out of the stakes. Winners of a race of the yalue of $3500 in 1905 to carry 3 lbs extra Non-winners in 1905 of a race of the value of $1500 allowed 5 lbs: of a race of the value of $1000 allowed 9 lbs; of a race of the value of $700 in 1905 allowed 12 lbs. One mile and a Furlong. The Rales of Racing adopted by the Jockey Club and the National Steeplechase and Hunt Association govern all races run under the auspices of the BRIGHTON BEACH RACING ASSOCIATION. JOHN BODEN Jr., Racing Sec'y. WM. A. ENQEMAN, Pres. Profitable Missouri Cows. Prof. C. H. Eckels of the Missouri College of Dairy Husbandry, writes follows to Colman's Rural World: Very few farmers realize the income that can be had from a good cow. The farmer who keepB a cow a year to raise a $15 or $20 calf usually thinks he has done as well as anyone, but his profits do not compare .with those of the dairyman. Except with high-priced registered cattie, as a rule, the milk, not the calf, is the most valuable product of the cow. The milk produced by the average Missouri cow will sell for about $30 at the creamery, or when made into first class butter. A good cow of the dairy breeds will make at least $50 cash income every year. I have a list of about fifty Missouri farmers who report a caBh income of from $50 to $100 per cow every year, and these figures do not include the income from the sale of calves and pigs fed on the skim milk. But, says one, milking is a tremendous task. As a matter of fact, it takes only sixty hours' time, worth about $6, to milk a cow ten months. Now, a few facta and figures from our experience on the state farm. Last year the cash income from the herd was $82.50 per cow for butter sold and $12.50 per cow for milk, skim milk and calves, making a total income from each cow of $95. This year the average income per cow from THE MONK AND The Champion Team Record. EQUITY 2:09 3-4 Owned by C. K. G. Billings. Books and Pictures ABOUT California Mountains, Valleys, Canyons, Lakes and Seaside and Vacation Places. Shall It Be A Camp In the forest A Mountain Lake A Good Hotel and Trout for Breakfast or A Seaside Resort and Clam Chowder for Dinner The Publications of the Southern Pacific Cover all Desirable Places and answer question! of Distance, Accommodations, Expense, Pares, Route, etc. Nothing Left to the imagination. Inquire at INFORMATION BUREAU 613 MARKET STREET ABSORBINE iHELPED. --t-iQTJITY 2:12*4 was sold at the Pasig Sale for $750 because he was blemished. Later J^ he passed to Mr. A. E Perren, who knew he could get him right by careful nursing and using the proper remedy. He did so and sold him to Mr. Billings for $10,000. "A big price!" you say, but Equity made good when he and The Monk set the team reeord out of reach of any other team in the world, and It is believed they can reduce it. A recent letter from Mr. Perren reads as follows: Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 16, 1903. DR. W. P- YOUNG. Springfield, Mass. Dear Sir:— I have used Absorbine on my horses, one of which was Equity, who, with The Monk, established a new world's wagon record to pole of 2:09?*, and I have so far found that it does just what you claim for it. It is as much of a necessity in my stable as hay, oats, etc. Yours truly. A. E. PERREN. ABSORBINE sent, express paid, to your address upon receipt of $3, Many leading trainers use Absorbine Wash. See directions in free book. Manufactured by W. F. YOUNG, P. D. F., Springfield, Mass. CLOSING OUT SALE Standard-Bred TROTTING STOCK From the Ranch of W. P. HARKEY, of gutter Connty, California, Saturday, Oct. 24, 1903 Commencing at 1 o'clock p m. sharp at S. S. HARKEY'S FEED STABLES, on E Street between First and Second, Marysvllle, Cal. DESCRIPTION No 1— One 5-year-old brown Mare by Moses 3 ; 1st dam Brownie Wilkes by Ulster Wilkes, he by Guy Wilkes; 2d dam Luna by Dasbwood; Sd dam Cripple by Eoho This Ally has had very little work and stepped a mile In 2:28 at 3 years old. A nice, square-gaitcd trotter. No 2— A 4-year-old, a full sister to No. 1, but a pacer and was stepping one-quarter in 35 sec. with ease last March: has had no work since. She Is as flue a prospeot as there Is In the Stat*. Good size, level headed and a nice mover; shows great speed. . No. 3— Bay gelding, 3 years old, by Lynmont, dam Brownie Wilkes. See No. 1. No 4— Bay gelding 2 years old, by Lynmont, dam Brownie Wilkes. See No. 1. OF STOCK, No. 5— Thoroughbred sorrel mare by Three Cheers; dam by Bloomsberry. No. 6— Sorrel mare, fine brood mare, 10 years old. No 7— Black mare, fine brood mare, 7 years old. No. 8— 3-year-oid colt, draft stock, a good one. No. 9— One span of work geldings, 8 years old, weight 1300 pounds No. 10— 2-year-old colt out of a draft horse and tbiroughbred mare. No. 11— i-year-old colt out of a draft horse and thoroughbred mare. Which should make great all-purpose horses. No. 12— Bay buggy horse, gentle for a lady to drive. WILLIAM LEECH, Auctioneer. Offices— 238|4 D and 319 C Streets, Marysvllle, Cal. (fthe Qvetbsx emit gfrtrctstnem [October 17, 1»08 THE BAYWOOD STUD THE BUNGALOW, SAN MATEO, CAL (Property of Johk Pabhott, Esq.) Devoted Exclusively to tlie Breeding and Training of High Stepping- Hackney-Bred Harness Horses WALTER SEALY, Manager. SADDLES Tuff Goods Always the Best for the Money. JEPSEN BROS CO..NC 1145-47 Market St. San Francisco Raising Mules in Kentucky. QUINNS OINTMENT FOR HORSES stands at the head of all veterinary remedies. Such troubles 1 'as Spavins, Curbs, Windpuffs, Splints, Bunches have no W % terrors for a horse if the master keeps and applies Quinn's Ointment. All f* well known horsemen speak of it in the highest terms : SDller i Sibley of Franklin, Pa., owners of St. Bel, brother of late Bel Boy, write, "We have csed Qoinn'5 Ointment with great success and believe it fulfills all claimed for it. We cheer- fully recommend it to our friends.'* For Curbs, Splints, Spavins or Bunches it has no equal. Price $1.00 per package. Sold by all druggists, or sent by mail. x W. B. EDDY a QQ.,~ WHITEHALL, N. Y. Awarded Gold Medal At California State Fair 1892. Every horse owner who values his stock should constantly have a sup- ply of it on hand. It '.mproves and keeps stock in the pink of condition. Manhattan Food Co QAI I DDA MH * 253 Folsom St., San Francisco DMLL DiiMIl Ui ABk your grocers or dealers for it. Positively Cures Colic, Scouring and Indigestion. C. P. EERIELL. RED Manager IHHliH BUSINESS COLLEGE 24 Post Street, San Francisco, CaL The oldest, the largest, the most popular com- mercial school on the Pacific Coast. 20,000 gradu- ites; 30 teachers; 70 typewriters; over 300 students annually placed in positions. Send for catalogue. E. P. HEiLD. President. CALIFORNIA Photo Engraving Company HIGH CLASS ART IS Half Tonet and Idnt Engraving Artlstlo DealgnJag. HIMimin St.. cor. Flirt. Sam Franello* TrSlC IE FOR SALE, THB PACING MAKE STVANHILDA. She is a handsome bay, coming seven years old, a natural pacer and with hut little track work can pace a mile below 2:20 with ease. Gentle aud kind and has been driven by ladies to buggy She is a fine roadster and with proper training will make a great race mare. For pedigree and further particulars address w. l. Mcdonald, concord, c»l FOR SALE. rpHE PACING GELDING, AX SANDY 3:26 -L by Wavland W., dam Rapid Ann by Overland. Can pace three heats better than 2:20. Can brush very fast oo the road. Also the black pacing gelding, DOC 2:28. one or the best roadsters in the city. Can lower his record several seconds. Both horses are excellent prospeots to race. For pnoes and further particulars address S. WATSON, 235 Douglas street, San Franoisco. £0C0ANUT OIL CAKE THE BEST ■■'KHIl FOE STOCK, CHICKENS AND PIGS FOE SALE IS LOTS TO SUIT BY EL DORADO LINSEED OIL WORKS CO 208 California Street, San Franoisco, Cal. Two or more neighbors may own a first-clasB bull, where one could not afford to do alone. This could be easily done, after a thorough agreement. The mu'e industry in Kentucky is an important one. For the most part, faicy work teams and cotton mules tor the Southern trade are raised, very little at- tention being paid to the small mining mule here and few are produced. The greatest attention is devoted to the cotton mule, which measures from four- teen to fifteen and a half hands, and markets at from $100 to $135. Mule colts are bought up during the summer, delivered in October, stabled and fed during the winter months, and grazed through the following summer until the second or third year, when they are shipped to the South and sold to planters. The mule market opens in De- cember and is practically over by the laBt of February. Atlanta, Memphis and St. Louis are the principal cotton mule markets now. Fancy teams bring fancy prices, some as high as $50), but this is for exceptionally fine teams. Some niinerB demand very small mules and these sell at from $35 to $50 each, while other miners use a better class of mules that sell from $85 to $100. Many of the mule dealers rent out teams to these farmers, who are not able to buy, but agree to break them and give the best of care and feed through spring and aum- mer for the use of teams and return them in time to fatten for the winter market. This is an accommodation to both mule dealer and farmer. As a rule the mule has an easy time of it nntil his third year, and he does little except to play and eat, but after he is Bold to planter or miner, his real work begins that ends only with death. The work for the mining mule is so very hard that it is said he iB literally pulled to pieces in two years. — L. Jones. May- wood, Ky. Big Dairy for Stanislaus County. The Stanislaus Land and Abstract Company has consummated the sale of S40 acres of land, which lies about two miles southwest of Crow's Landing, on the San Joaquin river, to two gentlemen from Santa Monica, who are largely in- terested near that place in the dairying bueiness. The gentlemen are H. Michael and John Grossman. They have been in partnership at Santa Monica for a num- ber of vears and their dairy business there has developed to enormous size. At the present time thay have a herd of 250 fine dairy cows, which they milk every day. They have their own skimming station and creamery, and aside from the milk thev get from their own cows, every month they buy from the farmers in that vicinity over $1500 worth of bntter fat. These gentlemen expect to carry on the same business in Stanislaus county that they do in Santa Monica, except on a larger scale. They will remove the greater part of their dairy herd to their newly acquired farm, and will purchase new stock. A skimming Btation will be built immediately and for the time being the cream will be disposed of to the New- man or Crow's Landing creameries. Later, however, it is their intention to erect a creamery of their own, and then they will buy cream from the other dairy- men on the WeBt Side. The land waB purchased for $12 per acre. It is all located in the Turlock district and can be put under water at any time. The chanceB are that within a few years the tract will be raising alfalfa, when a greater number of cowb may be fed on the same space. This is a transaction which means much to the county in general and the West Side in particular, as it will bring the farmers of that vicinity thousands of dollars. It is a pleasure to chronicle the the advent of such enterprises to our county. — Modesto Xeics. .Dr.Smith^ 'For muscular Iame= [ness or corded back, J no other liniment .is it's equal. No pacing stable^ .should be without , it. Good stuffy You Bet All Druggists and Harness Dealers or Vita Oil Co., 1533 Buchanan St San Francisco, Cal. J. A. McKerron and J, O'Kane, Agts NEW MODEL Never fill the churn more than one-half full : one-third is better. THE BEST IN THE WORLD. O'BRIEN & SONS Cor. Golden Gate Ave. and Folk St. SAN FBANCISCO, CAL FOR SALE. Three Standard-Bred Trotting Stallions WILKES STOCK. One Seal Brown, 16 hands, fcaled May 2, 1898; first dam Fearless by Fallis 4781 {record 2:23); second dam Jean Perault by Signal 3327. One Golden Bay, 16. l hands, foaled March 5, 1898; first dam Signal by Del Sur 1098 (record 2:24). dam of Guy Line 2:29^; second dam Lady Sig- nal by Signal 3327. One BrowD, white points, 16.1 hands, foaled April, 1899; full brother to the bay. These colts are all sired by Prince Airlee 28045, son of Guy Wilkes 2S07 (record 2:15M). and bred by Wm. Corbltt, San Mateo, Cal. They are pure gaited and snow wonderful speed for the little work they have done. For further particulars apply to P. H. McETOY, Menlo Park, CaL ABSORBINE removes any soft bunch from Animal or Mankind without causing any inconvenience or stopping work. Allays inflammation quickly. Everybody should have a Pamph- let on "Absorbine" which is mailed free, write for it now. Get the remedy at the Store, or delivered for $2.60 per bottle. W- F. YOUNG, P- D. F., SPRINGFIELD, ■ - - MASS. Also manufact'r of "Taroleum-' for Horses Feet For sale by Mack & Co., Langley & Mlohaeli Co RedingtoB & Co., J- O'Kaae, and J. A. McKerron all of San Francisco. Jackson's Napa Soda does not tangle the feet October 17 1903] ©J« gveebev txnb &ptfvt&tnaii 15 BALLISTITF The Standard Dense Powder of the World. ^^^« 1901— Wins Second in Grand American Handicap at Targets. 1902' — Wins First in Grand American Handicap at Targets. 1903— Wins during Grand American Handicap week at Kansas City. First Amateur Average in Regular Events. Third General Average in Regular Events ALL OF ABOVE ARK AMATEUR RECORDS. Take No One's Word. Try It for Yourself. I W I All A m 75 CHAMBERS ST., NEW YORK CITY U. ll» l—MW ** V/V/« Telephone 1747 Franklin. Importers and Dealers In Fire Arms, Ammunition and Fencing Goods. Sole Agents for BALL1STITE (Dense) and EMPIRE (Bulk) Smokeless Powders and the REBLE GUN. A postal brings catalogue and "Shooting Facts" (third edition) BALLISTITF The Standard Dense Powder of the World. *^^™ NEW "E. C." NEW "SCHULTZE" SHOTGUN RIFLEITE -...,..„», „ THE AMERICM "E. C." and "SCHULTZE" Bunpowder Co., LU PHIL B EKKEART CO., Psclflc Coast Representative. The World's Greatest Shooting Record. FRED GILBERT, of Spirit Lake, la., since Jan. 1,1902, has shot in competition at 5765 Targets, breaking 5532 or 95.9 per cent, using a PARKER GUN AT SHOT AT Natchez, Miss 400 Port Dodge, la 300 Lake6eia, Minn 205 Sioux City, la 360 Dubuque, la 360 THE 'OLD RELIABLE" IS RELIABLE. AT BROKE PER CENT 396 .. 99 296 .. 98.6 203 .. 99 351 .. 97 351 .. 97.5 PARKER BROTHERS Send for catalogue. MERIDEN, CONN N. Y. Salesroom, 33 Warren St. CAMPBELL'S EM0LL10 IODOFORM GALL CURE For GALL BACKS and SHOULDERS, CRUPPER SORES and SADDLE GALLS there is none superior. The horse CAN BE WORKED AS USUAL For BARBED WIRE CUTri, CALKS, SCRATCH- ES, BLOOD POrSONED SORES and ABRASIONS OF THE SKIN it has no equal. It is very adhesive and easily applied to a watery as well as a dry sore. Its use will absolutely prevent BLOOD POISON- ING. In this respect there is no Gall, Cure offered which can justly even claim to be a competitor. We placed it on the market relying wholly on its merit for success, and notwithstanding the fact that comparatively little has been done in the way of advertising the salesof 1900 were 100 per cent great- er than the aggregate sales of Gall Cure preceding that year. This increase was entirely due to its MERITS, and from it we feel justified in saying that Jt is THE GALI/CURE OF THE 20TH CENTURY. It is a quick and sure cure for those troublesome skin cracks under the fe --ck v nich injure and often lay up race horses. All Trainers Should Have It in Their Stables PRICE:— 3 OZ. BOX, ioc; 1 LB. BOX, 81.00. Read our "ad." on Campbell's Horse Foot Remedy in next issue of this pap* r. JAS. B. CAMPBELL & CO., Mfrs.,412 W. Madison St., Chicago, III. VETERINARY. DR. C. MASOERO VETERINARY SURGEON Graduate of Royal Veterinary College of Turin Infirmary AND Residence— 811 Howard St.: between Fourth and Filth Sts., San Francisco. Telephone: Main 457. Ira Barker Dalziel VETERINARY DENTIST Fancy Carriage, Saddle and Roa<* Morses for Sale Office and stable: 805 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, Cal. Telephone South 651. M. R. C. V. S.. F. E. T. M. S. VETERINARY SURGEON. Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, England; Fellow of the Edinburg Veterinary Medical Society; Graduate of the New Veterinary College Edinburgh; Veterinary Sur- geon to the S. F. Fire Department; Live Stock Inspector forNew Zealand and Australian Colonies at the port of San Francisco; Professor of Equine Medicine, Veterinary Surgery, Veterinary Depart- ment University of California; Ex-President oi the California State Veterinary Medical Associa- tion; Veterinary Infirmary, Residence and Office, San Francisco Veterinary Hospital, 1117 Golden Gate Avenue, near Webster St., San Francisco: Telephone West 12*. ROSE HOTEL PLEASANTON, CAL. Enlarged, Rebuilt. Twenty-five New Rooms Newly Furnished, Electric Lights* Running Water. Up to date. A. 8. OLNEY * SON Proprietor! Chronic Bronchitis and Catarrh of the Bladder Cored In 48 Hoars. CAPSULES Superior to Copaiba. CabetM or Injeastcm BLAKE, M0FFITT & T0WNE DEALERS IN 55-57-59-61 First Street, 8. F. Tcjfeofi Main i w DQGH^LTH IS POSITIVE IN THE PRESENCE OF SERGEANT'S CONDITION PILLS. Lustrous eyes, keen appetite, strength and ambition all reclaimed by this world renowned dog remedy. For torpid liver it is unexcelled. As a general tonic supreme. Mange, Distemper, Chills, Fever and General Debility posi- tively cured by it, and for every sickness to which a dog is subject these pills are administered in preference to any other medicine. 60c. and $1.00, postpaid. SERGEANT'S SURE SHOT emancipates the canine from worms and may be depended upon. 60c. by mail. All remedies bearing our stamp are Standard the World Over. An order or 8c. in stamps will bring to your desk free our Revised Dog Treatise and a Pedigree Blank. "Sergeant's Dog Remedies'' for sale by all Druggists and Sporting Goods Dealers. F. W. BRAUN « CO., Los Angeles, Cal., Pacific Coast Supply Depot SPRATTS PATENT. DOG CAKES REMEDIES SOAP. NEW ASK, N. J. Send for tree copy o! " DOG CTJLTT/BE." ST. LOUIS, MO. Pacific Coalt Branch — 1324 Valencia Street, San Francisco. Agents tor " SANITAS " Dlsinlectant. AT STUD CUBA OP KENWOOD CQlenbelgh Jr.-Stella) SAM'S BOW (Plain Sam-Dolly Dee EC) STOCKDALE KENNELS K. M. DODGE, Manager, Bakersfleld, Kern Co., Boarding. Pointer Puppies and well-broken Dogs for sale. PEDIGREES TABULATED And typo written Ready for framing. Wrf» for prices. Breeder AND Sportbman, S6 Geary Street, San Franolsoo, Oal. SUBSCRIBE TO COLLIES. First St. San Jose STUD CHAMPlUN HANOVER MONARCH (A. K. C. S. B. 5998) by the great sire Ch. Ellwyn Astrologer from Ch, Old Hall Moon. Fee 815. Pictures and Pedigree upon applica- tion. High-class Puppies for sale. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS Advertisements under this head one cent per word per insertion. Cash to accompany order. ST. BERNARDS A T STUD— CHAMPION LE KING. GRAND- -^- est headed St. Bernard on the Coast. Fee $20. W. WALLACE, 58 Boyce St., San Francisco. COCKER SPANIELS. NAIROD KENNELS— 132 NINTH AVENUE, near California. Champion bred Cooker ■Spaniels at stud and for sale. FOR SALE— COCKER SPANIEL PUPPIES by Ch. Hampton Goldle. Apply s>t junotloa old county and Red wood roads, Fraltvale, Alamsda ENGLISH SETTERS. Q ENGLISH SETTER PUPPIES, WHELPED " May 2; black, white and tan; dam, Ladj Sweetheart (Count Danstone— Speckle Lady); sire, Victor L Gladstone (Champion Gladstone Boy— Juno); high altitude for developing lungs; should make champions; shipped on approval. Write for pedigrees. DIAMOND KENNELS, Box 205, Butte. Mont. IRISH AND SCOTCH TERRIERS. Showing exact position of every horse, including the favorite, which was either first, second third or fourth at each quarter pole, also positions al start. Events reported from all parts of Canada and United States. Issued the 1st and lGth of every month, from April 15th to Ootober 15th. Price 60c, 75c. or SI, according to Issue. For sale at all principal hotels, news stands and race tracks in the country, and publishers' office. GOODWIN BROS., 1440 Broadway, N. Y. ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION, $18, which includes all semimonthly editions and two morocco bound semi-annuals. Explanatory circularlmailcd free. For sale by the Breeder and Sportsman. TRISH AND SCOTCH TERRIER PUPPIES x at $12 and $15. Sired by Champion Loyne Ruffian and Champion Fighting Mao. Mrs. BRADLEY-DYNE. Saturna P. O B. O. COLLIES. pOLLIE PUPS FOR SALE— BY PRIZE ^ winning imported sires and dams, fit for bench, ranch or farm Both seies. Prices accord- ing to quality. Correspondence solicited: all let- ters cheerfully answered. THOS. S. GRIFFITH, Box 1907. Spokane, Wash BREEDERS' DIRECTORY. HOL STEINS— Winners of every 7 days' butter contest at State Fair 1899 1st & 2d for aged cows, 4-yr.,3-yr. and S-yr.-oIds; 31 Jerseys and Durbams competing. 5th year my Holstelns have beaten Jerseys for butter. Stock for sale; also pigs. F. H. Burke, 30 Montgomery St.,S. F. JERSEYS, HOL8TEIN8 AND DURH A" Dairy Stock specially. Hogs, Poultry. Es: llshed 1878. William Nilea £ Co.: Los Angela Cal. AYR SHDttBS— Young Bulls. Oows and Be Ksglst ered . From pri ze w Inning f amillfc B * Brandon Frtaluna Cal. 16 &he gxeeftev mtb gppartsman [October 17, 1903 Telephone-. South 640 wsEmsn San Francisco, Cal.^0^- Cablegram to President Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, London, July 11, 1903. American Rifles, AMMUNITION and Men won victory to=day over Great Britain, Canada, France, Norway, Australia and Natal, and bring back Palraa trophy. (Signed) LIEUT. ALBERT S. JONES, (copied from tue n. y. Herald.) Secretary of the National Rifle Association of America. THIS SWEEPING VICTORY for America and the Extraordinary Score of 1570 out of a Possible 1800 were made with. 30-40 Regular Factory Cartridges, Manufactured by the UNION METALLIC CARTRIDGE COMPANY Selected after Exhaustive Trials, by the American Team, in Preference to All Others for their Wonderful and Extreme Accuracy. SCORES ARE IMPROVED BY USING U. M. C. AMMUNITION THE UNION METALLIC CARTRIDGE COMPANY Pacific Coast Branch Depot {"-"FFS&il'ZES!™10 it WINCHESTER LEADER" SHELLS LEAD At the Third Annual Target Tournament of the Dominion of Canada Trap Shooting and Game Protective Association, held in Toronto, August 12th to 15th, inclusive, winnings were made as follows: 1st Day: Hierh average for day by Mr. HJgglnson of Buckingham, Quebec. 3d Day: Two Men Team Championship of Canada, 20 targets per man, won by Messrs. McGIU and Wakefield of Torouto, with score of 37. High average for day won by F. Westbrooke of Brantford. 3d Day: Parker Gun won by J. Hovey of Clinton, who also won high average 4th Day: Grand Canadian Handicap, 100 targets, won by Mr. Craig of Sherbrooke, with a score of 93. •'Mall Trophy," the most important trap shooting trophy In Canada, emblematic of Five Man Team Championship of Canada, won by Brantford Gun Club Team, with score of 222 oat of 250, The Montreal Rolling Mills Company Cup, emblematic of Individual Championship of Canada, won by Mr. Bain of Winnipeg, with a score of 48 out of 50 targets. High average for the day — "Beresford Cigar" Cup— won by Mr. Hovey. All these splendid victories were won with Winchester "Leader" Shells, and are a forcible testimony to the uniformity of these goods. , PACIFIC COAST AGENCY: 127-135 FIRST STREET. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. -A.. MULLEB., Agent. Loaded. In O. !F». W . Smolieless. Winning Highest Average at All Shoots. IF YOU WAST THE BEST ASK FOR California Powder Works FACTORY LOADED SHELLS. If Tour Dealer don't keep them write the CALIFORNIA POWDER WORKS— Office 330 Market St., San Francisco Manufacturers of HERCULES DTK AMITE. HERCULES GELATINE. CHAMPION IMPROVED BLASTING, BLACK BLASTING, BLACK SPORTING. C. P. W. SMOKELESS and MILITARY SMOKELESS Also sell CAPS and FUSE. Clabrough, Goloher & Go. TONS Gun Goods •9 Bund lor OftUlague, FISHING Tackle You can get these Smokeless Powders in FACTORY . . LOADED SELBY SHELLS DU PONT "E. C." SCHULTZE HAZARD SHOTGUN RIFLEITE BALLISTITE LAFLIN Sz RAND INFALLIBLE." What More do you Want? SMITH GUNS LONGEST STRAIGHT RUNS ^^ At S. F. Trap Shooting Association May 22—33—84—35 VAUGHN, - - 72 Straights FEUDNKE, - 62 « Also longest straight run and first monies at live birds All Kinds of Ammunition... aPaa°onn to Hunter Arms Co., Fulton, N. Y. PHIL. B. BEKEART CO.. San Francisco, Coast Representative Du Pont Gun Powder SMOKELESS, SHOT GUN and MXLITABY POWDEB Black Powder for Sporting and Blasting Purposes Che Reputation of a Hundred Yean ia the Guarantee of 638 MARKET STREETS. F. C. A. HAIOBI, Ajtaot. DU PONT POWDER 319 Mission St., Boom 311, San PtbhoIks, Ci TOL. Tim. N<>1 17 3a GEARY STREET. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1903. SUBSCRIPTION THREE DOLLARS A YEAR AT PLEASANTON TRACK 1— Bay Gelding by JaDies Madison, dam by Stelnway. -3— Bert Arandale, bay Gelding by Slduey Dillon, dam Oakley Russell by Happy Russell. 3— A Coming 2:10 Trotter by Bay Bird. 4— Bay Gelding by Antrim. 5— Saoml, b s by Zombro, dam Belle Medium, dam of Stam B. 211 1-4. 3 @4xe gveefr&c ani> ^portemou [October 24, 1903 ENTRANCE FEE REDUCED TO $2. $6000 Pacific Breeders Futurity Ne. 4. $6000 GUARANTEED BY THE GUARANTEED Pacific Coast Trotting Horse Breeders Association FOR FOALS OF MARES BRED IN 1903. TO TROT OR PACE AT TWO AND THREE YEARS OLD. ENTRIES TO CLOSE NOVEMBER 2, 1903. Only $2 to Nominate Mare. $3250 for Trotting: Foals. $1750 for Pacing Foals and $200 for Owners of Stallions. $2000 for Tbree=Year=01d Trotters. 200 for Nominator of Dam of Winner of Three=Year=01d Trot. 1250 for Two=Year=OId Trotters. 200 for Nominator of Dam of Winner of Two=Year=OId Trot. 100 to Owner of Stallion, Sire of Winner of Three* Year=01d Trot when Mare was bred. $1000 200 750 200 100 $800 to Nominators of Dams of Winners Money Divided as Follows: for Three=Year=OId Pacers. for the Nominator of Dam of Winner of Three=Year=OId Pace, for Two=Year=01d Pacers. for Nominator of Dam of Winner of Two=Year=01d.Pace. to Owner of Stallion, Sire of Winner of Three-Year=01d Pace when Mare was bred. $5 March I, 1904. ENTRANCE AND PAYMENTS— $2 to nominate Mare on November 2, 1903, when name, color, description of mare and stallion bred to must be given yearlings March ], 1905. $10 on two-year-olds March 1, 1906. $10 on three-year-olds March 1, 1907. STARTING PAYMENTS— $25 to start in the two-year-old pace. $35 to start in the two-year-old trot. $35 to start In the three-year-old pace. $50 to start in the three-year old irot payments to be made ten days before the first day of the meeting at which the race is to take place. Nominators Mnst Designate Whan Making: Payments to Start "Whether the Horse Entered Is a Trotter or Pacer. Colts that Start at Two Years Old are Not Barred from Starting Again in the Three-Year-Old Divisions. CONDITIONS. $5 November 1, 1904. $10 on All starting The races for Two- Year-Olds will be mile heats (2 in 3), and for Three- Year-Olds 3 in 5. Distance for Two- Year-Olds, 150 yards; for Th. ee-Year-Olds, 100 yards. If a mare proves barren, or slips, or has a dead foal, or twins, or If either the mare or foal dies before March 1, 1905, her nominator may transfer his nomination or substitute another mare or foal, regardless of ownership; but there will be no return of a payment, nor will any entry ba liable for more than amount paid in or contracted for. In entries the name, color and pedigree of mare must be given; also the name of the horse to which she was bred in 1903. Entries must be accompanied by the entrance fee. Should the amount of entrance money received be in exeess of the amount of the Stakes the excess will be added, less the cost of postage stamps, printing and advertising, to the Stakes for the Three-Year-Old divisions in proportion to the amount offered in each division. Nominators liable only for amounts paid in. Failure to make any payment forfeits all previous payments. Hopples will not be barred in pacing races Right reserved to declare off or reopen these Stakes in case the number of entries received is not satisfactory to the Board of Directors Money divided in each division of the stake 50, 25, 15 and 10 per cent. There will be no more moneys in each division than there are starters. Entries open to the world; membership In the Association not required to enter, but no horse owned in the State of California will be allowed to start until the owner has become a mem ber. Horses owned outside of the State of California are eligible to start regardless of membership E. P. HEALD. President. F. W. KEIXEY, Secretary. New California Jockey Club OAKLAND INGLESIDE TANFORAN Offers the Following Stakes for the Racing Season of 1903-19C4 TO CLOSE MONDAY, OCTOBER 26- 1903 .CALIFORNIA RAGING SEASON OPENS SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1 903. « I n nnn THE BURNS HANDICAP.— A handicap for two-j ear-olds and upward at time ot clos- «piv,vvu jng Entrance S20 each; $30 additional for horses not declared out by 4 p. m. on second day following announcement of weights. -5100 additional for starters. The CJub to add an amount necessary to make the gross value of the race $10,000, of which $-2000 to second and $1000 to third. Weights to be announced five days prior to the race. Winners of other than a selling purse after announcement of weights to carry o lbs. extra; if handicapped at less than weight for age, 7 lbs. extra. To be run Saturday, February 6, 1904. One Mile and a Quarter C2 flftfl THE CHRISTMAS HANDICAP.— A handicap for three-year-olds and upward at time of •vu,\l\iv closing. $75 to start; $10 forfeit; $3000 added, of which $6O0 to second and $050 to third. Added Weights to be announced three days prior to the race. Winners of other than a selling purse after the announcement of weights to carry 5 lbs. extra To be run Friday. December 25. 1903. One Mile and a Qnarter «1 flftft THE WATERHOUSE CUP.— A handicap for two year-olds and upward at time of clos- «"*i""« ing. $75 to start; $10 forfeit; $3000 added, of which $600 to second and $250 to third; the Added fourth to save starting fee. Weights to be announced three days prior to the race Win- nersof other than a selling purse after the announcement of weights to carry 5 lbs. extra. To be run Saturday, March 5, 1904 Two and One-Quarter Mile «? SflO THE CALIFORNIA DERBY.— Three year-olds of 1901 (now two-year-olds). $75 to start. """'""" $10 forfeit: $2500 added, of which $500 to second and $250 to third. Winners of a stakes for Added two-year-olds in 1903 or for tbree-year-olds in 1904 after the dosing of this stakes to carry .ilbs extra. Others that have not won at any time a stakes of $2000 or two racesof sioOOeach allowed a lbs; maidens, 12 lbs. To be run Monday, February 22, 1904. One Mile and a Quarter $2 500 THE THORNTON STAKES.-For two-year-olds and upward at time of closing. $60 to * 7" start; $10 forfeit: 52500 added, of which $500 to second, $300 to third, the fourth to save Added starting fee. Three-year-olds to carry 86 lbs.; four-year-olds, 109 lbs.; five-year-olds 115 lbs.; six-year-olds and over, 116 lbs.; (usual sex allowance). This stakes will be reopened 15 days before the date it is to be run for, entries to be received at $50 each: $75 additional to start. To be run Saturday, March 19, 1904. Four Miles S2.000 T,HE THANKSGIVING HANDICAP.-A handicap for three-year-olds and upward at 3 , * !!•"?!, of S°?"lg- S80 t0 start; *10 forte"; *2tm added, of which $400 to second and $200 to Added third. Weights to be announced three days prior to the race. Winners of other than a IS,? ?™« e a,ter the announcement of weights to carry 5 lbs. extra. To be run Thursday, Novem- ber S6, 1903. 0ne M1Ie and a Fnrlons $2 000 THE CXhlF,°^I\9J-K? —F0T tHree-year-old Allies of 1904 (now two-year-olds). sso ?£,» t0 !?lart; $1° forte"; $2000 added, of which $100 to second and $200 to third. Winners of a Added stakes for two-year-olds in 1903 or for three-year-olds in 1904 after the closing of this ^SK'L^'1- Others that have not won at any time a stakes ot $1500 or two stakes of any value in 1903-1904 allowed .-> lbs.; maidens. 12 lbs. To be run Saturday, January 30, 1904 $2,000 Added 1903. One Mile and a Furlong THE OPENING HANDICAP.-A handicap for three year olds and upward at time of w„%= ^ f,»Si,ar„t,:1^°H0S!lt-,5''ml,iiailea-ot wWcn S40<> to second and $200 to third Weights to be published Monday, November 9th. To be run Saturday, November 14. One Mile $2 000 T,HE_1JE?LyEAR.H.4?f.DIPAP•~A_ha??i9aP.f0,: two-year-olds and upward at time of $2,000 Added ens, 12 lbs. $2,000 Added closiDg. 860 to start; $10 forfeit; $2000 added, of which. 1400 to second and $200 to third. Added- Weights to be announced three days prior to the race. Winners of other than a selling purse after the announcement of weights to carry 5 lbs. extra. To be run Friday. January 1, 1904 One Mile and a Fnrlong THE BELL STAKES.— For two-year-olds (now yearlings). $60 to start; $10 forfeit; $2u00 added, of which $400 to second and $200 to third. Horses that have run three or more times and have not won three races allowed 3 lbs.; two, 5 lbs.; one, 8 lbs.; beaten maid- To be run Saturday, March 12, 1904. Five Furlongs THE GEBHARD HANDICAP— For two-year-olds (now yearlings). $60 to start; $10 forfeit: $2000 added, of which $400 to second and $200 to third. Weights to be announced three days prior to the race Winners of ot&er than a selling purse after announcement of weights to carry Ave pounds extra. To be run Saturday, April 2, 1904. Fnturiry Course (170 feet less than 3£) SI? ftftft THE FOLLANSBEE HANDICAP.— A High-Weight Handicap for two-year-olds and *pi.,uuu upward at time of closing. $60 to start; $10 forfeit; S2000 added, of which $400 to second Added and $200 to third. Weights to be announced three days prior to race Winners of other than a selling purse after the announcement of weights to carry albs, extra. To be run Saturday, January 9, 1904. Seven Furlongs $7 0(1(1 THE ADAM ANDREW SELLING STAKES —For two-year-olds and upward at time *p-,uvv 0f ciosiQg, $60 to start; $10 forfeit; $2000 added, of which $400 to second and $200 to third Added The winner to be sold at auction Those entered to be sold for $3000 to carry weight for age. Allowances: 1 lb. for each $200 to $2000: then l lb. for each $100 to $600. Winners of a race of $1000 or of three races other than selling purses after the closing of this stakes not to be entered for less than $1200. Starters to be named, with selling price, through the entry bos the day preceding - the race, at the usual time of closing, and those so named will be liable for the startiLg fee. To be run Saturday, January 16, 1904. Six and One-Half FurloDgs 52 00ft THE LISSAK HANDICAP— A handicap for two-year-olds and upward at time of •P^jvuu closing. $60 to start; $10 forfeit; $2000 added, of which $400 to second and $200 to third. Added Weights to be announced three days prior to the race. Winners of other than a selling purse after announcement of weights to carry 5 lbs. extra. To be run Saturday, January 23, 1904. One Mile Ss? ftftft THE CROCKER SELLING STAKES.— For three-year-olds and upward at time of c-,uuv closing. $60 to start: $10 forfeit; $2000 added, of whioh $400 to second and $200 to third. Added The winner to be sold at auction. Those entered to be sold for $3000 to oarry weight for age Allowances: 1 lb. for each $200 to $2000: then 1 lb. for each $100 to $500. Winners of a race of the value of $900 or of two races other than selling purses after the closing of this stakes not to ba entered for less than $1200. Starters to be named with selling price, through the entry box the day preceding the race at the usual time of closing and those so named will be liable for starting fee. To ba run Saturday, December 12, 1903. Seven Furlongs $2 OfWI THE pALACE HOTEL HANDICAP —A handicap for two-year-olds and upward at Vi"uvw time of closing. $60 to start; $10 forfeit; $2000 added, of which $100 to second and $200 to Added third. Weights to be announced three days prior to the race Winners of other than a selling purse after the announcement of weights, to carry 5 lbs. extra. To be run Saturday. Febru- ary 13, 1904. one Mile and a Furlong NO PURSE LESS THAN $400. Overnight Handicaps and Special Races with $500 to $1000 added. Beginning on January 1, 1904, will be Given Two or Three Races Each Week for Two- Year-Olds, THOS. H. WILLIAMS, President. Address all communications to PERCY W. TREAT, Secretary, 23 KEARNY STREET, SAW FRANCISCO, CAI. OCTOBER 24, 1903] ®he gveeitev anii gtpjcrrtsmau 3 THE WEEKLY BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN F. W. KELLEY, PROPRIETOR. Turf and Sporting Authority of the Pacific Coast. — omcE- 36 QEARY STREET, SAN FRANCISCO. P. O- BOX 2300. Telephone: Black 686. erme — One Year 93, Six Months SI. 75, Three Months 91 STRICTLY TN ADVANCE. Money snould be sent by postal order, draft or by registered letter addressed to F. W. Kzlley, 38 Geary St., San Francisco. Cal. Communications must be accompanied by the writer's name and address, not necessarily for publication, but as a private guarantee of good faith. San Francisco, Saturday, Oct. 24, 1903. CRESCEUS, the son of Robert McGregor regained the champion crown this week at Wichita, Kansas, and at this writing, (Friday morning, ) still wears it. We have always believed that the mighty chestnut trotter would knock a second or so from his former mark of 2:02| but did not expect that he would make it so emphatic. However, be has done it, and we deprecate the effort that was immediately made in certain quarters to caBt a doubt upon the correctness of the time, and the length of the Wichita track. Why should not Cresceus be as capable of trotting a mile inside of two minutes as any horse that ever lived? He is comparatively young, has all Mb strength and vigor and is sound. At Wichita he was in the very pink of condition, the track and the weather were perfect and two thousand people saw him trot in 1:59}. The timers were reliable men and have made affidavits to the fact that the time given out was correct. All honor to King Cresceus. He is entitled to the crown. As a California journal, the Breeder and Sportsman cannot help hoping that the Queen Lou Dillon will this afternoon still further lower the trotting record and again regain the championship for the Golden State. Her victory will not detract one iota from the greatness of Cres- ceus and until one of his own sex trots faster than 1:59} he will remain the greatest trotting stallion that ever lived. The Breeder and Sportsman's congratulations are extended to Mr. Ketcham, who enjoys the distinction of being the only man that ever bred, trained and drove a champion two minute horse to victory. TWO DOLLARS Is not a great sum of money, but it can be invested in such a manner that it will make the produce of your mare bred this year very valuable. We hear of colts winning stakes worth large sums, but you will notice that colts cannot win these stakeB unless they are entered. A colt may be fast enough as a three-year-old in 1907 to trot in 2:08, but he can't win in either division of the Pacific Breeders $6000 Futurity that year unless he is entered in the stake. Now the date for the nomination of mares in this futurity closes November 2d — oily a few days off. About the best investment you can make with two dollars next week is to send it in, together with the name and description of your mare, and the name of the stallion bred to, and thus secure a nomi- nation in this popular stake. It will be $2 well in- vested if you want to sell the mare, and the invest- ment will increase in value if you desire to sell the colt when it arrives. According to the price paid this year for colts and fillies eligible to futurities, eligibility just about doubles their value. If you think your colt will be worth $100 when weaned, it is pretty safe to figure on his being worth $200 if he is eligible to this stake. The records of the salesrings will prove these assertions. Don't miss a good thing when you have an opportunity. The opportunity will have passed after November 2d. "A word to the wise, "etc. A GREAT SALE will be held by William G. Layng at the Occidental Horse Exchange on the 17th of next month. There will be some of the grandest bred young trotters and pacers ever sent to a sale in California. There are sons and daughters of Rey Direct, Hart Boswell, Diablo, Chas. Derby, Owyhee, Silver Bow, James Madison, Steinway, Guy McKinney, McKinney and Dexter Prince, and out of such mares as Stemwinder, dam of Directum 2:05}, and many others with fast records that have pro- duced horseB with fast records. Look out for further particulars next week. Further consignments are solicited for this sale. See Mr. Layng or write to him at 246 Third street, this city. DRIGHTON BEACH RACING ASSOCIATION *-* holds one of the greatest running meetings each year that is held in the United States. Three of itB principal stakes for two year olds, and the same number foi three year olds, will close on Monday, November 2d, and horsemen who own colts and fillies of these ages should not forget this date. The Brighton Jr has a valuation of $15,000, the Neptune Stakes $7500 and the Venus Stakes $7500. These are all for two year olds and will be run for in 1904. For the three year olds the Brighton Derby is worth $15,000, the Iroquois Stakes $7500, and the Brighton Oats $7500, and are to be decided in 1905. We request owners of thoroughbreds to turn to our advertising columns and read the conditions of these rich stakes. They are among the principal events of the racing seasons of 1904 and 1905 in the eastern states. Not Lou Milton's Dam. The following communication has been received at the office of the Breeder and Sportsman: "I think I know the breeding of thegrandamof Lou Dillon. It was Fly, who was either the dam or the grandam of Plunkett 2:13J. She was by Bulger, a running bred horse and her dam was, I think, a mare called Fanny by a horse called Spread Eagle. Dan Misner used to drive Plunkett and I think he can tell you who owned Fly before she passed into Kimball's hands. Yours, I. HOAG. Our correspondent has Plunkett's breeding all right. He was bred by the late Jonn Kean, and H. L. Neilsen of Napa. Mr. Kean was County Assessor at the time. Plunkett's sire was Strathearn, a son of Echo and the thoroughbred mare Ruth Ryan by Lodi. Fly, the dam of Plunkett, was bred as stated by Mr. Hoag. But she was never owned by Mr. J. S. Kimball. Fly, the Kimball mare, dam of Lou Milton, died in 1881, and as Plunkett was foaled in 1887, it can readily be seen that the dam of Lou Milton had been dead six years when Plunkett was foaled. The surmise that Fly, the grandam of Dawn and Strathway might be the dam of Lou Milton that has been made by an Eastern turf writer must also be cast aside, as Mr. Mendenhall, who bred the dam of Lou Milton to Milton Medium stated that she had never produced a foalbefore, and as she died when Lou Milton was six weeks old, that was her only foal. The writer has a letter from Mr. Jos. Cairn Simp- son in which after thanking him for the research which led to the publication of the facts in regard to the Kimball mare as obtained from Mr. Green Thompson of Sarta Rosa, Mr. Simpson adds: "One of the queerest cases in all my knowledge, and there are reasons for the belief that I am perhaps, the only one now in California who can add "the missing link." From this we are led to hope that it will not be long until this "missing link" is supplied and the dam of Lou Milton be no longer among the list of those with untraced pedigree. Ukiah Races. SIXTEEN RICH STAKES with added money, close with the New California Jockey Club next Monday, October 26th. See the full list and condi- tions on opposite page. The five days' race meeting held over the excellent half-mile track at Ukiah, Mendocino county, last week attracted a large attendance and resulted in excellent sport. Tuesday and Wednesday were de- voted entirely to running events and several excellent contests were seen. On Thursday the feature of the program waB the Palace Hotel Stakes for two year old trotters, half-mile heats, best three in five. It took five heats to determine the winner which turned up in Wilmar, a bay gelding by Wildnut, dam Sweet- water 2:26 by Stamboul, second dam Manzanita 2:16 by Electioneer, third dam Mayflower 2:30* by St. Clair. Mr. H. B. Smith purchased Wilmar for Mr. O. E. Williams of the Palace Hotel, Ukiab, at the Palo Alto sale last January for $175. He was jogged a month or so at the Ukiah track and then sent to John Quinn at Santa Rosa who worked him just four weeks prior to this race. His fourth heat in 1:13}, a 2:27 gait was very easily trotted and he could have circled the track in the fifth heat in 1:12 easily. As the trotter Ole 2:15 broke the Ukiah track record two days later by trotting a mile in 2:22, this per- formance of the two year old Wilmar looks to be especially good. It was estimated that 2000 people were at the track on Saturday, the match race between H. B. Smith's mare May Ayers and Col. Abe Marks' Cecile M. being the drawing card. Johnny Quinn drove May Ayers and made in three straight. At the end of the race a beautiful floral collar was placed on Mr. Smith's mare amid the applause of the crowd as she and her owner are great favorites in Ukiah. The last heat was the fastest, 2:27J, not near May Ayers' limit. The free for all trot the same day was for a purse of $350 and was won by Ole, son o( Silas Skinner. Baby Ellis was second, Gertie H. third and Dan Frasier fourth. The time of the two heats was 2:24 and 2:22. Harness Racing at Los Angeles. On Thursday of last week the 2:18 pace for a purse of $500 was the harness event with which the day's pro- gram of the Los Angeles meet was opened. There is not much to be said of the race except that Ira, the Iris gelding showed up fast in the first heat and was beaten thereafter in much slower time. Ira has a world of speed, but in a heat race makes a poor showing. The race went to Highball, son of Silkwood, and he did not have to pace faster than 2:17 to win over the field that was opposed to him. On Saturday the 2:20 trot brought out a field of four and resulted in a good race. Zombowyette by Zombro was finally returned a winner after five closely contested heats with Sutter, the stallion by Noonday owned by C. A. Arvedson of College City. Sutter and Zombowyette were either first or second in every heat, the other two horses seeming to be out-classed. Zombowyette took the first heat in 2:38, a new record for him. Sutter took the next two heats, but Zom- bowyette out-trotted him and captured the fourth and fifth heats and the race. On Monday the program was made up of six run- ning races, and the regular harness event as a curtain raiser was omitted. On Tuesday the 2:15 class pace was down for decision. It brought to the score High- ball, Tidal Wave, Penrose, Col. Smith and Athnio. The first heat was fast, 2:121 being hung out, but the time got slower and in the third straight heat won by Highball 2:2U was announced as the time, which was ridiculous for that class of horses, provided no acci- dent happened in the heat. On Wednesday the Catalina Stake for trotters of the 2:27 class was decided. The mare Rosie Wood- burn won it handily in straight heats. The time was not fast but very good considering the track, which is cut up on the inside for the runners and is reckoned four seconds slow by the harness horse trainers. Oct. 16— Pacing, 2:18 class, purse 2500. Highball, blk g by Silkwood : (Vance) 2 111 Ira.bgtylris (Maben) 1 g 3 2 Victor Platte, Penrose. Proctor and L. W. also started. Time— 2:HK, 2:17, 2:17, 2:19. Oct. 17— Trotting, 2:20 class, purse 8500. Zombowyette. b h by Zombro (Maben) 12 2 11 Sutter, b s by Noonday (Martin) 2 112 2 Jupiter B. and Portrero also started. Time— 2:18, 2:18«, 2:19, 2:20*5, 2:21. Oct. 20— Pacing. 2:15 class, purse $1000. Highball, blk g by Silkwood (Vance) 1 1 l Tidal Wave, ch c by Nutwood Wilkes (Mosher) 3 2 2 Col. Smith, Penrose and Athnio also started. Time— 2:12«, 2:15«, 2:21"^. Oct. 21— Trotting, 2:27 class, purse $500. Rosie Woodburn, bm, by Easter Wilkes l l l Sutter, b s, by Noonday 2 2 2 —Babe and Lady Madison 3lso started. Time— 2:21, 2:22, 2:20'j. Close of the Lexington Meeting. The thirty-first annual meeting of the Kentucky Trotting Horse Breeders Association came to a- close last Friday, with a day of sensational racing. In addition to the breaking of the world's pacing record to wagon by Dan Patch, there were four regular events on the card and fast time was made in every heat. The Blue Grass Stake for trotters of the 2:19 ' class was won by the handsome big horse Jay Mc- Gregor in straight heats with Kinney Lou second in each heat, and Judge Green took fourth money. The Kentucky, a race for three year olds, best two in three went to Sadie Mac, and the daughter of Peter the Great equalled her record of 2:11} in the second heat. The bay gelding McKinley won the 2:09 trot after five heats had been trotted below 2:10, beating a field of seven good ones. The summary of the day'sevents were as follows: The Blue Grass, 2:19 class, trotting, purse $2000 — Jay McGregor, b g, by Jay Hawker won three straight heats. Kinney Lou, Lady Patehie, Judge Greene and Cole Direct also started. Time — 2:103, 2:09}, 2:09J. Kentucky, three year old class, trottiDg, purse $2000— Sadie Mac, b m, by Peter the Great won both heats. Katherine A, Lizzie A and Wilna M also started. Time— 2:13, 2:111. Trotting, 2:09 class, purse $1500— McKinley, b g, by George St. Clair won third, fourth and fifth heats and race. Masetto won first heat and second money; Belle Kuser won second heat and third money; Maxine, Wentworth, Dillon Bov and Palm Leaf also started. Time— 2:093, 2:09, 2:07'j, 2:08*, 2:0flj. Pacing, 2:16 class, purse $1000— Red Bird won both heats, Mary Gordon, Dutch Mowery, Beaver, Money Musk, Alley H and Effie Afton also started. Time — 2:10*, 2:09?. Dan Patch to beat world's pacing record of 2:01* to wagon: Time by Quarters— 0:30}, 0:59}, 1:29, 1:59*. The Kenney Bicycle Co., 531 Valencia St., is doing a big business in the MeMurray Carts and Sulkies. You not only save money by purchasing a McMurray but get the most durable, best made, and easiest running cart or sulky in the market. Investigation will con vlnce a Missourian. , mic gveebev antt gtpjpriemcm [October 24, 1903 SiSs3 :sv"i- " JOTTINGS. /CRESCEUS IS AGAIN KING. At Wichita, v^< Kansas, last Monday he broke the two minute record held jointly by Lou Dillon and Major Delmar, trotting a mile in 1:591 an being kept for his string that is expected home about the first of November. Millard Sanders wrote for ten stalls in his old row and will probably bring out some crackerjack Eastern horses to winter here. Manager Geo. A. Kelley is in receipt of letters from every where asking for stall room for from one to a dozen horses, aud Pleasanton will continue to be the liveliest horse town on the coast. The track last Saturday was in excellent shape and the old story that it would not do in dry warm weather has been entirely disproved this year. Water and work in generous quantities have Kept it in fine condition dur- ing the dryest and warmest part of the year and it is now fit to work a horse on for his best effort. Billy Red, the bay gelding owned by Mr. J. R. Springer, was driven a mila in 2:10 flat over this track last Saturday. Two or three watches caught the mile as fast as 2:09i and several in 2:091, Dut Mr. Springer said 2:10 was about right Billy Red should be a good 1 .orse to enter next year in tho show pacing classes. The big four year old Suomi by Zombro 2:11, out of Belle Medium, dam of Stam B, 2:11 J which Mr. Springer recently purchased from Tuttle Brothers, '8 just recovering from an attack of distemper which makes his throat look a little thick but otherwise he is a grand looking colt. I understand that Dr. Boucher of Miss Logan fame has an interest in this colt and will give him a preparation for the races next year. On breeding I don't know where one would be found that can show more high class blood than this fellow. He is stabled close to Bert Logan the little son of Colbert 2:071, and Miss Logan 2:06}. Dr. Boucher has been breeding his great pacing mare with the idea of founding a Miss Logan family and the chances are that she will produce a line of pacers that will be famous. Harry Logan her first foal is by Harry Gear, and has a mark of 2:12} but has been rather unlucky. Bert Logan, her next foal is now a three year old and if he don't get a mark of 2:10 or better the first season he is raced there is nothing in speed and way of goirg by which to judge of a horse's future. Bert Logan is probably the only colt that wa9 ever trained in California that never had a "knock." Yes; it must be admitted that there are knockers here among the horsemen, but they have all let this little fellow alone. Ben Chaboya, who has made several sales of good young horses this year disposed of a three-year-old filly by James Madison last week to Mr. James De La Montanya of San Francisco, the same gentleman that purchased Tuna, winner of the Occident Stake. This filly is a bay, a good looker, and Chaboya tells me showed him a half in 1:081 last May and he considered timing of horses would be a large timer to be placed on the front of the judgeB' stand where it could be inspected by all The dial need not be more than ten or twelve inches in diameter and half that size would be sufficient. An official timer should be ap- pointed to handle this timer, to 6tart it when the first horEe had his nose on the line at the start, and stop when the leading horse had his nose on the line at the finish. This timer need not register the quarters, that being left to three regularly appointed timers as at present, who could also confirm the record of the clock. Certainly the cost of such a time piece need not exceed $50 at the outside, and its use would do away with the suppression of time as everyone could see whether the official timer started and stopped the clock at the proper periods. It would also remove all doubt as to records made in trials of speed against time and would be beneficial in many ways. The as- sociation that first orders one of these timing clccks- and puts it to practical use during its race meetings . will be credited with a big 6tep in advance in the modern management of meetings. Any watch factory should be able to manufacture one of these timers as it would simply be built on an enlarged scale of the present timing watch. Speaking of "Blood vs. Climate" the American Horse Breeder says: " Blood (inheritance) will tell," and it makes little, if any, difference whether animals possessing it are Cresceus, King of All Trotters. Record 1:59 3-4, made Monday, October 19, 1903, at Wichita, Kansas. her a more promising trotter than Tuna. Her dam is Biilliantsh'ne by Chas. Derby, 6econd dam Lydia Bright by Triumver 2546, third dam Annie Fish by John Bright 566, fourth dam Starry Clay by Ameri- can Clay 34, and fifth dam Trotting Sister by Ab- dallah 15. Mr. Montanya paid Ben S1375 for this filly and she is worth more money. It is a great pity that James Madison died, as his get are just beginning to be sought after. Tbe stallion Guy McKinney was sent to Ben Chaboya a few weeks ago by his owner J. T. Drais of Farming- ton. Ben's instructions are to work the big fellow along easily and not to take any chances of injuring him in any way as he a large horse and high in fle9h. He says he has not jogged him faster than a three minute gait, but is certain that the big horse is a trotter. He should be on his breeding alone, but he is a magnificent looker as well. By McKinney, dam by Guy Wilkes, second dam by Onward, third dam by Mambrino Patchen, he is related to the royal families and close at that. He is a young horse and none of his get are yet old enough to be trained, but look out for them when they start. There's a growing demand in the East for pro- fessional timers and an exchange remarka that there seems to be no reason why they should not be em- ployed as well as professional starters or professional judges. It has always seemed to me that one of the greatest improvements that could be made in the bred in New England, northern New York, Kentucky or California, provided the animals fall into the hands of competent trainers who are first-class drivers. Brother Parlin is eminently correct in his state- ment. The idea that the breeders in any one State can raise as good horses as those in another is not disputed by any person who has given any thought to the subject, but the fact is that they don't do it? Why? Because in some sections the conditions are such that the expense is too great. We do not claim that California can raise any better or faster horses than New York, but we do claim that we can raise them with less expense, and consequently with greater profit to the breeder. Mares run out in pasture here the year round, and foal in January or any other month without being kept up in box stalls. Our pastures have natural green grasses in them within two or three weeks after the first heavy rains of November, and our alfalfa fields are green from the first day of January until the last day of December, and we cut five crops of hay from them during that time. The climate is such that our two-year-olds are about as mature as Eastern three-year-olds, but that they are any better than the well-fed and well-housed colts of New England no reasonable Californian will claim. Our sole claim for California as a horse- breeding State is that we can raise as good horses as any State in the Union, and can do it for less money. There is a distinction and a difference in the clauses "the place to produce the best horses" and "the best place to produce horses." The latter is the one that applies to California. October 24, 1903] &he giveeiiev tmfc» gtyovtsman Welchman by Diablo, now has a record of 2:18}. Kremlio 2:07} has eleven new performers this year. William G. Layng will hold a sale of trotting bred horses at the Occidental Horse Exchange November 17th. There will be a number of the get of Rey Direct 2:10 in this sale as well as the get of other high class sires. • The new track at Concord is in pretty fair shape now and the local horsemen have been speeding their trotters and pacers over it recently. They speak well of the footing and predict fast time when the Concord fair is held there nest year. Aristocrat by Athanio has reduced his pacing record this year from 2:16} to 2:12}. HorseB are the only product of the farm on which the farmer is able to put his own price. Black Jack 2:28} is a new performer for Nushagak, the Walnut Grove Stock Farm's premier. Sadie Mac 2:11}, has the Eleetioneer-Wilkes-Nut- wood -Director combination of blood in her veins. Homeward 2:13}, sire of George G. 2:12} was gelded some time ago by his New York owner and is used as a road horse. Fulano 2:22}, son of El Mahdi, is the sire of the pacing mare Maud M. that reduced her record to 2:151} this year. McKinney cannot be displaced as the champion sire of his age of 2:15 performers. He has five new ones in that list this year. C. W. Marks, of Chicago, offered James Brodbine $10,000 for the pacer Locanda 2;05|, at the recent Readville meeting, which was refused. Two new performers, both in the 2:15 list, is the record of 3teinway'e get this year so far. The old horse is still alive at Oakwood Park Stock Farm. Fruition by Abdell, out of the dam of Major Delmar, was separately timed in a race recently in 2:13}. She has been a half in 1:05 and a quarter in 31} seconds. Directum 2:05}, has six new performers, the fastest being Directum Miller 2:08}, Judge Green 2:10} and Ethel's Pride 2:13}. All but one have records below 2:20. Barondale 2:11}, Tom James' good son of Baron Wilkes, has two new standard performers this season and his son Oakland Baron has reduced his record to 2:16}. Strathmore has been dead for some time and was an old horse when he died, but one of his get, Abbie Strathmore, entered the 2:10 list this year with a mark of 2:07}. Cupid 2:18, Mr. A. B. Sprockets' full brother to Sidney Dillon, has a new performer in the pacer Belle Dawson 2:16}. We believe every Cupid that has started in a race has a record. Gambetta Wilkes has a big list of new standard performers again this year, about eighteen being listed up to date, but only five of these are in the 2:20 list, and but one in the 2:15 list. The Chas. Darbys are coming to the front with great regularity. He has six new performers this year and three with reduced records. Three of his new ones have records below 2:15. The mare Henrietta by Boodle, owned by Henry Hahn of Alameda, was bred to Stam B. this season and is certainly with foal. She has been nominated in tbe Pacific Breeders Futurity No. 4. A well bred sixteen hand horse weighing 1200 pounds, and gentle to drive both single and double, is advertised for sale in this issue. He is fast and was sired by San Diego, the sire of Lottie 2:15. Online, the great colt pacer that took a mark of 2:04 is contributing many fast ones to the pacing list. He has two new 2:10 performers this year. Strathline and Line o' Gold, both with marks of 2:07}. The get of Wildnut 13472 are getting records. Be- sides Ellenwood 2:14', and Wild Wind 2:12.1, two otherB hv him entered the list this year giving the son of Woodnut a total of fourteen standr.rd performers. The fastest two year old trotting stallion of the season to date is Silver Finch 2:213, by San Mateo 2:13}, dam Biella, by King Wilkes 2:22}, grandam the famous Bicara, by Harold. San Mateo is not a Cali- fornia bred horse, as many would suppose by his name, but wa« bred in old Kentucky. He is by Sim- mons, out of Moonstone by Sultan, second dam by George Wilkes. The Stam B. three year old colt Swift B., that took a record of 2:16} at Salem and has Dot been outside the money in any of his races, is trotting like a whirl, wind in his work up North. It is said that he has worked a mile in 2:13} and a half in 1:04* recentlv- That other Stam B. three year old The j'ester, that got third money in tbe Occident this year, is thought by some to be even a better colt than Swift B. The Stam B's are all right and there are several that will be heard from next year. The story that Prince Alert is a "dope fiend" i9 denied by Mart Demarest, his trainer. He says the champion pacer never had but one doee of dope in his life and that was years ago in a hard race when he was given a dose of black coffee and whiskey. The Horse Review states that the green trotter by Sidney Dillon tl at is owned by J. H. Brown of Detroit and has shown a trial in 2:11} recently is out of a mare by Steinway. This must be the gelding out of Athenian, sister to Babe Marion 2:17}, the next dam being Ida Wood, the dam of Owyhee 2:11. Three of the get of Guy Wilkes have taken new standard records this year making his list now 82. The McGregors are doing well this year. Six of the get of Robert McGreg"br have taken standard records since the year opened. Oro Wilkes contributes six new performers to the new standard list of 1903, among them the three year old filly Mary Gage 2:16*. The Maine champion stallion Nelson 2:09 is keeping his name before the public. He is the sire of six new standard performers this year. Poor old Orrin Hickok has been sent to the Ohio State asylum for the insane. For the past year or two he has been cared for at the Lakeview Hospital, Cleveland, but his once vigorous mind is gone and it was found necessary to commit him to an asylum where he could be properly attended during his last days. Scott Hudson has decided to discontinue handling a large stable. Next spring he will choose about six of the horses in his charge that look most promising and send the rest back to their owners. Hudson has had remarkable success in the last two years with big stables, but he finds the work greater than he can stand. A horse that is causing losts of talk at Pleasanton n a big bay trotter by Bay Bird that looks like the real goods. William Brown, formerly of Red Bluff, is training him. This hor9e has been a half in 1:05} and as he wears but a pair of shin boots and does not scar them any, some idea of his clean gait can be gained. Nutwood Wilkes is making a good showing this year, though but few of his get were raced. His son John A. McKerron has reduced his record to 2:04} and he has three new ones in the list, two being three year olds, viz.: Tidal Wave with record of 2:14} pac- ing, and Little Branch that has a mark of 2:22} trott- ing. The other is St. Patrick 2:24}. Those three heats in 2:07}, 2:07}, 2:07}, by McKinley, at Columbus, are within one-twelfth of a second of the world's record for three beats by a gelding, which is held jointly by Azote and Lord Derby, who trotted in 2:09}, 2:05}, 2:07, and 2:07, 2:07, 2:08, respectively, the average time being 2:07 1-3, while the average of McKinley's three heats is 2:07 5-12. The pictures of Caspian, the winner of the Tran- sylvania this year, look very much like those of George G. 2:12}, the best trotter seen on the Pacific Coast this season. One cannot always depend on a photograph being a true likeness but the similarity between these two trotters is remarkable. Outside of the white markings on the hind ankles of George G. they are alike as two peas in conformation. The next regular meeting of the Board of Appeals of the American Trotting Association will be held at the Auditorium Hotel, Chicago. Tuesday, December 1, 1903, at 10 o'clock a. m., for the transaction of such business as may properly be presented to the Board for its consideration. All new applications and written evidence must be received at the office of W. H. Knight, Secretary, not later than November 16, 1903. Tom Keene 2:04}, Swift 2:07, and Claymos 2:07}, three of the season's new 2:10 performers are from daughters of Kentucky Prince 2470 and his son, Bayonne Prince 2:21}, sired by the d am of Belle Kuser 2:08, another new comer to the 2:10 list this year. This is certainly a remarkable showing. Sidney 2:19} i9 another sire whose daughters have produced three new 2:10 performers this season, viz., Al Bock 2:08}, Berdina 2:08} and Simmassie 2:08}. The two pacing mares named Miss Georgie both quit the season without records. The Eastern mare by Regal Wilkes went wrong, and was withdrawn from the majority of her engagements, but recently worked a heat in 2:07} and came back in 2:06}, so she must be pretty good just now. The California mare by McKinney, worked heats better than 2:10 before tbe circuit opened but was beaten repeatedly in slower time, although she was a good second nearly every heat. Bertina and Red Light, sisters by Directum out of Bertie by Piedmont, second dam Bijou by Electioneer, third dam Alameda thoroughbred mare by Langford, have both been raced this year in the East. These mares were bred by the late John Green of Dublin, Contra Costa county, who bred Directum 2:05} and were taken to the Blue Ribbon sale of May 1902, by Mr. C L. Griffith of Pleasanton. Bertina now has a record of 2:17} and Red Light one of 2:20}. They are both trotterB. Five trotters each won upwards of $10,000 in the Grand Circuit this season: viz., Billy Buch 2:07}, $31.- 000; Hawthorne 2:07}, $17,150: Jay McGregor 2:08, $13,750; Kinney Lon 2:07}, $10 250; John Taylor 2:10}, $10,050 All of the five trace directly to George Wilkes 2:22 in the paternal liDe, and tho pedigree of every one of them shows a Vermont Black Hawk crOBS. The Wilkes-Morgan combination of blood lines seems to produce first class money winners. — American Hornc UntiJer. The Pleasanton Times says that Henry Sanders struck a snap when he purchased the fourteen head of Rey Direct colts from G. A. Davis for $3000 a short time ago. Already he has discovered three of them to be worth at least as much as he paid for the bunch. One three-year old stepped a quarter in 35 seconds, a two year old a quarter in 36 seconds snd another two year old trotter whose dam was Sidlette showed a quarter in 34 seconds. California certainly lost a great sire when Rey Direct went East. In 1892 J. Malcom Forbes published the following letter: "Believing, as I do, that in the near future a mile will be trotted in two minutes, but knowing that it can be only the best judgment in breeding, educat- ing and driving the horse that accomplishes the wonderful feat I wish now to offer as a reward for such skill the sum of $6,000, one-half to go to the owner of the horse, and one-half to the driver subject to the following conditions: My offer holdB good for the rest of the season of 1892 and for five years follow- ing if I live." One of the handsomest mares driven on the ex- cellent roads in Alameda county is owned by Mr. R. R. Bellingall of Oakland. She is a dark rich bay and almost a model in conformation, having a beauti- ful intelligent head and a splendid disposition. She was sired by Secretary, a son of Director that never sired a poor looker to the writer's knowledge, and her dam is Minnie by Alexander 490, second dam Shoo Fly by Gen. McClellan 144. The mare is a fast trotter and has been the victor in many a brush on the five eighths track at Sixteenth street, Oakland. George Ramage, who gave the only Lou Dillon her first speed lessons, and picked her out as a record breaker before any other person thought much of her, has a few youngsters up at Pleasanton that will be heard from when they get old enough to race. One is a three year old gelding bv Sidney Dillon out of Oakley Russell by Happy Russell 2:21}. He is called Bert A randale and although he has had but very little education thus far, he has a gait and a way of going that will carry him to the front. The photo-engraving of him on the front page this week shows what sort of a looker he is. His full sister, tw.o years younger is even a greater prospect. One of the slickest moving pacers at Pleasanton is a chestnut gelding by Dexter Prince out of Sunrise II by Gossiper Jr., that Henry Dunlap bought for $275 at the sale of Mr. A. B. Spreckels' horses in this city a year ago this month. This gelding is a warm one and on Wednesday of this week Mr. Dunlap worked him the first half of the Pleasanton track, which is proverbially slow, in 1:04}. He thinks he can drive this four year old the last half in 1:02}. His Wednes- day performance is surely something out of the ordinary as the gelding has bad just four months work. Mr. Dunlap calls him Harold D. and if be isn't a 2:10 pacer next year a whole lot of people will be fooled. John Gordon, the well known San Jose trainer is the owner of a five year old gelding by Diablo 2:09} that is causing much talk among the horsemen who saw Mr. Gordon working him over the San Jose track during the summer. The gelding was bred by Mr. Gordon and ran out until last January without being handled. He learned to trot, however, as soon as he was bridle wise and showed quarters below 32 seconds He is a clean limbed good gaited fellow and in his work showed that he not only had speed, but a good head and gameness. He will be raced next year. If no accident happens him and he continues to improve, he will be ranked with the great green trotters of 1904. A remarkable case of a pacing bred mare, the product of two great pacers, and a fast pacer herself, taking to the trotting gait at great speed occurred at the Cleveland track recently. The horse is George Garth's chestnut mare, Ella Hal, by the greatest of all pacing sires, Brown Hal 2:12}, once champion of his gait, dam Ella Brown 2:11} by Prince Pulaski, Jr. A couple of weeks ago, Grath had Ella Hal shod to trot, and after several light workouts asked her to 9how her speed. A week later she trotted a mile in 2:18}. Grath could not believe that tbe time was correct and he and C. F. Emery timed the mare for an eighth, which she trotted in 14} seconds a little later. Henry Hahn of Alameda, has purchased from Palo Alto Stock Farm, famous old Sallie Benton's wean- liDg colt by Mendocino. The youngster was foaled during tbe latter part of Aprii and on a visit to the farm two weeks later Mr. Hahn saw and fell in love with bim and concluded to become his owner. Tbe sale was made this month when the colt was weaned. He is already entered in nearly seventy thousand dollars worth of stakes including tbe Kentucky Futurity, Horse Review, Occident, Pacific Breeders Futurity aDd several others. He is a royally bred colt and' probably tbe last foal of old Sallie Benton as she is barren this year and is now twpnty-tbree years. Sallie Benton held tbe record of 2:17} for four year old trotters in 1 SS4 and in the stud ba« pin Starlight 2:15}, Nordicn 2:19J as a three year o: Serpol 2:10. Mr. Hahn's colt is bred very ton Del Mar sire of the two minute horse Major I ' ®he gveeif&c axxb &xrevt*nxan [OCTOBER 24, 1903 as he carries the blood of Electioneer and Toronto Sontag. Those who have seen him pronounce the colt one of the best looking weanlings ever seen on the Palo Alto farm. GREAT MEETING AT MEMPHIS. The race won by the four year old filly Zombowyette at Los Angeles, this week, when she defeated the aged horse Sutter, was one of the best contests seen on the California circuit this season. It was a five heat affair, and Sutter was favorite for every heat but the last, when he and Zombowyette sold at even money. The daughter of Zombro is a chip off the old block. She won the first heat in 2:18 without a skip with Sutter close up. In the second heat she made a break and lost five or six lengths going round the first turn. She closed the gap, however, and was only beaten a nose for the heat by Sutter in 2:1S}. The third heat was almost a repetition of the second and after closing up a big gap Zombowyette was beaten a half length in 2:19. She trotted the last quarter in 33} seconds. In the fourth and fifth heat the mare broke as usual going round the first turn, losing a half dozen lengths, but she made it up each time and out trotted Sutter in the stretch, beating him to the wire a half length each time in 2:20 aDd 2:21. Zombowyette is Zombro's sixth 2:30 performer. As the Los Angeles track is at least four seconds slow, owing to its being cut up for the runners on the inside, this race shows Zombowyette to be a four year old of great promise. If you desire to have an entry in a Futurity to be trotted over East don't miss getting one in the Western Horseman's $6200 stake. One need only be a paid up subscriber to that paper to make an entry, and a renewal of the subscription keeps the colt paid up on. A total of S8 secures the paper for four years and makes the colt eligible to start in the race with- out any further payments. It is the most liberal stake ever devised. Read the advertisement in this issue. Prank S Turner, the handsome chestnut stallion by Vallota, owned by Frank Turner, Superintendent of the Santa Rosa Stock Farm, worked a mile over the farm track one day last week in 2:23, last three quarters in l:iil and the last quarter in 34 seconds. This horse has so much good trotting blood in him that he ought to be a great sire. Vallota was by George Norval (son of Norval by Electioneer and Kitty Wilkes by George Wilkes) and his dam was Carlotta Wilkes, by Charley Wilkes a son of Red Wilkes. The dam of Carlotta Wilkes was Aspasia by Alcantara, and the grandam by Clark Chief. The dam of Frank Turner is Phallas Rival by Phallas 2:13^, son of Dictator, second dam a producing mare by Onward, third dam another producing mare by Brignoli, and the fourth dam a producing mare by Pilot, Jr. 12. Few pedigrees contain so many record holding and race winning families. H. R. Ward is handling a couple of likely geldings at Pleasanton. One is a three year old by James Madison, dam by Steinway, and is owned by Herbert Levy of this city. The other is a bay six years old by Antrim and was purchased by M. Schweitzer, of this city, from Mr. Geo. A. Kelly of Pleasanton. Both these horses are trotters and although Mr. Ward has had them but a short time, they show great improve- ment. Ward seldom has a lame horse in his stable and is a very careful painstaking trainer. Dan Patch without a wind shield or anything else to help him except his own unfaltering courage and splendid physical development, and the hand df Myron McHenry to guide him, smashed all records to smithereens on Thursday at Memphis, pacing to a record of 1:56}, three-quarters of a second lower than the wonderful mile in 1:57 made by the gamest of campaigners, Prince Alert. All hail to the noble son of that grand old favorite JcePatchen ! He is an honor to his sire. May he live to see his sons and his grandsons starting in the two minute class and winning races in which every heat is paced below that time. "Principles of Horse Feeding'' is the title of farm- ers' bulletin No. 170. It was prepared by C. F. Lang- worthy, Ph D., of the office of experiment stations, and discusses the general principles of feeding, with especial reference to horses. The Board of Directors of the State Agricultural Society will meet today at Sacramento, when a full statement of the receipts and expenditures of the State Fair for 1903 will be submitted and acted upon, Mr. J. W. Zibbell, tne well known trainer has located in San Francisco and opened a training stable on the corner of Point Lobos Road and 20th Avenue. Mr. Zibbell is a perfectly reliable man in every way, and those sending horses to him can depend upon getting fair treatment. See his advertisement in this Issue. Although Budd Doble has done wonderfully well this season with his stable of two horses, The Roman and Kinney Lou, there has been a large amount of bad luck to contend with, and it has been of a char- acter that cannot be wholly overcome. At Provi- dence The Roman fell and strained himself to such an extent that he has not by any means recovered the full use of his muscles. This affects his gait, and during his race in the Ohio stake it was not until the third teat that Doble could get him away from the wire on a square, clean trot. In the other miles The Roman had been hopping more or less, and, of course, could not do himself justice. When he got to going square, however, there was a different story to tell, and he was an easy second to Hawthorne in 2:09}/. Kinney Lou has been suffering from malaria lor some weeks, and while there are days when he is pretty good there are other times when he is languid. This hors- 3 even faster than people imagine, and he will be ' again next year and show people that 2:07 will no *op him by quite a margin. — The Horseman. Lou Dillon Easily Defeats Major Delmar in the Cup Race. An immense crowd attended the opening day of the Memphis meeting on Tuesday, the prospect of seeing Lou Dillon and Major Delmar meet in the race for the Memphis Cup attracting prominent horsemen from Maine to California. Both horses were pro- nounced in perfect trim by their trainers, Millard Sanders and Alta McDonald, and both warmed up beautifully. Delmar stepped very fast when E E. Smathers breezed him through the stretch. A coin was tossed to decide the scoring positions, and Bill- ings won the pole. Thej scored only once for the first heat, coming down head and head at a terrific speed. Smathers was out for the heat from the start. He picked Delmar up and sent him at the dainty mare like a tig6r. They laid very close together and were almost he3d and head as they flew into the lower turn. Scarce had they reached the eighth when Lou Dillon, despite Smathers' hard driving, began to draw away. At the quarter she was a length ahead, and the time was thirty flat. Through the glass it could be seen that the mare was going easily, while Delmar was strung out and struggling. Lou Dillon swept on up the back stretch and was at the half in one minute flat, doing the second quarter in thirty seconds also. Delmar was losing ground at every stride, and was several lengths behind. The three-quarters was reached in 1:32, and when he turned for home SmatherB made a last futile effort, but Dalmar was done and he stopped driving at the distance. Billings pulled Lou Dillon up to a slow jog, winning by four lengths in 2:01. They tried three times before they got off for the second heat. The word was given with Delmar a neck ahead, but three strides from the wire he jumped off his feet. It was a had break aud he did not settle down until entering the turn. Meanwhile Billings took Lou Dillon away like a swallow and opened up a long gap. There was practically nothing more to the heat. The gelding trotted very fast after regaining his stride, but could never get near the two-mieute mare. Although under restraint all the way she finished the mile in 2:04}, winning by half a dozen lengths. The regular racing card of the day was rather featureless. Favorites, as a rule, were defeated. The one and one-half mile dash exeited quite a bit of in- terest. Billy Buck was a heavy favorite, but came out lame, and Dr. Strong beat him in a hard drive, after leading all the way. Clipper by Diablo was a Btarter in the 2:05 pace which was won by Dariel 2:03}. He must be pretty good, as he was s-econd the second heat in 2:06 and divided second and third money with Foxy Curd. Summary: Pacing, 2:14 class, purse 51000. Right on Time, b h, by Online-Jessie R (Squire) 1 1 Tess.brm (P. Jamieson) 2 4 DanielJ.bg (Fleming) 9 2 Mary Gordon, b m (Hudson: 5 3 Yokeley, Cod. P. J., Vyzole. Minnie Chrisly, Arnold, Patchen, Countess, Cecil, Wealth and Directum Miller also started. Time— 2-094 and 2-.OW. Trotting. 2:11 class, one mile and a half, one heat, Diamond handicap. $2000. Dr. Strong, gr g. by Strong Boy-Viola S (Gahagan) 1 Billy Buck, b g (Geere) 2 Hawthorne rm (Hudson) 3 Dillon Boy, bh (Walker) 4 Time— 3:174. Trotting, free for all, amateur drivers, to wagon: Memphis gold cup, value $5000. Lou DUlon, ch m, by Sidney Dillon-Lou Medium (Mr. Billings) 1 1 Major Delmar, b g, by Delmar-Expectation.. (Mr. Smathers) 2 2 Time— 2:04, 2:04£. Pacing, 2: )5 class, purse S1000. Dariel. b m, bv Alcander-Topsy E (McDonald) 1 1 Foxy Curd, blk m (Rea) 2 3 Clipper.bg (Thompson) 3 2 TomKeene.ehg (Spear) da Time— 2:06, 2:06. Trotting, 2:30 class, purse 81000. Axdelight, oh g, by Axtell-Delight (Nlles) 1 1 Baraga.bg (Clipplnger) 3 2 Cathode, ch g (Andrews) 2 3 Grocery Maid, b m (Rea) 4 4 Time— 2:11H. 2:1254- Egleanor and Eunice G. also started. WEDNESDAY, OCT. 21. Four races, all on the best two in three plan, made an excellent program for the second day of the Mem- phis meeting. The principal feature was the brilliant victory won by Ed Geers with Hal Chaffin, a four year old pacer by Brown Hal. This waB in the Sunny South stake for pacers of the 2:13 class. Star Hal was the favorite and won the first heat, as Geers laid hack too far and his colt was outbrushed in the stretch. In the second heat, the "Silent Man" re- versed his tactics and buckled into his adversary from the word. They raced as a team to the three- quarters in 1:33, Btepping the middle half in 1:01. This seemed to take the vim out of Star Hal and the Geers colt passed him at the distance, and won by two lengths in 2:05 J . In the third heat Geers let Star Ha1 lead to the off far turn, when he came to him again, carried him to a speed break in the stretch, and won with ease in 2:05*. Ben Walker drove Diablilo by Diablo in this race and was a good third the last heat which was paced in 2:054/. The 2:12 trot was a handy victory for Topsy, the favorite, well driven by W. L. Snow. She entered the 2:10 list in the second heat in which all the first five horBes finished in a compact bunch close together, Rohizola looking like the winner until she broke in- side distance. Although Parsons showed very lame he seemed able to trot rings around theothersin the 2:19 when he got straightened out The Strathway horse John Caldwell started in this event but was outside the money. The 2:06 amateur trot to wagon excited great in- terest although there were but two starters. Mr. Billings' famous brown gelding, The Monk, and Mr. Smathers' fast little mare Ida Highwood. The mare broke early in the first heat but Billings waited for her and the finish was close. The Monk winning in a drive. In the second heat the clip was much faster. They were head and head to the half in 1:03, hut here the pace told on the little mare and, although she tried gamely to the end, The Monk beat her easily by three lengths in the fast time of 2:07}. Trotting, 2:12 class, purse $1000. Topsy, b m, by Almontrch-Erin Girl (Snow) 1 l The Questor, b g (Geers) 2 2 Bermuda Maid, brm (McCarthy) 3 6 Robizola, b m (Sanders) 8 3 Joymaker, Tenso, Rieline, Jim Underwood and Lady Downing also started. Time— 2:11*, 2:094. Pacing, 2:13 class, Sunny South stake, $2000 added. Hal Chamn, brh, by Brown Hal-Bessie McEwen.. (Geers) 2 1 1 StarHal.bh (Snow; 1 2 4 Cousin Madge, b m (Benedict) 4 3 J Diabllto.bg (Walker) 3 4 3 Five Points also started. Time— 2:06^, 2.05X, 2:05J<. Trotting, 2:19 class, purse $1000 The Parson, blk g, by Lloyd-Dam by Onward (Colby) 1 1 AllenW.bg (McMancn) 2 2 Bessie Birchwood, ch m (McGarr) 3 3 Klrkwood Jr, br h (Dillon) 5 4 Red Phil. Norberry, Great Spirit and John Caldwell also started. Time— 2:124, 2:134. Trotting to wagon, 2:06 class, amateurs to drive. TheMonk.bg (Mr. Billings) 1 1 Ida Highwood, b m (Mr. Smathers) 2 2 Time— 2:11, 2:073*% THURSDAY, OCT. 22. Dan Patch is now king of kings among harness race horBes. His title was cinched by a performance without parallel this afternoon. At 3:50 o'clock he was started to beat his record of 1:59, and went to the quarter in 0:29, to the half in 0:58, to the three- quarters in 1:27}, and finished in 1:56}, not only ob- literating his own previous record, but eclipsing the 1:57 of Prince Alert, made behind a big wind shield last month, a record that has caused so much talk and has for a time even forced peerless Dan into an equivocal position, with his championship in doubt. But there is no room for doubt left now. The track was lightning fast and the day was absolutely perfect, and the big horse himself suited McHenry better than ever before in his life. Two pacemakers were used. Scott Hudson drove the leading one, and his work with him was marvelous. Lew Baxter drove the second runner, which was kept at the pacer's side. The word was given on the second score. Patch was going fast when the first turn was reached, and be fairly flew past the quarter pole and the half. Pandemonium reigned as the great horse came through the stretch to the finish, a fresh volley of cheers greeting him at every step. He never faltered when McHenry went at him at the seven-eighths. From there to the wire he rushed on with a most superb carriage, and he flew under the wire in 1:56}. In the race for trotters driven to wagon by amateur drivers, Mr. Harry Devereux won with the California mare Dolly Dillon'and lowered her record to 2:06} in the second heat. Dolly Dillon's former record was 2:07 made in a race at Providence, Rhode Island, in 1901. She was sold at the Blue Ribbon sale last May to a Pittsburg gentleman who has won several matinee races with her this year. He engaged Bert Webster to train her, and much of her success this year is due to the splendid shape he has kept her in. In the 2:08 clasB trot, the great mare Fereno won in straight heats and lowered her record to 2:05$. This is the fastest mile trotted in a race this year, and puts the black daughter of Moko in line for a possible two minute record some day. The summaries: Trotting, 2:10 class, purse $1000. Walnut Hall, brh, by Conductor-Maggie Yesser (E Benyon) 2 1 I George Muscovite, blk h (C Bond) 1 2 S Topsy, blkm (W Snow) 3 3 2 Palm Leaf, blk g (W. McCarthy) 4 4 4 Time-iOSH', 2:084. 2tf8«- Pacing, 2:08 class purse $2000. Nervolo. b h, by Colbert-Nellie D (Hudson) 1 1 Star Hal. blk h (W Snow) 2 2 Bang Direct, blk h (Geers) 3 3 Wlnfield Stratton, b h (J. McGuinej 4 4 Cubanola also started. Time— 2:04K, 2:064. Trotting to wagon, amateur drivers. Dollie Dillon, b m. by Sidney Dillon (Mr. Devereanx) 1 1 Queen Wilkes, br m (Mr. Smathers) 2 2 Franker.bg (Mr Jones) 3 3 Imogenechm (Mr. Billings) 4 4 Time-2:10, 2:06*. Pacing, Dan Patch to beat 1:59. Dan Patch, b h, by Joe Patchen-Zelica (McHenry) won. Time by quarters— 0:29, 0:58, 1:27J<, 1:56J<. Trotting.2:08 class, purse $1000. Fereno. blk m. by Moko-Hettle Case (E. Benyon) 1 1 Hawthorne, rnm .iHudson) 2 2 MonteCarlo.bg (B.Walker) 3 3 Wentworth. blk g (Spear) 4 4 Marion Wilkes also started. Time— 2:06K. 2:054- Pacing, half mile dash, puree $400. Nervolo. b h. by Colbert-Nellie D (Hudson) 1 Fanny Dillard, b m (Snow) 2 Chestnut, ch g (J.Bell) 3 Dariel.bm (McDonald) 4 Dan R. also started. Time-0:59. October 24, 1903] f&he gvsebzv atxl* ^povt&nxan Prince Alert to Dan Patch. About the neatest thing in "horse poetry" that has appeared for some time is the following taken from last week's issue of the American Horse Breeder: My dear Dan, I have read in the last A. H. B. Wnat your owner has said In the press about me. Because old Prince Alert at the ace of. eleven Witb a shield paced the Empire in one arty-seven. Had I known 'twould have given your chief such a jolt, I'd have loafed on the hill, as I'm fond of his colt; And then, Dan, I remember yourdaddy's white face, He was good in his day, and, oh, how he could pace With Star Pointer, or Gentry, or any old thing, When Jack Curry was up and a bet in the ring. You're Joe Patchen's best boy, with an unbeaten slate, But you never scored up at a free-for-all gait With a few of the cracks I have met in my day, And have trimmed and been trimmed, ha ha. that is the way. There was Connor, Chehalis, Red Silk, Riley B . Harold H., Sherman Clay, Ace, Free Bond. Rochy P., Anaconda, Giles Noyes, William Mc, Klatawah, Passing Belle, Badge, Vassar, Hontas Crook, Heir-at-Law, Shadow Chimes, Bumps, and Coney, Directly. Dan R.. Frank Bogash, Dariel— my. how many there are! And they are only a few that have stepped on the dirt At a two-minute clip with your friend, Prinoe Alert. In the years I've been out the old guard has retired, Or stepped off to the bushes, lame, blistered or Bred, And I know it looks rough for an old stager like me To pace faster than one with a swell pedigree. Bat keep cool, you are young, do not put up a frown, For if you wish you can keep Mister Star Pointer s crown; I would rather have blankets tucked into my trunk Than .that old dusty hoop— why, it's nothing but junk. It's a new crown I want made of canvas and tin. With a smart hopple strap to snap under my chin, One that will be in style when I get my last drive, For Jack says he can step me in one fltty-flve In my day I've been raced from Arkansas to Maine, Been sent on by express and bumped on a freight tram, But I'm hoppled, Oh, yes, I know all about it, And have been for some years, I am free to admit. Like vourself Dan, Icarry an old Hoosierstem, And it Drought me the straps, you got off wiihout them. They are one of the traps a few count up to date. And would put on the bulls in the seal of our State. You fell into wise hands and was trained like a jewel, I was raced for the coin, called an old gambling tool, Until Mart Demarest said. ' We'll give him a mark," So he bundled me over to Charter Oak Park. He began with slow trips in a natty blue cart, And long walks in the grove, 'till I was in such heart, That the ground did not seem good enough for my shoe, Then he brushed me a bit to see what I could do, And without the old hopples or even a boot, He turned into the stretch and called on me to scoot, So I reeled off an eighth a shade under fourteen, And since then your swell marks have slipped in the tureen. If the courts throw mine out, I will not shed my hide, Shuffle up a big dust or commit suicide; I've had so many jolts, one more will not hurt Theold ironside gelding, or plain Prince Alert. Is it clever to say I drink coffee and rum, That I have to be loaded before I can hum At a clip which has made the world's record look queer, And go tumbling about as though all out of gear? I'm a model old horse with no dope in my tent, No, not even a box of three feeds for a cent. Just the best hay and oats and a few nips of grass, Makes me strong as an ox and my coat shine like glass: And I'll race you, dear Dan. with McHenry's consent, For a purse, for the gate or a big copper cent. You are fast and mav win, but I will not feel hurt. As its all in the game, your new chief, Prince Alert. P. A. Didn't Help Lou Dillon. Harness Races at Spokane. Oct 7— Pacing, 2:15 class, purse $500. Starkey, br g, by Chehalis-Osceola Chief (Martinagel) Bensurba, b g, by Tom Bsn ton- James Madison (Tryon) County Attorney, b g, by Arthur Wilkes-Tilton's Almont (Hayes) Polka Dot. bm, b> Mendocino-Maud Merrill... (Thompson) Time— 2:30, 2:27Ji. Pacing, 2:19 class, purse $500. Hallie Hinges, b m, by Pricemont-Antrim (Helman) Economizer, bm, by Chas. Derby-Echo (Martinagel) Cavalier, br g by Welcome (Smith) Alcounter (Thompson) Time— 2:5o'/s- 2:33. Oct 8.— Trotting, 2:18 class, purse $500. Coronado, bh, by McKinney-Thos. Rysdyk. .(Martinagel) 3 Master Delmar, b g, by Delmar-Lady Hill (Hayes) 1 Idol, b g, by Copper King-Tempest (Helman) 2 H.H.H.,bm by Alberton-Egtnont.^ (Milter) 4 Time— 2:24^, 2:25, 2:24. Oct. 9.— Pacing, 2:10 class, purse $?50. Rita H , b m, by McKinney-Prompter (Jeffries) 1 Maitha B , b m, by Ashland Wilkes. Carrie B (Miller) 4 Starkey, b g, by Chehalis-Osceola Chief (Thompson) 3 LeRoi, b g. by Altamont (Childs) 2 Hobo, b g, by Arthur Wilkes (Taylor) a Time— 2:17, 2:20, 2:20. Oct. 10— Trotting, 2:14 class, Hotel purse S600. Mack Mack, b g, by McKinney (Helman) Brlney K, b g, by Strathway (Smirh) Coronado, br s, by McKinney-Thomas Rysdyk.. .(Martin^el) Time— 2:19^, 2:20. Pacing, special, purse $500. Portia Knight, b m, by Vinmont-Duroc Prince — (Helman) County Attorney, b g, by Arthur Wilkes-Tilton's Almont . . . (Hayes) Bensurba, b g, by Tom Benton-James Madison (Hayes) Tlme-3:27!4, 2:23. Oct. 12.— Trotting, 2:20 class. Master Delmar, b g, by Delmar-Lady Hill (Hayes) 1 2 Idol, b g, by Copper King-Tempest ( Helman) 2 I H. H. H., bm, by Alberton-Egmont (Miller) 3 3 Time— 2:26, 2:25V§, 2:35, 2:32. Pacing, special. Hallie Hinges, b m, by Pricemont-Antrim (Helman) 2 Polka Dot, bm, by Mendoclno-Maud Merrill (Smith) 2 Cavalier, brg by Welcome (Hayes) 3 Time— 2:84, 2:45, 2:53. Oct. 13.— Pacing, special, purse $200. Martha B (Miller) County Attorney (Hayes) Master Delmar (Carr) Idol (Childs) Tlme-2:21!4, 2:21. Trotting, gentleman's road race, prize silver trophy. Almota (E. Hilderbrand) Ringman (Cagle) Delia G (Swift) Deception (Coyne) Babe (J. Hoie) Time— 2:3>U, 2:35. 2 3 4 2 3 4 1 1 2 3 2 2 3 3 1 1 2 2 3 3 1 1 3 3 2 2 There is a great deal of talk about the wind shield and its effects on the speed of the champion trotters and pacers, but an experiment at Cleveland one morning recently does not indicate that it is a very great factor in record breaking. The experiment referred to was made in connection with Lou Dillon. She had been driven two miles, one in 2:10, last half in 1:02 and last quarter in 30 seconds; the other in 2:07, last half in 1:00A, last quarter in 29 seconds. Then she was brought out for a really fast mile, and it was in this performance that there occurred a demonstration of the wind shield, for when Tanner came out with the runner he had attached to the cart a wind shield such as Major Delmar and Prince Alert used at Empire City Park. It had arm and leg holes and came up high enough to be nearly on a line with the driver's eyes. It was a good morning for a demonstration of this character, for the wind was not only high — it reached the height of a gale. With the wind coming directly from the west, the shield aided her to the sixteenth pole, but the quarter was reached in only 31 seconds. Down the back stretch with the wind at her back there was no benefit to be derived from the shield and she was never within two lengths of the leader. As the lower turn was reached the runner tired from the pressure of wind the shield caused, and it was necessary for Sanders to pull out, and she came home the rest of the mile at the side of the shield and be- tween the two runners, Frank Gibbons having moved up at the half with a second runner that had no attachments to the cart. From the lower turn then, and just as she began facing the heavy wind, Lou Dillon had nothing in front of her, and with these unfavorable conditions she trotted the last quarter in 28£ seconds, the fastest quarter ever shown by any trotter, and the last half in :5S}. which is also faster than any other trotter ever stepped that dis- tance, the mile being in 2:00£. Secretary George J. Dietrich of the Cleveland Driv- ing Park Co., who saw the performance, commented on it as follows: "The deductions to be drawn from the performance are none less than that the condi- tions for trying a wind shield were never so favorable; that in the first part of the mile, where it was used to advantage, she was not driven fast enough (the first quarter was in 31 seconds) to have it aid her mate- rially; that down the back stretch with the wind at her back she could well have gotten along without it; that she trotted to the half in 1:02 with it, and from a short distance beyond the half she trotted home without it in the face of a gale in :58£ " — Horse World. La Grande, Oregon, Harness Races. [Oct. 7th, 8th and 9th.] Special pace, two in three. Vision, b g, by Vanquish (Llndsey) 1 1 Mapiemont. b g.by Pricemont (Miller) 4 2 Prince Tom, blk g, by Tom V k-ivc ntUfactloc. in- »t..*0 per bottle. Sold by dr . ■ pj ■■*- iiarpps paid, with full directions for Its use. Send ror descriptive circulars, testimo- nial*. '' A Idl TIB L17XSHCE-VILU1KS COMPART, Cle-elud, Ohio. ®he gvee&ev mt& gpavtenxan [October 24, 1603 ROD, GUN AND KENNEL. Conducted by J. X. Be WITT. The Old Decoy Duck. Headless, on mudbank nigh the snack, lie lies, 'Mid rusty tin cans, old boots and thrown out things, Who, floating on tule-edged pond, oft' heard Swing to his lure, swift vibrant wings. About him creep the lapping waters. And all around the sinuous marshy passes The shuttles of the waning year Yellow Suisun's woof of grasses. Naught to him the lowering cloud-wrack's flight When scurrying before the rising gale, Returning hunters' boats close-reefed Speed up the channel, sail by sail. Nor do golden sunsets that burn and fade Do aught save dim his painted sides, And harden coat upon coat of shiny mud Daily veneered by the ceaseless tides. To him all sights and sounds are one; Not the slow drip of autumn shower, Nor, when fierce, rooking gusts go by, The fl30d of rain from storm god's bower. No faint alarum of distant guns That startle the slough's quacking brood, Or thunder of the passing train Shall rouse him from his timeless mood. To him all soun Is and sights are one'r Nay, not so— What is oft' hotly said By hunter who missed his bird, Doth rouse him from among the dead. Different Baits for Angling. There are many kinds of bait used in angling', but the most common and sometimes the best are the earth worms or the angle worms. These, as is well known, are to be found in good rich soil, under lugs and stones, but never in sandy or clay dirt. Another way is to search for the "night walkers" with a lantern over clean cut lawrs or close fed meadows. They are blinded by the light, but have the acutest serse of hearing; thus to catch them you must tread lightly, and be quick and silent in your movements. The ash grub is found in the hollow of the oak and the ash and beech trees when rotten. Being very tender they require careful handling and are excellent bait for trout. The oak grub is a small green cater- pillar that can be found in the branches of the oak during the months of June and July and August. To keep them, use a tin box with a few oak leaves within. Very good for trout. The cow dung is found wherever cattle have been — thus in fields and old pastures. It is found under the cow dung from April to October, has a small reddish head, and is very good to the eyes of a trout. Can be kept a long time in a tin box with dirt taken from where they came from. A bait for trout, to drop in a deep dark hole, is the dock grub; that is a large white grub with a reddish head, and found in the root of the common water Many are the kinds of bait among the anglers. To be sure of success it is best to take along several kinds of bait, as the fish, like the angler, in his taste is often hard to please. The practice of scouring and preserving the worms is in vogue now some, but as the method is very sim- ple it should be followed by all anglers, on account of the increased activity and brightness it gives to this bait. A variety of modes are recommended by differ- ent writers. The best method is to take a quantity of moss, whicn can be readily procured in any part of the country, wash it well and saueeze it till nearly dry, after which place it in an earthen pot with your worms. A few days will be sufficient to make them thoroughly scoured and fit for use. They can be pre- served in the same manner for a number of weeks by changing and washing the moss every thieeor four days. Should any of them be fcund sickly or dead they should be immediately removed, or they will eventually destroy the otheis. It is an art to bait a hook with a worm- Cotton says: "The caddis may be put onto the hook two or three together, and is sometimes (to a very great extent) joined to a worm, and sometimes to an artificial fly, to cover the point of the hook, but is always to be angled with (when by itself especially) with the finest tackle, and is the most holding bait for trout. The grub is to be baited thus: It will be necessary to wrap on a piece of stiff hair or gut, with your arming, leaving it stand out about a straw's breadth at the end of your hook. The hook is to be put in uader the head and guided down the belly, without suffering it to peep out of the way (for then the ash grub, especially, will issue out water and milk till nothing but the skin shall remain, and the bend of your hook shall appear black through it) till the point of your hook comes so low that the head of your bait may rest and stick upon the hair or gut that stand out to hold it, by which means it can neither slip off itself, neither will the force of the stream nor quick pulling out upou any mistake strip it off. To bait with a brandling, the point of your hook is to be put in at the very tag of his tail, and run up his body quite over all the arming, and still stripped on an inch at least upon the gut, the head, and the remaining part hanging downward.1' When using a common worm enter the point of the hook a little below the head, using carefulness with- out bruising or breaking it, to within half an inch of the tail. To bait with two worms, enter your hook at the head of the first worm, and bring it out at the middle, and then draw it over the arming of your hook on the line, then enter the hook at the middle of the second worm, and run it up to within a quarter of an inch of the head; draw down the first worm till it meets the second, and your bait -will then travel freely on the bottom. Another mode of baiting with a single worm, is to enter the point of your hook at the head, and briDg it carefully down to within a quarter of an inch of the tail; if the worm be very large, part of it may be drawn above the arming of the hook on to the line. As good, and perhaps better in some minds, are the artificial baits. There are many of these of numberless makes, both cheap and high-priced, and it pays to buy the beBt. As to the fly, each angler knows what are the best for the bass and salmon and the trout, this article pertains to baits and lures dock from April to July. Smaller than the angle other than the fly. All rubber baits — frogs and lady worm is the marsh worm, that is a paler color with a broad flat tail. When scoured thoroughly, two of them may be used on a hook with a splendid result for trout. In shallow sandy parts of the rivers, brooks and tiny streams are found the caddis, and also the straw worm. ' The latter produces few sorts of flies. The former is a yellow grub with a reddish head, and is covered with a case of bark, bits of bugs and crickets and hellgramites — are good if you like them. Of spoons and spinners there are many, and only experience can tell what is the best. Paste is a bait much in use among English anglers and to some extent in this country. To make the bread pa6te, take a piece of fine white bread, nearly new, soak it a few seconds in the water, and squeeze it with clean hands. Dirty hands do not do for it, rushes, particles of gravel, etc , and with this shelter for it makes the paste dull and dirty. Then knead it, it enables it to creep upon the bottom by protruding and work it patiently till it becomes a perfect, smooth its head. Nothing tickles a trout better than a nice and compact paste. Cheese paste is also good. Use fat caddis worm The maggot will be taken by any fresh water fish except the salmon and the pike. The brandling is streaked from head to tail in round ringlets, alter- nately red and yellow, and is found in old dunghills. Considered good for eels, perch and trout. The red worm is small, and of a bright red color. Found in same places as the brandling, and good for any kinds of fresh water fish. The white grub worm is found in the spring of the year underneath decayed stumps, trees, foliage, etc., and is very good bait for trout. The minnow is fine for pickerel and black bass. The frog, used whole or in parts, is one of the best baits for pickerel, and rivals the shiner in this respect. The either old or new cheese, grate it, and work it into paste with a bit of butter and saffron, and also with stale bread if the cheese be new. Use new bread if the cheese be stale. To be a true angler is to angle the way of the good ; use the sportsman's way, and the delights are more joyous. When a fish will not rise to one bait, there must be something to attract its attention. A good selector must be a true angler. The Late P. J. Tormey. We note with much regret the passing away of hind legs when skinned leaves a perfectly white meat P- •!• Tormey who died in Portland, Or., at 7 o'clock that is good, also. Wasps, beetles, flies, caterpillars, locusts, and many other insects are good for the freih water fish, espe- cially the trouV For black bass use a hellgramite, small green frog, minnow or even a piece of pork rind. The grasshopper is good for trout; also is an attractive bait for the gamy little chub. For steel- head trout either fresh or boiled shrimp is excellent. Salmon roe is also at certain seasons a tidbit that the trout takes with avidity, then nothing else will suffice. Live flies and other insects have been tried by anglers on the stream at the time when the insects were in season and the fish were feeding upon them. Results in this respect are not satisfactory, for in almost every instance there is great difficulty in keeping the hook baited. Far better, and the more sportsman- like is it to match the living fly with an imitation selected from the fly-book. Friday evening, October 23. Last August he went for a month's hunting and fishing in Mendocino county, and on his return remained in the city but a short time. About October 18th he went to Al- bany, Or., with a party of friends for pheaBant shoot- ing. The previous Tuesday evening he arrived in Portland in apparently improved health. Wednesday noon he was stricken with paralysis. His family was immediately telegraphed and his wife and daughter Edith had just time to catch the evening train. They arrived in Portland Friday morning. Mr. Tormey never regained consciousness alter the stroke. He gradually sank all day Friday and passed away at about 7 o'clock without recognizing his wife and daughter. A medical consultation was held immediately after the attack and no hope for his recovery was held from the beginning. P. J. Tormey was born in Plattsburg, N. Y., in 1847. At an early age he entered the drug business. In 1886 he came to California, where he became one of the leading wholesale merchants in druggists' supplies and sundries in San Francisco. He was one of the proprietors of the Owl Drug Company and the Quaker Drug Company of Seattle, Wash. He was an ardent devotee of rod and gun and was always a prominent figure in the contests and meet- ings of the San Francisco Fly-Casting Club of which organization he was an esteemed member. He was also the pirme mover in organizing the National Association of Fly-Casting Clubs. " For the last twenty years he has been a whist enthusiast. He was one of the charter members of the San Francisco Whist Club and of the Trist Dupli- cate Whist Club. There has been no whist congress of the American Whist League that he has not attended since its organization until this present year, and he has always been one of its directors. In 1901 he was elected the president of the league. Since then he has been giving himself a "vacation in whist," as he said. To his personal influence is largely due the general spread of the game among women, as he persistently contended that there should be no privilege or restriction of sex in whist. He has been a contributor- to Whist. His "Whist Whys" and "Whist Don'ts" have been very popular and he is responsible for the "rotary discard," tbe "fourteen rule" and for several methods of "scoring." He was a personal friend of Cavendish's and Trist's, and was one of a small coterie who called themselves the "Cranks." He always wore their little emblem, of which he was very proud. With all the time and energy he gave to whist, he still had time to be an expert "fly-caster, " fisherman and hunter. During the last year he had gradually been giving up the exhausting affairs of life and has been resting and having a good time. His sudden death comes as a shock, not expected, and too recent to be realized. Mr. Tormey leaves a widow, three daughters and a son. Changes of Color of Deer. Men who go to the woods or mountains to shoot deer only in the deer season are apt to think that the animals are always in the dun coats in which they find them, but men who live there the year around know that deer change their color at least thrice id a year. The gradations are slight, but distinct and the completed results are widely different. In the dead of winter almost all the deer are of an ashen gray with a tinge of dun. They have the lightest hue, and in this respect they are 6omethiDg like the rabbits and weasels which turn white in winter. As the first green of spring appears, their coats will begin to deepen, and this deepening is rapid, almost keeping pace with the outbudding of the leaves on the trees and bushes. The reason for this is not apparent, as the gray winter coat of the deer would be leBS conspicuous in the summer green than the sharply rufous tint which they come to assume. In midsummer the deer is reddish and, in tome individuals, of true red. This coat lasts until well into the fall, beginning to fade in October, and by the time the men with the small bore rifles come it has turned to dun. The change is later in some individuals, and thus it happens that even in Novem- ber an oocasional red deer is killed. There has come to be a belief among some hunters that the bright red deer is apt to be stronger, fatter, and more valuable than its comrades of soberer coat, but this is not true. Indeed, the red individual may have something the matter with it to prevent its changing on the scheduletime. Thelaw of nature which givesthe more pronounced colors and marks to the males of species holds good with the deer, and the bucks are redder than the does, and they never get to be of so light a hue even when there is two feet of snow on the ground. The red of the deer shows most prominently along tbe edges of the belly and on the legs, though sometimes the hair of the neck is of a bright sorrel. Possibly in giving the deer a red coat in summer nature intends merely to give the eye a handsome contrast with the dark green of the leaves and this the deepening of the color does effectively, though it makes the animal more conspicuous and, therefore, more easily found by its foes. The winter coat comes as near to assimilation with the geDeral tone of the landscape as anything may come that has a touch of brown in it. There is so little of brown that the effect is almost wholly gray, and this takes up well with the mixture of black and white caused by tbe tree trunks and leafless branches and the snow. In the fall shooting season, when the ground is carpeted with dead leaves and some of the leaves still cling to the twigs, when the most marked colors of the woods are the scarlets and the light yellows, the deer's coat is admirably designed for its protec- tion. Many a man has walked within twenty yards of one standing in the dim, shaded aisles and never seen it The deer is a big animal to gain advantage from protective coloration, but it does so, and its ability to hide, when it thinks that hiding would be better than running, is great. This concealing instinct is bred in it and is most marked in the cases of the fawns. A fawn three days old, if left for a little while by its mother, will stand trembling with every sense on the alert, and if danger appears will squat on the ground like a quail, lying upon its belly with its legs under it and its nose pressed to earth. It will remain thus in form, though the intruder pass withiD a yard of it and is often captured because of this fidelity to the dumb instructions that have been given to it. Nearly all fawns in captivity are picked up in this way. October 24, 1903J ©he gvee&ev ctwfc &povt&xnan 9 Treatment of Field Dogs' Feet. Iq the opening days of the season various forms of injury to the dogs' feet will occur, through causes incidental to the work they are called upon to per- form under circumstances which previous training has not accustomed them to. The most likely part to first cause pain or annoyance to the dog will be found in the dew claws. There are two sorts of dew-claws upon sporting dogs — those which are attached by mere skin and membrane, and those which are connected by an in- effective bone to the leg. The former should in any case have been removed at the period of puppyhood, but if this has not been effected they are liable to soreness and bleeding through injury or being torn off by contact with the brush. In the event of seri- ous injury, or where the dew-claw is actually torn away, the knife must be employed and the claw en- tirely removed, or the jagged wound made good, but where the claw is only severely scratched or torn it is best to endeavor to remedy the injury, particularly if the dog be required for work again at an early date. The treatment commences in either case with a careful washing with tepid water and the part beiDg then well dried followed, in the case of the removal of the claw, by washing with cold salt and water until the bleeding stops. A healing powder should then be applied. This healing powder, which should always be provided in all kennels where sporting dogs are kept, should be as follows: Sulphate of iron, myrrh, burnt alum, equal parts finely powdered. Apply the powder morning and night after remov- ing any from previous dressings by very slight wash- ing with tepid water. Slight and daily increasing exercise should be given ana a small bandage applied if the dog persists in licking the wounded part. In the case of inflammation supervening apply a dress ing of zinc liniment on a light bandage. When a honey dew claw has to be removed on ac- count of injury caused as stated above, it is usually the practice to remove it by the use of a pair of ordinary scissors, but if scissors be employed they should be proper surgical ones, as the effect of the former is clumsy and deleterious to the patient. The knife is always superior in effect to ordinary scissors, and should have a rounded-up point, so that the complete severance is made before the point of the knife is reached. A boney dew claw must be severed as near the claw as is compatible with its complete removal, but there should be sufficient of the skin left to cover the wound when it is healed. The sub- sequent treatment is as before. The actual claws of sporting dogs are sometimes lost through accident, or from some cause, explana- tion of wbich is difficult to supply. In the former case it will be a serious accident which will tear the claw from its root in the toe, leaving it hanging, or perhaps, detaching it entirely. Where the claw is torn from its proper position it must be removed by aid of the knife. Where the dog is shedding a claw for no apparent reason, the symptoms will be a marked and increasing lameness, whilst the actual cause is probably some trifling injury to the toe, resulting from a strain or prick. The lameness will be accompanied by heat and swelling, increasing to acute inflammation and severe pain. When handling the dog to discover the affected claw, eaeh toe should be gently handled in turn, and when the cause of the lameness is found the dog will wince and whine from the pain as the toe is pressed. The treatment for cases where the claw is wholly or partly torn off is similar to cases where the dew- claw is removed or torn away, but where the dog is about to shed the claw itself the treatment is differ- ent. The affected claw must be repeatedly bathed in water as warm as is reasonable and at frequent in- tervals between the bathings of the actual claw affected, the whole foot of the dog should be placed in as hot water as the animal can stand. In a short time, usually within a week, the claw will be shed. If no great inflammation remains, which iB unlikely, the foot can be bound up in lint, and be securely bandaged. A few days' rest and quietnesB, with low dieting, will see the foot restored to a healthy and sound condition, and the dog ready for work again. Occasionally the claw will be reproduced, but this is not very usual. In any case the do? does not appear to suffer any inconvenience for the lack of the lost claw, provided thetoe has healthily healed. A frequent source of trouble in even the most regularly worked 6porting dogs will be the tendency of one or more of the claws to grow to an excessive length, and curling under the pad of the foot, cause more or less considerable pain. Spaniels in particu- lar, and Setters also, are more prone to become Bufferers from this unnatural growth of the claws than other breeds Why this is the case is difficult to determine, but the fact remains. The other claws will all remain healthy, and offer a natural growth, and yet one, or maybe more, appar- ently persist in rapid and precocious development. The only rational solution of the matter would seem to be that there is some physical weakness in the dog's foot, which causes it to relieve the pressure on one or other of the toes, with the res alt that the nail is not worn away as it should be under ordinary circumstances, the claw grows ahead of the others, and having once obtained headway over the others, rapidly increases in length until its presence becomes a burden and source of pain, as it is sure to curve under more or less directly, and if not attended to. penetrate the pad of the toe or the main pad of the dog's foot. Where the feet of field dogs are not regularly scrutinised, the first signs of something of the kind being wrong will be given as a rule, not by the dog going actually lame, but by its repeatedly and con- tinually stopping to rest the affected foot or may be of its seeking to run upon three legs. Anyhow, it is from the gait of the dog that the first signs of an overgrown claw will be gathered. If the overgrowth be unobserved or neglected then the dog will go un- mistakably lame, small arteries will extend into the overgrown claw, and neglect to remedy the malfor- mation at an early stage render its treatment more difficult and time-costly. In kennelled dogs or others not heavily worked, fever and inflammation of the maladorned toe or the whole foot will follow. Once observed, the only way to deal with over- grown claws is to continually pare them down with a pair of sharp wire nippers. The extremity is devoid of feelirg, but the parts adjoining where the claw enters the flesh are very sensitive to pain, and in the case of overgrown claws which have been unobserved or neglected, the paring process must be done at suc- cessive operations, or injury or psin will be caused to the animal. As a rule dogs which are regularly exercised on earth or gravelly roads manage to keep down any tendency to overgrowth in their cla^s. San Francisco Show Notes. Rumor is rife that efforts are being made to bring to an end the factional 3ght between the opposition kennel associations, which has done so much to retard kennel interests on the Coast, and which will eventu- ally kill bench shows on the Coast unless some agree ment be come to between the opposing factions. A united Pacific Coast is not an impossibility and can be brought about if fanciers will only give up their personal and club ambitions and desires and work for the interests of the whole Coast. Everything looks promising for a good old-fashioned dog show in San Francisco in December. All classes of fanciers are working together to make the show a representative show of the great Pacific Coast and for once harmony reigns in the canine world. British Columbia, Washington and Oregon have arranged to send at least ten dogs each and the club confidently expect the total to be swelled to fifty or more. Seattle Kennel Club donates a silver cup for the best English Setter in show, and Portland Kennel Club a silver cup for best Pointer. Richardson Bros, have offered a cup for best Fox Terrier puppy owned by a member of the Pacific Fox Terrier Club. Mr. Stewart tells us that he brought over several very beautiful medals donated by friends in England and that they will be offered at the coming show. Mr. P. W. Morse, of Watsonville, reports an un- usual activity and enthusiasm in kennel affairs in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties, and a bumper entry is expected from those counties. We hear that Richardson Bros, have placed an order in England for aCollie to win at San Francisco. Mr. Thomas S. Griffith, President of Spokane Ken- nel Club, has offered a silver cup for best Collie in show, and will send down a kennel of his Copies, which carried everything before them at the late Spokane show. Miss Howard, a young lady fancier of San Jose, has become enamoured of the beautiful and graceful Borzois or Russian Wolf Hound, the breed which Queen Alexandra and the Duchess of Newcastle have made so popular in Europe. Miss Howard hopes to have at least a brace at the December show. Premium lists and entry blanks will be ready about the 2nd or 3d of November. A list of offices in Brit- ish Columbia, Washington, Oregon and California, where entries maybe made and all information ob- tained, will be found in our advertising columns next week. A Bull Terrier Club in Order. A Bull Terrier club just now should be a popular and strong specialty organization of local and Coast fanciers. The breed is a strong favorite, there are many good ones here and likely material for the breeder is plentiful enough to warrant the attention of our Coast fanciers. Just why and when interest in the Pacific Bull Terrier Club waned we will not here discuss, if mis- takes we: e made or lack of enthusiasm had a cause we are not prepared to state, suffice it to say that the errors or oversights of the past can easily be avoided by a new club, starting with renewed enthusiasm and with new members. One thing can be said of the old club, and that is, for two years after it was organized, the Eull Terrier exhibit at our sbows were the best in entries and quality that we had before or since. A strong demand was created for the Bull Terrier, which demand has not yet abated, in fact there is a steady call for well bred dogs of the breed. A new club formed at. the present time could have the opportunity of making an initial club showing in December, and at all events would have an excellent opportunity to make a splendid showing at the S. F. K. C. show'here next spring. The American Championship Stake. Breeder and Sportsman:— The American Cham- pionship Field Trial Club's third annual champion- ship stake, will be held at Robinson, 111., beginning Monday, November 23, 1903. This stake will be run on the grounds of the Independent and Illinois clubs, following the Illinois trials on the Monday succeeding. The'e grouuds are unsurpassed as field trial grounds in this country, and it will be an eminently fitting and proper place to decied on the champion of America. This year the club will give, as usual, a magoificent sterling silver cup to the value of $50, and the purse will be the entrance money. Both to go to the winner. All dogs that have been placed in a field trial any- where are eligible to enter. However, those dogs which have been placed in trials of a club not a mem- ber of A. C. F. T. C. will enter at a total of $35, entrance and starting fees, while dogs placed in a trial given by a club belonging to the American Championship Field Trial Club may enter at the total nominal fee of twenty-five dollars. Thus it will be readily seen that clubs belonging to the A. C. F. T. C. will, this year, have no deficits to help make up, as no purses are guaranteed. Dues from constituent clubs are expected to buy cup and pay expenses. It will cost clubs only the annual dues of ten dollars to continue membership. For clubs that do not belong, the membership fee is but five dollars. Every "ield trial club in America not only owes it to itself to support this, a real champion stake for the entire field trial public, as this is, but they owe it to their patrons and handlers, who sup- port their clubs, to belong, in order that their patrons may enter their dogs at the nominal fee. So laudable an institution as A. C. F. T. C. is should receive the glad hand of every field trial club on this continent and to the extent of joining and sending delegates to its meetings. No one denies that a gov- erning body for general needs is badly wanted, and once the organization is thoroughly perfected in de- tail, its results for the general good and advancement of field trials and clubs cannot but be patent to every- one. I hope to hear from the secretary of every field trial club in America signifying their intention to join the association and at an early date. Clubs who have already held trials this year will let their win- ners in at the twenty-five dollars total fee. So help out the good work and have it appreciated by all con- cerned. Mu^h interest is being taken in the stake already, and every day I am receiving inquiries in regard to it. A goodly number of live clubs are unhesitatingly giving their support to this body, and are unanimous in their opinion as to its utmost desirability. This year it remains with the field trial patrons and clubs to make this stake the greatest champion staKe ever run. Clubs who desire to join the association will have no conditions to adhere to, except that they do not run free for all stakes in the place of a legitimate All-Age Stake. Judges will be carefully selected by vote and entries will close on October 25, 1903, with ten dollars forfeit, which must accompany the entry. The starting fee, fifteen dollars, to be paid at the drawing Sunday night, November 22. For dogs placed in trials outside of the association the starting fee will be twenty-five dollars. Any dog not entered, and winning after entries close October 26 can be entered any time up to the drawing by paying the full entrance and starting fee together. RunniDg rules and entry blanks, which are being printed, may be had upon application to the secretary, 1625 Broad- way, Indianapolis, Ind. JAS. PEASE, President. H. S. Humphrey, Secy.-Treas. Mr. Stewart, secretary of the coming dog show, asks us to state that if there are a sufficient number of entries by ladies to justify it, that the club will pro- vide female attendants for the ladies' dogs. DOINGS IN DOGDOM. Mr. Thos. S. Griffith, the proprietor of Glen Tana Stock Farm Collie Kennels, writes from Spokane as follows: "Editor Breeder and Sportsman-:— Blood will tell, and fanciers will send a long way to secure some- thing extra good. I have shipped to Mr. Frank Belton, Waveland, Ind., a bitch puppy sired by Imp. Rippowam Archer and out of my celebrated prize wioner Imp. Moreton Vesta. This pup is full brother to Lord Stanford, winner of ten prizes in the East, in the hottest kind o competition, at the early age of seven months. This ''nick" seems to be a good one, as the five puppies I have left out of this same litter all look like prize winners to me. I thought so much of Rippowam Archer as a sire of prize winners, that I made Mr. M. M. Palmer, his owner, a very liberal offer for him. I have also shipped a very fine dog pup to Mr. J. C. Eden of the Great Northern Ry., Seattle, sired by the celebrated prize winner and sire of prize winners, Ohio Hope. 1 have bad great luck or extra good dogs at our recent bench show here. In Collies my bitch Rippo warn Miss Tuffett, sire Imp. Rippowam Archer, dam Imp. Moreton Vesta (you published her photo), won 1st puppy, 1st novice, 1st open, 1st limit and cup for best ColHe in the show. My Imp Craigmore Caro- line won 2d novice, 2d limit, 2d open Imp. Lenzie Prince won 1st open, 1 Bt winners and cup for best Collie dog. In Tri Colors my dog Imp. Rippowam Archer won 1st in open, 2d in winners class. In Bloodhounds my dog Spokane won 1st open and cup. My bitch Miss Catron won 2d. In Jersey Bulls my Bull Glen Tana won 1st for best two year old." The Nevada field trials are off, the continuous dry weather prevailing in Humboldt county, where th- trials were to be held, made the meeting an impo-- 10 ®he $veei>ev anto ^povt&xnaii [October 24, 1903 bility. There is a rumor that the Nevada club may month lawbreakers have been killing ducks and quail run their initial trials at Bakersfield after the Pacific and an example should be made of them. The sports- TRADE NOTES. Coast trials come off. If such a move is contemplated, the Nevada sports- men wJl have the enthusiastic support of the Cali- fornia field trial devotees. Mr. E. C. Plume announces a closing out sale of Plumer'a Kennels prior to his departure for the East. man who obeys the law and refrains from hunting until the season opens has but little chance with the game hogs who presist in the slaughter out of season. Quail are not only scarce, but very shy from being shot at. A stiff fine on one or two of the offenders would soon put a stop to the practice. Violet Eaton, the three year old daughter of Mrs. On the waters of the west tuie in Sutter county there are many wild geese, and a greater number of ducks than usual at this time in the year. Quail are Eaton, who is visiting Mrs. Frank Garlands, at her more plentiful than usual in the foothills of Yuba ranch, ten miles from Spokane, Wash., on the Little county, and there are many indications of good open Spokane, was lost from 11 o'clock Sunday, October season for duck and quail. 11th, until the [ollowingmorningin the woods nearby. Mrs. Garland reported the loss to T. S. Griffith, who was driving to town on Sunday from his ranch, and Stockton hunters are said to have bagged about he immediately ordered his man to take out his two 3000 ducks on the opening day. On Union island, Bloodhounds, Spokane and Catron, and go in search along the ba-bed wire fence, so numerous were thi of the missing child. The nest morning Mr. Griffiths received a brief telephone message from his ranch advising that the child had been recovered. Definite information regarding the finding of the little tot is unobtainable, but there is little doubt that the re- covery was brought aboutby the keen scented hounds, which, though young, have been perfectly broken to trail people. GOSSIP FOR SPORTSMEN. hunters, that the rigs could be seen tied up 100 yards apart the whole length of the island. The follow ng is a list of the shooters who were in S'°C6' '.tbe tournament of the Helvetia Rifle Club held at Sacramento Oct. 18th and 19th 1903 and the rifles, shells and primers used ' 32C40fu,MUC.UU.^MSCC7rentO, Winche"er P°*° wTnrcaLks".WMec:?rrament°' Winch-'- 32-40, 4ofJUUM.IG,beTj'. MncF7anCi9CO' WinCheSter PoPe 32' JacobGruhler, Sacramento, Winchester PoDe 32-40, u. M. o.) U. M., C-. 7j. Jno. Baumann, Sacramento, Stevens Pope 32-40, Winchester, Winchester. H. J Vetter. Sacramento, Winchester Pope 32-40 Winchester, Winchester. y ' M°CPCaS' W' KaJ' Sacramento> Muzzle Loader, TJ. 40TUJ'M.c!',O^SMac^7^neiSCO, Winchester Pope 32- H. F. Strecker, Stockton, Winchester Pone 32-' Winchester, Winchester. Adam Brehm, San Rafael, Winchester Pope 32-40 Winchester, Winchester, Daspite the warm weather prevailing since the opening of the duck shooting season, most of the The Victor, one of the speediest and best equipped iaunches on the bay, is for sale. This boat, ordinarily, will easily make over nine miles an hour and under favorable conditions of wind and tide she has run thirteen miles an hour. An idea as to her speed can be had from a trip she made last year. Starting from the "twin houses" on Petaluma creek, she covered ^^'.^fdKuhne, San Francisco, Winchester Po the distance to the California Yacht Club house in ~ — i ttti i » nun.. ^ and several shot on the Empire Gun Club preserve at of times. During two shooting seasons past she has ^ ^ Ml C- and Winchester, TJ. M. C. 74. Elkhorn slough. Across the bay, from the Alameda marshes to Alviso, sprig, teal and spoonbills have been plentiful, widgeon are not yet so numerous in that section. On the Alameda marshes the shooters have easily been getting the limit on rail. On the reclaimed lands off San Mateo the duck and rail shooting has been good. Altogether the indica- tions for the winter's shooting could hardly be better, particularly so for mallard shooting in the Yolo, Sacramento and San Joaquin basins. Los Banos promises to produce splendid duck shooting this season. Quail hunting will be better after a rain or two. Some limit bags were shot on the Country Club pre- serve and in the vicinity of Point Reyes last Sunday. been taken frequently up to and about Grizzly island in all Borts of weathei. Shallow Sui6un bay will try any kind of a craft in stormy weather and this launch was found to be a good seabbat and none too small for cruising safely in all kinds of weather. The launch is an ideal boat for a h unting club or for service up the river. She is owned by W. H. Williamson, 2121 San Jose Avenue, Alameda. The boat is sound and sea- worthy, the owner's reason for selling, is that he will leave here shortly for a business trip of some len°th In Idaho. Wisconsin Game Law. Phil B. Bekeart was in Portland on October loth. In company with A. J. Winters and another sports- man, he enjoyed a half day's shooting down the river on the preserve of the Portland Gun Club. The com- bined bag counted up 125 fat mallard ducks. The following new hunting law is in vogue in Wisconsin: "It shall be unlawful and iB hereby prohibited for any person or persons to use in the pursuit of any wild duck, goose, brant or any other aquatic fowl, upon the waters of this state, any sneak boat, or boat propelled by an oar or oars operated from the sides or stern of such boat, or any sail boat, or boat propelled by steam, naptha, electric, or any battery, sink box or similrr device, or to kill or attempt to kill, while occupying or using any such boat, box or device outside or beyond the natural covering of leaves, reeds, grass or other vegetation growing above the water, any wild goose, duck, brant, or other Frank Zsberg, Sacramento, Stevens" Pope 32-40, Winchester, TJ. M. C. 74. C. F. Blake, Sacramento, Remington Pope 3>-40. TJ M. C, U. M. C. 74. A. C. Gehirst, San Francisco, Winchester Pope 32- 40, Winchester, U. M. C. 74. F. M. Franklin, San Francisco, Winchester Pope 32-40, Winchester, TJ. M. C. 74. A. Ghunda, San Francisco, Stevens Pope 3'-40 Winchester, U. M. C. 74. Nick Ahrens, San Francisco, Winchester Pope 32- 40, U. M. C, U. M. C 74. A. Rahingler, San Francisco, Winehesler Pope 32- 40, Winchester, Winchester. A. Strecker. San Francisco, Winchester Pope 32- 40, Winchester, Winchester. J. N. Phillips, Sacramento, Stevens Pope 32-40, TJ. M. C, TJ. M. C. 74. C. M. Henderson, San Francisco, Stevens Pope 32- 40, TJ. M. C, TJ..M. C. 74.. J. W. Goetz, San Francisco, Winchester Pope 32- 40, TJ. M O, TJ. M. C. 74. Chas. F. Shierbach, San Francisco, Winchester Pope 32 40, TJ. M. C, TJ. M. C. 74. Martin Blasse, San Francisco, Stevens Pope 32-40, TJ. M. C, TJ. M. C. 7}. Wm. Blasse. San Francisco, Winchester Pope 32- 40, U. M. C, TJ. M. C. 7;. D. B. Faktor, San Francisco, Winchester Pope 32- 40, TJ. M. C, TJ. M. C. and Winchester. E. Schmid, Pres. H. Club, Sacramento Stevens TJ. M. C. 7J. Striped bass fishing, during the week, in the straits, Tiburon cove and about Angel island has been very good. Many boats have been out and some large fish have been taken. The best catch of the week was made on Monday afternoon by Joe Amaral and Mr. Abrams. They were trolling with handlines, working their boat back and forth between Stewarts' point and Hospital cave on the Angel island shore aquatic fowl, or to construct or to use for the purpose Pr". ,7, 7? ^ MP during the middle of the ebb. They hooked and °£huntme. outside of such natural covering or upon ruP8i'-'lu^-1"-1' landed thirteen bass, running in weight from ten to lce' any fised or artiflcial blind or ambush: or for . . — : , fourteen pounds apiece, all in splendid condition any Person to use more than twenty five decoys: such The championship of Aew England at flying targets Three other fish were struck with the spoons but decors t0 be personally set and watched bv the owner, was v°n by Mr. E. C. Griffith, of Pascoag, R. I., at they got away. One fish was caught and landed and and t0 be PIainlv marked or stamped withthe owner's tDe tournament of the Worcester Sportsman'B Asso- afterwards kicked up such a racket in the boat that name' or initials. Any person who shall violate any ciation held at Worcester, Mass., Sept. 29th and 30th, he finally flopped overboard and escaped The mem- of the Provisions of this section shall be punished by witD the splendid score ot 95 out of a possible 100. bers of the Pacific Striped Bass Club have caught a a fine of not le8B tnan $25 nor more tnan s50> or hJ Mr' Griffitl1 use9 exclusively in all his shooting con- number of fish during the week also Old "Mike imPrisonmentin the county jail not less than ten days t8sts a Winchester "pump" gun and Winchester Brown" hooked and landed an eighteen pounder Dor more than thirty days, in the discretion of the "Leader"shells. Mr. Griffith also wen the champion- Thursday evening off the end of Belvedere island court." ship of Rhode Island on Oct. 3rd, at Pawtuxet, R. 1., A twenty-five pound salmon came ashore the other AU decoys used in violation of the provisions of this witn tne same combination. At the three days' afternoon on the gravelly beach of the north side of section are hereby declared to be contraband, and tonrnament at Pekin, 111., Sept. 29th and 30th and Kershaw's island. The fish was easily secured and was found to be a female full to bursting with roe a considerably quantity of which the fish had exuded in the gravel depression where the capture was made We are not in possession of enough particulars to state positively that the fish had selected this spot to spawn, but the Tiburon party who first observed and then caught the salmon, insisted that the salmon had made her nest and was spawning. The cultus or blue cod, as it is called, is plentiful in the bay at this time of the year. This fish is a delicious table fish, it runs in size from a half pound up to twenty pounds and is caught on the deeper fishing grounds about ten or fifteen feet from the bottom, closer in shore in shallower waters the blue cod can be taken from six to fifteen feet below the surface. Tt e same baits used for rock cod will do for blue cod. A red salmon fly or spoon is also effective The striped bass anglers have taken some large ones recently on the trolling spoons, the largest scaled eighteen pounds, they do not put up much of a fi»ht when hooked, but come in to the boat more like a lo°- than a fish. e The Hollister f /•« : Lance states: The quail season opened yesterday and a number of our local nimreds enjoyed the day in the hills. Judging from all reports it is high time a game warden was appointed to en- force the game laws in this county. For the past may be Beized and sold to the highest bidder under Oct- lst' Mr. W. R. Crosby won the professional high the direction of the game warden, and the net pro- ceeds of the sale to go into the hunting license fund. Kennel Registry. average for the tournament, and also captured the L. C. Smith cup and the Board of Trade diamond badge, and Mr. Russell Klein won the amateur high average at this same tournament and carried off the Parker gun. Both Mr. Crosby and Mr. Klein always use Winchester "Leader" shells in all their contests SALES. at the traps. At the Pekin tournament the only Beach Hill Kennels (San Jose) have sold tbetri-color Collie dog shooters that "got into the money" were those using ?TU-?,'ILra£w,5?.Bnlce (Spartan-Pensarn Ora) to J. J. Duncan Winchester shells. (Ckiah, Cal.). Oct. 19, 1903. * Beach Hill Kennels have sold two sable and white Collie bitch 1903S (Spartan~Westridee Star) to Jay Bros. (Nevada), Oct. 15, Beach Hill Kennels have sold a sable and white Collie bitch P"! ' (Spartan-Westridge Star) to J. S Barker (Berkeley), Oct. Duck and Quail Outfits. The demand at Skinner's keeps up (or sportsmen's outfits ammunition and guns. A large stock of goods put in for the open- ing of the season was not snfflcientfor the unusual demand for hunting suits, rubber boon and hunters' footwear; canvas and folding wooden decoys, gun cases and a new design of leather- covered shell boxes. One make of shotguns was sold out entirely Skinner s place is 801 Market street. Yon can get anything there you need for duck or quail shooting. Send for a catalogue if vou haven't the time to come, and try a mail order In hot weather there is no drink like Jackson's Ivapa Soda — plain or in a lemonade. Premium lists and entry blanks for the fourteenth annual trials of the NationaT'Beagie Club of America, to be run at Howardsville, Albermarie county, Virginia, on November 9, 1903, may be had by addressing the club secretary, Mr. Chas. R. Steven- son, 106 Market St., Camden, N. J. Dog Owners!! Read This!! We are carrying in the advertising columns of this journal an advertisement of "Sergeant's Dog Remedies." a popular line of preparations for which F. W. Braun & Co. of Los Angeles. Cali- fornia, have been made distributing agents on the Pacific Coast. The goods have few equals and no superiors on the market today having received the highest endorsements of the leading dog men and kennel owners of this country and Canada. They are manufactured by Polk Miller Drug Co of Richmond Vs.. who invite all persons having sick dogs to write (enclosing stamp) describing symptoms, and they will cheerfully furnish the best possible advice without any charge whatever. A revised copy of their book on "Dogs" sent free on receipt of 3c in stamps to cover postage. m October 24, 1903] ®fr£ gveeliev mto gtpxxrtemtm 11 THE FARM. Selecting Cattle for Feeding. TBy F. B. Mumford, Acting Director, Missouri College ol Agriculture.] The uncertainties of cattle feeding can be reduced to the minimum by observing certain fundamental principles. One of the most important factors determining the profit to be received from feeding cattle, is the judicious selec- tion of the cattle to be fattened. The farmer generally pays too little attention to the demands of the market. The successful manufacturer is ever alert to take advantage of the demands of his customers. If the consumer demands a tall hat the manufacturer makes haste to supply this demand. It is profitable for him to do so. The manufacturer also takes advan- tage of efficient machines. The farmer should be equally enter- prising in catering to the general de- mand, and in using ths best machineB. In no other branch of agriculture is the similarity between manufacturing and agricultural operations more striking than in the case of the cattle feeder. He employs raw material in the shape of corn, oats, grass and hay and by the aid of the machine, which in this case is the animal fed, he produces a finished product — beef. He should, like the manufacturer, pro- duce an article which consumers demand and for which, therefore, they are willing to pay a good price. There is a great discrimination on the markets between cattle fed on the same kind of food lor the game length of time. Some cattle sell for six cents per pound, while others fed on exactly the same food for the same length of time, and equally fat, sell for five cents a pound. It is not due to the kind of food fed ; it is due in many cases to the conformation of the animals fed. The cattle which bring a high price on the market are cattle of the beef type. They arepoBBessed of straight back and underline; they are broad, deep and low down or blocky. They have a relatively small head, small bones and Bmoothnesa over all which tends to bide the hips and shoulders and other prominences. The cattle which bring the lower price on the market are generally scrubs or natives having sharp backs, thin flanks, relatively lar^e bones and prominent hips and shoulders. Their backs are narrow and their withers are sharp, and in general tbey resemble the Jersey type of cattle. These cattle, no matter how much corn, grass or hay they may consume, can never hope to bring on the market as high a price as the beef cattle described above. But what is the real difference between the two types? Why should the beef type of cattle bring a higher price on the market? In every great market of the world there are certain portions oi the beef which bring a premium over the other portions. These portions are called porterhouse steak, the sirloin and the prime of rib. Porterhouse steak sells for as much as 35 cents a pound in the Eastern markets. Sirloin and prime of rib are also high- priced cuts. Other portions, such as the round, the flank and rib plate, Bell for prices ranging down from nine to four cents a pound. Thus, an animal that can consume the coarse products of the farm and can pro- duce therefrom porterhouse, sirloin or prime of rib, will always bring the highest prices on the market. Such animals always belong to the beef breeds. These are the Shorthorn, the Aberdeen-Angus, Hereford and Galloway. The Jersey, the scrub and the native can never produce a high proportion of these valuable cuts. Their conformation is such that the porterhouse, sirloin and prime of rib cuts are always deficient in quantity. In selecting feeders, therefore, the farmer should pay particular attention to the form of the animals. They should conform to the beef type of animal described in thiB article. Dirt. Expariments at the Illinois station to compare the amount of dirt falling from washed and unwashed udders during the process of milking are reported as follows: It was determined after several trials, with three different milkers on 30 cows, that it requires 4J minutes to milk a cow. A gdazed dish 11 inches in diameter and the size of an ordinary milk pail was placed in the top of a pail and held under a cow's udder in the same position as when milking. For 4i minutes the milker then went through motions simi- lar to those in milking, but without drawing any milk. The amount of dirt which fell into the dish during the operation was, of course, approximately the same as would have gone into the milk during the milking process. The dirt caught in the dish was then brushed into a small glass weighing tube, the udder washed and the process repeated. The dirt which fell from the washed udder was carefully brushed into a weighing tube. Both tubes were then placed in a dessicator, and after drying twenty-four hours were accurately weighed on a chemical balance. Sixty trials were made at different seasons of the year. With udders that were apparently clean it was found that an average of 3} times as much dirt fell from the un- washed udders as from the same udders when washed. With soiled udders the average was 22, and with muddy udders the average was 94 times as much dirt from the unwashed udders and from the same udders after washing. It's All in the Cows. Sugar Beets for Live Stock. When beets are ready for feeding I run a puller through the field, then put the beets into wagons and haul them to the feed lot, tops and all. It may be neces- sary to cut them and a corn knife can be used for the purpose. After the cattle get a little used to the beets they will eat them quite readi'y without cutting. I have been feeding beets to cattle, hogs and horses for ten years. They seem to be very fond of them and the horses are just as anxious to get their feed of beets as of grain. I do not think that any farmer can afford to get along without a root crop of this kind. Animals seem to do especially well and in a short time a very fine glossy appear- ance will be noted, I have found beets a moBt excellent feed for thick-winded horses and much easier breathing results. I raise about forty-five or fifty tona of beets at little expense and find them the most profitable crop on the farm. In addition to using beets during the fall I plan to have a supply for brood sows dur ing the latter part of March and early April. They are invaluable at that time when it becomes necessary to increase the flow of milk. This feed keeps both the sows and pigs in fine condition. We feed 3,000 to 3,500 head of cattle four to six weeks on beet tops and corn fodder. The fodder is firBt run through a cutter and then given to cattle with beet tops. The animals do much better than when kept on a full grain ration. We are now starting to feed beet pulp and expect good results especially as corn is bo high. We are also feeding 3,000 sheep on beet pulp with satisfactory re- sults. Stock take readily to beets with- out any preparation. I believe feeding whole is better than slicing 'or sliced beets lose more or less of the juice. In addition the animals seem to enjoy chew- ing the whole beet. I have always con- tended that sugar beets will pay better if fed to animals than if sent to the factory, — James Scully in Field and Farm. The dairyman who can make a p ofit on half-fed scrub cows that milk five or six months during the season of low prices ought to be the most surprised man on earth. And still the country is full of them. The money they have, it any, is not derived from what they make, but from the pleasures and comfortB they deny themselves. We thought of this as we recently drove through a California dairy section and found all kinds of herds, and in nearly all cases where we Baw charm- ing homes and apparently contented, prosperous dairymen, we found a herd of heavy producing cows. On the other har.d a herd of scrub cows was ac- companied by hovelB for dwellings, a I miserable Bhed in place of a barn, fences composed of two or three wires, broken and patched up farm machinery, pastures gone to weeds with evidence of neglect on every hand and the family in rags and filth — a living picture of poverty. It is the difference in the herd that makes one dairyman prosperous, contented and able to enjoy life or to make life a burden. — Dairy and Produce JReciew. Broke the World's Record. By dressing a 1200-pound steer in three minutes and thirty-eight seconds, Jacob Baer, employed in a Denver packing plant, reduced the world's record by twenty seconds and won the Western championship. The feat was accom- plished at a contest held at Broadway Park in Denver last Monday. Heavy Sales of Spring Lambs. Eugene Harrington of Taaffe & Co. and reprisestatives of the Western Meat Co and Miller & Lux were in Livermore Sun- day for the purpose of buying last spring's lambs. They purchased between 5000 and 6000 lambs during the day from P. Connolly, Mrs. M. Mulqueeney, Jas. G. Kelly and John C. Kelly. The prices paid ranged from $2.90 to $3.00 a head. The sheep are now on pasture on the San Joaquin river bottoms near Byron and Bethany and the shipments will be made from the latter point. This is the largest local sale since June the demand having been supplied by Oregon and Nevada stock which was in good condition and was rushed to market on account of the scarcity of feed. The recent heavy purchase indicates that the foreign supply is exhausted and that here- after San Erancisco butchers will be com- pelled to rely upon California stock, which as far as this locality is concerned was never in better condition. The winter range was never better, not having been Bcourged as usual by fires during the summer and consequently the sheep men are not looking forward to the winter season with their usual dread. — Livermore Herald. Seven sows and twenty-one pig8 weighed and turned in on two acres of alfalfa and fed a light corn and slop ration were again weighed at the end of thirty days and showed a gain in value at the current price of pork of $18.01. This was in Nebraska. The use of salt for sheep and other livestock in winter, I think, requires a good deal of attention, as stockmen have 0 many ways of giving it. I do not hink where an animal is living entirely n dry feed it requires so much salt as rhen on pasture or other vegetable diet, mtesR. Wooleyin Orange Judd Farmer. Whether salt is necessary to animals if never given to them is no doubt an open -uestion, but if once fed must be con- tinued, ar d should be always where they can get it. The best kind is lump salt, as they cannot get too much at one time, and is also the cheapest. Why an ani- mal should require salt on Sundays or some other day, as some farmers feed It, I could never see. If required at all, they should always have it near them. It an animal takes to eating an unlimited amount, it will in many cases cause scurvy, and will end in death if not attended to. I have heard it stated that if sheep suffering from stomach worms are kept from salt for a time, then fasted for 12 to 14 hours, and then let have an unlim- ited amount, it will kill the worms. I very much doubt this statement, as stomach worms are very difficult to de- stroy when once they have got pos- session of a sheep. I think the regular use of salt may help to keep worms" out. 1 have seen sheep affected with liver fluke taken onto salt marsh land, where they would get fat, say, in six to eight weeks, but if not killed they would again run down and die, showing that it is not a permanent cure, but that the entire change enables them to out stand the disease for a short time. Salting Sheep on the Farm. Of Value of Horsemen. Do you turn your horses out for the winter5 If so, we want to call your attention to a very im- portant matter. Horses which have been used steadily at work, either on the farm or road have quite likely had some strains whereby lament ss or enlargements have been caused. Or perhaps new life is needed to be infused into their lcs Gombault's Caustic Balsam applied as per direc- tions, just as you are turning the horse out will be of groat benefit; and this is the time when it can be used very successfully. One great advantage in using this remedy is that after it is applied it needs no care or attention, but does its work well and at a time when the horse is having a rest Of course it can be u ed with equal success while horses are in the stable, but maay people in turn- ing their horses out would use Caustic Balsam if they were reminded of it, and this article is elven as a reminder. While California dairymen have not up to the present time adopted silos to anv great extent there is satisfaction in know- ing that we have the material out of which to construct them. Press reports Btate that the model silos for the World's Fair at St. Louis have been completed and are about to be filled and that they were made out of California redwood. We hope the siloB will demonstrate to Easterners the advantages of redwood silos and to Californians the advantages of ensilages. — Dairy and Produce Review. Where a man can raise alfalfa and can get the pigs, cows and hens to work in connection with the alfalfa he has got about as certain and profitable a busi- ness combination as we know of. Twenty acres under this plan are better than forty acres in wheat. According to the experimenter at the WeBt Virginia Experiment Station the way to get eggs with rich yellow yolks is to feed yellow corn. Wheat, oats and white corn produce light-colored yolks. J. W. Zibbell's Training Stables Corner Point Lobos Road and 2<7tli Avenue, San Francisco. aDd satisfaction guaranteed. Terms reason- able Horses bought and sold. Jackson's Napa Soda is sold in every city, town and hamlet in the State. I Tlxe Crowning Sale. On Tnp«Hflv Nnvemhpr 17 1001 J WILL SELL AT public auction the UD lUCSUdy, 11UYC1UUC1 II, ITVO, flDest consignment of Trotters and Pacers ever offered during this eventful year, comprising In part sons and daughters of Res Direct 2:io[outof mares like Stemwinder (dam of Directum 2:05!<), Babe Marlon 2:1734', Anteera by Anteeo, Lurltne 2:173i. Mlssie Medium, etc.]. Hart Boswell, Diablo 2:\JQH, Charles Derby 2:3), Owyhee 8:11, Sliver Bow 2:16. James Madison 2:17&, Argent2:29. Steinway 2:25S£ , GuyMcKlnney, McKinney 5:11 J< and Dexter Prince. Consignments of well-bred Trotters Bnd Pacers solicited. Catalogues will in immediately. These colts and Allies have been selected by one of the best judges of hors« California WM, G LAYNG, Live Stock Auction* ti Occidental Hone Exchange, X46 Third St., San Franclico. la @ft£ gveeiicv mtb gtpovt&utixn [October 24 l»03 A Giant Creamery. The largest creamery in the world is located in Lincoln, Nebraska. It makes seven million pounds of butter annually. This is an average of 21 tons of butter per day the churns running day and night with shifts of men. The creamery has six thousand patrons in Nebraska, and cream is brought from a distance of 450 miles. There are eighteen skimming stations. Four thousand hand separators are in use by patrons. The product mostlv goes to the South. In Nebraska the mine of wealth is alfalfa. It grows to perfection in every county in the State. Either rainfall or irrigation means three or four crops of alfalfa in a season. Al- falfa hay is grain itself. It makes, green or dry, the finest of food for milk p oduc- tion. There are oceans of the best and purest water near the rurface, and flow- ing wells are common. A Nebraska editor writes: "We want dairymen out here— men with dairy cows, instead of beefers ; with barns and cow stables, in place of straw roofed hovels and barbed wire sid- ing. They are going to come ; also winter dairying and silos. You ought to go out to some of the frontier counties where we have commenced to buy cream. In one county, with less than fifteen hundred inhabitants, we will pay this year more than $35,000 for butter fat. With dairy- ing, alfalfa, corn and hogs, I know men out there, each on 320 acres of land, who will take in $3,000 in cash apiece this year. These men in Nebraska are just beginning to wake up to the importance of a milch cow as contrasted with that kept a year, to raise a $30 calf. We are out of debt; we have money to loan in Nebraska." • Pays to Keep Cows. That it pays to keep cows and dispose of the milk at the creamery has been pretty well demonstrated recently by Mr. H. Parnham, who resides near town on the Santa Rita road, says the Pleasanton Times. Mr. Parnham delivered to the Santa Rita creamery in tbirty-one days 1674 pounds of milk, which tested 3.9 butter fat. This quantity was produced from two cows, for one of which it was the first calf. He also fed two calves for two weeks of that time with milk from the same cows. His receipts from the cream- ery fo r this milk amounted to $17.65 or nearly $9 for each cow. It is not possible to get at the exact cost of feeding the animals during this period, but it is safe to say that the cost was nominal, as they were allowed to run on the Btubble and were fed a small quantity of hay and a couple of sugar beets morning and evening. These kind of results should encourage farmers to keep cows for the milk they can send to the creameries for it is cer- tainly a profitable industry. Good Profit from Eight Cows. We have personal knowledge of a man near Woodland who has eight cows that he milks for the creamery, says the Mail of that city. Last month _his check for that milk was an even $135, or eight dollars and a bit per cow. Will some one please come forward and tell of any crop that a farmer can raise that will equal milk. Besides the milk he will have the by- products of the calves and several head of hogs each year. o George Jackson intends to establish a creamery at Altamont in the near future. He has arranged for the purchase and installation of a No. 2 separator, a fifty- gallon churn and such motive power- as may be decided upon later. Mr. Jackson has twenty-five cows and is about to pur- chase as many more. With his own and neighbors' cows he believes he will milk enough to keep the creamery in operation. Sober up on Jackson's Napa Soda. Feeding Lambs for Profit. In feeding sheep on different rations at the Nebraska station alfalfa and prairie hay were used as roughness — four lots being fed on each. Seven lots had a pro- tected yard and shed for she'ter. Lot eight had only an open yard with no Bhed r shelter. The lambs weighed an aver- se of fifty pounds when the experiment commenced and sold one hundred days later weighing an average of seventy-eight pounds. Four different grain rations were fed to the four lots on prairie hay and three grain rations to the four lots on alfalfa hay. Lot one on alralfa hay and corn gained thirty-three pounds in one hundred days and yielded a profit of $2.05 for each lamb. Lot two on alfalfa hay and a grain ration of three-fourths corn and one- fourth oats gained thirty-two pounds in one hundred days and gave a profit of $1.98 cents a lamb. Lot three on alfalfa hay and a grain ration of three-fourths corn and one-fourth bran made a gain of thirty pounds each and gave a profit of $1.90 cents a lamb. Lot eight was fed in an open yard with no shelter. It received alfalfa hay and a grain ration of three- fourths corn and one-fourth bran, making a gain of thirty-four pounds a head in one hundred days and gave a profit of $1.94 a lamb. Lot four was fed on prairie hay and corn, making a gain of nineteen pounds a head in one hundred days and gave a pr fit of $1.43 a lamb. Lot five was fed on prairie hay and a grain ration of corn with sixteen per cent linseed meal, mak- ing a gain of twenty-four pounds a head in one hundred days, and gave a profit of $1.50 a lamb. Lot six was fed prairie hay and grain ration of three-fourths corn and one-'ourth oats, making a gain of nineteen pounds a head in 100 days and gave a profit of $1.32 a head. Lot seven was fed prairie hay and a grain ration of three-fourths corn and one-fourth oats, making a gain of nineteen pounds in one hundred days and gave a profit of $1.30 a lamb. Counting all losses and all expenses against the sheep fed, they made an aver- age profit of $1 60 a lamb. The alfalfa hay-fed lambs consumed 1 34 pounds of hay and one pound of grain each a day, against .99 pound of hay and .89 pound of grain consumed by the prairie hay-fed lambs. The alfalfa hay-fed lambs on dif- ferent grain rations made fifty-two per cent greater gains than the lambs fed prairie bay and the same grain rations. The lambs fed prairie hay and corn with sixteen per cent oil meal made twenty- six per cent greater gains than the lambs fed prairie hay and corn or prairie bav and corn with one-fourth oats or bran. The amount of feed a bull should have will depend largely on circumstances, says C. S. Plumb of the Ohio College o Agriculture. He should be kept growing steadily until he has reached full maturity, and, while he should not be made fat, he should be fleshed up to stand a reasonable amount of service. If he is brought to a full growth bv constant and satisfactory gain it will after that be much easier to maintain him in satisfactory flesh than if he is allowed to drag in growth. After reaching full maturity and good condition the amount of grain fed should be regu- lated according to his breeding service and condition of flesh. $5000 Reward to any person who will prove any letter or .. endorsement we pub- Used and Endorsed by ■,. , , , r ■, f . Adams Express Co. lisii to be fraudulent. Turtle's Elixir is of such well known and high quality that it does not need to bring anything but honest statements to its defense. ._ Indispensible for all veterinary uses. Turtle's Family Elixir £ ?ne*nfe-* ■ .... J . as a remedy in the home. We send a sample free for 6c in stamps, merely to pay postage. Send at once for our 100-page book "Veter- inary Experience," which we mail free. TurtIe'sEllxlrCo.,4370'FarreIlrt.,SaoFrancisco,Cal. ■^B'wiir.' o£ ---,.- \ Elixirs— none "enulne but Tulle's. Avoid all blisters; they offer only temporary relief, if any. .Dr.Smith'^ FOR SALE. HORSE FOALED 1897; SIRE SAN DIEGO 8776, dam Belle Emmet by Mambrioo Wilkes 6083: 16 hands high, weighs about 1200 lbs.; fast, gentle, drives single or double. Address H. P. H. HAGGETT, Lower LaUe. Cal. A SADDLES Turf Goods Always the Best for the Money. JEPSEN (INC.) 1145-47 Market St. San Francisco f PALACE HOTEL, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA. 3 On the Circuit f Takes out soreness, paini | cures cuts and sprains. Never Sails to bring [home the money. Get a Bottle, You'll like it. All Druggists and Harness Dealers or Vita Oil Co., 1533 Buchanan St. San Francisco, Cal. J. A, McKerron and J, O'Kane, Agts McKinney Stallion For Sale. PAY COLT WITH BLACK POINTS, FOALED -L* July 21, 1902. By McKinney, dam Dollle G. ^he by Duke by A W. Richmond; 2d dam, Jenole C. by Sargent's Qulen Sabe; 3d dam. Black Swan by Monte, he by Williamson's Belmont, Colt Is of good size. Price 8750. Address W. W. GOLLIN, 231 North First St., San Jose, Cal. FOR SALE. pODR-YEAR-OLD BAY GELDING BY LIN- -1- wood Wilkes 2:20; dam, the standard and reg- istered mare Juamta Skinner by Silas Skinner 2:17; second dam, Gipsey by Echo 462; third dam, Jean by Black Hawk 767. This gelaing is a good gaited, square trotter, and with but little work has trotted a mile in 2:25 on the Santa Rosa track. Is an excallent prospect and will be sold reason- able. Apply to Dr. J. W. CLARK, Santa Rosa FOR SALE. TOURISTS and TRAVELERS will, now, with difficulty recognize the famous COURT into which for twenty-five years carriages have driven. This space of over a quarter of an acre has recently, by the addition of very handsome furniture, rugs, chandeliers and tropical plants, been converted into a lounging room—the FINEST IN THE WORLD. The EMPIRE PARLOR— the PALM ROOM, furnished in Cerise, with Billiard and Pool tables for the ladies— the LOUIS XV PARLOR the LADIES WRITING ROOM and numerous other modern improvements, together with the unexcelled Cuisine and the Most Convenient Location in the City— all add much to the ever increasing popularity of this most famous HOTEL. \„ J-pHE PACING MARE SWANHILDA. She is J- a handsome bay, coming seven years old, a natural pacer and with but little track work can pace a mile below 2:20 with ease. Gentle and kind and has been d'iven by ladies to buggy. She Is a fine roadster and with proper training will make a great race mare. For pedigree and further particulars address W. L. MCDONALD, Concord. Cal. I Your stable is not complete without Ouinn's I Ointment. An infallible cure for all ordi- g nary horse afflictions. Follow the example \ = set by the leading horsemen of the world and i | your stable shelf will always hold a bottle of ' Quinn's Ointment s ...A* L- Thomas, Snpt. Canton Farm, Joliet, HI., remarks, E I enclose yon amonnt for sii bottles of Qainn's Ointment. B After one.year's trial ronst confess it does e " it." For Cnrbs, Splints, Spavins, Windpt Price $i.oo per package. Sold by all druggists, or sent by mail. s W. B. EDDY & CO., Whitehall, N. Y. ■IrWVWVWWrVWrWVWrWW? CALIFORNIA Photo Engraving Company HIGH CLASS ART IN Half Tones and Line Engraving Artistic Designing. 506 Mission St.. cor. First, San Franctoot* Jackson's Napa Soda does not tangle the feet October 24, 1903] ©he gveeiiev caxii gftrortsman IS Best In The World. The time-tried remedy which has done daty la every clime, routing: its way by its matchless curative properties tor Spavin, Ringbone, Curb, Splintand all forms ot Lameness. Kendall's Spavin Cure. Thousands of horsemen year after year gladly at- test Its merits. Lisle, Ont., Dec. 19, 1902. Dr. B.J. Kendall Co., Gentlemen;— I havensed a great amount of your Kendall's Spavin Cure audi am now on my twelfth bottle. I have found it satisfactory. I have cured dozens of horses, have found it the best remedy I evergothold r SPAVIN CURE x ABSORBINE HELPED. "pQUITY 2:l2y, was sold at the Fasig Sale for $750 because he was blemished. Later -*-* he passed to Mr. A. E Perron, who knew he could get him right by careful nursing and using the proper remedy. He did so and sold him to Mr. Billings for $10,000. "A big price!1' you say, but Equity made good when he and The Monk set the team reeord out of reach of any other team in the world, and it is believed they can reduce it. A recent letter from Mr. Perren reads as follows: Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 16, 1903. Dr. W. F. YOUNG. Springfield, Mass. Dear Sir:— I have used Absorbine on my horses, one of which was Equity, who, with The Monk, established a new world's wagon record to pole of 2:09^, and I have so far found that it does just what you claim for it. It is as much of a necessity in my stable as hay, oats, etc. Yours truly. A. E. PERREN. ABSORBINE sent, express paid, to your address upoo reoeipt of $3, Many leading trainers use Absorbine Wash. See directions in free book. Manufactured by W. F. YOUNG, P. D. F., Springfield, Mass. VETERINARY PIXINE CURES Srease Heel, Scratches and Hoof Rot, -chronic, ulcerated] fcomplicated-of the most deep seated character; Cracked or chapped teats, caked bag, cow pox and all inflammatory Tections of the udder; Saddle and Collar Galls, Hopple Chafes , and Abscesses, Old chronic Sores, the result i of pressure by badly fitting harness or by irritating masses [of dirt, sweat and hair under the harness. It makes a positive and permanent cure by producing healthy granulations, building up new cellular tissues, healing naturally from the bottom without scab or scar and stimulating growth of hair, natural color. It penetrates, soothes and heals while horse works. Absolutly Guaranteed. Mojiey back if it fails. 2 oz. 25c; 8oz. 50c; ~ 51b. pkg. $4.00. At all Dealers or sent prepaid. sendToTfor sample Troy Chemical Co BOX AND BOOKLET. TROY. N. Y. D. E. NEWELL, Pacific Coast Agent, 519 Mission St., San Francisco Absolute Security Against Loss by Fire BY INSURING IN The Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. Reliability. Consideration and Promptness are characteristic oJ this Company. The Cost is Nominal. ■*#><**> The Security Absolute. Home Office— 401-407 CALIFORNIA STREET, S. F. Pedigrees Tabulated w^rZnrtr^ poetsman, M Qttkif •treat, Ban Franoisco, Cal. NOTE ITS MIRACULOUS WORK ON BROKEN-DOWN TENDONS MIDDLE HOPE, ORANGE CO., N. Y., Aug. 9, 1903. TROY CHEMICAL CO., Trot, N. Y.: Gentlemen:— I received a horse from the city last June that was a very fast pacer and had baen raced and used on the Bpeedway until he did not have a leg to stand on. I was instructed to blister this horse and fire htm it I thought he needed it. Well, aa the horse could not stand on his feet an hour at a time, I thought it would be cruelty to the horse to blister him, and I commenced to use your remedy. Clipped hair from legs and went to work at him, and I must say "Save-the-Horse" has worked wonders with htm, as his front legs are as clean as a hound's tooth to-day. and another appli- cation will clean up his hind legs. His owner came here to see him a few weeks ago, and while he knew I had not blistered him, he was at a loss to tell what I had done until I told htm and showed the bottle. Yours respectfully, ^ NAP. C BARNES. / Gibson, 111., July 21, 1903i ST <■■>*' 'i'V /•V'-"' - ■"-"• f> troy Chemical Co. t irzy , M. V. Gentlcx?n:- Oear r,irs:- i rant to say In regard to the bottle or "Save-the- fcorso" I purchased of you I used It on my horse Bellado nth record of 2:30-1/2 for a bad c=se of bone ■spavin of six year's standing. At times wes so lame he could hardly get around. I used about a bottle and a half and lie is completely cured, I have given the horse hard drives t:nd ho never rovors It al all. I think the remedy Is nil right. J - — ji.i""J'jm j t- Vnn" *nilir Taeyraarsr?^ . Vory truly. Troy Chemical Co. ,"• j ' Troy, H. Y. Gentlemen: - My horse had ringbone on right hind lag. "Used , blisters for nearly one year £nd had hia fired, but to no effect \ ether than to leave a bed scar." In April I purchased a bottle of your "Save-the-Korse" and by the time I used half of the bottle ' it haci completely cured the lameness and la reducing the cone, -n^», - . i—- Yours respectfully, t "SAVE-THE-HORSE" Cures Without Scar, Blemish or Loss of Hair. 'Save-the-Horse'1 oan be applied at any time, anywhere, any place, and in all conditions and extremes of weather. Horses may be worked as usual with shin or ankle boots, as no harm can result from destruction of hair or scalding of limb. POSITIVELY AND PERMANENTLY CURES Bone and Bog Spavin, Thoroughpin, Ringbone (except low ringbone), Curb, Splint, Capp.-d Hock, Windpuff, Shoe Boil, Weak and Sprained Tendons and all Lameness. $5.00 PER BOTTLE. Written guarantee with every bottle given under our seal and signature, constructed solely to satisfy and protect you fully. Need of second bottle is almost improbable, except in rarest of cases. Copy of booklet and guarantee sent upon application. TROY CHEMICAL CO. M AN U FACTU R E RS TROY, N. Y. D. E. NEWELL, Pacific Coast Agent, S19 Mission St., San Francisco October 24 190b] 0Lhe gveeliev cmt» gtportsmuu 16 cc NEW "E. C." NEW "SCHULTZE" SHOTGUN RIFLEITE * THE AMERICAN "E. G." and "SCHULTZE" Gunpowder Co., Ltd Mainfaotarsd PHIL. B BEKEART CO.. Paolflc Coast Representative. The World's Greatest Shooting Record. FRED GILBERT, of Spirit Lake, la., since Jan. 1, 1902, has shot in competition at 5765 Targets, breaking 5532 or 95.9 per cent, using a PARKER GUN AT SHOT AT Natchez, Miss 400 Fort Dodge, la 300 Lakefield, Minn 205 Sioux City, la 360 Dubuque, la 360 THE "OLD RELIABLE" IS RELIABLE. AT BROKE PER CENT 396 .. 99 296 .. 98.6 203 .. 99 351 .. 97 351 .. 97 5 PARKER BROTHERS Send for catalogue. MERIDEN, CONN N. ¥. Salesroom, 32 Warren St. BALLISTITF The Standard Dense Powder of the World. *^^™ STILL LEADS AT THE TRAPS OR IN THE FIELD. Ballistite wins from the limit marks in distance handicaps, at either live birds or flying targets as it always gives the highest velocities with the closest and most even patterns at all ranges Ballistite is absolutely unvarying in results, being waterproor, smokeless, odorless, without residue res^ures lower than black powder, unaffected by age or climatic changes, and never pits, rusts or orrodes the barrels. Ballisti te is sold with above guarantee. Take No One's Word. Try It for Yourself. I M I All A m 75 CHAMBERS ST„ NEW YORK CITY W« !■■ .L-aMw *JV \~S\Jm Telephone 1747 Franklin. Importers and Dealers In Fire Arms, Ammunition and Fencing Goods. Sole Agents for THE REBLE GUN and BALLISTITE (Dense) and EMPIRE (Bulk) SMOKELESS POWDERS. A postal brings catalogue and "ShootiDg Facts" (third edition) BALLISTITF The Standard Dense Powder of the World. "^^™ CAMPBELL'S HORSE FOOT REMEDY besHIedy EVER USED ON HORSES' FEET. IT PENETRATES and DRIES IN quickly and DOES NOT GUM and FILL UP THE PORES like tar and oil compounds. It Is the GREATEST REMEDY ever used to remove SORENESS and FEVER from the foot, and makes it possible to get good services out of a horse working on hard and hot pavements. It gives natural nourishment to the foot and incites a rapid, healthy growth— ALL DRYNESS AND BRITTLE- NESS quickly disappears. QUARTER CRACKS and SAND CRACKS are rapidly grown out when directions given in our booklet are followed. It is a SURE CURE for CORNS, CONTRACTED FEET and NAIL WOUNDS if directions are followed. It PRE.VENTS SOUND FEET FROM BECOMING UN- SOUND and GROWS a TOUGH, STRONG. ELASTIC WALL and HEALTHY FROG— A FOOT WHICH WILL STAND WORK on racecourses. Many of the best owners and trainers state that for track work nothing equals it. In many cases horses have reduced their records several seconds, due to its use. It is a CER'J AIN CURE for THRUSH and SCRATCHES We Guarantee That It Will Do What We Claim and Will Refund Money if It Pails. PRICES :— Quarts. $100: Half-Gallon, 81.75; Gallon, $300; :2V4-Gallon, $5.50; Five-Gallon, $10.00. Books giving full directions for Its use and much valuable information as to shoeing are supplied free- Don't fall to read "ad." giving information concerning Campbell's Iodoform Gall Cure in next issue of this paper. It is the best and because of its merits is rapidly displacing all others. JAS. B. CAHPBELL&CO . Manufacturers, 412 W. nadison St., CHICAQO, ILL VETERINARY. DR. C. MASOERO VETERINARY SURGEON Graduate of Royal Veterinary College of Turin. Infirmary and Residence— 811 Howard St.: between Fourth and Fifth Sts., San Francisco. Telephone: Main -15?. Ira Barker Balziel VETERINARY DENTIST Fancy Carriage, Saddle and Roar1 Horses for Sale Office and stable: 605 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, Cal. Telephone South 651. X>2?. Wm, F. £2&£t>xx. M. R. C. V. S.. F. E. T. M. S. VETERINARY SURGEON. Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, England; Fellow of the Edinburg Veterinary Medical Society; Graduate of the New Veterinary College, Edinburgh; Veterinary Sur- geon to the S. F. Fire Department; Live Stock Inspector forNew Zealand and Australian Colonies at the port of San Francisco; Professor of Equine Medicine, Veterinary Surgery, Veterinary Depart- ment University of California: Ex-President m the California State Veterinary Medical Associa- tion; Veterinary Infirmary, Residence and Office, San Franoisco Veterinary Hospital, 1117 Golden Gate Avenue, near Webster St., San Francisco: Telephone West 128. ROSE HOTEL PLEASANTON, CAL. Enlarged, Rebuilt. Twenty-five New Rooms Newly Furnished. Electric Lights, Running Water. Up to date. A. 8. OLNKT & SON - - Proprietors Chronic Bronchitis and Catarrh of the Bladder Cored In 48 Hoars. CAPSULES MM* Snperlor to Copaiba. Cnbeb* or Tnjeotloo BLAKE, M0FFITT & TOWNE DEALERS IN 55-57-59-61 First Street, Tklsphonb Mint 199 S. F. adogspoor™^ means disordered digestion, and if not promptly attended to will develop into chronic dyspepsia. Sergeant's Condition Pills will improve the appetite by strengthening the stom- ach, and cure indigestion, general debility, nervous- ness, and all disorders arising from impaired digestion. The Pills are a scientific remedy and the standard alterative and tonic in the treatment of Distemper, Mange, Fevers and General Debility. Of dealers, 60c and $ 1.00. By mail, prepaid. Sergeant's "Sure Shot" rids the Dog and Puppy of worms. Price, 60 cents. Mailed free anywhere. Sergeant's Carbolic " Soft Soap." is the only right kind made. 25c. of dealers. By mail, 85c. Our Dog Treatise, revised, and Pedigree blank will be sent on receipt of an order or 8c. in stamps. Our goods for sale by "All Druggists and Sporting Goods Dealers." F. W. BRAUN & CO., LOS ANGELES, CAL,., Pacific Coast Supply l>epot. G . DANIEL, HELM R. T. SPRATTS PATENT. DOG CAKES REMEDIES SOAP. NEWARK, N. J. Send for tree copy of "DOG CULTURE." ST LOUIS, Pacific Coast Branch— 1324 Valencia Street, San Francisco. Agents for " SANITAS " Disinfectant. AT STUD CUBA Oh KENWOOD (Glenbeish Jr.-8teUa) SAM'S BOW (Plain Sam-Dolly Dee II) STOCKDALE KENNELS K. M. DODGE, Manager. Baker* fie Id, Kern Co., Boarding. Pointer Puppies and well-broken Dogs for sale. SUBSCRIBE TO COLLI San Jose fxV CHAMPION HANOVER MONARCH (A. K. C. S. B. 599S) by the great sire Ch. Ellwyn Astrologer from Ch Old Hall Moon. Fee 815. Pictures and Pedigree upon applica- tion^ CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS Advertisements under this head one cent pen word yer insertion. Cash to accompany order. COCKER SPANIELS. Cocker Kennels' prize winners, PLUMERIA VICTORIA (bred to Champion Hampton Goldte) and others. Last chance to use the phenomenal sire, Champion HAMPTON GOLDIE, at stud, Fee $20 Going East. 229 Ninth Avenue. Phone Geary 1620. ST. BERNARDS Showing exact position of every horse, including the favorite, which was either first, second third or fourth at each quarter pole, also positions at start. Events reported from all parts of Canada and United States. leaned the 1st and 16th of every month, from April 15th to October 15th. Price 60c, 75c. or $1, according to Issue. For sale at all principal hotels, news stands and race tracks in the country, and publishers' office. GOODWIN BROS., 1440 Broadway, N. Y. Annual subscription, 818, which includes all semimonthly editions and two morocco bound semi-annuals. Explanatory circular 'mailed free. For sale by the Breeder and Sportsman. AT STUD-CHAMPION LE KING. GRAND- est headed St Bernard on the Coast. Fee $20. W. "WALLACE, 58 Boyce St., San Francisco. by Ch. Hampton Goldle- Apply at junction old county and Redwood rpBds, Fraltvale, Alameda IRISH AND SCOTCH TERRIERS. TRISH AND SCOTCH TERRIER BUPPIES ■*• at $12 and $15 Sired by Champltfh Loyne Ruffian and Champion Fighting Mao. Mrs. BRADLEY-DYNE. Saturna P. O B.C. COLLIES. pOLLIE PUPS FOR SALE— BY PRIZE ^-/ winning Imported sires and dams, fit for bench, ranch or farm Both sexes. Prices aocord- i log to quality. Correspondence solicited: all let- I tera cheerfully answered. THOS. S. GRIFFITH, Box 1907, Spokane. Wash. LAUNCH FOB SALE f)NE OF THE BEST EQUIPPED AND Speediest Boats on the bay: 38 feet long, 28 h. p. Suitable for any work on the bay, river waters or Monterey bay. A bargain for a shoot- ing club. W. H. WILLIAMSON, 2121 Sau Jose Ave,, Alameda. BREEDERS' DIRECTORY. HOLSTEINS— Winners of every 7 days' butter contest at State Fair 1899 1st & Sd for aged cows, 4-yr., S-yr. and 2-yr.-olds; 21 Jerseys and Durhams competing. 5th year my Holstelns have beaten Jerseys for butter. Stock for sale; also pigs. F. H. Burke. 30 Montgomery St., S. F. JERSEYS, HOLSTEINS AND DURHAMS. Dairy Stock specially. Hogs, Poultry. Estab- lished 1876. William Niles & Co.; Los Angeles, CaL __ AYR 8 HIKES— Young Bulls, Oowa and Heifers. Registered. From prize winning famillea. Brown & Brandon Petaluma Cal- PEDIGREES TABULATED And type written Ready for framing. Write for prices. Brkkdxr and Sportsman, as Geary Street- San rranolsoo. Cal. 16 ©Ite gveeitev atii* ^poTctaman [October 24, 1903 TELEPHONE: South 640 ^ //&?££* BOOTS 2V3-2& San Francisco, Cal. Cablegram to President Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, London, July 11, 1903. American Rifles, AMMUNITION and Men won victory to=day over Great Britain, Canada, France, Norway, Australia and Natal, and bring back Palma trophy. (Signed) LIEUT. ALBERT S. JONES, (Copied from tte X. y. Herald.) Secretary of the National Rifle Association of America. THIS SWEEPING VICTORY for America and the Extraordinary Score of 157U ont of a Possible 1800 were made with 30-40 Regular Factory Cartridges, Manufactured by the UNION METALLIC CARTRIDGE COMPANY Selected after Exhaustive Trials, by the American Team, Id Preference to All Others for their Wonderful and Extreme Accuracy. SCORES ARE IMPROVED BY USING U. M. C. AMMUNITION THE UNION METALLIC CARTRIDGE COMPANY Pacific Coast Branch Depot 86-8S FIRST ST.. SAX FRANCISCO E. K. DRAKE. Manager. REPEATING SHOTGUNS AND AMMUNITION JftUCHESm PACIFIC COAST AGENCY: 127-135 FIRST STREET SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. -A.. MULIjER, Agent. SMITH GUNS At S. F. Trap Shooting Association May 22— 83— 84— 28 VACGHN, - - 72 Straight, FEUDXKR, - 62 Also loDgest straight run and first men i es at live birds Loaded in O. T». W . Smols.eloss. Winning Highest Average at All Shoots. IF TOC WAST THE BEST ASK FOR California Powder Works FACTORY LOADED SHELLS. If Your Dealer don't keep them write the CALIFORNIA POWDER WORKS — Office 330 Market St., San Francisco Manufacturers of HERCULES DYNAMITE. HERCULES OELATINE, CHAMPION- IMPROVED ELiSHSG, BLACK BLASTING, BLACK SPORTLNG C. P. W. SMOKELESS and MILITARY SMOKELESS Also sell CAPS and FUSE. All Kinds of Ammunition... Catalog on [ application to Clabrough, Goloher & Go, GUNS Gun Goods FISHING Tackle dfor Catilogne, 638 MARKET STREETS. F. Hunter Arms Co., Fulton, N. Y. PHIL. B. BEKEART CO., San Francisco, Coast Representative Du Pont Gun Powder SMOKELESS, SHOT GUN and MILITARY POWDER Black Powder for Sporting and Blasting Purposes '.'he Reputation of a Hundred Years is the Guarantee of C. A OAJOBT, Agent. DU PONT POWDER 519 Mission St., Room 311, San Francisco. Cal You can get these Smokeless Powders in FACTORY . . LOADED SHELLS DU PONT SHOTGUN RIFLEITE E. C." BALLISTTTE SCHULTZE LAFLIN &. RAND HAZARD "INFALLIBLE." What More do you Want? tol. nm. No. is. 36 GEABY STREET. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1903. SUBSCRIPTION THREE DOLLARS A &' BERT LOGAN, SOX OF COLBERT 2:07} AND MISS LOGAN 2:06} u ^^^^^D DIABLITO 2:081 BY DIABLO 2:09J w S^®^^ ^ 3 ®tte gveetfev txttb &p&vx&man fOCTOBBE 31,' lt«3 ENTRANCE FEE REDUCED TO $2. $6000 Pacific Breeders Futurity No. 4. $6000 GUARANTEED BY THE GUARANTEED Pacific Coast Trotting Horse Breeders Association FOR FOALS OF MARES BRED IN 1903. TO TROT OR PACE AT TWO AMD THREE YEARS OLD. ENTRIES TO CLOSE NOVEMBER 2, 1903. Only $2 to Nominate Mare. S3250 for Trottine: Foals, $1750 for Pacinsr Foals and $200 for Owners of Stallions* $2000 for Three=Year=01d Trotters. $1000 200 for Nominator of Dam of Winner of Three* Year-Old Trot. 200 1250 for Two- Year-Old Trotters. 750 200 for Nominator of Dam of Winner of Two=Year=Old Trot. 200 100 to Owner of Stallion, Sire of Winner of Three- Year=01d Trot 100 when Mare was bred. EXTRAXCE AXD FAXatENTS— 52 to nominate Mare on November 2, 1903, when name, color, description of mare and stallion bred to must bs given yearlings March 1, 1905. & 10 on two-year-olds March 1, 1906. f 10 on three-year-olds March 1, 1907. STAJSTTNG PAYMENTS— $25 to start ia the two-year-old pace. 535 to start in the two-year-old trot. 535 to start in the three-year-old pace. JoO to start in the three-year old trot payments to be made ten days before the first day of the meeting at which the race is to take place. Nominators Must Designate When Making Payments to Start Whether the Horse Entered is a Trotter or Pacer. Colts that Start at Two Years Old are Not Barred from Starting Again in the Three-Year-Old Divisions. CONDITIONS. S800 to Nominators of Dams of Winners Money Divided as Follows: for Three=Year-01d Pacers. for the Nominator of Dam of Winner of Three=Year=Old Pace, for Two= Year-Old Pacers. for Nominator of Dam of Winner of Two=Year=Old Pace, to Owner of Stallion, Sire of Winner of Three-Year=01d Pace when iViare was bred. 55 March 1, 1904. 55 November I, 1904. llOon All starting The races for Two- Year-Olds will be mile heats (2 in 3), and for Three- Year-Olds 3 in 5. Distance forTwb-YearOlds, 150 yards: for Th.ee- Year-Olds, 100 yards. If a mare proves barren, or slips, or has a dead foal, or twins, or if either the mare or foal dies before TMarch 1, 1905. her nominator may transfer his nomination or substitute another mare or foal, regardlessof ownership: but there will be no return of a payment, nor will any entry t» liable for more than amount paid in or contracted for. In entries the name, color and pedigree of mare must be given; also the name of the horse to which she was bred in 1903. ^Entries most be-accompanied by the entrance fee. Should the amount of entrance money received be in excess of the amount of the Stakes the excess will be added, less the cost of postage stamps, printing and advertising, to the Stakes'for the Three- Year-Old divisions in proportion to the amount offered In each division. Nominators liable only for amounts paid in. Failure to make any pavment forfeits all previous payments. Hopples will not be barred in pacing races Right reserved to declare off or reopen these Stakes In case the number of entries received is not satisfactory to the Board of Directors Money divided in each division of the stake 50, 25, 15 and 10 per cent. There will be no more moneys in each division than there are starters. Entries open to the world; membership in the Association not required to enter, but no horse owned in the State of California will be allowed to start until the owner has become a mem ber. Horses owned outside of the State of California are eligible to start regardlessof membersbip E. P. HEALD. President. F. W. KELLEY. Secretary. THE S60,000 ■ DAN PATCH 11564 CHAMPION PACING HORSE of the WORLD [Wlifaont Hopple*, Wtad-Br«ak, Etc., Etc] EATS 3 FEEDS ™s ONE CENT^ EVERY DAY. "International Stock Food" greatly aids Digestion and Assimilation so that More Nutrition is obtained from all grain eaten. It "tones up" and Penna.nentlv Strengthens the entire system and Purifies the Blood so that disease is prevented. Every $3.50 pail "of "International Stock Food" is positively guaran- teed to save $7.00 -worth of grain. It will cause vour Race Horse to have more speed and endurance. It will make your Carnage Horses healthy, fat and beautiful. It will give your Show Horses more life and \ action and mate them glossy. It will make your Work Horses strong, healthv and of great endurance. It will make your Stallions and Brood Mares surer, and your colts will "be better and grow and develop more rapidly. "International Stock Food" is absolutely harmless even if taken into the human svstem. It is prepared from Roots, Herbs, Seeds and Barks and is fed in small amounts as an addition to theregnlar grain allowance. It is equally profitable when fed to Horses. Cattle, Sheep, Hogs, Colts, Calves, Lambs or Pigs. It -will make you a large extra profit when fed to your stock for Growing, Fattening or Working. It will increase milk 15 to 25 per cent, in Cows, Mares, Sows or Ewes, and only costs *S"3 FEEDS for OXE CEXT."«» A Dan Patch colt commanded $5,000 at eight months of age. He looked like a vearling and was beautiful, strong and vigorous. The dam was fed "International Stock Food" before and after foaling, and the colt as soon as it would eat. Dan Patch became tie World's Champion Harness Horse nine months after commencing to eat "International Stock Food" every day. If it is good for such horses don't vou think it would pav you to test it on yours? Our ' International Stock Food Farm" contains 650 acres, 12 miles from Minneapolis, and > on it we own Dan Patcbl56H Directum 2:05«:, Rov Wilkes 2:065<, and a band of broodmares. They all eat ■ International Stock Fooo" every day. BEWARE OF IMITATIONS and SUBSTITUTES. There are many worthless imitations on the market, put out by people who seem to think that the wav to start a busi- ^^JS^l^lS^ wl^-T fr°-m SO?e Prominent fir™- No chemisi can separate and name all of lhB ingredi- lal Slock Food. elc. ano any chemisl or manulaclnrer claiming lo do so mosl be an Ignoramus or a Falsifier. A BEAUTIFUL DAN PATCH PICTURE FREE We have a very fine, large lithograph of Dan Patch with the great driver, M. E. McHenrv in sulkT This Lithograph, Printed in Six Brilliant Colors, is one of the finest and most attractive horse PJ22S SSf, Pu¥,Ished- II « 21x28 and printed on heavv paper suitable for framing. mS*V>e V, ill Mail \ ou One Copy Free , postage prepaid. If You "will Answer Two Questions. 1st.— Name This Paper. 2d.— State How Much Stock You Own. Answer these questions in a letter or on a postal card and we will mail at once. Write at once before the oHer is withdrawn. Id dress — larxe.t Stock Fowl FK!.rr ia Ibr World. Capital Paid Ea, $1,000,000. / International Stock Food Co. MISSEAPOLIS. MINK., D. S. A. Y1^ The Great California Liniment. Fop Lameness, Soreness and Deep-seated Pain; good iop man op horse: used by evepy prominent horseman on the race tracks because it's the best — money can buy. All Druggists and Harness Dealers or Vita Oil Co., 1533 Buchanan St. San Francisco, Cal. J. A. IMeritn and J. Q'Kane, Agts FOR SALE. rOL'R-VEAR-OLn B\Y GELDING BY LIN- *- w- od Wilkes sWfi; cUm. the standard aDd reg- ■-'-rtc mare Joanita SKioner by Siia« Skicner ilTiM-C'iddani Gip-**v by Echo 46'i: third dam. - J^-HD by Black Hawk 757 This.geld.nE is a pood ffaitHO. >i4bare trutier. aDd witu but little "work has tro't.ri a mile in 3:25 on ih.p Santa Rosa track, [ an i-'xeallpDl p-n-p-c acd will bj mi id rpa^on- a.'l»-- AopiT in (iH'rf. W CLAKK. Sam a Kn-a FlE^NC :E JWES^COWT^IRE^JROH^VORKS •^^MONI^sJfrFRANQSCO. * OCTOBER 31, 1803] ®Jte gveebsv atxb &p$vt&tncm 8 THE WEEKLY BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN F. W. KELLEY, Proprietor. Turf and Sporting Authority of the Pacific Coast, — OFFICE — 36 QEARY STREET, SAN FRANCISCO. P. O. BOX 2300. TELEPHONE: .Black 586. ertnl — One Year S3, Six Months SI .7 5, Three Months 91 STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. Money snould be sent by postal order, draft or by registered letter addressed toF. W. Kelley, 38 Geary St., San Franoisco. Cal. Communications must be accompanied by the writer's name and address, not necessarily for publication, but as a private guarantee ot good faith. San Francisco, Saturday, Oct. 31, 1903. I AST CALL FOR THE BIG STAKE— the L Pacific Breeders Futurity No. 4, $6000, for the foals of mares bred this year. Nominations close Monday next, November 2d. The fee has been re- duced to $2, and this small sum may be the means of your prospective foal winning one or both the divisions of the stake set apart for eolts of his gait. The increased value that attaches to a colt well staked is obvious to every breeder, and is recognized by every person who has given the subject any thought. The glory attached to winning a stake with a colt of ones own breeding is one of those things that only a true horseman can appreciate, but the profit derived from the transaction is something that appeals to every- body. It is a great' pleasure to hear the applause from the grand stand when one's colt comes under the wire a nose in front of three or four fast com- petitors, but for real satisfaction the jingle of the bright gold pieces paid over by the Secretary on account of this win, iB "the real, real thing." You will not feel those thrills of pleasure and satisfaction, however, unless you have a colt in the race and you cannot have one there unless the dam is nominated. Nominations close Monday next. Send the name of your mare, her description and the name of the stal- lion bred to, to Secretary F. W. Kelley, 36 Geary street. Accompany this with $2, and you will be in line. v 'HE RED RIBBON SPEED SALE that William G. Layng will hold at the Occidental Horse Ex- change on Tuesday evening, November 17th, iB ad- vertised in this issue of the Breeder and Sports- man in a manner so that the breeding of each horse is fully given. The Bale is attracting much attention from breeders, and will draw an immense crowd to Mr. Layng's big pavilion the night it comes off. Henry Sanders of Pleasanton consigns sixteen head by Rey Direct, Chas. Derby, Diablo. Owyhee and Hart Boswell. P. J. Williams sends a half brother to Monterey and a yearling filly by' that great trotter. Thos. Smith of Vallejo, L. M. Lassell of Martinez, C. Archer of Linden, and several others consign horses by Geo. Washington, Linwood, Abbotsford Jr, Di- rect, Dexter Prince, Sidney, Guy McKinney, Mc-. Kinney, Silver Bow, Sidmore and other good sires. These are all out of well bred mares, many of which are producers. Besides this consignment of trotters and pacers, there is a band of seven handsome Shetland ponies, all thoroughly broken aDd consigned by Geo. A. Davis of Pleasanton. This is just the opportunity to 6ecure a Christmas- present for the children that will not only be appreciated by them but keep them out of doorB and biing them health and vigor in the open air. Catalogues are to be issued at once. Send to Mr. Layng at 246 Third street for one. LOU DILLON -.1.58}. It almost startles a person to write the figures, and induces a rubbing of ejeB and pinching of flesh to make certain that the writer is not dreaming. A mile in two minutes was marvel- ous, and turned the astonished eyes of the world to the beautiful Santa Rosa mare, but this mile in 1:5*1 leads one to ask "Where will she stop? What is her limit?" Millard Sanders, to whose abilities' as a trainer is due the wonderful showing made by the world's greatest trotter, says she will go still .faster^ and that she has as much speed as any pacefT pvAN DENNISON, one of the wittiest Irishmen and L> best trainers that ever handled a horse, died suddenly on the street in Oakland last Tuesday, from heart disease. Dan Dennison was an old resident of California, having come here from Ireland when quite a youth. He trained and drove trotters in the old dayB, being contemporaneous with Jim Eoff, Chas. Shear, Yank Smith, Barney Rice, and many others who have passed over the divide. In recent years he has trained and raced runners, having handled strings successfully for W. O'B. Macdonough and the late Marcus Daly. Many of the "old boy6" and all who were acquainted with Dan Dennison will hear of his death with regret. He leaveB a large family, several of the sons having ridden races before they became too heavy. His oldest daughter married M. J. Kelly, the trainer for Burns & Waterhouse, who died about three years ago. Eva Dennison, another daughter, is the ingenue with the Frawley company now touring Australia and New Zealand. Pleasanton Notes. [Pleasanton Times, Oct. 24.] "White Hat" McCarthy is a weekly visitor at the track nowadays, looking after his Sidney Dillon geld- ing that Mr. Albertson is working. He may not be another Lou Dillon, but he will step some bye and and bye. Barney Simpson has been quite sick for the last few ^ will be only exercise for him. W. Brown worked his green trotter by Bay Bird a mile last Saturday in 2:16?. This was a very credit- able performance for a trotter that has bad leBS than two months work altogether. He looks like a 2:10 prospect. Seven bead of horses belonging to Senator Clark of Montana arrived yesterday and will winter here. They have been raced through the northern circuit and came through from Portland, Ore., by express. Listen All yu' owners aud yu' trainers In north and east and south: It may be yu' can tell a horse Hy looktn' In his mouth: It may be yu' can train 'em, too, and handle 'em with care, And it may be yu' can race 'em and time 'em fair and square. It may be yu' have bred a few that wan't so awful slow; It may be yu* have won the bine in some big city show; Brit If yu' want a sure horse farm, that's worthy of the name, Where ev'ry horse yu' raise will sell and many bring you fame, There's a State out by the ocean that's oalled the suni-et sea, "Where there's earth and grass and water, enough for j ou and me. Where tbehorses have endurance and finish strong and game— A land of roads and warm sunshine and reputable fame, Where prass grows in the summer and In the winter, too, And where we bred and raised a queen whose christian name is Lou, * Besides some thousand other stars, of whom the books will tell, And where you can breed some like 'em as easy and as well. The north and south and east are good, but if you want the best Pack"up your duds and ship your stock and come out to the west. We like all worthy strangers, and so we gladly warn yu'— The best place on God's green old earth is dear old California. Sari Francisco, Oct. 2»>, 1903. B. C. Leading Sires of 1903. The full list of new performers of 1903 has not yet been made up, but from present figures Gambetta Wilkes 2:19J is far in the lead with 18 new performers to hiB.oredit. The following is a list of those stallions that have four or more new performers this year: Gambetta Wilkes 2: 19M 18 Direct 2:05H 11 Kremlin 2:073£ 11 Allerton 2:09m 10 Bellini 1: 13«4 '. 10 MoKinney 2:11H 7 Charles Derby 2:20. . .......'. 6- Elyria 2:25M 8 Nelson 2:09 fi Oro Wilkes 2:11 6 Robert McGregor 2:17^4 6 Sphinx 2:2014 6 Axtell 2:12 5- Baron Wilkes J:18 5 Bingen2:06M ; 5 Directum 2:05M 5 Expedition 2:153^ 3 Prodigal 2:16 3 Alcander 2:2014 ' Axworthy 2:1514 4 Baron Dillon 2:13 1 Blrchwood 2:15 1 Bobby Burns 2:19m 4 Boreal 2:1516 -1 Bourbon Patchen 2:09 4 Brown Hal 2:12^ :.,.... 4 Happy Heir 4 John G. Carlisle 2:2tr 4 Mambrlno King;.. 4 Patchen Wilkes 2:2914 4 Poem2:ll!4 .'.- 4 Wilkes : ■- - Won by His Poor French. An amusing incident is reported from Paris as hav- ing occurred at a race meeting at Auteuil. An Eng- lishman, whose French must have been that of the English schools, went to the Paris Mutual booth and asked for 900 francs' worth of tickets on Popillott Quatre. His pronunciation, however, was not suffi- ciently understood by the clerk in. charge to enable him to carry out the wishes of his client. He under- stood that the individual wanted to back the horse whose name was number four on the list, as he could make out a resemblance between the word Quatre, meaning four, as the Englishman pronounced ittahd the sound he in common with other Parisians gave it. Acting, therefore, in accordance with the idea be supposed had been conveyed to him, the clerk gave the Englishman ninety ten-franc tickets on Geanne la Folle, smiling as he did so, fcr Geanne, although fourth on the list, was perhaps the rankest outsider that had been entered. But with the blind iuok that often causes a man to stumble on something which he would never see were his eyeB not blinded at" the time, it happened that the error was the cause of great good fortune to the badly pronouncing English- man. La Folle actually won, aDd the Englishman discovered when looking at his tickets that he had won 61,400 francs. A dispatch from Santa Rosa says: "The horsemen of Santa Rosa in particular and Sonoma county in general are enthusiastic over the performances of the wonderful Lou Dillon during the present season on Eastern tracks. They are also proud of the handling of the mare by Millard Sanders, also a Californian, and upon Mb return to his home here they intend to entertain him handsomely. A banquet and a public testimonial to bim as a trainar and reinsman will probably be given him by his friends and admirers. The entire populace will join heartily in an-, scheme to honor the man who handled Lou Dillon, and ad- vertised to the world the section of country from which she came. Through the efforts of Lou and Dolly Dillon on Eastern tracks this year, Santa Rosa bas become more widely known in Eastern states than ever before. Sanders will probably be presented with a loving cup upon his return. He is a well known California horseman, and bas been handling the stock of the Santa Rosa Stook Farm for many years." It is pleasant to see that the Santa Rosa horsemen propose to recognize merit wbereit is due. The Kenney Bicycle Co., 531 Valencia St., is doine a big business in the McMurray Carts and Sulkies. You no~t only save money by purchasing a McMurray but get the most durable best made, and easiest running cart or sulky in the market. Investigation will con vince a Missourian. • All of Chas. Kerr's thoroughbred yearlings will be sold by public auction at the Occidental Horse Ex- change, 246 Third street. Wm. G. Layng the aur- tioneer says they are the finest looking this well known horseman has ever bred. Strike!— if they don't give Soda when you ask for it. you Jack son 'b Nap ©he $x&ebex anh %p&xt#ntixn fOCTOBBB 31, 1»M Lou Dillon 1:581! Notes and News. Her wagon record 2:00! The daughter of Sidney Dillon is a wonder. ■ Major Delmar has lowered his record to 1:59|. No one expected the two minute trotter this year, but there are three. Harry Hurst, by Delwin, reduced his record to 2:15 iD the 2":17 pace at the Boise meeting. Can't some inventive genius demise a wind shield for use on the hot-air circuit that will open soon? Monroe S. the chestnut pacer by Dictator Wilkes, reduced his record to 2:131 at Boise, Idaho, October 17th. The fastest two heats to wagon by a pacing gelding is to the credit of Coney 2:02. It was made in 1900 and the time was 2:05$ and 2:05}. Swift B, the three year old trotter by Stam B. 2:11} won two races at the Boise, Idaho, meeting, and in one of them he beat a field of pacerB. Joe Thayer recently drove a yearling pacer by Birchwood a half over the Lexington track in 1:03}, and sayB he can drive the youngster a full mile in 2:10 Osmont, the bay pacer by Altamont, that, Under- Sherifi Daly of Napa, sold last spring to Salt Lake parties, earned a record of 2:14$ at the Boise, Idaho meeting October 16th. Mack Mack, by McKinney. remains eligible to the 2:14 class, but he has taken down the money about every time he has started this season, and can easily trot in 2:10 should he have to to win. Mr. James A. Murphy's pacer Don Derby 2:04}, full brother to Diablo 2:09}, has so far proved himself King of the New York Speedway pacers, as he has found nothing so far that can bru6h with him. E. E. Smathers will sell at auction next month, in New York, Shadow Chimes, 2:05; Alice Barnes, 2:10J; Gold Brick, 2:07|; Antezella, 2:101, and other fast horses, to make room for his recent purchases. The "largest money winner of the season last year was the unbeaten Direct Hal, 2:04, while the largest money winner of the season this year is the trotter Billy Buck. Ed Geers trained and drove both horses. Clipper 2:06 by Diablo, iB himself again and his record of 2:06} and 2:06} in a race to wagon at Mem- phis this week iB evidence that he is the real thing just now. He defeated two good ones — Tom Keene and Greenline. The handsome black stallion, Claymont, by Alta- mont, out of the famous mare, Tecora, by C. M. Clay, Jr. 22, stepped a mile in 2:12 during the second heat of the 2:1S trot at Lexington. Claymont is owned by Dr. Oldham, Wichita, Kan., and is in the racing stable of J. B. Chandler. Myron McHenry has declared his intentions of deserting the harness horse and taking up with the runners. He will gather a stable of gallopers and race them at New Orleans this winter, next season returning to the North, and take in Chicago and other places where the running game flourishes like a "green bay tree." ' Hudson bought the stallion Nervolo, one of the best race nags among all the pacers, and that he has cam- paigned with success this year, last Friday, paying $15,000 for him. The seller was Dr. Thornhill of Spring Valley, Minn., and the new owner of the son of Colbert is an Easterner whose name has not been made public. Kinney Lou was the only horse in the Blue Grass purse at Lexington that could make Jay McGregor extend himself, and was second each heat. In the second mile Kinney Lou made the big Btallion Btep to the half-mile pole in 1:03, but even this rate of speed did not seem in the least to take the tuck out of Hudson's mount. Mr. W. J. Miller of Fresno is the owner of a year- ling by Guy McKinney that will compare with any foal of like age in the country for good looks and size. The dam is by Dexter Prince and the second dam by Abbotsford. Mr. Miller has been breaking him to harness and the little fellow shows lots of nat- ural speed. He is called Guy Prince. From nearly every town in California where a trot- ting track is located comes the report that the man- agers want to give a good trotting meeting next year. Pacific Breeders Futurity No. 4, for the get of mares bred this year, will close Monday next, Novem- ber 2nd. It only costs $2 to name the mare. Get in and win some of that f " " The stallion Direct View, one of the best looking sons of Direct, trotted a wonderfully good race at Lexington in the 2:16 class, and unless all the signs are at fault he will beat 2:10 in 1904. In the third heat he was away absolutely last and yet finished a good second in 2:11}, being separately timed in 2:11$. When it is considered that in order to come second he was obliged to trot around the entire field, and that on the upper turn he was well to the outside of the track it will be seen that the mile was something like a 2:10 performance had the horse been at the pole all the way. There is talk of a match race between a couple of San Francisco pacers to come off over the speedway within a week or two where the stakes will be a ton of hay and half a ton of oats. Jack Dinue has our thanks for a number of fine photographs of horses and scenes at the Seattle track. We will find use for them in future isBues of the Breeder and Sportsman. The sale of Key Direct colts and fillies at the Occi- dental Horse Exchange, Nov. 17th, will give buyers an opportunity to get Director blood through one of the choicest lines of that great family. That popular horseman P. J. Williams, owner of the great stallion Monterey 2:09}, will Bell a number of fine looking, good sized and well bred young horses at the Occidental Horse Exchange, Nov. 17th. "When one harness race and six running raees make up a day's program, the chances are about six to one against the harness race being on the square," says a swipe who has been on the California circuit for several years past. The $60,000 Dan Patch that has the world's pacing record of 1:56} iB fed on International Stock Food every day. Read the advertisement in this issue and Robert I. celebrated his return to California by winning his firBt start at Los Angeles since his trip East, but he had a hard time beating Ama A., the Dictatus mare. Ama A., the mare by Dictatus that took a trotting record of 2:16} last year, won a heat in 2:12} at the pacing gait at Los Angeles this week. As the Los Angeles track iB slow this record is better than it looks. The $40,000 paid for Major Delmar is the greatest price ever paid for a gelding, Rarua having brought $36,000 and the Abbot $25,000. F. H. Parks, who owned the gelding Major Delmar bought -him two years ago for $2000 and has won large sums with him since. Ho is six years old and has been racing, since he was a two year old, except in his fourth year. He has won fourteen races out of twenty-one starts. The black stallion Citizen Bird, a great grandson of McKinney, won all the honors for standard bred stal- lions at the Spokane Inter-State fair this year. Citizen Bird is a two year old and is by Gyr Falcon, a son of Zombro2:ll. The dam of Gyr Falcon Is Lyla 2:27}, daughter of Altamont and the great broodmare Tecora, and Coquette the dam of Citizen Bird is a full sister to Lyla. Citizen Bird won first prize for the best two year old over nine competitors, and Gyr Falcon won the blue ribbon for best aged stallion. Then Citizen Bird beat his sire for best stallion of any age. He is owned by Mr. Thos. S. Griffith of Spokane. The McDowell 2:10 trot, won by Monte Carlo, is the fastest Beven-heat race ever trotted, and lowers the previous record by a full second and a half. And Monte Carlo's three heats each in 2:07} constitute the fastest three heats ever trotted by a gelding, which record was formerly held jointly by Azote and Lord CLIPPER 2:0fi. Tf»gon Record, 2 :06 1-3. send and get. a picture of the champion pacer. It will be furnished you absolutely free of cost if you mention the Breeder & Sportsman and state kow much live stock you own. Better name that mare you bred this year in the Breeders Futurity. Send $2 to Secretary Kelley at 36 Geary street, giving the name and breeding of your mare and the Btallion she was bred to. ThiB may lead to winning first money in the stake. Derby, who had trotted their heats in 2:09}, 2:05}, 2:07, and 2.07, 2:07, 2:08, respectively, making an average of 2:071-3, while those of Monte Carlo average 2:07}. The time of the Beventh heat, 2:07}, is also the best on record, the beBt previous one being 2:10}, made by Pat L. and Nutbearer. Those Forrest W.-Iloilo races at the Los Angeles meeting have a bad look from every point of view. It was pretty generally understood in this section that both geldings were the property of one person up to the time the Los Angeles meeting opened. James Berryman will place his young stallion Silver Moon by Silver Bow Jr, dam by Almoon, in the stud at Pleasanton i,ext spring. Silver Moon is a good sized bay stallion that has good looks and Bpeed, and after a short season in the stud will be raced and given a record. Sandy Smith is working a number of young CupidB and Dexter Princes at the Aptos Stock Farm and says he has some crackerjackB by both sires. Sandy says: "Look out for some of these youngsters by Lou Dillon's uncle; they trot your eye out right now and some of them ain't bridle wise yet." It is stated by a Chicago paper that the American Trotting Association has sent its agents to Wichita, Kansas, to thoroughly investigate the performance there last week of the stallion Cresceus. It is alBO said that the most rigid investigation will show that the Btallion trotted th2 mile fairly and squarely in 1:59} and that the track will be found to be regulation length. In trotting a mile in 1:58} at MemphiB on Saturday Lou Dillon covered 44 53-100 feet every second. It is necessary to average 44 feet every second to make a mile in two minutes. The records of Cresceus, Major Delmar, Alix and Maud S. are 1:59}, 2:00, 2:03} and 2:08}. Lou Dillon beat Cresceus 55 69-100 feet to the miie. Major Delmar 66 83-100 feet, Alix 233 9-10 feet and Maud S. 456 3-5 feet. Mrs. William Murray will bring her horse Diablo 2:09} back to Woodland, Yolo county, this fall, and the son of Chas. Derby will make the season of 1904 there as usual. The Diablo 's have made a good show- ing this year. Diablito is one of the best winners of the year, and Clipper has won one of the greatest wagon races ever paced. There are three or four trotters by Diablo that will be raced next year that will be among the crackerjacks if no accident happens them. At the matinee races held at Narragansett Park iast Saturday under the auspices of the Narragan sett Park Association, Prince Alert, clipped a quarter of a second from the world's record for a half mile by going the distance in 57} seconds. His time for the second quarter was 29} seconds. Mart Demarest, the driver of Prince Alert, telegraphed toE. E. Smathers at Memphis after the race that he would match Prince Alert against Dan Patch. Demarest stipu- lated that the match race shall take place at Mem- phis November 10th for a purse of $20,000, beBt two out of three, one-mile heats. Prince Alert did not hold the record long as Dan Patch paced a half mile in 1:56} three days later at Memphis. Dan Patch, Bays an exchange, whose mark of 1:56} pacing, is not likely to be beaten unless he beats it himself, wears seven-ounce plain shoes in front and five-ounce corked shoes behind. John A. McKeiroD, the great wagon horse, wears eight-ounce plain shoes in front and four-ounce swedged shoes behind. Alix is the only great trotter of the past fifteen years who wore all four shoes of like shape and weight. Joe Patchen, sire of Dan Patch, held the record up to four years ago at pacing. He wears four-ounce shoes behind and eight-ounce shoes in front. Lou Dillon, the trotting queen, wears three-ounce shoes in front and six and a half ounces behind, being the lightest weight for all four shoes, of all the great record- breakers of the present period . OCTOBER 31, 190S] ®Hc Qxeeifsx tm& grptfrtsmcwt 5 Hiram Tozier has been a mile ia 2:20 with, the two year old colt Pierpont Morgan, by Idolita 2:09}. The Victor, another two year old by Idolita, has shown a mile in 2:27. Col. Delmar 2:26J, brother in blood to Major Delmar, has been sent to Hiram Tozier, at Read ville, who will winter him and fit him for a fast mile next year. Col. Delmar is a strong, rugged looking horse, and has extreme speed. He has shown quarters close to thirty seconds in his work. He is by Delmar, sire of Major Delmar 2:00, and out of a mare by Autograph, as like- wise is Major Delmar, and his second dam is also the grandam of Major Delmar. A peculiar bet was decided at Whitegate Park, Blackpool, England, last July. A Mr. Thomas Small- wood made a bet that he would produce two horses that would trot forty-three miles in two hours, using them alternately. The tract: on which this was tried, was less than a half-mile, being, in fact, 170 yards short ot the haif-mile, so to go the forty-three miles, it was necessary to- g-o 106 laps and 120 yards. The two animals used were named Florrie O. and Rustic Beauty, and at the end of the first hour the mares were one lap of the track, actually 710 yards ahead of time, but in the second half they Doth tired, and one, Florrie O., acted badly, aiiS they lost this advantage and more time, too, so at the end of the hour they were 620 yards, about thirty-five yards more than a third of a mile behind, losing the bet. They com- pleted the distance in two hours, one minute and six seconds, which, although a losing performance as far as the bet went, was a truly remarkable performance. The relays were made in five miles each, so that as the clip was at an average of 2:49, it gave them about thirteen minutes between heats. The suppression of time as well as the awarding of false records, is one of the most serious offenses in the calendar of the National or American Trotting Asso- ciation, yet no rule is more flagrantly violated. It is common talk among horsemen, when speaking of their horses, to hear them say, "He went in 2:16, but the judges gave it 2:19}, etc. " Apart from the lack of .honesty of the transaction, the manifold injury which the system entails is so apparent that a curtail- ing of the abuse at least Is greatly to be desired. — Kentucky Stock Farm. The popular young stallion, Mystic Tie by Guy Wilkes 2:151, owned by Dr. C. A. White, Danville, Ind., has two standard trotters to his credit this year. They are Nelke 2:28} and Mystic Boy 2:29}. Dr. C. W. Conley, of Eaton, O., has this season bred several very high-class mares to the old trot- ting king, Directum, 2:05}, among them Selma, by Sultan dam Eye See (dam of four), by Nutwood, and Emma Wilkes (dam of Reflna, 2:08}, and Mustard, 2:081), by George Wilkes. The American Hone Breeder says the performances of Sadie Mac 2:11} at Lexington will give the breeders of that section of the country some idea of what a really great stallion her half-brother Todd Is likely to prove. Todd trotted eighths in 15 seconds, a two- minute gait, as a two year old. Secretary W. H. Gocher has issued a call for a reg- ular meeting of the Board of Review, to be held at the Murray Hill Hotel, New York, at 11 o'clock a. m., on Tuesday, December 1, 1903. An adjourned or a spe- cial meeting of the board will be held in New York in the eatly spring of 1904, to acoommodate those whose convenience or necessities will be served thereby. All communications intended for the consideration of the board at the December meeting must be forwarded to the secretary not later than November 16th, and all parties who desire that their cases should be acted on at the spring meeting should immediately notify the secretary to that effect. Trainer Lon McDonald is a master hand at picking out embryonic world beaters. After negotiations the sale of Sadie Mac (3) 2:11}, to E. E. Smathers for $20,000, Lon bought of JereL. Tarlton, at Lexington, last week, a yearling filly by Larabie the Great, dam Genevieve by Barney Wilkes, for the long price of $1800. The filly has trotted a quarter in 34} seconds and has a large number of valuable engagements, in- cluding the Kentucky Futurity. A dispatch from Marysville, Ky., states: "The c^use for the lameness of Dr. Hord's famous trotter, Neddie Connor, was found yesterday. When at De- troit, entered in the Grand Circuit races there, he became lame, could not contest, and was shipped home. Yesterday a hypodermic needle, broken off, was found projecting from the horse's leg. Dr. Hord will offer a handsome reward for the name of the person who inserted the needle. Only recently he was offered $7,500 for the trotter, but refused it. Neddie Connor was wintered at Memphis last winter by Geers, who expected to race him until his lame- ness prevented." To prove that harness racing is not only a drawin g card for the fair but one that makes its success positive, we cite the fact that the Ohio state fair at Columbus last month, cleared $10,000, the New York state fair at Syracuse, $30,000 and the Minnesota state fair $71,000. Says Hawley in Kentucky Stock Farm: Of all the older horses that appeared at Lexington only a very few, possibly only three, looked to have that bloom that betokens absolute fitness and in which no signs of having been over-done were in evidence. Lou Dillon, although she had been put to a test that was the most difficult that can be asked of a trotter, gave no evidence either in her appearance or her perform- ance of having been over-done. Her coat shone like satin, her eye was bright, and her whole appearance .was that of perfect health and thorough condition. That such was the case speaks volumes for her trainer's abilitv, and that a world's record-holder after many Severe miles and constant training cover- ing-a period of nearly ten months should lack all appearance of staleness should be an object lesson to other trainers whose charges appear baked and over- done. Dan Patch and Monte Carlo are the other two that impressed the observer with their bloom, the former in particular, and when it is considered that he has been shipped constantly from one track to another and has paced his miles closely averaging two minutes, the wonder is that he could have been kept in such condition as he noff is. The Black Nightingale 2:10}, is the dam of Baron- gale 2:15}, a three year old by Baronmore. Baron Wilkes 2:18 has his eleventh member of I the 2: 10 list in Baron Bell 2:09. The latter's record was made against time, but this does not detract from his merit, as he has convinced the public that he is a genuine racehorse. He has raced four years on the one-third and half-mile tracks, and has never been behind the money, and in his season last year on the Grand Circuit he was eight times inside the money, and has the distinction of never having won a heat and losing the race except once, which was on account of an accident. James Brodbine, of Boston, says he will start Lo- canda next year at Detroit and race him all the way down the big line to Memphis. Buyers who are looking for a high-class stallion should be able to make a selection from such stallions as Peter the Great 2:07;, Tommy Britton 2:061, Oro Wilkes2:ll, St. Vincent 2:1.11, Belsire 2:18 and" Early Reaper 2:09}. These stallions all go to the auctions this fall. George Hill recently drove the famous old time trotter Rysdyk Maid 2:24}, now tbirty-one years old, a quarter over the Combination Park track in 40 sec- onds. Notwithstanding her advanced age the famous daughter of old Hambletonian is still as lively as a four-year-old and looks to be good for another ten years. She is the dam of Mystic Maid 2:21 J and Easter 2:12}, one of B. F.' Dutton's famous pole teams. Monte Carlo's showing in the seven heat race he won at Lexington was thus commented on the day after the race by "Columbus," the Western Eofsi man's correspondent: The sole topic of conversation at the hotels, the opera house and upon the streets Wednes- day evening was the fourth heat of the McDowell stake for 2:10 trotters, which was taken from Monte Carlo and given to Hawthorne. The talk did not assume the form of a discussion, as there appeared to be but one ODinion expressed, which was that Monte Carlo was entitled to the heat. The horBe trotted six good and game mile9, and was the only horse in the race that didn't make a break. He was a con- tending horse in every heat, making the pace from the start and driven to win. Hawthorne was laid up the first heats, just finishing to the good and stepping the miles in about 2:12, as Hudson stopped driving after the flag was beaten. These miles were far different from the first two miles of MonteCarlo, who trotted in 2:07} and 2:07, the last mile being changed to 2:07} after it had been hung out. Hudson deserved a fine for laying up. A meeting to last thirty days is a probability for the Empire City track, New York, next season. The meeting will be held during August. Geo. W. Leavitt, of Boston, has bought of W. W. Evans, of Lexington, Ky., a yearling colt by Larabie the Great out of Cara by John G. Carlisle, for which he paid $2300. The increasing popularity of ponies in Europe, as well as in America is following close on the bicycle craze. The ladies and children now pay more for ponies than wheels, and there are special pory carriage factories that make pony carts, surreys and elegant new designs of vehicles. The Shetland, with its kindly disposition, is the most popular pony, but there are many handsome, clean legged little ponies of other breeds and crosses, that are receiving rec- ognition. On the third day of the Lexington meeting every one of the winners of the four regular purse events was out of a record mare. Norrie, by Brown Wilkes 2:21}, out of Carilla 2:22}, by Nugget, won the 2:13 trot; Great Spirit, by Prodigal 2:16, out of Rachel 2:08}, by Baron Wilkes, won the 2:25 trot; Caspian, by Patron 2:14}, out of Cascarilla 2:252, by Shelby Chief, won the Transylvania; and Directum Miller, by Directum 2:05}, out of May Day 2:185, by Abdallah Mambrino, won the 2:19 pace. Jay McGregor is the heaviest money-winning stal- lion of the season, -with over $15,000 to his credit. A tough mouthed, obstinate horse is often de- veloped by using a harsh unsuitable bit. The bit first cuts the horse's mouth and makes him ugly tempered, afterwards the cut becomes calloused and horses so treated become headstrong and mean as their masters. Colts should never be teased. Teas- ing a colt wil develop all the viciousness there is in him. The margin between the good draft gelding and the common or inferior horse on the market is wider than ever before. Draft mares, besides doing the best work, raise the best paying colts. When the big geldings are two years old they earn their keep and learn to work, with no expense for breaking or training. They grow Into more money than any other farm stock. Young draft mares should be kept on the farm for breeding. Bad habits in horses almost always have their origin in bad handling when they are young. Kind treatment will develop the best there is in a horse, but meanness to colts hurts a horse's disposition per- manently. Jerking at the bits and other ill treatment never does any good. Horses have long memories; they do not forget injuries quickly. With the exception of Major Delmar 1:59} the Smathers string will be wintered at Memphis. Alta McDonald will take the Delmar gelding to Albany, N. Y. When the newB of Cresceus' mile in 1:59} reached Memphis Murray Howe wired George H. Ketcham an offer of $5000 if he would drive the champion a mile better than two minutes at Memphis. The handsome chestnut stallion Crescent Route by Cresceus, dam Bossing by Jay Bird, took a record at Lexington recently of 2:10}. The last half of this mile was much faster and indicated that this son of Cresceus could easily step a mile better than 2:10. The Director family seems to have an inbred love for the money. One of the races that captured horsemen by the way it was won was the Lexington, for two year old trotters, that fell to the wonderful little trotting filly Grace Bond. A detailed description would be of no interest, as the filly simply took the lead when the word was given in each heat and romped home ahead of the others, making the distance between herself and the others as much as she chose. Her second heat, in 2:14}, was within a quarter of a second of the race record for trotting Allies of her age, and it was the general impression of the critics that she could certainly have beaten 2:14 had Miller so willed. The quarters of the mile were 0:34, 1:06, 1:39, the trip down the homestretch being only a jog. A feature of the race was the distancing in the first beat of the Boston filly Totara, that had a record of 2:17}, made a month before the Lexington meeting. In Geers' hands it was thought Totara would he an important factor in the race, and in much of the betting she brought more than Grace Bond. But Totara was given the worst of the start in the first heat, and was not even trotting squarely when the word was given. She finally left her feet at the head of the home- stretch, being then far behind, and was beaten with- out ever having a chance to show her quality. The Moko blood was prominent in the race, fillies by that horse taking second and third moneys, and, curiously enough, both were out of Jay Bird mares. "Columbus" of the Western Horseman very aptly remarks: "Force of habit has compelled several journals devoted to light harness horse racing to publish lengthy accounts of the 1903 Futurity and Transylvania. Others futurity races have fashioned turf history; the last was a roaring farce. The Transylvanias of the past have been gruelling con- tests, and horses have been sacrificed in order to win, but there was absolutely nothing to the race of 1903. Far better races have been witnessed this season at pumpkin shows, where the horses fought like demons for a little old purse of $200. A race worthy of being disoussed consists of something more than a series of heats, the start and finish, the payment of certain sums of money to the winners and the odds of the bookmakers. Heavy betting is not always essential to good racing. Split heats may only prove that certain parties are out to beat the men who play the books. Windy efforts upon the part of the starting judges and spasmodic attempts at protecting the public by the judges do not always result in high-class racing. Game horses and honest drivers are the proper material from which may be fashioned a horse race that is thoroughly satisfactory and that leaves no odor of 'burned rags.' " Demas Deming, the banker and expert horse devo- tee of Terre Haute, Ind.. who sold the pacer John M. to E. E. Smathers for $10,000, gave $2000 to "Uncle Sam" Fleming, who discovered the horse and drove him his fortune-winning races this season, $250 to one stable boy and a road horse to another stable boy. Prof. K. Imai, of the Imperial University of Tokyo, Japan, has arrived in Lexington, Ky., for an indefi- nite stay for the purpose of studying American meth- ods of horse breeding, principally the trotting horse. Like the other Japs who preceded him some months ago, he is an official representative of thegovernment of the Mikado, and whatever knowledge he may ac- quire is to be introduced into the government breed- ing establishments in Japan. He has been in Europe on a similar mission. At the recent meeting at Hudson River Driving Park, Poughkeepsie, H. N. Bain drove his handsome young stallion, Sir Bobbins 2:28} by Stamboul 2:07}, an exhibition mile to wagon in 2:23}. Sir Robbios has won many blue ribbons in the show rings and "has the speed" as well. Palmer Clark says he was invited into the stand at a fair not a hundred miles from Chicago, and in the stand was the superintendent of speed. As each beat was trotted the timers would submit their watches to him, and about the following conversation would ensue: "Let's see, this is the 2:30 class; 2:26}, well, give it 2:29}; we want to leave him in his class." The next heat another horse won. "What did you make it, 2:32}? Well, give it 2:29J; this man wants to give his mare a standard record." This is a sample of the duties performed by a great many of the speed super- intendents, and if it was not such a serious matter, it would be laughable. Harness Racing at Los Angeles. The harness racing part of the program at Los Angeles has not amounted to much since our last report. On Friday Highball won a rather easy race, beating Ira and two others in straight heats. There was no harness racing on Saturday or Monday, but on Tuesday of this week the free for all pace in which Robert I started drew quite a crowd and excited considerable enthusiasm although the race did not amount to much. Robert I was said to be out of condition and after winning the nrst heat in 2:14, lost the second in 2:124 a new record for the winner, Ama A. by Dictatus. In the third heat Ama A. ■ broke and Robert I won the heat and the race in 2:17$; Midnight and Highball were the other start- ers. On Wednesday tnere was a trot for the 2:14 class, in which Forest W. and Iloilo started, although both are supposed to belong to the same owner. One may have been sold, however, since the State Fair. One of the Los Angeles turf writers stated that Iloilo acted in this race as if he had been filled up- with water. The race had a bad look and Al McDonald was fined $50 for laying up the first heat with Forrest W. The 2:20 pace on the same day went to Ira in straight heats. On Thursday the 2:17 trot resulted in a five heat race which was a duel between Walter Maben's mare Mamie Elizabeth and P. W. Hodges Lady Zombro. Lady Gypsy and Lady Madison were the other start- ers in this event, but they did not figure in the final summary. Mamie Elizabeth won but the Zombro filly fought it out with her every heat and was not disgraced though beaten. The heats were all trotted close to the same-notch. Summaries: Oct. 23— Green class, pace, purse 8500. Highball, blk g, by Silkwood (Vance) 1 1 1 Ira (MabeD) 2 2 2 VictorPlatt (Sampsal) 4 3 3 Toughnut (Kent) 3 4 d Time— 2:HH. 2:14, 2:17. i Oci/27— Free-for-all pace, purse $1000, two In three. Robert I, ch h, by Hamb Wilkes (Julian) 12 1 Ama A, b m, by Dictatus (Mosher) 3 12 Midnight (Bartea) 2 3 3 Highball (Vance) 4 4 4 Time— 2:14, 2:12H, 2:17^. Oct. 28— Trotting, 2:14 class, purse $500, three in five. Forest W, b g, by Wayland W 4 111 Iloilo 2 2 2dr George W. McKinney 3 4 3dr Limonero : 1 3 dr Time— 2:18, 2:17>/4, 2:16, 2:27M. Pacing, 2:20 olass, purse $500, three in five. Ira, b g, by Iris l I i Prootor 7 2 4 2 L. W 3 2 4 Victor Platte 4 3 3 Time— 2:18«, 2:19, 2:21Vf. Oct. 29— Trotting, 2:17, purse $100. Mamie Elizabeth 12 2 11 L&dy Zombro 2 1 12 2 Lady Gypsy 3 4 dis Lady Madison 4 3 3 dr Time— 2:25, 2:24H, 2:24tf, 2:24, 2:26. Acting Secretary Lowden Released. FSaoramento Union. Oct. 25.] The State Board of Agriculture yesterday decided to dispense with the services of Acting Secretary Harry Lowden after the 31at inst. It was also ordered that the election of a permanent secretary take place at the first meeting of the board in March, 1904. In the meantime L. R. Miller, now clerk'of the board, is appointed in Mr. Lowden's place. President Rush and Directors Johnson, Johnston, Wilson, Rose, Land, Paine, Fox, Whittaker and Burke were present at the meeting. The board found that bills due and payable on ac- count of the late fair, except a few not yet rendered, and those of not large amount aggregate $11,896.37. Of these it ordered paid in the sum of $4000.81 the following: Premiums in Live Stock Department — Joseph Marzen, $340; California Pastoral and Agri- cultural Company, $277; John Sparks, $554; W. H. Howard, $7J8; James W. Rea, $400; Mrs.,M. E. Gub- bay, $396; J. H. Glide, $86; I. Christie, $5; C. O. Stan- ton, $10. Race account— El Primero Stables, $905. Miscellaneous— Carl Eisenschmiel, engrossing, $40; B. A. Johnson, caterer, $250. All premiums have now been paid. This leaves unpaid bills aggregating $7895.56. They will be discharged as soon as the State appropriation is made available, and that will be when the board files its certified list of premiums awarded with the State Board of Examiners. This certified list the secretary is now at work upon and will have ready in a few days. Mr. Miller says he had made no canvass for the position and that there is no issue between himself and Mr. Lowden, but that the only question was one of economy, Mr. Lowden receiving $200 a month, while Mr. Miller at present receives but $85. Director Land, in making his motion, said he meant no reproach. Mr. Lowden had been a faithful and ©*u> $£ eettev an* &pttvt&ntan efficient secretary, but economy demanded that there be reduction of expenses. Director Land moved that the election for perma- nent secretary take place at the first meeting of the board in March, 1904, and the motion prevailed. In dach case the vote stood 6 to 4: Ayes, Land, Rose, Paine, Whittaker, Burke, Fox; nays, Johnson, Johns- ton, Rush, Wilson. The board ordered that the services of D. M. Cox, night watchman; be dispensed with and that the jan- itor, C. B. Herndon, with an increase of $5 a month, will perform his duties. - It was agreed that both tel- ephones be taken out of the secretary's office until August 1st next. The board adjourned uniil the president calls it to again convene. Harness Races at Boise, Idaho. Five days' racing was given at Boise, Idaho, during the Idaho Inter-Mountain Fair which opened on the 12th inst. The harness racing began on Tuesday and lasted during the week. Two harness events and two or three running races made up the program each day. The officers of the association are C. R. Shaw, president; J. B. Stetson, secretary. Presiding judge, L. L. Ormsby, of Boise; Starter, Geo. A. Harrington, of Colorado. The track was very heavy and Blow, and the time made was excellent considering the conditions. The summaries of the harness races follow: Oct. 13.— Trotting, 2:20 olass, purse $500. Swift B.,bg, by StamB (Zibble) 1 1 Helen Norte, b m, by Del Norte (Rutherford) 2 2 Chester S, b s, by Inca (Hanson) 3 3 Time— 2:24?4, 2:23. Pacing, 2:30 class, purse $500. Vision, b g, by Vanquish (Lindsey) 1 2 1 Oregon Maid, bm, by Dei Norte (Stetson) 2 1 2 Polka Dot, bm, by Mendocino (Smith) 3 3 3 Queen B„ by Count (Lance) ds Oamont, by Allamont (Hanson) ds Time— 2:17H, 2:14S4, 2:17. Pacing, free for all, purse $250. Sam Bowers, ch g, by Hamb. Mambrino (Lance) 3 l 1 Zolock, blk s, by McKinney (Smith i 1 3 2 Rita H., bm, by McKinney (Hartnagle) 2 2 a Miss Williams, bm.ty Williams (Dufur) 4 4 •* Monroe S.,chg, by Dictator Wilkes (Zibble) ds Time— 2:13H, 2:I6H, 2:18. Oct. 14.— Pacing, 2:17 class, purse $500. Vision, br g, by Vanquish (Lindsey) 2 1 1 Harry Hurst, ch g, by Delwin (Green-Brant6ford) J 2 3 Portia Knight, b m. by Vinmont..,.. (Helman) 3 3 2 Prince Tom,, blk g, by Tom V (Webb) 4 4 4 Maid of Del Norte, br m, by Del Norte (Stetson) 5 dr Time— 2:15, 2:15, 2:161,4. Trotting, 2:30 class, purse $500. Belle Storm, brm, by Storm (McGuire) 1 1 Beladi, b m, by Chehalis (Rutherford) 2 2 Getaway, ch g, by Strathway (Zibble) 3 3 Lady Smith, b m, by Aropine (Hanson) 4 4 Rocklaoe, br g, by Lovelace (Stetson) dr Oconee, ch s, by Camp (Hoffman) dr Time— 2:20, 2:20. Oct. 15— Pacing, 2:20 class, purse $500. Oregon Maid, b m, by Del Norte-Dwina (Stetson) 1 1 Polka Dot, b m, by Mendocino (Smith) 3 2 Julia A., bm, by Res Mambrino (Robinson) 2 3 Time— 2:15, 2:1414. Mixed trot and pace for three-year-olds, purse $300. Swift B , b g, by Stam B (Zibble) 2 3 11 Hallie Hinges (p), bm, by Pricemont (Helman) 1 2 3 2 Eoonomizer (p), bm, by Chas. Derby (Smith) 4 12 3 Helen Norte, b m, by Del Norte (Rutherford) 3 4 4 dr Time— 2:19, 2:17ys, 2:18J4, 2:19!i. Oct. 16— Trotting, 2: 14 class, purse $500. Mack Mack, by McKinney (Helman) 1 1 The Commonwealth, by Shadeland Onward (Green) 2 2 Briney K., by Strathway (Smith) 3 3 Oveta, by Caution (Erwin) 4 4 Time— 2:15, l:lby,. Pacing, 2:25 class, purse $500. Vision, by Vanquish (Lindsey) 3 11 Osmont, by Altamont (Hanson) 13 3 Oregon Maid, by Del Norte (Stetson) 2 2 2 Prince Tom, by Tom V (Webb) 4 4 4 Time— 2:14)4 2:14H, 2:12)4. Oct. 17— Trotting, 2:25 olass, purse $500. Belle Storm, br m, by Storm-Surprise (McGuire) 1 1 Beladi byChehalis (Rutherford) 2 2 Chester S., by Inca (Hanson) 3 3 Lady Smith (Bransford) ds Get Away (Zibble) ds Time— 2:16, 2:153£- Pacing, 2:11 class, purse $500. SamBowers (Lance) 3 2 11 Zolock , (Sanford) 4 12 2 Monroes (Zibble) 13 4 3 Harry Hurst (Green) 5 4 3dr Time— 2:13«, 2:11)4, 2:13)i, 2:13. [October, 31, 1903 "The Races at Corinth." The best winner on the circuit this year was Ben F. 2:10 by Bradtmoor. He not only won the Pacific Slope stake, which waB the largest stake for pacers in California thiB year, but he also won every race in which he started. He lost but one heat during the entire circuit, and we do not believe he made a break in any of his races. He is a game and tried race horse, but his owner, Mr. L. R. Palmer, of Walnut Creek, is a business man that cannot spend the time to race him and consequently desires to Bell him. Ben F. is the only 2:10 horse brought out in California this year. He is sound and all right in every way and can be seen at Walnut Creek, Contra Costa county, where he has been running in a i-addoek since the close of the racing season. Wm. G. Layng will sell the W. O. B. Macdonough thoroughbred yearlings at tha Occidental Horse Exchange, November 30th. A Sermon to Horseman,. Rev. Baker P. Lee, Dean of Christ Church Cathedral (Episcopal),_preached a special sermon to horseman at Lexington, Ky., on Sunday evening, Oct. 11th. The church was crowded to -the doors and alargenumber of visiting horsemen were present. The subject of the discourse was "The Race at Cor- inth," the text being taken from St. Paul's .First Epistle to the Corinthians, .9th Chapter and .part of the 24th verse: "So Run That Ye May Obtain." We give, from memory, says the editor of the Ameri- can Horse Breeder, a few of the salient points of the Dean's eloquent discourse. "y The Dean said that when St. Paul addressed the words of the text to the Corinthians, he .employed a language familiar to every man of Grecian birth. For many centuries the Olympic games had- .been one of the four great national festivals of Greece, and it was considered high honor to win a prize at these games. The flower of Grecian, youth were pitted against each other in these athletic contests. . , None but those of unblemished reputation were allowed to compete. An aspirant for honors must have no taint of slavish blood in his veins, no blot on his reputation. When once entered the aspirant must go through a severe course of training in a gymnasium to fit- him- self for the contest. In order to win he must be trained to the hour, and when he entered the stadium for the contest he must be divested of all impedimenta in order to do his best. The victor's crown was a wreath of olive leaves or parsley. A record book was kept in which the names of the contestants were entered. It would be seen that certain rules and regulations governed these contests, and in order for an aspirant to be eligible to compete he must conform to these rules and regulations. The same thing applied to the race course. There are certain rules and regulations governing it, and a horse in order to be eligible to compete must conform to these ruleB and regulations. He must be duly entered, and a record book must be kept of his performances. He must he trained to the hour, muBt be reliable, and so driven that he will not break in the stretch, for if he breaks, his chances of winding the prize are imperiled. So in the church there are certain rules and regula- tions of divine ordination which must be observed in order to win the prize of the high callingTn Christ Jesus, It would not do to say that morality, admir- able as good morals are, is sufficient to save souli. There muBt be something morethan a cold and formal code of ethics of a moral system to appeal to the spiritual nature and sympathies of man. Excellent as was the moral code devised by Seneca, it was not sufficient to save Rome from the debauchery of a Nero, neither did the moral teachings of Hume and others avert the bloody catastrophe of the French Revolution. Nothing but the example of a dying Savior was sufficient to win men back from the, ways of sin to the path of righteousness. He laid special emphasis on the statement that in order to win the prize of the high calling one must be duly entered, must be trained to the hour, must fight the good fight, he must struggle to win m the contests with his stern competitors, the lusts of the flesh, and if he goes down to defeat once not to be discouraged. If he breaks in the stretch. and loses he must resolve not to repeat the mistake the next heat, but to correct the fault. Show the pluck o the thoroughbred and his determination to win out. He desired to impress upon his hearers the thought that in this great contest, involving the prize of eternal life, a record hook was kept, not in the old theological conception of the term, which represented a recording angel standing by, with book in hand, in which he duly entered every act of ours, good or bad, and between which acts a balance was finally struck, but that that record book was the tablet of our memories, whereon are indelibly, though maybe unconsciously, inscribed the thoughts and deeds of our life, and which at some period of our existence are bound to rise up before us, either to approve or condemn. He concluded by exhorting his hearers to acknowl- edge Christ as the source and author of their strength, the giver of every good and perfect gift. He is the loving father who cares for and protects us, pities and forgives our weaknesses, encourages us in the stern race of life, applauds our victories, and to whom is due all the honor of our achievements. Lou Dillon now holds numerous world's records. She is the fastest green trotter ever known, by many seconds. She holds the world's trotting record of 1:584. When she beat Major Delmar, the California mare went the fastest two heats ever made in a race. The fastest mile to a wagon. is the 2:00 made by Lou Dillon. She also holds the world's 5-year-old record and the world's fastest mile to a hig'h-wheel sulky with a mark of 2:05. ' OCTOBER 31, 1903] ®h& $r#efrw ant* ^axt^tntitt AT MEMPHIS. Most Sensational Harness Meeting Ever Held Closed Wednesday. The Memphis meeting ended on Wednesday of this week. Daring- the eight days more sensational miles and half-miles were trotted and paced than were ever before seen on a race track. The first event that at- tracted the attention of the horse world was the con- test between the two minute trotters Lou Dillon and Major Delmar to wagon for the $5000. Memphis Cup. The California mare won easily. Two days later the mighty Dan Patch, king of all the pacers, turned the track in 1:56J lowering all records and astonishing everybody. On Saturday, however, Lou Dillon pre- formed a marvelous feat and made the trotting world stand aghast by trotting a mile without wind shield or other artificial contrivance in 1:581. one and three- quarter secondB faster than the two minute mile she made at Readville, a feat considered impossible by many of the wisest horsemen a year ago. Her per- formance placed Lou Dillon in a class by herself, and she stands to-day the unequalled and peerless cham- pion of the world. The story of her mile in 1:581 is thus told in the dispatches: Memphis, Tenn., Oct. 24. — Quarter in 30 seconds, half in 59A seconds, three-quarrers in l:28i, and mile in 1:58 J. These figures tell what Lou Dillon did here this evening at 5 o'clock, just as the sun was sinking in the crimson west. The track was like velvet, and Lou herself was known to be fit for a supreme effort. And tortune favored. At 4 o'clock the breeze, which had been strong in the morning, lessened, and Lou trotted her last preliminary mile at 4:30 o'clock in 2:13, and when she came out at 5 o'clock, while the wind waB still blowing, it was light. The bookmak- ers posted odds at 6 to 5 against i:59£. Millard Sand- ers arrayed in a white duck suit and cap, sat behind the mare when Bhe came out. "Doc." Tanner was behind the leading pacemaker and Scott McCoy be- hind another at the mare's side. They turned to score very shortly and were off almost on the instant the mare nearly two lengths back of the runner! So they reached the quarter in 30 seconds. The turn for the backstretch wag now reached and many expected to see the champion falter because of the wind. To the surprise of everyone, Lou Dillon seemed to travel faster, and when the half-mile was reached the timer's slate clicked out 593 A great cheer arose and many horsemen predicted that a new record was making. On the far turn Mc- Coy was forced to whip the runner to keep clear of the trotting marvel which was pushing him closely. The three-quarters pole was passed in 1:28* and the mare had turned for home. Straight and "true she came, her head high in air, her stride never faltering, her speed scarcely diminishing to the very end. The wind now was an advantage rather than a detriment, and, with a superb burst of speed, Lou Dillon, urged on by the shouts of the drivers of the runners, dashed under the wire in 1 :58£. When the time was flashed to the spectators hats were thrown into the air and cheer followed oheer. Sanders was literally lifted from his sulky by an admiring throng, while Billings was showered with congratulations. It was a noticeable fact that the watcheB of the three official timers agreed to the fraction, and many horsemen standing in the infield caught the time as officially announced to a fraction. The timers were Budd Doble, Fred Hartwell of Chi- cago and John Dickerson of New York. After the mare had been blanketed and sent to her barn, Sanders, her driver, said: "I am not a bit surprised at the result of Lou Dillon's effort. I expected to break the world's record, despite the adverse conditions. I desire to say that it is my candid opinion that Lou Dillon can trot as fast as any horBe in the world can pace, and next year I will demonstrate this statement. With perfect conditions today I would be afraid to say how fast the mare would have trotted the mile." On the same day two other world's records were beaten that would have at any other time been con- sidered sensational had they not been overshadowed by Lou Dillon's marvelous performance, These were the reduction of the record for pacing mares by Dariel to 2:00J, and the driving of The Monk and Equity to pole by Mr. Billings in 2:09J, a reduction of the team record for trotters full three seconds. Oa Tuesday of this week Dan Patch again showed his phenomenal capacity to out pace all competitors by reducing- the half-mile record of 0:57J, heretofore held by Prince Alert to 0:56. In less than an hour he came out hitched to a wagon and was sent against the wagon record for pacerB. He reduced it to 1:57^. The last quarter was paced in 29£ seconds and the son of Joe Patchen showed no signs of fatigue when cooled out, but looked ready to repeat the perform- ance. On Wednesday, the last day of the meeting, two more records were reduced, and dainty Lou Dillon had one of them to her credit. She was driven by her owner, Mr. C. K. G. Billings, against her own champion wagon record of 2:01f. The dispatches say the performance was even more spectacular than the trial against time last Saturday, when she trotted a mile in 1:58*. The trial Wednes- day was made with the customary two runners to set the pace, and the forward Bulky carried a wire dust screen hung to the axles. As the horses drew near the last eighth pole, the speed of the little mare was so terrific that Mr. Billings drew her from behind the forward sulky, driven by Doc Tanner, and the finish was madein a drive, with the two runnels alongside of the trotter, all three horses flashing under the wire noses apart. The start wasmade on the first trial and the quarter was reached in 0:29A, the half in 0:59$, the three-quarters in 1:294, and the mile in exactly 2:00. The mare and her owner were given an ovation. Then Mr. Billings brought out his magnificent pair of trotters, The Monk and Equity to try for a further reduction of the team record. A runner, driven by Doc Tanner, set the pace for them. The handsome team was driven around the track at a siow jog, with the runner trailing behind, and just before the wire was reached the runner drew alongside, and under the wire the three horses went for the trial against time. At the quarter the time was caught in 0:32.1, the half in 1:04, three-quarters in 1:36, and the milein 2:08. , FRIDAY, OCT. 23. Trotting, 2:16 class; pu,rse$I000. Axdelight, ch g, by Axtell-Dellght..." (Niles) 1 l Turley, b g .' .'.;." (Madison) 2 3 Millard Sanders, b g (Merrifleld) 4 2 Austin Boy , b g (McCarty ) 3 5 Hugh Wynne and Bonner also started: Time— 2:]3'4, 2:12',. Trotting, 2:20 class, purse $2000. Jay MoGregor, b u, by Jayhawker-Notre Danie (Hudson) 1 1 Judge Green, bg (Walker) 3 2 Kinney Lou, br b , (Doble; 3 3 Cole Direct, blk h (Geers) 4 4 Time— 2:10<4, 2:09^. Pacing. 2:20 class, purse S1000. Directum Miller, br b, by Directum-May Day (Brady) 4 1 1 Lilly Salt, bm (fciafleyj 1 5 4 Ethel Mc-, bm ..(McCarthy) 5 2 3 Angus Pointer, b g ....(McPherson) 2 3 3 Mary Gordon and Nathelia Brown also started. Time— 2:1J>4, 2:09J4, 2:09H- Pacing, 2:20 class, mile dash, purs'e$400. Clipper, bg. by Diablo '. '. (Thompson) 1 Foxy Curd, br m (Rea) 2 Quote, b m (McDonald ) 3 Time— 2:07%;. Wagon race, amateur drivers. Walter Smith, b g, by Buffalo Wilkes (Devereaux) 2 1 1 Charlie Mac, blk g (Jones) 12 2 Pug, gr g (Smathers) 333 Time— 2:17?i, 2:16tf, 3:16. Pacing, half mile dash, amateur drivers. John M., blk g, by Paris (Mr. Smathers) 1 Greenline, b g ,. (Mr. Billings) 2 Time— 1:00m • SATURDAY OCT. 24. Pacing, 2:11 class, purse $1000. Cascade, bg, by King Pilot, dam by Masker (Wall) 1 1 Cousin Madge, blk m — , .(Benedict) 2 2 Tess, br m ( Jamteson) 3 4 DanielJ.bg (Fleming) 6 3 Minnie, Christy. Stipulator, Tony W. and Bow Sebastian also ran. Time— 2:07?i, 2:07>i. ■ " Pacing, 2:0" class, purse $1000. Star Hal.br h, by Brown Hal-Stella (Snow) 1 1 Wintield Stratum, b h (McGuire) 2 2 Foxy Curd, blkm (Rea) 3 3 Chestnut, ch g 3 (Bell) 4 4 Cubanola and Trilby Direct also started. Time— 2;06^, 2:07»4. Half-mile pace, to wagon, amateur drivers, two heats. Prime Rose, b m (Mr. Roberts) 1 1 Babe Allerton, br m,.^ (Mr Jartwell) 2 2 Time— l:02Xi 1:0B& Pacing, 2:20 class, Emerald handicap, purse-$2000, one and one- half miledash. Hal Chapin, br h, by Brown Hal-Bessie McEwen (Geers) 1 Mary Anna, bm ... (Snow) 2 Diablito, b g (Walker) 3 Five Points, blk h (Hogan) 4 Time— 3:18M To beat 2:03%, world's pacing record for mares held by Fanny Dillard. Dariel, b m, by Alcander-Topsy (McDonald) 1 Time by quarters— 0:29%, 0:59 Vi, 1:29. 2:00#. To beat 2:12% world's trotting record to pole. Equity and The Monk (Mr. Billings) 1 Time by quartera-0:32%, l:05«, l:38jfr 2:09Jf To beat the world's trotting record, 1:59%, held by Cresceus. LouDUlon.br m, by Sidney Dillon-Lou Medium, by Milton Medium (Millard Sanders) 1 Time by quarters— 0:30, 0:59H, 1:2614, 1:68& MONDAY, OCT. K. Pacing, 2:21, purse $1000. Directum Miller, br h, by Directum-May Day (Brady) 3 1 1 Line o' Gold, ch m (Stanley) I 2 3 Angus Pointer, b g (McPherson) 2 3 2 Double Z, b h , (Andrews) 4 4 4 Time— Z-.0SH, 2:09Ji, 2:09>4. Trotting, 2-15, Magnolia stake, purse $2000. Masetto, blk g, by Constantine-Merry Clay (Dickerson) 1 1 Jay McGregor, b h (Hudson) 2 2 The Questor, b g (Geers) 3 3 Dillon Boy, b h (Walker) 5 4 Tonso, rn g, also started. Time— 2:08%, 2:08^. Trotting, 2:25, purse $1000. Cathode, ch g, by Snicker-Cul'ure (Andrews) 1 1 John Caldwell, bg (Thompson) 2 2 Buraja, bg (Shaw) 5 3 Kirkwood Jr, br h (Geers) 8 5 Anna Gay, Great Spirit also started. TIme-2:13M, 2:I4£. Trot to wagon, amateur drivers. Ida High wood, b m, by Highwood-Dam by California (Mr. Smathers) 1 1 George Muscovite, b h (Mr. Gaylofd) 2 2 Tlme-2:09*, 3:1QJ*. TUESDAY, OCT. 27. Pacing, 2:17 class, purse $1000. DanlelJ, b g, by Winks, dam by Plymouth.. (Fleming) 5 2 11 Mary Gordon, bm (Hudson) 2 12 2 Line of Gold, chg (Stanley) 15 6 3 Wealth, bh (Walker) 4 3 4 r P. J., Lord Curzon and Speedy Girl also started. Tlme-2:10»4, 2:09%, 2:09^, 2:14*. * Pacing, wagon race, amateur drivers. Clipper bg, by Diablo... e (Devereaux) I l GreenLine.bg r^rr^-.-r (Billings. 2 ^ TomKeene^hg (Smathers, 3 3 Time— 2:06H. Pacing, free for all, purse $1000 Dan R , ch g, by Tasco Jr-Colooel Hunt (Beuvon) 4 l l SarIfI,bom, (McDonald) 1 2 5 Shadow ChimeBbrg (Spear) 2 3 S Fannie Dlllard, bin (Snow 3 4 2 Harold H. also started. .. ... Time-2:Oi!5, 2:111',, 2":03%. Pacing, to wagon, amateur drivers. Stipulator, blk h, by Thus (Gay lord) I i Daisy Field, ohm (Roberts) % 8 Time— 2:lf., 2:H', Trotting, 2:14 class: purse $1000. Porto Rico, bh, by Electrite, dam by WilkesBoy.. (Johnson) 1 1 Joy -Maker b h ' ;,• (McCoy ;"> 2 EyeLine.blkm (Sherman) ^ 5 Austin Boy bg (McCarty) 3 3 The Parson, bib g...^ (Colby 4: -1 Lady Downing and Bonner also started Time-i:li!i,2:ll. Pacing- half-mile dash, 2:08 class, parse $30u. John M, blk g, by Paris (Spear) 1 Trilby Direct, blkm (Walker) 2 Primrose, bm,., (McGuirey 8 Chestnut, chg , (Bell) 4 King Direct also started. ' - - Time— 0:59'i Pacing, half-mile dash. Star Hal, brh. by Brown Hal . (Snow) 1 WlnfleldStratton, bh ...;... (McGuire) 2 " ^ Time— 0:59%. Pacing, to beat 0:5754, world's record, half a mile. - Dan Patch, b h, by Joe Patchen-Zelica. ... .^.{MoHenryfc l Time by quarters— 0:28fi, 0:56. Pacing, to beat 1:59'£, world's record to wagon. Dan. Patch (McHenry) 1 Time by quarters-0:29»,i, 0:584, 1:23, 1:57?4. Trotting, to beat 2:00. ' - Major Delmar .- (McDonald) l Time by quarters— 0:30, T:U0, 1:2U%, l:5'.i%. WEDNESDAY, OCT. 28. Trotting, 2:11 class, mile dash,. purse $400. Queen Wilkes, br m, by Lexington Wilkes ..,;...:...; (Spear) 1 Eyline. blkm (Sherman) 2 Porto Rico, bh :.. _ (Johnson) 3 Palm Leaf, br g ..,.., (MoCarthy) -1 Topsy, br m also started. Time-2:I0'J. Trotting, 2:20 class, purse $400. Anna Gray, b m, by Egotist (Thomas) 1 1 Grocery Maid ; ... ....(Rea) 3 2 Declare ; r (Sherman) 2 4 Red Phil ../(Seaper) 4 3 Maggie Murphy also started. Time-2:17>4, 2:17%. Trotting, 2:17 class, mile dash, purse $400. Hugh Wynne, bg, by Allendorf-Helen Wilkes .(McCoy) 1 Empire Wilkes (Benedlot) 2 Time— 2:13'4. Pacing, 2:09 class, purse $1000. Cascade, br h by King Pilot-dam by Masker (Wall) 1 1 Hal Chaffin (Geers) 2 2 Stranger O (Seaper) 3 5 Diablito (Walker) 6 3 Cousin Madge and Personelle also started. Time— 2:00%, 2:06'j. Pacing, 2: 11 class, half-mile dash, purse $400. Mary Anna, b m, by Jack Lucky (Snow) 1 AngusPoInter ,_ (McPherson) 2 Minnie Christy ■.*. (Johnson) 3 Daniel J ....(Fleming) 4 Time— 1:01%. Trotting, 2:11 class, half-mile dash purse$400. '" Queen Wilkes, by Lexington Wilkes (Spear) 1 Porto Rico (Johnson) 3 Austin Boy ( McCarthy) 3 Bonner (Worth) 4 JlmTJnderwood alsostarted. ' Time— 1:02 H- To beat 2:01%, world's trotting to wagon record. Lou Dillon, chm, by Sidney Dillon.... (Mr. Billings) 1 Time by quarters— 0:29!£. 0:59j<, lm-29%, 2:00. To beat 2:09*4, world's trotting record to pole. The Monk and Equity (Mr BirUogs) l time by quarters— 0:S2H, 1:04, 1:36, 2:08. On a hot day drink Jackson's Napa Soda lemonade and he refreshed. Warranted to give satisfaction. GOMBAILT'S CAUSTIC BALSAM A safe, speedy nml positive cure lor Curb, Splint, Sweeny, Capped Hock, Strained Tendons, Founder, Wind Puffs, and all lameness from Spavin, Ringbone and other bony tumors. Cures all skin diseases or Parasites, Thrush, Diphtheria. Removes all Bunches from Horses or Cattle. A- a HFMAX BCMKDT for Rhfii nttitinm, Nprulna. Nitre Throat, etc., ■ 1.- iiiviitimiili Every L.hik- of r.-in-ll<- RitUnm •■old u Warranted tonfretatlnrfti'tlon I'rk-fWl.AO |n-r Imttle. Sold i»v dnii.-K'KU. 01 -'tit l.v i-x IHI-K-. iluin-c- |ui'l. «mIi full dlivctlona for it- use. Bend Uir dvhcrl|.tlv^ cliininrs, testimo- nial ate. Addrew THE UWRENCE-WIUUMSCOUPiliT.CleTtluid, Ohio. &he &veetiev trofc g^xrct#mi*n [October 3], 1903 ROD, GUN AND KENNEL Conducted by J. X. De WITT. Hook and Line Fishing for Pacific Salmon. A. B. Alexander, of the steamer Albatross, has furnished in the U. S. Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries' report published early this year, some in- teresting noteB relative to the taking of Pacific salmon with hook and line. Trolling for salmon in Monterey bay has increased steadily each year since its beginning, and in 1901 there were taien by this method, approximately, 190,786 pounds of Balmon, or about 10,000 fish in number, most of which was placed in cold storage and snipped to various Eastern markets. About 100 boats were engaged in the fishing. Previous to 1893 few salmon were taken in Monterey bay by any kind of apparatus. In that year trolling for them was found to be very successful and the dis- covery was quickly taken adventage of by anglers and commercial fishermen. It was not known that salmon could be taken with the hook in this bay in paying quantities, the reason being, doubtless, that ibe fish ao not appear leaping at the surface, as is the custom when entering fresh water. Most of the fishing is done in the Bummer time, but a moderate number of fish can also be taken in Monterey bay during the winter months. The fish appear in numbers about the first week in June, when the sardines are most numerous. The salmon are also found feeding on smelts and squid. The fish are taken in two ways, by trolling with the spoon with and without bait, and with the baited hook used at a considerable depth with a heavy sinker. Previous to the arrival of the sardines and other specieB on which the salmon feed the fishing is done mostly by trolling with the rod and spoon, but as soon as bait is to be had this method is abandoned for the sinker and hook. As a substitute for bait tbe baited spoon is sometimes used, but the baited hook is preferred by the commercial fishermen. SportBmen who visit the bay from San Francisco and elsewhere use split bamboo rods ranging from ten to twelve ounces. Both silk and linen lines are employed, varying in length from 150 to 200 yards. The spoons vary in size from Nos. 5 to 7. The aver- age hook used in connection with the spoon corres- ponds in size to the No. 14 cod trawl hook, with a slightly longer shank. Some fishermen use the brazed treble hook, but it is not a favorite with sportsmen. All the fishing is carried on from Bkiffs and small rowboats. As the numerous commercial fishermen do not often use a spoon, many more salmon are taken with baited hooks. A common bamboo pole is used by the fishermen, with a cotton line of 32 thread, from 80 to 100 feet in length. The hook is five inches long and shaped like a halibut hook, with a longer shank. In baiting the hook care is taken to have the shank entirely covered, leaving the barb and point bare. The sinker is quite heavy, being about four pounds in weight and fastened to the line twenty-five feet above the hook. When the salmon is hooked the pole is dropped and the line is hauled in hand over hand, great care being taken that the fish does not break away; frequently the fishing is done without the use of the rod. When the sinker is used the trolling is done at a depth of at least twenty feet. Tbe usual sailing speed in trolling is four miles an hour, and the average size of the Balmon taken is a little over twenty pounds, although fifty-pounders are sometimes caught. The best fishing iB usually to be had during the afternoon, and twenty-five fish are considered a good day's catch for one hook. Monterey is the most southerly point where salmon are taken, either commercially or for Bport. Very few salmon are taken with the hook in San Francisco bay and the Sacramento river. In the Eel river there is good salmon trolling to be had in the fall. The fish are taken in tide water chiefly by professional fishermen, using from twenty to thirty boats, but many anglers viBit these waters for the sport of fishing. It takes the angler an hour on an average to land one of the larger fish. Similar fishing is done by anglers in a number of the smaller coast riverB, such as the Russian and Novarro, the Olema, and about the head of Tomales bay. Steelhead and salmon are frequently taken in these waters with artificial flies. The Indians of Neah bay, Washington, do consider- able trolling for silver salmon, and have been known to take as many as 4000 fish in a day. The principal fishing grounds lie off the mouth of the bay and in the vicinity of Tatoosh rock off the coast and some two or three miles farther south. The catch is usually disposed of at Port Townsend. The Indians repair to the groundB early in the morning, remain- ing out all day and sometimes after dark if the weather permits. The spoons employed are larger than those used elsewhere on the coast. The lines are usually of 30 thread and about 150 feet long. Pieces of salmon and small herring are used for bait. In trolling the canoe is paddled, exoept in very light breezes, when the sail is set. Salmon trolling has long been practiced in Puget sound, where sportsmen use the rod and reel. At Killisnoo, Alaska, the king salmon take the spoon readily, the fish coming in to feed on the herring, which annually visit these waters in great r mbers. Spoons and lines of the same pattern as t lose used at Neah bay are employed by the Killisnoo Indians. The same bait is used and the fish taken are for their own consumption. When salmon will not readily take a spoon at the surface, a baited hook towed near the bottom frequently induces them to bite. There can be no doubt that there are many other places along the west coast where salmon could be taken by trolling. They have recently been taken from vessels ten or twelve miles off the coast of Washington, the bait being towed at thirty fathoms where the soundings were forty fathoms. It now seems probable that a thorough trial by deep trolling all along the west coast will show that the salmon are "on soundings'9 and not far from the coast during most of the time they spend at sea. • Shipment of Game. More than 100 sacks of game have been seized by the state officers since the opening of the season. Much of the confiscated game was taken when it arrived into this city by express because it was im- properly labeled. The law in this respect is plain and if sportsmen generally were acquainted with and observed the provisions of the law relating to the shipment of game much bother could be avoided and a number of seizures would thereby be unnecessary. Tne law is as follows: Sec. 627 b. Every railroad company, steamship company, express company, transportation company, transfer company, and every other pereon who ship?, or receives for shipment, or transpartation, from any one person, during any one day, more than twenty- five quail, partridge, grouse, or Bage hen, snipe, cur- lew, or ibiB, or more than fifty doves, or more than twenty rail, or more than fifty wild ducks, or who transports any of said birds, or any deer, in any quantity, unless such birds or deer are at all times in open view, and labeled with the name and residence of the person by whom they are shipped, is guilty of a misdemeanor. ♦ Special Sportsmen's Train. A number of local sportsmen whose occupations prevent them from leaving the city on the regular 3:15 p. m. train Saturdays to Point Reyes and stations along Tomales bay have arranged with the North Shore Railroad to run a special sportsmen's train to Tomales, leaving San Francisco via the 7 o'clock Sausalito ferry on the first Saturday night in Novem- ber. Sportsmen who get off at any station between Camp Taylor and Tomales Saturday night will have the privilege of taking the regular northbound train Sunday forenoon to any other point south of Tomales (such as Millerton, Marshalls, Cypress Grove Villa, Hamlet or PiBtolesi) without the payment of an addi- tional fare. Returning, the special train will leave Tomales at 6 p. m. and Point Reyes at 7 p. m. Sunday. This will give hunters and anglerB an opportunity of enjoying their favorite sport for a whole day and yet get home Sunday night. It is hoped by those sports- men instrumental in securing this special train that so many will patronize it that the railroad company will make this special service a feature of its regular winter schedule. Tickets for the round trip will be only $1.25 and mat be procured at the Sausalito ferry Saturday, Nevember 7th, or any day before that date at 626 Market street. Fish Lines. Steelhead and salmon fishing is excellent in Eel river at present. John Butler returned from Wey- mouths last week. He brought down forty nice trout, they ran about three to the pound, which he distributed among a number of friends. John Marsden is still at Weymouths enjoying the sport. Plenty of big fish are at the mouth of the river waiting for the rains to raise the river bo that they can run up stream. The Paper Mill is so low that the Balmon can not get up stream to spawn. The fish will come in from the ocean on a tide and go up aB far as the county bridge where they soon die. Striped bass fishing in Raccoon straits is so good recently as to entice many anglers to go out in the trolling boats. On Tuesday a great catch was made by CharleB Miller, of the Pacific Hardware and Steel Co., and J. A. Pariser. The two fishermen left this city on a forenoon boat an3 were out in their boat on the Angel Island shores by about 10 o'clock. They caught seven bass, ranging from twelve to nineteen pounds in weight. The fish were in fine condition and evidently fresh run from the ocean. Four eighteen pound bass were caught on the rail- road wharf at Point Richmond on Sunday. Fly-Casting Medal Winners. T. C. Kierulff is the principal medal winner of the San Francisco Fly-Casting Club in the contests held this season at Stow lake-. Mr. Kierulff won three class medals and also the medal annually awarded the club member whose scores in the different events show the best general improvement in the art of manipulating the split bamboo rod and braided silken lines. The medal winners in the various events are: Long distance casting — Champion class, Harry C.Golcher- firBt class, Col. G. C. Edwards; second class, T. C. Kierulff. Delicacy— Champion class, Col. Carlos G. Young; first class, T. C. Kierulff; second class, F M. Haight. Accuracy— Champion class, C. R. Kenniff; first class, T. W. Brotherton: second class, T. C.' Kierulff. Lure casting — C. R. Kenniff. To compete in the long distance championship class the contestants had to average 102} feet in the first ' six contestsof theseason. Each member who cast over 115 feet at any con- test was placed in the championship class arbi- trarily. Those in the first class averaged 90 feet and over. The contestants in the second class were those who averaged under 90 feet in the classification c series of contests. The cast-off for the championship med al took place between Golcher, : who was high rod in the Sunday contests, and Brotherton, high score in the Saturday contests. Mr. Brotherton, al- ; though losing the cast- off, has the best individ- -' ual score at long distance : casting this season, 137 feet. Mr. Golcher's best score cast last year was 140 feet. Walter D. Mansfield still holds the world's championship for long distance at an open tournament. His absence on an Eastern trip this year made it impossible for him to enter the club contests in their order, consequently his average was cut down by lost scores. A contest between Gol- cher and Mansfield would be one worth going far to see, far these two expert anglers are practically tie best long distance casters in the world. The cast-off for first class long distance medal was between Col. EdwardB, high Sunday contestant, and Dr. W. E. Brookes, who was high rod for six Satur- day contests. Col. Edwards won. Tom Kierulff was high rod for second class long distance work on Sat- urdays, his best cast being 115 feet. There was no Sunday competitor in this class. In the delicacy casting 84 per cent and over was the average for the championship class. First class, 81 per cent and under 84 per cent. Second class, 81 per cent and under. In this work, which iB practically the work an angler does on the trout stream, Colonel Young (Sundays) and C. R. Kenniff (Saturdays) being the two high scores, came together and Young won the medal for the champion class. Kierulff was high rod for both Sundays and Saturdays for the first class medal. F. M. Haight won the second class medal easily. In accuracy casting C. R. Kenniff (Saturdays) and J. B. Kenniff (Sundays) came together in tbe cast-off for the championship medal. C. R. Kenniff won. T. W. Brotherton (Sunday) and Col. Young (Satur- While cruising in the Fish Commission's launch Quinnat, Deputies Davis and Cross came upon four five-inch mesh nets set to catch striped bass. The owners had disappeared and the nets, which varied from 1800 to 2000 feet and are worth about $1200. were confiscated. The firBt one was picked up off Roe island lighthouse, the second in the little eut-rff, tbe third in Suisun bay and the fourth at Point Edith, Contra Costa county. This is the largest seizure of set nets ever made at one time here. Walter D. Man&tield. World's recoid, long distance casting, 131 feet. J. A. PariBer, during a recent trip to Catalina and San Diego, caught the record yellowtail for the sea- son. He captured the fish off the San Pedro break- water. Its weight was forty-two pounds. C. R KennilT World's record, lure casting, 97 9-ln%. day) cast-off for the first class accuracy medal, which the Colonel lost. Kierulff was high man for the Sat- urday contests in the second class and won the med al, there being no Sunday contestant in the class. In lure casting C. R. Kenniff easily won the medal on the general average of over 97 per cent. This average places him ahead of the recorded exploits of any other angler at this style of casting. Mr. Kenniff is probably the best all-round fly-easter in America today, judging from his season's scores. He still re- tains the honor of scoring the world's record in lure casting, 97 9-15%, made at the tournament leld at Stow lake last year. The Fly-Casters' Club will hold a banquet early next week, on which occasion the medals will be pre- sented to the winners. In hot weather there is no drink like Jackson's Napa Soda — plain or in a lemonade. October 31, 1903] ®Hc Qxseif&c anh gipxurtemcm 9 Inaugural Field Trials in British Columbia. The recently organized British Columbia Field Trials Club held the initial club field trials at Steves- ton, B. C, Friday and Saturday, October 9th and 10th. Thomas Plimley, of Victoria, B. C, was in the saddle and his decisions in both stakes were received with general satisfaction. Contrary to the usual cool and pleasant weather at this time of year a fall of rain nearly all day Friday and until Saturday afternoon made the conditions uncomfortable and unfavorable to quite an extent for both ma.n and dog. Mongolian pheasants (the birds worked on) were not plentiful in either grass or gtubble, the "hardhack," in which cover the birds ioJk shelter was entirely too wet for both dogs and handlers. Under this bad weather handicap, how- aver, each brace cast off found birds enough to allow testing of their qualities on game. The work of the dogs in each heat was closely followed from start to Bnish by a good attendance of enthusiastic owners and .sportsmen present. It is now believed that in the showing made in these trials that running field trials on Mongolian pheasants is entirely practical, for in a number of .Dstances the pheasants, when pointed, lay just as satisfactory as prairie chickens or quails, the pheas- ants laying close until flushed by the handlers. The Derby stake closed with ten entries, eight of which started. The All-Age Stake oad fifteen nomi- nations and ten of these dogs started. The Derby winner Roy's Lady (Roy Montez- Victoria Belle II) is owned by Miss Winifred E. Daives )f Victoria, B. C. Roy's Lady is a black, white and tan English Setter bitch, but thirty-two pounds in weight; she worked in a stylish, snappy way and showed good speed and range. She is looked upon as as likely one for next year's All-Age. In the Pacific Northwest Derby at Whidby island, she was inplaced in a heat with the Pointer Glen Rose. Birds vere not found until the end of the heat, the Pointer inally pointing a bevy. Roy's Lady, it was reported, ihowed better range than her opponent, but seemed lot to be under the control of her handler. She is >red in the purple and will no doubt give a good ac- :ount of herself in the future. Texada (Iroquois Chief-Tony's Destiny) second, is >wned by N. F. Lyne, of Vancouver, B. C. She is a food looking medium sized black, white and tan English Setter bitch, under a year old. She showed ligh class qualities throughout her work, being angey and speedy, stylish on point and with pleasing ail action. Criterion cRieko-Nellie B.) third, is also small ized, a lemon and white English Setter dog, he is iwned by Dr. Findley. His bird work can be im- troved, during his first heat he showed a disposition to >otter with small birds; he is a fast worker, however, tnd a wide ranger. Vancouver Shot (Sport IV-Perrot's Daisy) a black md white Pointer dog— the only Pointer placed — rinner of fourth is owned by L. Willbrand. Shot ias good natural qualities but showed weariness in he first heat and practically quit in the second. The All -Age Stake was won by Val's Belle (Rain's ^lash-Val's Lady) owned by C. Cocking, Belle is a omewhat large, good type, black, white and tan Snglish Setter bitch. She is speedy and stylish on loint work and an excellent ranger. She turned off wo heats without an error. Belle won the Pacific Northwest Derby in 1901. Val's Rose, second, owned by James Brooks, is a ilack, white and tan and is a litter sister of Val's telle. Rose is good on birds and steady to shot and ring. She was unplaced in the Pacific Northwest )erby.last year. Tony's Destiny (Tony Boy-Sport's Destiny) a blue ielton English Setter bitch, small in size, owned by f..F. Lyne was looked upon as the class dog of the til-Age. When her lack of experience on game and raining is overcome she will be eligible in any com- any. In speed, range and style she won much avorable comment. Lady Roberts (Grouse P-Tobe's Val) another small ized and heavily marked blue belton English Setter 'Itch won fourth place. She is owned by H. Abbott. .»ady started off well but let up in her pace at the lose and seemed inclined to chase. The summaries of both stakes follow: Iteveston, B. C.,Oct. 9, 1903.— British Columbia Field Trial Club's initial Derby Stake for Setters and Pointers whelped on or after January 1, 1902, and owned In British Columbia. Purse, entrance money, 40 per cent, 30 per cent, 20 per cent and 10 per cent. Ten nominations, eight starters (6 English Setters, 2 Pointers.) I 'ejada, black, white and tan English Setter bitcb, (Iroquois Chief-Tony's ;Destiny) October 13, 1902. N. F. Lyne, owner and handler. With toy's Lady, black, white and tan English Setter, (Roy Montez- Victoria Belle II) January 24, 1902. Miss W. E. Davies, owner; O. H. Sweetser, handler. 'anoouver Frank, black and white Pointer dog. (Sport IV- Perrot's Daisy) July 25, 1902. C. G. Macdonnell, owner; C. W. Brown, handler. With ■ady Snooker, black, white and tan English Setter bitch, (Lady's Count Noble-Val's Belle) May 7, 1902. Dr. Gatewood, owner; C. H. Sweetser, handler. lush. English Setter dog, (Bain's Flash-Pugh's Sal) January 20, 1902. N. H. Bain, owner and handler. With Jon Ton Belle, lemon and white English Setter bitch, (Lady's Count Noble-Val's Belle) May 7, 1902. Charles Herman, owner; C. H. Sweetser, handler. rlterion, lemon and white English Setter dog, ( Xicko-Nellie B.) January 10, 19C2. Dr. Findley, owner; ". H. Sweetser, handler. With Vancouver Shot, black and white Pointer dog, (Sport IV-Perrot's Daisy) July 25, l'J02. L. Willbaod, owner; C. H. Sweetser, handler. II Ro>'s Lady with Vancouver Shot. Texada with Criterion. HESULT First, Roy's Lady; second, Texada; third, Criterion; fourth, Van couver Shot. Steveston, B. C.Oct. 10. 1903.— British Columbia Field Trial Club's initial All-Age Stake for Pointers and Setters owned in British Columbia. Purse, entrance money, 40 per cent, 30 per cent, 20 per cent and 10 per cent. Fifteen nominations, ten starters (11 English Setters, 1 Irish setter). Two dogs, paid up, were absent. I Val's Lady, lemon and white English Setter bitch (Dan V.-Tobe's Val). William Frost.'owner and handler. With Val's Rose, black, white and tan English Setter bitch (Reco-Val's Lady). James Brooks, owner: C. H. Sweetser, handler. Vancouver Grouse, orange and white English Setter dog (Grouse P.-Val's Lady). J. G. Rougier, owner and handler. With Irish Jack, red Irish Setter dog (Mike-Biddy). William Hasper, owner and handler. Tony's Destiny, blue belton English Setter bitch (Tony Boy- Sport's Destiny). N. F. Lyne, owner; C. H. Sweetser, handler. With • Lady Roberts, blaok, white and tan English Setter bitch (Grouse P.-Tobe's Val). H. Abbott, owner; N. F. Lyne, handler. Val's Belle, black, white and tan English Setter bitch (Bain's Flash-Val'sLady) . C. Cocking, owner and handler. With Busy Boy, orange belton English Setter dog (Dashing Fleet-Busy Bee II). H. W. Kent, owner; C. H. Sweetser, handler. Jessie, lemon and white English Setter bitch (Victor L.-Howard's Lady). J. C. McClune, owner; C. H. Sweetser, handler. With Assinaboine Rodfield, black, white and tan English Setter dog (Hickory Gladstone-Thier's Spec). H. S. Rolstonl owner and handler. II Val's Rose with Tony's Destiny. Val's Belle with Lady Roberts. Assinaboine Rodhefd with Vancouver Grouse. First, Val's Belle; second, Val's Rose; third, Tony's Destiny; fourth, Lady Roberts. San Francisco Show Notes. In our advertising columns will be found the ad- vertisement of the coming combination show of dog, poultry, cats, pigeons and pet stock to be held in the Mechanic's Pavilion, San Francisco, in the first week of December. Richardson Bros., who last week offered a silver cup for best Fox Terrier pup owned by a member of the Pacific Fox Terrier Club, have decided not to limit the competition for their cup and have therefore offered it for best Fox Terrier in puppy classes, com- petition open to everyone. Mr. George Q.Chase, of piano fame, has recently imported from England the Bulldog Boer, which will make his debut on the Pacific Coast at the coming December show. ■ Mr. C. D. Nairn, of Ballston, Oregon, a prominent breeder of Collies, offers a silver trophy for the best Collie in the novice classeB. Mr. Charles R. Harker, J. C. Berret and N. J. Stewart of San Jose, have decided to pool their interests in Bulldogs and have formed the San Jose Bulldog Kennels. The kennel consists so far of "Her Majesty of Charlcombe," (a bitch Mr. Stewart' brought out from England with him) "Madame Chaddy," "True Blue," whom it will be remembered was a winner at the S. F. Show of 1901, and the dog "Captain Absolute." Captain was bought recently from Mr. Vinton P. Breese, Secretary of the New Jersey Kennel Club. He was bred by Mr. St. John Cooper, England's great judge and breeder. Captain is in the heavy weight class, being an extra big fellow, thoroughly sound and a wonderful stud dog. He will shortly be placed at public stud. Mr. W. C. Bogen, of Campbell, reports that he has some extra nice looking young Bull Terriers coming on. Mr. Bogen is very enthusiastic over the forma- tion of a Bull Terrier Club and will show a kennel of four at the December Show. DOINGS IN DOGDOM. Second forfeits in the Pacific Coast Field Trial Derby will close on Nov. 1st. Out of the fifty-six entries of young Pointers and Setters in this stake it is not expected that more than three or four nomina- tions will lapse. Secretary Albert Betz expects to announce the judge for the Bakersfield trials next week. Reports from Bakersfield state that biids are very plentiful on the trial grounds, This district has been patroled since last August. J. F. Kelly's Irish Setter bitch Lady Glenwood (Barrymore-Lady Jersey) whelped eight puppies to Pilot B in August. The litter is coming on in excellent shape now, several of the pups are very promising. The following communication from a subscriber at Keswick, Cal., is of interest to Bull Terrier fanciers; Editor Breeder and Sportsman: — I noticed the article in regard to a Bull Terrier Club in your most valuable columnsof your last issue. I think and believe that such an organization would be a good thing, and will gladly join same. I am quite inter- ested in the noble dog and would like to soe their good qualities and merits more appreciated. I imported a pair from John P. Colby, of Newburyport, Mass., last July, and have the dog in stud, for which I enclose an advertisement to be placed In your columns- He is Jumping Jack by Tige out of Molly, by Racines' Sam, full brother to Old Danger. The bitch Toots is by Major that defeated the Providence Hog Joe, by Teddy, by Paddy, by Old Pilot, ar d out of Thistle, by Fritz, by John Galvin's Turk, and also has Slophouse blood in her. I already have eight pups sold at $25 each, if I ever get them. If you know of anyone that wishes to breed to a good dog, please ask them to write to me, and oblige, Yours truly, E. F. KlESSLINC, Taylor, P. O. The entries for the Ladies' Kennel Association Show number fifty-seven more than last year. Not count- ing the English entries which were mailed from the other side October 12th, the dogs entered number 1652. Indications are that the show will be a great success. Following are the entries by breeds: St. Bernards 48 Bassethounds i Mastiffs - 4 Beagtes .'.'.'.'..'."' 85 Bloodhounds 12 Fox Terriers ns Newfoundlands — Dachshunde " 33 Great Danes 51 ChowChows, .'.'.'.'.". 2 Russian Wolfhounds 19 Whippets 14 Deerhounds 6 Irish Terriers. 3? Greyhounds 41 Scottish Terriers ... 4U English Foxhounds 1 Welsh Terriers. ]2 American Foxhounds 5 Black and Tan Terriers 12 Pointers 61 Skyes — English Setters 43 Yorkshire Terriers. 13 Irish Setters , — 40 Toy Terriers 15 Gordon Setters 30 Maltese Terriers 8 Sporting Spaniels 153 Pugs 7 Collies 103 Schipperkes 1 Old English Sheepdogs 14 Pomeranians 52 Dalmatlons 6 English Toy Spaniels..'...! 67 ES?fdo|s::::.::v.:::::::::;:: m j^™ spmteis 25 Bull Terriers 64 Miscellaneous 13 Airedale Terriers 45 Selling classes — Boston Terriers 10y French Bulldogs ?3 Total . .1,652 O. J. Albee writes us that the coming December show is creating quite a bit of interest among San Jose doggy circles. A number of Santa Clara fanciers are getting their dogs ready, the outlook for a nice entry from that section is a good one. Mr. Albee will have a few in from the Oak Grove Kennels. He states "I think it too bad that Los Angeles had no show this year. I received several communications about dogs from parties who wished to meet me at that show. In each instance I replied that there was to be no show at Los Angeles thiB year." More's the pity. A larger circuit of shows would undoubtedly be for the benefit of all concerned. A kennel of the best Bulldogs and bitches on the CoaBt will soon be discontinued by the present owner. Fanciers will have an opportunity to get some good ones. S. Christenson received this week from Atlanta, Ga., an English Setter bitch six months old. She is by Ch. Lady's Count Gladstone, a well known field trial performer and sire, out of Pride's Queen. Queen, by the way, was killed three weeks ago. She waB a winner of firBts on the bench and in the field. She won first at the Georgia Field Trials over eighteen starters, and at a time when she had been out with her handler but twice. Dr. C. E. Wilson writes from Nevada as follows: On account of the drought which haB prevailed throughout Nevada for the last six months we find it impossible to hold field trials in Paradise valley, as the birds have had to leave the trial groundB and go to the hills to obtain water. I have during the last month visited the Careon Sink country, and also the country around Bishop and Big Pine, in Inyo county, Cal., and find that the same conditions prevail. As these are the only sections where quail can be found in sufficient num- bers to hold trials on it looks as though we will have to call the meeting off for this year. It has been suggested by a patron in California that we ask the Pacific Coast Field Trial Club for the use of their grounds and hold the trials the third week in January, As several of the kennels that will compete are now having a siege of distemper this perhaps would be a good plan, providing we could get the grounds, and no doubt will meet with the approval of the handlers who will be under the expense of virtually one meet, with the opportunity of running the same dogs under different judges, as will be done at Robinson, 111., this year. This move has the favorable opinion of a number of local sportsmen and handlers. Mr. Thos. S. Griffith writes from Spokane: I do not think I will be able to spare the time to go down to your show in December, but would like to send my young bitch Rippowam, Miss Tuffett and others. Kindly give me a good reliable handler, or, if not too much trouble, find out how much or on what terms he would show her for me. The same day Miss Tuffett was winning here in Spokane, her three brothers out of the same litter were winning at Dan- bury, Conn., Oct. 6, 7, 8, 9, 1903, dog show. Rippo- wam's Valiant won first puppy, first novice, first limit, first open and first in winners. Also special cup for the dog possessing the best head and ears. Rlppo- wam's Candidate was second puppy, third novice, third limit and third open. Stonywald Reliance was third in puppy. I have a great stud dog in Archer and wonderful brood bitch in Moreton Vesta to producefour winners in one litter, and in the former the great dog Lord Stamford winner of ten firsts at seven months old. Don't you think some of your breeders in California would ship some bitches to such a sire? Bred Imp. Craigmore Conrad to Lenzie Prince and Archer to Spokane LaBsie, also Sable Plum II. I trust this long note will not tire you out, but I am never tired talk- ing about Moreton Vesta. Petaluma is up in arms against the dog poisner and it will not go well with him if his Idenity is discov- ered. Several dogs have been poisoned recently but the latest and most atrocious act of the poisoner is accountable for the death of the famous greyhound, 10 , the sport than have pre- vailed for-tbe'TJast week. Generally speaking, results for local hunters have been poor. On some of _the preserve ponds limit bags bave been easily shot, but t hese instances are the exceptions. Unless the hunter has been favorably located, he had a chance at but few birds. -. - Never in many years pa9t has there been so many northern ducks here this early in the season. Among them are plenty of canvasback and widgeon. Quail hunters find that the country contiguous to ■the railroad stations near thiB city has been pretty well hunted out. In Marin county, along the line of the North Shore railroad, birds are plentiful back in the country miles away from the line of road. Reports from San Jose and that vicinity state iportsmen have been holding high carnival during she past eight or ten days. Every day has witnessed the exodus of many hunters to the marshes and the foothills. The marshes have been especially attrac- tive for the reason that ducks are very abundant. Sunday in the Alviso marshes there were many hunters and the bombardment was quite general, this was advantageous to the sportsmen for the reason that the ducks were kept on the move and all had an opportunitv of shooting game. The quail hunters have thus far had good success, but the sport will improve after the first heavy rains. The ground is now pretty dry and this condition, coupled with the unusually warm weather for this time of the year, makes it rather Btrenuous sport climbing over- the hills. After the rain falls the -ground will then be in good condition for both man and dog and the birds will also be found easier. Miss Gertrude Ehlers and Miss Alma Mazza two well known young ladies of San Antonio, Sonoma county, wenthunting on the 15th inst. and shot a nice bag of quail. Miss Ehlers killed eighteen and Miss Mazza eleven. The young ladies are expert hunters and have freauently hunted together. ©he gxeeiftv axiif ^povi&ntaxt [October 31, 11*3 immediate formation ol joint stock companies com- posed of angry sports, growling dogs, jangling bi- cycles and a Chinaman or two vocife; ating choice Cantonese cussology. - All along- the line the hunters dropped on in little bunches, whistling to their dogs and disappearing in the woods, soon to sound with the crackle of mus- ketry and the yelp of the eager hounds. ["Mus- ketry'' and "yelp of eager hounds" in pheasant shoot- ing is rich, indeed. — Ed.] ' And the day was simply perfect; a cloudless sky ol. Italian blue, a soft southern wind; still the hint of the night's frost in the exhilarating air, and dry gome underfoot. : Two recent press dispatches give the details of lively and sensational hunting adventures. One de- scribes a mixup with a bunch of bobcats near Red- ding, last week when George Reid and Louis Braut- lacht had a thrilling encounter with wildcats at the old Joy Hotchkiss place on the Chewaucan. The two men had been hunting in the woods near by. Re- turning late in the evening, they ran a wildcat into the open door of a barn on the Hotchkiss place. Both hunters went into the dark barn, latched the door behind themand prepared to slaughter the oat. They found themselves literally surrounded by wildcats. There were six, all told, and they put up a terrible fight. For fifteen minutes the hunters fought in the darkness. Thev finally got out of the barn, torn, scratched and bleeding, and four of the big cats were dead inside. The other two escaped. Tbe second affair is tinged with more dangerous elements iand transpired in Mendocino county this week. It is not unusual for a wcunded deer to revive and develop strength enough to become a dangerous adversary, or even to finally escape, when the hunter attempts to use the finishing knife. But for a hunter to experience a ride on a venison automobile, this is a new one in the variety of adventure the hunting field may produce. The story is that Ed ward Long, son of the late Supervisor Loog and a student of the Santa Rosa Business College, is being congrat- ulated on his escape from death in a struggle with a wounded deer. . While spending his vacation at home in Covelo he went hunting and came across two fine bucks in an opening. He fired and the nearest deer fell dead. The other also fell. The second deer appeared not to be quite dead and voung Long straddled it and proceeded to cut its throat. The deer, however, had been only stunned. It jumped up with the hunter on its back, knocking the knife out of hia hands by the sudden move, and plunged down the hillside. Young Long grabbed the animal's horns and hung Finally in passing a redwood the hunter managed to turn the deer's head by pulling his hornB and guided him into the tree at full Bpeed. Deer and hunter went down together. Long was badly bruised and the deer's neck was broken. Young Long man- aged to get botn of the carcasses into Covelo, and is now the hero of Mendocino county. A report from Baker City, Or., this week states that Dr. H. E. Curry gives out the news of the dis- covery in the Mount Rastus mining district of a tree bearing the inscription "Lewis and Clark, 1804-1805" and of a well-constructed stone fort and the remains of a log house. The inscription on the tree was cut in the late fall or winter months, when the sap was down, because the letters now appear as raised. It is known that one of the earliest overland trails passed near the scene of the diic»very reported by Dr. Curry. The exodus of hunter and dog for a day's pheasant shooting on the opening of the Beason in British Columbia, October loth, is mentioned by a scrib* on the Victoria Daily Colonist in a style so facetious that it may be presumed he knows not the delights of a day in the hunting-field. He states: "Long before the V. & S. moraing express reached Hillside avenue yesterday morning a record-breaking crowd of sportsmen had assembled on tne corner armed to the teeth for a long Thanksgiving Day shoot in the woods and fields up the line. Everyone had at least one gun and one dog, and eve-y man was clad in picturesque costume, from the suit of weatherbeaten tweeds that was saved from the klootchman (Indian squaw") when better went for salmon and black berrieB in a back-door deal; the canvaB jacket with capacious pockets for the reception of game, and from which a few of the sports ostentatiously pullod out and threw away a few feathers as if to intimate to the others that they had been there "before; the Norfolk jacket laced with well-stuffed bandoliers; some went in every day costume with their ammunition in on* pocket and lunch in the other. Most had their guna coverless, but others had swell rhinoceros-hide cases; some home-made canvas or woolen bags, but all had the same hopeful smile. The humorists of the party trotted out the vener- able gags and wheezes sacred to such congregatious about 'one bird to every barrel in the crowd would extirpate the whole pheasant family in Saanich;' about the bird's Thanksgiving, and so forth. In due time the train came from town and to the horror of the sports every seat in every car was found to be occupied by a complacent Chinaman, who, hav- ing paid his good money to travel, smiled winsomely at the scowling white men, who muttered some pretty warm compliments about the yellow peril. The bag- gage car resembled a Boer commando going to the front. The whole space was crammed with sports- men, ordinary passengers, hunting dogs, bicycles, Chinese, freight packages, milk tins, railway men to no end. At every curve somebody stepped on a Setter's toes and dismal howls arose from the injured hound, whilst the Chinese jabbered and smoked cigarettes as if on the job at price and a half. How the conductor ever wound bis way through that car, punching ie presence of the passengers, is one of those things no fellow can understand. Sudden stops at wayside stationB would lead to the The Wilson Snipe. In all the category of American game birds there are very few to which attach more genuine Bporting interest than to the erratic and mysterious littl* fellow known as the Wilson snipe, or perhaps more generally as the jack snipe. This bird is also known as the English snipe, a name which at one time was much more common in the West than it is to-day. In the West and South, the term jack snipe is almost universal, although most sportsmen are sufiiciently well versed with the history of the bird to accord it its older and better title, the Wilson snipe. Since Wilson was the first to describe and classify this bird, and since it has so long held his name, it is difficult to conceive why the committee of the A. O. U. should see fit to still further confuse the public mind as to the nomenclature of our game "birds by giving to this bird the name of Gallinago delcata— a name perhaps descriptive and correct, yet serving no good purpose as replacing thd older and generally accepted title. There are some ninety species of snipe and about fifteen "tenable genera," as Coues statea it, although more are frequently applied. The same naturalist continues: "Various attempts to divide the group into special families have met with little success owing to theclose intergradation of the Beveral types. "While there is no difficulty in easily distinguishing the Wilson snipe from its relatives in the matter of its name, one might feel like quoting the same naturaliBt to the effect that a "parallel perversity on the Ameri- can Ornithological Union would result in ornithologi- cal anarchy. " It is likely that the American sports- man will continue to call this bird either jack snipe or Wilson's snipe, at least those are the terms by which it can be recognized in any corner of the United States to-day, writes E. Hough in Texas Field and Sportsman. There are many gunners who are fond of quail shooting; others "believe that the ruffed grouse offers the finest Bport in America; whereas others will hunt nothing but woodcock when opportunity offers. Still, among all these you will hardly find one shooter who, given an opportunity to pursue the jack Bnipe under favorable conditions, will not gladly take him- self to the marsh to fight out his ancient grudge against this weird and wary little spirit of "the wet grounds. There is something pleasing and exbiiirat- ing in the pursuit of the jack6nipe,^ qiiest nearly always attended with considerable phjsicii exercise, always in the fresh air and nearly.always under ihe pleasing circumstances of an open view, abounding room and all the strange, strong faeinations of the landscape of the marsh. The jack snipe itself offers a keen sporting interest. Now and again it may be successfully pursued with the dog, and indeed even western and southern shooterB are now beginning to. employ the pointing dog in its pursuit to a greater extent than formerly. In the Eastern states the use of the dog has always been more general, perhaps because the bird is not so abundant there as it is in other and more favorite localities. When there is a good flight of jack Bnipe in on a suitable marsh, the birds customarily alight in such numbers that it is not necessary to employ a dog in order to get abundance of shooting. Where they are less numerous and harder to find the dog is very useful, and one who has a good snipe dog, with caution and nose enough to handle this thin scented and keen winged bird, will rarely care to go Out with- out his four-footed companion. It takes no racing, headlong, shallow witted dog to be a past master at this sport. He must have a keen nose, cautious foot and level head, else he were far better left chained at home. At times when the day is warm and the birds are fat and lie close, one can have beautiful sport over a dog at jack snipe shooting. It cannot be said, how- ever, that the employment of the Setter or Pointer is to be considered the "typical form of jack snipe shoot- ing, for rather the contrary obtains in the greater part of the jack snipe country. Close cousin to his more portly relative, the wood- cock, is this inhabitant of the wet marsh. Its boring and its stain resemble those of the woodcock and its comings and goings are fully as mysterious. The jack snipe always migrates by night, taking the moonlight for its flight. Sportsmen say that they "move on the moon," and at the appearance of the first bright nights in the migratory season they look for the flights of the birds, which can often be detected in the night when their "humming" and "booming" notes are heard high aloft in the air. here, there and everywhere above the marsh, where twenty-four hours earlier, there was not one to be discovered. When the first flight of the spring jack snipe appears upon the northern marshes the birds are apt to be thin and very wild. If cloudy or windy weather prevails, they are still more apt to be shy and difficult of approach, rising with their wild, independent cry of scaipe! far ahead of the gun. Again, although the weather may be bright and fairly warm, though usually shortly before a storm, these birds may be seen tumbling and pitching in the air above the marsh. Put up your gun then and go back to the house, for you shculd not then expect to find much sport. The birds will get up wild and go through their aerial gymnastics, qnite forsaking all thought of food. These evolutions of the jack snipe in theaircon- st'tute some of its most interesting hab.ts. Especially in the breeding season is it very active on wing. The male snipe will then circle about or hover high up in the air, uttering all the timeits low liquid "humming" note, a sweet mysterious and very penetrating sound which is hard to locate. This is its love song and its sweet tremulous note is one familiar to all snipe hunters who care to pursue this bird in the spring time- After the mating time, this activity of the male Btill continues. He will circle about, high up in the heaven, and then drop down with the rush of wing which causes bis "booming" note. After pitching and rolling and circling about in sheer joy of hislove, the jack snipe will again come down swift as an arrow to the ground. Having alighted, be will strut about his mate with wings drooping something after the fashion of the woodcock. Again, though this occurs usually in the fall when the birds are wild, one may see a jack snipe shoot down from some unseen place high up in the sky, its hard set wings producing a loud "drumming" orrolling note. This sound at times will start all the snipe near by and they will all begin to pitch and drop, performing evolutions very interesting and very ominous to the observer, for under such conditions as these the birds will not lie, but are apt, when pursued, to get up and leave the country. All these pecularities are things well known to the sportsman and go to add zest to the sport, always uncertain enough. [TO BE COXTIM.KU.J Duck and Quail Outfits. The demand at Skinner's keeps up lor sportsmen's outfits ammunition and guns. A large stock of goods pnt in for the open ing of the season was not sufficient for the unusual demand for hunting suits, rubber boon and hunters' footwear; canvas and, folding wooden decoys, gun cases and a new design of leather- covered shell boxes. One make of shotguns was sold out entirely. Skinner's place is 801 Market street. Yon can get anything there you need for duck or quail shooting. Send for a catalogue, if you haven't the time to come, and try a mail order. * Something for Nothing. The Polk Miller Drug Co.. of Richmond, Va, are manufaitcrera of Sergeant's Dog Remedies, the most popular line of preparations, intended for dogs, on the market today, having received the high- est endorsements of the leading dog men and kennel owners in thla country and Canada. Read their advertisements appearing in the columns of our journal each Issue- The firm referred to will mail you absolutely free, a copy of their celebrated book on Dogs if yoi will forward 3 cents lo cover postage. If your dog is sick. wriM them, enclosing stamp, and describe the symptoms as accurately as vou can They will cheerfully furnish the best information on the subject without charge. F. W Braun & Co.. of Los Angeles, California, have recently been made distributing agents for Sergeant's Dog Remedies on the Paciflo Ooasv » In hot weather there is no drink like JackBOn's Napa Soda — plain or in a lemonade. OCTOBEK 31, 1903] f&he gveebev am* ^kpavt&txuxxt THE FARM. Ringing Hogs. I dislike very much to eee a pasture rooted and plowed up by ewine. but ordi- nary rings seem to have but a temporary influence to correct the habit, as they come out, and many hogs manage to root with rings. My stock runs out in the field the year round, but every little while they have to be re-rung or they wonld root up all the grass ground on the farm. I have never resorted to cutting the cartilage of the nose as it disfigures an animal and is, it seems to me. too heroic a remedy. The majority it manufacturers of pig rings seem to think their rings will prove effective so long as they inflict pain enough to the wearer of their jewelry. Hence, these rings are made to close with rough edges in the flesh or with a knot or lever on the ring to give the pig an extra yank or pang whenever it is so unfortu- nate as to touch it against a twig, a corn cob or ear of corn or the feeding floor or ground. The construction of the ring and frequent injuries inflicted by it keeps the nose sore and the pig nervous and restless, all of which is not conducive to health and thrift. If the ring has been set a little too deep and injures the periosteum, an incurable sore follows that causes suffering and loss that should be avoided. The ring thus set will be effective and laeting enough to please the manufacturer. Bat so long as the pig is greater than the ring the owner of the pig must look to his interests and save his pig and his pocket. Such cruel use of rings has set many breeders against them and opened the wayT for the disfiguring devices now advertiBed for mutilating the snout and disfiguring the pig. It ii only another form of torture and injury to the animal. The propensity to root abides and as soon as the wound thoroughly heals the old bow will turn sod to amaze the owner. These antl rooters and de-snouters are effective so long as the wound is tender, but no longer, yet the disfigurement remains. Not so with the ring, unless it gets caught on a nail or root and the pig or hog in its agony tears it out through the flesh. But the owner of the animal has enough at stake to lead him to try to save his sod and his pig, and avoid unnecessary suffer. ing. This will require a little more care, but it will save the sod and the sow and offspring. The writer has such a love for a hand- some blue grass sod and such a high appreciation of the value of pasture for health and profit in swine husbandry that he ib willing to take a little extra care to secure them. Instead of the rings and anti-rooters, scores of which he has tried, he haB found the tinners' ring, made out of good number 10 or 12 wire, the most lasting and effective and the least painful. Any tinner will make or furnish them, or the herdsman can make tbem. To insert we first, with a saddler's leather punch, cut the hole in the snout, taking great care to not cut deep enough to injure the periosteum or bone covering, and yet deep enough to give a good hold for the ring and allow it to turn readily when in place. With two pairs of plyers we twiBt one end of the ring aside enough to allow it to enter the hole made for it in the snout, and then turn the ring half around, and then with plyers twist the wire so the ring closes outside of the flesh. It is better to put in two rings about an inch or less apart. They are more effec- tive and last longer. The wound soon heals and seldom swells or festers, as do the rings offered by manufactures and closed in the flesh. The tinner's ringB, being heavier and loose in the snout, do not wear out so readily, but when they wear out or get out they mutt be replaced. I We know of no device more humane or so effective or lasting. The older the hog and the older the sod the oftener will one find the sod up- turned. Old blue grass sods become in- ( tasted with the larvae of the May beetle and other grubs and these are such delicate and toothsome tidbits for the old sows that they will endure suffering to get them. Younger pigs are more easily restrained, but to save the sod unbroken one muBt attend to the rings and replace them when lost. After a meadew or old pasture becomeB infested with the white grub it is well to let the hogs root, plow the sod and still let them root until the grubB have been destroyed. It is the cheap and effective way to fit such a sod for a future crop. — P. C. Holmes in American Smnehenl. II In o.der to make dairying pay it is [ TPOT. Snln— "Ron F *>.1f» essential not only to get cowa which! 0»16 -D611 X. ^.lO are capable under very favorable con- j The unbeatten pacer of 1903. Ben F aio ty ditiqns of giving high temporary re- SSSSSJ^if «' ^V'l^ VMVT turns, but the stead? kind of animal I derslgDed- „. , L R palmer. .- . . J. . . . ., , . Walnut Creek, Contra Cojta Co. Cal which makes a profitable yiel-l under all conditions. Fortune in Alfalfa. Twelve or fifteen years ago the farmers of comparatively isolated Humboldt county found themselves on the verge of ruin. Their lands were fertile, the rain- fall was sufficient to meet all demands of agriculture, banner crops were year after year harvested, bat the expense of getting balky crops to market made cultivation profitless. The Humboldt farmer was saved by the introduction of alfalfa Fields that1 had been planted to oats, wheat and potatoes and cultivated at a loss, immediately became profitable. Soon dairying became second only to lumber of the industries of the county. Humboldt butter became famous from one end of the coast to the other. The weekly shipments were enormous. Mort- gages of years' standing were paid off. Ready money became plentiful Hum boldt county, even during the years of depression which followed the panic of 1893, was prosperous— consumers bad to have butter and were willing to pay for it, and numboldt had butter to sell In tne San Joaquin valley much the same results have followed the planting of alfalfa and the taming of heretofore profitless grain fields into dairy farms. Kings, Tulare and Fresno counties have within five years made tremendous Btrides as dairy counties. Dairying brings to them ready money all the year round the surest guarantee of continued pros- perity. In the Sacramento valley, while alfalfa is on the increase, the possibilities which it oiFere have scarcely been hinted at. Nowhere in the State, perhaps, are the advantages for raising alfalfa what they are here. It is well known that alfalfa does not do its best in the coast counties; and yet Humboldt has grown rich from alfalfa fields ; in the San Joaquin the con ditions of soil and climate are not the best for it, but lower San Joaquin farmers are raising it and prospering. In the Sacramento valley wherever the raising of altalfa has been attempted the returns have far exceeded those of either of the sectioua mentioned. Here the con ditiona for its growth are ideal, climate: soil and plenty of moisture uniting to that end. Three and four and even five crops a year are cut. But the possibilities of the Sacramento valley for alfalfa grow- ing and dairying have not yet been realized as in Humboldt county or even in Kings. This year it ia an encouraging sign to eee farmers turning heretofore unused fields into alfalfa pastures. It is a serious beginning of an industry which will eventually be one of the most important sources of the valley's wealth. — Sacra- mento J'ni'-n- m In the dairy quaiity counts for more than quantity, and there ia more profit in a small, well-managed one than in a large one carelessly managed. o A cow requires three times aa much water when she is giving milk as when she is not. The cream of two skimmings mixed will not yiell up its butter as perfectly ai one skimming. KICKING, Shying or any kind of a habit cured ■ in a few hoara by my system. Particular ire*:. PROF. JESSE A. BEERY. Pleasant Mill, Ohio. ATTEND THE Red Ribbon Speed Sale TO TAKE PLACE AT THE OCCIDENTAL HORSE EXCHANGE 246 THIRD STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 17, 1903 Commencing* at 7:45 o'clock sharp. The greatest care has been exercised in selecting the following well-bred celts and fillies, many of them are being trained at the Pleasanton track where they can be seen daily. Competent judges pronounce them the most uniform lot of handsome youngsters ever seen on that famous course. They must be sold There is to be no reserve, and as this is perhaps the last opportunity to get the blood of the aires that made California famous it is of vital importance to farmers, horse breeders and lovers of good horses to attend this sale, and get animals they can take pride in and if necessary make money with as many are heavily engaged in stakes. Following is only a synopsis of a few to be sold : CONSIGNED BY H. C. SANDERS, ESQ, PLEA8ANTON, CAL. Xame and Sire. Brown filly (2) by Key Direct 2:10 Directory (2) by Rey Direct 2:10 Brown gelding (2) by Diablo 2:09^ Black fllly (1) by Cbas. Derby 2:20 . . ReyDirecton (1) by Rey Direct 2:10.. Bay filly (3) by Ch as. Derby 2:20 Reina Directum (1) by Rey Direct 2:10 . Black filly (1) by Rey Direct 2:10 Rey McGregor (1) by Rey Direct 2:10... Black filly (I) by Rey Direct 2:10.. Black filly (2) by Rey Direct 2:10.. Black filly (l) by Rey Direct 2:10. . Bay colt (3) by Owyhee 2:11 Bay mare (9) by Diablo 2:09^. Bay fllly (1) by Hart Boswell. Black fllly (1) by Cbas. Derby. Datr.'s Family. Birdie McClain by Adirondack, grandam by Ore- gon Pathfinder. Mamie H by California Black Hawk, grandam by Poscora Hayward, etc Missie Medium by Rampart (son of Almont 33), grandam Belle Medium (Dam of StamB 2:11M). by Happy Medium, great grandam Arcenta by Almont Lightning, etc. May (dam of Bay Rum 2:25) by Anteeo SElSJtf: grandam by Captain Webster 1J1T3 Babe Marion 2:i7u by Steinway 2:25*1, grandam Ida Wood (dam of Owyhee 2:11) by Sinnnous 2:2S. etc. Nannie Smith (sister to Phil Thompson 2:lfl, etc.) by Red Wilkes: grandam Gray Nellie by John Dillard. etc. Stemwindei 2:31 (dam of Directum 2:051^ etc ) by Venture 2:27'4; grandam Kate by St Lawrence. Mamie H. by California Black Hawk, grandam by Poscora Hayward. Lurline (sister to W. W. Foote 2:15>4. Algregor 2:11) by Steinway; grandam Maggie McGregor by Robt. McGregor ::! 7' i (sire of Cresceus 1:59 V) Mamie H. by California Black Hawk, grandam by Poscora Hayward Anteera by Anteeo 2:16M: grandam Debonair by Sultan; great grandam Ferguson mare by Williamson's Belmont. Diana by Diablo 3:09*4; grandam Belle Robbing (dam of Pleasanton 2:29^1 by Tarrascon, etc. Inez (dam of Alamo 2:29H. Our Jack fclftK) by Sweepstakes: grandam Dolly Bull (dam of Inez 2:22!i) by Kentucky Bertrand. Belle Robbins (dam of Pleasanton 2:39'4) by Tarrascon; grandam Black Bessie by Bluaher dam by Guy Wilkes (pedigree will be published in catalogue) Direct fllly by Direct 2:05^: grandam by Hewlett's Echo, son of Echo. CONSIGNED BY P. J. WILLIAMS, MILPITAS, CAL Ogden (half brother to Monterey 2:09}f), b c by I Hattie (dam of Monterey 2:09!* and Montana Egyptian Prince 3:18*4) by Com. Belmont, grandam Barona by I Woodford Mambrino etc Chestnut fllly (4) by Monterey 2:0934 Lo Lo (sister to Leap Year 2^28 and Iago 2:111 by Tempest, grandam Eulogy by Commodore Bel* ■ = I mont, etc. SMITH, VALLEJO, CAL. Venas (see catalogue.) Fanny McGill by Bell Allen, he by Vick's Ethan Allen: grandam Jennie Lind. By Como. grandam by Battledore. Sweet Rosie (see catalogue ) CONSIGNED BY L. fif. LASELL, MARTINEZ, CAL. Belle (5) by Abbotsford Jr I May by Romeo 2:26; grandam Belle Caprice by Steinway 2:25*£; g g d Bonnie Caprice by Ethan | Allen Jr , to 7th dam by Easton's David Hill Direct Steinway (2) by Direct FIls, son of Direct | Belle Caprice by Steinway 2: 35%; grandam Bon- 2:05"; nie Caprice by Ethan Allen Jr. Clarion (7) by Dexter Prince Clarion 2:25% by Ansel 2:20: grandam Consolation | (dam of 2) by Dictator; ggd Belle by Norman I 25, etc May B. by Sidmore 2:19 Dlngley Dill by Gibraltar 2:22: grandam by Nut- I wood 3:18%. CONSIGNED BY C. ARCHER, LINDEN, CAL. Edith 2:10 (In foal to Searchlight 3:03*4) by Dex- 1 ter Prince Parse (dam of Reno Prince 2:25 (trial 2:1-1), Edith | 2:10) by Hamilton Chief; grandam Dolly by IBelshazzar. Edith StlO by Dexter Prince, etc. Edith McKinley (2) by McKinley. son of McKin- I ney 3:11*4 I Edith 2:in by Dexter Prince, etc. CONSIGNED BY OTHER OWNERS. Monaco 2:ln by McKinney 3:11*4 I By Director 2:17: grandam by Hawthorne: g g d I Ryan mare (dam of 4) by Black Hawk. Mojave 2:15*4 by Dexter Prince | By Reliance. Chestnut colt (3) by Silver Bow 2:18 Venturers by Arthurton; grandam Lady Venture I by Williamson's Belmont, etc. and many others. I will also sell 7 handsome Shetland Ponies, consigned by Geo. A. Davis, Pleasanton Every animal Is well broken and will be led by the side of a saddle horse. Particular attention Is called to the breeding of these horses. Their Individuality stamps them as the best looking, best limbed and best developed trotters and pacers ever led Into a salesrinc. Catalogues will be Issued at once. Horses at salesyard November Utn. WM. G, LAYNG, Live Stock Auctioneer, 246 Third St., San Francisco CONSIGNED BY THOS. Chestnut eelding (4) by Geo. Washington 2:15.. Trilby 2:21^ by Mambrino Chief, Jr Bay gelding(pacer) by Linwood by Nutwood i Chestnut gelding by Diablo 2:09*4 18%. 12 ©he gseefoev txxib gtpxrirtsmatt [October 31, 190 > THE PENDULUM SWINGS BACK. V. E. Fuller Reviews the Change in the Trend of Public Opinion Influencing the Jersey Market in the Past Twenty Years. As is the case in the breeding of almost every thoroughbred stock in this country, great changes hare taken place, by decades, in the breeding 01 Jerseys. In the early SO's the Eioter-Alphea Jersey; stood in very high esteem, based on their performances at the pail and churn, and especially through the yearly performance of Eurotas. Their supremacy was uontested by the Islaud-bred cattle, mainly the Coomassies and importations made by the veteran breeder and im- porter, Mr. T. S. Cooper. The supporters of the imported cattle at this time based their favoritism on the perfection of type of the Island JerseyB. The American-bred had their adherents and there were also many friends and supporters of the Island type. In 1S83, after I had tested Mary Anne of St. Lambert, Ida of St. Lambert, and many of their half sisters, the St. Lambert strain, bred at St. Lambert, Quebec, topped the market, and though they have had many rivals at various times, they have always been in constant and good demand at profitable prices. About this time the demand for imported Jerseys Blackened very materially, and it became secondary to the St. Lamberts. As was the case with the Kioter- Alpheas, eo it was with the St. LambertB at that time, namely: anything with the Eioter or St. Lambert blood was eagerly •ought after; little regard being paid to individuality. Or, in other words, breeders became "pedigree crazy." This lasted until about 1S85. Then demand became based on the performances of individuals and their ancestors, and this state of affairs continued in the Jersey kingdom until about four yearB ago. In the craze for performance, the correct type of the Jersey cow as we found it in the 70'e in the New England States was wholly lost sight of. Butter records, and these alone were demanded. So keen was the com- petition that doubtful tests were recorded, and being accepted for record by the American Jersey Cattle Club, were ac- cepted. Disregard to the correct type of Jersey was strengthened by the club's maintaining an antiquated scale of points, wholly inapplicable to the correct type. Fortunately, though late in the day, a new scale of points has been adopted. As a natural consequence of breeding for performance only, and disregarding type, there are many Jerseys of undesir- able structural form scattered from the Atlantic to the Pacific. In the past few years the pendulum has again swung around to Imported Jerseys or those American-bred who are perfect in individuality; and they alone com- mand the top prices. Or, in other words, individuality of a high type is now de. manded. It ii a fortunate thing for the Jersey interests that such is the case. All Jersey breeders are familiar with the excellent importations made by Mr. T.S.Cooper in the past four years, and sold under the hammer in the past three years. They deservedly commanded high figures. Their dispersal among the Jersey herds of the country will do much to correct the undesirable type of manv of our American-bred Jerseys. Comparat vely few breeders know of the most excellent and superior lot of Jerseys imported by Mr. Frank C. Ward of East Orange, X. J. in the Fall of 1902 and sold in the Spring of 1903. Previous to Mr. Ward's sale I stated that I con- sidered the two-year-old heifers imported by him the test lot (for an equal number; that had ever been brought to this co'.ntry. Unfortunately, their high qual- ity was not known to the majority of J- rsey breeders, and they were sold at p ■ ices not at all commensurate with their rtofl value. Many bargaine were secured, Too late to send for catalogue. Mail or telegraph explicit orders and funds to the Auctioneer, who will execute such commands faithfully without charge. If you prefer to employ an outside expert, please communicate early with one of your own choice. PETER C. KELLOGG, Auctioneer, 107 John St., New York. and Mr. Ward suffered a considerable financial loss by the importation. Those who were fortunate enough to recure them are loud in their praiseB, not only as to their high type but as to their dairy qualities. Nothing daunted, Mr. Ward went to the Island shortly after his spring sale, and selected another herd to place on his farm in New Jersey and breed them. The City of East Orange had for some time been negotiating with Mr. Ward for the purchase of his farm to utilize the springs on it for waterworks purposes Prior to his departu e Mr. Ward had given an option on his farm at a price he thought they would not pay. While on the Island, and after the cattle had been purchased, Mr. Ward received notice of the purchase of his farm. The City of EaBt Orange has possession thereof, and Mr. Ward has his cattle in quarantine with no farm to which to take them, though he has un- successfully sought one adapted to his purpose. Under the circumstances, much to Mr. Ward's regret, he ie compelled to place them on the market by public auction; and the herd will be Bold by the well- known auctioneer, Peter" C. Kellogg at Durland's Siding Academy, Hoboken (opposite Sew York City) on Nov. 12th. The importation consists of 52 head, two bu Is, three heifers or cows over three years old, and forty Beveu heifers either two or coming two years old. All females are freBh, or will freshen before the date of the sale. The bull that heads the herd is a son of Golden Jolly (whom £1000 cannot buy on the Island) esteemed to be the best bull on the Island, judged by his daughters in milk. Golden Jolly is a son of Golden Fern's Lad, and is out of the superb cow Brookhill Rose II. Three Bons of Golden Jolly have been imported into this country, viz: Golden Jolly's Prince, BrooKhill Fox and the bull at the head of the Ward herd. I will guarantee that three no more perfect or handsomer bulls got by one sire were ever imported. They are wonderfully alike, and about perfection. The Ward bull is an extra handsome fellow, well set up in every way, with top lines perfect, a deep body set on short legs, and a handsome head and fine carriage. He is in every way an Al show bull. I have made two critical examinations of the Ward herd. After the last one I remarked (and it came from the bottom of my heart) that I have never seen as uniform and perfect a lot of heifers as is to be found in this herd. 'Tis not alone that they are extra handsome; that they have very large, deep bodies and splendid constitutions for Island-bred heifers ; but their perfection and size of udder is truly astonishing. The udders run away up on the bellies, are very large and well rounded, and they have good large teats, well placed. Th s does not apply to a few, but with possibly three exceptions it applies to every female imported. I never saw a more uniform lot of large, plump fore udders. The same uniformity exists in the broad, level backs from withers to tail setting. What is of still greater im- portance to the practical dairyman is that so far as the eye can judge, they are large producers, and I am informed that such is the case. A pen picture is given of this latest importation, because it showB the type which is now Bought by Jersey breeders since the pendulum has rgain swnng around to the imported type. It would be a very diffcnlt matter to find fifty females who more nearly approach the perfection of the Island type now bo much in demand, and who at the same time posBess the size, length, depth and con- stitution demanded by American buyers. All breeders interested in such animals should apply to Peter C. Kellogg, 107 John St., New York City for catalogues of the sale; as they will find therein some amateur photographs, untouched by any master hand, of some of the heifers in the sale. Their udders are depicted as Nature made them. They are not unduly inflated bv allowing the mflk to remain in them for twenty-four hours, nor by an artiBt's brush. If any of your readers are unable to attend the sale, and desire to be bidderes I will be glad to execute their commission, on the usual terms of commission, and I can be addressed in care of Peter C. Kellogg. The country will be scoured for animals for the show ring at the coming World's Fair at St. Louis, and the breeders are going to put their "best foot foremost." These cattle of Mr. Ward's are not pampered but are kept in good healthy condition, as were the last lot he brought over and 6old. The men who bought them have borne testimony to the fact of their being in fine condition and improv- ing under care. To any man who wants a corking two year old for St. Louis, I would say that this sale is a providential opportunity to get a heifer who will take a lot of beating in the Bhow ring. Our Foreign Meat Trade. South American cattle and sheep from Argentina are giving our exporters con- siderable competition in foreign markets. Secretary Wilson has sent Frank W. Bicknell to Argentina to investigate the matter. He reports that the Argentina republic is fast becoming a wideawake rival in the production of cattle and sheep. He estimates that there is 25.000, 000 cattle in Argentina and about 100,000,000 sheep, and he is authority for the statement that improved and scientific methods of breed- ing and feeding stock are universal in that country. The native of Argentina prefers to con- fine hia efforts to raising the animals, leaving the development of trade to for- eigners. Freezing companies send frozen beef and mutton to England, South Africa, and other markets, earning about 40 per cent in dividends. Last year the agricultural department of Argentina chartered a transport from the navy department and sent experi- mental cargoes to South Africa. These consisted of mules, steers, horses, sheep, butter, wheat, oats, alfalfa, and many other things, some of which were small consignments and all were sent on the owner's private account. The shipments met with ready sale which paved the way to the establishment of three regnlar shipping lineB. As British ports are now open to sheep and cattle from Argentina, we have a direct competitor in the English markets. With cheap land, cheap labor and climate favorable for the production of corn and I other feeds and so congenial to stock that they need no shelter tiie year round, to- gether with the fact that green feed may be easily provided every month in the year, gives the cattle and sheep raisers of Argentina an advantage that they are not s'ow to appropriate. Up to the present time, apparently, little attention has been paid to the pro- duction of pork, but experiments along this line have led to the belief that the propagation of hogs on a commercial scale will be as profitable as cattle and sheep are proving at the present time. Probably Argentina is the only country on earth that is in position to put up a competitive fight with the United States in foreign markets in live stock and food products.— Farm Stock Journal. Jackson's Napa Soda does not tangle the feet OCTOBEIt 31, 1903] ®hc gveeivev emir gftwrtemtm 18 Feeding Grain to Dairy Cows. Years ago we took the stand that many of the teachers of agriculture were advo- cating the feeding of unnecessarily large quantities of grain to dairy cows, and that, in consequence, they were feeding them food unnecessarily expensive. Some taught that it was their practice to feed dairy cows all the grain that they would eat up clean. Tbey would feed them grain until they saw that they were not cleaning out all the food from their mangers, says The Farmer. They Were then fed just a little leBS, and the quan- tity thus determined would be the stand- ard grain ration given to them, so far, at least, as quantity was concerned. It now turns out that such feeding is wrong and in the end injurious. Experiments con- ducted at the Vermont station were made in feeding 4, 8 and 12 pounds of grain respectively. The 4-pound ration gave the largest relative profit for the grain food fed. The additional coBt of feeding the cow that got 8 pounds per day waB $13.85, while the increased yield of butter waB only $".S6. There waB some added value, however, in the manure from the cow that was heavily fed on grain, but when the whole expenditure and returns were compared, no financial gain resulted from feeding the cow 8 pounds of grain, as compared with feeding her 4 pounds. In the instance where the cow was fed 12 pounds of grain per day, the loss was very material, as compared with the cow that was fed 4 pounds per day. Experiments conducted at some other stations point in the Bame direction. There is alio a further loss arising from long continued heavy feeding of grain. It haa a tend- ency to deBtroy the producing power of the cow, on the principle that driving a machine at high pressure tends to shorten the period during which it may be ased.— Caiman's Bural World. Poultry Notes. The average of sixty Leghorn pullets fed for various purposes -wae 88 eggs per hen in 240 days. Some were immature at the beginning. It was an average transaction. People who want informa- tion will find this flrBt-class goods. We would rather figure on facts than any- thing else. Profits in the poultry yard hinge not on breeds and varitiee, but on birds. Breeds have certain characteristics, but it is the individual which pays or fails. The poultry-keeper will do well to take notice of each bird and its performances, and not rely on the fact of their being of this or that breed.— California Culti- vator. At the Maine State Experiment Station during four years they gave full year testa to over 1,000 hens and found among them thirty-five that yielded from 200 to 251 eggs each year. On the other hand, Beveral hena yielded on 36 to 60 eggs each year, and three "biddies" did not prove any eggs belonged to them. The bulletin don't Bay so. About 135 eggs per year ap- pear to be the Maine State average per year per hen. The best way to give lime to our fowls i* in the form of bonea either freah and finely broken or burned and in aah. Then the lime will be digested easily and supply the needs of the fowla healthfully. Aa all animals that feed on vegetable food need salt to refreBh the gastric fluid and restore the waste of the body, this is the beBt and most safely given in Bmall quantities with the food every day. Salt in exceBS is a moat acrid poison. — Pacifii Fruit World. In nearly all cases it is much better to grow into dairying from a small begin ning than to make an entire change both in dairy stock and in appliances. In this way the experience necessary to Buccess as well as the wants and necessi tiea of the business become more thor- oughly understood, and there is less risk of failure. How Stock Helps Land. An instance was related to me the other day of the value of stock raising and its incidental clever rotation in building up the productive capacity of the land. Before the perfection of the Chicago cold storage beef industry large herds of cattle were driven to the Wash- ington market from northern Virginia farms. These farms were then models of fertility. The rotation was wheat, corn and clover, and little if any com- mercial fertilizer was used. The beef produced was of the finest. When Chi- cago beef began to be shipped every- where these farmers did not find it so profitable to raise steers and drive them to Washington. They dropped off their live stock growing and in a few years bad to begin the use of commercial fer- tilizers. These farm lands have since steadily decreased in productive capac- ity until now most of them are worn out and will not produce twelve bushels of wheat to the acre. — Washington Cor. American Cultivator. Sober up on Jackson's Napa Soda. Lou Dillon Beats All Trotting Records Driven by MILLARD BANDERS she makes a mile in one minute, fifty-eight and one- half seconds at Memphis, Tenn., (Jet. 24, 1903. \ Hunt and Fish ALONO THM LIXE OF TH1 (LESSEE OF THE S. F. £ N. P. B. B.) Best Hunting and Fishing In the State Numerous and Popular Resorts Hot' and Cold Mineral Springs HEALTH PLEASURE RECREATION Fine Camping Grounds on Beautiful Streams Best Section In California for Fruit and Breeding Farms The route to San Rafael, Petaluma, Santa Rosa Ukiah, and the Famous Pleasure and Health Resorts in Lake County. Saturday to Monday round-trip tickets at reduced rates. Ticket Offices— «50 Market Street, Chronlole Building, and TIburon Ferry. B, X. RYAN, Gen. Paai. Agt. Sept. 7, at the Fasig-Tipton sale at Sheepshead Bay, a yearling by Esber-Excellenza was being sold by Mr. William Easton. and when the animal was led into the ring he said: " This horse has been suffering from a bog spavin, of which practically no trace remains. He was treated with that remedy called "Save-the-Horse," which all of you know, and it did save the horse — that is, it cured him. Now, you know lots of great horses, Morello and others, were successfully raced, and there is no reason to expect that this colt will ever take a lame step." The bidding opened then at $250, and the colt was sold for 3800 to Mr. J. D. Smith. Books and Pictures ABOUT California Mountains, Valleys, Canyons, Lakes and Seaside and Vacation Places. Shall It Be A Catnp In the Foreit A Mountain Lake A Good Hotel and Trout for Breakfast or A Seaside Reiort and Clam Chowder tor Dinner The Publications of the Southern Pacific Cover all Desirable Places and answer question! of Distance, Accommodations, Expense, Fares, Route, etc. Nothing Left to the imagination. Inquire at INFORMATION BUREAU 613 MARKET STREET Private Stables Jas. Galway, Race Traok, Saratoga, N. Y. I got a bottle of "Save-the-Horse" first of Moseman & Bro. of New York, and used same on ring- bone, curing it entirely. I next used "Save-the-Horse" on two splints and cured them. Have also used it on a strained Pastern Joint, which made horse very lame; it cured this also. I predict a great output of "Save-the-Horse." It has never failed to cure any case I used it on.— EDWARD FEAKS, Trainer for Jas. Galwas of 312 W. 56th St., New York, owner of Meltonian. It is the truths that ring out sound and clear and impressive— actual results like the above from men whose standing and reliability can be readily ascertained— which have made "Save the-Horse" such a success. Their cured horses are living advertisements, absolute certainties as to the possi- bility of the remedy for your own case, and with every bottle is a guarantee document as binding to protect you as the best legal talent could make it. "SAVE-THE-HORSE" Cures Without Scar, Blemish or Loss of Hair. Applied anywhere, and in all conditions and extremes of weather. Horses may be worked as usual with shin or ankle boots, as no harm can result from destruction of hair or scalding of limb. POSITIVELY AND PERMANENTLY CORES BONE AND BOG SPAVIN, THOROCGHPrN, RINGBONE (except low ringbone). CURB, SPLINT, CAPPED HOCK. WINDPDFF, SHOE BOIL, WEAK AND SPRAINED TENDONS. AND ALL LAMENESS. S5.00 Written guarantee with every bottle given under our seal and signature, constructed solely to satisfy and protect you fully. Need of second bottle is almost improbable, except in rarest of cases. Copy of booklet and guarantee sent upon application. ¥5.00 a bottle at all druggists or dealers, or sent express prepaid. FOR SALE. \ HORSE FOALED 1E97: SIRE SAN DIEGO -^ 8776, dam Belle Emmet by Mambrlno Wilkes 60S3: 16 hands high, weighs about 1200 lbs.; fast, gentle, drives single or double. Address H. P. H. HAGGETT. Lower Lake. Cal. I PER BOTTLE. TROY CHEMICAL CO., E. NEWELL, S19 Mission St., Manufacturers, San Francisco, Cal. TROY, N. Y. Pacific Coast Agent. f PALACE HOTEL, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA. 5 TOURISTS and TRAVELERS will, now, with difficulty recognize the famous COURT into which for twenty-five years carriages have driven. This space of over a quarter of an acre has recently, by the addition of very handsome furniture, rugs, chandeliers and tropical plants, been converted into a lounging room— the FINEST IN THE WORLD. The EMPIRE PARLOR— the PALM ROOM, furnished in Cerise, with Billiard and Pool tables for the ladles— the LOUIS XV PARLOR the LADIES WRITING ROOM and numerous other modern improvements, together with the unexcelled Cuisine and the Most Convenient Location in the City— all add much to the ever increasing popularity of this most famous HOTEL. FOR SALE. -yHE PACING MARE SWANHILDA. She is ■*■ a handsome bay, coming seven years old, a natural pacer and with but little track work can pace a mile below 2:20 with ease. Gentle and kind and has been driven by ladles, to buggy. She is a 6ne roadster and with proper training will make a great race mare. For pedigree and further particulars address w. l. Mcdonald, concord, cai. J. W. Zibbell's Training Stables Corner Point Lobos Road and 2rth Avenue, San Francisco, TTORSES TRAINED FOR TRACK OR ROAD 11 and satisfaction guaranteed. Terms reason- able. Horses bought and sold. CALIFORNIA Photo Engraving Company HIGH CLASS ART IN Half Tones and Line Engraving Artistic Designing. »08 Mi** loo St., cor. Flrmt, Saa Fraaotn< %\vz gveebev txttix gcp&vi&mixtt [October 31, 1903 THE BAYWOOD STUD THE BUNGALOW, SAN MATEO, CAL (Property o( John Pabrott, Esq.) Devoted Exclusively to the Breeding and Training of High Stepping Hackney-Bred Harness Horses WALTER SEALY, Manager. SADDLES Always the Best for the Money. JEPSEN BROS CO.UNO 1145-47 Market St. San Francisco mmm VETERINARY PIXSNE CURES Irease Heel, Scratches and Hoof Rot, -chitonic, ulcerated^ 'complicated-of the most deep seated character; Cracked or chapped teats, caked bag, cow pox and all inflammatory iffections of the udder; Saddle and Collar Galls, Hopple Chafes , and Abscesses, Old chronic Sores, the result of pressure by badly fitting harness or by irritating masses [of dirt, sweat and hair under the harness. It makes a positive and permanent , cure by producing healthy granulations, building up new cellular tissues, healing naturally from the bottom without scab or scar and stimulating growth of hair, natural color. It penetrates, soothes and heals while horse works. _ .Absolutly Guaranteed. Mopey back if it fails. 2 ozr 25c; 8oz. 50c; 51b. pkg. $4.00. At all Dealers or Sent prepaid. sENiTioo^oRSAMPLETroy Chemical Coi BOX AND BOOKLET. TROY. N. Y. >2 '-fefefat ^M# VETERINARY -piXINt_ - ti»' „„«*. E. NEWELL, Pacific Coast Agent, 519 Mission St., San Francisco HTy MY-EYE-SEE Mr. J. I. Case, (Hickory Grove Farm, home f of Jay-Eye-See) Racine, Wis., 6ays: "After try- - ing every known remedy, I removed a large ■ Bunch of two years standing from a 3-year old < Ally, with three applications of Quinn's Ointment. I It la the best preparation I have ever used or heard < of. I heartily recommend it to all Horsemen. \ We have hundreds of such testimonials. ' Price SI. 00 per package. Aak your druggist for it. If be doea not keep It we _ will send prepaid on receipt of price. AddresB W. B. EDDY & CO., Whitehall, N. Y. m TRY IT RED BALL BRAND. [Awarded Gold Medal At California State Fair 1898. ,Every horseowner who values his stock should constantly have a sup- ply of it on hand. It improves and keeps stook in the pink of [condition. Manhattan Pood Co 1253 Foleom St., San Francisco Ask your grocers or dealers for it. Positively Cures Colic, Scouring and Indigestion. C. P. KEETELL, Manager Watering Cows. Always give a c ev cmfc ^pnvtstnaxx 15 The World's Greatest Shooting Record, FRED GILBERT, of Spirit Lake, la., since Jan. I, 1902, has shot in competition at 5765 Targets, breaking 5532 or 95.9 per cent, using a PARKER GUN AT SHOT AT Natchez, Miss 400 . . . Fort Dodge, la 300 . . . Wakefield, Minn 205 ... Sioux City, la 360 Dubuque, la 360 . . . THE OLD RELIABLE" IS BROKE .. 396 .. ...... 296 . .. 203 .. .. 351 .. .. 351 .. PER CENT 98.6 99 97 97 5 PARKER BROTHERS Send for catalogue RELIABLE. MERIDEN, CONN N. T. Salesroom, 32 Warren St. * SURE SHOT BALLISTITF The Standard Dense Powder of the World. ""^P 1901— Wins Second in Grand American Handicap at Target?, 1902— Wins First in Grand American Handicap at Targets. 1903— Wins during Grand American Handicap week at Kansas City. First Amateur Average in Regular Events. Third General Averagein Regular Evetts ALL OF ABOVE ARE AMATEUR RECORDS. Take No One's Word. Try It for Yourself. I H I All A m 75 CHAMBERS ST, , NEW YORK CITY W« II. LHU VX \-t\*fi Telephone 1747 Franklin. Importers and Dealers In Fire Arms, Ammunition and Fencing Goods. Sole Agents for BALL1ST1TE (Dense) and EMPIRE (Bulk) Smokeless Powders and the REBLE GUN. A postal brings catalogue and "ShootiDg Facts" (third edition) BALLISTITF The Standard Dense Powder of the World. "^^™ The puppy is liable to destruction from worm's. 'Tis the critical period in a dog's life. Canine worms meet "sure" destruction when SURB S&HOT is administered. After that, it builds up the growing dog's constitution, develops bone and muscle. It makes thin, puny and weak puppies plump, animated and strong. 50c. by mall, prepaid. SERGEANT'S CONDITION PILLS are the best liked and easiest to give of all alteratives and tonics. Incidentally any disease that a dog is likely to have will be speedily relieved and ulti-" matelycured. Of dealers, 50c and $1.00. By mail, prepaid. Sergeant's Carbolic Soft Soap is the "best ever'1 and for sale everywhere. 25c. of dealers. By mail 35c. An order, or 8c. in stamps will entitle you to our LATEST Dog Book and Pedigree blank, mailed freb. For sale by "All Drugfists and Sporting Goods Dealers; F. W. BRAUN & CO., Los Angeles, Cal., Pacific Coast Supply NEW "E. C." NEW "SCHULTZE" SHOTGUN RIFLEITE ....,..,.« „ THE AMERICAN "E. C." and "SCHULTZE" Sunpowder Co., Ltd PHIL B BEKKAET CO., Pacific Coast Representative. EM0LLI0 IODOFORM GALL CURE For GALL BACKS and SHOULDERS, CRUPPER SORES and SADDLE GALLS there is none superior. The horse CAN BE WORKED AS USUAL For BARBED WIR E CUTri, CALKS, SCRATCH- ES, BLOOD POISONED SORES and ABRASIONS OF THE SKIN it has no equal. It is very adhesive and easily applied to a watery as well as a dry sore. Its use will absolutely prevent BLOOD POISON- ING. In this respect there is no Gall Cure offered which can justly even claim to" be a competitor. We placed it on the market relying wholly on its merit (or success, and notwithstanding the fact that comparatively little has been done in the way or advertising thesalesof 1900 were lOO^per cent- great- er than the aggregate sales of Gall Cure preceding that year. This increase was entirely due to its MERITS, and from it we feel justified in saying that it is THE GALL CURE OF THE 20TH CENTURY- It is a quick and sure cure for those troublesome skin cracks underthe fe -*ckv nich injure and often lay up race horses. ; All Trainers Should Hare It in Tbelr Stables PRICE:— 3 OZ. BOX, 25c; 1 LB. BOX, SI. 00. Read^our "ad." on Campbell's Horse Foot Remedy in next issue of this paper. JAS. B. CAMPBELL & CO., Mfrs.,412 W. Madison St., Chicago, HI. SPRATTS PATENT. DOG CAKES REMEDIES SOAP. (EWARK, N. J. • :Send for tree oopy of "DOO CULTURE." 8T. LOUIS, MO. Pacific Coait Branch — 1324 Valencia Street, San Franoisco. Agents for "SANITAS" Disinfectant. VETERINARY. DR. C. MASOERO VETERINARY SURGEON Graduate of Royal Veterinary College of Turin Infirmary and Residence— 811 Howard St.: between Fourth and Fifth Sts., San Francisco. Telephone: Main 457. Ira Barker Dalziel VETERINARY DENTIST Fancy Carriage, Saddle and Roar1 Horses for Sale Office and stable: 605 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, Cal. Telephone South 651. Br. Wm, JS11. DESS^xx. M. R. C. V. S., F. E. Y. M. S. VETERINARY SURGEON. Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, England; Fellow of the Edinburg Veterinary Medical Society; Graduate of the New Veterinary College Edinburgh; Veterinary Sur- geon to the S. F. Fire Department; Live Stock Inspector forNew Zealand and Australian Colonies at the port of San Francisco; Professor of Equine Medicine, Veterinary Surgery, Veterinary Depart- ment University of California: Ex-President m the California State Veterinary Medical Associa- tion; Veterinary Infirmary, Residence and Office, San Francisco Veterinary Hospital. 1117 Golden Gate Avenue, near Webster St., San Francisco: Telephone West 138, ROSE HOTEL PLEASANTON, CAL. Enlarged, Rebuilt. Twenty-five New Rooms Newly Furnished, Electric Lights, Running Water. Up to date. A. 8. OLNET & SON - - Proprietors Chronic Bronchitis and Catarrh of the Bladder Cored In 48 Hours, capsules" l The Great Combination Show Of Dogs, Poultry, Cats, Pigeons and Pet'Stook At MECHANIC'S PAVILION; Deo. 2 to 5. The biggest show ever held west of Chicago. Togs from all over the Pacific Coast will be pres- ent. Entry forms and Premium Li-tsmay be ob- tained at: San Francisco— Breeder & Sports- man office, 36 Geary St.; No. 33 Market St. Sac- ramento^Matt. Coffey, 1305 G. St , Sacramento. Portland— W. W.-Peaslee, 452 Sherlock Block, Portland. Oregon Seattle— Chas. McAllister, City Hall. Seattle, Wash ; Geo Tinto, Sunnydale, Wash. Victoria— Frank Turner. 68 Fourth St,, Victoria, B C . or from the Secretary, N. J. Stew- art, Polheinus St., San Jose, Cal. Entries Close November 33, 1903. AT STUD CUBA OF KENWOOD (Qlenbeigh Jr.-SteUa) SAM'S BOW (Plain Sam-Dolly Dee n) STOCKDALE KENNELS K. M. DODGE, manager, Bakers field, Kern Co., Boarding. Pointer Puppies and well-broken Dogs for sale. SUBSCRIBE TO COLLIES. ; The E BEACH HILL Kennels 955 First St. San Jose "tt„d CHAMPION HANOVER MJNARUH (A, K. C. S. B. 5998) by the great sire Ch. Ellwyn Astrologer from Ch Old Hall Mood. Fee S15. Pictures and Pedigree upon applica- tion. High-class Puppies for sale. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS Advertisements under this head one cent per word per insertion. Cash to accompany order. BULL TERRIERS. T3ULL TERRIER AT STUD-JUMPING JACK D (direot from John P Colby); 31 ibs ; by Tige out of Molly by Raoine's Sam, brother to Danger. Fee $15, less half expresscharges. Best care taken of bitches. E. F KIESSLING. Keswiok, Cal COCKER SPANIELS. / 'U iOIXGEAST. MUST BE SOLD. PLUMERIA Cocker Kennels' priza winners. PLUMERIA VICTORIA (bred to Champion Hampton Goldie) and others Last chance to use the phenomenal sire, Champion HAMPTON GOLDIE, at stud, Fee $-31 Going East. 239 Ninth Avenue. Phone Geary jftgo. I ST. BERNARDS GRAND- t. Feci" ; W. WALLACE, 58 Boyce St., San Fraoclsco- 1 A T STUD-CHAMPION LE KING. -^ est headed St Bernard on the Coast. Fee $S.>. SnporUir tn Copulha. Cnheh* or InJectltMt BLAKE, M0FFITT & T0WNE -DEALERS IN- 55-57-5^-61 First Street, S. F. TKLMPHOUl MAIN'IW Showing exact position or every horse, including i the favorite, which was either first, second third or fourth at each quarter pole, also positions at start. Events reported from all parts of Canada and United States. Iasned the 1st and IGth of every mooth, from April 15th to Ootober 15th. Price 60c, 75c. or SI, according to Issue. For sale at all principal hotels, news stands and race tracks in the country, and publishers' office. GOODWIN BR08H 1440 Broadway, N. Y. TJV3R SALE— COCKER SPANIEL PUPPIES -T by Ch. Hampton Goldie. Apply at junction old county and Redwood roads, Fruftvale, Alameda IRISH AND SCOTCH TERRIERS. TRISH AND SCOTCH TERRIER PUPPIES J- at SIS and $15 Sired by Champion Loyne Ruffian and Champion Fighting Mac. Mks. BRADLEY-DYNE. Saturna P. O B.C. •_ COLLIES. pOLLIE PUPS FOR SALE— BY PRIZE *-' winning Imported sires and dams, fit for bench, ranch or farm Both sexes. Prices accord- ing to quality. Correspondence solicited: all let- ters cheerfully answered. TDOS. S.GRIFFITH. Box 1907. Spokane, Wash BREEDERS' DIRECTORY. HOLSTEINS— Winners of every 7 days* butter comesl at State Fair 1899 1st & 2d for aged cows, 4-yr 3-yr. and 2-yr.-©lds; 81 Jerseys and Durham* competing. 5th year my Holstelos have beaten Jerseys Tor butter. Stock tor sale; also pigs. F. H. Burke. 30 Montgomery St.. S. F. JERSEYS, HOLSTEINS AND DCRHAM8. Dairy Stock specially. Hogs, Poultry. Estab- lished 1878. William Nlles & Co., Los Angelea, OIL AYRSHIRE8 — Young Bulla. Cowl and Heifers. Registered. From prlie winning familial. Brown * Brandon Patalnma Cal. Kite <§veeiiev croh gftrmrtsman [October 31, 1903 ^/TWPSr BOOTS San Francisco, Cal. Cablegram to President Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, London, July 11,1 1903. American Rifles. AMMUNITION and Men won victory to=day over Great Britain, Canada, France, Norway, Australia and Natal, and bring back Palma trophy. (Signed) LIEUT. ALBERT S. JONES, (copied from the n. t. Herald.) Secretary of the National Rifle Association of America. THIS SWEEPING VICTORY for America and the Extraordinary Score of 1670 ont of a Possible 1800 were made with 30-40 Regular Factory Cartridges, Mannfac tared by the UNION METALLIC CARTRIDGE COMPANY Selected after Exhaustive Trials, by the American Team, in Preference to All Others for their Wonderful and Extreme Accuracy. SCORES ARE IMPROVED BY USING U. M. C. AMMUNITION THE UNION METALLIC CARTRIDGE COMPANY Pacific Coast Branch Depot l86-S8I%a£KsZ^&Z?™CISCO REPEATING SHOTGUNS AND AMMUNITION PACIFIC COAST AGENCY: 127-135 FIRST STREET. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. -:<». Black filly (1) by Chas. Derby 2:20 ,. 10.. H. C. SANDERS, ESQ, PLEASANTON Darn's Family. Birdie McClain by Adirondack, grandam by Ore- gon Pathfinder. Mamie H by California Black Hawk, grandam bv Poscora Hayward, etc. Missie Medium by Rampart (son of Almont 33), grandam Belle Medium (Dam of StamB. 2:!1M). by Happy Medium, great grandam Argenta by Almont Lightning, etc. May (dam of Bay Rum 2:25) by Anteeo 2:16H: grandam by Captain Webster 13173 Babe Marion 2:1T:- bv Steinway 2:25;_i, grandam Ida Wood (dam of Owyhee 2:11) by Simmons 2:28. etc. Nannie Smith (sister to Phil Thompson 2:1b, etc.) by Red Wilkes: grandam Gray Nellie by John Dillard, etc. Stemwindei 2:31 (dam of Directum 2:05M. etc.) by Venture 2:27ft; grandam Kate by St Lawrence. Mamie H. by California Black Hawk, grandam by Poscora Havward. Lurline (sister to W. W. Foote 2:15*4, Algregor 2:11) bv Steinway; grandam Maggie McGregor bv Robt. McGregori:17U(sireofCresceusl:593i.) Mamie H. by California Black Hawk, grandam by Poscora Hayward Anteera bv Anteeo 2:16M: grandam Debonair by Sultan; "great grandam Ferguson mare by Williamson's Belmont. Diana by Diablo 2:09M: grandam Belle Robbins (dam 6f Pleasanton 2:29^ ) by Tarrascon, etc. Ines (dam of Alamo 2:29};, Our Jack 2:l3-±) by Sweepstakes: grandam Dolly Bull (dam of Inez 2:22'A) by Kentucky Bertrand. Belle Robbins (dam of Pleasanton 2:29?,;) by Tarrascon: grandam Black Bessie by Blucher dam by Guy Wilkes (pedigree will be published in catalogue.) Direct filly by Direct 2:05^; grandam by Hewlett s Echo, son of Echo. CONSIGNED By P. J. WILLIAMS, MILPITAS. CAX. Ogden (half brother to Monterey 2:09Ji), b c by I Hattie (dam of Monterey 2;09M and Montana Egyptian Prince 2:I6M) by Com. Belmont, grandam Barona by I Woodford Mambrino etc Chestnut filly (1) by Monterey 2:09M LoLo (sister to Leap Year 2:26 and Iago2:ll) by Tempest, grandam Eulogy by Commodore Bel Rey Directon (1) by Rey Direct 2 ).. J Bay filly (3) by Chas. Derby" 88 Reina Direotum (1) by I*tv Direct Black filly (1) by RerDir-O^ 2:10.... Rey McGregor (1) by "j^y Direct 2:10 Black filly (1) by Rey Direct 2:10 Black filly (C by Rey Direct 2:10. Black filly ,i) by Rey Direct 2:10. Bay c . (3) by Owyhee 2:11 Bay mare (6) by Diablo 2:09^ . Bay filly (1) by Hart Boswell. Black filly (1) by Chas. Derby . CONSIGNED BT THOS. Chestnut gelding (4) by Geo. Washington 2:15 Trilby 2:21?^ by Mambrino Chief, Jr mont, etc. SMITH, VALLEJO, CAL. Bay gelding (pacer) by Linwood by Nutwood 2:18?i . Chestnut gelding by Diablo 2:09^ Venus (see catalogue.) Fanny McGill by Bell Allen, he by Vick's Ethan Allen: grandam Jennie Lind. By Como. grandam by Battledore. Sweet Rosie (see catalogue ) CONSIGNED BT Belle (5) by Abbotsford Jr L. M, LASELL, MARTINEZ, CAL. Direct Steinwav (2) by Direct Fils, son of Direct 2:0s1 S Clarion (7) by Dexter Prince May B. by Sidmore 2:19.. May by Romeo 2:26; grandam Belle Caprice by Steinway 2:25&; g g d Bonnie Caprice by Ethan Allen Jr . to 7th dam by Eastern's David Hill. Belle Caprice bv Steinway 2:2o?£: grandam Bon- nie Caprice by Ethan Allen Jr. Clarion &35g bv Ansel 2:20; grandam Consolation (damofS) by Dictator; ggd Belle by Norman Dingley Dill by Gibraltar 2:22: grandam by Nut- wood &183£. CONSIGNED BT C. ARCHER, LINDEN, CAL. Edith 2:10 (in foal to Searchlight 2:03^) by Dex- | ter Prince Parse (dam of Reno Prince 2:25 (trial 2:14). Edith I 2:10) by Hamilton Chief; grandam Dolly by IBelsbazzar. Edith 2:10 by Dexter Prince, etc. Edith McKinley (2) by McKinley, son of McRin- 1 ney 2:11,4 | Edith 2:10 by Dexter Prince, etc. CONSIGNED BT OTHER OWNERS. Monaco 2:15 by McKinney 2:1 114 | Bv Director 2:17: grandam by Hawthorne: ggd ! Rvan mare (dam of 4) by Black Hawk. Mojave 2:15^ by Dexter Prince Bv Reliance. Chestnut colt (S) by Silver Bow 2:16 Yenturess by Arthurton; grandam Lady Yenture 1 by Williamson's Belmont, etc and many others. I will also sell 7 handsome Shetland Ponies, consigned by Geo. A. Davis, Pleasanton Every animal is well broken and will be led by the side of a saddle horse. Particular attention is called to the breeding of these horses. Their individuality stamps them as the best looking, best limbed and best developed trotters and pacers ever led into a salesring. Catalogues will be issued at once. Horses at salesyard November 14th. WM. G, LAYNG, Live Stock Auctioneer, 246 Third St„ San Francisco f PALACE HOTEL, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA. TOURISTS and TRAVELERS will, now, with difficulty recognize the famous COURT into which for twenty-five years carriages have driven. This space of over a quarter of an acre has recently, by the addition of very handsome furniture, rugs, chandeliers and tropical plants, been converted into a lounging room— the FINEST IN THE WORLD. The EMPIRE PARLOR-the PALM ROOM, furnished in Cerise, with Billiard and Pool tables for the ladies— the LOUIS XY PARLOR the LADIES WRITING ROOM and numerous other modern improvements, together with the unexcelled Cuisine and the Most Convenient Location in the City— all add much to the ever increasing popularity of this most famous HOTEL. Lou Dillon Beats All Trotting Records Driven by MILLARD SANDERS she makes a mile in one minute, fifty-eight and one- half seconds at Memphis, Term., Oct. 24, 1903, AZM-Sl sdSSU f^>£S£. '/Jsty^iL S9VU- ^^ - '/fa^^tfyafy // Xfamj ^h^/f ^/Zt^<- ^X^^-tSZ^C !$&i *\ Sept. 7, at the Fasig-Tipton sale at Sbeepshead Bay, a yearling by Esher-Excellenra was beiog sold by Mr. William Eastou. and when the animal was led Into the ring he said: "This horse has been suffering from a bog spavin, of which practically no trace remains. He was treated with that remedy called "Save-the-Horse." which all of you know, and It did save the horse — that is it cured him. Now, you know lots of great horses, Morello and others, were successfully raced, and there Is no reason to expect tbat this colt will ever take a lame step.'1 The bidding opened then at 8250, and the colt was sold for $800 to Mr. J- D. Smith. Private Stables Jas. Galway, Race Track, Saratoga, N. Y. I got a bottle of "Save-the-Horse" first of Moseman & Bro. of New York, and used same on ring- bone, curing It entirely. I next used "Save-the-Horse" on two splints and cured them. Have also used it on a strained Pastern Joint, which made horse very lame; it cured this also- I predict a great output of "Save-the-Horse ." It has never failed to cure any case I used it on.— EDWARD FEAKS, Trainer for Jas. Galwaj of 312 W. 56th st., New York, owner of Meltonian. It is the truths that ring out sound and clear and Impressive — actual results like the above from men whose standing and reliability can be readily ascertained— which have made "Save the-Horse" such a success. 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It "mproves and keeps lock In the pink of condition. Haahattaa Food Co 1 253 Folsom St., Sari Francisco Ask your grocers or dealers for it. Positively Cures Colic, Scouring and Indigestion. C. F. KZETELL, Manager November 7, 1903] ®he gveeitev ani> gtpxrrtemcm 3 THE WEEKLY BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN P. "W. KELLEY, Proprietor. Turf and Sporting Authority ot the Pacific Coast. — OFFICE— 36 QEARY STREET, SAN FRANCISCO. P. O. BOX 2300. Telephone: Black 586. *rm8— One Year 83, Six Months 81.75, Three Months 81 STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. Money snould be sent by postal order, draft or by registered letter Addressed to F. W. Kkt.t.ky, 38 Geary St., San Francisco. Cal. Communications must be accompanied by the writer's name and address, not necessarily lor publication, but as a private guarantee at good faith. San Francisco, Saturday, November 7, 1903. THE OPPORTUNITY you have been looking for will be offered at the Occidental Horse Exchange on Tuesday evening, November 17th. At that time and place the well-known live stock auctioneer. Wm. G. Layng, will offer to the highest bidders consign- ments of trotting bred stallions, mares, colts and fillies from various owners, that will give buyers a chance to sucure at their own figures some of the best bred horses ever led into a salesring in the United States, as well as some of the best individuals and greatest prospects. There is a yearling filly by Rey Direct 2:10 out of Stemwinder, dam of the great Di- rectum 2:05£ by Venture; a brown gelding two years oid by Diablo out of Missie Medium by Rampart, grandam Belle Medium, dam of the great trotter and sire Stam B. 2:111; a bay colt, two years old by Owy- hee 2,11, dam Inex, dam o) Our Jack 2:13J and Alamo 2:291 by Sweepstakes; a handsome bay stallion by Egyptian Prince out of Hattie, the dam of Monterey 2:091 and Montana 2:16; the mare Trilby 2:21 J, a fast trotter that can beat her mark and would make a splendid broodmare; a mare by Dexter Prince out of a mare by Ansel, next dam by Dictator — no better breeding than this; Edith 2:10 by Dexter Prince, in foal to Searchlight 2:031; two fillies out of Edith, one by Guy McKinney, the other by McKinley, both sons of the great McKinney 2:]1J; the mare Monaco 2:15 by McKinney, dam by Director, grandam by Hawthorne, great grandam the Ryan Mare that has three stan- dard performers and two producing sons and was by Black Hawk 767. As will be seen by a new advertise- ment on page 11 of this issue, four two-year-old stal- lions by McKinney have been consigned to this sale by Mr. J. H. Gray of Santa Rosa. One is out of Car- lotta Wilkes, dam of 2 by Charley Wilkes; another is out of Biscara, dam of 5, by Director, second dam Bicara, dam of 7, by Harold, and is probably the best bred McKinney ever foaled: another is out of By By, the sister to Lockheart 2:08} by Nutwood, and the fourth is out of Eussie Russell by Bay Rose 2:20}, second dam Oakley Russell by Happy Russell. These colts have been worked at the Santa Rosa track and have trotted quarters from 32J to 38 seconds — not one but has shown speed of a high order. They are sound and all right every way, but as their owner is called East he must sell them. Remember that there will be no more McKinney stallions in California unlesy owners send their mares back to Indiana to breed to that horse, or go East to the sales. Mr. Layng is get- ting out a complete and accurate catalogue of the horses to be sold at this great sale and will mail them free upon application. Don't forget the date of this Red Ribbon sale — Tuesday, November 17th, in the evening at the Occidental Horse Exchange. THE PACIFIC BREEDERS FUTURITY has proved the most popular stake ever inaugurated in California and the Pacific Coast Trotting Horse Breeders Association IB to be congratulated on the magnificent showing made by stake No. 4 which closed on Monday last and is for the prod uce of mares bred this year. Over four hundred mares have been nominated by about two hundred and fifty owners and no stock farm has made over ten entries, show- ing that the small breeders are learning that it is a good business proposition to have their colts entered in stakes. Next year the three year olds in stake No. 1 will contest for the money, and it promises to fur- nish two high-class contests. In the trotting division the prediction has been already made that the record of the three year olds made in the Occident Stake will be beaten, while the field of three year old pacers that will start for the word will surely be large and high-class. Stake No. 4 has not only received a larger list of nominations than any previous stake, but the mareB named are better bred and have been mated with better stallions on the average than ever before. As usual in all stakes there were several parties who neglected to enter until the day after closing, and a number of theBe have already filed applications for nominations in case any of the mares that are entered Bhould die or fail to produce a foal. The entry list to this stake is proof conclusive that the breeding of harness horses has increased on this coast and that more interest is taken in racing colts than ever before The inauguration of this stake was an experiment entered upon at a time when there were doubts in some quarters as to its success. The results show that the Pacific Coast Trotting Horse Breeders Asso- ciation has had the support of the breeders of the entire coast since the stake was inaugurated, and the endorsement is made stronger than ever this year. ATTENTION is called to the events to close Mon- **■ day, November lfith, for stakes to be decided in 1904, 1905 and 11106 on the course of the Coney Island Jockey Club at Sheepshead Bay. They comprise some of the richest stakes ever run for in America. Keep the date in mind and 6end to this office for entry blanks. EVERYTHING BUT THE COW and the feed that ^— ' is necessaay for converting grass to butter is for for sale by G. G. Wickson & Co , 34-36 Main Btreet, San Francisco. See the illustrated advertisement in this issue of the Breeder and Sportsman. COUR HUNDRED MORE ENTRIES than were * ever received before for their winter stakes is the record of the stake entry list of the New Cali- fornia Jockey Club. The racing season will open Saturday next, November 14th, and there are. more horses ready to race and at the track than were ever in California before. The season's racing will be the greatest ever held by the popular organization of which Mr. Thos. H. Williams is the president. That gentleman spent some time in the last year in the interest of Pacific Coast racing and succeeded in in- ducing many of the leading Eastern racing men to csme to San FranciBco with their strings who have never raced on the Coast before. Presiding Judge Edward C. Hopper and Col. William Letcher, the new official handicapper will reach here Friday of next week. Starter Richard Dwyer is already here. Harness Horses Breeding in Arizona. Stock breeders in the vicinity of Phoenix, Arizona, are taking an interest in the breeding of trotters and promise is made that in the future a number of good campaigners will be sent down the grand circuit. The breeding of horses works in very handily with that of cattle, as the cows have to be kept up all the time. Once allowed to run down they do not come in milk again and this necessitates a lot of green feed, which leaves a lot of short feed that would go to waste ordinarily, but which comes in very handy for horses which are turned out. All the farmers in the valley in which Phoenix is located have to depend on irrigation for farming pur- poses, a6 the climate is not only warm all the year round, but is devoid of rain as well, so that horses DIRECTUM 2:05 1-4. Whose Get Have Made a Great Showing: This Year. More high class horses and a larger number of high priced jockies will be seen in the stake events than ever before. The New California Jockey Club is assured of the most popular and prosperous season of racing in the history of California. CALIFORNIA THOROUGHBREDS are to be sent to South Africa. It is exceedingly probable that William Easton, the well known horseman and auctioneer, will go to South Africa this fall with about two hundred young broodmares belonging to Jai. B. Haggin, of the great Rancho del Paso and Elmecdorf Studs. These will be of the best blood in this country, and will be sold to race, and to breed from, believing there is to be an important opening in that country for high class American stock. The project has been under consideration for some months, and, if carried to completion, can scarcely fail of satisfactory success. Mr. Easton is the one man likely to make it so, his acquaintance with prominent horsemen being world wide, and personality and technical knowledge not to be discounted. Good Ones For Sale. P. H. McEvoy of Menlo Park, is offering for sale three standard bred trotting stallions by Prince Airlie, one of the handsomest sons of Guy Wilkes. They are three of the most promising young repre- sentatives in the State of the great Wilkes family and have recently been sent to the San Jose track where with less than two weeks training, thoy are showing miles better than 2:30. Particulars as to their breeding, etc. can be seen by reference to Mr. McEvoy'a advertisement in this issue. can run out twelve months in the year and yet flourish amazingly. The breeders believe in this kind of climate horses can be raised equal to anything in Kentucky or California. Of the four horses sent out of the state to race all have taken records, tivo right around 2:15, another of 2:17 and a fraction and while the fourth has a slower record he has recently been sold for a long price, as it is expected he can step close to 2:10 another year. J. C. Adams of Phoenix is the leading breeder just at present, and his stable, while small, is select. He has eleven brood mares which have produced stand- ard performers, and his twenty-five head are all standard and registered. In California he purchased a number from the Pierce estate, and has a weanling colt he thinks will develop into a first-class stallion to head his farm. This youngster is out of Sister by McKinney, while the second dam is Alien, la half- sister to Lou Dillon, being out of Lou Milton. Mr. Adams also owns the dam of the wonderful California trotter, Sweet Marie. A four year old filly bv Sky- pointer stepped a quarter as a two year old in 31 seconds, and will be raced next year. A recent pur- chase of bis is the bay stallion Boydello 2 : 1 4 -J by Boy Dell, ason of Electioneer and Sontag Dixiefdamof Del Mar 2:16J) by Toronto Sontag, dam Florence C. 2:30 by Durango Chief, socond dam Grace P. by Prince Dictator. This horse obtained his record at PeDria. 111., in 1897. He has some wonderfully well finished colts, although standing in that country, none of his get have yet had an opportunity to demonstrate their value on the track. Next season Mr. Adams e to campaign a stable down the grand circuit.— s Express. ®he gveeiiev anif gt^wrtsmcm [NOVEMBER 7, 1903 JOTTINGS. M HOLLISTER, the county seat of San Benito county, has one of the best mile tracks in California. This may seem surprising to horsemen who have never visited the place, and it certainly was to me when I rode around it on Tuesday of last week in company with Mr. R. P. Lathrop. one of the ener- getic and leading business men of that thriving com- munity. It was my first visit to Hollister, and I con- fess that I did not expect to see suoh a business-like, prosperous and well-kept town. ItB population is about 2500 and there are more clean, well-sprinkled streets, more miles of first-class cement sidewalks, more beautiful shade trees and a better and larger water supply than can be found in any town of the same size on the Pacific Coast. Every street in the town limits is sprinkled daily during the summer mooths, wagons running both night and day. The residence section contains many handsome modern dwellings with clean and pretty lawns, and there seemed to be an air of thrift all over the place. The principal product of San Benito county is hay, and Hollister hay is known from California to New York. A very large proportion of the trotters and pacers campaigned on the Grand Circuit, as well as a large number of thoroughbreds that compete for the money on the big Eastern tracks, eat Hollister hay during the entire racing season. Nearly all the hay shipped out of San Benito county is handled by the Lathrop Hay Company, of which Mr. R. P. Lathrop is the manager. In the company's three big ware- houses there is now stored 13,500 tons of hay, and from now until the next crop comes on ten carloads a day will be shipped from these warehouses. Thirty thousand tons of hay are shipped by this company every year. The mile track of the San Benito County Agricul- tural Society, as I said before, is one of the best in the State. It is situated on a perfectly level piece of ground, and is sixty feet wide all round and is an easy track kept in order during the summer months, being made on adobe soil. It is well appointed, having about sixty good box stalls, a grand Btand that will seat at least a thousand people and all the other buildings necessary to conduct a fair and race meeting. The San Benito Agricultural Association gave no fair this year, as there was no State appropriation to pay premiums on exhibits; but they gave a race meeting and not only paid out a goodly sum in purses but made a seat profit after every bill and pnrse and other expense was paid. Hollister track should be one of the very best places in the State to train trotters and pacers and it is more than likely that next spring will see a greater number of harneBS horses in training there than ever before, as the interest in trotters and pacers is increas- ing "very day. Trainer Jos. Sanchez haa quite a string of horses there at the present time, snap shots of a few of which are on the front page of the Breeder and Sportsman to-day. The stallion Dictatus Medium 32,499 owned by Mr. R. P. Lathrop heads the list. He Is kept for stud purposes and is one of the grandest looking stallions for a stock horse that I have seen for sometime. He is by Dictatus 2:17, than whom no better bred ot faster horse was ever brought to California. The dam of Dictatus Medium is the mare Belle Medium, dam of Stam B. 2:11}, by Happy Medium. I doubt if any mare in California can show three better looking sons by three different sires than her sons Stam B. by Stam- boul, Dictatus Medium by Dictatus and Suomi by Zombro. Dictatus Medium was a very fast horse. He is a pacer and could pace in 2:10, but met with an accident which injured his hip and he shows a slight lameness when driven at top speed . He is a beautiful bay with the most magnificent mane and a flowing tail that touches the ground. No better dispositioned horse ever lived and that he is destined to be a very high-class sire is manifested by the crop of yearling and weanling colts that are owned in the vicinity of Hollister. The yearling Little Medium, a bay by Dictatus Medium, dam Little One 2:30 by Benton Boy, is among those pictured on the front page of this issue. He is owned and was bred by Mr. Al G. Wilson of Hollister, and paced an exhibition quarter of a mile at the Hollister meeting last October in 38', seconds. Heis a great prospect and Mr. Wilson has refused several good offers for him. breeders of San Benito county. He is the property of Mr. Lathrop. Monbello, a two year old son of Monbells, is a very handsome colt and was bred at the famous Palo Alto Farm. Heis owned by Mr. W. Ladd, of Hollister, who purchased him at the Palo Alto sale in this city last January. His sire is the last of the Beautiful Bells family and is by Mendocino. His dam is the great broodmare Laura C. by Electioneer, second dam the thoroughbred mare Fannie Lewis by imp. Buekden. He should make a great stock horse, as he has two crosses of the great Electioneer, and his sire is a son of Beautiful Bells. 2:09, is the inventor of these leg guards, and it was at his request that they were sent here by the firm mentioned. They have been sent at Mr. Price's re- quest to the well known trainer, Fred Chadbourne of Pleasanton who will give them a trial. They Bhould be the very thing to prevent hopples from chafing a horse and the Pleasanton trainers will have an op- oprtuinty to see how they work. The gray mare Sister Patty is owned by Mr. Jere Driscoll of Watsonville. She has a record of 2:23, made at Hollister meeting after but two months work. She is much faster than this record shows, however, and Mr. Sanchez thinks she is a great prospect for the pacing classes next year. She is by Vasto. In a letter to an eastern paper Mr. Joseph Cairn Simpson writes that he is certain he has discovered the identity of Lou Dillon's grandam and that it is none other than the thoroughbred mare Lady Fair- neld by imported Bonnie Scotland, whose dam was Lady Lancaster by imported Monarch. Mr. Simpson states that Lady Fairfield was once owned by the late J. S. Kimball of this city and that it was said she met her death by being cast in a stall. Putting these facts with the statement of Mr. Green Thompson of Santa Rosa, (owner of Lou Milton from the time she was foaled until he sold her as a three year old to Mr. A. McFayden), that Fly the dam of Lou Milton was once owned by J. S. Kimball and that she died from being cast when tied to a fence thereby choking to death, Mr. Simpson concludes that Fly and Lady Fairfield are one aDd the same. It should he very easy to decile this question. Mr. Thompson has furnished a very close description of Fly. He says Bhe was a chestnut mare with a star in her forehead, and a strip in her face, widening out until it was broadest on the nose. He also states that one of her hind feet was white to the ankle Now as Lady Fair- field is registered in the American Stud Book her description should be among the records in the pos- session of The Jockey Club, at New York, the present owners of that publication. Io volume 3, on page 174 of that book, Lady Fairfield is registered as a bay mare foaled in 186S and bred by John Reber. She produced in 1S75 the bay colt St. Patrick by Jack Rowett, but her name does not appear in any succeed- ing volume of the 3tud book. In volume 1 Lady Lan- caster is registered on page 615, and her produce from 1861 to 1873 is given. Lady Fairfield is there again described as a bay filly by imported Bonnie Scotland. It is possible that Fly may have been a light bay, or that Lady Lancaster may have been a chestnut. We have seen two men disagree on the color of a horse when looking at it. But the markings of Fly as given by Mr. Thompson cannot be mistaken. She had a star in her forehead, a strip in her face running down to the nose where it broadened out. One of her hind feet was white. If the markings of the thoroughbreds registered when volumes 1 and 3 of the Stud Book were issued were required to be as definite as they are at the present time then the com- plete description of Lady Fairfield should be of record. If she had a star and snip and a hind foot white, there is ground for funher research as to her being the mare that produced the grandam of Lou Dillon. If her markings are not as Mr. Thompson describes there is nothing to the surmise that Lady Fairfield and Fly are one and the same mare. And right here I desire to express the hope that it may be proven that Lady Fairfield is really the grandam of the first two-minute trotter. It would, I think, be a matter of satisfaction to every admirer ot the great mare to know that her pedigree goes straight into the royal families instead of runnirg "into the woods " It will neither add to nor detract from her capabilities as a world beater, but it will show the way to breed more like her. However, there should be positive proof of any pedigree given aDd until there is such testimony furnished as would be accepted in a court of justice, the grandam of Lou Dillon will and should be recorded with the many great mares and horses of history whose breeding is untraced. Me8toe 31875, a black fellow by Sable Wilkes, is a stylish looking horse and his produce are all of good ~ize and solid color. He is well patronized by the On the last steamer from New Zealand there came to my addreBS from the firm of Trist & Small, of Christchurch, a set of leg guards, made to protect the limbs of a horse that wears hopples. These leg guards are made of tough kangaroo leather, and fit the legs like a legging being made to fit closely by means of elastic, and are held in place by straps that go over the shoulders and hips. Mr. D. J. Price, owner of the New Zealand champion Ribbonwood How Lou Dillon Trotted in 1:58 1 2. The following is from the pen of Marque, the well known writer for the Chicago Horse Review. It describes Lou Dillon's mile in 1:58} and is notable for the simple manner in which the facts are given with- out the "gush" and extravagant rhetoric that is indulged in by so many turf writers when recounting a great performance. It was written the same day the record was made and is as follows: Lou Dillon was to have tried against her record yesterday, but the day was cold and a high wind was blowing. All afternoon it was hoped that the wind would lull, but it did not, and the crowd accepted the announcement, made near evening, that a postpone- ment was necessary, graciously, even happily, for the love of the little mare is so great that every one felt relief when they heard that the task would not be asked of her under such adverse conditions. Millard Sanders brought her out and worked her a mile in 2:16}, with the last quarter in 0:30, and last eighth in 13} seconds, and then took her back to her box. To-day was another chilly day, with the wind blow- ing in gusts. At timeB it was very strong, and at others only breezy, but throughout the afternoon there was always more than is favorable for record- breaking. It was five o'clock when Millard brought her out for her try against 2:00. He had previously given her a mile in 2:12}, evenly rated, and he tells me that to-day was the third time she had been hitched to herracing sulkyBince 6hebroke the record at Readville. Since then she has been driven to wagon or to a Payne long shaft sulky, except when she was driven to high-wheeled sulky'at Cleveland. Hitched to any vehicle she i6 always the same marve- lous flying machine. Nothing seems to unbalance her, or disturb the poetry of her gait. She has now been up to concert pitch Bince she was shipped east from California in April to the Cleveland sale where she trotted a half mile in 1 :00|. Every task asked of her she has accomplished and this afternoon Bhe placed the world's record where she alone, of present day trotters, has any chaDCe to lower it. To see this fawn-like little mare is at once to love her. She is so dainty, so exquisite, 80 feminine. In her box she is a baby to be 1 urBed and kissed and petted: but on the track she is electricity clothed In flesh and blood — a delicately perfect Instrument keyed to tne uttermost pitch and limit. Once I Baw her in the blacksmith shop and during the process of shoeiDg she looked at me in a way which was almost uncanny. It made a chill pass over me, so wonderfully expres- sive were her hazel eyes. Others havemadethesame remark about her and Tommy Waugh has told me that sometimes she looks at him as if she wanted to speak. Nature's ways are mysteriously her own; and certainly nature Burpassed herself in creating this little chestnut mare Lou Dillon. "Doc" Tanner drove the leading pacemaker and in stead of a canvas strip beneath the cart, a wire screen was used — the same one that was used in her mile to wagon in 2:01 J at Lexington. This screen certainly plays no part as a wind break, as it allowB free pas- sage of the air, and its use proveB Mr. Tanner's state- ment that its purpose is solely to prevent the djrt from striking the mare in the face. She drew the same white Fabar Bulky which she pulled at Read- ville. Scott McCoy drove the side runner. Sanders gave Lou a very short score, and Bhe was away at once. Tanner started at least two open lengths ahead with his runner, and rounding the turn, Mil- lard kept out in second horse position and slightly outside of Tanner till after passing the quarter. The pace-maker throughout the mile was not followed as closely as by Dan Patch for several times the mare was all of 25 feet back of the runner, this being true of almost the entire third quarter, the fastest in the mile. All three drivers remained silent throughout, and Millard never touched Lou with the whip. The first quarter was in 30 seconds, the half in :59}, the three-quarters in 1:28} (middle half in :58}). Midway of the stretch Millard pulled her out from behind the runner and almost in the center of the track, and she finished in 1:5S} amid applause that was tremend- ous. The local people regard the mare as their own and they Eimply went wild when the time was bung out, few such demonstrations having ever been seen at a race track. There was no watch that I saw that caught the mile slower than 1 :5S}, and many had it a quarter of a second faster. The time by eighths was :I5}, :30, 44}. 59}, 1:28}, 1:431, 1:58}. The official timers were Budd Doble and John Dickereon, and Mr. F. G. Hartwell, of Chicago, and all three watches showed exactly the same time. Mr. Billings was a very proud and happy man after the mile, and said that it was one-half a second fastpr than be had expected under the circumstances. Mil- lard said that he went exactly in the notch he bad marked. He thinks she can trot in 1:57} under per- fect condit:onp, if permitted. A Well-Known Man's Experience. New York City, March 20, 1903. W. F. YouDg, Springfield. Dear Sir: — I have used your Absorbine for several years and have found it the best of anything I ever used for strained tendons and muscle soreness. Yours truly, W. J. ANDREWS. Absorbine ?2 per bottle, express prepaid. Address W. F. YOUNG, P. D. F., Springfield, Mass November 7, 1903] @4te $vee&ev tmfc» gpovtsmati S S)3N2> ^^<*^<£N3 £%>GB ^^^>^^^T^I>^^&^^^^<^S3^^4, 2:16, S-.l&H- Pacing, three year old class, purse 8300. Hallie Hinges, by Pricemont (Helman) 1 1 1 Economizer, by Chas. Derby (Smith) 3 2 9 Glenn Del, by Del Norte (Barrows) 2 4 Teddy, by Diablo (Hogoboom) 4 3 3 Time-2^3. 2:202i, 2:2P... Pacing, 2:1? class, purse $400. Vision, by Vanquish (Lindsey) 2 2 2 111 Harry Hurst, by Delwin (Green) 3 1 13 3 3 Portia Knight, by Vinmont (Helman) 13 3 2 2 2 Prince Tom, by Tom V (Webb) 4 4 5 5 dr Polka Dot. by Mendocino (Sanford) 5 5 4 4 dr Time— 2:16!;, 2:15}<, 2:16Vf, 2:18, 2:19; 2:24. Gentlemen's road race. MajorDel, by Del Norte (Dr. Nelms) 1 2 1 Johnny (Frank Ennis) 2 1 2 Homer (Archie Henderson) 3 3 3 Time— 2:42, 2:342;, 2.-33S4. Pacing, free for all, purse $500. Francisco, by Caution (Leroux) 1 1 Sam Bowers, by Hamb. Mambrtno Lance J 2 ds Zolock, by McKinney (Sanford) 3 ds Time— 2:14, 2:14. Trotting, 2:20 class, purse $400. Beladi, by Chehalis (Rutherford) 1 1 1 Idol, by Copper King (Helman) 2 2 2 St. Patrick (Hartnagel) 3 3 3 Time— 2:29, 2:24;;, 2:23. Half Bottle Cures Ringbone. 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You not only save money by purchasing a McMurray but get the most durable, best made, and easiest running cart or Bulky in the market. Investigation will con vince a Missourian. , Harris Hill, N. Y., Sept. 20, 1901. Dr. S. A. Tuttle. Dear Sir:— Please send me nine bottles of your Elixir and three bottles of your White Star Liniment for horses, by National Ex- press, Bowmaosville, Erie Co., N. Y. What I got last spring cured the mare with the bunch on the ankle in two weeks. Send C. O. D., and oblige. WALLACE WOODWARD. November 7, 1903] ®He gveeb&c em** gipavlsmaxx How Cresceus Trotted His Mile. to two and one-half feet of sand, underlaid with water -."last quai ter of his mile in 29 seconds' and let me tell It is the general opinion now that the mile in 1:59| made by Cresceus at Wichita, Kansas, was "on the square," and all the Eastern turf papers are giving him credit for same. Mr. P. E. McMullen, corre- spondent at Wichita of the Chicago Horse Reekie, sent an account of the great event to that journal, a portion of which is as follows: At 3:15 Mr. Ketcham mounted the sulky, and asked that he he given the word on the second scoring. Mike the Tramp, with Eddie Mitchell in the sulky, took the pole, and Cresceus kept well out towards the outside of the track, that he might miss the shs-rp turn at the eighth pole. The pair scored down once easily, and next time came down for the word. Cresceus was tugging at the lines, and he seemed fairly to fly as he tore down the stre'ch. Near the wire he broke, however, and not until nearly under it did he catch his stride again. Back they came, and the next trial was successful. Away they sped, as if on wings, Mike but a few inches in front of the horse who was racing for a lost crown and for a new record. At the eighth there was just a suspicion of a falter, which showed how anxious the grand, old monarch was and how fast he was going. Mr. Ketcham kept him well in hand, however, and the first quarter reached in exactly 30 seconds Never was there a grander sight to the lover of a trotter, than Cresceus with his silken mane flying in the breeze as he sped up the back stretch. Old Mike the Tramp seemed fairly to straighten himself out in his attempts to out-foot him, and it did not require a watch to tell that the mile was likely to be a record- breaker. A quarter of a second was gained in the second quarter, the half being reached in 0:59J, but in the third it was lost, this being the slow quarter of mile. The three-quarters was reached in 1:30 flat, and then the race for the wire began. Into the home stretch the pair whirled, and it seemed that they hardly touched the ground as they raced for the wire. The great stallion bent to his work, and seemed to understand that it was a case of now or never, for Mr. Ketcham had said that it was his last chance. All went well until the last hundred feet was reached, and the anxious watchers fairly held their breath as they realized that they were looking upon the most wonderful performance ever seen on a race track. Suddenly there was an exclamation of disappointment as the usually steady Cresceus "hobbled" and went into the air. Visions of fleeting seconds passed before the eyes of all, as they realized that the chances for a broken record were fading. But they did not know Cresceus, and they forgot the master hand that was guiding him. Two leaps, and that was all. Splendidly he caught himself, smoothly he was trotting again, and he forged ahead as if to catch the flying seconds which had got away from him while he was resting a bruised leg. Under the wire he sped going as squarely as ever a horse trotted, and when the timers hung out the blackboard on which was chalked 1:59}, the crowd present could hardly contain itself. Cheer after cheer rang out for the victory which had been won, and when Mr. Ketcham turned the matchless horse and he jogged back to the grand stand, both were given an ovation. Priendeofthe horse smothered him with caresses, and President Irwin, of the Southern Kansas Pair Association lifted Mr. Ketcham bodily from the sulky, after which he was borne triumphantly upon the Bhoulders of four or five stalwart men into the judges' stand. The judges were J. B. Chandler, G. S. Freeman and S. B. Amidon. It was a great victory on a great day, and none was more proud or had more reason to be than George H. Ketcham. Not once this year had he intimated that Cresceus would attempt to beat the mark set by Lou Dillon amd Major Delmar, and he had even cautioned his boys to say nothing with regard to it. When he was here two weeks before, he had said that if he oould get Cresceus back to Wichita as good as he was then, could have the track in good shape and weather that was propitious, there would be "something doing, " but that was as near as he came to making any predictions. "I had expected the old horse to beat his record," he said, "but had not anticipated a victory so com- plete." He said ho hardly thought that Cresceus lost or gaired by the break on the home stretch, but others, among them Starter A.C. Jordan, declared tkat they believed he lost at least three-quarters of a second. Though the Wichita track is comparatively un- known, it is the one over which Joe Patchen 2:01}, paced two of his fastest heats against John R. Gentry 2:00}. Of the track, Col. H. G. Toler, who bred and reraed John R. Gentry, and owned his sire, Ashland Wilkes 2:17^, and scores of other good ones, said : "It is surfaced with black loam, resting on two and quicksand, which gives it a spring, the same ask the old brush tracks that were built years ago atl great expense. It is the fastest track in the world,! especially for horses that are becoming a little aged J and sore. "John R. Gentry and Joe Patchen paced their greatl race on this track in 2:025 and 2:03J. Blue Sign pacedj ivou now about this quarter, and why I returned to Wichita for the record. Owing to the condition of the track that day, on account of mud, it was im- possible to drive a fast mile, but on the outside of the last quarter the footing was fairly good, and I 'announced that I would go slowly to the three- quarters, and then see how fast he could step the his first mile in 2:10 on this track, and Gentry beat Jlast quarter. A flagman was sent to the third quar- the world's record for three year olds on it, and made^ter, so as to get the proper time, and when the pace- anew record of 2:14J." , maker, who had the pole and was leading Cresceus Among the turf writers who rather scoffed at the idea of Cresceus trotting a mile in less than two min- utes was Palmer Clark of the Chicago Inter-Ocean, and M-. Ketcham wrote him the following character- istic letter in reply thereto: Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 28, 1903. Mr. Palmer L. Clark— J/i/ Dear Sir: In your article in the Sunday paperin regard to the perform- ance of Cresceus at Wichita when he reduced his record to 1:59^, I am surprised to find from one who is usually so well posted several misstatements. " In the first place I have no means of knowing the exact length of the Wichita track, but it has been raced over for years and never was a record made over it questioned before, but I am assured by the officials and also by the engineer who remeasured it some time ago that it is sligatly over a mile. All I know i3 that the track is there, and can be measured at any time. by at least thirty feet, came to that point, the flag was dropped and he was handicapped just that much. The time was announced as 29 seconds, but fortun- ately for me I timed that quarter as it should have been at d it was in 28} seconds, as I announced after the exhibition. This was proof to me that Cresceus was fit for his life, and I made a contract then to return and. drive for the record, and I announced at that time that if the track was in good order Cres- ceus would step a mile in two minutes. I have every reason to believe that he has done so. "The conditions that day were perfect and the Wichita track at that time was the fastest piece of work I ever saw. Cresceus has trotted all of his miles without an excuse book being necessary. If Icouldn't drive a trotter to a record without having a lot of excuses to offer every time I tried, I would try some other game. "I notice what you say about my ability as a con- ;,As to the timers, they are all strangers to me, and ditioner and driver, and I believe that is about the I do not know as to their ability, but they all look like honest men, and I would be inclined to take their decision as I would that of the timers I have seen through the grand circuit. I did not time the mile myself, but caught the first eighth in fourteen and one-half seconds, and then was busy till I got to the three-quarter pole, and my watch registered there 1:30. Prom there home I was too busy to give any further thought to the time. I am inclined to believe the timers were correct, as the two times I caught agreed perfectly with what they announced, and I think it would be no more than common courtesy to believe the gentlemen are right until they are proven otherwise. "The length of the track was first questioned at Memphis by Dick Benson, and he knows do more what he is talking about than the man in the moon. I have been racing my horses for twenty yoars, and driving them for sixteen, and I believe I am suf- ficiently calloused to withstand public criticism, but at the same time I like to be right, and I believe I am in this matter, and if I am you and your fellow horse writers have done wrong in questioning my honesty. If at any time I have done wrong I am willing to take censure. "Now let me tell you about the misstatements you have made. In the first place, you take me to task lor not taking the public into my confidence and telling them all what I was going to do with my horse, and further on you say, 'AH honor to Dan Patch 1:56}, and his driver, Myron McHenry, who was game enough to keep quiet unt!l the opportunity was favorable,' etc., Now, that was my case exactly. I had an object in view, and I have been trying to accomplish it for the last two years, and 1 see no reason why I had to go around the country telling the pubiic what I wanted to do. I had my horse in condition last year to do it, but I never had a favor- able day, and I doubted it possible, after the heavy work Cresceus did this spriDg, to get him in shape for, a record mile, but all conditions were perfect at Wichita, and he did the trick. i "You say Cresceus has not been at his best for two years. How do you co.'.sole that with the fact that last year he trotted the fastest heat of the year under very adverse weather and track conditions, and also reduced the two-mile record from 4:28} to 4:17? If he could do this when he was not in good condition, what would he do when he was fit? "You say that at Galesburg he was all out and dead tired in 2:08*. Were you there to see that mile, and how do you know about it? Before I drove him that mile I announced that, owing to the condition of the track being extremely hard and not to his liking, it would be impossible for him to trot a fast mile, and I made no unusual effort to do so. If my memory serves me rightly, the mile was in 2:05}, instead of as you state. He finished the mile like a runniDg horse, and showed to me that he was coming to his old form. "You further say that only two weeks ago, over a track at Cedar Rapids that was especially prepared for him, he could only trot 2:14}. That's another misstatement. It rained for five days previous to the twenty-four hours of that exhibition, that it was positively dangerous to drive over it at all, and no attempt was made for a fast mile. You forget, in making this statement, that the week before at Wichita, over the track deep in mud, he finished the first time that I have ever received that praise, but I have always contended that unless a man is a natural born idiot he cannot give the best part of twenty years to any one object without acquiring a certain amount of skill, and I don't believe it is possible to devote eight years to training one horse without knowing what is the best thing to do to develop the speed of that individual horse, and I also believe that I can do that job better than any writers of horse literature can tell about, and I believe that you agree with me in this statement. As for being a good press agent thanks. If I can get the better of you tough horse writers at the game, I must be a good one. You will at least bear me out in the statement that I have always furnished you with new material. Now, kindly use your usual charity and correct any mistake that you may have made, and I hope to have the pleasure of seeing you next week to tell you about it. "George H. Ketcham." Says a Los Angeles paper: Arrangements are being made by the Los Angeles Driving Club for its open- ing matinee of the season of 1903-04, which will be given at Agricultural Park Thanksgiving Day. It is intended to make this event excel in point of high- class racing, the number of speedy horses entered, and the character of the races, anything ever before attempted by the club. These matinees are for the harness men and have done much to create interest n this class of sport here. There is never any wager- ng on results, but the horses are sent on their merits and driven by their owners. No admission is charged to the grounds or grandstand, the only reservations being the boxes, which are held for the members of the club. As several of the members have purchased new horses since the closing matinee of last year, of a speedier class than has been seen heretofore at the matinees, fine sport is promised enthusiasts of harness events. The driving club is composed of business and and professional men, capitalists and others who take an interest in the thoroughbred and speedy animal, and who are in the sport merely for the enjoyment there is in it for themselves and others. h|orse Owners Look to your interests and use the safest, speediest and most positive cure for ailments of your horses, for which an ex- ternal remedy can be used, viz; GOMBAILT'S CAUSTIC BALSAM bv J. E- (iombault, ex- arv Surgeon t-. the French Government . Stud. I SUPERSEDES ALL C ALTER Y OR FIRING. Tmpostiblt to product any tear or blemish. The safest best till- tor ever U ■••■ J. TnLe> the place of all llm- action. 0 Horses Brerr hotl Caustic lli.Ham »o1d la Warrant) ■ »1.60 ut by «- for Its ■ TEE LA WREKCE- WILLIAMS COMPART, Chrtlua, Ohio ithe $vee&ev anb gtjKrt*efmatt [NOVEMBER 7, 1S03 ROD, GUN AND KENNEL. Conducted by J. X. De WITT. The Wilson Snipe. [Continued from last week.] The regular or legitimate flight of the snipe is something quite familiar to the marsh shooter. The bird always starts up wind, always zig zags rapidly for a few yards Defore settling to its flight, and usually accompanies its start with two or three of its sharp notes of "scaipe, 'a note which is repeated oftener when the bird is wilder but which degenerates into a faint squeak when the bird is fat, well fed and contented with its sun bath. When the jack snipe is very fat it will start without making any sound at all, and one will often see this bird, with the wisdom of the ruffed grouse, wait until the shooter has passed and then undertake to slip away behind him in abso- lute silence. Upon the best feeding grounds of the winter range of the jack snipe in the neighborhood of the Gulf coast, these birds, feeding on abundant food and in the warm sun become very approachable and defenceless and very large bags of them are frequent. The writer once witnessed the operations for several days of a few market shooters near Galveston. It was rarely that these men would bring in less than fifty birds a day to the gun, and very often a single gun would kill one hundred jack snipe. The shoot- ing was done nearly altogether in the warmer hours of the day, between eleven and three o'clock, and such was the abundance of the game that one might shoot almost continuously if he cared to do so. This work was at short raDge and on birds which rose close to the gun — quite a different matter from the same thing on the northern marshes when the birds are scattered, wild and much pursued. These southern market shooters commonly used Spaniels to retrieve their birds, and such was the labor exacted of theBe dogs, that they would rarely keep at their work for more than a couple of hours. No attempt was ever made to employ a pointing dog, for the birds were too abundant to render it necessary. The shooters used No. 10 and sometimes even No. 12 shot, a fact which will show well enough the difference between southern and northern shooting on the same bird, for No. 9 or No. 8 will ordinarily be found very much better in the north. One of the difficulties of shooting jack snipe without a dog is that of finding one's birds, and it is easy for the expert to tell whether a shooter is or is not of experience at jack snipe hunting. The old timer will have no difficulty in marking down his birds, for as quickly as a bird is knocked down he lines it up with some object on the far horizon and locates more definitely in his eye the particular weed, or tussock or bit of mud near which he saw it drop. If one does not mark his bird thus exactly he will surely have difficulty in finding it, for the colors of the jack snipe's plumage blend so exactly with the vegetation near which it is found that it takes the keenest eye to detect it. A wingtipped bird which makes about is more apt to be found than one killed stone dead. Many a time the hunter will stand with the dead bird actually between his feel and yet be looking about in the endeavor to locate his game. The market shooters, punters and pushers of both the coast marshes and the great interior marshes become very expert in thus marking a dead bird. Probably the greatest regions for jack snipe shoot- ing in the United States are the sea marshes of southern Texas and Louisiana, the similar marshes of the Currituck country of North Carolina, and some of the wilder interior marshes of the Mississippi valley. Before the draining of the Kankakee river marshes the State of Indiana furnished perhaps as fine shooting on jack snipe as could be found any- where, but the glory of these grounds has now largely departed. Again, such marshes as the Horicon, the Butte des Morts, and others of the Wisconsin breed- ing grounds have offered magnificent sport at jack snipe. The writer has seen great numbers of these birds on September 1st on the Horicon marsh of Wis- consin, and there is no doubt that most of these birds were local birds, bred on the marsh. These found abundant food in the little black bugs scattered about in the great marsh, which bogs were to be reached only by boat. At one time a shooter stood in plain view in his boat at the edge of such a little bog not more than one hundred feet long, and in the course of a couple of hours killed sixty-five jack snipe. Again the writer bagged thirty of these birds one afternoon upon a dry meadow near the edge of the great marsh. At times the jack snipe, although typically a bird of the marsh, will escape from the wet country awhile, especially if it be pursued steadily, and will resort to dry knolls, open fields or even to the timber. Where much pursued they will regularly leave the marsh for a part of the day, and it is known that at times they resort to edges of the dry and grassy knolls in the mid-day hours. Sometimes they may be put up in dry corn fields, and indeed it is often upon the corn fields that the first shooting is found in the spring in the middle west, although frequently they appear at an earlier date in the black and boggy meadows cut up for feeding cattle, where there a"re numerous tussocks. The writer has known a nice bag of snipe to be made in the barnyard of a Wiscon- sin farm where the birds had discovered abundant worms on the edges of a manure pile. The shooter sat on a fence and had a busy and certainly singular hour of sport How the birds came to resort to that uncommon neighborhood is something r.pparently to be accounted for in the vagaries of the jack snipe's brain — which latter, we may remember, is tilted back so that its base is forward, e° is the case also with its baBe is forward, as is the case also with its cousin the woodcock. Perhaps this is why either bird is eo eccentric of habit. The great breeding grounds of jack snipe are up under the Arctic circle, far beyond the investigation of most sportsmen. Thence to the Bouth across Mani- toba and others of the British provinces, the nesting grounds extend even so far to the south as Indiana or Illinois. Yet although these birds are well known to breed at the latitude of 42 degrees, it is very rarely that the nest of jack snipe has ever been discovered by a western shooter. One veteran snipe hunter who has for years followed his favorite sport of jack snipe shooting in the Kankakee marsheB reports that he never found but one nest of jack snipe in all his life. The nest waB located on May 25, and it is only just to this shooter to say that immediately he put up his gun for that spring at least. It might be very much better for our sport did we all have sufficient forbearance to put up our guns at the end of the fall shooting season, and not to take them out for jack snipe in the spring. If there were no spring shooting in any part of the United States we should be astonished to see the rapidity with which the birds would return to such of their haunts as now remain open to them. Against this unanswer- able argument there exists only the selfishness of the unthinking class of shooters. The common argument is that these birds appear only in the spring time, and do not stop in the fall flight, so that one must shoot them in the spring if at all. It is perhaps not worth while to answer this argument, since those to whom the answer should be directed would not realize its force under any circumstances. What with this continuous spring shooting, with the great reclama- tion of the great interior marshes and persistent and destructive operations of market shooters on the winter range of the jack snipe, we are confronted with the fact that this bird is decreasing in numbers and gradually passing away, in common with all our other game birds. It is a shame, for there are few, if any, birds offering keener zest for better sport than the jack snipe when seen at his best. In hunting the jack snipe a few simple rules will be necessary. The shooter should not encumber himself with unnecessary clothing, for the walking will ordinarily be found a bit difficult and fatiguing when long continued. Rubber boots one must have usually, although in some of the sea marshes of Texas, where one walks on dry ground along the edge of the little "leads" of brackish water, it is not necessary to employ rubber boots at all. The gun should be pre- ferably the 12 guage, some liking the 16 guage or even a smaller bore. As to the load, it must depend upon the conduct of the birds. If the conditions are such that they lie close, an open gun and No. 9 shot will be found the best equipment for them. When they are very wild and fast of wing, a clOBer gun and No. 8 shot will account for them in better fashion, although perhaps No. 9 shot is the proper size. The bird is very easily knocked down, being thin of plum- age. One should, of courBe, always hunt down wind when walking a snipe marsh, for then, as the bird rises against the wind, it comes toward the shooter at one side or the other. Some Bhooters snap at the bird directly as it starts, but others reserve both barrels, or at least one barrel, for the instant when, after ceasing its zig-zagging and criss-crossing, the bird starts off upon its straighter flight. There is no such thing as a table of skill in snipe Bhooting, for what may be good record one day may be a very poor record the next. The writer has sometimes seen a dozen and a half or two dozen of these birds killed straight, or again been out upon a day when a score of half of one's shots would have been excellent shooting. Yet again there will be days when there can be no regularity of shooting and it is all long range scratch work which cannot be called sport at all. The presence of the jack snipe upon a marsh can usually be detected from its "borings" or its "stain," and when these are very abundant it may be pre- sumed that at some time of the day the bird will return to its feeding ground, although for reasons peculiir to itself, it may for a part of the day absent itself from the grounds. The jack snipe is a heavy feeder, and will make a great number of its borings in search for worms, thrusting its bill into the earth quite to the base. This instinct seems to be strong even in death. The writer once knocked down a brace of snipe which rose before him on a swampy meadow covered with black hummocks or tussocks. Going to pick up the second bird it was found that it had fallen at the side of one of these tussocks of black earth, and had thrust its bill quite up to the base in the little mound. It was lying there quite dead , with wings spread out and its bill driven firmly into the earth, whether in the instinct to purBue its feeding or in the convulsion of its death struggle could not be determined. When well habituated to a good feeding ground, and when it has gained a little avoirdupois from some days of feeding, the jack snipe does not like to leave its chosen locality. Sometimes as the hunter approaches he will see the bird rise in front of him and angle upward rapidly to consider- able height. Perhaps it may circle around a bit, and then, if he remains motionless he may see it tumble rapidly down, alighting at a spot not very far from where it first took wing. This is a good Bign and shows that the birds have adopted the country for at least a temporary feeding ground. Of course the experienced snipe shooter will look for the birds where the ground is warm, soft and apt to produce abundant worms. Ground from which the water has just receded, and which is cold and "sour" will not offer such feeding and will not be patronized by this little gourmand. Having located a good body of birds thus used to a piece of country, the fortunate shooter can enjoy some hours or perhapB some days of as pleasant sport as he is apt to find out of doors. The jack snipe has been the Ishmaelite of our game birds. The hand of every man has been against him, even the hand of our legislators. No bird has been more sacrificed on our statute books than the Wilson snipe. Thus in the forming of the old Illinois game law the jack snije was left unprotected, in order that the heathen element, if one may use that expressisn, of the Illinois legislature would consent to a little bit better protection for prairie chickens and quail. The erratic and unsettled habits of the birds have left it out of the plans of the legislative element in many states. Anything has been good enough for the jack snipe. Consequently, in not fully protecting one of our best game birds, we are now to see it gradually and even swiftly passing away from its place as one of the most intaresting and desirable of our sporting possibilities. The Wilson's Snipe. (Galinago Wilsoni; or G. delicata.) Common names: Jack snipe, English snipe, hog snipe, marsh snipe, shad bird, shad spirit, alewife bird. Description: Crown black, with stripes of pale yellow over eye and down middle of head. Upper parts brown black, with rufous and tawny markings. Scapulars edged with tawn, showing two lengthwise stripes on the sides when wiDgs are closed. Quills black brown, the outer web of first primary white. Inside line of wings white, barred with black. Rump black brown tail covert tawny and black, tail black at base, running into chestnut and defined by a thin black line, with t'ps showing a band of white, this black line on the tail showing a narrow line just above the white tips. The three outside tail feathers huff or white, with narrow b'ack bais. Belly white, breast brown, flecked with darker brown. Bill black with greenish cast. Legs and feet greenish slate. Weight 31 to 41 ounces. Length 101 to 111 inches. Wing spread 17} to 19} ioches. Bill 21 to 3 inches. Range: A bird of widely extended habitat, reach- ing from the upper portions of South America north- ward well within the Arctic circle. It breed 8 as far to the southward as the states of Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin, in lessnumbersnow than formerly; thence north into the Arctic regions. It winters in the Southern states, the Gulf country, Mexico, Central America and the upper part of South America. It is found in those parts of the United States from the Atlantic to the Pacific which afford it suitable feed- ing or breeding grounds. It is known along the sea marshes as well as in the alluvial marshes of the interior. Habits: The Wilson snipe or jack snipe is properly a bird of the marsh, not the "sour ground" or the salt marsh, but fre6b water marshes which contain earth worms or small insects. The method of feed- ing of the jack snipe resembles that of the woodcock, which bird it approaches in the mystery of some of its habits. It feeds upon woims, which it discovers in the earth by means of the sensitiveness of its loDg bill. At times, but not habitually, it is found on drier country. The jack snipe in its migrations starts north from the southern wintering grounds in the month of February. It appears in the temperate zoneB in the latitude 42 degrees north in the months of April and May, according to tbe advancement of the season. On its south bound flight it appears in the month of September at the same latitude. It winters in great numbers in lower Texas, portions of Louisiana and other regions adjancent to the Gulf of Mexico. It got its name "shad spirit", "shad bird" and "alewife bird" from the fact that it customarily appeared in the spring at about the time of the spring run of shad and alewives in such streams as the Hud- son. The name "gutter snipe" which one or two naturalists say is given to this bird in lower Illinois, has never been noted by the writer. This bird takes the fullest advantage of its protective coloration, at times lies close enough for the successful employment of the dog, and has many peculiarities which make it a highly desirable game bird. Typically a ground bird, it none the lesB sometimes perches upon trees or stumps, usually in the nesting season. During court- ship the Wilson'^ snipe exhibits great activity and excitement, and its strange aerial gyrations at that time are curious and interesting. Its twisting and erratic flight and its sharp note of "scaipe!" are peculiarities well known to the sportsmen. It is very erractic of habit, much subjact to climatic influences but always interesting to the gunner. Its nest is a shallow hole in the ground lined but scantily with grass. The eggs are four in number, olive or olive brown, blotched with reddish brown markings which are most numerous at the larger end of the egg. The Late James R. Pariser. The passing away of a good fellow and popular sportsmen, "Jim" Pariser, as he was called by his intimates, took place last Monday afternoon, much to the surprise of many friends and under circumstances that were indeed most lamentable. Mr. PariFer was strong and active, and usually enjoyed robust health. On Monday noon he ate his lunch in a restaurant in this city. In the evening at 6:20, after suffering great agony he succumbed to the effects of ptcmaire poisoning. Mr. Pariser was a native of England, aged 58 years, and had resided in Alameda for nine years. He was a member of the Odd Fellows ahd the Royal Arcanum, the San Francisco Fly-Casting Club, Pacific Stripfd Bass Club, and as an angler was known all Over Cali- fornia. For many years past he had been a prominent figure in the printing business Deceased is survived by a wife, Annie S. Pariser, and five children, Mrs. George H. Whitney, Mrs. George Max Webster, Alfred D., Harry M. and Russell A. Pariser. November 7, 1903J ©he $xeeitev anif ^paxt&nxan fc Malignant Enzootic Anaemia of Kennel Dogs. Next to distemper, the great black scourge of all carnivorous life, by far the greatest number of deaths among dogs come in early life as the direct or indirect result of in testinal infection by parasites of the worm order. Unlike the disease which, by reason of our frag- mentary knowledge of its etiology, we are still con- strained to call distemper, a term which might per- haps with equal or greater propriety be applied to many other ailments of the dog, time and experience has in the course of the comparative study of diseases interchangeable in men and animab already brought the knowledge of both true intestinal worms, and those as trichina which only gain an entrarceto the tissues by way of the digestive or respiratory tracts, both from the biological and clinical standpoints, with few exceptions, to be one of the most thoroughly worked out subjects within the horoscope of the edu- cated and experienced practitioner of either human or veterinary medicine, since it has long been recog- nized as an utter impossibility to acquire anything beyond the most superficial and dangerous kind of knowledge of the lives of these parasites in men or animals without grasping the subject in both, writes Frank H. Miller, D. V. S., Veterinarian to the West- minster Kennel Glub, in Field and Fancy. This is beyond doubt the one branch which inseparably binds human and comparative medicine, atd the one par excellence where during the past two or three decades the constant commingling, as it were, of sparks from the great polishing wheels of the sister schools has resulted in the illumination of many dark and exceedingly dangerous questions relative to the physical life of the men and their fellow-creatures. Not only have common investigations resulted in great common benefits to men and animals, but there has been going on a constant unearthing, as it were, of facts of great importance lying wholly within the special sphere of one or the other, and for the pur- pose of present subject, I gladly avail myself of much testimony which has thus appeared in a somewhat complimentary manner regarding Dochmius Trigona- cephalus of the dog as the possible outside host of the Dochmius Duodenalis of man, the recognized cause of the disease variously known to science as Dochmiasis, Ankylostomiasis, Egyptian Chlorosis, Tunnel-work- ers' disease, Uncinariosis, etc. If we carefully scan the literature of the past two decades relative to this disease in man we gain be- tween the lines a comparatively clear insight into one of the most deadly diseases known to canine medicine. I refer to the all too frequant enzootic outbreaks of fatal anaemia and marasmus, such as have occurred in my practice within the past seven years, mainly among the puppies of kennels kept in and near New York City, a disease which, while recognized in for- eign standard works upon comparative medicine, is so scantily treated by them as regards etiology, path- ology and therapeutics, as to cause it to be wholly or at least most imperfectly understood by general prac- titioners, and whose relentless destruction, litter after Utter, of the entire young stock of kenneU, along with the commonly unnoticed parasites, has caused to be coined tl.e term "dry distemper," a term which has no logical reason whatsoever for its existence. To me the extremely superficial references to these wonderfully important parasites by some of the most careful and voluminous writers of comparative medi- cine of Europe, suffice to tell of its comparative in- frequency in that country as compared with our own, and allowing ample latitude for all possible variation of symptoms due to geographical influences, I can but conclude that much which has already been written has been less the result of actual experience with the parasite than the importance of the subject would warrant. Little time need be spent by me in entering the purely technical discussion of the biologist and helminthologist, interesting as it may be, as to the propriety with which this small intestinal inhabitant may be grouped with relation to others of the inverte- brata, suffice it for the purpose in hand to recognize that this disease, which is a state of anaemia of ver- minous origin, is directly due to the activity of this small round worm belonging to the Strongylus family of Nematodes, and whose macroscopical and micro- Boopial details make it practically impossible for it to ba differentiated from those worms infesting the digestive canal of men, which were first discovered and described by Dubini of Milan in 1838, but fifteen years later by Griesinger Inseparably connected with the disease of the human family known as Egyptian Chlorosis, and subsequently by others as the causative factor in malignant anaemia affecting mankind in many of the tropical regions throughout the world and apparently more or less incidental to various fisldsof occupation, as among tuonel building, brick- makiag and coal mining well outside the tropics. While this organism in man and the dog is scarcely distinguishable in appearance, there is, it seems to me, ample proof of its being in each, a distinct bio- logical entity, regardless of the assumption of certain investigators that they have been able to communi- cate it directly from one to the other by means of the embryonal egg. My personal experience in the past seven years within this city and its outlying kennels, many of which have lost hundreds of dogs by this infection without a single evidence of infection among the attendants, many of whom are anything but careful in their appointments, should, I think, be strong corroborative evidence of the correctness of some of the most rigid investigators who maintain that the so-called Docnmius Duodenalis of man while having several closely analagous representations in other animals, is essentially a parasite of the human body and transmissible only to a very few of the larger anthropoids as the gorilla. The theory that ihe worm has an outside host has for ample reasons been entirely abandoned. Serious as is the condition oi anaemia of men pro- duced by DochmiuB Duodenalis, case for case, the in- fection of dogs byDochmiusTrigonacephalus is much more certainly deadly since there are some essential differences in its manifestations, which preclude either prompt and effectual treatment or spontaneous recovery, both of which are within certain degrees possible in the human. Similar to the specific anaemia of the human sub- ject within the tropics, but to a much greater degree youth in the dog offers great inducements for its in- ception, or at least, the conditions under which the young live as to diet and sanitary surroundings appear with great frequency to decide its enzootic nature. My personal experience with this disease in dogs (and from that alone I speak) convinces me that pup- pies kept in warm kennels of the usual order have practically no resistance to infection up to the fourth month of age, and dogs of one year and over enjoy great immunity at least from their rapid growth and development, and actual damages of the worm which quickly decide the fate of a weanling. Unlike its homologue in man, which from its well- defined location in or near the duodenum has fittingly been designated as Dochmius Duodenalis, that of the dog, while I have seen rare examples of its presence in. that part of the intestine, almost invariably para- sites upon the walls of the lower small bowel, its pre- dilection spot being that half section of the ilium lying anterior to the ileocaecal valve, nor have I up to the present time been able to detect living worms of this specie in the caecum as Frohner has incident- ally mentioned. The presence of this worm in kennels cannot in the strict sense of the word be said to be the result of the condition, hygienic and dietetic, bo commonly accepted by the practical dog man as most inducive to the life and development of ordinary round worms, since I have had quite as serious, perhaps more seri- ous, Iosb in what would ordinarily be rated as high- class buildings, conducted by the most skillful and experienced attendants, than in the more mediocre kinds and where post-mortem examinations in great numbers have scarcely revealed a trace of common worms as the Ascaridae. While there is Tittle doubt that Dochmius Trigona- cephalus of the dog, like its counterpart in man, is more or less ubiquitous in tropical climates, clinical and experimental facts in abundance point clearly to the ability of this parasite, not only to gain afoot- hold but to be able to effectually retain it, at least for some time outside the tropical zone and well north into the temperate zone, wherever puppies, especially those under two months of age, are brought into pro- longed contact with the infection, while living under the conditions of heat and moisture resembling trop- ical conditions so often incidental to life in many of the so-called high-class kennels whose structure and yards retain traces of the secretions and excretions in imperfectly disinfected condition. I say puppies advisedly Bince its ravages are far greatest in the dog from the fifth to the tenth week, the sixth week after whelping usually finding all pup- pies out of existence when born amid these surround- ings into a kennel actually infected by this scourge. The symptoms of this disease which I will give are drawn entirely from personal observation and notes made of animals actually suffering in this region, and quite independent of observations of foreign writers; moch of which seems to m>e exceedingly misleading, at least in the study of cases as saeD in America, I would describe in the following manner: The disease usually manifests itself suddenly in pup- pies which have previously enjoyed exceedingly good health and growth, although I have seen exceptional cases where the contrary was true as regards condi- tion. The individual is first noticed to be somewhat diffident in the manner of taking food, going to the dish and smelling it, backkg away in a loathing man- ner to again repeat the attempt, possibly taking a very few laps of liquid, and leaving the others to lie down and coil up or stand apart with a sleepy, de- pressed appearance, frequently yawning. The appetite, poor at the outset, Boon ceases alto- gether, the coat is noticed to become "staring" and devoid of lustre and dusty in appearance, the body movements are slow and deliberate rather than mark- edly feeble. Thereis much drowsiness. If the animal be taken up for examination in this early Btage it will be remarked that the body is usu- ally in satisfactory condition, and not infrequently very fat, with an entire absence of the flaccid abdom- inal enlargement so characteristic of the presence of the ordinary round worm. The eyes will be noticed to move sluggishly and to express a peculiarly characteristic appearance of suf- fering mildness, and are frequently, but in nowise constantly, inclined to slight suffusion with clear lachrymal secretion, with Blight puffiness uoderneatb the eyes rather than an actual swollen state of the lids, this latter being more noticeable in the early morning. Examination of the visible mucous membrane of the eyes, mouth and tongue, especially the latter, will invariably reveal even at the moment of the first visi- ble symptoms the peculiar pallor of extreme anaemia. fTO BE CONTINDED] The New York Show. All the entries for the third annual dog show of the Ladies' Kennel Association including the belated English and German entries arriving last week, swelled the total list to 1670, an increase of 05 over last year. While a number of new exhibitors and dogs will appear in the show which opened on Tues- day, November 3d in the Madison Square Garden, a few familiar exhibitors of high class dogs will be missing. Most prominent among these will be Mrs. James L. Kernochan, President of the association. Owing to the recent death of her husband, Mrs- Kernochan did not enter any of her dogs, and this will be a distinct loss to the show, for her kennels always contained prize winners. Most of the other officers, however, of the Ladies' Kennel Association were represented. Mrs. Jules J. Vatable, the Vice-President, showed several French Bulldogs, a class which has shown up remaikably well, proving that they have by no means lost their fashionable hold. In all there was 73 entries of French Bulldogs, being one of the best filled of all the classes. MrB. Oliver Belmont entered a fine new French Bull- dog, known by the characteristic name of Dollar. Mrs. Richard Harding Davis has some probable win- ners in this class. Mrs. Davis haB been a small ex- hibitor in the past two years, but she has branched out into a variety of classes this season, and, besides her old favorites, she entered in the show Irish Ter- riers and Russian Wolfhounds. Mrs. William Lenox has also entered several French Bulldogs. In the Bull Terrier class, Frank and Richard Croker, Jr., were represented, as usual, with some high-class specimens Mrs. J. E. Smith Hodden of Hempstead and a member of the Ladies' Kennel Asso- ciation Council, has entered Bull Terrierp, and so has Joseph M. Doll, Secretary of the Long Island Kennel Association, which will hold its first show in the Clermont Rink, Brooklyn, the week following the MadiBon Square Garden Bhow. Mrs. Burke-Roche of Newport has entered two or three of her favorite Bull Terriers, while in the large Bulldog class, which has a total of 112 entries, prominent exhibitors will be Mrs. Pauline C. Gallatin, Thomas W. Lawson of Boston, and the Earlington Kennels of New York. One of the features of the exhibit is expected to be the splendid 'showing of old English Sheep Dogs. While there are are only fourteen entries in this clasp, every dog is a magnificent specimen of the breed. Two of the finest ones are entered by C. B. Dilling- ham of New York, by name Bouncing Lass and Stylish Boy, an English pair just imported, for which the highest price has been paid, it is said, ever known for a pair of Sheep dogs. It is stated that from $2000 to $2500 was paid for the pair. The dogs were first shown in this country at the Westminster Kennel Club show last February, and then went back to Eng- land. They have won a long string of blue ribbons abroad. Another high-class importation brought over for this show is the Airedale Terrier, Bolton Woods Briar, purchased and entered by Theodore Offerman. Foxhall P. Keene has entered his well known Airedale Terriers, frequent winners in previous Bhows. A grand lot of Fox Terriers were entered, several new ones having been imported especially for tie exhibit. A. H. Hunnewell of Boston has several fine ones. Winthrop Rutherford is another prominent exhibitor, the Selwonk Kennels of Magnolia, Mass., have entered a splendid lot, and the Norfolk Kennels of Toronto, Canada, will be better represented than a year ago. The Misses de Coppet of Narragansett Pier will show a few choice Fox and Welsh Terriers, and the Craig Darrock Kennels will be well repre- sented in the Welsh Terrier claBB. Some of the other prominent exhibitors are W. G. Rockefeller, in Beagles; George S. Mott of Babylon, in Pointers; Mrs. Roland Keaeby, in Pugs; the Swiss Mountain Kennels of Germantawn, Penn., in Pomer- anians and Toy Dogs; the ABhton Kennels, by which name Miss Moeran entered ber prize-winning Spaniele and other Toy dog varieties; Mrs. D. W. Evans, In Field Spaniels; theLakewood Kennelsin PomeranianB Mrs. H. G. Traver, in Poodles, and Dr. Lougest in St. Bernards. The three black Pugs that have been one of the features of former shows, owned by Mrs. How- ard Gould, will not be seen this season, as it is said their period of prize winning in beDch shows has passed. Last year they were given but secood best. There was a stronger representation in several classes that, while strong at the last show, were not considered as satisfactorily filled, notably St. Ber- nards and Great Danes. With forty-eight of the former and fifty-one of the latter, representing the best American kennels of these breeds, the exhibit it is claimed should be one of the best ever seen in the Garden. The Greyhound claps has also filled ex- ceptionally well, while the Terrier classes are well up to and in some divisions beyond the mark. Hunting and field classes are strong, the total of Pointers, Setters, Spaniels, Beagles, Foxhounds and Deerhounds footing up 426, or 25 per cent of the total entries. The Collie class, with a total of 103, is far beyond the record of 1902. DOINGS IN DOGDOM. Fred Mansell in his report of the English Kennel Club sbow states that there were many notable sales. Geoge Riper replacing Raby Coastguard with a better dog, Rambling Major, a puppy of great promise which ran through his classes. In hot weather there is no drink like Napa Soda — plain or in a lemonade. The Norfolk entry included the wire-hair Tobs Up, True Blue fit and in good enough a fettle to go against anything, two rattling good puppies and All Blue, a dog that will take a lot of beating. Jackson's j^r. and Mrs. Geo. S. Thomas returned from trip to England on Monday morning last, (Oct. 2ti 10 ©he tivseiiev anfr &p0vt&maxi [November 7, 1993 accompanied by a team of emigrants that will doubt- Ktoito-J i» our kann?1 w0.rld' 8ayh8.fl2t^ American. Stock-keep*?- In the ^or time we had to interview the travellers, one could not, without records Ind such, get at pedigrees and names, previ- ous winnings and so on Besides, this information in these days of sharp competition is not always ad- visableBto Seaway. PIn all there '^e twenty-three dogs The Irish Terrier for Selwonk, is a Bouna dof that has done well. He is by Bolton Woods toer and out of a B. W. Mixer bitch, Patty by name, ^tbis should make him a valuable sire. Then there is a Welshman, Cwvst Ringleader, that can give a good account o'f itself. Then there is a whole ra of Fox Terriers, including a dark youngster that will be kept back a bit, and the famous wire bitch Lncretia. There are four smooth dogs, one wire dog, that is a winner on the otber side; at two shows he won about six firsts and several specials, jurt . before .he |came over Then there is one wire bitch and the rest of the terriers are smooth Fox Terrier bitches for the Sabine kennels, comprising some of the choicest breeding blood in the old country. Mrs. Thomas has not been idle either. In her little lot i is a n lOld English Sheep Dog that is to score a bobtail flush whf n he gets into* the game. Mrs. Thomas cannot keep out of Yorkshires and two came along; one is a last year's Crystal Palace championship winner Then there are two Pomeranians-a black and a chocolate, small and natty. On the , ship i were > two good Whippets coming over for Mrs. Scully s Bay View Kennels. This lady has also purchased a good Greyhound, which we regret to learn is very HI. The American Championship Field Trial Club's meeting scheduled for November 23 at Robinson, 111., has been called off. The Monongahela trials were postponed until October 27th and were run at Robinson, 111., instead of Washington C. H. Ohio, as originally intended. Scarcity of birds was the reason for the change. The date for running of the John Grace challenge cup stake for Greynounds was announced Wednesday night at the Union Coursing Park draw at Pythian Castle. The stake, which is the richest coursing event in America, will be run on December o and b. It will be limited to sixty-four entries, with an en- trance fee of $25. The total amount of the purse will be about $4000. With the close of the Waterloo meet- in" at Oklanoma City the crack kennels of the Middle W°est will come lo tniB Coast for the winter season and some lively competition is expected. Tuesday's coursing marked the close of the Water- loo cup. the Waterloo purse and the Waterloo plate, at Oklahoma City, Ok. T. The Waterloo cup was won by Rubber Ankles, owned and trained by James Sweeny and entered by J. H. Rosseter both of ban Francisco. YourB Truly, owned by Wilson and Allen of Victor, Col., was second. Rubber Ankles scored 22 points and lours Truly 8 points. The Waterloo cup and first money ol SbUO went to Rubber Ankles, second money, $300, to \ ours Truly and Roguish Eyes, owned by Bert McFadden, Oklahoma City and Honey Grove Girl owned by B. O. Walcott, Honey Grove, Texas, each won $100 as the next two dogs. Lord Brazen, the favorite, was badly beaten by Honey Grove Girl after a no-course run The Waterloo purse was won by Northern Ex- press, owned by Blake and Smith, Butte, Mont., oeating Countess Eva, owned by Carter of Cotton- wood Falls, Kas. In this course, which lasted two minutes, as the hare was caught by Northern Express, Countess Eva fell dead. In the Waterloo plate, Celtic, owned by J. Charlton and Sons, Minneapolis, beat Consort, owned by J. H. Rosseter, San Francisco. In the Waterloo cup the four other dogs than those named that shared in the money were Lady Allen, owned by C. E. Root, New Richland, Minn.; Sir Magic, owned by JohnRussell, Cable, 111. ; Cloudburst, owned by Blake and Smith, Butte, Mont, and Lord Brazen, owned by G. Lacy Crawford, St. Louis. The American Derby was run on Wednesday. In tbe final course Tatie B , owned by G. H. Mac- Dougal of Butte, Mont., beat Comstock, also a Mon- tana dog. The next events of the meet will be given to-dav and to-morrow when the All-Age stakes will be run. Wandee Coastguard, formerly Raby Coastguard, won in all classes in which he was entered this week at New York and also took first in winners. Wandee Manilla, a new wire bitch Raper brought over, won a reserve, whether in winners or one of the regular classes, we are not yet advised, presumably the award was in winners. Wandee Seabreeze went third on limit and open. We have not heard yet whether Blizzard, True or Mayse were entered or placed. The Fox Terrier competition undoubtedly was a hot one. Doder Richard Croker Jr., Ivel Damon went third in limit and open under 45 pounds. The Bulldog entry, as published, was 112. Wandee Kennels took the Bpecial for best kennel of wire hairs. m San Francisco Show Notes. Secretary, N. J. Stewart, Charlcombe Grove, Polhemus street. . The classification liBt is a full one, 309 classes in all. The entry for each dog in each class iB $3.00 Silver medals will be given to first, and bronze medals to Becond prize winners in all classes. Hand- some diplomas will be given to winners of first, second, third, and winners in all classes. Other regular awards will be made a3 follows, but in these cases no diplomas are given : Reserve, Very Highly Commended, Highly Commended and Commended. In all breeds, entries of bitches with whelps at side will be accepted for exhibition only, for which an entry fee of S3 foreach bitch and litter willbe charged. Parties waning to place dogs at the show for sale only, and not for competition, can do so by paying 82 entry fee to cover cost of benching and feeding. Such entries must be made on regular entry blanus. Special cash prizes are offered as follows: $20 for handler showing largest string of dogs from Califor- nia. $20 for handler showing largest string of dogs from British Colombia. $20 for handler showing the largest string of dogs from Washington. $2U for handler showing the largest string of dogs from Oregon. Not less than ten dogs to be exhibited by any handler to be entitled to prize money. The special prizes published comprises a good list of valuable and handsome trophies, additional specials from clubs and individuals will be announced later on, through the press and in the catalogue. In all cases, where possible, cups and medals will be dis tributed Saturday evening, December oth. In thiB the club is setting a good example and will undoubtedly establish a precedent in making bench show awards that will be a boon to exhibitors. A partial list of general specials is the following: The St. Nicholas Hotel offers a silver trophy for the bestdogor bitchin show of any breed. ThefancierB of Santa Clara county offer the Santa Clara county cup for best dog or bitch from Santa Clara county. The fanciers of Los Angeles offer the Los Angeles county cup for the best dog or bitch from Los Angeles county. The New Russ House, Charles Newman, offers a beautiful cut-glass trophy for the best dog or bitch from San Francisco county. B. W. Cavanaugh, Esq., of Sacramento, offers a handsome silver cup for the best dog or bitch bred and owned in Sacramento county. H. Wachorst, Esq. , of Sacramento, offers a silver flower vase for the best of opposite sex to the winner of the Cavanaugh cup, bred and owned in Sacramenso county. The fanciers of Santa Cruz and Monterey counties offer the Santa Cruz and Monterey county cup for the best dog or bitch from Santa Cruz or Monterey counties. Dogs competing for any of the county cups or trophieB must be the property of a resident of that county, and not less than five dogs must com- pete for each cup. The list of specials given for the various breeds is a liberal one and far too extensive for greater elabora- tion here; among the libt is a number of silver cups, trophies, club and individual medals, etc. Tommy Banks, Pacific Coast Manager for Spratts, will look after the benching, feeding and disinfecting. This is an assurance to exhibitors that their dogs will receive proper attention. The premium list for the December show made its welcome appearance early this week and the demand for it has been constant and 9teady all week. Entries will positively close November 23d. The following is a list of offices where entries can be made and information obtained relative to the show: San Francisco— Breeder and Sportsman, 36 Geary Btreet and 33 Market street; Sacramento — Matt Coffey; 2503 G. street; Portland— W. W. Peaslee, 452 Sherlock block; Seattle— George Tinto, Sunnydale, Wash., and Chas. McAllister, City Hall, Seattlsj Victoria — Frank Turner, 68 4th street; San Jose — Pacific Coast Trials. The Bakersfield trial grounds embrace over ten sections of land which have been reserved for the Pacific Coast Field Trial Club's meeting next January. This territory has beer patroled since last August. Birds are very plentiful and the cover generally to be found on the ground could not be better for field trial work. Secretary Albert Betz is in correspondence with Eastern judges and will shortly announce the club'B selection for the January meeting. Seventeen English Setters and fifteen Pointers, thirty-two dogs in all, remain in tho Derby list of probable starters. The following entries to the Pacific Coast Field Trials Club's twenty-first annual Derby paid second forfeit due on November 1, 1903: SETTERS. Clinton E. Worden's black, white and tan bitch Count's Cash (Count's Whitestone-Sport's Belle). Chas W. Coggins' white, black and tan bitch Miss Nelson (Tony Boy-Sport's DestLnj.) Same owner's black, white and tan dog Sharon Boy. Same breeding. John W. Considine's white, black and tan bitch Sporting Duchess (Tony Boy-Sport's Destiny.) Same owner's white and lemon dog Tony's Tony (Tony Boy-Belton Girl.) Same owner's black and tan dog Hick's Lad (Doc Hick-Woodcraft.) Same owner's black and tan bitch Hick's Bab. Same breeding. John Schumacher's white, black and tan bitch Valita (California Bell Boy-Rod's Lark.) T.J. Wattson's orange and white dog Star's Rod (Starlight W.-Rod's Sylvia). B. J. Baum's black, white and tan dog Starlight Jr., (Starlight W.-Rod's Sylvia). W. W. Van Arsdale'B white and tan dog Klamath (California Bell Boy-Rod's Lark). Same owner's white, black and tan bitch Keepsake (California Bell Boy- Peach Blossom). Same owner's white and orange bitch Count's Gift (Count's Mark-Verona Schoolgirl). J. E. Terry's black, white and tan bitch Countess Lou (Count's Mark-Mary Lou). H. W. Keller's orange and white bitch Somora (Llewellyn Drake-Shadow). Alexander Hamilton's black and white dog Lady's Lad (ClipperW.-Lady). S. Christensen 8 black, white and tan dog Count Jo (Count's Mark-Mary Lou). POINTERS. W. B. Coutts black and white dog Glen Rose (Glen- dale-Kenwood Rose.) J. W. Flynn's liver and white bitch Whisper D (Kenwood Dan-Whisper.) John Schumacher's liver and white dog Frank W. (Don Graphic ). Clinton E. Worden's liver and white dog Sandle- wood (Cuba of Kenwood-Petronella.) Dr. A. T. Leonard's liver and white dog Wallace Bruce (Kenwood Dan-Whisper.) Wm. Dormer's liver and white bitch Lize (Ash- bury-Vic's Queen.) W. W. Van Arsdale's white and liver bitch Sen- orita (Dr. Daniel's-Naney Jingo) Same owner's white and lemon dog Mariposa. Same breeding. Stockdale Kennels' liver and white dog Cuba's Cottonwood (Ch. Cuba of Kenwood-Petronella.) Same owner's white and liver dog Cuba's Glenwood. Same breeding. Same owner's liver and white bitch Cuba's Ivy- wood. Same breeding. Same owner's liver and white dog Cuba's Gen. Jo Wheeler (Ch. Cuba of Kenwood-Florida.) Same owner's liver and white dog Cuba's Sinew. Same breeding. Same owner's black and white bitch Fly's Pearl (Cuba Jr.-Winnepeg Fly.) Same owner's white and black bitch Dodge's Stella II. Same breeding. Coming Events. April 1-Sept. 10. Oct. 16-Feb. 1— Open season (or taking steel- Dead in tidewater. Nov. 1-April 1— Trout season closed. July I-Jan. 1— Open season for black bass. Aug 15-April 1— Open season for lobsters and crawfish. Nov. 1-Sept. 1— Open season for crabs. Sept. 1-May 1— Open season for shrimp. Sept. 10-Oct. 16 -Close season in tidewater for steelhead. Nov. 15-Sept. 10— Season open for talcing salmon above tide water. Gnu. July 1-Feb. 15— Dove season open. Nov. 1-July 15— Deer season closed. Sept. 1-Feb. 15 — Open season for mountain quail, grouse and sage hen. Oct. 15-Feb. 15 — Open season .'or quail, ducks, etc. Bench Shows. Nov. 3, 4, 5, 6— Ladies Kennel Association of America. Madison Square Garden, New York. Mrs. A. G. Evans, Hon. Secretary, Westbury. L. I. Nov. 17, 18, 19— Boston Terrier Club. Boston, Mass. Dec. 2. 3, 4. 5-Paciflc Collie and Old English Sheep Dog Club. Bench Show in connection with Poultry Exhibit. San Francisco. P. K. L. rules Field Trials. Oct. 27— Monongahela Field Trial Association 9th annual trials. Robinson, 111. A. 0. Peterson, Secretary, Homestead, Pa. Nov. 2— Michigan Field Trial Association. Annual trials ■ , Mich. C. D. Stuart, Secretary, Riverside, Mich. Nov. 2— Ohio Field Trial Association. 6th annual trials. Wash- ington, C. H., O. G R. Haswell, Secretary, Circlevllle, O. Nov. 9— Missouri Field Trial Association. Annual trials. Mo. 1/ S. Eddins, Secretary, Sedalla. Mo. Nov. 9— International Field Trial Association. 15th annual trials. St. Joachim, Ont. W. B. Wells, Honorary Secretary, Chatham. Ont. Nov. 9— Independent Field Trial Club. 5th annual trials. Hut- sonville. Ills. H. S. Humphrey, Secretary, Indianapolis, Ind. Nov. 10— Western Irish Setter Club. 2d annual trials. , Dr. T. L. Fenn, Secretary, Chicago, 111. Nov. 10— Connecticut Field Trial Club, Hampton, Conn. F. W. Smith, Secretary, New Haven, Conn. Nov. 16— North American Field Trial Club. 5th annual trials. ■ , Can. Alfred Wigle, Secretary, Windsor, Ont. Nov. 16— Kentucky Field Trial Association. 4th annual trials. , Ky Sam Brown Hays, Secretary, Louisville, Ky. Nov. 16— Illinois Field Trial Association. 5th annual trials, Robinson 111. W. R. Green, Secretary, Marshall, 111. Nov. 16 — Pointer Club of America. Holmdel, New Jersey. C. F. Lewis, Secretary, New York City. Nov. 17— Nevada Field Trial Association. Paradise Valley near Winnemucca, Nev. Dr. C. E. Wilson, Secretary, Elko, Nev. Nov. 23 — American Championship Field Trial Association. An- nual trials. Robinson. 111. H. S. Humphrey, Secretary, Indian- apolis, Ind. Declared off. Nov. 30 — Virginia Field Trial Association. Chase City, Va. Chas R. Cooke. Secretary, Richmond, Va. Dec. 1— Indiana Field Trial Club. Annual trials. Clay City, Ind., C. F. Yung, Secretary, Clay City, Ind. Amateur Field Trial Association of Maryland and Dis- trict of Columbia. , Md. Wm. R. Armstrong, Secretary, Baltimore, Md. Dec 5 — Continental Field Trial Association. Thomasville, Ga. John White, Secretary, Hempstead, L. I , N. Y. Jan. 11— Georgiana Field Trial Association. 2d annual trials. Waynesboro, Ga. Jan. 6, 13— Mississippi Field Trial and Gun Club. Inaugural trials. Holly Springs, Miss. Membership Stake, January 6; Derby and All-Age Stake, January 13. W. De Arnold, Tupelo, Miss. - Jan. 13— Pacific Coast Field Trials Club. 21st annual trial. . Cal. Albert Betz, Secretary, 201 Parrott Bldg., S. F. Duck and Quail Outfits. The demand at Skinner's keeps up for sportsmen's outfits, ammunition and guns. A large and new stock of goods has been added to fill the demand for hunting suits, rubber boots and hunters' footwear; canvas and folding wooden decoys, gun cases and a new design of leather-covered shell boxes. Peters Factory Loaded Shells are unequaled. Skinner's place is 801 Market street. You can get anything there you need for duck or quail shooting. Send for a catalogue, if you haven't the time to come, and try a mail order. * Strike! — if they don't give you Jackson's Napa Soda when you ask for it. November 7, 1903] ®he gveeiiev anl> *&p0vt&txtan 11 THE FARM. California's Triumphal Arch. A triumphal arch, constructed of the minerals of California, will constitute the entrance to this State's exhibit in the Mines and Metallurgy Palace at the "World's Fair. The height of the arch will be 23 feet and its width will be 17}i feet. All visit- ors to the California mining exhibit will pass beneath this arch. It will be made up of building stones selected from every county in the State. The base will be of granite. The next course will be of sand stone. Then will come tufa, marble and terra cotta. The ornaments will be bears heads and the State seal. The arch will be graceful and will contains specimens of all the best building materials in the State. The arch will be a standing invitation to the visitor to view the wooderful col- lection of minerals which it guards. Be- hind the arch will be a vaBt collection of cabinet specimens. A column of lepido- lite 16 feet high will be one of the attrac- tive features. ThiB is a beautiful mineral and from it is derived mineral salts. In the exhibit will also be a great dis- lind also that they are the ones who are most opposed to agricultural schools and experimental stations and would not listen to anything that came from them. I wish to speak as one who haB never had the privilege of such a training. In the spring of 1901 we had on our farm a herd of grade cows, and statistics here given are for the month of June of that year for milk taken to a creamery in comparison with the same mouth in 1902 for cream from a hand separator. For the month of June, 1901, our six cows gave an average of 172 pounds of milk per day, or 5160 pounds for the month. This milk tested 4.2, which gave us 216.72 pounds of butter, which sold at 20 cents a pound, bringing an income of $43.34 for the month, or $7.22 per cow. For making and selling the Butter the creamery company charged 2 cents per pound and the over run. In June, 1902, we had the same herd of cows that gave an average of about the same amount of milk, i. e., 172 pounds daily, ar5160 pounds for the month. This we separated with a separator, skimming out 17 pounds per hundred, or 877 pounds of cream for the month. We sent the cream to the same creamery where we had sent the milk the year before. This thev made into butter and sold the over run, a saving of 2 cents a pound. The cream tested 30, giving us 263.1 pounds of butter, or 46.44 pounds more butter than was made from the same quantity of milk The Pig at Weaning Time. Where it is desirable to breed the sow when the pigs are six to eight weeks old, they should be removed as soon as they can be depended upon to partake ot milk or other soft feed. If one has plenty of good, Bweet skim-milk at all times, little time is lost in the growth of the litter by early weaning, while the sow does not get thin and run down as she does when the pigs are allowed to auck after they are old enough to Bhift for themselves. Much is to be gained by having two fine, healthy litters a year, and this is easily possible if each litter is weaned at the proper time. I do not believe in leaving them with the sow until they wean themselves, as they depend too much upon the mother for nourishment when they should be learning to eat. Eight weeks is a sufficient time to elapse from birth to "Yeaning. Have a good, light pen where the sun- shine can penetrate every nook and cor- ner, if they must be confined. It is much better however, to confine the sow and let the little fellows have free range for a time, at least. Provide warm sleeping quarters with plenty of dry straw for bedding. Comfort amounts to as much as good feed for little pigs. If they are slow in learning to eat, give tbem warm, sweet milk without any ground feed for the firBt few days, then gradually add the mill stuff until they which means as much weight as possible in the back, loin and hindquarters where the high-priced cuts are to be found. Having secured the right kind of an ani- mal the next point is how to obtain the greatest gain in weight at lowest cost. When feed stuffs were low in price and labor was high a feeder acted wisely if he economizd labor at the expense of feed. With corn ranging at from ninety to ninety-five cents a hundred he can no longer follow Buch methods. It is then a question of economizing in grain. The feeder must get more pounds of gain from alfalfa and other feed. In this respect there is great need for investigations per- taining to the advisability or non-advisa- bility of feeding lighter grain rations. If fifteen or eighteen pounds of corn daily for each steer will give as good results as twenty-five and thirty pounds it cer- tainly would be much more economical for the feeder to adopt such methods. It is estimated that under favorable conditions one female of the mange para sites in ninety days will produce 1,500,000 individuals. Each female lays about twenty to twenty- four eggs which are hatched in about seven days. The young reach the stage of reproduction about the fourteenth day. As the ordinary dips which are used in the treatment of scabies do not kill the eggs of these para- sites, a Becond dipping should be made between the time the eggs hatch and the time when the young reach the age of reproduction. These parasites in nature multiply only on the body of the animal. From the diseased animal they may be transmitted directly to the healthy ones by actual contact but are often left on posts, fences and trees or any object against which the diseased animal rubs to relieve the itching and in this way are spread. They are left on the fences of stockyards in which diseased cattle are yarded or on the walls of cars in which they have been shipped, whenc* they will be transmitted to healthy animals. It seems fortunate that these parasites do not survive long except on their natural host, the longest time being about four weeks under the most favorable condi- tions of heat and moisture. Aside from proprietary dipB the standard formula for dipping cattle is flowers of sulphur twenty-one pounds, unslacked lime 16% poundB to 100 gallons of water. AT THE FEKENO 3:05 1 3, Fastest Race Winner of the Tear. play of borax and by-products ; copper in large quantities ; coal to some extent ; an illustration of the oil industry, with the geological formations in which oil is found; cinnabar and quicksilver; kunzite, the new pinkish gem that takes a high polish; gold, silver, and all the mineral substances that have given California her proud standing as a mineral producing State. Accompanying the ores will be a collec- tion of pictures in which each mineral in- dustry of California will be separately illustrated. California will occupy with entertaining exhibits 6000 square feet of floor space in the Palace of Mines and Metallurgy. Do Hand Separators Pay? I have met a number of farmers with whom I have discuesed the question whether hand separators pay. I find that many who have had little experience in dairying and no experience with a separator give me an emphatic "No." I the year before. This increase, if sold at 20 cents, the price of the year ' before, would give us $9.28; but because of the saving of 2 cents per pound in making, sold for 22 cents, another saving on the 263.1 pounds of butter of $5.26, making a total saving of $14.54 for the month; or, I in other words, those six cows made for ua in the month of June, 1901, without a [ separator $43.34 and in the month of June, 1902, with a separator $57.88, or an in- crease of $2.42 per cow. That is, the separator made an increase in our income of 35 per cent. This is for the money made from the butter alone, but when we consider the difference in the feeding value- of the akimmed milk when fed right from the Beparator, warm and sweet and milk that baa stood in a sour, diriy tank, and then drawn aeveral milea on a hot day, we must add another sum to the separator's credit.— J. F. Breen. Jackson's Napa Soda is sold in every eity, town and hamhjt In th« Stat«. become greedy for it. Shorts and ground oata are nutritious, and when mixed with unadulterated aweet milk, form an almost ideal growing ration for small pigs. Give them all the green stuff they will eat. Cut roots and vegetables, clover hay, alfalfa, and paBture cf wheat rye, blue grass or anything of the kind procurable, will pay well for all the time and labor required in providing them. — C. B. Barrett. Success in the production of beef is governed by the methods pursued at the beginning. One important feature of the business is to have the right kind of an animal— one poaaeeBing the deBired form combined with plenty of quality. Bear in mind that width of back, loin and hind- quartera are indispensable in a good steer. The three factors which determine the selling price of a steer on any leading market are percentage— that is propor- tion of dreaBed weight to live weight ; quality— that iB a thick covering of good flesh over back and loin ; and proportion Red Ribbon Speed Sale OF Standard-Bred Trotters Tuesday Ev'g, Nov, 1/ I WILL SELL 4 McKinney Stallions 4 (Two-Year-Olds) The Best Bred and Fastest in California i iUT OF SUCH GREAT MARES AS CAR- v ' LOTTA WILKES (dam of 2) by Charley Wilkes; BISCARA (dam of 5) by Director 2:17 out of Bioara (dam of 7) by Harold, etc; BY BY (sister to Lockheart 2:08^4) by Nutwood 2: 18^f out oi' Rapidan (dam of 8) by Dictator, etc.; RUSSIE RUSSELL by Bay Rose 2:20tf out of Oakley Russell by Happy Russell. Owner, J. H. GRAY, is called East. He has worked these colts on Santa Rosa Track. They have trotted quarters from 32 S4 to 38 seconds, and are as sound as the day they were foaled. Hand- some as pictures and baveslzo and color; best of dispositions. This is the greatest opportunity to get sons of the immortal MoKinney ever offered. Besides these remember there Is a half sister to Directum 2:05)4, nalf brother to Monterey 3:00V, half brother to W Foote 2:11, and a score of the best lookers everoffer ed. There are famous brood mares, perfect drivers, well-matched teams, mares with records, and, in fact, trotters and pacers to suit everybody. Remember the opportunities to get such horses at auction are diminishing every day. Catalogues ready. WM. G. LAYNG Occidental Horse Exchange, 246 THIRD STREET. 12 ®he gxeeiiev cmb gtycvtsxnan [November 7, 190:; A Notable Importation of Jerseys Mr. Frank C. Ward has in quarantine at Abtenia, N. J , bis laBt importation of J ersey cattle which be personally selected last summer. The original importation consisted of fifty females and two bulls but one of the females died from the effects of a rough passage on the ocean. All but tour of the females rate os two-year-old ueifers and are either fresh at the p esent time or will be by the time of their dis- charge from quarantine wnich will be on the 9th of November. The other four are cows somewhat older and will also be fresh. As announced in the advertising columns, this herd will be sold at auction under the managemeitof Peter C. Kellogg on Thursday, November 12th, at Hoboken. It was Mr. Ward's intention to have taken this herd to his farm, but the farm was sold on an option and being deprived of a place to keep the cattle in proper condi- tion the only alternative is to sell the importation at auction. large and substantial as compared with I her forehand. While I know nothing of the richness of her milk, were she to be in the dairy tests at St. Louis next year, judging her upon form, I think it would take a wonderful three year old to beat her. She is a brownish fawn evidently of splendid constitution. She is now a little throaty but that will soon milk off ; her depth of flank is remarkable. To my liking she surpasses anything that Mr. Ward had in his importation last spring. Lock No. 39 is her stable mate and there is a good deal of resemblance between the two. I hardly rate No. 39 to be as good as the other though in some points she sur- passes her and at present has somewhat longer teats. She is not as stylish back of the hips as her mate. Lock No. 22 is an orange fawn, rangy and handsome. juBt beginning to spring a well shaped odder with large well placed teats. She has a deep body. Those who admire a high and wide escutcheon will I pick her for a good one. She is large and As a selector of Jerseys Mr. Ward no rugged with long, slim tail and looks longer needs an introduction to the breedy about the shoulders and neck. American public. HiB sale of last April Lock No. 31 is a stable mate of Lock 22 gave a favorable surprise to all who saw but with some da k shadings in the face the high quality of his catt'e. In the which the other has not. Very deep body, present case he went in for great udder teats well apart but, at present develop- development, rugged constitution and in- ment, point somewhat aslant. Her udder dividual superiority and those who attend is only half sprung and this may come his sale will not be disappointed in the right by calving time. Her body now is character of the stock. While the fall is more like that of a cow fully mature than not a favorable time for high prices, the of a springing heifer. By present indi- cattle are so good that if a fair attendance cations her udder will be of remarkable of enterprising American breeders can bs attracted to the ring there will be little danger of their being thrown away, but of course the "if" will de- cide the question when it comes to the issue. I visited quarantine on the 20th inst., and looked over the cattle. I do not think I ever saw bo large a num- ber of heifers in milk or springing on their first calves that uniformly car- ried udders of such remarkable size. There is not an animal in the lot that is not worthy of a special description as a superior animal, but I shall not undertake to mention more than a few of them. Mr. Ward took a snap-shot of a sil- ver gray heifer by Furor, of which I send you the picture. She is of extra large size and very shapely, and her enormous udder milks down to a loose wrinkled condition that never goes with a poor dairy cow. Her teats are a fair length, but not as large in diam- eter as I like to see; this, however, is a point in which she is likely to im- prove with age. Few look over the herd without remembering her, both on ' size and Bhe will be a large cow. account of her fine individuality and her | Lock No. 64 isa dark orange fawn heifer striking color. I have not rent you her , wjtn ,jark {ace shadings and looks younger picture because ahe was the pick of the I than moat of the other two year olde. still basket by any means, as I could readily retaining the calf-like expression. She select half a dozen that would suit me j has a substantial deep body, udder not sharp at withers, good at back, hips and rump and with a very long, well rounded udder with good teats well placed. Her tail is long and of the whiplash order. She is finer in finish and quality than old Leda was and is very good at the hips which are both wide and deep yet not ragged. She is a gray with dark shadings and a black face, eyea handsome, horns fine, down and in-curving. She is older than Mr. Ward preferred, but he said ahe was too good to leave behind and who" ever sees her will not blame him for the importation. Lock No. 26 is springing on her first calf and I bring her in this order because I can beat summarize her description by saying that ahe seems to have started out to be a veo' close imitation of the older cow just described. She ia of the Leda type. Her half sprung udder shows six evenly placed teats. She is very deep in the rear flank and her general make-up from the hips back indicate that ahe will be a remarkable milker. I will not occupy your space farther with the females than the ten I have mentioned. I could lead alongside of them an equal number from the un- mentioned that average with them in quality and probably will bring as much at the sale. I do not wish to overstate the perfection of this importation. Tnere are points in which I would like to see ■ome of the heifera improved, but it ia difficult to get everything juat right. Aa longaa the essential workingqualuy is evi- hip and is otherwise of solid color. I have aaid little of pedigree for the reason that the papers necessary for accuracy of 8tatement are at the club office in use for registration and not avail- able at this writing. Nearly everything partakes more or lesB of Golden Lad and favorable out-crossea for the Sultanne blood. The catalogue will give all of that. Peter C. Kellogg. Why Not More Hogs? A Two-year-old Jersey Heifer of Mr. Frank 0. Ward's recent Importation: on first calf; mllhlog 18 quarts per day, very rich In cream. quite as well. Unfortunately I cannot specify these heifers by their names for the reason that their registration is now before the Club officials and itia uncertain -what they will be called. I would delay thia letter until this drawback could be remedied but as the sale is to take place Novemter 12th and California is far away yet sprung but promising well. She carries considerable flesh but has quality with it and I think will be uncommonly handsome when mature. Notwithstand denc^d by such unusual display of udders the buyer cannot be far off the track. Any herd in thia or any other country tbat can show up an equa' number of heifera milking or springing on their first calves that can compare with the entire lot in thia importation may indeed be proud of its possession. There are two bulla each coming two When an expert like Professor W. L. Carlyle, familiar with the conditions, says "The Coast States, California, Oregon and Washington, are going to raise the bw ne from which we in the East are going to breed our stock," it ia becauae he knows, aa he also aaid, that "We have the climate and other conditions which will produce the sinew, the bone and the vitality." This being so, the wonder is not that Btockmen are giving more attention to hog raising but that more general in- terest is not taken in this profitable line of stock industry. When there ia at hand a machine which will convert feed into profitable fleah eo certainly, so easily and at eo small an investment aa the hog, it is surely to be regretted that farmers and stockmen are bo alow to take advantage of it. The reasons, how- ever, are not difficult to find and the principal one, probably, is that undue fear is entertained of the danger of dis- ease. "Swine fever" and "hog cholera' have been and are bogiea which have deterred investments and even the many marked auccesaes made by hog raiaers have not eerved to remove the feara en- tertained by more timid folk. And yet there ia comparatively amall ground fbr theae feara. Although dieease ex- ists, the observance of proper sanitary methods will p event it; careful atten- tion to feeding and environment will keep the herd free from infection, and these ordinary precautions it is surely to te expected that the hog raiser will be willing to tike. A contented pig is aa profitable an animal as one can have on a farm, but no animal is contented, nor can it thrive, unless it has plenty to eat, a clean place to sleep and a chance to exercise. It requires judgment and care to raise good hogs but there are few animala which will yield better returns for the care bestowed upon them.— Lite Stock and Dairy Journal. bone: her udder shows plenty of leather and she has the deep body and general conformation that remindB me of old I want the readers of the Beeedeb and Belle Dame that was one of the stars of the Mountainside herd twenty years ago. Lock No. 59 is a stable mate of the one j last mentioned bnt looks older and is bigger and equally substantial. Her udder and teats promise well but she will not calve until December. This will put her at a disadvantage at the sale but if ' she is not a right good one she belies her i ( appearance, having grand length dis- make-up than tributed as it should be; plenty oi depth lsome other daughters of this $7,500 bull and all indications o£ and ia likeiy to make a large cow. Her \ by Isonomy and a credit to that splendid teats are just right in size and well placed young sire. and sh ia doing exceedingly well at the ' T „♦ w- en ■ a. . > . Lot No. 69 is the oldest cow in tDe im. P ' . ] portation (and one of onlv four that rate Lock No. 06 is a stunning heifer juat , beyond two year olds) and reminds me in :resh. Her bag is a load to carry and, aa ' conformation of Mr. Darling-s Lida the hough nature had prepared for that con- dam of Eupidee and other great bulla parts are remarkably | She is a dark fawn, low aet, deep in body' Sportsman- if possible to know what a good thing is coming before them in time to enable them to avail themselves of the opportunity to be present or represented at the sale. Tuis gray heifer is known in the stable as Lock No. 2-t. Lock No 30 a daughter of Flying Fox recently dropped twin calves and is now milking on her first lactation. She i ittle more ragged in her Milk aet when first drawn, or at a temperature of 95 or 98 degrees, will yield all its cream as soon aa, or very soon after its temperature has been reduced to 45 degrees if the reduction be quickly made. No method of milk setting will secure all of the cream, but deep cans, immersed in cr-ld water immediately after straining the milk, will come up next to the separator in securing all of the cream. lition, her rear ing her strong make-up she is fine of I yeara old- both ve,7 snP"ior. One is by Flying Fox out of a dam of very remark- able breeding and quality, both aides of his pedigree being high-class and faahion- ' able. The other is a black bull by Golden ' Jolly who is probably the moat popular sire on the island at the present time. Golden Jolly ia a son of Golden Fern's Lad and Brookhill Rose II, one of the most famous and grandest of the histori- cal cowb of the island. Last spring, Mr. Peer imported another of her sous under the name of Brookhill Fox which went at $1000 to the bid of Dr. C. E Still, Kirka- ville, Mo. Mr. Ward tells me that thia . young bull ia the exact counterpart of Z°l*tl\**!:^ Golden JoHy.and I think if that is the case the type as well as the color most come from Brookhill Rose II, as this bull bears a striking resemblance to Brookhill Fox, though he is even handsomer and neater. In quality he is like a new silk hat just out of the bandbox. He is full of animation and good nature. He has an odd roan (not white; spot near the left Jackson's Napa Soda does not tangle the feet $100 Reward For long years we have offered to pay this amount for any case ci Lameness, Curb, SpIlnt.ContractedCord, Colic, Distemper, etc. which cannot be cored by Turtle's Elixir We have never been obliged to pay the re- ward for obvious reasons. It's infallible in all cases of Thrush, Cra-cked s-rvd Grease Keel and all forms of Lameness. Turtle's American. Condition Powders — a specific for impure blood and all diseases arising there- from. Tones up and Inrigrrrates the entire system. Turtle's Family Elixir S,^S?£^L"^ sead a sample free far tcln Stomas, wat&j to pay p stage. Send at once for oar 100-page book "Veterinary Erperi- £-::," which we mail free. TnrQe'sElixirCo.,4370TamnSt.fSaiiFraiidscolCtJ. Be vrarr ■::*■:- ailed Elixir* — no n» genolne bnt Tattl-'). Avo:*all blisters; they offer only temporary relief; If any. NOVEMBER 7, 1903] (&he gveettev emit gpovtsman 18 Immense Agriculture Exhibit. Tbe building erected at the St. Louis Expedition for its great agricultural ex- Libit is tbe largest structure on tbe grounds, costing $SOO,000. Tbe structure is 500 feet wide by 1,600 feet long. The first group is farm equipment, and methods for improving land. This j straw-growing cereals, rice, means specimens of various systems of barley, rye, buckwheat, etc. farming, plans and models of farm build- The sugar and syrup makers will have ings, the general arrangement and equip- 1 a section where cane sugar and syrup, ment of tbe farm, and appliances and j beet sugar and maple sugar and syrup methods in use in agricultural engineer- will be shown, together with processes of ing, i. e., machinery, draining, irrigation, manufacture. and similar improvement schemes. The inedible products of the fields and Without a fair knowledge of agricul- farms will receive marked attention, tnral cbemistrv, the farmer of to-day is Textile plants, cotton, (lax and jute will starch, into glucose; the extraction of oil The character of wool as of the hairy from corn and its value as stock food, covering of all animals is greatly influ- This feature promises to be one of the enced and modified by climate. The moat interesting and will have tbe largest sheep's fleece is its natural protection number of interested spectators, since against weather and equally, as wool is a every farmer in every State grows morel growth supplied by food, both thiB and ] or less corn There will be special exhibits of the wheat, oats, not fully equipped for the fight with the land. At St. Louis he will be able to compare notes, for he will see the results of Btudy and practice about soil and water, charts, census of animals, a his- tory of agriculture in its successive chauges, and of the fluctua tionB in the priceB of land, rents, labor, live stock, crops and animal products. Institutions, co-operative societies, communities and associations that deal with or take part in experiments and the advancement of farming will be shown. The great bav or central portion of the Palace of Agricu ture will be reserved for Bpecial demonstrations in the more im portant crops of the United States be shown both in cultivation, growth and final manufacture, including processes. Medicinal plants and those producing oils, dyes and tannin and other plants useful and noxious find place to interest and in struct. the climate tend to give special character to the fleece. Cold tends to lengthen the fleece and make the fiber of it longer and coarser, but food has its very important effect as well and thus it may easily tend to modify the effects of climate. So it ie that the breed characteristics of a sheep become changed gradually by climate and feeding. The reeult of this ie that frequent change of rams is necessary to preserve the desired character of the fleece with exactitude. By strict preservation of theEe results on a sheep, both as to kind of Heece and form and figure D cass, it is quite easy to produce a distinct varietj of theep in any locality wliicl -in time may become so constant n chai as to be entitled to be called a i vegetable parasites, of plants and of ani- mals; appliances for destroying injurious insects and plant diseases; silk worms and bees and their products will be fully shown. Systematic collections of insects, of This ib net fully realized in a few, nor in perhaps twenty or forty years. The development of the dairy heifer depends not only upon proper feeding- using bulky, succulent, non-fattening feed — but on such protection from tbe elements as will render it certain that she never suffers. Early breeding is also one of the important points in the develop- ment of the dairy heifer and as the milk- ing habit comes from milking, the heifer Preparing Poison tor Gophers. :orn> j Most poison formulas call for large cotton, tobacco, the straw-growing cereals I quantities of corn or wheat so I went to and Bugar— which are designed to fully I the trouble to figure out the amount for one with her fir.t calf must be persistently comprehend all that pertains to them ; to J pint of corn. First take five teaspoon- milked, regardless of whether the quantity faithfully epitomize theBe crops, iuclud- fuls of vinegar and have ready one- of milk obtained pays or not. Xo cow ing the tools and implements used in the seventh of a teaspoonful of Bulphate of [with a six months' period of lactation preparation of the soil, in the harvesting strychnine. When the vinegar comes to ever pays, no matter how much or how and marketing, in the transforming or a holt aHH the Htrvehnino anrt aft* «ritH -a I manufacture of these crops into market- able products and by-products. These features have never before been demon- strated at any Exposition, and they here revolutionize the art of exhibiting agricul- tural products. Specially broad and comprehensive are the displays and illustrations of the pro- ducts of the cow. All that is modern and pertinent in construction, equipment and management of dairies, creameries and cheese mcking will be amplified and shown in the most entertaining manner. The New Orleans Cotton Exchange has taken oharge of the Special Cotton Exhibit and will demonstrate cotton in all its forms and features in the center of the great Palace of Agriculture. It will be artistic, comprehensive, complete. The tobacco exhibit will also be in the central bay of the Palace of Agriculture, and, as with cotton, will be thoroughly representative of all of the tobacco-grow ing states. It will occupy more than 20,000 feet of floor space and will compre- hend every phase of tobacco, its growth, curing and manufacture, together with methods of cultivation and fermentation, and the machinery used in preparing it for the great marts of the world. Tbe same general idea applied to cotton and tobacco will be carried out as to corn, its culture, harvesting and Btoring; its manufacture into foods — some forty break- fast foodB have corn as a basis— into a boil add the Btrychnine and stir with a rich the milk she gives and a long period stick till it is all thoroughly dissolved, of lactation is a matter of habit which Strychnine cannot be thoroughly dis- must be established from the outset. The dairy heifer, therefore, must be milked as long as possible, stimulating the milk flow all the while. During calfhood and later the bulky part of tbe feed should be large in order that that portion of the milking machine may have large develop- ment. The pot-bellied animal is not pretty, but a little of it is no blemieh to Sober up on Jackson's Napa Soda. solved in water. Now add to this com- pound of vinegar and strychnine one-half nint of warm water Pour this upon a pint of corn and let soak for eighteen hours. Then puur over it a syrup made in the following manner: Dissolve one-half pint of sugar in one pint of water and let it boil down one-third. Cool it and add a the dairy calf or heifer. few drops of annis oil which may be ob- o- tained at any drug store. Tbe oil emits an odor attractive to the gopher and other pests. Spread the corn out to dry in a safe place and when sufficiently dried keep in a tight jar with a screw cover or j a bottle, poison for a gopher. To determine quite accurately one- seventh of a teaspoonful of Btrychnine fill the spoon first with meal or dirt and divide as nearly as may be into seven equal piles. Then put one of the piles ' naturafpacer and with but little track work can into a teaspoon and put as much Btrych For Sale— Ben F. 2:10 The unbeatten pacer of 1903, Ben F. 2:10 by One grain contains enough Bradtmoor.Isoffered for sale- Is sound and in fine shape, and will be sold right. Apply to tbe un- dersigned. L. R PALMER, Walnut Creek, Contra Costa Co.. Cal. FOR SALE. T^HE PACING MARE 8WANHILDA. She Is -L a handsome bay, coming seven years old nine in another epoon. Of course if one has fine ecaleB the proportion could be obtained by weight, but farmers fre- quently have nothing in this line better than a pair of spring scales more or less inaccurate. For a quart of corn or wheat twice the given amount3 could be used although the common pint tin muBt be pace a mile below 2:30 with ease. Gent kind and has been d-iven by ladles to buggy- She Js a fine roadster and with proper training will make a great race mare. For pedigree and further particulars address W. L. MCDONALD, Concord, Cal. FOR SALE. TTOUR-YEAR-OLD BAY GELDING BY LIN- ■£ wood Wilkes 2:20; dam, the standard and reg- istered mare Juaoita Skinner by Silas Skinner 2:17; second dam. Gfpsey by Echo 462; third dam, Jean by Black Hawk 7.» *tc h tuu, w< tn, Touri trslr, J. W.PATia*B05. Price St; sl* (or $5. A* a Itnlnent fur family UselthflJsnoequaL A«lc>ourdruvbcl"C tor Ken* dsil's Spavin Cure, uI--j "A Treatise on the Hor»e," the book tree, or ad irt-ea OR. B. J. KENDALL CO., EHOSBURG FALLS, VT. NEW MODEL 1903 ^ MADE. O'BRIEN & SONS Cor. Golden Gate Ave. and Polk St. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL J. W. Zibbell's Training Stables Corner Point Lobos Road and 20 th Avenue, San Francisco. HORSES TRAINED FOR TRACK OR ROAD and satisfaction guaranteed. Terms reason- able. Horses bonght and sold. w r re--. -.■■■-. N C E HoGCATTlf*Ul%!«ETT|NG]>«l*|,E WESrCOAST.WIRE^IRONWOM 19 FREMONT -ST.SAN FRANOSCO. I CALIFORNIA Photo Engraving Company HIGH CLASS ART IK Half Tones and Line Engraving Artistic Designing. 616 HiMlon St.. cor. First. San Kranclicv DAIRY EVOLUTION FODDER «mi BUTTER ALL DAIRY APPARATUS AND SUPPLI G. G. WICKSON & CO. 34-36 MAIN STREET, SAN FRANC1SC ©he <§xeel>ev emit gfcpo-trtsmtm [November|7, 3903 THE BAYWOOD STUD THE BUNGALOW, SAN MATEO, CAL. (Property ol Johk Pabbott, Esq.) Devoted Exclusively to the Breeding and Training of Sigh Stepping Hackney-Bred Harness Horses ■WALTER SEALT, Manager. THE CONEY ISLAND JOCKEY CLUB RACE COURSE, SHEEPSHEAD BAY, N. Y. OFFICE: Windsor Arcade, 571 Fifth Avenue, N. Y. EVENTS TO CLOSE Monday, November 16, 1903 FOS THE JUNE MEETING, 1904. THE FOAM. SB?£HT TUC CI IDE S2500 ADDED. 1 I1C JURr, (Foals of 1902). (Estimated lvalue. STOOO). FOR TWO-YEAR-OLDS FIVE TTRLOXGS (Estimated Valne, STOOO). FOR TWO-TEAR-OLDS FIVE AND A HALF Fl RLONGS FOE THE JUNE MEETING, 1905. THF TlflAT 820>000' F0R THREE-YEAR-OLDS (Foals ol 1902 MILE ASD A OCARTEK THE I AWPFNfP PFAI I7ATION 810,000 ADDED. (Estimated Valoe lilt, LAWKElvC rvDrlLItrV 1 lUH. 840,000). FOR THREE-YEAR OLDS (Foals of 1902). ONE MILE AND FIVE FrR LONGS THE UCDUlin S3000 ADDED. (Estimated Valne, S7O0O). FOR FILLIES THREE lnC JHEI\1YIAiI». YEARS OLD (Foalsof 1902). ONE MILE ASD A FrRLONG FOE THE AUTUMN MEETING, 1905. FOR FILLIES SIX FURLONGS THE fiPPAT EII I V 85000 ADDED. (Estimated Valne, 820.000 1I1C UK.CA1 TILLI. TWO YEARS OLD (Foals of 1903). THE TENTIIDV 830,000. FOR THREE- YEAR-OLDS AND UPWARDS (now yearlings 1 HE VEHlUtV.!. andnpwards). ONE MILE AND A HALF FOE THE AUTUMN MEETINGS. 1905 AND AFTEE. THE ANNUAL CHAMPION. fF20^o?19S™E^AR-°LDS AND TIPWABD TWO MILES AND A QCAKTEK FOE THE JUNE MEETING. 1906. THE LAWRENCE REALIZATION, i&o^o0, aufor -ll^w"^ (Foals of 1903). THREE-YEAR-OLDS ONE MILE AND FIVE FURLONGS Entry Blanks may be had on application to the office of the Breeder and Sportsman, or from the CLERK OF THE COURSE. The Coney Island Jockey Club, Windsor Arcade, 571 Fifth Avenue, New Yore City. VETERINARY PIXINE CURES irease Heel, Scratches and Hoof Rot, -crutonic, ulcerated 'complicated-of the most deep seated character; Cracked or chapped teats, caked bag, cow pox and all inflammatory affections of the udder; Saddle and Collar Galls, Hopple i Chafes , and Abscesses, Old chronic Sores, the result i of pressure by badly fitting harness or by irritating masses (of dirt, sweat and hair under the harness. It makes a positive and permanent cure by producing healthy granulations, building up new cellular tissues, healing naturally from the bottom without scab or scar and stimulating growth of hair, natural color. It penetrates, soothes and heals while horse works. .Absolutly Guaranteed. Mopey back if it fails. ■2 oz. 25c; 8oz. 50c; " 51b. pkg. $4.00. At all Dealers or sent prepaid. send toe for sample Troy Chemical Coj BOX AND BOOKLET. TROY, N. Y. ' Percherons. This breed was brought to a high state of excellence in the distiict once known as LePerche in northern France south of Normandy. Horses frDm this region have been largely imported into the United States where there are now bred and reared extensively, the first importation to attract wide attention being made fifty years ago into Cnion and Pickaway counties, Ohio, where the; were commonly known as the | French. Upon closer study of their I origin and history they have been desig- 1 nated as Percherons. From time to | time other importations were made and the appellation of Percheron has been firmly fiypfl upon these horses through- out the United States. Much disagree- ment has arisen in this country as to the proper name of these horses, princi- pally from the fact that earlier importa- tions of French horses, especially to Illinois and adjacent states, had been called Normans and these French horses have been variously known as Percher- ons, Percheron-Normans, Norman-Per- cherons, Normans and French horses, a superfluity of names exceedingly con- fusing and unsatisfactory. Several at- tempts were made to compromise on a suitable and popular r.bbreviation, none of which were successful until the or- ganization of the Societe Hippique Per- cheronne in France in July, 1883, and the publication of a Percheron stud book in that country finally furnished ar easy solution of the difficulty. The American society in the same year de- cided to adopt and adhere to the only name by which the breed is said to be recognized in its native country — the Percheron. The lineage of a 'arge per- centage of the most noted of the modern Percherons seems to have been satis- factorily and definitely traced to the sire Gray Arabian, Gallipoli, imported into France about 1S20, and to the Arab blood is generally attributed the more general gray color — the form, disposition and general characteristics also being very strong evidence of them being of Arabian descent, while their original size is believed to be derived from the large Black horses of Flanders. In France the original color is gray while in this country black is perhaps the favorite. According to high authority the French breeders develop the blacks not especially for quality but to suit the fancy of Americans and if the quality feature is in the imallest degree over- looked there is great likelihood of not only producing an inferior animal but at the same time an altogether too large a one. — Denver Field and Farm. How to Stack Alfalfa. Vita r^Oil No racing stable should be without the greatest of all horse liniments. Cures Rheumatism, Sprains, Cuts, Bruises, Cramps, Colic, Stiffness, Soreness, Aches and Pains. A single trial will prove all we could say. AM Druggists and Harness Dealers or Vita Oil Co., 1533 Buchanan St San Francisco, Cal. J, A. McKerron and J, O'Kane, Agts Hunt and Fish ALOTtO THE LINE OF THE (LESSEE OF THE S. F. £ N. P. R. B.) Best Hunting and Fishing In tbe State Numerous and Popular Resorts Hot and Gold Mineral Springs HEALTH PLEASURE RECREATION Floe Camping Grounds on Beaittfal Streams Best Section in California for Fruit and Breeding Farms The route to San Rafael, Petaluma, Santa Rosa TJklah, and the Famous Pleasure and Health Resorts In Lake County. Saturday to Monday round-trip tickets at reduced rates. Tickbt Offices— 850 Market Street, Chronicle Building, and Tlburon Ferry. B. X. RYAN. Gen. Paw. Aft. E. NEWELL, Pacific Coast Agent, 519 Mission St., San Francisco William Lomas, a Texas farmer writes i as follows : On our highly fertilized land, and in a wet weather country, four tone i to the acre at one cutting of clover hay, '. oats and vetches, oats and English peas, ' and other very successful forage crops 1 were difficult to make into hay, so that , we had to haul part of the crop into a , clean pasture field to cure, and even then it was often too sappy to keep in a large ; stack. "We made a staddle of heavy ' brush, or anything that would let the air , underneath the stack, and we filled four'f bushel sacks hard with straw or old hay. These were set at distances along the center of the stack, at the staddle, for our stacks were long, and in these cases not very wide. In building the stack we would tread round these sacks, and pull them up as we built, carrying them up to the top of the roof. Our stacks were built so that the drop from the eaves fell one foot awav from the sides of the stack, at the ground, and we thatched all our stacks. On dull mornings the steam would be seen to reek out of these pipe holes jest like a chimney, but the hay was safe and good. It was not unusual for careless farmers to lose stacks by spontaneous combustion by neglecting this. — Win. Lomas. Books and Pictures ABOtJT California Mountains, Valleys, Canyons, Lakes and Seaside and Vacation Places. Shall It Be A Camp In the Forest A Mountain Lake A Good Hotel Trout for Breakfast or A Seaside Retort and Clam Chowder for Dinner The Publications of the Southern Pacific Cover all Desirable Places and answer question! of Distance, Accommodations, Expense, Fares, Route, etc. Nothing' Left to the imagination. Inquire at INFORMATION BUREAU 613 3IARKET STREET FOR SALE. \ HORSE FOALED 1S97; SISE SAN DIEGO -^ S776, dam Belle Emmet by Hambrino Willies 6083; 16 hands higb. weighs about 13X1 lbs.: fast, gentle, drives single or donble. Address H. P. H HAGGETT. Lower Lake. Cal. November .1903] ®he gvee&ev anb grjwrtsmutt 15 RALLISTITF *"^^ The Standard Dense Powder of the World. ^™™ STILL LEADS AT THE TRAPS OR IN THE FIELD. Ballistite wins from the limit marks in distance handicaps, at either live birds or flying targets as it always gives the highest velocities with the closest and most even patterns at all ranees Ballistite is absolutely unvarying in results, being waterproof, smokeless, odorless without residue ressures lower than black powder. unaHected by age or climatic changes and never pits rusts or orrodes the barrels. Ballistite is sold with above guarantee. ' Take No One's Word. Try It for Yourself. J H LAU &, CO 75 CHAMBERS ST,, NEW YORK CITY **■ ' ■■ ^^»V# S* V-'V-Zi Telephone 1717 Franklin. Importers and Dealers In Fire Arms, Ammunition and Fencing Goods. Sole Agents for THE REBLE GUN and BALLISTITE (Dense) and EMPIRE (Bulk) SMOKELESS POWDERS. A postal brings catalogue and "Shooting Facts" (third edition) RALLISTITF "■"■^ The Standard Dense Powder of the World. "™^ SPRATTS PATENT. DOG CAKES REMEDIES SOAP. NEWARK, N. J. Send (or free copy of "DOQ CULTURE." ST. LOUIS, Pacific Coast Branch— 1334 Valencia Street, San Francisco Agents for "SANITAS" Disinfectant. (I NEW E. C." NEW "SCHULTZE" SHOTGUN RIFLEITE —«„»», „ THE AMERICA* "E. C." and "StHllLTZE" Bunpomhr Co., Ltd PHTL. B BEKKABT CO.. Paolno Coast Representative CAMPBELL'S FOOT REMEDY best" Hedy EVER USED ON HORSES' FEET. IT PENETRATES and DRIES IN quickly and DOES NOT GUM and FILL UP THE PORES like tar and oil compounds. It is the GREATEST REMEDY ever used to remove SORENESS and FEVER from the foot, and makes it possible to get good services out of a horse working on hard and hot pavements It gives natural nourishment to the foot and incites a rapid, healthy growth— ALL DRYNESS AND BRITTLE- NESS quickly disappears. QUARTER CRACKS and SAND CRACKS are rapidly grown out when directions given in our booklet are followed It Is a SURE CURE for CORNS, CONTRACTED FEET and NAIL WOUNDS if directions are followed. It PRESENTS SOUND FEET FROM BECOMING UN- SOUND and GROWS a TOUGH, STRONG. ELASTIC WALL and HEALTHY FROG— A FOOT WHICH WILL STAND WORK on race courses. Many of the best owners and trainers state tbat for track work nothing equals it. In many cases horses have reduced their records several seconds, due to its use. It is a CER1 AIN CURE for THRUSH and SCRATCHES We Guaraoice That It Will Do Wfaat We Claim and Will Refund Money If It Falls. PRICKS:— Quarts. $1 00; Half-Gallon, $1.75; Gallon, $3 00: ^-Gallon, $5.50; Five-Gallon, $10.00. Books giving full directions for its use and much valuable information as to shoeing are supplied free. Don't fall to read "ad." giving information concerning Campbell's Iodoform Gall Cure In next Issue of this paper. It is the best and because of its merits is rapidly displacing all others. JAS. B. CAHPBELL&CO . Manufacturers, 412 W.nadison St., CHICAGO, ILL (23d YEAR) "CHARTS" Showing exact position of every horse, including the favorite, which was either first, second third or fourth at each quarter pole, also positions at start. Events reported from all parts of Canada and United States. Issued the 1st and 16th of every month, from April 15th to Ootober 15th. Price 60c, 75c. or $1, according to Issue. For sale at all principal hotels, news stands and race tracks in the country, and publishers' office. GOODWIN BROS., 1440 Broadway, N. X. Annual Subscription, §18, which includes all semimonthly editions and two morocco bound semi-annuals. Explanatory circular mailed free. For sale by the Breeder and Sportsman. San Jose st.b CHAMPION HANOVER MONARCH (A. K. C. S. B. 5998) by the great aire Ch Ellwyn Astrologer from Ch Old Hall Moon Fee 815. Pictures and Pedigree upon applica tion. High-class Puppies for sale. The Great Combination Show Of Dogs, Poultry, Cats, Pigeons and Pet Stock At MECHANIC'S PAVILION, Dec. 2 to 5. The biggest* show ever held west of Chicago. Dogs from all over tbe Pacific Coast will be pres- ■ent. Entry forms and Premium Lt tsmay be ob- tained at: San Francisco— Breeder & Sports- man office, 36 Geary St.; No. 33 Market St. Sac- ramento—Matt. Coffey, I3f»5 G. St , Sacramento. Portland— W. W. Peaslee, 453 Sherlock Block, Portland. Oregon Seattle— Chas. McAllister, City Hall. Seattle, Wash ; Geo Tinto, Sunnydale. Wash. Victoria— Frank Turner. 68 Fourth St., Victoria, B C . or from the Secretary, N. J. Stew- art, Polhemus St., San JoserCal. Entries Close November 23, 1903. [MTIiEi BUSINESS COLLEGE 24 Post Street, San Francisco, Cal. The oldest, the largest, the most popular com- mercial school on the Pacific Coast. 20,000 gradu- ates; 30 teaohers: 70 typewriters; over 300 students annually placed In positions. Send for catalogue. E. P. HEALD, President. VETERINARY. DR. C. MASOERO VETERINARY SURGEON Graduate of Royal Veterinary College of Turin. Infirmary and Residence — 811 Howard St.: between Fourth and Fifth Sts.. San Francisco. Telephone: Main 457. FOR SALE. Three Standard-Bred Trotting Stallions WILKES STOCK. One Seal Brown, 16 hands, foaled May 2, 1898; first dam Fearless by Fallis 4"8i (record 2:23); second dam Jean Perault by Signal 3327. One Golden Bay, 16.1 hands, foaled March 5, 1898; first dam Signal by Del Sur 1098 (record -2:24), dam of Guy Line 2:29?^; second dam Lady SIgi nal by Signal 3327. One Brown, white points, 16.1 hands, foaled April, 1899: full brother to the bay. These colts are all sfred by Prince Airlee 280-J5, son of Guy Wilkes 2507 (record 2:15M). and bred by Wm. Corbitt, San Mateo, Cal. They are pure gaited and show wonderful speed for the little work they have done. For further particulars apply to P. H. McEVOT, Menlo Park, Cal. ROSE HOTEL PLEASANTON. CAL. Enlarged, Rebuilt. Twenty-five New Rooms Newly Furnished, Electric Lights, Running Water. Up to date. A. S. OLNBY & SON - Propri etora Ira Barker Balziel VETERINARY DENTIST Fancy Carriage, Saddle and Roar* Horses for Sale Office and stable: 605 Golden Gate Avenue, San '■ Francisco, Cal. Telephone South 651. M. R. C. V. S.. F. E. V. M. S. VETERINARY SURGEON. Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, England; Fellow of the Edinburg Veterinary Medical Society; Graduate of the New Veterinary College, Edinburgh; Veterinary Sur- geon to the S. F. Fire Department; Live Stock Inspector forNew Zealand and Australian Colonies RI AK.F at the portof San Francisco; Professor of Equine . "*-r»"*-'» Medicine, Veterinary Surgery, Veterinary Depart- ment University of California; Ex-President ni the California State Veterinary Medical Associa- tion; Veterinary Infirmary, Residence and Office, San Francisco Veterinary Hospital. 1117 Golden Gate Avenue, near Webster St., San Francisco: Telephone West 128. Chronic Bronchitis and Catarrh of the Bladder Cured In 48 Hours. mm CAPSULES After a Brush you will find ABSORBINE -*^' ^-r_ quick to remove *-* the inflammation from any bruise or strain. No blister, no hairgone, and you can use the Horse. ABSORBINE removes any soft bunch in a pleasing manner. $2.00 per bottle of regular dealers or delivered. W. F. YOUNG, P. D. F., SPRINGFIELD, - - MASS. Also manufacturer of Taroleum for horses feet. For sale by Mack ft Co., Langley&MIohuels Co Redington & Co., J. O'Kane, and J. A. McKerioc all of San Francisco. AT STUD CUBA Oh KENWOOD (Glenbelgli Jr.— Stella) SAM'S BOW (Plain Sam-Dolly I>9e n) STOGKDALE KENNELS K. M. DODGE, Manager, Bakersfleld, Kern Co., Boarding. Pointer Puppies and well-broken Docs for sale. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS Advertisements under this head one cent per word per insertion. Cath to accompany order. BULL TERRIERS. TJTJLL TERRIER AT STUD-JUMPING JACK J-> (direct from John P. Colby); 31 ibs.; by Tige out of Molly by Racine's Sam, brother to Danger. Fee $15, less half express charges. Best care taken of bitches. E. F. KIESSLING. Keswick, Cal. COCKER SPANIELS. FOR SALE. -T-HE PACING GELDING, AL SANDY 2:26 ■*- by Wayland W., dam Rapid Add by Overland. Can pace three heats better than 2:30. Can brush Tery fast od the road. Also the blaok pacfog gelding, DOC 2:28, one of the best roadsters tn the city. Can lower his record several seconds. Both horses are excellent prospects to race. For prices and further particulars address S. WATSON, 235 Douglas street, San Francisco. riOTNG EAST. MUST BE SOLD. PLUMERIA y- Cocker Kennels' prize winners, PLUMERIA VICTORIA (bred to Champion Hampton Goldie) and others. Last chance to use the phenomenal sire. Champion HAMPTON GOLDIE, at stnd, Fee $3) Going East. 229 Ninth Avenue. Phone- Geary 1620. FOR SALE— COCKER SPANIEL PUPPIES by Ch. Hampton Goldie. Apply at junction old county and Redwood roads, Frultvale, Alameda ST. BERNARDS \ T STUD— CHAMPION LE KING. GRAND- -^ est headed St Bernard on the Coast. Fee $20. W. WALLACE. 53 Boyce St., San Francisco. IRISH AND SCOTCH TERRIERS. TRISH AND SCOTCH TERRIER PUPPIES -1- at $12 and $15 Sired by Champion Loyno Roman and Champion Fighting Mao. Mrs. BRADLEY-DYNE. Saturna P. O B. C. COLLIES. pOLLIE PUPS FOR SALE-BY PRIZE ^ winning Imported sires and dams, fit for bench, ranch or farm Bothsexes- Prices accord* ing to quality. Correspondence solicited: all let- ters cheerfully answered. THOS. S. GRIFFITH, Box 1907. Spokane. Wash BREEDERS' DIRECTORY. HOLSTETNS— Winners of every 7 days' butter contest at State Fair 1899 1st & 2d for aged cows, 4-yr., 3-yr. and 2-yr.-olds; 21 Jerseys and Durhama competing. 5th year my Holstelns have beaten Jerseys for butter. Stock for sale; also pigs. F. H. Burke, 80 Montgomery St., S. F. Superior to Copaiba. Cobebs or Injection /^OCOANUT OIL CAK.E M0FFITT & D3ALERS IN T0WNE 55-57-59-61 First Street, S. TlIJPHOFi MAUT:i09 THE BEST FEED FOR STOCK, CHICKENS AND PIGS FOR 8ALB TS LOTS TO SUIT BT EL DORADO LINSEED OIL WORKS CO 208 California Stz-««t, San Franctioo, Cal. JERSEYS, HOLSTELNS AND DCRHAMS. Dairy Stock specially. Hogs, Poultry. Estab- lished 1876. William Nlles & Co. Loa Angeles, Cal. AYR 8 HIRES— Young Bulla. Cows and Helfen. Registered. From prize winning families. Brown ftTBraodao Petalums Cal.' PEDIGREES TABULATED And type written Resdy ior framing. Write for prices. 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San Francisco, Coast Representative Du Pont Gun Powder SMOKELESS, SHOT GUN and MILITARY FOWDEB Black Powder for Sporting and Blasting Purpose* rbe Reputation of a Hundred Yean ii the Guarantee of 53« MARKET STREETS. F. C. A HAIGHI, !»■), DU PONT POWDER 519 Million St., Room 311, San FraaeUca, Oal T ILOILO 2:15 BY WELCOME 2:10J i ROSIE WOODBURX 2:16 by Easter Wilkes 2 ®ite gvezbev attbr *fcpavtsntan fNOVEMBER 14, 1H3 A.T?TE31Nri3 THE! Red Ribbon Speed Sale TO TAKE PLACE AT THE OCCIDENTAL HORSE EXCHANGE 246 THIRD STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 17, 1903 Commencing at 7:45 o'clock sharp. The greatest care has been exercised in selecting the following well-bred colts and fillies, many of them are being trained at the Pleaianton track where they can be seen daily. Competent judges pronounce them the most uniform lot of handsome youngsters ever seen on that famous course. They must be sold. There is to be no reserve, and as this is perhaps the last opportunity to get the blood of the BireB that made California famous it is of vital importance to farmers, horse breeders and lovers of good horses to attend this sale, and get animals they can take pride in and if neceBsary make money with as many are heavily engaged in stakes. Following is only a synopsis of a few to be sold: CONSIGNED BY Xame and Sire H. C. SANDERS, ESQ., Brown filly (2) by Rey Direct 2:10. . Directory (2) by Key Direct 2:10. .„. Brown gelding (2) by Diablo 2:09^- Black filly (1) by Chas. Derby 2:20 ... BeyDirecton (1) by Rey Direct 2:10... Bay filly (3) by Chas. Derby 2:20. . Reina Directum (1) by Rey Direct 2:10. . Black filly (1) by Rey Direct 2:10 Rey McGregor (J) by Rey Direct 2:10. . . FLEASANTON, CAX. Dam's Family. Birdie McClain by Adirondack, grandam by Ore- gon Pathfinder. Mamie H by California Black Hawk, grandam bvPoscora Hayward, etc. Missie Medium by Rampart (son of Almont 33} . grandam Belle Medium (Dam of StamB. &11M). by Happy Medium, great grandam Argenta by Almont Lightning, etc. May" {dam" of BavTEum 2:25) by Anteeo 2:16^: grandam by Capiain Webster U173 Babe Marion 2: IT1, by Steinway 2:25 v, grandam Ida Wood (dam of Owyhee 2:11) by Simmons 2:28. etc. Nannie Smith (sister to Phil Thompson 2:16, etc.) by Red Wilkes: grandam Gray Nellie by John Dillard, etc. Stemwindei £31 (dam of Directum 2:05^ etc.) by Venture 2:27^: grandam Kate by St Lawrence. Mamie H. by California Black Hawk, grandam by Poscora Hayward. Lurline (sister to W. W. Foote 2:15^. Algregot 2:11) by Steinway; grandam Maggie McGregor by Robt. McGregoriiiTiitsire of Cresoeus 1:5834.) Mamie H. by California Black Hawk, grandam by Poscora Hayward An tee ra by Anteeo 2:165^; grandam Debonair by Sultan; 'great grandam Ferguson mare by Williamson 'b Belmont. Diana by Diablo 2:09M: grandam Belle Robbins (dam of Pleasanton 2:29H> by Tarrascon, etc. Inei(dam of Alamo 2-.2SV4, Our Jack 8:1814) by Sweepstakes: grandam Dolly Bull (dam of Inez 2:224) bv Kentucky Bertrand. Belle Robbins (dam of Pleasanton 2:29m) by Tarrascon: grandam Black Bessie by Blucher dam by Guy Wilkes (pedigree will be published in catalogue.) _ .".'. Direct filly by Direct 2:05%; grandam by Hewlett a Echo, son of Echo. CONSIGNED BY P. J. WILLIAMS, MLLPITAS, CAL. Ogden(half brother to Monterey 2#9j<). b c by 1 Hattie (dam of Monterey 2:0flJ* and Montana Egyptian Prlnoe 2:16J<) by Com. Belmont, grandam Barona by | Woodford Mambrlno etc Chestnut flUy (1) by Monterey 2:09M Lo Lo {sister to Leap Year 2:26 and Iago2-.ll) by Tempest, grandam Eulogy by Commodore Bel- | mont, etc. CONSIGNED BY THOS. SMITH, YALLEJO, CAX. Black filly (l) by Rey Direct 2:10.. Black filly (2) by Rey Direct 2:10.. Black filly (1) by Rey Direct2:I0.. Bay colt (3) by Owyhee 2:11 Bay mare (6) by Diablo 2:09 j<. Bay filly (1) by Hart Boswell. Black filly (l) by Chas: Derby. Chestnut gelding (4) by Geo. Washington 2:15.. Trilby 2:215i by Mambrlno Chief, Jr Bay gelding (pacer)by Lin wood by Nutwood 2:18ii'. Chestnut gelding by Diablo 2tf9K Venus (see catalogue.) _ t Fanny McGiU by Bell Allen, he by Vick's Ethan Allen: grandam Jennie Lind. By Como. grandam by Battledore. Sweet Rosie (see catalogue ) CONSIGNED BY Belle (5) by Abbotsford Jr L. M. LASELL, MARTLNEZ, CAL. Direct Steinway (2) by Direct Fils, son of Direct 2:05% Clarion (7) by Dexter Prince May B. by Sidmore 2:19.. May by Romeo 2:26; grandam Belle Caprice by Steinway 2:253£; g g d Bonnie Caprice by Ethan Allan Jr , to 7th dam by Easton's David Hill. Belle Caprice bv Steinway 2:25^: grandam Bon- nie Caprice bv Ethan Allen Jr. Clarion 2:253£ bv Ansel 2:20; grandam Consolation (dam of 2) by Dictator; g g d Belle by Norman 25, etc Dingley Dill by Gibraltar 2:22; grandam by Nut- wood 2:183*. CONSIGNED BY C. ARCHER, LINDEN, CAX. Edith 2:10 (in foal to Searchlight 2:03m) bv Dei- 1 ter Prince Parse fdamof Reno Prince 2:25 (trial 2:14), Edith I 2:10) by Hamilton Chief; grandam Dolly by IBelshazzar. ■ Edith 2:10 by Dexter Prince, etc. Edith HcKinley (2) by McKinley, son of McKin- 1 ney2:llM I Edith 2:10 by Dexter Prince, etc. CONSIGNED BY OTHER OWNERS. Monaco 2:15 by McKinney 2:11M I By Director 2:17: grandam by Hawthorne: g g d I Ryan mare (dam of 4) by Black Hawk. Mojave 2:15M by Dexter Prince I By Reliance. Chestnut colt (3) by Silver Bow 2:16 Venturess by Arthurton; grandam Lady Venture 1 by Williamson's Belmont, etc and many others. I will also sell 7 handsome Shetland Ponies, consigned by Geo. A. Davis, Pleasanton Every animal is well broken and will be led by the side of a saddle horse. Particular attention iB called to the breeding of these horses. Their individuality stamps them as the best looking, best limbed and best developed trotters and pacers ever led into a salesring. Catalogues will be issued at once. Horses at salesyard November 14th. WM. G, LAYNG, Live Stock Auctioneer, 246 Third St., San Francisco c PALACE HOTEL, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA. 5 TOURISTS and TRAVELERS will, now, with difficulty recognize the famous COURT into which for twenty-five years carriages have driven. This space of over a quarter of an acre has recenily, by the addition of very handsome furniture, rags, chandeliers and tropical plants, been converted into a :ounging room— the FINEST IN THE WORLD. The EMPIRE PARLOR— the PALM ROOM, furnished in Cerise, with Billiard and Pool tables lor the ladies— the LOUIS XV PARLOR the LADIES WRITING ROOM and numerous other modern Improvements, together with the unexcelled Cuisine and the Most Convenient Location in the City— all add much to the ever increasing popularity of this most famous HOTEL. Lou Dillon Beats All Trotting Records Driven by MILLARD SANDERS she makes a mile in one minute, fifty-eight and one- half seconds at Memphis, Tenn., Oct. 24, 1903. 1 ^/^A^ • ^'HG^ *^t'^te Sept. 7, at the Fasig-Tipton sale at Sheepshead Bay, a yearling by Esher-Excellenra was being sold by Mr. William Easton, aod when the animal was led into the ring he said: "This horse has been suffering from a bog spavin, of which practically no trace remains. He was treated with that remedy called "Save-the-Horse." which all of you know, and ft did save the horse — that is it cured him. Now, .you know lots of great horses, Morello and others, were successfully raced, and there is no reason to expect that this colt will ever take a lame step." The bidding opened then at $350, and the colt was sold for $800 to Mr. J- D. Smith. Private Stables Jas. Galwav, Race Track, Saratoga. N. Y. I got a bottle of "Save-the-Horse" first of Moseman & Bra. of New York, and used same on ring- bone, curing it entirely. I next used "Save-the-Horse" on two splints and cured them. Have also used it on a strained Pastern Joint, which made horse very lame: it cured this also. I predict a great output of -'Save-the-Horse." It has never failed to cure any case I used it on.— EDWARD FEaKS, Trainer for Jas. Galwaj of 312 w;. 56th st., New York, owner of Meltonian. It is the truths that ring out sound and clear and impressive — actual results like the above from men whose standing and reliability can be readily ascertained— which have made "Save the-Horse" such a success. Their cured horses are living advertisements, absolute certainties as to the possi- bility of the remedy for your own case, and with every bottle is a guarantee document as binding to protect yon as the best legal talent could make it. "SAVE-THE-HORSE" Cures Without Scar, Blemish or Loss of Hair. Applied anywhere, and in all conditions and extremes of weather. Horses may be worked as usual with shin or ankle boots, as no harm can result from destruction of hair or scalding of limb. POSITIVELY AND PERMANENTLY CUBES BONE AND BOG SPAVIN. THOBOCGHPfN. RINGBONE (except low ringbone). CURB. SPLINT. CAPPED HOCK. WINDPUFF. SHOE BOIL. WEAK AND SPRAINED TENDONS. AND ALL LAMENESS. S5.00 PER. tOTTLE. Written guarantee with every bottle given under onr seal and signature, constructed solely to satisfy and protect yon fully. Need of second bottle is almost improbable, except In rarest of cases. Copy of booklet and guarantee sent upon application. S5.00 a bottle at all druggists of dealers, or sent express prepaid. TROY CHEMICAL CO., D. E. NEWELL, 519 Mission St.. Manufacturers, San Francisco, Cal. TROY, N. Y. Pacific Coast Agent- PUTS OINTMENT FOR HORSES stands at the head of all veterinary remedies. Such troubles I as Spavins, Curbs, Windpufis, Splints, Bunches have no [ terrors for a horse if the master keeps and applies Quinn's Ointment. All [ well known horsemen speak of it in the highest terms : Miller ± Sibley of Franklin, Pa., owners of St. Bel, brother of late Bel Boy, write, "We have used Quinn's Ointment with great success and believe it fulfills all claimed for it. We cheer- fully recommend it to oar friends.1 ' For Curbs, Splints, Spavins or Bunches it has no equal. Price fi.oo per package. Sold by all druggists, or sent by mftil. W. B. EDDY 4 CO,," WHITEHALL, N. Y. Awarded Gold Medal At California State Fair 1893. Every horse owner who values his stock should constantly have a sup- ply of it on hand. It improves and keeps ■ck in the pink of 'condition. Vlaobattan Food Co BALL BRAND. 1 253 FoUom St., San Francisco ABk your grocers or dealers for it. RED Positively Cures Colic, Scouring and Indigestion. C. P. EEBTELL, Manager NOVEMBER 14, 1903] ®h* gvee&ev anb ^pavistnan 8 THE WEEKLY BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN F. W. KELLEY, PROPRIETOR. Turf and Sporting Authority of the Pacific Coast, — office— 36 QEARY STREET, SAN FRANCISCO. P. O. BOX 2300. Telephone: Black 586. emiB— One Tear 83. Six Months 81.75, Three Months 81 STRICTLY m ADVANCE. Money snould be sent by postal order, draft or by registered letter addressed to F. W. KELLET, 36 Geary St., San Francisco. Cal. Communications most be accompanied by tne writer's name and address, not necessarily for publication, but as a private guarantee of good faith. San Francisco, Saturday, November 14, 1903. ORRIN A HICKOK, the veteran driver, died at Cleveland, Ohio, on Tuesday of this week after a long illness. Orrin Hickok was one of the old guard, and few reinsmen were better known to the people of the whole country. In the early 70's he toured the country with Budd Doble, who was ex- hibiting the champion trotter Goldsmith Maid. At these exhibitions Mr. HicKok drove the mare Lucy and the two mares, piloted by those two master reins- men, brought the people in the grand 6tands to their feet in many an exciting finish. They came to Califor- nia in 1872, having been guaranteed $20,000 and ex- penses for the exhibitions made here. In October, 1879, when General Grant reached San Francisco on his return from a trip around the world, among other entertainments provided was an attempt by the trotter St. Julien, driven by Orrin Hickok, to lower the world's record of 2:13}, held at that time by Rarus. Gen. Grant occupied a seat in the judges' stand and held a watch. The mile was made in 2:12| amid much enthuvasm. The old stand now occupies a conspicuous place on the beautiful lawn at Oakland track, having been placed there by order of President Williams when the California Jockey Club came into possession of the property and transformed it into a modern race course. Mr. Hickok campaigned many noted horEes during his turf career, among them the great Palo Alto three year old Expressive 2:12} and Mr. A. B. Spreckels' great mare Hulda 2:031, who won two heats in the $20,000 Columbia free for all at the Chicago World's Fair and then broke a bone in her ankle and had to be withdrawn after having the race at her mercy. Until a few years ago Orrin Hickok was con- sidered quite well to do, but on giving up the trotters he became a follower of tbe running horses and lost his all trying to pick the winners. Two years ago he again took up the training of harness horses, and handled Thornway and Clipper at the Pleasanton track for Col. J. C. Kirkpatrick, taking the two p icers to Cleveland in the spring of 1902. He was taken ill soon after reaching there and lost his mind. He was well cared for at a private hospital there until a few weeks ago when he became so violently insane that it was necessary to send him to an asylum, where death soon came to his relief. /CRESCEUS' MILE at Wiohita is now under inves- v—' tigation by the American and National Trotting Associations, and when their verdiot is announced the truth of the matter will be known. There has not been sufficient evidence given the public as yet, however, to justify the hysterical daily press in its claim that the mile in 1:59} was a fake. The first charge, that the track is ISO feet short of a mile, made with so much noise and assurance, has been utterly disproved by official measurement made this week. The track, measured on the inside, is a little over two feet longer than a mile, just as the officers of the Wichita association claimed. There have been statements made by parties who were present and who claimed to have timed the mile of Cresceus that it was as slow as 2:06, but there are many others who timed the mile from the grand stand who state that their watches agreed with the time announced by the official timers. Mr. Ketcham, in a manly way. asked for an investigation of the matter as soon as he heard the record was questioned. The investigation is now going on, and when it is concluded we will know whether the son of Robert McGregor is entitled to the record of 1:59} or not. We hope, for the good of the trotting turf that the record was honestly made and will stand, but If it is proven to have been "faked" that every one connected with the announce- ment be expelled from all tracks under jurisdiction of both the National and American associations. Spell Binders of the Turf Press. THE PALO ALTO HORSES, consigned to the Old Glory sale at Madison Square Garden, New York, will be shipped from the farm on Monday next in charge of Supt. Frank W. Covey, and will be the last consignment from this farm to an Eastern sales- ring. There are a hundred or so horses left that will be disposed of at private sale and some probably at auction here in the spring when all breeding will be discontinued at the once great farm and the land turned to other uses. The stallions Monbells, Exioneer and Nazote, about thirty broodmares, and nineteen yearlings will comprise those to be shipped to New York on Monday. Monbells is the last of the foals of Beautiful Bells and i6 by Mendocino. Exioneer is by Boodle out of the great mare Expressive by Elec- tioneer, and is a grand horse. Nazote is an own brother to Azote 2:04} and his colts 6how that he will be one of the best sires ever bred at Palo Alto. It is a shame and a pity that Palo Alto farm is to be no more, especially as it was the expressed desire of its lamented founder that it be continued. "Volunteer" must look well to his reputation as a spreader of ink, as Stanley Waterloo, of the Chicago Inter Ocean, is hot on his trail. In his description of the opening day at the Chicago Horse Show Stanley Waterloo says: "A canopy of scarlet and yellow, flooded with light, hangs over the tanbark ring at the horse show. Blare of brass-throated music thrills the blood of men, women and high-bred horses alike. Around the ring runs a walk, which is crowded with sightseers, and banklog this walk are the boxes of beautiful women, fair and gorgeous as the hanging gardens of Babylon the Great. Over all the immense galleries run back to the roof bank upon bank of decorous, well-dressed humanity." With a little practice there is no telling what this Waterloo fellow will do. He has "Volunteer" started "South" already, and may keep him stepping some with farther coaching. "Volunteer" did fairly well in kis description of the race for the Memphis Gold Cup, working in a number of beautiful word pictures which, while far from being the real thing, are calculated to sooth the minds of those esthetic fellows located within speaking distance of the trot- ting horse industry. During the race for the Mem- phis Gold Cup "the sylph-like form of the chestnut mare seemed to float like a winged thing cleaving the air, almost without an effort." Perhaps "Volun- teer" beheld the vision he wrote of; certainly no one else at Memphis did. — Western Horseman. Mr. T. J. Weeks, one of the pioneer residents of tbe town of Santa Cruz, and who bred and owned the mare Nutwood Weeks, dam of Ethel Downs 2:10 and Henry Nutwood 2:29, by Nutwood, has a three-year- old colt from her by Altamont, that is a picture. The colt is as black as night, the only white spot on him being a small star in his forehead, not larger than a silver half dollar. This colt is only halter broken, but he is a model of symmetry and has great style. Mr. Weeks permitted him to serve a few mares this spriDg, aud expects to have him broken and trained next year. As his grandam was by Williamson's Belmont and produced the trotter Bismark 2:29}, sire of Chancellor 2:16, Hazel H. 2:12} and the dam Of Lottie Pa>kB 2:16}, this black colt of Mr. Weeks' ls- one of the best bred sons of Altamont there is on this Coast. There is a belief amorg horsemen that the colts resulting from the mating of old horses have an old look. No three-year-old in California ever looked more coltish than this fellow, however, although hia dam was over twenty and his sire twenty-six when they were mated. Best Records of the Year. BUDD DOBLE, trainer and driver of three cham- pion trotters, reached his California home in Alameda this week with his great trotting stallion Kinney Lou 2:07}, with which he won over ten thou- sand dollars in purses on the Grand Circuit this year in spite of the fact the son of McKinney was afflicted with a severe attack of catarrhal fever during the early part of the season. Kinney Lou is stabled for the present at Alameda, as Mr. Doble has not yet decided where he will keep the horse during the stud and early training season. After a short season in the gtud he will be shaped up for another cam- paign on the big Eastern tracks. Kinney Lou is a 2:04 horse in Doble's opinion, which all horsemen know is rated at par value all over the country. The great reinsman is very enthusiastic over the cham- pion mare Lou Dillon and says she is the trotting wonder of all ages. He was one of the timers, as all our readers know, when the California mare made the wonderful record of 1:58}, but marvelous as that mile seems, he is confident she will lower it to 1:55 next season. She has trotted quarters in 27 seconds, and no trotter ever lived that could carry its flight of extreme speed as far as she. Mr. Doble speaks in his usual quiet and modest way of his own success this year after his long retirement, but his face brightens with a smile that is genuine and from the heart when he refers to the grand receptions given him by the public at his every appearance in the sulky at the different cities, and he says, "it was very kind, very pleasant and very gratifying." A high class road mare with a trotting record of 2:18} is offered for sale. See advertising columns. John A. McKerron, of 203 Mason street, San Francisco, whose harness is used by those who want the best all over the world, and who won the gold medal for the best light harness exhibited Following is a table of the best records for 1903: at the last Paris Exposition recently received an Trotters order from Cape Colony, South Africa, for several _ , , „ Z° ef . „, „ , sets of harnesB. In far off Russia, in India, Austral- Two year old-Grace Bond, by The Bonds- asia and other points the McKerron harness is used, m.mac ij"n"j'"i""'i.'::n"."';u'« -:14} and not a month passes but Mr. McKerron ships an Tnree year old-Sadie Mac, by Peter the Great order t0 some ioreign country. Not long since a New „*'•"'* ;■ ,,-. "••. L""i\" 2:11} York banker sent Mr. McKerron an order for a set Fo"r y6aJ °'d stallion-Wainscot, by Alcy of his best harness, and when New Yorkers do that Wilkes -:16* . •••••;■ ;•■_■"•■• •■ ' — • -;10| ^ (9 pretty conclusive evidence that McKerron 's bar- Four year old gelding— Juage Green, by Di- ness must be better than they can get at home or in rectum2:0o} 2:10} Europe Fiveyearold — Lou Dillon, by Sidney Dillon 1:58} •» Fastest stallion— Cresceus (8), by Robert Mc- _ Millard Sanders will not come to California this Gregor 2:171... •■•;■• ■-•- >«' '£"'"«"; L59} winter, but will locate at Memphis, where he will Fastest gelding— Major Delmar (6,, by Delmar _ have Lou Dillon In oharge and will fit her for a 2:16} V"VC Vo'-'j A'-,', 1:59} further reduction of the trotting record next year. Fastest mare— Lou Dillon, by Sidney Dillon.... 1:58} He will take outside horses to train aad wants to Fastest new performer— Lou Dillon, by Sidney hear (rom those who have g00a pr0spects that they Dillon •-■■• ••• ■■• ■•• l:o8J want raced on the Grand Circuit In 1904 Fastest mile, half-mile track — Cresceus, by Robert McGregor 2:17} 2:08 * Fastest to wagon — Lou Dillon, by Sidney Dillon . 2:00 The fast pacing mare Line 0' Gold 2:07* by Online, Fastest to high-wheel sulky — Lou Dillon, by who took her record at Lexington, was bred as a Sidney Dillon 2:05 two-year-old to the fast pacing stallion Hal Dillard Fastest pole team — The Monk and Equity 2:08 2:04}. She now has a yearling, two year old and Facers three year old by this sire. Her dam Is bv Great Two year old-Fata Morgana; by Sphinx 2:20}. 2:19} Heart- She will be raced again next year. Three year old — Miss Daphne Direct, by Direct * 2:05} 2:11} Geo. C. Petermann ofl Mount Eden has a filly foaled Four year old stallion — Hal Chaffin, by Brown this year by Wm. Harold, dam Columbia by Clipper Hal 2:12} 2:05} 2:06, that 1b a very fast natural pacer and can now Four year old gelding — Dr. Marvin, by New- ' outstep her dam in the pasture. Columbia 1b tbe town Boy, 2:10} 2:11} only foal got by Clipper, as he was gelded after Mr. Five vear old — Pan Michael, by Boreal 2:15}. . . 2:07} Petermann sold him. Fastest stallion— Dan Patch (7), by Joe Pat- • chen 2:01} 1:56} Lou Dillon will not come to California after all. Fastest gelding— Prince Alert (12), by Crown _ unless Mr. Billings changes his mind. It is stated Prince 1:57 that Millard Sanders is under contract with Mr. Fastest mare— Dariel (10). by Alcander 2:20}... 2:00} BUllngs and will remain in the East this winter. Fastest new performer— Tom Keene, by West Nearlv all the Billings horses will winter at MemphiB. Egbert2.29} 2:04} * s Fastest mile, half-mile track— Dan Patch by Joe Patchen 201} 2:03} Owners of thoroughbreds should not forget that Fastest to wa"on- Dan Patch, by Joe Patchen entries for colt stakes of the Coney Island Jockey 2-oh " .' 1:57} Club will close on Monday next, Nov. 16th. Entry Fastest half-mile— Dan Patch, by Joe Patchen blanks can be had at this office. See advertisement. 2:01} :56i * Fastest race mile— Dan R, by Tasco, Jr., 2:19} . 2:01 How i8 thjg for a hoppled pacer? Prince Alert 1:57 *• " has Btarted in eighty-one races and ten exhibitions,. The Kenney Bicycle Co., 531 Valencia St., is doing a and has paced two hundred and seventy-nine heats big business In the McMurray Carts and Sulkies. You anQ has won one hundred and forty-three. not only save money by purchasing a McMurray but „ get the most durable, best ms'ie, and easiest running w«llr«r »tanna third this vear amone tbe fart or sulky in. the market. Investigation wiU con *>» Walker £»£»«* thi^ y^r «nong tte vlnce a Missounan. . won over $25,000 on the Grand Circuit during tbe Sober up on Jackson's Napa Soda. season just closed . Whe gvee&ev tmfr &p#vt&m^l§I3<**»eZ2#«*=i GXD Diablita 2:0SJ is to be sold at the Old Glory sale in New York the last of this month. Cozad 2:11} has been consigned to the Old Glory Bile by his owner, Chas. E. Clark of Fresno. Prince Direct 2:07, better known as Freddie C, has been fired and is expected to race sound next year. The Transylvania was won this year by Ed Geers' mule. Scott Hudson and Jim Thompson were outside the money. Alta McDonald will remain in charge of Major Delmar 1:59} and expects to still further reduce his record next year. The 2:10 pacers are getting so numerous that there is no longer any doubt of a 2:10 class filling on any of the Eastern tracks. The Western Horseman's stake for foals of mares bred this year breaks all records. There are nearly three thousand entries. Dick Wilson believes he can produce evidence to show that Til], the dam of Prince Alert 1:57, waB sired by a son of Blue Bull. Chas. Derby 2:20, the Oak wood Park Farm's premier stallion, leads in the number of new 2:20 performers. He has nine new ones this year. Several thoroughbred mares bred to trotting or pacing stallions have been named in the Breeders Futurity for mares bred this year. Mr. John Hogan, a wealthy horse breeder of Wash- ington has purchased the Dutton ranch near Santa Cruz and will fit it up for a breeding farm. Jepsen Brothers Company, at 1145 and 1147 Market street, advertise new harness and saddles of high class finish and workmanship at the big store. Roslyn 2:15, the son of Robert McGregor that sired this season's good pac6r Bald Hornet2:07}, was docked and turned into a high stepper four or five years ago. Faris Stock Farm has named the Fenella by Fallis, bred to William Harold, in the Breeders Futurity for foals of mareB bred this year. The foal will be a full sister or brother to Janice 2:08}. Grace Bond 2:14} is one of the smallest two year old trotter that started in the big stakes this season, but she got there just the same in two out of three races including the Kentucky Futurity. Horsemen who were on the northern circuit this year say that Mack Mack by McKinney can trot about five or six seconds faster than he had to this year when he made a record of 2:13}. Among the California horses that will be Bold at the Old Glory sale at Madison Square Garden, New York, this month is the trotter Homeward 2:13}. He is the sire of George G. 2:123, but is now a gelding. Get one of those Bey Directs at the Red Ribbon sale at the Occidental Horse Exchange next Tuesday evening. They will be worth more money in a few months than anyone will pay for them at the sale. Joe Maguire, who has been very successful with Winfield Stratton and reduced his mark to 2:06} this year, will train all of the horses belonging to Ed Gaylord of Denver that are to be raced next season. There is owned in Montana a three year old pacing filly by Bozeman 2:17, a son of Mambrino King, dam by Kentucky Volunteer, that has paced a mile in 2:10}, last quarter in 29 seconds. She is owned by Senator C. W. Hoffman of Bozeman, Mont. When those young Rey Directs sold East thiB year begin to step out in the raceB next seaBOn everybody will want one of that stallion's colts. The time to get one is at the Red Ribbon sale at the Occidental Horse Exchange next Tuesday evening. Don't miss seeing Ogden the half brother to Monte- rey 2:09} even if you don't bid on him at the Red Ribbon sale next Tuesday evening. He is a big fine bay Btallion, sired by Egyptian Prince a son of the great Mambrino King. His dam Hattie by Commo- dore Belmont produced Monterey 2:09} and Montana 2:16. Ogden can step close to 2:20 and haB never been regularly trained. He ought to earn $1500 net in the stud in any oommunity where breeding Is carried on to any extent. Ogden is 16.1 and weighs close to 1200 pounds. Tilling a prospective buyer that yourpacer can step a quarter in 30 seconds does not count for much these days. A pacer that has been trained a season and can not show that much speed attracts very little attention in this two minute age. A half brother to John A. McKerron 2:04} is to be sold by William G. Layng next Tuesday evening. This horse is a big dashing trotter nine years old and is by California Nutwood and out of Ingar by Director. He is a fine road horse and can show better than a 2:40 clip. California stallions are well represented in the Old Glory Sale to be held in Now York, November 23d. In the catalogue are the get of Adbell, Advertiser, Alfred G., Azmoor, Belsire, Direct, McKinney, Men- docino, Sable Wilkes, Nutwood Wilkes, Oro Wilkes, and many others. Ed Gaylord has shipped his mare Confienza 2:21} by James Madison back to Denver, where she will be wintered. At Lexington Confienza worked a mile in 2:10* and will be raced on the Grand Circuit next sea- son. Confienza is a full sister to Tuna, winner of this year's Occident Stake. The youngest sire represented in the Breeders Fu- turity for foals of mares bred this year is a yearling son of Nutwood Wilkes owned by Dr. C. E. Farnum of this city. This colt was bred to the mare Bessie Hock by Hock Wilkes this year and the mare has been nominated in the stake. The pacing mare Sunshine 2:15 is not by Del Norte 2:08, as heretofore given, but by Del Short, a son of Delmarch 2:111. Her dam is Royal Flush by Regal Wilkes 2:11}, grandam Abbie 2:26 by George Wilkes 2:22. Del Short was sired by Delmarch 2:11.1, dam Embassy 2:21} by Ambassador 2:21}. M. E. McHenry is determined to break every pac- ing record with Dan Patch before the season closes. He has them all now except the half-mile track record, and he may decide to ship the great son of Joe Patchen to Birmingham, Ala., or some other fast Southern course to try to beat Prince Alert's 2:03J on a half-mile track. Lida W. by Nutwood, dam of Nutwood Wilkes, was this year bred to Searchlight and has been nominated in the Pacific Breeders Futurity for foals of mares bred this year. Sable Franeis2:15J by Sable Wilkes out of Francisca, the dam of I Direct 2:12}, is one of the many fast trotters consigned to the Old Glory Bale, which opens in New York November 23d. The fastest mile of the year in a regular race by a mare is 2:051, by Fereno; the fasteBt mile in a race this season by a stallion is Rythmic's 2:06}, and the fasteBt mile by a gelding is 2:06J, by Prince of Orange. The singular thing about these three record holders is that they were all got by different sons of one horse, Baron Wilkes 2:18. Charlie Whitehead, the well known horseman and trainer of Stockton, Cal., has secured a lease of the Salinas track and shipped his stable of trotters and pacers there this week. Mr. Whitehead will keep the track in shape for training and will rent stalls to others at reasonable rates. He will stand his good stallion Delphi 2:12} by Director at Salinas track, and Bhould have a good patronage for him as Delphi gets good-looking, well-made horses that have style and The well known trainer, James Golden, died week before last after an operation for appendicitis. Mr. Golden was always a prominent buyer at the eastern sales of California horses, and will be missed when the Palo Alto horses are sold at Madison Square Garden this month. At the time of his death he owned the trotter Rowellan 2:09} by Adbell, having purchased him as a two year old at one of the Fasig- Tipton sales. Mr. Golden paid $5000 for the black filly Reybel by Rey Direct at the Blue Ribbon sale at Cleveland last March. He was a resident of Medford, Massachusetts. A large number of horses and horsemen will remain in Memphis to spend the winter, but Budd Doble, with Kinney Lou, The Roman and others, ships direct to California. So will Monroe Salisbury, with Monte Carlo. Alta McDonald will take Dariel and others to his home near Albany, N. Y. W. L. Snow, with Fanny Dillard, goes to Hornellsville, N. Y. Scott HudBon goes back to Kentucky, with the honor of winning more money than any other driver (about $86,000) this season. Ed Geers will remain in Mem- phis. Geers will train a public stable in addition to training for J. Malcolm Forbes. Four two year old colts by McKinney are to bi sold at the Red Ribbon sale at the Occidental Horse Ex- change next Tuesday evening. They are all of good size, splendid lookers and royally bred. Cruzados is a bay with two white stockings and is out of Stam- boulita 2:27 by Stamboul, second dam Biscari, dam of four by Director, third dam Bicarl, dam of six by Harold, etc. Calamanco Is out of Bonnie Russell by Bay Rose, second dam Oakley Russell by Happy Russell, third dam Oakley by Orestes. Carlokln is out of Carlotta Wilkes (dam of Valita 2:15}) by Charley Wilkes, second dam Aspasla, dam of three, by Alcantara, third dam Miss Buchanan, dam of one and grandam of four, by Clark Chief. Carahinais out of Blsoarl, dam of four by Director, second dam Blcari, dam of bIx by Harold, third dam Belle, dam of one and of four producing sons, Including Belmont 64, bv Mambrino Chief. TheBO four two year olds by MoKinney are entered In the Occident, Stanford, Paclflo Breeders and Kentucky Futurities. E. E. Smathers took Tom Keene (p) 2:04} on the New York speedway on Tuesday, and slarud in lo drive with J. A. Murphy, who was out with Free Advice. Tom Keene had the speed, but the soft foot- ing caused him to leave his stride. Mr. Smathers was out next with Queen Wilkes, one of the fleetest of speedway trotters, and was beaten by Noia Mo Kinney, driven by Biayton Ives, the Brst time down. In a second trial Mr. Smathers beat the McKinnry mare. Jeff Fruitt of Merced, who purchased the yearling filly Ladv Paceta by Marengo King (son of McKinney) out of Paceta by Lone Pine at the Santa Rosa Stock Farm sale in this city a few months ago. writes that she is one of the finest looking yearlings that one would wish to see. She is certainly a royally bred one, as her dam was by an own brother to Palo Alio 2:08}, second dam by Piedmont, third dam by Gen. Benton and fourth dam a thoroughbred mare by imp. Australian. J. B. Nightingale of Cordelia has several four-year- old coltB by Prince Almont that are full of promise. One in particular, Glenn, dam Jenny Wren, has trot- ted the last half in 1:14, with practically no training. Mr. Nightingale intends handling his colts regularly this fall, so by the time the season opens next year he may be favorably heard from. Among the horses is a three-year-old stallion by Prince Almont that would take a blue ribben for beauty at any horse show. — Solano Republican. The earnings of Creseeus 1:59} in the stud and on the turf during the season aggregate close to $30,000 He earned $19,500 in the stud and his ten exhibitions in the West, including his marvelous mile in 1:59} at Wichita, Kansas, aggregate a trifle over $10,000. When Mr. Ketcham was offered $100,000 for Creseeus laBt winter by a Canadian gentleman, some of bis friends advised him to sell, but his earning capacity this season indicates that Mr. Ketcham's price, $125,- 000, was very reasonable Fillies by Chas. Derby are worth buying, especially when you •san get them at your own price. Three extra good ones are to be sold at the Occidental Horse Exchange next Tuesday evening. One is out of a mare by Red Wilkes, another from a mare by Anteeo and the other from a mare by Direct. Lord Gilbert, now in the hands of Walter Wood, is believed by Denver horsemen to be the next Colorado horse to attract attention on the Grand Circuit. The horse has to his credit a trial mile in 2:18 and a trial to wagon on the Denver track in 2:24, wit ha second mile in 2:20J, the last half of the second mile having been made in l:07o. He went a quarter last week in 30} seconds. The sire of Lord Gilbert is Saraway, who is also the sire of Winfield Stratton 2:06}. Sara- way is a brother to Charles Derby 2:20. M. E. McHenry, driver of Dan Patch, received a telegram from H. M. Savage (Dan Patch's owner) at the Memphis meeting, stating that he would not con- sent to a match with Prince Alert. " It would be no honor to defeat a hoppled pacer," telegraphed Sav- age. McHenry was disappointed in not being able to accept the defi of Demarest. McHenry wired to Mr. Savage asking that he be allowed to deposit the entire $20,000, and winner to take all. Mr. Smathers has changed his opinion now, and while he formerly wanted the Prince Alert end of the match, he con- fessed that he saw but one horse in the race in event of a match, and that Dan Patch. Frank Work, the veteran road driver and one of the few prominent members of the famous "seal skin brigade" still able to enjoy his horses, is a great be- liever in sun baths, and during the bright, Indian Bummer weather, he could be 6een comfortably en- sconsed in a great easy chair, placed in the door of bis residence facing Madison Square, eDJoying the direct rays of the noonday Bun. He sits there for two or three hours at a Btretch, reading the newspapers or chatting about the horses with any of his friends who happen to be passing. He seldom drives now; but his love for the trotterB is just as strong as ever, and he frequently visits his stables and looks over his favorites. The Howe family is destined to corner the market' on harness horse souvenirs. Murray Howe owns the greatest number of champions' shoes ever collected, which includes shoes worn during their championship trials by Lou Dillon, Major Delmar, Star Pointer, Dan Pan Patch, Prince Alert and many others. A. M. Howe has started to collect whips bandied by men who drove champion pacers and trotters to their mark. He owns whips used on Dariel and Dan Patch, the respective queen and king of the wiggling frater- nity, when they established their, world's records. He was looking forward to adding the Lou Dillon whip to his collection, and was disappointed when he noticed that Millard Sanders drove the Billings mar- vel to her mark with nothing but reinB in hand. Tho fastest four year old trotter of the year and the most promising of all candidates for the big events for the slow classes for next season, including such rich trophies as the $20,000 Bonner Memorial, tl e$15,- 000 Massachusetts, the $10,000 Roger Williams, the $10,000 Charter Oak and $6000 Transylvania, has not won a race or even a heat this season, writes a Lex- ington correspondent. Allusion is made to the crack son of Rex Americus, John Me., which great gelding showed in the Walnut Hall Farm Cup race here on Monday last an easy capability of even now as a four year old trotting three heats better than 2:10. He was also well up In the Transylvania, beating out in the various heats such stars among the older brig- ade as Kinney Lou 2:07}, Hawthorne 2:08} and George Musoovlte 2:09}. In the first heat of the Walnut Hall Cup a dozen watches caught John Mo In 2:08}, and he came back by a separate timing the next heat and the third heat better than 2:10. After the race the gelding's owner, Dr. J. M. McCready, Sewickley, Pa., turned down an offer of $10,000 for him, and it Is the second time this season he has been tendered this amount for his great young horse.— Stock Farm. ®he g*s**w ccnb &v0vt#tmxn [November 14, lttt PACIFIC BREEDERS FUTURITY NO. 4. List of Nominations Largest in the History of the Stake. There were 404 mares nomiDated in the fourth renewal of the Pacific Breeders $6000 Futurity for foals of mares bred this year. This is a larger number than was ever nominated in a stake in California and shows that this stake is increasing in popularity each year. These 404 mares were named by 252 nominators, and were bred to 105 stallions. Last year with 331 nominations, McKinney was the leading sire represented, having 32 of the mares bred to him that year nominated in the stake. His son Zombro was second with 29, and Nutwood Wilkes came third with 15. Of the 404 mares named this year 24 were bred to Zombro who leads, with Sidney Dillon and Searchlight represented by 17 each, Richmond Chief nest with 14, Nutwood Wilkes and Petigru coming next with 12 each. Bonnie Direct and Stam B. are sext in line with 11 each, Diablo has 10, and Chas. Derby, Prince Nutwood, Guy McKinney, Grecko, Nearest and Nushagak are credited with 9 each. Two stallions, Monochrome and Bayswater Wilkes, are represented by 8 mares, five, Athablo, Alta Vela, Monterey, Washington McKinney and Sey- mour Wilkes by 7, two, Demonio and Athaneer by 6, four, Coronado, Six Bells, Azmoor and Robert Direct by 5, while six stallioDS, Scott McKinney, Zolock, Fal- rose William Harold, Neernut and Capt. Jones have 4 each. Those that are represented by 3 mares are Edward B., Waldstein, Iran Alto, Dictatus Medium, Montesol, PriDce Ansel, Del Oro and Athamax. Two each of the mares nomin- ated were bred to Loring, Vinmont, Athadon, Marvin Wilkes, Pbal Norte, Strathway, Barondale, Sutter, Sidney Arnett, Kewanna, L. W. Russell, Gaff Topsail, Cassian, Diawood, Del Norte, Cresco Wilkes, Alta Genoa, Conifer, Direct Heir, Chief Whips, Lecco, John A., Stoneway, Bonnie McK., RobiD and Jules Verne. The following are represented by one mare each: Boodle, Direcho, Pole Star, Cupid Hock, St. Patrick, Knight, Welcome, Keystone W., Limonero, Royal Derby, Tom Smith, Lynwood W., Guynut, Hambletonian Wilkes, Ormanda Wills, The Commonwealth, McKinney Jr., Billups, Mendocino, F. S. Turner, Alex Malone, Mokelumne. Stickle, Duplicate, Kichard B., On Stanley, Dagon, McNear, John R. Conway, McKenna, Boxwood, Peter J., Electrical, Ouiboul, Educator, Pacheco Wilkes, Sir Van and a yearling son of Nutwood Wilkes. Of the 404 mares nominated there are many with fast records and a number that have already produced trotters and pacers with fast pacers. Lou Milton, the dam of Lou Dillon 1:58£, is nominated in the stake, as is Lida W., grandam of John A. McKerron 2:04A; Bertha, dam of Don Derby 2:04|, Diablo 2:09| and sev- eral others; Elsie by Gen. Benton, dam of five in the list; Fenella, dam of Janice 2:081;; Edith, dam of Idolita 2:09J; Algenie, dam of Kelly Briggs2:10|; Tone, dam of Agitato 2^09; Belle Medium, dam of Stam B. 2:11J, and manj others. BNTERED BY MARE BRED, SIRE, SIRE OF DAM STALLION BRED TO Akey J V... Gray wood by Silkwood, dam by Ed Barton Zombro Alley, Frank E Laay Leemo by Memo, dam Katy Lee Diablo Angei* Bennett Flora Fuller by Dorsey's Nephew, dam by imp Partisan.. Prince Nutwood Arnett, John.... Nelly by Boxwood, dam by Blondin Sidney Arnett Arvedsou, C A Lady Phelps by Waldstein, dam by Til ton Almont Sutter Ayers, Grove P Laay by Ales Button Barondale Babcock, Graham E......Lady Estel by Athadon, dam by Playmail Strathway Baker, George A Maud Limonero Balkwill, J R Donnagene by Athadon, dam by Junio ....Guy McKinney Barrows, C E Miss Baker by Birdalex, dam s t b by Blackwood Jr Phal Norte Barstow, T W Maud J by Nearest, dam by Menlo Grecko " Princess Airlie by Prince Airlie, dam by Nutwood Nearest Batchelder, NP Luella by Nutwood, dam by Bel Alta Monterey •* Pauline J by St Savior, dam by Wildidle Monterey " Trifle by Dexter Prince Searcnllght Blgelow,C B Lucy B by Alex Button, dam by Don Marvin Willies Black, J C Blondie by Ivan, dam by Dana Richmond Chief Blasingame, AH Elsie by Boodle, dam by Antevolo Athadon Blessing. J F Salinas Maid by Junio, dam by Mambrlno Dictatus Medium Blee, J M Irene by Red Cloak, dam by McKinney Neernut Bohon J H Hytu by Happy Prince, dam by Fred Drake Zolock " Boellen by Happy Prince, dam by Fred Drake Zombro •• Cleon by Happy Prince, dam by Kentucky Clay Jr Zombro Bo den, I L Allie Cresco by Cresco, dam by Imp Australian Nutwood Wilkes '; Alice Bell by Washington, dam by Kentucky Hunter Cresco Wilkes " La Belle Altamont by Altamont, dam by Washington Cresco Wilkes Brace, H lola by Ira, dam by Poscora Hay ward Grecko " Queen by Ira, dam by Poscora Hay ward Greoko " ,w' Constance B by Pascora, dam by Posoora Hay ward Grecko " Silver B by Pascora, dam by Poscora Hay ward Greoko «■ Toppy by Eclectic, dam by Sidney Grecko " Alista by Novelist, dam by Altivo Grecko Brents, ThosH Laurelia by Caution, dam by Alwood Del Norte " Saffrona by Antelope, dam by Alwood Del Norte Brlggs, JasB.. Smut by Prompter, dam by Tecumseh Bayswater Wilkes '• Jeanetieby Cornelius, dam by Gen McClellan Bayswater Wilkes Brolllar, S Chauncey by Red Bandana, dam by Neptune Diawood Brown, Alex Addie B by Dexter Prince, dam by Whips Nushagak " Pioche by Dexter Prince, dam by Electioneer Nushagak " Red Flower by AKord, dam by Ansel Nushagak " Majella B by Nushagak, dam by LaGrand Prince Ansel " Lottie by San Diego, dam by Whippleton Prince Ansel Bryson, D Bernice S by Pasha, dam by Mambrino Wilkes. Guy McKinney Buteau, F H: , Steiny by Stein way, dam by Denmark ; Stam B Butz, A Maud -. Royal Derby Callendine, Mrs E W Lady Keating by Stam B„ dam by Woodnut Diablo Carr, J D Lildine by Boodle, dam by Carr's Mambrino Searchlight Carson, Dr E M Bessie by Granger, dam by Kingston Richmond Chief " Pet by Hotfoot Riohmond Chief Dollieby Guy Wilkes Richmond Chief Carter, Henry Black Bets by Grandee, dam by Shamrock Neernut Carter, Martin Ingarby Director, dam by Echo Nutwood Wilkes " Little Witch by Director Nutwood Wilkes " Bonnie Derby by Charles Derby, dam by Simmon? Nutwood Wilkes LouG by Albert W, dam by San Bruno.' Nutwood Wilkes " Record Searcher by Searchlight, dam by Director Bonnie Direct " GeorgieB by Nutwood Wilkes, dam by Cal Nutwood Searchlight " . Lida W by Nutwood, dam by Geo M Patchen Jr Searchlight Casserly. Peter Kate Casserly by Knight Montesol Chrlstenson, S Perza by Allie Wilkes, dam by Geo Wilkes .Bonnie Direct " Simone by Simmons, dam by Baron Wilkes Stam B Coffin James Cuba by Oro Wilkes dam by Menlo Cassian Culcello, J G Shebagh by McKinney, dam by Steinway ...Cassian Cooper, K D Pocahontas~by Hamb Mambrino, dam bv'Black Stranger. Zombro Coram, S T Petrina by Piedmont, dam by imp Glengary Bonnie Direct Corcoran Bros Rosie by Mambrino Chief Jr Gaff Topsail Crain, E R Lulu B 2d by Albert W, dam by Pallalto Richmond Chlei Crellln, C L Bertha by Alcantara, dam by Bayard Searchlight " Ruth C by Guide, dam by O'Donohue Searchlight Cressey, Geo A Elsie by Gen Benton, dam Elaine L W Russell " Daisy E by Richard's Elector Prince Nutwood Crowley, TJ.„, Lottie Parks by Cupid, dam by Bismark ..Monterey Daly, James A....^ rSaturn by San Diego, dam by Whippleton Seymour Wilkes Divls, Claude G Daisy Bates by' Silkwood, dam bv Jerry Ladf. Zombro De Be.nardini, Rick lone by Paloma Prlnoe, dam by Eleotionear Nearest - - Derord, G W — _.., ....Bessie Rex by Atto Rex, dam by Caladon ,.v Kewanna Dexter, F H .Irene D by Gray wood, dam by Old Bashaw...." ."" Wash McKfnnev Dingee, William J Lucy Shaw by Cropsy's Nutwood Sidney Dillon " Flora M by Riohard'sEleotor Sidney Dillon Dixon, Dr REdmond Logamont by Gen Logan, dam by Altamont Athaneer Dodge, G W . ■ 7. - . .Nettie by Marco, dam bv Abdallah ,.*..-,.. Seymour Wilkes Praia, T J ..Blanch Ward by Onward, dam by Mambrino Patchen. ...Guy McKinney Flora Drais by Guy McKlnnev, dam by Onward ..Bonnie Direot pudley, ED Besby Sterling, dam bv Egmobt :.....;,-. ......Searchlight " Babe by Dawnllgbt, dam bv Sterling ,„....„".Diablo Duke, Oscar Mississippi by Red Nuttle'damby Imp Thunderstorm.. .Athablo Duncan, NP ; Ruth Williams by Sacramento, dam by Alex Patchen. ..Keystone W Dunlap. H H ....Explosion by Steinway, dam by Creole .StamB Dunn, Dr J P Mora Mc by McKinney. dam by Antevolo ...'../..... .".St am B Darfee, C A Rose McKinney by McKinney, dam by Forrest Clay Iran Alto Durfee, W G Lola by Guide, dam by Altamont Petigru " Ludelia by McKinney, dam by Sultan Petigru " Maggie McKinney by McKinney, dam by Nutwood Petigru " Barbara Wilkes by Red Cloak , Coronado Julia D by McKinney,. dam by-Hock Hacking _. .Petrgru ENTERED BY MARE BRF.D, SIRE. SIRE OF DAM STALLION BRED TO rwfpp w a Lady Gossiper by Gossiper, dam by Hesperian Coronado uu , » Alias by Woolsey, dam by Del Sur Coronado .. Ida Direct by Director, dam by lrvington Petigru ii By son of Nutwood, dam Lady Rivers by Carr's Mamb. ..Coronado Eakle WH Belle by Scagg's Rattler, dam by Steve Damon Falrose East i> J Violet by Dudley, dam by Poscora Hay ward Waldstein Eastman F G Nancy Slam B Flliott ChasE Princess by Hernani, dam by Sam McClellan Seymour Wilkes Klmore S Lady Clara by Silver Bow, asm by Grand Moor Vinmont Evans Dr C W ...Kitty Quinline bv Diablo, dam by Richard's Elector Prince Nutwood Dictessieby Dictatus, dam by Del Sur Prince Nutwood " Juliet by Richard's Elector Prince Nutwood Fairchild John A Venus is by Contention, dam by Sam McClellan Zombro Faris Stock Farm Fenella by Fallis,dam by Nutwood William Harold Judith by Wm Harold, aam by Fallis Welcome *' Edith by Geo Wilkes Nutwood Wilkes « Kitty B by Sidney Marvin Wnkes " Dora by Alcantara Jr St. Pi rick Knight Farnum Dr. C E Flossie by Cornelius, dam by Lodi Cupid nock Bessie Hock by Hock Wilkes?, dam by Venture Y?ai ling ton of Nutwood Wildes tuam Flossie) Felt DrRae Pearl K by Wayland W, dam by Grand Moor Grecko 1 <• Sain Filly by imp Sain, dam by Gen Benton Edward B >« Alameda F by Timothy B, daui by Overland Edward U Fletcher HenryC corlnne by Altamont, dam by Mason Chief Diablo Foley p' Lady Bira by Win wood, dam by Capt Webster Pole- Star toeaVty T H Captive Directivo by Directive dam by Piedmont L w Jttubsell ■• Firewood by Fayette Wlikes, dam by Biackwood '. . .Richmond Cnfef <■ Katherioe by Richard's Elector, dam by Chieftain Rienmoid Chief " Maud by Nutwooa, dam s t b by Echo Richmond Cnief " Athenian by Steinway, dam by Simmons Richwonu Chief Folsom Dr F N Dolly Moore by Joe Hooker, aam bimonGirty Diawood Fox RR P Maud by Burwell, dam by Bay Rose Jhiihmond Chief Frarv FN Lizzette by Abdallah Wilkes, dam by Startle Sidney Dillon ■ • Ruby J by bteinwaj, dam thoroughbred Loring •1 Fannie by Hawthorne, u am tborougnbred Loilng Frobbere Paul DiamondGin by Apex, dam by John Nelson Athaneer Frost CS * CCossock by Don Cot sock, dam by Ben Patchen Zombro Fryait, Peter Maud B by Senica Chief, dam by Silver Heels Diablo Frymir'e, H Lulu Denmark by On Tap Neartst Gammon, Ernest A Cleo G by Yosemite Bayswater Wilkes " Urana by Stam B Bayswater Wilkes Gardner John W Miracle by McKinney, dam by Kaiser Direcho • ■ Black Swan by Alta Vela, dam by Blackbird Petigru Garside, Robert Althea by Nutwood Wilkes, dam by Altwood Booale Gates DrHB Mollie by Sir Richards Nearest Gilmore, E W Wilhelmina by Woolsey, dam by Gen Benton Zombro G oldsmith J Niece 1 o mbro Gommet.F Fanny G Aita Vela " MissGommet Alia Vela ■■ Zorella by Electioneer Alia Vela " Mamie Wilkes Alta Vela " Vesper by Singleton Alia Vela Elma by Orphan Alta Veia Lilly Stanley by Whippleton Sidney Dillon Gordon, Mary L Nora Antanisby Autauis, dam by Electioneer Scott McKinney Brown mare by Antinous Scott McKinney Granger, Jennie M Bessie Alto by Palo Alto , Nearest Gray George Bay mare by Hawthorne dam by Silverthreads .-.Wm Harold Greeley, RPM Winnie Wilkes by Rey Wilkes, dam by Cresco Searchbgnt Gregory, J W Bay mare by Brigadier, dam by Boston Seymour Wilkes Greene L L AlixBby Nutwood Wilkes, dam by Albert W Bonnie Direct •■ Diavola by Diablo, dam by Nephew Zombro •' Grace Lowry by Diablo, dam by Venture Alta Vela Griffin. Mrs Ben Claribel by Privateer, dam by Flaxtail Bayswater Wilkes Griffith, C L Victoria S by Rory O'Moore, dam by Dashwood Bonnie Direct Guntber Fred Babe by April Fool, dam thoroughbred Richmond Chief Hagan, Dr Ralph Bessie B by Dexter Prince, dam Tulu Duck Petigru Hahn F Annie H by McKinney, dam by Boodle Nutwood Wilkea " Nellie Emmoline by Leo Corbett, dam by Whippleton . .Chas Derby Hahn, Henry Henrietta by Boodle, dam by JimMulvenna Stam B Halle & Co., J W Olita by Bradtmoor, dam by Woodnut Demonio " Auntie by Dawn dam by Anteeo Demonio '• Rosebud by Fallis, dam by Como Demonio " Laura H by Nutwood Wilkes, dam by Woodnut Demonio " May Norrisby Norris, dam by Electioneer Demonio " Corrilla by Steinway Demonio Harrison, Arthur D Celia Mc by Dexter Prince, dam by Parker's Elect Monterey Harrison, Ralph Sallie by Sycamore Chief, dam Mabel Chas Derby Hauck, N. Brown Bessie by Waldstein, dam by Grand Moor Nutwood Wilkes Heald, E P Honor by Fordstan.dam by Hambletonian Momerey He s, J C Red Cross by Monroe Chief, dam by Reavis' Blackbird. ..Sir Van Hewitt, H G Maud H by Vasto, dam by Grosvenor Seymour Wilkes Higby Wm Eulalla by Vasto Dictatus Medium Hogeboom, R Yolo Belle by Waldstein, dam by Clay Duke Wath McKinney Hoy S H Camilla by Bayswater Wilkes, dam by Prompter Jules Verne » Sorrel mare by Advertiser, dam by Nutwood Jules Verne ■' Algenie by Algona, dam by Buccaneer Bayswater Wilkes Hynes, R Amber by Conifer, dam ty A W Richmond Zombro Iverson, J B Ivoneerby Eugeneer, dam by Vermont Robin •* Roseate by Guy Wilkes, dam by Sultan Iran Alto " Wilhelmina H by Eugeneer, dam by Messenger Duroo. . .Barondale Jones, J A Daisy QHill by Altamont, dam by Doble Capt Jones " Amy May by Alexis, dam by Altamont Capt Jones " Maggie Caution by Caution, dam by Almont Mambrino. .Capt Jones " Minmont by Altamont, dam by Rockwood Capt Jones Kalar, J D Duplicate by Chas Derby, dam by Bell Alto Robin Kelly, Geo A Anigl to by Antrim, dam by Blackwood Jr Bonnie MoK «' Bay mare by Nutwood Wilkes, dam by Albert W Bonnie McK Keyt, Jr, E C Nestucca by Altamont, dam by Almont Diablo " Fan by Algona Vinmont Kiernan.TF Daisy Nutwood by Nutwood, dam by Bell Alta Pacbeco Wilkes Kimmel, George Mabel by Raglo Guy McKinney " Dolly by Hawthorne .Guy McKinney Kinney, R W Nacka by Diablo, dam by Admiral StamB Kirkman, G W Susie D by Clipper Denmark, dam Susie K Stoneway " v"iva by Antevolo. dam Lady Wilson Stoneway Krieg, W C Moimon by Son of Brigadier Nearest Ladd, L M Black Bess by Bay Rum, dam by Denmark's Rattler — Dictatus Medium 11 Linda by Hawthorne, dam by Chieftain William Harold Landregan, Dennis Berkeley Maid by Washington, dam by St Clair Educator La Siesta Ranch Lady Belle Isle by Eros, dam by Elmo Iran Alto Lee, H Daisy by Nutford. dam by Westerner Neernut Lent, GeoH Pattie Waldstein by Waldstein, dam by Richmont Prince AnBel Lewis. Mose Dolly Grav by Gossiper dam by Elector Guy McKinney Lindley, Eugene Julia by Kilarney, dam Trustee Mare Falrose Lipson, MrsIM Miss Gold Note by Gold Nut, dam by Echo Petigru Lowry. Z R Miss Brunerby Dictatus, dam by Joe Simpson Sidney Arnett Lusk, ML Melrose by Sultan, dam by Sweepstakes Azmoor " Sallie Brooks by Doc Button, dam by Gen Buford Zombro !• Laurel Wreath by Geo H Low, dam by Woodbum Zombro McAdam. Alex Black mare by Direct Montesol McDonald, G W Nellie Waldstein by Waldstein, dam Nellie Bly Ouiboul McDonald. Wm May Mitchell by Antevolo, dam by Signal Electrical Mclntyre &Cummings ...Bavmare PrlnceNutwood McLaughlin, Dr Alfred. . -Lilly 6 by Direct, dam by Whipple's Hambletonian Sidney Dillon " Lady B by Harris' Ashby.dam by Hambletonian Jr Sidney Dillon " Alameda Maid by Eros, dam by Speculation Sidney Dillon McMahon, J J Lucy L by Gen McClellan Jr, dam by Alexander Prince Nutwood Maben, Walter Gipsy Girl by Nucleus, dam by Rajah Zombro Markham. Andrew Lady Bu'ger by Dawn Wash McKinney Martin. SF Mountain Maid by Cresco dam by Cloud StamB Marshall, J W Trix by Nutwood Wllkf=s. dam by Director Searchlight " Miss Glenn by Aleona.dam by Blackhird Bonnie Direct ■* Sophia by Robt McGregor, dam by Wildwood Bonnie Direct Mastin, A E Celmar by Falrose, dam by Missouri Chief John A Mas tin, Walter Rosalin by Falrose, dam by Sable Wilkes John A " Nora S by Sable Wilke<*. dam by Nutwood Falrose Matthews. DS Miss Ronnie by Faris, dam by Alaska Edward B Maurer. C Fannie by Soudan ..Nearest Meese, WRG Lady Kohl by LaGrande. dam by Billy Golddust.. Stam B Mendenhall, W W Elsie Downs by Boodle, dam by Guy Wilkes — Si am B Merrill. Fred T . ..Loveme bv Lovelace, dam by Fred Hambleton ,,., Zombro _ Miller, E Z Belle bv Elect, dam by McDonald Chief Monochrome Miller. W J .j .Kit bv Dexter Prince, dam by Abbotsford Guy McKinney Mi Hi ken. Geo S Mabel Echo by Echo, dam by Lodl .7 Athamax Milton, J A Prlnoess Alice by King Dent, dam by Nutwood Guy McKinney Minor, Tsaao Doroes by Wavland W, dam by Antivolo Greoko Mitchell. STJ Elsi by Kentucky Baron, dam by Stcnal Wilkes Peter J Montgomery, E LaF Flora C. by Encounter, dam by Electioneer Diablo Montgomery, T S.. Spry Ruth oy Boodle, dam by Electioneer Searchlight "- Dixie by Chas Derby dam by Anteeo " Searchlight Moore. H P - Corsica bv Dexter prince, dam by Corsican Boxwood Morel, PaulE Leta by Woolwich, dam by Clay MflEenna Morgan. William. -Pet by Knight gpmbro Murphy MA.'... Nellie Bly -by Woolsey. dam by Inca Zombro " Maid of Monterey bv Monterey, dam by Woolsey Zombro Neal, C S Lady Moor by Grand Moor dam by Finch's Glencoe Bonnie Direct " Julia G by Daly, dam by McClellan Lecco Newland, E Dot McKinney by McKinney, dam by Sidney Monterey " Humming Bird Wm Harold Newman, R O Ida May by Grosvenor. dam by Alerio Robert Direct " Peerless Maid by Strathway. dam by Alerlc Robert Direct " Dewdrop Basler by Robt Basler, dam by Grosvenor Robert Direot November 14, 1903] ®h* gveebev anb gpovtstnan BNTBRED BY MABB BRED, SIRE, SIRE OF DAM STALLION BHED TO Oakwood Park Stk Farm.Ituna by Steinway, dam by Eoho Bonnie Direct •• Nazoma by McKinney, dam by Chas Derby Searchlight «• Addie Derby by Chas Derby, dam by Indianapolis : . . .Searchlight *< Economy by Echo, dam by Mutdoon Chas Derby " Inex by Sweepstakes, dam by Kentucky Bertrand Chas Derby " lone by Ferguson, dam by Volunteer Chas Derby " Princess by Administrator, dam by Volunteer Chas Derby •• Pippa by StiHeco, dam by Black Walnut Chas Derby " Lunado by Electioneer, dam by St Claire Chas Derby « Nannie Smith by Red Wilkes, dam by John Dillard Chas Derby O'Brien, Thos May Horgan by McKinney, dam by Raymond RiohmoDd Chief Osirom, Geo D Edith R by Milton R, dam by Algona Athablo Pdden J fl Topsy by Welcome, dam by Wape^ Chief Whips " Hattie by Jo Houghton, dam by Reavis1 Blackbird Chief Whips Palmer, L, R Belle by Alexander Button John R Conway Parker E F Naulahka by Nutford Zolock Parker, GeoH Maybreaker by Nutbreaker, dam by Volunteer Direct Heir Pearl JrCG Meta Pearl by Arthur Holt, dam by Wildldle Azmoor Peart' EC Buchu by Buchanan, dam by Erdenhelm Sutter " White Stocking, dam by Abdallah MoNeer Perkins, F W Garry Pattis by Pittick, dam by Siduator Athamax •< Miss Grand by Adrian, dam thoroughbred Athamax Perrin, Dr T A Lilly H by Woodnut, dam by McCoy's Patchen Nearest Pico, A Lucy by A W Richmond, dam by Lexington Six Bells Pierce, OF.'. Brownstoneway by Stoneway, aam by Groevenor Kobert Direot Poole, 'j H.. Ramona by Red Cloak, dam by Othello Zolock Pooler, J A Topsy by Oneco, dam by Lemont Diablo Purcell, Tom Lady Moor by Grand Moor Waldstein Puterbaugh Jr, Geo Dolly by Nutwood Scott McKinney Quint, Dr Sumner J Maggie J by Bob Mason, dam by A W Richmond Conifer Ramsey, FA Eamline bv Electioneer, dam by Woodburn Petigru Raschen. Fred Diabola by Diablo, dam by Waidstein Nushagak Reilly, J E. Bird. Athadon Rioe, J D Rosy by Boydell, dam Racket Dagon Ring, Dr H J California Maid by Waldstein, dam by The Moor ..Bonnie Direct Roberts. ED CoItonMaidby Maxillian Zolock Romaine, F C Bonnie Antrim by Antrim, dam by Glenelg Phal Norte Rose Dale S took Farm. ...Dalia by Daly, dam by Steinway Wash McKinney •' Spry by Daly, dam by Ansel Wash McKinney Rose, Dr Maud Garreison Gaff Topsail Ross, DrTho3 D Polly by Poscora Hay ward Waldstein Rourke, Win Nina Bonita by Zombro, dam by Christmas ( On Stanley Rowan, John Mission Belle by St Nioholas, dam by Capt Webster Monochrome " Clarion by Ansel, dam by Dictator Monochrome " Maggie H by Hawthorne, dam by Director Monochrome Runyon, Mrs Sol Coressa by Dexter Prince, dam by Corsican Nushagak Daxtressby Dexter Prince, dam by Ky Hunter Nushagak '* Altewood by Altivo, dam by Nutwood Nushagak 11 Whipple by Alta Vela Nushagak Rupp, Al..- Bessie by Burwell, dam by Dakin's Patchen Richmond Chief Ryan, CM Babe Ryan by Comet, dam by Carr's Mambrlno Richmond Chief Sangster, John J Jennie S by Directum, dam by Nephew Monochrome Santa Rosa Stock Farm.. .By By by Nutwood, dam by Dictator Sidney Dillon " By Guy by Guy Wilkes, dam by Nutwood Sidney Dillon " Guycara by Guy Wilkes, dam by Dlreotor Sidney Dillon ' RusBie Russell by Bay Rose, dam by Happy Russell Sidney Dillon " Biscara by Director, dam by Harold Sidney Dillon ■• Carlotta Wilkes by Charley Wilkes, dam by Alcantara. .Sidney Dillon 11 Stamboulita by Stamboul, dam by Director Sidney Dillon " Lou Milton by Milton Medium, dam Fly Sidney Dillon Schafer, Jacob Lilly E by Pasha, dam by Mountain Boy Athaneer " Delia by Little Dan, dam thoroughbred Athaneer Schwartz, Mrs E J Musick by Knee Ban, dam by Wildidle Falrose Sears, Dr Chas Dolly Richmond by Hancock J Richard B Sherwood, E E Queen Woolsey by Woolsey, dam by Will Crocker Zombro Shinn, W K Oregon Maid by Rockwood,dam by Bacon's Hambletonian. Diablo Shippee, Amos Maggie Thorn by Director, dam by Hawthorne Monochrome Simonson, J A Addie Nutwood by Adirondack, dam by Nutwood Zombro Simmock, Wm Santa by Ellerslie Wilkes, dam by Hylas Petigru Smith, DrC Edgar Lady Mack by McKinney, dam by Othello Petigru Smith, H B May Ayres by Iris, dam by Altimont Sidney Dillon Smith, Thomas Daisy S by McDonald Chief, dam by Vick's Ethan Allen. Nutwood Wilkes " Maud Washington by Geo Washington, dam by Mo- Donald Chief Wash. McKinney " Dollican by Mamb Chief Jr, dam by McClellan Duplicate ENTERED BY MARE BRED, SIRE, SIRE OF DAM STALLION ] Smith Bay mare by Thad Stevens, dam by Prince of Norfolk . . .Montesol Snyder, C J Black Diamond by Hanford Medium, dam by Milton R.. Robert Dlreot Sparks, RE Daisy by Falrose, dam by Gen Taylor Bayswater Wilkes " Ora by Button, dam by Baysw ater Wilkes Spoor, Dr WL Mabel McKinney by McKinney, dam by Inca . ....... .'.'..'wutwoud Wilkes Stickle, G E Vesper Filly by Silver Bow, dam by Prompter . Stam B " Cornelia by Cornelius, dam by Belmont. Stickle Stiles, 8 S Belle Mac by Ensign's Goldduat Mokelumne Sutherland & Chadbourne. Bertie by Piedmont, dam by Electioneer. Leooo Taylor, Frank Carrie Malone by Steinway, dam by Electioneer. .... .".'.'.Nutwood WUkes " Angle WUkes by Guy Wilkes, dam by Bertrand Black- _. _ _ T h&wk Alexander Malone Thayer, BW Joy Alia Genoa miss Alta Genoa Thayer, ChaBH Lee Glfford by Rex Gifford, dam by Del Sur ............ Six Bells Lillle Lee by Rex Glfford, dam by A w Richmond , six Bella " Glennlta by Rex Gifford, dam by Guide SixBells Thlsby, RF Hilda Rose by Dawn, dam by Rosewood Nushagak Thompson, W J Mamie T by Paokard's Nutwood, dam by Anteros.. Nearest Todhunter, L H The Silver Bell by Silver Bow, dam by tienl Reno Zombro 1 ' Itella by Sidney, dam by Prompter Zombro Tomlinson. N L Mood by Tromont Prince Nutwood Trulsen, H Nellie T by Romeo, dam by Ben Franklin Searchlight Tryon, SC Jennie Quade by Knight, dam by Algona Azmoor " Juanita by Knight, dam by Longfield Azmoor " Marjorle K by Knight, dam by Jim Brown Azmoor Turner, Frank S Carl tone by Antlon, dam by Director FS Turner Tuttle Bros Belle Medium by Happy Medium, dam by Almont Light- ning Mendocino Tuttle, Dr Jay Kismet by Planter, dam by Woodbury Zomoro Maisie by Planter, dam by Woodbury Zombr** Dheman, Geo Topsy by Christman's Hambletonian Scott McKinney Valencia Stock Farm . ...Glendoveer by James Madison, dam by Mohawk Chief... Direct Heir Valentine, S D Glazenwood by James Madison, dam by Steinway Seymour Wilkes Florence E by Eros, dam by Copperhead Seymour Wilkei Vance, W L... Elisa S by Alcantara Jr, dam by Friday McCracken Bi'llups VanKeuren, Wm Mattie B by Alex Button, dam by Don t.earcnilght Venza, Chas Belle by Duke of Wellington, dam by A W Richmond Neernut Wadham, Fred W Johannah Treat by Thos Rytdyk, dam by Venture Petigru " Mideet by Atto Rex, dam by Gnnsted Uoronado Wagner, Dr J H Vlsalia Rose by Iris, dam by Loppy Athaneer " Jasapine Rose by Iris, dam by Bay Rose Athaneer Wallace, James C Ophelia by Alfred, dam by Grey Eagle Kewanna Walsh, Dr Frank D Bessie W by Gus Payne, dam by Norfolk Wash. MoKlnney Warlow, Geo L Lustrine by Onward, dam by Cnallenger Athablo Bessie by Yosemite, dam by Mambrlno Wilkes Athablo " Ollie Smith by Athadon, dam by Walker Athablo " Lady Harding by Athadon, dam Madam Harding Athablo Cora Wickersham by Junio, dam by Whlppleton Athablo Donnatrine by Athadon, dam by Onward McKinney Jr " Narcola by Athadon, dam by Onward Guy McKimrey Webster, Jas R Alta Arnold by Altamont, dam by Almont Mambrlno... D ablo West, N K Union Made by Baymont, dam by Administrator Ihe Ojm'onwealth Whalon, G W Delia W by Carmichael's Prince, dam by Packard's Nut- _, wood Prince Nutwood " Whelhan, E B White Rose by Anteo Ormanda Wills ' White, C F Lilly Thome by Electioneer, dam by Mambrlno Hamb Wilkes Dollexa by Alexis, dam by Aberdeen Monterey White. RG Snow Flake by Genl Logan, dam by Capoul Strathway Williams, C H Net by Magic, dam Madgelene Searchlight Nettie Nutwood by Nutwood, dam by Ethan Allen jr . . . Del Oro " Royal Net by Royal Sid, dam by Leo Wilkes Del Oro " Mascot by Iran Alto, dam by Guy Wilkes , Del Oro " Twenty-third by Dlreotor, dam by Nutwocd Searchlight Wills, Dr LeMoyne Bonnie Ela by Bonnie MoGregor, dam by Del Sur Conifer " Del Amo by Del Sur, dam by A W Richmond Conifer " Pastora by Judge Salisbury, dam by A W Richmond Conifer Wilson, A J Jube Madison by Madison, dam by Easter Wilkes Guynut Wilson, Peter Fleet of Elector, dam by Judge McKinstry Monochrome " Beauty of Elector, dam by Judge McKinstry Monoohrome WUherly TD ... Abaoa Callendlne by Wilkesdale, dam by Calabar Nutwood Wilkes Wright, S B Maud Fowler by Anteeo, dam by Nutwood Sidney Dillon " Hattie by Robin, dam by Anteeo Lynwood W Young, JohnD Glennita by McKinney, dam by Rajah SixBells Zlbbell, J W Kate Lumry by Shadeland Onward, dam by Combat Tom Smith How to Lay Out a Race Track. A Half-Mile Track — For a half-mile traek draw two parallel lines 600 feet long and 452 feet and 5 inches apart. Half way between the extreme ends of the parallel lines drive a stake; then loop a wire around the stake long enough to reach to either side. Then make a true curve with the wire, putting down astake as often as a fence post iB needed. When this opera- tion is finished at both ends of the 600- foot parallel lines, the track is laid out. The inside fence will rest exactly on the line drawn and the track will measure one-half milej three feet from the fence. The turns should bethrown up an inch, or an inch and an eighth to the foot. The BtretcheB may be anywhere from 45 to 60 feet wide, One Mile Track — For a mile track draw aline through an oblong center 440 yards in length, setting a stake at each end. Then draw a line on either side of the first line, exactly parallel with and 417 feet and two inches from it, setting a stake at either end of them. You will then have an oblong square 440 yards long and 834 feet and four inches wide. At each end of these three lines set stakes. Now fasten a cord or wire 417 feet and two inches long to the center stake of your parallelogram and describe a half circle, driving stakes as often as you wish to set a fence post. When the circle is made at both ends of your parallel- ogram you will have two straight sides and two half circles, which, measured three feet from the fence, will be exactly a mile. The turns should be thrown up an inch and an eighth to the foot. sufficiently large to cover the animal from neck to tail; see also that the breast flaps are sufficient to protect this sensitive part, and that the sides and flank are fully protected. If not do not buy it at any price. The Great Records. Blanketing Horses. A blanket is an essential part of the equipment of every stable. It is always necessary when a horse is standing- in the stable in winter. A light sheet is about as necessary in summer during fly time. A blanket should always be thrown over the horse in cold weather, or even in the cool weather of Spring and Autumn, when standing after being driven. While the horse is working there is no danger that he will suffer from the cold. If a blanket is used the average horse will sweat and the moisture will be retained, and in this way the danger from taking cold is much greater. .A horse should always be blanketed wheD standing in a draft or in the rain, using a cloth or rubber blanket as the caBe may be. After a hard drive and the horse has become heated, do not cover him for about five minutes, letting him steam. Then put on a light blanket; allow this to remain half an hour, then remove this and put on your heavy one. This gives the animal a warm, dry covering, after you have removed the light blanket which is wet from the steam of the horse. A thorough rubbiDg first, if convenient, is excellent. In blanketing your horse see that the blanket is The fractional times of the fastest miles made dur- ing the year are as follows: THREE FASTEST TROTTED MELES. H Yi X Mile. Lou Dillon 30 59^ 1:28^ l:58tf Cresceus 30 59?£ 1:30 1:593£ Major Delmar 30 1:00 1:29& i:59*£ Time of each quarter. First. Second. Third. Fourth. Lou Dillon 30 29^4 29 30 Cresceus 30 29H 30« 29£ Major Uelmar 30 30 29& 29& FASTEST PACED MELES. H XA X Mile. DanPatch 29 58 1:27M 1:56H Prince Alert 29$* 58 l:26tf 1:51 Time of each quarter. First. Second. Third. Fourth. DanPatch 29 29 29M 29 Prince Alert 29*i 28?£ 28J4 30& FASTEST MILE TO WAGON. H Vt % Mile. Dan Patch 29& 58^ 1:28 1:57^ Lou Dillon 29& 59M 1:29^ 2:00 Time of each quarter. First. Second. Third. Fourth. DanPatch 29# 29 29^ 205< LouDlllon 29^ 29& 30M 30& HALF MILE TO SULKY. H A DanPatch 38tf 56 TROTTING TEAM TO WAGON. H % % Mile. The Monk and Equity.. 2*U 1:04 1:36 2:08 course studied his work more closely than any one else. All I can say is that he is an exceedingly fast horse. I am often inclined to think he can go in 1:55. I really think he can make that mark yet. "I am not planning on any more record-breaking* but when the time comes the stallion will show all that ts required. McHenry will tell you the same thing." Mr. Savage says Dan Patch will be shipped to Minneapolis at the close of the eeasonforthe winter." Tne dead aire Online (4) 2:04 has now five represent* atives in the 2:10 list, and the singular thing about them is that there is but a fraction of a second's dif- ference between all five, viz.: Junius 2:07^, Lineo'Gold 2:07A, Onoto 2:07£, Strathline2:07$ andGreenline 2:07$, Problem — Last season as a four year old Lou Dillon 1:58$ worked a mile in 2:08J. . A few weeks ago the four year old trotting mare Angle by Axtell (3) 2:12, worked a mile in 2:06J. Now how fast will Angle trot next season? — American Horse Breeder. In hot weather there is no drink like Jackson' Napa Soda— plain or in a lemonade. Dan Patch's Record, 1:56 1-4, Can be Beaten. St. Paul, Minn., Oct. 23 — W. M. Savage, owner of Dan Patch, who broke the bookies on the Memphis track and established a new world's record, is confi- dent that the big pacer has not even yet shown his best Bpeed and can lower even 1:56}. Mr. Savage said to-day of Dan'B summer pacing: "Dan Patch had not been urged to do his very best by Mr. McHenry in his trials agalnBt time this sum mer, and I knew that once he was called upon to do 1:57 he would make good. When it waB definitely settled that Dan Patch would start at Memphis, I told Mr. McHenry to go the limit, and while 1:56} Is good enough juBt at present, I am confident that the stallion will eclipse this mark if ever called upon to do 80. "How fast can he go? I don't know. He is a won- der for speed and seems to have a tremendous re- serve that has even astonished me, and I have of Warranted to Give Smtlmf motion. Gombault's Gauslic Balsam Has Imitators But No Competitors. A Safe, Speedy and Positive Cure for Curb, Splint. Sweeny, Capped Hook, Strained Tendons. Founder, Wind Puffs, and all lameness from Spavin, Ringbone and other bony tumors. Cures all skin diseases or Parasites, Thrush, Diphtheria. Removes all Bunohes from Horses or Cattle. As a Human Remedy for Rheumatism, Sprains, Sore Throat, etc., it is invaluable. TSvery bottle of Cauatio Balsam Bold Is "Warranted to (five sntliH taction. Price $1,60 per bottle. Sold by druKglsts. or aont by ex- press, ehanres paid, witb. Coll directions for Its use. I^TSend for descriptive circulars, testimonials, etc. Address The Lawrence-Williams Co., Cleveland, 0, ®he Qveeixev antr gkpovt&mcm [November 14, 1803 ROD, GUN AND KENNEL. Conducted bj J. X. De WITT. Washington Tournament. Under the auspices of the Seattle Gun Club the ninth annual trap shooting tournament of the Wash- ington State Sportsmen's Association took place at Seattle on October 29th, 30th and 31st. The shoot took place on the local gun club's grounds near Ballard, fortj-seven shooters were in attendance during the meet. Three days were devoted to blue rock shooting and one day to live birds. On the first day the weather was perfect. In the first event E. E. Ellis and Thielman of Seattle divided first money, making scores of ten straight, known traps and angles. The second event was at fifteen birds, unknown traps, known angles, and was won by Brown of Che- halis, with a score of fourteen. Denham of Tacoma took the third event, known traps, unknown angles, making a score of fourteen out of a possible fifteen. Forbes of Spokane was winner in the fourth event, making the good score of twenty birds straight, known traps, unknown angles. In tne fifth event Mack of Seattle, Hillis of Van- couver, B. C, and Hollohan of Wallace, Idaho, tied for first place, with a score of fourteen out of a pos- sible fifteen birds, known traps, unknown angles. The sixth event was a three man team shoot, won by the Seattle team. The race waB open to Washing- ton shooters only, the winners each received a gold medal. The Dayton team won the race last year. The seventh event, at fifteen birds, was productive of some very fine scores. E. E. Ellis of Seattle and McBroom of Spokane tied for first money with straight scores and several of the others finished close up. The eighth event was also at fifteen birds, reverse angleB. Hillis of Vancouver and Denham of Tacoma took first money, with a score of thirteen each. On account of the short day several of the events had to be postponed. The shoot for the Post-Intelli- gencer trophy, carrying with it the individual cham- pionship of the state, was not pulled off because of a lack of time. Only residents of Washington can compete for it. The Seattle team was composed of E. E. Ellis, Mack and Steel. They made a score of 48 birds out of a possible 60, and won first money. A team from Whatcom finished 6econd, and the shoot- ers from Harrington finished third. Some of the best shots in the association fell down badly in their work because of the strange surroundings and the fact that they were not used to shooting over such swift traps. On the second day the opening race was: Event No. 9, mixed angles — First money divided between E. E. Ellis of Seattle, H. T. Denham of Tacoma and J. T. Hillis, of Vancouver. Then followed the match for the Post-Intelligencer medal— Won by Prod McBroom of Spokane by a score of 43 out of a possible 50. Dr. Steele of Seattle took first money, while second was divided between E. E. Ellis of Seattle, R. B. Miller of Whatcom and P. J. Hollohan of Wallace, Idaho. Event 11 — First money was divided between P. J. Hollohan and Thielman, of Seattle, each making a score of 14 out of a possible 15 birds. Event 12 — Won by Mack of Seattle with a score of 23 out of 25. Event 13 — Won by Ruppeof Seattle with a straight score of 15. Event 14— First money divided between E. E. Eilis and Fred MoBroom with a score of 19 out of 20. The day's shooting closed with the contest for the L. C. Smith trophy cup. The race was at 40 targets, viz: 10 at unknown angles, 10 at unknown angles, re- verse, use of both barrels, 10 at known traps and angles, 10 at known traps and angleB, reverse, one barrel only. Entrance $4.00, added money $30. E. E. Ellis of Seattle, winner last tournament received 50% of the purse. The winner of the oup proved to be Dal Cooper of Whatcom, who scored 36 out of 40 targets. First money, 50% of balance of the purse went to Forbes of Spokane, second money,. 30% of balance was divided between Ellis and Miller of Whatcom. The winners in the races on the third day were as follows: Fifteenth event, 25 birds, reversed angles. Seven men divided first money, Mack; Seattle; Forbes and McBroom, Spokane; McDonald"; Harrington; Brown, Harrington; Cooper, Whatcom, and Dixon all made the same score, 22 breaks. Sixteenth event, 15 birds, was shot during a fog. Thirteen was the top score, made by four shooters, Shields, Harrington; E. E. Ellis, Seattle; Cooper, Whatcom, and Stevens, Pomeroy. Seventeenth event, for the Hunter Arms Compaoy medal, valued at $50, 25 birds, reverse, unknown angles, both barrels — Won by F. W. BrowD, Harring- ton with a score of 22. Seoond money was divided by C. D. Ellis, Harrington and J. T. Hillis, Vancouver, B.C. Eighteenth event, 20 birds— Won by Mack, Seattle, with a aooreof 19. Nineteenth event, which deoided the general aver- age contest— Won by E. E. Ellis Seattle who broke 24 birds out of a possible 25. This raoe makes E. E. Ellis of Seattle the crack shot of the Northwest, he won thereby a fine gold medal, given by the Washington State SportBmen's Association to the man making the highest average in three days' shooting. Mr. Ellis won this honor, after one of the most exciting contests in the history of the association. When the last event was called Saturday afternoon, Ellis and Mack of Seattle, Cooper of Whatcom, and McBroom of Spokane were all bunched for first place. Ellis won the race by making a score of 24 out of a possible 25 in this event, and this score put him two birds ahead of Mack of Seattle and Cooper of What- com, who tied for second place. When the shooters took their places at the traps for the last event, Cooper led Ellis by two birds for first place, Mack of Seattle led him by one bird on the three days' shooting, and McBroom had him tied. Cooper broke but 20 of his 25 birds, however, and McBroom and Mack could not get above 21. Ellis made a grand stand finish by putting up pretty nearly a clean score, and walked off with the highest honors of the tournament. On account of the dark days, and a slight wind blowing directly across the traps, the elevation of the shooters above the ground, and the fog that floated in nearly every afternoon, but very few clean scores were made during the shoot. This necessitate d the postponing of the live bird events until Sunday and other changes as well from the scheduled pro- gram. The ninth annual tournament, however, was pronounced by all in attendance to be the most suc- cessful meeting in the history of the association, aDd the credit for handling the affair goes to the Seattle Gun Club. The averages made by the shooters during the three days follow: E. E. Ellis, of Seattle, winner of the $25 gold medal and $15 additional, 316; Mac, of Seattle, and Del Cooper, of Whatcom, 314; Fred Mc- Broom, of Spokane, 313; Jack Forbes, of Spokane, 304; Peter Hollohan, of Wallace, Idaho, 299; Brown, of Harrington, 295; Steele, of Seattle, 288; Shields, of Harrington, 287; McDonald, of Harrington, 285; Mitter, of Whatcom, and Garratt, of Seattle, 284. Of the forty-seven shooters in attendance, twenty- three men shot through all the events, and were given a standing in the general averages. The blue rock high average moneys amounted to $106, divided into ten prizes. The medal and $15 went to fiist, $25 to second and $20 to third high average. The value of the three trophies offered amounted to $160. The added money in the blue rock events footed up $460. On Sunday, November 1st, the live bird events came off at " The Meadows." The main evert was a twenty-bird race for the SpoK'esman-Ucview medal emblematic of the State live bird championship. Entrance was $10, added money $75. Del Cooper of Whatcom, winner last year, received 50% of the purse. The winner of the medal was Mack of Seattle, who scored twenty straight. As the birds this year were an unusually good lot, all strong flyers, the score made by Mackis a very good one. W. A Hardy of Seattle, H. T. Denham of Tacoma and R. C. Reed of San Francisco tied for second place with a score of eighteen. This meant a division of first money, 50%. There were twenty-eight entries, and besides the shooters mentioned before, the following got inside the money: Third place, second money: Howe, Portland; "Dickson,-' San Francisco; E. E. Ellis, Seattle; Farnsworth, Tacoma; Halstead, Tacoma: Robertson, San Francisco; Miller, Whatcom, and S. McDonald, Harrington. These men tied on a score of seventeen birds. Third money was divided between Hollohan of Wallace, Idaho; Stevens, Pomeroy; Hillis, Van- couver, B. C, and Cooper of Whatcom. They all made a score of sixteen. The three men inside the first money divided be- tween them $53.75; second money paid, $32.25, and third money, $21.50. Each man shot from the 30 yard mark, in squads, at known traps: After theohampionship race had been sbol a num- ber of pool shoots were pulled off. These contests were from unknown traps. Two miss and out races were also shot. The shooting began shortly after 9 o'clock a. m. with a five-bird match as a preliminary, and the pop of the shotguns kept up until late in the afternoon. About 850 birds were shot out of the traps, and quite a number of them got away. The shoot was probably the last live bird contest that will be seen in the state, as the constitution of the association has been so amended as to prohibit pigeon contests in the future. The association held its annual meeting and election of officers at the Rainier-Grand Hotel Thursday evening, and determined upon Harrington, Wash., as the pi ee where the next annual tournament will be held. The association passed a resolution authorizing the drafting of a new constitution and ordering sev- eral changes in the by-laws. Following are the' officers elected for the ensuing year: President, .Samuel McDonald; Vice-President. A. Shields; Secretary-Treasurer, C. D. Ellis, all of Harrington; Directors — Peter Hollohan of Wallace, Idaho; George Baker of Dayton, and E. E. Ellis of Seattle. in its live fish and game, which will be displayed by a number of the States. The aquarium will be located in the east end of the building, and occupy a Bpace of 185 feet long by thirty-five feet wide. It will have two lines of tanks, separated by an aisle fifteen feet wide. In the nave, beginning in front of the aquar- ium, and extending west to the center of the building will be a series of pools for large fish and other aquatic animals. The central pool, forty feet in dia- meter and five feet deep, will contain a collection of marine specimens. The pools will be very large and accommodate fish and other creatures of great size. Another great attraction in this portion of the building will be the groups of living game birds, especially the pheasants, quail, wild turkey, and other species known to the sportsman, representing a range of country from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. The dis- plays of hunting equipments will be interesting. A large space will be alloted for the exhibition of rifle targets. The various implements required by sports- men— decoys, gun cabinets tents, camping and hunt- ing equipments, will be shown in great variety. There will be an especially fine collection of oil paintings, photographs, and drawings, while in taxidermy, furs, game trophies, products of hunting and fishing, literature, fishing equipment, including native appliances, modern netting, boats fully rigged for fishery work, artificial flies, reels, and all other tackle the competition seems very active. The methods of the salmon fishery will be exhibited in a very attractive manner, illustrating the fis-hmg grounds, the methods employed, and the products obtained. The methods and apparatus ol marine and fresh water fish culture will also have an im- portant place in this section of the building. Tuna Club Prize Winners. Fish and Game Exhibit. A characteristic feature of the building set apart for the displays of fish and game and forestry exhib- its at the Universal Exposition of 1904 will be its cen- tral nave, eighty-five feet wide. Its ends will also be eighty-five feet wide, and without posts. The chief Interest in this department will undoubtedly center The fishing season at Catalina Island has prac- tically ended, that is so far as the sport under the recognition of the Tuna Club is concerned. The anglers who have fished in conformity wiih the club ruleB this season received various prizes last week at Avalon from the Tuna Club. Tuna fishing proper was almost a complete failuie this year, only five of these fierre fighters being caught. There was but one "button" tuna landed, that is, a fish weighing more than 100 pounds and e n- titling the one who caughtit to be admitted to nem- bership in the Tuna club. This particular fish wa6 caught by Eugene Atwood of Stonington, Conn., and weighed 144 pounds, but in the capture he failed to land his fish without assistance, and thus failed of membership. By reason of the fact that there were no "button" fish and no records broken a number of prizes aet apart for these particular events were not awarded: For the first tuna of the season, H. E. Smith of New York received a fine agate-tipped red. The score for largest tuna of the season, for which Mont- gomery Bros., jewelers, of Los Angeles, offered a sptcial silver cup, was tied, H. E. Smith of New York city and B. F. Alden of Chicago each taking one weigh'ng 94 pounds. They will each have their names inscribed on the cup. For the smallest tuna, H. L. Packard of Bakersfield, Cal., was awarded a rod. In the line of black 6ea bass Edward Llewellyn of Los Angeles received both first and second prizes. His largest fish weighed 425 pounds, which estab- lishes a new record. Thesecond largest weighed 379; for each fish Mr. Llewellyn received a rod. The prize for the smallest black sea bass, which weighed but 34 pounds, fell to T. McD. Potter of Los Angeles, for which he received a rod. For largest white sea bass, 52 pounds, William Potter Adams of Chicago was awarded a tackle be x. For second largest white sea bass, 51 J pounds, Ernest Fallon received a gaff. For catching the largest yellowtail, 46 pounds, F. P. Newport of Los Angeles was awarded a rod. W. A. Holt, M.D., of Globe, Ariz., had the second larg- est. 44 pounds, and received a gaff. For the largest albicore, 38 pounds, John Van Lie na of Los Angeles received a red. For largest rock bass, 9* pounds, Rev. H D.Ward of Huron, S.D., received a line dryer. For largest whitefish L. G. Murphy of Convene, Ind., received a gaff. Harry Doss received a fine agate-tipped, silver- mounted rod for having in commission the best- equipped launch over four borse power. Harry Nichols received a similar rod for best equipped launch under four horse power. Harry Elms, the boatman taking the first tuna of the Beason, was awarded a rod. The present holders of cups and records are: Largest tuna— C. F. Holder, Pasadena, 1899, 183 pounds; Col. C. P, Morehouse, Pasadena, 1900, 251 pounds; F. S. Schenck, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1901, 158 pounds; F. V. Rider, Avalon, 1901, 158 pounds; John E. Stearns, Los Angeles, 1902, 197 pounds. Black sea bass— F. V. Rider, Avalon, 1898, 327 pounds; T. S. Manning. AvaloD, 1899, 370 pounds; F. S. Schenck. Brooklyn, N. Y., 1900, 384 pounds; A. C. Thompson, Pomona, 1901, 384 pounds; H. T Kendall, Pasadena, 1902, 419 pounds. Largest yellowtail— F. V. Rider, Avalon, 1898, 41 pounds; F. S Gerrish, Jacksonville, Fla., 1899, 37 pounds; R. F. Stocking, Los AngeleB, 1900, 48 pounds; T. S. Manning, 1901, 33 pounds; Dr. Trowbridge, Fresno, 1902, 47J pounds. All of which goes to show that there is a deal of sport to be had by salt water anglers in and about the waters of Catalina island. The mooted question, whether the so called "leaping" 1 una or the "marine racehorse" of Aransas Pass or the Florida waters (as Jack Cracknell designates the tarpon) is the gamiest and most vigorous antagonist for the fisherman is still an open one. Both fish have their champions among the brothers of the angle. November 14, 1903., ©he gveeiiev anil gtpjcrcrtsman 1 Malignant Enzootic Anaemia of Kennel Dogs. [Continued from last weak.] There may be noticed a Btrange metallic odor from the breath and not infrequently the tongue is deeply coated. Examination of such cases in my hands haa extremely seldom revealed the presence of marked sensitiveness over the abdomen or the condition of local oedematous swelling of the limbs and head, men- tioned by foreign writers, nor have I ever discovered even in a single case the tendency to escape of blood from the nose as noted by them, as being a more or less characteristic symptom of this disease in dogs as seen in Europe; the whole condition, upon the other hand, pointing to the general absence of tendency to extravasation of blood in any superficial part of the body. The bowels are usually extremely torpid and inac- tive from the first with excreta of a dark, tenacious consistency and bad odor, not altogether unlike that marked in distemper, and which, when, examined microscopically, show} abundance of the ova. The pulse, at first normal, soon becomes low in ten- sion and the heart weak and fluttering in its action. Temperature is seldom elevated ana very frequently decidedly sub-normal. While pain is rarely evinced by palpation, the body movements, upon the whole, would indicate that animals are c ot entirely free from such. As the anaemia increases the animal becomes more and more depressed, absolutely refusing to take nour- ishment of any kind, and lies rolled up in a state of somnolence, burdering upon and early giving place to coma. The skin of the sufferer is almost devoid of resili- ence, scarcely enough tonicity being present for it to resume its normal position when gathered up in folds between the fingers and liberated. Well-marked latitude exists in th9 time elapsing between the initial symptoms and the death of the animal, for such is the termination of practically all those infected, especially between one and two months of age; but two to five days usually limits the suffer- ing, although exceptional cases (especially in very young animals) linger for many days in a state of per- fect coma before death comes to the relief. All ani- m tls of an infected litter usually disappear, one after another, in rapid succession, showing identical symp- toms, none of which, as it may be seen, in anywise, even in the least degree (with the exception of the dark stools) resemble distemper. The autopsy of such cases reveals a condition of body strictly identical to that found in autopsies of the human subject whose death has been caused by Dochmius Duodenalis (Egyptian Chlorosis), and from many notes carefully taken may be set forth as fol- lows: The cadaver begins to show early putrefactive change, and is marked by an odor which reminds 3f the peculiar metallic smell of the breath detected in the early physical examination. The muscular coats of the abdomen and the sub- cutaneous tissues, while not, as a rule, markedly thickened by it, show a peculiar glistenirg watery infiltration with great pallor of all structures and but little blood in evidence. The opened abdomen fre- quently shows an abundance of mesenteric fat, and as a very general rule contains a few grammes of serous fluid of a pale straw color. The intestines and Of gans, as liver and kidneys, are pale in color and as a normal condition of youth essentially very fatty in texture. Experience in great numbers of these examinations, along with careful regard to the findings of expert pathologists in making autopsies of humans subject to the disease, has taught me also to be able to establish the presence of the Dochmius in the intes- tines of the dog before their contents are exposed by opening, by the distinct and diagnostic appearance of the small intestines as they lie in the opened abdomen. There is to be noticed a total absence of the peri- toneal gloss ol the inteBtines normally present in the healthy animal, and upon closer observation this lack of lustre will be found due to a sort of granular, or, more graphically speaking, morocco-like surface of dull white peritoneum, which, however, cannot be said to be in the least marked by inflammation or effusion. Such sections of bowel when taken between the fingers are invariably found to be quite firmly, I might say, almost rigidly contracted upon them- selves, giving the feel and appearance of stiffness. There are seldom any other ocular evidences of disease in the abdominal organs. Upon removing the viscera and opening the same from the stomach downwards there is noted a lack of both food and symptoms until the lower part of the small intestines is reached, when the scant intestinal contents, yellowish above and gradually growing darker in color, suddenly begin to grow more caseous and granular in consistency and attain a reddish hue, soon to deepen in degree into maroon-red, due to the presence of blood in a more or less broken down con- dition. With even careful inspection of the intestinal con- tents there is seldom noticed evidence of anlmrl life until the material is spread out upon a suitable back- ground and the macoua membrane cleared off, when for the first time the exceedingly small, almost ml- oroscoplo worms, measuring from three-elghthB to flve-elghtha of an Inch In length, are revealed lying closely to the membrane and always 9«*mly attached to the same by their heads, provided the examination be made within six or eight hours of the animal's death. I have, up to the present, failed to find traces of worms imbedded either totally or partially within the folds of the tissues, as mentioned by some European writers. In young puppies the distribution of the parasites seems to be generalized over the surface, their num- bers usually varying from fifty to two hundred examples, in strange contrast to which the numbers found in this disease in the adult dog appear com- paratively small. A few of the most virulent cases which I have ever studied occurred in ten months old puppies and adult dogs, whose illness almost invariably took the form of rapid profuse dysentery with pure blood stools and collapse, death occurring within a very few hours, examination in such cases Bhowing extremely few parasites, frequently not more than ten and seldom more than fifty, these being almost invariably grouped into very circumscribed patches over the small intes- tines. The intestinal contents of such cases was blood pure and simple. Close examination of these worms will show their very uniform size to be almost diagnostic, since other varieties usually vary in size very materially, no matter at what age examined; especially is this true of the ascaridae, which also require three to four months for their development. The location in the small intestines removes the probability of their being mistaken for Oxyuris Vermicularis which alone infest the large bowel of the dog. When removed upon a suitable background for examination these worms will be seen to possess certain peculiarities of outline corresponding to sex. The female, which in the cases in puppies outnum- ber the male about two and one-half to one, measur- ing one-half to five-eighths of an inch in length, are exceedingly thin and slender in form and white or pinkish white in color, with a fine taper and pointed at each extremity, the head slightly flexed dorsally. The male are in slightly paler and in adults, with- out exception, shorter than the female, and while bearing the same gross characteristics at the anterior extremity, terminate posteriorly in a visible expan- sion, which, to the unassisted eye may be said to be club-shaped. Examined microscopically both sexes are noticed to be armed anteriorly with a most formidable array of head apparatus, consisting of a thimble or band-like process, which is in turn supplied with what appears to be six large hook or gaff-like teeth directed cen- trally. The two upper processes are, however, more properly speaking, inflections of the annular band. The adult female when taken from the average case in puppies is invariably noticed to contain great numbers of ova, the posterior, or tail, being acutely pointed; the posterior extremity of the mole, how- ever, terminates in a trilobate filamentous capsule or membrane of a decidedly trumpet shape, the form of which is dependent upon the constant presence of eleven chitinous rays or finger-like processes, one of which is oif urate at its summit. Carefully prepared specimens show two thread-like spiculae projecting from this caudal appendage, one of which corresponds to the male sexual organ. The longitudinal black line, mentioned by writers as diagnostic of this specie of worm, I find very in- distinct and frequently entirely absent in my cases in young animals, but very well marked indeed in those cases of older dogs which suffer. The caudal expan- sion of the male ?nd disparity of size in sex, however, are the best and only necessary elements for differen- tial diagnosis. The microscopical examination of the contents of the female body shows along with themyriads of oval ova great numbers of red blood corpuscles in various stages of masceration and digestion, but inordinate numbers of which appear in quite normal condition. Examinations of the intestinal contents of animal3 dead from this disease, especially when taken from the area of infection, also reveals the presence of great numbers of red blood cells in all stages of des- tructure as well as great numberB of the ova. If a strong hand glass be used upon the mucous membrane at the various points of irritation there may frequently be observed the distinct puncture marks of the teeth of the parasites now filled with coagulated blood. There is little evidence of inflam- matory change in the tissues except in the immediate vicinity of the punctures. The mesenteric lymph nodes are usually oedematous to a slight degree in the majority of cases in young puppies, but I have noted not only much enlarge- ment, but well-defined haemorrhages of the nodes in a few cases of extremely acute character in adult dogs dying after a few hours' illness, as is usual in such cases. The kidneys upon close examination are usually found more or less oedematous. The thoracic organs usually fail to show symptoms beyond those incidental to anaemic conditions, as paleness and tendency to oedema of the lungs, ante- mortem clots in the cardiac chambers and clear effusion in the pericardial sac. There was no post-mortem evidence in the multitude of cases which I have observed Buch as would likely to be more or less well defined in cases of non-specific anaemia, as chronic general enlargement and nodular lymphatics, enlargement of the spleen, gastric ulcerp, etc., nor have I been able to establish anything ap- proaching the amyloid conditions of the liver and kldneyB, one of the conditions said to frequently mark the occurrence of the diseabe in man. Its ab- sence in the dog is no doubt due to the short duration of the illness and the rapidity with which his death is induced. [TO BE CONTINtJEn ] Some Northwest Terriers. Irish and Scotch Terriers are gradually coming to the front on the Coast and the many good qualities and sterling worth of these two breeds are becoming more appreciated. A good terrier is worth a tidy sum of money and a successful breeder aside from the pleasure and sport of breeding game and intelligent dogs should do well with them. Few people have any idea of the sport that may be had in the woods and along our streams with a brace of snappy and gamey terriers. For this hunting the Irish and Scotch Terriers are best adapted and may be relied upon at all timeB to bag their quarry, be it a wild cat, raccoon or other vermin. One of the earliest, if not the pioneer breeder of the Northwest, is we believe, Mrs. Katherine Bradley- Dyne, formerly of Sidney, Victoria, but now of Saturna island, B. C. Mrs. Bradley-Dyne's dogs are all well and fashionably bred, two or three were win- ners in the "old country." Some ol her dogs also won here and at Oakland, Cardiff Warman, Saanich Mixit and Saanich Dahlia, if we remember rightly. Since moving to her new home Mrs. Bradley-Dyne has not devoted the time and attention to her kennels as she had previously, and haB not, in consequence, been able to supply the constant and popular demand for puppies from her stock. Saanich Mixit is at the head of the stud in the Saturna Island kennels. He was Mrs. Dyne's firBt importation and is bred on the right lines; he is by Pat O'Hara out of Nell. Pat was Bired by Wm. Graham's good old dog Breda Mixer. Billy Graham will be remembered by some of our readers who met him when he judged in this city several years ago. He joined the silent majority last year some time, we believe. Mixit is now a veteran, but is Btill the same good old "daredevil." Luckpenny Peter is a sterling good young dog (Saanich Mixit-Saanich Dahlia) and won easily over everything at Victoi ia in 1901. New Bank and Sport are also two youngsters above the average. Blantam Barney, is also a good sire, several promis- ing youngsters in the kennels will testify to that. The kennel brood bitches are at present but two in number. Doreen, the star, is a grandly bred one, she is by Ch. Stackhouse Sportsman out of Nimble, she by the well known Ch. Brickbat ex Lotion. This breeding represents something that fanciers of the Irishman can "go a bit" on. Doreen is well known to the local and general fancy and she has been a con- sistent winner at shows here and elsewhere on the Coast. Mollie, by Breda Muddler out of Bridesmaid is the other matron of the kennels. Both of these bitches have generally whelped large litters of good puppies. A desideratum in Irish Terriers here is correct "nobs;" long head, square under jaw, the small dark hazel eye, and small properly set V Bhaped ears. Good bodied dogs are in the vast majority over the correctly headed ones — and this will apply to any breed for that matter. In coata, the Coast "Micks" are usually good, better in faot than many of the Eastern blue ribbon dogs can show. For when these terriers ane not in show form, there seems to be some favoring element in our climate and territory that strongly brings out on many of our Irish Terriers the desired hard and wire texture, straight and flat with- out any objectionable Bhagginess. In Scotties, Mrs. Dyne has without doubt the best on the Coast to to-day. Old Ch. Loyne Ruffian is still on deck and has been a consistent producing sire. This staunch old "die hard," was a winner of num- erous prizes in England and was brought to America by Dr. Ewing of Webster Grove, Mo., from whom Mrs. Dyne purchased him. Ruffian is the sire of Nosegay Sweet William the first American bred Irish Terrier puppy to win a championship. He ib as full of ginger as ever and always ready and willing to prove bis mettle with any of bis kennel mates. Two young dogs now in the kennels give great promise of maturing into crackp, one especially, a brindled gray like his daddy. Ch. Fighting Mac (Raglan Bell-Seafield Nettle) is a very typical dog, particularly so in head qualities and character. As asire, on form and breeding, he should hold his own. Before reaching the Northwest he won as a puppy at Earl's Court show, England In bitches, Mrs. Dyne has two corking gcod ones. Scottie O'Brae (Heather Prince-Connie Lass), an im- ported bitch, was a winner "across the water" and won first open here in 3900. As we remember her she is a proper headed, even, good coated bitch full of character. Princess Orsa, her daughter by Mac, is a close second to her dam. Mac also won first open herein 1900. The Scottie is an almost ideal all round dog and makea the best kind of a pal. and as the name of "die hard" signifies, he will die fighting if necessary, but withal he is not a quarrelsome dog. Some excellent Ch. Hampton Goldie puppies are for sale by an Alameda fancier. See ad. on page 15. Mr. Thomas S. Griffith, owner of the Glen Tana Collie Kennels, Spokane, writes us: I am pleased to Btate that I Bhipped Novem- ber 3d two fine Collie pupB to Memphis, Tenn ; a sable bitch, dam Craigmore Ethel sired by imported Braehead Commander, and a sable dog, dam Cair- brogle Louise, sire imported Lenzie Prince, winner of forty seve" first prizes. I bred the great prize win- ner Imported Moreton Vesta ,'dam of Miss Tuffet) to imported Rippowam Archer, also a big prize winner, and can only look forward anxiously for what I be- lieve will be excellent results. E. C. Plume will be In New York during show week and proposes to take In the Westminster Kennel Club show. An opportunity to procure some good Cocker Span- iels Is offered by Plumeria Kennels, prior to Mr. Plume's departure for Chicago. Some desirable bitches and young dogs are for sale. See ad. on page 15. In hot weather there is no drink like Jackson's Napa Soda — plain or in a lemonade. 10 ©he ^veeitev attii &p&vt&tnait [November 14, 1K03 San Francisco Show Notes. Entries close November 23d. As a rule exhibitors defer making their entries until the last moment, thus making a great deal of extra work for the show officials. Mr. Stewart tells us that exhibitors are showing greater consideration this year, and that many extries have already been received. Making entries as early as possible is to be com- mended. If any errorB are made it leaves time for correspondence and correction. Errors in catalogues can usually be traced to late entries. Mr. Julius Redelsheimer of Seattle has offered a handsome silver cup for best Pacific CoaBt bred Fox Terrier. - Mr. J. Riplinger of Seattle is sending down the English Setters Ch. Elloree, imp. Stylish Sergeant and two extra promising youngsters. Mr. Riplinger also expects to bench the English Setter Ch. Pera, which will come direct from Philadelphia to the show. 10%. The order of running and Btarters were as cruit, 2 Norfolk All Blue, 3 Warren Deputy res War follows: ren Voucher, v h c Warren Drastic, v h c Wandee Clare, Mich., October 27, 1903.— Sportsmen's Ch. True, h c Warren Dabbler. Limit bitches— 1 Field Trial Club's inaugural Derby Stake. Open to Warren Daunt, 2 Sabine Beldia, 3 Wandee Seabreeze Pointers and Setters whelped on or after January 1, res Norfolk Fortune, v h c Wandee Mayse Onen 1902. Nominations $2. starting fee$3. Twelve starters, bitches— 1 Warren Daunt, 2 Sabine Lavender 3 Wandee Seabreeze, res Norfolk Fortune, v h c Wan- dee Mayse. WireB— Limit— 1 Wandee Coastguard, 2 Wandf Mearns, 3 Selwonk Topper, res Selwonk Nippe Open— 1, 2, 3, Coastguard, Mearns, Topper, res C Hands Up. Winners— 1 Wandee Coastguard Wandee Mearns. Wire bitcheB were— Novice— 1 Wandee Manill- Wandee Ramble. Limit— 1 Selwonk Lucretia' Wandee Manilla, 3 Norfolk Toss Up. Open— 1 s wonk Lucretia, 2 Wandee Manilla, 3 Selwonk Fe- less, res Norfolk Toss Up. Winners— 1 Selwo't Lucretia, res Wandee Manilla. Collies promise to give some close competition. We hear that Mr. Arthur Letts of Los Angeles has im- ported a Collie from England and will send him up to San Francisco. In our show notes of last week we commended the Collie and Sheep Dog Club for arranging to have all its special and regular prizes ready for distribution on the last night of the show. We understand that the diplomas awarded will also be given out on Satur- day, bo that when the show closes on Saturday night every exhibitor will have received everything coming to him. Thomas Howe of Mt. Angel, Oregon, will bring down the string of dogs from Portland. Our Oregon readers are requested to write Mr. Howe, should they desire to send down any dogs. 1902. Nominations $2, starting fee$3. Twelve starters, all Setters. Gath's Dorrit, white, black and tan Setter bitch (Sport's Gath- Llttle Dorrit.) Dr. E. D. McQueen, owner; T. Morris, handler. With Clairvoyant, orange and white Setter bitch, (Cowley's Rodfield's Pride-Phoebe Whitestone.) E. H. Waller, owner and handler. Dike's Rock, white, black and tan Setter dog (Duke Case-Lady Case. E. L. Teal, owner and handler. With Ruby's Queen, blaok, white and tan Setter bitoh(Fairland Dike- Waller's Ruby. C. H. Van Brunt, owner and handler. Princess Dot. white, blask and tan Setter bitch (Count Dan- Elizabeth.) E. A. Foster, owner and handler. With Phoebe's Rod, orange and white Setter dog (Cowley's Rodfield's Pride-Phoebe Whitestone.) L. N. Hilsendegen, owner and handler. Petrel's Count's Boy. black and white Setter bitch (Petrel's Count- Tony's Nell.) A. J. Smith, owner and handler. With Dobrezyski, black, white and tan Setter dog (Fairland Dike-Lady Clare.) F. E. Doherty, owner and handler. Pride of Alma, black, white and tan Setter dog (Gladstone's Dash- Nellie.) Opdyke & Thompson, owners; Mr. Thompson, handler With Viscount Kitchener, white ticked Setterdog (The Sultan-OurLou. E J. Walsh, owner and handler. Among the entries for the Bhow next month will be a bat eared French Bull bitch that has won the Empress prize at St. Petersburg and WarBaw bench shows. She is a light-weight black brindle (12 pounds) and is a good one. Nou Nou, as she is named is owned by Mrs. Cash Sloan. A good Boston Terrier, a son of Kinsman will be benched by Dick Jose, the well known minstrel ballad singer. A Bull Terrier bitch by Ch. Princeton Monarch out of Lady Summit and a winner at the last Chicago show was entered thiB week by a gentleman who resides in Fargo, North Dakota, and who will send his bitch here to the December show. Michigan Field Trials. The inaugural field trials of the Sportsmen's Field Trial Club were run at Clare, Mich., October 26th 27th and 28th. There was a large and enthusiastic attendance of sportsmen from various points in the State. This club is composed largely of Michigan business men. Although but recently organized there is already more than a hundred members in the asso- ciation. Each member, this being an amateur club must handle his own entry if able to do so. The trial grounds are situated two miles from Clare and com- prise 3000 acres, containing a number of large fields where the dogs can work to fair advantage, despite the fact that rather too many fences cut up the dis- trict. The Derby had twelve dogs in the stake, most of theBe showed considerable range and speed, in only a few instances however did any of the young dogs evi- dence any experience of previous work on game. The winner Clarvoyant, a snappy little orange and white bitch sixteen months old, is very stylish and worked out her heats like an old dog. She also ran second in the All-Age. Gath'a Dorrit, winner of Becond, is a medium-size black, white and tan bitch, by Sport's Gath— Little Dorrit. She showed considerable quality and with better work on birds might have changed places with Clarvoyant. Phoebe's Rod, winner of third, is a high-headed stylish orange and white dog, litter brother to Clar- voyant, but is not so compactly built nor so snaDDv in his work. FyJ Dike's Dike, winner of fourth, is a small, compactlv built white, black and tan dog, by Fairland Dike— °^v, aru ?ad5; ,HV!Js,?li,h and a merIT worker. The All-Age Stake had eighteen starters, thirteen of which were put down in the second series— eis-ht of t „6 ^fibfine Carr!,aa ia\° the third- The whiner,' Lou Rodfield, a speedy and rangy lemon and white bitch is credited with being faultless in her bird work and showed consistency to a degree by a sterling regularity of work in all her heats. sorting Clarvoyant, second, won the place by superior bird Rose M., medium sized whits, black and tan b'tch placed third, is rather an old bitch and showed her experience on game in other than point work Phoebe's Rod, equal fourth (afcrothird in the Derbv) showed to better advantage than in the first stake Tony s Nell, equal fourth, was undoubtedly handi- capped m working under a strange handler. She is a consistent and speedy performer, a good raneer and merry goer. s The awards of the judges, were well received and but little dissatisfaction was shown. The winners received silver cups in addition to the division of the moneys, which were divided at 40%, 30%, 20% and California Game and Fish Protective Associatior The fourth annual meeting of the California Gan and Fish Protective Association will be held at Pas Robles to-day and to-morrow. The Paso Robles at sociation have made extensive arrangements for the entertainment of the delegates, among which will be 0x£^V1£b*M&i2£?$!^i£MMa Dike-Top od ones to Ch. Wood- The rains have brought in quite a run of quinnat sal- ?nl«r^ fit ■ ! -I nT?tlDg ?lth ■B^r0n 9hould Prove mon- Low water Prevented the fish from getting up Baron has sired winning puppies further than the countv road bridge. The rains this to be a good "nick and is one of the best of our local Bull Terrier'stud dogs. In Boston Terrier circles there is a prospectivelitter due from the mating of MiBB Hagar's Nifty to Mr Woodworth's bitch Babe, November 8th and 9th. The show last week in New York was of local interest to our fanciers for there were entered in Bull- dogs and Fox Terriers a string of Wandee Kennels' dogB that had been sent East as well as several newly purchased wire-hairs owned by the kennels, but which have not yet arrived in this city. In Bulldogs, a strong class of 112 entries all told Limit (under 45 pounds) 1 Rolyat, 2 Remlik Chinosol, 3 Ivel Damon, res Glendale King. Open— (under 45 pounds) 1 Rolyat, 2 Remlik Chinosol, 3 Ivel Damon res. Ch. Rodney Rosador. In smooth Fox Terriers— Limit dogs— 1 Sabine Re- week should enable the fish now to get up stream and spawn. Steelhead have also made their appearance at Pt. Reyes, several nice sized fish were taken last Sunday and during the week. ._ . Striped Dass have been taken at Rodeo and Point Richmond. Geo. C. Peterman and Ed Snider caught' 19atriped bass in Lake Merritt last Sunday. The fish ran from 5 to 15 pounde in weight. Duck and Quail Outfits. The demand at Skinner's keeps up for sportsmen's outfits,' ammunition and guns. A large and new stock of goods has been added to fill the demand for hunting salts, rubber boon and hunters' footwear; canvas and folding wooden decoys, gun cases and a new design of leather-covered Bhell boxes. Peters Factory Loaded Shells are unequaled. Skinner's place is 801 Market street. You can get anything there you need for duck or quail shooting. Send for a catalogue, if you haven't the time to come, and try a mall order. November H 1903J ©he gveeiiev anit ^povtsntaxt 11 A RELIC OF BYGONE DAYS. Old Jndge's Stand at Oakland Track from "Which General Grant saw Orrin A. Hlckok Break the World's Record with St. Jullen. THE FARM. Dairy Notes. "When cream frotha during churning the cause ia not a mystery to the well informed dairyman. It can easily be avoided by using a thermometer and bringing the temperature of the cream up to sixty-five degrees. Are you making butter for private cus- tomers? Find out how they like their butter salted, and try to suit them. The matter of salting has a great deal to do with the satisfaction people get from ent- ing our butter. And satisfaction settles the question of trade. Cover tightly the pail or jar in which you keep your cream. If it can be made air tight, so much the better. Lota of butter is absolutely spoiled by taking in the smells of the kitchen. These Bmella auit our nostrils first rate, but they make very poor flavoring for butter. A dairy lunch, where cool milk, country butter and other products of the dairy will be served, will be a feature in the Wis- consin building at the World's Fair. The necessary products to maintain the lunch counter will ba shipped regularly from Wisconsin to St. Louis during the fair. A Bread, Milk and Butter Company is being formed in Chicago that will furnish these staples each morning to ita custom- ers; In fact a trust is spoken of which wilt absorb all the bakeries and dairiee in that city, and milk dealers shipping milk into the city will also join this combine. If your cow has a lot of warts on her bag and teats remove them at once. They are a nuisance to the milkman and some timea cause the cow pain when she is milked, and therefore in no way do they increase the flow of milk. Iodine applied with a camel's hair brush or feather daily for a week or two will kill them. An effective milk inspection law works no injury to the milk dealer or dairy- man who is honest in his methods. Keep up the fight for pure milk. Not a step backwards must be taken. Ths law must not be weakened. Not one of its essential provisions muat be wiped out or modified in the interest of greed and dis- honeBty. South Africa is now buying largely of imported dairy products. During the six months ending; June 1, 1901, four hun- dred and eighty thousand pounds of but- ter and cheese were imported into that country, whereas during a corresponding period in 1902 the amount was nearly doubled, and a steady increase in the yearly imports may be expected. Owing to an attempt to corner the cheese market in the Northwest, the La Croase Cheese and Butter Company haB on hand $900,000 worth of cheese, which is stored in warehouses in Chicago, Mil- waukee and other cities, and ia in finan- cial difficulty. Traveling aaleamen have been making strenuous efforts to dispose of the cheese which the company has accumulated. ■*■ Raising Calves for the Dairy. The calves are allowed to draw first milk from cow, then taught to drink. Whole milk ia given until two weeks old, about two quarts twice daily at first, in- creasing to three. Keep close watch that the bowels are natural. At two weeks old we begin to add one-third skim milk, writea H. B. Cater in -JVeie England Homestead, decreasing the whole milk of course and continue to substitute the skim milk gradually for ten days, at which time the whole milk ia all with- drawn and the calf has pasBed the change unaffected. There are many different ways, and perhaps as many different ideas of the beat form to supply the fat taken out by the cream. Our experience, after hav- ing used flaxseed meal in the form of gruel, corn meal, linseed in gruel form and many especially prepared calf meals, ia that old process linseed, given un- cooked in the skim milk, about two ounces to each calf, morning and night, has given us better results and much Iesa work than anything we have ever used. We feed about eight quarts skim milk per day to each calf until weaned, which is usually at three months. Dur- ing this time we keep ground oatB and mixed wheat feed in equal parts constant- ly before them, and all the good hay they will eat, or, if in Bummer, we use green feed instead of hay, such as rye, oats and peaa, soy beans, green corn, barley, etc. When the milk is taken from them we make the grain ration about one-third linseed meal and two-thirds ground oats and mixed feed. CalveB raised by this method do not, perhaps, look quite as aleek as those raised on whole milk, but they are better prepared to grow and mature into cowb of good, profitable pro- ducing capacity than are these which are allowed the rich milk. I might add that we feed during the season for it all the silage they will eat. Prizes at World's Fair. Commenting editorially upon the fact that the prizes offered for live stock by the World's Fair at St. Louis in 1904 are $55,000 greater than the aggregate cash offerings by fourteen of the leading na- tional and state live stock shows of the LToited States the Breeders Gazette of Chi- cago, recognized as the highest authority on live stock matters, sums up the situa- tion thus : "All the news from St. Louie rings ac- ceptably to t^e ears of exhibitors of live stock. The preliminary classification is very, broad and comprehensive, advancing features of a novel and valuable character) and marking a higher standard of classifi- cation for live stock exhibitions than has yet been set. Expectation has been keved high concerning thia show and breeders are deeply gratified to learn that these high hopes have suffered no disappoint- ments. It baa been th« aim of Chief Coburn to Bet a standard that will serve for yeara to come and he has succeeded admirably. "It is idle to traverse the ground on which is rested the offer of money prizeB for exhibitions of pedigreed live stock. The proposition is defensible in argument, impregnable in precedent. The query for years has not been whether money prizes should be offered, but as to the amount of money which could be wisely devoted to the encouragment of auch exhibitions. There is a point short of which falls nig- gardliness, beyond which lies extrava- gance. It would tax memory, however, to cite any examples of the latter. It has not yet come about that prizes dispropor- tionate in value to the importance of the exhibit have been given at live stock exhi- bitions. Pride would induce many a breeder to exhib't at St. Louis next year, even if prize money were not attractive. Pride and prize money will make it the record show of the country. "Palpably the cash prizes at St. Louis mount to the dignity of a World's Fair. The nations of the earth are manifesting great interest in thiB coming expoaition and it behooves American b eeders of pedigree stock to present such an array of the products of herd, stud and flock as will drive home to all visitors the pre- eminence of thia country in the diversity, magnitude and excellence of its produc- tion of the bretdB of live stock." The California Creamery Operators' association is preparing to make a repre- sentative exhibit of dairy products from this State at St. Louis next year. At a recent meeting of the association a reso- lution was adopted recommending that the exposition commission create the position as superintendent of the dairy exhibit, the duties of the incumbent being toco-operate with the California Creamery Operators' association and dairy interests of the State, to organize an exhibit and bein attendance upon the same at' the fair. The association and the California Promotion committe will join forces in an attempt to capture the national butter- makers convention of 1905. FOR SALE. pLACK TROTTING MARE, RECORD 2:1 8*; -° standard bred; sound: nearly irt hands high; weighs about tlOO pounds. Gentle and a high- class road more. Can be boupht cheap. To sen the mare and for particulars call or address J. W. ZIBBELL, 315 Twentieth Ave., San Francis 13 Making a Cement Stable Floor. The concrete is made by mixing eight parts of clean gravel with one part of Portland cement. Or if finely crushed stone is used— no piece larger than one inch in diameter— ten or twelve parts can be used to one part of Portland cement The concrete should be mixed thoroughly dry, shoveling it over thr«e or four times and sprinkling enough to thoroughly dampen when ready to use. Lay the floor in sections, three or four feet wide bo that one can easily reach across to trowel it, then put up a two inch piece and state it to make the width needed, wheel the dampened concrete in, spread evenly two inches at a timeand ram Bolid. Continue this until within one inch of the top in the horse stable or one half inch for the cow stable or hog house. The top coat is made with two parts of sharp clean sand and one of cement, thor- oughly mixed and tempered, with liquid enough to make it flow readily. See that the corners and edges are well filled in and in the horse stable make the floor perfectly level but in the cow barn give a fall of one inch from the manger to the manure ditcb, which should be five feet. To prevent slipping at the back of each stall make grooves, for two feet in the sofl mortar, running crosswise four inches apart and the same across the doorway where the horses step in. When a section of the floor is laid, carefully take up the edge piece, moving it to the Bame distance and lay another section and so on until the floor is finished. Keep the building closed so that no stock, not even chickens, can get in while the cement is soft. It will harden in about twelve hours so that it can be walked over. Sprinkle tboroujhly with a water- ing pot twice a day for ten days after which it will be hard enough to allow the horses on it. As the floor is made set blocks in at the proper angle where the studding are needed to partition the stalls, then take them out alter the mortar is hardened and it will leave a mortise for the foot of the Btudding. In addition to the durability of the cement floors there are Beveral other advantages. They afford no harbor for rats, save all the liquid and never become saturated so as to give offensive odors as do*-s a plank fljor. Make the floor in the cow stable five feet long from the manger back to the manure ditch, then for small cows put an extra board next to the manger to keep them back six or eight inches so as to reduce the length of the ttall. The manure ditch should be two feet wide at the top and twenty inches in the bottom. This gives a slope of two inches on each side of the ditch which is eight inches deep. The door to the cow stable should be directly at the end of the ditch and then the cows will always walk in through the ditcb to their Btalls. Back of the manure ditcb make a walk of cement two and a half feet wide and on a level with the floor on which the cows stand. — Field and Farm. ®hc &xzsbev anii gyaxtsman [NOVEMBIR 14, 1903 How Horses Are Fed. The United States Army feeds its cav- alry and artillery horses 12 pounds of oats and 14 pounds of hay per day per thou- sands pounds of weight, and its mulea 9 pounda of oats and 14 pounds of hay. The Wyoming station feeds its driving horses 21.25 pounds of alfalfa and 3.2 pounds of straw and its carriage horses 10 pounds of oats and 12 poundB of hay per thousand pounds of horae per day. The Boston fire company feeds its horses 9.38 pounds of grain and 18 pounds of hay, and the Chi- cago fire company feeds 4 pounds of oats and 15 pounds of hay all per thousand poundB of weight, per day. The Rich- mond (Virginia) Express Company ieeds its horses 4.67 pounds of corn, 5.33 pounds of oats, 8 pounds of bran, 4.16 pounds of cornmeal and 15 pounds of hay. The Jer- sey City Express Company feedB 2 pounds of corn, 9 pounds of oats, 1.15 pounds of THE $60,000 DAN PATCH 11561 CHAMPION PACING HORSE of the WORLD [Wllhont Hopples, Wlnd-Break, Etc, Etc] EATS 3 FEEDS k» ONE CENT^ EVERY DAY. "International Stock Food" greatly aids Digestion and Assimilation so that More Nutrition is obtained from all grain eaten. It "tones up" and Permanently Strengthens the entire system and Purifies the Blood so that disease is prevented. Every $3.50 pail of "International Stock Food" is positively guaran- teed to save $7.00 worth of grain. It will cause your Race Horse to have more speed and endurance. It will make your Carriage Horses healthy, fat and beautiful. It will give your Show Horses more life and ' action and make them glossy. It will make your Work Horses strong, healthy and of great endurance. It will make your Stallions and Brood Mares surer, and your colts will be better and grow and develop more rapidly. "International Stock Food" is absolutely harmless even if taken into the human system. It is prepared from Roots, Herbs, Seeds and Barks and is fed in small amounts as an addition to the regular grain allowance. It is equally profitable when fed to Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Hogs, Colts, Calves, Lambs or Pigs. It will make you a large extra profit when fed to your stock for Growing, Fattening or Working. It will increase milk 15 to 25 per cent, in Cows, Mares, Sows* or Ewes, and only costs ***3 FEEDS for ONE CENT."^» A- Dan Patch colt commanded $5,000 at eight months of age. He looked like a yearling and was beautiful, strong and vigorous. The dam was fed "International Stock Food" before and after foaling, and the colt as soon as it would eat. Dan Patch became the World's Champion Harness Horse nine months after commencing to eat "International Stock Food" every day. If it is good for such horses don't you think it would pay you to test it on yours? Our "International Stock Food Farm" contains 650 acres, 12 miles from Minneapolis, and on it we own Dan Patch 1-56W Directum 2:05,'4\ Roy Wilkes 2:06>£, and a band of broodmares. They all eat "International Stock Food" every day. BEWAREOF IMITATIONS and SUBSTITUTES. There are many worthless imitations on the market, put out by people who seem to think that the way to start a busi- ness is to steal as much as they can from some prominent firm. fl0 chemisi can separate and name all ol the ingredi- ents used in "International Stock Food," etc., and any chemist or manufacturer claiming to do so must be an Ignoramus or a Falsifier. A BEAUTIFUL DAN PATCH PICTURE FREE We have a very fine, large lithograph of Dan Patch with the great driver, M. E. McHenry , in sulky. This Lithograph, Printed in Sis Brilliant Colors, is one of the finest and most attractive horse pictures ever published. It is 21x28 and printed on heavy paper suitable for framing. 8®"We Will Mail You One Copy Free, postage prepaid, If You will Answer Two Questions. 1st.— Name This Paper. 2d.— State How Much Stock You Own. Answer these questions in a letter or on a postal card and we will mail at once. Address_ Write at once before the offer is withdrawn. V International Stock Food Co. MINNEAPOLIS. M1NN..0. S.A. Larcf -I Stock Food Factor* In the World. Capital PaJd In, 51,000,000. bran and 9.5 pounda of hay, and the Bos- ton Express Company feeds 12 pounds of corn, 5 25 pounda of oats and 20 pounda of hav. The Wyoming station feeda its farm horeeB 13.75 pounds of alfalfa and 2.25 pounds of straw per day. The Utah sta- tion feeds its farm horses 25 pounds of alfalfa and 10 pounda of bran, or 22. S pounda of timothy hay and 10 pounds of bran. It will be noticed that at all theee Western stations alfalfa hay is a preferred feed for farm horses. At Chicago the daily ration of the draft horses of large companies is 7.5 pounds of oats and 20 pounds of hay, and in South Omaha 15 pounds of oats and 12 pounds of hay. Advantages and Disadvantages of Pasteurizing Milk. The success of a creamery depends more upon the butter-maker than any- body else. Many things that to a care- less man seems of little importance, to the intelligent maker are of the greatest importance. This condition ia quite evi- dent to anyone who has patronized auch institutions. In some creameries we find every evidence of prosperity. The mana- ger meets the patrons with a good morn- ing and a pleasant smile and weighs and sampleB the milk as it should be done. The creamery is in first-class order and there is a pleasant atmosphere every- where. It is a pleasure to visit such a plant. Contrast this with one where we find everything in dilapidated condition with an untidy maker at the head of it, patrons dissatisfied and the complaint is made on every hand that the creamery business does not pay and the patrons think that creamery men are among the biggest rascals in existence. This often prevents the creamery business from extending as it Bhould. Jealousy among farmers has destroyed more creamerieB than all other things combined. As a matter of fact there are very few dishon- est men in the creamery business. If one-tenth of the dishonesty which is printed in the sensational newspapers were true, the business of the world would be seriously affected. The chief advantages of pasteurization for butter making are : 1. It destroys the germ life of milk or cream to a large extent, especially when heated to 1S5 degrees, which is the tem- perature to be recommended. A clean seed-bed ia thus prepared for the proper germs to give fine flavor to the butter. 2. It tends to eliminate stable and feed flavors from milk and cream, especially with milk in winter. 3. The ripening of the cream may be controlled by the butter maker, which is the important point in making good butter. 4. In case of bad flavored milk, it en- ables the butter maker to improve very much the quality of his goods. 5. By the use of pure cultures (com- monly called "starters") a more uniform quality is produced from day to day throughout the year. 6. The butter possesses an improved keeping quality, hence ia better suited for the export trade, as our butter does not reach the consumer for two to four weeks after being made. 7. An improved quality of butter may be produced at cream-gathering cream- eries by pasteurization of the cream when sweet. The pasteurization of Bour cream is attended with more labor and more dif- ficulties, and the results are not so good. It is difficult to pasteurize milk or cream which contains more than 0.1 per cent of acid. However, after natural coagulation takes place in the create which will be when itcontains0.4 toO.o percentof acid, the work may be done fairly well but is usually attended with considerable loss. 8. There ia less loss in the akim mils when the whole milk is pasteurized be- fore separating, especially in winter. We have used nearly all the leading makes of separators for creaming hot milk. The upper bearing of the machine needs to be somewhat more loose than when running through milk at a temperature ot 100 de- grees, and plenty of good oil is required to lubricate the bearing when separating pasteurized milk. 9. A better quality of Bkim milk may be returned to the farmers by sending it home hot. There is also less danger of spreading disease. In Denmark all skim milk and buttermilk must be heated to ISO degrees before it is returned to the farmer. This plan has materially les- sened the spread of tuberculosis in that country. Hydrogen peroxide is used to test whether the dairy products have been pasteurized, and the law is rigidly en- forced. The disadvantages of pasteurization are: 1. The extra coBt of labor and ma-, chinery to heat and afterward cool the milk or cream. A milk pasteurizer that will heat milk for two power separators will cost $150 to $200. 2. There is difficulty in pasteurizing milk or cream which is "overripe," and this may cause trouble in hot weather, when milk or cream ia not properly cared for and cooled at thefarm and is delivered in poor condition. 3. Some trouble is experienced from . the froth which rises on the milk as a re- sult of heating. No practicable remedy for this has yet been discovered. 4. There is a tendency to lack of fla- vor, and sometimes there ia a Blightly "cooked" flavor aB a result of pasteuriza, lion. The cooked flavor usually disap- . pears in less than two weeks. Lack of flavor is objectionable in local markets. Two points are essential if pasteuriza- tion is practiced— proper means of heat- ing and cooling the cream and the use of , a proper culture to give the desired flavor I to the cream and butter. Commercial ! cultureB should be propagated three or four times in pasteurized skim milk be- fore they are used in cream for ripening, . inorder togetthebsstresults. — Canadian Dairying. o Sober up on Jackson's Napa Soda. NOVEMBER 14, 1903] ©he gveebev a*t& gftwrtsmtm 18 Long or Short Tails? The matter of dockine the lambs is sub- ject, as many others are, to differences of opinion. That majority of flocks are docked might well go to intimate that pop- ular opinion is mostly in favor of the docking, and the majority of shepherds adhere to the practice. But it is iiuite rational to think it a matter of fashion, much the same as that of docking horses has been, and still is. Generally, in re- gard to all kinds of disputed matter there is much to be said on both sides, in favor as well as to the contrary. But impartial consideration, we think, will go in favor of docking the lambs at the earliest pos- sible opportunity, which on all accounts should be at the earliest possible age. Then the animal suffers very little pain from the operation, if it is done in the right way. This is to clip off the surplus part of the appendage within two or three inches of the root of it. Why the tail is needed by sheep is one of those questions which none can answer with any degree of satis'action. Some tail is necessary for the protection of a very sensitive part of the anatomy, the termination of the bowel, and the still more tender part of the female anatomy. But three inches of tail is ample for the complete protection of those delicate parts of the animal. The sheep does not require a tail as a horse or cattle do for protection against flies, any further tban the few inches of the docked tail will afford. Generally the undocked tail is a nuisance, and mischiev- ous to a sheep, as it harbors filth, which attracts flies and these are often so invet- erate in their attacks on the fouled parts of the sheep as to cause the worst possible infliction on the wretched animal, which becomes fly-blown and suffers the most agonizing death of being literally eaten and consumed alive by slow torture due to the myriads of maggots which infect it. It is no uncommon sight to see a miserable animal eaten to the bones of the rami) by fly maggots, until at last it hides itself in some secluded place and submits to the inevitable death by the slow torture inflicted on it by the thou- sands of maggots. Often these parasites spread far over the bind parts of the sheep, collecting in the fouled wool, and practically the sheep is devoured alive. So, too, the long wool about the udder ia the most effective cause of infection of the iambs by the worst of parasites, such as the knotty-guts worm, and every kind of tape worm which infests the sheep ; thus of course the long tail is the active means of spreading the filth over the whole of the hinder part of the sheep, and especially of the thighs and udder, and in this way actually poisoning the lambs. On the whole, we cannot avoid the logical results of all the conditions existing in this reepect, and therefore we muBt be forced to secure the sheep, and the lambs, by this necessary means to ensure cleanliness by which so many evils may be avoided. UBually the lambs are docked when two weeks old or even sooner, and the time just now is pertinent to consider that if any lambs have not been docked it should be done at some near conveni- ent time when opportunities are favor- able, and not left until the next crop of lambs are in hand for the same care. One person may easily dock a lamb of two or three weeks old by taking the animal under the left arm with the rump forward, and with the left hand fingers slipping back the loose skin of the tail towards the rump, and with the right hand clipping the tail with a pair of pruning shears, so as to leave not over three inches; then with the right hand rimers apply a pinch or two of finely p m-dered blue stone, and draw down the skin over the end. The lambs will sciicely feel the operation after a few mi-iutes, generally they hurry to the ewe and take comfort by a drink of milk, and then go to play. In a flock of thousands, not a lamb has suffered any discomfort by the operation done in this way. The old fashioned complicated method of searing the wound is properly obsolete, a3 a refinement of cruelty, only possible under the grossest ignorance and absence of all sparks of humanity. m Time For Horses to Drink. A veterinarian giveB some facts from the results of his experiments, as follows : Herewith are given the results of ex- periments with three horsea to show the effect upon digestion of watering them before, during and after eating. In most of the experiments the horses were fed on oats and hay; in some cases on hay alone, and in others on oats and maize with chopped straw and hay. So far as could be observed, the time of drinking did not have any effect upon the digesti- bility of a ration of grain and coarse feed. It seemed probable that, when hay only was fed, there was a slight advantage in watering after feeding. The time of drinking exercised a marked effect on the amount of water excreted. The horse drank the greatest amount of water when it was given after feeding, and the least amount when it was sup- plied before feeding. This waB especially noticeable in the morning, when water was sometimes refused if offered before feeding. The excretion of urine was directly pro- portional to the amount of water con- sumed. When it is desired to increaee the excretion, water after feeding. The method of watering nas no effect upon the amount of qualitative composi- tion of the feces. Body weight varied with the amount of water consumed. Though the methods of watering tested were regarded as equally good, circum- stances may make it necessary to adopt one or the other. Thus, after severe ex- ertion water should be supplied before the feed. It is not desirable to change unnecessar- ily from one method of watering to an- other, as some animals do not appear to be altogether indifferent to such changes. It was found that, whenever a change was made from watering after feeding to watering before, the appetite fell off for some days, and the ration was not a3 readily eaten as formerly. A similar effect was not observed when the change was from watering after feed- ing or from watering after to watering during meals, or when the change was in the opposite direction to the last. It is possible that the method of water- ing before feeding, until the animal be- comes accustomed to it, produces a certain feeling of satiety. will be a great educator to the people* I am also sure that as the association grows in strength it will be possible to hold in addition to the fat stock show, a fine stock exhibition and in connection with this, I shall propose a dairy exhibit and creamery, showing the entire process of handling milk until it becomeB a finished product in the shape of butter." A dairy farmer who does not keep pig's is not on to his job for money making with a dairy. RACING AT THE Red Ribbon Speed Sale OF Standard-Bred Trotters Tuesday Ev'g, Nov, 1/ I WILL SELL 4 McKinney Stallions 4 (Two-Year-Olds) The Best Bred and Fastest in California /"\UT OF SUCH GREAT MARES AS CAR- t y~f LOTTA WILKES (dam of 2) by Charley Wilkes; BISCARA (dam of 5) by Director -2:17 out 1 of Bicara (dam of 7) by Harold, etc.; BY BY | (sister to Lockheart 2:08 ■£) by Nutwood 2:18& out | of Rapidan (dam of 3) by Dictator, etc.; RTJSSIE I RUSSELL by Bay Rose 2:20^ out of Oakley Russell by Happy Russell. Owner, J.H.GRAY, is called East. He has worked these colts od Santa Rosa Track. They have trotted quarters from 32% to 38 seconds, and are as sound as the day they were foaled- Hand- some as pictures and have .size and color; best of dispositions. This is the greatest opportunity to get sons of the immortal McKinney ever offered. Besides these remember there is a halfsister to Directum 2:05h. half brother to Monterey 2:09^, half brother to W Foote 2:11, and a score of the best lookers everoffered. Tbere are famous brood mares, perfect drivers, well-matched teams, mares with records, and, in fact, trotters and pacers to suit everybody. Remember the opportunities to get such horses at auction are diminishing every day. Catalogues ready. WM. G. LAYNG Occidental Horse Exchange, 246 THIRD STREET. OAKLAND TRACK New California Jockey CI COMMENCING NOVEMBER 14. RACING Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, RAIN OR SHINE. SIX OR MORE RACES DAILY RACES START AT 2:15 P. M. SHARP. For special trains stopping at the track take S. P. Ferry, foot of Market street, at 12, 12:30, 1, 1:30 or 2 o'clock. No smoking In last two cars, which are reserved for ladies and their escorts. Returning, trains leave track at 4:15 and 4:45 and immediately after the last race. TH031EAS H WILLIAMS. President. PERCY W. TREAT, Secretary. Driving Three Horses. Pat the reinB on the outside harness and fiiap outside reins as usual. Snap the inside reins to bit of the inside or third horse. Tie a strap from the bits of the outside horses to the harness of the middle. The horses are not worried by the swinging of their heads and the three drive as well as two. Another method is to take common two-horse lines and put on the two outside horses, then use the two tie straps for extra cross lines, buck- ling them onto the lines the same as the other cross lines are buckled, pass one over the back— under the check — of the middle horse, through the harness on the same and snap into the bit ring of the opposite horse. Do the reverse with the other cross line. The horses have control of their heads and you have better control of the horses. Dr. Blemer, State Veterinarian, in an interview Bent out by the Associated Press and printed in most of the news- papers of the Coast, said a few days ago : "When the Live Stock Breeders Assjcia- tion was formed during the late S'ate Fair I was appointed a committee of one to investigate into the possibility of holding a fat stock exhibition in San Francisco next March, and I have decided that it can be successfully accomplished, and NEW MODEL KICKING, Balking, Shying or any kind of a habit cured in a few hours by my system. Particulars free. PROF. J A. BEERY, Pleasant QUI, Ohio. For Sale— Ben F. 2:10 The unbeatten pacer of 1903. Ben F. 2:10 by Bradtmoor, isoffered for sale. Is sound and in fine shape, and will be sold right. Apply to the un- dersigned. L.R PALMER, Walnut Creek, Contra Costa Co., Cal. J. W. Zib bell's Training Stables Corner Point Hobos Road and 20tiL Avenue, San Francisco. HORSES TRAINED FOR TRACK OR ROAD and satisfaction guaranteed. Terms reason- able Horses boagnt and sold- THE BEST IN THE WORLD. O'BRIEN & SONS Cor. Golden Gate Ave. and Polk St. SAX FBANCISCO, CAX W II R1E R E NIC ! 1 WESTiCOAST^WJRE^ JBOHJWJKSj 19 FREM0lHT..ST..SATrRA'NQSC0. ' CALIFORNIA Photo Engraving Company HIGH CLASS AST Dl Half Tones and Line Engraving Artistic Desljrdm. SOS BClMion St.. cot. First. San FraneUo* HARN HIGH-GLASS FINISH AND WORKMANSHIP AT MODERATE PRICES. THE BIG STORE and SADDLES JEPSEN BROS CO..NC 1145-47 Market St. San Francisco 1* ®He ^x&ztfsv mx& &povi&mati [November 14, 19031 THE BAYWOOD STUD THE BUNGALOW, SAN MATEO, CAU (Property ol John Pabbott, Esq.) Devoted Exclusively to the Breeding and Training of High Stepping Hackney-Bred Harness Horses WAITER SEALY, Manager. THE CONEY ISLAND JOCKEY CLUB RACE COURSE, SHEEPSHEAD BAY, N. Y. OFFICE: Windsor Arcade, 571 Fifth Avenue, N. Y. EVENTS TO CLOSE Monday, November 16, 1903 FOR, THE JUNE MEETING, 1904. (Foals or 1902). (Estimated lvalue. $7000). FOR TWO-YEAR-OLDS FIVE FBKLOSGS THE SURF. 8 (Foals o( 1902). FOB THE JUNE MEETING, 1905. THF TIDAL 820,000- F0R THREE-YEAR-OLDS (Foals of 1902) THE LAWRENCE REALIZATION. (Foals o( 1902). ONE MILE AND A QUARTER 810,000 ADDED. (Estimated Value 840,000). FOR THREE-YEAR OLDS ONE MILE AND FIVE FBKLONGS THE MERMAID, 83000 ADDED. (Estimated Value, 87000). FOR FILLIES THREE YEARS OLD (Foals ot 1902). ONE MILE AND A FURLONG FOB THE AUTUMN MEETING, 1905. THR HDP AT RII I V 85000 ADDED. (Estimated Value, 820,000). FOR FILLIES 111C UlVCrVl riLUI. TWO YEARS OLD (Foals of 1903). SIX FURLONGS THE TRMTIIDV 820,000. FOR THREE-YEAR-OLDS AND UPWARDS (now yearlings HID VCniUK.1. and upwards). ONE MILE AND A HALF FOR THE AUTUMN MEETINGS. 1905 AND AFTER. THE ANNUAL CHAMPION. fF305a^°0?19af°antdSEE-YEAR^LDS AND UPWARD TWO MILES AND A QUARTER FOR THE JUNE MEETING. 1906. 810,000 ADDED. (Estimated Value, 840,000). FOR THREE-YEAR-OLDS ONE MILE AND FIVE FURLONGS THE LAWRENCE REALIZATION. (Foals of 1903). Entry Blanks may be had on application to the office of the Breeder and Sportsman, or from the CLERK OF THE COURSE, The Coney Island Jockey Club, Windsor Arcade, 571 Fifth Avenue, New York City. mm mm VETERINARY PIXINE CURES Irease Heel, Scratches and Hoof Rot, -chrome, ulceratedJ 'eomplicated-of the most deep seated character; Cracked or chapped teats, caked bas;, cow pox and all inflammatory Tections of the udder; Saddle and Collar Galls, Hopple Chafes , and Abscesses, Old chronic Sores, the result of pressure by badly fitting harness or by irritating masses [of dirt, sweat and hair under the harness. It makes a positive and permanent cure by producing healthy granulations, building up new cellular tissues, healing naturally from the bottom without scab • or scar and stimulating growth of hair, natural color. It penetrates, soothes and heals while horse works. .Abgolutly Guaranteed. Mojiey back if it fails. .2 oz. 25c; '_ „8oz.' 50c; ^ }51b. pkg.j4.00. xAt all Dealers' or sent prepaid. ' send iooVor sample Troy Chemical Coj BOX AND BOOKLET.' ' TROY. N. Y. E. NEWELL, Pacific Coast Agent, 519 Mission St., San Francisco How to Prevent Crowing. (Estimated Value, S7000). FOR TWO-YEAR-OLDS FIVE AND A HALF FURLONGS "The board of health of Flushing, L. I., has isaued a proclamation that roosters which crow before 7 a. m. will be treated as nuisances, which means that they will be killed or confiscated. The suburban poultry owners are now trying to devi6e some plan to silence their chanticleers. It is suggested that hoods be provided for them." This article happened to catch the eye of William Westover, a retired farmer who lives in Le Sueur, Minn., and he ex- pressed much wonder that persons who do not wish their roosters to crow, should allow them to crow, said he: "My roosters never crow for the reason that I don't like the noise, and don't let them crow. As soon as they are old enough to commence trying their voices, I catch them, one after the other, and, with a small instrument something like a pair of pinchers and similar to the one that is used for putting rings in the noses of s^ine, I put a small ring of silver wire in each one of the vibratory cords of the fowl's larynx. These rings stay right there as long as the bird lives, and stops his crowing at once and permanently. He can cluck and cackle and make all the other noises which he uses to ingratiate himBelf with his female friendB and to call them on a run to see the tid bits which he finds and promptly eats up as Boon as they come near, but he cannot crow. It is not that he lacks the vocal power, for that is not the case, but the vibration of the cords from so loud a noise seems to tickle his throat when the rings are in, for he will start all right, but stop sud- denly, with a hollow gurgle, as Boon aa he commences, and scratch his neck first with one foot and then the other and try to hack around the yard away from some- thing that seems to trouble him. After trying this a lew times, he gets dis- couraged and gives it up, for he never even tries to crow after the first week. The pinchers are very easy to make. Any jeweler will make one for half a dollar, and the silver wire does not coat over half a cent to a bird, bo that it has alwayB been a wonder to me that people did not, more of them, use the plan. If theBe Flushing, (L. I.) people will send to me for instructions, I will be glad to describe in detail just how the whole thing is done.'1 Used Bet-ween the Heats For all Lameness, soreness, deep-seated pain sprains and bruises Circulates the blood and creates speed. Use it. I All Druggists and Harness Dealers or Vita Oil Co., 1533 Buchanan St San Francisco, Cal. J. A. McKerron and J, O'Kane, Agts II ilk Plenty of Fall Feed. For the first time in years, says the Livermore Herald, the sheep men have an abundance of fall teed on their ranges in the hills south of town. John McGlin- chey, a leading sheep-owner, informed us this week that he had never known con- ditions more favorable. ^The absence of fires during the summer and fall has left a good growth of grass on the hillsides which wiM sustain the sheep in good condition until the green feed haB suffici- ent strength and the growth is large enough to protect the tender grass sproutB againBt frost. The flocks are still on stubble in San Joaquin and Contra Costa counties but all will be on the home range before December 1st. Nearly all the fall clip of wool waa sold early and at good prices. There has since been considerable depression in the wool market but within the past few weeks there have been signs of renewed activity and several wool-buyers were in town last week trying to buy the wool that remainB in grower's bands. It ia almost impossible to keep vessels clean if they have a rough surface. They* should be smooth and always cleaned promptly after using. If a cow is fed liberally and fattens instead of increasing in milk, she is getting too much to eat or should be sold to the butcher. Jackson's Napa Soda is sold in every city, town and hamlet In the State. Hunt and Fish ALONG THM LINE OF TELB CaliforDia & Norlliwestern Ry (LESSEE OF THE S. F. & N. P. B. R.) Best Hunting and Fishing In the State Numerous and Popular Resorts Hot and Gold Mineral Springs HEALTH PLEASURE RECREATION Pine Camping Grounds on Beautiful Streams Best Section in California for Fruit and Breeding Farms The route to San Rafael, Petaluma, Santa Rosa Uklah, and the Famous Pleasure and Health Resorts In Lake County. Saturday to Monday round-trip tickets at reduced rates. Ticket Offices— «50 Market Street, Chronicle Building, and Tlhuron Ferry. R. X. RYAN, Gen. Paw, Aft. Books and Pictures ABOUT California Mountains, Valleys, Canyons, Lakes and Seaside and Vacation Places. Shall It Be A Camp In the Forest A Mountain Lake A Good Hotel and Trout for Breakfast A Seaside Resort Clam Chowder for Dinnet The Publications of the Southern Pacific Cover all Desirable Places and answer question! of Distance, Accommodations, Expense, Fares, Route, etc. Nothing Left to the Imagination. Inquire at INFORMATION BUREAU 613 5UBKEI STKEET FOR SALE. A HORSE FOALED 1897; SIRE SAN DIEGO -^ 8776, dam Belle Emmet by Mambrino Wilkes 6083; 16 hands high, weighs about 1200 lbs.; fast, gentle, drives single or double. Address H. P. H HAGGETT, Lower Lake, CaL NEW E. C." NEW "SCHULTZE" SHOTGUN RIFLEITE MmdUtmd by OVEMBER 14 ]»08] ■/%•■ Telephone 1747 FrankllB. Importers and Dealers In Fire Arms. Ammunition and Fencing Goods. iole Agents for BALLISTITE (Dense) and EMPIRE (Bulk) Smokeless Powders and the REBLE GUN. A postal brings catalogue and "Shooting Facts" (third edition) BALLISTITF The Standard Dense Powder of the World. ■^■"** CAMPBELL'S EMOLLIO IODOFORM GALL CURE For GALL BACKS and SHOULDERS, CRUPPER SORES and SADDLE GALLS there Is none superior. The horse CAN BE WORKED AS USUAL. For BARBED WIRE CUTS, CALKS, SCRATCH- ES, BLOOD POISONED SORES and ABRASIONS OF THE SKIN it has no equal. It is very adhesive and easily applied to a watery as well as a dry sore- Its use will absolutely prevent BLOOD POISON- ING. In this respect there is no GallJ,Cure offered which oan justly even claim to be a competitor. We placed it on the market relying wholly on its merit for success, and notwithstanding the fact that comparatively little has been done in the way of advertising the salesof 1900 were 100 per cent great- er than the aggregate sales of Gall Cure preceding that year. This increase was entirely due to us MERITS, and from it we feel justified in saying that It is THE GALL CURE OF THE 20TH CENTU RY It is a Quiok and sure cure for those troublesome skin cracks under the f e -»ck v nich inj ure and often lay up race horses. ; All Trainers Should Hare It la Their Stables PRICE:— 8 OZ. BOX, Sec; 1 LB. BOX, SI. OO. Read our "ad.11 on Campbell's Horse Foot Remedy in next issue of this paper. IAS. B. CAMPBELL & CO., Mfrs.,412 W. Madison St., Chicago, III. nrcnra BUSINESS COLLEGE !4 Post Street, San Francisco, Cal . The oldest, the largest, the most popular com- mercial school on the Pacific Coast. 20,000 gradu- tes; 30 teachers; 70 typewriters; over 300 students nnually placed in positions. Send for catalogue. E. P. HEAID. President. VETERINARY. DR. C. MASOERO VETERINARY SURGEON Graduate or Royal Veterinary College of Turin. NFIRMARY AND RESIDENCE— 8 1 1 Howard St.: between Fourth and Fifth Sts., San Francisco. Telephone: Main 457. L"ra Barker Balziel VETERINARY DENTIST anc y Carriage, Saddle and Road Horses for Sale Office and stable: (305 Golden Gate Avenue, San rancisco, Cal. Telephone South 651. FOR SALE. Three Standard-Bred Trotting Stallions WILKES STOCK. One Seal Brown, 16 hands, foaled May 2, 1898; first dam Fearless by Fallis 4781 (record 2:23); seoond dam Jean Perault by Signal 3397. One Golden Bay. 16.1 hands, foaled March 5, 1898; first dam Signal by Del Sur 1098 (record 2:24), dam of Guy Line 2:29^; second dam Lady Sigt nal by Signal 3327. One Brown, white points, 16.1 hands, foaled April, 1899; full brother to the bay. These coltB are all sired by Prince Airlee 28045, son of Guy Wilkes 2807 (record 2-A5H), and bred by Wm. Corbltt, San Mateo, Cal. They are pure gaited and show wonderful speed for the little work they have done. For further particulars apply to P. H. McEVOY, Menlo Park, Cal. ROSE HOTEL PLEASANTON, CAL. Enlarged, Rebuilt. Twenty-five New Rooms Newly Furnished. Electric Lights, Banning Water. Up to date. A. S. OLNEY jfc BON - - Proprietor! Dr. Wm, F. XZsan. M. R, C. V. S.. F. E. Y. M. S. VETERINARY SURGEON. Member of the Royal College of Veterinary urgeons, England; Fellow of the Edinburg eterlnary Medical Society; Graduate of the New eterinary College, Edinburgh; Veterinary Sur- eon to the S. F. Fire Department; Live Stock •spec tor forNew Zealand and Australian Colonies ■ the port of San Francisco; Professor of Equine iedicine, Veterinary Surgery, Veterinary Depart- tent University of California; Ez-Presldent m ie California State Veterinary Medical Assoc! a- on; Veterinary Infirmary, Residence and Office, ■n Francisco Veterinary Hospital, 1117 Golden ate Avenue, near Webster St., San Francisco: elephose West 121. Chronic Bronchitis and Catarrh of the Bladder Cured In 48 Hoars. CAPSULES SPRATTS PATENT. DOG CAKES REMEDIES SOAP. NEWARK, N. J. send [or free copy of " DOG CULTURE." Pacific Coait Brancta-132. Valencia Street, San FranelBoo Agents for " SANITAS " Disinfectant. SUBSCRIBE TO Showing exact position of every horse, including the favorite, which was either flrst, seoond. third or fourth at each quarter pole, also positions al start. Events reported from all parts of Canada and United States. Issued the 1st and 16th of every month, from April 15th to Ootober 15th. Price 60c, 75c. or $1, according to issue. For sale at all principal hotels, news stands and race tracks in the country, and publishers1 office. GOODWIN BROS., 1440 Broadway. N. Y. annual Subscription, 818, which includes all semi-monthly editions and two morocco bound semi-annuals. Explanatory circular mailed free. For sale by the Breeder and Sportsman. Accidents Will happen. The colts will get hurt. Any Soft, Inflamed Bunch can be removed in a pleasing manner with Absorbine. $2.00 PER BOTTLE, DELIVERED. W. F. YOUNG, P. D. F., Springfield, Mass. For aale by MaokACo., Langley A M'.ohueia Co Hedinrton & Co., J. O'Kane, and J. A. Mc Karroo all of San Francisco. Mark Levy & Co. FOR SALE. -pHE PACING GELDING, AL SANDY 2:26 J- by Wayland W., dam Rapid Ann by Overland. Can pace three heats better than 2:20. Can brush very fast on the road. Also the black pacing gelding, DOC 3:38, one of the best roadsters in the city. Can lower his record several seconds. Both horses are excellent prospeots-to race. For prioes and further particulars addreBS S. WATSON, 235 Douglas street, San Francisco. Superior to Copaiba. Cobeb* or Injeott«*r, Q0C0ANUT OIL CAKE BLAKE, M0FFITT & T0WNE THE BMT ™a> FOB malbbs ra | STOCK, CHICKENS AND PldS M ■> ^^ M E"W-g *"T^^ FOR 8ALB IN LOTS TO SUIT BT 55-57-59-61 First Street, S. F. ' EL D0RAD0 LmsEED 0IL wo»s co TtLBPHOHB MaieOW 208 California Street, San Fraoolioo, Oai. COIjIjIEIS. AT STUD First St. San Jose CHAMPION HANOVER MONARCH (A. K. C. S. B. 5998) by the great sire Ch Ellwyn Astrologer from Ch. Old Hall Moon Fee 815. Pictures and Pedigree upon appllca tion. High-olass Puppies for sale. The Great Combination Show Of Doge, Poultry, Cats, Pigeons and Pet Stock At MECHANICS PAVILION, Deo. 2 to 5. The biggest show ever held west of Chicago. Dogs from all over the Pacific Coast will be pres- ent. Entry forms and Premium Lists may be oV tained at: San Francisco — Breeder & Sports- man office, 33 Geary St.; No. 33 Market St. Sac- ramento— Matt. Coffey, 1305 G. St , Sacramento. Portland— W. W. Peaslee, 452 Sherlock Block, Portland. Oregon Seattle— Chas. McAllister, City Hall. Seattle, Wash ; Geo. Tinto, Sunnydale, Wash. Viotoria— Frank Turner, 68 Fourth St., Victoria, B C , or from the Secretary, N. J. Stew- art, Polhemus St., San Jose, Cal. * Entries Close November 23, 1903. AT STUD CUBA OP KENWOOD (Glenbelgh Jr.— Stella) SAM'S BOW (Plain Sam-Dolly Dee U) STOCKDALE KENNELS K. M. DODGE, Manager, Bakersfleld, Kern Co., Boarding. Pointer Puppies and well-broken Dogs for sale. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS Advertisements under this head one cent per word per insertion. Cask to accompany order. BULL TERRIERS. T>TJLL TERRIER AT STUD— JUMPING JACK D (direct from John P. Colby); 31 ibs.; by Tlge out of Molly by Racine's Sam, brother to Danger. Fee $15, less half express charges. Best care taken of bitches. E. F. KIESSLING, Keswick, Cal. COOKER SPANIELS. Gc OING EAST. MUST BE SOLD. PLUMERIA * Cocker Kennels' prize winners, PLUMERIA VICTORIA (bred to Champion Hampton Goldie) and others. Last chance to use the phenomenal sire, Champion HAMPTON GOLDIE, at stud, Fee 830 Going East. 229 Ninth Avenue. Phone- Geary 1620. by Ch. Hampton Goldie. Apply at junction old county and Redwood roads, Fruitvalc, Alamedi ST. BERNARDS. T STUD-CHAMPION LE KING. GRAND- est headed St. Bernard on the Coast. Fee $20. W. WALLACE, 58 Boyce St., San Francisco. A1 IRISH AND SCOTCH TERRIERS. TRISH AND SCOTCH TERRIE.R PUPPIES -L at $12 and $15. Sired by Champion Loyne Ruffian and Champion Fighting Mao. Mrs. BRADLEY-DYNE. Saturna P. O B. C. COLLIES. pOLLIE PUPS FOR SALE— BY PRIZI v~' winning imported sires and dams, fit for bench, ranch or farm Both sexes. Prices accord* ing to quality. Correspondence solicited; all let- ters cheerfully answered. THOS. S. GRIFFITH, Box 1A07, Spokane, Wash. 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GET YOUR ADVERTISEMENT READY FOR THE SPECIAL CHRISTMAS EDITION OF THE Breeder and Sportsman TO BE ISSUED DECEMBER 26, 1903 RED BALL BRAND. Awarded Gold Meda At California State Fair 1892. Every horse owner who values his stock should constantly have a sup- ply of it on hand. It | Improves and keeps jtock in the pink of Icondltion. Manhattan Pood Co, 1 253 FoIbodq St., San Francisco Ask your grocers or dealers for it. Positively Cures Colic, Scouring and Indigestion. C. P. KEKTELL, Manager It will be a handsome and interesting number and will contain matter that will make it valu- able for reference. It comes just at the right time to make Stallion Announcement5, an i as an advertising medium it will give SURE RESULTS. Make arrangements for space NOW and get a "front seat." DON'T PUT IT OFF! Call or Write for Particulars at Once. An advertisement in this, issue will reach all of the people on this Coast who are interested in Horses, Cattle, Dogs, Shooting and Fishing. No increase in Rates. Single copies, 10 cents Subscription, $3 per year Breeder and Sportsman 36 GEARY STREET SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. tdKI November 21, 1903] ®Jte gveebev croft giputrtemtm 8 THE WEEKLY BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN F. W. KELLEY, PROPRIETOR. Turf and Sporting Authority of the Pacific Coast. — OFFICE — 36 GEARY STREET, SAN FRANCISCO. P. O. BOX 2300. Telephone: Black 586. enus— One Tear S3. Six Months SI. 75, Three Mouths SI STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. Money snould be sent by postal order, drart or by registered letter addressed to F. W. Kelley, 38 Geary St., San Francisco. Cal. Communications must be accompanied by the writer s name and address, not necessarily for publication, but as a private guarantee of good faith. ^^^^^^^^^^^^_ most interested in harness horse affairs, toward organization in every one of the towDs above mentioned. If clubs can be formed in even four of five of these towns, and delegates from those clubs will get together, select dates and announce pro- grams, the thing will be done. The Breeders Asso- ciation will affiliate with them and a circuit formed that will be worthy of this, one of the leading horse breeding states of the union. The time to organize is now. Programs for the entire circuit should be out by February, so that owners and trainers will know what to expect. An effort will be madenext month to hold a meeting of delegates from several of the towns above mentioned with the idea of founding the Central California Circuit. See to it that your town and track are represented. San Francisco, Saturday, November 21, 1903. ■"THE CHRISTMAS NUMBER of the BREEDER and Sportsman will be published Saturday, December 26th, and will be the handsomest and best illustrated number ever issued by this journal. In addition to a large amount of statistical matter of great interest to breeders, prepared especially for this holiday number, there will be several articles from the pens of Eastern and California contributors that will be of vital interest to horsemen, sportsmen and stock breeders. The half-tone illustrations of noted horses and dogs, shooting and fishing scenes, etc, now being made for this edition will be numerous and artistic and printed on heavy plate paper, many of them being suitable for framing. The advertising space wiil be limited, therefore those who wish to be represented in it should apply for space early. The rates will not be increased, but be the same as in regular issues. A beautiful embossed cover of artistic design is dow being printed, and with the 34 pages of letter press and engravings will make the handsomest souvenir number ever issued by this journal since its establishment, twenty-one years ago. THE ORGANIZATION of a California Circuit is necessary to put harness racing in this State on a proper footing and to restore it to its former vigor and standing. For several years past harness racing in this State has been a very uncertain quantity with owners and trainers who have been figuring on cam- paigning their horses. One year a good circuit of meetings would be given, but the very next year, owing to the cutting off of appropriations for district fairs and other causes, the circuit would amount to almost nothing to the great disparagement of train- ing and disappointment and loss to all interested in any manner in the breeding or racing of the light harness horse. During the racing season just eloBed California has made the worst showing in her history. One good meeting was given— that of the Pacific Coast Trotting Horse Breeders Association at Peta- luma, where purses and stakes amounting to $10,200 were distributed to horse owners in four days, but outside of this the harness racing was hardly worth mentioning. This is not as it should be. There are owners enough and horses enough in California to make a success of a racing circuit that will be a credit to the State and to its horse breeding interests. It Is time for breeders and owners to realize that it is useless to depend upon the district /air associations to furnish a circuit of harness racing. Those organi- zations depend entirely upon a State appropriation for their existence and as this appropriation is now cut off, and is very liable to remain so for the next three years, it is folly to expect any circuit of fairs during that time. California horsemen should there- fore cut loose from the district fairs and hold harness meetings independent of them. What is needed is a circuit of harness meetings to be given under the auspices of local driving clubs. The towns of Peta- luma, Santa Rosa, Napa, Vallejo, Woodland, Stock- ton, Pleasanton and San Jose could easily organize a Central Circuit that would attract large entry lists if purses of sufficient size were given. A four days program would be sufficient at each place and the meetings could be made profitable. If the Breeders Association can pay out $10,200 in purses in four days and still make a profit of $800, other associations can do the same. If a three days meeting given at Vallejo where the gate receipts were but $500 and the subscription from the citizens only $300, was made to return a profit of nearly $700, Santa Rosa, Napa, Woodland, St jckton and San Jose should be able to do as well, as Vallejo iB the poorest horse town in the State. What is imperatively needed at the present time is an effort on the part of those Will Race on Thanksgiving Day. The Fresno Driving Club on Thanksgiving Day will hold its closing meeting and the arrangements that have been made for this occasion promise harness racing that will surpass anything that has been seen in Fresno for years. The program will consist of three events open to trotters and pacers, and, to make it of greater interest, the events will be best three in five, instead of best two in three as heretofore. Already there have been some of the best horses in this neigh- borhood entered, and the entry list is a good one, so that the classification committee has a lot of material to work on and the events will be so arranged as to bring horses against each "other that are closely matched in speed. The indications are, too, that it will be a society event, assuch meetings havebeen in the past. Admis- sion will not be free and the money thus raised is to be devoted to a worthy purpose. It is to be handed over to the ladies who have raised the money for the cem- etery fence fund and is to be used by them towards helping to erect a memorial arch at the cemetery. Of course this will interest the ladies and their friends, and, although the club's meetings are alway well attended, it is expected that on account of the worthiness of the object for which the money is to be raised, this will be a record breaker. As stated, this will be the last of the club's meetings under the present organization. It has been a great success and has taken the place in the social history of Fresno that its projectors anticipated for it. The meetings have "attracted the best people of the city and county at different times and all have enjoyed themselves, for the quality of the =port furnished has been first class in every respect and these amateur races have been of deeper interest in many cases than professional events on which thousands of dollars have been wagered. Horse owners unite in giving much of the credit for this result to the indefatigable efforts oLthe secretary, A. J. Hudson, who has spared no effort to make the club meetings a success. It is probable that the club will reorganize next spring and_ that thereafter instead of the prizes in the races being trophies, they will be purses. — Fresno Republican. . At the Salinas Track. A Horse-Breeding Country. While in Adelaide lately, writes ''Bruni'' in the Australasian, I had an opportunity of seeing some horses from a part of the State that has always had a special attraction for me. I refer to the district to the north of the terminus of the Central Australian railway, a semi-desert region that lies about 700 miltB to the north of Adelaide, where the annual rainfall is often for years not more than 0 inches, and of late years it has often been considerably less. Notwith- standing its many drawbacks, this country Is occupied by pastoralists, and some excellent stock are raised oa it. The environment is a peculiar one; the surface is covered with a mass of stones, set as closely as if done purposely by hand. Amid these stones are smooth spaces, somewhat lower than the surround- ing land, and should even a 3 inch fall of rain occur suddenly these smooth spaces receive a good irriga- tion. No matter at what time of the year the rain may fall, there is a growth of vegetation differing according to the time of the year, and this will serve for the twelve months. This country is admirably adapted to breeding horses, which develop well in this sultry land. With such a scanty rainfall one would naturally expect to find the horses raised in the district undergrown weeds, but, to my surprise, I saw well shaped animals, with round barrels and such muscular loins and quarters as one seldom sees in Australia. They had splendid bones, shapely cut hocks, and hoofs like flint. There was a type in them that spoke plainly of the environment, which seemed to eliminate the coarseness that would certainly have marked horses bred as one lot was, if raised in a more genial climate. One lot of horses from this district was composed of half-bred Arabs, bred by Mr. S. S. Ralli. They were from ponies of great ex- ' cellence, by imported Arab sires, and I never saw anything superior to them. The horses from the district to which I have referred are much liked by Indian dealers, who give high prices for them. In a letter to the Breeder and Sportsman, dated Salinas, Nov. 18, Charles Whitehead the new lessee of that track, says: Mr. Ed Parker has six head of Mr. J. B. Iverson's horses, here at the track, including Dictatress 2:09J, Prince Gift 2:12, Princess 2:16, and a Dexter Prince mare that is very fast. He has also two sisters to Dictatress that look like they will go as fast as she. They are all in good condition. My horses arrived here in good shape. I brought five head from Stockton: Toppy 2:10, owned by Francis Hodgkins, Deputy 2:13J owned by Mart Smith, both of Stockton, also Delphi 2:12}, The Mrs. and full a brother to her that is quite a good trotter for a green two year old. I received since I came here, a trotting filly by Gossiper owned by Mr. A. W. Martin of San Francisco. I have four of Mr. J. Hebert's horses — Bruno 2:16 by Junio, two pacers by Hamblatonian Wilkes and a green trotting filly by McKmoey, all in nice condition. The track and stables will be kept in good shape all the time. Everyone here takes an interest in the horse business. The directors of the Agricultural Society intend giving a good meeting next year." Speed is Necessary. Somebody has compiled a table which shows the extreme speed of the trotters and pacers in races this year at all the meetings of the Grand Circuit, and including Lexington and Memphis. From this table it appears that 141 heats were trotted in 2:10 or better and 240 heats were paced in 2:10 or better, making a total of 381 heats in actual races that a horse had to go in 2:10 or better to wit). Didn't Print it All. I. Hoag writes aB followB to the San Francisco Breeder and Sportsman: "I think I know the breeding of the grandam of Lou Dillon. It was Fly, who was either tbe dam or the grandam of Plunkett 2:13^. She was by Bulger, a running-bred horse, and her dam was, I think, a mare called Fanny, by a horse called Spread Eagle. Dan Misuer used to drive Plunkett, and I think he can tell you who owned Fly before she passed into Kimball's hands." — Ky. Stock Farm. Yes; and the Breeder and Sportsman at the same time it printed Mr. Hoag's letter alio printed the fact that Fly the dam of Lou Dillon died in 1881, while Fly the dam of Plunkett was alive six years later as Plunkett was foaled in 1887. There are four McKinney weanlings at Gentry Farm, Bloomington, Ind. McKinney is looking fine, and clearly impresses one as being just what heis, one of the grandest horses of the day, while Ed Winter has developed wonderfully in form and general ap- pearances since Mr. Gentry bought him. Among the brood mares, all in flesh, showing their good care and keep, we were especially attracted by Mary Lou 2:17, dam of Kinney Lou 2:07$; Gazelle 2:11}, dam of Zephyr (4) 2:11 and Zolock 2:10; Leonor, dam of Jenny Mac 2:09 and Doctor Book 2:10.— TPesieVfi Horseman. A dispatch from Santa Rosa say6: There is disap- pointment among the horsemen caused by the an- nouncement that Lou Dillon, the queen of the turf and Millard Sanders, her driver, will winter in Mem- phis, Tenn. It was planned that on the arrival of the duo in this city they were to be given a royal recep- tion befitting their achievements on the Eastern tracks Sanders was to havebeen banqueted, and in addition it was planned to present him with a hand- some silver loving cup. There was a smart race between Nora McKinney 2:121 and Queen WilKes 2:101 on the New York speedway, the other day. The former won the first brush, and the second was a dead heat between the two mares. Queen Wilkes trotted a half at Memphis in 1:02J, while at Empire City Nora McKinney trot- ted the last half of a winning heat in 1:02}. Best Remedy Out --Cured Bone Spavin. Cartwrlxht, Man , Oct. 19. Dr. B. J. Kendall Co., Enosburc Falls, vt. Gentlemen: Please send me one of your "Treatise on He Horse and His Diseases." I can truly recommend your Kendall s Spavin Cure, for I have used qulto a few bottles of it. and I find it tbe beBt remedy out. I am never without a bottle of it now I have cured Hone Spavin with it and I flod it j.'ood for nnv d s- ease I have tried It on. Yours truly, WM. B. LOWi: Sober up on Jackson's Napa Soda. mw gvee&ev anb gpovtzmati [NOVEMBER 21, ltM THE MCKINNEY COLTS, consigned by Mr. James H. Gray of Santa Rosa to William G. Layng's Bed Ribbon sale last Tuesday evening, were the fea- tures of the sale and attracted lively bidding. Mr. Gray purchased these colts from the Santa Rosa Stock Farm a year ago and has made a neat profit on them. The first one sold, Cruzados by McKlnney out of Stamboulita 2:27 by Stamboul, second dam Biscari, dam of four in the list, by Director, third dam Bicari, dam of sis by Harold, etc., brought an even $1000 and went to the bid of Dr. C. C. Ricks of Eureka, Hum- holdt county. Dr. Ricks is associated with Dr. C. O. Falk, also of Eureka, in the ownership of this colt, and tnese gentlemen have a young horse that should not only prove a profitable investment, but trot to a low record and be a very successful sire. He is en- tered in the Occident, Stanford, Breeders and Hart- ford futurity stakes, and will be trained for those events. Under Mr. Gray's care he has trotted a quarter in 33 seconds, which shows that he has plenty of natural speed, and his individuality and breeding should make him a racehorse of the first class. It is the intention of Messrs. Ricks i Falk to place Cruzados in the stud next spring and permit him to serve a limited number of mares, after which he will be put in training for his stake engagements. The colt was shipped to Eureka on Wednesday. C. L. Jones, a young farmer and breeder of Modesto, was a bidder on the above mentioned colt, and when he failed to get him became a bidder on the colt Carlo- kin by McKinney out of Carlotta Wilkes (dam of Volita 2:15}) by Charley Wilkes, second dam Aspasia (dam of three) by the great Alcantara, third dam the producing mare Miss Buchanan by Clark Chief 89. Mr. Jones now thinks that his luck was with him and that he really got the best colt when Carlokin was knocked down to him for $S75. Certainly this colt is a good looker. He is a bay with two white socks be- hind, and is a splendidly formed and high headed colt with a fine disposition and 2:20 speed right now. He has been a quarterin 35 seconds handily and is a great prospect. Mr. Jones has turned him over to the well known trainer Hi Hogoboom, who has taken him to the Woodland track and will allow bim to serve a few mares early in the spring. He says he expects to win at least a part of the money in the Occident, Stanford and Breeders futurity next year with this fellow, as he considers him one of the best prospects he has ever had. The black colt by McKinney out of Biscari by Director was the fastest trotter of the four two-year- olds, and $1300 was bid for him at the sale: but we understand he was bid in for Mr. Gray, as was also the McKinney colt out of Russie Russell by Say Rose that was bid up to $350. James Thompson reacled home last week from his Eastern trip looking like a winner. He has splendid success with the three horses he took over for Col. J. C. Kirkpatriek — Clipper 2:06 Mendovena and John Caldwell. The record made by Clipper is one for which Mr. Thompson is entitled to a great deal of credit. He landed his string there late in the season and Clipper had to start in three races within ten days, and without hopples. A more steady going determined pacer was never seen however, and Mr. Davereux drove him the two fastest heats paced by a gelding this year in a race, when he won the beauti- ful cup for pacers driven to wagon at the Memphis meeting. These heats were in 2:061 and 2:06| and Mr. Devereux expressed the opinion right after the race that he could drive Clipper a mile to wagon in 2:04. Mendovena, the mare by Mendocino out of Avena by Palo Alto, was sold at a good figure, and John Caldwell, the Strathway trotter did all that was Esked of him. This last named horse astocished the California trainers as he was an entirely green horse when Mr. Kirkpatriek purchased him and put him in Thompson's hands. He started against horses that could trot in 2:10 and won second money when the time was better than 2:14, finishing a close second in 2:13). By next season this gelding will be a 2:10 trotter. Mr. Thompson returns full of enthusiasm over the way racing is conducted over East and says that if he can take a horse over there that will win the M & M., the Bonner Memorial or any of those big trotting events, he will consider that his work with harness horses has not been in vain. He will locate at Fleasanton again this winter and will soon be at work on a number of prospects. evident by the large number of mareB already being booked to stallions in this State, and the number of horses that are being taken up to begin training on for the season cf 1904. The California circuit was such a failure this year that there was danger of the breeders and trainers losing heart, but the California horsemen are not of the quitting sort and they are at it again as strong as ever. There will be more horses trained in California next year than at any time for the past five or Eix years, and a very large percent- age of them will be taken East if they make a good showing by the first of May. The number that will remain in California, however, will be enough to fill all the programs tha : will be made up by the local track managers, and the chances are that the Cali- fornia circuit will be a good one in spite of all tte drawbacks the game has met with during the past few years. The Breeders meeting will be announced early, and the State Agricultural Society will make an early announcement of some good sized purses. Meetings will in all probability be held at Pleasanton, San Jose, Salinas, Hollister, Petaluma, Santa Rosa, Vallejo, Woodland, Fresno and several Southern points, and all have promised to make announcements of the same as early as February. The few meetings held this year show that the public will patronize harness meetings, as every meeting held this year paid a profit. By the first of February there will be five hundred trotters and pacers in training in this State, and the standard bred stallions will have a larger patronage than ever. Tee Dee Cee 2:141, the good son of Zombro, is work- ing well at the Los Angeles track and increasing his speed right along. Last Tuesday Geo. Beckers drove him a mile in 2:15, the first half being in 1:07 2-5, and the last half in 1:07 3-5. Tee Dee Cee finished well and Mr. Beckers thinks he will have a mighty good horse for the 2:20 trots next vear. If anyone thinks there is not a great interest in trotting bred stock still manifest among the best people in California let him attend an auction sale of well bred ones. Every sale of standard bred horses held in this city during the last year has drawn from one to three thousand people and the bidding has been lively, while prices have been good. The Ameri- can trotter has a warm place in the hearts of the people. The Pacific Coast Trotting Horse Breeders Asjc- ciation proposes to increase its two big stakes, Tte California for 2:24 trotters and Pacific Slope for 2:20 pacers, and will probably make the first named $2500 and the latter $2000. Some of the directors favor making The California a $3000 stake and this may prevail. The Breeders will announce its stakes not later than February. A Pittsburg correspondent savs that one of lie handsomest horses seen on the drives in that city is Boodler, the trotter by Boodle 2:121. Boodler was raced at the matinees there this year, winning every start, and getting a wagon record of 2:17}, trotting the last half on two occasions in 1:051. He has trotted a mile in 2:12 in his work and is considered a gr*"at road horse. Seymow (2) 2:23 by Diawood 2:11. On the title page of this issue of the Breeder and Sportsman is a half tone engraving of the bay colt Seymow by Diawood 2:11 out of Nancy H. by Upstart. This colt won the pacing divisior for two year old s in the first Pacific Breeders Futurity at the BreederB meeting at Petaluma last August. The time of the two heats was 2:27} and 2:23, and Seymow could have beaten 2:20, but it was not necessary. When it is taken into consideration that the fastest two year old pacer of the year in the entire country was the filly Fata Morgana 2:19} by Sphinx, the record of Seymow is a particularly good showing for a California two year old that had but one race to start in. Seymow is the first of the get of that handsome stallion Diawood to start. Diawood was himself a race horse, and took his record at the State Fair in 1899, when he won the 2:12 class pace in 2:111 and 2:11, beating such good ones as Don 2:10, Arthur W. 2:11}, Beechwood 2:08J, I Direct 2:12}, Floraceta 2:11J, Hazel H. 2:121, and Montecito Boy 2:16}. This was a hot field of pacers that yeir and Diawood had to be a good horse to beat them. Diawood is by Diablo, 2:09}, whose get have made an excellent showing this year and is one of the best bred horses in America. The dam of Diawood is Abbie Wood nut, (dam also of Abdine 2:17}) by Woodnut 2:16}. The ancestors on both sides of Diawood 's pedigree are producers of extreme speed. He carries the blood of Slrathmore, Electioneer, Geo. Wilkes, and Nutwood, and is related to all the two minute horses both trotters and pacers. He was a great colt pacer, getting a record of 2:211 as a two year old, 2:14} as a three year old and 2:11 as a four year old. He is owned by Mr. C. E. King of College City, Colusa county, Cal. Seymow is owned by Mr. Elmo Montgomery of Davisville, Yolo county, and was trained by Sam H. Hoy of Winters. Mr. Hoy also trained the filly Friskarina by Bayswater Wilkes, belonging to Mr. E. D. Dudley of Dixon. Two weeks before the meeting Seymow was turned over to Chas. Spencer to drive in the race, and Sam had to see the filly driven by him- self beaten, but she was a good second. Seymow is the first of the get of Diawood to start in a race but there are several more that will be heard from soon. Several attempts have been made by professional and amateur protographers to get a picture of Sey- mow, but for some reason nearly every picture taken has been a failure. The one on our front page this week, taken by a Davisville amateur, is peculiar inas- much as it was snapped just as one of bis front feet was lifted from the ground, but it is a good likeness of the colt. Knocks the Knockers. Din Patch had a let up of a week just before be broke the world's record by pacing a mile in 1:56} at Memphis. It will be noticed by anyone who looks up the matter that the majority of horses have made the supreme effort of their careers just after a let up. Missing Numbers Wanted. To complete a fileof the Breeder and Sportsman we need papers of the following dates: 1896— February 29tb, May 2d, May 23d, June 20th and June 27th. 1897— April 3d. 18 -—February 5th and March ]9th. Anyone having any of these numbers will confer a favor by notifying us or sending them in to this office. Breeder and Sportsman. Answers to Correspondents. D. C , Lemoore — Has Chandelier by James Madison, dam Betsy Trotwood, any record? What is Don Marvin's age, and what is the fastest record of any of his get? Answers — Chandelier has no record in standard time so far as has been reported in the Year Book. Don Marvin was foaled in IS84. His fastest per- former is the trotter Don Lowell 2:141. That the breeders of the light harness horse are not a class easily discouraged by local conditions is H. B. Gentry, Bloomington, Ind., has sold to W. F. Galbreath of Urbana, O., for $1000, the bay yearling filly Lady McKinney, dam Our Lady by Nearest 2:22, brother to John A. McKerron 2:041. Sensible words were uttered by Mr. R. P. Latbrop of Hollister at the convention held in this city this week under the auspices of the California Pronoticn Committee. Mr. Lathrop represented the California Central Counties Improvement Club, and spoke as follows: "It is important that every care shauld be taken for one district not to injure another by pulling the other district down to build up your own This 'knocking1 has done more to injure Central and Nortbern California than any other one thing. An investor comes into one of our coast counties. The local parties have much to say in behalf of tbeir locality. This is legitimate and to be expected, but incidentally they make comparisons and run down Northern California districts. This is entirely wrong, uncalled for. unjust, short-sighted and is a death blow to co-operation. The man being among strang- ers is on the alert and naturally skeptical. He be- comes suspicious and goes to Northern California to investigate for himself, only to learn that they in turn are knocking the Central Coast counties. What is the result? He becomes disgusted and quietly goes to Southern California, where they have studied the art of entertaining and interesting the investor, where they work under a system, where they co- operate and where they pull together: they are a unit. "By co-operation let us induce desirable Eastern people to come and see for themselves. Let every district sound the praises of their own locality, and work with a will for it. But if they cannot say a good word about the other districts let them keep silent. SileDce is golden, many times. "It is not so much which— section fills up first, but to fill them all. This, gentlemen, is my idea of co- operation." As Mr. Lathrop, in addition to the many enterprises in which he is interested, is a horse owner and breeder, we take this opportunity to quote his words that they may be read by horsemen. They can be read with profit by all. Wilkes Stallions for Sale. Mr. P. H. McEvoy of Menlo Park is offering several desirable young Wilkes stallions for sale as will be seen by an advertisement in another part of this issue. » Jackson's Nana Soda untangles the fe«t. X) VEM.BES 21, 1903] t&he gvzzbzv cmb ^yovtsmaxx The Old Glory Sale catalogue has reached us, and is a massive volume. 1047 horses are catalogued. It will take two weeks to sell them. The sale opens November 23d, and continues two weeks. The Palo Alto horses will be the first consignment offered. Horse values are not declining. The demand for good roadsters is incrersing. The popular aDd well-known trainer and driver, George Starr, has so far improved from his injuries that he has been enabled to leave the hospital. A Woodland horseman who wa3 in the city attend ing the Blue Ribbon sale this week says that the asso ciation there will be in line next season with a high class race meeting the week prior to the State Fair. Allie Nun, the famous show road mare in the stable of E. T. Stotesbury, has won fifty blue ribbons on the tan bark and has been beaten only a very few times. She was got by Allie Wilkes out of The Nun b) Nut- wood. Sam N. Matthews, of Salinas, lost a very fine two year old filly laat week, the cause of her death being some bowel trouble. She was by Robin, (sire of Robizola 2:12J, Roblet 2:12 and others) out of a mare by Secretary. Henry Hellman is back at Portland with the three horses he campaigned on the Northwest circuit this year. They are the trotter Mack Mack 2:13 by Mo Kinney and the pacing mares Hallie Hinges 2:17} and Portia Knight 2:16*. A. C. Baxter of Lima, Ohio, paid $3500 for the two- year-old filly Grace Direct by Direct Hal 2:04}, dam Grace Chimes by Chimes; second dam Grace Hamlin (sister of Heir-at-Law 2:05$ and Prince Regent 2:16i) by Mambrino King. Mr. George H. Ketcham has received quite a hand- some income from Cresceus 1:59} the past season. The horse earned upwards of 319,000 in the stud, if report is correct, and his fees for exhibitions in the West foot up some $10,000. The stallion OroGuy is offered for sale in our adver- tising columns. He is standard and registered, a Bplendid individual, has worked a mile in 2:16}, and is a well bred horse. HissireisOro Wilkes 2:11, that is one of the most popular aires in the East, and his dam is the good mare Roseate by Guy Wilkes, second dam the producing mare Rosedale by Sultan, third dam also a producing mare by The Moor, and fourth dam by Fireman, son of the thoroughbred race horse Langford. Forrest W. 2:14} worked a half mile in 1:03 at Pleasanton last Saturday and is looking fit to step a mile in 2:10 or better any time he should be turned round for the word. Al McDonald has this very handsome gelding In fine shape at the present time. Alta McDonald has taken Major Delmar to Island Park, Albany, N. Y., for the winter. He believes he will drive the horse a mile next seaecn faster than any other trotter bus yet gore. Bis failh in the Major is unbounded, and he hopes next jear to drive him in a race against Lou Dillon. Alta is one of the few men who thinks now that Delmar has any cbacce with the little chestnut mare. Over one hundred horses are in training at Pleasan- ton. Dan Patch now has nearly every pacing record there is in sight. Waldstein 2:22A has oeen taken to Cloverdale, Sonoma county, where he will make the season next jear. It is the general opinion that the "skindicate"book has seen its last days at the harness meetings in this State. Mr. Ketcham has proposed to Mr. Billings that Lou Dillon be bred to Cresceus when the mare is retired. The Hollister association will join the National Trotting Association next year and give a good race meeting. Cavalry and artillery horses are again being bought in the Chicago market for account of the British Government. Robert McGregor crossed the century line as a sire this year. Six new standard performers to his credit make his total 101. Honors are comparatively easy between the trot- ters and pacers, inasmuch as three of each gait have beaten two minutes. The owner of the Canadian pacer Gallagher 2:10} by Royal Rysdyk Is reported to have refused an offer of $8000 for bishorse. J W. G. Durfee, of Los Angeles, has purchased a yearling filly by Zombro 2:11, dam Daisy Q. by Alta- mont, from J. A. Jones of Portland. An Eastern paper says that the Salisbury gelding Mush 2:08} has been shifted from the pace to the trot and that he is showing very fast at the diagonal gait. Tom Smith, manager of the Vallejo track says that a good harness meeting will be given there next year, with good purses, and announcements will be made early. Among the meetings to be given next year Pleasan- ton track will be prominent. It is proposed to make an early announcement of good purses for trotters and pacers. Frank Irvington a trotter by Nutwood Wilkes won a five heat race at Fort Wayne, Indiana, October 21st, and took a record of 2:23$. His dam is Nettie G. by Anteeo. Margaret S. 2:12* by Director beat St. Andre 2:134 recently in a hot brush on the Philadelphia speedway. The one-time rival of Allerton and Nancy Hanks, now seventeen, must retain her speed remarkably. Van B. DeLashmutt, who has been living in Spokane for several years past, has returned to his Witch Hazel farm near Portland, says the Sural Spirit, and started a dairy farm At one time Witch Hazel was the largest trotting horse breeding farm in Oregon, where Mr. DeLashmutt had at least seventy-five head of brood mares. It was on this farm where Caryle Carne 2:11}, Sam' Bowers 2:11, Vision 2:12$, and Nettie Ham 2:19}, were bred. If China Maid, the McKinney mare that Ho Yow gave to J. M. Nelson who took her East, does not pace to a very fast record next season it will be be- cause she has been touted to death. Nearly every paper that reaches us from the East tells of a fast mile this mare has been worked and adds that she is to be "saved over" for 1901. The last burst of speed she was credited with was a mile in 2:05}. There will be some changes in the personnel of the Oregon State Board of Agriculture in another year. W. H. Wehrung, president, and J. H. Settlemier, vice-president, have both sent in their resignations to the governor and two new members will be ap- pointed in their stead. Secretary M D. Wisdom has announced that he will not be a candidate for that office again, which also means a new man for secretary. Personal business is given as the reason for the retire- ment in each case. If report may be relied upon it seems probable that the 28-year-old trotting mare Madeleine 2:234. by Rysdyk's Hambletonian, may produce a foalnext season by Red Wilkes, a 29-year-old son of George Wilkes 2:22. Here will be an excellent opportunity to test Professor Redfield's old age theory. Made- leine is probably as lively an old lady as any trotter of her age that ever lived. Nancy Whitman, the dam of Madeleine, also produced Robert McGregor 2:17^, the sire of Cresceus 1:59}, and it was doubtless from Nancy Whitman that Robert McGregor in- herited much of bis speed as well as ability to perpet- uate the same. Clipper brought $2500 at John Splan's sale at Chi- cago week before last and went to the bid of W. R. Wylie, who was acting for a wealthy speedway driver. Few horses will be able to head Clipper on the speedway, and he pulls a wagon as fast as he does a sulky. Col. J. C. Kirkpatrick of this city, who has owned Clipper for several years aDd consigned him to the Splan sale, received this week from Memphis a I very handsome silver cup won by this son of ; Diablo at the Memphis meeting in October, when he was driven by Mr. Harry Devereux of Cleve- [ land and defeated the two crack pacers Tom I Keene and Greenline, driven respectively by \ those famous amateur reinsmen, E. E. Smathers and C. K. G. Billings. Silver Trophy won at Memphis by Col. J. C. Kirkpatrlc bay gelding Clipper 2:06 by Diablo. Horses that many trainers think are "has beens" and "back numbers, " often lower their marks when placed in the hands of amateurs. It is a singular fact that The Monk 2:05* and Equity 2:12^, the trotters that placed the trotting record for double teams at 2:08 the other day, were both discarded from the Village Farm racing stable because they were sup- posed to be not sound enough to make them of value as race horses. Just now both geldings are in the finest of form. Equity can doubtless trot a mile around 2:07 in single harness and Ed Geers recently asserted that if Mr. Billings would give The Monk a chance to go a mile to sulky for a record he would trot in 2:01 or better. A correspondent of the Topeka Mail and Breeze says: "The writer used to think it almost impossible to get a farm horse too large. He had one which weighed 1700 pounds, and when he and his mate were put ahead of a plow they had the weight to take it through anything but solid rock. His next team weighed around 1300 each, and for all purposes he likes that size better than the great big fellows. As a rule, you will find the smaller horse3, to say 1200 to 1300, are handier, have better nerve, more grit, and will do as much work as the overgrown ones. This fall I saw a big team and a small one plowing, an3 the medium sized, wiry horses did as much plowing, round for round, as the big ones." The fact that Lon McDonald had to tap Sadie Mac at the finish of the second heat of the race | in which she defeated Katherine A. at Lexing- j ton, caused a Kentucky turf writer to speculate f upon what the daughter of Wiggins would have done to the northern bred filly had she not been 18 handicapped by illness tbisseason. When asked about the heat at the finish of the race, Lon McDonald, the driver of Sadie Mac, said: "Why, I could have beaten Katherine A. twenty lengths had I so desired. I had promised Mr. Smathers that I would keep Sadie in the 2:12 class if possible, and took her back in the stretch, not think ■ ing any of the others were dangerous, and when the daughter of Wiggins came with a rush was almost caught napping." It has been definitely decided that Ribbonwood will be taken to San Francisco after the conclusion of the present season, his owner being desirous of letting the champion measure strides with some of the American cracks. Before making the journey Rib- bonwood may race or give exhibitions at the Auck- land Trotting Club's Autumn Meeting, the northern club being desirous of giving its patrons a chance of seeing him racing. Price shortly intends issuing a challenge to match hi3 representative against any- thing in Australasia, for any amount, either best three out of five mile heats, or best two out of three distances at one, two, and three miles. Should any of the Australian cracks take up the gauntlet the Commonwealth racing men will have an interesting match to look forward to. — New Zealand Referee. Wilmar, the two year old gelding by Wildnut, dam Sweetwater by Stamboul, that was sold at the Palo Alto salelast January to Mr. O. E. Williams of Ckiab, is showing great speed at the Santa Rosa track, and is looked upon as one of the best prospects in the three year class for next year's stake races. Wilmar is not engaged in any California stake, but is entered in the Horse Review, Kentucky and Hartford futuri- ties and in the Terre Haute Matron Stakes. He has shown enough speed now to warrant the belief that 2:12 will not 6top him in his three year old form, and a nicer gaited trotter one seldom sees. He is a good looker, and has the legs and feet, handsome head, solid bay color and beautiful mane and tail that would make him an ideal horse for the speedway. The following information is gleaned from Scott Hudson's books showing the operations of his stable for 1903: Races won, 43; gross amount won, §75,767 50, of which Hawthorne won $19,135 and Jay McGregor $17,250. Jay McGregor started in 15 races in 13 weeks in 1903, won 9, was second 5 times and third once. He won a total of $17,250. He was the largest winning trotting stallion of the year. Hudson's stable next year will include the lollowing horses: Hawthorne 2:06k Jay McGregor 2:08, Doctor Madara 2:08, T«rti- min 2:24f, Twinkle 2:05k Belle Kuser 2:08, Lady Gail Hamilton, 3, 2:11 J, Hive and Tregantle. Twinkle, Tertimin and Lady Gail Hamilton were fired this fall and are doing well. Jay McGregor and Nervolo will each make a limited season in the stud next spring, following which they will be prepared for a campaign. Rhythmic 2:06^ has been returned to his owner in Bourbon county and will not be raced again. Hi Hogoboom's Btring which he has begun work on at Woodland should develop some high class horses, as while they are all youngsters they are a grandly bred lot and good lookers. In addition to Mr. C L. Jones'handsometwo-year-old by McKinney- Carlotta Wilkes, that was purchased at the Red Rib- bon Sale in this city last Tuesd ay. Mr. Hogoboom has a colt by L. W. Russell out of Elsie dam of five in the list by Gen Benton, one by Diablo out, of a mare by .Valdstein, and the yearling Palo King by Marengo King, son of McKinney, dam a mare by Palo Alto 2:08$. It will be hard to find four better bred young- sters in one row of stalls at any traok. Mr. Hogo- boom also has the fast stallion Arthur W. 2:11*, at Woodland and will make a season with him id the stud. Arthur W. Is a good looking horse with size and extreme speed and his colts are very promising, though none of them are old enough to race yet. A faster track than the one at Memphis does not exist, and never has. The records made over it prove this. With the same amount of work it may be do faster than Readvilleor Columbus. No other track gets the care this one does. A. M. Howe, who has charge of it, is at it from sunrise until sunset, and a good part of the night during race meetings. Twenty mules and a dozen men are worked constantly on floats, harrows and watering carts. The soil is a red- dish loam, is 14 inches deep and requires lots of work to keep it hard. Thousands of tons of water are nec- essary to keep it packed properly, for rain is not a common thing down there in the summer and early fall. It is naturally fast soil, but it is the work spen t on it that makes it the fastest pie»^e of dirt in the world. The air of Tenneseeo is favorable for speed, too It is clear and generally warm, with only once In a great while a strong wind. In the three year- Memphis has beeD giving meetings there have beer only four windy days and not a drop of rain has ©he gveeirev axxb ^tyavtsxtian [November 21, leos Benefit of a Let-Up. When Dan Patch, who has once more lowered the world's pacing record, pulled a wagon in 1:59} during the Lexington meeting the audience noticed that Scott Hudson drove the runner and the capable manner in which the Kentucky reinsman handled his part of the performance brought out a good deal of favorable comment. Also it was noted that Dan Patch finished his great mile in a style indicating that he had still a little speed in reserve. Talking about the trial some days later, McHenry, driver of Dan Patch, said that it was true his horse was not all out at the finish of the 1:59]- mile. "I was surprised,'* he said, "at the way my horse finished, and he certainly was a trifle better than I had figured he would be that day. You will remember that at Cincinnati Dan went against the record on a day wheD neither the weather nor the track conditions were favorable for a great effort. Still, I knew, even before we started for the fast mile, that the stallion was not at his best. When we came out for the warming up heats he shook his head and acted as he always does when right in trim, but by the time those miles were over he was dull, and I saw that his playfulness was a bluff, and he was really not feeling as chipper as he would like to ma ie me believe. Dan is a horse that will always do his best, and he tried hard at Cincinnati, but between his own feeling of lassitude and the poor day and track the performance he put up was one that did not 6uit me. I knew right then that he had been given a little too much fast work and had trained off — in other words was a little stale. "Then I decided to give him a ".omplete letup, and for eight days that horse never had a harness on. He was walked ana handled otherwise 'n the ordinary way, but there was no harness work. That brought him to the Lexington trial in a shape that did not just meet my views. I thought he would be better if there had been a chance to give him a little sharp work before going to the wagon in an effort to beat the world's record at that hitch, but there was no chance to do this and also carry out my plan of giving him a good rest, and so when I decided to go against the wagon mark I figured that it would be a great performance if he could step the mile in two minutes, or possibly a little slower, as the mark we were shooting at was 2:01}. During the Lexington mile I never spoke to Dan or rr.llied him in any way until the seven-eighths pole was reached. As we got to within a hundred yards or so of the wire I tapped him with the whip and was surprised at the way he stepped out from it — just like a horse that hadn't been doing his best at ?U. From that point to the wire the runDer was really in Dan's way, and from what my horse showed me in that last hundred yards I am perfectly satisfied that if I had figured him to be as good as he was and done my driving accordingly he would have paced that mile in 1:581. "Of course, I was figuring that the week's absolute rest had shortened him up a little, so to speak, but that is where I was mistaken. Once befere I had the same experience with a fast pacer. Years ago, when John R. Gentry was in my stable and was racing a series of exhibitions with Joe Patchen, the same thing happened. We were at Louisville with the horses, after going a lot of races, and neither one of those pacers could step a mile better than 2:08. We still had three exhibitions to give with them — at Mil- waukee, Dubuque and Sioux City — and it looked as though we would not be able to make a respectable showing for the money that was to be paid. I figured on the matter a little and finally decided that so far as Gentry was concerned he was to be given a good rest during the week or so that intervened before the Milwaukee race was booked to take place. I told Jack Curry, who had Joe Patchen, what my ideas, were, and sent Gentry to Milwaukee with a boy in charge, instructing the caretaker to give the horEe a couple of nice walks every day, let him roll around and eat grass and enjoy himself generally, but not to put the harness on him. "This program was carried out to the letter with the result that our pacers went a fine exhibition at Mil- waukee. The rest cure had worked so well that I de-' cided to try some more of it before the race at Dubu- que, which was to occur seven days after the one at Milwaukee. Not once did Gentry feel the weight of- a harne«s between these races, and yet at Dubuque he1 stepped a third heat in 2:03}, his best.mile that year,l and at Sioux City, only two days later, paced one of! his miles in 2:04. "As to what pacemakers can do for a trotter or talk about the driver of the runner being able to rate the trotter or pacer is bosh, and for this reason: Every man who has driven fast trials knows that, while his watch is a convenience, and in some respects a help, that, after all, what he must depend on is how his horse feels to him at the end of the lines. It is not infrequently the ease that a two minute pacer, for instance, will take more out of himself going one- quarter of a mile in 0:30J than he will when he steps the next one in 0:29}. Now the watch isn't going to tell the driver that — he can find it out only through the reins, and certainly the man who drives the runner in front of the harness horse cannot know anything about how the other horse is doing his work." — Excltange. How the Daily Paper Does It. The morning after Lou Dillon beat Major Delmar in the wagon race at Memphis, the Commercial . of that city printed the following: "Something happened in Memphis yesterday, some- thing that never happened in this big, round world's history before. Great and unusual things continue happening in Memphis, because Memphis is a great and unusual place, and like likes like and attracts it. Hence it was that a match race was trotted in Mem- phis yesterday, such as was never before witnessed since the horse was invented and the last improve- ment on his equineship was patented. The king and queen of trotters were here. The first two horses that ever made a mile in two minutes in the whole world's history were at the Memphis Driving Park. held it to the end. This kept Delmar running after her, which was proper. It is in the order of nature. She came in uncaptured, heart whole and fancy free, and all the more desirable. In the second heat Del- mar, gallant gentleman that he is, broke in the first quarter. This was eminently proper. It destroyed his chances of winning and made him strive all the harder to overtake her. Many a man saw himself, his younger self, reflected In Delmar's performance. Lou Dillon moved with energy and swiftness, but with poise and sensuous grace. She appeared a Gibson girl in horseflesh, arrayed in the prevailing eel skin cos- tume of the smart set, and she beat the king of trot- ters. Some day a poet will embalm her performance in verse. And modern philosophers will revise their sage advice. It will no longer be: "Hitch your wagon to a star," but "hitch your wagon to a Lou Dillon." Memphis salutes the queen of trotters. Statistics of the Memphis Meeting. The last heat raced at Memphis wound up the light harness season of 1903. The total number of races was thirty-two and the total number of heats (one mile or over) fifty-six. The fastest heat was 2:03} and the slowest heat was 2:l~j. The average time was 2:09 35-112. The total number of horses started was 172. The trotters numbered 80 and the pacers 92. The total amount of money distributed was $32,200. Jay McGregor, Dr. Strong, Masetto and Axdelight led the trotterf, while Hal Chaffin Star Hal, Nervolo, Cascade and Directum Miller won . most money among the pacers. Ed. Geeis end SADIE MAC 2:lUj BY PEIKE THE GREAT 2:07>i "Winner of the Kentucky Futurity of 1903 pacer that is trying to go a good mile, my idea is thati the most of them accomplish but little in the way of help to the horse that is making the effort. As a rule they are either too far away or too close, know that Dan Patch doesn't owe anything to the pacemaker in some of his best miles, but that on the contrary they have been a hindrance to hire. All the For the fir6t time in their lives these horses met in a trotting contest, which means that for the first time since the wheels of time began to revolve on their axles two two-minute horses met — and in Memphis. The event is epochal. It is an unprecedented blow out, literally an outblow — e-ventus — but not in the sense in which the argot of the street uses it. It is something that dIowe out every other light but its own. It dwarfs all other performances. It erases all past records as if they had been stylused on palimp- sest, and writes a new and more glorious one over them. Old Memphis on the Nile ir her days of glory was great, and the pyramids and the broken colossal statue of Rameses bear testimony to the fact; but her namesake on the Mississippi looks out from her pin- nacle of glory on the ruins of the ancient city with commiseration and on her greatest greatness with contempt. The occasion was a memorable one. The conscious- ness that people were witnessing something greater than ever happened before and something that was happening for the first time, thrilled and awed like the first sunrise seen by the first man is supposed to have done. Both animals were pictures, but different. Lou Dillon was a stanza from a classic lyric, in mo- :- tion. Delmar was a canto from an epic poem — mag- . nificent but ponderous and rugged. Lou Dillon moved T/as soft and soothingly as a Provencal air, fresh from !the land of Oc. Delmar's was a Wagnerian etude, splendid, but not compelling. Together they rendered a Hungarian rhapsody. Lou Dillon won and won easy. She had to. It was so ordered. She belongs to the winning sex — the sex that always wins, the sex that never loses. She took the lead at the outset and Scott Hudson led the winning drivers, with Snow, Walker, Benyon, Brady and Dickerson close behind. Nine new world's trotting records were established. Lou Dillon was responsible for five of these. Major Delmar, Fereno, and The Monk and Equity placed the rest. Five new world's pacing records were hung up. Three went to the credit of Dan Patch and one each to John M.and Dariel. Bardoe, Ed Geer'smule, set a new world's trotting record for mules at 3:46}. The Directs Get the Money. No less than four of the champion harness racing records of 1903 were made by the offspring of Direct, 2:05}, who has to his credit also more new performers in the 2:15 list than any other trotting sire. It is re- markable how, in spite of fierce competition and annual increase of speed, the family of Direct con- tinues, year after year, to stay in front of the pro- cession. Last year Direct Hal 2:04}, the largest winner of the campaign, and Prince Direct 2:0.7, were the sensational performers to the credit of Direct. A year or two before it was Bonnie Direct, whose 2:051 is still the fastest record ever made by a green four year old. In 1898 the unbeaten trotter Directum Kelly 2:08}, winner of eight straight races in the Grand Circuit, and the precocious pacer Directly 2:03}, were the stars. No other trotting sire of the times is credited with so many truly sensational winners as Direct. The Kenney Bicycle Co., 531 Valencia St., is doing a big business in the McMurray Carts and Sulkies. You not only save money by purchasing a McMurray but get the most durable, best ma-le, and easiest running cart or sulky in the market. Investigation will con vines a Missourian. » November 21, 1903] ®Jte gveebev attfcr &p&vi$mati Racing Season Opens Successfully. The racing season for San Francisco and vicinity opened last Saturday at Emeryville with an attrac- tive program and an attendance of approximately 8000 lovers of the sport. All indications point to a successful meeting. The stakes received 25 per cent more entries than on any former year. It is estimated that there will he about 1600 horses present to take part in the races during the season. It is expected that the Pacific Coast breeders of thoroughbreds will be greatly benefitted in the near future by this meeting as a number of prominent Eastern horsemen are here at present and others will arrive later in the season, many of whom, attracted by the success of California bred horses, will be purchasers. Never have the California thoroughbreds been so successful in the East as during this year and only last Wednes- day three of them won raws — two at Bennings and one at Latonia. Nothing is wanting in the way of equipment or appointments to make the tracks of the California Jockey Club equal to any in America, every detail having been placed in the hands of repre- sentatives thoroughly familiar with the requirements. The judges and starters are gentlemen of unquestion- able ability and integrity. Under the best manage- ment and the most honest racing there are many con- ditions that will occasionally defeat a horse that can- not always be taken into consideration. Hence "rac- ing luck" and many of the disappointed ones who lose a wager on form see a swindle where no swindle exists and it has suggested that it is due the public where horses show a startling reversal of form that their entries should be thrown out. This would do much to inspire the public with confidence and save the reputation of many jockeys. Not only will San Francisco and vicinity enjoy the sport this winter but Los Angeles will also have the beautiful Ascot Park opened on December 24th for a ninety days' meeting, and there is no doubt but both the San Francisco and the Los Angeles tracks will receive a large attendance. BIG PRICE FOR TURF FAILURES. Before the races yesterday the writer was convers- ing with an old Eastern trainer regarding the failures of the turf. The public seldom gives this matter much consideration. It does not realize the vaBt amount of money lost on the high priced horses that prove a failure on the track. The owner is the largest individual loser, but the amount he loses is a pittance compared with what it costB those who remember only that the horse in question was bought for a high figure and presume he must be a stake winner, and with this idea rush to play him whenever and wherever entered in races, believing that he should be as good as the price. The writer recently returned from Australia. During September he attended a Bale of race horses in Sidney and Baw Kingliko, one of the greatest failures of recent years, sold for 35 guineas. Perhaps it is not quite right to blame Kinglike for all his failures. He was a horse from whom handicappers expected too much and the result was they never gave him a chance. As a two-year old he was a stone (14 pounds) behind Malster. When Mr. Macdonald gave 900 guineas for him everyone thought that he must know the ungainly looking black was going to make a great three-year-old. After he beat Finland in the Guineas (when receiving 5 pounds) he won the Eclipse Stakes, beating Seahorse, Paul Pry, Lancas- ter, Mora and others at weight for age. This looked like a brilliant performance as the time for the mile and three furlongs was 2:22 on the turf and yet it might have been a fluke. The late William Forrester who was backing King- like, thought a ntrong pace would suit the black and he told Gough, the rider of the Chief (not in form at that time) to make it a "cracker.'' Gough carried out his instructions most literally and those who could get going went after him Kinglike, always slow in getting under way was soon many lengths behind, but he got up steam at about the sodwall and won easily. Probably the others ran themselves to a standstill chasing the Chief and then came up to Kinglike making it appear a brilliant win for him. Starting at 7 to 2 for the Caulfield Cup Kinglike was not in the first twelve and he has never won a good raoe since the Eclipse Stakes. He was no good at the following Spring meeting and while he has had a number of rests he has never yet shown a glimpse of his Eclipse Stakes form. Mr. Maodonald gave 900 guineas for him simply on his two year old form. In the two races he won, Kinglike was not backed by his owner because before leaving St. Alban's Stock Farm for the meeting Revenue who had not been up long had shown that he was quite as good as the black. Next year it was made evident that Kinglike would need to have been good to hold his own with Revenue half well. Kinglike got about £600 of his purchase money back in these two races. How much his fail- ure in the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups and his keep since have cost can only be conjectured; but he must nave cost outside backers of doubleB and long shots in subsequent cups a power of money. Handicappers weighted him not as Kinglike but as the stable com- panion of Wakeful, Revenue and Aurous, while the public backed him in the same way. Revenue recov- ered form and won a cup, why not Kinglike? And now the idol of the handicappers and the public has been sold for 35 guineas! Kinglike showed a little pace in a race the other day, and his new owner may get races out of him, more especially a9 handicappers will not fear him as they did when he was in the same stable that contained a numberof stake winners. B. • Jack Trout on Anaconda. "Jack" Trout, one of the oldest New England train- ers and who successfully campaigned Anaconda one season, has a green trotter he is willing to back against any green trotter in Massachusetts for $1000 a Bide, the race to come off atReadville next July. He believes that Anaconda is still one of the greatest pacers in the country. To use his own words in re- gard to the horse: "I believe that the 'snake' horse can beat any pacer wearing harness if properly put into racing condition and just nail him up back of one of those pacemakers and he can pace a mile as fast as any of them. "You remember how last spring I said, after the report was sent out that Anaconda would be faster than ever because his trainer had got him so he wouldn't take hold of the bit at all, that I thought his new education would result in failure. "Well, my prophecy proved true, you see. Now, I'll tell you my reason for so thinking. When I took Anaconda to Dover the year I had him, I began to break him all over. In certain ways this breaking was all right, but I soon discovered that teaching him to go in a light rein was not the correct thing. "Why, later in the season, when I got to racing him I found out that I could tell the days he was right good and those when he waBn't. Any time he didn't take hold of the bit and want to runaway with me on a pace, just so sure he was not right on edge and was defeated. "Then, too, any time in a race that he let go of the bit, right then he was a beaten horse. When right good he was on the bit from wire to wire. I under- stand that McHenry found the same thing true when he was driving Anaconda before I got him. "Yes, indeed, I'd like to have him in my charge once more. I really believe what I Baid before, that he can beat all of the free-for-all pacers. " Give Credit to Whom Credit is Due. During the racing season Lt is seldom that the publie while witnessing the marvelous speed of the horseB being raced on the big tracKs gives much thought to the men who have made it possible for the famous to sweep down the line with money winning stables. There is a time in the life of nearly every famous trotter or pacer when its success or failure as a racing prospect is made by some man who has perhaps never driven a race on the Grand Circuit track, if indeed he has ever driven one at all. Few great trotters or pacers have been given their first speed lessons by the men who drove them to victory in after years. There are a few men known to fame as race drivers who have the faculty of taking green youngsters and developing their speed, but the average driver of note prefers to take his racing material after it has passed through the first Btage of its racing prepara- tion, or in other words, after it has had its speed de- veloped sufficiently to guarantee that it will pay to prepare it for a campaign. There are many men absolutely unknown to fame whose time is Bpent in the tiresome but patient work of educating and de- veloping youngsters for some one else to take to the races. These men have no such incentive to work as the race drivers have. They never hear theapplause of thousands and they have no opportunities to win large sum6 of money as do the men who drive races, yet tbey play a most important part in the harness racing world. They are in nearly all cases genuine lovers of the horse and continue in their work solely because they are in love with it. When admiring the sensational race horse and the art of the man who drives him, it will not be out of place for the observer to give a little thought to the possibly unknown ma» who educated, developed and handed him over to the trainer all ready to add to his fame aB a race driver. — Horse World. The Late Orrin Hickok. Dr. J. W. Neal of the Western Horseman thus writes of Orrin Hickok, whose death occurred at Clt velar d last week: "Orrin Hickok was the last of the greatest aggre- gation of knights of the sulky that the world las ever known, and his demise is a most pathetic one, but his place in the history of the American trotter will always be secure. He was 71 years of agp, and up to the beginning of the Cleveland Grand Circuit meeting of 1902, was able to be at his work, but dur- ing that meeting he- was stricken with paresis, and taken to the Lakewood Hospital. Hickok received his education as a trainer and driver in California and on the race tracks in that State gained his first laurels in the field of fame. He sprang into promi- nence as far back as 1875, when with Jim Brown 2:17}, Fisherman 2:21, Sisson Girl 2:281, Ajax 2:29 and Defi- ance 2:27J, he nearly cleared up the programs then trotted and paced on the Pacific Coast. He still further established himself as a skilful horseman the following year, 1876, making a very successful cam- paign with Alameda Maid 2:27}, Grattan 2:13, St. Helena 2:271, Juniper 2:30, St. James 2:23} and Kim- rod 2:19|. While campaigning these horses he was slowly fitting St. Julian for his later great turf triumphs, and in 1878, 1879 and 1880 the son of Volun- teer was the hero of the day. It took Hickok three years to fit St. Julian for the track. The great horse was unruly, flighty in his bursts OS speed, and only most careful handling was effective with him. Once, however, Hickok began racing with him St. Julian more than fulfilled every expectation, and introduced the noted driver to the Grand Circuit tracks. He won $60,000 with the then champion, and though offered large prices for him from time to time he could never make up his mind to sell his pet, and the horse died his property at an advanced age. The brilliant seasons Hickok had with St. Julian gave him a great reputation, and when he appeared east of the Rockies a few years later, he had earned the respect of all the great drivers of his day with Santa Claue, 2:171, and made a hid for Chicago's great stallion race. He could only win the second heat, however, as after Rotert McGregor, the sire of the present world's champion, Cresceus, had won the first and third heats, Pied- mont stepped in and won the last three heats and the race. Hickok, however, got even later in the year in the $10,000 race at Boston, when he turned the tables on the 6on of Almont, Santa Claus beating him in straight heats. Between this and 1887 the noted driver piloted many famous horses, colt trotters and pacers, as well as brilliant campaigners, such as Lucy 2:14; Sweetheart 2:22}; Eva 2:25}; Nevada 2:23; Conde 2:19}; Expressive 2:12}, and Averna 2:22}. In the lat- ter year he came through the Grand Circuit with Arab 2:15, and made one of the greatest campaigns known in trotting history in the free-for-all classes. Hickok's last great performer was the daughter of Guy Wilkes, Hulda 2:08J, and his star 6et with that of the great mare, as the Columbian free-for-all was the last great race in which he drove. He made a half-dozen fortunes on the turf but was a liberal Bpender, and an expensive liver, and he died penniless. The Owner of Cobwebs. Strikel— if they don't give you JackBon's Napa Soda when you ask for lt. Among the many men who patronize the Harlem river speedway, there is none whose love for the trotter is stronger than that of Nathan Straus. Mr. Straus first became identified with the trotter years ago, when Majolica 2:15 electrified the whole horse world by his splendid performances on the turf. Ever since his memorable campaign in 1883, Mr. Straus has been a prominent road driver in New York. He has owned a number of horses who have helped to make turf history; among them being the chestnut gelding Cobwebs 2:12}, who was the acknowledged champion of the speedway for years. It is doubtful if any man ever derived as much pleasure with any horse as Mr. Straus has with the game and consistent son of W hips. When his familiar face showed under the Washington Bridge last Sunday, a hearty round of applausa greeted the ex-champion and it plainly showed that Cobwebs was the idol of the frequenters of the speed- way. As time passed a great many new horses ap- peared on the scene and the top-notchers of the younger generation wrested the crown from the Cali- fornia bred trotter. It was then that Mr. Straus looked around for a hor6e to fill the place of "Cobs." He finally secured Ted 2:15}, a stout made, fine gaited son of Norval 2:14}. The selection was a good one, as Ted has proven himself to be a speedway star. He has defeated the best of the speedway brigade this year, and bids fair to become a champion. Mr. Straus was one of the leading spirits in securing the speed- way and the lovers of the light harness horse owe him a debt of gratitude for his splendid work ingtoNew York the finest speedway in the wc 7Y. Y. Spirit of the Times. s &he gveebev an* gijwrtsrotatt [November 21, U03 The Cavalry Horse. The horse should be selected for the post he is to fill not merely because he stands so many hands high and weighs so many hundred pounds. The cavalry- man has enough to do to keep his eye to the front and his mind on the duties he may be called upon to perform without having to choose the ground for each footstep of his horse. Burdened with his many accoutrements he must have a springy seat or he be- comes jaded and galled at the end of a day's march to suoh an extent as to be unfit for duty. The writer, though an infantryman in the civil war, had occasion many times to note the difference in the mounts as the cavalry troops passed by. The Kentucky troops were generally, and especially early in the war. mounted on horses secured in their own State. They had that easy motion, easy to both horse and rider, so neces- sary to the comfort and efficiency of both. On the contrary, when troops from the more northern States passed by mounted on the horses of a harness type, then mostly in use in that section, the difference was conspicuous. There was a rythm of motion with the former and a jangle out of time with the latter. Cer- tainly the men who move with greater comfort will be able to perform their arduous duties more satisfac- torily. And though the Kentucky saddle horse never fails to perform well in harness, it is no disparagement to him if we admit that the Northern horse was more suited to the labors of the trains or even of the artil- lery service. Gen. John B. Castleman, on this subject, says: "Therefore it is that the stallions of the American saddle horse, judiciously crossed, produce horses of highest utility, produce the best horse for the range; produce the best cavalry horses that can be found in the world, having the greatest intelligence, the fast- est walk, the easiest canter, and the clearest trot. * * * The experience of the civil war demon- strated that no cavalry horse of the armies of tbe world has ever equaled him in endurance and move- ment. I rode representatives of Shis breed during four years of the war, and served in a regiment and in a division whose mounts were generally similarly bred. It was with such mounts that this extraor- dinary regiment of men were enabled in repeated cases, with ease to the horse and ease to the rider, to make great marches in the rapid walk characteristic of this horse. * * * The history of cavalry ser- vice shows no parallel to the continuous fast move- ment of the cavalry under Morgan and Forrest and this service was rendered chiefly by the American saddle-bred horse; and this horse of singular beauty and smooth, fast walk and untiring energy stood the terrible strain where horses of other breeds gave way under test of great marches. " I quote also from Gen. Duke, who was wilh Morgan in all his raids: "When Morgan marched from Sparta in August, 1862, to surprise a garrison at Gallatin, he accom- plished the distance of fully 90 miles, including detours made to conceal his route, in about twenty- five hours. On the Ohio raid, after more than two weeks of very severe previous marching, his com- mand, then about 2100 strong, marched without halting from Summansville, Ind., to a point 28 miles due east from Cincinnati, a distance which may fairly be estimated at 94 miles. This march was accomplished in about thirty-five hours. Many— indeed the greater number — of the Kentucky horses which had started on the raid performed this march without flinching and many of them kept on to Buffington, some even bearing their riders across the Ohio river and returning to the Confederacy. The horses which had been impressed in Indiana and Ohio failed in such an ordeal, never lasting more than a day or two, and often succumbing after a ride of eight or ten hours. *' * *'! Perhaps this is the horse that the Lord had in mind when he wished to impress Job with his own omnipo- tence. The quotation from Job is appropriate at any rate: "Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? "Canst thou make him afraid of a grasshopper' the glory of his nostrils is terrible. "He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength; he goeth on to meet the armed men. "He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted ; neither turneth he back from the sword. "The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the shield . "He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet. "He saith among the trumpets, Ha, Ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the cap- tains and the shouting."—/. B. jSTatt in Breeders Oazette. Lou Dillon's Debut on the Speedway. [N. Y. Times, Nov. 9.] Lou Dillon, queen of the light harness turf and holder of the world's trotting record, 1:58}, made her initial appearance on the road and steoped her first race on the Harlem River Speedway yesterday morn- ing, to the delight of an immense crowd drawn by the promised debut of the famous mare. Long before 10 o'clock the spectators began to gather along the upper stretch and seek out points of vantage. When the earliest of the regular Sunday morning drivers arrived they were surprised at the number of lookers- on who were lined two and three rows deep along either curb. Several times the cry rose "Here she comes!" but each time it was a false alarm, and when the trotting queen finally put in an appearance she was overlooked by everybody until she had reached a point close to the finish, driven by her owner, C. K. G. Billings. A burst of applause greeted her then, and the cheers did not die away until the mare was turned up the backstretcb. Following close behind her came Lou Dillon's stable mate, Greenline, 2:07}, driven by "Doc" Tanner. The crowd clamored for a brush, to which Mr. Billings promptly agreed. After stepping the queen two fast half miles by way of warming her up, she was turned to a good start with Greenline. That the mare took to the footing, which was ex- cellent, and that she had suffered no bad effects from her journey East, became evident in her first strides, as she went away like an arrow from a bow after scoring once. Greenline had considerably the beet of the start, and a perfectly clear road, as all other drivers had pulled close to the curb. Lou Dillon followed pace until the stretch was en- tered, and then, closing the gap, apparently without the slightest exertion, reached Greenline's shoulder. In the last dozen strides the mare moved forward at a word from her driver and passing Greenline as though he had stopped, won by a half length with ease. A cheer rose from the crowd, to which Mr. Billings responded by raising his hat. Then Lou Dillon jogged back for a second heat. This time Greenline was given several lengths the best of tbe start, but it seemed to make no difference to the little champiob, who overhauled and passed her rival at the first quarter post and finished half a dozen lengths in the lead, Mr. Billings driving with one hand ard looking over his shoulder at the finish to see what had become of Greenline. The two heats and the work-outs were considered enough work for one morning, and amid renewed applause of the crowd the mare was jogged back to the stable in Dyckman street. The manner in which she was driven upon a crowded road proved her dis- position ard the confidence Mr. Billing has in her beyond a doubt, while her speed was marveled at by everybody. The Old Campaigner. " These records that Lou Dillon and Dan Patch and some of the rest of the flyers have made this year will, I am afraid, have a bad effect on the horse busi- ness," observed the Amateur as he laid down the morning paper after reading the Memphis summaries forward, backward and upside down, to make sure that his eyesight had not gone crazy overnight. "Next year will be so tame that we will not take any interest in the trotters and pacers." "Well, if you feel that way," said the Old Cam- paigner, "go and buy yourself a gasoline buggy and make believe you are having a good time. I'll stick to the trotters and take chances on enough things happening to keep me from getting lonesome. If you had any memory you would not have forgotten that Star Pointer beat two minutes six years ago. Did that stop anybody? Not that we ever heard of, and if it did he wasn't worth stopping. A quitter is of no earthly good in any business. But, as a matter of fact, every man who was breeding and every man who was training kept his eye on the 1:59J of the big Ten- nessee pacer, and looked for the day to come when he would own one good enough to beat it. That's what happened to the business. Made it better. There was something to shoot at that was hard to hit, and it was really surprising that so many fellows got a gun and took shot after shot at the mark. An Indiana breeder succeded in hitting it, then went on and made a better score. Another Indiana horse helped his trainer in the good work and they suc- ceeded. Meanwhile, with the trotting record at 2:03} nobody was discouraged. About all the people who take an interest in such matters predicted the early coming of the two-minute trotter. And she is here; likewise he. On the face of the returns we now have a trotting mare with a record of 1:58J, a trotting stal- lion with a record of 1:59J, and a trotting gelding with a record of 1:59}. That is nearly enough for one year. And Millard Sanders says Lou Dillon has only begun. If you awaken some fine morning next fall to learn that ihehas trotted a mile in 1:55 just remem- ber that I gave you an advance hint. "But you needn't worry about things getting dull even if the Dan Patch and Lou Dillon records are not touched next year. ' Alix was champion for six years; Cresceus was king for two. World's records are not lowered every year. However, the point I want to impress upon your minds is that the trotting game won't die even if the existing records are never lowered. I know of fifty men right now who are try- ing to find a starter for next year's M. and M. There are just as many or more with designs on the Empire City, the Bonner Memorial, the Massachusetts, the Roger Williams, the Charter Oak, tbe Ohio and the Transylvania. The rich futurities were never before so well patronized. It don't take a two-minute trot- ter to win any of them. The race horse that can step miles around 2:10 has a look-in-for first money in any of the big purses. I know that 2:10 lookB mighty cheap alongside 1:584, but if I had a green trotter that had shown me 2:12 or better I believe I'd take my chances on his getting some of the money next year. If you will take a look through the summaries of this year's big meetings you will discover that 2:05} is the fastest mile in a race by a trotter and that the trotter who did it won races in which she had to step no faster than 2:11. Plenty of good trotters get through the year, on ao honest campaign, with records that give them a show for big money in i'SCfi. We may live to see the time when two-minute trotters will start by sixes or more in races, but even then the 2:10 race horse will be harvesting a goodly share of the dollars. They had a lot of 2:02 classes for pacers this year. You may not know it, but Harold H. 2:04 won most of them without lowering his record. "The difference between racing speed and speed for a dash against the watch has always been wide, and it gets no narrower as the years go by and the world's records get lower. The careers of the Haw- thorne), Billy Buchs, McKinleys, Ferenos, Jay Mc- Gregors, CaspianB and Kinney Lous ought to be enough to keep any one from getting the blues be- cause the trotting record has gone down to 1I58.1. When it gets to the lowest possible notch there will still be plenty of money for the race horse that could not go a mile in two minutes if he were hauled by an automobile and sheltered by a wind shield as big as a house. Just keep your mind centered on the fact that there has always been room on the race track for the good horse and there always will be. I may be mistaken, of course, and the doiogs of this sensa- tional year may result in everybody putting up the shutters and going out of business. But I look for about everybody to stay in, who is already in and the fever may rage to such an extent that we will get a lot of recruits. In any event we are breeding just as good horses as ever were bred. If there is anything in the popular theories they ought to keep getting better. It is at worst an even break for all concerned, and if we should finally get to the point where a 2:10 class will be a slow one everything will have adjusted itself to new conditions as they come up and we will have to look into the Year Book to refresh our memories about the times when a green trotter that could beat 2:10 was sensational. Don't get the blues, my son. Worse things can happen to the horse business than the wholesale slashing of world's records that made tbe year 1903 famous. A panic in Wall street, for instance." — Stcck Favm. W. H. Davis, a pioneer of Calloway County, Mo., is dead. He was at one time the most successful exhib- itor of saddle-bred horses in his State, and first showed the great stallion Rex McDonald. With this horse he won one premium of $1000 and one of $800, and was accounted in his day one of the best horse- men in Missouri. He was 61 years of age and resided in Fulton, Mo. For all kinds of weather there is no drink like Jackson's Napa Soda — plain or in a lemonade. WILL NOT SCAR OR BLEMISH. GOMBAULT'S CAUSTIC BALSAM is tbe safest and most effective lotion or blister for ailments c' HORSES and CATTLE and supersedes all cautery or firing. It is prepared exclusively by J. E. Gom- bault, ex-Veterinary Surgeon to the French Government Stud. As a HITMAN REUEDT for Rheu- matism, Spiiiins, Sore Throat, etc., it is Invaluable. Every bottle of Canntle Balsam sold Is "Warranted to grive satisfaction. Price S1.50 per bottle. Sold by druggists, or sent by ex- press, charges paid, with full directions for its use. Send for descriptive circulars, testimo- nials, etc. Address THE LAWfcESCE- WILLIAMS COMPAHT- Cleveland, Ohio. November 21, 1903J ©Ite gveeiiev axib gtipovtsman 0 ROD, GUN AND KENNEL. Conducted by J. X. De WITT. ^BS SS$9 :S§§^ ^^^ ^§^3 PS^3 ^gSSp3^^ Some Things Worth Knowing About Fish Hooks. At a recent meeting of the Anglers' Association of Onondaga, N. Y., George Barnes Wood of Syracuse read a paper on "Fish Hooks," and told some things about them which will be news to many fishermen. Among other things he said: "Primeval man hooked and caught fish by the aid of numerous devices, the most important of which were gorges made of bronze or stone. The latter consisted of pieces of stone about an inch in length with a groove in the middle for a line. One of these gorges, a relic of the stone age, has been discovered in France, and is about 8,000 years old. When swallowed by the fish it turned across the fish's gullet and held it secure. "After stone, bronze was used, and tben bone. The early Indians used bone, thorns, and antlers, and later improvised hooks made from hand-forged nails. "The saying of Amos in the Old Testament estab- lished the fact that fish hooks have been used nearly 2,700 years. He says: 'The days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fish hooks.' (Amos iv., 2.) "It has been stated that hooks of the best quality are made in this country, and that the imported hooks are inferior in temper and durability. The facts are simply reversed. There has been but one factory in the United States that ever made the attempt to compete with the imported hooks, and it gained a fine reputation for turning out hooks which were compared to pin hooks, with the exception of their having a barb. "The reason why Americans do not manufacture as good hooks as those imported is the same as why we cannot make needles. We lack the experience in tempering, and, until recent years, have been unable to make steel to compare with that of England, Ger- many and France. "There are over 200 different sorts of hooks, each having from twenty to thirty sizes, among which mav be mentioned: Eyed, Flatted, Ringed, Tapered, Turndown eye, Knobbed, Spiral eye, Kirby, Limerick, Kendall, Sneck bent, Pennell turndown eye, Cholmondeley-Pennell, Gravitations cod, Double brazed, Double black or japanned, Double braized live bait, Lip books, Mahsen treble, Double reversed Limerick, Round bent sea hooks, Harwich sea hooks, Exeter, Shark, Carlisle, Cincinnati bass, New York trout, New York bass, Periect trout, Perfect bass, Halibut, Mackerel, Dog, Roach, Hake, Mackensle, Baiting hook, Central draught, Indiana bass, Kensey, Blackflsh, Sheepshead, Whiting, Virginia, Chester town, O'Shaughnessr, Aberdeen, Sproat, Bayonet point, Spear point, Hollow point, Needle point, Double, Treble, Quadruple, Double safety pin, Norway, Yankee, Pothook, Weedless, Sockdolager, Automatic, Round bend, Pennsylvania, Salmon, Crystal. "Yankee inventions on fish hooks have been numerous, but little attention has been given to efforts to change the shape. I have examined the United States patent office reports, and find 119 patents were granted on fish hooks from the year ]872 to 1903, an average of about four each year. The banner year was in 1899, there being fourteen patents issued. Nearly all patents have been on the principle of the 'snap-and-catch-'em' order, none of which appeals to the true angler, "The Kirby is the oldest steel hook made in Eng- land. Its name is derived from its inventor, a Mr. Kirby of London. Samuel Allcock of Redditch, Eagland, writes me that he remembers the ap- pearance of the Kirby hook sixty-five years ago. This hook has a curve in the body, is commonly called a bent hook, and does not lie flat on a level surface. "The Limerick follows next in order. It is a straight hook, and lies flat on the level. The bend is more acute and the barb a trifle longer than on the Kirby hook. It was made in Limerick, Ireland; hence its name. "Shortly after it came out a Mr. Phillips of Dublin, Ireland, made a slight alteration of the point. In- stead of a straight point he caused the point to stand out; he also made it not quite bo long, hence the name, 'Dublin Limerick.' His claim was that upon striking the fish it was more sure of hooking him. "The Kendall hook was first made in Kendall, Eng- land, whence its name. It has an almost square bottom, and is bent like the Kirby, the shank being about the same length. "Carlisle hooks were first made at Carlisle, Eng- land. They have a round bend and lie flat. Later they were manufactured at Kirby and given a bend, and were termed 'Carlisle Kirby,' which shape is mostly used in this country and called Carlisle. "Barbless hooks have been used by the Japanese for centuries. They are much used by fish breeders in order to avoid injuring the fish when taken from the water to be stripped of spawn and milt for tbe matchery. "When Seth Green was in charge of the New York state fish hatchery at Caledonia he made the assertion that more fish could be caught and saved by barbless hooks than any other. He gave me a few to try, and taught me how to make them, which was by using the best steel needles. First, we annealed them and then bent them around a form, which was like a Carlisle, only the point was a trifle higher. "I made over a hundred, which were distributed among my angling friends as an experiment. The results were the same. On small trout, which could be quiekly landed, it worked admirably, but for bass, pike, and pickerel it waB a failure, as the reports showed a loss of 6 per cent of fish hooked. "H. Cholmondeley-Pennell of London was formerly inspector of sea fisheries of England. The eyed trout hook was perfected by him in 1885, and, strange to say, it is almost a new hook to the angling fraternity in the United States. "It is used extensively in England, especially for flies, as they are much easier to carry and with little practice are quickly changed from one kind to an- other on the leader,. I consider the draft better than any other kind. The Limerick style combines the three great requisites of penetration, holding power, and flotation, or the general contour of the shank. "Double hooks originated centuries ago. They are said to have been used before the single hook. Many millions of double hooks are now utilized in this country for the manufacture of spoon baits, gangs, and inventions to rep"eaent fish. "More than a century has passed since any attempt has been made to improve the eye. One manufacturer has lately been granted a patent on double inter- changeable hooks. The shank is arraoged like a safety pin. Its advantages are: It can be attached and detached in a second; it can be made in single or treble hook as well. "The sproat hook is undoubtedly one of the best known and moit universally used hooks throughout the United States It has been termed by some the hogback, as it has that appearance when laid on its point. "It has gained a worldwide reputation on account of its admirable form, having a beautiful curve, and its penetrating power is very near correct because the pull is nearly in the direction of tbe point. It also has the advantage of being less liable to break than any other on account of its general construction, together with the size of the wire used. "The wire used in hook making is the best English cast steel, which must be first quality — otherwise it will not temper properly — the gauge or size varying according to the requirements of the hook to be made, "1. The operator takes a part of a coil of wire in his hand and piaces the ends in a gauge, and the cor- rect length being arrived at, he quickly and sharply cuts them into lengths with a large pair of shears. "2. Bearding. A number of wires thus prepared are arranged on a plain surface, with their right- hand ends against an upright. The barb, or beard, is then cut by means of a hollow ground knife, which, being pressed forward and deftly turned by the hand of the workman, opens the barb to the required angle, great care having to be exercised in this opera- tion to avoide cutting too deep or opening too wide, or the barb breaks when used. "3. Filing. The points are now carefully filed. Using a pair of tongs made specially to hold the wire and rapidly turning the same a point is filed on in- stantly, forming either what is termed a hollow, Kirby or Dublin point. All best hooks are filed this way by hand, thus giving to the point three or four knifelike cutting edges, enabling it to penetrate much more quickly than the less expensive needle-pointed hook. "4. Bending. It is now necessary to give the hook its form and for this purpose the workman holds a mold fashioned like the pothook of our copybooks, mounted on a wooden handle. With one deft move- ment the beard is hooked around the shorter end, and a quick turn brings the shank straight with the shank of the mold. "5. By the aid of an ingenious machine or hammer the end of the shank is either ringed, flatted or marked. If intended for salmon or trout flies it is filed to a delicate point, or knobbed. "6. Process six is most important, and is that of the hardening of the hitherto soft steel hook. This is carried on in a specially constructed building, and consists in placing the hooks in a white-heat furnace, watched by an experienced workman, who withdraws them on seeing them attain a certain appearance and plunges them into a vat of oil. This converts the temper of the hitherto soft hook into a highly brittle condition. Mere description cannot do justice to this stage of hook manufacture. "7. Tempering. The hooks are then taken from the oil, mixed with heated sand, and placed in an iron pan over a fire, sand and hooks being kept in con- stant motion. Ever and aDon a hook is picked out and tested, and as soon as onelofc is deemed sufficiently tempered it is passed to one side and another takes its place. "Of course, the experience of the operator dictates the finish of each parcel, and the man is always selected from those of the highest capabilities. The heat required for each size and style of hook varieB, and there is all the difference between a hook too hard or too soft. "In the former case, immediately it is struck against the hard jaw of a fish it breaks, either going at the bend or at the point. Nothing is more irritating to tbe fisherman than to find tbe fish pricked and gone, and the point also minus, and this not discovered pos- sibly till he has hit, and, as he thinks, by some fault of his own, missed the rising fish. "The best hooks are those which are tested and found of perfect temper, and they are, of course, of the best price. ThoBe which, by some mistake or accident or unavoidable chance, are not deemed Al are placed on one side and sold at a considerable re- daction. "8. Scouring. For this purpose the hooks are placed, with water, etc., in oblong barrels, which are kept in motion by steam power from one to two days, thus removing all scale and leaving the hooks ready for the ninth process of polishing. "9. Polishing is performed in two ways. The hooks are placed in an oblong bag, with sawdust, and are rapidly shaken from end to end, until they be- come quite bright. The other way is to place tbem in barrels, moving more or less rapidly round on their bases, inclined at an angle of 85 degreei from the perpendicular. It is found that this inclination has a greater and more certain effect toward the end in view than an upright or horizontal position would have. "10. Consists in the application of various methods of protecting the hooks from the corrosive action of water. Japanning — that is, giving the hooks several coats of a specially prepared black Japan: tinning, or coating them with tin: rust-proofing, browning, bluing, and coloring them red for worm fishing, or blue, green, yellow, etc., for fly dressing. "One factary alone in England turns out an aver- age of 7,000,000 fish hooks a week. "Nearly all the best known hooks are numbered alike, starting with a book which measures about seven-iixteenths inch from the point across to the shank and is called No. 1. From that hooks down to the smallest in common use, No. 15, although one hook is made as small as No. 20, which is three-six- teenths inch. The larger sizes start from No. 1 and run up in naughts to No. 10-0 and even 14-0, the larger sizes being used for salt water fishing. "Cincinnati bass hooks have independent numbers, starting with No. 30, the smallest of which measures one-fourth of an inch, and going up to No. 16, which is thirteen-sisteenths of an inch. No. 24 corresponds with No. 1 in ordinary styles. "The Kinsey is also oddly numbered, ranging from No. 24, the smallest, up to No. 6 the largest. No. ]6 corresponds with No. 1 of the common hooks." Fly-Casters' Banquet. The San Francisco Fly-Casting Club members and guests gathered around the banquet board Tuesday night in good fellowship and congenial reunion. After the menu had been disposed of Chairman Walter D. Mansfield, with appropriate and timely remarks, in- troduced Judge John Hunt. The learned Jurist pre- sented the medals and prizes to the winners in bis usual happy style. The winners of club trophies were: Longdistance casting — Champion class, H. C. Gol- cher; first class, (Jolonel G. C. Edwards; second clase, T. C. Kierulff. Delicacy — Champion class, Colonel Carlos G. Young; first class, T. C. Kierulff; second class, F. M. Haight. Accuracy — Champion class, C. R. Kenniff; first class, T. W. Brotherton ; second class, T. C. Kierulff. Lure casting — C. R. Kenniff. Mr. Kierulff was also awarded the club's annual medal for the best individual general improvement. Secretary T. W. Brotherton was the surprised re- cipient of an elegant watch charm — a diamond studded miniature fishing creel This token was given by his fellow members as an appreciative recognition of the secretary's hard work and effective services for the welfare of the club. James Watt was also presented with a Buitable prize for scores he did not make at the lake during the season, The club executive committee will arrange with John Benn of this city to have an exhibit of his famous flies at the St. Louis Exposition. Mr. Benn received a gold medal for his exhibit at the last Paris Exposition. He ia credited with being one of tbe most expert fly tyera living today. He and bis daughter have done more in this line to develop angling in our trout streams than any other fly makers. Speeches were made during the evening by Alex T. Vogelsarg, Dr. C. W. Hibbard, Dr. W. J. Lane. JameB Watt, F. M. Haight, T. W. Bortherton, Col. Young, H. E. Skinner and others. Dr. Hibbard, during his remarks, incidentally re- ferred to the contemplated legislative procedure in the interest of fish and game prDtection, that was considered and agreed upon at tbe recent meeting of the California Fish and Game Protective Associa- tion. Among the remedial action proposed was mentioned the protection of swans, English snipe, the prohibition of the sale of trout, etc., all of which proposed measures were viewed by the assembly with general accord. At the suggestion of Dr. Lane some action will be instituted to prohibit night fishing. The memory of the late P. J. Tormey was properly honored by a silent toast which was drank standing. W. D. Mansfield presided as toastmaster. Among those present were: Walter D. Mansfield, Hon. John Hunt Jr., Hon. J. H. Seawell, T. W. Brotherton, Col. C. G. Young, Alex T. Vogelsang, A. Muller, W. F- Bogart, E. T. Allen, S. A. Heller, T. C. Kierulff, H. Battu, A. M. Blade, J. H. Mahoney, H. E. Skin- ner, H. B. Sperry, JameB S. Turner, George C. Walker, Walter Genesy, James Watt, Dr. C. W. Hibbard, A. E. Mocker, F. H. Mayer, M. J. Geary, R. A. Smyth, J. X. De Witt, John Butler, Alfred H. Relaing, Clark Burnham, H. G. W. Dinbrelspiel, Ed Everett, A. B. Finch, F. M. Haight, Charlea Huyck, W. E. Stevens. Charles H. Kewell, Dr. F. J. Lane, G. W. Lane, Mr. Dawson, F. H. Reed, E. A. Selfridge. The next meeting of the club will be a jinks instead of a dinner. The annual meeting will take pla< e next January. 10 ®he Qxeebex anh grpxrrtsmtm [November 21, 1903 Malignant Enzootic Anaemia of Kennel Dogs. [Continued from last weak.] Like its corresponding disease ol the human race this verminous anaemia of the dog (more properly known as Dochmiasis) is apparently a truly enzootic disease, since I have never been caUed upon to attend isolated cases of infection beyond one or two cases, which had been comparatively recently sold or other- wise detached from infected kennels. By this I would not be undorBtood as denying the possibility of iso- lated animals contracting the disease in manners other than by direct co-habitation in kennels, since the entire study of the biology of the parasite would indicate the possibility under really favorable condi- tions of such an infection, but the conditions would necessarily be of a nature so rare as to result in a plain improbability of its occurring, a statement which appears to me quite conservative, since I have made many autopsies in the public dog pound of New York City'and in private practice with the single ob- ject of ascertaining, -f possible, to ju9t what extent it might so develop and prevail in dogs other than those which would with propriety be called kennel dogs. These Bpecial examinations I may say have invari- ably shown the absence of the Dochmius Trigona- cephalus with the exception of two examples having been found in the body of a wolf autopsied in the New York Zoological Park, possibly due to the animal having at some time passed through a dog emporium, which oftentimes are notoriously infected. From careful reading of the valuableand somewhat •xtensive literature relative to the prevalence of Dochmiasis of man, both as regards its sporadic occurrence in its home in the tropical countries and in more temperate localities, as Southwestern Europe, notably Austro-Hungary, Northern Italy, Southern France, and even as far north as Belgium, I am more than ever convinced that similarly in my own sphere of canine medicine I need not apprehend its dissemi- nation as a general widespread epidemic among the dogs of the United States, since, like the prevalence of the so-called tunnel-workers' disease among the tunnel laborers in various European tunnels, and notably those engaged in the construction of the St. Gothard, as well as among the laborers of many coal mines and brick fields of middle Europe, the condi- tions of congested quarters, heat, moisture and pos- Bibly enfeebling of the body by absence of a sufficiency of free exercise in the open air and sunshine in the actual presence of positive infection will, of necessity make and keep this disease essentially a kennel dog's disease, or one where continuous aggregation of young animals takes place in the same quarters will be prac- tically the only condition of dogs allowing of the life requirements of these worms favorable to theirassum- ing epidemic manifestations. I regret exceedingly that my personal experience in the medical treatment of dogs suffering from Doch- miasis, which has been quite extensive, has been such as would give me little pleasure to record, or such as warrants me in forming high expectations for the future. Obstinately and extremely unsatisfactory as the disease is to combat in the human adult, where it is found necessary to give as high as one gramme of oleo-resin Aspidium (male shield fern) in capsule and up to a point of fifteen grammes in three hours (most astonishing, yet evidently comparatively safe dosing in man), the bare fact that it is in the dog essentially a diseasa of puppyhood, mostcommonlyragingamong those under ten weeks of age, gives ample reasons for pessimism regarding the existence of agents yet un- discovered, which will in an essential manner combat the disease without first destroying the host's life, »nd that speedily. BMug an organism created unlike the majority of helminths to live at the expense of its host by attack- ing his food, but in a purely leech-like manner, by taking its nourishment through abstraction of the host's blood direct, such agents as santonine, naptha- line, turpentine, etc., have practically no effect upon them, even when given in doses sufficient to produce toxic symptoms. Thymol, as used in man, both as solid and in alco- holic solution with varying success, is extremely un- certain in its action and not without danger even in adult dogs when given in vermicidal doses. The administration of creoline in small doses com- bined with oil I have tried faithiully, and at times thought it did at least have a certain influence for good upon the cases and especially in warding off in- fection in animals born in infected kennels, but greater experience and more intimate knowledge of this worm in its relation to disease in animals and man convinces me of the comparative worthlessness of such treatment, the improvement in such cases having in all probability been due to the greater attention to disinfection of quarters, isolation, etc , a9 always went hand in hand with internal medica- tion. I am quite certain, however, that extract of male shield fern when administered in large doses in the stronger and older puppies did remove a certain num- ber of parasites, and in some few cases helped to fight out a bare existence for the patient, but the painful fact Btill remains that in extremely young animals near the weaning age (and that is plainly the susceo- tible age) medication of any kind, which entirely re- moves the appetite, is in itielf very likely to rapidly reduce them to an absolutely hopeless state of weak- ness, even though no disease whatever be present. This being true, our hope in the future for the find- ing of some remedial agent capable of working the certain destruction of these worms in puppies appears to me Blight and should be in the direction of finding preventive measures or a disarming of the foe by so constructing and managing kennels as to make the possibility Blight indeed of itB survival outside the animal's body. This will come from attaining a clear knowledge of its life's history, which will at least im- press upon the mind the important fact that this worm has no outside host, and that experimental re- search has conclusively proven that infection of ani- mals can only be accomplished by the ingestion of eggs which have already made a certain well-defined cycle of segmentation outside the animal body. For example, a puppy, ever so susceptible, fed quantities of these worms as such would in nowise suffer infec- tion. The egg, to become capable of gaining lodg- ment and development in the host's intestine, must itself without exception undergo development after it leaveB the worm's ova-ductup to a point recognized as the larval stage. A certain part of this segmenta- tion takes place after the extrusion of the egg during its sojourn in the host's intestine, but the cycle is in- variably completed in the presence of suitable heat and moisture outside the animal body altogether. This outside segmentation period furnishes the key to our attack and suggests that we should arrange our plans as to make conditions in infected kennels (and others also) as unsuitable as possible to this prime requirement of segmentation and prevent it if possible. The period in question varies quite perceptibly ac- cording to temperature, moisture and chemical com- position of the media in which it lies, all of which naturally fix the term of life of the egg, those of Dachmius DuodenaliBOf man having been successfully retained through nearly one year when placed under especially favorable conditions. The early period at which these worms are occasionally found in nursing puppies frequently gives rise to the strong impression among dog owners of experience that infection must be present at birth, a supposition, of course, quite ineorrect since the time required for the development of the adult worm from the adequately segmented egg after it reached the digestive tract of the host is approximately established at twenty to twenty-five dayB, as computed from the appearance of eggs from the resultant worms in the excreta, but beyond reasonable doubt well developed, although sexually immature worms may be, and probably are, present in the canal giving rise to symptoms several days earlier. Personally, I cannot recall any autopsies revealing this worm in puppies under three weeks of age. The prevailing idea, especially among the wealthy, that artificial heat in abundance and much washing of kennels is the secret of rearing puppies is, in this case, closely associated with the numerous epidemics which it has been my privilege to observe during the past few years in this vicinity. Tropical conditions are thereby set up and in- denfinitely maintained in a temperate zone and unless great measures of cleanliness and hygiene be observed this disease will always remain a source of dread. Many of such kennelB boast of a system of daily disinfection consisting of a light sprinkling by a watering can of a solution of some of the high-6melling nostrums upon the market, whose disinfecting unit is oftentimes extremely low, and whose alkaline reaction is not beyond reasonable suspicion as being actually advantageous to the necessary segmentation of the ova of Dochmius Trigonacephalus outside the body. In the light of present knowledge and my personal experience, I am firmly convinced that the greatest insurance which can be taken against this terrible disease in such kennels as must of necessity be artifi- cially heated, lies in the construction of good solid concrete bottoms (and sides when possible) to all the living spaces and outside runs. Wooden sheeting, while comparatively inexpensive and more or less satisfactory in the absence of disease, are impossibilities where adequate and efficient steri- lization becomes imberative, and as regards the par- ticular disease in question affords the best possible opportunity for infected material to be hidden away beyond a possibility of its destruction. It is not more reasonable to demand that young dogs which are closely confined in kennels should have a circumscribed patch of bare polluted earth to dig in and lie upon than to maintain that confined yards of prisons a»d schools should be of dirt instead of concrete, in the interest of the health and physical development of the over-crowded inmates. Two laws do not exist whereby two contaminated inclosures kept for the higher and lower animals re- spectively can on the one hand be conducive to dis- ease and death and upon the other conducive to health and development, as maintained by many who claim great experience in rearing dogs. Small earth-bottomed yards as ordinarily adopted by kennels are universally suspicious, and in the case of this and all other forms of intestinal worms are deadly in their tendencies. Dogs, like other domesticated animals, are always more easily maintained under conditions of cleanliness and unless the outside space be large enough to par- take of the nature of a "run 'or paddock the first cost of concreting the yards would be more than re- paid in the first two years in the safety attained from various diseases, not to mention the great advantages over the old Bystem in preventing and combating this particular kennel-wrecking disease. Close study of this disease in man has evolved the question as to whether symptoms observed were wholly due to local irritation and anaemia, or in part to the co-existence of a state of toxaemia due to the absorption by the host of specific disease-producing products thrown off from these worms. While strong arguments have been adduced to sup- port this contention in human medicine it cannot up to the present be stated as conclusively proven, but the constancy of psychic disturbances invariably marked in the progress of the disease in dogs as evi- denced by the drowsiness and apathetic expression and movements of the eyes, sluggish bowel and coma- tose condition would certainly indicate the value of further study along thiB line in canine medicine. My study of these worms in dogs, especially thoBe of auult age, fully substantiate the peculiar facts noted in human medicine regarding the changes in relative numbers of the sex in prolonged or recover- ing cases. In adult or aged dogs which have been autopsized b5 me I have by actual count established the number approximately ten males to saven females as against two and one-half females to one male in the same dis- ease in puppies. That this change of ratio is due to increase of the male, as has been ratherstronly contended by authoi- ities upon Egyptian Chlorosis, I am doubtful, since the microscopical examination of females from such cases in my practice has invariably shown their bodies to contain exceedingly few ova as compared with cases in the young animal, a fact inclined to influence me toward the belief that the known resistance of the older animals consists in furnishing the parasite a media or subsistence unsuitable for the life and fruition of the female. Upon this line of deduction I can, in a manrer, account for the apparent benefits derived at times in the administration of such agents as glycerine and carbolic acid, creoline, etc., in small doses, over lengthened periods, by attributing to them the power of reducing the media to such as will slowly tend to induce sterility in the female organism. In summing up, I would put my faith in building kennels and yards which would make the perfect ster- ilization of the same easily and perfectly possible and test every prospective brood bitch separately with large doses of male fern extract, observing the excreta for worms or their eggs long before they give birth to young in such a kennel and proceed in all essential manner as prudent corporations in middle Europe now proceed in the employment of men in mines, tunnels, brick yards, etc., wbere experience has amply taught them the necessity of keeping out infection and regulating their hygienic system, and above all other things the effort to make it practically impos- sible for the eggs of this parasite to undergo the seg- mentation necessary to contaminate and endanger the surroundings of their employees. Ohio Field Trials Club. Three stakes were on the card for the Ohio Field Trials Club trials at Washington Court House, Ohio. Major J. M. Taylor and Mr. George A. Hasweil acted as judges. The Members' Stake had ten starters, the class was up to the average of dogs run in this event. The Derby was run with twelve dogi. Avent and Duryea's entries seemed to be the class of the stake, ltaska, a snapgy, merry going young bitch, was p'.aced first. Hickory, second, distinguished himself by doing some clever point work. Algonquin, third, was in line for first place in the opinion of some Of these in attendance. Sixteen dogs started in the All-Age, which was be- gun on Friday, the weather conditions being better than on the preceding day. Tony Man, first, showed his mettle in the second series, being in fact the strongest, merriest worker in the stake. Alford's John, second, was the only Pointer placed in the stake. Sport's Count Danstone and Iroquois, equal third, are both stylish, classy dogs. The order of running and summaries follow: Washington Court House, Ohio, November 2. — Members' Stake. I Ripstone's Jingo. Pointer dog (Ripstone-Jingo's Lady). C. T. Phillips, owner; Tide Huston, handler. With Lemons, English Setter bitch (Freckle D-Baby Gladstone). Harry L. Brown, owner and handler. J. C. Pointer dog (Yonng Jingo-Eve). F. R. Huntington, owner; Tide Huston, handler. With Cincinnatus' Star, English Setter (Cincinnatus' Pride-Florence Rodfield). James McManany, owner; H. L. Brown, handler. Emma May, English Setter bitch (Joe Cummins-Emma T). C. B. Wolf, owner; Tide Huston, handler. With Maggie Mitchell. English Setter bitch (Ortiz Lad-Emma Lelapfl). E S Fishback. owner; H. L. Brown, handler. Tip Fauster, lemon and white Pointer bitch (Jingo's Pearl-Nellie Fauster). Dr. J. G. F. Holston. owner; Tide Huston, handler. With Judge Hughes, English Setter (Joe Onward-Grace Lelaps). E. S. Fishback, owner. Tide Huiton, handler. Jingle Coin. Pointer (Jingo's Coin-Dottle Rip Rap). E. S. Fish- back, owner. Run with a pick-up. BESULT First, Tip Fauster; second, Lemons; third. Ripstone's Jingo; fourth, J. C. Washington C. H., O., November 4, 1903.— Ohio Field Trial Club's Derby, for Pointers and Setters whelped on and after January 1, 1902. Purse $500; §250 to first, $150 to second, $100 to third. Twelve starters (8 English Setters and 4 Pointers). I Queen Mab U, liver and white Pointer bitch (King Cyrano-Queen Mab). C. B. Wolf, owner; Tide Huston, handler. With ltaska, black, white and tan English Setter bitch (Prime Minis- ter-Youma). Avent & Duryea, owners; J. M. Avent, handler. Lakeneld Pride, orange and white English Setter dog iRodfleld's Pride-Phoebe Whitestone). Lakeneld Kennels, owners; John C. Gude, handler. With Robert Rodfield, black, white and tan English Setter dog (Rod- field-Lady Danstone). J. H. Johnson, owner; E. T. Munger, handler. Queen Mab's Lad, liver and white Pointer dog (King Cyrano- Queen Mab). C. B. Wolf, owner; Tide Huston, handler. With" Shawnee, black, white and tan English Setter bitch (Tony Boy- Cado). Avent & Duryea, owners; J. M. Avent, handler. Princess Mab, liver and white Pointer bitch (King Cyrano-Queen Mab). Hanrahan & Howard, owners; Tide Huston, handler. With Algonquin, black, white and tan English Setter dog (Prime Minister-Clip Wind'em). Avent & Duryea, owners; J. M. Avent. handler. Cyrano Lady, liver and white Pointer bitch (King Cyrano-Queen Mab). Tide Huston, handler. With Chippewa, black, -white and tan English Setter dog (Tony Boy- Lady Rachel). Avent & Duryea, owners; J. M. Avent, handler. H'Ckory, black, white and tan English Setter dog (Mohawk- Bonnie Lit). Avent & Duryea, owners: J. M. Avent, handler. With Lemons, lemon and white English Setter bitch (Freckles D-Baby Gladstone) Harry L. Brown, owner and handler. November 21 1903J ©tte greetrex* cmD ^povXstxxcm 11 is that at no si ow can one get a representative gather- ing of Pacific Coast dogs. Then we have the friction which must always exist where there is more than one head. We find dates clashing, and to he brief- in this fight for supremacy, the dog, whose care is the chief duty of all kennel associations, is quite for- gotten. . . Can nothing he done to remedy this? Is it lmpos- ., sible to restore harmony and unity to the Coast. Washington C H ., Novemoer D, «u. ™ ^ Canadian Kennel Club is too far away from the S^e'Pu^e$5S?\ll°"t.°„^t',OFni?kb^ Setters,? Coast to be in the running The same argument Shawnee with Lakefield Pride. Itaska Tlrh Princess Mab. Algonquin with Lemons. Hickory with Robert Roafiela. Shawnee with Lemons. Algonquin with Chippewa. RESULT First, Itaska; second, Hickory; third, Algonquin. C. H., November 6, 1903.— All-Age 0* $250 — S100 to third. Sixteen starteis'; (9 English Setters, Pointers). - _.,.=„ jc black and white Pointer dog (Young Jtngo-Eve). F. K. Huntington, owner; Tide Huston, handler. Dolly Manners, black, white and "in English Sitter bitch (Tony Bov-QuidaF). W.H.Beazell. owner and handler. Alford^ John, liver and white Pointer dog (Dave Kent-dead.). Foust & Dickey, owners; J. T^Jones, handler. Troouois black white and tan English Setter dog (Tony Boy- Cado) ' Tven't & Duryea, owners: J. M. Avent, handler Lakefield Rod. black, white and tan English Setter dog (Rodfleld- Kate N). Lakefield Kennels, owners; John C. Gude, handler. Duchess of Honor Bright, Wac^'white and tan English Setter bitch (Lady's Count GladstODe-Jessie Rodfleld). V\ . c. ue Camps, owner; Harry Brown, handler. ■snort's Count Danstone, black, white and tan English Setter dog S!Tcoum DMStOTe-lpoVt-s Maid). William Brett, owner; J. T. Jones, handler. w[th -.., M.n black white and tan English Setter dog (Tony Boy- May Blue). Avent & Duryea, owners; J- M. Avent, handler. black and white Pointer bitch (You Thompson, owner; Tide Huston, handler. I "Gladstone IV )• . owner; J. Mohawk, black, white and tan English Selter_doB (Tow Bos; Countess Meteor) handler. Blythe Belle, lemon and while" Pointer bitch (Drillmaster Indiana). W. H. Baazell, owner and handler. he Fair Oak Duck Farm, the proprietor of which, offers to sell sportsmen live mallard and teal decoy ducks that are trained, so he claims, to call on sight TRADE NOTES. would applv to the A K. C were it not that it has on the Coast an Advisory Board, to which it has dele- gated powers for the government of the Coast and to which it would doubtless grant such additional powers as might be found necessary for the most efficient o-overnment of the Coast. We have there- fore the" P. K. L. and the A. K. C. left Either is The following data, interesting to trap shooters, was forwarded to Mr. E. E. Drake, by Mr. Frank Howe: At the Washington State blue rock 6hoot, 0. M. C. shells won second, third, fourth and fifth high "aver- age, with a number of others using U. Si. C. being closely bunched with the top men. The Hunter Arms Company trophy cup won with U. M. C. shells, by Mr. Del Cooper of Whatcom, Wash. The Post Intelligencer medal was won with U. M. C. shells, by Fred McBroom of Spokane, Wash. The Hunter capable of governing theCoast — the question is which Arms Company medal was won by Mr. F. W.Brown Even Mack and white Pointer bitch (Young Jingo-Eve). James Thompson, owner; Tide Huston, handler. Avent & Duryea, owners; With J. M. Avent, TinFauster liver and white Pointer bitch (Jingo's Pearl-Nellie «er, liver amy n0iston, owner; Tide Huston, ■— TOtth (Tony Boy Faaster). Dr. J. G. F. Holston, owner; Tide Huston, handler Red Jacket black, white and tan English Setter doL Cado) Avent & Duryea, owners: J. M. Avent, handler. Lord Grousemoor. black and white Pointer dog (Rlpstone-Jmgo's Lady). O. B. Brown, owner; J. T. Jones, handler. Dipstone's Jingo, black and white Pointer dog (Ripstone-Jingo's Lady) C. T Phillips, owner; Tide Huston, handler. II Iroquois with Sport's Count Danstone. Alford's John with Tip Fauster. Tony Man with Mohawk Dolly Manners with Peach Blossom. RESULT First, Tony Man; second, AUord's John; equal third, Sport's Coun Danstone, Iroquois. ^ An Open Letter. is better for Pacific Coast dogdom We have never regarded the P. K L. as a perma- nent affair, which accounts for the fact that it has no headquarters, issues no stud book, etc. If there- fore the intention of the original members of the League was that it was to be merely a temporary affair to urge upon the A. K. C. the necessity of cranting to the Coast a form of local government, and if the A. K- C. has granted or is willing to grant such a form of local government board, then it appears that the P. K. L. has accomplished its mission and there is no further reason for its exist- ence. „. . On the other hand different conditions may have arisen and it may he best for the Coast that the Pacific Kennel League be made a permanent body, with a stud book, offices, etc. If this is so then surely the burden of proof lies with the officers of the league. I have no cut and dried plan to lay before the fanciers of the Coast but I would earnestly ask them to consider the matter and urge upon their respective clubs the necessity of taking some action. Let us combine and do away with this triple-headed govern of Harrington, Wash., using a Remington gun. Sec- ond place and money was won by Mr. J. T. Hillis of Vancouver, B. C, using U. M. C. shells and a Rem- ington gun. Out of fifty-two contestants, thixty-four used U. M. C. Acme, Magic and Majestic shells. In the live bird event, The Spokesman's Review medal, live bird championship trophy for the state of Washington, was won by Mr. Jas. McLaughlin, of Seattle, Wash., on a clean score of twenty straight kills, using C. M. C. shells. Second place and first money was won by shooters UBing U. M. C. shells, three in number tied. Third place and second money was tied for by eight shooters, seven of this number using the U. M. C. shells, and four Remington guns. Fourth place and third money was tied for by four shooters, all using U. M. C. sheils. The miss and out contest was won with U. M. C. shells. Out of seventeen contestants who shot in the monev sixteen used IT. M. C. shells. At the Nez Perce County Sportsman's Association Tournament the Hunter Arms Company gold medal was won by Mr. R. L. Pennell, of Lewiston, Ida., using ST. M. C. shells. The first high average was ment" which is slowly but surely killing the interest won by Mr. J. Forbes of Spokane, Wash., using TJ. in dog shows on this Coast. Can we not have a meet- fr[. C. shells. The first 103 birds Mr. Forbes, shot at, ino- between the opposing factions and talk the matter he broke 101, using Magic (U. M. C.) shells. The over? Out of some such meeting much good might come; in any case no harm can result, anything is better than this policy of "masterly inactivity" which seems to have become chronic in P. K. L. affairs Yours obediently, San Jose, Oct. 21, 1903. NORMAN J. STEWART. W. S. Bell, of Pittsburg, Pa., willin all probability officiate as judge during the running of the Pacific Coast Field Trials. The selection is a good one, Mr. Bell was one of the judges at the recent Monongahela trials, he is a well known and popular Eastern field During the spring and summer of 1898 great dissat- fantirm was shown by the clubs on the Coast owing trial devotee, (action was suowu uj ™ e -it-.,.!-. for the All-Age stake close on December the change in the classification, or rules, as we ^nt- to - called it, by the American Kennel Club. In less than a ye,ar three different classifications had been tried. The one eventually decided on by the A. K. C. was not satisfactory to any of its members on the Coast. During the San Francisco Show of that year a mass meeting of fanciers was held to protest against the classification then in force, and to request the A. K. C. to allow the Coast to return to what was then known as the "Old Rules." Other meetings were held, but without iresult, and at last on September 28 1898, the delegates from the different Pacific Coast clubs met in San Francisco and the Pacific Kennel .League was formed. While it might appear from this that the P. K. L. was formed simply on a question of classification, it waa due perhaps more to the refusal of the A. K. C. to listen to the advice of the Coast clubs. We felt that our proposals had not been merely rejected but that they had never been considered. During the five years in which the league has been in existence much has happened. The very classification which the A. K. C. tried to force on the Coast, the Coast has deliberately chosen as its own. Of course the condi- tions existing now are not the same as those of 1898. We do not say the league was wrong to refuse in 1898 what it afterwards adopted in 1901, but it is interesting to note that the Coast eventually followed the advice of the A. K. C. in the matter of a classification. A still greater change, however, is to be found in the treatment of the Coast by the A. K. C. The Pacific Advisory Board, which previous to the formation of the league, had practically no powers to do anything which any individual or club could not have done, has been re-organized. A form of local government has been given it, not by any means bo complete as one could wish, but still a big step in the right direction. No one, however prejudiced, but must realize the good work the P. K. L. has done during its short career. It has accomplished all its promoters ever expected of it. Were the league to go out of existence to-morrow there is no one connected with it who can- not look back with pleasure and gratification at the good work done by the league. It is questionable, however, if the present form of government is the best which we can devise. . We have at present three bodies all endeavoring to rule the Coast and trying to prove that its peculiar form of government is the best. In the north we have the Canadian Kennel Club, in the south the American Kennel Club, and edged in between those two powerful national associations, we have the Pacific Kennel League. Such a state os affairscannot be but injurious to the Pacific Coast kennel interests. Canada does not recognize the A. K. C. wins and the P K L does not recognize A. K. C. wins while, to make matters worse, the A K. C. does not recognize the wins of either of the other associations. This means that on the whole of the great Pacific Coast there is not one single show whose wins are loth. Entries for the Pacific Coast Collie and Old English Sheep Dog Club show in December will close Monday, November 23d at 10 P. M. Entries mailed on or be- fore that day will be accepted. From present indications the number of dcgs benched will be a very creditable showing. Local dogs will be well represented, the outside entry will se">y load^ s^ also be a good one. Mr. E. C. Plume left this week intending to locate permanently in Chicago. A few Cocker Spaniels re- maining in Plumeria Kennels' string are now m charge of Tom Blight. The storm, this week, will in all probability spoil, for the sportsmen who shoot over the marsh ponds and sloughs, the opportunity for duck shooting to- morrow with any degree of much success. All of the ducks, save the deep water birds, canvasback, blue bills and a few other varieties, it is safe to say, are now enjoying fresh green food and "puddling" in the ponds and muck holes to their heart's content. If the stormy weather continues to-morrow bay shore shooting in many places should be excellent for the "cans" and blue bills will take flight inland, seek- ing refuge in sheltered sloughs and creeks. An in- coming tide in the morning ought to make the shoot- ing good during the whole forenoon. One stormy day this week, two market hunters shot 100 canvas- hack on the bay shore, off the southeast end of Tubbs island. second high average was won by Mr. Frank Stephens of Pomeroy, Wash , and Mr. T."B. Ware of Spokane, Wash.; both using TJ. M. C. shell3. The third high average was won by Mr. P. -j . Holohan .of Wallace, Ida., and Mr. S. O. Tannahill of Ilo, Ida.; both .dsing TJ. M. C. shells. The fifth average was also won with TJ. M. C. shells, by Mr. L. A. Smith, Wardner',' Ida. Out of thirty-eight shooters contesting in" the differ- ent events, thirty-two used TJ. M. C. Magic,. Acme and Majestic sheils. The following is alist of the shooteis , who attended the recent Nee Perce County Sportsmen's Association shoot at Lewiston, together with guns, shells, powders and loads used, averages, etc; T. B. Ware, Spokane, Wash , Smith, Magic, Dupont 3'A. l)j 7, hand load. A. J. Winters, Portland, Ore., Pump, Leader, Infallible 34, IX 7)£, Selbv load. C. M. Kopp, Kendrick, Ida., Pump, Leader, Infallible 21. 1 . 7)4, Selby load. R C. West, Moscow, Ida., Pump, Magic, Dupont 3, l'j 7)4, self load. Wm Hunter, Kendrick, Ida. Ithaca, Leader, Dupont 3X, IX 7)4, Wash., Smith, Magic, Dupont 3', ane. Ware Bros, hand load. L. M. Knettle, Pomeroy, Wash.. Parker, Magic, Dupont 91,, IX 7)4, Ware Bros. load. Peter Holohan. Wallace, Ida., Pump, Magic, Dupont 3X, 1 >i 7 ' - . Ware Bros, hand load. P Frazier, Lewiston, Ida , Lefevre, Magio, Dupont 3°, 1U 754, Selby load. C.B.Green. Moscow, Ida.. Smith, Magic, Dupont 3>s, LX 7)4, Ware Bros, load J. J. Hamley, Kendrick, Ida., Pump, Magio; Dupont 3;i, IX 7)4, Ware Bros. load. P. T.Lomax, Lewiston, Ida., Pump, Magic, Dupont 3, P. 7)4, Selbv load. S. O. Tannahill, Ho, Ida , Pump, Magi., Dupont 3X. l?i-. (ft self load. A. J. Turner, Grangeville, Ida., Lefevre, Leader, Dupon 7)4, Selby load. J. S. Jent, Lewiston, Ida., Pump, Repeater, Dupont 31, , I Selby load. - S. P. Callison, Kendrick, Ida.. Pump. Magic, Dupont 3-i, 1), •'.., self load. Wm. Porter, Clarkston, Ida , Parker, Acme, Infallible -21, Selby load C. Cole, Culdesac, Ida., Lefevre. Magic, Hazard 3U, IX 7)4, Selby load. H. Cole, Lewiston. Ida.. Lefevre, Magic, Hazard 3X,- IH 7)4, Selbv load F. C- Stephens. Pomeroy, Wash., Pump, Magic, Dupont 3)4, IX 7)4, Ware Bros. load. "Hugh France, Wardner, Ida., Pump, Magic, Dupont3'i, Pi 7)4, Ware Bros. load. - _ C E.Butler, Lewiston, Ida, Lefevre, Magic Dupont 3!: The Spooney Gun Club members had the best hags self load. ' „,. o_. v w - t. „.•••• i, shot near Mt. Eden or Alvarado last Sunday. Re- J. W.Penfield, Spokane, Wash, Smi.h, Mag.c, Dupont .. suits generally were nil. J. Maynard, P. McRae and ' =^ F -Browni Harrington, Wash., Remington. Magic. Dupont F Shnlt? p-ot but six ducks between them. 31,, \XA ~>2, Ware Bros load. E DSr Clyde?Payne,8F. Surryhne, Con Roman, C A. s_ESicp„naid. Harrington, Wash , Smith. Magic, Dupon. i Bennett, Dr. Sylvester, Dr. Parent, Dr. Gere and W. ' 1L.'A. smith, Wardner A. Haunt all made good bags at the Empire preserve selby load, on Elkhorn slough Ida., Pump, Magio, Dupont 3, 1 ! Lewiston, Ida., Pump, Majestic, Dupont 8, IX M. O. Feudner, Geo Story and Bruce Bonney got 134 birds between them on the Stewart pond on Sunday. Striped bass anglers have landed a number of good fish recentlv from San Antonio creek. Lake Merritt bass fishing has recently been better than usual. Live decoys are in use to but a limited extent by Coast duck hunters. In the East and Central West the use of live trained ducks is in vogue to quite an extent. Among our classified advertisements this week on page 15 will be found the announcement of shooting. _ recognized over the whole Coast. The result of this and try a mail order Duck and Quail Outfits. The demand at Skinner's keeps up for sportsmen's outfits, ammunition and guns. A large and new stock of goods has been added to fill the demand for hunting suits, rubber boon and hunters' footwear; canvas and folding wooden decoys, gun cases and a new design of leather-covered shell boxes. Peters Factory Loaded Shells are unequaled. Skinner's place Is m Market street You can get anything there you need for duck or quail Send for a catalogue, If you haven't the time to come, Edwin Leland 7 Robert1 Smith. Lewiston, Ida., Lefevre, Magio, Dupont 7)4, Butler hand load *_". ■ F. N. Shepard, Spokane, Wash., Lefevre, Magic, Dupont i ,1 1 '"'c.^'lfa 'Fond, Asotin, Wash., Greener, Majestic, Dupont 3, IX 7''c.SMlbDay! Koaskla, Ida., Pomp. Majestic. DupoUt 3! , IX 7!j, SlRbLl0pennell. Lewiston, Ida , Parker. Magic. Dupon' ' 7' WSlURober1tson. San Francisco. Cal., Smith, U. M C. and Win- chester Shells. Infallible 28. IX 8, Selby load. R C. Reed, San Francisco, Cal., Smith. U. M. C. and Winchester ShelK all powders. Selby load. M M.Godman, Dayton, Wash., Pump, Magic, Dupont J7, 1!< . ;. WHrecBRiggsaLewiston, Ida., New Erie, Majestic. Dupoc • ?' A SS 'Thu°rber, Lewiston. Ida., Smith, Repeater. Dupont ''Frank Howe.' Portland, Ore , Remington. Wagfj. AraR_and Ma- jestic Dupont. Infallible and Ball.- ;. Selby loads! C. P. W. loads. Averages out of 550 targets shot at: J. Forbes J StepS «9? T. B. ware ,7,..P . I Holohan ITS S. O. Tannnh.ll Sw 11 q jent iT4 ,\ J. Winters -TH. L» A..Smltp«5 Sons— Remington S, Smith S. Itn-.ca 1, Parker 3. Wll c 15 New Erie 1. Greener 1, Lefevre". Shells-Macic-^ Majestic :. Leader 0, Acme o. Rej Powders-Dupont 33, Infallible 6, Hazard 3, Ballistic is m\x& ^veeitev anb gtpjortematt [NOVEMBKK 21, 1903 HE FARM. Vt.5 Consignment of Beef Cattle Shipped from Illinois to England. Mnch attention was attracted to a re- cent shipment of 400 head of beef cattle from Clav county, Illinois. The rattle went by epecia1 train of twenty-sis cars to New York, and thence by steamer to Liverpool, where soon afterward they were sent to London and Berved to the inhabitants of the world's metropolis. This event occasioned much surprise, and caused considerable favorable comment among stockmen on the possibilities of cattle raising in the Mississippi valley, and especially so near the great market centers. These steers were magnificent speci- mens of their kind, and, in fact, every animal was fit for entry at a prize live stock show. Mammoth, sleek, docile animals, whose weight averaged more than 1,600 pounds, they were well en- titled to be called prize steers, and it is little cause for wonder that they excited the admiration of the Englishmen who received them at the end of toe long jou.ney. In the lot were many whose weight reached a ton, and the largest, a Here- ford giant, tipped the beam on the scales at 2,450 pounds. Hereford, Shorthorns, and black Polled Angus predominate in the breeds selected for the special mar- kets, and each animal must be as nearly perfect as is possible in order to be classed *B fit for inspection by the buyer's repre- sentative, who scrutinizes every point that would, in any way. qualify a beef foT the most exclusive market in the world. These beef cattle brought upward of $100 each, and the shipment represented a total valuation of nearly $45,000. When prepared for sale in the London maikets the meat sold at a price seemingly so high that none but a Crtosus could affjid this luxury of the best grade of meat pro- duced in America. An average of four years is required to fit these animals for the high grade mar- kets, and two years steady feeding will put them in condition ready for shipment. The selection of a grade of cattle known as "feeders" requires an expert whose knowledge of an animal will tnable him at sight to judge whether or not it has the qualifications, which combined with two years' growth and feed will result in the making of an ideal fat steer. The enormous expense connected with the production of such live stock can only be justified by the fancy prices they bring in the marketB when sold. Good grass pasture with an abundance of water and plenty of corn are the essen- tials which bring about the desired re Bulta. The entire profit of the business, however, does not come from the cattle sold. Hogs and sheep in large numbers are kept on the same farms and upon the utilization, in many ways, oi what might be counted as of no value, depends juBt where the profit and loss accounts are adjusted. In many communities the growing oi live stock has supplanted the idea of general farming, and, as a rule, in these localities prosperity is apparent. The re- quirements of the markets as to the grade of cattle wanted have set a new pace for the growers, and they are accordingly meeting these demands. The live-stock industry has within the last decade enjoyed a revival, and there are but few farmers in any section of the country who cannot point to their cattle and say that department of the farm has ■■ 'aid well. The impetus given to cattle raising in localities outside of the great live-stock districts of the West is the re- sult of a change of conditions which will 'ause the average farmer to look with -.neouragement upon this important in- a | dustry. Tbie change of conditionB has ■?r§} resulted in material benefit to the agri- \Sj culturalist who owns but an average-sized Wi farm in the section where general farm- f^» ing is the principle avocation. Perhaps the chief reason assigned for the shifting of the business is the occupa- tion of the large areas of grazing lands in the West by bona fide settlers who have converted the public domain, so long held by the cattlemen, into farms and homes. These vast areas of public lands have at last been absorbed by immigration from the Eastern states, and the question of range is becoming a serious one for the cattle kings who have bo long held un- limited sway and sent their product to the markets at a cost of production so low that the grower in the EaEtern states was unable to meet such competition. These changes promise an equalization of the industry, as is evidenced by the increase in the number of cattle in the distinctly agricultural districts, and such shipments of export cattle as have but recently been made from the territory contiguous to St. Louis tend to bear out the belief that the future promises much for the growers of fine cattle in the Mississippi valley. The strides toward development in the raising of fine cattle have been marvelous. The fat-stock shows draw great crowds, and at the annual state fairs the stock departments attract as much attention from the visitors who make their pilgrim- ages each year as any exhibit offered to the public. These Bplendid bovine speci- mens which bo pleased the eye of the critical buyers and tickled the palate of the epicures across the water were the result of the development of the industry as attained by years of patient effort by men who had ultimate faith in the future of the business.— Inter-Ocean. Some Fine Cattle. Cattle Poisoned on the Plains. Drinking Water for Swine. We find little recorded on this subject Bays Prof. W. A. Henry, possibly because the matter is not considered of importance bv rnanv. In a feeding trial bv the writer at the Wisconsin station a group of ten pigs divided into two lots of five each, one lot getting barley meal and the other cornmeal, was fed for a period of eight weeks, with the results given below. The five fed on barley averaged 208 pounds at beginning of test, ate 2882 pounds of grain, gained 601 pounds in weight, consumed 9056 pounds of water, and required 471 pounds of grain for 100 pounds of gain For every 100 pounds of food eaten they drank 320 pounds of water. The five fed on cornmeal averaged 209 pounds in weight at the beginning of the test, ate 3100 pounds of grain, gained 713 pounds in weight, drank 6620 pounds o water and used 435 pounds of food in making 100 pounds of gain. For every 100 pounds of feed eaten they drank 213 pounds of water, or 107 pounds less than those fed on barley. The weight of water reported includes that required for soaking the meal and also that drank from a second trough. It will be seen that the pigs fed on cornmeal consumed about two pounds of water, and the barley fed over three pounds, for each pound of meal eaten. The pigs getting cornmeal consumed over 900 pounds of water, and the barley fed pigs 1500 pounds, for each 100 pounds of gain in live weight. Pigs fed on corn- meal appear to require less water than when on other feeds. IWoodUtnd Mail, Nov. 14th. j Henry Eakle Jr., returned yes from Iowa and Missouri where he to take in the great Btock show at Kansas City and also to purchase some fine Btock for his ranch in Yolo county. He left on October loth and reportB having had a very enjoyable and a very profitable trip. He brought back with bim some fine Btock consisting of 5 head of Durham cattle, 12 head of Shropshire sheep, and 13 head of Duroc Jersey hogs, a boar, sow and family of 11 pigs. Mr. Eakle now has some of the finest stock in Yolo county. His new bull, a thoroughbred Cruickshank, is no doubt the finest in Yolo county. The Breeder's Gazette published at Chicago published the following regarding the stock that Mr. Eakle has just landed in Yoio county : Charles C. Norton, Corning, la., writes: We were recently favored with a visit from H. P. Eakle, Woodland, Cal., who a building up a choice herd of Shorthorns in that far awav State. Verily his cattle should be good ones, as such land as they will tread there is selling for from $165 to $200 per acre. Mr. Eakle haa selected from our herd the fine red bull Saturn, calved in October, 1901, by imp. Bapton Admiral, out of a pure Cruickshank cow Soveriegn, of the Secret family, by imp. Salamis. He also takes the choice red Cruickshank Brampton Rose heifer Brampton Spray, by Bapton Admiral out of Brampton Lilly, by imp. Salami*, and the very sweet white heifer Blissful by imp. Scottish Beau out of Blytheeome 23d. a Mar-bred Butterfly by Spicy Robin. As will be seen by the breeding of this trio is most excellent, and the quality is such as to warrant one in expecting that they will, with proper care, give trouble to competitors in the show rings, as well as make profitable animals in the herd. The heifers are bred and supposed to be in calf to Banker's Victor, which is proving a rare good getter. Mr. Eakle also takes with him several fine Duroc-Jersey pigs from the choice herd of Hon. Thomas L. Maxwell, and a dozen selected Shropshire ewes from the fleck of Mr. Miller, also of Iowa." The grazing interests of the great plains . . are considerably exercised over their . I heavv losses this year due to the eating of went I., . : . . . " , poisoned weeds by their grazing stock. Hundreds of cattle and sheep have fallen victims to these dangerous weedE, and the matter has become bo Berious that the Agricultural Department has inaugurated a Bpecial investigation with the hope of affording a greater degree of safety to the stock growerB of the far WeBt. One of the most widely distributed of these poisonous plants is the loco weed a small pea-like vine, six to twelve inches high, with conspicuous white or cream colored flowers. It growB from a thick, woody, persistent root. It is found mainly along dry, rocky ridges or gravel plains, but exhibits great capacity for growing in nearly every kind of Boil. The only means of extermination at present known is digging up the plant by the roots. It will be the aim of Professor Chestnut, the department agent aseigned to this work, to find some other means of protecting domestic animals from this and other poisonous plants which have proven so destructive in the past. Forest Ranges Overstocked Swine Notes. Dairy Interests Booming. It is estimated that more than one thousand more cows will be dairied in this section in 1904 than during the present year, Bays the Zompoc Becord. This shows the progress in this industry among us, and thiB is but the beginning of an industry that it destined to become next to fruit in production and profit. Ten years more and the Lompoc valley, covering about 13,000 acres, will be prac- tical!;- given over to winter apples and dairying. Dusty hog pens may be filthy and un- healthy as the wet sort, where filth is in a liquid or semi-liquid state. Cleanliness is next to good porkliness, if not to healthfulness and profitableness. If hogs reveal the presence of worms give turpentine on an empty stomach at the rate of a tableapoonful to 200 pounds of hogs. Or give coal creosote, 1 ounce to 99 ounces, or 6 pounds 3 ounces water, in feed. One ounce of this solution is a dose. Decayed vegetables and putrid food of any kind— even milk — should not be given to swine. And soapy dishwater Bhould not be put in the swill barrel. Dust in the hog yard or pen induces throat and lung trouble. The oat crop is ft big one, and ground oats are good for growing pigs, when cheap enough, for they are muscle and bone builders. Kerosene emulsion has been found to be a very effective deBtroyer of hog lice. For best results dipping should be the method of use, but spraying freely and with considerable force has proven very satisfactory, if repeated once or twice. There are many more hogs overfed than starved. For hog lice spray a good sheep dip onto them with a sprayer that means business. Kerosene emulsion often proves a good substitute for sheep dip. If a hog'dies of any disease bum it up or bury it down. Never let its relatives or neighbor hogs eat it. If hogs, or other animals, begin to show signs of illness, loss of appetite, etc., modify and change rations at once. Mo- notonous and overmuch feeding are often responsible for a box of evils that Pandora wovld have doted on. C. H. Shinn, head foresterfor the north- ern division of the Sierra reserve, says that the rangers are now preparing their reports to be sent to Washington in regard to the pasturing of cattle on the ranges, and next year, he says, the number of cattle allowed on the government reserves will be considerably limited. On account of the poor condition of the ranges, the cattle did not do well last year, and the fact is that the ranges were considerably overstocked. Many of the cattle came out poor, and this condition is unsatis ac- tory to the cattlemen, and the presence of more cattle than the ranges can support is extremely injurious to the land. The limitation of the cattle will be done in Bueh a way that the owners living along the border will have the preference, aDd non-reEident owners will have to bear the brunt of the partial exclusion rule. The range hogs will not be permitted to roam at will over the ranges, either, and the owners have been given notification to that effect. This order will be put into force gradually so as not to work a hard- ship. * Almost every railway system keeps wrecking trains ready equipped for emergencies at every division point. Forces to man the train and machinery are near at call to respond at any hour to go out and clear any wreck. The equip- ment of a wrecking train besides the crew, consists of bunk car, several flat care loaded with trucks, jackscrews, heavy timbers, pulleys, rope, ties, steel rails, spikes, crow-bars, nails and carpenter's tools, besides the derrick or crane operated by steam from the engine in the cab on the derrick car. An immense watch is to be manufac- tured for the St. Louis World's Fair. It will be seventy-five feet in diameter and forty feet high, with neat little BtaircaseB running all about and walks into which people may go. The balance wheel will weigh a ton, and the hair spring will be 300 feet long. There will be no more copper pennieB coined by the United States for one year. The mints in the. last five years have coined more than 3,000,000,000 one-cent pieces. Only 8197.95 pounds of butter were ex ported from the United States for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1903, as against 15,084 150 ponnds exported the previous year. Only five penBioners remain on the pension roll on account of the revolu- tionary war. Jackson's Napa Soda does not tangle the feet. November 2], 1903] ©ft* ttveeitev anii gftwrrtsftttcm 18 Factors in the Management ot a Pure Bred Herd. In the journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, Mr. Clement Stephen- son, gives some points to be observed in the management of a pure bred herd which are of the utmost importance to the breeder of pure bred stock, as upon the observance of them depends the success in the business: The herd, I believe, is best commenced by buying a small number of in-calf cowb or heifers as near to the drop as possible, and then, selecting the best stud bull obtainable. As to the females, it 1b not in my opinion wise to at first buy high- priced and so-called fashionable bred ones ; these may with advantage be bought afterwards, when the establish- ment of the herd has become an accom plished fact. Good, thick-fleshed animals upon short legs and with good polled heads, are the sorts not only to start with, but to stick to, and the bull that is bought should be the best that can be found or that the buyer can afford to pay for. A really good bull will make a herd even from moderate cows, while an in- ferior bull will ruin a herd regardless of the high qualities of thecoma it may con- tain. Those who intend to Btart a herd should, in my opinion, consult some one who is quite familiar with the breed; of course, the man who has a natural eye for cattle can easily pick out the good sorts, but there is more than this required, if the new herd is to be a success. There is a family history to consider: Were the ancestors of the animals it is proposed to buy all good ones? Were they regular breedeis and good milkers? Were they free from white markings on the body and legs (no one objects to a white udder), and were they sound and robust in constitution? These are im. portant points and should all be well con- sidered, but it ia ouly those who have made a special Btudy of the subject who are competent to advise. "Experience teaches" always comes in, but, alas, it generally comes too late. It is better, therefore, for the beginner to remember the law of "let the purchaser be on his guard," and consult an expert and pay for his advice. Or he may place himself unreservedlv in the hands of a well known breeder, but should be prepared to pay full value for good males and when he has got them safely into their new quarters, it becomes a question of how to treat them so as to obtain the best results. There are different Bystems adopted for rearing calves, but in pedigree herds at any rate, nature's plan ib the best; there- fore, let the calf Buck its dam— that is, if she iB healthy and in a conditron to Buckle her calf. There ia nothing like its mother's milk, taken just as required, for making a good calf; it is the food provided for its aistenance, and it supplies all that is requisite to build up a healthy Btructure. Besidee, in the act of suckling the milk is taken just in the proper quantity and suitably mixed with the salivary secre- (tions to insure good digestion. When the bull calves are from one to two months old, those that it has been de- cided to alter should be operated on. And here let me point out the supreme importance of keeping only the best bull calves for stock purposes — by beit, I mean those that in the first place are good ones individually, and have in addition a good record as to ancestors, and all other quali- ties that are not only desirable but abso- lutely needed in a stock bu'l. The de- mand for small-priced— it is a mistake to call them cheap — bulls of this breed is considerable for crossing purposes, and the breeders may be tempted to keep on animals that would be worth as much or more as steers. This is a mistake, and the sooner both the pedigree-breeder and the cross breeder realize it the better it will be for all concerned. In breeding cross breeds, the sire at any rate must be pure and good. When this is the case the result of the first cross ia most marked. <"!ar«. must, be taken to see that the calf continue thriving and doing well ; that they get a sufficiency of milk, but not too much. I have already pointed out the supreme importance of the stud bull — he makes or mars the herd — and I have also mentioned that the young bulls are gen- erally sold when about twelve months old, and when they are quite fit to serve a limited number of cows or heifers. Those in want of a good young bull think it no trouble to travel hundreds of miles to find one And there is one advantage in buying at this time — namely, that his sire, dam and other members of his family may be seen at his place of birth. The stud bull should have a straight top and underline; be deep and wide round the heart; have short loins; be neat at the tail head; have short legs, well set in; a good, polled head ; an honest face ; and withal, plenty of muscular development (flesh) and masculine character. See that he walks well and that his hocks are good ones— the latter is an important part in a bull. If to his personal qualities he adds descent from good parents and belongs to a prolific, long lived, sound family, that is the bull to buy ; the probabilities are that he will be a success. To obtain him neither money nor trouble should be spared. Observant breeders quickly realize the all-pervading powers of heredity and ata- vism. To breed good animals we must start with good parents, and to prevent any ill results from atavism (throwing back from a remote ancestor) we must as far as possible make sure that the ances- tors of the animals we breed from were good ones. I have great faith in a good pedigree, and I would not buy any animal unless the pedigree pleased me. The pedigree is the title-deed by which we know whether or not its possessor is a good and safe investment. The so-called fashionable pedigree, or the long pedigree; is no warranty of excellency, and both may be rendered objectionable by the in elusion of some inferior animal in them Neither is the ordinary pedigree, where simply the direct dams and Bires are given, to be implicitly relied upon. To establish a good pedigree, it should be possible to trace every animal to its foundation, and in none of the collateral branches must there be a stain. At the same time individual merit must be our first consideration and the pedigree comes afterward. To secure the best results in washing the buttermilk out of the butter it is im portant to add plenty of water at the start, and not attempt, as is often done, to draw off the buttermilk without first adding water. The churn should not be too full at the start, and then plenty of cold water can be added. Give the churn two or three turnB and the water will come to the top. If the butter is soft, rather better results can be secured if a little salt is added to the water before turning in, and then it is allowed to stand a few minutes before draining off the buttermilk. It is not best to draw off too closely the firBt time. Add more water and draw off, repeating until the water runs clear. A cheese weighing 2 tons will be on ex- hibit at the World's Fair at St. Louis from >"ew York, suggestive of the greatest cheese making State in the Union. Nearly one million emigrants came to the United States during the fiscal year ending June 1, 1903, which in number breakB all previous records. o Popular tradition to the contrary, there is no animal to which pure water is more essential than the hog, and none that will pay a bigger price for it. o Good butter cannot be made on the farm or anywhere else unless there are facilities for making good butter. Jackson's Napa Soda is sold in every city, town and hamlet in the State. Management of a Dairy Herd. I regard care, feeding and developing the milking habit quite as important in making the ideal dairy cow as her breed- ing. In breeding and rearing dairy ani- mals at the State Farm I have pursued a conservative course, deeming it wise to make haste slowly. Calves have been re- moved from dams about the second day and given her milk seven to ten days ; and the same time has been taken to change from whole to skimmed milk which is continued until they areabout six months old. The third week a teaspoonful of ground flaxseed is added to the milk. When the calf is first removed from the dam a midday feed of three or four pintB of milk is given, and later on is restricted to two feeds a day. The milk is gradually increased until ten quarts a dayare given, and the flax meal until a tablespoonful is leached. The roughage is generally com- posed of cut clover, or timothy and clover bay mixed, and a email allowance of grouud or whole oata or bran is given twice a day immediately after the milk is taken. The aim is to feed roughage ad lib., but with us it, as well as the milk, is weighed daily, because of experimental work, bo we know exactly how much food is consumed by each animal when stabled. Enough bran is given to secure vigorous growth without putting on fat. This sys- tem is followed through the growing period. We always feed grains that con- tain a good supply of protein and ash, to build a strong frame and a maximum de- velopment of vital organs. Heifers drop the first calf when they are two years old, because it is the aim to begin to develop their milk-making functions with their feeding powers, and great care is exercised not to force them beyond a normal growth, so no effort is made to secure a large yield for any given time during the years of growth, but rather that a habit shall be devel- oped. So a grain ration ranging from four to six pounds daily, accord ng to size and work performed, will suffice the first year of lactation, and with each succeeding year a pound or two may be added to the daily ration. By this sys- tem good growth ia secured, together with the steady and normal development of milk functions. The offspring, too, will be more vigorous. The small size of some breeds and animals is chiefly due to early maternity and a too rapid development in dairy work. Too much grain fed during the growing period causes an abnormal development of milk, giving an energy to milk production which should go to building a strong vigorous frame. Systematic feeding both as to quality and time ie a very important matter. By feeding a given quantity at a stated time the system will gradually adjust itself to the bulk of feed and its nutrient content, and less waste will result. If more is fed one day than another the system cannot adjust itself to the sudden change, and nutrients will pass through the digestive tract without assimilation. The proper handling of animals intended for the dairy is quite as great an art as iB breed- ing, and to succeed one must be as expert in the one as in the other. Gentleness and kindneas mean much tj the little mother to be, so ehe should be honored with a name— that when you apeak to her she may know it, become acquainted with you, and, because of your kind treatment and kind worda will become attached to you, and then when motherhood is reached she will desire to give you her milk.— Prof. L. Huecier in Farm, Stock and Home. The result of raising pine trees in the Band-hill districts of Nebraska, experi- mented in by the United States depart- ment of agriculture, has been very gratify- ing to Secretary Wilson, who has made recent investigation of the work. Eighty acres of pines are growing on what is considered the yery worst sand-hill land in the state. AsK your Dealer Make "your horses happy by p viding them with Pure-Salt Brick Warranted to contain nothing but refined dairy salt. A great modem conve- nience at a cost of about o cents. ^^P^^^^per horse per Belmont Stable Supply Cd Brooklyn, N.Y. The Pedestal of Fame. We are not gTeat statesmen, inventor* or con- quering heroes, but we maj lay modeit claim to being benefactors to humanity. For a long term ot years we have been mating KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE and supplying it to suffering horsemen all over the country. It baa been found to be the only perfectly reliable remedy forSpavin, Eingbone, Curb Splint and all forms of Lameness. It la undoubtedly the best known and most largely used veterinary remedy In the world. Thou- sands of people write us such letters a* this about it. Stands at (he Head. Used 25 Years. Worcester. Mass., Nov. 17. IMS. Dr. B.J. Kendall Co.. Gentlemen:— Will you kindly send ma one of your books entitled "A Treatise on tie Horse and his Diseases." My experience teaches me that Kendall's Spavin Cure u a liniment for man or beast aland* at (ho head. I have uaed and seen It used aua* cessfully all of twenty-five years. Very truly \ ours, G. W. McHENRY. For sale by all druggists. Price. S 1 [six lor* 5. As a liniment for family use it has no equal. Asfc your druggist for KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE, also "A Treatise an the Horse,'* the book free, or address DR. B.J. KENDALL CO., Enosburg Falls, Vt. Standard Trotting Stallion For Sale ORO GUY 34192 Foaled 1808 Fy Oro Wilkes 2:11. Dam by Guy Wilkes 2d dam by Sultan, 3d dam by The Moor. Black in color, stands 1*5 hands high, weighs 1150 pounds. With little work has shown a mile In 2:165^. Square-gaited trotter; guaranteed abso- lutely sound. Good disposition. Stylish con- formation. One of the best bred representatives of the Wilkes family on the Coast. Will be sold reasonable. Apply or address R I. ORB, R. D.. Gilroy, Cal. For Sale— Ben F. 2:10 The unbeatten pacer of 1903. Ben F. 2:10 by Bradtmoor. isoflered for sale. Is sound and in fine shape, and will be sold right. Apply to the un- dersigned. L. R PALMER. Walnut Creek, Contra Costa Co.. Cal. Turtle's Elixir has drawn the following expressions of endorsement from its grateful users In every etate and terri- tory in the Union. Invaluable for man or beast. Gives immediate relief. Unequaled for Colic. Very satis factory results. Best for Spavlo. Shoe Boil removed. Wouldn't be without It. Never lost a hair. Saved a heap of money. Speedily relieves pain. $5000 REWARD for every oneof the above t>mlorsements ■ n be proven spurious. Turtle's Elixir for use in the stable. Turtle's Family Elixir for u-e In the ane iualed rami II H -tage. Used and endorsed by Adams Express Co. Turtles Elixir Co., 437 O'Farrell St., San Francisco, Cal. * More than 600 shipments of meat, wine, olive oil, etc., have been arrested in tran- sit for government inspection before de- livery to consignee since the enactment of the Tare Food law. which went into effect August 1st. Sober up on Jackson's Napa Sod 14 @fte gveeitev a«& *&p&vt&man [November 21, 1903 THE BAYWOOD STUD THE BUNGALOW, SAN MATEO, CAU (Property ol Johk Pabhott, Esq.) Devoted Exclusively to the Breeding and Training of High Stepping Hackney-Bred Harness Horses WALTER SEALt, Manager. 6SAVE-THE;HbRSE!-SPAVINCuRE. mmCfO, WIT M WPPl TTE^ GUARANTE E: On Broken Down, Weak, Sprained and Ruptured Ligaments and Tendons Its Power is Unfailing. No Man need see his Horse suffer and become incapacitated. "SAVE-THE-HORSE" POSITIVELY AND PERMANENTLY CURES BONE AND BOG SPAVIN, THOROUGHPIN. RINGBONE (except low ringbone), CURB, SPLINT, CAPPED HOCK. WINDPTJFF, SHOE BOIL, WEAK AND SPRAINED TEN- DONS, AND ALL LAMENESS. '•SAVE-THE-HORSE'1 cures without scar, blemish or loss of hair; can he applied anywhere and in all conditions and extremes of weather. Horses may be worked as usual with shin or ankle boots, as no harm can result from destruction of hair or scalding of limb. Cured horses are.ab5olute certainties as to the possibility of the remedy for your own case- Such resultsv-as shown in our booklet, by business men whose reliabilitv can be' readily ascertained, have carried "SAVE-THE-HORSE" over skeptioism, prejudice and uncertainty. Send for the booklet and copyof. written guarantee, which is as binding to protect you as the best legal talent conld make it. SS.OO DE*JE2X*. BOTTLE. Written guarantee with every bottle. Need of second bottle improbable, except in rarest cases. If your case is different we advise frankly as to possibility of the remedy effecting a cure. Give veterinarian's diagnosis, if he is competent. Describe age, development, location of swellings, lameness, and way horse carries and holds leg. $5.00 a bottle at all druggists and dealers, or sent express prepaid. TROY CHEMICAL CO., Manufacturers, TROY, N. Y. D. E. NEWELL, 519 Mission St., San Francisco, Cal., Pacific Coast Agent RAGING OAKLAND TRACK Hot California Jockey Qui COMMENCING NOVEMBER 14. RACING Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, RAIN OR SHINE. SIX;OR MORE RACES DAILY KACESSTAKI AT 2:15 P. M. SHARP. For special trains stopping at the track take S. P. Ferry, foot ot Market street, at 12, 12:30, 1, 1:30 or 2 o'clock. No srnbking in last two cars, which are reserved for ladies and their escorts. Returning, trains leave traclr at 4:15 and 4:45 and Immediately after the last race. THOMAS H_ WILLIAMS, President. PERCY IV. TREAT, Secretary. FOR SALE. THOROUGHBRED YEARLING COLTS By DUCAT, out of Strongbred Mares. ALSO TROTTING BRED YOUNG STALLIONS AND FILLIES TROTTERS AND PACERS. ^HE SIRES OF THESE COLTS ARE DIABLO. NutwooL Wilkes, Monbells, Cupid and Sidney Dillon. The sires of their first, seeond- and third dams are Guy Wilkes, Hock Wilkes, Director, Harold, Electioneer, Cornelius. Paul's Abdallah, Venture, Lodi and St. Clair. All of these sires trace in the male Hdo to Hambletonian 10 th.ough his best producing male descendants, excepting the thoroughbreds Venture and Lodi and the pacer St. Clair. C. E. FARNUM, M. D. 305 Parrott Building. WIR RL Em PvV I fa B WEST COAST WIRE V I RON WORKS - 19 F(UW0NTST.S*HFMtigks£_ FISHING Gun Goods ■ttarOUaltgaa. Tackle 538 MARKET STREET, S. F. acpaSi°on to Hunter Arms Co., Fulton, N. Y. PHIL. B. BEKEART CO., San Francisco, Coast Representative Du Pont Gun Powder SMOKELESS, SHOT GUN and MTLITABX POWDER Black Powder for Sporting and Blasting Purposes the Reputation of a Hundred Years is the Guarantee of DU PONT POWDER C. A OAIOBT, Agent. ■ 519 Mission St., Room 311, San FrancUoa, Ca SELBY You can get these Smokeless Powders in FACTORY . . LOADED SHELLS DU PONT SHOTGUN RIFLEITE "E. C." BALLISTITE SCUULTZE I.AIXIN >1. 00 per package. Ask your druggist for it. If he does not keep It we will send prepaid ou receipt of price. Address W. B. EDDY & CO., Whitehall, if. Y. TRY I VETERINARY PIXINE CURES irease Heel, Scratches and Hoof Rot,-chi!pnic, ulcerated! 'complicated-of the most deep seated character; Cracked or chapped teats, caked bag, cow pox and all inflammatory Tections of the udder; Saddle and Collar Galls, Hopple Chafes , and Abscesses, Old chronic Sores, the result of pressure by hadly fitting harness or by irritating masses [of dirt, sweat and hair under the harness. It makes a positive and permanent cure by producing healthy granulations, building up new cellular tissues, healing naturally from the bottom without scab or scar and stimulating growth of hair, natural color. It penetrates, soothes and heals while horse works. Absolutly Guaranteed. Money back if it fails. 2 oz. 25c; 8oz. 50c; 51b. pkg. $4.00. t At all Dealers or sent prepaid. SEND 10c FOR SAMPLE TrOy f!hp,miP,a,1 fj()| BOX AND BOOKLET. TROY, N. Y. IT PAYS! GET YOUR ADVERTISEMENT READY FOR THE SPECIAL CHRISTMAS EDITION OF THE Breeder and Sportsman TO BE ISSUED DECEMBER 26. 1903 E. NEWELL, Pacific Coast Agent, 519 Mission St., San Francisco Awarded Gold Meda At California State FaLr 1893. Every horse owner who values his stock should constantly have a sup- ply of it on hand. It improves and keeps [stock in the pink of condition. Manhattan Pood Co. prn E3 A I QDAlUn 1353 FolsomSt., San Francisco nC,U DMLL DnHllUi Ask your grocers or dealers for it. Positively Cures Colic, Scouring and Indigestion. C. P. KERTELL, Manager It will be a handsome and interesting number and will contain matter that will make it valu- able for reference. It comes just at the right time to make Stallion Atnouncements, and as an advertising medium it will give SURE RESULTS. Make arrangements for space ROW and get a "front seat.'' DON'T PUT IT OFF! Call or Write for Particulars at Once. An advertisement in this^issue will reach all of the people on this Coast who are interested in Horses, Cttle, Dogs, Shotting and Fishiog. No increase in Bates. Single copies, 10 cents Subscription, $3 per year Breeder and Sportsman 36 GEARY STREET SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. NOVEMBER 28, 1903] f&he -gveeiiev axxb gpurtswan 3 THE WEEKLY BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN F. W. KELLEY, Proprietor. Turf and Sporting Authority ot the Pacific Coast. — OFFICE — 36 QEARY STREET, SAN FRANCISCO. P. O- BOX 2300. Telephone: Black 586. enns— One Year 83, Six Months 81.75, Three Months 81 STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. Money snould be sent by postal order, draft or by registered letter addressed to P. W. KELLEY, 36 Geary St., San Francisco. Cal. Communications must be accompanied by the writer's name and address, not necessarily for publication, but as a private guarantee of good faith. San Francisco, Saturday, November 28, 1903. THE ANNOUNCEMENT made in these columns last week that the Pacific Coast Trotting Horse Breeders Association, will probably increase its stakes lor 2:24 class trotters and 2:20 class pacers nest year to $2500 and $2000 respectively, has met with the general approval of horsemen all over the Coast, and on every hand the opinion is expressed that the larger the stakes the greater will be the number of entries. The statement that the Breeders will an- nounce its stakes not later than February, is the one that pleased the horsemen most however, and if three or four of the principal California towns wiil announce good trotting and pacing stakes at the same early date, there will be busy times thenceforth on every training track in the State. The fact is very evi- dent that the only reason harness racing was at such a low ebb this year in California was simply because the associations did not give meetings enough. Wherever a harness meeting was held the rac- ing was good and the meeting profitable. The mixed meetings were very bad, so far as the harness events were concerned, and this will be the ca9e generally except in the smaller country towns. The district associations, failing to receive their regular appropriations from the State, refused to run the risk of holding an unprofitable fair that would bring them in debt, and they would not hold a race meeting without a fair. They were unwise in most instances and it has been clearly dem- onstrated that a good harness meeting of three or four days duration can be made to pay a profit to its managers in any town in California where there is a mile track. It is the old six day meeting that has put the associations in debt. Three days is all the average town of 5000 or less population can stand. Four or five days is the limit on nearly all the big tracks in the East where thousands of dollars are made each year on harness meetings, but for some reason the associations in the little California towns imagine they can bring the people to a fair or race meeting for six dayB. It is a mistake, however, as harness racing is still a sport. When it gets to be a business, like therunning game(which heaven forbid) long drawn out meetings may be held. The short meetings can give larger purses than the long meet- ings, as they do not have to provide for so many classes, and the entries average more to each race. The breeding of harness horses was more extensive this year in California than for some time past, and there will be more horses trained in 1904 than at any time during the pa9t ten years. If a circuit of a half dozen tracks can be arranged and announced by Feb. ruary a vast majority of these horses will be entered for its races. If not they will race up north, in the Mississippi valley, on the Grand Circuit, or be con- signed to the auction salts. We are confident such a circuit will be formed. AX7ESTCHESTER RACING ASSOCIATION an- ' ' nouncestheeighth National Stallion Stake with $5000 added, to be run for by then two-year oldsin the spring of 1905. It also announces the eighth Matron with $10,000 added, to be run for by then two year-olds during the autumn meetingof 1906. Both these great stakes will close Tuesday, December 15, 1903, and the full conditions will be found in our advertising columns. Death of Fred M. Denio. THE FALL AUCTIONS in the East show that the harness horse is in demand and prices as good if not better than last year. While no sen- sational prices are reported it is because no sen- sational speed horses have been offered. The aver- age, both at Chicago and Lexington has been ex- cellent, and at the Old Glory sale, now in progress at Madison Square Garden, New York, the prices are very satisfactory f«r everything that can show speed. The Palo Alto horses did not bring the priceB ex- pected, but as they were almost entirely breeding stock this is not surprising as the New York buyers want their speed ready made and look to the country to furnish it. There is a very strong demand for racing prospects good enough to train for the Grand Circuit, and the supply does not equal it by consider- able. It looks like prosperous times ahead for the small breeders who train their stock and put it on the market ready to race. GET YOUR HORSE in the stallion directory to be printed in the Breeder and Sportsman's Christmas edition. It will cost you but $3 and will pay, as breeders will be looking for this directory and selecting stallionB from it to mate their mares with. Stanford Stake of 1905. Seventy-two colts and fillies entered in the Stanford Stake, to be trotted at the State Fair in 1905, have had second payment made on them by their ownerB as follows: C. A. Arvedson's b c Rettus. J. H. Bohon's gr f Bolock. I. L. Borden's blk f Roberta. I. L. Borden's ch c Prince Robert. Mrs. S. V. Barstow's ch c Victory. T. W. Barstow's b f Just It. Alex Brown's br f by Nushagak-Nosegay, Alex Brown's br f by Nushagak-Addie W. Alex Brown's b c by Nushagak-Adhalia. Alex Brown's b c by Nushagak-Pitche. Alex Brown's b f by Prince AnBel-Mamie Martin. W. O. Bower's br 0 Ferd Madison. W. O. Bower's ch f Silvia B. S. Comisto's b f Alice C. J. D. Carr's b c C. F. Bunch. John A. Cole's blk c Prince Valentine. John A. Cole's b f Neer Kinney. F. Crawford's b c Col. Crawford. Martin Carter's ch f by Nutwood Wilkes-Zeta Carter. Martin Carter's b c by Nutwood Wilkes-Inga. Martin Carter's b c by Nutwood Wilkes-Bessie C. Martin Carter's b c by T. C.-Lou G. Martin Carter'B b c by Zombro-Lida W. Martin Carter's b f by Mendocino-Mamie R. C. A. Durfee's b c Galindo. C. A. Durfee's br c Covey. W. G. Durfee & Co's b c by McKinney-Belle. W. G. Durfee & Co's b f by McKinney-Leonor. W. G. Durfee & Co's b f by Coronado-Louise. W. G. Durfee & Co's b f by Coronado-Lola. H. M. Dennison's b f Lady Lawton. J. E. Fairchild's br f Bonnie June. G. W. Ford's b f by Neernut-Alcola. E. C. Farnum's ch c by Nutwood Wilkes-Flossie. E. C. Farnum's b c by Diablo-Bessie Hock. F. J. Fallman's b c Sir Robert. E. A. Gammon's b c Capt. Clark. J. W. Gardner's ch c by Nearest-Black Swan. C. L. Griffith's b f by Bonnie Direct-Petrina. W. E. Greene's gr c by Nutwood Wilkes-Little Witch. E. P. Heald's be San Juan. S. H. Hoy's ch g Ben Hoy. I. W. Hazlett'sgr f Inaugurita. J. B. Iverson's ch g Derby Chief. J. B. Iverson's b g North Star. G. W. Kingsbury's ch f Delia K. -Jas. Kirkman's br f May Way. S. W. Lockett's b c McPatchen. P. W. Lee's b f Estralla. W. Masten's b f Ardis. W. H. Mendenhall's b g Altodown. Mrs. John Norton's b g Tattler. Mrs. Sol Runyon's b c by Exioneer-Distress. Fred Raschen's b f by Iran Alto-Bell Bird. Rosedale Stock Farm's b c by Washington Mc- Kinney-Bertha B. Rosedale Stock Farm's b c by Washington Mc- Kinn«y-Dalia. Ed Sewell's b f by Geo. McKinney-Lulu Mack. Thos. Smith's b f by McKinney-Daisy S. Geo. Trank'sbr f Lady Byron. L. H. Todhunter's br f Zombelle. L. H. Todhunter's b f Zomitella. Valencia Stock Farm's br f La Belle H. Valencia Stock Farm's br. c Direct Derby. Valencia Stock Farm's ch f Rose Direct. Vendome Stock Farm's b f Miss Eva B. Vendome Stock Farm'B b f Still Better. Geo. L. Warlow's b f Strathlie. Geo. L. Warlow'B b c Athasham. Geo. L. Warlow's b f Sextette. H. C. Wietfeldt's b f Maud McKinney. A. G. Willson's b g Little Medium. G. Wempe's br c by Nutwood Wilkes-Belle W. A Prominent Hawaiian Gone. Strike! — If .they don't give you Jackson's Napa Soda when you ask for it. Col. W. H. Cornwell, a wealthy and prominent citizen of Hawaii died suddenly on his plantation at Warkapu, Maui, recently. Mr. Cornwell was a great lover of horse fleBb. For a number of years he was president of the Hawaiian Jockey Club and one of its charter members. He imported and owned many harness and running horses, among them beiDg "MayD," "Hancock," "Nisa," "Garfield," "W. W. Wood," "Lord Brock," "Venus," "Gartalene," "Ahuimanu,'' and many others. His racing colors were well known a9 the silver gray and cardinal mal- tesecrosB. At his Sacramento River ranch in Cali- fornia he bred quite a number of horses. Mr. Corn- well wai born in New York sixty-one years ago and went to Honolulu when a boy of fifteen with his father. Every horseman in California who had the pleasure of knowing Frank M. Denio of Vallejo, will be pained to hear of his sudden death near that city on Sunday morniDg last. Mr. Denis had gone on a bunting trip with a party of friends and while walking through the tule lands was suddenly attacked with apoplexy and died in a few minutes. Frank Denio was a black- smith and horseshoer and one of the best mechanics in his line in the State. He has shod many fast run- ners and harness horses, and his services were always in demand during the meetings held at Vallejo, and every horseman who has visited tkat town will re- member him as a genial, hard working and honorable man, whose ability in his calling wasmarked. In fact he had few superiors in shoeing trotters and pacers so as to correct their faults of gait. Mr. Denio's father was a mechanic before him, and was during bis life for many years the Master Mechanic at the Mare Island Navy Yard. He was a warm personal friend of Abraham Lincoln, and it was one of the proudest recollections of Frank Denio's childhood days that President Lincoln had often taken him on his lap and talked to him. Mr. Denio leaves a wife and daughter to whom his death will be a severe blow as his home life was idealistic. Frank Denio had lived in Vallejo since he was about five years old and died at the age of 47. _^^^_ Driving —Ancient and Modern. As a recreation few exercises are so pleasant as driv- ing. The modern vehicle has rendered it more com- fortable than formerly, but it is doubtful if thedriverB of to-day are equal to those of the olden time. Jehu is spoken of in the Book of Kings as a famous driver; for when he went forth to fight against the city of Jezreel, the watchman in the tower gave warning to the King below in these words: "The driving is like the driving of Jehu, the son of Nimshi; for he driveth furiously." There were many famousdriversamongst the Jews in the time of their greatest glory, and many of their warlike kings were rated among the number. In the palmy days of the Egyptians, when the valley of the Nile was a garden of groves and terraces, driv- ing was a luxury and the custom the highest in the land. There were splendid drivers in those days, now hidden by the waves of sand that have swept for centuries over many of the finest achievements of mankind, and here and there were orchards, beautiful in arrangement, rich in ornamentation and cultiva- tion, giving evidences of the highest artistic skill. But all of Egypt's magnificence, all of her ancient glories, all of her civilization, power, achievements, and pleasures are gone, buried and forgotten almost beneath the debris of the Nile, the drifts of the desert sands and the waste of centuries. The Romans were reckless and skillfull drivers, and one is forced to admire both as they are pictured sweeping over the plains of the East of Egypt and the Holy Land, overrunning all opposition and strik- ing down every system, compelling all alike to bow the knee in suppliance to their awful power. The practice and the prizes of the Coliseum, no doubt, contributed to their skill and made them dar- ing as they stood in their chariots forcing their fiery coursers into the very vortex of war. The exhilara- tion of speed, added to the excitement of battle, made every charioteer a hero, and served to brace him against every danger that lay in his course. The Greeks, the Persians, the Babylonians, ffere all lovers of the art of driving; for truly it is an art. Their steeds were of the finest Arab strains, and their equipages of the most magnificent design, and trimmings. Glory wa6 the desire of every heat, and all their surroundings were glorious. The Russians are reckless in driving, for in their sledges they will dash away over the 9now into the blackest night, trusting to the sight and instincts of their horses rather than their own knowledge and Bkill. Though exceedingly reckless, they are skillful as well, and manage an untamed horse with consum- mate dexterity. In this country, however, driving has been reduced to an exact science. -The turf has developed experts in that line that would turn the eyes of an ancient Roman green with envy. The wonderful records made by the trotters of this age is due to expert driv- ing just as much as it is to the improvement in the equine breed, and perhaps more. There is a fascination about driving that is conta- gious. The little child , after an outing or two, begins to clamor for a ride. The bracing air, the waving trees, the rising and fading scenes that gleet the eye, and the pleasant motion of the carriage, all tend to lighten the spirits and bring to the heart a feeling of happiness. Driving clubs are being formed in many cities for exercise and friendly competition, and as a conse- quence there is an increasing demand for bettet streets and more extended avenues. The taste is an elevated one, and if its indulgence will aid the spirir of enterprise and compel the construction of streets and boulevards, it should have fullsway: foranything that tends to smooth the way9 of this world and make brighter and happier the general surroundingB is worthy of the highest culture. So let'fi harness up our horses and all take a ride. — Harness World. The Kenney Bicycle Co., 531 Valencia St., is doing a big business in the McMurray Carts and Sulkies. You not only save money by purchasing a McMurray but get the most durable, best made, and easiest running cart or sulky in the market. Investigation wil vlnce a MisBOurian. „ 4 mhs £sr«rfrer anit ^perxexnan [November 28, 1803 U JOTTINGS. "WE RE WORTH MORE MONEY," was the expressed verdict of every horseman in Cal- ifornia when he read in the dispatches on Tuesday morning of this week that the fifty-one head of horses consigned to the Old Glory sale by Palo Alto Stock Farm had brought but 819,995, an average price of S3S5. Monbells, son of Mendocino-and Beau- tiful Bells— think of that breeding for a moment— brought but S900, a sum he could earn twice over in the stud in almost any county in California before next July, and, in a good locality and in good hands, could quadruple it. Mr. Henry Orr of Reading, Pennsylvania, was his buyer. We will have to await the arrival of the mails before we know the full par- ticulars of the sale, the dispatches giving but a very meager account of it. Helena 2:111, dam of Wild Nulling 2:111 and Hyita (trial 2:12), brought $1050; Rowena 2:17, dam of thatgood trotter Rowellan2:09|, sold for $875; Expressive 2:124, one of the greatest three-year-old trotters that ever lived, sold for S1700, and Sunolito, a half sister to Sunol, brought $435. These are the only individual sales of the Palo Alto horses mentioned in the dispatch, which states that others of the string sold at prices "ranging down to $200. I would like to have seen Monbells remain in Cali- fornia. There is not one of the sons of that greatest of broodmares, Beautiful Bells, now in this State, and there are many of our most intelligent horsemen who believe that with proper opportunity he will be the greatest of all the sons of that famous mare. Had this sale of Palo Alto horses been held in San Fran- cisco, I believe the stallions Monbells, Exioneer and Nazote would all have brought more money than they did in New York, and am also inclined to the opinion that the entire consigrment would have brought the farm a greater net return than the New York sale has done. For a good green trotter, a high class race horse with or without record, a first class roadster, or a colt well staked and promising, the New York market is the one that brings the most money. But for stallions and broodmares, unless the individuals offered are very prominent and right in the direct focus of the public eye, the big sales are not the places for high prices. The millionaires are not engaging in the breeding business at the present time as a rule. They want the finished product and the prospective free-for-all horses, but they prefer buying to breed- ing them. One millionaire paid out over 8100,000 for a half dozen horses this year that were ready to race and entered in the big stakes. He would have paid the entire sum for one that oould beat Lou Dillon, but he probably would not bid one quarter of the amount for the sires and dams of both Lou Dillon, and Major Delmar, with the sire and dam of Dan Patch thrown in. There is much encouragement for the small breeder in this state of affairs. Time was when it seemed as if nearly every man of great wealth in the country was starting a breeding farm, and the j'oor man with one or two entries in the colt stakes was compelled to accept odds of about one to twenty against his entry beating those of the big stock farms. It is different now. Comparatively few of the millionaire horse admirers are content to wait until they breed a stake winner. They prefer buying one even if they have to pay double the amount the horse can win. Wit- ness the purchase of Major Delmar for $40,000 in the hope that he could win the Memphis Cup, and the payment of S20.000 for Sadie Mac because it was nearly a foregone conclusion that she could win the Kentucky Futurity worth $10,000 and a lot of glory. to breed them. They are willing some one else shall take all the pains and trouble and honor and glory that belong to the breeder of a champion. Ownership of a world beater or a race winner is their desire, and they would rather ride in front in one of the amateur events, drawn by a horse bred by a Chinaman than to finish second with a horse bred on their own farm according to their own ideas. Consequently there is plenty of money in sight for the men who breed and develop horses that have extreme speed. The market for this sort is healthy and has an upward tendency. The greatest living sire, Red Wilkes, 29 years of age, son ot George Wilkes and Queen Dido by Mam- brino Chief, sire of 3 in 2:10, 23 in 2:15, 51 in 2:20 and 167 in 2:30, as well as the dams of 150, was sold at the Old Glory for $775. He is a horse of remarkable vigor and surprised everyone when led into the ring. While he has been a wonderful sire and is one of Geo. Wilkes' greatest sons, his years of usefulness are naturally about over and he cannot be expected to get more than one or two crops of foals before he die6 or becomes impotent. If he was worth $775 Monbells is worth $10,000. Kinney Lou 2:07f, the fastest entire son of Mc- Kinney is taking things easy in a big box stall at the Alameda track, with an occasional run in a paddock where the green grass has already begun to sprout. I saw him for the first time last Sunday. He is a brown horse with a star and two hind ankles white, and though in fair order still shows signs of the sick- ness which troubled him all summer. He is improv- ing every day, however, and will soon be as well as ever in his life. Catarrhal fever ivas his ailment, and he had a pretty severe time with it, the wonder being that he managed to win over eleven thousand dollars during the season and trot so many heats below 2:10. His skin still shows the effects of the "breaking out" that so often accompanies this disease and there are numerous little spots where the hair is off. When Kinney Lou reached Alameda after his Eastern cam- paign his hair was on end and he looked to be all out of form, but it lies close now and begins to take on that lustre that denotes good health and clean blood. He is just about as tall as his illustrious sire, I should judge, but is not quite so compact a horse. He has one of the grandest of heads, and the breadth between the eyes is extraordinary, and the big brain clearly manifest. He is deep through the heart and carries good shoulders and forearms, but it is hiB hind quarters that attract attention. The 6weep of his hams, from the point of hips to hocks is splendid and the long well developed muscles show where he gets the great power to produce the speed he has. His hocks are just about as perfect as one could Ind on a trotting horse and the bones of his legs clean and flat with not one trace of beefiness. His unshod feet look to be in excellent condition and are nearly perfect in shape. He is a good looking horse now, and with- in a month or two when he has taken on a little more flesh he will be the almost perfect type of the Ameri- can trotting horse and sire. Mr. Doble tells me he has ridden faster behind him for a quarter than any other trotter he ever drove, and that means a quarter in 29 seconds or better, and he also added that he never saw a better gaited one. He intends placing him in the stud in the early part of the coming year, permitting him to serve a limited number of mares, as he believes he will be a high class sire. The horse will be raced in 1904 however, and the year following, before he is retired perma- nently to the stud and Mr. Doble thinks 2:04 or better will be opposite his name then. much she will reduce it no one has the temerity to predict. The little California mare is a wonder. She is a bundle of the very finest bone, muscle, sinew and nerve that has yet been developed among the Ameri- can trotters. She stands alone and without a parallel. Her last performance that, like all her preceding efforts, has excited the wonder of everybody, was on the New York Speedway on the llth inst. It is de- scribed by Fred Beachy, the New York correspondent of the Chicago Horse Beiieic in the following language: On Wednesday, the llth, Mr. Billings decided to drive her a quaiter as fast as she could go in order to ascertain, for his own satisfaction, the extreme limit of her speed. The trial was made at 10 o'clock in the morning, as a crowd of spectators was not desired; however, quite a large number of people were present and witnessed what proved to be the most phenomenal exhibition of harness speed ever given. Mr. Billings drove Lou to her Faber wagon, which weighs forty eight pounds nine ounces with the shafts, and was accompanied by a runner, driven by Tanner, to a cart, and a pacer, driven by trainer Fred Noble, hitched to sulky. After warming the mare up in a stiff brush down the road Mr. Billings aod his pacemakers returned to Dykeman street and the three were off well together. In a few strides Lou Dillon was down to business and stepped over the road at lightning speed. The first quarter was trotted in :29 and the last quarter was covered in :30, or :59 for the half mile. Lou did not like the loose footing, as the soft loam broke under her flying feet. Mr. Billings decided to give her a chance over the lower stretch, which afforded a fii mer footing, and the champion and her pacemakers were jogged down tothelower stretch and given the word. The Queen simply flew over the ground at a high rate of running-horse speed. Half way down she forged ahead of the runner, left the other pacemaker far be- hind and finished the distance strong. Those who had their watches on the trial could hardly believe their eyes. Flags were dropped so that perfect accu- racy in the timing could be insured, and numerous watches were held. They showed 25| seconds — a 1:43 gait — and nhose who held them were fairly dumb with amazement. Mr. Billings let her finish out the half, and she reached it, eased up, in 584 seconds. Mr. Billings was delighted with the performance. It was the first time Lou was ever driven to her limit for a quarter, and the result, so extraordinary, dem- onstrated that it will be easy for her to set her record well below 1:584 next season if no bad luck befalls her. She will be kept here for a week or ten days longer before being placed in winter quarters, in charge of Millard Sanders. As this was the first time Lou Dillon had ever been driven a quarter of a mile at the very top other speed , it is very probable that sbecan learn to cover the dis- tance in less time. But just stop to think of this quarter in 25| seconds, which is at the rate of 1:43 to the mile. Running horses had been bred for centuries before they could run a mile in 1:43. Alarm, the cele- brated son of imported Eclipse was the first thoroueh- bred in America to run a mile better than that time. At Saratoga July 17, 1872, Alarm ran a mile in 1:42J and was hailed the champion runner of the world. At that time the trotting record was 2:16J and any per- son who had predicted that a trotterwould eventually be able to speed a quarter at the rate of 1:43 to the mile, he would have been considered a false prophet if not a brainless idiot. But Lou Dillon has shown that she has that high rate of speed and it is a question in the minds of many whether any horse can pull a sulky for an eighth of a mile faster at the running gait than Lou Dillon can at the trot. The small breeder, the man who has the brains and energy and business sense to breed and develop a fast trotter or pacer, and the common sen Be to accept a fair and profitable price for one when opportunity offers, never had a better chance to make money than right now. There is a good demand for horses that have size, style and speed, and especially for those with speed. The wealthy people want them and are ready to pay the cash on delivery of the goods. They are largely from Missouri however, in- asmuch as they must be shown, and those that are buying on talk and stories, or even affidavits are few and far between. The finished product is now demanded in every line by those who have the money. It is the same with the thoroughbred horses. Breeding farms are being dispersed every year. With a very few exceptions the men whoare willing to pay the most for a running horse are men who think it would be a waste of time If there is anything in breeding and performances Kinney Lou should be a great producer. He iB not only a splendid individual and a game and tried race horse, but he is from a family of game race winning and producing families on both sides. By McKinney 2:111, 'be greatest sire of his age of 2:15 race horses, out of that famous old race maie Mary Lou 2:17, by Tom Benton, second dam Brown Jenny that produced besides Mary Lou, the old five heat race winner Shylock 2:17J and the game all day pacer Ned Win- slow 2:124. I doubt if there has ever been a brood mare that has produced three gamer race horses than Shylock, Mary Lou and Ned Winslow. The very mention of their names recall Borne of the great- est split heat events in the history of California racing. Brown Jenny was an inored Black Hawk or Morgan and the readers of the horse journals all know that the Morgan blood shows itself eveiy year in the veins of the big winners and record breakers on the grand circuit. The limit of Lou Dillon's speed no one Knoweth. All intelligent horsemen who have seen her move this year are agreed that she will still further reduce her marvellous record of 1:584 for a mile, but how Why Memphis Track is Fast. "Perhaps it has already entered the minds of some readers of the daily papers that the Memphis track is short,'' Baid H. K. Devereux on his return from the big trotting meeting of the year, "but such doubts can be set at rest. The Memphis track was built with extreme care, and it is 1} feet longer than one mile, according to the measurements required by the trotting associations. ItB remarkable speed is the result of no error in measurement, but on the contrary results from a series of fortunate elements. In the first place the track is as level and even as a track could be, its surface is one that encourages speed and its Bhape fools the horses into better going than they think for. "The average harness horse is wise. Most of them look down the stretch and anticipate the turn. They throw the head to one side and prepare themselves for the curve, frequently doing so too early, with the result that they skip a step or get their legs tangled at the loss of speed. "At Memphis the turns are of the compound curve variety and are longer than are generally found on mile tracks. As a natural result the straights are shorter. It follows, then, that when a horse comes down the Memphis stretch he reaches the turn he- fore he is expecting it, and because the curve is com pound he finds himself going around the turn with- out any preparation on his part whatever. This is the principal reason why supreme speed, is reached on the Memphis track." Jackson's Nana Soda untangles the feet. NOVEMBER. 28, 1903] ®He gvee&ev cmfc» gtpurtsmcm Abuse of the Over-Draw Check. Ribbonwood 2:09 Will Come Here. Breeder and Sportsman: — I would like to call attention to the evil of a too long use of the over oheok, better known as the Kemble Jackson check, on the hack, work and driving horses of our city. It inflicts long hours of torture by its continuous use, although it was never intended by its inventors to be used on a horse at any one time for a longer period than ten minutes. If it could be understood by own- ers that the beauty and comfort of horses standing in or pissing through the streets, avenues or parks de- pend much upon their arched necks, and that the over-draw check was invented for a particular horse and to prevent that very arch, they could perhaps appreciate the folly of using such an instrument of torture on the long drives, or while allowing their horse to stand for hours in the street. In many towns there is a law against and a penalty for long and high checking. It is not only a torture to the animal, but it destroys his beauty and and action as well. This is especially the case with a carriage horse, and its use on such horses denotes a "jay" owner or driver. This over-draw check was invented nearly fifty years ago by Mr. Reynolds, owner of the horse Kem- ble Jackson, and thus received its name. Before this device was made for this horse he would press his head down on his chest so that he was beyond con- trol. When he was rigged with this check, however, he developed into a very speedy horse for those early days. I was informed years ago by such well-known, old- time trainers as William Doble Sr., Daniel Pipper, Jock Bowen and others that at no time was this horse checked high except in his speedy work and in his races. From those early days up to this hour that checking device has been in uie, and often ex- cessive use, upon our speedy trotting aLd road horses. As a general rule the pacing horse requires a high check, at least it is very generally used on him, and with his head checked very high he seems to do very well. It seems to me, however, that it should not be brought into use until just before a workout heat or race, and that the horse would do better and be more comfortable were he permitted to carry his head naturally during his slow jogging and walking work. It would be much better for the pacer's back if he was not checked up for a period of over ten minutes at any one time. The pacing horse may require a high check, but it is the only instance in horse history where high checking is of general improvement. Budd Doble has proven to his satisfaction the evils of the ex- cessive use of the high check upon the trotting horse of ths track and road. The season that the late John A. Goldsmith bandied Stamboul he always main- tained that the high check and guy reins used upon him annoyed and did not assist that great horBe in his struggle to attain the highest rate of speed. He advanced those ideas to the late W. S. Hobart and L. J. Rose, but neither of those gentlemen would listen to his plea, as in their opinion it was not ad- visable to experiment with a horse at the eleventh hour in the fight for champion stallion honors. After failing on two different occasions to equal or beat Nelson's then record of 2:10} to old fashioned sulky on an oval track, Mr. Goldsmith kept insisting to Messrs. Hobart and Rose that the rigging and old methods must be cast aside and finally they consented to allow him to have his way. Mr. Goldsmith then let up on Stamboul's speedy work for a few days, and then started working him again with a plain over check without check bit, and then worked the horse out on three different occasions on the oval track at Stockton to an old style sulky, a mile in 2:09}, a half in 1:02 and a quarter in 30 seconds, thus proving to the gentlemen that he was correct on the evils of the high check and guy reins. A few days later Mr. Goldsmith met with a painful accident, and the late O. A. Hickok was substituted at the very last moment to drive Stamboul in his last opportunity that year to lower Nelson's record. The best Mr. Hickok could accomplish that day was a mile in 2:11. There • Is a man suitable for every horse and Mr. Goldsmith proved that he was the man for Stamboul, and he afterwards showed his appreciation of that stallion by bidding 840,000 for him two years later with "a wet blanket record" over him. Mr. Hickok drove . Stamboul with a high check and guy reins -his old- time head-annoying rig. Mr. C. Lang, formerly bookkeeper for Mr. Goldsmith and William Corbitt of Guy Wilkes fame, and still occupying the same position at Burlingame, can testify as to what sort of a horse Mr. Goldsmith had in Stamboul in 1890. Millard Sanders with Lou Dillon 1:58J, and Budd Doble with his speedy stallion Kinney Lou 2:07} have proven beyond all doubts that the overdraw or Kemble Jackson check was of no assistance to them, To the livery, hack or carriage horse on long drives, and standing, it is a torture, as it is on every horse where it is used to excess, and if the owners and The New Zealand Referee of September 2d contained drivers would but realize this they would save the tbe following: "As previously announced, before noble animal a great deal of misery. making his projected trip to America, Ribbonwood is Yours, to be given a chance of adding distinction as a sire to K. P. B. S. G. S. bis turf laurels. Though still a young horse he pos- .. sesses every qualification that augurs success in a sire, Prepotent Maternal Speed Progenitors. whi'e hi* Tltality aDd biding leave little to be de- sired. How great a race horse Ribbonwood really is It will be readily admitted, I think, that altogether or|ly time will show, but even now he stands as the too much attention is paid by the breeder in the mat- undisputed champion of Australasia, and no doubt ter of the prod uction of extreme speed to the bloods before the close of his racing career he will have added that are most prepotent in the male line. While further to his fame. Starting off as a two-year-old, almost any student of the breeding problem, and he won two out of his four essays, finishing up the nearly all trotting enthusiasts are more or less so, can season with a mile record of 2:33. Unfortunately he tell offhand the families that have been most prolific was DOt engaged in the Juvenile stakes that season, in the production of speed in the male line, but very or it is almost certain he would have added it to his few have any conception of the principal blood fac- winningrecord. As a three-year-old he jumped right tors on the female side of the house. 'nto 'be first flight of performers by winning five out As an up-to-date test, I have carefully gone through of his eight races, and leaving off with a two-mile theliBtof horses that have made records of 2:10 or record of 4min 46 3-5th sec. Amongst theevents that better during 1903, and, curiously enough, there are fe" t0 bis lot were the High Class Handicap, 4 min 54 only six stallions that are the sires of the dams of two * 5th sec; Addington Handicap, 4min 49sec; and New or more in this select list, as follows: Year Handicap, 4min 46 3-5th sec, besides scoring a Alcantara 2:23 by George Wilkes 2:22 — bloodless victory in the Three-year-old Handicap. Rosie Morn, dam of Beaumont, p 2:06J Last season his victories were attained in the New Bertha, dam of Don Derby, p 2:04J Zealand Handicap, 4min 43sec; Free-for all, 2min 15 Highland Maid, dam of Charley Hayt, p 2:06} j kh, „„„. o „ a at „ ■? 1 In j- , . ,. , Kentucky Prince by Clark Chief 89- 4-5th 8ec; Second New ZealaDli Handicap, 4min 35 4- Daughter, dam of Tom Keene, p 2:04£ 5'b 8ec> wbile in his great match with Fritz he Daughter, dam of Claymos, p 2:07} showed undoubted superiority to the Australian Recollect, dam of Swift 2:07 champion trotter. Wild wood, the sire of Mr. Price's ^^lU^^:™2:™-. 2:08} —"older, is one of the best bred and most sue- Sidnida, dam of Berdina, p 2:08£ cestui stallions in New Zealand, while through his Countess, dam of Al Bock, p.. 2:08} dam he inherits a staunch Btrain of thoroughbred Alcyone 2:27 by George Wilkes 2:22— blood, a d-oss to be found in many of the best Ameri- Kathrina, dam of Laconda, p 2:05} oan 9ires. How much better than his present record Daughter, dam of Sylviaone, p 2:09} , „ . . _.,, , ,, . . * , . Mambrino Russell by Woodford Mambrino 2:21}— of 2mln 9sec Ribbonwood could go is hard to say, but Alice Russell, dam of Cotillion, p 2:06 it speaks well of his ability to greatly improve on it Pearl Russell, dam of Cubanoia, p 2:06} when his owner is prepared to match him against any Red Wilkes by George Wilkes 2:22- horse in the world on a New Zealand track. Ribbon- Daughter, dam of Dr. Madara, p 2:08 -,-T j a 1. 1. 1- •<. j Maggie Yieser, dam of Walnut Hall 2:08} wood ls> x understand, to be limited toa few approved Taking this select list of staliions that have shown mares. and at such a moderate fee of 8gs his list their ability to produce extreme speed through the should fill very quickly." maternal line, it affords an excellent criterion by A turf writer who visited Mr. Price's farm wrote as which to judge of the merits of the respective fami- follows of him in the same paper: "Ribbonwood had lies, and is withal a substantially accurate gauge of just come in from his usual afternoon jaunt about the what would be found should the whole list betaken roads, and though he has put on a lot of condition into consideration, instead of those only of the pa.-t since last seen in public, he is forward enough to be season, as showing the relative prepotence of the reafly for racing when tbe occasion arises. From the various families. Three, or half of the entire num- fact that he did so much racing as a two-year-old we ber, are sons of George Wilkes by Hambletonian, and bave come to Iook on the champion as a "little un." another is descended from Hambletonian through When it is mentioned that he can lift the standard at Strathmore, Santa Claus and Sidney, from whence 15.1 it will be seen there is now nothing small about comes the champion trotter, Lou Dillon. bim, whiIe bis development adds further to his build. The remaining two are from the Mambrino Chief We in New Zealand can ill afford to lose such a great family, being respectively sons of Clark Chief and borse, but if, as is anticipated, the son of Wild wood Woodford Mambrino, and the value of this family does eventually find his way to America, we oan con- blood nicked with that of the Hambletonian will be fidently look forward to his upholding the honors of admitted when it is learned that the three Wilkes his birthplace." . stallions are the direct result of the Hambletonian- Grgat Difference m Them Mambrino cross.— Palmer Clark. ■» Horses differ as greatly in disposition as do human beings. Some horses will enter into a race with vim and courage and ambition to be first at the wire. They do not need to be encouraged or even spoken to. They will try to beat another horse and show almost human pride in doing so. Some hor6es will make as great a fight in trailing a field of horses as when they are ahead. Others while in the lead are full of ambition and make a desperate effort to main- tain their position, but let another horse pass them and they lose heart, become discouraged and do not seem to have within several seconds of their usual natural speed. Sometimes a driver asks more of a horse than he can perform and that moment his in- fluence over him weakens. The asking too much is oppression, and the horse knows it by his discourage- ment. Impossibility is asked of the horse and all endeavor is gone. How often has this been witnessed with horses too heavily loaded. A team of horses may be ever so true, but if they are once or twice loaded beyond their capacity their discouragement will be noticed in their half hearted efforts. A team will sometimes make two or three desperate efforts to move a load, and being unable will not try again, despite all the efforts of the driver.— Exchange. Tales ot the Turf, Vol. II. Volume II of Tales of the Turf is ready for delivery. It is a book of 404 pages, written by H. C. Gocher and illustrated by Frank Whitney, and contains samples of racing from the Grand Circuit tracks to the bushes and the snow path, with a dash or two of the gallopers and quarter horses, and a few samples of horse trading. The table of contents includes, among other subjects, the following: The Beginning — A tale that was told by the win- ners. The General — A product of Ireland and one of tbe best in his line; the man you know as John E. Turner. Charlie Sing — The Chinaman who plunged on Del Monte at Albany in '88. The Old Favorite — A few lines about Guy, the trot- ting machine. The Goldsmiths— The most noted family of 1 orse- men ever seen with the trotters. The Queen — In the matter of fact records of the tvrf she is known as Lou Dillon. Old Bill — The champion strong horse and his last pull. Oiney O'Shea— A sporty Irish farmer who was in love with a galloping hor6e. Johnny's Colt — A well-bred one always has a chance. Tbe Tout — The busy confidence man and intriguer of the turf. The Luke Lightwood Legacy— Two sparkling sam- ples of quarter racing with a preliminary canter through the career of the man. TheConfeision— A few words before the last call. Getting Even— An exchange of equine civilitieB be- tween a pair of Vermonters whose eye teeth were cut in the cradle. Tales of the Turf, Volume II, is bound in cloth in the same style as the one which preceded it. The price is $2. For all kinds of weather there is no drink like Jackson's Napa Soda— plain or in a lemonade. It is a well known fact that horses and colts that run out in the winter thrive, providing they are pro- vided with comfortable shelter nights and have a feed of good hay and a fair ration of grain. Tbey are an imale provided by nature with a heavy coat and are well adapted to withstand the rigors of winter. . -♦ Wilkes Stallions for Sale. Mr. P. H. McEvoy of Menlo Park is offering e desirable young Wilkes stallions for 6ale as w : seen by an advertisement in another part of Issue. * ®he |mirer tmtr gpcivtztnavi [November 28, 1903 Notes and News. ^2§3=&*>C2Z2> Hal Pointer 2:04 is dead. GN2) Charley Herr 2:07 is to be raced again next year. The last world's champion driven by Ed Geers was The Abbot 2:03}. _____ Jewess (dam of New Richmond 2:08}), by A. W. Richmond, died recently at Nashville, Tenn. Andy McDowell Is in New York again, but wiil re- turn to Austria and open a public stable there. The remains of the late Orrin Hickok were taken to Geneva, O., for burial, a sister of the deceased living there. E. E. Smathers has traded Shadow Chimes 2:05, to Joseph Murphy, of Troy, N. Y., for the McKinney pacer, Coney 2:02. It is reported from Lexington that Joe Thayer recently drove a yearling pacer by Birchwood over that track a half miie in 1:03J. Josie C. 2:25}, to wagon, sister of Ottinger 2:09} by Nephew Jr., has been sold by J. H. Matty, of Denver, to S. W. Bullard, of Greeley, Colo. Baron Wedgewood, about the best unmarked trot- ter who paraded in company this year, will go down the line in Lon McDonald's stable next 6eason. At the Splan sale, Chicago, ten horses brought prices ranging from $1000 to $3500, and twenty-two others sold for prices ranging from $500 to $975. Dan Leiginger has four or five promising trotters and pacers that he is joggingon the park roads every day and getting ready to begin work on in thespring. Horace Brown, a well-known American who has been training the trotter in Europe, is paying a visit to New York, his first appearance iD America for six years. If it is true that "money saved is money earned," Mart Demarest earned about $20,000 by the refusal of M. W. Savage to allow the match race between Dan Patch and Prince Alert. The largest fair in New England is the one held at Brockton, Mass., by the Brockton Agricultural Soci- ety. The receipts this year were$70,592, the expenses $50,689, leaving a profit of $19,902. The stallion Simmocolon 2:13} by Simmons, sire of Dan Q. 2:075, Meridian 2:12}, Simassie 2:08i and oth- ers, has been sold by Dr. H. S. Chapman of Pontiac, Mich , to H. A. Hammond, Wyoming, 111. The yearling trotter Algonquin, by Adbell (1), 2:23, dam the dam of The Major 2:12}, recently stepped a quarter in 37 seconds, last eighth iD 17 seconds, at Lexington, Ky. He is in all the futurities. Alcantara's list of standard performers now num- bers 111 trotters and 47 pacers. He is the sire of 54 pacers in all. that have made records of 2:30 or better, and 31 of his performers are in the 2:15 list. Cresceus trotted a mile in 2:124 over the half-mile track at Kansas City, Mo., on the 10th inst. He was started to beat 2:08, but all conditions were unfavor- able for fast time. The great trctter was injured in a railroad accident after his Wichita performance, and showed a little lameness at Kansas City. Twenty-nine head of Village Farm horses brought $20,210 at the Tranter-Kenney. sale. This is good enough, surely. Nor is this an indication that the breeding of high-class trotters and pacers is not re- munerative. In reply to a correspondent we will state that George Wapple's record is 2:25 pacing. He is a chest- nut horse, foaled 1882, by Brigadier 2:21}, son of Happy Medium. His dam was by a horse called Copperhead. Some people still contend that a horse can draw a wagon as fast as a sulky, but the weight of evidence is with the sulky. Dan Patch's wagon record is . 1:57}, sulky record 1:56}. Lou Dillon's wagon record is 2:00, Bulky record 1:581. Never before in the history of the trotter has there been a time when promising colts and fillies well en- gaged in big futurity events were so much sought after as they are now. One bred in the right lines and showing promise of being as good as the breed- ing, can be sold quickly at a price that gives the breeder a good profit. It is likely that in the future members of the Los Angeles Driving Club will discard the sulky and drive their races in the bike road wagons. Assistant Secretary Mrs. F. E. Chandler was instructed this week to ascertain what the cost of these four-wheeled road wagons would be and such other data regard- ing them as might be obtained. George Spear took all the Smathers horses except- ing Major Delmar to New York, Mr. Smathers hav- ing changed his mind about leaving them in the South all winter. Billy Buck, the heaviest money winner of the year, has, it is said, broken down and doubts are entertained of his ever getting to the races again. His trouble is behind. The statement is being widely published that Lou Dillon weighed 804 pounds just before trotting in 1:58} at Memphis. This is incorrect. She weighed 804 just before she trotted her two-minute mile at Readville August 24th. Between this date and October 24tb, when she trotted in 1:5SJ. she had put on considerable flesh, weighing 822 pounds when she reached Memphis. Charles De Ryder, the well-known Western trainer and driver, formerly with the Patchen Wilkes Farm, at Lexington, Ky., has been engaged for the ensuing year by Monroe Salisbury, and will spend the winter at Pleasanton, Cal., leaving New York immediately after the 'Old Glory" sale. Mr. De Ryder is one of .the best men in hie profession, and has marked a number of horses in 2:10 or better. If everything goes well Santa Ana will have a driv- ing club modeled along the lines of the Los Angeles Driving Club and its first race matinee will be given about Christmas Day. The club has secured grounds and will meet in a few dpy to organize, elect officers and have the club staited in gooj shape. San Bernardino al60 is waking up and a revival of racing is being discussed by leading business men there. Inferno, by Diablo 2:09}, dam Biscara, by Director 2:17, is one of the best Montana campaigners out this year. He is owned by C. D. Crutcher, of Fort Brenton, and at the Kalispell meeting lowered his record to 2:21}. With three weeks' work he paced the Bozeman track in 2:18}, a half in 1:05 and a quarter in 31 sec- onds, pulling a ninety-pound cart. He was bred at Santa Rosa Stock Farm, the birthplace of Lou Dillon. That horsemen have confidence in the racing quali- ties of the get of Direct Hal, is evident from the fact that a two-year-old filly and a two-year old colt by him brought respectively $3500 and $2500 at the late Tranter-Kenney sale. The dams of both were by Chimes. The City of Mexico is to have a winter horse show, and there is talk about arranging a Pacific Coast cir- cuit to take in the California winter resorts. Horse- men who have visited the Mexican capital say that few cities in the United States have so many fine car- riage pairs. An interesting long distance road race was pulled off in New Hampshire the other day. John Horton of Manchester bet $50 with Chas. S. Fifield that his horse conld cover the distance between the latter's stable and Derry Depot, twelve miles, in 54 minutes or less, and after a rest of two hours return within the same time The horse drew two men in a buggy and made the first trip in 53 minutes. The return trip, however, took 54 minutes and 55 seconds, and Fifield was declared the winner. The roads were in wretched condition from frost and rain. The horse was not at all distressed after the ordeal. The famous track at Glenville, O., is pretty nearly deserted; but a few trainers will winter there, among them Guy Lee, "Billy" Mood, Vance Nuckols, H. F. Frasier and Geo. SaunderB Nuckols will winter only three head, consisting of Theron Powers, The General and Miss Brock. Saunders will care for fifteen head, among them Baron de Shay and Prince Direct, owned by M. E. Sturgis of New York. The latter two horses have been fired and will be given a long re6t. There is to be an entirely new feature this year in connection with the afternoon program of the Tour- nament of Roses at Pasadena, New Year's Day. Ar- rangements have been made for four-hor6e chariot races for prizes worth $1000 or for cash. A number of entries already have been received and the novel sport is looked forward to with much interest by all who love speedy horses. Entries for the events close December 1st. The greatest number of heats ever won by any three-year-old trotter, is 40, and were won by Zombro 2:11, a son of McKinney 2:14}. Expressive by Elec- tioneer, dam the thoroughbred Esther, comes second. She won 34 heats and took a record of 2:12 £ as a three- year-old. Directum 2:05} won 25 heats in 2:30 or better, and took a record of 2:11}. Cresceus won 22 heats and took a record of 2:11}. Fantasy won 21 heats and took a record of 2:08}. Caid 2:07} has proved one of the beBt trotters ever taken to Austria. He has won the great annual two mile trotting event there for years in succession. His latest victorv in that race was on the 6th ult., and his time was 4:36. In 1900 he trotted the two miles in 4:27 2-5, which was at that time the world's cham- pion two-mile trotting record, and has been beaten only by Cresceus, whose two-mile record is 4:17. A majority of the sensational trotters and pacers of 1903 were plainly and comfortably rigged, and this does not apply solely to those hor6es going fast miles against the watch, but includes the season's sensa- tional class horses. Take Lou Dillon, Major Delmar, Dan Patch, Cresceus, John A. McKerron, Onward Silver, The Monk, Equity and others used for exhi- bition purposes, and it can be written of them that they wore very little else, aside from boots, than what one would use upon a road horse. Gaiting poles, derricks and bits of the Raymond type were not used with the extremely fast horses of the past 6eason. Even Prince Alert, barring his hopples, was always comfortably rigged when driven at speed. What has been stated regarding the horses used for specials will also apply to a majority of the winners of rich stake and purse races the past season. — Columbus. Trotting blood not only enables horses to trot faBt, but it also enables horses to pace a blue streak. The champion pacing records are held by trotting-bred ] pacers: Dan Patch 1:56}, fastest stallion; Pr'nce Alert 1:57, fastest gelding, and Dariel 2:00}, fastest j mare. The fastest yearling pacer, Belle Acion 2:20|; the fastest two-year-old pacer, Directly 2:07}; the fastest three- year-old pacer, Klatawah 2:05J, and the] fastest four-year-old pacer, Online 2:04, were all sired l by trotting-bred stallions. The handsome stallion Bonnie Boy 2:25, formerly I owned in Western New York but now the property of Wm. Buechley & Son, Pottsville, Pa., made a full > season this year, having evidently caught the fancy of the breeders around Pottsville. To his list of 16 | standard performers Bonnie Boy this year added i Bonnie Patchen 2:16} and Pearl Wilkes, a four-year- 1 old by him, was second in 2:20. Reports indicate that he has a lot of promising youngsters to come out next I season and add to his fame as a sire. He is the sire of Lecco 2:09}. Nearly every paper that haB discussed the per- 1 formance of Cresceus at Wichita has assumed that all disputed records are settled by the Board of Cen- 1 sors of the American Trotting Association. As a matter of fact, Rule 43, Sect. 17 of the rules of the National Trotting Association provides that: — The Presidents of The National Trotting Association, The American Trotting Association and The American Register Association shall constitute a Board to de- termine the validity of all records disputed by The American Trotting Register Association. — Am. Horse Breeder. Of the receDt Tranter-Kenney combination sale held I in Kentucky the Stock Farm says: " The recent sale at Lexington furnished a proof that the irarketfor light-harness horses is not only stronger tLan it has been for several years, but is not affected as most other commodities by the slump in stocks. When men are williDg to pay several hundred dollars for trotting-bred horses that can not trot, it is a sure sign that the fever is again attaching itself to the admirers of the trotting and pacing horse. The prices realized by every lot, with very few excep tions, were fully up to the standard, and in many in- stances were considerably more than the animals were worth." A subscriber who was recently in Fresno tells us that he saw a colt while there that for individual ex- cellence surpasses anything that he has seen for some time. The colt belongs to Horace Thorwaldson, the harness man of Fresno and is called Major McKinley. He is a rich dark bay 15.31 hands high, and large in proportion to height and developed like an aged horse, though he was only a year old laBt May. He is | by McKinley (son of McKinney 2:1 1}1, first dam Bes9 by Sidney Arnet, second dam by Grand Moor, third dam Lady Norfolk by Norfolk. With a. month's handliDg he can show better than a three minute gait, and does it is a way that betokens great speed when age comes to him. There is not much doing at the Sacramento track just now, the rains having made the tracks and the roads in that vicinity pretty muddy, but a few days of sunshine will make pretty good roads for joggiDg 1 the trotters and pacers over. Walter Mafatin has moved Falrose and his string of horses over from Woodland. Rio Vista George is at work breaking several colts for Mrs. Callendine and haB good oneB among them. Mr. Mitchell has three colts, L. M. Clark has four colts, and "the big policeman" has a weanling that he is giving his spare time to. There are several Athamax weanlings in that vicinity that are attracting great attention for their size and looks, and Athamax is bound to be a producer if tbey are a fair sample of his get. There is one out of a Don Marvin mare and another from a mare by Holm Dell that will be hard to beat in the show ring as year- lings. They are now five months old. On the title page of the Breeder and Sports- man this week is a half tone engraving of the fifteen months old colt Golden Boy, by McKinney 2:11}, owned by Mr. W. R. Murphy of Los Angeles. Few colts are better developed at Mb age and he can show a great deal of natural speed when led to halter, while his gait iB pure and frictioDless. His breeding is of the gilt edge sort — in fact we do not know of a colt in California more intensely bred in pure trotting lines than he. His sire we all know as one of the greatest sires ever produced. HiB dam is Bonnie Red by Red Wilkes, sire of 167 in the list and still a vigor- ous horse at 29 years of age. The grandam of Golden Boy is by Almont 33, third dam by Abdallah 15, and fourth dam by Hambletonian 10. The blood of Hambletonian 10 is doubled up through the best sons and grandsons of that great speed progenitor and in Golden Boy Mr. Murphy has a colt that should develop into a great sire. A curious specimen of the equine family was re- ceived at the horse market In St. Louis a few d ays ago, and for the two days that it remained at the yards it was the object of the most curious attention. It was none other than an eight-footed horse, a new and novel curiosity. The animal was a good shaped sorrel gelding, on the driver pattern, and was smooth, sleek and well fed, and outside of the fact that he had some abnormal growth, looked nothing out of the ordinary. But growing out of each fetlock just at the ankle joint on the inner side of the legs was a perfect little equine foot with the horn and frog equally as well developed as any horse hoof. The horse was an Oregon-bred ranger. The extra feet in no way interfered with the movements of the horse, which in action seems to be totally oblivious to the fact that he is any differ- ently constructed from the average equine. Rather the double set of feet appeared to fill the good office of interfering boots and made the horse trot good and wide. Several offers of $400 were made for him but refused. NOVEMBER 28, 1903] f&hs gveeitev emir gtjxortsrocm Cresceus and His Records. (Breeders Gazette.) A press dispatch from Wichita states that od the demand of the American Trotting Association the track at that Kansas point has heen remeasured and found to be two feet over a mile in length. It is plain as plain can be that this demand for remeasurement came in connection with the record of 1:59} made by Cresceus on the Wichita track in October. Just after the news that Csesceus had once more gained the trotting crown was flashed across the country a well known trainer announced at Memphis that the Wichita track was nearly 100 feet short of a mile, and then commenced an exhibition of hostility to the stallion, his owner and the record which has no parallel in the history of the harness turf. It i9 a well established principle of law and equity that a man must be considered innocent till he is proved to be guilty, but it has been the fashion this time to cry fraud against the whole performance and Mr. Ketcham and the Wichita officials have been called on time and again to prove themselves innocent. To begin wifh the Memphis association made the bad blunder of immediately challenging Mr. Ketcham to come to Memphis and beat 2:00. A reward of $5000 was offered for the performance, which under the terms of offering simply meant that the owner of Lou Dillon would bet Mr. Ketcham $5000 to nothing that Cresceus could not trot in 1:59|. Stories flew back and forth thick and fast. The merest balder-dash was given space as to the making of the record at Wichita and when some one bungling away with a knife blade and the second-hand of a common watch was found to have stood some 150 feet away from the wire and caught the mile in 2:06 or thereby his story was given a scare head and commented on as contro- verting the official statement of the time made. An- other layman rigged out with the same sort of a tim- ing outfit was alleged to have "told his wife" that the stallion did not beat 2:00, and this rubbish also got into print as indicative that the horse did not trot in 1:59|. It is not to be denied that the marvelous feat of the chestnut son of Robert McGregor came as a genuine surprise to harness turfmen generally. It " was not thought that Cresceus had regained his old time speed. However, there are many points which must be taken into consideration, now that the length of the track has been proved to be ac- cording to rule. Some time before Cresceus made his record he was engaged to go an exhibition at the Wichita fair. The rain made the track too muddy for fast time and as has been previously stated racing wa9 possible on two days only out of the six through which the fair lasted. On the Saturday, when by dint of hard work the stretch had been brought into something.like condition, Cresceus was driven a mile in a little better than 2:12, with the last quarter in 29 seconds. Now it is well known that Cresceus never was much of what is termed a "brush horse, " which is to say that when he has his speed with him he can carry it through the mile. Per contra he has never shown the ability when "strung out" to trot one quarter much faster than any other in the mile, and every one knows that his owner and driver Mr. Ketcham knows him like the proverbial book. It was this fast quarter which induced Mr. Ketcham to return Cresceus to Wichita to make the trial against the watch when the track should have dried tmt and been reduced to record breaking shape after the prolonged deluge of the first two weeks in October; The judges in the stand are all men of reputation. The timers fit that description also. They have made affidavits as to the correctness of the time. It is certainly probable that some men will be willing to swear that the stallior. did not trot within several seconds of the time announced and in view of the general temper of turfmen as heretofore expressed it is not unlikely that some hard swearing will be done when the Boord of Censors meets next month to take action on the general acceptance of records. So far as is known no one has lodged a regular protest against the acceptance of the record, but urder the rules the Board of Censors is a body with initiative as well as original and appellate jurisdiction and it annually rejects records for this, that or the other reason. It is plain, however, that in the Cresceus matter it has an entirely new phase of the record question on their hands and it will stand its members in hand to go exceedingly slow in the premises. The estab- lished principle in the government of harness racing is that the judges are and of right must be the sole judges of all the facts in connection with a race against time or otherwise, and unless fraud and collusion can be shown beyond the shadow of a doubt the record must stand, provided that the published rules relating to time records were all complied with, and so far no claim has been made that they were not. If a claim of the sort is or has been filed the matter then becomes one for the consideration of the Board of Appeals of the American Trotting Associ- ation just like any other protested matter. Records have been changed by order of both the Board of Appeals of the American and the Board of Review of the National Trotting Association, the case <-f The Roman being one in point. The mo9t conclusive proof, however, alone can be permitted to weigh against the testimony of judges and timers. Farther there is the motive, which must always be considered. It is very questionableif the reduction of his record to 2:00 or below would at any time with- in the past year have increased the value of Cresceus $100. He has been tne king of trotting stallions for solong that his owner has been enabled to get for Cresceus' stud services quite as much as if he had bad a faster mark than 2:02^. The feat of Cresceus' son Crescent Route at Memphis when he trotted in 2:0SJ was much more of an advertisement for his sire than any thing that sire could have done or has done on the track. Not one of the men who sat in the judges' stand at Wichita could afford to be mixed up in a racing swindle and not one of them would have consented to go into acy thing of the sort. Not alone that, but if a steal had been contemplated so many men would have had to be taken into knowl- edge of what was to be done that the whole story would have been public property long before this. For instance, it has been stated that one damaging fact is that not one of the men requested to time the heat possessed a stop-waich, and that four such watches were borrowed by the secretary for the occa- sion. The inference of this is that the watches were either slow or fixed in some way to make the mile seem faster than it really was. In the name of com- mon sense, seeing that these watches agreed as to the time of the mile as well as other watches do in other places on similar occasions, how could four such chronometers have been tampered with to make them agree as they did? There is not a watch expert on the faceof the earth who can do anything of the sort, and if there is no less than six men, to wit, those four who loaned the tickers, the secretary and the jeweler, would be fully cognizant of the fraud, for the watches were obtained at the track and would of necessity have had to be borrowed beforehand, fixed and re- turned in order that they might again be borrowed just before the start. This is merely a sample of the many ridiculous aspersions which have been cast on the performance, the men connected with it and the horse. Taken in its entirety the case merely resolves itself into this: The performance of Cresceus was to rule, for that has not been denied. The judges, who are the sole judges of the facts of the race, gave out the time as exhibited by quarters by the timers and in full as taken by them. The track, at the demand of the parent turf organization, has been found to be correct in length. Fraud must be clearly shown he- fore the record can be rejected, a clear case must be made out. If the authorities believe fraud was per- petrated, it is their duty to ferret it out; and until they show beyond the shadow of a reasonable doubt that fraud was perpetrated, the record must stand as perfectly legitimate, independent of all else which went before or has come after the day on which it was made. •■ Board of Censors. The Horse's Muscle and the Horse's Shoe. How many men who shoe horses think of the rela- tion which the shoe ha9 toward the muscles of the leg, says an exchange. We will take for instance the perforans muscle, which has iis origin below the knee joint and on the upper and posterior face of the tibia and fibula. This muscle or tendon, receiving as it doe9 the smaller muscles of the lower limb, is so rein- forced that it, acting as an independent agent of flexion, contracts the action of the joints with ease. On the other hand, take the extensor muscle with its office of extending the stride of the animal. This muscle, acting as a partner of the flexor, performs the entire work of the limb in so far as the move- ments of joints are considered. So that the entire care of the legs is entrusted to the well being of the two muscles. At the extremity of these a weight is attached. Nature has provided for this, but how much weight can the muscles carry without suffering injury? This is the question to be considered. It might also be asked, how should this weight be placed so as to equalize the tension thrown on the muscles, burdening neither one of them with more than is nec- essary or proper? In the running horse from two to four ounces (the latter is somewhat excessive weight) is sufficient for all needs of this most fleet-footed of horses. On the draught horse from two to three pounds is quite a common load to see placed on the extremity. Being slow of movement and heavy of weight it may be presumed that the draught horse can carry his load of shoes quite as comfortably as can the thoroughbred. Striking a medium line and coming to the carriage horse, usually the weight of shoe on this kind is about twenty ounces in front and possibly sixteen ounces behind. Should the horse be expected to carry this weight? Notatall. The shoe was designed originally to protect the hoof from wear. It is true that the expense attending shoeing of some horses is large, but it is much more profitable to save the muscles and thus save the animal than to economize at the wrong end. The horseshoer should keep in mind that his duty is not alone to shoe the foot, but also to pre- serve the usefulness of the horse in so far as a scien- tific application of the shoe can accomplish this, and that he may do this a little consideration of what is the natural power of muscle in its weight-carrying ability would go a long ways. Says the Horse Breeder: "Californians evidently have a promising representative of the Alcyone family in the staliion Zombro 2:11 by McKinney 2:11J. At the late California Slate Fair Zombro was awarded first prize for best standard bred stallion, four years old or over, and also received the gold medal for best standard bred stallion with five of his get. Zombro is now eleven years old. He took a race record of 2:13 the season he was three years old. Hi-s dam was by Almont Lightning, a son of Almont: and his sec- ond dam by Kentucky Clay. The latter was a half- brother of Lady Thorn 2:1SJ and Mambrino Patcten 58. His sire was Strader's Cassius M. Clay Jr , and his dam was the famous Rodes Mare by Gano. ' The Mystic Park track, over which Goldsmith Maid secured her record ot 2:14, at that time the world's trotting record, will be cut up into lots, unless some one connected with the trotters secures it before 1904. Sober up on Jack=on's Nara ^odA The Board of Censors of the American Trotting Register Association will have several questions of importance to be considered before the issuing of the next Year Book, among them the 1:593 record of Cresceus at Wichita, the wind shield, as to whether records made behind it will star d, as well as other methods of pacemaking. The board will also be urged to bar all hoppled horses from earning cham- pionship records save in a class by themselves. The board is composed of Messrs. W. C. Brown, F. S. Gor- ton and W. P. Ijams, all representative breeders, who will give the matter careful consideration. There are many and the cumber is growing who believe that hopples should be barred in all races, and it seems only just that horses so rigged should not be awarded honors in the championship class. Ed Geers is working a green trotter on the Mem- phis track that gives promise of being a duplicate of Billy Buch 2:07L He is a bay gelding (age not quoted), named Alexander by Star Duroc, dam by Geo. Wilkes. A dispatch from Memphis states: "One of the reasons Geers took him to train from an Ohioan named Clark is that he resembles Lord Dei by in several ways and Geers never tires praising Lord Derby. He has showD a mile in 2:10, the half being negotiated in 1:03. His breeding is old fashioned .and his previous career is like that of Billy Buch. "Alex- ander," said Geers, "has shown more speed than Billy Buch at the same time last year. Scott Hudson is said to be after the colt." Horse Owners Should Vse GOMBAULT'S CAUSTIC BALSAM The Great French Veterinary Remedy. A SAFE, SPEEDY & POSITIVE CURE. Prepared exclusively hv J. E. Goiubault. ex- Veterlnory Surgeon to the Freuca Government Stud. SUPERSEDES \LL C4LTERY OR FIRING. Impo-: i ?r or hlemtih. The wrest i"--[ BII>U'i- ever used. T»ki place Of all liniment- (■•r mill it -.-vere artlon. Re res a I n h ■■ Morses °As "'Sir MAX KKUKDY f r Khea- it. gprctlDii Sort Throiii. is. Wr OUABAXTEE that one table- of Caustic R:il»:im will pr-Hlnce ttle of any I.Ut'l oade, mi-lit- BalMUO .,. PlK'-Ul..l«> TEE LA^HESCK-WlLLrJ.MS C0KP1ST, Cl«Tel»a4, Ohio. ®hs gveebev emir gtpxxtrfesman [November 28, 1V03 American Woods. ROD, GUN AND KENNEL. Conducted by J. X. De WITT. Footwear for Sportsmen. The demand for suitable footwear for tbe hunter and angler, as well as for other lines of sport, has arisen, grown and now to quite an extmt has been supplied. At the present time the manufacture of sportsmen's clothing is the sole output of many big factories and large shops, established and eciuipped at an enormous expense and furnishing work for thousands of employees. This industry is also an important and profitable branch of other large facto- ries as well. The industry, however, is comparatively in its infancy, and is yet of a scope far from what it gives promise of being in y ears to come. A perfect enjoyment of outdoor sport largely hinges upon the BportEman's activity and ability to with- stand fatigue, and if the feet are not properly clad they are quick to tire under the stress of unaccus- tomed work. Moreover, they are very susceptible to unusual cold or dampness, and the ordinary wear of the house or street will not furnish sufficient protec- tion in the forests, marshes or fields. The problem of clothing the other members, or the body, is less diffi- cult. Extremes of temperature or weather changes may easily be met. But the feet have the hardest, roughest work to perform, and can neither be left bare nor clumsily bundled up without militating against their usefulness. It follows, therefore, that tne perfect boot or shoe muat furnish absolute pro- tection with absolute freedom from restraint for the foot; concequently, perfect footwear wiJl never be made, nor anything that will closely approximate perfection. Tne Inuian moccasin and the rubber boot are widely dissimilar types, each serving a single purpose, the one giving ease and the other protection, and if we can imagine a boot or shoe in which these qualities are joined we have the very thing which sportsmen have ever longed for and never oDtained. Unless oneis accustomed to wearing moccasins they are very tiring to the feet, for the thinnesB of the sole is remem bered every time the foot presses a stick or pebble. But with a little practice the wearer will learn to unconsciously pick smooth footing and this enforced caution has helped to earn for the moccasin its reputation for noiselessness. The moccasined foot avoids dry twigs and rattling stones. It also avoids the marshy spots in the trail and shrinks from con- tact with melting snow, for the majority of moccasins are far from waterproof. Otherwise, they are very desirable footwear in still hunting and are less worn than they deserve to be. It has been found that the white man's ingenuity could not improve upon the Indian method of dressing deerskins for mocca- sins, while ordinary oak-tanned leather is not suit- able for their manufacture. Moccasins of Indian make would withstand a considerable amount of moisture without wetting the feet, and the hides of moose and elk, being thicker and of closer grain, were better than buckskin. Of late, two or three manufacturers are producing really good elk and moose-hide moccasins and sportsmen are rapidly learning their value. A felt boot, of the sort worn largely by'lumbermen, will be found very serviceable by the still hunter. It is warm and can be worn over any number of socks or stockings and is preferable to a moccasin on dry or frozen ground or in snow that is not melting. It will not wet through in an ordinary dew and the high top protects the ankle and calf from brushes and briars. The felt boot is much too warm for wear except in winter or late fall. Worn with an arctic or rubber overshoe, nothing is better in the sunny days that sometimes come in midwinter with their swilt alter- nations of thaws and freezes. The hunting boot, proper, is of tanned leather, made to lace closely over a waterproof tongue or lining at the instep and calf. In some styles the lacing is at the side, in seven or eight pairs of eyelets. The toes are usually broad and roomy, the soles thick and heavy and the heels flat. There are many makes of hunting boots on the market and the majority of them are very neat in design, well made and service- able. Buck-tanned elkBkin is to some extent used for uppers and horsehide for soles. Rubber soles have been tried, but did not give entire satisfaction. From 15 to 18 inches is the ordinary height of the leg. The common type of hunting shoe might be more accu- rately termed a half-boot, for it differs from the boot tut very little in style, material and weight, save that the leg is only 9 or 10 inches high. These boots and shoes are comfortable and eaBy to wear, keep out dampnesB well and are all that a sensible customer can expect of footwear of this type. Their makers do not claim that they are noiseless, for inch-thick soles must needs be stiff and unyielding to a certain degree, but the average gunner is not a still-hunter nor doeB he require to be velvet shod. For lighter wear there are so-called moccasins, with soft, pliable uppers and a thin, rawhide sole. Some 'lave heels and some are without, but the former are preferable, for a perfectly smooth sole gets "slick" with a little wear and is conducive to unexpected and disagreeable falls. These moccasinB are about six nches high, some of them have seamless uppers and all are supplied with soft, waterproof tongues. Rubber is the only strictly water-proof material suited for use in the manufacture of footwear. The modern footwear is built up of rubber-coated drilling or duck, all seams made tight with rubber cement and reinforced with rubber strips. The fashion of lining them with woolen flannel is gradually but surely falling into disfavor, ior a boot that induces sweating of the feet and has a lining difficult to dry, defeats the very purpose for which it was intended. Rubber boots are made in knee, thigh and hip lengths, according to the work for which they are intended. There is very little difference in the appearance of the different makes, but in quality of tne materia' used there is a wide latitude for choice. An inferior rubber boot is worse than worthless, for it beguiles the wearer abroad and betrays him into the clutches of rheumatism, la grippe ana pneumonia. As expert judges of the quality of rubber are scarce outside the trade, the customer's safety in purchas- ing lies in accepting only the goods ot a reputable maker. And when in the field he should remember that no rubber footwear is absolutely snag-proof and guard his steps accordingly. With good hip or thigh Doots, two or three feet of water on a duck marsh does not hinder the hunter and with knee boots he is safeguarded against mud or thawing snow of moder- ate depth. Rubber footwear is to be eschewed in warm weather. It makes the feet tender and painful, excluding all air— fairly blistering the flesh If worn long in the hot sun. The best that can be claimed for it is that it is impervious to moisture and that is sufficient. A Bportsman is not completely equipped without rubber boots for wear in cold, wet weather. Rubber hip boots of lighter weight are largely used by anglers, but the legB are commonly of mackintosh, which serves quite as well as rubber, since the sole of an angler's boot is alone subject to rough service. Then there are waders with Bhoes attached, used principally by fly-casters who fish from the center of a stream rather than from its shores: and there are also waders with stocking feet, with which leather or rubber shoes may be worn. In England and Euro- pean countries waders are more commonly used than here. Despite the desirability of many patterns of sports- men's footwear as now manufactured, there is yet abundant room for improvement, particularly in the reduction of weight. A hunting boot may not seem heavy to a lumberman or a farmer, but the city sportsman who haB worn light, low shoes and slippers during the summer months will likely imagine himself shod with lead during the first days of his autumnal outing. It ought to be possible to give a boot sole stiffness to the extent that it may guard the foot against thorns and pebbles without making it double- thick. Perhaps it is necessary to put three or four pounds of leather in a hunting boot, but if so, it would be better to dispense with boots altogether and in their place adopt shoes with a detachable waterproof leggin. The idea iB more nearly practical than it appears at firBt glance. A pair of elastic-side gaiters have been known to keep the wearer's feet perfectly dry while wading knee-deep acrosB a stream. Why would it not be possible to make light, waterproof leggins to be held around the shoe-tops with heavy rubber bands and worn or discarded as necessity dic- tates? Boots or shoes intended to be worn on a hunting trip of special importance should be purchased months before and worn enough to at least partially break them to the feet. This ought to be unnecessary ad- vice, but it isn't. We have all had our little unpleas- ant experiences with new Bhoes, but human nature is prone to forget the woes that are past and gone. A blistered heel or a pinched toe has spoiled many a long-anticpated outing and willwork disaster to many more. It is well to be "forehanded, " even in so small a matter as the purchase of shoe leather. Another matter of importance in connection with footwear is warmth. How many hunters while in a boat or duck blind have experienced the extreme dis- comfort of cold feet. Anglers also can testify to the benumbing effectB ensuing from wading a stream the waters of which are fed from snow capped rangeB Woolen stockings, of various lengths and thick- nesses are worn, as are the so-called Arctic Bocks. Where extra large sized rubber bootB are worn the feet and calves are sometimes wrapped in pieces of blanket or sacking. Ordinarily sportsmen success- fully overcome the probabilities of much discomfort in this line, but at times, despite all usual pre- caution, the sportsmen, to his great chagrin, realizes the fact that his feet are "like cakes of ice." We can, as a preventive or for almost immediate relief against so uncomfortable a contingency, recom- mend the virtues of Vita oil. Just a few drops of this potent mixture rubbed over the feet before going out into a cold duck bind early on a raw morning will keep one's feet in a glow for hours. The oil is pene- trating but harmless, it will not blister or cause any after bad effects, we know how efficacious it is for we have tried it and unhesitatingly recommend it for the purpose here mentioned. Duck and Quail Outfits. The demand at. Skinner's keeps up lor sportsmen's outfits, ammunition and guns. A large and new stock of goods has been added to fill the demand for hunting suits, rubber boot! and hunters' footwear; canvas and folding wooden decoys, gun cases and a new design of leather-covered shell boxes. Peters Factory Loaded Shells are unequaled. Skinner's place is 801 Market street. You can get anything there yon need for duck or quail shooting. Send for a catalogue, if you haven't the time to come, and try a mail order. # On a hot day drink Jaokson's Napa Soda lemonade and be refreshed. For a number of years, now, the descendants of our pioneers have been blasting out the stumps of the walnut trees their sires and grandsires split into fence-rails, selling the splintered roots for more than the original acreage value of the land in which they grew. The gnarled and curly grain of a wlanut shows well when planed and polished; and it is not eaBily split; consequently such wood is desirable for many uses, and particularly for gun-Btocks, as natural bends of the right shape are the rule where the Bpur roots turn away from the perpendicular line of the trunk. Walnut stumps decay very slowly, the heart remaining sound for decades after the bark and sap have rotted away. In aomefew districts of the United States a considerable amount of black walnut timber still remains uncut, but, as a rule, in inaccessible locations. Where waterways were within reach it has long since been felled and rafted to market, and when railroads have penetrated fresh territory the black walnut timber, because the most valuable, was the most sought after. But the supply of American walnut for gun-stocks appears practically inex- haustible, and much of it is superior quality, equal to the best Italian or Circassian woods. Occasionally maple is uBed for this purpose, but not so frequently as in earlier years, when maple with curly and "birds- eye" grain was much sought after by our gunmakers. Muzzle-loading rifles stocked with maple may be found in nearly every Bhop dealing in second-hand arms, and there iB little doubt that thiB wood was better than walnut for the long forestocks, which frequsntly extended the entire length of the barrel, asiia grain was closer and tougher. American wal- nut also figures in the sporting goods trade in the shape of gun eases and cabinets, tables for indoor games, and handles for shell reloading and gun- cleaning implements. Oars and paddles of American ash are supplied to the sportsmen of the world, and also, by an Arkansas factory on contract, to the navies of two important European countries. It is found in home and foreign marketBin the shape of polo and hockey sticks, golf clubs, racket handles, base ball bats — though for the latter purpose willowis more commonly used. Where greater strength is necessary, as in gymnasium equip- ment, second-growth hickory is the acme of excel- lence, possessing almost the strength and elasticity of steel. Woods lately coming into prominence be- cause of their extreme hardness are persimmon and dogwood, largely used for golf club heads and kindred purposes. Willow and redwood, again, are selected because of their lightness for seine and net floats. White cedar is preferred for making decoy ducks, and its superiority over all other woods lor canoe building is beyond dispute. Port Orford cedar has a grain almost like boxwood or sandalwood, and is much in demand for boat and canoe building. As a matter of fact, where the woods of foreign growth are found in the stock carried by a sporting goods store, our home-grown product could supply the purpose as well, and generally better — making an exception to cover the matter of fishing rods, and this with a decided reservation, for the merits of our woods are not bo well uaderstood as they may some day be. The forests of the United States hold neither lignum vitae nor rosewood, but the latter can be and is imitated closely enough to defy the scrutiny of anyone not an expert. It is worthy of note that every year witnesses the establishment of factories for shaping our native woods into the many inciden tals belonging to a Bports- man's equipment. Gun-stocks, base ball bats, hock t y sticks, golf clubs, gymnasium goods, canoes, decoyt; turned, carved and bent wood articles of a thousan el- and-one descriptions. The field of industry is a broad one and its scope will widen from year to year. The supply of material cannot be exhausted, is available anywhere and everywhere, and the demand for the finished goods is stable, at prices insuring a good round profit to the manufacturer. Our foreign trade in this liDe is as yet in its infancy and should be more fully developed. With our advantages — forestB, skilled workmen, perfect machinery — we should be able to meet and conquer competition. New York, Ohio, Indiana and Michigan are now the banner woodworking States, but with the southward march of progress, Missouri, Tennessee and Arkansas should speedily forge to the front in this as in other branches of industry. The possibilities of Pacific Coast woods — spruce, white pine, laurel, manzanita, the different varieties of oak, particularly the black oak growing near the bay shores, and many other woods — areas yet practically undeveloped. Granted equal trans- portation facilities, the greater number of word- working plants should be found where the timber supply is most abundant. ■ A dispatch from Redding this werk stated that salmon were so thick in the movrrh of Mill creek just below the government fishery station that they ctuld be seen right up to the surface of tbe water and so closely packed together that a person looking upon the mass would feel that he could cross the creek dry Bhod by stepping on the backs of the fish ae they ap- pear above the water. They were crowded up by the mass of fish which extended down to the bottom of the stream. At the fishery the fish can be secured in greater quantities than they can be handled and the hatchery is running at its full capacity. Some dayB as many as 1,000,000 eggs are secured. People from the southern part of the county go to the hatchery for the fish, which are given away after the spawning operation. These fish are not fit for the table, but are probably fed to hogs. Many millions of your.g salmon will be hatched this season, as operations have been under way for some time and may continue for some time longer if the river does not rise too high. November 28, 1903j f&he gxeebev atxit grpavt&man 9 The Blue Bottle, Green-Bottle, and House-Fly. The blue-bottle, green-bottle, and house-fly, says Mr. Charles Walker in Zand and Water, though, per- haps, the commonest flies there are, are but little used by the fly-fisherman. The success met within using the imitation fly is, as a rule, very small. The reason for this want of success is, I am sure, the way in which the imitation is made by the fly-dresBer. In this case, as well as in the imitations of the alder, it is not the fault of the fly-dresser, as the writers on fly-dressing direct the dresser to put the wings on in practically the same position as in every other fly — that is, in an upright position. Anyone, however, on the most casual observation, must realize that the wings of a blue-bottle and the wings of a blue dun do not lie in quite the same position with relation to the body. We have heard much discussion lately with regard to the trout's power of discriminating between different colors, but I have never yet heard anyone cast doubt on its power of discriminating between different shapes; therefore, I think that it would certainly be better to try to imitate the shape of a fly as nearly as possi- ble. And yet this fact with regard to the position of the wing- in the natural fly does not seem to have Deen noticed by the observant writers on fly-tying, and 1 believe tnat this has a great deal to ao with tQe incomparably greater success which has fallen to tne share of the imitations of the Ephemeridaein dry fly-fishing than to the imitations of any other family of flies, for the happy family of Ephemeridae are the only flies the imitations of which have their wings in anything approaching the right position. Late in the season the blue and green bottle fre- quently get on the water, though I have seen them tnere as early as June. The house-fly gets on the water even earlier, especially on windy days. Of course these flies, when they get on the water, are most often seen buzzing violently at frequent in- tervals, with the object of raising themselves from the surface. The only way this can be imitated is by making a hackle fly. The hackle fly, however, is but a poor imitation of a fly buzzing, and it is better to make the fly with the wings in the position of rest, for the natural fly, as I have said before, only buzzes at intervals, which gets less frequent the longer the fly is on the water. The position of the wings of these flies (blue and green bottle and house-fly) is horizontal. Tae wings meet at the head, and diverge from each other at their other extremities. This position is perhaps the most difficult to imitate of any. The wings, cut from quill feathers from opposite wings of a starling, should ue crossed. The hook should then be taken in the left hand, and held by the bend between the first and second fingers, with the head of the fly pointing towards the right. The wings are then laid flat on the body with the right hand, and held there firmly with the thumb of the left hand. The wings may then be tied in and the fly finished off. The body should be made fat in all these flies, espe- cially in the blue-bottle and green-bottle. I also think it is a good thing to put silver tinsel on the body. There are a lot of hairs on the body, and when the fly falli on the water a number of air bubbles adhere to these hairs, giving the body a silvery appearance, with the color showing through. This fact may be observed by anyone who cares to take the trouble to see what the natural fly which has fallen on the waSer looks like when seen from below the surface, as they must appear to the fish. This maylbe done in two ways. The first is, per- haps, the best. Take a natural blue-bottle and put it on the water in a large glass aquarium. It can then be seen very well from below the surface by looking through one of the sides of the aquarium. The other way is to put the fly on the surface of some water contained in a large bowl, and to place a small mirror at the bottom. (I have used a little round mirror which was Bent to me as an advertise- ment for something). The fly can then be seen re- flected in the mirror at the bottom, and the silvery appearance I have mentioned will be seen. The hackle should be put on before the wings, and the fibres pulled down to point towards the bend of the hook. Any fibres which will not go down thus may be cut off. The following dressings are the best for these flies: Blue-bottle Body — Fine dark blue chenille or dark blue Berlin wool, teazed up and spun on the tying silk; ribbed with silver tinsel. Hackle — Two or three turns of black cock's hackle. Wings — From the quill feathers of starling's wing. Hook— (New size), No. 3. [10, 12, 14]. Green-bottle Body — Bright green peacock herle; ribbed with silver tinsel. Wings and Hackle — Same as blue-bottle. Hook— (New size). No. 3. [10, 12, 14]. House-fly Body — Yellow Berlin wool spun on black tying silk; the exact color is easy to see on the natural fly; ribbed with silver tinsel. Hackle— Coche-y-bondu. Wings— Starling quill feather. Hook— (New size), No. 0-1. [12, 14, 16.] The heads of all these flies should be made large, with the black tying silk. October was the record month for Spratts goods on the Coast. During the present month the de- mand for Spratts dog biscuit, etc., is almOBt two tons in excess of the output of medicines, &0 last year. Kennel Registry. VISITS. Mrs P. J. Walker's Irish Terrier bitch Royal Noreen (Exile ot Erin-Widow Bedott) to same owner's IviwildeDangan (Mooyglas Dlok-Irish Smile), November 15, 1803. Ethics ot the Show Ring. What I mean by the ethics of the show ring is the art of training dogs to show themselveB and "hand- ling" them to the best advantage while they are under the judicial ken. In theBe days of dog evolu- tion, or breeding docs for prizes and profils on an extensive scale, the "handling" of dogs in the show ring has developed into an art. In this way it is of paramount importance that fanciers who elect to fol- low the pursuit of dog showing, whether in a small way or on a large scale, whether as a hobby supple" mentary to their daily toil or avocation, or whether as a profession, to which dog showing has latterly developed, should post themselves up in the require- ments of the show ring which are essential to success. It is not enough to possess a good dog, for it 1b often the case — and I speak as a judge of some experience — that a moderate dog, well tutored and "handled,'' will beat a better dog indifferently shown. Whatever a dog may be at home or before goiLg into the ring, or when he comes out of it, it is what he looks like at that supreme and critical moment when the judge's eye is upon him, on which the judge decides upon the relative merits of the dogs before him. 1 aay "rela- tive," because all decisions are, or should be, made comparatively according to the merit of the dogs on the day, and not according to what a dog may have been or may have done in the show ring previously, or may be or do in the future. Just as a jury trying cases in the law courts is advised by the presiding judge to Bhut out from their minds any knowledge vhe jurymen may posaesa of the case or cases they are about to try, and are exhorted to arrive at their de- cisions purely upon the merits of the cases presented to them in court, 80 ought show judges, when they enter the arena of the show ring, to ahut out from their minds any previous knowledge of the perform- ances of particular dogs, and judge them entirely on their merit and condition at tnat particular moment. This Quty of judges is, however, another subject, and a very wide one, which 1 will not pursue furtner, and only mention parenthetically by way of preparing my readers for a clearer comprehension of the necessity of efficiency in show ring education and practices. A fundamental principle underlying the efficiency iB, no doubt, a Bound knowledge of the points of dogs, and whilst this is more or leas an absolute necessity, it is not all that is needed. To know the good and bad points of dogs is, however, more than half the battle, for it is to a great extent in the concealment of the latter and the advantageous display of the former that the success or non-succesa of the "handler" ia determined. This is where the "art" comes in. The first essential to Buccess in the show ring is, of course, the possession of a good dog, the next to have the dog in good health and condition, and thethird to Bhow it to" the best possible advantage. The beat dogs alwaya pay the best, and they are all within the reach of novices and amateurB, who, if they cannot buy, can bleed them if they go the right way about it- It is always beBt not to Bhow a dog in bad condition, even although he be entered for a show. Many a good dog has met defeat and tarnished his reputation by being exhibited in indifferent condition. In these days of keen competition, there ia rarely any margin to give anything away on the acore of conditio n and it ia wiser and better to miss the honor of a possible win rather than run any risk of defeat on the score of indifferent condition. Some people are stupid enough to imagine that, as collars and chains are made for dogs, so dogs are made for collars and chains, and that a young dog, when a collar and chain are put on him, should auto- matically fall into their use as if to the manner horn. One might just as well expect a colt off the moore to go in a harness right off, without any previous tuition. The earlier dogs are taught their exhibition alphabet the better. Before ever they are exhibited, they should undergo a course of quiet tuition at home, amongst other dogs if poasible. After having been taught the uee of the collar and chain or lead, and become quite familiar with and at home in them, then a course of show ring drill should be commenced. They should be walked round and round an imaginary ring, pulled up at intervals, and drawn into such a pose as will show their points off to the best advan- tage. A young dog exhibitor could not do better than look over into the horse ring at one of our agri- cultural exhibitions in the summer, and see to what a pitch of perfection our show hackneyB, cobs and ponies, and even ponderoua Bhire horses, have been brought in show ring tuition and manners. Their measured movement, with head erect, their fine, high action, fore and aft, their steady bearing, and, finally, graceful pose when brought to a standstill, which they assume intuitively, stretching out their forelegs forward and their hind legs backward, in order to cover a lot of ground, and fore-shorten the back. All this is required in the dog show ring, where, however, a multiplicity of manipulation Is necessarily occasioned by the many different breeds, some of which require totally different treatment to one another. There are, however, certain terriera which to a very great extent should be built on the lines of a perfect hack- ney, and should be shown fn the ring similarly. I refer to Fox, Welsh, Airedale and Irish Terriers. Then, again, a Pointer, Setter and Retriever vary but little, as also does a Collie's anatomy, whilst I may compare that of a Greyhound to a thoroughbred. Wherever pace is the predominating feature in a dog, of whatevor breed, his structural anatomy dlfferBbnt little from that of a horse. The long and low breeds such as Dandle Dinmonts, Scottish and Skye Terriers, Dachshunds, Basset- hounds and Field Spaniels, are, of course, exceptions. In all the first named terrier breeds it is an absolute necessity that they should come into the show ring in a gay, buoyant manner, full of fire and confidence, with both ends — head and tail— up, because only by such a bearing and deportment can their correct out- line and anatomy be discerned, and their expression discovered. A dog that is too keen and quarrelsome in the ring Spoils hia chances of success almost aa much aa one that is too shy. Now, the ring demeanor requisite in these terriers would be fatal, for instance, in the case of a sporting spaniel, which should neither get his ears Dor tail up. To prevent it, care must be taken in the ring that the dogs do not get too near each other, and a "handler" showing a dog will, of course, take special care that he keeps clear of any bitch in the class. Whilst a little excitement in the terrier ring is sometimes beneficial in getting the doga to show themselves, in the sporting spaniel riDg it should be scrupulously avoided. Spaniels need no inducement, and, after being put in position, are best left alone. Most terriers require some little artifical means of inducing them to ahow themEelveB at the supreme moment, such as a rabbit's foot or a bit of meat. The old practitioner generally arms himself with a piece of boiled liver, which all dogB like, and, when judging, I often beg a bit, with which I am in- variably successful in drawing thedog'sattention and getting a good look at his head and expression, as well as outline. It is also very necessary to have something of the sort in the case of Collies, in wbit h breed ear carriage is of such vital moment. What will get the ears up will often get the tail up, and as high tail carriage in a Collie is objectionable, care she uld be taken to watch both ends. There are some breeds which, after having been paraded in orderto ahow their outline and movement, want a certain amount of special "fixing" when brought to a standstill- I refer to Greyhounds, Whip- pets and Bulldogs. The two former should have narrow fronts (as should all dogs that are required to gallop), and, therefore, it is essential that they should be carefully fixed with their fore-end standing true, and their hind legs stretched backward, so as to show the sweep of stifle. If they are slightly flat in loin, an arch 1b a requisite, it is quite legitimate to lift them up in loin a little, juat as it is to spread a Bulldog's forelegs well hut, since a wide front ia an all import- ant characteristic of thiB breed. Wrinkle in a Bull- dog, Bloodhound, Pug and St. Bernard 1b a desidera- tum, and it ia quite a common thing to see its presence assisted by the wearing of a wide collar in the case of the Bulldog and the Pug, and by the hand in the case of the other two breeds. It is an old saying that anything is fair in love and war, and I think the little manipulations I hav9 de- scribed as practiaed in the show ring are legitimate and fair, and so is the long lead, if not used to excess. A leather lead ia noiseless, which is often a great ad- vantage in the case of a dog of a nervous tempera- ment, and is lighter than a chain, which must in all cases be aa light as possible, consistent with lie re- quisite strength. — Prize Dogs. Michigan Field Trial Club Trials. Splendid weather, high class dogs and a lack of birds were the opposite conditions which confronted the sportsmen at the Michigan Field TrialB. The Derby had nine dogi in the running and the All-Age ten. Daisy Baughn, a blue belton Setter bitch, won fir6t over Clairvoyant in the Derby. The latter dog, it will be remembered, won the Derby and was second in the All-Age of the Sportsmen's Club trials last month. Daisy is a apeedy and meriy worker and had more chances on birds than the sec- ond dog. Phoebe's Rod and Gath's Dorrit, equal third, were also both winners at Clare laBt month. The All-Age dogs were classy and good goers. Don Antonio III, Winner of first is owned by E. S. Nelson of Detroit and is a black, white and tan who shows the mettle of Dash Antonio, his noted sire. Kir g Do Do who won second place Ib owned by E. E. Kraai of Muskegon. Lou Rodfield and Count Holmea, equal third, are both well known field trial doga. Lou won the Sportsmen's All-Age stake at the Clare trials. The order of running and summaries are the follow- ing: GREENVILLE, MICH., Nov. 2-3, 1903.— Michigan Field Trial Club's sixth annual Derby. Nine starters (7 Setters, 2 Pointers). Judges, W. J. Baughn and J. G. Armstrong. I Daisy Baughn, blue belton Setter bitch (Petrel's Count-Fly Rodl F. L. Holmes, owner and handler. With The Arrow, black, white and tan Setter bitch (Sandy K-Glad- stone Belle). C. D. Stuart, owner; Asher Cady, handler. Trixie's Pearl, white, black and tan Setter bitch (Sport's Gatb- Klngston's Trlxie). O. D. Stuart, owner; Asher Cady, handler. With Clairvoyant, orange and white Setter bitch (Cowley's Rodfleld's Pride-Phoebe Whitestone) E. H. Waller, owner and handler. Rap's Billie, lemon and white Pointer dog ( )- C. S. Harrington, owner and bandler. With Phoebe's Rod, orange and white Setter dog (Cowley's RodOeld's Pride-Phoebe Wbitestone). L. Hilsendegen, owner and handler. Petrel's Count's Queen, orange and white Setter bitch ( . A. J. Smith, owner: A. Cady, bandler. With NettieM, black and white Pointer bitch (Plain Sam-Rip's Pearl). W. C Donaldson, owner and bandler. Gath's Dorrltt, black, white and tan Setter bitch (Sport's Gath- Llttle Dorrltt). Dr. E. D. McQueen, owner: Tom Morris, han- dler. A bye. Daisy Baughn with Clairvoyant. Phoebe's Rod with Oath's Dorrltt. Trixie's Pearl with Nettie M. Ill Gath's Dorrltt with Clairvoyant. Daisy Baughn with Pbuibe'." Rod. Trixie's Pearl with Nettle M. 10 ©tu? gveebev ani> gfrHnrtsfmou [November 28, 1963 BESULT First Daisy Baughn; second, Clairvoyant; equal third, Phoebe'. Rod and Gath's Dorritt. Cseenville, MICH., Nov. 3-4, 1903.-Michigan Fiel Trial Club's sixth annual AU-Age. Ten start- art all Setters. Judges, J. G. Baughn and J. G. Armstrong. I Sandy K lemon and white Setter dog (Koran K-Midnight's Gip- seyT- C. D. Stuart, owner; Asher Gady, bandler. Rod's Pride III. blue ^!tou Setter dog (Oincinnatns. Pride-Ruth t jrtftii M w. Tanner, owner, -fci. r*eiiiw nauuiei. Kin^ Do Do. black, white and tad Se.terdog (King Bo-Oliperego). E.e: Kraal, owner; Asher Cady.tandler. Belle, orange and white Setter bitoh ( )■ Marsh Brers, owner and handler. ffl!K Genevieve M black, white and tan Setter bitch (Kmg Bo-Cl.p- ItUH JD ° Magoon, owner; Asher Cady, handler. ^» 'K.^ oV!ef^SdlerG1P- ^ With „ L RexH, chestnut and white Setterdog( '■ Holmes, owner and handler. „„j>n„i*'o Billy Rodfleld, orange and white Setter dog (Cowley s Rodfleld s ■pHrip \ Asher Gady, agent and handier. With Don Antonio in, black, white and tan Satterdog (Dash^ntonio- Eldred's Constance). W. C. Donaldson, owner and handler. II Lou Rodfleld with Sandy K. King Do Do with Don Antonio III. Count Holmes with Genevieve M. HI Sandy K with Don Antonio IH. Lou Rodueld with King Do Do. RESULT First, Don Antonio HI; second, King Do Do; equal third, Count Holmes and Lou Rodfleld. DOINGS IN DOGDOM. ■ Mr. James Cole, of Kansas City, whose portrait appears on this page will judge the dogs at the Me- chanics Pavilion next week. Mr. cole awarded the ribbons at Seattle and Sacramento in 1900 and is not unknown to a number of local fanciers. Seemingly the local fanciers have not taken as much interest in this show as was expected. One cause for this has been the persistent and systematic opposition to the P. C. Collie and Old English Sheep Dog Club's show by several of the greater and lesser lights of looal dogdom, who have been untiring in their efforts to "knock" the "invader." This would not have been so bad, had not the "knockers" met the other fellows with a welcoming hand and spon- taneous promises of support. This feature is the one that is essentially bad for Coast dogdom, for the same practices and underhand pulling down that we here refer to will lie dormant until the Springshow bottled up and ready for a mephitic spraying over any am- bitious doggy sprouting that may not be acceptable to the element first referred to. - This lack of cohesion is, and has been, the incubus of Coast dogdom and has hurt local doggy affairs, year after year, more than anything else and will have a boomerang effect against the success of future shows here, for when there is a scarcity of game in outside fields there will be found alluring targets in the home kennels for the malodorous squirt guns of the "knockers". Mr C. R. Harley has returned to this city after a brief visit East. He attended the Ladies' Kennel Association and Brooklyn shows. Wandee Kennels string is still East and will be exhibited at Phila- delphia this, week and afterwards at the Westminster show in New York. F. J. "Walker received recently from an Eastern dealer the Irish Terrier Iviwilde Dangan. This dog won third puppy, first novice and reserve winners at Wissahieon show 1902. Mrs. Walker has entered Dangan and Roj-al Noreen for the show next week. Noreen is an Eastern winner and won at the last FriBco show. Glen Tana Collie Kennel will have four Collies in the show next week. Mr. Thos. S. Griffiths will not attend the show, Mrs. Griffiths however will be present. . . Mr. Griffiths recently shipped a Lenzie Prince puppy to Pocatelli, Idaho. He writes us also, that, he has received inquires for his stock from New Zealand, his "ad" in the Breeder and Sportsman having caught the eye of a fancier in the antipodes.. Two of Glen Tana Kennels' best bitches, Moreton Vesta and Craigmore Caroline are in whelp and will not, unfortunately, be seen on the bench here next week. The following notes from Oak Grove Kennels this week will be of interest to Collie fanciers: Editor Breeder and Sportsman— I have re- ceived lately from the East the very fine young Cbllie bitch Brookmere Lucy. She is by Champion Welles- bourne Conqueror ex Harwell Lucy. A very hand- some sable and white and a very promising young bitch, a typical specimen. And if I have good luck with her I expect she will make a record for herself on the Coast. I was so well pleased with Brookmere Lucythat I at once bought her dam, Barwell Lucy. She by Champion Barwell Masterpiece ex Clayton Constance. Barwell Lucy is a very showy sable and white with good markings. She was imported from England and it goes without saying she is a good one. I bought Barwell Lucy in whelp to imported Brook- mere Hope, considered by good authority to be the best son of Champion Balgreggie Hope. "Lucy whelped Oct. 4th nine handsome puppies (6 dogs, 3 bitches). I also sent imported Queen's Bounty (this is the dam of the celebrated Champioil Ormskirk Emerald Jr., the champion of champions who has nevar had to take a second ribbon) East to visit Ellwynn Astrol- oger and from this mating I have two very promising bitches. I am at this writing negotiating for a Champion Wellesbourne Conqueror ex Champion Wishaw Grace puppy, and trust I shall succeed in getting it. I also bought on Saturday last a very handsome chestnut sable and white bitch by Champion Rob Roy. This bitch has been mated to Champion Ormskirk Emerald Jr., I hope to get a winner from this. I have some splendid dogs in my kennel, but it is my desire to have the very latest and best winning blood. Your paper is anxiously looked for and the days can't go by some times fast enough for us to receive it, then there is a scamper who shall see it first. So please don't miss an issue, it means so much to us. Wishing your paper the success it so richly deserves, I remain, Respectfully, O. J. Albee. Entries for the initial P. K. L. show in San Fran- cisco closed with approximately the same total num- ber as the show has usually received when the exhi- bition was held in Oakland. The quality of this show will be better than ever before. and also a piece of salmon from a local fish stall, and we challenge him to tell the difference between the two samples of Balmon. Sam A. Wells, and twenty other anglers. There is no doubt that a spent fish was hooked now and then when the Paper Mill was low and the spawn1 laden fish could not get up stream any higher than the county road bridge. But the vast majority oi the salmon were fresh run from the ocean, and were taken as they came in with the rising tides. These Paper Mill salmon are the progeny of quin- nat salmon fry planted in that stream some years ago by the Fish Commissioners, we believe, as an experiment, for the purpose of, to that extent, ascertaining the truth of a claimed habit of the salmon; that of returning to the identical stream in which it was spawned. So far as the Paper Mill salmon are concerned, this theory seems to be veri- fied. Aside from this the question is to a great ex- tent still open to argument. While neither defending unsportsmanlike practices or advocating unnecessary fish destruction, we will state that, so far as the Paper Mill is concerned, its practical utility as a spawning resort for the salmon will never cut much figure owing to natural and other disadvantages I which will never make the salmon supply of that stream more than one I of meager expectations. Further, the anglers who havebeen fishing at that resort are within their legal rights and are entirely unde- serving the unjust criticism of the following clipping referred to: "San Francisco, Nov. 22, 1903. Editor Chronicle — Sir: I wish you would call the attention of your sport- ing editor to the fact that the slaugh- ter of salmon in the Paper Mill creek at Point Reyes by alleged sportsmen | is, to say the least, shameful. I am ! surprised to read in the papers the names of local anglers, who are ad- | vocates of fish protection, among the , ones who are doing the greatest slaughter. The salmon are unques- tionably not fit for food, and this talk I of a fish giving an angler a twenty- 3 minutes' fight is, to say the least, very absurd. These fish lose their strength when they arrive in the Paper Mill, and I know for a positive fact that they make but one run and then collapse. The killing of those salmon on their breeding grounds ty alleged anglers is on a par with pot hunters, who kill wild duck and quail on their nests. There is no difference between the two. So much for our| alleged fish protectors. Yours truly, Daniel McClernon." MB. JAMES COLE Local Anglers Are Scored. A communication under the above caption appeared in a Tuesday morning daily and has since met with much adverse criticism from many anglers, not a few of -whom, under the circumstances, question its integ- rity of purpose. At all events, the article is in keep- ing with the tenor of similar complaints that have been annually, for years past, published descrip- tive of alleged violations of the fish and game laws or diatribes against fish hogs and pot hunters. What virtue or merit these articles have originally had has been lost, it is believed, in what have been a series of covert attacks' upon the Board of Fish Commissioners, audit is also presumed upon private individuals as well. . .* The story first mentioned has elicited the following communication: Editor Breeder and Sportsman:— In answer to an article which appeared in this morning's Chronicle, referring to salmon caught in the Paper Mill creek, the unfitness of these fish for human food, and signed by some one unknown to the fishing fraternity of this city (and whom, if he does exist, the undersigned would like to meet and go further Into details with), I will say in answer thereto: We will admit that the salmon are on the way to their spawning grounds. We ask, when, if ever, salmon are captured unless they are headed in that direction? Ninety-nine out of every 100 of the salmon in our fish markets and for sale every day to con- sumers in this city are fish taken on their way to the spawning grounds. The salmon that were captured in the Paper Mill creek, at the "white house" pool, during the last month, have been eaten by a large number of my friends and myself. I have found the fish in fine edi- ble condition, and this same endorsement is the re- port of at least twenty other anglers and their friends. If the unknown (to us) writer of the article referred to will send his address to any of our local anglers who find the Point Reyes a regular and congenial fishing resort, I will guarantee that he will receive in - return a cut from a salmon taken in the Paper Mill, Fishing in San Antonio slough for striped bass recently has been prolific of sport and many fine fish. Last Sunday Mr. A. Thompson made a big catcb, a twenty pounder being the heaviest baES. On Thursday he landed 16 nice bass, the largest scaled ten and a half pounds. Mr. Chas. Miller caught six bass also on Thursday, his heaviest fish turned eleven pounds. The bass evidently are running in the straits again. Mr. Carroll landed, a big nineteen pound fish and his companion R. Dorrance, hooked a smaller one on Thanksgiving day. Messrs. Donallen and Ement; caught four fish on the same day. Duck hunting for a week past has been in the nature of a lottery. The best shoot we have heard reported was that of the Empire Gun Club members who shot on the Elkhorn slough preserve last Sunday. The1 combined bag counted up 340 birds, many of them tealin fine condition. Bay shore shooting for canvas- hack has not been under the auspices of the best1 weather conditions. What few birds have been secured were found to be very fat. Quail hunters should, after the pleasant weather of; the latter part of the week, have good sport with their dogs on the uplands to-morrow. As we hinted in a previous issue, W. S. Bell, of' J Pittsburg, Pa., will judge at the Bakersfield field;! trials next January. Secretary Betz having clcsedil final arrangements, this week, with Mr. Bell. Ellesgy Kennels had the misfortune to lose thatfrl good Bull bitch, Ch. Endcliffe Pleasure, this week.M Pleasure had been bred to Harry Lacey and diedM whelping a litter of puppies. This is quite a Ioes tol the Coast Bulldog fancy. - Coming Events. April 1-Sept. 10. Oct. 16-Feb. 1— Open season tor taking steel- head in tidewater. Nov. 1-April 1— Trout season closed. July 1-Jan. 1— Open season for black bass. Aug. 15-April 1— Open season for lobsters and crawfish. Nov. 1-Sept. 1 — Open season for crabs. Sept. 1-May 1— Open season for shrimp. Sept. 10-Oct. 16 -Close season in tidewater for steelhead. Nov. 15-Sept. 10 — Season open for taking salmon above tide water. - - Gnu July 1-Feb. 15— Dove season open. Nov. 1-July 15— Deer season closed. Sept. 1-Feb. 15 — Open season for mountain quail, grouse and sage hen. Oct. 15-Feb. 15 — Open season .'or quail, ducks, etc. November 28. 1908J ®he gveebev mtt> gipttvt&man 11 THE FARM. Smoking Pork. The big, old-fashioned amoke houses may be useful as a storing place for plun- der, but they are too large to smoke meat successfully unless one is willing to devote a good deal of time and fuel to the busi- ness, writes F. M Wood in Ohio Farmer. And when an old building of this kind has a few loose boards or missing ones to give the smoke a chance to escape, getting the meat smoked seems like an endless job to the women and children who often have this work to do. Many farmers in this section of the country are constructing very small build- ings for this purpose— just large enough to hold the meat after it ib hung, so the pieces will not touch. They are made as tight as possible. A little smoke goes a long way in a building of this kind. It is important that pork should be well smoked. The rich, brown color that is given by thorough smoking gives the meat an attractive look. Then it tastes, keeps and sells better. Sometimes the farmer has a surplus of smoked side meat, and buyerB prefer meat that is well smoked. We find that an old heating stove that h£8 outlived its usefulness comes handy to smoke meat. It is worth more for thiB purpose tnan the junk man would give us. As to fuel, there is nothing better to make a big volume of smoke than new, clean, corn cobs. When they show an in- clination to blaze too much, we dip a few of them in water. The wet cobs keep down the fire and furnish a lot of smoke. We like to smoke our meat early in the season in order to get it sacked and put away before the troublesome bugs and frisky flies make their appearance. We tie each piece tightly in paper flour sackB, and insects never bother. The paper sacks protect the meat better than the muslin sacks so often uBed for this pur- pose. We always purchase our flour in fifty and eighty-five pound bags. When emptied, we preserve them for this pur- pose. The fifty-pound sacks are just the right size for large hams and shoulders, while the smaller pieces fit nicely in the smaller-sized sacks. The sacks containing meat should be hung in a dark, cool closet or room where the air will reach them on all sides ; then they will keep perfectly during the hot, summer months. If meat is piled up on a shelf, or in a box, or hung bo the pieces touch, it is sure to mold badly in warm, rainy weather. There are many different and successful ways of putting away smoked meat for Bummer use. Some put the meat in a large box and fill in between the pieces and in all the crevices with wood ashes, bran, or oats, with a thick layer of what- ever filling is used, on top. With any of these methods care must be used to put enough of the filling between the pieces so they will not touch. A hot, stuffy room is a poor place in which to keep meat. There must be good ventilation where meat is stored. A good way to keep home- cured dried beef is to pack it in dry salt. It keeps moist in this way, and does not absorb the salt. Meat that is properly cured, smoked and carefully put away, will keep until hog-killing time rolls around again. We think those who com- plain of meats spoiling or becoming in- habited must be careless in their methods. poses where parallel fibers are required, such as spinning for cloth and fabrics. Lamb's wool is not so desirable, on ac- count of the uneven lengths and uneven firmness, but is much used for knitting yarns and for the manufacture of infants' fabrics, such as flannels, on account of the softness and less irritating to a deli- cate skin. After the third year the wool begins to Bhow the effects of age and becomes frowsy and harsh, and is liable to freaks, such as becoming cotted, and when it is scoured, it works badly. Then, if the sheep has ever been in a condition, it will Bhow up in the fleece of the aged wether or ewe. The wool of aged sheep is subjected to more shrink than that of younger sheep. Management of the Boar. WESTCHESTER RACING ASSOCIATION (UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE JOCKEY CLUE). RACE COURSE, MORRIS PARK, WESTCHESTER, N. Y. OFFICE: No. 571 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK, N. Y. (THE WINDSOR ARCADE). THE EIGHTH National Stallion Race The Sheep and the Wool. The wool of a sheep begins to deterio- rate after the sheep has passed its third year. The best wool is obtained from a sheep that is two or three years old. Having been sheared, the fibres are all of the same length, which makes it better on that score than lamb's wool, says New York Farmer. Such wool is preferred for combing and for all pur-1 The boarshould not be purchased until he is four or five months old, as he does not show his form fully before that time. His service is more sure and he can he handled with less trouble if he has been on the place a few weeks before he is needed for use. The boar should never be allowed to run with the sows, and it is much better to keep him in a lot where he can neither sne nor hear other hogs. He should be kept as quiet as possible, and his food should be nutritious but not fattening. Have his pen arranged to adjoin a pas- ture lot, which will afford him sufficient grazing and exercise. At one year old moderate service will not injure him and with proper care he is at his best as a sire when from 18 months to five years old. Be quiet, but occasionally scratch him on his back, taking care to keep away from his head, no matter how kind you think he is. There should be a stong door between the pen and yard, so he can see the sow sometime before beirg turned to her. With one service she will have as many and as fine pigs as if the boar were with her for three or four days. Be sure to carry the sow to the boar's yard for service. Grooming Dairy Cows. Have regular hours for grooming your cows. Many people do not realize the importance jf giving cows a thorough brushing every day. Often I have seen the flanks covered with a coat of dried excrement. Every motion the cow makes dislodges some of thiB filth. Every time she switches her tail during milking, every motion of her legs, and every rub and brush of her body by the milker dis- lodges particles of this material which is sure to fall into the milk pail. All of this filth iB crowded with bacteria (germsj in excessive numbers, and these find their way into the milk during the whole of the milking. Always moisten the udders with a damp cloth previous to milking, and a good brushing each day will keep the skin clear and healthy, prevent dis- eases, and will repay the labor bestowed, besides making the cows more comfort- able and contented. A stiff brush made of broom corn is best. Good cowa are usually so scarce in this country that they cannot be bought every day in the week. For this reason the beBt dairymen are growing their own calves. In this connection it may be well to re- member that calveB Bhould be kept grow- ing with plenty of nitrogenous food and compelled to eat lots of roughage so as to develop the digestive apparatus. If fed on alfalfa in this way and it puts fat on the ribs sell the delinquents to a butcher and if any calf cannot digest a fair ration of roughage give it to a neighbor. A dye- peptic calf will never make a good dairy cow, A dairy calf of the early maturing breeds if fed a good bone and muscle- making ration will be done growing in two yearB and if not taught to produce milk will naturally become a beef and should therefore come into profit at two years or sooner, it the Alabama experi- ment station the average cost of raising dairy calves to the time thev came into profit — from nineteen to twenty-four months — was $19.47. The main feed was Bkim milk, pasture, silage, hay, cotton- seed meal and bran— very good and cheap feed for a growing calf, but we can dis- count this ration with alfalfa alone. WITH $5000 ADDED To be Run for by then Two- Year-Olds during the SPRING MEETING OF 1905. THE EIGHTH MATRON WITH $10,000 ADDED To be Run for by then Two-Year-Olds during the AUTUMN MEETING OF 1906. To Close and Name for both events at Midnight of Tuesday, Dec. 1 5, 1 903 CONDITIONS. THE NATIONAL STALLION, 1905 The EIGHTH NATIONAL STALLION for then two years old, foals of 1903 to run at the Spring Meeting in 1905, the progeny of stallions nominated Nominations of stallions to close and name by midnight of Thursday, October 1, 1903, by sub- scription of $50 each, or only $25 each, for stal- lions which have not sired a winner prior to De- cember 15, 1903. Of thesubscriptionsforstallions the nominators of the sires of thefirst, second and third horses shall receive 25 per cent., 15 per cent, and 10 per cent, respectively. The remaining 50 percent, to tbe winner. STALLION ENTRIES FOR 1905. Hastings $50 Octogon 50 Henry of Navarre 50 Ethelbert 25 Ben Strome 50 Faverdale 50 Griffon 25 Sir Dixon 50 Star Shoot 25 Bridgewater 25 Handspring 50 His Highness 50 Silver Fox 50 Kinley Mack... 25 Dieudonne .' 25 Salvator 50 Arkle 50 Batbampton 50 Greenan 25 Golden Garter 50 Goldfinch 50 Bassetlaw 50 Maxio 50 Toddington 25 Montana — 50 Gerolstein $25 St. Gatien 50 Star Ruby 50 Wateroress 50 Ornament 50 St. Leonards 50 Ben Brush 50 Commando 25 Voter 25 Canopus 25 Ogden 50 Requital 50 Mirthful 50 Plaudit 50 Solitario II 25 Marius II 25 Kantaka 50 Meadowthorpe 50 Prince Pepper 50 Daniel 50 Dr. MacBride. 50 Hamburg ,... 50 Meddler 50 Sandringham 25 Conditions for the Entry of Foals of 1903 to close and name by midnight, Tuesday, December 15, 1903. Foala of 1903, the progeny of stallions duly nominated to be entered and named by midnight of Tuesday, December 15, 1903. Colts and geldings at $10 each Allies at $5 each, the only forfeit if declared by December 15, 1904. If left in after December 15, 1904, and declared by April 20, 1905, colts and geldings to pay $30 each, fillies $15 eaob. If left in after April 20, 1935, colts and geldings to pay $80 each, fillies $30 each. Starters— Colts, geldings and fillies to pay $100 each additional. The Westchester Racing Association to add $5iHXi and the remaining 50 percent of the stallion entrances, of which $12u0 to the second and $000 to the tbird. The nominator of the winner to receive 81000 out of the subscriptions and starting money. Of tbe subscriptions for stallions, the nominators of the sires of the first, second apd third horses shitll receive 25 per oent, 15 per cent and 10 per cent respectively. Colts tooarry 1221 bs., geldings and fillies 119 lb3. The produce of stallions which have not pro- duced a winner prior to December 15, 1903, allowed 5 lb?. If claimed at time of entry. By filing with the Westchester Racing Association, prior to December 1, 1904, an accepted transferor the foal's entry, the original suiisorlber shall be released from liability as to tbe engagement of the horse, except for the original forfeit of $10 or $5 Last five furlongs. Eclipse Course. THE MATRON OF 1906. The EIGHTH MATRON, with $10,000 added, for mares covered in 1903, foals of 1904, to be run for by then two-year-olds at the Autumn Meeting m 1906. Tbe event to be run in fvo races, one for colts and geldings, the other for fillies. GENERAL CONDITIONS. The EIGHTH MATRON for the produce of mares covered in 1903, to run when two years old at Autumn Meeting in 1906, with $10,000 added. Subscriptions for mares to olose at $20 each, or only $10 each if the money accompany the entry. Foals the progeny of mares so nominated to be eligible, at $10 each, the only forfeit if declared on or before November 1st, 1905. If left in after November 1st, 1905, to pay $25 each. If left in after April 1st, 1906, to pay $50 each. If left in after August 15th, 1906, to pay $"5 each. Starters to pay $150 each. WEIGHTS, PENALTIES AND ALLOW- ANCES. Colts to carry 122 lbs ; Allies and geldings, 119 lbs. Winners of $5,000 or twice of $2,500, to carry 3 lbs. extra; of $10,000 or twice of $5,000, 5 lbs. extra; of$l5,000, or twice or $10,000, 7 lbs. extra; of $30,000, or twice of $15,000, 10 lbs. extra. Non-winners of $2,000 allowed3 1bs; or $1,000, lbs ; maidens, 10 lbs. Produce of horses or out of mares that had never produced a winner previ- ous to January 1st, 1904, allowed 3 lbs.; of both, 5 lbs.; which allowance must be claimed at time of entrance. Allowances oumulatlve. CONDITION OF THE RACE FOR COLTS AND GELDINGS. Colts and geldings the produce of mares nomin- ated for the Eighth Matron to run by them- selves, the money for which shall include all sub- scriptions of mares produofng colts, all declar- ation fees paid for colts and geldings at $10, $25 and $50 each, and of those left In after August 15, 1906, at $75 each, with $5000 of tbe added money, of which $1000 to tbe second, and $500 to the third. The nominator of the dam of the winner to receive 50 percent, of the starting money for the race, of the second, 30 per cent., of the third, 20 per cent. Eclipse Course. CONDITIONS OF THE FILLIES. RACE FOR Fillies the produce of mares nominated for the Eighth Matron to run by themselves, ihe money for which shall include all subscriptions for mares producing tillles, all declaration fees paid for fillies at $10, $25 and $50 each, and of those left in after August 15, 1906, at $75 Boob, with $5000 of tbe added money, of which $1000 to the second and $500 to tho third. The nomlnatorof the dam of the winner to receive 50 per cent of tho starting money for the race, of the second 30 per cent, of the third 20 per cent. Eclipse Course. Both the National Stallion and the Matron as above are to be run under the Rules of The Jockey Club and WestcheBtor Racing Association applicable to the conditions of each and both of them, viz.: Rule 38, Rule 54, Part IV, Rule 63, and Rule 5, Part III, Rule 72. For further particulars and entry blanks, address H. G. CRICKMORE, Clerk of the Course. 571 Fifth Avenue, New York, 12 Che gxee&ev anit gtptfrismott [November 28, i«u.i State Veterinarian's Report. State Veterinarian Dr. C. H. Blemer in his anneal report to the Governor, which baa just been filed, save that during the past year every endeavor has been made in Kings, Kern, Tulare Fresno, Madera and Merced to ascertain and eradicate Texas fever infection. He believes that the investigation he has requested by the United States In- spector of the Bureau of Animal Indus- try, United States Department of Agri- culture, will next year result in freedom from tick infection in those counties. He submits a copy of his letter to the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry relative to those counties and Monterey. The latter county is excepted because in- vestigation was conducted there last year by the Federal authorities and they are more familiar with the situation there. The Monterey authorities have been un- ceasing in effort to eradicate the Texas fever, and that activity has been such that it is safe to predict entire success. Monterey, he therefore advises the Fed- eral office, should be removed from the quarantine area. In Kern, Tulare, Fresno, Kings, Ma- dera and Merced efforts to eradicate the tick infection have so far succeeded, he says in the letter referred to, that in Kern, Tulare, Kings and Merced the in- fection has been eradicated, but some small amount remains in Fre6no and Ma- dera. In the latter it is confined to one ranch, from which the cattle have been removed and the property will be idle the remainder of this and all of next year, 1904. Passing to the report proper, Dr. Blemer says he has repeatedly urged San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los An- ge'es, Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside and San Diego to eradicate infectious dis- eases among live stock, but nothing has been done, save in San Bernardino, Los Angeles and San Luis Obispo. The latter is now at work eradicating tick infection, but the west half of the county is still badly infected with Texas fever tick. Befusal to permit movement of cattle feeding in the eastern half will be maintained until there is guarantee of absolute quarantine of the western half of the county. There was an outbreak of Texas fever by reason of shipping infected cattle from San Luis Obispo to Siskiyou. The ranch where the cattle were held is now under strict quarantine and the disease has been stopped by quarantining. Texas fever, or tick fever, has caused great losBes. Its reality is well estab- lished It is difficult to investigate and it had seemed that its mysteries would never be fathomed, but scientific study has de- veloped the discovery of a microscopic animal in the blood which destroys the red blood corpuscles and this is the cause of the malady. It is also settled that the Southern cattle tick carried the micro-organism from the Southern cattle to the susceptible Northern cattle, and that when free from the tick the Southern cattle were harm- less. The doctor then describes the symptoms of the fever and the two forms in which it occurs, acute and chronic. The only known means of transmitting it in natural outbreaks is by the agency of the common cattle tick. This tick was common in many Southern California counties, but by reason of the fight waged against it since 1899 it has been eradicated (save on one or two ranches) from all the territory north of and above San Luis Obispo county, the Tehachapi mountains and San Bernardino county. The worst tick infected districts now are the west half of San Luis Obispo Sauta Barbara, Ventura, Orange, Los > ngeles, San Diego and Riverside. The Southern ticks are easy to destroy, ,s they crawl but a few feet 'They are carried by cattle from place to place. A ..arbed wire fence is often an effectual barrier to their passage. Destruction of the tick must begin with the individual animal and extend to all cattle in the territory to be freed. The tick will usually perish if denied a host a whole year. So, infected pastures should be abandoned for not 'less then a year and dry grass and leaves be burned off. Investigation of an outbreak of disease in Owens Valley showed it to be anthrax. It has long existed there, and will cause trouble from year to year. The local authorities are working for its eradication. It is caused by the invasion of the blood by a bacterium, rod-like in shape and characterized by producing resisting spores. If they get into the soil they may remain in a state of arrested development for years. It is improbable that the bacilli pass directly from one animal to another. Anthrax is not a directly in- fectious disease, when the transmission is so effected ; it iB usually by intermediate bearers, such as utensils and people. Dr. Blemer here describes in detail the threefold mode of migration of the in- fective matter and gives the symptoms of the disease fully and also the post mortem appearances. Anthrax attacks all animals, but most frequently cattle, goats, sheep, horses, guinea pigs and mice. Anthrax is dis- tributed all over the world. On thiB coast it is rapidly increasing. The most infected districts are parts of Los Angeles and Orange counties and the sloughs and rivers of the San Joaquin and Sacramento Valleys. Outbreaks have occurred in Lake, Mono, Inyo, Monterey and San Luis Obispo and also near Reno, and in Oregon among horses. Treatment for anthrax is practica'Iy useless ; but some mild cases are cured by use of antiseptics internally. Cre- mation of the carcasses of victims is absolutely necessary. There must be temporary quarantines, change of food supply and immediate vaccination of all live stock and separation of those affected. Dr. Blemer then treatB in full of vac- cination of animalB and of its value, and says that in anthrax there are some failures with it. Protective in- oculation is of more value in cattle than any other animal, but vaccination does not insure immunity and protects for but one year; its effectiveness de- pends on the vaccine. Considerable has been accomplished in sheep inspection as provided by law passed by the last Legislature. Prac- tically all the counties now have In- spectors. He expresses the hope that the work in hand will result in eradi- cation of the scab from the flocks of California sheep. As to inspection of dairies and of live- stock for tuberculosis and to secure san- itation of dairies, creameries and other placeB of milk supply, he considers the subject one of great importance to dairy- men, and stock owners in general The meat and milk of diseased animals should be condemned, whatever the opinion about the communicability of bovine tuberculosis. He recommends the use of the tuber- culin test, but advises against the compulsory destruction of animals that react therefrom. He does believe, how- ever, that such animals should be mirked or branded and excluded under severe penalties from milking purposes. The general use of milk, especially as a diet for invalids and infants, justifies every effort to Becure it pure and whole- some. The question as to its being good milk cannot be decided on the ground that it contains the required percentage of solids, and is free from injurious chemicals; it must also be subject to the test for bateriological contamination. Such contamination is too frequently the cause of conveying typhoid, diphtheria, scarlet fever and tuberculosis. Milk is an excellent media for the de- velopment of bacteria. From a single germ as many as 200 may be produced in three liours, 10,000 in Bix hours, 10,000,000 in nine hours, and 2,000,000,000 in eighteen home. Fortunately most bacteria do not produce diseases, as most are associated with dirt, but they are not the only ones which may find their way into milk. Pure milk, free from suspicion, can be produced only by obedience to the re- quirements of hygienic regulations, en- forced under the directions of capable, conscientious sanitarians, ventilation, drainage of barns, and the sterilization of utensils, etc. So, too, the health of the animals must be considered. A sick cow can be of but small profit to the owner; yet dairymen have been known to main- tain a tuberculosis herd for year;, who would not tolerate a consumptive farm hand on the ranch. Dr. Elemer regrets that stockmen are not more familiar with the means used for detection of tuberculosis in cattle. He advocates and describes its applica- tion. The temperature of the animal iB firBt taken at intervals of two hours, suffi- cient to establish the normal temperature of the animal. The proper dose of tuber- culine is then injected under the skin ; generally late in the evening. The tem- perature ia taken every two hours the next day The riae of the temperature should begin about six hours after the in- jection, reaching its greatest height in from the sixteenth to the twentieth hour, when it declines gradually, returning to the normal at about the twenty-eighth hour. Early in experimentation two classeB of errors were made in diagnosis, which made questionable the accuracy of the test, but later investigations have shown the alleged errors mav be largely obviated by not accepting any elevation of temper- ature less than 2 degrees Fahrenheit as a reaction; by requiring that the temper- ature should reach 104 degrees Far. ; by carefully recording temperatures a sufficient number of times to show full reaction; by giving a sufficient dose of tuberculin, and by making a more careful Bearch through the carcass for signs of disease after slaughter. Best observation juBtifies the statement that there are no injurious effects from the use of tuberculin in healthy cattle. Authorities are quoted in support of this statement. The conclusions are 1. That the tuber- culin test is a wonderfully accu ate method of determining if an animal is afflicted with tuberculosis. 2. That by the use of tuberculin animals diseased with tuberculosis may be detected and removed from the herd, thereby eradicat- ing the disease. 3. That tuberculin has no injurious effect on healthy cattle. He regrets deeply that many cattle owners, dairymen in particular, are strongly opposed to the tuberculin test. He would not like to see it forced upon them, but if they were properly informed they would be anxious to adopt it for self- interest. There is no greater danger to cattle and swine industries in California than that which confronts them in the form of tuberculosis, a disease already widespread, and rapidly extending. Without the use of tuberculin it would be impossible to control it— with its use its contral is not difficult, and badly affected herds may be converted into healthy oneB in a few years, without very serious loss or hardship. Farm Notes. Cows that get hot and nervous give milk that is fatal to good butter. Stabling or protection of some kind should be afforded every animal on the farm. Assort and grade the flock of sheep for Bale" to butchers according to size, kind and quality. The horse that is used to good strong fences all bis life is never a bad one to jump over them. The development of a- good walking farm horse is of more importance than of trotting capacity. Jackson's Napa Soda does not tangle the feet The Beef Breeds of Cattle. The principal b eeds of beef cattle are Shorthorns, Aberdeen-Angus, Galloways, and Herefords. It does not matter eo much which breed a farmer raises, for they are all good and will return profit to the owner when intelligently managed, writes B. Shuman in Live Stock Journal. The most essential point when a man engages in the beef cattle business, is as with any other business, he Bhould do it for life. Competition is keen, and only the men who go into a business deliber- ately, give their whole mind to it, and atick to it, have any reasonable chance for success. The improvement of live Btock is the work of a lifetime. Farms that have be- come famous for breeding live stock have usually teen in the hands of one family from one generation to another. No great benefit has ever come to live stock from the work of speculators or men who go into the business for a year or two. The demand is constantly increasing for good beef cattle. The breeder should not over- look the ability of Mb stock to produce animals that will meet the requirements of the open market. Beef producers in general are wanting registered bulls to head their herds, and appreciate a thoroughly good animal. They are turning their attention more and more to the requirements of the market as a baeia for their feeding operations. Quality and condition are the most eBBential points for a beef animal to pos- sess, and to insure theBe points we must have a well bred as well ae a pure bred animal to begin with. We should not de- pend alone on the pedigree of an animal, when we ar£ selecting the heads for our herds, but they should be in a high state of development in the region of the loin, crops, back, thighs, twist and rump, for theEe are the parts from which are secured the high priced cuts of beef. I am reli- ably informed that two carloads of well bred Hereford heifers recently sold at the Kansas City Yards in the butcher stock class at a premium of $1.85 over other butcher stock. Their freedom from waste made them cheaper than the common cows and ;heifers. Butchers cut such cattle without waste and send back for more. The man who farms and feeds out of his own resources one prime Bteer and one hog per year for each ten acres of land in his farm is absolutely certain of suc- cess. And he who has found out the cer- tainty of this steady, sure method of farming has discovered the most inde- pendent life that ia available to the Amer- ican agriculturists. Steadiness of pur- pose, intelligence in the selection of well bred beef cattle, patience in their care and feeding, and the ability to know when they are ripe, is the price of a successful feeding operation. The time is here when nine-tenths of the profitable feeding oper- ations are conducted on a small scale Satisfactory results have been recorded from feeding the grades of all the beef breeds. Bat not one instance of profit with scrubs ia recorded, for their feeding ia largely a speculation. There is no higher form of art than that which deals with the intelligent manipu- lation of animal life — the molding of liv- ing creatures in accordance with the will and purpose of a guiding mind — and yet how many of those who assume the re- sponsibility know -of the breadth and depth of the proposition with which they will have to deal. Dairy Notes. Do not mix warm and cold milk, as it sours more rapidly. Don't expect a cow on Bhor*-, weedy pasture to do her beBt. The best of water has germs in it which make butter deteriorate. It is good economy to keep the cowa in full milk till the fall food comes and then they have a good eendoff for producing a good lot of milk during the winter. November 28, 1903] i&he ^vetttev on& gpportsmcm The Separator on the Farm. The handling of milk constitutes one of the problems of the farm. Hence it may be profitable for me to call attention to the advantages to be gained by the use of a cream separator. The ;ream separator is one of the mod- ern inventions which increases the profits and lightens the labor on the farm. The genuine cream separator, not the tin-can kind, removes practically all the cream from the milk, writes Prof. C. H. Eckles in Xew England Farmer. By using the separator from one-fourth to one-third more butter can he made than when the cream is raised by gravity in the common crock or pan. That is to say, four cows with a separator are equal to five similar ones without one. The separator gets enough more cream to just about pay for itself in one year where ten average cows are kept. The quality of butter made from separa- tor cream is always better and often sells for two cents or more per pound than but- ter made from cream secured by the old gravity process. The labor of caring for the milk is no small item for the farmer's wife. With the separator the labor is greatly reduced. When milking time comes the milkers milk the cows, separate the milk, feed skim milk to the calves or pigs and bring the cream to the house along with the sep- arator bowl for washing The warm sweat skim milk secured from the separator is in the best possible condition for feeding calves and pigs and is of great value for this purpose. The up-to-date farmer raises his calves on skim milk and sells the cream to pay for keeping the cow. The initial expense is practically the only one attached to a separator. On the Agricultural College farm a separator has been used to separate the milk of twenty- eight cows twice a day for four years with less than $1 expense for repairs. I do not care to recommend any partic- ular kind of separator here. There are twelve or fifteen kinds that will give good satisfaction if used under proper condi- tions. — ♦ . Make Animals Comfortable. THE S60.000 DAN PATCH 11561 CHAMPION PACING HORSE of the WORLD [Wiihunt Uoppln, Wlad-Brcik, Etc., Etc.] EATS •3 FEEDS k» ONE CENT^ EVERY DAY. "International Stock Food" greatly aids Digestion and Assimilation so that More Nutrition is obtained, from all grain eaten. It "tones up" and Permanently Strengthens the entire system and Purifies the Blood so that disease is prevented. Every $3.50 pail of "International Stock Food" is positively guaran- teed to save $7.00 worth of grain. It will cause your Race Horse to have more speed and endurance. It will make your Carnage Horses healthy, fat and beautiful. It will give your Show Horses more life and 1 action and make them glossy. It will make your Work Horses strong, healthy and of great endurance. It will make your Stallions and Brood Mares surer, and your colts will be better and grow and develop more rapidly. "International Stock Food" is absolutely harmless even if taken into the human system. It is prepared from Roots, Herbs, Seeds and Barks and is fed in small amounts as an addition to the regular grain allowance. It is equally profitable when fed to Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Hogs, Colts, Calves, Lambs or Pigs. It will make you a large extra profit when fed to your stock for Growing, Fattening or Work ing. It will increase milk 15 to 25 per cent, in Cows, Mares, Sows or Ewes, and only costs *S"3 FEEDS for ONE CENT."^» A Dan Patch colt commanded £5,000 at eight months of age. He looked like a yearling and was beautiful, strong and vigorous. The dam was fed "International Stock Food'* before and after foaling, and the colt as soon as it would eat. Dan Patch became the World's Champion Harness Horse nine months after commencing to eat "Internationa! Stock Food" every day. If it is good for such horses don't you think it would pay you to test it on yours? Our "International Stock Food Farm" contains 650 acres, 12 miles from Minneapolis, and on it we own Dan Patch i:36H Directum 2:Q5j£, Rov Wilkes 2:06^, andaband of broodmares. They all eat "International Stock Food" every day. BEWARE OF IMITATIONS and SUBSTITUTES. There are many worthless imitations on the market, put out by people who seem to think that the way to start a busi- ness is to steal as much as they can from some prominent firm. No chemist can separate and name all of the ingredi- ents used in "International Stock Food," etc., and any chemist or manufacturer claiming to do so must be an Ignoramus or a Falsifier. A BEAUTIFUL DAN PATCH PICTURE FREE We have a very fine, large lithograph of Dan Patch with the great driver, M. E . McHenry , in sulky. This Lithograph, Printed in Sis Brilliant Colors, is one of the finest and most attractive horse pictures ever published. It is 21x28 and printed on heavy paper suitable for framing. fiSTWe Will Mail You One Copy Free, postage prepaid. If You will Answer Two Questions. 1st— Name This Paper. 2d.— State How Much Stock You Own. Answer these questions in a letter or on a postal card and we will mail at once. Write at once before the offer is withdrawn. ,ri(.r_.. LarfestStoeL Food Factory in the World. Capital Paid in, $1,000,000. / International Stock Food Co. MINNEAPOLIS. MINN., U. S. A. In feeding hay to horses I arrange the manger so as to be the most convenient height to suit the horse so it will be high enough for him to reach to the bottom, which is made of slats and about eight inches from the door, writes J. G. Kapp, in Sural New Yorker. The fine dust, etc., goes through and is easily cleaned out. The top of manger and feed box is so arranged that the top of the horse's head will be even with his back when he is eating. I find this plan gives the horse the most comfort, and he seemB to take his feed with more ease than any other way. In giving him the most comfort in the stable he will show himself off better when in harness. It seems unreasonable to expect a horse to hold his head high when he muat twi»t his neck in all shapes to get his hay out of a rack or hay shoot or stand on his tiptoes to reach in over a high manger. Do you use a high table and low chairs to make your children walk with head and shoulders erect and a quick, smart walk? I have trained quite a number of colts and have tried several methods, but the belt success I have had is to train them in harness First leave the checkrein loose, then shorten up as they become accustomed to the bit and harness. Never use an overcheck ; always side rein. I hope there is no one thought- less enough to have hia horse eat hay from the ground. It is wasteful, sloven- ly and unclean. I never saw a high headed horse so made by making bim hold his head down firBt. New Aids in Buying and Selling. During the past five years it is estimated that nearly five hundred thousand.country homes have been connected with tele- phone lines. This would equal about one telephone to every eight farm families in the United States. Although it must be conceded that many of the country sub- scribers were villagers and not farmers, still the rate of extension in the farming districts is such that probably within a few years most farmers will have tele- phones in their houses or, at least, in those of near neighbors. Evidently the telephone is gradually to change the methods of business in certain directions. Not only will the local store- keeper, doctor and mechanic receive orders by telephone, but the city dealer and com- mission man may send out his calls in time of scarcity, giving his shippers the benefit of temporary high prices. Further still, it may be possible for the farmers to build up a direct retail order trade with the thousands of city telephone subscribers, thus doing away, to some ex- tent, with the work and commission of the middlemen. The rural telephone and a better system for sending large packages by mail would together prove a wonderful help and convenience both to farmers and to distant consumers. Both these facilities, the farm telephone and the parcels post, are well on the way to happen, and they will chime in very well with rural free delivery, improved highways and new trolley railroads. Treatment of the Young Animals, tervals. They do not want coddling up in warm places, but should be kept in cov- ered folds, which are well lighted and ventilated, and in which they have p enty of room to move about, and twice a day they should be let out into the yard to scamper and play about. They should be accustomed to being handled and kept clean with brush and comb, and should any of them be observed to be itchy and rubbing themselves, they should be washed with some dressings that are sold for the purpose. Nothing will give better results than good care of the young ones, and if this is bestowed it is astonishing how well they can afterward rough it. After being turned out at May day they need not be brought into the house again until the following Bpring, and then only for service. A shed in the field that they can go into, if inclined to do so, and oat straw in the winter, are all they require, but if it is thought advisable to give them cake it should be linseed cake. In my ex- perience, cotton cake is not a suitable food for heiferB that are to be bred from. Be- fore being served, it is advisable to accus- tom them to be tied up by the neck in the barn. This completes their education. A brush is better than a cloth for washing dairy utensils. A cloth smears, a brush gets off cream, butter and milk, DBe hot water after having rinsed wifh cold water. o A cow that is a good milker should be in fair flesh at calving time, She will loee much of this fat in a few weeks, as her food goes to milk and not to fat. ~ BRICKS ~ FOR. AUL, STOCK HEAlTHFUL~COHVEMIENT-ECONOMiCAL Have the approval of large stock owners everywhere. Ask your dealer, or send for free booklet to ran sme supply co. fl™S- ■ FOR SALE. Three Standard-Bred Trotting Stallions WILKES STOCK. One Seal Brown, 16 bands, foaled May 2, 1898; I first dam Fearless by Fallis 4781 (record 2:23); second dam Jean Perault by Signal 3327. 1 One Golden Bay, 16.1 bands, foaled March 5, 1898; I first dam Signal by Del Sur 1098 (record 2:2-1), dam of Guy Line 329%; second dam Lady Sigr nal bv SigDal 3327. . One Brown, white points, 10. 1 hands, foaled April, 1899: full brother to the bay. i These colts are all sired by Prince Alrlee 28045, son of Gut Wilkes 280? (record 2:15'ti. and bred by I Wm. Corbitt, San Mateo, Cal. They are pure gaited and show wonderful speed for the little work they have done. For further particulars apply to P. H. McEYOY, Menlo Park, Cal. Half a gallon shrinkage in a cow's milk is very bard to regain after two weeks of dry weather or short pasturage; The ringing of the young bulls should be done in December. This allows time for the nostril to heal up, so that they can be led by the ring when they are out for tale in February. From weaning time to turningouttime in the following spring all the calveB should be well attended to says Pacific Farmer. Their food must be of good quality, adapted to young, growing animals, and given at regular in- (Standard Trotting Stallion For Sale ORO GUY 34192 'Foaled 1898 By Oro Wilkes 2:11. Dam by Guy ; Wilkes, 2d dam by Sultan, 3d dam by The Moor. I Black In color, stands 1»"> bands high, weighs 115U I pounds. With little work has shown a mile in 2:16M- Sqnare-gaited trotter; guaranteed abso- lutely sound. Good disposition. Stylish con- formation. Oneof the best bred representatives I of the Wilkes family on the Coast. Will be sold I reasonable. Apply or address R LORE, I R. D.. Gilroy.Cal. KICKING, -J* Balking, Shying or any kind of a habit cured in a few hours by my system. Particulars free. PBOF. J. A. BEERY, Pleasant Hill, Ohio. BUSINESS COLLEGE 24 Post Street, San Francisco, Cal. The oldest, the largest, the most popular com- mercial rchool on the Pacific Coast. 20^000 gr»dv atee: 30 teachers: 70 typewriters; over 300 Bl annually placed In positions. Send for catalogs E. P. HEALD, Prealdro ®He gxeebex atiti gptrvtsman [November 28. 1903 THE BAYWOOD STUD THE BUNGALOW, SAN MATEO, CAL (Property ol John Pabbott, Esq.) Devoted Exclusively to the Breeding and Training ol Sigh Stepping Hackney-Bred Harness Horses WALTER SEALY, Manager. Water in Buttermaking. W>M feMiHW sifSISi n Gu re 5.00 WITH WRITTEN GUARANTEE. On Broken Down, Weak, Sprained and Ruptured Ligaments and Tendons Its Power is Unfailing. No Man need see his Horse gaffer and become incapacitated. "SAVE-THE-HORSE" POSITIVELY AND PERMANENTLY CURES BONE AND BOG SPAVIN, THOROUGHPIN, RINGBONE (except low ringbone), CURB, SPLINT, CAPPED HOCK. WINDPUFF, SHOE BOIL, WEAK AND SPRATNED TEN- DONS, AND ALL LAMENESS. '•SAVE-THE-HORSE'1 cures without scar, blemish or lossof hair; can be applied anywhere and in all conditions and extremes of weather. Horses may be worked as usual with shin or ankle boots, as no harm can result from destruction of hair or scalding of limb. Cured horses are absolute certainties as to the possibility of the remedy for your own case. Such results, as shown in our booklet, by business men whose reliability can be" readily ascertained, have carried "SAVE-THE-HORSE" over skepticism, prejudice and uncertainty. Send for the booklet and copy of written guarantee, which Is as binding to protect you as the beat legal talent conld make it. S5.00 I»E3H. BOTTLE. Written guarantee with every bottle. Need of second bottle improbable, except in rarest cases. If your case is different we advise frankly as to possibility of the remedy effecting a cure. Give veternarian's diagnosis, if he is competent. Describe age, development, location of swellings, lameness, and way horse carries and holds leg. S5.00 a bottle at all druggists and dealers, or sent express prepaid. TROY CHEMICAL CO., Manufacturers, TROY, N. Y. D. E. NEWELL, 519 Mission St., San Francisco, Cal., Pacific Coast Agent RACING FOR THOROUGHBRED SALE. YEARLING COLTS OAKLAND TRACK New California Jockey CI COMMENCING NOVEMBER 14. RACING Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, RAIN OR SHINE. SIX OR MORE RACES DAILY RACES START AT 3:15 P. SI. SHARP. For special trains stoppiDg at the track take S. P. Ferry, loot of Market street, at 12, 12:30, 1, 1:30 or 2 o'clock. No smoking in last two cars, which are reserved for ladies and their escorts. Returning, trains leave track at 4:15 and 4:45 and immediately after the last race. THOMAS H. WILLIAMS, President. PERCY W. TREAT, Secretary. By DUCAT, oat of Strongbred Mares. ALSO TROTTING BRED YOUNG STALLIONS AND FILLIES TROTTERS AND PACERS. rpHE SIRES OF THESE COLTS ARE DIABLO. Nutwooc Wilkes, Monbells, Cupid and Sidney Dillon. The sires of their first, seoond and third dams are Guy Wilkes, Hock Wilkes, Director, Harold, Electioneer, Cornelius. Paul's Abdallah, Venture, Lodi and St. Clair. All of these sires trace in the male line to Hambletonian 10 th. ough his best producing male descendants, excepting the thoroughbreds Venture and Lodi and the pacer St. Clair. C. E. FARN0M, M. D. 305 Parrott Building. In a recent bulletin ot the Iowa exper- iment station on the keepine quality of butter, the quality of the water used in the creamery, is considered as follows: All well water, whether it be from shallow wells or deep wells, contains bacteria. Water from Bhallow wells is polluted with impurities to a greater de- gree than water from deep wells. The conditions which surround shallow wells do not guarantee a creamery pure water at different seasons of the year. Filthy surface water iB all the time seeping in from the sides, especially during the wet season. In the spring of the year, or at any time during the different seasons when heavy rains are frequent, shallow, open or bored wells act as a receptacle for inflowing, nasty, surface water containing a great deal of organic matter, and where organic matter is present, germs of differ- ent species are always sure to be present. Besides being a receptacle for such in- flowing water, Bhallow wells serve in the capacity of traps for a number of animals, such as rats, mice, rabbits, skunks, minks of squirrels. The presence of one or more of these dead animals in an open well is sure to result in water strongly im- pregnated with undesireable odors and a multitude of undesirable and putrefactive organisms, which, when distributed through butter will produce no good re- sults. If every open well was drained and searched for such dead animals, very few would be searched in vain. The writer has seen water used which was impregnated with impurities and bad odors to such an extent that it im- parted directly to the butter this same undesirable odor and taste. The very fact that water from certain wells has a clean appearance and pure taste doea not necessarily indicate that it is free from undesirable germs. Deeply-drilled wells are much the best for supplying cream- eries with water. They cannot in any possible way serve as a trap for small ani- mals as can the open wells. Germs do not enter the soil so deep as to cause water to be infested with them, so the number of germs deep well water con- tains largely come from the atmosphere after exposure to it or to unclean recep- tacles. Professor Pammel found shallow well water containing as high as 18,000 germB per cubic centimeter. Deep well water he rarely found to contain more than 400 germs per cubic centimeter. o Do Not Use Scrub Bulls. FOR SALE. "OLACK TROTTING MARE. RECORD 3:18^; ■*-* standard bred; sound; nearly 16 hands high weighs about 1100 pounds. Gentle and a high- class road mare. Can be bought cheap. To see the mare and for particulars call or address Telephone: Pine 1786 J. W. ZIBBELL, 345 Twentieth Ave., San Francisco. ITZW MODEL WSR FENC WESTCOASTWIRE &IR0N WORKS kDr. Smiths 'For muscular lame= [ness or corded back, no other liniment lis it's equal. No pacing stabler ^should be without j it. Good stuffy You Bet All Druggists and Harness Dealers or Vita Oil Co., 1533 Buchanan St. San Francisco, Cal. J . A. McKerron and J. O'Kane, Agts Hunt and Fish ALONG THE LINE OP THB California & Northwestern By (LESSEE OF THE B. F. & N. P. R. B.) Best Hunting and Fishing In the State Numerous and Popular Resorts Hot and Cold Mineral Springs HEALTH PLEASURE RECREATION Pine Camping Grounds on Beautiful Streams Best Section In California for Fruit and Breeding Farms The route to Sau Rafael, Petaluma, Santa Rosa TJkiah, and the Famous Pleasure and Health Resorts in Lake County. Saturday to Monday round-trip tickefs at reduced rates. Tickbt Offices— «0 Market Street, Chroniole Building, and Tiburon Ferry. B. X. RYAN, Gen. Pass. Agt. CALIFORNIA Photo Engraving Company HIGH CLASS ABT ru Half Tones and Line Engraving Artistic Designing. 506 MlMlon St., cor. First, San FranolBcw THE BEST IN THE WORLD, O'BRIEN & SONS Cor. Golden Gate Ave. and Folk St. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL It is good economy to keep the cows in full milk till the fall food comes and then they have a good sendoff for producing a good lot of milk during the winter. Sober up on Jackson's Napa Soda. The question of preventing the use of Bcrub bulls was gone into very thorough- ly at the recent meeting of Jersey cattle- men in Rochester, N. Y. It was admitted that some registered bulls are inferior as all stock doeB not run alike, even in the same family strains, but this fact furnishes no excuse whatever for the present general use of unregistered, non-descript, scrub stock and it Bhould be discouraged as far as possible. One great difficulty is the time required to prove the prepotency of a bull. Mr.. Peer thought that many splendid bulls have gone to the shambles before their get had time to prove their value. Mr. Cogswell advanced the theory that a great milker often dwarfed her powers of reproduction, and the value of the get of a poorer dame is often derived from and comes through the bull. Some of the best Jerseys ever milked have persistently refused to reproduce very great milking qualities in their offsprings. The question of an advance registry establishing a standard for Jersey bulla was discussed and the suggestion was made that legislation might be devised to co-operate with and encourage it. The stud law of New York was men- tioned as a suggestion upon which to baEe legislation. This law protects the owner of a stallion from financial loss by provid- ing security in the nature of a chattle mortgage lien on the mare and colt. Books and Pictures ABOUT California Mountains, Valleys, Canyons, Lakes and Seaside and Vacation Places. Shall It Be A Camp Id the Forest A Mountain Lake A Good Hotel and Trout for Breakfast A Seaside Resort and Clam Chowder for Dinnet The Publications ol the Southern Pacific Cover all Desirable Places and answer question! of Distance, Accommodations, Expense, Fares, Route, etc. Nothing Lett to the imagination. Inquire at INFORMATION BUREAU 613 MARKET STREET J. W. Zibbell's Training Stables Corner Point Lobos Road and 2©th Avenue, San FrancUco. HORSES TRAINED FOR TRACK OR ROAD and satisfaction guaranteed. Terms reason- able. Horses bought and sold. 'Phone Pine 1786. November 2S 1903] ®Uc gvee&ev cmt» gpp.o-rt5.man 15 The World's Greatest Shooting Record, FRED GILBERT, of Spirit Lake, la., since Jan. 1, 1902, has shot in competition at 5765 Targets, breaking 5532 or 95.9 per cent, using a PARKER GUN AT SHOT AT Natchez, Miss 400 Port Dodge, la 300 Lakefield, Minn 205 Sioux City, la 360 Dubuque, la 360 THE "OLD RELIABLE'- IS RELIABLE. AT BROKE PER CENT ...:.... 396 .. - 99 296 .. 98.6 203 .. 99 351 .. 97 351 .. 97.5 PARKER BROTHERS Send for catalogue. MERIDEN, CONN N. Y. Salesroom, 32 Warren St ci NEW E. C." NEW "SCHULTZE" SHOTGUN RIFLEITE Milu!ac.ured » THE AMERICAN UE. G." and "SCHULTZE" Gunpowder Co., Ltd PTTTT,. B BEKKART CO., Pacific Coast Representative RALLISTITF ■■■^ The Standard Dense Powder of the World. ■^»™ 1901— Wins Second in Grand American Handicap at Targets. 1902— Wins First in Grand American Handicap at Targets. 1903— Wins during Grand American Handicap week at Kansas City. First Amateur Average in Regular Events. Third General Average in Regular Events ALL OF ABOVE AKE AMATEUR RECORDS. Take No One's Word. Try It for Yourself. I H I All A m 75 CHAMBERS ST„ NEW YORK CITY \J • II. LnU VX V^Vy« Telephone 1747 Franklin. Importers and Dealers In Fire Arms, Ammunition and Fencing Goods. Sole Agents for BALLISTITE (Dense) and EMPIRE (Balk} Smokeless Powders and the REBLE GUN. A postal brings catalogue and "Shooting Pacts" (third edition) BALLISTITF The Standard Dense Powder of the World. ^^"" CAMPBELL'S EM0LLI0 IODOFORM GALL CURE For GALL BACKS and SHOULDERS, CRUPPER SORES and SADDLE GALLS there is none superior. The horse CAN" BE WORKED AS USUAL. For BARBED WIRE CUTS, CALKS, SCRATCH- ES, BLOOD POISONED SORES and ABRASIONS OF THE SKIN it has no equal. It is very adhesive and easily applied to a watery as well as a dry sore. Its use will absolutely prevent BLOOD POISON- ING. In this respect there is no GalliCure offered which can justly even claim to be a competitor. We placed it on the market relying wholly on its merit for success, and notwithstanding the fact that comparatively little has been done in the way of advertising the salesof 1900 were 100 per cent great- er than the aggregate sales of Gall Cure preceding that year. This increase was entirely due to its MERITS, and from It we feel justified in saying that It is THE GALL CURE OF THE 20TH CENTURY- It is a quiok and sure cure for those troublesome skin cracks under the fe -^ck v nich injure and often lay up race horses. ; All Trainers Should Have It in Their Stables PRICE:— 3 OZ. BOX, 36c; 1 LB. BOX, 81.00. Read our "ad." on Campbell's Horse Foot Remedy in next issue of this paper. JAS. B. CAMPBELL & CO., Mfrs.,412 W. Madison St., Chicago, III. VETERINARY. DR. C. MASOERO VETERINARY SURGEON Graduate of Royal Veterinary College of Turin. Infirmary and Residence— 8ll Howard St.: between Fourth and Fifth Sts., San Francisco. Telephone: Main 457. ROSE HOTEL PLEASANTON, CAL. Enlarged, Rebuilt. Twenty-five New Eoonu Newly Furnished, Electric Lights* Running Water. Up to date. A. 8. OLJfBY & SON Proprietor! Chronic Bronchitis and Catarrh ol the Bladder Cored in 48 Boots. Ira Barker Dalziel VETERINARY DENTIST Fancy Carriage, Saddle and Roar* Morses for Sale Office and stable: 605 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco. Cal. Telephone South 651. M. R. C. V. S.. F. E. T. M. S. VETERINARY SURGEON. Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, England; Fellow of the Edinburg Veterinary Medical Society; Graduate of the New Veterinary College, Edinburgh; Veterinary Sur- geon to the S. F. Fire Department; Live Stock IaspectorforNewZealandand AustrallanColoniea o» 4 i/rj at the port of San Franeisco; Professor of Equine DLAKfc, Medicine, Veterinary Surgery, Veterinary Depart- i ment University of California: Ex-President oi the California State Veterinary Medical Associa- tion; Veterinary Infirmary. Residence and Office, San Francisco Veterinary Hospital. 1117 Golden p . c7 e 3 «, cm-,,*. c*^««<- c c- gate Avenue, near Webster St., San Francisco: 00-» /-oy-Ol r iTSt Street, S. F . Telephone West 138. I Txlmfhonb Madt|1» CAPSULES Superior to Copaiba, Cubebs or InJ»itl— . M0FFITT & T0WNE -D BALERS IN- SPRATTS PATENT. DOG CAKES REMEDIES SOAP. NEWARK, N. J. Send for free copy of "DOG CTTLTURE." Pacific Coast Brancn-1324 Valencia Street, San Franolsco Agents for "SANITAS" Disinfectant. SUBSCRIBE TO Showing exact position of every horse, including the favorite, which was either first, seoond third or fourth at each quarter pole, also positions at start. Events reported from all parts of Canada and United States. Isiued the 1st and 16th of every month, from April 15th to Ootober 15th. Price 60c, 75c. or $1, according to Issue. For sale at all principal hotels, news stands and race tracks in the country, and publishers' office. GOODWIN BROS., 1440 Broadway, N. Y. annual Subscription, $18, which includes all semi-monthly editions and two morocco bound Bemi-annuals. Explanatory circular mailed free. ' , " For sale by the Breeder and Sportsman. Mark Levy & Co. | , MARK -LEVY Expert Cutter -iwJ FitUr... / Fine Suit* Onl. Ihe Brit Help '-' Employed... AD work- V i done on the" ' - HKWi HUsi Jv. j-f 36 Geary St. £F.' Rooms 10-20: Phone Oranl 158.J 1 '-^ »• . -• i-s — J| FOR SALE. rpHE PACING GELDING, AL SANDY 2:26 -*- by Wayland W., dam Rapid Ann by Overland. Can pace three heats better than 2:20. Can brush very fast on the road. Also the blaok pacing gelding, DOC 2:38, one of the best roadsters in the city. Can lower his record several seoonds. Both horses are excellent prospeots to race. For prices and further particulars address S. WATSON, 235 Douglas street, San Francisco. Without the KNIFE You can remove Soft Buoches like Goitre, Tumors, Gangloin, , Bursal Enlargements, etc. WITH Absorbine, Jr. Pleasant to use. Highly perfumed. $1.00 per bottle by mail. Describe your case fully. Address W. F. YOUNG, P. D. F., SPRINGFIELD, ^ . MASS. For sale by Mack & Co., Lanf ley ft Michaels Co., Redington & Co., J. O'Kane, and J. A. McKerron, all of San Francisco- £0COANUT OIL CAKE THE BEST FEED FOB STOCK, CHICKENS AND PIOS FOB SALS IS LOTS TO SDIT BT EL DORADO LINSEED OIL WORKS CO 808 California Str.lt, San Franolico, Oal. COLLIES, 955 First St. San Jose CHAMPION HANOVER MONARCH (A. K. c. S. B. 5998) by the great sire Ch Ellwyn Astrologer from Ch. Old Hall Moo n Fee 815. Pictures and Pedigree upon applica tion. High-class Puppies for sale. AT STDD The Great Combination Show Of Dogs, Poultry, Cats, Plgeong and Pet Stock At MECHANIC'S PAVILION, Dec. 2 to 5. The biggest show ever held west of Chicago. Dogs from all over the Pacific Coast will be pres- ent. Entry forms and Premium Lists may be ob- tained at: San Francisco— Breeder & Sports- man office, 36 Geary St.; No. 33 Market St. Sac- ramento— Matt. Coffey, 1305 G. St , Sacramento. Portland— W. W. Peaslee, 452 Sherlock Block, Portland. Oregon. Seattle— Chas. McAllister, City Hall. Seattle, Wash ; Geo. Tinto, Sunnydale, Wash. Victoria— Frank Turner, 68 Fourth St., Victoria, B. C . or from the Secretary, N. J. Stew- art, Polhemus St., San Jose, Cal. Entries Close November 23, 1903. AT STUD CUBA OP KENWOOD (Glenbeigh Jr.— Stella) ■ SAM'S BOW (Plain Sam-Dolly Dee H) STOCKDALE KENNELS R. M. DODGE, Manager, Bakerefleld, Kern Co., Boarding. Pointer Puppies and well-broken Dogs for sale. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS Advertisements under this head one cent per word per insertion. Cash to accompany order. COCKER SPANIELS. FOR SALE— COCKER SPANIEL PUPPIES by Ch. Hampton Goldle. Apply at junction old county and Redwood roads, Fruitvale, Alameda ST. BERNARDS A T STUD— CHAMPION LE KING. =** est headed St. Bernard on the Coast. Fee $20. GRAND- Feei W. WALLACE, 58 Boyce St., San Francisco. IRISH AXD SCOTCH TERRIERS. TRISH AND SCOTCH TERRIER PUPPIES 1 at 812 and $15. Sired by Champion Loyne Ruffian and Champion Fighting Mao. Mrs. BRADLEY-DYNE. Saturna P. O- B. C. COLLIES. pOLLIE PUPS FOR SALE— BY PRIZE ^ winning imported sires and dams, fit for bench, ranch or farm Both sexes. Prices accord- ing to quality. Correspondence solicited: all let- ters cheerfully answered. THOS. S. GRLFFITH, Box 1907, Spokane, Wash. LIVE DECOY DUCKS. T IVE DECOY DUCKS— "THE DUCK HUNT- -Lj er's Friend." Will call on sicht. Call or address FAIR OAKS DUCK FARM, 350 College Avenue, Oakland, Cal. BREEDERS' DIRECTORY. HOL STEINS— Winners of every 7 days' butter contest at State Fair 1890 1st & 2d for aged cows, *-yr., S-yr. and 2-yr.-olds; 21 Jerseys and Durhama competing. 5th year my Holstelns have beaten Jerseys for butter. Stock for sale; also pigs. F. H. Burke, SO Montgomery St., S. F. JERSEYS. HOLSTELNS AND DURHAMS. Dairy Stocli specially. Hogs, Poultry. Estab- lished 1876. William Nlles & Co.. Los Angeles, Cal. AYR 8 HERE 8— Young Bulla, Oow« and Heller*. Registered. From prize winning famlllM. Brown fclBrandon Petaluma Cal. PEDIGREES TABULATED And type written Ready (or framing. Write for prices. Bkddir and Bfobtimajt, SO Qoary Btn 6*n rrtUMlMO, Oil. 16 ©lie 0veet>ev cmfc gpovtentcm I November 28 1903 TELEPHONE-. South 640 VRSE BOOTS San Francisco, Cal.*0^^ THE ALWAYS RELIABLE Out of 43 Contestants shooting through all the events at the Marysville Blue Rock Tournament, Oct. 11, 1903, 37 used U. M. C. Shells Those used were ACME, MAGIC, MAJESTIC and MONARCH. Out of 37 Contestants shooting through all the events at the Helvetia Rifle Club (Sacramento) Tournament, Oct. 18-19, 190S, 27 used U. M. C. Cartridges and Primers The Cartridges used were 32-40 and 38-55. A-ivjiivjirjnNriTioKr Union Metallic Cartridge Company PACIFIO COAST DEPOT: 86-88 FIRST ST., SAN FRANCISCO E. E DRAKE, Manager. REPEATING SHOT GUNS WINCHESTER AMMUNITION AND FIREARMS ARE A COMBINATION THAT CANNOT BE SURPASSED. WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS COMPANY Pacific Coait Depot: 127-135 First St , San Francisco. A. MDLLER, Agent. Loaded ixx O. I». "\7V. Smokeless. Winning- Highest Average at All Shoots. IF YOU WANT THE BEST ASK FOR California Powder Works FACTORY LOADED SHELLS. If Your Dealer don't keep them write the CALIFORNIA POWDER WORKS— Office 330 Market St., San Francisco Manufacturer, of BJERCCI.ES DYNAMITE. HERCCXES GELATINE, CHAMPION IMPROVED BLASTING, BLACK BLASTING, BLACK SPORTING „ „.„= C- P- W- SMOKELESS and MILITARY SMOKELESS Also sell CAPS and FCSE, ««»~js.i.*!.oo. Clabrough, Golcher & Go, GUNS Gun Goods FISHING Tackle 533 MARKET STREET S. F. Du Pont Gun Powder SMOKELESS, SHOT GUN and MILITARY FOWDEB Black Powder for Sporting and Blasting Purposes the Bepotetion of a Hundred Yean ii the Guarantee of DU PONT POWDER 519 Mission St.. Room 311, San Francisco, Ca C. A DAIOBT. Axemt, You can get these Smokeless Powders in FACTORY . . LOADED SHELLS DU PONT SHOTGUN RIFLEITE E, C." BAXUSTTTE SCHTJXTZE jLATIIN . XT-TTT. No. 33 3« GEARY STREET. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1903. SUBSCRIPTION THREE DOLLARS A TEAK t&he gvee&ev cmfr §£pori»man fDECEMBER 5, 1»03 WESTCHESTER RACING ASSOCIATION (DSDEE THE AUSPICES OF THE JOOKET CLUB). RACE COUKSE, MORRiS PARK, WESTCHESTER, N. Y. OFFICE: No. 571 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK, N. Y. (THE WINDSOR ARCADE!. THE EIGHTH WITH Stallion Race $5000 ADDED To be Run for by then Two- Year-Olds during the SPRING MEETING OF 1905. THE EIGHTH MATRON WITH $10,000 ADDED To be Run for by then Two-Year-Olds during the AUTUMN MEETING OF 1906. To Close and Name for both events at Midnight of Tuesday, Dec. 1 5, 1 903 CONDITIONS. THE NATIONAL STALLION, 1905. The EIGHTH NATIONAL STALLION for then two years old, foals of 1903 to run at the SpriDg Meeting in 1905, the progeny of stallions nominated Nominations of stallions to close and name by midnight of Thursday, October l, 1903, by sub- scription of SaD each, or only $25 each, for stal- lions which have not sired a winner prior to De- cember 15, 1903. Of the subscriptions for stallions the nominators of the sires of thefirst, second and third horses shall receive 25 per cent., 15 per cent, and 10 per cent, respectively. The remaining 50 per cent, to the winner. STALLION ENTRIES FOR 1905. Hastings $50 Gerolstein . . .$25 Octogon 511 ...50 Henry of Navarre . . .. ho Star Ruby ... 50 Ethelbert Watercress ... 50 Ben Strome 51) ... 50 Faverdale 50 St. Leonards .. 50 Griffon n ...50 Sir Dixon 50 ... 25 Star Shoot M5 ...25 Handspring 50 Ogden ... 50 His Highness 511 ... 50 Silver Fox .. 50 Mirthful ...50 Kinley Mack .. 25 ... 50 Dieudonne . 25 Solitario H ...25 50 ... 25 Arkle .. 51) Kantaka ... 50 Bathampton .Ml Meadowthorpe. . ... 50 ... 50 Golden Garter 50 Daniel ... 50 50 ... 50 50 Meddler ... 50 W> . . 25 Montana 511 Conditions for tlie Entry of Foals of 1903, to close and name by midnight, Tuesday, December 15, 1908. Foals of 1903, the progeoy of stallions duly nominated to be entered and named by midnight of Tuesday, December 15. 1903. Colts and geldings at $10 each fillies at $5 each, the only forfeit if declared by December 15, 1904. If lert in after December 15, 1904, and deslared by April 20. 1905, colts and geldings to pay $30 each, Allies ?I5 each. II left in after April 20, 1905, colts and geldings to pay $60 each, Allies $30 each. Starters — Colts, geldings and fillies to pay $100 each additional. The Westchester Racing Association to add 85000 and the remaining 50 per cent of the stallion entrances, of which §1200 to the second and $600 to the third. The nominator of the winner to receive $1000 out ol the subscriptions and starting money. Or i he subscriptions for stallions, the nominators of the sires of the first, second arjd third horses sh:tll receive 25 per cent, 15 per cent and 10 per cent respectively. Colts to carry ]£Mbs., gildings and fillies 119 lbs. The produce of stallions which have not pro- duced a winner prior to December 15. 1903, allowed 5 lbs. ii claimed r.t time of entry. By filing with the Westchester Racinr Association, prior to December 1, 1904. an accepted transferof the foal's entry, the original subscriber shari be released from liability as to the engagement of the horse, except for the original forfeit of $10 or $5 Last five furlongs. Eclipse Course. THE MATRON OF 1906. The EIGHTH MATRON, with $10,000 added, for mares covered in 1903, foals of 1904. to be run for by then two-year-olds at the Autumn Meeting in 1906. The event to be run in t-vo races, one for colts and geldings, the other for Allies. GENERAL CONDITIONS. The EIGHTH MATRON for the produce of mares covered in 1903, to run when two years old at Autumn Meeting in 1908, with $10,000 added. Subscriptions for mares to close at $20 each, or only $10 each if the money accompany the entry. Foals the progeny of mares so nominated to be eligible, at $10 each, the only forfeit if declared on or before November 1st, 1905. If left in after November 1st, 1905, to pay $25 each. If left In after April 1st, 1906, to pay $50eacb. If left in after August 15th, 1906, to pay $75 each. Starters to pay $150 each. WEIGHTS, PENALTIES AND ALLOW- ANCES, Colts to carry 122 lbs ; fillies and geldings, 119 lbs. Winners of $5,000 or twice or $3,500, to carry 3 lbs. extra; of $10,000 or twice of $5,000, 5 lbs. extra; of $15,000, or twice or $10,000, 7 lbs. extra; of $30,000, or twice of $15,000, 10 lbs. extra. Non-winners of $3,000 allowed 3 lbs.; of $1,000, 5 lbs ; maidens, 10 lbs. Produce of horses or out of mares that had never produced a winner previ- ous to January 1st, 1904, allowed 3 lbs.; of both, 5 lbs.; which allowance must be claimed at time of entrance. Allowances cumulative. CONDITION OF THE RACE FOR COLTS AND GELDINGS. Colts and geldings the produce of mares nomin- ated for the Eighth Matron to run by them- selves, the money for which shall include all sub- scriptions of mares producing colts, all declar- ation fees paid for colts and geldings at $10, $25 and $50 each, and of those left in after August 15, 1906, at $75 each, with $5000 of the added money, of which $1000 to the second and $500 to the third. The nominator of the dam of the winner to receive 50 per cent, of the starting money for the race, of the second, 30 per cent., of the third, 20 per cent. Eclipse Course. CONDITIONS OF THE RACE FOR FILLIES. Fillies the produce of mares nominated for the Eighth Matron to ran by themselves, the money for which shall include all subscriptions for mares producing fillies, all declaration fees paid for Allies at $10, $25 and $50 each, and of those left in after August 15, 1906, at $75 each, with $5000 of the added money, of which $1000 to the second and $500 to the third. The nominator of the dam of the winner to receive 50 per cent of the starting money for the race, of the second 30 per cent, of the third 20 per cent. Eclipse Coarse, Both the National Stallion and the Matron as above are *o be run under the P.ules of The Jockey Club and Westchester Racing Association applicable to the vODditions of each and both of them, viz.: Kule 38, Rule 54, Part IV. Rule fi.1 ind Rule 5, Part III, Rule 72. For further particulars and entry blanks, address H, G. CRICKMORE, C.erk of the Course. 571 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y. Futurity Stake Payments Due Jan. 2, 1904 PACIFIC BREEDERS FUTURITY STAKES No. I -$6000 Guaranteed FOR THE GET OF MARES COVERED IN 1900 (FOALS BORN IN 1901) ENTRIES CLOSED SEPTEMBER 1, 1900 To Trot or Pace at 3 years old In 1903 and at 3 years old in 1904, at either or both ages MONEY DIVIDED AS FOLLOWS: 1903 Two-Year-Old Trotters 81250 Two-Year-Old Pacers 750 Nominator Dam of Winner Trot 200 Nominator Dam of Winner Pace ... 200 1904 Three-Year-Old Trotters $2000 Three Year-Old Pacers 1000 Nomiuator Dam of Wioner Trot 200 Nominator Dam of Winner Pace... 200 Owner of Stallion, sire of Winner of Three-Year-Old Trot, when mare was bred. .8100 Owner of Stallion, sire of Wlaner of Three-Year-Old Pace, when mare was bred. . lOO LAST PAYMENT $10 ON THREE-YEAR-OLDS JANUARY 2, 1904. STARRING PAYMENTS— $25 to start In the two year-old pace. $35 to start In the two-yeai- old trot. $35 to start in the three-year-old pace. $50 to start in the three-year-old trot. All starting payments to be made ten days bsfore the first day or the me ting at which the race is te take place. Nominators must designate, when making payments to s' art, whether the horse entered is a trotter or pacer Colts that start at two years old are not barred from starting again in the three-year-old divisions. PACIFIC BREEDERS FUTURITY STAKES No. 2=«$6000 Guaranteed FOR THE GET OF MARES COYERED IN 1901 (FOALS BORN IN 1902) ENTRIES CLOSED OCTOBER 1, 1901 To Trot or Pace at 2 years old In 1904 and at 3 years old in 1905, at eitheror both ages. MONEY DIVIDED AS FOLLOWS: 1904 1905 Two- Ye ar-Old Trotters 81250 Two-Year-Old Pacers 750 Nominator Dam of Winner Trot 20O Nominator Dam of Winner Pace 200 Three-Year-Old Trotters 82000 Three-Year-Old Pacers 1O0O Nominator Dam of Winner Trot.... 200 Nominator Dam of Winner Pace 200 Owner of Stallion sire of Winner of Three-Year-Old Trot, when mare was bred. .8100 Owner of Stallion, sire of Winner of Three-Ye ar-Old Pace, when mare was bred. . lOO $10 on Two-Year-Olds January 2, 1904. STARTING PAYMENTS— $25 to start In the two-year-old pace. $35 to start in the three-year- old trot. $35 to start In the three-year-old pace. $50 to start in the three-year-old trot All starting payments to be made ten days before the first day of the meeting at which the race is to take place. Nominators must designate, when making payments to start, whether the horse entered is a trotter or a pacer. Colts that start at two years old are not barred from starting again in the three-year-old divisions. 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EDDY A CO., Whitehall, Pedigrees Tabulated T^^bI^IZ Sportsman, it Owrj street, San Francisco, C*l. December 5, 1903] ?&hs gxxepev-atib gftwtft*mcm 8 THE WEEKLY BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN F. W. KELLEY, Pbopbietob. Turf and Sporting Authority of the Pacific Coast. — office — 36 QEARY STREET, SAN FRANCISCO. P. O- BOX 2300. Telephone : Black 586. eruia— One Tear S3, Six Months 81.75, Three Months SI STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. Money snould be sent by postal order, draft or by registered letter addressed to F. W. Kellet, 36 Geary St., San Francisco. Cal. Communications must be accompanied by the writer's name and address, not necessarily for publication, but as a private guarantee of good faith. San Francisco, Saturday, December 5, 1903. T^HE CHRISTMAS EDITION of this paper which is to be published December 26th, is to be the nandBomest paper ever issued from this office. The oover is a work of art and is to be embossed in color and gilt and contain four handsome medallions on which will be the heads of the champions, Lou Dillon 1:58J, Cresceus 1:59|, Major Delmar 1:59J and Dan Patch 1:56}, engraved from photographs from life. The statistical tables of racing on the Pacific Coast and on the Grand Circuit in 1904 will be very complete and the list of new standard performers sired by Cal- ifornia bred or owned sires will also be printed. There will be several special articles by well known writers on turf topics and much matter of vital interest to all horsemen. The Stallion Directory, which haB been a prominent feature of our holiday edition for several years past, promises to be larger than ever. The illustrationsin this issue willsurpassanythingyet attempted by this journal and will comprise photo- engravings of the leading champions of the turf, be- Bldes famous stallions and broodmares. The Rod, Gun and Kennel Department and the Farm Depart- ment will contain many new and special features and be beautifully illustrated. The advertising Bpace in .this edition is to be limited, so advertisers should send in theiT reuuests for space immediately. There is to be no extra charge for advertising in thisis6ue — = prices remain the same. have required at least $1500 more in purses and this would have put thabalauee on the wrong side of the ledger. It was the same at Vallejo. Seven hundred dollars profit was made on a three days meeting — all that town will -stand. Four or five days, with the extra expense necessary for extra purses would have brought a heavy financial loss to the management. Good purseB and short meetings should be the watch-' word of the circuit of 1904, if we are to have one. In the meantime we would like to receive suggestions from any and all concerned in having a good circuit of harness racing in California next year. A DISPATCH from New York received this week £*■ states that Mr. Brayton Ives, the New York millionaire, has paid Monroe Salisbury $20,000 for his great trotter Monte Carlo 2:07} and will retire him from regular racing, using him solely as a roadster and for matinee racing. Monte Carlo is undoubtedly one of the highest class trotters in the country and should make an ideal road horse. He has" size, good looks, youth, and is as near a perfect gaited one as has been seen on the tracks in. years. There are many of the most prominent, trainers who hold that had Monte Carlo been raced less he would have been almost unbeatable. They claim that he is a horse that will not stand hard racing every week and that if he had not been started oftener than once in two weeks he would have raced well and consistently. He is an intelligent horse, game as a pebble, and will trot the last quarter as fast as the first, but thiB year be refused to score and acted badly on' several oc- casions, until the turf followers calif d him an "in and outer." It was claimed ,that a gravel in his foot made him act badly and that when it was discovered he was let up on and his foot cured up so that he started in the McDowell Stake a well horse. His showing in this race in which he won four heats, but was dis- qualified in one, was pretty good proof that the "gravel" theory was correct. But in his very next start he repeated bis bad acting. As a road and matinee horse Monte Carlo should" be' able to make a' great showing next year - Helsahorse that always has his speed* and few trotters make a better ap- pearance when hitched to a wagon. It is pleasant to know that Mr. Salisbury has obtained such a good price for him, but it is rot more than trotters of Monte Carlo's class are worth at the present time. SUGGESTIONS for a Central California Circuit are in order, and the Breeder and Sportsman will be pleased to receive the same from horsemen and others interested in a circuit of harness racing in this State in 1904. As a starter we will suggest the following: Let the circuit open early — not later than August 1st, and by July 15th if that date is found practicable. In a state where horses are put iu train- ing by the first day of the year, a late circuit is'an absurdity. We would suggest that the circuit be strictly one of harness racing and that the managers of the mile tracks within a radius of two hundred miles of San Francisco meet by January 10th and effect some sort of an organization and agree upon dates. How would the following do? Opening meet- ing of say four days at Santa Rosa, thence to Peta- luma, Napa, Vallejo, Woodland, State Fair, Stockton, Pleasanton and San Jose. This would give nine meetings of from three days to one week each, and if good purses were advertised by February 1st, the list of entries would be large. The Breeders associ- ation will have a great program for its meeting of 1904. There will be the three-year-old divisions of the Futurity Stake No. 1, and the two-year-old divi- sions of Stake No. 2, to decide. Besides these there will be a stake of $2500 or $3000 for the 2:24 class trotters and one of $2000 for the 2:20 class pacers. It is also proposed to give some good Btzed purses for the fast classes, so as to induce those owning these horses to race at home. A $1000 for 2:08 pacers ought to fill well, and $1000 for the 2:15 cla6s trotters would bring out a big field of horses and result in a horse race. If the smaller towns will confine their meetings to not more than four days they can afford to make the purses for all classes larger. The plan was tried this year at Vallejo and Petaluma and worked well. $10,200 was paid out in purses and stakes by the Breeders association at Petaluma in a four days pro- gram and the profit on the meeting was $800. Had the meeting opened Tuesday instead of Wednesday the probability is that the association would bave lost $800 instead of making that much. The reason is obvious. The gate receipts would have been no larger as the aggregate attendance would have been about the same. But an extra day of racing would CRESCEUS' RECORD WILL STAND and te recorded as 1 :59J in volume 19 of The Year Book. The Board of Appeals of the American Trot- ting Association which has been in session at Chicago this week adjourned last Thursday without taking any action on the matter of the record made by Cresceus at Wichita in October. This is the only statement made in a short dispatch sent out by the Associated Press, and doubtless means that there was not enough evidence of fraud to base any action upon. As the Board will not meet until next May, and the Year Book will be printed before that time, Cresceus will be credited with the mile in l:59j as re- ported by the Wichita association. It is a victory for Mr. Ketcham that every true horseman will be pleased over. The dispatch states that "the case hinges on a technicality." j There seems to be no doubt in the minds of fchOBe who have investigated the matter that the mighty son of Robert McGregor trotted his mile fairly and squ.arely in a quarter of a seeond le6S than two minutes, and the only point against bim is that some little technical point of the many requirements of the rules governing time records was not complied .with. Howe-ver, the Board of Appeals, considered this so trivial that they took no action on the matter, and therefore the record will stand. We congratulate Mr. Ketcham on the outcome of the case as the breeder, owner, trainer and driver of the champion trotting Btallion, the first trotter to beat two minutes. MR. AND. ROBINSON of Sidney, Australia, who has been in this country since last August, dur- ing which time he spent several weeks on the Grand Circuit and in Kentucky, reached San Francisco last week with six trotting bred horses that he purchased at the Lexington sale and from private parties. While they have all been examined by Dr. Egan and have a clean bill of health, they will not be shipped to Aus- tralia for two or three weeks, as one of the mares was severely injured by slipping just before leaving Ken- tucky and is very lame at the present time. There are two young stallions in the lot — one by Bow Bells and the other by Birchwood. A two-year-old by Heir-at-Law 2:051, out of Vera Capel 2:071, Is consid- ered by Mr. Robinson to be one of the most promising youngsters in the country. Shelis certainly an ele- gantly bred one. THE MILE TRACK at Santa Barbara is now in first-class condition, and within the past year a number of new stalls have been built, thereby offering accommodations for a good many horses. Mr. S. G. Randall, the manager of the track, proposes to give a meeting of four days, beginning on Christmas Day and closing December 29th, omitting Sunday, duriDg which purses will be hung up for trotters, pacers and runners. The track is §ald to be an excellent one. THE OCCIDENT STAKE OF 1906 is announced by the State Agricultural Society. It will close for entries on the first of January, the conditions the same as previous stakes. The total entrance is $100, of which $10 must be paid January 1, 1904, $15 one year later, $25 January 1, 1906, and $50 thirty days before the race. It is the richest stake for three-year- olds that is given on the Pacific Coast and is growing In value every year. This year it was worth $3920, of which $2512 went to the winner, Tuna by James Mad- ison. Next year the stake promises to be even larger, and this one for 1906 should be worth at least $3000 net to the winner. The stake is for foals of this year to trot as three-year-olds in 1906. Don't forget to name your weanlings in this stake as it will be one of the richest ever given and will net its owner a small fortune. Entries cloie with L. R. Miller, Acting Sec- retary, Sacramento, Cal. WE REGRET TO LEARN that Mr. Tom James of San Jose, owner of* that grandly bred stallion Barondale 2:11}, will, soon return to his old home in Iowa, and take his horses with him. Mr. James has business interests that demand his atten- tion there and leaves California with regret as be has found improved health here and says the Santa Clara valley is to him the garden spot of the world. During his two years residence in San Jose he has earnecFthe esteem] and -Respect- of all_ who have bad the opportunity to meet or do business with him and has made a host of friends who will regret that he is not to remain-"* "etfeen of1 this State. Horsemen generally will feel tnat the taking of his hor6e Baron- dale away will be a direct loss to the breeding inter- ests of California, and those who have bred their mares to this son of Baron Wilkes may consider themselves very fortunate.. By Mr. James' return to his old home, California will lose a citizen who repre- sents the true type of the American gentleman, and one who is-a desirable acquisition to any community. May health and prosperity attend him and his where- ever they may be. . The Goliah of Geldings. Snyder, the biggest horse in the world and one of the most wonderful of strange animal freaks to be exhibited at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis next year, is owned in Cleveland, Ohio. The horse is a Percberon gelding, foaled in 1900, in Monroe county, and until last July owned by H. D. Snyder of Millersburg, Holmes county. He is the tallest horse in the world, standing 21 hands and weighs 2700 pounds, probably the heaviest horse in the world, although discredited reports frcm Belgium tell of two horses weighing 2800, owned in that coun- try of heavy Flemish horses. Snyder is a beautiful dark chestnut in color, with not a mark on him ex- cept for a white puzzle star in his forehead. This and two one-inch horns which are growing out of his temple are his freak features and are most remark- able. The horns cannot be accounted for, while the white star or puzzle is in the form of the forequartera of a horse or deer, showing the legs, head and horns and eurve of the neck. It has been likened to a map in South America as well, but its striking resemblance to the forequarters of an animal is noted at first glance. The animal haB been exhibited this fall at many county fairs and has attained considerable of a reputation as a wonderfully developed horse. At ex- hibitions, to make the horse's size appreciable, a man of average height stands at its head and reaches but to bis nose, while the horse's toweling height is fur- ther illustrated by the fact that when his owners or hoBtlers clean him, it is neceBsary to stand on a step- ladder in order to reach his back. — Breeders Gazette. The remarkable four-year-old trotting mare Angle, that recently trotted a mile at Lexington, Ky.. in 2:063, stepping the last half in 1:02^, is, like Fereno 2:05], (the fastest race trotting mare ever bred in Kentucky,) an inbred Wilkes. Angle was sired by Axtell 2:12, dam Lena Rivers, by Gambonito 2:19}, son of Gambetta Wilkes 2:19}, second dam Ella B. by Belbrino, son of Mambrino Patchen, third dam Belle, by Youog Messenger, son of Downing's Bay Messec- ger. The fact that the world's record for a four- year-old trotting mare is 2:06 is evidence that this daughter of Axtell is of the phenomenal order She has never started in a race, but is perfectly mannered and has on different occasions trotted a last quarter of a fast mile in 30ij seconds. Her owner, Mr. J. J. McDonald, of Cuthbert, Ga., has been content to have her brought gradually into form and he now feels certain that in the daughter of Axtell bi a trotter that will take high rank among the trotters when she Is permitted to start wit I object in view. ®tie gv&eXssv axxit gMwrrsmcm I December 5, 1808 The Care of Stallions. [Written (or the breeder and Sportsman.} The treatment that is given any good horse, or rather that ought to be given him, is about the treat- ment that should be given a stallion. He should have what good sweet, clean oat hay he wants to eat, and be given oats according to his work. He should have a large, well lighted and well ventilated box stall that always contains a bed of clean, dry straw, so that air arising from it is pure and fresh. He should have at least one good cleaning with a brush and cloth every day. providing he is not of an irritable dispositior. He should be kept in the most perfect health and in the highest state of vigor, and to thiB end should have plenty of exercise. It should be given in har- ness or Baddle and if possible he should be turned out in a clean sandy or grass paddock a few hours every day so that he can pitch and tumble around. If it oan be reached clean sea sand is just the thing for him and he should be allowed to roll in it to his heart's content, as a stallion needsthe sun and plenty of fresh air and the fresh earth to keep his skin and feet and whole system healthy. If he is a thoroughbred stallion he should be ex- ercised to the saddle; if a light harness horse, to a cart or wagon, and if a heavy harness horse he should be used as such at least for a few miles each day to show that he will do what is required of him and have the work on his mind. Thus used a horse will be more apt to transmit to his progeny the qualities which they are bred and intended for. All this ex- ercise benefits his lung and heart action, develops his muscles and sinews and gives him strength and vigor to beget strong and healthy progeny. A pampered high fed stallion, kept in the shade, will as a rule be- get feeble, puny and unruly colts. Light harnesB or saddle work, accompanied with the paddock work is indispensable to maintain unimpaired vigor. When there is grass he should have at least twenty minutes to eat it every day. A lump of rock salt kept constantly in his box, is in my opinion the best plan of feeding this necessary. Give him all he wants and allow the horBe to be the judge as to thequantity. He will not overdose himself. There is another important matter in the treatment of a stallion. He should have during the breeding season, certain and regular hours in which to serve mares, and they should not be admitted to him at any other time. If he is rushed with patronage, he may be permitted to serve twice a day, at night and morn- ing, but otherwise he should be limited to once a day. Much depends, of course, upon the constitution and vigor of the horse. If they are permitted to re- ceive mares at any time they are very liable to be fretful and excited ail the day long, and many valu- able stallions have been lost by this course. One mare each day is sufficient and not more than two occasion- ally when there is a rush. I refer, of course, to valu- able stallions and presume that the owner of the mare wants to raise a good Btror g colt that will be a credit to both sire and dam. If one breeds to an in- ferior stallion it matters but little whether the scrub produce amounts to anything or not. The sooner it shows its worthlessness and that there is no profit in that kind, the better for all concerned. The word "oondition" is used by horsemen in a different sense from that applied to cattle, and by the majority of farmers and stock raisers. The horsemen use the word to indicate perfect health and strength produced by reducing all superfluous fat and bringing the flesh into clean, hard and powerful muscle, thus invigorating the entire system including the internal organs. By the Condition of a stallion is meant that state of the system in which he should be kept in order for him to transmit and reproduce the greatest excellence and vitality in his progeny. Too many persons are content to breed their mare to a stallion whose figure suits them, without regard to his condi- tion or the condition of the mares. Both should be as near perfect health and vigor as possible. C. E. B. S. G. S. San Francisco, Nov. 30, 1903. straight heats with Admonto in good time, Mr. Delory 's gelding pressed him closely in both heats and made the finishes close and exciting. It took three heats to decide the 2:30 trot. Dr. Hagan, driving Mr. W. A. White's mare Kathleen, won the first heat by a nose from Mr. H. C. Wyatt's mare Catherine, driven by Mr. A. W. Bruner. The second heat it was impossible for the judges to sepa- rate the two mares and it was called a dead heat. Blanch Conifer, the other starter, was dra vn before the third heat was started, and the third heat was a duel between Kathleen and Catherine, ending in a whipping finish with Kathleen first at the wire by a half length. The free-for-all brought out three starters. Presi- dent Byron Erkenbrecher drove his mare Rita H., fresh from her great winning campaign up north this year. Mr. C. A. Gates was up behind his bay gelding L. W. and Mr. J. A. Chanslor drove his fast gelding Ira 2:10J. In both heats the horses were sent away well bunched, and Mr. Erkenbrecher took his mare back and trailed the others until the stretch was reached, when he gave the daughter of McKin- ney her head and she won handily. Mr. C. A. Canfield's brown gelding Athaio was the winner of the 2:20 pace in straightheats, Victor Platte being awarded second place in the summary. When three heats of the 2:16 mixed race had been decided it was found that darkness would prevent the finish of the race. Briney K. and Limonero, trotters, and Robert I., pacer, each had a heat to his credit. It was then announced that the race would be finished on Christmas Day, when the driving club will give another matinee. The officers of the day were as follows: Judges, Messrs. H. N. Henderson, H. C. Bundrem and George Morgan; timers, Dr. W. W. Hitchcock, Dr. Millbank Johnson and Mr. J. A. Fairchild: starter, Mr. A. W. Bruner. The officers of the driving club are: President, Mr. Byron Erkenbrecher; Vice-President, Dr. Wm. Dodge: Treasurer, Mr. C. A. Canfield; Secretary, Dr. Ralph Hagan. The other directors are Dr. W. W. Hitchcock, Dr. J. A. Edmonds and Messrs. J. A. Fairchild, Thomas Hughes, H. N. Henderson, H. A. Bundrem and Wm. Garland. Mrs. F. E. Chandler is Assistant Secretary. The summary of the day's events are as follows: Pacing, 2:30 class. Admonto, ch g IM. B. Mosher) 1 1 ElMonte.bg (E. J. Deloreyj 2 2 E:ectra,bno (W L Heller) 3 3 Bob H. Russell, t> b (Dr. Bryson) 5 4 Gjen, bm (P. L. Budinger) 4 5 Time— 2:2051, 2:19':. Trotting, 2:30 class. Kathleen, bm (Or. Ralph Hagan) 1 0 4 Catherine, br m (A. W. Bruner) 2 0 2 Blanche Conifer (Henry Berry) 3 3dr Time— 2::8, 2:25. 2:26. Pacing, free for all. RitaH.,brm (Byron Erkenbrecker) 1 1 L,W.,bg (C.A.Gates) 2 2 Ira, b g (C. A. Canfield) 3 3 Time— 2:12)4, 2:1454. Pacing, 2:20 class. Athato.brg (C. A. Canfield) 1 l VictorPlatte.bg i E. J. Delorey) 2 4 San Gabriel Prince, m g (P.B.Michel) 6 2 WoodB.chg (CD.Black) 3 3 Prootor.chg (M. B. Mosher) 4 5 Time— 2:15, 2:20. Mixed, 2.16 class. Unfinished. Robert I., ch h (p) (R. B. Morehead) 3 2 1 Limonero, b s (tr) (Dr. Dodge) 2 13 Briney K., b g (tr) (W. H Berry) 14 2 Scappoose, bm (p) (R. B. Mosher) 4 3 4 Time— 2:1454, 2:15k, 2:1954. Thanksgiving Matinee at Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Driving Club held one of its suc- cessful matinees on Thanksgiving Day last week, and in spite of counter holiday attractions of football, base ball and theatres, several thousand people were out to see the speed contests between the many good horses owned by the members of this thriving organ- ization. Five races were started, and all finished ex- cept one, the 2:16 for both trotters and pacers, which had to be called off after three heats had been decided owing to the lateness of the hour. The first event was the 2:30 pace between Mr. Bixby's Bob H. Russell, Mr. Mosher's Admonto, Mr. Delory's El Mont, Mr. Heller's Electra and Mr. Bud- inger's Glen. While Mr. Mosher won the race in two Sale of Thoroughbred Yearlings. The yearlings from Mr. W. O'B. Macdonough's Menlo Stock Farm were sold by Mr. William G. Layng at the Occidental Horse Exchange last Tuesday even- ing. There was a very large attendance and the bid- ding was quite spirited. The twelve yearlings sold brought the following prices: Chestnut filly by St. Carlo-Geneva VIII. by Fonso, to M. J. Daly for S3T5. Bay filly by Bright Phoebus-Haidee bv King Al- fonso, to J. Foley for 8150. Bay colt by Sam Lucas-Hertha by Islington, to Vic Gilbert for $350. Chestnut colt by Magnet-imp. Chime by Prism, to Caesar Young for $550. Bay or brown filly by Orsini-Moonlit bv imp. Greenback, to J. C. Nealon for $775 Brown filly by Orsini-imp. Miss Brummel by Geo. Frederick, to Caesar Young for $1-400. Bay filly by Bright Phoebus-Lovelight bv Racine, to Ed Lilburn for $325. Bay filly by Bright Phoebus-Lux by Flambeau, to James Coffey for $625. Chestnut colt by St. Carle— Moldene by imp. Isling- ton, to J. S. Givens for $750. Bay colt by Bright Phoebus-Spinach by imp. Watercress, to J. W. Daly for $350. Chestnut colt by St. Carlo-Gold Lace by imp. Or- monde, to Caesar Young for $1800. Bay filly by Sam Lucas-The Peeress by His High- ness, to A. J. Molero for $150. Palo Alto Horses at Old Glory Sale. Following is a summary of the sale of Palo Alto horses by the Fasig-Tipton Company in New York on Monday, Nov. 23d: Exioneer blk h, 1S97, by Boodle-Expressive; S 4 Fowler, St. Johns, N. B., $400. Monbells b h, 1897, by Mendocino-Beautiful Bells- W. Harry Orr, Reading, Pa., $900. Lulu Wilkes blk m, 1882, George Wilkes-Lula- A L Thomas, Omaha, Neb., $185. Rosemont b m, 1883, by Piedmont-Beautiful Bells- A. H. Kingsley, Concord, N H., $135. Lucyneer br m, 1888. by Electioneer-Lucj: Dr. J. C. McCoy, Kirkwood, Del, 8175 Palatino blk m, 1891, by Palo Alto-Elaine: A. L. Thomas, Omaha, Neb., $295. Avena ch m, 1890, by Palo Alto-Astoria; Dr. J. C. i McCoy, Kirkwood, Del, $225 Cressida blk m, 1892, by Palo Alto-Clarabel: James Wetherill, Gait, Ont., $300. Maiden b m, 1884, by Electioneer-May Queen; S A Fowler, St. Johns, N. B., $160. Elden blk m, 1889, by Nephew-Eleanor; James Wetherill, Gait, Ont., $750. Coral b m, 1887, by Electioneer-Columbine; J. A. Murray, Johnstown, N. Y., $175. Alula br m, 1896, by Altivo-Lula Wilkes: Wm. Cobb, Spring Mills, N. Y., $200. Palita ch m, 1893, by Palo Alto-Elsie; A. G. Dan- forth & Sons, Washington, 111., $425. Helena b m, 1889, by Electioneer-Lady Ellen; R. H. Shoekency, Kirkwood, Del., $1,050. Novelist b m, 1889, by Norval-Elsie; W. A. Pierce, Stanstead, Quebec, $260. Liska b m, 1889, by Electioneer-Lizzie; L. D. Fos- sett. New York, $185. Sweetwater br m, 1890, by Stamboul-Manzanita; McNamara .£ Wells, New York, 8225. Rowena b m, 1890, by Azmoor-Emma Robson; H. Schmulback, Wheeling, W. Va., $875. Avenada ch m, 1895, by Dexter Prince-Avena; J. A. Kerr, Perth, Ont., $200. Aerolite blk m, 1891, bv Palo Alto-Manette; S. A. Fowler, St. Johns, N. B., $160. Adbuta br m, 1897, by Advertiser-Bell's Beauty; A. L. Thomas, Omaha, Neb., $300. Sweet Rose b m, 1891, by Eiectioneer-Rosemont; A. G. Danforth i: Son, Washington, 111., $325. Athena b m. 1890, by Electioneer-Ashby; Dr. J. C. McCoy, Kirkwood, Del, $335. Wildmont b m, 1887, by Piedmont-Wildflower; L. B. Fossett, New York, 8160. Susera b m, 1897, by McKinney-Su6ette; R. F. Mul- hall, Morristown, N J , $350. Aria b m. 1891, by Bernal-Ashby, Nathan Strauss, $400. Esperita ch m, 1896, by Mendocino-Sprite; A. L. Thomas, Omaha, Neb., $135. Lustrosa b m, 1897, by Boodle-Luta; M. E. Foland, New York, $225. Lucie br m, 1900, by Dexter Prince-Lucyneer; A. J. Welsh, Hartford, Ct., $350. Anteveo ch m, 1897, by Dexter-Columbine; Abel Hartshorn, Danville, Vt., $260. Expressive b m, 1891, by Electioneer-Esther; W. B. Dickerman, Mamaroneck, N. Y., $1,700. Sunolito b m, 1897, by Advertiser- Waxana; A. L. Thomas, Omaha, Neb., $435. yeatlings— Foals op 1902. Sustenance, b f by Stam B. -Susera: F J Davev Niagara Falls, N. Y.,|$2C0. Lucid, b c by Monbells-Lucyneer; L. D. Fossett, New York, $400. Rosemonto, b c by Nutwood Wilkes-Rosemont; L. D. Fossett, New York, $225. Story Writer, b c by Azmoor-Novelist; J. C. Linne- man, Lima, Ohio, $235. Water Cress, b c by McKinney-Cressida; W. Craw- ford, New York, 8325. Virgineer, br c by Exioneer-Maiden; L. D. Fossett, New York, $460. Monomaniac, ch c by Monbells-Manzanita; J. A. Kerr, Perth, Ont., 8950. Nazarita, b c by Nazote-Manette; W. A. Pierce, Stanstead, Quebec, $185. Wild Bells, b f by Monbells-Wildmont; David Ma- haney, Portsmouth, N. H., $385. Orb of Day, b f by Exioneer-Sunolito; L. D. Fos- sett, New York, $425. Merry Making, b f bv Mendocino-Marion; S. A. Fowler, St. Johns, N. B., $250. Avenue, ch f by Mendoeinc—Avena; Dr. J. C. McCoy, Kirkwood, Del., $650. Exiona, br f bv Exioneer-Adbuta; S. G. Selkirk. Oswego, N. Y., $300. Woodland Daisv, br f by Nazote-Wildflower, L. D. Fossett, S'ew York, $200. Sweet Perfume, b f by Nutwood Wilkes-Sweet- water; D. Odell, Elmsford, N. Y., $200. Docile, b f by Mendocino-Mary Osborne; L. D. Fos- sett, New York, $400. Coral Bead, b f by McKinney-Coral; J. C. Linne- man, Lima, Ohio, $375. Avenal, blk f by McKinney-Avenada; S. A. Fowler, St. Jt-hns, N. B-, 8510. Antecina, b f bv Mendocino-Anteveo; Miss Helen M. Davis, Elmsford, N Y., $625. Total, $19,555. Average, 51 head, $383.43. Wilkes Stallions for Sale. Mr. P. H. McEvoy of Menlo Park is offering several desirable young Wilkes stallions for sale as will be seen by an advertisement in another part of this issue. * Col. J. C. Kirkpatrick has let the contract for a cottage to cost $5000 to be erected on his iot on Rose street, Pleasanton, close to the famous training track in that town. Jackson's Nana Soda untangles the feet. December 5, 1903] f&He $vssi>ev tmt« gtpjjtrfcsmau If you want to sella horse, spend a dollar and a half on an inch advertisement in the Breeder and Sportsman's Christmas edition. It will be the largest edition overissued by a horse paper west of the Mississippi river, and will reach those who are in the market for horses. Monte Carlo, 320,000. Fast horses bring the money. Mr. Salisbury is expected home next week. It is proposed to announce the California circuit dates by January 10th. Good money will be hung up for the harness horses in California next season. Ed. Beuyon expects to mark Fereno 2:05i, in about 2:03 next season. The Los Angeles Driving Club will hold its next matinee on Christmas day. Robert Bonner's motto was "when you find a horse that suits you buy him and pay the price." Del Norte is old Altamont's leading sire, with eight in the list, five of which are in the 2:20 list. Don't make any mistake. Breed your McKinney mares to good stallions. They will be great producers. Stallion owners should see that they have a place in the Directory to be printed in our Christmas edition. Twenty-nine animals, bred at Village Farm, sold at an average of about $697 apiece at the late Tranter- Kenney sale in Kentucky. Dreamwold, the trotting horse farm of Thomas W. Lawson of Boston, Mass., will hereafter race no horses not bred by Mr. Lawson. Charles Townsend of Denver, Colo., will offer a purse of $1500 for trotters eligible to the 2:20 class for the 1904 meeting in that city. Ethelyn by Harold is now the dam of three trotters with records of 2:15 or better, as follows: Ethel's Pride 2:13},;Extasy 2:111 and Impetuous 2:13. In 1903 Scott Hudson gave new records below 2:10 to eleven trotters and pacers. He has won over $200,- 000 in purses during his last three campaigns. James Sutherland's bay weanling by Stam B. 2:11}, dam the dam of Bertina 2:17} and Redlight 2:20, by Piedmont, is a grand looking youngster and has been named Sam G. Peter Saxe & Son, the well known importers and dealers in live stock, shipped a fine big four-year-old jack to Mexico on the steamer which left San Fran- cisco this week. Horses with long hair on their legs when driven through water will stand wet through the whole night, will suffer from grease, cracked heels and sev- eral other diseases. The Lexington mile track is now closed, and train- ers are jogging their horses on the half-mile track and on the road. At last reports they were wearing ear muffs and three pairs of gloves. The only pacers that have got records of 2:04 or better this season are Dan Patch 1:56J, Prince Alert 1:57, Dariel 2:00}, Dan R. 2:011, Fanny Dillard 2:03} and Major C. 2:04. The average time of these six performers is just one-half second slower than 2:00. Rensselaer "Wilkes 2:1H, that won the blue ribbon in the high stepping class at the recent Chicago Horse Show, was bred at Highlawn Farm, Lee, Mass., and got by Alcantara 2:23. His dam was Nena, by Nutwood 2:185; second dam by "Woodford Mambrino 2:2H. -Tie famous blue ribbon winner, Lord Br/fliant, a fifteen-year-old 14.3} hand gelding, brought $3200 under the hammer in New York City on the 23d inst. This horse has won 405 blue ribbons and 91 champion- ships at horse Bhows in this country. He is trotting bred, being by Johnny Mack 2712. The International Stock Food Company has estab- lished a factory at Toronto, Ontario, to supply the big demand for this famous food that has grown up in that country. The factory has been placed under the management of Mr. E. B. Savage, son of Mr. W. W. Savage, proprietor of the company. Budd Doble has concluded to stand Kinney Lou 2:07} at the San Jose track and will take the fastest trotting son of McKinney there soon after the first of the year. He will limit him to a dozen mares at $100 each, and will close his season early as the horse will be raced on the Grand Circuit next year. Jack Groom has the trotters Liege 2:12} and Dollexa 2:21 J at the Alameda track and both are in fine shape. The mare especially is looking in perfect condition for this time of the year. She was bred to Monterey 2:09} this year and is thought to be safely in foal. The offspring from this union should be a fast trotter and a good one. Dollexa and Liege are owned by Mr. C. F. White, of Cosmopolis, "Washington. The cover of the holiday edition of the Breeder and Sportsman will be a beautifully embossed de- sign in color and gilt and contain handsome portraits of Lou Dillon, Cresceus, Major Delmar and Dan Patch. It will be the handsomest thing ever gotten out by a journal of this character on the Pacific Coast. It is announced that Gen. B. F. Tracy has decided to sell all his trotting stock and retire from the breed- ing business. Among the well known stallions that General Tracy has owned are Kentucky Wilkes 2:21}, Mambrino Dudley 2:19} and Advertiser 2:15}. He has bred and raised a number of good ones including Bravado 2:10J. In trotting a mile in 1:58}, Lou Dillon covered 44 53-100 feet every second. It is necessary to aver- age 44 feet every second to make a mile in two minutes. The records of Cresceus, Major Delmar, Alix and Maud S. are 1:59}, 1:59}, 2:03} and 2:08}. Lou Dillon beat Cresceus and Major Delmar 55 69-100 feet to the mile; Alix 233 9:10 feet, and Maud S , 456 3-5 feet. Frank Hansen, a horseshoer who has earned a reputation by shoeing the fastest horses on the Grand Circuit, has located at Pleasanton and leased the shop at the track there. Mr. Hansen has the endorsement of such trainerB as Budd Doble, Scott Hudson, Ed Geers, Monroe Salisbury and others and will have all ho can do shoeing the Pleasanton horses this winter. C. A. Durfee has gone to San Jose to begin work on a number of colts that he has there. He says that the McKinney-Elsie yearling is doing well and looks and acts like one that will do to base expectations on. He has a yearling that he has named Covey that is by Mendocino out of Rose McKinney, the dam of Almadon 2:22}, winner of the two-year-old division of the Breeders Futurity. This colt is also a good prospect. Speaking of soundness recently, the successful trainer, Hiram Tozier, remarked that he would rather have a good hock with a curb on it than a poor hock without a curb, and added, that if buying he would gladly accept any discount that the seller would make on account of a curb, yet if he was satis- fied with the speed and racing qualities of the animal he should buy just the same if he could not get the owner to discount one cent. In feeding weanlings the hardest season to make them grow is through the cold winter. Boiled oats twice a day, with about one-third wheat bran, put in while hot and thoroughly mixed and allowed to stand about an hour before feeding, is one of the best feeds for growing young horses. You can winter a horse very nicely on bran and good hay if he is not working bard. Too much bran for regular road use will not give satisfaction. It is liable to loosen the bowels. The blood of old Widow Machree 2:29 keeps coming to the front through her son Aberdeen. The trotting mare Union Bell, that started in ten races the past season, won first money in eight of them, got second in the other two, and reduced her record to 2:14}, is a daughter of Bellman 2:14}, and her dam, Ometta, was by Aberdeen. Ometta is a full sisterof Kentucky Union 2:()7}, and also a full sister of the dam of On- ward Silver 2:05}. Rose McKinney, the dam of Almaden, the colt by Direct that won the two-year-old trotting division of the Breeders Futurity this year at Petaluma, is des- tined to be quite a broodmare. She is out of Queen Bee, by Forest Clay 1934, second dam Lovelia by Almont Lightning 1023, third dam Daisy by the great thoroughbred sire imported Yorkshire. Almaden will trot in 2:15 as a three-year-old and could have beat 2:20 this year without much trouble. It was not until 1862 that the great son of Tredwell's Abdallah and the Charles Kent mare gained a repu- tation sufficient to justify William M. Rysdyk in rais- ing his stud fee above $35. Robert Fillingham, after- wards known as George Wilkes 2:22, was the trotter that earned it for him. In that year Eph Simmons matched George Wilkes against the famous Ethan Allen for $5000 a side, and won a great race over the Fashion course on Long Island, giving George Wilkes a mark of 2:24}, wnich was then surpassed only by George M. Patchen 2:23J. Thomas Ronan, ownerof thePleasanton race track, was in the city this week purchasing the lumber for forty new box stalls which are to be erected at the track immediately. All the stalls at this famous track are now occupied or engaged, and all the out- side accommodations for horses in training at the track are also engaged. There will be 250 horses in training at Pleasanton by the first of February, and there are about half that number there now. The track is in fine shape; in fact, the horsemen all say that it is like a piece of velvet carpet. Mr. Ronan has just returned from his ranch at Dayton, Wash- ington, and brought with him eight head of young horses by Antrim and Alexis that will be worked by Geo. A. Kelley. He also brought a span of big mules that will be used in working the track. Mr. Ronan is thinking of erecting three or four neat little cottages on the track property, southeast of the first turn, which he will rent on reasonable terms to trainers or owners who desire to reside near the track. There are many other improvements in contemplation which will make the Pleasanton track the leading training ground in the United States. The grand pony Sir Gibbie, famouB in the new as well as the old world, was found dead in his box at Sir Gilbert Greenall's stud farm in Derbyshire, Eng- land. Sir Gibbie was brought to the United States about the beginning of the last decade and in 1895 was returned to the land of his nativity by Mr. Bain- bridge. He has been very successful In the stud since his return to England and has therefore to his credit stud success in Scotland, America and England. He was the sire of the pony stallion Sir Gibbie II owned by Mr. W. O'B. Macdonough and kept at the Menlo Stock Farm. C. W. Williams claims for Allerton the position of champion epeed sire of 1903 with twenty or more newcomers to the standard lists. This true, Allerton has now been the champion sire five years altogether and he is only sixteen years of age. Farther than this he was raced hard to the old high wheel Bulky and at one time was entirely overshadowed by his stable companion, Axtell 2:12, though when matured there was little to compare between the two. Aller- ton is the fastest stallion now living, as proved by the records, which got his mark to the old steel-tired racing vehicle. Thos. Ronan, owner of the Pleasanton track, who has just returned from Dayton, Washington, tells us that there has been considerable talk about the breeding of Vision 2:12}, the gelding by Vanquish that made his record on the Northwest circuit this year. Mr. Ronan says that Vision's dam was by Antrim and grandam by Antelope, son of Nutwood. Mr. Duncan, who owned Antelope, bred a daughter of that horse to Mr. Ronans Btallion Antrim. The filly that resulted afterwards came into the possession of Mr. DeLashmut and she was bred to Vanquish son of Hambletonian Mambrino, the result being the good gelding Vision that paced to a record of 2:12} this year. Tom James of San Jose, who is compelled by busi- ness interests to return to Iowa within a few weeks, offers for sale a three year old filly by Barondale 2:11} that is without doubt the best bred filly on the Pacific Coast from the standpoint of being bred in producing lines. She is by Barondale 2:11}, a producing sire that is by the great producer Baron Wilkes. Baron- dale's first, second and third dams are in the great broodmare list, and his fourth dam is the thorough- bred mare Belle Wagner. The second, third, fourth and fifth dams of this three year old filly are also in the great broodmare list. There is not a filly on the Coast that has more great broodmares in herpedigree than this three year old by Barondale. Mr. James has a yearling and a weanling full brother of this filly for sale also. See his advertisement and write him about the price. According to a dispatch sent out on Thursday by the Associated Press from New York, Will G. Durfee of Los Angeles won his case before the Board of Re- wiew of the National Trotting Association in regard to the protest made at Seattle to the effect that Sweet Marie and Briney K. were trained in the same stable. Sweet Marie won the race and thereupon the money was tied up on a protest as stated above. Mr. Durfee went to New York to present his defense to the Board. According to the dispatch of Thursday, the Board refused to sustain the protest consfqucntly Sweet Marie'B winnings will be paid over to Mr. Durfee. Sweet Marie is owned by William Garland of Los An- geles and was leased by W. G. Durfee for this year's racing. Briney K. is owned by W. H. Berry of Los Angeles and was leased by Mr. R. A. Smith of Los Angeles, who raced him on the northern circuit. David Herspring. who trained and raced horses on the California circuit several years ago, but who has been a resident of New Jersey for several years, is back here on a holiday visit to relatives in this State. He took Arthur L 2:15 and Toots another son of Direct, East in 1898 for Louis Schaffer of Oakland, made a season with both stallions there and after- wards sold them. Arthur L's colts are very highly thought of and Mr. Herspring believes several of his three year olds will get fast records next year when they will race for the first time. He gave Toots a mark of 2:20 this year and drove several winning races with other members of his string owned by a gentleman by the name of Brewster. In twenty-four starts, mostly on half mile tracks, Herspring was behind the money but twice this year. Dave says California looks mighty good to him, but he is under contract to train for Mr. Brewster again next season and will return to New Jersey in a few weeks. A correspondent of the Trotter and Pacer writes as follows: Major Delmar, who holds the world's re- cord for trotting geldings, never posed as a public stallion in service, but as a three-year-old got a race record of 2:15, and as Mr. Spier, his owner, owned also his sire, Delmar 2:16}, he decided to breed four mares to Major Delmar and then have him castrated, and among these mares was Miss McGregor, 2:11, Mr. Spier's favorite, and another was Lizzie B. by Deucalion 2:22. This mare was owned by Charles Baldwin, now of Ticonderoea, N. Y-, who was superintendent and trainer for Mr. Spier at his Suburban Stock Farm, and as a final consequence Lizzie B. only, foaled a live colt out of the four mares bred, which has been very appropri- ately christened Major Delmar, Jr., by his new owner, Dr. W. F. Jones, of Ticonderoga, X. Y. This colt is an elegant specimen of the Electioneer thor- oughbred combination — well-formed, beautiful chest- nut color, with small star and three white ankles, and as a two-year-old stands over 15 bands high ami promises, all things considered — gait, quality, etc. — to become one of the leading trotting and show sta' lions of America, and should prove a sire of extren speed. ®ite gxesbev tm& ^ttrrfcsmcm [December 5, 1903 A Good Stallion to Breed To. The 5rst stallion announcement in this journal for the season of 1904 appears this week. It isthe adver- tisement of that grandly bred horse Dietatns Medium 2:24 (trial 2:12). owned by Mr. E. P. Lathrop of Hol- lister and the horse will make the season at the raee track in that town. Dictatus Medium is one of the best formed horses in California and has2:10speed. He is large, with a beautiful mane and tail, and is a horse of kicgiy lock and magnificent proportions. sire is Dictatus 2:17, one of the best bred horses s er came to California and one of the fastest. Dictatus is by Eed Wilkes, one of the best of the sons of George Wilkes and the greatest living 6ire of speed. Miss Lottie, the darn of Dictatus is by Dictator, founder of the great family that produced Director 2:17, Direct 2:05}, Directum 2:05}, Directly 2:03}, Bonnie Direct 2:05}, etc. The dam of Dictatus Medium is also the dam of that coming great young sire Stain B. 2:1]}. She is by Happy Medium, the sire of Nancy Hanks and the grandsire of Lou Milton, dam of Lou Dillon, the fast- est mare in the world. The second dam of Dictatus Medium is Argenta by Almont Lightning, sire of the dam of Zombro 2:11 that won more heats as a three- year-old than .any colt of that age that ever trotted. With such blood as this in his veins, combined with his magnificent individuality and great speed, there is almost an absolute certainty that Dictatus Medium will be a great sire of speed. His owner, Mr. R. P. Lathrop, is a progressive man and to induce the training of the colts sired by Ms horse he has offered a stake for the get of the mares bred to Dictatus Medium in 1904. They are to trot or pace as two-year-olds in 1907 over the Hollister track. The entrance fee to the stake is $5 with $5 additional from starters. To these stakes Mr. Lathrop adds $100. Every breeder should read the advertisement of Dictatus Medium in this issue of the Breeder and Sportsman. The yearling colts by him (his fir6t crop) are invariably good lookers with fine style, size and much natural speed. They are nearly all trotters. Andy Likes the Ways of the Muscovite. When he went to Russia last spring to identify the horse Oslund L., Andy McDowell expected to be gone about two months. He was so well pleased with that country and Austria that he accepted an engagement in Vienna and remained to the close of the trotting season. He landed back in New York a couple of weeks ago. After he had identified Oslund L., which was being used as a ringer on the Russian tracks, he determined to look arouDd and see whether he would like the country well enough to buy it. He was more than pleased with everything but the language, and he says that he don't believe he would ever be able to get his tongue fixed so that it would be able to tumble out the funny words the Russians use. "Why," he said, "it takes a smart man to talk Russian: but they don't seem to mind it. I could have stood it all right till I heard the kids on the streets of Moscow and St. Petersburg talking it right handy, and that settled it. I couldn't stand for even the kids being smarter'n me at spouting that kind of talk, so I struck out for Vienna." Jollying aside, 4.ndy is just about infatuated with both Russia and Austria. He was offered a couple of fine positions in Russia, but he had no thought of staying any length of time until he reached Vienna, where he was offered such a profitable engagement that he concluded to remain through the season. He won all the big stakes with Wig Wag, by Wiggins, which John Splan bought at the Madison Square Garden sale last winter and sent to Austria. He thinks the plan of racing on the Austrian and Russian tracks away ahead of our system. A horse can be started in two races each week easily. He got two races out of his horses, and only fogged them slow miles on off days, which plan of training he found to work very satisfactorily. He likes it so well that he thinks of returning to Vienna and opening a public stable; although he is offered a good thing and 810,000 a year to return to Russia, he believes he can do better with a public stable.— Trotter and Pacer. Horsemen will he pleased to learn that Trainer Ben Kenney, who was so badly injured at the Providence Grand Circuit meeting, is now on the rapid road to recovery. He is still in the private hospital in Provi- dence, but this week the surgeons in attendance re- moved the plaster cast from his injured leg, and they state that they are sure he will have no trouble with the leg in the future, except it will be some two inches shorter than his other one. In about three weeks Kenney will be ready to depart for his home In Lexington, Ky. Dr. S A. Tattle. D^srSir: Please send to my address book of Veterinary Ex- perience. I amusing yonr Elixir and like it to wash my horses It is great. GEORGE P. BRIGGS, Weymouth, Mass Driving Club Races in the Fog. The card for the races of the Fresno Driving Club on Thanksgiving Day was first-class, but the fog set- tled down on the race track and became so thiGk that it was impossible to see anything a hundred yards away, so that the large crowd which was on hand when the first event was called soon began to break up and not more than fifty people saw the last heat of the final race. As far as the. races were concerned, the people in the grand stand saw the start and wit- nessed the finish, and oetween the Btart and the fin- ish a wall of fog intervened. As the favorite came out of the fog first every time, however, it really made no difference, except that the race was spoiled in each case at a spectacle. There has not been such a large attendance at the races since the meetiDg of the Pacific Coast Trotting Horse Breeders Association a few months over a year ago. The rail was lined with vehicles and the grand stand was well filled. In fact, the lower tieis of scats in the grand stand were, well occupied up to the an- nouncement of the result in the final heat of the sec- ond event. Then, in addition to being foggy, it grew cold, and that was more than the occupants of that exposed position could stand. The officers of tl e day were: Judges, T. C. White (presiding), George Taft and J. R. McKay. The timers were Louis Heilbron and H. Thorwalden. There was a great deal of interest in the first event on the card because of the fact that George and Grace- ful George had met each other before and there had been a great deal of excitement at the time, but the event proved that Graceful George was not up to form or else was not in the same class as George, his old opponent. In fact Graceful George made no showing at all. In the first heat the betting, which was lively, made George the favorite and Newport second choice. The pools averaged, for example, George 5, Newport 4 and Graceful George 1. George was driven by his owner, D. L. Bachant, while Z, R. Lowry drove Mr. Egan's Newport and E. C. Buchanan drove Mr. Boust's Graceful George. The start was a good one and in a few strides the trio were out of sight in the mantle of fog that covered the track. When they came out of it again, Mr. Bachant's horse was in the lead by six or seven lengths, with Newport second and Graceful George well behind. There had been no driving, though, in this heat, as was evidenced by the fact that the time was 2:27. In the second heat Newport made George move along faster, and while theorder of the finish was the same as in the first, the time was six seconds faster. The last heat resulted in. the same way as the fir t heat. The time was 2:24. George remained the favorite throughout, selling in closing pools at 2 to 1. This was the only race of the day in which the de- cision was best three beats in five. The other two races were best two heats in three and like the first event they were won on straight heats. The entries in the second race were: J.H.Kelly's Lottie Lilac, H. E. Burleigh's Bobby J., and E. T. Stockdale's Selda. Bobby J. was the favorite in the betting, selling in the pools at 10 to 6 for the field. Mr. Kelly drove his own entry, while Al McNeil held the ribbons on Mr. Burleigh's horse and Z. R. Lowry drove Mr. Stockdale's. The first heat was won by Bobby J. in 2:22, with Selda second and Lottie Lilac third. In the Becond heat the order was Bobby J. first, Lottie Lilac second and Selda third and the time was 2:28. A protest was lodged by Selda's driver on the ground that McNeil's whipping his horse had scared Selda and forced her to break, but Judge White held that you cannot pre- vent a man from whipping his own horse and if an- other horse is scared thereby, it is not the fault of the first. The last race of the day was that in which the en- tries were: George Knight's Baby Mine, Al McNeil's Lena B. and Z. R. Lowry 's Milton Gear. Baby Mine was the favorite and sold in the pools at 6 against 5 for the Held. Baby Mine won the first heat in 3:12, with Milton Gear second by two lengths and Lena B. third. The second heat was won by Baby Mine in 3:06, with Lena B. second and Milton Gear third. All the winners were from trainer Charles Middle- ton's string and he felt very much pleased over it. - Fresno Sepublica n . Lou Dillon Crowned. Commends Absorbine. Lou Dillon, 1:581, the world's champion trotter, was crowned Queen of the Speedway Saturday after- noon, November 21st, in the presence of a crowd of spectators that numbered thousands. The occasion was the fourth Fall matinee of the Road Drivers' Association of New York, which sought to pay its respects to the famous little mare and honor her owner, C. K. G. Billings, who is one of the charter members of the organization. An excellent program of eight races had been arranged by the Brush Com- mittee to precede Lou Dillon's appearance, but all interested centered in the world's champion, and when she was seen coming down the lower stretch leading a parade among which were many of the best trotting and pacing horses in the city, a prolonged cheer broke from the crowd that was echoed again and again. The only effect this enthusiastic din had upon the mare was to cause her to cock her ears and step out faster. She was hooked to a sixty-five-pound road wagon, and her owner handled her with perfect ease, driving at times with one hand. As she passed the grand stand, which was crowded to its utmost with members and their friends, there was another burst of applause and numerous requests to step the trotter at speed. To this Millard Sanders, the "Buckeye Boy," who developed and trained the mare, objected on the ground that the footing was dangerous. Mr. Billings finally overcame his trainer's anxiety and objections, and Lou Dillon was jogged back to High Bridge to make her first start before the public io this city. The west side of the road was cleared of all vehicles, and then with Mounted Policemen Fitz- patrick on the right of her and McKeon on the left, .she was started. Gradually she lengthened her gait, until she was stepping close to a 2:05 clip, and the mounted policemen were digging the spurs into their runners and urging them on to show their top speed. It made a remarkable race as the trio entered the last quarter like a whirlwind. The crowds yelled them- selves hoarse, and for a moment it looked very much as though the runners would be distanced. In the final d ash, however, the two run ners closed in on either side of the mare, and the three crossed the line head and head. When the cheering had subsided Lou Dillon was driven up in front of the grand stand, when John F. Cockerill, President of the Road Drivers' Association, presented Mr. Billings with a beautiful floral horse- shoe six feet, high and pinned a blue ribbon and a bunch of flowers to the champion's bridle on behalf of the organization. Mr. Billings responded briefly to President Cockerill's remarks, during which time the mare stood as quiet and gentle as a kitten in the m a st of an admiring crowd that fondled and caressed her. m P. W. Hodges of Los Angeles was in San Francisco for a few days this week and reports the horses in the citrus belt as all doing well. There will be quite a large number trained for the season of 1904 with the idea of racing on the Eastern circuits. Mr. Hodges' mare Malvina by McKinney out of Aileen (dam of two in the list) by Anteeo, second dam Lou Milton, dam of Lou Dillon 1:581, has a fine filly by Petigru 2:101. that is a very handsome and promising young trotter. His mare Atherine has a pacer by Nutwood Wilkes that is one of the slickest moving youngsters ever seen in Los Angeles. It is said that one of the most promising green trot- ters in California is a little black geldiDg owned by Isaac Morehouse of Montana. The trotter is now at Mr. Morehouse's farm at Milpitas in this State. He is by Baron Wilkes out of Lady Wilton 2:111 (dam of Lady Thisbe 2:11 J) by Wilton, second dam Lemonade, the dam of Bessie Wilton 2:09}, Petigru 2:101, etc., by Kentucky Prince. The late Marcus Daly made Mr. Morehouse a present of this gelding when a colt. He has worked a half in 1:06 and an eighth in 15- seconds, and last summer Billy Donathan saw him work and offered $1500 for a half interest in him, which was refused. Mr. S. L. Goldstein of this city who recently pur- chased the mare Dora Doe 2:12} by Don Lowell is driving her on the road and is much pleased with her. She was not in the best of condition when she arrived home from her eastern trip a few weeks ago, but is picking up and will soon be back to her old form when she was considered one of the handsomest mares ever driven on the park speedway. Sober up on Jackson's Napa Soda. WaDello, la.. Dec. 1, 1902. W. F. Young. Springfield, Mass. Dear Sir: 1 have been using Absorbine in my stable for the past six years, and I have better results froth it than anything of the kind that lever used. My wife got thrown from a buggy and her wrist put out of place, and she tells me that Absorbine helps it more th3D anything she has tried. She uses it full strength. Tours truly, J. E. GARRETT. Absorbine, ?2 per bottle, express prepaid. Address W. F. YOUNG, P. D. P., Springfield, Mass. Cured Sudden Lameness. Spencer, Ind., July 11, 1002. The Lawrence-Williams Co., Cleveland O. Some time ago one of our best and soundest animals was take suddenly lame and got in very bad shape. I instructed our hcstlen to get some Gombault's Caustic Balsam and use it freely, whiobr he did. and now the horse is apparently as sound as ever. Yon certainly must have a cracker-iack of a remedy E. CHUBB FULLER. December 5, 1903] ®He gieeeiiev emit gpovtstmati \ Ed Geers' Story of Hal Pointer. Hal Pointer 2:04 died at Village Farm, November 13th, aged nineteen years. When it was found that he could not live morphine was kindly administered to him to prevent his suffering. The following history of Hal Pointer is from Ed Geers' book entitled "Ed Geers' Experience with the Trotters aDd Pacers:" "Hal Pointer was foaled in 1881, and was bred by Captain Henry Pointer of Spring Hill, Tenn. He was sired by Old Tom Hal and bis dam was the grand old mare Sweepstakes, by Knight's Snow Heels, dam of Star Pointer, 1:59^. As a two and three-year old he was used under saddle, and in 1888 it was claimed he could show a 2:40 gait at the pace under saddle — a claim he could hardly justify. He is a bay gelding with one white ankle in front and one behind and has a small star. When matured he was a horse of grand conformation, standing about 15| hands high and weighing about 1,100 pounds in ordinary flesh. His getting dangerously close. This characteristic was wintered him with the rest of the Hamlin stable in well illustrated in the race at Terre Haute, in the fall California during the winter of 1894 and 1895 and of 1889, in which was the pacer B. B., who had been started him in several races in 1595; but he still showed defeating everything he met that season, and many predicted that when these two horses met Hal Pointer would taste the bitter pangs of defeat. In one of the heats of that race I passed B. B. in the stretch and, expecting him to make a rush near the wire, was watching him and so was Pointer; and after the race wasover the driver of B. B. said he 'could stand it to have me watching him, but when he saw Hal Pointer with one ear laid also watching him he saw it was no use, and that he could not steal a march on him, and so abandoned the attempt.' He retired that fall with arecord of 2:09J, which made him a candidate for the free-for-all class the next season. A long run bare- footed that winter cured the soreness in hiB feet, and he was in good condition the next spring to com- mence his training. I anticipated a hard campaign for him in 1890 and carefully prepared him for it. I started him first at Pittsburg that season and had no legs were large and well shaped, and when in training trouble in winning at that meeting; but at Cleveland, his muscles stood out like those of a trained athlete. His beautiful and intelligent head plainly showed his sixty or more percent of thoroughbred blood that eouraed through his veins. In June, 1888, Mr. Walter Steele, of Columbia, Tenn., purchased him and placed him in my stable to be trained. He had then been broken to harness, but it cannot be said that he was very handy at that way of going. He had been used so much under saddle that his gaits were very badly mixed. He would pace a little and single foot a great deal. I experimented some time with him trying to make him go square and finally shod him with a twelve-ounce Bhoe in front and added a six-ounce toe weight to each front foot, this seemed to improve him, and he would go square in front; but still he seemed to lack something, and to not be entirely balanced; finally, I put on long shoes behind, that is, shoes that projected an inch or more beyond his heels, and this balanced him and he would paoe square. I worked with him about a month before I went North with my racing stable. The first mile I drove him it took him three minutes and thirteen seconds to make the circuit, but before I went away he Bhowed me a mile in 2:30. He was then turned out and not taken up again until about September 1. During my absence he was started in a race at the -Columbia Pair in September, in which he took a record of 2:291. When I returned that fall, I com- menced working him again and kept taking the weight oft his front feet and he kept increasing his speed. I finally got him so he did not require any extra weight, and during his races he generally wore a five-ounce shoe in front and a six-ounce shoe behind. Before I turned him out that fall he showed me a mile over my old half-mile track in 2:17, and I be- came satisfied that I had a first-class race horse if nothing happened. His hind legs always had rather a curby look, and when he paced this good mile that fall he developed a curb on one leg that caused me much anxiety; but I blistered it and turned him out and he never again showed any signs of weakness in it. I commenced work with him early the next spring and he imDroved so rapidly that I was more than ever convinced that he was one of the coming turf sensations and I purchased a half interest in him. I concluded to start him first in the 2:30 class at Cleveland that year, and. as he had never been on a mile track, I took him and my other horses there some time before the meeting, that he might get used to the track and surroundings. His front feet were always flat and of a tender and delicate formation. The track at Cleveland was very hard and in the work I gave him before the meeting commenced his front feet became sore, a condition which continued during the whole of that season. I shod him with bar shoes and pads, which greatly helped to break the concussion; but still in jog work he would nod, and a stranger would think him unable to stand the hardships of a hotly-contested race; but as soon as the excitement of a race was on he seemed to forget all about his tender feet, and his pace was as even and true as any horse ever seen in a race. I won the race at Cleveland and moved down through the Grand Circuit and started him at every meeting; and after that I went to St. Louis, Terre Haute and other places and he won every race in which he was started that year, except at Rochester. "Everythingconsidered, Hal Pointer was the great- est racehorse I have ever driven. I always drove him with an open bridle, and as soon as he had had a little experience he seemed to know how to rate his speed just as well as I did; and also that the purse belonged to the horse that first passed under the wire rather than the one that reached the quarter or half- mile pole in ad vance of the field, and when in the lead he would watch the attempts of a rival to pass him with the same degree of interest as his driver, and was ever on the alert to prevent another horse from which is regarded as the great storm center of the Grand Circuit, I knew I should meet a different an- tagonist than I had yet encountered. Adonis was at that time the pride of California's race-goers and, with the experienced and accomplished HIckok behind him, he had been campaigning through the minor circuits without meeting defeat, and all horEemen ex- pected that when he and Pointer met there would be a battle royal, and those who saw the race were not disappointed. There were a number of starters in the race, but, as was expected, the contest for first place was between Pointer and Adonis. In the first heat Adonis led until the last quarter was reached, when I, having succeeded in passing the other horses, moved up so that ai we entered the stretch Pointer's head was upon the wheel of Adonis, both going true and fast, Pointer gaining at every stride and when within about fifty feet of the* wire he was fully a neck in the lead, without any known cause he left his feet and passed under the wire on a run, thuB giving the heat to Adonis; but this mishap made no difference in the outcome of the race, as he won the next three heats. We had several other contests during the Grand Circuit meetings, but Adonis did not succeed in winning one of the races. The defeat of Adonis greatly agitated the horsemen and sporting element of California, and the next year they sent over the fast' and almost unbeaten Yola Maid to take the measure of the great son of Tom Hal. Our first meet- ing was at Cleveland, and the known speed and race- horse qualities of these two contestants caused excitement to run high. Yolo Maid could show a great burst of speed and was very fast in getting away, and in every case would lead Pointer to the first quarter by many yards; but I never drove Hal Pointer in any race where, if he could get his nose to the wheel of the sulky of the other horse at the head of the stretch he could not beat him to the wire, and Yolo Maid proved no exception to this rule. She would rush away at a two-minute gait for the first quarter, but Pointer saved his fast rush for the home stretch, and in his races often paced the last quarter in thirty seconds; and, like Adonis, Yolo Maid re- turned to California without having won a single race from Pointer, although she attempted to do so all through the Grand Circuit. "But the Californians did not give up. I started Hal Pointer that season (1891) in July, and raced him the whole season over all kinds of tracks, some of which were very hard and his feet became a little tender, so much so, that he would not fully extend himself on a hard track; and while in this condition, Direct, who had been brought from California early in the season and given an easy campaign, was especially prepared to try and wrest the crown from Hal Pointer. We first met at Terre Haute in October where, after a very hot contest, Hal Pointer won. Our next meeting was at Nashville, where the track was hard and Direct won. We met a few days later at the then new kite-3haped track at Columbia, Tenn. and the track was so hard that I could not get Pointer to do himself justice, and he again suffered defeat; but to accomplish this feat, he compelled Direct to pace the three fastest heats that had up to that time ever been made in harness. "The next season, when the horses were more nearly on an equality, in a number of races Hal Pointer clearly proved his superiority as a race horse, and defeated Direct every time they met. I campaigned him during 1893, 1894 and 1895. In the free-for-all pace at Philadelphia, in 1894, he was taken sick during the race with an ailment that baffled al veterinary skill to diagnose. He had never been sick before and showed no Bigns of illness until in tie race. Both he and Yolo Maid were taken sick in the same heat with the same ailment, which gave rise to a suspicion of foul play on the part of someone. But whatever it was, he never recovered fiom it. I the effects of that sickness; and we gave up campaign- ing him. After his race at Cleveland, In 1890, Mr. Steele and myself sold him to Mr. Harry Hamlin, of Village Farm; but he continued in my stable until I went to Village Farm in 1892, and was after that in that stable and was driven by me as long as he con- tinued to race through the Grand Circuit. I do not believe any horse 'ever lived that possessed more racing sense, gameness, and endurance than did this grand horse. I have often seen him, after a hard- fought five-heat race, being cooled out when another race would be called on, and be would commence to get restless and uneasy and show by every action that he wanted to get back to the track and take a hand in the excitement. "Hal Pointer was a difficult horse to make score fast, and was always slow in Btarting away. He did not seem to be imbued with the necessity of winning the heat until the middle or latter part of the mile had been reached, and then he would bend all bis mighty energies in an endeavor to first reach the wire, and very few horses were ever able to withstand his terrific rush. He never required, and would not endure, punishment. Once when I was giving him a workout he did something I did not like and I struck him with the whip twice, and, in spite of everything I could do, he ran three miles before I could stop him; I never tried it again, and in all the races lever drove him I never did anything more than carry 'the whip over him, and when I wanted some extra sneed I would shake it at him. I gave him a record of 2:04J. which was the world's record at that time. "It is a lamentable fact that many good hor6es after their days of usefulness are over, and they are no longer able to earn money for their owners, are through avarice or want of sympathy, either killed or compelled to eke out a miserable existence doing drudgery for strangers, when, by reason of their past services, they should be tenderly cared for by those whom they have faithfully served. I am glad to know that no hardships of this kind are in store for grand old Hal Pointer. I am giving him just enough light road work for exercise, driving him back aid forth from Village Farm to the Jewett covered track. I generally drive him over to the hotel at East Aurora and hitch him under a shed when I go to lunch. He is very fond of carrots, and I always intend to put three in my pocket and feed him two before I go to lunch and the other when I am ready to start back. If I have the carrots for him, he seems p rfectly happy and will be cheerful all the rest of the day; but if I happen to forget them, he is mad and acts as ill- natured as does a smoker when deprived of his after- dinner cigar.'' Hartsgrove, Ohio, Feb 25, 1902. Dr. S. A.Tuttle. Dear Sir: I wrote you some time ago in regard to a young stallion tbat was oil a little In his front legs. I procured some of the Elixir and used It as you directed, audi am happy to say that It Is straightening him np all right I was offered 8100 for him yesterday. It certainly is a wonderful medicine, and deserves the attention of all horsemen. You can couat on me as a friend of your Elislr. and will do all I can to help the sale of it Thanking vou for past favors, I remain yours very respectfully, • \Y. A. WALTERS. The Kenney Bicycle Co., 531 Valencia St., is doing a big business in the McMurray Carts and Sulkies. You not only save money by purchasing a McMurray but get the most durable, best made, and easiest running cart or sulky in the market. Investigation will con vince a Missourian. « EFFECTUAL The most effectual remedy in use for the cure of ailments of horses and cattle is GOMBAULT'S CAUSTIC BALSAM Used as a Blister or Lotion. This preferred remedy is prepir clusivcly by J. E. Gomb.inlt. ex-V.t f&pcvt&tnaii [December g-ossness, not to mention mal-formed limbs and a greatly weakens! constitution, consequently increased liability to contract ailments. Peoole with the best intentions in the world do not rightly understand what the lack of exercise means to a do". Bt nature full of activity, first of all the biood declines in quality, because the musc.es being idle, do not cause sufficiest exercise of the heart s action to ensure a necessary sapply of oxygen. This affects the digestive organs so that they imperfectly perform their functions of absorbing nutritive con- stituents, and repelling waste or'noxiouB products, hence the dig estive organs are affected; failing a re- moval of the cause, they speedily go from bad to worse, and the whole system is put out of gear, it mav best be likened to a ship without sufficient water to float it.— -American Stock-Keeper. The Bench Show. The initial show of the Pacific Coast Collie and Old English Sheep Dog Club this week at the Mecharics Pavilion may be said, under the circumstances, to be a very good "show. Entries fell short of the spring showin actual numbers of dogs benched, just one hundred and five dogs and the spring show benched 295 dogs, this week's exhibit has 186 dogs on Spratts benching. Seven St. Bernards, one Mastiff and nine Great Danes comprise the number of big dogs. In several notable instances the quality is high class. In Pointers, English Setters, Gordons, Irish Setters and Irish Water Spaniels and a solitary Field Spaniel there were twentv-six representatives of the sporting breeds shown. Among the Pointers and English Setters are a quintet of individuals that will make the liveliest kind of going at any show— Minnesota Joe, Boston, Champion Pera, Champion EUoree and Sty- lish Sergeant are not unknown to the admirers of field dogs Among the younger dogB are a lot of classy puppies. . Cocker Spaniels are a nicely averaging lot, there beinir blacks, reds and parti-colors to the number of thirty-five and compose a lot of Cockers that include several well known Coast and local prize winners. In puppies there are several most promising young dogs. Collies, in the aggregate, can be considered as the class of the show. Fifty-six entries comprise the Collie exhibit and among these are some good ones. Champion Hanover Monarch, Champion Ormskirk ones, the standard established by Champion Ivel Rustic for the breed here, is one that will take a long time, if ever, in producing the preponderance of quality that might be expected. BullTerriers and Fox Terriers, with the exception of a few dogs, is not up to our average in class or quality. Eighteen Bull Terriers and eleven smooth and wire haired Fox Terriers make a considerable falling off in the two breeds, compared with past benchings. A corking good little bat eared French Bulldog and six Bostons are flanked by ten Irish Terrier entries. Prototype of the Modern Build,, g- The latter dogs show quite a little worth, one or two individual dogs are capable of taking ribbons any- where in this country. Four Maltese Terriers and three Blenheims are about the best ever shown in this city. The balance of the small ones are few and far between and as usual of mediocre quality. In connection with this, we will say that the "feather" end of the combined show is one of rare merit, both in numbers and quality. The dogs how- in keeping exhibitors out. ^Notwithstanding, the in- terest shown by new beginners and veterans who made their re-appearance is ar indication of a healthy rejuvenation of doggy affairs, which if the various interests are wise, will be nurtured and utilized for the general benefit of Coast dogdom, instead of being stifled at b.rth. Mr. Cole's decisions have been received with general satisfaction. The surprise of the show, however, was the placing of Le King over Ch. Lester C. These two dogs have come together four times, and on each occasion Le King had taken a bad seat. It has always been contended that he was the better St. Bernard of the two, but he has heretofore been shown in such poor condition that he was placed a peg under his rival This week Le King was put down in the best condition he has been in since he reached the Coast and he prevailed over his former conqueror. A complete report of the show, and list of awards will appear next week. DOINGS IN DOGCOM. A meeting of the Interstate Coursing Club was held Tuesday evening in this city to arrange the preliminaries of the John Grace Challenge Cup stake for this year. John Halton reported for the cup committee. The event will be run at Union Coursing Park on the 12th and 13tb of December. It will be limited to sixty-four entries, as has been the custom in the past. The entrance fee will be $25 and $1600 will be added to make up the $3200 purse. Of this amount the winner will receive 8500; runner up, $300; thiid, $175, fourth, $100; the next eight, $50 es-ch, and the next sixteen dogs. $25 each. There will be two consolation events and the prize money will be distributed in such a manner that of the sixty-four original entries only six will fail to win their entrance fee. From present appearances fully one-half of the dogs nominated will be Greyhounds of note from the East. They will make their first appearance on this coast in this event. Dr. W. J Hasford, president of the Interstate Coursing Club, will name the field stewards and other officers on the night of the draw which will be held on the 9th inst. It has been announced that John Grace, the veteran judge, will officiate in the saddle, having sufficiently recovered from his recent severe injuries. Ch Le Prince Jr. Ch. Lester C. Ch. Ormskirk Emerald Jr. Emerald, Jr. and Ravenswood belonging to Arthur Letts of Los Angeles are the chief contenders among the older dogs. Among the matrons there is also no lack of quality. In young dogs the entries are in- dicative of careful and select breeding. Entries in this breed were sent in from many distant Coast cities. But two Old English Sheep Dogs represent the comparatively unknown shaggy breed here. ever are the attraction for the large number of visi tors at the show. All in all, the experiment, for to a certain extent such it was on this side, of a fall bench show in this city has proven a success, eo far as public interest is concerned. Among the fancy, a fall show, with- out doubt will be supported in the future and can be regarded as a material factor in helping the spring Coming Events. Mrs. Thoi. Magee Jr't Winner Sixteen Bulldog entries are an unexpected showing. The average of quality will compare most favorably with any previous benching of the breed on the Coast. Whilst several individuals are really good Ch Jnaoita show. More local entries would have been made bad the proper press announcements been made before entries were closed. Some local opposition also had its effect April 1-Sept. 10. Oct. 16-Feb. 1— Open season tor taking steel- nead in tidewater. Nov. 1-April 1 — Trout season closed. July 1-Jan. 1— Open season for black bass. Aug. 15-April 1 — Open season for lobsters and crawfish. Nov. 1-Sept. 1 — Open season for crabs. Sept. 1-May 1— Open season for shrimp. Sept. 10-Oct 16-Close season in tidewater for steelhead. Nov. 15-Sept. 10 — Season open for taking salmon above tide water. Gun. July 1-Feb. 15— Dove season open. Nov. 1-July 15— Deer season closed. Sept. 1-Feb. 15 — Open season for mountain quail, grouse and sage hen. Oct. 15-Feb. 15 — Open season .or quail, ducks, etc. Bench Snows. Dec. 2. 3. 4. 5— Pacific Collie and~01d English Sheep Dog Club. Bench Show in connection with Poultry Exhibit. San Francisco. P. K. L. rules field Trials. Nov. 23 — American Championship Field Trial Association. An- nual trials. Robinson. 111. H- S. Humphrey, Secretary, Indian- apolis, Ind. Declared off. Nov. 30— Virginia Field Trial Association Chase City, Va. Chas R. Cooke. Secretary, Richmond, Va. Dec. 1— Indiana Field Trial Club. Annual trials. Clay City, Ind., C. F. Tung. Secretary, Clay City, Ind. Duck and Quail Outfits. The demand at Skinner's keeps up for sportsmen's outfits, ammunition and guns. A large and new stock of goods has been added to fill the demand for hunting suits, rubber boon and hunters* footwear; canvas and folding wooden decoys, gun cases and a new design of leather-covered shell boxes. Peters Factor; Loaded Shells are unequaled. Skinner's place Is 801 Market street. Yon can get anything there you need for duck or quail shooting. Send for a catalogue, if you haven't the time to come( and try a mail order. s December 5, 1903] ©he gveeitev am* gipovtsman 11 THE FARM. Treatment of Wounds in Animals. As ordinary wounds sustained by farm animals are usually treated by the owner or his bired men, it is of importance that they should understand the principles of cleanliness and antiseptics so that Xature may be aided in repairing such injuries, says A. S. Alexander, V. 8., in the Lire Stock Report. Leit to herself she will do successfully in a majority of instances, but not in the most desirable manner. Scars, enlargements, bald spots, and simi- lar evidences of the reparative process remain when Xa^ure unaided is allowed to remedy wounds and lacerations. It is possible to avoid these blemishes if proper attention be paid to the wound by those in attendance. We find several things commonly re- tarding recovery or insuring blemishes. First is the too common carelessness which fails to render immediate assist- ance. The wound is discovered, deemed of slight significance, and later found to be serious. Second, immediate aid when given is often unintelligent, and even detrimental. This is surely so when the wound is at once given a coating of axle grease, tar, somebody's filthy salve from an old pot, or is wrapped op in a section of old Bhirt or pants leg, and this impro- vised bandage is allowed to become foul with discbarges so that it becomes the congregating ground of myriads of disease enhancing flies. Third, there exists the almost unanimous opinion that strong caustics are absolutely necessary in the treatment of wounds, which by their use are often rendered worse, caused to spread and eat deeply, or healed with unsightly scars and blemishes. As a general law, it may be stated that unless everything applied to a wound it- clean and kept clean, the wound had better be left uncovered. Air, full oi oxygen, is wholesome and reparative. Certain germs, as that of lockjaw (tetanus), for example, do n t thrive in the presence of oxygen. For this reaBon punctures of the foot, by nailB or snags, not giving free access to air, are the com- mon source of lockjaw, and such wounds, more than large, open ones, most demand the usfe of germicides and antiseptics- agents destructive to germs and p even- tive of germ growth Smearing axle grease or other tenacious material upon wounds seals them up, includes germs already present and excludes air which might possibly destroy or render harm- less existing germs or those afterwards coming in contact with the wound. Presuming, as it was wise to do, that germs are present in every fresh wound, the first step should be to Beek their de- struction, the second to guard the wound against reinfection, and third to promota healing by stimulations. Thorough cleansing with Borne effective disinfecting solution, such as a 1-1000 solution of cor- rosive sublimate (bichloride of mercury or a teaspoon ful of carbolic acid, or creolin, to a cupful of warm water, or a like solu- tion of any one of the advertised and ex- cellent tar product disinfectants, should be done before stitches are inserted, salves applied, or a covering of antiseptic cotton and bandages put on. This cleans- ing should be thorough. Patient work is often necessary, as in case of wounds of the knee from falling, for in such will be found sand, dirt, gravel, hairs, bruiBed skin and other tissue, and any one of these allowed to remain in place must of necessity retard the healing process. Clotted blood is also to be considered a foreign body, and to be removed at once. Cleaning Harness. It seems like quite an undertaking to clean a harness and it can not be done in a few minutes, but il one knows jjst how it" is not an unpleasant piece of work. The harness must first be taken to pieces, J every strap unbuckled and if an amateur 1 is doing the work he should pay particu- lar attention to the peculiar way in which j back strap and check-rein are buckled. If the harness is dry and stiff, give it a good soaking in warm water, using white castile soap and a bruBh to clean off the dirt, Hang it up to drain and before quite dry apply neatsfoot oil with a paint brush. Let it dry until the next day. Then if the harness still Beems hard ap- ply another coat of oil. When the oil has soaked in, soap it all over with white cas- tile soap, having the sponge or rag moist- ened and very soapy. After this treat- ment an occasional soaping will teep the harness in order for a long time. Before the harness is put together, any broken places should be mended with needle and waxed thread. An awl is necessary in places. Incases where cows have been giving milk a long time the fat globules become -mailer, the milk contains more albumi- uum, casein and sugar than normal and the milk fat is harder. This condition causes difficult churning and especially when the cream is not properly ripened In jurions bacteria may-bea cause. Brush the udders and under parts of a cow with a damp sponge or cloth. Milk in clean vessels and cover the milk until it can be strained. Skim when the cream is raised and do the last mixing of cream twelve haurs before churning. Let the cream become ripe, slightly acid but not sour. Keep it as cool as possible and churn at different temperatures and thus find the right temperature for the cream. The richer the cream is in fat, the lower the temperature for churning. Cream with forty per cent fat may be churned as low as fifty degrees while pure cream contain, ing only from fifteen to twenty per cent fat needs a higher temperature of from fifty-eight to sixty-two degrees. o Sober up on JackBon's Napa Soda. The Champion Steer. At the National Stock Sbow in Chicago this week the title of grand champion steer of America was conferred on Chal- lenger, an animal which six montns ago was running untamed in Farmer Murphy's pasture near Tecumseh, Neb Hog Prices and Bacon Prices. Twenty cents per pound for bacon sides and fat hoga seliine for less than five cents per pound. Here is a market that should encourage our pork producers to go into the manufacture of bacon. For- merly it was said that bacon would be the Professor H. R. Smith of the Agricultural right price if fixed a; double the prh department of Nebraska University "dis- \ pork, the offal, etc., affording, a good covered" the steer among a bunch of profit; but the consumer now pays the others and paid Murphy $65 for the ani- ! freight down to San Francisco and back, mal. The professor sent bis prize to the with three profits added, which necei- university, where students recognized the animal's possibilities, began to feed bim scientifically and gave him the name of Challenger. This week he took the title of honor among the choice animals of the Nation. He will be put up at auction, and probably will bring $1000. It de- velops that the sire of the steer is a regis- tered shorthorn bull named McGinty. Murphy's cow, the dam of the champion steer, is a nameless ahortborn with a small percentage of Holstein blood. Salting butter streaky butter. in the churn avoids sarily brings the price too bigb.- II Journal. • ♦ A corporation to establish a goat' dairv in St. Louis marks another step along the path of the faddists. Prominent local physicians are the principal stockholders. Its purpose will be to provide milk ior in- t fants that is most like mother's milk and ,-free from tuberculosis germs. The eor- i poration will be capitalized at S150 000. I This dairy company w\ll not deliver milk, ' but goats will be rented. The customer can keep a nannie ae long as desired and milk her when he pleases. The dairy company will furnish food for the goat and the customer must see that it eats nothing else. state agricultural society Occident Stake of 1906 TROTTING STAKE FOR FOALS OF 1903 To be Trotted at the California State Fair of 1906. Eo tries to Close .January 1, 1904. with L. R. MILLER, Actiog Secretary, at the office In Sacramento. ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ENTRANCE, of which $10 must ac- company nomination; -S15 to be paid January 1, 1905, S^o to be paid January 1, 1906, and $50 thirty days before the race. The Occident Cup, of the value of S400, to be added by the Society. Mile heats; three in five, to harness. First colt to receive cup aDd six-tenths; second colt, three-tenths; aDd third colt one-tenth of the stakes. Five to enGer, three to start, otherwise N. T, A. Rules govern. Nominators are not held for full amount of entrance in case colt goes wrong; only forfeit payments made, which relieves you from further rasponsibility, and declares entry out. Note— This stake Is growing in value each year. In 1900 it was worth $4230; in 1901, $2595: in 1902. $329o:in 1903. $3930. The stake for 1906 should receive a larger sutry, *nd be very valuable. Everv breeder should enter fo it. ASpecial Stake will be opened for foal," sallv in this stake and the Stanford Stake of 1906, that develop a pacing gait to be coi a 1906. Remember the date of closing is January I, 1904. L. R. MILLER, Acting Sec'y- B. F. RUSH. President. Dictatus Medium 32499 Will make the coming season. at Race Track, Hollister, Cal, Jos Sanchez In charge $40 FOR THE SEASON. Payable at time of service, with usual return privilege. Every eare taken to prevent accidents, bat no responsibil- ity should "any occur Prompt and careful attention Id all cases. Pasturage furnished to mares, sent from a distance at $2.50 a month. A DICT ATI'S MEDIUM Pl'RSE OF 8100. I will give a purse of $100, with entrance money added for a race, best two in three, open to any and all colts from DICTATUS MEDIUM, the result of the breediDg season of 1904, either pacers or trotters Must be three to start and race to come off on Hollister track, Fair week, 1907 (Exact date to be hereafter announced ) So entrance money, payable June l, 1905. .55 thirty days before the race. Three moneys: 60 per cent to first horse; 30 per cent to second and 10 per cent to third. For further par- ticulars, address R- P. LATflKOP, Hollister. DESCRIPTION. DICTATUS MEDIUM is 6 years old, weighs 1220 pounds. A beautiful turned bay horse with heavy maue and tail, kind and gentle, with a perfect disposition. Good Hat heavy bone. He has great power and speed. Has a record of 2:2-1, but has worked out in 2:12. He Is a horse that will go out any day and dohis best. His colts are models of grace and beauty. Only one so far has been worked. This one. Al Willson's yearling LITTLE MEDIUM, paced an exhibition M mile on the Hollister Race Track in 38^ seconds, a 2:33 gait. This colt basgreat promise. DICTATUS MEDIUM is by Dictatus 2:17 one of the best bred and fastest horses ever brouebt to California. The dam of Dictatus Medium is Belle Medium (dam of Stam B 2:ll«^), by Happy Medium, grandsireof the dam of Lou Dillon R5BK His second dam Is Argenta by Almont Ligbt- ning.sireof the dam of Zombro 2:11. There is no doubt bnt Dictatus Medium will prove to be a sire of speed as well as good size, style and disposition. DAIRY EVOLUTION FODDER ««• DDTTER \ ALL DAIRY APPARATUS AND SUP: G. G. WICKSON & C 34-36 MAIN STREET, SAN FRANC 12 ®hu gvesiiev ani> gtpovtsrotcwt [December 5, 190 Kinds of Stable Bedding and How to Use Them. Absorbents help wonderfully in keeping Btables clean and wholesome. In fact, without them the stable can hardly be kept healthful. There are numerous other reasons why absorbents of different kinds should be used freely in the stable. By taking up the liquid manure the absorbent reduces the difficulty of saving and hand- ling it; too rapid decomposition is also prevented. There is rapid waste in ani- mal excrement, and especially the liquid excrement when not adulterated. Ab- sorbents keep the animals clean, warm and comfortable. Different kinds of material may be used to good advantage for this purpose. Saw- dust makes an excellent stable absorbent, and when liberally used none of the liquid manure may be waBted, and it also leaves the stable quite clean when removed- Sawdust retards the decomposition of animal manures, and is one of the poorest known conductors of animal heat ; hence a bed of it aids nicely in keeping the ani- mals warm. Softer beds may be made of other material, yet it adds to the comfort of the animal. When mixed with manure it rots quickly, and then has considerable value itself as a fertilizer. Those who are situated so that they can get this material handily and at a reasonable cost, will make no mistake in using it as a stable absorbent, for its merits certainly warrant its use for this purpose. Most farmers find it more convenient to use straw in bedding their stock. Proba- bly more than half of the farmers throughout the country have more straw than they are able to feed out to their stock, so they have an abundance of this material to use as an absorbent. Straw does not take up the liquids so well as sawdust ;. however, it answers the re- quirement very well, especially if cut up rather fine. When used liberally it is an easy matter to keep the animals and stables clean. It also makes a warm and soft bed And its use with animal ex- crement rapidly reduces it to a fit condi- tion to be used as a fertilizer. It is claimed that a little land plaster scattered in the stalls daily is beneficial. Plaster is not expensive, and is uBeful for fertilizing, and its fertilizing yalue is not impaired by its being used as an ab- sorbent. Every one who has cleaned out horae stables has, no doubt, been made aware of the presence of escaping am- monia by unpleasant sensations in his nose and eyes. If a little land plaster is used in the stalls it will help to hold the escaping ammonia, and to remove the odor from the stable. And by its use we not only save the ammonia but we make the stables more healthy. — V. M. Couch in Exchange. Serum tor Hog Cholera. The teats which the bureau of animal industry have been making during the past year with anti-cholera serum Bhow conclusively that the bulk of a cholera- affected herd can be Baved by the use of the serum. This iB the third year that droves have been officially experimented upon in this manner, and in no instance have the loasea been greater than 25 per cent, 70 per cent of the drove having been saved. Without such remedial treatment the loss usually ranges over 75 per cent and the hogs saved are but a fragment of the drove. Last year's experiments show about 80 per cent saved and the slightly smaller percentage due to this year's work is accounted for by the fact that younger animals were operated upon this season. While the serum cure is sufficient of a specific to be almost a guarantee against gr ,at loss from cholera, the cost of the B^rum is considerable, and the bureau is d >w experimenting along the lines of get- ng a muCb cheaper article which will be : . efficient. The serum now used is a compound one, effective alike at one oper- ation againat cholera and Bwine plague. Prefers Sheep to Fat Cattle. I think if we take a series of ten years together it will commonly be found that there is not much difference between the market price of fat sheep and fat cattle, if we compare all claaaes, wethers, fat ewes, yearlings and lambs, with steers, fat cows, heifers and calvea, sayB an Iowa aheep breeder. The fat cattle are now about $1 per hundred less than a year ago, still choice fat steers are now considerably higher than fat wethers and yearlings, but fat cows are about the same as fat ewes. It haa bean proved at our experiment stations that as a general rule it requires about the same amount and quality of feed to grow and fatten a given number of pounds of sheep or mutton, as of cattle or beef. According to this rule ten aheep at two or two and one half years old, weighing 130 pounds each, have eaten the same amount of feed aa a steer or heifer of the same age and weight, 1300 pounds. Suppose now we compare ten choice two-year-old wethers, weight 1300 pounds, with a choice two-year-old 1300-pound steer. The Bteer would sell in Chicago at about $6.30, or about $82. The wethers for about $4.80, or about $62, or $20 lesa than the Bteer. But this difference of $20 is more than compensated by th» twenty fleeces which the ten wethers have pro- duced in the two years, which should weigh ten pounds each or two hundred pounds, and would now bring at home fully tweDty cents per pound, or $40, mak- ing $20 in favor of the wetherB. The quotations on wool January 1, 1903, were just about the same aB in May, 1900, when I sold it for twenty-one and one-half cents at my home my four hundred fleeces of delaine unwashed wool weighing ten to fourteen pounds each. The priceB of steera fell nearly $3 per hundred the first three months of 1903 and have not re- covered. If we compare fat ewes with fat cows the wool is the profit of the sheep over the cows, while lamba bring nearly as much by the hundred as steers. Stable Proverbs. Prevention of Mould on Butter. Following is a copy of some suggestions made by the Montreal Produce Merchants Association as to points to be covered in a circular to be issued by Prof. J. W. Rob- ertson, the dairy commissioner, to butter- makers and patrons with a view to the prevention of mould on butter. The factories should be thoroughly cleaned by liberal whitewashing with lime and the use of any other germicide that experience can suggeBt. As damp wood is a hotbed for breeding and disseminating spores of various kinds, care should be taken to have the wood- work of factories always thoroughly Bound and dry, careful'y removing all damp and decaying piecea, particularly from the floora and gutters. Drainage should be carried away from the factory beyond smelling d'i8tance by water-tight, vented and trapped drains. Factory refrigerators should be kept as dry as possible, and nothing but sound wood allowed to remain in their structures. Particular care should be taken that butter boxes are made only of thoroughly seasoned wood carefully and properly paraffined. Only the best and purest parchment paper should be used for lining the boxes. Thie paper while awaiting use should be kept in a thoroughly dry, clean place; before used on the butter it ahould be carefully soaked in a solution of brine and formalin It should never be applied in a dry state ; and particularly it ahould never be UBed after being wet with pure water. Great care should be taken in conveying butter from the factory to the railway station. It should be exposed as little as possible and foras short a time as possible. A young calf for the first few weeks should be fed a little of its mother's milk often. Use the currycomb, but use it merci- fully; it's the dirt you are after, not the skin. The stiff scrubbing brush the wife usee in house cleaning is a good and merciful horse cleaner. But do not appropriate hers. So treat the horses that they will be glad to Bee you come into their stable, and not act aa if they would like to climb through the roof. Teach the colt when it is young and you will not have to break it when older. Cleanliness of person and stable may not be godliuesa to the horae, but it is good-feelingnesa, which is probably more important from the -viewpoint of the horae. A clean skin ia conducive to horse health as it ia to man health. Rely leas upon drugs and more upon good care to keep the horse in good shape. Condition sanitary will beat condition powder every time as a condition maker. If the foundation of the stable is getting out of condition you would fix it at once and prevent its recurrence. The foot is the foundation of the horae in the stable, and its condition must be kept good or there may as well be no horse there. Variety of food is good for horses, but vaeiety of hours for feeding it is very bad. The good horse brings a good price, and good care with intelligent instruction goeB a long way toward making the good horse. A handful of hay twisted hard and tight is a good horse brush if wielded with might. -» Blackleg Disease in Cattle. Of all bovine diseases blackleg is an doubtedly the most virulent because as thousands of cattlemen know to their cost it is a malady for which no remedy is known to exist. Nothwithstanding the deadliness of its attacks and the fact that it is yearly becoming more and more prevalent in various partB of the country, this disease is not as well understood even by stockmen as it should be. How to diagnose it, whence it arises and how to prevent it are questions of immeasurable moment to every cattle raiser. A little pamphlet recently issued by Parke, Davia & Co. of Detroit called About Blackleg admirably covers these points. We re- print a few paragraphs which serve to show the exireme malignancy of black- leg: "Blackleg affects a few other animals besides cattle but to so small an extent that they may be left out of the account, while among cattle its ravages a re simply appalling. It strikes like lightning and almost as quickly kills. The disease blackens the parts it affects, chiefly the thighs, shoulders and neck. This black- ening is internal of the muscles and blood. Externally there is a swelling or tumor at the affected Bpot which may extend to the whole body either before or after death. If this tumor be headed or pressed under the knuckles, it emits a crackling Bound and if cut into it exhibits the blackened tissues and fluid, accompanied by a pecu- liar odor which cannot be described. Naturally the affected animal loEes appe- tite and spirits and becomes stiff and lame. "The cause of all tbia disturbance ia a minute organism which multiplies by fia- Bion or sporulation and in twenty-four hours a comfortable little family group has become a million or more, with un- diminished powers of geometrical in- crease. The germs enter the animal's body through scratches or wounds in the akin or along with its food or drink." Fortunately for the stock raising interests of the country, science has devised a reasonably certain preventive against this disease. By vaccination with a reliable blackleg vaccine the animal is success- fully fortified against it. Jackson's Napa Soda is sold in ever city, town and hamlet in the State. 20 YEARS SUCCESS Here is a man who has used our Kendall's Spavin Cure for over 20 years with entire success, Your experience would bo the same if you but tried it. Fulton, Oregon, Feb. 10, 1903. Dr. B. J. Kendall Co., Gentlemen:— TVi 11 j-oa please send me your book "A Treatise on the Horse and hla Ma- eaaeg." 1 have used your Kendall's Spavin Cure Cor over twenty years and know of no better liniment for man or beast. Have aUo UBed one of your books until it Is worn out. Very truly yours, F. J. NELSON. It is an absolutely reliable remedy for spavins, Splints, Curbs, Ringbones, etc. Removes the bunch and leaves no acar. Price $ 1 ; six for 95. Aa a lini- ment for family use it has no equal. Ask your drucr- t-'ist for KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE, also "A Treat. fseon the Horse," the book free, or address DR. 8. i. KENDALL CO., ENOSSURG FALLS, VT. FOR SALE. THREE=YEAR=OLD FILLY BY BAKONDALE 2:lltf, sire of 6 from 2:lflJ^ to 2:2Jtf. First dam, Mary B. by Wilkes Boy 2:2-1^, sire 75, 3 in a: 10 list; 2d dam, Mamie A., great broodmare by Young Jim 2009, sire 60, .tin 2:10; 3d dam, Admiration, great broodmare by Administrator 2:20^, son of Hambletonlan 10; 4th dam, Kittie Patchen, great broodmare by Mam- brino Patchen 58; 5tb dam, Battle Brown, great broodmare by Mambrlno Patchen 58; 6th dam, Pickles by Mambrino Chief 11; 7th dam, Old Piokles by BellfouDder (Brown's); 8th dam, daughter oj Grey Eagle (thoroughbred). With 9 weeks' work she trotted a mile in 2:29, my first experience training a trotter. Next year, in any good trainer's hands, bhe will trot In 2:15 or bet- ter. I have a yearling full brother that at 14 months old paced a quarter in 39^ seconds and an eighth in 18 seconds, barefooted to cart. I am confident that next year in his two-year-old form he will be able to step a mile in 2:12. I also have a weanling full brother to the above that is a grand colt. I will sell any one or all of them before I ship East this winter. They are all absolutely sound, without spot or blemish, grand individuals and handsome lookers. If you are wanting to buy something good come and see these colts. They are surely bred in the helghth of fashion from royal bred families that are futu- rity winners. TOM JAMES, San Jose, Cal. Standard Trotting Stallion For Sale ORO GUY 34192 Foaled 18fl8 By Oro Wilkes 2:11. Dam by Guy Wilkes, 3d dam by Sultan, 3d dam by The Moor. Black In color, stands 16 hands high, weighs 1150 pounds. With little work has shown a mile in 2:16#. Square-gaited trotter; guaranteed abso- lutely sound. Good .disposition. Stylish con- formation. One of the best bred representatives of the Wilkes family on the Coast. Will be sold reasonable. Apply or address R LORE, R. D.. Gilroy.Cal. FOR SALE. Three Standard-Bred Trotting Stallions WILKES STOCK. One Seal Brown, 16 hands, foaled May 2, 1898; first dam Fearless by Fallls 4781 (record 2:23); seoond dam Jean Perault by Signal 3327. One Golden Bay. 16. 1 hands, foaled March 5, 1898; first dam Signal by Del Sur 1098 (record 2:24), dam of Guy Line 2:29^; second dam Lady Sig* nal by Signal 3327. One Brown, white points, 16.1 hands.foaled April, 1899; full brother to the bay. These colts are all sired by Prince Airlee 28045, son of Guy Wilkes 2807 (record 2: 15^), and bred by Wm. Corbitt, San Mateo, Cal. They are pure gaited and show wonderful speed for the little work they have done. For further particulars apply to P. H. MoEVOY, Menlo Park, Cal. NEW MODEL 1903 BEST ROAD CART MADE. O'BRIEN & SONS Cor. Golden Gate Ave. and Polk St. SAN FRANCISCO, CAT* PEDIGREES TABULATED And type written Ready for framing. WrlW for prices. Breeder and Spobtbman, 38 Goary Street, San Francisco. Cal. December 5, 1903] ^he gveeiiev emit gppxurtemmt 18 The Prime Carcass and Its De- velopment. Profess jr„-Curtis8 of Iowa, speaking on the above subject before alive stock con' vention said : There are different stand1- arda in relation to the kind of carcass; our tastes differ, and different marketa have different standards. After all, the standard that fixes the market value ia the one that ahould govern the producer. We cannot afford to quarrel with the taste of the purchaser; our aim ia to furni8h what he wants, and that for which we can obtain the greatest price. Thia Btandard has changed greatly. A few years ago the foreign market demanded large, heavy, thick, fat bullocks, weighing eigh- teen hundred to two thousand; but that demand has changed, and itis now usually a losing balance for the exporter to send that kind of bullock. There is now no market that demands that kind of bullock. The bullock that commands the highest price on our side is a good, compact, well finished bullock, weighing not more than fifteen hundred pounds on foot, and they do not need to be that heavy. If you have the quality, form and excellence that bullock will sell at top price at 1200 pounds, and some of them at even 1000. When we marketed, ten years ago, our first test lot of cattle from the Iowa Col- lege, we had cattle ranging from 1500 to 1900 pounds. Some of the best cattle we submitted were rated 50 cents below the top price, simply became they dfd not have the weight. The judges who passed upon them said that there were no better animals in the lot than these smaller cattle, but that they lacked the weight neceBsary to put them in the highest priced class. That is all changed, and it is greatly to the advantage of the pro- ducer, as other things being equal, the younger the animal goes to market the less iB the cost of food, and the greater the profit to the producer. The foreign market demands moderate weights, well finished, of good quality, and sufficient fat in connection with the lean meat to secure the highest degree of excellence without waste. You cannot furniBh lean meat of the required quality without a certain pro portion of fat. You must have enough to inBure a fine delicate flavor, and tender- ness. But the wasteful carcass, on the other hand is a thing of the paBt ; it is wasteful to the producer, because it takes more time and feed, and to the consumer, because of the excessive amount of fat. The foreign market has changed more than ou: own. Today the export cattle are not the heaviest or ripest cattle that come to our market. Our own market pays a higher price for the heaviest and ripest than the foreign market will pay. There is sometimes an inherent ten- dency to fat in an animal. Thia i8 proba- bly the case with the fat carcaas that is here exhibited. In such an animal you often have a condition described as a fatty degeneration ; That ia to say, after a certain stage, a disposition to fat takes place at the expense of the lean tissue, and all fat put on after that stage ia reached is at the expense of the lean meat in the carcass. These cases, however, only occur in show animals. The great trouble with the meat that comes to the market to-day ia not that it has too much fat, but not enough. The reason we do not have better meat when it comes to the table is that the animal haB not been sufficiently fat. The great secret in producing a carcass of beef is to produce an animal in such a way that the fat grows with the animal, instead of pro ducing the fat in the last three or four months, and putting it on the outBide. The fat should not be deposited in patches on the outaide of the carcass ; it is absolutely wasted, and it is useful for nothing but tallow. You should have it occurring throughout the lean tissue. There you can sell it at a high price, and the consumer seea that he iB getting an absolutely good article. That cannot be done by keeping an animal in a halfr starved condition for two years, and then finishing it up in three or four monthr. The only way you can be sure of prime quality is to have the animal in fairly good condition under liberal feed from birth to maturity, and thus grow the fat as the animal is develop'ng. Then the finishing process is comparatively short, and you have what we call marbled beef. The animal that will go on the block in the best condition is not the one that baa been forced beyond the point where it will give the best returns, or one that has been finished on a short forced period of feeding, but one that has grown ita fat and ita lean meat at the Eame time. As to the degree of finish, the question has often been asked on our side ; ' 'Why is it that animals that win on foot are generally unfit to win on the block?" and the contention has been that judgment in one case or the other was wroig, many claiming that the animal winning on foot ought to win on the block. Such a state of things ia 8omewhat inconsistant appar- ently, and yet it ia not. There is one par- ticular point which the animal reacheB when it is in the beat condition for the block. You may carry an animal some- what beyond that point for the show on foot, without spoiling its appearance, but you do bo at the expense of the carcass. Then, again, you feed the animal to de- velop the highest form and the higheat excellence on foot, and in so doing pro- duce a greater amount of fat in the car- cass than is desirable, and carry the ani- mal beyond the stage where the carcass will give you the best returns. If you take a Bteer that has been fed eighteen months or two yeara for the show ring, the chances are that his carcass will be too fat from the consumer's standpoint. Jackson's Napa Soda does not tangle the feet $5000 Reward to any person who will prove any letter or .. endorsement we pub- ""i^i^'^lish to be fraudulent. Turtle's Elixir is of such well known and high quality that it does not need to bring anything but honest statements to its defense. ^. Indispensible for all veterinary uses. • Turtle's Family Elixir £ ^^ the home. We send a sample free for 6c stamps, merely to pay postage. Send at once for our 100-page boob "Veter- inary Experience," which we mail free. Tutt[e*sEHxlrCo.,4370'FarreIi:t.,SaaFrancisco,Cal. ^Beware of so-called Ellxlrs-none genuine liul Tnltc't. Avoid all blisters; they offer only temporary relief, if any. Ask your Dealer horses happy by p vlding them with Pure-Salt Brick: Warranted to contain *a.v nothing but refined dairy* salt.'* A great modern conve nience at a cost of about 5 cents. — ^h « per horse per Belmont Stable Supply Cti Brooklyn, N.Y. maron BUSINESS COLLEGE 24 Post Street, San Francisco, Cal. The oldest, the largest, the most popular com- mercial school od the Paclfio Coast. 20,000 gradu- ates; SOteaohers; 70 typewriters; over 300 students annually placed in. positions. Send for catalogue. K, P. HEALD, President. IT! SOMEBODY WANTS IT! and you can reach the party who doeB by getting your advertisement in the special FOR SALE DEPARTMENT of the Xmas Edition — OF THE— Breeder and Sportsman TO BE ISSUED DECEMBER 26, 1903 This Size Ad. for $1.50: FOR SALE. BLACK TROTTING MARE, RECORD 3:18^; ±J standard bred; sound; nearly 16 hands high; weighs about UOO pounds. Gentle and a high- class road mare. Can be bought cheap. To see the mare and for particulars call or address Telephone: Pine 1786 J. W. ZIBBELL, 345 Twentieth Ave., San Francisco. Twice the Size for Double the Money and More at the Same Rate Another Thing Don't Neglect Your Stallion But be sure and get his announcement in the STALLION DIRECTORY TO APPEAE IN THIS SAME It will contain the announcement of the leading Stallions on this Coast. The following is the size and Btyle of the announcements, and the cost iB only Three Dollars each. NUTWOOD WILKES "22216 -2:16| Sired by Guy Wilkes 2.-I5W _— — Dam Lida W . 2181* ptt By Nutwood 2: 18 V A _ _ (John A. McKerron 2:05u $50 SIRE 0F1 Stanton Wilkes s-ioQ (Who Is It 3;ioj< And 20 others from 2:12^ to 2:30. The only two of his daughters whose produce have been trained are the dams of Iloilo 2:16?i and Miss Georgie 2:25. Will make the Season of 1904 at NUTWOOD STOCK FARM, For particulars address MARTIN CARTER, Irvlogton, Cal. Every owner of a good Mare will look thia Directory over carefully. BE SURE YOUR HORSE IS IN IT. The Xmas Edition will be a handsome and interesting number and will contain matter that will make it valuable for reference, and as an advertising medium it will give SURE RESULTS. Make arrangements for space NOW and get a "front seat." DON'T PUT IT OFF! Call or Write for particulars at once. An advertisement in this issue will reach all of the people on this Coast who are interested in Horses, Cattle, Dogs, Shooting and Fishing. NO INCREASE IN RATES, Single Copies, 10c, Subscription, $3 per year Breeder and Sportsman 36 GEARY ST., SAN FRANOISCt, Whe Qvesfoev ant* ^puttsttrnxn [December 5, 1903 THE BAYWOOD STUD THE BUNGALOW, SAN MATEO, CAL. (Property Ot JOHN PARBOTT, ESQT) Devotsd Exclusively to the Breeding ana Training of High Stepping Hackney-Bred Harness Horses WALTER SEALY, Manager. ■SAVE-THE:HbRSErSPAVINCuRE. 5.00 WITH Wr^i*TEN GUARANTEE On Broken Down, Weak, Sprained and Ruptured Ligaments and Tendons Its Power is Unfailing. No Man need see his Horse suffer and become incapacitated. "CAWC TLIC UnDCC" POSITIVELY AND PERMANENTLY CURES BONE AND BOG OAVL-lnL-nUnOL SPAVIN, THOROUGHPIN, RINGBONE (except low ringbone), CURB, SPLINT, CAPPED HOCK. WINDPUFF, SHOE BOIL, WEAK AND SPRAINED TEN- DONS, AND ALL LAMENESS. ■■SAVE-THE-HORSE" cures without scar, blemish or lossof hair; can be applied anywhere and in all conditions and extremes of weather. Horses may be worked as usual with shin or ankle boots, as no harm can result from destruction of hair or scalding of limb. Cured horses are absolute certainties as to the possibility of the remedy for your own oase. Such results, as shown in nur booklet, by business men whose reliability can be readily ascertained, have carried "SAVE-THE-HORSE" over skepticism, prejudice and uncertainty. Send for the booklet and copy of written guarantee, which is as binding to protect you as the best legal talent conld make it. S5 OO PEIIl BOTTLE. Written guarantee with every bottle. Need of second bottle improbable, except in rarest cases. If your case is different we advise frankly "as to possibility of the remedy effecting a cure. Give veternarian's diagnosis, if he is competent. Describe age, development, location of swellings, lameness and way horse carries and holds leg. $5.00 a bottle at all druggists and dealers, or sent express prepaid. TROY CHEMICAL CO., D. E NEWELL, 519 Mission St., Manufacturers, TROY, N. Y. San Francisco, Cal., Pacific Coast Agent RACING OAKLAND TRACK New California Jockey Glut COMMENCING NOVEMBER 14. RACING Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, RAIN OR SHINE. SIX OR MORE RACES DAILY BACKS START AT 3:15 P.M. SHARP. For special trains .stopping- at the track take S. P. Ferry, (oot o[ Market street, at 12, 13:30, 1, 1:30 or 2 o'clock. ."-"*. No smoking in last two cars, which are reserved for ladies and their escorts. Returning, trains leave track at 4:15 and 4:45 and immediately after the last raoe. THOMAS S WILLIAMS. President. PERCY W. TREAT, Secretary. FOR SALE. THOROUGHBRED YEARLING COLTS By DUCAT, out of Strongbred Maree. ALSO TROTTING BRED YOUNG STALLIONS AND FILLIES TROTTERS AND PACERS. rpHE SIRES OF THESE COLTS ARE DIABLO, Nutwood Wilkes, Monbells, Cupid and Sidney Dillon. The sires or their first, second and third dams are Guy Wilkes, Hock Wilkes, Director, Harold, Electioneer, Cornelius. Paul's Abdalla h, Venture, Lodi and St. Clair. All of these sire" trace in the male line to Hambletinian 10 th. ough his best producing male descendants, excepting the thoroughbreds Venture and Lodi and the pacer St. Clair. C. E. FARNUM, M. D. 305 Parrott Building. WlfY IINCi- WEST COAST WIRE £/| RON WORKS • - ' '" : tit TPtMONTJT. SOUfiAHCIJCl Methods of Handling Swine. Any bog, to give good results, must be a good grazer, for clover and bluegrass are important factors in tbe production of cheap meat, and al«o in the promotion of the health of the hog. We undertake to hcve our breeding hogs run on bluegrass pasture in the winter and bluegrass and clover in the summer, writes S H. Todd in Orange Judd Farmer. In connection •with this we give our breeding stock slop in the morning made of middlings, corn meal and bran, about one-third each in bulk, making slop tbin, so that we can fill the stomach without getting them too fleshy. At night we give them six to ten ears of corn ea;h, keeping our eye open to see that they do not get too fat or run down in flesh. Give them good dry quarters and a good bed of clean wheat etraw or cornstalks. Never bed with oat straw. A brood sow, in stage of gestation, that has bluegrass pasture to run on in the winter time, unless the winter is too severe, will take of her own accord plenty of exerciEe, which is all-important to the pig before it is farrowed. If she won't take exercise herself make her take it. The time for farrowing should be noted with great accuracy, and the sow put by herself for at least four weeks before. The sty should be about 8x10 feet and ar- ranged with two one-sash windows, so that plenty of sunlight may fall on the sow and her family. With our large sow we have a shelf around the sty fourteen incheB wide and .twelve to fourteen inches from the floor. This makes a hiding place for the little pigs, and they won't be as likely to be trampled upon or overlaid by the mother. Be careful not to let the brood sow get a hollow in the center of her nest, as she ia then liable to overlay her pigs. Pigs will learn to eat at about three weeks of age. Great care should be taken to arrange a place where they can go by themselves to eat, without being disturbed by the mother. In this room keep dry corn They seem to enjoy cracking it Feeding middlings and corn meal, equal parts, making into a very thin slop with sour milk if you have it. If not, use dish- water, if you have neither, water will do. Have the slop warmed until the pigs are Bve or six weekB old, when they will take it cold. Always remember that to feed a young pig success'ully you must give him food tbat he relishes. If you don't he will be an eyeBore to you, no matter how well bred he is. . -. The First Cattle Importations. CALIFORNIA Photo Engraving Company Hies CLASS AST EH. Half Tones and Line Engraving Arlistio Designing. - MS.UUiIon St., cor. First, s sis Fr»noUo» ®lhe Special Displays of Holiday Merchandise, and. the savings to be made in California's Grandest Christmas Store, are worth, trav- eling many miiesjbir^, .Dr.Smith'^ On the Circuit [ Takes out soreness, pairij [cures cuts and sprains. Never fails to bring [home the money. Get a Bottle, You'll like it. All Druggists and Harness Dealers or Vita Oil Co., 1533 Buchanan St. San Francisco, Cal. J. A. McKerron and J, O'Kane, Agts Hunt and Fish ALONG THE LINE OF THE California & Nortlwestern Ry (LESSEE OF THE 8. F. & N. P. R. K.) Best Hunting and Fishing in the State Numerous and Popular Resorts Hot and Gold Mineral Springs HEALTH PLEASURE RECREATION Floe Camping Grounds on Beautifal Streams Beat Section In California for Fruit and Breeding; Farms The route to San Rafael, Petaluma, Santa Rosa TJklah, and the Pamoua Pleasure and Hearth Resorts in Lake County. Saturday to Monday round-trip ticke's at reduced rates. Ticket Offices— 650 Market Street, Chronlole Building, and Tiburoo Ferry. R. X. RYAN, Gen. Fmi. Agt. L -J\A- i The first historical mention we have of the importation of cattle is that they were brought by the Europeans to Mexico about the year 1525, sayB Mrs. M. A. Sherman. The mild, equitab e climate and ther abundant grass-covered ranges caused them to multiply rapidly, and they soon covered not only the plains of Mexico, but those of Texas and Califor- nia, with their ofi-spring. The first improved cattle came to Vir ginia from Holland in 1625, and were of beef and milk form. The oxen were powerful animals, plowing the new lands, while the cows furnished a small amount of milk for the settler's family. The first cows used solely for milk were brought from Normandy to Quebec by the French emigrants. It is said that these yellow, dun and silver gray Normandy animals enter largely into the foundation strains of both the modern Island Jersey and the brown Swiss cattle. They were of medium size and gave a fair quality of milk, while the oxen were large enough for plowing in a hilly country, like Canada and New England. However, the dairy cow was. as ' yet, of little value io the eves of a farmer, for as late as 1825, at a Massachusetts county fair there was no class for cows or for butter and cheese ; but there was the surprising entry of 100 yoke of oxen com- peting in feats of strength and docility. I wonder if there were some old men there to croak at that county fair as an ox show, just as we croak today that our fairs are mere race horBe matinees. Orchard and Farm. Books and Pictures ABOUT California Mountains, Valleys, Canyons, Lakes and Seaside and Vacation Places. Shall It Be A Camp In the Forest A Mountain Lake A Good Hotel and Trout for Breakfast or A Seaside Resort and Clam Chowder for Dinnei The Publications of the ' Southern Pacific Cover all Desirable Places and answer question! of Distance, Accommodations, Expense, Farea, Route, etc. Nothing Left to the imagination. Inquire at INFORMATION BUREAU 613 MARKET STREET J. W. 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IT PENETRATES and DRIES IN quickly and DOES NOT GUM and FILL UP THE PORES like tar and oil compounds. It is the GREATEST REMEDY ever used to remove SORENESS and FEVER from the foot, and makes It possible to get good services out of a horse working on hard and hot pavements. It gives natural nourishment to the foot and incites a rapid, healthy growth— ALL DRYNESS AND BRITTLE- NESS quickly disappears. QUARTER CRACKS and SAND CRACKS are rapidly grown out when directions given in our booklet are followed. It is a SURE CURE for CORNS, CONTRACTED FEET and NAIL WOUNDS if directions are followed It PRESENTS SOUND FEET FROM BECOMING UN- SOUND and GROWS a TOUGH, STRONG. ELASTIC WALL and HEALTHY FROG— A FOOT WHICH WILL STAND WORK on race courses. Many of the best owners and trainers state tbat for track work nothing equals it. In many cases horseB have reduced their records several seconds, due to its use. It is a CER'J A1N CURE for THRUSH and SCRATCHES We Guarantee That It Will Do What We Claim and Will Refund Money If It Falls. PRICKS:— Quarts, $100; Half-Gallon, $1.75; Gallon, $300; :2^-Gallon, $5.50; Five-Gallon, $10.00. Books giving full directions for its use and much valuable information as to shoeing are supplied 16. Don't fail to read "ad." giving information concerning Campbell's Iodoform Gall Cure in next ssue of this paper. It is the best and because of its merits is rapidly displacing all others. IAS. B. CAnPBELL&CO . Manufacturers, 412 W.HadUon St., CHICAGO, ILL VETERINARY. DR. C. MASOERO VETERINARY SURGEON Graduate of Royal Veterinary College of Turin NFIRMART AND RESIDENCE— 8 1 1 Howard St.: between Fourth and Fifth Sts., San FraDcisco. Telephone: Main 457. [ra Barker JJalziel VETERINARY DENTIST ancy Carrlage.Saddle and Roar* Horses for Sale Office and stable: 605 Golden Gate Avenue, San 'ranclsco, Cal. Telephone South 651. Dxr. wm, IF*. Sg;an. M. R. C. V. S.. F. E. V. 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Mark Levy & Co On Iv 1 « Z. 1 11 tip En ploi ^pavt&man r December 5, 1B03 TELEPHONE: South 640 VRSE BOOTS 203-20* San Francisco, CaI.*G!<^5 THE ALWAYS RELIABLE Out of 43 Contestants shooting through all the events at the Marysville Blue Rock Tournament. Oct 11, 1903, 37 used U. M. C. Shells Those used were ACME, MAGIC, MAJESTIC and MONARCH. Out of 37 Contestants shooting through all the events at the Helvetia Rifle Club (Sacramento) Tournament, Oct. 18-19, 1903, 27 used U. M. G. Cartridges and Primers The Cartridges used were 32-40 and 38-55. Aix^iviTJixriTioiixr Union Metallic Cartridge Company PACIFIC COAST DEPOT: 86-88 FIRST ST., SAN FRANCISCO E E DRAKE, Manager. REPEATING SHOT GUNS WINCHESTER AMMUNITION AND FIREARMS ARE A COMBINATION THAT CANNOT BE SURPASSED. WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS COMPANY Pacific Coait Depot: 137-135 Firjt St , San Francisco. A. MCLLER. Agent. ! You can get these Smokeless Powders in FACTORY . . . LOADED . SELBY SHELLS Loaded in O. I». "\7\7". Smokeless. 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San Francisco, Coast Representative Du Pont Gun Powder SMOKELESS, SHOT GUN and MILITARY POWDER Black Powder for Sporting and Blasting Purposes the Reputation of a Hundred Tears is the Guarantee of DU PONT POWDER C. A ELAIGHT, Ajrort. - 519 Mission St., Room 311, San Tr»nol.o», Cat roii. xun. No. 34. 1Q OKA BY STREET. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1903. SUBSCRIPTION THREE DOLLARS A TEAK 3 ®,he gveebev cmo Qpcrvtztnan f December 12, 1K3 WESTCHESTER RACING ASSOCIATION (UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE JOCKEY CLUB). RACE COUKSE, MORRIS PARK, WESTCHESTER, N. Y. OFFICE: No. 571 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK, N. Y. (THE WINDSOR ARCADE). THE EIGHTH National Stallion Race WITH $5000 ADDED To be Run for by then Two- Year-Olds during the SPRING MEETING OF 1905. THE EIGHTH MATRON WITH $10,000 ADDED To be Run for by then Two-Year-OIds during the AUTUMN MEETING OF 1906. To Close and Name for both events at Midnight ot Tuesday, Dec, 1 5, 1 903 CONDITIONS. THE NATIONAL STALLION, 1905. THE MATRON OF 1906. The EIGHTH NATIONAL STALLION lor then two years old, foals of 1903 to run at the Spring Meeting in 1905, tlie progeny of stallions nominated Nominations of stallions to close and name by midnight of Thursday, October 1, 1903, by sub- scription of $50 each, or only $25 each, for stal- lions which have not sired a winner prior to De- cember 15, 1903. Of the subscriptions for stallions the nominators of the sires of the first, second and third horses shall receive 25 per cent., 15 per cent, and 10 per cent, respectively. The remaining 50 per cent, to the winner. STALLION ENTRIES FOR 1905. Hastings $50 Octogon 50 Henry of Navarre — 50 Ethelbert 35 Ben Strome 50 Faverdale 50 Griffon 25 Sir Dixon 50 Star Shoot 25 Bridgewater 25 Handspring 50 His Highness 50 Silver Fox 50 Kinley Mack 25 Dieudonne 25 Salvator 50 Arkle 50 Bathampton 50 Greenan 25 Golden Garter 50 Goldfinch 50 Bassetlaw 50 Maxio 50 Toddington 25 Montana 50 Gerolstein $25 St. Gatien 50 Star Ruby 50 Wateroress 50 Ornament 50 St. Leonards 50 Ben Brush 50 Commando 25 Voter 95 Canopus 25 Ogden 50 Requital 50 Mirthful 50 Plaudit 50 Solitario H 25 Marius H 35 Kantaba 50 Meadowthorpe. 50 Prince Pepper 50 Daniel 50 Dr. MacBride 50 Hamburg 50 Meddler 50 Sandringham 25 Conditions for the Entry of Foals of 1903, to close and name by midnight, Tuesday, December 15, 1908. Foals of 1903, the progeDy of stallions duly nominated to be entered and named by midnight of Tuesday, December 15. 1903. Colts and geldings at $10 each, fillies at £5 each, the only forfeit if declared by December 15, 1904. If left in after December 15, 1904, and deslared by April 20, 1905, colts and geldings to pay $30 each, fillies $15 each. If left in after April 20, 1905, colts and geldings to pay $60 each, fillies $30 each. Starters — Colts, geldings and fillies to pay $100 each additional. The Westchester Racing Association to add $5000 and the remaining 50 per cent of the stallion entrances, of which $1200 to the second and $600 lo the third. The nominator of the winner to receive $1000 out of the subscriptions and starting money. Of the subscriptions for stallions, the nominators or the sires of the first, second and third horses shall receive 25 per cent, 15 per cent and 10 per cent respectively. Colts to carry 122 lbs., geldings and allies 119 lb3, The produce of stallions which have not pro- duced a winner prior to December la, 1903. allowed 5 lbs. if claimed at time of entry. By filing with the Westchester Racing Association, prior to December 1, 1904, an accepted transfer of the foal's entry, the original subscriber shall be released from liability as to the engagement of the horse. except for the original forfeit of $10 or $5 Last five furlongs, Eclipse Course. The EIGHTH MATRON, with $10,000 added, for mares covered in 1903, foals of 1904, to be run for by then two-year-olds at the Autumn Meeting in 1906. Tae event to be run in Ito races, one for colts and geldings, the other for fillies. GENERAL CONDITIONS. The EIGHTH MATRON for the produce of mares covered in 1903, to run when two years old at Autumn Meeting in 1906, with $10,000 added. Subscriptions for mares to olose at $20 each, or only $10 each if the money accompany the entry. Foals the progeny of mares so nominated to be eligible, at $10 each, the only forfeit if declared on or before November 1st, 1905. If left in arter November 1st, 1905, to pav $25 each. If left in after April 1st, 1906, to pay $50 each. If left in after August 15th, 1906, to pay $75 each. Starters to pay $150 each. WEIGHTS, PENALTIES AND ALLOW- ANCES. Colts to carry 122 lbs-; fillies and geldings, 119 lbs. Winners of $5,000 or twice of $2,500, to carry 3 lbs. extra; of $10,000 or twice of $5,000, 5 lbs. extra; of $15,000, or twice or $10,000, 7 lbs. extra; of $30,000, or twice of $15,000, 10 lbs. extra. Non-winners of $2,000 allowed 3 lbs.; of $1,000, 5 lbs.; maidens, 10 lbs. Produce of horses or out of mares that had never produced a winner previ- ous to January 1st, 1904, allowed 3 lbs.;*of both, 5 lbs.; which allowance must be claimed at time of entrance. Allowances cumulative. CONDITION OF THE RACE FOR COLTS AND GELDINGS. Colts and geldings the produce of mares nomin- ated for the Eighth Matron to run by them- selves, the money for which shall include all sub- scriptions of mares producing colts, all declar- ation fees paid for colts and geldings at $10, $25 and $50 each, and of those left in after August 15, 1906, at $75 each, with $5000 of the added money, of which $1000 to the second and $500 to the third. The nominator of the dam of the winner to receive 50 per cent, of the starting money for the race, of the second. 30 per cent., of the third, 20 per cent. Eclipse Course. CONDITIONS OF THE RACE FOR FILLIES. Fillies the produce of mares nominated for the Eighth Matron to run by themselves, the money for which shall include all subscriptions for mares producing fillies, all declaration fees paid for fillies at $10, $25 and $50 each, and of those left in after August 15, 1906, at $75 each, with $5000 of the added money, of which $1000 to the second and $500 to the third. The nominator of the dam of the winner to receive 50 per cent of the starting money for the race, of the second 30 per cent, of the third 20 per cent. Eclipse Coarse: Both the National Stallion and the Matron as above are to be run under the ftules of The Jockey Club and Westchester Racing' Association applicable to the conditions of each and both of them, viz.: Rule 38, Rule 54, Part IV, Rule 63, miCl Rule 5, Part III, Rule 72. Fop further particulars and entry blanks, address H. G. CRICKMORE, Clerk of the Course. 571 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y. Futurity Stake Payments Due Jan. 2, 1904 PACIFIC BREEDERS FUTURITY STAKES No, I -$6000 Guaranteed FOR THE GET OF MARES COVERED IN 1900 (FOALS BORN IN 1901) ENTRIES CLOSED SEPTEMBER 1, 1900 To Trot or Pace at 2 years old In 1903 and at 3 years old in 1904, at either or both ages MONEY DIVIDED AS FOLLOWS: 1903 1904 Two-Year-Old Trotters S1250 Two-Tear-Old Pacers 750 Nominator Dam of Winner Trot. 300 Nominator Dam of Winner Pace — 200 Three- Year-Old Trotters 82000 Three Year-Old Pacers 1U00 Nominator Dam of Winner Trot 200 Nominator Dam of Winner Pace... 300 Owner of Stallion, sire of Winner of Three-Year- Old Trot, when mare was bred 81 00 Owner of Stallion, sire of Winner of Three-Year-Old Pace, when mare was bred. . 100 LAST PAYMENT $10 ON THREE-YEAR-OLDS JANUARY 2, 1904. STARTING PAYMENTS — $25 to start in the two year-old pace. $35 to start in the two-year- old trot. $35 to start in the three-year-old paee. $50 to start in the three-year-old trot. All starting payments to be made ten days before the first day or the meeting at which the race is t« take place. Nominators must designate^ when making payments to si art, whether the horse entered is a trotter or pacer. Colts that start at two years old are not barred from starting again in the three-year-old divisions. PACIFIC BREEDERS FUTURITY STAKES No. 2»=$6000 Guaranteed FOR THE GET OF MARES COVERED TN 1901 (FOALS BORN IN 1902) ENTRIES CLOSED OCTOBER 1, 1901 To Trot or Pace at 2 years old In 1904 and at 3 years old In 1905, at eltheror both ages. MONEY DIVIDED AS FOLLOWS: 1904 1905 Two-Year-Old Trotters 81250 Two-Year-Old Pacers 750 Nominator Dam of Winner Trot 200 Nominator Dam of Winner Pace 2O0 Three- Year-Old Trotters S2000 Three-Year-Old Pacers 1O0O Nominator Dam of Winner Trot 200 Nominator Dam of Winner Pace 200 Owner of Stallion, sire of Winner of Three- Year-Old Trot, when mare was bred. .8100 Owner of Stallion, sire of Winner of Three-Year-Old Pact, when mare was bred. . 100 $10 on Two-Year-OIds January 2, 1904. STARTING PAYMENTS— $25 to start in the two-year-old pace. 835 to start in the three-year- old trot. $35 to start in the three-year-old pace. $50 to start in the three-year-old trot. All starting payments to be made ten days before the first day of the meeting at which the race Is to take place. Nominators must designate, when making payments to start, whether the borse entered is a trotter or a pacer. Col ts that start at two years old are not barred from starting again in the three-year-old divisions. The 810 Payment January 2, 1904, keeps your entry good to January 2, 1905. Address correspondence to the Secretary. E. P. HEALD, President. F. W. KELLEY, Secretary, 36 Geary Street, San Francisco. HARNESS and SADDLES HIGH-CLASS FINISH AND WORKMANSHIP AT MODERATE PRICES. THE BI6 STOKE JEPSEN BROS CO ..no 1145-47 Market St. San Francisco p PALACE HOTEL, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA. TOUErSTS and TRAVELERS will, now, with difficulty recognize the famous COURT into which for twenty-five years carriages have driven. This space of over a quarter of an acre has recently, by the addition of very handsome furniture, rugs, chandeliers and tropical plants, been converted into a lounging room— the FINEST IN THE WORLD. The EMPIRE PARLOR— the PALM ROOM, furnished in Cerise, with Billiard and Pool tables for the ladies— the LOUIS XV PARLOR the LADIES WRITING ROOM and numerous other modern improvements, together with the unexcelled Cuisine and the Most Convenient Location in the City— all add much to the ever increasing popularity of this most famous HOTEL. QUINNS OINTMENT! FOR HORSES stands at the head of all veterinary remedies. Such troubles E as Spavins, Curbs, WindpufTs, Splints, Bunches have not j terrors for a horse if the master keeps and applies Quann's Ointment. All g well known horsemen speak of it in the highest terms : Miller & Sibley of Franklin, Pa,, owners of St. Bel, brother of late Bel Boy, write, "We have nsedQuinn's Ointment with great success and believe it fulfills all claimed for it. We cheer- fully recommend it to our friends." For Curbs, S pants, Spavins or Bunches it has no e< Price £i.oo per package. Sold by all druggists, or sent by mail. x W. B. EDDY * CO., WHITEHALL, N. Y. Pedigrees Tabulated %£Z$Zr££ZZZ Sportsman, M G«»ry street, San Francisco, Cal. December 12, 1903] ®ta gfrtfe&etr au& ^pnvtstnan 3 THE WEEKLY BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN F. W. KELLEY, Proprietor. Turf and Sporting Authority of the Pacific Coast. — OFFICE — 36 GEARY STREET, SAN FRANCISCO. P. O. BOX 2300. Telephone: Black 586. Terms— One Year S3, Six Months SI. 75, Three Months 81 STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. Money snould be sent by postal order, draft or by registered letter addressed to F. W. Kjelley, 38 Geary St., San Francisco. Cal. Communications must be accompanied by the writer's name and address, not necessarily for publication, but as a private guarantee of good faith. San Francisco, Saturday, December 12, 1903. BETTER AND LARGER HORSES will come from the ranges of Northern California and Southern Oregon four or five years from now than the San Francisco range horse market has been accustomed to, and they will meet with a ready sale at good profit. During the past few years the proprietors of the big horse ranges have been selling off their stallions and small mares, retaining the larger mares that weigh from 1200 up and buying large Percherons, Belgian, Clyde and Shire stallions to breed these mares to. Mr. Fred H.Chase, the well known dealer of this city, who recently made an extended trip through the extreme northern part of California and southern Oregon in search of express and draft horses for the San FranciBCO market, tells us that horses of good work size are hard to find. He bought over five hun- dred head, but wanted as many more, which he will have to make a second trip for. He states that six stallions weighing from 1700 to a ton were recently sold to parties in Siskiyou county at prices ranging from $800 to $1800. These stallions were Normans, Clydes and ShireB and imported recently from the Eastern States. Mr. Chase recently sold to the well known Churchill Ranch three three-year-(-ld draft stallions weighing from 1500 to 1800 pounds. On the Churchill ranges nothing is being kept but the large mares with draft blood in them, and they will be bred each year to full blooded stallions. Mr. Chase is of the opinion that when the results of this and future years' breeding reach this market they will outclass all range horses heretoforeseen on this Coast. It is a known fact that the horses of Northern California, especially thoje raised in the mountains of Siskiyou and Modoc, have splendid feet and limbs, wonderfully developed muscleB and great lung power. From the time they are foaled they are accustomed to climbing hills and traveling long distances, but are never underfed, as the ranges there are among the best in the world. Wild grasses that make the best of feed grow in great abundance, and although there is con- siderable snow in winter the grazing is always good'. On many of the ranges thousands of tons of hay are cut annually and fed to the horses during the winter, so that the colts are kept growing. It is also well known that the range horses have such hard, perfect feet that they can be driven for some time without shoeing after they are sold for ubo in San Francisco. But few of the large ranges are left and they are fast being cut up and converted to other uses, but on those remaining there is a unanimous determination to breed up and the horse weighing 1200 pounds and up- ward will in a few years replace the Bmaller and con- sequently less valuable animals that have heretofore come from the range. There will be a good demand for all that can be produced. THE OCCIDENT STAKE, California's trotting classic, has become the richest prize for three- year-olds that is given west of the Mississippi river. It was worth over $2500 to the winner this year, and is increasing in value every succeeding year. The stake for foals of this season, to close on January 1st, will doubtless be worth $3000 net to the winner. If you have a well bred trotting foal of 1903, be sure and name it in this stake. It will pay if you want to sell. This year's winner was bred by Oakwood Park Stock Farm and sold to Ben Chaboya, who saw she was a likely candidate for the race. Before he had devel- oped her very far Henry Sanders wanted her to win the stake with and paid Chaboya a good price for her. Mr. Sanders won the Occident with her and then sold her for $3000 because she was eligible in the Stanford to be trotted one week later. Mr. Montanya then won the Stanford with the filly and she iB not now for sale. Had she not been entered in this stake perhaps her speed would never have been developed and she would not have been worth as much as she sold for It pays to enter in stakes, as the expense is 3mall and ' there is always a chance to win or sell. (~)UR CHRISTMAS EDITION will he published two weeks from to-day. It will be the hand- somest and best illustrated paper ever issued by this journal. The embossed gilt cover is pronounced by those who have seen it the handsomest thing printed for any of the California holiday journals. There will be 36 pages of beautiful illustrations and interest- ing reading. But a few days remain in which adver- tising can be received for insertion in this handsome cumber and as it will be more extensively circulated than any holiday edition previously printed by this journal it will be the best ad vertising medium horse- men and others can possibly use at this season, and they should not miss the opportunity to makd their announcements therein. DREEDERS AND OWNERS of thoroughbreds *— are aBked to read the announcement made by the Westchester Racing Association in the columns of this journal this week. Those two great stakes the Eighth National Stallion Race and the Eighth Matron Stake are advertised to close December 15tb. The Stallion Race is for foals of 1903, tho progeny of stallions duly nominated, to be entered and named by midnight of Tuesday, December 15, 1903. The West- chester Association adds $5000 to the stake, to be run for then two year-olds during the spring meeting of 1905. The distance is the last five furlongs of the Eclipse Course. The Eighth Matron, with $10,000 added, for mares covered in 1903, foals of 1904, to be run for by then two-year olds at the autumn meeting in 1906, the event to be run in twe races, one for colts and geldings, the other for fillies, distance Eclipse Course, subscription for mares to close at $20 each, or only $10 each if the money accompanies the entry, to close and name for mares at midnight of Tuesday, December 15, 1903. We desire to call the attention of breeders to the fact that both of these stakes are produce fixtures and should be liberally contributed to. Entry blanks can be had at the office of the Breeder and Sportsman. Remember the entries close next Tuesday. LION. JESSE D. CARR, the millionaire land owner 1 x and stock breeder is reported dangerously ill at his home at Salinas. Mr. Carr is ninety years of age. and for the past few years has been almost totally blind from cataracts and his hearing was so badly affected that he could converse with great difficulty. In spite of these infirmities he haB been a strong, active and vigorous business man up to within a few week6. He recently suffered a 6udden collapse and at this writing is not expected to live many days. Mr. Carr is a pioneer and has aided in making much of the history of California, and his death will be a loss to the State and especially to Monterey county. 1NGLESIDE will be the scene of the New California Jockey Club's racing for the next month begin- ning on Monday. This be,' utiful track is a favorite with San Francisco race goers and there will doubt- less be an increase in the already large attendance that the races have been attracting to Oakland. The present season is the most succebsful in the history of winter racing in California, as the attendance has been greater than ever, and the racing better and more satisfactory than ever before. MR. M. J. KELLER, representing the Campbell Hoof Ointment Company is in California on his annual trip in the interest of this corporation. Mr. Keller takes a lively interest in all matters pertaining to the harness horse and is an occasional contributor to the horse journals of the country. He reports an increased demand for the Campbell Hoof remedy, which '8 deservedly popular with California horse- men. Walla Walla County Fair Association. At a meeting of the Walla Walla County Fair As- sociation, recently held, the capital stock was in- creased from $15,000 to $25,000. The additional stock will be sold to make needed improvements on the fair grounds. The secretary's report of this year's fair shows the gate receipts to have been about $6500, which, with the other sources of income such as concessions, which brought in $3710, donations $748 and entry fees of $1661, made the total receipts $12,125.15. The expenses, made up of purses, labor and inci- dentals, totaled $7778, leaving a net profit of $4337. Including the mortgage against the property, the liabilities are nearly $6000.— Rural Spirit. Two Good Ones for Sale. In our advertising columns to-day will be found the announcement of two horses for sale that are worthy the attention of horsemen who desire high claaB animals to race or to use on the road or for breeding purposes. The pacing mare Reta H. by McKinney made a reputation this year that has been equalled by few pacers. She started the season without a re- cord, and in eight starts on the Northwest Circuit where she met all the best pacers racing there, she won eight races and earned a record of 2:11 J. Last Thanksgiving Day her owner started her in a matinee race at Los AngeleB and she won easily in 2:12! and 2:14}. She is a splendid roadster, having size, style, color and perfect manners. The other horse offered is the three-year-old Electro McKinney. He is a brown stallion and one of the best bred sons of Mc- Kinney in the state. As a two-year-old he worked a mile in 2:311 last quarter in 35 seconds, and last spring as a three-year-old worked out in 2:21 i last quarter in 32 seconds. He is perfect gaited trotter and well enough bred to head a stock farm. His dam is by Electricity, son of Electioneer and Jay Eye See's dam. Mr. Byron Erkenbrecher, owner of the two horses described, is the President of the Los Angeles Driving Club and a very enthusiastic horseman. He is actively engaged in the real estate business, besides being owner of large properties, and is desirious of disposing of either or both of these horses, his busi- ness interest being such that he cannot give them the time and attention necessary for their future develop- ment. Besides these he has four or five other highly bred horaes, but these two are the best in his stable. Answers to Correspondents. Breeder and Sportsman:— Can you give me the breeding of the old original St. Clair stallion and Billy St. Clair, a son of his? Billy St. Clair was raised by a Mr. Mathena of Sacramento. Will you kindly give me the breedings of these horses and oblieeg — S. W. L. The breeding of the original St. Clair 16,675 is un- known. He was a pacing horsp and was brought across the plains in 1849. He died in Sacramento in 1864. He sired Ben Butler 2:19} and Lady St. Clair 2:20. His son Doc was the sire of Occident 2:16}. Another son, St. Clair 656, was known as Fred Low. We do not know the breeding of Billy St. Clair, and he is not registered. Editor B. & S.— Please give the breeding of Billy Thornbill? Billy Thornhill 8707 is by Beverly Wilkes 8706, he by George Wilkes out of the great broodmare Neilson by Mambrino Pilot 29. The dam of Billy Thornbill is Emily (great broodmare) by George Wilkes, gran- dam Sue Stout (great broodmare) by Surplus, a son of Ashland 47. The last named horse was by Mam- brino Chief 11, out of Utilla, a running bred mare by imp. Margrave. Opening ot Ascot Track. A dispatch from Los Angeles, dated December 9th, says: "A6COt Park track will be ready for the open- ing date, December 24th. The stables are finished and filled with horses, the grand stand, which is de- signed to be the largest and most modern west of Chicago, is fast nearing completion and the track is being used to exercise the numerous thoroughbreds now stabled on the ground. Electric transportation facilities are complete, and from now to the 24th will be devoted to cleaning up and arranging the minor details. Manager J. W. Brooks said today: "We will positively open December 24th. Every- thing will be in readiness before that date and there will be racing at Ascot Park the day before Christ- mas, rain or shine. The stakes have filled better than I expected and there are more than 700 entries. There will be a good class of riders here, including O'Neil, De Souza, Odom, T. Burns, Troxler, Redfern, Wonderly and others. The track will be in the best possible condition and we expect to have it aB fast as any in the United States for the opening day." Swift Bird by Waldstein, the dp.m of Swift B. 2:16}, iB to be returned to Stam B. 2:11} next year. A few years ago the breeding business was over- done. Great farms were established by men who knew nothing practically of the horse business, and in consequence the country was overrun with trotters that couldn't trot. After these mushroom establish- ments went out of existence horse breeders who had made a careful Btudy of the Bclence of breeding and bred horses along the line of common sense were able tocreate an Interest in the trotter. They sel stallions of the proper breeding and also with ind i uality and the showing made during the p years is ample proof that the breeding and u mentof thellght harness horse is a profitable ®Jtur gveeitev emit ^povt&tnan [December 12, 1903 JOTTINGS. THE OLD GLORY SALE which was concluded at New York last week, was the largest vendue of harness horses ever held in that city— more than a thousand horses being disposed of by the Fasig-Tip- ton Company during the ten dayB auction. The re- sult of the sale of horses from Palo Alto Stock Farm, which occurred on the opening day, was printed in the columns of this journal last week. The average for the fifty-one head sold was $383.4S, a figure that was below actual value. The Mariposa Stock Farm, of Lonsdale, Connecticut, disposed of 96 head on the same day. The average was $267.81. Among the horses sold from this celebrated farm were many that are well known in California. Adelaide McGregor 2:15} and Adelaide Simmons 2:14J, two maree that the late Dr. Wise of Los Angeles raced through the Cali- fornia circuit in 1894 and 1895, were sold for $125 and $250 respectively. They have been owned by Mari- posa Farm for several years and have been in the broodmare ranks. It was said of them when they were racing in California that one could be substituted for the other in a race without attracting suspicion from anyone, so closely did they resemble one another. They were half-sisters, the first named being by Bonnie McGregor, the other by Simmons. The late F. C. Sayles, who owned the Mariposa Stock Farm, had quite a number of California bred horses. He at one time owned Sable Wilkes and bred his best mares to him. Among the animals owned by Mr. Sayles and disposed of at this sale were Atlanta, twenty years old and the dam of Alix 2:031. She went for 5100, although she had a foal every year for the past three years. Dexter Princess by Dexter Prince out of Emma Nutwood brought $210. She was bred by Dave Young of Stockton, and is a full sister to Pilot Prince and Lottery Ticket. Emma Nutwood, twenty-three years old sold for $80. Mary Best 2:12J, foaled in 1890, brought|$300. Semi-Tropic, a daughter of Sultan, dam Lady Mackay, the dam of Oakland Baron 2:091 and others sold for$185. Serenata 2:25*, bred at Palo Alto, by Wild Boy and out of Sontag Mohawk, the dam of eight in thelist, brought $255. Consuela S. 2:121, by Directum out of Daisy Nutwood, brought $1250. She was bred by Monroe Salisbury. One of the great surprises of the sale was the low price brought by Belsire 2:18, son of Electioneer and Beautiful Bells. He was consigned by C. W. Williams, owner of Allerton 2:091, and it was thought would bring not less than $5000. He went to the bid of A. M. Hamilton of Wheeling, Virginia, for $1500. Belsire is the fastest son of Beautiful Bells and is the sire of eight standard performers. Belsire sold for $25,000 when a yearling. The fact that though given the best of opportunities he has not sired a sensational horse, had much to do with keeping breeders from bidding, but he should have brought more money. The young AUertons in Mr. Williams' consignment did not bring as high figures as he received last year. The average for his 45 head was but $276.88 and this included Belsire and two or three that brought in the neighborhood of $900 each. Oro Wilkes 2:11, one of the best of this season's sires, sold for $4050 and was purchased by J. Witherill of Gait, Ontario. In the consignment of Mr. John H. Shultz, Reet 2:16* by Direct out of Lilly Stanley sold for $400, and Baron Directly 2:241, a great paoing two-year-old by Directly 2:034; out of a mare by Baron Wilkes, brought $2200. James Butler's consignment brought Jvery good figures. Diablito 2:08* by Diablo went to James Harris for $800; Mr. J. H. Rogar of New York made the high bid, $1700, for Trilby Direct 2:081, ana Estelle, a brown mare by Richard's Elector, brought $475. Tommy Britton 2:061 by Liberty Bell sold for $7000, and was brought by William J. Andrews of New York. Mr. Andrews intends to race him next year and he will be entered all through the Grand Circuit in the 2:07 and faster classes. He is a grandly bred horse and his colts are very promising. Fanfaron, his daughter, with a record of 2:11 J, was also in the sale and the high bid on her was $1675. The speed horses that were not counted among the has-beens all brought out lively bidding. Directum Miller 2:08.5, a pacer by Directum that was on the Grand Circuit this year sold for $3700; Prince of Orange, 2:06*, a trotter that is thought to be one of the best prospects in the fast classes for next season went to Mr. Billings' bid — $7600; Lizzie A. 2:11} one of the sensational three year old trotters of this year was knocked down to Chas. Tanner of Cleveland for $2950; Wainscott 2:09} also one of the good ones of 1903, will go to Austria, Messrs. Schleissenger of Vienna paying $6400 for him. Cozad 2:09* and El Moro2:13}, consigned to the sale by Mr. Graham E. Babcock of San Diego brought $1100 and $600 respec- tively; Homeward 2:131 went t0 Cbas. Williams of New York for $900. Mr. W. A. Clark, Jr., of Butte, Montana, was represented at the sale by A. M. Carr who purchased for him the following horses: High- land, a four year old black colt by Expresso, son of Advertiser, out of Alpha by Alcantara, for $1500. This is a trotter and a grand looking young stallion. He has a trial of 2:12 but no record. Lucie May 2:22* winner of the pacing division for two year olds in the Kentucky Futurity of 1899, and a good prospect for a 2:10 pacer next year, $1350. She is by Oakland Baron. Biddy a very promising green trotting mare by Re- Election, $1000. On the sixth day of the sale ninety-three head were sold at an average of $214 per head. Among the Cal- ifornia-bred horses that went under the hammer that day were Valentine 2:30 by Boodle, that was pur- chased by W. R. Cook of Morristown, New Jersey, for$550; Sable Frances 2:151 bj Sable Wilkes out of Francesca, dam of I Direct, that sold for $275, Joe Martin of New York City being the buyer; Twilight 2:281, a mare by Eros, brought $575. The seventh day of the sale attracted a large crowd, Peter the Great 2:071 being the principal drawing card, and it was predicted that $10,000 would not stop bidders on the sire of Sadie Mac. There were th-ee bidders on him, A. L.Thomas starting the bidding with $2000. Peter Duryea of Patchen Wilkes Stock Farm was the last bidder and the horse went to him for $5000, a bargain if there ever was one. The young horses by Bingen 2:061 and Arion 2:07}, disposed of on the sev- enth day, brought good prices, a yearling son of Bin- gen bringing $1650. Several colts by Advertiser and Prodigal also sold well. The sale closed on Wednesday with over 1000 horses disposed of. Over $350,000 was received dur- ing the sale for the horses offered, and the average is evidence that the demand for trotters and pacers is not decreasing by any means. Broodmares and stal- lions did not bring large prices, but roadsters and colts with speed attracted lively bidding, and the Old Glory of 1902 was one of the Fasig-Tipton Company's many successes. The last quarter of the Pleasanton track is to be widened about ten feet and when this work is com- pleted it will be as good a track to give a harness race meeting on as any in the State. One thing the Pleas- anton people should do is to hold a big matinee every year just before the horses in training there are shipped EaBt. One entire day could be devotetl to a program that would attract thousands of people to the pretty little town known as the horBe centre of the Pacific Coast. Arrangements should be made with the railroad people to run excursions from all nearby points that would reach the town by 9:30 in the morning, in time for the excursionists to see a grand parade of all the trotters and pacers at the track, and then have a program of racing begin at 10 o'clock and continue until five P. M. with an hour forluDch. Six or seven events could be pulled off in this time. Horses that were to be shipped East to the Blue Ribbon sale could give exhibition miles and those entered for the regular races to come off during the summer could be driven fast quarters. There would be enough horses entered to fill a half dozen regular events, so that a good day's sport would be assured. A day of this sort would draw a larger crowd to Pleasanton than the thriving little town has ever held within its limits and the merchants and everybody there that had arything to sell would be kept busy. It would advertise the track more than anything that could be arranged. A May Festival at Pleasanton should be a fixed annual event. Dan Patch Still Breaking Records. Dan Patch has been South on a tour, and or. No- vember 30th he broke two records at Macon, Georgia, about all that were left for him to smash and he has now nearly everything of value in the pacing record line to his credit. In spite of a cold driving wind at the Macon track he started hitched to a high wheel sulky to see how fast he could go. He performed the feat of pacing a mile to that hitch in 2:04}. A few minutes later he was started to beat the world's stallion pacing record for two miles, held by Chehalis. The record of Che- halis for that distance is 4:191, an(i Dan Patch knocked two and a quarter seconds from this, putting the championship mark at 4:17. Dan is a "nach'al bawn reacher," and when he reaches for anything he gets it. Report of Red Ribbon Sale. Following is a complete list of all the horses sold at the Red Ribbon Sale held at the Occidental Horse Exchange in this city Tuesday evening, Nov. 17th.: CONSIGNED BY P. FOLEY; ALAMEDA. Lady Indigo, blk m, 1895, by Direct, to Otto Scbrader for $75. Lady Bird, b m, 1895, by Winwood, dam by Capt. Webster, to W. J. Simpson for $65. Marcelle, b m, 1897, by Fay Wilkes, dam MouDtain Hare by Young Venture, to Martin Burnell for $80. Palatina, b m, 1896, pacer, to M. Newman for $130. Gorax, br g,-IJi94, by was a full hand lower than Red Cloud and was a much lighter made horse in proportion to his height. His quality, contour, dashing style of carriage and brilliancy of action were superlative. He looked the high bred, high mettled horse all over. Prescott Lawrence, H. K. Bloodgood and Harrison K. Caner gave him the prize in 1900; Messrs. Lawrence, Blood- good and Underhill in 1901, and Richard F. Carman, Thomas A. Maitland and Orson Moulton in 1902. Forest King, the winner in 1903, under Messrs. Bloodgood, Carman and Underhill, is a bay gelding, 15.1J hands high. He is one of the highest going horses ever seen at the Garden, but his forward action is somewhat labored, and he seems to lack pace. The lofty, bold, dashing, mettlesome, gamecock style of Lord Brilliant is noticeably lacking in Forest King's carriage when in action. There is just a suggestion of coarseness about his makeup, and he can hardly be called a high bred looking horse. Although this variation in type seems to indicate inconsistent judging, it must be remembered that the officials cannot always select a typical gig horse, because there may be no such animal in the ring. The best they can do is to give the prize to the horse approaching nearest to their ideal. Among all the winners, Lord Brilliant would doubtless be considered the best gig horse, all things considered. Strong objection to his Bmall size has been made, however. Red Cloud, a grand horse of his type, was generally regarded as being better suited to draw a brougham than a gig, owing to his heavy weight. And Forest King, the highest goer of them all, would have a better chance to win in a victoria class than in a gig class before very many judges. — N. Y. Herald. residents who attended as guests, each man being allowed to invite one person, said It was the best supper they ever tasted; and the horny-handed farm- ers of Scituate are connoisseurs as to turkey. The event was the time of the year in Egypt village, and the estate, brilliantly lighted, had the appearance of a stately old English manor. — Am. Horse Breeder. Banquet to the Owner ot Cresceus. [American Sportsman.] Fifty of the personal friends of Geo. H. Ketcham, citizens of Toledo, gave the breeder, owner and driver of CreBceus l:59f an elaborate banquet in the large banquet room of the Toledo Club, on Saturday evening. This was in honor of the first gentleman to drive a trotter in leas than two minutes. The decorations of the room were carried out in the scheme of the Ketcham colors of the trotting track — green and gold — big banks of palms forming the table background, while the table decorations were of mammoth golden chrysanthemums. At the plate of Mr. Ketcham a magnificent horseshoe of chrysanthe- mums in the same tint rested. The menu cards were models of the execution of clever ideas, being bound by ribbons of green and gold, while the frontispiece bore a beautiful head of Mr. Ketcham's famous horse, surrounded by a laurel wreath of green, tied also with a golden ribbon. The inside cover shows a picture of the breeder, owner aDd driver of the Btal- lion. During the banquet, Richards' orchestra fur- nished the music. The menu was quite elaborate, including six courses. Between sherry and champagne there was a brilliant intellectual feast, in whioh the best talent of the Toledo bar and business men took part. The following were the formal toasts, with the responses, and there were others, that took the event deeper than the midnight hour: Starting Judge — Mr. Clarence Brown. Toast, "The Farmer, the Breeder, the Owner, the Driver, the Victor"— Mr. Geo. H. Ketcham. Toast, "The HorBe 1:59J" (Not Bred in Kentucky)— Dr. Owen C. Rees (Bred in Kentucky). Toast, 'Enterprising and Cosmopolitan CitizenB of Toledo" — Mr. John B. Davis. Toast, "The Ladies on the Grand Stand" — Mr. Clarence D. Whitney. Toast, "The Gentlemen on the Track"— Mr. Harry B. Thompson. Toast, "The Standing of the King and Queen on the Turf" — Mr. Negley D. Cochran. Thanksgiving Day at Dreamwold. Thomas W. Lawson gave an elaborate re-union to his employees at his magnificent farm at Scituate on Thanksgiving Day. More than 450 persons were in attendance, 200 of which were employees. The fes- tivities took place in the 800 foot racing stable. The improvised hall was charmingly decorated with palms and evergreens. The orchestra played in an alcove shut in by small pine trees. Beautiful palmB and rustic seats added to the elegance of the scene. The guests were received in the harness room, and there left their wraps. Mr. and Mrs. Lawson, the Misses Gladys, Dorothy and Marion Lawson, and Master Douglas Lawson came and made a long stay, although the hour of departure was long past little DouglaB' usual bedtime. From Dreamwold Hall, where the Lawsons reside while on their stock farm, beautiful palms added to the beauty of thedecorations. About eight the dance, with Mr. Lawson playing the part of the old country squire, opened with a waltz dedicated to "Our Employer," the "Squire" of Dreamwold. Other numbers were dedicated to George H. Pollard, managerof thestock farm; to Dreamwold itself, "Modest" George L. Paige, the chimes, once a Bubject of much controversy; to Boralma, the famous horse; "Glorious" Michael Kelly, who is known to every horBe show goer; to the Dreamwold fire depart- ment and to the employees. Samuel Ferguson was floor manager, assisted by Christopher Dalton. After the dancing a supper was served. Scituate News From the North. [Portland Rural Spirit.] The annual meeting of the North Pacific Fair Asso- ciation has been called to meet in Portland, January 15-16, 1904. Senator Helman is jogging the fast pacer Prince Tom 2:16, and will likely take him and Mack Mack 2:13 on the Grand Circuit next season. John Sawyer is jogging Louis Z. 2:24 and Alia Norte 2:16J at Irvington this winter. Klamath 2:07J is the fastest trotter ever bred in Oregon, and Chehalis 2:04J is the fastest pacer. The great sire, Diablo, is wintering at the State Fair grounds, Salem, Or., where he will again make a season. Mr. Casto, who haB him in charge, informs us that he is wintering well, and he expects to open the soaBOn early in the spring. The race track at the State Fair grounds has been covered with manure and straw this fall, which will be plowed under in January. This wiil tend to give the track more life and make it faster than ever. If you don't want a record, better not come to the Ore- gon State Fair next year. Senator Helman iB jogging his good green trotter, Roy Benton, and will enter him in all the big trotting stakeB next year. This big fellow worked miles bet- ter than 2:20 early last spring, and he was bo promis- ing the Senator held him over one season. He will certainly be a hard one to beat in the slow classes next season. The Oregon State Fai r has been so successful in the past with early closing events that most likely they will be renewed next season. We believe this asso- ciation could give a $2000 stake for 2:15 pacers, $1000 for 2:10 pacers, $2000 for 2:17 trotters, $1000 for 2:12 trotters, and $500 each for three-year-old trotters and pacers This would be a nice lead-off for the 1904 cir- cuit, and would encourage others to fall in line. The Kenney Bicycle Co., 531 Valencia St., is doing a big business in the McMurray Carts and Sulkies. You not only save money by purchasing a McMurray but get the most durable, best made, and easiest running cart or sulky in the market. Investigation will con vlnce a MisBOurian. M The New Track at Hot Springs, Arkansas. Hot Springs, Ark., Dec. 1. If the wiseacres aod croakers who are gravely as- serting that the race track here will not be completed in time for the proposed winter meeting would come and see for themselves what has been accomplished they would make new resolutions for the future— not to make such radical statements at long range, far removed from the subject of their canards. For the Hot Springs racing plant not only will be completed for the coming meeting, but it is so far under way now that any local doubterB have long since been silenced and become the most ardent optimists of any aa to the outlook for the season. Last week and this progress haa been rapid at Lawrence, where the track ia located, aix miles out on the Choctaw and Gulf railroad. Open weather has speeded the large force of workmen on their object, and hundreds of visitors to the track note daily the results accomplished. The track haa been graded, fenced in and is ready for slow work. The grand stand and adjacent build- ings show thefoundations laid and the superstructure daily adding to its proportions, while additional sta- bles have been completed, aggregating in all 600 stalls now ready in the stable yard. All of these stalls are roomy and commodious, 12x12, and well ventilated and drained. An artesian well at the end of the stable yard gives an ample supply of the pure water for which thie region is justly famous. One large boarding-house for the horsemen has already been finished, and two others are in contem- plation, while kitchens are being built in the centre of the avenues that divide the stableB. Over one hundred horses are already at the track, including Btrings from St. Louis, Memphis and Chi- cago. Daley & Co. have El Rey, Five Nations, False, Dr. Hagyard, Thomas Keogh, The Four Hundred, Alice Morgan and a couple of yearlinga. Five Nationa, who was a good horse East for Frank Farrell, haa had a year's rest and is now a grand looking four- year-old. His career here will be noted with inter- est, as he is speedy and can also go a route. E. Horton has Goldon Link and others, while W. O. McGuigan has the largest stable now at the track, including the promising two-year-olds Ascot and Esher Lad. J.S. Cooper haa the well-known horse Toddy, who was such a good horse for the Keenes last year. This horse has been at Hot Springs for some time under- going a regular course of "boiling out" in the healing hot water fresh from the bowels of the earth. He had 80re shoulders and rheumatism, but does not take a lame step now and has been entered .n stakes here. If Toddy justifies his "boiling out" it is safe to say that Goldsmith, Blue Girl, King Hanover, Orlando, Gold Heels, Wax Taper and other Eastern and West- ern cracks that have shown nothing this year will be sent here to the Cooper baths. George Ogles writes to Secietary Morrison here that he will ship from Bennings next week with Wild Pirate, Arden, April Showers and others. Also that W. L. Oliver will bring All Gold and others, W. C. Daly a bunch, as well as A. Stokes, J. McCarty and others. Starter Cassidy is expected here very shortly. P. Sober up on Jackson's Napa Soda. Strikel — if they don't give you Jackson's Napa Soda when you ask for It. Gombault's Caustic Balsam The Great French Veterinary Remedy. L-i A Safe. Speedy and Positive cure for ailments ot HORSES and CATTLE. As a HFMAN KEMEIW for Rhen- mat I mm, Sprains, Sore Throat, etc.. It Is Invaluable. Every bottle of fiunllc RnUam "old Is ■Warranted to k'vo sat 1st faction. Price »1..>0 per bottle. Sold by drmrt-lsts, °r ^n* by ex- press, charges paid, with full directions for its use. Send for descriptive circulars, testimo- nials, etc. Address THJ L1WRBJCR-WULI1IS COMPAHT, Ck'elaad, Ohio. ©he gvee&ev an* gtjwnrtsfmatt [December 12, i»03 The Bench Show Last Week. The bench show of the Pacific Coast Collie and Old English Sheep Dog- Club last week was a success, so far as the gate was concerned and also in another Cocker Spaniels— Were a good averaging claBS throughout and comprised an entry of forty in the various classes. In blacks, Black Silk II, first win- ners and open, an even, sound dog, a trifle on the large size, but of good type, is nice in head where he went over Havoc, and was put down in good shape. Glenwood Havoc was the reserve dog. Portland have a bit better head and more quality than Ranee Bull Terriers— A small class showing quality in only a small degree. Englewood, first winners and first novice and limit (over 35 pounds) had ODly a trifle the best of it, if at all, over Bonnybred Stilelto first open and reserve. Woodlawn Modesty aside from being slightly small sized is a pretty little bitch with a neat head, expression and well balanced body and legs. She was entitled to winners and first open (30 pounds or under). Naughty Nan, first novice and reserve winners went through on her good head she is too low stationed to go far in good company. Wood- cote Ditto is too fine in muzzle to do better than she did, second novice and limit (over 30 pounds). Sweet- heart, a classy bitch entered by the judge, was not taken in the ring but waB the best one benched. Boston Terriers— Were few and included some old particular, just as much if not more important, and . that is that a fall show in this citv can be made Dude, third open and first limit (reserve winners ast familiars. Boston Jack is just too large for strong that s, that a Ian snow in this city can oe mane ) ^ & nice body| ]ot8 of bone and is an active, competition but took winners and first open over popular. The dugs were certainly the attraction of the combined show. The "feather" exhibit was a good one, but the dogs held the crowd and made the show popular. The result of the show last week is encouraging to the extent, that a show will be held in San Jose next April and a summer show later on at Santa Cruz. The attendance each day was excellent and with the exception of one or two occurrences everything passed off pleasantly. Judge Cole handled the different classes to the general satisfaction of visitors and exhibitors alike. The aftermath of the show will no doubt tend to the general benefit of dogdom at large on the Coast and locally as well. While the entry of dogs was not up to the expected number this cannot be considered as a showing that future fall shows will not have a larger entry. That the show last week will be a material aid to the next spring show was almost the unanimous consensus of opinion expressed by local fanciers who were present during the week. Whether the next fall show will be under P. K. L. rules or not is now being considered. At all events, it will be a wise and winning policy if the different ele- ments interested will work in unison: The breeds and classes are briefly reviewed in the following notes: St. Bernards — The main competition among the seven dogs benched was between Le King and Lester C. (entered as Dewey). The former was put down better than we have ever seen him, and won first winners and open rightly. He beats Lester C. in head, muzzle, markings, character, eye and expres- sion. The latter showed up better in body. Piide S., first novice, could be better in head. In bitches, Princess Sheherazade would have easily disposed of a far stronger competition than she had. She was put down in tine condition and showed well. Both Cas- cade and Beauty were easily placed. In smooth coats General B., in for specials only, was the sole repre- sentative. We never saw him in better fettle. He was given the special for best over Le King, and won by a shade. Great Danes — Alphonse, a greatly improved dog sinoe the spring show, first winners and open over Rupert of Hentzau, was close. The latter seems just a trifle light in under jaw, and was a bit more rangy than the winner. Blue Beard, in for specials only, was not up to his past form and condition, but will still take a lotof beating before hegoesdown. Puppy bitches brought out a promising fawn, Lana, for first and winners. She is a well-9tationed young one, showing all-round type and character, and should go a bit next spring. Flora, first open and reserve win- ners, and Tempest, first open, are both well-known dogs and were placed rightly. Pointers — Minnesota Joe made up in quality what the showing in this breed lacked in numbers. He is a Pointer from the ground up and well sustains the reputation he made at the northern shows. A grand head, good body with deep well Bprung ribs,,roached back and tucked up loins balanced on strong straight legs and compact feet make up a great dog. He is a merry shower in the ring and was full of style and action. English Setters— A far better showing of this breed was benched than could be expected at this time of the year. Stylish Sergeant and Champion Elloree were the quality of the class. Sergeant is a rather larged sized dog, but a well balanced one and looks like a strictly field dog. He has a noble head and iB full of type and character. Victoria Fleet, reserve ay)l _. merry one, a coarse bead however sets him back. Delverton Coppi second limit is a b't light boned and sports a white spot on his throat. Frisco's Boy first novice, not a bad type, barring a little too much muzzle and could be better in front, went over Mid- night, rather a weedy dog. Puppies were only ordi- nary. Black bitches brought out Glenwood Maisie first winners and open. (She was formerly called Sweet- heart's First, and was a winner in 1902). Miss Frivolity, reserve winners and first limit, is a good even little bitch but haB a wavy coat. The balance were not hard to find aDd place. In reds, Victory A., first winners and limit and special for best was of good color and size, but could be juEt a little better in front. Delverton D'or was easily best over two ordinary puppies. Plumeria Sapho first winners and open is also of good color and shows improvement. Little Dorrit, second open we liked better than Florodora, reserve winners and first limit, shows type, coat and plenty of bone. Little Maid though a bit small took proper position over California. Plumeria Cleo was absent. Parti colors were somewhat better than the usual t j t> i_- open over Lord Rushie on a fair margin. Endcliffe Vernette first winners and open beat her kennel mate and dam Endcliffe Betty for the matron honors. Irish TerrierB— With the exception of Irish, win- ners dogs, and Royal Noreen. winners bitches, were not a strong showing. Fox Terriers— Were a Bmall class and, in but two cases, a mediocre|showing. Vina Belle wa6 the best one shown and Garston Rally led the dogs. In wires the only one worthy of mention was a splendid headed little bitch Woodlawn Dolly Varden, she could be larger and with her good front, body and coat would go nicely among the good ones. Blenheim Spaniels — Were represented by three nice ones, Rufun, Trilby and Pansy, that were thought so well of that they were bought up by local fanoiers. Old English Sheep Dogs— But one was shown, His Majesty of Charlecombe, too good a dog to be lost on the Coast He was taken East by the judge, and will be in the going on the Eastern circuit. Among the small breeds were two good Maltese Terriers from Kansas City, Muggins and Pigeon. A Toy Pom, Mighty Atom of Charlecombe, is the best ever shown here. The Italian Greyhound L«lo and special for best was an easy winner among the dogs. He has a good front, rare back and loins, is merry and active. He could be a little more chiselled out under the eyes and carries his ears a trifle high. Ben Ora second limit has a neat head but lackB the substance of the winner. Glenwood Lucky could have taken second limit over Teddy Roosevelt with- out creating much comment. ThornhillTomalcs first was the only puppy in his class. Paprika, first winners and limit bitches, is a hand- some bitch. Portland Daisy reserve winners and first novice won easily in her class. Thornhill Lady Bountiful was not shown in the best condition. Collies — The largest entry benched here for years and among them some good old dogs and a lot of classy youngsters. Ravenswood, a dog recently im- ported from England by Arthur Letts of Los Angeles, first winners, open, limit and novice and special for best is a clean headed, good coated, upstanding, nice fronted dog. He could be better in ribs. Ch. Han- over Monarch, reserve winners and second open. Glen Tana Sentinel, second novice, limit and third open. These three dogs were bunched close together. Ravenswood came out on top wiih only a shade the best of it in head. It took quite a little while to sep- arate him and Glen Tana in novice. The latter dog would have shown better by far had he been sent down a fortnight earlier, instend of making the sea trip and landing just prior to the show. He is a dog that will come to the front. Ch. Hatover Monarch, shown in nice condition, is a handsomely marked and great coated dog. Hois full of type and character and a fine shower in the ring. The positions of the three are liable to be reversed several times, so close arethey together. Tyke, third novice and reserve open, has gone back, he was first winners this spring. Puppy dogs were a fair class, St. Clare George first, Old Hall Laddie second and Ormskirk Emerald Boy are big, strong dogs with lots of character and should come out well. Brandane Marionslea was the class matron of the bitches and went through for firsts easily. A bit better in mouth and we would not have been sur- prised had she taken special for best over the dog. Ormskirk Gypsy, reserve winners, second open; Miss Conqueror of Charlecombe, third open, second limit and second novice; California Ivy, first puppies, sec- ond novice and reserve open were placed rightly. Rippowan Miss Tuffet was not brought in the ring; she was ill and out of shape. Puppy bitches were also a fair class. Ivy was easily the best, but was lost later on. In specials, Glen Tana Kennels won out with Oak Grove reserve. The northern dogs were steadier in the ring than the Santa Clara quintet and winners and first novice, shows the quality of his dam were well handled. With Glen Tana and Marionslea showing. Portland Kid, first winners, limit, novice shown frequently before, is about the best yet bencbtd Albert's Rosalind to a degree. Champion Elloree, winners and first open, is a stylish bitch with plenty of quality and character but did not show in the ring as well as she might. Champion Pera. reserve win- ners and first limit, a strong bodied well ribbed one is just a trifle coarse in skull, but withal a very sweet one. Fairland Pet, a Ch. Rod field bitch, first novice, Lady's Dan, first novice dogs and the puppy classes were not hard to place. Irish Setters — Conn (a litter brother of Toronto Mike), a handsome, upstanding one, rich colored and in fine coat won over his smaller competitor Emerald rather easily. The latter could be better in legs and feet. The puppy bitch Noreen must come along con- siderably to show. Gordon Setters — Doc was the only one of the breed shown and is above the average generally benched here. Irish Water Spaniels — A brace of two year olds, both by the sterling good old Dennis C. out of Belle Marsh, were excellent types of a breed that should have more encouragement on the Coast. Field Spaniels — Were represented by one entry, a black and white dog, who might be a bit heavier in the legs, but a rather neat one at that. the four were hard to beat. Special for best "tri- cler" went to Tyche, a handsome bitch just a bit too small. In specials, we were pleased to see the Sacra- mento dog, Sir Henry, come out. Mr. Cole handled these classes well. Bulldogs — Were more numerous than usual. Boer a white and fawn dog had no trouble in getting to the front. With the exception of being somewhat leggy he is a Very fair one. Bully, first novice and reserve jcinnerB we thought should not have gone over Captain Absolute, second open and limit. Bully was more on the cloddy order than the Captain, but at that he showed, we think, more type and class. Woodlawn Masquerade second novice, is too high on his legs, but has a good head and black face. Madam Chaddy, a well known old bitch, white and fawn patches, is a classy one and showed well for first winners open and novice. Her Majesty of Charle- combe, a low set neat headed brindle, second open and limit. Salano Daisy, first limit, third novice, both gave way for reserve winners to Ranee, second novice. Ranee would not have been treated badly had she gone down a peg. The three last mentioned are all brindles and good averaging bitches. Salano Daisy was our choice for reserve. She seemed to and holds her form splendidly. The balance of the little fellows were not above ordinary. A list of the regular and special prizes follows: AWARDS. ST. BERNARDS (rough coats)— Nov'ce dogs— 1 Mrs Lee Sickles' Pride S. Open dogE— 1 W W Wal- lace's Le King, 2 Charles Newman's Lester C (Dewey) Winners, dogs— 1 Le King, res Lester C. Novice bitches— 1 Mrs F Lueek's Cascade, 2 Jean Le Vau'i Beauty. Open bitches— 1 Mrs C A Smart's Princefs Sheherazade. Winners, bitches— 1 Princess Sheher- azade, res Cascade. BULL TERRIERS— Puppy dogs— 1 Gene Sheehy's Rugby, 2 Mrs F W Kelly's The Mick. Novice dogt— 1 W C Bogen's Englewood, 2 The Mick, 3 withheld. Limit dogs— 1 Englewood, 2 FE Watkins' Bonnybred Stiletto. Open dogs over thirty-five poundE — 1 Bonnybred Stiletto. Winners, dogs— 1 Engltwocd, res Bonnybred Stiletto. Novice bitches— ] Jos East- land's Naughty Nan, 2 E S Simpson's Woodcote Ditto, 3 H M Daggett's Nelfan. Limit bitches, thirty pounds and under— 1 Mr Kahler's Queen. Limit bitcheB, over thirty pounds— 1 Mrs D C Van Ards- dell's Our Nancy,' 2 Woodcote Ditto, 3 Dresser & Simpson's Bloomsbury Queen. Open bitches, thirty pounds or under— 1 S R Ames' Woodlawn Modesty. Winners, bitches— 1 Woodlawn Modesty, resNautrhtv Nan. e J GREAT DANES— Puppy dogs— 1 F Mundt's Fred- erick the Great. Open dogs— 1 Dresser & Simpson's Alphonse, 2 MrB L S Adams' Rupert of Hentzau. Winners, dogs— 1 Alphonse, res Rupert of Hentzau. Puppy bitches — 1 Dresser & Simpson's Lana. Limit bitches— 1 Dresner and Simpson's Tempett. Open bitches — 1 Dresser & Simpson's Flora. Winners bitches — 1 Lana, res Flora FOX TERRIERS (smooth coats)— Puppy bitches— 1 J Bradsbaw's Woodlawn Dottie Dimple, 2 Mrs I L Moulton's Dotty. Novice dogs— 1 H V Hamilton's Garston Rally, 2 Mrs Montague's Bob, 3 L H Patty's Dandy Dandelion. Open bitcheB — 1 W W Moore's Vina Belle, 2 J C Berrett's Corinne. Winners, dogs 1 Garston Rally, res Bob. Winners, bitcheE — 1 Vina Belle, res Woodlawn Dottie Dimple. FOX TERRIERS (wire hairs)— Puppy dogs— 1 withheld, 2 Mrs I L Moulton's Humberstone Banjo. Puppy and winners, bitcheE — 1 J Bradshaw's Wood- lawn Dollv Varden. ENGLISH SETTERS— Puppy dogs— 1 W E Moul- ton's Palo Alto, 2 W E Moulton's Pope, 3 W E Moul- ton's Mayfield. Novice dogs — 1 Mrs Thos Murphy's Victoria Fleet, 2 Mrs ThOB Murphy's Lady's Dan, 3 F A Jarrissire'B Chicot, res B W Lorigan's Governor. Open dogs — J W Riplinger's Stylish Sergeant. Win ners, dogs — 1 Stylish Sergeant, res Victoria Fleet. Puppy bitches — 1 W E Moulton's Arrow. Novice bitches — 1 Mrs Thos Murphy's Fairland Pet. Limit bitches — 1 J W Riplinger's Ch Pera. Open bitches — 1 J W Riplinger's Ch Elloree, 2 Mrs Thos Murphy's Fanchon, 3 C C Lee's Laura L. Winners, bitcheE — 1 Ch Elloree, res Ch Pera. IRISH SETTERS— Limit dogs— 1 F B Adams' Conn. Open dogs — IB W Lorigan'B Emerald. Win- ners, dogs — IConn, res Emerald, Puppy and winners, bitches — 1 Mrs Thos Murphy's Noreen Murphy. GORDON SETTERS— Limit and winners, dogs— 1 A W Watson's Doc. IRISH WATER SPANIELS- Open and winners, bitches — 1 James E Spink's Florodora. Limit and winners, dogs — 1 August Christensen's The Gossoon. FIELD SPANIELS— Open and winners, dogs— 1 J C Berrett's Van. BOSTON TERRIERS— Novice dogs— 1 Richard J Jose's Boston Jack, 2 Mrs W H Deming's Lord Rushie. Open dogs — 1 Boston Jack. Winners, dogs — 1 Boston Jack, res Lord Rushie. Novice bitches — 1 Mra W M Deming's Dixey D. Limit bitches— 1 Mrs W H Deming's Endcliffe Betty. Open bitcheE— 1 Mrs W H Deming's Endcliffe Vernette. Winners, bitches — 1 Endcliffe Vernette, res Endcliffe Betty. December 12, 1903j ®ttc gveeitev cmfc gtpovtemmi 9 IRISH TERRIERS— Puppy dogs— 1 Miss Macken- zie's Mr. Dooley. Limit dogs — 1 Mrs W R Wbittier's Irish. Open dogs — 1 Irish, 2 Mrs F J Walker's Ivi- wilde Dangan. Winners, dogs — 1 Irish, res Mr Dooley. Limit bitches— 1 J C Barrett's Tyrone Lass, 2 John Allen's Lady Powers. Open bitches — 1 Mrs FJ Walker's RoyalNoreen, 2 Tyrone Lass. WinnerB, bitches — 1 Royal NoreeD, res Tyrone Lass. COCKER SPANIELS (black)— Puppy dogs— I Percy Weekes' Black Beau, 2 Harry J Moore's Ben. Novice dogs — 1 D C Brown's Frisco's Boy, 2 Black Beau, 3 A L Cresswell's Midnight. Limit dogs — 1 Chas Heffernan's Portland Dude, 2 Mrs C Du Jardin's Delverton Cappi. Open dogs — 1 J Hervey Jones' Black Silk II, 2 Mrs Pnil C Meyers' Glenwood Havoc, 3 Portland Dade. Winners, dogs— 1 Black Silk II, res Glenwood Havoc. Puppy bitches— 1 D P Cress- well's Bess, 2 Delverton Kennels' Princess Yetive. Novice bitches — 1 Frank Esmond's Babe. Limit bitches — i J H Jones' Miss Frivolity, 2 Teaseldown Kennels' Mill Girl. Open bitches— 1 Mrs Phil C Meyers' Maisie, 2 Teaeeldown Kennels' Holly Downs. Winners, oitches — 1 Glenwood Masie, res Miss Frivolity. COCKER SPANIELS (solid colorsother than black) — Puppy dogs — 1 Delverton Kennels' Delverton D'Or, 2 WR Wrignt's Sport W, 3 Mrs F Esmond's Brownie. Limit dogs — 1 Miss A Farno's Victory A. Winners, dogs — 1 Victory A, res Delverton D'Or. Novice bitches— 1 J H Jones' Little Maid, 2 A Wolfens' California. Limit bitches — 1 Delverton Kennels' Florodora, 2 California. Open bitches -1 J H Jones' Plumeria Sapho, 2 Delverton Kennels' Little Dorrit. Winners, bitches — 1 Plumeria Sapho, res Florodora. COCKER SPANIELS (parti-colored)— Puppy dogs — 1 Percy Ward 's Thornhiil Tomales. Novice dogs— 1 Portland Cocker Kennels' Portland Kid, 2 Miss A Farno's Teddy Roosevelt, 3 Mrs Phil C Meyers' Glen- wood Lucky. Limit dogs — 1 Portland Kid, 2 Mrs C W Sharpies' Ben Ora. Winners, dogs — 1 Portland Kid, res Thornhiil Tomiles. Novice bitches— 1 Portland Cocker Kennels' Portland Daisy, 2 Mrs Phil C Meyers' Glenwood Chocolate. Limit bitches — 1 Delverton Kennels' Paprika. Open bitches — 1 Thorn- hill Kennels' Thornhiil Lady Bountiful. Winners, bitches— 1 Paprika, res Portland Daisy. Special for bast Kennel of Cockers won by J Hervey Jones. COLLIES — Puppy dogs — 1 Mrs George W Ronnie's St Clare George, 2 George W Rennie's Old Hall Laddie, 3 Joe Dober's Orm9kirk Emerald Boy, res Joseph Bloomberg's Pensarn Lad. Novice dogs — 1 Arthur Lett's Ravenswood, 2 Thomas S Griffith's Glen Tana Sentinel, 3 Irving Townsend's Tyke, v h c S H Wes- ton's Amigo, John Perry's Larry Bonnie, A R Sprague's Marengo, a c William J Coffey's Highland Duke. Limit dogs— 1 Ravenswood, 2 Glen Tana Sentinel, 3 O J Albee's Ormskirk Surprise, res Tyke, vhc J C Berrett's Sir Norman, c M Coffey's Sir Henry. Open dogs— 1 Ravenswood, 2 Beach Hill Kennels' Ch Hanover Monarch, 3 Glen Tana Sentinel, res Tyke, vhc Ormskirk Surprise. Winners, dogs — 1 Rivenswood, res Ch Hanover Monarch. Puppy bitches — 1 Arthur Lett's California Ivy, 2 Dr W P Burnham's Sunset Bell, 3 Charles H Bigg's Princess Wa Wa. Novice bitches— 1 Thomas S Griffith's Bran- dane Marionslea, 2 Charlecombe KennelB' Miss Con- queror, 3 California Ivy, res Mrs J P Norman's Tyche. Limit bitches — 1 Brandane Marionslea, 2 Miss Con- queror, 3 California Ivy, res M Coffey's Nora. Open bitches— 1 Brandane Marionslea, 2 O J Albee's Orms- kirk Gypsey, 3 Miss Conqueror, res California Ivy. Winners, bitches— 1 Brandane Marionslea, res Orms- kirk Gypsey. OLD ENGLISH SHEEP DOGS— Open dogs— 1 Charlecombe Kennels' His Majesty of Charlecombe. BULLDOGS— Limit dogs— 1 George W Chase's Boer, 2 San Jose Bulldog Kennels' Captain Absolute. Open dogs— 1 Boer, 2 Captain Absolute. Novice dogs —1 Dresser & Simpson's Bully, 2 Dr L R Gambitz's Woodlawn Masquerade. Winners, dogs — 1 Boer, res Bully. Novice bitches— 1 San Jose Bulldog Kennels' Madame Chaddy, 2 D Trowbridge's Ranee, 3 Fred Clarke's Salano Daisy. Limit bitches— 1 Salano Daisy, 2 San Jose Bulldog Kennels' Her Majesty of Charle- combe. Open bitches— 1 Madame Chaddy, 2 Ranee, 3 Salano Daisy. Winners, bitches— 1 MadameChaddy, res Ranee. TOY POMERANIANS— Open bitches-1 Charle- combe Kennels' Mighty Atom of Charlecombe. Open dogs — 1 Miss Louise Bernstein's Beauty. TOY POODLES— Open dogs— 1 Mrs Moulton's Bummer, 2 James Good's Teddy Roosevelt. Open bitches — 1 James Good's Beauty. MEXICAN (hairless)— Open dogs— 1 Mrs Moulton's Cupid. Open bitches— 1 Mrs Moulton's Bing Bing, 2 Mrs Moulton's Jane. ITALIAN GREYHOUNDS— Open bitches— 1 Mrs H T Payne's Leto. CHOWS— Open dogs— 1 Mrs D De Barrow's Kong. Open bitches — 1 D De Barrow's Hong. BLENHEIM SPANIELS— Open dogs— 1 JameB Good's Rufun. Open bitches — 1 James Good'B Pansy, 2 James Good's Trilby. JAP SPANIELS— Open dogs— 1 Miss Paulsell's Inglenook Ko Ko. MISCELLANEOUS— Pit Bull Terrier— 1 Miss Florence Emery's Dixon. SPECIALS. St. Bernards — Best dog (smooth coat or rough coat)— 1 E D Connolly's General B, res W W Wal- lace's LeKing. Best Bitch (rough coat) — Mrs Smart's Princess Scheherazade. Best in novice classes — 1 Mrs Sickles' Pride S, res Jean Le Vau's Beauty. Great Danes — BeBt Great Dane in show — 1 Simpson & Dresser's Bluebeard, res Simpson & Dresser's Ai- phon9e. Best Great Dane of opposite sex to winner of above trophy — Dresser & Simpson's Lana. Best pair of Great Danes — Bluebeard and Alphonse. Pointers — Best Pointer in show — H F Zeigler's Minnesota Joe. English Setters — Best English Setter in show — 1 John W Riplinger's Ch EUoree, res John W Riplin- ger's Ch Pera. Best of opposite sex— John W Rip- linger's Stylish Sergeant. Best pair— Ch Elloree and Stylish Sergeant. Irish Setters — Best Irish Setter in show — 1 F B Adams' Conn, res B W Lorigan's Emerald. Gordon Setters — Best Gordon Setter in show — P W Watson's Doc. Irish Water Spaniels — Best Irish Water Spaniel in show — 1 August Christensen's The Gossoon, res Jas E Spink's Florodora. Cocker Spaniels — Best Cocker Spaniel in show — 1 Miss A Farno's Victory A, res Portland Cocker Ken- nels' Portland Kid. Best of opposite sex — 1 Delver- ton Kennels' Paprika, res Mrs Philip C Meyer's Glen- wood Maisie. Best puppy — 1 David P Cresswell's Bess, res Percy Ward's Thornhiil Tomales. Best owned by a lady — Victory A. Best parti-colored — Portland Kid. Bulldogs — Best Bulldog in show — Geo W Chase's Boer. Best Bullbitch in show — San Jose Bulldog Kennels' MadameChaddy. Boston Terriers — Best kennel — Mrs W H Deming. Best Boston Terrierin show — R J Jose's Boston Jack. Bull Terriers— Best Bull Terrier in show— 1 S R Ames' Woodlawn Modesty, res W C Bogen's Engle- wood. Best of opposite sex— Englewood. Irish Terriers — Best Irish Terrier in show — 1 Mrs W R Whittier's Irish, res Mrs F J Walker's Royal Noreen. Beat owned by a lady — 1 Irish, res Royal Noreen. Fox Terriers — Best Fox Terrier in show — 1 H V Hamilton's GarBton Rally, res W W Moore's Vina Belle. Best of opposite sex — Vina Belle. Best wire haired Fox Terrier — John Bradshaw's Woodlawn Dolly Varden. Best pup — 1 Woodlawn Dolly Varden, reB Mrs Ida Moulton's Dotty. Best Collie dog owned and bred in Sacramento county — M Coffey's Sir Henry. Best of opposite sex — M Coffey 's Julia. Best tri-color pup from Sacramen to county — Joseph Blumberg's Pensarn Lad. Best kennel of Collies— 1 Mrs Thos S Griffith's Glen Tana Kennels, res O J Albee's Oak Grove Ken- nels. Best Collie in show — 1 Arthur Lett's Ravens- wood, res Mr Griffith's Brandane Marionslea. Best Collie in puppy classes — 1 Arthur Lett's California Ivy, res Mrs George W Rennie's St Clare George. Best Collie or Old English Sheep Dog — 1 Ravenswood, res CharlecombeKennels' His Majesty of Charlecombe. Best Collie in novice classes — Ravenswood. Best tri color Collie — Mrs J P Norman's Tyche. BeBt dog in show — Henry F Ziegler's Pointer, Minnesota Joe, res John Riplinger's English Setter, Ch Elloree. Best dog owned in Sacramento county — M Coffey's Scotch Collie, Sir Henry. Best dog owned in San Francisco county — E D Con- nolly's St Bernard (smooth coat), General B. Best dog owned in Santa Clara coun 'y — Charlcombe Kennels' Old English Sheep Dog, His Majesty of Charlcombe. Best dog owned in Santa Cruz or Monterey county — Irving Townsend's Scotch Collie, Tyke. E. Courtney Ford brought the Pointer Boston from James Cole last week at the show. This dog is not only a handsome typical Pointer, that will be in the ribbons at any show, but he is also well broken tor field work. Irvine C. Ackerman, E. Attridge and J. J. Roi each bought a Blenheim. Mrs. Murphy sold Albert's Fleet and several young Setter puppies. Judge Cole thought so well of Fairland Pet, a Ch. Rod field bitch, that he bought and took her East. Cocker puppies were in demand but there were none for sale. Among the out of town visitors were Arthur Letts of Los Angeles, Mrs.T. S. Griffiths of Spokane, Wm. Halley and M. Coffey of Sacramento, John Taylor of Los Angeles, Percy Ward of Fruitvale, Mrs. N. J. Stewart, Mrs. Chas. R. Harker and Mrs. O. J. Albee of San J09e and others. Coming Events. Bod. April 1-Sept. 10. Oct. 16-Feb. 1— Open season (or taking steel- nead In tidewater. Nov. 1-Aprii 1— Trout season closed. July 1-Jan. 1— Open season for blaok bass. Aug. 15-Aprtl 1— Opeu season for lobsters and crawfish. Nov. 1-Sept. 1— Open season for crabs. Sept. 1-May 1— Open season for shrimp- Sept. 10-Oct. 16— Close season In tidewater forsteelhead. Nov. 15-Sept. 10— Season open for taking salmon above tide water. Gnu. July 1-Feb. 15— Dove season open. Nov. 1-July 15— Deer season closed. Sept. 1-Feb. 15— Open season for mountain quail, grouse and sage hen. Oot. 15-Feb. 15 — Open season .'or quail, ducks, etc. Bench Shows. Dec. 2. 3, 4. 5— Pacific Collie and Old English Sheep Dog Club. Bench Show in connection with Poultry Exhibit. San Francisco. P. K. L. rules Field Trial*. Nov. 23— American Championship Field Trial Association. An- nual trials. Robinson. 111. H. S. Humphrey, Secretary. Indian- apolis, Ind. Deolared off. Nov. 30— Virginia Field Trial Association Chase City, Va. Chas R. Cooke. Secretary, Richmond, Va. Dec. 1— Indiana Field Trial Club. Annual trials. Clay City, lnd., C. F. Yung, Seoretary, Clay City, Ind. Amateur Field Trial Association of Maryland and Dis- trict of Columbia. , Md. Wm. R. Armstrong, Seoretary, Baltimore, Md. Deo 5 — Continental Field Trial Association Tbomasvllle, Ga. John White, Seoretary, Hempstead, L. I , N. Y. Dec. 14— Alabama Field Trial Club. Huntsville, Ala. L. Q Pettj John, Secretary. Birmingham, Ala Jackson 'a Nana Soda untangle* the feet. Recoil. It is questionable whether the sportsman who is not a mathematician or an engineer in his spare time is any the wiser when he is told that such and such a cartridge will give so many foot-pounds of recoil when fired from a certain gun. He finds it difficult to appreciate as a concrete notion a 561b. weight fall- ing on his shoulder from a height of, say, a couple of feet. All he knows is that if he saw it coming he would get out of the way as quickly as possible. Ha is aware that something of the kind happens when he shoots his gun, but at the time his attention is taken up with the shot, so that he cares but little what particular decimal quantity represents the figure value of the blow he receives. If he is of an experimental turn of mind, and fires a series of shots at a whitewashed plate in order to note the patterns given by his gun, he fiods io his surprise that there is an unpleasant jar at the moment of discharge more serious than anything he had previously noticed. The interval of suspense before pulling the trigger putB him on the alert, and he notices, for the first time, mayhap, that recoil has something in it that reminds one of a friendly round with the gloves. Those scientists of the sporting press who delight in mathematical gymnastics are at all times willing to tell us all about recoil, but unfortunately more often than not it is a little difficult to follow their abstruse arguments — at any rate, to get any tangible information therefrom. Taking recoil in its simplest aspect, it is greatest with a light gun Bring a heavily charged cartridge that imparts a high velocity to a large charge of shot; conversely, it is least when the gun is heavy, the shot charge small, and the velocity moderate. Since there is a limit to the amount of recoil that can be taken with comfort time after time in the course of a day's shooting, the sportsman, without being a student of applied mechanics, sets up a personal standard of recoil beyond which he does not care to go. Meantime, he knows full well that a heavy gun is fatiguing to carry, and is not handy enough to enable him to do justice to the chances of distinguishing himself that are available in the course of a day at the covert side or among the roots. Whether aware of the fact or not, he is at one with the general body of sporting opinion which favors a light gun with alow recoil. These mutually contradictory conditions are very hard to translate into practice. To arrive at some method of computation, the recoil of various guns and cartridges has been systematically examined, with the result that our technical information is well nigh complete. Hitherto it has been customary to measure recoil by its energy — that is, by its reduction to the gravity standard of a falling weight. Now, this assumes that recoils which have the same energy value affect the shooter equally. This is to say that the shock would be alike from the blow of a 561b. weight falling one foot as against a one-pound weight falling 56ft. Supposing the Bhoulder to be the buffer receiving these two blows, we feel sure that after a practical trial the person submitting himself to the te?t would prefer the heavy weight blow to that of the light weight striking at a high velocity. One should assume for the purpose of argument that in each case the person experimented upon reclines upon a spring mattress, so as to leave the body full liberty to give way to the impact of the blow. This very point has lately been emphasized in connection with an argument concerning guns of diverse weight. We all know that recoil is at a minimum with a heavy gun, but it has not been made clear hitherto that if a cartridge is so porportioned to alight gun as to give the same foot-pounds value of recoil as a more power- ful cartridge fired from a heavier gun, the shooter will by no meaDS experience an equality of sensation. This stands to common sense, because the light gun will recoil with a sharper movement than the heavier one, thus making up in velocity of recoil what is lack- ing in weight. In practice, this means that a given value of recoil in foot pounds which would be tolerable in a heavy gun would be unpleasant in a light gun. Yet we find that a sportsman who shoots mostly at driven game prefers a light handling gun. As he fires a large number of shots in the course of a day, he asks for the lightest possible recoil This is generally provided for by using a reduced charge of shot and one of the new light weight powders, which give less recoil for the same result on the shot as the older 42-grain charges. The slight deficiency of shot is not noticed, as game fired at under these conditions is generally fairly close to the gun. While most of us are willing to take these things for granted , there are others who have to go into details, so as to be able to define the most favorable combinations for giving a good practical result. Thus it happens that the problem arises as to how best to measure recoil. The accumulated experience of years goes to show that tbe best way of judging recoil is to hang up the gun, and measure the movement that results from tbe discharge. This gives us either tbe velocity of tbe recoil or by calculation Its energy in foot-pounds. It is difficult to lay down how far the holding of tbe gun at the shoulder will affect the amount of recoil regis- tered experimentally with a freely suspended weapon. If the weight of the body resists the recoil during tbe time that the movement is in process of development, that is for the first third of an inch of travel while the shot is passing along the barrel, then the body re- sistance must reduce recoil in just the same way that added weight in the gun tends to pull down recoil. Whatever may be the precise anBwer to this question, we know that the conditions are practically alike for all guns, and therefore that the combination of gun and cartridge that registers a given recoil undo- 10 ®He gfrjeetrjer cm& &v&vt&man [December 12, 1903 perimental conditions will reproduce a proportionate amount of that recoil when fired from the shoulder. We can, therefore, safely assume that recoil measure- ments are sufficiently exact to give a reliable measure of the consequent effect on the shooter. One must, however, avoid taking too much for granted in dealing with scientific measurements of recoil, however carefully they mav be taken. A given energy of recoil cannot be pronounced excessive or the reverse without bearing in mind the weight of the gun. A°-ain, the distress arising from recoil is far greater with a badly fitting stock than with one that takes an easy bearing on the shoulder. With a cap that hangs fire ever so little, the bad timing of the shot finds the shooter slightly unprepared for the shock In fact, the more we look into the question of recoil the clearer is it that if it takes an expert to expounds its measurements, it requires a still higher grade of intelligence to translate those measurements into actual workaday practice.— County Gentleman. m - About Two Dogs. It may not be uninteresting to our readers, follow- ing the win of Le King over Lester C. last week and the consequent discussion as to the relative merits of thetwodog6, to give the records of both up to the present time. Lester C., 55 512, is by Alto Milloout of Queen of the Joaquin and was whelped July 1, 1898. A. E. Muenter bred him. In 1900, under James Mortinur at San Francisco, he was given h c in novice (12 in the class), h c in limit (10 in the class) and h c in open (8 in the class). He was entered by Dr. Fred P. Clark • of Stockton. He was not shown at Oakland or Sacra- mento under E. Davies or James Cole io 1900. In 1901 at San Francisco, under J. J. Lynn, in a class of eight he did not get a letter in limit where California Eboracum, Milo Jr. and Monarch Bernard went 1, 2, 3 and Sir William Wallace reserve. It may be worthy of note to mention, that Le King was in the same class and was also unrecognized. Lester C. was entered by F. Lueck of Sacramento, who subsequently sold him to his present owner. At Los Angeles, in 1901, L. A. Klein, judge, under the name of Golden Lion Jr., he won first novice (5 entries) and was reserve winners to Le King. Cali- fornia Eboracum was absent and Omar Khayyam was second limit and open. Bnt seven dogs were in the various classes. At Oakland the same year, in December, under Chas. B. Harker, he was given first limit (alone in the class), and first winners and open over Le Ling his only competitor. Two other entries in novice filled the dog classes. These wins were afterwards cancelled by the A. K. C. for being improperly en- tered. Le King was given first winners and open. At the S. F. K. C. show 1902, under John Davidson, winners, first limit and open went to Lester C. over Bernard II and Le King in open ana Sir William Wallace and Emperor in limit. Eboracum was en- tered but absent. Ten dogs were in the different classes; Glenwood Booze first puppies. He was awarded the special for best in the show, beat handled by a lady and for best Pacific Coast bred. At Oakland, 1902, under Jos. Cutten of San Fran- cisco, he won first winners and open over Grand Master II. There was but four dogs in three classes. At Sacramedto, 1902. George W. Clayton judge, Lester C. won first open alone and first winners over Don alone in limit. Under George Raper, S. F. K. C. show 1902, Lester C. was first open over Le King second. He beat Le King, Grand Master II (first limit), Gothard and Major Bruce, first novice and puppies. He also took two specials for best St. Bernard. Pacific Coast Collie and Old English Sheep Dog Club show, December 2-5, 1903, James Cole judge, Lester C. (entered as Dewey) was awarded reserve winners and second open — two in the class, Le King and Dewey. Le King is by Ch. Le Prince out of Sylvia's Lola, whelped April 12. 1898. Alta Kennels, breeder. At Milwaukee, 1899, he won first novice and limit, second open and reserve winners under John David- son. He was beaten by Champion Autocrat. Next year, at Chicago, he won first limit, open and winners; D. E. Waters judged. In open and limit he beat Ch. Autocrat; in limit F. J. Gould's Chantrell Prince, E. S. Mitchell's (his owner) Sir Athanor and Baby Bowser, first puppies. There were 743 dogs entered at this show and the St. Bernard entries were over sixty. He made his initial Coast bow at Tanforan, Septem- ber, 1900, where under Harry Lacy he won first win- ners and first limit He won over California Ebora- cum and Omar Khayyam. In this city at the 1901 show he and his rival were both lost in limit class eight entries. In open Le King got three letters. ' At Los Angeles in October, L. A. Klein, judge, he won first limit, first open and winners, beating Khay- vam and Golden Lion Jr. (Lester C , or Dewey as he has been called at various times) who was first novice Eight dogs were in the classes, Eboracum absent At Oakland in December, 1901, C. R. Harker judge Le King was given first winners and open by the Amenoan Kennel Club over Lester C, whose win was declared void. There was but four dogs competing— Roxey Savage Taylor and Com. Schley were one two in novice. In this city last year John Davidson, judge, Le Iv.jg went third in open, being bested by Lester C and Bernard II. In company with Alta Rachel he w >n the silver cup special for best pair of St. Ber- ; ,rds. He was not shown at either Oakland or Los j igeies in 1902. Oast May, in this city under Mr. Raper's cynosure, Le King was not able to reel off but a red ribbon in open. LesterC. went over him for the blue and re- serve winners was annexed by Grand Master II. Le King, for some reason or other, had never been put in the ring in any kind of condition until last week. He would stand improvement at that. General B. was placed over him for best of the holieB. This smoothcoat was beaten by Le King at Tanforan for best St. Bernard. Le King has won over Lester C. three times — at Los Angeles 1901, Oakland 1901 and San Francisco 1903 (December). Lester C. bested Le King twice — at San Francisco 1902 and 1903 (April). Two other dogs have been mentioned in the above notes— Grand Master II and General B. There was at Oakland some little rivalry between General B. and Lester C, and General B., has several times been discussed in reference to his standing with the other three, we will take occasion later on to go over the records again and publish their show careers. Concerning Shot Sizes and Patterns. If it were general! y ad mitted by sportsmen that 20- bores were better than 12-bores, they would never- theless not be much used. Shooting has now arrived at a point at which a man individually no longer organizes war against the game. It is done by a variety of circumstances acting on. and being in their turn reacted upon, by a number of individuals, not all of them shooters, and in order to change our present habits in respect to gun gauges, we should have to convert not only ourselves, but every one of our shoot- ing acquaintances also and simultaneously. Shooting outfit is no longer a question only between the man and his loader. Each man at some time of the year may now be required to take 50 pounds weight of ammunition on to the field with him. Some there are who attempt to advocate small shot for all-round the season work; but I, who am like your last week's correspondent, an out and out advo- cate of a light load and No. 5, protest that small shot is the worst enemy to the game preserver, and also to the cruelty to animals' society as well, or would be so to the latter if they attended to things that are practical by preference. Why I say that there is cruelty in using small shot is on two grounds, one of which is pretty generally admitted when it is argued that two No. 7 pellets are better than one No. 5, although the latter goes in further. But to leave for an instant the question of smashing, which is all in favor of big shot, I want to attack an idea that is as general as a maid-of-all- work;itis that small shot giveB the best pattern. Nothing is further from the truth. It ought to do so, perhaps, in theory, but in practice it does not. A vast lot of precious time has been expended before white-washed targets in the unprofitable task of counting pellet marks, but the choice made of sorts of shot for trial is not, as a rule, different enough in Bize to get any useful principle — the principle that governs these things. It would take hundreds of thousands of discharges and counted targets toarriveat the principle of varia- tion if the tests were made, say, with Bhot pellets varying no more than Nos. 6 and 7. But go to a smaller size in one direction, and to a bigger in the other, and you instantly discover the trend of differ- ences of results. Broadly speaking, there is a much larger percentage of wildly Ecattered pellets when small shot is used; that is to say, for every reduction of the size of shot pellets there will he more chances of wounding. I will not.say fewer chances of killing, because that so much depends upon the distance the game is away, and whether it is coming at the shooter or going away from him. Probably the best experiments with small shot ever carried through to a definite and instructive conclu- sion were those undertaken at the instance of the French Government some years ago. The6e experi- ments proved beyond question that the smaller the size of the shot pellets the greater was the inaccuracy of their flight: and that many more pelletB became mere stragglers than when large shot were used. The Frenchmen went to work in a totally different direction from that which had led, and misled, Eng- lishmen for many years; and in doing that they shed new light, which has taken a long time to illuminate our own sphere of action. To our neighbors it appeared more necessary to discover the size of the circle requisite to embrace a certain percentage of the shot pellets, at various dis- tances, than it did to count the pellets within an already measured space. By this means they dis- covered the great superiority, by percentage differ- ences, of big shot over small in the matter of pattern ; and until then it was not really suspected what an enormous difference in target area there was neces- sary, say, for catching 75 per cent, of No. 9 as against 75 per cent, of BB shot. It is not only a loss over the longer ranges such as might be expected, but at near distances also the small pellets require a much bigger area to catch 75 per cent, of them on the target. Indeed, the differences are so great even at 33yds. range that the area of No. 9 on the target from a choke bore is bigger than the area of BB with a cylinder bore at the same distance. The figures given by the French Governmental authority for 33yds are as follows: The diameter of the circle inclosing 75 percent, of the load with BB shot Is 2 2ft.; with No. 9 it is 3.3ft. Then at 55yds. range the difference is even more startling, being 4.6ft. for BB shot and 9.2ft. for No. 9 shot. At greater ranges the diameter practically doubles for small shot. All the above facts apply to the choke bore. With the cylinder there are even more differences, thus: At 33yds. the respective diameters for the same 75 per cent, proportion of pellets are, for BB 3.1ft and 4.2ft. for No. 9. At 55yds, 5.9ft. for BB and 10.8 for No. 9 shot. The application of these figures is in the direction of finding the area of the circles and the number of pellet6 to each square inch, and then by multiplying that number by their respective remaining energies at the distance. But probably this letter is already too long, and sportsmen, who all hate wounding like poison, will understand that when you count the shot pellets in a 30in. circle at 40yds. you have not thereby necessarily learned much about the patterns of shot- guns, and how they are effected by different sizes of pellets. — X. GOSSIP FOR SPORTSMEN. Steelheads and striped bass divide the attention of the anglers and produce enough sport these pleasant December days to invite sportsmen to several favorite resorts for an enjoyablel day's outing, with the possi- bility of bringing back to the city some nice fish. Point Reyes iB the favorite rendezvous for the steelhead fishermen, where in the "white house" pool nearby some excellent sized and conditioned fish have been hooked and landed by a number of the local talent, including Sam WellB, JaB. Watts, Charley Breidenstein, J. B. Kenniff, Frank Dolliver and others. The knights of the rod will be well repre- sented at the Point tomorrow. The devotees of Btriped bass angling find ecough fish in the straits to keep them busy trolling after them. Mr. Carroll has recently taken several large fish as have others of the ark contingent near Tiburon bridge. Lake Merritt is still worth a day's visit for the bass fishing to be found there. San Antonio slough, a tributary of Petaluma creek, is the banner resort apparently for striped bass angling. Good catches have bean recently made by Messrs. Hillegass, Thomson and Miller. One of the best catches made lately was that of Al M. Cumming and F. S. Church on Wednesday and Thursday of last week. Thirty-four fish that scaled almost 300 pounds was the take. The largest bass scaled twenty-four pounds and was landed by Mr. Cumming. He had been trolling the creek and turned in shore to run his boat into the tules. Just as he was about landed he felt a strike on his rod and the reel hummed merrily as the cuttyhunk ran out. Giving the fish the butt he found that he had something big hung up on his lOoz. split bamboo. During this brief intei val the fish was hiking up stream so strongly that the light boat was pulled out from the bank and into midstream where the fish towed the outfit for nearly an eighth of a mile and before he was checked again 200 yards of line was out. Mr. BasB was gaffed after a half hour's fight. Three of the other fi6h caught weighed a trifle over sixty pounds. This lot were all fresh run ttrong and brilliantly colored fish from the ocean. The males were all full of milt; the females, and they were few in proportion, did not have the roe developed more than a third of the ripe size. There haB been quite a run of bass from the ocean lately. Many fish have been caught on the extra high tides and during the full moon period. Afield with dog and gun when the rising sun is gilding the tree tops and flashing on the hoarfrost under foot; when the crisp morning air brings steam from the nostrils and bites the face and bands; when expectancy pictures the quail running through the Btubble in search of breakfast — the blood courfes through the veins with a freedom that makes the young man more vigorous and the old man feel almost young again. Success in any kind of hunting depends largely on acquaintance with the habits of the game you are pursuing. In quail shooting it depends partly on acquaintance with the habits of the birds and partly on knowledge of the dog. The one is variable, the other a constant factor. For the sportsman every kind of field Bport has its charm, but in my estima- tion nothing el6e comes up to quail shooting. — Ex. This is true if you have a congenial companion and a pair of good dogs. During the hunting season, while the woods and fields are more or less inviting to a goodly number of people, it is well to remember a number of things. You should make it your busi- ness to always crawl over a fence with the muzzle of your gun towards you. Then should anything catch on the trigger the newspaper man will have some- thing interesting to write about the next week. If you see anything move in the brush you want to fire right away. Of course it may be another hunter, but you can call around in the morning and explain to the widow that you thought it was a quail or a ducK, or any old thing. She will probably think you are a bird. Always leave the hammer of your gun up if you have anybody with you. If it should fall your friend will probably catch the ammunition in his back before it goes far. You can then pick out the shot at leisure Duck and Quail Outfits. The demand at Skinner's keeps up for sportsmen's oulflts, ammunition and guns. A large and new stock of goods has been added to fill the demand for hunting suits, rubber booti and hunters' footwear: canvas and folding wooden decoys, gun cases and a new design of leather-covered shell boxes. Peters Factory Loaded Shells are unequaled. Skinner's place is 801 Market street. You can get anything there you need for duck or quail shooting. Send for a catalogue, if you haven't the time to come, and try a mail order. * For all kinds of weather there is no drink like Jackson's Napa Soda — plain or in a lemonade. December 12, 1903] ®he gveeiiev emu sportsman 11 1.5 inches deep, with a handle, and a tin pint, or qjart, measure with straight sides and a diameter slightly larger than that of the sieve, used as a container, works nicely.— Bulletin 100 Vermont experiment station. ■ m More Milk Is Being Used. A great many creams will cream on With theimproved methods of handling standing just as milks do. And to sam- and delivering milk not only in the larger pie them correctly, thorough mixing by cities but in the smaller, has come an in- pouring several times whenever prac- creased consumption of the same. Sani- ticable, should precede sampling. When tary methods have been introduced and thus thoroughly mixed, either dipper or are becoming more and more common so milk thief may be used. Samples, if not that people are better satisfied with the taken daily, at least should be frequently milk for ordinary consumption. It is a taken, and composited, kept from churn- purer, cleaner and more healthful article, ing in transit by the use of ice and of full This is one phase of the dairy industry packages and from souring by the use of that has not been much thought of by the corrosive sublimate or formaline. Check parties who are solely interested in the samples should be left at the farm when butter trade. January in this section. But if allowed to come to the barn and be fed some corn or oats at night they will do much better. Sheds to which they can go when bad weather comes will result in a saving of feeds and the keeping of flesh and a good coat. After weather conditions make it neces- sary to stable the colts, continue the grain ration and give for roughnesB, good bright fodder, clover hay with Bome sheaf oats. The latter two feeds will alone keep them in good condition. Oats ia the feed for making muscle and that is what the colt needs rather than fattening food. We are particular to keep the stable well bed- ded and to spend a few moments each day among them with curry comb and brush, for the double purpose of making a better coat and of getting on better terms with Jack. Nothing pleases mule better than a good raking with a curry comb — the harder the better he seems to enjoy it. But it is necessary to be kind to them at all times. Caution the small boy against teasing the colts. It is not too early to break the mule if done in the proper manner. I like my colts to be playful and active which means that they are doing well, while the stupid, sluggish, rough-coated mule indi- cates bad treatment which leads to a bad disposition, trouble and loss. Of great importance is a good "send-off" at wean- ing time. J. D. L. — Kentucky. The Poultry Industry. we produced in the last census year was $281,178,247. The industry was worth more than all the cattle and hogs we slaughtered. It was worth more than the wheat crop of twenty-eight States and Territories, and the yalue of our eggs alone was higher than that of the gold and silver product of the United States in any year since 1850, except in 1890, when the precious metals exceeded the eggs by $9,418,125. These are surprising state- ments, bat they are true, if the census figures from which they are taken are cor- rect. TOMMY BK1TTON 3:06 1-2 requested ; or a locked and sealed sample jar may be left with each patron, he to control his own sample until it is ready for testing. It then may he divided, one part to go to the creamery for testing, the other to be retained by him for his own testing, or that of the experiment station, but not for that of a competin g creamery whose test may or may not be worth any- thing. A hand tester taken to the farm may be used at times to advantage for the satisfaction of a doubting Thomas. The preparation of a sample of cream for pipetting may be materially facilitated and, likewise, be made the more perfect by adopting two minor modifications of the process : 1. Heat the sample to 105-110 degrees F. prior to pouring. 2. Use a small, fine mesh, wire sieve and pestle to detect and mix lumpy cream. 1. Che heating serves to make the fat more fluid, to soften the harder clots, and in general to render the entire sample more miscible. It should be remem- bered, however, that the sample expands on warming and that the pipette delivery of a rich cream, i. e., one carrying more than 25 per cent, of cream, should be weighed. 2. The mixing of a warm sample, of a cold one for that matter, is vastly bet- tered if it be poured through a small, fine mesh, wire sieve, such as is commonly in use in the kitchen and is bought for five or ten cents at any hardware or notion Btore. Lumps, clots and the like are quickly revealed and may, by pestling, by finger rubbing, by further pouring, etc., be broken up and made to pass the meBh. The pestling and breaking up of the lumps is most effectively done with the sieve partly immersed in the fluid portion of th» sample. This is particularly true if the sample is at all Bour. A few pour- ingB then suffice to mix the samp'e more perfectly than can be done with many creams by a multitude of pourings. A Bive 2.5 inches in diameter and from 1 to In New York State within 100 miles of the metropolis the amount of butter made compared with the amount of milk ship- ped is a mere indication of what it was twenty-five years ago. This is so in all of the territory adjacent to large citieB Twenty years ago in the territory adja- cent to Chicago creameries making butter and cheeBe were abundant within ten to forty miles of that city, while to day they are few and far between. The supply of milk has increased many fold in that Bame territory, but a very large proportion of this is being sent t j Chicago for immediate consumption. That this will have, and has had a ten dency on the price of butter can not be denied, and the general average for the last five years has increased from 20.6 for 1898; to 28.8 for 1902. This should ancourage buttermakers and creamerymen not only to increase their supply by encourging their patrons to keep a better class of cows, and care for the milk, but also to develope new terri- tory which would not be Bubject to this drain of the raw product for milk con- sumption.— Elgin Dairy Beport Our entire export of eggs in 1902 was only 2,717,990 do2en, valued at $528,679, which cuts a small figure in comparison with Russia's total. But our hens are very industrious, and it is only the enormous home demand that keeps our exports at such a low figure. In 1899 there were, according to the New York Sun, 233,598,005 chickens in this country and they produced 1 293,- 818,144 dozen eggs, and the fact that we consumed ninety per cent of them shows that we are a nation of egg eaters. It is enough to think that a train of ordinary refrigerator cara containing our entire egg crop of that year would have extended from Chicago to Washington, with several ' ries Poultry Notes. The appearance of a flock has much to do with their sale — one or more. Sick fowlB should not be permitted to drink from the same vessel aa the other flock. If our aim is high, the difficultiea in- crease in proportion to the nearness of our approach to our aim. Hard bread is better for fowls, if it is cracked, with a hammer, than if made into a mush by Bo:king. If your hena are your incubator and brooder, it is only fair that they should have every chance to do their best. Plymouth Eocka are probably the mos popular "all purpose" fowls in the coun try. They are good as layers, broilers and roasters. Notwithstanding water fowls love water, they thrive better if they have an oppor- tunity to come out on dry land and enjoy the Bunshine. Artificial eggs should be used as neBt eggs. Real eggs grow stale and are liable to be broken, and teach the hen to be an egg-eater. Chickens and eggs have ruled very high in p ice during the past year. Those who have had only a few hens have been able to realize a good profit. Let us remember that when opportun- ity ia written on one side of the door re- sponsibility is written on the other side. This is true in repord to raising poultry as well as in living a life. Advocates of free range are all right, but it is a little too free when it extends to scratched-up flower beds, packed ber- half eaten tomatoes, stolen nests, mileB of cars to stretch along the track and are a nuisance generally, toward Baltimore. Yokahama fowls are a variety not very In 1901 the receiptB and consumption of well known. They are noted for the great Care of Mule Colts. In Kentucky we begin receiving mule colts in October. They are then weaned and to keep them from drifting badly we feed green corn and cane and some grain such aa corn and oats. Or elae have a well fenced lot with a crop of rank clover bluegrass or other grasses. After they have quieted down they are given the run of the cornfields and wheat fields, or some pasture of good graae. They may be turned into the cornfield before the corn is gathered, for they care little for corn when there is plenty of rank grass such as is found along the fences, in the hollows and other unculti- vated portions of the grain fields. If the supply of this feed is lufficient, this pas- turing may be kept up until well into BERTINA 3:17 It by DIRECTUM eggs in New York city were 2,372,500 crates of 30 dozen each. Chicago has given even a larger per capita consump- tion, or an average of 1,581,545 crates a year. Truly the egg industry ia a great business. When we consider it in con- nection with the broilers, spring chickens, tough and tender, and roosters we con- sume, the poultry interests assume prodi- gious proportions. The total value of the poultry and eggB length of their tail and hackle feathers. The phoenix fowls are said to be superior to the Yokahama. Their tail feathers are about a yard in length. Their general appearance is like that of the games. Poultry can exhauBt soil just as crops exhaust soil. There seems to come a time when there is nothing more in i them. They kill the grass and eat u the aharp gravel and sand, and cat the inaecte. The soil needs r the fowls need a change. rest, 12 ®itc f&veeirev crnX* &p£ivt&mcm [December 12, 190. Why Milk Varies. Professor J. A. Conover of the Kansas station writes of milk tests as follows : "At nearly every institute attended by Professor Co'ttrell and myself the question was asked, 'What is the reason our milk tests 2.6 per ceDt one month and next, under exactly the same conditions, it tests 4 per cent or more? There are a great many things that affect the test, so that we cannot point to any one thing as doing it. In the first place, the condi- tions are never 'exactly' the same; the pasture may be better one month than another, the weather may be cooler or warmer, perhaps you encourage the cow less with the milk stool, or perhaps the hoy who brings them in does not get them so much excited. All these things and many more influence the per cent of but- ter fat." Kindness is sure to be rewarded by an increase in both the per cent of butter fat and also in the milk yield. Whenever you abuse the cow, either by a sharp word, the milk stool or by running her, you are taking money out of your pocket by decreasing the per cent of butter fat and also the yield of milk. Whenever the cow suffers for lack of food, water or lack of proper care, there is a decrease in the amount received from her. There are other reasons why your test may be lower one month than another. When the milk is warm it churns very easily, so that when you send your milk to the station in canB only half full they will be partially churned when they get there. There is no way of getting a fair sample of such milk, for the butter fat that is churned is lost both to the patron and to the creamery. If you have a can and a half to send fill one can full, so that you will be sure to have that much that will not be churned. Keep the milk as cool as possible, as it does not churn readily at a low temperature. If you do not want low tests do not take the first milk yourself and let the calf have the last. The first milk often tests as low as one-half of 1 per cent, while the last will test from 10 to 12 per cent. Don't skim all your milk before you send it to the station and then expect it to test 6 per cent. To the creamery man I would Bay keep all the samples of milk from churning, if possible. Good tests can never be ob- tained from a churned sample without the use of ether and thus is too laborious a process for you. It is claimed by some that simply beating the milk to a temper- ature that will melt butter fat will answer, but my work in this line convinces me that satisfactory results can never be ob- tained in this manner. not see very well, and it is almost impos- sible to drive them. I went to the pas- ture and brought the mother of the calf home and drove her out toward where the calf was. There was a strong wind blow- ing from the calf toward the cow, so that Bhe scented her calf when fifteen or twenty rods away and before Bhe could Bee it. She supposed, of course, that her calf was in the barn, but as soon as she got the scent she went readily toward it, lowing in the peculiar way that cattle do when they call their calves. As she came nearer the calf was afraid of her and ran away. The cow did not give chase, but remained where she waB and called. When the calf stopped she gradually worked up to it and finally succeeded in 'letting it know that she was its mother. After that it was an easy matter to drive the two together to the pasture again. I think that in the two instances given the cows showed reasoning ability. At least, by assuming that they could reason, I saved myself considerable trouble. — F. E. Moses in Breeder's Gazette. Animal Sense. In a recent magazine article Mr. John Burroughs has tried to show that animals do not have sense, or, in other words, that their actions are regulated entirely by in- stinct and not at all by reason. For a number of years I have thought that some of our domestic animals, especially horses, cattle and dogs, reasoned a great deal, and I do not believe a man can become a good stockman without taking the reasoning faculty of animals into consideration. This year I have an Angus cow that is a heavy milker. I keep her calf in the barn and let the cow to it morning and night. The calf can only take half what the cow gives, and the rest I have to milk in a bucket. The cow is very gentle, never offering to kick if I do not try to milk her until after the calf is through But if I undertake to milk her before the calf has got his share she will kick and act very badly. Another time I turned some young calves out that had been in the barn since they were dropped. They all went off with their dams except one. Its dam was not in the yard at the time, and instead of following the other cattle to the pasture it crawled through the fence and ran off to some timber. Calves at this age can- Range Horses. A correspondent in a recent issue dis- cusses western horseB in a way that may mislead some of your readers. They should not overlook the fact that he qual- ifies his condemnation of the western horse by the words "for breeding pur- pOBeB." There are good and bad range horses just as there are good and bad farm horses. Their usefulness depends some- what on the way they have been bred and the age at which the farmer buys them, writes a western breeder in Stockman and Farmer. As to their breeding, the worst for farm or other ordinary use is the result of a thoroughbred cross on the wild mares. This horse, when taken young and broken, is unsurpassed for a Baddle horse, but leo him run wild till mature and he is hard to handle and often unreliable or bad tempered. The best western horse for farm pur- poses has draft blood in him, and the higher grade in this respect the better. These horses are nearly all useful. A high grade draft mare from the range is just as useful as one of corresponding quality from the farm for breeding. The range breeding doesn't make any differ- ence in her blood. The ordinary range horee of medium size, say 900 to 1000 pounds, should be bought and broken when young. Then it is usually not hard to overcome its wildness and to make a reliable horse out of it, but a mature range horse is harder to break and seldom becomes a satisfac- tory horse unless it has been handled on the range. For ordinary work, knocking around or light farm work range horses are often the best to be had on account of their powers of endurance They are use- ful and satisfactory, but not uniformly so, and they Bhould be bought low enough to allow for the failings some of them are sure to have. Texas Fever Down South. Why Dairying Maintains Fertility. Professor Curtiss, at the recent dairy convention at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, told why dairying maintains the fertility of the farm. He said: "In selling $1000 worth of wheat from an Iowa farm at present prices we sell with it about $350 worth of fertility. In selling $1000 wortli of corn we sell about $250 worth of fer- tility— or constituents which would cn6t the farmer this amount if he were obliged to buy commercial fertilizers to maintain the fertility of the farm. But we can convert $1000 worth of corn into beef, pork or mutton and Bell it in that form and not remove over $25 worth of fertility from the farm, or we can convert $1000 worth of feed into butter and not remove a single dollar's worth of fertility with it. Butter is almost wholly pure fat or car- bon, and it adds nothing to the value or productive capacity of the soil. We probably shall be obliged to pay out much money for commercial fertilizers in Iowa, if we farm intelligently, but we have already learned that we cannot grow wheat indefinitely or constantly draw upon even a bountiful store of plant food without diminshed returns. The fact that this lesson has been learned and is coming to be universally recognized is the main Bafeguard and the strongest feature of Iowa agriculture. We not only produce an average of a million dollars' worth of agricultural products for every day of the year, but we know enough to feed over one-fourth of a million dollars' worth of produce on the farms every day. No other state in the union approaches this amount and there are only five other stat»B that feed even half as much. By this means Iowa not only leads in agri- cultural products, but conserves her resources " Dairy Notes. Salt not only adds to the flavor of butter, but improves itB keeping qualities. Skim milk has been chemically solidi fied and made into combs, buttons, etc. A cow should be fed liberally when fresh, and not wait until she begins to drop off in milk. Wire gauze and four thicknesses of cheese cloth has been found to make the best strainer. City dairymen have found that milk can be handled better in glass bottles than in tin cans. Wooden buckets and pails should not be used to handle milk. Use only tin or granite ware. Milk handled in cans that are not full will be churned, and is not as good for anything as nicely filled bot- tles. The old custom of stripping the cow with the thumb and finger is advised against, as it spoils the shape of the teats Quite a number of the ills to which do- mestic animals are subject are directly traceable to damp and unsuitable quar- ters. The live stock men of all the principal ranches of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura counties met in convention at Santa Barbara last Monday for the purpose of deciding on some organized plan to combat the ravages of the disease known as Texas fever among the herds in the southern part of the State. For several weekB the three counties named have been under quarantine, making it impossible to ship cattle to the outside world. In spite of the fact that many of the principal ranchers have tried hard to check the spread of the disease, Texas fever has continued gradually to extend. The stockmen met at the Arlington Hotel and organized. Among those present was Dr. Blemer, State Veterin- arian, who delivered an address on prac- ticable methodB of treatment. It was finally decided that oil dip is the most satisfactory and it was recommended to owners to have large dip ponds for the treatment of stock. Vita The Great California Liniment. Fop Lameness, Soreness and Deep-seated Pain; good for man or horse; used by every prominent horseman on the race tracks* because it's the best — money can buy. fe All Druggists and Harness Dealers or Vita Oil Co., 1533 Buchanan St. San Francisco, Cat. J, A. McKerron and J. O'Kane, Agts WANTED. A Secondhand Payne Cart. Address, giving price and particulars. FRED K. BISHOP. 333 West San Fernando St., San Jose, Cal. MOUNTAIN QUAIL. QUAIL for breeding purposes. State price per dozen delivered at your express office. Address D. B. JACOBS, Butte, Montana, FOR SALE. THE BEST UNMARKED PACER IN CALI- *- fornia. Handsome as a picture; can be driven by a woman, and is sound, kind and gentle He is a bay gelding, coming six years old, with small star and near front foot and ankle and both hind ankles white. Stands 16 hands high and weighs about 1100 pounds. Is the best bargain In Cali- fornia for the price asked. Has worked mllee In 2-. 12 and 2:13. For price and other particulars adding OWNER, care Breeder and Sports- man, 36 Geary Street, San Francisco. KICKING, T Balking, Shying or any kind of a habit cured in a few hours by my ayBtem. Particulars free. PROF. J A. BttKKY, Pleasant Hill, Ohio. CALIFORNIA Photo Engraving Company HIGH CLASS ABT IK— Half Tones and Lint Engraving Artistic Designing. 606 Mission St., cor. First, San Franc la oo against, aa it spoils the shape of the Artlatlo DeaHninr. teats. so6 MUilon St., cor. First. San Franelsoo Speed, Breeding and Individuality FOR JSAICiES. RITA H. 2:12 1-4 Pacing Mare by McKinney 2:11 1-4 ELECTRO McKINNEY Brown Colt, Three-Year-Old Trotter by McKinney 2:11 1-4 RITA H. is a dark brown mare who stands nearly 16 hands high, and will weigh in racing trim about 1050 lbs. This mare has bad this year a very remarkable record. She started in the North- western Circuit in the States of Oregon and Washington, and out of eight atartB won her first seven races and only lost four heats during the entire circuit, and has a pacing record of 2:115^. The mare is five years old and is excellent on the road. She does not pull or lug, and a lady can drive her anywhere. Last spring she trotted a workout mile in 2:18^4 and repeated in 2:16^, after only seven weeks1 work. Her owner has driven her in 2:12!^, and has won all the club raoes she has started in. This mare oan step two heats below 2:10. ELECTRO McKINNEY is a brown stallion foaled in 1900, and stands 15 hands I inch in height. He trotted a full mile as a two-year-old in 2:31 if, last quarter in 35 seconds, and when a three-year- old a full mile in 2:2H4. last quarter in 32 seconds. He is perfectly gaited and a grand individual in every respect. Weighs about S50 lbs. ELECTRO McKINNEY is bred in the purple, and Is one of the best sons of McKinney alive today. McKinney is undoubtedly the greatest sire for his age. living or dead. ELECTRO McKINNEY was not raced this year, being only a three-year-old and not entered in any stakes it was decided to hold him over. These horses are all right and there is not a thing the matter with them, but my business demands are suou that I cannot afTord to devote any time to racing them. For prices and further particulars address BYRON ERKENBRECHER, 361 C1BRIER BUILDING, LOS ANGELES, CAL. December 12, 1903] f&ke gveebev cwtfc gftrxrtrtemtm 18 Experience in Grading Up. At a late meeting of the Western Guernsey Breeders Association at Mara- than, Wis., H. D. Griswold discussed "The Guernsey Grade for the General Farmer" and gave his experience in grad- ing up aB follows: In the firBt place let us consider what the general farmer now has. He has usually a mixture of several breeds. He has now and then a good cow that crops out by chance, but the great majority are poor cows that pay little or no profit. When you find a herd of good cows then you find a man that has put study and thought into liis business, and has some definite plan in his work. He usually has one line of stock and sticks to it. Now we cannot all have fu 1 bloods, but a full blood sire is within the reach of most any one, and when you have him and stick to the one line you can soon have a herd equal to any as far as butter production is concerned. Now for the sire for the general farmer to use I know of nothing better to use than the Guernsey. He is of good size, a strong and vigorous animal, and crosses well with any of the other breeds. Now you will say that size does not count ; perhaps not, so far as production is con- cerned, but you will find that nine men out of ten will choose a good sized cow in preference to. a Email cow, other things beiug equal. Again the Guernsey heifers almost always have good udders and teats, and are gentle and easily handled. The sire is more than half the herd be- cause the heifers take more after the Bire than the dam. The pure-bred sire is of stronger blood than any of the mixtures in the cows. Choose a sire that has a mother and grandmother and as many more relations as possible that were good milk and butter producers. Get the very best you can. Then get a scale and a Babcock tester and know what each cow is doing. Cull out the poor ones and keep the best al- ways. Keep up that practice with your heifers. You cannot buy good cows; there is only one way to get them and that is to raise them. Then comes good feed and plenty of it, warm and well light- ed Btable, and constant, careful care. Now to illustrate along this line I wil1 give you a little of my own experience. In 1889 I bought my first Guernsey sire. I had then one Holstein cow, ODe Jersey and three or four Shorthorns. I find by my books that my total receipts for but- ter that year were $138.86. In 1891 1 got a Babcock tester, the first one that had ever come to our town. I found that year that my cows were making 265 pounds of butter each ; I then had nine. I increased the number till in 1902 I had 21 cowa. I have increased the average production per cow to 424 pounds each. I have in- creased my receipts from $138.86 in 1889 to $1,937.43 in 1902. I now have 25 cows and in the month of May just passed we got 5,700 pounds of cream testing 20 per cent butter fat, with no other feed than graHB and a little silage. These 25 cows are all grade Guernseys but five. I have three Jerseys and two full blood Guernsey heifers. All but three were raised by myself on the farm and have never been off the place. Six of the 25 are two-year- old heifers. To Bpend half the year in growing feed for stock to eat during the other half without increasing in growth or value is not good business sense. Change the feed of the horses quite often and under no circumstances compel them to an entire corn diet for any great length of time. Produce sold from the farm is gone for- ever. That which is fed on the farm leaves a residuum to keep up the fertility of the farm. Jackson's Napa Soda does not tangle the feet. the seo.ooo DAN PATCH 1:56J CHAMPION PACING HORSE of the WORLD [Without Hopples, Wtad-Breftk, Etc. EATS 3 FEEDS FOR ONE CENT EVERY DAY. "International Stock Food" greatly aids Digestion and Assimilation so that More Nutrition is obtained from all grain eaten. It "tones up" and Permanently Strengthens the entire system and Purifies the Blood so that disease is prevented. Every $3.50 pail of "International Stock Food" is positively guaran- teed to save $7.00 worth of grain. It will cause your Race Horse to have more speed and endurance. It will make your Carnage Horses health}', fat and beautiful. It will give your Show Horses more life and ] action and make them glossy. It will make j'our Work Horses strong, healthy and of great endurance. It will make your Stallions and Brood Mares surer, and your colts will be better and grow and develop more rapidly. "International Stock Food" is absolutely harmless even if taken into the human system. It is prepared from Roots, Herbs, Seeds and Barks and is fed in small amounts as an addition to the regular grain allowance. It is equally profitable when fed to Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Hogs, Colts, Calves, Lambs or Pigs. It will make you a large extra profit when fed to 3*our stock for Growing, Fattening or Working. It will increase milk 15 to 25 per cent, in Cows, Mares, Sows or Ewes, and only costs «®"3 FEEDS for ONE CENT."** A Dan Patch colt commanded $5,000 at eight months of age. He looked like a yearling and was beautiful, strong and vigorous. The dam was fed "International Stock Food" before and after foaling, and the colt as soon as it would eat. Dan Patch became the World's Champion Harness Horse nine months after commencing to eat "International Stock Food" every day. If it is good for such horses don't you think it would pay you to test it on yours? Our "International Stock Food Farm" contains 650 acres, 12 miles from Minneapolis, and on it we own Dan Patch 1:56^ Directum 2:05#, Roy Wilkes 2:06>£, andaband of broodmares. They all eat "International Stock Food" every day. BEWARE OF IMITATIONS and SUBSTITUTES. There are many worthless imitations on the market, put out by people who seem to think that the way to start a busi- ness is to steal as much as they can from some prominent firm. No chemist can separate and name fall ot the ingredi- ents used in "International Stock Food," etc., and any chemist or manufacturer claiming to do so must be an Ignoramus or a Falsifier. A BEAUTIFUL DAN PATCH PICTURE FREE We have a very fine, large lithograph of Dan Patch with the great driver, M. E.McHenry, in sulky. This Lithograph, Printed in Six Brilliant Colors, is one of the finest and most attractive horse pictures ever published. It is 21x28 and printed on heavy paper suitable for framing. 8^*We Will Mail You One Copy Free, postage prepaid. If You will Answer Two Questions. 1st.— Name This Paper. 2d.— State How Much Stock You Own. Answer these questions in a letter or on a postal card and we will mail at once. Write at once before the oiler is withdrawn. address— V International Stock Food Co. MIHNEAPOUS, MINN.. U.S. A. NEW MODEL THE BEST IN THE WORLD. O'BRIEN & SONS Cor. Golden Gate Ave. and Polk St. SAN FRAXCISCO, CAL COMPRESSED PURE-SALT ~ BRICKS ~ FOR ALL STOCK Have the approval of large stock owners everywhere. Ask your dealer, or send for free booklet to BELMONT SIM. SUPPLY CO. "r"tT irarciK BUSINESS COLLEGE 24 Post Street, San Francisco, Cal. The oldest, the largest, the most popular com- mercial school on the Paoifio Coast. 20,000 gradu- ates; 30 teaahere: 70 typewriters; over 300 student annually placed, la positions. Send lor catalogue. JE. F. HEALD. President. FOB SALE. THOROUGHBRED YEARLING COLTS By DUCAT, ont ot Strongbred Mares ALSO TROTTING BRED YOUNG STALLIONS AND FILLIES TROTTERS AND PACERS. rpHE SIRES OF THESE COLTS ARE DIABLO. Nutwood Wilkes, Monbslls, Cupid and Sidney Dillon. The sires or their first, second and third dams are Guy Wilkes, Hock Wilkes, Director, Harold, Electioneer, Cornelius. Paul's Abdallah, Venture, Lodi and St. Clair. All of these sires trace In the male line to Hambletsnian lOthjough his best producing male descendants, excepting the thoroughbreds Venture and Lodi and the pacer St. Clair. C. E. FARNUM, M. D. 305 Parrott Building. FOR SALE. Three Standard-Bred Trotting Stallions WILKES STOCK. One Seal Brown. 16 hands, foaled May 2, 1898; first dam Fearless by Fallis 4781 (record 2:23); second dam Jean Perault by Signal 3327. One Golden Bay. 16.1 hands, foaled March 5, 1898; first dam Signal by Del Sur 1098 (record 2:24), dam of Guy Line 2:29?i; second dam Lady Slgi nal by Signal 3337. One Brown, white points, 16.1 hands, foaled April, 1899; full brother to the bay. These colts are all sired by Prince Airlee 28045, son of Guy Wilkes 2807 (record 2:15^), and bred by Wm. Corbitt, San Mateo, Cal. They are pure galted and show wonderful speed for the little work they have done. For further particulars apply to P. H. MoEVOY, Menlo Park, Cal. RACING Every Week Day RAIN OR SHINE. Hew California JocKey CM INGLESIDE TRACK COMMENCING DECEMBER 14. SIX OR MORE RACES DAILY RACES START AT 2 P. M. SHARP. Reached by street cars from any part of the city. Train leaves Third and Townsend at 1:16 p. m., and leaves the track Immediately after the last race. THOMAS H. WILLIAMS. President. PERCY W. TREAT, Secretary Standard Trotting Stallion For Sale ORO GUY 34192 Foaled 1898 By Oro Wilkes 2:11. Dam by Guy Wilkes, 3d dam by Sultan, 3d dam by The Moor. Black in color, stands 16 hands high, weighs 1150 pounds. With little work has shown a mile in 2:16J<. Square-galted trotter; guaranteed abso- lutely sound. Good disposition. Stylish con- formation. One of the best bred representatives of the Wilkes family on the Coast. Will bo sold reasonable. Apply or address R I ORE, R. D.. Gllroy.Cal. J. W. Zibbell's Training Stables Corner Point Lobos Road and 20th Avenue San Francisco. HORSES TRAINED FOR TRACK OR ROAD and satisfaction guaranteed. Terms reason- able. HorseB bought and sold. 'Phone Pine 1786. WIR FENC PEDIGREES TABULATED And type written Beady for trsminf . Write for prices. Brudii Aim SroBTiiujr, 18 Omit Btf- •an rraaelMO, Oal. ©he <§veeiiev atxS g#mrt#man [December 12. 1903 THE BAYWOOD STUD THE BUNGALOW, SAN MATEO, CAU (Property of Jons Pabhott, Esq.) Devoted Exclusively to the Breedlne and Training of High Stepping Hackney-Bred Harness Horses WALTER SEALY, Manager. Dictatus Medium 32499 Will make the coming season at Race Track, Hollister, Gal, Jos. Sanchez In charge $40 FOR THE SEASON. Pavable at time of service, with usual return privilege. Every care taken to prevent aocidents, bat no responsibil- ity should any occur. Prompt and careful attention in all cases Pasturage furnished to mares sent from a distance at *2 50 a month. A DICTATUS MEDIUM PURSE OF 8100. I will give a purse of $100, with entrance money added for a race, best two in three, open to any and all colts from DICTATUS MEDIUM the result of ^{^"SS'S'^St.lliffi" ,EE£ St^TS hereafter three to start and race to come off on Hollister tracn, t air wee^ is k the race. Three announced.) 35 entrance ™nW- P«ab'e„,J?n° Jond and 1U Mr cent to third. For further par- moneys: 60 per cent to first horse; 30 per cent to second ana lu por^uoui I^THROPi eoUlster. ticulars, address DESCRIPTION. DICTATUS MEDIUM is 6 y^o^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Hollister Race Track in 38', seconds, a *38galt. This colt ha great P™™set eTer bI0aeht t0 n^^re^e^m^lotSo0^^ S^^T^iTct^ &d.,Sn will p^ove to be a sire . °* -. _ . ii *J ^i.,.-. i.trtls nnrl rtiarvrmi tinn . ninp. sire 01 me uaiii ui ^uujuiu ~.n. .*«-.« *~ - of speed as well as good size, style and disposition. STAf^AGRICULTURAL society Occident Stake of 1906 TROTTING STAKE FOR FOALS OF 1903 To be Trotted at the California State Fair of 1906. Entries to Close January 1, 1904. with L. R. MILLER, Acting Secretary, at the offloe in Sacramento. ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ENTRANCE, of which 810 must ac- company nomination; 815 to be paid January 1, 190o, $25 to be paid January 1, 1906, and $50 thirty days before the race The Occident Cup, of the value of $400, to be added by the Society. Mile heats, three in dve, to harness. First colt to receive cup and six-tenths, second colt, three-tenths; and third colt one-tenth of the stages. Five to enter, three to start, otherwise N. T. A. Rules govern Nominatorsare not held for full amount of entrance in case colt goes wrong- only forfeit payments made, which relieves you from further No^n^^g^ntfn^lue SaTin HOO it was worth S**»; in W01, .«95; in «* ^benSeS« should receive a larger entry, and be very valuable. Every breeder should eDt A Special Stake will be opened for foals entered originally in this stake, and the Stanford Stake of 1906, that develop a pacing gait to be contested for in lSUo. Remember the date of closing is January 1, 1904, L. R. MILLER, Acting Sec'y. B. F. RUSH, President. !§MEffiE-ftSi^ re IT! SOMEBODY WANTS IT! and you can reach the party who does by getting your advertisement in the special FOR SALE DEPARTMENT of the Xmas Edition OF THE Breeder and Sportsman TO BE ISSUED DECEMBER 26, 1903 This Size Ad. for $1.50: FOR SALE. BLACK TROTTING MARE, RECORD 2:18^; standard bred; sound; nearly 16 bands high; weighs about 1100 pounds. Gentle and a high- class road mare. Can be bought cheap. To see the mare and for particulars call or address Telephone: Pine 1788 J. W. ZIBBELL, 345 Twentieth Ave., San Francisco. Twice the Size for Double the Money and More at the Same Rate Another Thing Don't Neglect Your Stallion But be sure and get his announcement in the STALLION DIRECTORY TO APPEAR IN THIS SAME It will contain the announcement of the leading Stallions on this Coast. I The following is the size and style of the announcements, and the cost is only Three Dollars each. 5.00 VVITH WRITTEN GUARANTEE On Broken Down, Weak, Sprained and Ruptured Ligaments and Tendons Its Power is Unfailing. No Man need see his Horse suffer and become Incapacitated. "CA\/C TIJC UflDOCH POSITIVELY AND PERMANENTLY CURES BONE AND BOG OrtYL-l nL-nUnOL SPAVIN, THOROUGH?!^ RINGBONE (except low ringbone), CURB, SPLINT, CAPPED HOCK, WINDPUFF, SHOE BOIL, WEAK AND SPRAINED TEN- DONS, AND ALL LAMENESS. '-SAVE-THE-BORSE1' cures without soar, blemish or loss of hair; can be applied anywhere and in all conditions and extremes of weather. Horses may be worked as usual with shin or ankle boots, as no harm can result from destruction of hair or scalding of limb. Cured horses are absolute certainties as to the possibility of the remedy for your own case. Such results, as shown in our booklet, by business men whose reliability can be readily ascertained, have carried "SAVE-THE-HORSE" over skepticism, prejudice and uncertainty. Send for the booklet and copy of written guarantee, which is as binding to protect you as the best legal talent conld make it. S3.00 FXin BOTTLE. Written guarantee with every bottle. Need of second bottle improbable, except in rarest cases. If your case is different we advise frankly as to possibility of the remedy effecting a cure. Give veternariau's diagnosis, if he is competent. Describe age, development, location of swellings, lameness, and way horse carries and holds leg. $5.00 a bottle at all druggists and dealers, or sent express prepaid. TROY CHEMICAL CO., Manufacturers, TROY, N. Y. D. E. NEWELL, 519 Mission St., San Francisco, Cal., Pacific Coast Agent NUTWOOD WILKES 22216-2 161 Sired t>y Guy Wilkes 2:15M ___ Dam Lids W fcllW FEE Bv Nutwood 2:18* .. .__ (John A. McKerron 2:05J< JB50 SIRE OF- Stanton Wilkes 2:10J< (Who Is It 2:10K And 20 others from 2:12M to 2:30. The only two of his daughters whose produce have been trained are the dams of Hollo 2:16% and Miss Georgia 2:25. Will make the Season of 1904 at NUTWOOD STOCK FARM, For particulars address MARTIN CARTER, Irvlneton, Cal. , -:fflW Awarded Gold Meda At California State Fair 1893. Every horse owner who values his stock should [constantly have a sup- ply of It on hand. It improves and keeps took in the pink of [condition. 'Manhattan Pood Co 1253 Folsom St., San Francisco ABk your grocers or dealers for it. Positively Cures Colic, Scouring and Indigestion. C F. KERTELL, Manager RED BALL BRAND. Every owner of a good Mare will look this Directory over carefully. BE SURE YOUR HORSE IS IN IT. The Xmas Edition will be a handsome and interesting number and will contain matter that will make it valuable for reference, and as an advertising medium it will give SURE RESULTS. Make arrangements for space NOW and get a "front seat." DON'T PUT IT OFF! Call or Write for particulars at once. An advertisement in this issue will reach all of the people on this Coast who are interested in Horses, Cattle, Dogs, Shooting and Fishing. NO INCREASE IN RATES. Single Copies, iOc. Subscription, $3 per year Breeder and Sportsman, 36 GEARY ST., SAN FRANCISCO December 12 1903] ©He fgveeitex: attir gp&vtaxnati 16 RALLISTITF ■■^^ The Standard Dense Powder of the World. ^^^ 1901— Wins Second in Grand American Handicap at Targets. 1902— Wins First in Grand American Handicap at Targets. 1908— Wins during Grand American Handicap week at Kansas City. First Amateur Average in Regular Events. Third General Average in Regular Event ALL OF ABOVE ARE AMATEUR RECORDS. Take No One's "Word. Try It for Yourself. J H LAU 8l CO 75 CHAMBERS ST„ NEW YORK CITY ** ■ ' ' " ^*^ W *** \^ V^ a Telephone 1747 Franklin. Importers and Dealers In Fire Arms, Ammunition and Fencing Goods. Sole Agents for BALLISTITE (Dense) and EMPIRE (Bulk) Smokeless Powders and the REBLE GUN. A postal brings catalogue and "Shooting Facts" (third edition) RALLISTITF ™^^ The Standard Dense Powder of the World. "™""" Parker Automatic Ejector The "Old Reliable's" Latest Attachment New York Salesroom 32 Warren St. PARKER BROS., Meriden, Conn, ci NEW E.C." NEW "SCHULTZE" SHOTGUN RIFLEITE » THE MBICMI "E. G." and "SCHULTZE" Gunpawdsr Co., Ltd Mina facta red PHIL. B BEKEART CO., Paclflo Coast Representative, CAMPBELL'S EMOLLIO IODOFORM GALL CURE For GALL BACKS and SHOULDERS, CRUPPER SORES and SADDLE GALLS there is none superior. The horse CAN BE WORKED AS USUAL For BARBED WIRE CUTS, CALKS, SCRATCH- ES, BLOOD POISONED SORES and ABRASIONS OF THE SKIN it has no equal. It is very adhesive and easily applied to a watery as well-as a dry sore. Its use will absolutely prevent BLOOD POISON- ING. In this respect there is no Gall,. Cure offered which can justly even claim to be a competitor. We placed it on the market relying wholly on its merit for success, and notwithstanding the fact that comparatively little has been done in the way of advertising the salesof 1900 were 100 per cent great- er than the aggregate sales of Gall Cure preceding that year. This increase was entirely due to its MERITS, and from it we feel justified in saying that it is THE GALL CURE OF THE 20TH CENTURY. It Is a quick and sure cure for those troublesome skin cracks under the fe -"ckv aioh Injure and often lay up race horses. All Trainers Should Have It In Their Stables PRICE:— 3 OZ. BOX, 25c; 1 LB. BOX, SI. 00. Read our "ad." on Campbell's Horse Foot Remedy in next issue of this pap* r. JAS. B. CAMPBELL & CO., Mfrs.,412 W. Madison St., Chicago, III. Sold by all Dealers In Harness and Turf Goods. If not in stock ask them to write any Jobber for it VETERINARY. DR. C. MASOERO VETERINARY SURGEON Graduate of Royal Veterinary College of Turin INFIBMARY AKD RESIDENCE— 811 Howard St.: between Fourth and Fifth Sts., San Francisco. Telephone: Main 457. Ira Barker Dalziel VETERINARY DENTIST Fancy Carriage, Sadd le and Roatf Horses for Sale Office and stable: 605 Golden Gate Avenue, Sao Francisco. Cal. Telephone South 6S1. IDx*. Wm, 3F1. S3SAX3.. M. R. C. V. S.. F. E. T. M. S. VETERINARY SURGEON. Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, England; Fellow of the Edlnburg Veterinary Medical Society; Graduate of the New Veterinary College Edinburgh; Veterinary Sur- geon to the S. F. Fire Department; Live Stock LnspeotorforNew Zealand and AustrallanColonles j ni ii/r MfiCCITT c Tr-Ai/Mr1 attheportof San Francisco; Professorof Equine | D-LArVC, /VlUrrll 1 CC IUWI>C Medicine, Veterinary Surgery, Veterinary Depart- ROSE HOTEL PIEASANTON, CAL. Enlarged, Rebuilt. Twenty-five New Rooms Newly Furnished. Electric Lights, Running Water. Up to date. A. S. OLNBY & SON - - Proprietor* Chronic Bronchitis and Catarrh ol the Bladder Cured In 48 Hours. mm CAPSULES Superior to Copaiba, Cobeb* or tnje ment University of California; Ex-President or the California State Veterinary Medical Associa- tion; Veterinary Infirmary, Residence and Office, San Francisco Veterinary Hospital, 1117 Golden Gate Avenue, near Webster St., San Francisco: Telephone West 12i. -DEALERS IS- SPRATTS PATENT. DOG CAKES REMEDIES SOAP. NEWARK, N. J. Send for free copy of " DOG CULTURE." . ST. LOUIS, MO. Pacific Coart Branch— 1324 Valencia Street, San Franouioo. Agents for " S ANITAS " Dislnfeotant. SUBSCRIBE TO Showing exact position of every horse, inoluding. the favorite, which was either first, second third or fourth at each quarter pole, also positions at start. Events reported from all parts of Canada and United States. Issued the 1st and 16th of every month, from April 15th to October 15th. Price 60c, 75c. or $1, according to Issue. For sale at all principal hotels, news stands and race tracks in the country, and publishers' office. GOODWIN BROS., 1440 Broadway, N. Y. annual Subscription, $18, which includes all semimonthly editions and two morocco bound semi-annuals. Explanatory circukir mailed free. For sale by the Breeder and Sportsman. FOR SALE. THE PACING GELDING, AL SANDY 3:26 by Wayland W., dam Rapid Ann by Overland. Can pace three heats better than 2:20. Can brush very fast on the road. Also the black pacing gelding, DOC 2:28, one or the best roadsters in the city. Can lower his record several seconds. Both horses are excellent prospects to race. For prices and further particulars address S. WATSON, 235 Douglas street, San Franolsco. ABSORBINE, JR., Will Remove And Cure a _ Weeping Sinew is/* or Gangloin Quickly. Cures any strain of the liga- ments or muscles. Proof if you want it, $1.00 per bottle delivered. MANUFACTURED by W. F. YOUNG, P- D- F.f SPRINGFIELD, - - MASS. For sale by Mack&Co..Lanfley& Michaels Co., Redin^ton & Co., J. O'Kane, and J. A. McKerron, all of San Francisco. 55-57-59-61 First Street, S. F. Thlephoni Maut'IS? £0C0ANUT OIL CAKE THE BEST FEED FOB STOCK, CHICKENS AND PIQS FOR SALE IN LOTS TO SUIT BY EL DORADO LINSEED OIL WORKS CO 208 California Stroet, Ban Franolsco, Cal, Twenty-First Annual Trials OF THE Pacific Coast Field Trials Club TO BE RUN AT Bakersfield (KERN COUNTY) Commencing Monday, Jan. 11, 1904 Judge, TV. S. HELL, Pittsburg, Pa. Members' Stake Annual Derby All-Aged Stake Champion Stake Entries for All -Aged Stake close Dec 15,1903 W. W. TAN ARSD AI.E (San Francisco) President. ALBERT BETZ, Secretary, No. 201 Parrott Bldg , 8. F.,Cal. ft5*For Entry Blanks and information address the Secretary. COLLIES. The BEACH HILL Kennels 955 First St. San Jose CHAMPION HANOVER MONARCH (A. K. C. S. B. 5998) by the great sire Ch Ellwyn Astrologer from Ch. Old Hall Moon Fee 815. Pictures and Pedigree upon applioa tion. High-class Puppies for sale* AT STUD AT STUD CUBA OF- KENWOOD (Glenbalgh Jr.— Stella) SAM'S BOW (Plain Sam-Dolly Dee H) STOCKDALE KENNELS K. M. DODGE, Manager, Bakersfield, Kern Co., Boarding. Pointer Puppies and well-broken Dogs for sale. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS Advertisements under this head one cent per word per insertion. Cash to accompany order. COCKER SPANIELS. pLTJMERIA VICTORIA— ABSOLUTELY THE ■*- best black Cooker bitch on the Coast must be sold. Make your offer to Mr. H. H. STANLEY at 125 Geary street. San Franolsco. OR SALE— COCKER SPANIEL PUPPIES by Ch. Hampton Goldle- Apply at junction old county and Redwood roads, Frultvale, Alameda F° IRISH AND SCOTCH TERRIERS. TRISH AND SCOTCH TERRIER PUPPIES 1 at {12 and $15. Sired by Champion Loyne Ruffian and Champion Fighting Mao. MBS. BRADLEY-DYNE. Saturna P. O B. C. COLLIES. COLLIE PUPS FOR SALE— BY PRIZI winning imported sires and dams, fit for bench, ranch or farm Both sexes. Prices accord- lng to quality. Correspondence solicited: all let. ters cheerfully answered. THOS. S. GRIFFITH, Box 1907, Spokane, Wash. Lira DECOY DUCKS. T IVE DECOY DUCKS— "THE DUCK HUNT- ■L* er's Friend." Will oall on sight. Call or address FAIR OAKS DUCK FARM, 350 College Avenue, Oakland, Cal. BREEDERS' DIRECTORY. HOL STEINS— Winners of erery 7 days' butter contest at State Fair 1899 1st & 2d for aged cows, 4-yr., S-yr. and 2-yr.-olds; 21 Jerseys and Durhams oompetlng. 5th year my Holsteins hare beaten Jersevs for butter. Stock for sale; also pigs. F. H. Burke, 80 Montgomery St.. S. F. JERSEYS, HOLSTEINS AJ*D DUR H Dalry Stock specially. Hogs, Poultry llahed 1878. William Nlles St Co. L Cal. A YR8HXBEB—Young Bulla, Down sou Registered. From prize winning families ftlBrandon Petaluma Cal. 16 ©he gveeftev anit gtpartsmcm (December 12, 1903 Telephone-. South 640 we Harness T0RSE BOOTS San Francisco, Cal. THE ALWAYS RELIABLE Out of 43 Contestants shooting through all the events at the Marysville Blue Rock Tournament, Oct. 11, 1903, 37 used U. M. C. Shells Those used were ACME, MAGIC, MAJESTIC and MONARCH. Out of 37 Contestants shooting through all the events at the Helvetia Rifle Club (Sacramento) Tournament, Oct. 18-19, 1903, 27 used U. M. C. Cartridges and Primers The Cartridges used were 32-40 and 38-55. A.33^EI^ETJ3NriTIOnNr Union Metallic Cartridge Company PACIFIC COAST DEPOT: 86-88 FIRST ST., SAN FRANCISCO E E DRAKE, Manager REPEATING SHOT GUNS A CHANCE FOR A DOUBLE A QUESTION often asked about Repeating Shotguns is, "How quick can a second shot be fired with »» them?" Shooters that have used Repeaters answer with one accord: ''Doubles" are just as easy to make with a WINCHESTER REPEATING SHOTGUN as they are with a double-barreled gun. The third shot that a Winchester Repeater gives often bags a badly crippled bird which otherwise would get away. Winchester Repeating Shotguns are made in "Take Down" styles in 12 and 16 gauge. F. Trap Shooting Association May 23— 23— 2*— 25 VAUGHN, - - 72 Stralghls FECDNKK, Also IODgest straight ran and first monl es at live birds Xjoetded in O. I». w. Smokeless. Winning Highest Average at All Shoots. IF TOC WANT THE BEST ASK FOR California Powder Works FACTORY LOADED SHELLS. If Tonr Dealer don't keep them write the CALIFORNIA POWDER WORKS— Office 330 Market St., San Francisco Manufacturers of HEKCDLES DYNAMITE. HERCULES GELATINE, CHAMPION IMPROVED BLASTING, BLACK BLASTING, BLACK SPORTING Also sell CAPS and to7e.SMOKELESS "* ^^^ SMOKELESS. Clabrough, Golcher & Go. RUNS Gun Goods FISHING Tackle "° "»PU-Cf ptt,^,-^. g Sfi&fi: to Hunter Arms Co., Fulton, N. Y. PHIL. B. BEKEART CO., San Francisco, Coast Representative Du Pont Gun Powder SMOKELESS, SHOT GUN and MILITARY POWDER Black Powder for Sporting and Blasting Purposes the Reputation of a Hundred Yean ii the Guarantee of C A. BAIOHT, Ajt.ot. DU PONT POWDER 519 Mission St.. Room 311, San Frasolsce, Cal You can get these Smokeless Powders in FACTORY . . LOADED DTT PONT "E. C." SCHTJXTZE SHELLS Wlist M, SHOTGUN RIELEITE BALLISTTTE LAELIN ^povi&ntatt fDBOEMBEE 19, 1M3 ConeylsiandJockeyClub RACE COURSE: OFFICE: Windsor Arcade, Sheepshead Bay, N. Y. 571 Fifth Ave.. New York EVENTS TO CLOSE Monday, January 4, 1904. FOR THE JUNE MEETING 1904. For Three Tears Old and Upwards. The Suburban. n™"™'- «■• «"•• and a "nart" Ca8h valne $20,000 The Commonwealth. *«««» ^^Va^eY'T^te* ™i« $»8,«00 The Advance. WeIeht for age' one mi,B md three rar,onsca8h ,«.. $15,000 ("The Coney Island, six forlongs, S2O0O added ] The June Handicaps] S: ^T^.^Cfe^ rSM^sooo [$15,000 ^ added— Total 8750O added. Estimated value. . J Tho Pniolif v Penalties and Allowances, one mile JJ £ nflfl 1 fle Cqiiailiy. S30OO added. Estimated value * ",""" Thp Ttlieflp Selling, one mile and a furlong « A nnfi IDC iniSlie. * S20OO added. Estimated value * *,vUU For Three Years Old. TfiA'Cn/Sfr' Penalties and Allowances, seven furlongs ( f. flAfl lllC OWlll. . «300O added. Estimated value «P U,WU The Spindrift. «*»««*. ■""> mil° ■SftJoTEStf. ■,l>MM,d« $ 6,000 For Two Years Old. The Great Trial. Pen»ItlM and Allowances, six fanongSa8h ^^ $25,000 Trip rtmihlp Fvpnt Fir8t Part' fiTO and a halr f«ri<>nes. sie.ooo cif) flflfl 1I1C UUUU1C CVCUl. Second Part, six furlongs, SIO, One. Cash value Qi.V,VVV TUt*= 7.hhvi. Penalties and Allowances, five and a Half furlongs 4 C flftfl 1 "C Z-CpUJT. 82000 added. Estimated value * tJ,UUU TUa («.;,,» Penalties and Allowances, six furlongs

Pllrrhf Penalties and Allowances, seven fnrlongs e /. Af)A I IIC rilglll. 83000 added JfistJmated value V V»UUV For Three Years Old. The September. *— ""« »<» AUo^So"^S: "' K'timiiT^'ar.V.S 6,000 For Two Years Old. Thp Autumn Penalties and Allowances, six furlongs Q r AAA 1UC AU1UIIIU, 82000 added. Estimated value » «5,UUU Tile FlatbUSh. p«al,"» ™<» Allowances, seven fnrlongs^^ ^^ $10,000 The Qreat Eastern. Hand"'ap- 6" fnr'°^8 Ca8n value $ 7,500 FOR THE AUTUMN MEETING, 1906. Thp Flltfl.r.tv Forthe produce of mares covered in 1903, six furlongs C7C AAA 1UC I UIU1I1V. SlO.OOOadded. Estimated value Jl/0,UVU Entry Blanks may be had on application to the office of the Breeder and Sportsman, .or may be obtained from the CLERK OF THE COURSE, The Coney Island Jockey Club, Windsor Arcade, 571 Fifth Ave, New York City. Speed, Breeding and Individuality RITA H. 2:11 1-4 Pacing Mare by McKinney 2:11 1-4 ELECTRO McKINNEY Brown Colt, Three-Year-Old Trotter by McKinney 2:11 1-4 K»R.lTn^r,?^ i3 3„darlt br°wn nlare wno stands nearly 16 hands high, and will weigh in racing trim about 1050 lbs This mare has had this year a very remarkable record. She started in the North- weBtern Circuit In the Stales of Oregon and Washington, and out ot eight s'arts won her first seven races and only lost four heats during the entire circuit, and has a pacing record of 2:11M. The mare "^°years°ld ana Is excellent on the road. Sbe does nnl P"11 <" 1«#, and a lady can drive her anywhere. Last spring she trotted a workout mile in 2:I8« and repeated in 2:1614, after only seven "™ iWn°,r,h„ n?T0V°l basur"e° h"i? ai2' = "> t^ Los Angeles Driving Club races, she having won all of them in which she started. This mare can step two heats below 2:lu " ELECTRO MCKINNEY Is a brown stallion foaled in 1900, and stands 15 hands 1 inoh In height SoaX?Tnn^iSV,talaJ"r?/-?'d,n2;3'«V1,1^,:'uar,er lD 3S seconds, and when a three yla - old a full mile In2:2I!£, last quarter in 32 seconds He Is perfectly Kaited and a grand individual in every respect. Weighs about 950 lbs. ELECTRO MCKINNEY is bred l in the i Durnle and is one of the best sons of McKinney alive to day. McKinney is undoubtedly the greatest s?re for Us age living or dead. ELECTRO McKINNEY was not raced this year bein- only a tnree-year ofa and not entered in »Dy stakes it was decided to hold him over. These horses are all right and there is not a thing the matter with them, but my business demands are suoU that I cannot allora to devote any time to racing them. For prices ana further particulars aadress BYRON ERKENBRECHER, 301 CURRIER BUILDING, LOS ANGELES, CAL Or inquire at Office of BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN. Futurity Stake Payments Due Jan. 2,1904 PACIFIC BREEDERS FUTURITY STAKES No. I -$6000 Guaranteed FOR THE GET OF MARES COVERED IN 1900 (FOALS BORN IN 1901) ENTREES CLOSED SEPTEMBER 1, 1900 To Trot or Face at 3 years old In 1903 and at 3 years old In 1904, at either or both ageB MONEY DIVIDED AS FOLLOWS: 1903 T wo-Year-OJd Trotters £1350 Two-Year-Old Pacers 750 Nominator Dam of Winner Trot 200 Nominator Dam of Winner Face ... 200 1904 Three- Year- Old Trotters 82000 Three Year-Old Pacers lOOO Nominator Dam of Winner Trot 200 Nominator Dam of Winner Pace... 20O Owner of Stallion, sire of Winner of Three-Year-Old Trot, when mare was bred, .fail 00 Owner of Stallion, sire of Winner of Three-Year-Old Pace, when mare was bred. . 100 LAST PAYMENT $ 1 0 ON THREE-YEAR-OLDS JANUARY 2, 1904. STARTING PAYMENTS— $25 to start in the two year-old paoe. $35 to start in the two-year- old trot. $35 to start in the three-year-old pace. $50 to start in the three-year-old trot. All starting payments to be made ten days before the flrst day or the meeting at which the race is t» take place. Nominators must designate, when making payments to si art, whether the horse entered is a trotter or pacer. Colts that start at two years old are not barred from starting again in the three-year-old divisions. PACIFIC BREEDERS FUTURITY STAKES No. 2-=$6000 Guaranteed FOR THE GET OF MARES COVERED IN 1901 (FOALS BORN IN 1902) ENTRIES CLOSED OCTOBER 1, 1901 To Trot or Pace at 2 years old in 1904 and at 3 years old In 1905, at either or both ages. MONEY DIVIDED AS FOLLOWS: 1904 1906 Two-Year-Old Trotters 81260 Two-Year-Old Pacers 750 Nominator Dam of Winner Trot 200 Nominator Dam of Winner Pace 200 Three- Year-Old Trotters 82000 Three- Year-Old Pacers 1O0O Nominator Dam of Winner Trot 200 Nominator Dam of Winner Pace.... 200 Owner of Stallion, sire of Winner or Three-Year-Old Trot, when mare was bred. .8100 Owner of Stallion, sire of Winner of Three-Year-Old Pace, when mare was bred. . 100 $10 on Two- Year-Olds January 2, 1904. STARTING PAYMENTS— $25 to fit art In the two-year-old pace. $35 to start in the three-year- old trot. $35 to start In the three-year-old pace. $50 to start in the three-year-old trot. All starting payments to be made ten days before the first day ol the meeting at which the race is to take place. Nominators must designate, when making payments to start, whether the horse entered Is a trotter or a pacer. Colts that start at two years old are not barred from starting again in the three-year-old divisions. The 810 Payment January 2, 1904, keeps your entry good to January 2, 1906. Address correspondence to the Secretary. F. W. KELLEY, Secretary. 36 Geary Street, San Francisco. E. P. HEALD, President. HARN HIGH-CLASS FINISH AND WORKMANSHIP AT MODERATE PRICES. THE BIG STOKE JEPSEN and SADDLES (INC.) 1145-47 Market St. San Francisco £ PALACE HOTEL, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA. 5 TOURISTS and TRAVELERS will, now, with difficulty recognize the famous COURT into which for twenty-five years carriages have driven. This space of over a quarter of an acre has recently, by the addition of very handsome furniture, rugs, chandeliers and tropical plants, been converted into a lounging room— the FINEST IN THE WORLD. 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Pedigrees Tabulated and type written read; for framing Write for prioe*. Breeder xnb Sportsman, 3* Geary itreet, San Francisco, Cal. December 19, 1903] ®h£ gveebev cmb ^pavt&ntan THE WEEKLY BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN F. W. KELLEY, PROPRIETOR. Turf and Sporting Authority of the Pacific Coast. — OFFICE — 36 GEARY STREET, SAN FRANCISCO. P. O. BOX 2300. Telephone: Black 586. Terms- One Year 83. Six Months 81.75, Three Months 81 STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. Money snould be sent by postal order, draft or by registered letter addressed to F. W. KELLEY, 38 Geary St., San Francisco. Cal. Communications must be accompanied by the writer's name and address, not necessarily for publication, but as a private guarantee of good faith. San Francisco, Saturday, December 19, 1903. THERE IS GREAT ACTIVITY throughout the State of California in training trotters and pacers. Pleasanton track has every stall full, and a dozen carpenters are at work putting up new ones, but they cannot keep ahead of the applications. Los Angeles is also a lively place and 175 horses are re- ported at work there. At Santa Rosa, Petaluma, Vallejo, Woodland, Sacramento, Alameda, San Jose, Salinas, Hollister, Santa Ana, San Bernardino, TJkiah, Red Bluff, Chico, Marysville, Willows, Eureka and Beveral. other points more horses are now stabled than there were last year at this time, and many applica- tions for stalls are being made by owners and trainers who will not begin working their horses before February. It looks as if there will be just about double the number of horses trained in California during the spring of 1904 that were trained here this year. All that is needed is the announcement of a half dozen good meetings to put more life into har- ness racing than has been seen h«re for some time. We have every confidence that such announcements will be made next month. The officials of the Trot- ting Horse Breeders Association lay the Board of Directors will meet January 4th and announce an ex- cellent program. If they do this there will be at least a half dozen associations that will follow suit. Harness racing for good purses will doubtless be held during 1904 at Petaluma, Santa. Rosa, Napa, Vallejo, Woodland, Sacramento, Pleasanton, San Jose, Fresno, Salinas, Hollieter, Sah Bernardino, Santa Ana and Los Angeles. This will make a big circuit, and the earning capacity of a good trotter or pacer will be considerable. The Oregon and Washington associa- tions did so well this year that they are read y to give even better purses in 1904, and they have already called a convention for January to fix dates. Harness racing will be greatly revived on the Pacific Coast next year. 'THE GREATEST SALE of Australian broodmares ever held in California will take place Monday evening, December 21st at the Occidental Horse Ex- change in this city. It is the closing out of all the horses imported by R. E. de B. Lopez of the Merriwa Farm, Pleasanton. Mr. Lopez has given up the place and intends to make his home in England, East View Farm Horsess EIGHTEEN YEARLINGS FROM PALO ALTO Stock Farm, and several other horses and mares from this celebrated farm are to be sold at auction by Fred H. Chase & Co. on Thursday, January 14th. This was the word received from Mr. Chase yesterday just before the forms of the Breeder and Sportsman went to press. In our Christmas edition, out next week, will be full par- ticulars of the sale and pedigree of tho yearlings. They are a grandly bred lot and as good as ever raised on the great farm. THE CHRISTMAS EDITION of the Breeder and Sportsman will be issued next week. From cover to cover the forty pages will be rilled with beautiful engravings and interesting articles of in- terest to horsemen and all interested in legitimate sports. The edition will be a large one, and the price will remain the same — 10 cents per copy. Send in your orders early and have a few extra copies sent to your friends in the East. New Park Speedway. The Golden Gate Park Commissioners have had plans drawn up for a new speed track in the pam which will be a three-quarter mile oval. In the in- field will be a polo field, football gridiron and cinder path. The field will be in an amphitheater, around the sides of which there will be promenades and benches for spectators. It will be easily accessible by street cars, and is expected to prove a marked attrac- tion when completed. It will start at the foot of Strawberry Hill and will include a part of the present speedway. The polo enthusiasts have volunteered to subscribe handsomely, and it is expected the necessary funds will be readily forthcoming. The ComrnissiOD- ers do not expect the entire amount to be made up by subscription, but with a generous amount subscribed they would feel justified in going ahead with the much needed improvement. Driving Club Races. The Los Angeles Driving Club will give another matinee on Christmas Day and Mrs. Chandler, the assistant secretary, who is really the mainspring of the organization, promises that the coming holiday mati- nee will be about the best the club has given. She is authority for the statement that about twenty new members have recently joined the club and at least ten of these will enter horses. This number, in addi- tion to the large list of regulars, will certainly pro- vide enough nags to furnish all the racing the mem- bers and their friends could want — Los Angeles Sport, ing Xeios. Barondale Weanling Sells for $500. San Jose, Dec. 16, 1903. -Ed. Breeder and Sportsman, Dear Sir: — On Tuesday I sold the weanling colt Golden Baron by Barondale 2:11 J, dam Mary B. by Wilkes Bqy to Mr. "Geo. O. Need of Gait, California, for $500 cash. This colt is a natural born trotter, and is one of the greatest bred ones in the land. He has eighteen great brood mares in his pedigree. The ad. in your good paper did the business. I have only two others bred just like him and I think they will soon he sold. Yours very truly, Tom James. THE BIG STAKES of the Coney Island Jockey Club for the June and Autumn meetings of 1904, together with the great $75,000 Futurity of -1906, are advertised to close Monday, January 4, 1904. : The money which these stakes will distribute to the win- ners aggregate $266,500, and is divided between 21 races. The stakes are for two-year-olds, three-year- olds and- aged horses, and comprioe all the big events of the year at the great course at Sheepshead Bay, such as the Suburban, the Commonwealth, the Ad- vance, the Great Trial, the Double Event, the Flat- bush, the Gieat Eastern and several others that have become classics of the running turf. Read the adver- tisement in this issue and Bend to this office for entry blanks. Answers to Correspondents. J. G. L., Cosumnes, Cal. — Please give the pedigree of Patchen Girl, owned Dy J. W. Wilson of Sacra- mento, who raced her. She afterwardB died on the Rancho del Paso. Also the pedigree of Alaska 14429. Answer — We cannot find any record of Patchen Girl. Write to Mr. Wilson, Sacramento. Alaska 14429 is by Electioneer 125. Dam Lucy by Washing- ton, son of Geo. M. Patchen 31, second dam Columbia Maid by Williamson's Belmont. No stallion in California is siring handsomer foals than Bonnie Direct 2:05}. He put6 a finish on all his get that gives them "class" in looks, and all seem to have Bpeed. The brown filly by him that Jenny Mac 2:09, foaled last June at Pleasanton is now six months old, and this week Mr. C. L. Griffith, owner of Bonnie Direct became her owner. Mr. Griffith sent his check for $300 to Dr. Book of Los Angeles and agreed to give the Bervices of Bonnie D'rect to Jenny Mac free in 1904, in payment for the filly. Jenny Mac is by McKinney 2:11}, and is the dam of Silver Coin 2:11} and Cuate 2:18. Her dam is the famous broodmare Leonor 2:24 by Dashwood. Leonor is the dam of Doc Book 2:10, Jenny Mac 2:09, Miss Jessie 2:133 and Judd2:24}. | The new mile trotting track in the vicinity of Chicago is not only an assured fact, but a trotting moetitgwill also be given. The track is located at Liberty ville, twenty eight miles from the city. The association, which is composed of Chicago and Lake county horsemen and capitalists, has just absorbed the Lake County Fair association, and will sell its buildings and move the annual exhibition to their new grounds, on which new and better buildings will be erected during the coming year. There are 175 harness horses in training at the Los Angeles track. Quite a large proportion are matinee horses owned by members of the Los Angeles Driving Club. Eureka 2.15}. ch. g. by Ira, dam by Nutwood, 9old for $400 at the Old Glory Sale. Strike!— if they don't give you Jackson's Napa Soda when you ask for it. Monroe Salisbury got in Tuesday, Dec. 15th, from the East with two carloads of horses, thirty in all. They were in charge of Charles De Ryder and George Edwards, assisted by a small army of grooms. ' Mr. Salisbury reported an uneventful trip and the horses looked to be in fine condition when unloaded. In the cars were Duke Direct, full brother of Directum Kelley; Diablito by Diablo; Fire Escape, a two year old filly by Directum Kelley; Alma Vesta, a four year old filly by Direct; an unnamed two year old filly by Direct; an unnamed three year old pacer by Directum Kelley; Consuela 2:124, by Directum; Judge Green 2:10}, by Directum; Leonora 2:18, by Mendocino; Monroe 2:12}, by Seymour Wilkes; Fred Direct by Direct; California Cresceus, two year old by Mendo- cino; Direct Will, four year old, by Direct; Black Thorne, by Hawthorne; Venus, four year old, by Direct; a green mare by McKinney; a black two year old trotter by Directum Kelley; Phylis Kelley, a full sister to Directum Kelley; a three year old pacer by Direct; a yearling filly by Direct; a three year old filly by Directum Kelley; a two year old filly by Directum Kelley; Direct View 2:14J, by Direct; Ophelia Prin- cess, two year old, by Directum Kelley; Mush 2:08 j, by Lottery Ticket; a black two year old pacer iy Direct. Last but not least in the bunch is a beauti- ful stallion Baron Oaks by Oakland Baron, dam Alma Wilkes by Baron Wilkes, second dam Almeta by Almont 33, third dam Alma Mater, one of the greatest broodmares in the world. This stallion will make the season at Pleasanton. With a couple of excep- tions these horses are the property of Mr. Butler, the millionaire grocer of New York. — Pleasanton Times. Cocained the Driver. One of the funniest things that occurred duringthe season of harness racing just closed was during a pacing race in one of the last of the big meetings of the season. A horse in the race with speed enough to win was unsteady, owing to hitting one of his knees', ' and his owner who had backed him quite heavily had. begun to look upon his money as lost. An observing horseman who saw the way things were going went to the owner and said, "Do you want to win this race?" "Do I?" said the owner, "do Hook as though, I had .money to throw away?" "If you will tell your driver to take his directions from me I will see that your horse wins, " went on the friend. The' owner agreed and gave his driver instructions to that effect. The friend went and got a bottle filled with a mixture of cocaine and menthol and told the driver to moisten his fingers with the mixture and brush it lightly on the horse's sore knee just before starting out for the next heat of the race. The driver knew nothing about what the bottle contained, but concluded that if a little of it was good more would be better, and so when it came time to use it he poured out a quantity of it in his hand and proceeded to rubit on the horse's knee briskly with both hands. The stuff worked all right on the horse and he went on and won the- deciding heat of the race, oblivious to the rapping his sore knee got, but it also worked on the driver's hands. They were, to all practical purposes, para- lyzed when the heat was finished, and he was obliged to call for assistance to get him out of his sulky. To the few who knew about the affair, it was a decidedly humorous happening, and when the owner, who is one of the hestknown amongthe owners of the Grand Circuit campaigners, learned about it, he remarked that he had been racing horses for a great many years, but that this was the first time he had seen a driver cocained in order to enable bis horse to win a race. — Chicago Horseman. Polo Events at Burlingame. The Burlingame Club is arranging for a series of important polo events. The first of these will be a polo carnival during Christmas week, with games almost daily during the holidays, the most important of which will be on New Year's Day, the series to cul- minate with a grand ball at the club house. The carnival will be attended by all the polo players within reach, and some exciting contests are in pros- pect. The present plans of the country club contem- plate a regular polo association to be organized early in the coming year, and another tournament is to be held in March in which no less than six teamB will participate. Two of these will be from England, two from the South and two from this section and possibly Honolulu with one or two. The object of the associ- ation will he to promote liberal sports of all kinds, especially polo. The bay gelding Dexter B. foaled 1895 by Dexter Prince out of Bell Bird, daughter of Electioneer Beautiful Bells, was sold at tbe Fasig-Tipton in New York this month for $460. ®tt£ gvee&ev anb &pttvt&xnati I December 19, iso; Death of Hon. Jesse D. Carr. [Salinas Journal, Dec. 12.1 Friday morning at 3:25 o'clock Hon. Jesse D. Carr, the well known citizen and highly respected pioneer, passed into rest after less than a week's illness. For several days his death was expected, tired nature holding out stubbornly in the unequal contest. At the end he passed away peacefully, surrounded by his sons, John S. and Larkin W., and his daughter, Mrs. JeBsie D. Seale, and his grandchildren, Louise D., Jesse and Stirling Carr. The deceased was a native of Tennessee, where he was raised on a farm and attended school until he was 16 years of age, when he went to Cairo, Illinois, and worked in a store, returning at the age of 18 to Nashville, in his native state, where he clerked in a store for six years. He then went into business in Memphis, but through his partner's loss of mind met financial embarrassment, which he paid off in a short time, dollar for dollar. It is a matter of interest that the first brick house ever built in Memphis was con- structed by Mr. Carr in 1840. When the Mexican war broke out Mr. Carr was in business in New Orleans, when he accepted an ap- pointment as sutler in the United StateB army. While in Mexico, juBt before thebattleof BuenaVista, the commissary train bearing $40,000 worth of Mr. Carr's goods was attacked by the Mexican General Urea. About half of the 180 persons accompanying the train were killed and all of Mr. Carr's goods cap- tured. General Taylor is credited with saying that the capture of the train prevented his defeat at Buena Vista, as General Urea had disobeyed orders in order to capture this train, which he believed carried $500,- 000 of government money to pay off the soldiers. His acquaintance with General Taylor ripened into friendship during the Mexican war, and when after its close General Taylor became president he ap- pointed Mr. Carr deputy collector of the port in San Francisco, where he arrived August 18, 1849. The next year Mr. Carr was elected a member of the assembly of the first legislature of California, in which he took an active and prominent part, serving as chairman of the committee on commerce. In 1853 he came to the Pajaro Valley and while I'.ving there was elected a member of the Santa Cruz county board of supervisors. He set out the first apple orchard in the Pajaro Valley, now the best known apple growing region in the State. In 1859 he came to the Salinas valley where he acquired large landed possessions and continued to live here until his death. From 1866 to 1876, he was one of the largest star-route mail contractors in the West, and was for many years engaged with the late Major Buckley in running the Coast Line Stage Co. 's stages between San Jose and Los Angeles. His star-route and mail contract business caused him to make yearly trips across the continent for a number of years, and his striking personality made him as familiar a figure in Washington as in San Francisco, and for many years no one on the Pacific Coast had more in- fluence with his party at the national capital than had Mr. Carr. He was an uncompromising democrat and was frequently a delegate to the national conven- tions, and was several times a presidential elector. Up to the hour of his death he took a great interest in fin* horses and cattle, and for many years was a prize winner at the state and district fairs. He shipped from Kentucky to this State in the early '70s the standard bred trotting stallion Mambrino 1789, known as Carr's Mambrino. The stock interest of this valley and State owe much to Mr. Carr's intelli- gent and active interest in developing the horses and cattle industry.. From the date of the organization of the Monterey Agricultural Association, District No. 7, Mr. Carr was its president. He also served a few years ago as president of the State Agricultural Society, for several yearB. In local business affairs the deceased always had a leading part. A man of strong purpose and in- domitable energy, he was naturally foremost In all enterprises affecting the material interests of Salinas and of Monterey county. He helped to establish and was the first president of the Salinas Bank, one of the solid financial institutions of the State. At the time of his death he was president of the Bank of Monterey, at Monterey, this county. He established the I. O. O. F. library in this city, con- tributing $5000 therefor, and in honor of his memory the local lodge will turn out in a body to-morrow and accompany the remains to Cypress Lawn cemetery, near San Francisco, where they will be deposited in the coBtly family vault. The subject of this sketch was twice married. His first wife by whom he had two 80ns, Larkin W. and John S., died in Tennessee, in 1840, and the death of his second wife occurred in California in 1864. By the second marriage there were two daughters, Mrs. Jessie D. Seale, now of San Francisco, and Louise A., who died in infancy. It may be truly said of the deceased that his life task wasa huge one, but heperformed it to the letter, working it out with an unswerving zeal and rare in- telligence up to the very last. He was in the world's estimation a thorough going, public-spirited citizen; In his friendships he was open-hearted, plain spoken and loyal in all situations. His hand was ever open when sickness or want made its claim upon his gener- osity. A useful life has closed and a good man has gone to hiB reward. The funeral services were held Sunday morning at the Lincoln-avenue M. E. Church South. His old pastor and friend, Rev. Dr. J. C. Simmons, preached the funeral sermon. At its close the I. O. O. F. lodge accompanied the remains to the 11:25 a. m. train. The remains were taken to Cypress Lawn Cemetery, San Francisco, for interment. « Board of Review, N. T. A. Much business of interest to the Pacific Coast associations affiliating with the National Trotting Association, as well as the trotting horsemen of this section was transacted at the meeting of the Board of Review held at New York, December 1st to 4th. The question of the Classification of time per- formances was discussed and the Board declined to pass such performances up to the American Trotting Register Association, but recommended that the question be taken up by a conference Board represent- ing both associations and disposed of. As the joint committee of the National and Ameri- can Associations will meet February 10, 1904 to dis- cuss necessary changes in the rules and to keep the rules uniform, the secretary was instructed to ask members and the trotting horsemen of the country to send to him such suggestions as may occur to them for the betterment of theii interests. Such sug- guestions will be laid before the Joint Committee for consideration. A resolution was passed that the National Trotting Association enter into the same reciprocal relations with the affiliated trotting clubs of New Zealand that now exist between it and the trotting associations of Europe. It was ordered that all the unremoved suspensions imposed by associations whose membership has ex- pired and not been renewed for three continuous years be cancelled in accordance with the by-laws. The following cases of interest to our Pacific Coast readers were disposed of as stated: 4282 — A. C. Froom, Portland, Oregon, Fred Brooker, 41 Morrison St., No. Yakima, Wash., C. P. Webb, Portland, Oregon, H. B. Rutherford Walla Walla, Wash., S. S. Bailey, per I. C. Mosher, Los Angeles, Cal., Lars Peterson, Seattle, Wash-, vs. W. G. Durfee, University P. O., Los Angeles, Cal., and b. m. Sweet Marie. Applica- tion for an order under Rule 15, Section 2. Case dismissed. 4290— Conway Brothers, Seattle, Washington, vs. Snohomish County Agricultural Association, Everett, Washington. Application for an order. Case dismissed. 4291— Fred Brooker, North Yakima, Washington, Lars Peterson, Seattle, Washington, S. S. Bailey, Los Angeles, Cal., A. M. Carr, Butte, Montana, A. C. Froom, 41 Morrison St., Portland, Ore., H. B. Rutherford, Walla Walla, Washington, C. P. Webb, Portland, Ore., vs. H. N. Berry, Los Angeles, Cal., W. G. Durfee, University P. O., Los Angeles, Cal., Wm. Garland, Los Angeles, Cal., and b. g. Briney K., and b. m. Sweet Marie. Application for an order under Rule 9, Section 1. Protest not sustained. 4296— Joseph Long, Eureka, Cal., ex parte. Applica- tion for an order as to the record made by the b. m. Nellie R., at Eureka, Cal., September Ordered, That the time of the b. m. Nellie R., in the third heat of free for all at Eureka, Cal., September 19, 1903, was 2:19$ instead of 2:18 as erroneously reported. 4355— Boyd Brothers, Anaconda, Montana, ex parte. Application for release of the b. m Julia Shake from suspensions imposed by order of the Agri- cultural Association, District No. 40, Woodland, Cal., September 23, 1901, and the District Agri- cultural Association No. 6, Los Angeles, Cal November 1, 1901. Application denied. 4361— Moody G. Liggett, Hanford, Cal., vs. Kings County Agricultural Association, Hanford, Cal. Application for removal of fine imposed. Application denied. 4379— Byron Erkenhracher, 507 Bradbury Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal., Willard H. Stimson, 507 Bradbury Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal., ex parte. Application for removal of expulsion of b. m. Sweet Marie imposed September 17, 1903, by order of Oregon State Board of Agriculture. Application denied. Jake Brolliar Will Have a String. ViSALrA, Dec. 14, 1903. I Breeder and Sportsman— Mr. Geo. W. Kirkha has recently bought of Mr. R. O. Newman for a lot1 price one of the greatest green trotting mares I evi saw. She is by Robert Basler2:20 (sire of Jone-ii Basler 2:11}) ont of Peerless Maid (dam of DeBei nardi Basler 2:16}) by Strathway, second dam Sub K , grandam of Homeward 2:13}, the sire of Georf G. 2:12$. This mare is coming five years old th1 spring and is just now being broken to work. She one of the most blood-like individuals and a pm gaited trotter. Hitched to a heavy long shaft brea ing cart, with two men seated in it, Bhe can head a automobile down the road any time she is sent afti it, without any seeming knowledge of any ability i run as fast or faster than she can trot. I have arranged my affairs to work a string of trac horses, and Mr. Kirkham's new purchase will be und< my charge together with three or four young Ston ways that are destined to put this stallion where 1 belongs on the map as an extreme speed producin sire. My two year old filly My Way 2:30 is winte ing nicely and if she goes to the races at all ne) year she will be fit, and I'll give you a quiet ti that if she meets up again with Seymow he will more of her than he did in the stake this year. Several trainers here have made a bid for the trail ing of the great young stallion Robert Direct, knoi ing that he can't well fall short of being a star, bi without solicitation on my part Mr. Newman inforn me that Robert Direct will be sent to my school whe he shall have finished his spring stud duties. Quite a number of good horses will leave the! parts to race on the Central California Circuit in 19( if it is organized as intimated by the Breeder an Sportsman, which I hope will be the case. Jake Brolliar, 3i H isi 0/ fei! I HI lllll Under One Jurisdiction. ili 10I There will be no war between the New Californi Jockey Club and the Ascot track at Los Angeles, a agreement having been reached between the tw. organizations. President Williams and Vice-Pret dent Adam Andrew of the fir6t named organizatio returned this week from a visit to Lob Angeles am Mr. Williams gave out the following for publication "Last May the Pacific Jockey Club waB formed I have jurisdiction over racing this side of the Rock mountains. President Epes Randolph of the Lo Angeles racing association has been ill and fo that reason went to Arizona some time ago. Johl A. Muir, Vice-President, intended some two week ago to come to San Francisco to confer with mem , bers of the Pacific Jockey Club, but was suddenl; also taken ill. W. E. Dunne, a director of the Lo Angeles Jockey Club, telegraphed me and an appoint ment was made. He came up here and consulted witl Mr. Andrew and myself and then, upon his invitation we visited Los Angeles. The result of our visit wa, the election of John A. Muir and W. E. DunDe ai members of the Pacific Jockey Club. The Asco' Park, the Seattle Racing Association and the Ne» California Jockey Club are now under the ju-isdictioi and racing under the rules of the Pacific Jockej Club." te Mr. Devereux is strongly of the opinion that hit great Btallion John A. McKerron, will do much bettei next year as he was both tired and lame when b£ trotted in 2:04$. Here is what he say6: "McKerron should have been given a rest long before he was re- tired. At the time of the Grand Circuit meeting here in July he showed some signs of lameness, but in con sequence of his engagements and the hopes that »e had of reducing the splint, we kept on training him for speed. Finally when I sent him at Syracuse he was very bad off and it was simply cruelty to drive him. But President Roosevelt was there and I hated to break my promise to Senator Horace White. Con sequently I drove him a mile which was nothing short of remarkable under the circumstances, as there was not a step of the way in which he was not in distress. Yet, he finished in 2:04$." >_• The gelding Stanley Dillon that is in Ed Geer6 string and which is being talked about so much as s coming 2:05 trotter is by Sid ney Dillon out of Athenian by Stelnway, second dam Ida Wood, dam of Owyhee 2:11 and Babe Marion 2:17$ by Simmons, and third dam by Mambrino Patcben. Stanley Dillon has had his present name conferred on him by his present owner. He waB Bold at the Blue Ribbon sale last May under the name of Andre. He trotted a trial mile in 2:21 with the last quarter in 32$ seconds before leaving Pleasanton last spring. Wilkes Stallions for Sale. Mr. P. H. McEvoy of Menlo Park is offering several desirable young Wilkes stallionB for sale as will be Been by an advertisement in another part of this If the difference between a mile on the straight- away and that of a circular course is but that of the running records over the two ways of going then Lou Dillon's quarters in 25J seconds over the New York Speedway would mean a quarter in the neighborhood of 27$ seconds over a regulation course. Lou could probably trot a quarter on an oval course pretty close to that of her Speedway performance. DECB&8EB 19, 1903] 1&l\s gveeiwv «uS> gpovxatnan A competent trainer and race driver desires a .tuation. See advertisement. Andy McDowell returned to Austria last week with bout fifty bead of horses in his charge. The best picture of Sidney ever printed will appear ji the Christmas number of the Breeder and PORTSMAN. J. B. Stetson is wintering sixteen head of horses at oiBe, Idaho, and will have a good string of horses nt next year. ! W. O. Trine, of Corvallis, has purchased the Guy yilkes stallion Guycesca, and will place him in the pud next season. ADzolla2;06|, that won over twenty-one thousand ollars in Millard Sanders' hands in 1902, is back in is string- at Memphis. Don't forget that the Occident Stake for 1906 closes January 1st. It will be a big stake and worth win- ning as the chances are it will exceed this year's stake in value and that was worth over $2500 to the winner. Some men go clear through the Grand Circuit with a whole string of horses and don't win that much money. Sadie Mac's winnings the past year amount to $18,800. Her winnings, together with amount of money won by the Sherman stable on half-mile tracks, and which is between $8000 and $9000, places Lon McDonald, driver of Sadie Mac and the Sherman stable, pretty close to the top of the list of winning drivers of the season. Rose- Dale Stock Farm, Santa Rosa, has sold to .ustralian parties for $1000 a fine large mare by Daly 15, dam by Dexter Prince. Only four trotting stallions have earned race records Btter than 2:07— Cresceus 2:03}, Directum 2:05}, iingen 2:06i and Rhythmic 2:06}. A thoroughly competent young man that has had tuch experience desires a position as manager of a mall stock farm. See advertisement. Among the horses that are in Millard Sanders' •ring at -Memphis is the mare Anzella 2:06} with hich he won so many good purses in 1902. It looks now as if Country Jay (2:10!) would never et to the races again, as his lameness has not been xrei, and doesn't look as if it ever would be. After a long, illness, extending overa period of three ears, Mr. F. M. Mosier, a well known trainer and river, died at his home in Los AngeleB last week. It is announced that Senator J. H. Bailey has en- aged the veteran trainer and race driver, Charles [arvin, to train his horses again the coming year. McKinney is said to be in finer shape than ever this winter, and his book for 1904 is nearly lull already, as Ir. Gentry will limit him to thirty-five mares outside ■is own. ' The trotting mare Dolly Dillon 2:061} is located for he winter at Locust Grove Farm, near Castle Penn. »oe of her farm companions is Mendol, a full brother if Idolita 2:09}. , 1 Bert Logan will be one of the horses they will all be liking aboot at Pleasanton next spring. He is just bout the sweetest gaited youngster that paces, and i quarter in 31 seconds seems like play for him now. , Geers visited Village Farm theotherday and drove telle Hamlin, 2:12}, the first 2:30 trotter the Hamlin's Ver bred The famous old mare was foaled more aan a quarter of a century ago, but still has quite a lUrn of speed. ' It seems that E. E. Smathers did not purchase ■toney 2:02, as reported, but that the party who owns he son of McKinney 2:11} purchased of Mr. Smathers le gelding Shadow Chimes 2:05, and will drive the wo pacers double. According to the 2:30 list published by Tlie Ameri- m Horse Breeder, Onward is now the sire of 182 rotters and pacers with records of 2:30 or better, hile Red Wilkes has 177 in the same list. Nutwood i credited with 179. " Kentucky Union 2:07} is now owned by Senator J. IF. Bailey of Texas, and will be bred to Prodigal :16. She has produced two foals by the noted I'illage Farm stallion, Chimes 2:30}. A full sister of Kentucky Union produead the stallion Onward Silver :05}. A postal has been received at this office from Tur- ick, Cal., addressed to "Owner" who advertised a acing gelding for Bale. The writer of the postal eglectedto affix his signature to the inquiry con- iquently the information he desires cannot be sent ) him. If you want to preserve beautiful pictures of Sidney ,'illon and Lou Milton, get the Christmas number of ie Breeder and Sportsman. Both are beautiful alf tone etchings made from photographs taken ipecially for this journal by Chas. Weidner. They re worth framing as they are works of art. Palmer & Harlan, of Walnut Creek, has sold the ark chestnut colt Diogenes to Homer Saxe and Budd 'oble. Diogenes is a trotter and will be three yearB Id in the spring. He is by Diablo 2:09} and his dam Alice G. 2:36 by Brigadier, second dam the thor- ughbred mare Hatchet by Norfolk. Hatchet carried >ts of-the thoroughbred blood that has helped to roduce fas-t trotters as her dam was by Owen Dale, )n ofWilliamson's Belmont, and her second dam, llean or. Margrave by Margrave. There are no better red ones than Diogenes,, and Mr. Doble will work Im some at the Alameda track. James Thompson, the well known trainer, wants two good green horses. He deBires a trotter that can step around 2:15 and a pacer that can show 2:10. Now James didn't come from Missouri, but he is buying on that plan and would rather have the horBes show the speed than to hear tell about it. But he is ready to pay the good hard cash for what he wants. There are 160 horses now in the stalls at Pleasanton track — more than were ever quartered there before. Thos. Ronan, the proprietor of the track, says he will try to accommodate all who come theie and when the 42 new Btalls are completed, which will be within the next two or three weeks, they will be filled up by trainers who have already applied for them. There will be 200 horses working at Pleasanton by January 1st. Pleasanton track is to be widened from the three- quarter pole the whole length of the stretch to the first turn. The widening will be done on the outside of the track leaving the inside measurement the same as at present which is a regulation mile. When the work is complete the width of the Btretch will be 75 feet. The work will be commenced as soon as the 42 new stalls now in course of construction aro com- pleted. Mr. A. G. F. Stice, formerly of Los Angeles, who for the past year or sd has been conducting the Rose Hill Stock Farm, Brookfield, Mo , with the great Nutwood stallion, Manager 2:07}, at the head of the stud, has purchased a farm at Monmouth, 111., and will have Manager in the stud there the coming season. This establishment will be known as the Stice Stock Farm. Ten mares are distinguished by having produced three trotters with records in 2:15 and better. They are Lemonade 2:27} by Kentucky Prince Jr., Chestnut Belle by Red Wilkes, Alaska 2:27} by Alcyone 2:27, MontroBe by Sultan 2:24, Medio by Cooper Medium, NemeBis 2:28 by Nutwood 2:18}, Puella 2:29 by Post Boy 2:23, Rena B. by Cyclone 2:23J, Jeanne by Ken- tucky Prince and Ethelwyn by Harold. Mr. C. A. Harrison, of Los Angeles, was in this city this week on his way to Seattle. Mr. Harrison saw the advertisement of Mr. Byron Erkenbrecher's colt in the Breeder and Sportsman and says that the person who buys Electro McKinney will have a high-class horse. Mr. Harrison timed this colt as a yearling a quarter in 35 seconds at the Los AngeleB t :ack, and says there never was a nicer gaited trotter. Judge Green 2:10}, the fastest four year old of 1903, arrived in Pleasanton with the Salisbury string last week and is a much better looking horse than whtn he left California last spring. He is considered by Mr. Salisbury to be thebeBt prospect in his class there is in the country and he should be a big winner next season barring accidents. The gelding iB owned by Judge W. E. Greene of Oakland, but waB not named by him. Mr. Salisbury gave him the name when en- tering him this year. It's a good name, too. A well known New York trainer who is a believer in Bpeedway work as the part of a young trotter's education, especially in teaching him to score, says: There are many horBes racing down the drive all the the while in bunched that if you have a horse that is not up to snuff in scoring and makes frequent mis- takes in scoring, and makes frequent breaks, the driver can get him to going again and take up with another bunch of horses, until finally there is so much going on that the unwilling scorer gets onto the game with all four feet, and before he knows it haB learned hia lesson so well that he does not forget it. This sounds like common sense and it is borne out by the fact that during the past two or three seasonB several of the horse6 most prominent on the speedways have g(ne out and raced on the tracks with the best horses of their class, Swift 2:07, Queen Wilkes 2:10} and Tiverton 2:11}, being some of those out the past season Don't get prejudiced against color if you are breed- ing for speed. The Horse World says: "Reports from Kentucky say that L. V. Harkness, owner of the famous Walnut Hall Farm, is trying to buy as many of the well bred daughters of Jay Bird as he can pos- sibly get hold of. When he established Walnut Hall Farm, Mr. Harkness is said to have had a prejudice againBt the daughters of Jay Bird on account of the roan color which follows the family so persistently, but likemany others who were prejudiced against this branch of the Wilkes family for the same reason, he was forced to change his mind by the actual merit of Jay Bird's blood as a speed producer. It seems that Moko, the head of the Walnut Hall stud, was mated with two daughters of Jay Bird and each of the re- sulting foals trotted faster that 2:20 as two-year-olds. This was enough to satisfy Mr. Harkness that it was time to drop his prejudice against the Jay Bird color, and he is now ready to buy all the good daughters of that horse that he can get." Racing will begin at the new track, Ascot Park, Lob Angeles, December 24th. Manager J. W. Brooks announces the following officials foi the meeting: Col. A. W. Hamilton, presiding judge; Edward Cole and Ralph H. Tozer, associate judges; Dick Dwyer and Jake Holtman, starters; Ralph H. Tozer, clerk of the scales; Edward Jasper, racing secretary and handicapper; Capt. T. B. Merry and Charles F. Sanders, official timers. G. E. Smith, of Petaluma, is working several horses at that track, but will not try to make any speed with them until after the rainy season is over. He has a very promising yearling by Meridan 2:12} out of the dam of Teddy the Roan 2:17! tkat is a pure gaited trotter and a nice looker. He belongs to Dr. Proctor of Meridian. A four year old trotter by Briar Hill is also a good one, as is a weanling filly by Alex Button, Jr. that bears the euphonious and apt name of Pearl Button. Mr. Smith's two year old stallion Loma Wilkes by Lynwood Wilkes will be bred to a few mares next year and then trained for a record. There was a touch of high life at the track at Pleasanton Wednesday of last week when Henry Sanders matched a Diablo three-year-old mare he has been handling a short time against Al Macdonald's horse Forest W. 2:14} for $50. The race was quarter mile heats and Forrest W. won both. The fastest quarter was 31} seconds. Forest W. is a very fast horse. In the fourth heat of the Potter Stakes at Los Angeles this year he had a walk over. He went the first three quarters in slow time and then without a horse to pace him he came the last quarter in 30 seconds flat. This is the fastest quarter ever trotted over the Los Angeles track. This is the way John Trotwood Moore of Columbia, Tenn., announces the arrival of a bab7 at his house: ''To a number of kind friends who have written to me and wondered, who have sent me word and wondered, who have come by to see me, and wondered, 'Why I wasn't at Memphis this Fall, ' I beg to state that just before the Memphis meeting there was entered at my home track for the Race of Life a little pacer, who strikes a new and different gait every day and in the variety and originality of his stunts makes the solid wind shield of early June look like the perforated dust shield of the wind up. Maybe I'll get over it in time, but at the present, his side attractions in the morning alone, when the soap gets in his eyes, are more spellbinding than the antics of a hoppled pacer." In Canada, where the trotter has always had to take second place to the runner, the harness horse is rapidly growing in favor and some of the best bred trotting and pacing stallions bred in the United States have found honors over there during the la&t few years. A year ago, when the annual sale of trotters and pacers occurred in New York, the fastest stallion sold went to a Canadian buyer, that one be- ing the pacing stallion Hal B. 2:04!, by Hal Dillard. During this winter's sale another Canadian breeder bought the famous trotter and sire Oro Wilkes 2:1], by Sable Wilkes, dam by Director. This handsome black horse is probably the greatest sire ever taken to Canada, although several other meritorious sires were taken there before having made a reputation in the stud. Oro Wilkes has sired a lot of eood race- horses, including the great three year old filly Mary Gage, that broke a record of 2:16! thiB season, and Navidad 2:11}, another good winner out this year, and he will be a valuable addition to Canada's trotting-horse breeding interests. Among the horses brought from the Ea6t by Mon- roe Salisbury was the bay mare Consuela S. 2:12} by Directum. Ten years ago Mr. Salisbury was much taken with a mare by Nutwood, dam by Bell Alta, that was owned by the late Lot Slocum. Mr. Salis- bury paid Mr. Slocum $200 for the use of the mare one year and bred her to Directum 2:05}. The foal that resulted was a filly and was sold East and raced to a record of 2:12} under the name of Consuela S. Mr. Sayles of the Mariposa Stock Farm was her owner. Last year Consuela S. raised a colt and when the Mariposa Stock Farm's horses were sold at the recent Old Glory Sale in New York, Mr. Salisbury bought her, more, he says as a matter of sentiment than anything else. Since he has sat behind her a few times since reaching Pleasanton Mr. Salisbury is wondering if there is anything that can beat her trot- ting very much that has no faster record. He says he don't see why she should not get some of the money next year as she looks like one that will trot three heats in 2:10 or better, and that is money earn- ing speed for a trotter. Joe Cuicello will go to Pleasanton the first of the year with a string of tenor twelve horses. He will take with bim Mr. James Coffin's young stallion Cat- alan by Mendocino 2:19} out of Cressida 2:183 by Palo Alto 2:08}. Cassian will be in the stud during the early spring at $50 the season. He is a grand young horse and a coming trotter. Cuicello will also take with him to Pleasanton a black gelding, two years old, by Rey Direct 2:10 out of Babe Marion 2:17! by Steinway, second dam Ida Wood (the dam of Owybce 2:11) by Simmons. This youngster is a great pros- pect. He belongs to Chas. Newman, proprietor of the Rubb House in this city. Mr. Cuicello has recently added to his string a mare by Arthur Holt; she is a full sister to H. D. B. and is an excellent prospect. Another prospect in Joe'B string is a sister to Klatr- wah 2:051 that was bred at Oakwood Park Stock Farm. She wanted to trot, but did not seem to do well at the diagonal gait as when she got up speed sle would mix badly. Joe concluded she was a pacer and obanged her shoes. The firBt time he hooked her up after the change she reeled off a quarter in 40 seconds as slick as grease and she is improving all the time. A Seymour Wilkes pacing gelding is also showing speed of a high order and will be heard from. Cui- cello will have one of the best strings at Pleasanton. a ©He gveeitev anb ^poxisxmxn [December 19, 1903 The Trotter as a Show Horse. Not less remarkable for his versatility than (or hie speed, says the A; Horse Breeder, the trotting bred horse of America is fast comiDg- to be known ar •he most valuable type yet evolved in the history of ; ; horse breeding. It is a mistake to suppose that his only sphere of usefulness is on the race track or the speedway. He has demonstrated repeatedly that he . is as apt as his Yankee master at turning bis talent to new occupations and adapting himself to changing conditions of American life. Within the breed are individuals that excell for nearly every purpose for ■. which fine horses are used. Our horse shows have proved and reproved that he is at least the equal of - any carriage horse in the world. As a saddle horse . he is winning prizes every year at Madison Square Garden and at other exhibitions. Trotting bred horses are following the hounds all over the country, and many of our polo ponies show the racial charac- teristics of the trotter. The fame of the trotting bred horse as a high stepper has been won in the last few years. When the. National Hor'e Show was established, and for several years afterward, popular belief credited the English hackney with exclusive ability to fold hie knees and flex his hocks in the extravagant "style re- quired to get the ribbons at the garden. Admirers of the trotting horse at this time ridiculed the im- ported high stepper in unmeasured terms, little dreaming that in less than ten years they would be cultivating just this type themselves and boasting .that their native trotter could ape the fashionable English hackney to perfection. Major John A. Logan and Charles F. Bates were among the first to discover that a little more weight in shoeing, a change of bits and slight restraint in . driving would almost instantly convert many fast trotters into high stepping park horses of the most brilliant poise and action. At the National Horse Show of 1894 Major Logan, then a prominent breeder of hackneys and owner of the celebrated hackney sire ; Bonfire, exhibited in the open harness classes a high ..stepper called The Devil's Deputy, that defeated Joseph E. Widener's imported hackney mare Doro- thea. The discovery that Major Logan's blue ribbon . winner was a well bred trotter in disguise, caused quite a stir among horsemen, and when the fact came out soon afterward that all of the high steppers shown by Mr. Bates were trotting bred horses, it was published all over the country as a remarkable dis- closure, and probably did more to bring the trotting bred carriage horse into prominence than any other occurrence that could be mentioned. Mr. Bates was just then beginning his successful career as an exhib- itor at the horse shows, and in the next few years he brought out a long list of noted trotting bred high steppers, including Cadet, Contribute, Coitsville, Coxey, Brown Donna, Egbert, The Whirl of the Town, Sporting Life and other well known winners. Since 1895 trotting bred carriage horses have domi- nated the show rings and the sale marts. Every champion high stepper of the National Horse Show has been the offspring of a trotting sire, except in two instances, where the blood of the winners was = unknown^ says the Xew York Herald. The list in- cludes Joseph E. Widener's Dash, by Messenger Wilkes: CharleB P. Bates' Coxey, by Fred Forrest; Harry Hamlin's Cogent, by Mambrino King; Joseph E, Widener's Von HaTbinger, by Harbinger; Charles ~W. Bates' The Whirl of the Town, by Kilbuck Tom; Dr. JobhX. Wentz's Lord Brilliant, by Johnny Mack; Thomas W. Lawson'sRed Cloud, by The King, and the same owner's Flying Cloud, by Guelph. The Waldorf-Astoria cup, next to the champion- ship the most important prize of the horse show in the heavy-harness division, has been won each year, until the present by a trotting bred gig horse. In! the market the prices paid of late years for trottingj bred carriage horses have fairly rivaled the values in| vogue for winners on the track. At one public sale' held in New York a year ago forty-four head realized! $65,750, an average of $1,494. The first twenty of! hese horses brought more than 850,000. One of thenJ fetched $7,500. Excepting The Turk, a trotting bred! high stepper, sold for 87,800 in 1899, this is the highest! priced carriage horse ever sold at auction. At this' Bale a four-in-hand team realized $10,750, and at an- other sale held here last year William L. Elkinsi received $10,200 for a pair of trolling bred carriage' horses that had won the blue ribbon at the National Horse Show. At private sale some of these remarkable prices! have been surpassed. After Red Cloud won the' championship and the Waldorf-Astoria cup, in 1S99,! he was sold by Mr. Elkir. e to Thomas W. Lawson for; $10,000. James Hobart Moore is said to have paid a like sum for the trotting bred carriage horse Burling- ham. winner of the heavy weight championship last year. -ForL&rd Brilliant and Lord Golden, both well bred trotters, Dr. John L. Wentz paid $12,000, an un- precedented price for a carriage pair. Thomas W. Lawson's winning four-in-hand Red Cloud, Thunder Cloud, Whirling Cloud and Flying Cloud, cost the Boston fancier $29,000. All are trotting bred horses. It is generally acknowledged that for horse show pur- poses as a park team their equals have never been seen. With the rise of the trotting bred carriage horse there has been a corresponding slump in all foreign breeds. Nothing illustrates this fact more forcibly than the records of the National Horse Show in the divisions for hackney and French coachers. When John A. Logan and Charles F. Bates un- covered the first known winners of the trottiDg type the hackney was in the height of fashion. There were twenty-one classes exclusively for hackney stallions and mares and colts at the exhibition of 1894, and thirty breeders made 110 entries. Year by year since that time there has been a falling off, until at the exhibition of 1902 less than forty hackneys were shown by the nine breeders who made entries. For the first time, probably, the number of com- petitors fell below the number of prizes offered. French coachers, of which there were seven in one class in 1S94, had dwindled down to a single entry at the last Horse Show. The common failing of the native horse is the lack of substance. Bred for speed, the trotter is often too rangy, leggy, light boned and light bodied to fill the eye for work in heavy harness. His most ardent admirers concede ungrudgingly that the hackneys, as a class, excel in compact form, though lacking the quality or fineness of fibre, as well as speed and stamina, of the trotters. Each breed is capable of producing within itself splendid park horsesfor heavy harness But may it not be that the acme of per- fection in the American carriage horse will be reached through a combination of the two rival types, with perhaps an admixture of the blood of the French coacher? New Memphis Jockey Club Stakes. We wish to call attention to the ten stakes offered by the New Memphis Jockey Club that will close January 2, 1904. Eight of tbeEe stakes wiil be decided at the spring meeting of 1904, and two, the Tennessee Derby and Oaks, for the spring meeting of 1905 The Tennessee Derby has been increased in value from a $3000 added stake to 85000, and this should make the Derby for 1905 one of the richest stakes offered for three year oldE in the West, and should be worth, with any kind of support from the horsemen, at least 810,000. The Tennessee Oaks, with $2000 added, is already one of the richest, if not the very richest stake, offered for three year old fillies in the West. This stake should be worth about $5000. Both of these stakes are races without a penalty or an allow- ance. Every horse must carry its weight, a true Derby and Oaks — a true test, and the winner of either should be valuable for breeding purposes. No owner in the West, with a good-looking foal of 1902, can afford to overlook these events. It costs nothing to enter either, and horses can be taken out the 2d of May, or the 2d of January at a very small expense. The next declaration is due January 2, 1904. It costs 825 to get out of the Derby, and 820 lo declare out of the Oaks. Of the eight stakes that will close January 2d, to be decided at the coming spring meeting, the Mont- gomery Handicap for three year olds and upwarde, distance 1 1-16 miles, has been increased in value from a 82500 added stake to 83000, which will make the stake worth about $5500, and in addition to this, the club also adds a silver cup or plate, to the value of about $500. This race will be decided the opening day of the meeting. The Peabody Hotel Handicap, for three year olds and upwards, distance 1£ miles, has been increased from 81000 added to $1500, making the stake worth about $3000, and in addition the winner will receive a $500 silver cup or plate. This handicap will run the closiDg day of the meeting. The Tennessee Brewing Co. stake, a selling stake for three year olds and upwards, distance t of a mile; with 81000 added, was worth over 82500 last season. There is one stake for three year olds, the Hotel Gayoso stakes, with 81000 added, distance one mile, which is in the nature of a consolation for beaten horses in the Tennessee Derby and Oaks, and also a preparation for the Kentucky Derby, as the race is decided tne latter part of the meeting, and the value of the race is made with the idea not to penalty the winner in the Kentucky Derby, as the winner of a three year old race of the value of $1500, must take up a five-pound penalty in the Kentucky Derby. The club also offers three stakes for two year olds one for colts and geldings, the Gaston Hotel stakes, distance four furlongs, $1000 added, estimated value $2200; one for fillies, the Ardelle stakes, distance four furlongs, $3000 added, estimated value $2200; and the Memphis stakes for two year olds, five furlongs, with $2000 added, estimated value $4000. This stake has been increased from a 31500 added stake last spring to $2000 this year," and is a valuable stake for two year olds this early in the season. At the spring meeting of this club no purse will be less than 8400 and no handicap less than 8600 added. If enough jumping horses are at the meeting, three jumping races a week will be offered. Address all communications to the secretarv, M. N. Macfarlan. Horse in Evolution and Entertainment. The latest encyclopedia, now in press, is the only one, says the American Sportsman, to give the horse his true place in creation. This is the International Encyclopedia of 1903, edited by such eminent scholars and scientists as Daniel Coit Oilman. L. L. D.; Harry Thurston Peck, Ph. D., L. H. D., and Frank Moore Colby, M. A., late professor of economics in New York University. In this valuable work the horse iB given the follow- ing appreciative introduction: "Since the domestica- tion of the horse he has become, next to man himself, the most important factor in the business and pleasures of the world, in fact, all the practical detailB of every day human life." And we are glad, to notice also that the origin of the horse is not traced to Arabia, as in Prof. Wallace's history, and in most of the numerous other so-called horse histories. According to this new International Encyclopedia, the use of the horse is first traced to Ancient Egypt. This was before history was born, and the knowledge that he was there in existence as one of man's utilities is evidenced by inscriptions on Egyptian monuments that modern scientists and archeologists have un- earthed. Again we quote from the new encyclopedia: "Domestic breeds of horses have existed in Europe from prehistoric times. They have been improved continually by blending with Oriental horses." And we are glad to note that the contention so long maintained in the American Sportsman that the prehistoric man on the American continent had a prehistoric horse for a companion is fully maintained in this encyclopedia. The early races that inhabited this Western Continent are extinct. The only early races that history deals with are the Indians; but the works of the Mound Builders are convincing evidence that a race far superior to Indians once lived and planted and warred on this continent. What caused the Mound Builders to become ex- tinct iB no greater mystery than what caused the prehistoric horse that was contemporaneous with the Cave Man of the Old World and the prehistoric man of the New World to become extinct. It is known that the early colonists of Virginia, as early as 1640, used horses as food. If the prehistoric horse perished with the Mound Builders, may not the wild Red Man, who was the probable successor of the Mound Builders, have consumed the horse of the Mound Builder as food? On the island of Chintoteague off the coast of Vir- ginia there are still bands of wild horses and only re- cently have attempts been made to domesticate any of them. They are said to be of all colors bat uni- form in size and not over thirteen hands high. Whether these wild horses are the descendants of the pre-historic horse or are the descendants of the Span- ish horse imported early in the sixteenth century is the question. Those who claim that they have con- cocted a theory that the island of Chintoteague was formerly a peninsula, and that bands of Virginia horses that have been turned loose by the early colo- nists were cut off from the main land when the wash of the raging Atlantic seas converted the peninsula into an island. This may seem possible to those who believe that Ham, one of the sons of Noah, escaped to Africa, where he became sunburnt and established the African race. The new encyclopedia does not attempt to give the origin of the horse, but enough is stated to prove that he did not originate in any known country. Ha was undoubtedly created as man's natural companion, and is in the universal nature class. Wherever the grass grows, or wild roses bloom, or the oak tree flourishes, everywhere around the world, in the tem- perate zone, the horse has been found. As to the native country of the horse, we know now that all science will ever discern. We know that the American horse was the avaunt courier of all pioneer civilization. For two hundred years on this continent he was our sole means of travel, the most vital force in the intermingling of the early colonists with each other in the evolution of a culminating democracy. To-day, as the season just closed amply demon- strates, the horse, the harness horse, the horse of sport and pleasure, is one of the most potent forces of enlightened society. None" of the marvelous in- ventions of modern times, railroads, bicycles, auto- mobiles or any man-made machines, are capable of supplanting him in the affections of his master, or weaning the popular heart from spontaneous admira- tion of his marvelous speed and enduring attractive- ness in the domain of the most wholesome of all our national sports and pastimes. New Surrey, first class, with pole and shafts, canopy top, 1J inch rubber tire, turn under, elegantly trimmed. Original price 9420, can be bought at Kenney Manufacturing Company, 531 Market street, San Francisco, for $225. New lot of McMurray carta just arrived — 1904 models. • December 19, 1903] f£he gveebev anb ^p^vt&man than are those which have a more open conformation. The rump should be broad, but not steep nor "goose- rumped" nor "beef-rumped," like the shorthorn. Neither should the tail be set at right angles with the body, but be placed symmetrically to match the angles of the neck and head. A fine, lofty neck means a tail to match it, and vice versa. The twist should be well cut up, but the space made available by the high cut should be filled with muscle. Here they will be most efficient and least likely to become sore by The Good Horse and His Points. ■ [By Dr. I. P. Roberts of Cornell University.] One must have studied many horses critically be- fore the good aad bad points are discovered quickly, and the relative importance of each determined at its true value. Observe the well-bred horse from the front as he is led out. One can tell on the instant if he has some of the true Oriental blood in his veins. Good breeding and careful education through the centuries are seen in the face and head of the horse concussion or severe use. as easily as clean living and intelligence are observed "No legs, no horse," is an old proverb. Whoever in the face of a man. Each head has an individuality, described one leg so perfectly that it could always be We receive a good impression at first sight; we fall identified. Then how can one describe two legs, the in love with the bright, hazel, convex, alert, ex- front and hind, when they are radically different. The front leg is subjected to the greater concussion; the hind leg to the greater strain. The hind leg must be crooked at the hock, but if crooked too much the result is the weak "sickle" leg; if too little the result is a "pounder." Then, too, the foot is likely to partake of the character of the leg. That portion of the legs, froot and rear, below the hocks and knees should be naturally short and broad when viewed sideways, not roundish; and it should be thin when viewed from the rear, not much unlike a razor blade when a cross section of both are com- pared. A line drawn from hock to fetlock should be nearly straight, concave rather than convex. If con- vex it is a "curby" leg and may develop into a true pressiTe eye, set exactly on the corner of the moder- ately long, broadish, clean head. The nostrils are open, thin, and yet prominent. Wide nostrils never stretched by pain. Mouth bloodless to the bit or rein. Pointed ears are set symmetrically on the sides of a rising, prominent brain and are flexible as the wings of the pigeon. If the head is set lightly on the neck and at the right angle the correct pose Is secured, and flexibility, intelligence and courage stand out in such a taking way that some minor defects of body- form may be ignored. A beautiful, harmonious head often sells the horse and saves him from abuse, be- cause the owner comes to love the spirited intelligence and responsive service of an animal that is correctly curb. built ahead of the throat-latch If this end of the horse is good, the other end is likely to be good and able to keep up. We shall con- fidently expect the front legs to reach out true and strong and straight, not pigeon toed; the front ftet will not ba thrown out to the sides when the animal is speeded, like those of a paddling goose The breast looks like the narrow, projecting prow of a caravel. The floor of the cb< st is concave like the gentle rise of a stone arch by reason of the strong muscles of the legs. Now stoop and glance backward between all of the legs. If the inside lines are not symmetrical or the pairs are not alike, a malformation, a blemish or un- soundnessiB to be discovered. Back the horse and see whether he has lost flexibility and drags his toes instead of lifting his feet promptly and setting them down squarely in taking the backward step. Stand aside and let the horse pass quietly. Note as he passes and repasses whether the neck and body-lines are symmetrical, and the movement of the limbs har- monious.- Having studied the outlines generally, we are ready to note details. The neck may be rather slim, long- ish, with little or no "crest" or "arch," if the horse be desired for fast work; or long and flexible If for coach work; or shorter, with higher crest, if for pleasure driving; or heavy and rather short, but with high-crest, if for draft. But for all uses the neck should be set on the top "corner" of the horse, not square on the end of the body like the pig's or he will "hog" the bit and drive like a harnessed swine. In The cords just below the hock should be turned in, and the leg should not have the appearance of being too narrow from front to rear, just below the hock; nor just below the knee on the back side of the front leg a common fault in many a well bred horse. If the line from hoof to pastern be rather long and moder- ately oblique, elasticity is secured. In the draft horse the line may be shorter and straighter. If the quar- ters are not placed symmetrically on the body the toes of the hind feet will point out and the hocks will come together, or be "cow hocked." The skin should be moderately thick, firm, and fitted on to the bones below knee and hock as tightly as a kid glove on a lady's hand. The bone over which the skin is fitted should approximate ivory in texture and strength ful hackneys at the Garden, and Mr. Jordan is im- porting and breeding others that will even eclipse them. Other hackneys to win laurels in harness were notably Mr. W. H. Moore's Forest King, winner" of the Waldorf-Astoria Cup, and representatives from the Grand View Farm at Lancaster, Pa. It was most significant that Mr. Moore, who has has been one of the highest bidders in the market for the Tichenor type of standard-bred harness horse, should have gone to England for a hackney to defeat the very class of horses with which his stable is filled and for which he has, in a sense stood sponsor. From now on a most interesting battle for supremacy will probably be waged. Both sides should strive hard for the foundation of a purely American breed of carriage horse. The hackney is undoubtedly the right pattern, and whether we can produce an im- provement by pure-breeding him on this side of the water, the same as we have done with the English thoroughbred, or whether it would be better to -cross with standaid bred trotters is a matter of experi- ment which must, if tried, prove intensely valuable. On the other hand, it remains to be seen whether by selection of appropriate individuals among the standard breed similar results may be obtained. 'It may serve the breeders of both types to know that when the English hackney Forest King won the Waldorf-Astoria Cup one of the most prominent directors of the National Horse Show Association was said to have remarked that he regarded it as a calamity, the implication being added that the asso- ciation wished to foster the native horse. It may be recalled, also, in this connection, that on Saturday when the champion class was judged, Forest King was ignominiously "given the gate" and the horse he had defeated only two days before was crowned with the tri-colored rosette of supremest victory. Now, therefore, to the fray! Will the gentlemen who have spent millions of doliarB in importing and breeding the hackney with a view, of course, to establishing an American carriage horse, permit themselves to be written down as failures, who have wa3ted their money, their time and their energy — in a word, that they were fools? We wonder! And, per contra, are the gentlemen so k«enly interested in the native horse going to continue picking up their Dark-colored hoofs are likely to be of better texture specimens, haphazard, at the race tracks and from any case the neck should embrace the shoulders these two extremes. than light-colored ones. The shape of the foot is variable. The "cold-blooded" draft horse has a broader, flatter foot than the light driver or speed horse. The foot is often the point most likely to be deficient in draft horses, the heel being too open and the foot too flat. Occasionally "the hollow of the foot makes a hole in the ground." On the other hand the driving horse sometimes has a foot too hollow and narrow at the heel, in which case the foot is likely to become contracted, since the frog does not come in contact with the moist soil, loses its elacticity, becomes hard, contracts, draws the quarters in until the hoof becomes too small for the internal structure. The shoe does not pinch, but the hoof does. There is a happy medium between among the animals that do not promise sufficient speed to warrant training? We are aware of only one breeding establishment at which the standard-bred horse is to be bred methodically on strictly carriage horse lines. Among the several score gentlemen com- mitted to the hackney may be mentioned such astute men as Messrs. E. D. Jordan, F. C. Stevens, O. H. P. Belmont, F. G. Bourne, A.J. Cassatt, Jiitchell Harri- son, G. Howard Davison, Frederic S. Dennis, Rudolph Ellis, Henry Fairfax, Henry L. Higginson, William Jay, Prescott Lawrence, Edward Morrell, R. W. Rives, Winthrop Rutherford, William Sanford, William D. Sloane, Rutherford Stuyvesant, H. McK. Twombly, W. Seward Webb, J. E. Widener and a great number in Canada. broadly, not as the handle embraces the mop head. If the neck is set on the "corner," then the shoul- ders will have to be set on the body obliquely. This will give elasticity to the front limbs and they and the feet will last longer than if the shoulders were less oblique. The unsoundness of the feet is fre- quently the reault of a two straight conformation. The withers are important. The saddle horse should have high withers. Low withers are one in- dication of speed. Some saddle horses require a web- bing around the breast with ends attached to the saddle to prevent it from working backward. The horse with trotting form may require a crupper strap attached to the saddle to keep it from working for- ward. The imperfectly bred horse may have trotting hindquarters and draft-Bhaped forequarters. If so, the front end is unable to keep out of the way of the rear end; the result is over-reaching. Who has ever described a horse's back without wanting to revise the description? The Scotchman has the best brief description: "When one iB in the saddle there is nae room for anither behind." Note the body lines. A short top and a long lowei- line indicate strength and speed. If the hips be placed well forward as they should be in all four-footed, domestic animals, and the neck on the corner of the body, there is no room for a long back. "Long hind- quarters," "coupled well ahead," "a strong loin," are, in effect, synonymous expressions. Xenophon says, "If we have a double loin.it is the easier for the rider." Most of our trotters do not have prominent loins. But press the thumb and finger along the loin and you will find those steer-like muacle8 placed along the back, out of sight and danger. These muscles are evident in the good horse. Horses that are "ribbed up" closely and smoothly areeasier keepers, and their stride is shorter A horse's limbs should be placed well under the body, for the same reason that the wheels of a street car are placed well under its body, to secure a sway- ing, easy motion, instead of a pounding, inelastic OEe. Horses are of many colors, but dark browns and bright bays with dark points are preferred, since dark colors indicate fine, close-grained texture. But some one may have depreciated the value of the horse in "breaking" him, in d»ing which his mouth has become hard and unresponsive, courage turned into revenge and whip-obedience substituted for obedience to the driver's slightest wish, sent through the reins by the kind hand. So the horse should be driven before one can determine whether all of the points of a good horse are present. Four trotters purchased at the Fasig-Tipton auction sale in New York two weeks ago by W. A. Clark, Jr. of Butte, Montana, reached Pleasanton the other day, and have been added to the Clark string which is being trained by Ted Hayes. Sober up on Jaokson's Napa Soda. Hackneys Won This Year. [New York Rider and Driver.] It was a great week for hackneys in harnesB at the Horse Show in Madison Square Garden. Opponents of the breed have been contending for years that whereas the horse was very showy on the lead line, he became anchored by a wagon or cart and invaria- bly suffered defeat when pitted against the standard- bred trotter. There is no gainsaying the marvelous biilliancy and stamina of our beloved native horse, but the numbers from which he has been selected for show purposes indicate that if we intend to keep up the supply for the show ring and the park it will be necessary to begin breeding for the purpose. For confirmation of this hypothesis we need only turn to the limited source of hackneys at the comparatively few Btuds which are systematically breeding and de- veloping in this country, as against the millions of standard-bred trotters from which the native type is selected. Our frontispiece shows some of the success- Warranted give satisfaction. GOMBAULT'S CAUSTIC BALSAM A safe, speedy and positive cure tor Cuib, Splint. Sweeny, Capped Hocfc, Strained Tendons. Founder, Wind Puffs, and all lameness from Spavin, Ringbone and other bony tumors. Cures all skin diseases or Parasites. Thrush. Dinhtheria. Removes all Bunches from Horses or Cattle. A- a II V HAJt REMED V I r Bhctl militant. Kprulii*. Sow Throat, etc . i. ,1 i .< i»-i ir- BaUnm itile » i ■ ■ i urn.- ■ TBE UWMItCE-WIUUIStOllFlST.CUMlM*, Otiv ffihe #veebtv anfr gfo«Krf*ttt ^ 6QoloaU| te'n cents for maUlng expen9e. inch in diameter. Now take this little "stick of ^ stones" and break it in two and it will be found to be Experiments With Shot. the winter quarters of a worm that in warm weather r leads a life which makes a trout turn a somersault to Finaiity in shotgun experiments is not readily at- catch. I have seen the stomach and intestines of a tainable by reason of a large number of complicating trout so inflamed by these little stones that they were t ^ reguUs obtained_ In x ■ actuallv bleeding. . ., " I have caught trout with a fly where the lower part down a program of experiments there is a great of the pool would be frozen over, and nothing open temptation to multiply unduly the number of shots but the lippleatthehead. I remember catching four t0 be fireQ. The effect of such a procedure is that a in a place of this kind with a red hackle; they were obtained either in- from ten to twelve inches long, and as red as fire. X =""==h = _ put them on a nice bit of green moss, with a teaberry volves the quotation of an unwieldly mass of figures in each mouth, and sent them to a sick person who or else much of the information obtained is lost loved Ashing as well as myself, and who was besides through the necessity to summarize the results, a strict party in regard to law. I took notice he could whereby many important details disappear. On the eat and enjoy them quiteas much as if they had been *""•"* J v *, . caught in May or June. present occasion the number of rounds fired were Imagine yourself between as pretty a lot of mount- limited to fifty, this being thought sufficient to allow ains as you can find anywhere, on the bank of an old, 0( every attention being paid to details as well aB to deserted saw-mill dam, and the trout jumping as fast the general principles evolved. as possible, but you are unable to get a "rise." Ab our usual reports on the behavior of cartridges What's- to be done? I'll tell you what I did. I are based on what we call our proof barrel results, we caught a lot of grasshoppers, then cut a quantity of proceeded to fire a number of shots, following the manzanita branches and tied the same to my person everyday routine. In thiB way twenty-five rounds until I looked "just like a bush." It happened that were expended, these being divided into five groups, at the moment I was ready to try my new dodge, a each group consisting of five individual shots. The number of cattle (always found in summer feeding aTerage behavior of each size of chilled shot was thus close to the mountain) started to the water to drink, determined, the records obtained comprising at lin. I went after them and drove them back, then re- rnd 6in., time from fall of hammer to departure of mained until the water cleared, and caught seventeen sh0t from the muzzle, and mean velocity over a 20yds. troutin less than a half hour, and not two of them range. The following were the results obtained: were under twelve inches. I had tried scores of timee „„„„ „ .„„„ „_,„,„„ before to get even a"rise,"-but invariably failed. „. PBO0F,B^sft f X ,', , This was about twelve o'clock on a very hot day, at a ] " ounce of No. 7 shot, 383 pellets. Veloo(tyover time I seldom fish. Do you account for my good luck Pressure in tons Time up barrel. 20yds. in feet on the score of the cattle, or my verdant decorations? P" square inch. Seconds. per second. I have been fishing when the angler could get a j 309n' in .0042 1019 spice of panther or two thrown in. One evening at 2.......... ...306 1.85 .oom 1017 dusk, I was cleaning my fish at the run, and back of s 3.03 1.74 .0051 1017 me was a cabin used by the lumbermen, and one of 5|"; '.'..'.'..3.43 i.S3 '0040 102I them, the nearest approach to my ideal of Leather- — — stocking, was cooking supper. I chanced to look Av 310 lm -0043 I(l'9 up, and there, not thirty feet in front of me, was as , 2 lKoz.No^shot, 304 pellets, handsome a panther as ever I saw, crawling upon the 2...'. '.'.'..'.'.'.. 3.22 h95 !oo36 1041 log, with his ears laid back, his delicate little mouth 3.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'..3.so i°89 '0036 1022 partly open showing the cleanest set of teeth that a | jjU J'74 oofe 1024 man could expect to be used upon him. Hie eyes _!_ _1_ J "were all for me. " I yelled. Bang! went a rifle from Av 3.05 1.85 .0041 1021 the cabin, and my feline withdrew, skipped, ineulted, l'tioz. No. 5 shot, 245 pellets. I presume, at his reception. . We set a trap, and two ' |-^ ]•'* 'Uj} j°J' days after found the cat caught. "Natty Bumpo" ii-""'!!!""g'og 1.83 0046 1048 No. 2, shot at him and broke the Bpring of the trap. *'.'.'.'.'. ........ 2.90 1.89 .0053 1058 I think it was about as exciting then as a royal tiger 5 -3-98 1M -0043 1031 hunt, and if the next Bhot had not broken his leg, I av 2.98 1.79 .0048 1043 am afraid the pan (out) there would have been bad iigoz. No. 4 shot, 194 pellets. for mine company. But it ended so that our casu- 1 2.87 1.74 .0042 1051 alities amounted only to shattered nerves. We \ fj3, }™ -^ J°J[ measured the length of the cat, but not before he 4. '.'.'.'.'.'..'.'.'. '.'.2.73 1.74 0046 1053 was dead, and he came to nine feet very close. b........ 2.81 1.74 .0044 1038 But to fish again. Did you ever see a "trout fight?" Av 7^ TtT ~om4 To^ They can do it and wind up the "round" very quick. ,,.„, N„ ,„„„, ,«„„„., t „ „. *~~ nt 11 l 1 ii. ,, • c l ^«,^ii. l}8oz. No. 3 shot, 158 pellets. 1 saw two "fall out by the way," in a fish pond once, 1 2.98 1.74 -0039 1046 and one of the duelists was dead in about three 2 2.75 1.74 .0051 1069 minutes. The survivor took to the business— became \ |g \]\ *8oS ioro a pro-fish "fightist" I suspect, and would allow no g!"' ""!'.". am i'74 .0036 1030 trout to live near him. He had to be taken out and — — — put by himself. He could not be cured of his habit, AT a'97 . 1M ■00il im and after spawning season, was employed with a few The most striking fact of the whole table of ex- more to get a square meal. But enough. periments is the remarkable conformity one with „ another of the individual records in each series, the Tur„„„ „„„;a„„. u ,. „ , „, _,. , mean deviation from the average worked out being tnf^lrZ vi h^pPened t0 P- A- Pf ««, a Stock moat insignificant. At any rate, it is fairly obviouf lihSSSArir, a recent hunting trip that the Iverage values obtained from each of the Il.«j!n n. The theory on which it was is ..nat the blood of the animal was Broody hens are often very troublesome to layers, and cause them to break their eggs by crowding into the nest. Take them off, confine them three days with plenty of food and wafer. Turn them out just at night. If they return to the nest, confine them three days more The second treatment will usually cure them. The average thickness of an egg shell is thirteen one-thousandths of an inch. Yet the light ordinary hen's egg will sus- tain a pressure varying between 400 and 700 pounds when applied evenly all over its surface. "When applied to twelve eggs they give way at a pressure varying from thirty-two to thirty-sis pounds. Always select smooth and growthy animalB to feed even at a greater cost, and the profits will usually be in pro- portion. Sober up on Jackson's Napa Soda. Trade Marks Designs Copyrights Ac. 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No blister, no hairgone, and you can usethe Horse. ABSORBINE removesany soft bunch in apleasingmanner. $2.00 per bottle of regular dealers or delivered. W. F. YOUNG, P. D. F., SPRINGFIELD, - - MASS. Also manufacturer of Taroleum for horses feet. For sale by Mack&Co., Langley & Michaels Co., Redington & Co., J. O'Kane, and J. A. McKerron, all of San Francisco. VETERINARY. DR. C. MASOERO VETERINARY SURGEON Graduate of Royal Veterinary College of Turin INFIRMARY AHD RESIDENCE— 811 Howard St.: between Fourth and Fifth Sts., San Francisco. Telephone: Main 457. Ira Barker Balziel VETERINARY DENTIST Fane j- Carriage, Saddle and RoaH Horses for Sale Office and stable: 605 Golden Gate Avenue, Sao Francisco, Cal. Telephone South 851. IDr. Wm, F- £3saxx. M. R. C. V. S.. F. E. T. M. S. VETERINARY SURGEON. Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, England; Fellow of the Edlnbarg Veterinary Medical Society; Graduate of the New Veterinary College. Edinburgh; Veterinary Sur- geon to the S. F. Fire Department; Live Stock Inspector forNew Zealand and Australian Colonies at the port of San Francisco; Professor of Equine Medicine, Veterinary Surgery, Veterinary Depart- ment University of California; Ex-President m the California State Veterinary Medical Associa- tion; Veterinary Infirmary, Residence and Offloe, San Franolsco Veterinary Hospital, 1117 Golden Gate Avenue, near Webster St., San Francisco: Telephone West 128. December 19, 1903] &he gveeitev tm& grjwtrtsmcm 18 New Memphis Jockey Club. MONTGOMERY PARK, MEMPHIS, TENN. 10-Ten Stakes to Close January 2, 1904-10 For Spring Meeting, I904, and Tennessee Derby and Oaks for I905. STAKES FOR 1 90 5 < 8^ (selling raoe, purse and stake excepted) allowed 5 lbs.; maid- races of any value (selling purse race excepted), 5 lbs penalty; such ens 10 lbs. Five furlongs. penalty not to exceed scale weight if handicapped at less; those THE TENNESSEE DEBBI FOR 190S— Estimated Value THE HOTEL G4IOSO STAKES— Est irnated value 82000. weighted at scale or more than scale weight by the handicapper SiO.ooo. Subscribed io bt G. C. Besseti i Co. For foals Subscribed to by Hotel Gatoso. For foals of 1901 (three- w'li not be subject to a penalty. The scale to be Western Jockey of 1903 (two-year-olds of 1904). SSJOOadded. (Entrance free). For year-olds of 1901). $1000 added. (110 entrance). For 1904. A t-lub icale. This race to be run the openmg day. Onemlleand 1905. Asweepstakes for three-year-olds (foals of 1902). gISOeach, sweepstakes for th-ee-year-olds (foals of 1901) 810 to accompany one-sixteentn. 8?5 forfeit, or 815 if declared on or before May 2, 1904; $30 if declared nomination, $50 additional to start. The Club to add $1000, of THE PEABODY HOTEL HANDICAP— Estimated value on or before January 2, 1905. All declarations void unless accom- which $200 to second, and $100 to third, the fourth to save starting 83000. Scbscbibed to by Peabobt Hotel. Handicap. $1500 panted by the money. $5000 added, of which S1000 to second, $500 money. A winner or a three-year-old stake race, when carrying added and $500 sliver cup or plate. (Entrance free). For 1904. to third, and fourth to save stake. Weights— Colts, 122 lbs.; geld- their weight [colts 122, geldings 119, fillies 117], 3 lbs penalty; of A handicap sweepstakes for three-year-olds and upward. 150 each, lngs, 119 lbs ; fillies, 117 lbs. One mile and one-eighth two or more, 5 lbs. allowances— Beaten non-winners in 1904 half forfeit, or $10 if declared on or before April 5th. All deolara- THE TENNESSEE OAKS FOB 1905— For fillies (foals of allowed 5 lbs ; If unplaced, 8 lbs.; others never having won a two tlons void unless accompanied by the money. $1500 added, of 19021 Esilmated value 85000. 82000 added (Entrance free) or three-year-old stake race (selling stakes excepted), allowed 7 which $2o0 to second, and 8150 to third, fourth to save stake. In For 1905 A sweepstakes for fillies three-year-olds tfoals of 190-7) *bs-- " such have never won a race of the value of 8400 to the win- addition COL R. B. SNO WDEN will add a silver cup or plate, to SlOOeaoh, $40forfeit, orilQlf declaredonor before Mav2, 1904; 820 her (selling stakes and purse races excepted), allowed 12 lbs.; the value of 8500, to go to the winner. Weights to be announced two if declared on or before January 2 1905 All declarations void beaten maidens, 20 lbs. Allowances not cumulative. One mile, days before the race Winners of a race after the announcements unless accompanied by the money. $2000 'added, of which 8400 to „ „ „ of weights (selliDg race excepted), to carry 5 lbs. penalty. One second. 1200 to third, and fourth to save siake. Weights, 117 lbs. 2 9 3 m'l« and one-elghtn. One mile SCALE Or THIS RACE. - 2. = TB[E TENNESSEE BREWING CO. STAKES— Estimated QTAifFC rriO lQnA M «5 «' Value SZ500. SUBSCRIBED TO BT TENNESSEE BREWISG CO. oinrvco r\jn i»ut. Those entitled to no allowance 122 119 117 Selling stakes. JlOOOadded. (Entrance $10). Forl904. Aselllng TinriiTiiKiinTrtiTiirvt r.,im«..j,.i..ioonn Winner with weight up of one 3-year-old stake 125 122 120 sweepstake for three-year-olds and upward. $10 to accompany THE uaston hotel srAKES-Ertlmated value S3Z00. Winner with weight up of two 3-year-old stakes 127 124 122 nomination and $50 additional to start. $1000 added, of which 1200 Subscribed TO bv Gaston s Hotel For colts and geldings Beaten non-winners placed In 1904 117 114 112 to second, and $100 to third, fourth to save starting money. The (foals of 1902). 81000 added. ($10 entranc-] i. For 1904. Asweepstakes Beaten non-wloners unplaced in 1904 114 111 109 winner to be sold at auction for $.3»00 if for less; 3 lbs. allowed for for two-year-olds , colts and gelding; $10 to accompany nomlna- Non.WInnersof a 2or3-year-oldstake(selling excepted) 115 112 110 each 5300 to S2000; then 1 lb. for eaoh $100 less to 8500. Starters and uon, and $oO additional to start. ilOOO added, of which 8200 to Non-winners of araceof the valueof $400 ■• •' 110 107 105 selling price to be named through the entry-box by the usual time second, and $100 to third, fourth to save starting money. Four BBaten malaens 102 99 97 of closing for this day's racing, and those so named are liable tor furlongs. starting fee. Seven furlongs. THE ARDELLE STAKES-JTor Allies (foals of 1902). EstI- pO R THREE-YEAR-OLDS AND UPWARD THE COTTON STEEPLECHASE STAKES-Steeplechase. mated value 83200. $1000 added. ($10 entrance). For 1904. Estimated value 82500 M5/0 added (Entrance free). For A sweepsiakes i for -two-year-old .allies. $10 to accompany nomina- THE MONTGOMERY HANDICAP-Estimated value 1904. A steepleohase handicap sweepstakes for three-year-olds "on, andlaO additional to start. $10OTadded,ofwhichS|u0 to sec- gS500. Silver cup or plate to winner. Handicap. 83000 added, and upward. $50 each, half forfeit, or $10 If declared on or before ond iiui to third, fourtn to save starting money. Four furlongs. (Entrance free). For 1904. A handicap sweepstakes for three- April2d. All declarations void unless accompanied by the money. THE MEMPHIS STAKES— For two-year-olds (foals of 1902). year-olds and upward- $50 each, half forfeit, or $10 If declared. $1500 added, of which $250 to second and $150 to third, the fourth to Estimated value 84000. 82000 added. ($10 entrance). For $3000 addei, of which $400 to second, and $250 to third, the fourth save stake. Weights to be announced two days before the race. 1904 A sweepstakes for two-year-olds. $10 to accompany nomi- to save stake. In addition to the stake the winner will receive a Penalty— Winner of steeplechase (selling excepted), after nation, and $50 additional to start. $2000 added, of which $250 to valuable silver cup or plate, donated by the Club. Weights lobe weights are announced, 5 lbs. Four or more horses of entirely second and $150 to third, fourth to save starting money. 3Ibs.be- announced before 9 a m., February 6th, and declarations to be different interest to start, or the race may be declared off. Start- low the scale. Penalty— a winner of a race of the value of $1000 made on or before February 20, 1904 All declarations void unless ers to be named through the entry-box at usual time of closing the to the winner, 3 lbs. (selling excepted). Allowances — Non-win- accompanied by the money. The winner of a race, after the day before the race, and those named are liable for starting fee ners of two races of the value of $300 each, or one of the value of weights are anuouneed, of the value of $500 to the winner, or two About two miles. SPECIAL NOTICE — . — No entry will be received for any of these stakes except upon this condition: That all disputes, claims and objections arising out of the racing, or with respect to the interpretations of the conditions of any race, shall be decided by a majority of the Executive Committee present, or those whom they may appoint, and their decisions upon all points shall be final. The Club also reserves the right to refuse the entries of any person, or the transfer of any entry, and without notice. THIS RACE COURSE (MONTGOMERY PARK) is, without a doubt, one of the best in America to winter and train the thoroughbred, furnishing first-claes and most comfortable quarters for both man and horse. On this track the majority of the good two-year-olds of the West each season are developed. Entry Blanks or any information on application will be promptly furnished by the Secretary. NEW MEMPHIS JOCKEY CLUB. Office, No. 2 Cotton Exchange Building:, Memphis, Tenn. S. R. MONTGOMERY, President. M. N. MACFARLAN, Secretary. NEW MODEL 1903 BEST ROAD CART MADE, O'BRIEN & SONS Cor. Golden Gate Ave. and Folic St. SAN FRANCISCO, C1L FOB SALE. THOROUGHBRED YEARLING COLTS ByJDTJCAT, oat of Strongbred Mares. ALSO TROTTING BRED YOUNG STALLIONS AND FILLIES TKOTTEES AND PACERS. rpHE SIRES OF THESE COLTS ARE DIABLO, Nutwooc Wilkes, Monbslls, Cupid and Sidney Dillon. The sires of their first, second and third dams are Gay Wilkes, Hock Wilkes, Director, Harold, Electioneer, Cornelius. Paul's Abdallah, Venture, Lodi and St. Clair. All of these sires trace in the male line to HambletDnian 10 through his best producing male descendants, excepting the thoroughbreds Venture and Lodi and the pacer St. Clair. C. E. FARNLTM, M. D. 305 Parrott Building. RACING FOR SALE. Three Standard-Bred Trotting Stallions WILKES STOCK. Every Week Day RAIN OR SHINE. New California JocRey CI INGLESIDE TRACK COMMENCING DECEMBER 14, SIX OR MORE RACES DAILY FOR SALE. 'T'HE PACING GELDING, AL SANDT 3:26 -*- by Wayland W., dam Rapid Ann by Overland. Can pace three heats better than 2:20. Can brush Tery fast on the road. Also the blaok pacing gelding, DOC 2:38, one of tho best roadsters In the city. Can lower his record several seconds. Both horses are excellent prospeots to race. For prices and further particulars address S. WATSON, 235 Douglas street, San Francisco. SUBSCRIBE TO Dealer .Jake your horses happy by pro- viding them with Pure-Salt Brick: Warranted to contain nothing but refined dairy salt. » A great modern conve jence at a cost of about 5 cents per horse per lonth Belmont Stable Supply Cd Broohlyn.N.Y. Mm BUSINESS COLLEGE 24 Post Street, San Francisco, Cal. The oldest, tat largest, the most popular com- ■erolal school on the Pacific Coast. 20,000 gradu- ates; 30 teacners; 70 typewriters; over 300 students usually placed is positions. Send for catalogue. E. P. HEALD, President. One Seal Brown, 16 hands, foaled May 2, 1898; first dam Fearless by Fallis 4781 (record 2:23); second dam Jean Perault by Signal 3327. One Golden Bay, 16. 1 hands, foaled March 5, 1898: first dam Signal bv Del Sur 1098 (record 2:24), dam of Guy Line 2:29^; second dam Lady SIg. nal by Signal 3327. One Brown, white points, 16.1 hands, foaled April, race 1899; full brother to the bay. These colts are all sired by Prince Airlee 28045, son of Guy Wilkes 2807 (record 2:15Vi). and bred by Wm. Corbitt, San Mateo, Cal. They are pure gaited and show wonderful speed for the little work they have done. For further particulars apply to P. H. McETOT, Menlo Park, Cal. RACES START AT 2 P. M. SHARP. Reached by street cars from any part of the city. Train leaves Third and Townsend at 1:15 p. m., and leaves the track immediately after the laat THOMAS H. WILLIAMS, President. PERCY W. TREAT, Secretary. Standard Trotting Stallion For Sale ORO GUY 34192 Foaled 1898 By Oro Wilkes 2:11. Dam by Guy Wilkes, 9d dam by Sultan, 3d dam by The Moor, Black In color, itands 16 hands high, weighs 1150 pounds. With little work has shown a mile In 2:16!*. Square-gafted trotter; guaranteed abso- lutely sound. Good disposition. Stylish con- formation. One of the best bred representatives of the Wilkes family on the Coast. Will be sold reasonable. Apply or address R. I. ORR, R. D.. Giiroy.Cal. J. W. Zibbell's Training Stables Corner Point Lobos Road and 2nth Avenue San Francisco. HORSES TRAINED FOR TRACK OR HOAD and satisfaction guaranteed. Terms reason- able. Horses bought and sold. 'Phone Pine 1786. WIR FENCI WEST COAST WIRE &IR0N WORKS PEDIGREES TABULATED And type writ tea Ready lor framing. Write for prloes. BBHKDMS AWD SfOBTtMJJ, 80 G««rT Streel. 8s>n Franelaoo, Cei. Showing exact position of every horse, including the favorite, which was either first, second third or fourth at eaoh quarter pole, also positions at start. Events reported from all parts of Canada and United States. Issued the lat and 16th of every month, from April 15th to October 15th. Price 60c, 75c. or $1, accordlog to Issue. For sale at all principal hotels, news stands and race tracks In the country, and publishers* office. GOODWIN" BROS., 1440 Broad -.^ N\ Y. ANNUAL SUBSCRIPT! which Includes all semimonthly two morocco bound seml-aunua'- circular mailed free. For sale by the Bbekder and - . ®he gvee&ev anS ^pcxxstncm [December 19, 1903 THE BAYWOOD STUD THE BUNGALOW, SAN MATEO, CAU (Property ol John Pabeott, Esq.) Devoted Exclusively to the Breeding and Training of High Stepping Hackney-Bred Harness Horses WALTER SEiLI, Manager. Dictatus Medium 32493 Will make the coming seasoD at Race Track, Hoilister, Gal, Jos Sanchez In charge $40 FOR THE SEASON. Payable at time of service, with usual return privilege Everv care takeu to prevent accidents, but no responsibil- ity should any occur Prompt and careful attention in all eases Pasturage furnished to mares sent from a distance at *"2 50 a month. A DICTATUS MEDIUM PURSE OF SIOO. I will give a purse of §100, with entrance money added for a race, best two in three, open to any and all colts from nrrTATTS MEDIUM the result of the breeding season of 1904, either pacers or trotters. Must be ?iS»TSrtMafaDrY^iohcoSo"on Hoilister trlck, Fair weefci.07 i^ettat. to be *erea< |r announced.) So entrance money, payable June I, 190o. IB th"1te!lt- Describe age. development, location of swellings, lameness, snd way horse csrnes snd holds leg. ?5.00 a bottle at all druggists and dealers, or sent express prepaid. TROY CHEMICAL CO., Manufacturers, TROY, N. Y. ission St., San Francisco, Cal., Pacific Coast Agent Awarded Gold Me da At CalifomJaState Fair 1892. Every horse owner who values his stocfe should constantly have a slip- ply of it on hand. It improves and keeps stocfc in the pink of Jcondition. £ Manhattan Food Co D C" r\ DAI DDAMn 1253 Folsom St., San Francisco r»CL/ DrtLL DnMilU. Ask your grocers or dealers for it. Positively Cures Colic, Scouring and Indigestion. C. P. KERTELL, Manager IT! SOMEBODY WANTS IT! and you can reach the party who does by getting your advertisement in the special FOR SALE DEPARTMENT of the Xmas Edition — of the — Breeder and Sportsman TO BE ISSUED DECEMBER 26, 1903 This Size Ad. for S1.50: FOR SALE. •DLACK TROTTING MARE. RECORD 2:18*; ■° standard bred; sound: nearly 18 hands high; weighs about 1100 pounds. Gentle and a high- class road mare. Can be bought cheap. To see the mare and (or particulars call or address Telephone: Pine 1786 J. W. ZIBBELL, 345 Twentieth Ave., San Francisco. Twice the Size for Double the Money and More at the Same Rate Another Thing Don't Neglect Your Stallion But be- sure and get his announcement in the STALLION DIRECTORY TO APPEAR IX THIS SAME It will contain the announcement of the leading Stallions on this Coast. The following is the size and style of the announcements, and the cost is only Three Dollars each. NUTWOOD WILKES 22216-2:16* Sired by Guy Wilkes 2:15* — — — Dam Lida W 2tl«H Ptt By Xatwood &18X *, .- -. | John A. McKerron £0534 5b O U SIRE OF- Stanton Wilkes fclOM (Who Is It..: 2:10K And 30 others from 2:12M to 2:30. The only two of his daughters whose produce have been trained are the dams ol Doilo 2:t6*r and Miss Georgie 2:25. Will make the Season of 1904 at NUTWOOD STOCK FARM. For particulars address MARTIN CARTER, Irvlngton, Cal. Every owner of a good Mare will look this Directory over carefully. BE SURE YOUR HORSE IS IN IT. The Xmas Edition will he a handsome and interesting number and will contain matter that will make it valuable for reference, and as an advertising medium it will give SURE RESULTS. Make arrangements for space NOW and get a "front seat." DON'T PUT IT OFF! Call or Write for particulars at once. An advertisement in this issue will reach all of the people on this Coast who are interested in Horses, Cattle, Dogs, Shooting and Fishing. NO INCREASE IN RATES, Single Copies, 10c, Subscription, $3 per year Breeder and Sportsman, 36 GEARY ST., SAN FRANCISCO December 19, 1903] ®hc ^xtsifsx cmb §p be ofle of the test 5ires in Calfornia. His dam is the greatest mare Diablo ever served 3 of her sons are producers but Athablo will outrank them all. Has only 2 yearlings and they are the fastest colts I ever raised.! Season 1904 at my Stock Farm. Return Privilege. FEE $25 SEASON. Address, QEO. L. WARLOW, Fresno, Cal. ATHADON-20990--27 at 1 year old- Sired by MATADOX— 9^92— son of Onward. First dam, great brood mare Athalte, dam of 7 in 2:30 list bv Harkawav— iiSoS—son o'f Strathmore. Second dam. Mag. by Alcalde, 103. Sire of Sue^ 2:i25£ Listerine, 2:13?*; Dakon D, 2:i6#, and others in 2:30 list. Will make Season 1904 at $25, with return privilege. At my Stock Farm, Fresno, Cal. FEE $25 SEASON Address, GEO. L. WARLOW, Fresno, Cal. ATHAMAX-36927 SIRE \TaVDDN\ Yearling re=ord\>:27. and sire of Sue 2:12*4, Listerine 2:13^ and otters D\M# LUSTRIVE "gr<;at brood mare by Onward 2:25^. sire of 9 in 2:10; 2d dam by Challenger, she of Challenger Chief 2:15, etc.; 3d dam, by Cassius M. Clay, Jr., 22; sire of 4 i" l»st, 16 prodncmg sons, 35 producing daughters. =j^^^> Season of ioo4 at SACRAMENTO RACE TRACK. Address F. W. PERKINS, 1239 Q Street/Sacramento. FEE, $25. BILLY THORNHILL-8707-224^ Sired bv Beverly Wilkes, 8706, by the great Geo "Wilkes, 519; dam Emily (dam 01 3 in 2:30 list) by the °reat Geo. Wilkes 519: 2d dam, Sue Stout {dam of Alexis 2:18) bv Ashland 47. Sire of Ned Thorner2:ll!4: Lady Thornnill. 2:17; Briarhill. 2:18*4; Great Stakes 2:20; Minnie B, 2:29-v Will make the Season of 1904 at MILPITAS. FEE $25 For particulars address JAS. BOYD, Milpitas Cal. BONNIE DIRECT 2:05^ Bv Direct, 2:05V. dam, Bon Bon, 2:26, by Simmons. Will make the Season of 1904 at PLEASANTON, CAL. Mares not proving to be in foal can be returned free of charge or fee refunded at option of owner of mare. FEE $100 C' L- GRIFFITH, Pleasanton, Cal. CASSI AN— Bay Horse, foaled February 9, 1901. Sire. Mendocino. 2:19H. sire of Monte Carlo, 2:0~U, Idolita, 2:09^. etc.: soil of Electioneer 125. Dam, Cressida, th--ee-y ear-old record 2:18-^. by Palo Alto, 2:08?4.; second dam, Clarabel (dam of three in the list), bv Abdallah Star, third dam bv Hambletoolan 10. Cassian is a high class three year-old in size, looks, style and spaed. Will make the Season of 1904 at PLEASANTON RACE TRACK. Address JAMES COFFIN, 132 Market St., FEE, $50. San Francisco, Cal. No Horsebreeder can afford to be without this speed-transmitUng, virile blood. CONIFER— Sired by Lord Russell 4677 Dam, Carlota, by Nutwood 600. 2:I8*£. sire of 170 standard performers. Sire of Anna J. (P) 2:16?i; trial, 2:10; Johnnie Trouble, 2:15; trial, 2:lU; Chloe (P), 2:13: Bonnie Russell, 2:14%: trial, four-year-old- Conifer was bred by Hancock M. Johnston. Los Angeles, 18S9. Is a rich b3y, weighs 12C0 lbs.: perfect in conformation and disposition; is prepotent to a degree. Hecombinesin himself more Miss Russell blood than any other horse in the world, being sired by one distinguished son and sire- Lord Russell, fsire of Kremlin, 2:07-Vj, and his dam, Carlota, by Nutwood 6X). Miss Russell's great- est son, thus giving Conifer her double cross. Miss Russell, the greatest dam of trottine horses of all time, transmits her extreme speed through her sons and grandsons and their get, as" instanced by Kremlin, Mount Russell and Conifer, all sires of early and great speed. Conifer's beauty, ability to reproduce his ^ood temper and conformation as well as speed, make him peculiarly desirable as a sire of roadsters and carriage horses. Will make Season of 1904 at PASADENA and LOS ANGELES. Address CHAS. E. GREEN, Manager, 231 So. Pasadena Avenue, FEE, $50. Pasadena, California. CEO. W. McKINNEYRecord 2:14^. of G;o. \V. McKinney, 2:14^; Elmolino, ; Isaac, 2-ystr-old. trial, 2:511. By Whipple By McKinney. 2:n>X. Dam Lady Washington, 2:35 (di 2:20; I lie Gossip, trial 2:25; Washington McKinney, trial, 2:: 8351, grandam Lady Mayberry (dam of Dubec, 2:16, etc.). Will make the Season of 1904 at SANTA ANA, Orange Co., Cal. from January ist to July ist. For further particulars address FEE, $30. f. B. GARNSEY, Santa Ana, Cal. COSSIPER, Jr. By Gossiper, 12003: record 2:131: (Sire of Gazelle, 2;li|: Miss Jessie, 2:13*; Ketcham, 2:161, and four others in the list, and dams of Zoloi:k, 2:10j Zeohvr, 2:11; Cuate, 2:18. etc) Cam Virginia Vasto bv Vasto. Owner? ol good mares can make no mistake in patronizing this highly-bred and handsome horse. Season of 1904 at Brown's corner, near Woodland. SERVICE FEE, $25. JOHN NORTON, Woodland, Cal. CUY McKINNEY-37625 By M:Kmaey, 2:nK (sire Coney, 2:02; 10 others ia 2:10 list, all trotters but 2) and 25 in ->•!* list- ist cam. Flossie by Guy Wilkes; 2d dam. Blanche Ward by Onward: 3d dam Blanche Patchen by Mamrtrmo Patchen: ath dam. Lady Blanche by Hoaglands Privateer: >th dam. Jenny Lind by Abdallah -.5: fjth dam by Saltram, a pacer who sired Highland Maid, 2:27 "the world's record in 1853- Season 1904 at PLEASANTON RACE TRACK. Address all communications to TERMS, $40. BEN. CHEBOYA. Pleasanton, California. re rem val Df mare. L'itn u~ neturu privilege. LIST OF STANDARD BRED STALLIONS THAT WILL MAKE THE SEASON OF J904 IN CALIFORNIA ^5* tlr* *3* t?" Jr1 *£p* t^r* t5^ Jf1 i2P* tS* t?* t?" t?* ft?* t3* *3* ^5* i3* HANIBLETONIAN WILKES-1679 O.i ly Sai of the Greit George Wilkes in California Sire of Phx*>; Wilkes 2x28%. Rob;rt I 2:o3^. Phebon W. znojf, Rocker 2:11, Tommy Mac 2 n^, Arleue Wilta 2:11^. Ne^ Era 2:13, Aeroplane 2:i6&, Sunbeam 2:12^, Sybil S. 2:i5-:t.iSsvilIe 2:::'--~, Grand Giorge 5:t8}£, J. F. Hmsou 2:19%, VicSchiller 2:1 ij£. Twenty-four in the 2:30 list; GREEN flEADOW FARM, Brokiw Road, % mile from Santa Clara. TERMS FOR SEASON- $40. U-;ual rituru privilege. R. I. MOREHEAD, Santa Clara, Cal. IRAN ALTO 2i2y4 Sire, Palo Alto z:o8^£ (holder of world's stallion record to high wheels), by the great Electioneer; dam, E'aiae 2:23 (holder of world 'S3 and 4-year-oM records in 1877 and 1S7S), also dam of Norlaine, world"* yearling record, 2:31, high-wheel sulky 1SS7), by Messenger Duroc, out of the great Green Mountain Maid. Iran Alto is the sire of Dr. Frasse 2:i2r;; Thos. R. (4) fits; Pendome 217; Dr. Frasse's Sister (3) 2:25^- Will Make the Season of 1904 at AGRICULTURAL PARK. SERVICE FEE $50. Address JAMES W. REA, San Jose. Cal- LOTTERY TICKET-20247-Record, 2:19% Sire of Lottery T. 2:19^ By Dexter Prince. 11363; dam, Emma Nutwood (dam of Pilot Prince, 2:22^1, by Nutwood, 600. grandam, Lady Emma, by Black Hawk, 767, etc. Lottery Ticket is a grandly bred trotting stallion, a splendid Individual and all of his gtt have size, style, quality and speed. Will make the season of 1904 at Farmington. SERVICE FEE, $25. LAFAYETTE FUNK, Farmington, Cal. MAMBRINO CHIEF, JR.-H622 Sire of George Washington 2:16?;. Dollican 2:15^', Trilby 2:23^. and severarothers in the 2:30 list. By McDonald Chief, 35S3. Dam, Venus by Mambrino Patchen 58; 2d dam Daughter of Wardlass Shakespeare. Will make the Season of 1904 at my Stable in VALLEJO. $20 FOR THE Good pasture at $2.50 per month. SEASON. THOnAS SMITH, 1021 Georgia Street, Vallejo. MERIDIAN 2:12% By Simmocolon, 2:13J: Sire of I»an Q-, 2:07$: Simassle, 2:11}; Meriiltan. 2:12}, etc.' Dam. Sidane, dam of Meridian, 2:121, by Sidney. $25 THE SEASON At BROWN'S RANCH, Hicks Valley, Marin County, Address R. S. Brown, Petaluma. MONOCHROME-35777 By McKinney 2:u& (sire of more trotters in 2:10 than any stallion living or dead). Dam Hattie (dam of Monterev 2:09^ and Montana 2:16) by Com. Belmont. Will make the Season of 1904 at STOCKTON RACE TRACK. Monochrome represents the highest type of the American trotter. He has size, good looks, beautiful solid bay color and great natural speed. Address JOHN ROWAN, Race Track, Stockton, Cal. Terms for the season (with usual return privilege) $40. NEAREST 22- -The Nutwood-Director and Wilkes Stallion. Sire of Alone 2:0954. (Half-mile, 59K) the champion 4-year-old of 1902, and full brother to the great John A. McKerron, 2:04^. the fastest trotter of the Wilkes family. Sired by Nutwood Wilkes 2:16^; ist dam, logar by Director, 2:17; 2d dam, Annie Titus by Echo; 3d dam, Tiffiny Mare by Owendale. Will make tlie Season of 1904 at the Stables of T. W. BAESTOW on the ALAMEDA, near Race Track, San Jose. $40 the Season. For Particulars address T. W. BARSTOW. SAN JOSE, CAL. - Phone Red 1431 Sire of Keeretta, 2:091, and fifteen others, with matinee records and public trials from 2:12) to 2:30. Sire. Albert W. 2:20, by Electioneer. Dam, Clytie II. (worked a mile on the Stockton Track as a 3-year old In 2:20>. by Nutwood, 2:18}. Second dam" by Hambletonian, 725. Third dam, bv Williamson's Will make the Season of 1904 at SANTA ANA. Am getting twelve Neernuts in shape for Cleveland sale next May. Fit to show race horse speed and ready to go East and win money. Address QEO. W. FORD, Owner, Santa Ana. NEERNUT 2:12% SERVICE FEE, $40 SEASON, $60 TO INSURE. NUSHACAK-25939 Sire of Aristo (3) 2:17^. winuer of Occident and Stanford stakes of 1902. Trial 2;n at 4 yrs. Sired by Sable Wilkes, 2:i3; sire of 38 in 2:30. Dam, Fidelia (dam of Fidette, '2.28%, dam of Mary Celeste, 2:17^), by Director, 2:17; second dam by Reavis Blackbird, 2:22;7grandam_by Lancet, son of McCrackeu's Blackhawk. Wil I make the Season of loo4 at WALNUT GROVE STOCK FARM Limited to 43 outside mares. FEE, $50. ALEX. BROWN, Owner, Walnut Grove, Cal. P E R A LT A. Nutwood Wilkes — McKinney Blood. Sired by Nutwood Wilkes (sire of John A. McKerron 2:0+i, etc.); dam. Rose McKinney idam of Almaden (2i 2:22j, winner of the Breeders' Futurity Stakes 1903), oy ifckinney. Second dam. Queen B-, by Forrest Clay ; Third dam, Lovelia, by Almont Lightning. PEBAXTA is three years* old, stands 15.3 hands, strongly made, perfect conformation, good gaited. and will be worked for speed the coming season. He is a handsome bay, with black points, and will be bred to a few approved outside mares. TERMS FOR THE SEASON, $30 E. TOPHAM, Milpitas, Cal. PRINCE ANSEL— 2-year-old record 2:20^. • Sired by Dexter Prince {sire of Eleata 2:0$^, James L- 2:09^, Edith 2:10, etc.;; dam Woodflower (dam of 5-eyles 2: 15-X .1 by Ansel 2:23. son of Electioneer; 2d dam MaySower 2:30(4 (dam of Manzani'a 2:16, Wildflower (2) 2:21, and S producing daughters) by St. Clair, 16675. Will Make Season oi 1 904 at WALNUT GROVE STOCK FARfl, ALEX. BROWN, Owner, FEE, $30. Wa'nut Grove, Sacramento Co., Cal. REX A L M O N T The handsome four year old."" By Prince Almont 2:t3K t>T Almont Medium 2:1SK, bv Happy Medium, (sire of Nancy Hanks 2:0-3.) Dam Dolly Baldwin by Whalebone; grandam Katy bid by General McClellan. He is a rich mahosanv bay. stands 16.1Vi hands and weighs 1160 pounds. Well formed, fine action, plenty of style. Season of 1901 at Green Valley Farm, Cordelia, Solano County. J. B. NIGHTINGALE, SERVICE FEE, $20 Cordelia, Solano Co., Cal. RICHMOND CHIEF 211 5y Monroe Chief, 2:lSi ; dam. Ela (dam of Bichmond Chief 16S7. Will make the season of 1904 at BAKERSFIELD RACE TRACK. For further particulars, address TERMS, $30 T. H. FOG ARTY, Bakersfield, Cal. December 2(5, 1903] ®He gveebev txnit §*:p\crvtsman BOODLE 5829— Record 2:12^ By scruug«r, 3030, dam Bride by Jay Gould 197; second dam, Tida, 2:384 (sister of Blondine, 8:31), by Ethan Allen 43, 2:25';: third dam daughter of Abdallah i (sire of Valentine, 2:20); Boodle is the sire of Ethel Downs, 2:lu; Thompson, 2:14^: Merle M., 2:25; Ned W., 2:29; Boodle Boy, 2.2.1^; Valentine Boodle (w.), 2:204; and Boodler (w.), 2:15. Will make the Season at Watsonville, Cal. SERVICE FEE $25 Good pasturage (no wire fence), $4 per month. HENRY STRUVE, Watsonville, Cal. CORONADO 2:18 J^— Unbeaten trotter of 1902. Sired by the great MeKinney, 2:11^, dam by Thos. Rysdyk 10649, son of Rysdyk 653, sire of the champion racehorse, Clingstone, 2:14, second dam by Venture, sire of the dam of Sidney Dillon, sire of Lou Dillon, 1:58)6 and sire of thedamof the champion Directum, 2:05^. Coronado is one of the best bred sons of MeKinney living, and is bound to be one of his greatest and fastest race trotters. His cults though still quite young all show speed and are great individuals. PEE 3>4.Q Will make the season of 1904 at Agricultural Park, Los Angeles, Cal Address W. G. DLRFEE,Box 06, University P. O., Los Angele*, Cal. HIGH TARIFF By Silver. Bow, he by Robt. McGregor (sire of Cresceus, 1:59^, the champion trotting stallion of the world). Dam Labntta by Com. Belmont. High Tariff will make the season of 1904 (Feb. 1st to July istl, at Mock's Eagle Stables, C Street, Marysville. Terms, J25, payable at time of service or before removal of mare, with usual return privilege Pasturage at ji.50 per month. No responsibility assumed for accidents. For further particulars addressl WILLIAY1 LEACH, Owner, 219 C St., Marysville, Cal. FEE $25 KINNEY LOU 207 The fastest trotter, by the great MeKinney, 2:it}{. Dam the game race mare, Mary Lou. 2:17, by Tom Benton; second dam. Brown Jennie (dam of Ned Winslow, 2:12^; Shylock, 2:15^ and Mary Lou, 2:171, by David Hill, Jr. \\ ill make the season of 1904, limited to twelve approved mares, at Agricultural Park, San Jos€, FEE $100 Address BUDD D03LE, 1030 Pacific Avenue, Aiameda, Cal. MONTESOL By McKINNEY 2:11^. Dam IGO (registered) by Antevo'o, 2:19; second dam, Daisy May by Nutwood. Mootesol is a full brother to Lady Giaonard 2:33. Will Stand at Oakland, Danville, Concord and Pinole $40 FOR SEASON, Return Privilege. Address or apply to PAT FOLEY, Race Track, Alameda, Cal. PETICRU 2:10^ The largest money winner on the California Circuit, 1902. By Kingward, 2:25, son of the great Onward, sire of 9 in 2:10. Darn, Lemonade (Dam, Bessie Wilton, 2:09%, Petigru, 2:10;;! and Lady Wilton, 2:11';, the three fastest trotters ever produced by one mare) by Kentucky Prince Jr.; second dam, Susie Melbourne (dam of two and grandam of six standard performers), by Melbourne, Jr.; third dam. Kate i(in great brood mare list), by Alhoit, son of Abdallah 15, etc. Petigru stands 16. 1, and and weighs 1175 pounds. Petigru has trotted trial miles in 2:13^. Will make the season of 1904 at Agri- cultural Park, Los Angeles FEE $50 Address W. G. DURFEE, Box 96, University P, O., Los Angeles Car. POLE STAR— 4 years old By McKINNEY. Dam MOUNTAIN HARE, by Young Venture; 2nd dam by Nigger Baby; 3rd dam by Imp. Trustee. Will Stand at Oakland, Danville, Concord and Pinole $40 FOR SEASON, Return Privilege. Address or apply to PAT FOLEY, Race Track, Alameda, Cal. RED IRON— Thoroughbred. By ELI AS LAWRENCE. Dam INCA by Vedette; 2d dam Shena by Scottish Chief; 3rd dam Perdition by The Cure. Red Iron is the sire of Red Cloud , Diggs, Diomed, Etc. Season 1904 at FASHION STABLES, GILR0Y, OAL. FEE $25. ^or particulars, address Return Privilege. BILLY MACK, Gilroy, Cal. R USSE L MC. A highly-bred MeKinney. Bv MeKinney z:ii#, dam Cheerful by Larcho; 2nd dam, Russwood by Lord Russell, 4677; 3rd dam, Carlotta bv Nutwood 600; 4th dam, Lady Mayberry by Chieftain. Handsome brown stallion foaled 1S98, 16 hands, weighs about 1100 pounds. Lofty carriage and commanding appearance. Great muscle, bone and substance. Season 1904 at Agricultural Park, Los Angeles. DR. J. DeBARTH SHORB, Owner. FEE $25 FRANK WOODS, Manager. SEYMOUR WILKES-Reg No. 0232 Race Record, 2:08!£. The Fastest Son of Guy Wilkes, 2:15};', And the most uniform sireoFsizj, solid color, good looks and natural speed in California. Will make the season of tooi at CY. WHITE RANCH, L»kev!ew,|Cal. Tarm3 for tti3 Saaaon, $30. Address, THOS. ROCHE, Lakeville, Cal. Or J. W. Gregory, 408 Bush St., S. F., Cal. SILVER B. Will make the Season of 190-1 at Borden, Sacramento Co. Silver B. by Silver Bow. he l>y Robert McGregor (sire of Cresceus, 1:591! the chnmpiou trotting stallion or the world. Season commences Feb. 1st, ending July 1st TERMS, $30 THE SEASON, payable at time of service or before removal of the mare, with return privilege next year. Pasturage S3 per month. No responsibility assumed for accidents or escapes. Address W o. BOWERS. Capital Hotel, Or mcKeenan ciureen, Borden. Sacramento Co., Cal., to whom mares should be shipped. SILVER COIN 211% t.,„,;A\.?lJ' ~V lS,""J-?f KlaUlvah- ™SX, VV. Wood, 2:07, Agitato. 2:09, Cricket. 2:10, etc.! First dam. S 31j n9' r MclV"";"> ' z:"K(sire ol 7 ,n 2:10 list). Second dam, Leonor, 2:2.1 (dam of two in 2:10). 1,, ,h ?k 1 ('k "£ SKM brood mare lls') b> Echo m of Direct, 2105JS). Fourth dam thoroughbred mare by Rifleman. Silver Coin, 2:11!,', is a rich, dark bay, stands 16 hands, excellent feet and legs, a model in stvle carnage ami appearance, He is one of the handsomest horses to be found anywherefand is conceded bv a « ilinm-'fiveheatrace ' ""'" "'°'" hopp]^- and his rec '"rd is as a four-year-old in the thirdjheat of Season of 1904 at Agricultural Park, Lc.s Angeles FEE Address W. O, UURFEE, Box 96, University, Los Angeles, Cal. SILVER MOON. Almont-McGregor stallion. ~ -„A i,?y S.ilver,B.mv )r- dam Leona 2:2s, by Al Moon. Silver Moon foaled 1901, is a solid bay in color KS.J??w£ f" * a" P2r,4? dl5l~?'"0"- Is " square-sailed trotter and will be raced on the California circuit the coming season The combination oi McGregOl Almonl in Silver Moo,, is especially ■desirable as an outcross for mares of the Wilkes-Electioneer blood pcc.auy uesirame Will make the Season at the PLEASANTON RACE TRACK or tabulated pedigree, etc., address JAMES E. BERKYMAM, Pleasanton, Cal. SERVICE FEE, $25. ST. NICHOLAS The handsomest son of Sidney (sire of Sidney Dillon, sire of Lon Dillon— isSJ< the world's champion trotter.} a"/?, "'c wuuus St. Nicholas is a beautifully proportioned bright bay horse, stands 15.3 hands high well muscled Sv Echo tyk' a""iaS""?- "(V'""5 "^ ™- sti" a,,d speed- He is "y Sidney 2:1^, dam ToXa': by fceho 462, sire ot the dam ot Direct 2:05 Ji. SERVICE FEE, $25 Season 1904 at WATSONVILLE F. M. HAMMETT, Watsonville, Cal. Record 2:22%- STONEWAY 0340, Son of Strathway. 2:19. and the great broodmare, Elizabeth Basler Will make th= Season of 1904 at Hanford Race Track Beginning February 15th, with return privilege We expect to show the quality and speed of the young Stoneway's, trotters and pacers to bs shown in Jake Brolllar's string at Hanford track to the satisfaction of prospective patrons Address GEORGE W. KIRKMAN, Owner, Exeter, Cal. SERVICE FEE $20 FOR THE SEASON TOM SMITH--7 :13# M, SJri!d iy i^tf?,' J.IcKi,JnSi': vHK-greatest sire of his age; dam the great brood mare Daisy S (dam of 3 in list), by McDonald Chief-3583-son of Clark Chief, 89. Second dam. Fanny Rose-great brood mare tdam of 2 with records better than 2:iS)— by Ethan Allan Jr., 2993. Will make the Season of 19U4 at ZIBBEL'S STABLES, . . Cor. Twentieth Avenue and Point Lobos Road, SAN FRANCISCO to a limited number of approved mares. FEE $40. with usual return privilege. Address, J. W. ZIBBEL, 345 20th Ave., San Francisco, Cal. WALDSTEIN 12597 Holds world's record for five mile stallion race. Trotting reco-d 2:22^ First Premium at the state Fair 1896. bired by Director, -i: 17, d.m Nellie VT. (full sister to Albert VV., -2:20). by Electioneer, second dam Sister (d»m of Bonanza, 3:1a, Albert W„ S:iO). by John Nelson, third dam Lamotte Mare, (dam of Aurora. 2:17, Hazel, 2:28.) v Waldstein is the sire of Jack W, 2:12?r, Humboldt Maid, 2 13',;, Irene W.. S:I4"4, Lady Wald- stem, 2:15, and nine others from 2:I7Ji to 2:30. Sire of thedamof Swift B. (3), 2:161/, and dam of Young Venture. 2:24%. Will make the season of 1901 at Pleasanton. if not sold by February 1st. 1904. SERVICE FEE $30 Address flatt Zahner, Pleasanton, Cal. WILLEROO-28021 Sire, McKinuey. Dam by producing sou of Dictator; 16.2 hands high; weight, 1,200 lbs. Handsome; stylish; fast; large; perfect disposition. Season at LA SIESTA RANCH, near SAN JOSE. FEE, $25. Apply FRANK H. BURKE, 3o Hontgomery St., San Francisco. YUKON 2:14 Ji Son of Bay Bird 8S47 (son of the great Jay Bird) dam by Algona, sire of Flying Jib 2:04, etc., second dam Mabel (dam of 3 in the list) own sister 10 Beautiful Bells, greatest of all broodmares. Will make the Season of 1904 in San Francisco at the Yukon Stables To a limited number of good mares, as he will be trained and raced next season. Apply to TERMS FOR THE SEASON $40 C. W. 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NEWELL, 519 Mission St., San Francisco, Cal., Pacific Coast Agent Speed, Breeding and Individuality RITA H. 2:11 1-4 Pacing Mare by MeKinney 2:11 1-4 ELECTRO McKINNEY Brown Colt, Three-Year-Old Trotter by MeKinney 2:11 1-4 RITA H. is a dark brown mare who stands nearly 16 bands high, and will weigh In racing trim about 1050 lbs. This mare has had this year a very remarkable record. She started (n the North- western Circuit in the States of Oregon and Washington, and out of eight s'arts won her Qrst seven races and only lost four heats during the entire circuit, and has a paolng record of 2: 11^- The mare Is nve years old and Is excellent on the road. She does not pull or lug, and a lady can drive her anywhere. Last spring she trotted a workout mile Id -: inland repeated in 2:164. after only seven weeks' work. Her owner has driven her in 2:12! j in the Los Angeles Driving Club races, she having won all of them in which she started. This mare can step two heats below -: 10, ELECTRO McKINNEY is a brown stallion foaled In 1900, aDd stands 15 hands 1 Inch In height. He trotted a full mile as a two-year-old In 2:31 *4, last quarter Id 35 seconds, and when a three-year- old a full mile ia 2:21 %, last quarter in 32 seconds. He Is perfectly gal ted and a grand lodlvldual in every respect. Weighs about 950 lbs. ELECTRO McKINNEY Is bred in the purple, and Is one of the best sons of McKinnev alive to day MeKinney is undoubtedly the greatest sire for his age, living or dead. ELECTRO McKINNEY was not raced this year, being oniy a three-year-old and not entered in any stakes ft was decided to hold him over. These horses are all right and there is not a thing the matter with them, but my business demands are suoh that I cannot afford to devote any time to racing them. 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Devoted Exclusively to the Breeding and Training of Eigh Stepping Hackney-Bred Harness Horses WALTER SKAIA. Manager. Oictatus Medium 32499 Will make the coming season at Race Track, Hollister, Gal. Jos Sanchez In charge $40 FOR THE SEASON. Payable at time of service, with usual return privilege. Every care taken to prevent accidents, but no responsibil- ity should any occur. Prompt and careful attention in all cases Pasturage furnished to mares sent from a distance at $2 50 a month. A mCTATUS MEDIUM PURSE OF 8100. I will give a purse of $100, with entrance money added for a race, best two in three, open to any and all colts from DICTATUS MEDIUM, the result of the breeding season of 1904, either pacers or trotters. Must be three to start and race to come off on Hollister track, Pair week, 1907 {Exact date to be hereafter announced.) $5 entrance money, payable June I, 1905. $5 thirty days before the race. Three moneys: 60 per cent to first horse; 30 per cent to second and iu per cent to third. For further par- ticulars, address R. P. LATHKOP, Hollister. DESCRIPTION. DICTATUS MEDIUM is 6 years old, weighs 1220 pounds. A beautiful turned bay horse with heavy mane and tail, kind and gentle, with a perfect disposition. Good flat heavy bone. He has great power and speed. Has a record of 2:24, but has worked out in 2:12. He is a horse that will go out any day and do his best. His colts are models of grace and beauty. Only one so far has been worked. This one, Al Willson's yearling LITTLE MEDIUM, paced an exhibition % mile on the Hollister Race Track in 38'j seconds, a 2:33 gait. This colt has great promise. DICTATUS MEDIUM is by Dictatus 2:17. one of the best bred and fastest horses ever brought to California. The dam of Dictatus Medium is Belle Medium {dam of Stain B. 2:1134). by Happy Medium, grandsire of the dam of Lou Dillon 1:58% - His second dam is Argenta by Almont Light- ning, sire of the dam of Zombro 2:11. There is no doubt but Dictatus Medium will prove to be a sire of speed as well as good size, style and disposition. Futurity Stake Payments Due Jan. 2, 1904 PACIFIC BREEDERS FUTURITY STAKES No. I -$6000 Guaranteed FOR THE GET OF MARES COVERED IN 1900 (FOALS BORN IN I90I) ENTRIES CLOSED SEPTEMBER 1, 1900 To Trot or Face at 2 years old in 1903 and at 3 years old In 1904, at either or both ages LAST PAYMENT $10 ON THREE-YEAR-OLDS JANUARY 2, 1904. PACIFIC BREEDERS FUTURITY STAKES No. 2«=$6000 Guaranteed FOR THE GET OF MARES COVERED IN 1901 iFOALS BORN IN 1903) ENTRIES CLOSED OCTOBER 1, 1901 To Trot or Face at 2 years old in 1904 and at 3 years old in 1905, at either or both ages. $10 on Two- Year-Olds January 2, 1904. The 810 Payment January 3, 1904, keeps your entry good to January 2, 1905. Address correspondence to the Secretary. E. P. HEAjLD, President. F. W. KELLET, Secretary, 36 Geary Street. San Francisco. A Sidney Stallion With Earning Capacity In pursuance of my intention to retire from the business of breeding- horses, and having disposed of all my broodmares at auction, I now offer at private sale the stallion William Harold 2:i3i-4. His sire is the grreat Sidney 2;19|, grandsire of the champion trotter of the world, Lou Dillon 1:58*, and his dam the great race and broodmare Cricket 2:10 (dam of four in the list) bj Steinway, the greatest son of Strathmore. WILLIAM HAROLD is a producer The only two of his get to start are that wonderfully fast trotter Janice 2:08} and the pa^er Dan Burns 2:15. WILLIAM HAROLD'S services in the stud were very limited up to three years ago, as he was raced. His weanlings, yearlings and two-year-olds are very prom- ising and have size, good looks and great natural speed, besides being uniform in color, nearly all bays. He is a sure foal getter, is in the very best condition, sound and healthy, and with ordinary good business management can earn in the stud in 1904 the price asked for him. For tabulated pedigree and full particulars, address H. W. MEEK, San Lorenzo, Cal. ™F J JAY-EYE- SIDNEY DILLON 23157 Sire of lOO DILLON 1:58 1-2, the Fastest Trotter and the Orentest Record Breaker In the World, DOLLY DILLON 2:06 3-4, the Fastest Mare of 1901, B. S. DILLON 2:16 1-4 and CAPTIVITY 2:28 1-2. SANTA ROSA STOCK FARM, Santa Rosa, Cal. SIDNEY DILLON was sired by SidDey 2:19j; dam Venus (dam of Adonis 2:11 J, Leah 2:24J, Cupid 2:18, and Juno, the dam of Mercury 2:21 and Ida2::!0) by Venture 2:27J, sire of dam of Directum 2:05J. SIDNEY DILLON is a model of symmetry and imparts his grand individuality, inherent speed and excellent dis- position to all his progeny. TERMS FOR THE SEASON $100. Only a limited number of approved mares taken. Usual return privilege. In case horse is sold service fee will be returned if mares have not proven in foal. Season ends July 1, 1904. Pasturage $4 per month. Best of care taken of mares, but no responsibility assumed for accidents or escapes. For particulars regarding shipment of mares, etc., address FRANK TURNER, Supt. Santa Rosa Stock Farm, SANTA ROSA, CAL. Or Ira Pierce, 728 Montgomery St., S. F. ConeylslandJockeyClub RACE COURSE: Sheepshead Bay, N. Y. OFFICE: Windsor Arcade, 571 Fifth Ave.. New York EVENTS TO CLOSE Monday, January 4, 1904. FOR THE JUNE MEETING 1904. For Three Tears Old and Upwards. The Suburban. H»°dl<;ap. °ne mlle and a i-*rt« Ca8h TaIue $20,000 The Commonwealth. The Advance Cash value Handicap, one mile and a quarter tPIQ AAA 810,000 added. Estimated vain© <>IO,UVU 'Weight for age, one mile and three furlongs C*IC AAA Cash value $10,UVU The Coney Island, six furlongs, 82000 added Thfi Iimo HanHirancJ Tne Sheepnhead Bay, one mile, S2500 added 1 1IC JU11C HUllUICapSj Tne i^g Island, one mile and a furlong, 83000 The Equality. The Thistle. added— Total 87500 added. Estimated value. Penalties and Allowances, one mile 83000 added. Estimated value. $15,000 $ 6,000 Selling, one mile and a farlong C A 000 S2000 added. Estimated value * *,vW For Three Years Old. npiia Qnrifr Penalties and Allowances, seven furlongs C f* AAA 1UC OWlll. S30OO added. Estimated value v U,UVU Handicap, one mile and a furlong C A 00(1 83O00 added. Estimated value * UjUVW The Spindrift. For Two Years Old. The The The The The Penalties and Allowances, six furlongs C7C 000 Cash value *iO,UUU Great Trial Hrtiihlp Pvpnr First Part, five and a half furlongs, 810.000 '570 000 UUUU1C GVCill. Second Part, six furlongs, 8 IO.OOU. Cash value 0£U,UUV 7an\%ijr Penalties and Allowances, live and a half furlongs ff C 000 /.CpUJI. 82000 added. Estimated value * «J»vUU Cflf;n(, Penalties and Allowances, six furlongs O C 000 OpnUg. 82000 added. Estimated value * «>>""» Va.tial For Fillies, penalties and allowances, five furlongs C C 000 Verild.1. 83000 added. Estimated value * **,UUV Steeplechases. liaamn Penalties and Allowances, about two miles and a half 4? C 000 DCUIU1I. 83O00 added. Estimated value ip «J,UUV The The Independence. Handicap, about two and a hair miles 82500 added. Estimated value. $ 4,000 FOR THE AUTUMN MEETING, 1904. For Two Years Old and Upwards. The Flight. Penalties and Allowances, seven furlongs d* f. 000 83000 added Estimated value * «,VW For Three Years Old. Penalties and Allowances, one mile and three furlongs £ /, 000 83000 added. Estimated value v U,UUU For Two Years Old. The September. The Autumn. The Flatbush. The Great Eastern. B^1^- •'* r«»><.gs Penalties and Allowances, six furlongs 0 Z AAA 83000 added. Estimated value v 0»UUV Penalties and Allowances, seven furlongs Cash value.. Cash value. $10,000 $ 7,500 OINTMENT i, *f/r10^ SPAVIN Mr. J. I. Case, (Hickory Grove Farm, home \ of Jay-Eye-See) Racine, Wis., says: "After try- \ ing every known remedy, I removed a lnree \ Bnnchoftwo years standing from a 3-year old \ filly, with three applications of Quinn's Ointment.! IV.B.EOCY&CO. WHITEHALL. NEW YORK It ia the best preparation I have ever used or heard \ of. I heartily recommend it to all Horsemen. We have hundreds of such testimonials. Price SI. 00 per package. Aak your ti racist for it. If be does not keep it we will send prepaid on receipt of price. Address *W, B. EDDY & CO., Whitehall, N. '. MLMBBBl TVTANTED-SlTUATION AS MANAGER OF ** small Stock Farm. Thoroughly competent and trustworthy young man Best of references. Address J. R M.,care Breeder and Sportsman, 36 Geary Street, San Francisco. FOR THE AUTUMN MEETING, 1906. TL. C„i„-;i„ For the produce of mares covered In 1903, six furlongs C7C (\f)t\ 1 DC rUIUriiy. «lll,l)IIOsild.d. Estimated value *fO,WV Entry Blanks may be had on application to the office ol the Breeder and Sportsman, or may be obtained from the CLERK OF THE COURSE, The Coney Island Jockey Club, Windsor Arcade, 571 Fifth Ave, New York City. FOR SALE SITUATION WANTED AS TRAINER AND RACE DRIVER, BY A ■** thoroughly competent man, from the last, with experience. First-class references as to ability and character. Address T. C. HARRIS, care of West Ranch, Fernando, Cal. SAM FULLER (Thoroughbred). oT,^ VX"^? seS dam Lilly Bobbit by Victory. SAM FULLER is a high-class stallion. Winner of fourstakes. In first-class condition. For price and furiher particulars address Op BBEEOFB AND SPORTSMAN. A. FORBES, 5615 San Pablo Ave., Oakland 8 ®hc pvce&cv nui» Sportsman [December 26, 1903 HEALD'S SCHOOL OF Mines and Engineering The most practical School in the West. 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KELLEY, PROPRIETOR. furf and Sporting Authority of the Pacific Coast. — OFFICE — 36 QEARY STREET, SAN FRANCISCO. P. O. BOX 2300. Telephone: Black S86. Terms— One Tear S3. Six Months 81.75, Three Months 91 STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. Money snould be sent by postal order, draft or by registered letter addressed to F. W. Kellet, 36 Geary St., San Francisco. Cal. Communications must be accompanied by the writer's name and address, not necessarily for publication, but as a private guarantee of good faith. San Francisco, Saturday, December 26 , 1903. CHRISTMAS CHEER that is genuine comes to harness horse breeders of America at this glorious holiday time. A season of achievements un- paralleled has just closed; the two minute trottei, not only one, but three have appeared, and breeders from California to Main are resolving to breed still more and still faster ones. The trotting horse has not only kept his place as the favorite animal in the hearts of Americans, but he is so firmly enthroned that his place is permanent. He is the horse of busi- ness as well as pleasure, and he is owned and used by men, women and children in every walk of American life. In the evolution of the horse the American trot- ter is destined to stand as the very acme of the equine species, if he has not already reached that proud position. In the production of the long looked for two minute trotter California occupies the foremost place. In this State was bred Lou Dillon, the first to reach that mark, and her sire and dam. Here was also bred the sire of Major Delmar, the second horse to trot a mile in the time that but a few months ago was considered by many to be beyond the achieve- ment of a trotting horse. In the list of eight trotters that have beaten 2:05 this land of sunshine has pro- duced three, and the sires of two more. No further proof is needed to show that California is the place par excellence to breed the highest type of the horse. It is also the best place in the world to develop him. Hordes can be worked every month in the year and there are more and better training tracks here than in any place of like population in the world. Nearly every county has its mile track with good box stalls and every convenience for working horses. There are good regulation mile tracks at Chico, Red Bluff, Marysville, Colusa, Willows, "Woodland, Santa Rosa, Petaluma, Napa, Vallejo, Concord, Eureka, Ferndale, Alameda, Oakland, Saa Francisco, Tanforan, San Jose, Hollister, Salinas, Sacramento, Stockton, Fresno, Bakersfield. Banford, San Bernardino, Los ADgeles, Santa Ana, San Diego and Santa Barbara, and all are well fitted with grandstands and all the necessary buildings for holding race meetings. Cali- fornia is a horBe country and in breeding and train- ing trotters and pacers it stands in the very front rank. In harness racing, however, during the past few years California has not occupied a very prominent place. Years ago, when the county fair was about the only amusement afforded the people in the farm- ing sections, the State was divided into Agricultural Districts in which fairs, aided by State appropriation, were held every year. Apart of the program was horse racing, and the trotting horse people finally came to depend upon these fairs to provide a circuit of harness racing. In 1893, when all business, and especially horse breeding, was suffering from low prices and little demand, the State appropriation for fairs was discontinued and as a consequence the har- ness circuit waB broken up. After two years the ap- propriations were restored, but they were again cut off in 1903 and this year there was not enough racing to be called a circuit. The Pacific Coast Trotting Horse Breeders Association gave one of the best meetings it has ever held however, using the track at Petaluma, and there were smaller meetings held at a few towns While harness racing did not amount to much in California this year, the meetings held taught the harness horse people that it is not only possible to give profitable meetings without the ad- junct of county fairs or State aid, but that the only way to make an annual circuit certain is to organize associations at the principal towns and make up one. This can be done and should be in time for the racing of 1904. The Breeders association has called a meet- ing of its Board of Directors for Monday, January 4th, at which time a program of stakes and purses for its 1904 meeting will be arranged and announced and it has extended an invitation to all track mana- gers and representatives of district associations in California to meet with the Diaectors and see what can be done to arrange a circuit of harness racing that will be worth while. The Breeders will give the best program and the best meeting that it has for years past and all that is needed is co-operation on the part of track managers and some of the district boards to make the season of 1904 one of the brightest in the history of California harness racing. The out- look is bright for breeders and owners of harness horses all over the country. May everyone have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and may those in California get a liberal share of the good things that are to be distributed to the winners in 1904. yHE FINAL SALE of Palo Alto Farm horses will ■I be held at Fred H. Chase & Co.'s salesyard, January 14th. This is positively the last of the horses on the great farm that will be sold by auction. There are eighteen yearlings, foals of 1903, one two year old, two four year olds and a couple of brood mares. They are by the greatest of California stallions ard out of the best mares of Palo Alto farm. There are six McKinneys, five by Nutwood Wilkes, twu by Mendocino, three by Monbells, one by Nazote and one by Iran Alto. The mares are by Dexter Prince, Piedmont and Electioneer. This is the very last opportunity tc get colts or fillies from the once great farm. At the same time and place Chas A. Durfee will sell four head of youDg McKinneys to close out a co-partnership, and Geo. Fox of Clements, Cal., will sell his grand young stallion Daedalion 2:11, son of Diablo and the great brood mare Grace by Buccaneer. This sale should attract the attention of every breeder in California. It furnishes an oppor- tunity that will not be offered for many a day. Winter Polo in California. Burlingame seems without doubt to be getting more and more the cotter of winter polo. Players from England, France and the Eastern States are coming each year in larger numbers. This season Mr. C. Raoul-Duval is already here representing the French element and his brother Maurice is expected shortly. Mr. Ezra is here from London and India, while Messrs. Frank Jay Mackay, C. Garland Capt. Neil Haig and Mr. Gill are to be here next week to chal- lenge for the Pacific Coast championship. Mr. Mackay is already known here having played on two of the Hurlingham teams, being beaten the first time and winniDg the championship the second. Mr. Mackay plays No. 2. Mr. Gill is the manager of the Ranelagh Club, with Hurlingham the largest polo club in England and that means anywhere. Capt. Neil Haig belongs to the Innins Killin Dragoons, one of the best polo regiments, for several years winners of the military championship. Capt. Haig and Mr. Gill play Back and No. 3. Mr. Mackay has twenty ponies ready to play await- ing his arrival in the southern part of the State. Messrs. Driscoll and Dunphy each have a large string of very fine looking ponieB, most of them thorough- NEARKST 2:23 breds. Though Mr. W. S. Hobart is abroad the local play- ers are reinforced by Messrs. Driscoll, Dunphy and Walter McCreery, none of whom were playing here last year. On New Year's Day a tournament for three teams for cups offered by the Burlingame Club will begin. The teamB as at present arranged are: L. McCreery, C. Dunphy, J. O. Tobin and C. Raoul Duval. R. M. Tobin, Mr. Ezra, E. W. Howard and J Lawson. Mr. Driscoll, W. A. McCreery, Cyril Tobin and F Carolan. Last year at this time it would have been difficult to get up two teams. Mr F. C. G. Menzies, who was missed last season and will be remembered as having played No. 2 on the Hurlingham team is expected here early next month. W,. S. Hobart sails for home on January 13th and expects to be playing here in February. Burlingame and San Mateo have now three polo fields which allows playing to go on in nearly any kind of weather. The club field and the Crossway Farm field are both full size, and the latter is one of the prettiest polo fields to be found anywhere. When visitors are seated on the porch of the charming pavilion watching a polo match on one of our fine winter days it is hard for them to realize that it is Lot May or June instead of January or February. The owner, Mr. Carolan, deserves the hearty thanks of the community for all he has done to help and foster sport. The third field at Mr. W. C. Clark's place is rather too small for anything but practice gameB, but he is about to enlarge it. Mr. Rudolph Spreckels, though not a polo player himself, takes a great interest in the game and in the breeding of ponies, and has, or is about to make a polo field at his place in Sonoma. Mr. R. M. Tobin is also one of the local men whose interest in the game has had much to do with its successful establishment here. To Mr. Lawrence Mc- Creery's exertions are due, in a great measure, the cosmopolitan aspect of our winter polo. At his 'sug- gestion Mr. Chas. Wheeler, of Philadelphia, and Mr. T. C. G. Menzies, of Scotland, came out and made possible the first Hurlingham team. The last week in March has been set aside for the Pacific Coast championship games, when the follow- ing teams are expected to compete. One from Hono- lulu; one from Hurlingham, England; one from Rugby, England; one from Southern California; two local teams and probably one Eastern team, making seven teams to cut in for the championship— more than twice the previous number. In February Hotel Del Monte at Monterey is to have a week of polo tournament and pony racing and over a thousand dollars are to be given out in prizes. Mr. John Lawson, though a Britisher, can in a cer- tain sense be claimed as a Californian player, having learned the game out here, and his success in England last season when he played on the winning team at Rugby must be placed to the credit of our polo. From the above statement it is easy to see that the season of 1904 promises to be most brilliant and to eclipse any previous season on the Coast. A Sire of Extreme Speed. The fastest piece of horseflesh that was 6een on any of the California tracks this year while the circuit races were on was Alone, the mare that took a four year old race record of 2:09} in 1902. This year she did not race, but at the breeders meeting at Peta- luma she was sent a half mile against the watch, Bimply for the pleasure that it would afford the large crowd present and stepped the distance in 0:59J, better than a two minute gait. Two months later over the San J 08e track she stepped an eighth in 13.] seconds, and there is little doubt but a mile in two minutes is within her reach. The sire of this speed marvel is the stallion Nearest 2:22, whose likeness appears herewith. Be is owned by Mr. Theo. W. Bar- s'ow of San Jose and is an own brother to that great trotter John A. McKerron 2:04*, being by Nutwood Wilkes out'of the great broodmare Ingar by Director. John A. McKerron is the fastest trotter in the male line of all the great Wilkes family. Nearest is a grandly formed horse, and sires speed with size and good looks as uniformly as any stallion in America. As a race horse he was game and much faster than his record. He has as perfect a disposition as it is possible for a stallion to have, and is in- telligent and full of life and vigor. A lady can drive him, yet he is as bold and fearless as a lion. Without an exception his colts show speed, and there are several youngsters by him now at San Jose that are models. He combines the blood of the two greatest race winning families — WilkesaDd Director— and those who send mares to bim in 1904 will make no mistake. It is from just such horses as Nearest 2:22 ' hat will come the competitors in the two minut* c future. 12 ®ive gveefrev anfc &ptrvi&tnan [December 26, 1903 Cresceus 1:59 3-4, Champion Trotting Stallion To Announce Stakes tor 1904. A meeting of the board of directors of the Pacific Coast Trotting Horse Breeders Association will he held at the office of the secretary, 36 Geary Street, San Francisco, Thursday afternoon, January 7th, 1904, at 2 o'clock instead of January 4th as stated on the editorial page of this issue. The meeting is called for the purpose of arranging and announcing a series of early closing stakes for the race meeting of the association the coming season and to take measures to secure a circuit of harness meetings next year in this State. Representatives of the district associations and all others interested in race meetings in California are requested to attend this meeliDg of P. C. T. H. B. A. directors. It is highly important that places contemplating giving meetings announce their intention and select dates immediately, as the assurance at this time of the year, of a number of good race meetings in Cali- fornia the coming season, will bean inducement to owners to train horses and race them here instead of campaigning them outside of the State. The urgency of this matter should impress itself on all parties interested and it is greatly to' be desired that the different associations and race tracks be represented at this meeting. Col. C. bg by Glenway 2 Sey mow, b c (2) by Diawood 2 Edwin S., chg by Dr. Hicks 2 Demonio, ch s by Chas. Derby 2 Ira, b g by Iris 2: Mabel C, b f by Strathway 2: Athby, b s by Athadon 2: Young Monterey, blk c (3) bv Monterey 2: Nellie R., b m by Wayland W 2: Sister Patty ; gr m by Vasto 2: San Lucas Maid, ch m by Dictatus 2: REDUCED RECORDS— PACERS. Ben F., b g by Bradtmoor from 2:22} to 2 Cuckoo, b g by Strathway from 2:18* to 2 Monroe S., ch g by Dictator Wilkes. from 2:16} to 2 Dan Burns, b g by Wm. Harold .... from 2:23} to 2 13} 23 13} 11', I'M 20; 214 24 i 11..! 22 21J 10 13J m 15 OllieM., bm by Westfield 2:19} to 2:14.! Martha B , b m by Ashland Wilkes 2:20} lo 2:124 Harry Hurst, ch g by Delwin 2:23 to 2:14) FraneiBco, b g by Caution 2:lr>4 to 2:12 Monroe S., ch g by Dictator Wilkes 2:16} to 2:13', New Standard Records. The following horses made new or reduced their former records »n the California circuit in 1903: NEW RECORDS — TROTTERS. George G., b g by Homeward 2: Deputy, s g by Derby Ash 2 Sproul, b g by Cal Lambert 2 Gertie H., b m by Robin 2 Black Jack, br g by Nushagak 2 Tuna, b f (3) by James Madison 2 Little Branch, b f (3) by Nutwood Wilkes 2 Almaden, blk c (2) by Direct 2 Din Fraser, b g by Secretary 2 Fancy, b m by Welcome 2 Dollexa, b m by Alexis 2: Emmy Lou, b m by Welcome 2 Bertha R., b m by Daly 2 May Ayars, b m by Iris 2 Rosie Woodbury, b m by Easter Wilkes 2 Ole, b g by Silas Skinner 2 Louise Croner, gr m by Wildboy 2 Zombnvvyette, b m by Zombro 2 Lady Zombro, b m by Zombro Mamie Elizabeth 2 The following horses, many of them bred in Cali- fornia, made new records or reduced their recoids on the Oregon and Washington Circuit: NEW PERFORMERS— TROTTEBS. Sweet Marie, b m by McKinney 2:13} Idyllwild, b m by McKinney 2:17} Red Skin, ch g by Red Cloak 2:164 Louis Z., br g by Upstart 2:24 St. Patrick, ch g by Nutwood Wilkes 2:20 Dr. Hammond, ch g by Chas. Derby 2:12} Swift B., brgby Stam B 2:16} Getaway, ch g by Strathway 2:244 Deputy, ch g by Derby Ash 2:184 Beladi, b m by Chehalis 2:19 Belle Storm, br m by Storm..- 2:15} PACERS. 124 13} 243 264' 284 164 ;22| :22} :20} :27 21 :254 22| :23} 16 :15J :22 :18 244 :24 REDUCED RECORDS— TROTTERS. Tom SmUh, br s by McKinney from 2:164 to 2:13} Iloilo, b g by Welcome from 2:16} to 2:15 Trilby.c'i m by Mambrino Chief Jr. from 2:23} to 2:21} S'jvteri ,h s by Noonday from 2:23 to 2:18} NEW RECORDS— PACERS. E.i9ler, blk s by Robert Basler 2:11} Tidal Wave, ch h by Nutwood Wilkes 2 Beta H., b m by McKinney 2 Ama A., b m by Dictatus 2 Portia Knight, b m by Vinmont 2 High Ball, blk g by Silkwood 2 Prince Tom, blk g by Tom V 2 Bensurba, b g by Tom Benton 2: Hallie Hinges, b m by Pricemont 2 Economizer, b m by Chas. Derby 2 Polka Dot, b m by Mendocino 2 Vision, b g by "Vanquish 2 Oregon Maid, b m by Del Norte 2 Osmont, b h by Altamont 2 Josie Fontaine, b m by Glenelg 2 Glengary Patchen, by King Patchen 2: Glendella, b m by Del Norte 2 RECORDS REDUCED — TROTTERS. Briney K., b g by Strathway 2:19} to 2: MarBoy.bg by Delmar 2:19} to 2 Helen Norte, b m by Chehalis 2:26} to 2 Coronado, blk h by McKinney 2:19} to 2: Package, b h by Pactolus : 2:24} to 2 Master Delmar, "b g by Delmar 2:204 lo 2 The Commonwealth, b h by Shadeland Onward 2:19 to 2: Mack Mack, b g by McKinney 2:15 to 2: PACERS. Christobel, ch m by Chas. Derby 2:204 to 2 Occident Stake. The second payment on the Occident Stakes has been made on the following that were sold from the Santa Rosa Stock Farm in 1903. Purchasers of these please note the fact and if they de ire to continue making payments notify the secretary of State Agri- cultural Society, Sacramento. The third payment of 1004 is due January 1, 1904. All by McKinney out of the mares Carlotta Wlikes, Biscara, Stamboulita, Rope Russell The following Sidney Dillons out of Lilly Stanley, Guycara, and Adioo and two by Marengo King, one out of Palo Belle, the other i6 out of Paceta. These five are entered iu the Occident Stake of 1905, second payments on which are also due January 1, 1904. Nutwood Wilkes 2:16}, the sire of John A. Mc- Kerron 2:044, is the sire of 6even 2:15 performers. :14} :11} 13} :16} :12} 16} 16 18} 174 14} 12.! 144 144 16 244 21} 17} 15 17 18} 20 .16 17} 13 11} hjorse Owners Look to your interests and use the safest, speediest and most positive cure for ailments of your horses, for which an ex- ternal remedy can be used, viz : GOMBAULT'S CAUSTIC BALSAM Prepared exclusively J J. E. Goinliault, ex- Veterinarv Surtreon to the French Government . Stud. SUPERSEDES ALL CAUTERY OR FIRING. Impossible to produce any scar or blemish. The safest best Blister ever used. 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Hiram Woodruff, the great trainer and driver and author of that fascinating hook "The Trotting Horse of America," had trained and driven Dexter in many races and when the owner ot the mighty son of Hambletonian engaged Doble to train and pilot the great trotter in his races, Mr. Woodruff wrote as follows in his hook of the transfer: "When Dexter left my stable Mr. Trussell selected for his future trainer and driver Budd Doble, a young man of high character, good intelligence and much experience for his years. He had been among trotters from the time that he was a little boy, his father being a trainer and driver; and Budd himself was everywhere esteemed as one of the very best riders in the country." In the early part of the winter of 1866-67, Mr. Woodruff wrote as follows among the last leaves of his book: "Dexter is passing the winter at Baltimore and from all that Doble tells me he is likely to come out fine in the spring. It is unnecessary to recapitulate his performances since he left my stable. I believe I have given them all; and it occurs to me that I ought to call public attention to the integrity and capacity with which Doble haB trained and driven him. The owners of Dexter were fortunate in selecting this young man for the post; and the public were fortunate that some persons did not get hold of the horse and use him for plundering the people. Great as the achievements of Dexter have been, I can see no reason to believe that he haB yet reached his highest de- velopment. It is a long time now since I took Mr. Foster to his box, and pointing out his very re- markable shape— the wicked head, the gamecock Budd Doble and Dexter at Point Breeze Track in 1S67 health compelled Doble's retirement from the sulky, but California climate and 6unshine during the past few years has renewed his health, and this year he again took the reinsinhis hands and with Kinney Lou, a green son of McKinney, raced through the Grand Circuit and gave the stallion a mark of 2:07| in the second heat of a race. A graphic picture of the finish of this heat is given herewith, and it is re- years younger. During this winter he has been resid- ing with his daughter in the beautiful suburban town of Alameda, and his time is much occupied with his little grandchild, a year and a half old boy who, as is shown in the snapshot on this page, has thus early tiken to "playing horse" with "Grandpa" Doble for a driver. The writer of these lines took this snap when Mr. Doble was not aware that the camera wa9 Badd Doble Wlnningthe Deciding Heat of the S5000 Stake at Empire City Track, August 12, 1903,;wltb Kinney Loa in 3:07 3 4 throttle, the immense depth over the heart, the flat, oblique shoulder laid back clean under the saddle, the strong back, the mighty haunches square and big as those of a cart horse, and the good wiry legs — predicted to him that there stood the future Lord of the Trotting World. That prediction has not yet been wholly fulfilled, but my faith in its accomplish- ment is not at all shaken. He has not beaten the 2:195 of Flora Temple; nor has he beat the 2:25 to wagon which stands to her credit and to the credit of Geo. Wilkes; but I cat) Bee no reason to doubt that to do both these things is clearly within his capacity." Hiram Woodruff died in the middle of March, 1867, and therefore the grass had not grown upon his grave when these predictions in regard to Dexter had been fulfilled. Budd Doble drove him in 2:19 at Boston, July 30th and two weeks later at Buffalo lowered the record to 2:17J, a mighty achievement for the time. In 1871 Budd Doble again reduced the record, this time with that wonderful mare Goldsmith Maid and she lowered Dexter's record a quarter of a second and then by easy gradations continued the reductions until 1874 when at Mystic Park, Boston, she placed the mark at 2:14. Rarus, St. .Tulien, Jay Eye See, Maud S. and Sunol then wore the crown successively until 1892, when Budd Doble again came to the front with Nancy Hanks and put the trotting record at 2:07} at Chicago in AuguBt of that year, reducing it further to 2:05J at Independence a few days later, and then in September at Terre Haute, placing it at 2:04. Soon after that ill lated that when Doble dismounted after winning it, the veteran horseman, Gen. John Turner, said to him, "Budd, that's as good a job as you ever did in your life." Budd Doble is now in his 63d year, but looks fifteen to be turned on him, and while the reader migh think that the great reinsman, the driver of three champion trotters, was driving the little one, we can assert from actual knowledge acquired on the spot, that the he was being led, willingly and more proudly than he ever felt when 6eated behind Dexter, Gold- smith Maid, Nancy Hanks or Kinney Lou. The Leading Hotel. California's greatest hotel is the Palace of San Francisco. Every feature connected with thie colossal caravansary was designed and introduced for a double purpose — surrounding guestB with comforts, conveniences and entertainment, and adding to the popularity and reputation of the Palace as one of the great hotels of the world. In the center of the great building is the famous court and off of this are the equally famous grill rooms. For your convenience telephone and telegraph offices, writiDg and reading rooms, barber shop, billiard parlor, carriage office, news stand and typewriter offices are directly off the court. Outside— the wholesale and sboppiDg district, theaters, clubs, banks and railroad offices are a step from the entrance. The half-tone engravings of a few of the new features of the hotel are shown on the back cover of this paper. A Willing Yearling Wilkes Stallions for Sale. Mr. P. H. McEvoy of Menlo Park is offering severa desirable young Wilkes stallions for sale as will he seen by an advertisement in another part issue. this 14 mhe gxe&ev antt gxjwrtswott [December 2i5, 1803 OAKWOOD PARK FARM. jj§tf Resting partly od the side of that prominent land mark of Central California, Mount Diablo, and ex- tending down over a sweep of pretty and fertile valleys and hills which lie at the mountain's base, are thesis thousand acres of land which comprise Oak- wood Park, one of California's greatest breeding farms. Naturally it is one of the most beautiful spots in all California, and when it is considered that over $800,000 has been expended in improvements one can partly realize without seeing it that Oakwood Park is the best appointed of all the stock farms of the Pacific Coast. The residence, the barns, the training stables, the tracks, the paddocks, etc., are all placed with an eye to beautify instead of mar the landscape, and the biid's eye view gained of the farm from any of the surrounding eminences is one of exceeding charm. The fields of Oakwood Park are prolific in Better 2:07} and Little Better 2:11}. We might go on until this page appeared like the Great Broodmare table in the Year Book, for Oakwood Park's matrons are celebrated producers of extreme speed and all the record horses montioned above were produced by them on the farm and were by the farm's stallions. Of the trotters produced ot Oakwood Park that have gained fast records are Derby Princess 2:085, Owyhee 2:11, Derby Lass 2:14, Our Jack 2:131, Dr. Hammond 2:121 and Katrinka G. 2:14|. The pacerB are Klata- wah 2:051. W. Wood 2:07, Agitato 2:09, Cricket 2:10, Sylvanway 2:10}, Algregor 2:11, Free Coinage 2:11|, Elf 2:12} and Darkway 2:131, all by Steinway, and Don Derby 2:04}, Much Better 2:07}, Diablo 2:09}, Christobel' 2:11}, Demonio 2:11}, Little Better 2:11}, Willie Osborn 2:12}, Cibolo 2:131 and Flare Up 2:14 by Chas. Derby. Oakwood Park'B premier stallion was Steinway 2:25|, the champion three-year-old of his time. He is a son of Strathmore out of Abbess by Albion, and his full sister Soprano ranks second only to Beautiful Bells as a speed producer, she having ten in the standard list. Mating Steinway to Katie G. by Elec- tioneer, the farm produced Chas. Derby 2:20, destined to be one of the greatest of all speed sires and already standing well to the front among horses of his age. Steinway at 25 Years growing fruits and grains of every variety. The pasture fields are rich with native grasses to the hill tops, while the lower lying valleys contain alfalfa that is cropped several times a year and furnishes green feed for the stock from one year's end to an- other. Oakwood Park has been a successful farm, and a cradle of early and extreme speed. The broodmares selected for it have proved worthy matrons and the Great Broodmare list contains the names of many of them. Katie G. by Electioneer is the dam of H. R. Covey 2:25, Chas. Derby 2:20, Steineer 2:291, Sunlight 2:25, Klatawah 2:051 (champion three-year-old pacer) and Katrinka G. 2:14}. Bertha by Alcantara has produced Diablo 2:09}, Elf 2-.12J, Ed Lafferty 2:161, Jay Eff Bee 2:26} (as a yearling). Demonio 2:11} and Don Derby 2:041. Calypso by Steinway is the dam of Ally Sloper 2:28, Best Way 2:291 and Pussy Willow 2:10}, Inex by Sweepstakes is the mother of Alamo 2:291 and Our Jack 2:131. Flash by Egmont gave the Heald's College. Heald's Business College leads all educational in- stitutions of its kind in the west in keeping up with the progress of the times in business methods and the practical arts and sciences. Every department is thoroughly up to date in all points. It keeps in touch with modern commercial methods and when a student has completed the course in this college he knows that he has acquired an education that can be made immediately profitable as he is fitted to accept a position with every confidence of his ability to nil it with satisfaction to himself and his employer. Each department of the college is a separate and distinct professional training school and everything apper- taining to instruction in that branch is based on the knowledge that those in attendance expect to step from the schoolroom fully equipped for an act've career. Business men have been long familiar with the merits of this institution and there is always a large demand for its graduates who have no difficulty in finding situations. More than twenty-five teachers are in the service of this college and they take the deepest interest in the welfare of its pupils, seeking to advance them on all occasions both in and out of school. Visitors are always welcome and those in- terested in practical education will find much in the college worth seeing. Prof. Heald, the founder, is in active service as president and most of his time and energies are given to the institution he has made the leading commercial school in the West. The Standard Gas Engine. Gas and oil engines are rapidly supplanting steam engines for a great variety of purposes, especially where economy in the use of fuel is concerned. One great advantage of a gas or oil engine is that it is almost instantly capable of developing its greatest efficiency of power. The Standard is the most perfect gas or oil engine that has been placed on the market. It is an engine that is thoroughly reliable and of great efficiency, besides being the easiest to handle and the most economical to run. Every part is made of the best material procurable and of sufficient strength to Bertha by Alcantara, one of Oakwood Fa'm'g Greatest Mares firm Javelin 2:08}, Sallie Derby 2:19} and Flare Cp 2:14. Algerdetta by Allandorf produced Sable Stein- way 2:231, Allandora 2:1S; and Christobel 2:11}. Addie Ash by Indianapolis iB the dam of Cibolo 2:131 and Mia Louise 2:15}. Maggie McGregor by Robert McG egor is the dam of Algregor 2:11. Tyana 2:16} and W. W. Poote 2:15}. Princess by Administrator pro- uced Neva 2:27 and Derby PrinceBS 2:081. Tone r>y ,'erguson gave us Agitato 2:09, a champion of his None Better by Allandorf produced Much stand any possible strain. It is compact and all parts are interchangeable and can be easily replaced. It is equipped with a governor that regulates its speed to a nicety regardless of the load. If you are in the market for a stationary engine of any size or for any purpose you will find it profitable to write or call on the Standard Mac! ine Works, 117 Main St , San Francisco, Cal. See advertise- ment in another column. A Beautiful Filly. One of the handsomest weanlings in California is the seven months old daughter of Waldstein and Sadie Moor whose photograph taken last week by Huddleston of Oakland has been reproduced and appears herewith. The name which this filly bears is Grace A. Speers, and she is owned by a minister of the Gospel, a gentleman who, to use his own language, ' loves a horse and believes it was created for some- thing better than a lgambling tool." Not that he deprecates speed contests, as he thrills over and glories in them, but he holds that the American trotting horse will reach a fuller development and a greater glory through the amateur contest where all betting and gambling is barred, than through the race for money, and as proof of his conviction is always ready to cite the case of Lou Dillon, the fastest trotter the world ever saw, who never started in a race for money and is owned by a gentleman who scratched her from S85.000 worth of stakes which she might have won, and started her simply for the glory of earning the world's record. The minister to whom reference is made is Rev. W. J. Speers of Oak- Grace A. Speers Sadie Moor's Weanling by Waldstein l»nd, who owns Sadie Moor and who bred this filly. Sadie is one of the sweetest, handsomest little man s that ever pulled a buggy. She was raced before Mr. SpeerB bought her and took a record of 2:86 in the fourth heat over a half-miie track. She stands but 14 2 hands but is a bunch of muscle and vim. Lay the lines on her back and she will jog like a gentle dog through the streets where cars, automobiles, bicycles and all other nerve wracking devices are to be seen and will neither look to the right or the left, but keep "the even tenor of her way." She is a perfectly mannered animal. Take up the lines and call on her for speed and she will "put forth her ut- most soul" and show a 2:20 clip. She could take a record of 2:15 to a certainty and should have it. Sadie Moor is by Grand Moor 2274, her dam is Car- mine, the dam of Brice McNeil 2:19}, etc , by Poscora Hayward and her second dam is Jenny by Algerine, a son of Whipples Hambletonian. When Mr. Speers bought Sadie Moor for a buggy mare and took her away from Humboldt county there were letters written and articles published in the local papers showing in what esteem the little mare was held. Mr. Speers bred her to Waldstein and got the filly pictured herewith, and Sadie is now in foal to Guy McKinney. m Probably the greatest pony race horse that ever left America is Silver Dick that stands 14 2 bands, yet weighs 1106 pounds. He is owned by Walter Hobart, Esq., of this city, and has met all the crack ponies of England and France and defeated them , Strike! — if they don't give you Jackson's Napa Soda when you ask for it. though carrying from 160 to 170 pounds. After a very successful tour he was brought back to this country by his trainer, W. S. Heath of this city, to whom we are indebted for the accompanying picture of the horse. a a a 1 a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a :-' a a a a a a a a a a a 5; a a a a a a a a a -j' a a 5' a a i1* a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a ".EXERAL VIEW OF THE FARM St fit I I fit 1 1 § fit St fit fit fit fit fit fit 1 I fit I 1 1 1 I I St fit fit fit 1 fit fit St 1 § St fit s fit fit St St St fit i 1 I fit fit fit St St 1 St St St St St St St Si St fit St st St St St fit fit St St St St fit fit fit St « fit fit fit St St St St St fit fit fit fit St fit )r. fit fit St i « «t St St »t »t « St St g fit St St St 1 RESIDENCE HOMESTRETCH OF TRAINING TRACK ONE lOF THE {PRINCIPAL] STABLES Oakwood Park Stock Farm NEAR DANVILLE, CONTRA COSTA CO., CAL. a* 5* 5* Halftones from Sutisrt Ma^aiuu . ; S a « >. < -. •«• S. id U ~- o - H O < Z < < in - _ 09 < h O Z December 26 iwa] ®ne gvsc&sv emit gtycvtaxnau 111 Si |§ SANTA ROSA STOCK FARM BT WM. G. I.AYNG ra^^ 1= V. - ^ ;= -- --• gJT. ^^^ ^^^ = ^^ ^cS^ ^=^< Had anyone prophesied last Christmas that the year 1903 would be more notable in the annals of the trotting world than any that preceded it, the prophet would be looked upon as a day dreamer and be laughed at for his predictions. Nevertheless such a forecast would have proven correct, for on the title page of this Christ- mas annual are photographs of the heads of three that have torn down the two minute barrier, and the greatest of these is the young mare Lou Dillon I o8H» the most marvelous trotter that ever lived. Had Vanderbilt, Eonner. Stanford, Backman. Rose or a score more of the trotting-horse enthusiasts lived to see this feat ac- complished, how eagerly would they have clasped hands with Mr. Billings and congratulated him upon owning such a marvelous mare. Since her surprising and successful battles against Father Time were first flashed across the continent interest in her antecedents was aroused and almost every week articles have appeared in the leading news- papers of the United States in relation to her, where she was foaled, her sire, her dam, her training, and last of all, the questions : How did she come by such wonderful speed? Was it natural or acquired by train- ing? Had her sire ever produced any others that were fast? Lou Dillon 1:58^2 was foaled on the Santa Rosa stock farm Santa Rosa, Cal. Her sire, Sidney Dillon, her dam, Lou Milton, and two half-sisters are there at present. In the accompanying illustrations one can obtain a very fair idea of what these members of this famous family are like. They were owned by the late Henry Pierce and his surviving brother, Ira Pierce, who for the past forty years made the breeding of trotting horses a study. The farm contains over 140 acres of the richest soil in the beautiful Sonoma Valley. It is sit- uated about one mile from the Court House in what is known as the "City of Roses." The improvements in- clude one of the finest mile race tracks in California, which is almost entirely protected from the Westerly winds which prevail throughout the summer, by a heavy growth of cypress trees. Inside of the mile track an- other course has just been completed. It is three- 2:15), by William's Mambrino. Th_' second dam of Santa Clans was Kate by High- land Chief, son of Mambrino Chief II; third dam by McGowan's Halcorn, a thoroughbred -."n of Virginian by Sir Archy, the most renowned son of imp. ] 1 William's Mambrino (sire of the dam of Santa Clan-; 2:171/2 was by Ericson, son of Mambrino Chief II. His dam was by Aratus, thoroughbred son of Director, he by Sir Archy. and his second dam was by Timoleon. another thoroughbred son of Sir Archy. The dam of Strathmore was by North American, whose sire, the thoroughbred Sir Walter, was by Hick- ory, a son of imp. Whip, and out of Nettletop by imp. Diomed. Lady Patriot, the dam of Volunteer, was by Young Patriot, whose sire. Patriot, was inbred to old Duroc, sire of American Eclipse. The dam -of Edward Everett was by imp. Margrave. The descendants of Strathmore. Santa Clan- j> : 1 7 r I . Sidney 2:19^, and Sidney Dillon, are known as the greatest money winners as well as about the most con- >i^tent trotters and pacers in the history of light harness horse racing. The blood of these sires course- through the veins of Rythmic 2:06^ ( champion of 1902. winner of $21,250 in one year), the champion green trotter Baron de Shay 2:o8i4- Sir Albert S. 2:03^. Free Bond 2:04' j. Lena X. 2:05*4. Dolly Dillon 2:06^, Joe Wheeler 2 :07?>£, Janice 2 :oS' .;. Xerva Patchen 2 :o8, Klatawah 2 :05l 2. Bumps 2 103) 1. Coleridge 2 J05 \ .. , Choral 2:06. Dan Q. 2:0754, Wm. Penn 2:0754. W. Wood 2:07, Hazel Kinney 2:0954, Agitato 2:09, Diablo 2:0954, Clipper 2:06, Dan M. 2 109' /». Helen D. 2:0934, Monterey 2 :OQ,r4. Toggles 2:oSI4. Lena X. 2:05 = 4, Dr. Leek 2:09*4, Oddity 2:1054, Sidmont 2:iot/2. Gold- leaf 2:iil4, Adonis 2:nfi. Lolita 2:i2I4. Maisie Sid- ney 2:1354, Wm. Harold 2:1354, Edna R. 2:na4. Miss Sidney 2:14. Thistle 2:1354, Faustino 2:i2[_l. Venus II. 2:1154, Alford C. 2:1254, Dan M. 2:09^, Helen D. 2:0934, Berdina 2:ioI4. Meridian 2:1254, Simassie 2:[ir4, Twinkle 2:05^. Much Better 2:0754, Silver Prince 2:oSr2. Emma M. 2:0954, Derby Princes- - Ithuriel 2:09I4, Fred W. 2:o8rS, Dan Cupid 2:00/4", Ambulator 2:og!_>. Ah e- 2:09',.. Fereii" 2 :o;; _...-Ruby Mac 2:08^, Sophia 2:09^. E. Power- 2:cS:4. Connor 2:0354. Dr. Monical 2:09^4, Strathberry 2:04^, Antheo 2:10, and Dolly Dillon 2:o6J4, the fastest trotting mare of 1001, also Lou Dillon 1 :58}4, the fastest trotter in the world.- Sidney Dillon was endowed with speed. He trotted miles over the Santa Rosa track in 2:22, quarters in 33 seconds. It was late in the season and nothing in the of the estate have received numerous letters expressive of the writers' enthusiasm over th« they have. BROOD M VRES ON THE FARM. Lou Milton is twenty-two years of age and was - by Milton Medium 2:2= Happy Medium). The pedigree of the dam i- unknown. She was a fast mare owned by the late W. C I u Milton is the dam of Redwood 2:21 (a -ire); Ethel Mack 2:25 and Aileen 2:26*^ (dam of Mowitza 2:205^ and Sister 2:20*4 I, all by Arcteeo 2 i< ; a gelding and a filly by Bay Rose 2:2054 the latter being at Mr. Pierce's farm a- Santa Barbara: Bravo, never trained, by Beau B.; Lou Dillon 1:58*4. 'Ik- queen of the turf; Mildred Rus- sell, a four-year-old by 1.. W. Russell, and Cornelia, a two-year-old, by Beau B.. 2:i654. Eon Milton is be- lieved to be safe with foal to Sidney Dillon. ■ By By (dam of Marengo King' 2:29^2 and L. W. Russell, a sire), a beautiful bay mare. 0 Lock- heart 2:oSI-<, sired by the great Nutwood 2:i8J4 out of Rapidan (dam of Lockhean . I three others in 2:30 list) by Dictator; second dam Madame Head- ley (dam of Expert Prince 2:1354, etc.) by Edwin For- rest By By has a filly by Sidney Dillon at foot and is in foal to this horse again. Carlotta Wilkes, bay mare (dam of Volita 2:1554 and Vallotta, a sire) sired by Charley Wilkes 2:21^4, son of Red Wilkes, dam Aspasia (dam of three) by Alcan- tara 2:23; second dam Miss Buchanan (dam of E-cape - - by Clark Chief, etc. She ha- a 6lly by Sidney Dillon at her side and is in foal to this horse a5,ram. Stamboulita 2:27 by Stamboul 2:07'... out of Biscari .(dam of four) by Director 2:17: second dam Bicara (dam of six including the great Pancoast 2:2134) by Harold; third dam Belle (dam of, Belmont, sire of Nut- wood 2:1834, etc.) by Mambrino Chief, etc. Stam- boulita is safe in foal to Sidney Dillon. By Guy. a beautiful brown mare by Guy Wilkes 2:15^4, out of By By, has a handsome colt at foot by Sidney Dillonand is in foal again. _ Adioo, her sister, has a strongly-made Dillon colt at foot and is in foal again to the sire of extreme speed. Guycara 2:iS:4. is another daughter of the famous Guy Wilkes 2: [5 -4. but she is out of Biscari by Director '2:17, second dam Bicara. She has a chestnut colt and is in foal again 10 the great Sidney Dillon. Biscara, the grandam pf the above mare, is one of the greatest producing daughters of the mighty Director 2:17, being the dam of Stambold 2:1854. Inferna 2:24^. Stamboulita 2:27 and Guycara 2:18$$, She is out of Santa Rosa stock Farm— View of Tracks and Baildlnga, looking north quarters of a mile in circumference, and was made es- pecially for winter work. Besides these tracks there arc over 200 box stalls, cooling-out sheds, barns, pad- docks, judges' and timers' stands, pavilions, etc. Taking it as a desirable spot upon which such an es- tablishment must undoubtedly flourish, the Messrs. Pierce Bros, displayed great taste in selecting and beautifying this pretty place. Sidney Dillon ( sire of Lou EHIlon 1:585-2) has had less opportunities in the stud than any other in California, but before going into details regarding this, let us see how he is bred. The full page, half-tone illustration in this issue gives a faint idea what kind of an individual he is. In color he is a beautiful chestnut, with blaze and hind ankles white. He stands 15.3 hands high, and weighs 1150 pounds. He is so beautifully turned and well-proportioned that one can hardly believe he tips the scale to such a figure, but on a second inspection all doubts are set aside and the impression prevails that "figures do not He." He was foaled in 1892, consequently he is only eleven years old. His disposition is perfect, a child can handle him. He has neither tricks nor vices. Sidney Dillon was sired by Sidney 2:19^4. dam Venus, dam of Cupid 2:18 (sire of Venus It 2:ii,2. Psyche 2:i6J4 and Lottie Parks 2:16%), Adonis 2:11^ (holder of the record for four-year-old pacers). Juno (dam of Ida 2:30 and Mercury 2:21, latter -ire of Twinkle 2:05^4. Samartina 2:10^4. Frank Creamer 2:11^4. Mc- Clary 2:1454. Mattie C 2:18. Mercury Maid 2:2i1/i, Norda 2:2254 and Katie 2:23l/2- Venus was by Ven- ture 2:27^4 (sire of dam of Directum 2:0514). son of Williamson's Belmont, who has been appropriately termed "the Mambrino Patchen of the Pacific Coast." Sidney 2:19^4 was sired by Santa Claus 2:17*4, out of Sweetness 2:21^4 (dam of Royal Guy 2:2^/2 and the sires Jay Wilk, Lavalard and Saccharine). One of her daughters produced Sweet Director 2:ig'4 by Volunteer 55, by Hambletonian 10; second dam Lady Merritt by Edward Everett 81 (son of Hambletonian 10 and a mare by imp. Margrave, etc. 1. Santa Claus 2.i7T_i was sired by Strathmore 408 (son of Hambletonian 10), out of Lady Thome, Jr. (dam of Navidad 2:22I/j, the sires Hinkston Boy, Santa Claus 2:1754 and Christmas, besides the dam >•( Appanoose 2:26^2, Boabdil 2.2V/2, Boltaciar 2 :2\lA and Roslyn way of training him was carried on thereafter. It is a question whether any stallion on a stock farm had as limited opportunities in the stud as Sidney Dillon. His owners did not advertise him and had three other stallions standing for service. There were only a few mares on the farm, hence the patronage of each was very limited. From the records on the books he had in 1895 four foals, 1896 two. 1897 four, 1S98 two. and 1899 three — fifteen in all that are older than three years. Of the four foals of 1S95, following is the showing: Dolly Dillon 2:06^4, the greatest money winner of 1901, a mare with as much speed as Lo\i Dillon, had she been specially prepared for breaking the world's record. Stanley Dillon, trial 2:09, last half in 1:01 r4, now in Ed Geer's care. Captivity 2:2812, trial 2:14'.:, and Sidceta, not trained. 1S96— Andreas, trial 2:17; chestnut filly, untrained. 1897 — B. S. Dillon 2:i6j4. trial 2:09T/^. half in 1 minute: Lucky Dillon, trial 2:24; Lady Dillon, now in training, and Roy Dillon, un- trained. 1898 — Lou Dillon 1:5854; Maud Dillon, un- trained. 1899 — Pansy Dillon, Annie Dillon and A. Bru- tus, untrained. In 1900 Sidney Dillon had been bred to 13 mares and there are 12 foals. In 1901 the majority of the Santa Rosa mares were sent to the other farm belonging to Messrs. Pierce Bros., situated about 12 miles south of San Jose and Sidney Dillon was only bred to five mares and these all had foals. In 1902 he begot six foals anl in 1903 he had seventeen. The aggregate number of living foals to his credit is only 55. Everyone that has been trained or is in training is a credit to him. \\ ben it is considered that many of the leading and more prominent stallions average about eighty foals each year and the majority of the^e are developed and never heard of, is it not a remarkable fact that every Si that has been worked has shown that it has speed of the highest order and their owners are encouraged beyond expression by the showing. After the death of Mr. Henry Pierce the execul his estate ordered nearly all of his horses with the exception ol Sidney Dillon, three of his wean- lings and some choice mares that were in foal to this -ire. The purchasers of the Sidney Dillon colt-- and fillies are verv enthusiastic over them and the executors Bicara. another wonderful brood mare; in fact she is Harold's greatest producing daughter. Bi-cara has a well-formed filly at foot and is in foal to Sidney Dillon. Russie Russell, a bay mare by Bay Rose 2:20 of Oakley Ru-sell by Happy Russell, was one of the trotters ever seen at the Santa Rosa race track. She is a perfect individual and has a bright bay filly by Sidney Dillon that is a picture. This broodmare is safe with foal to Sidney Dillon. Florella Russell, a black mare by L. W. Russell, out of Flora Allen (dam of five in the list) by Mambrino Wilkes, son of George Wilkes 2:22 i- another grand looking broodmare. She is- in foal to Sidney Dillon. Viola Allen is another choice mare. She is by Val- lotta 30840, one of the richest bred young stallions in California (being by George Norval out of Carlnua Wilkes). Viola Allen is out of Mo Hie Allen 2:20^, sister to that great producer Flora Allen. Viola Allen is also -tinted to Sidney Dillon. It can be seen that the mares are of high-clas> and everyone has been carefully selected for their qualities as matrons for this horse. That there are some of these ne's that will be well inside the 2:10 list if they get any care and development is a foregone concli A visit to this well appointed stock fann will repav 1- interested in !:-- !SS horses and wishes to sec the grandest lot of -elect broodmares ever collected. While not great in numbers they make up tor it in quality and with them i- Sidney Dillon who will be kept at Sam.:'. R >sa Stock Farm this year. _ Wm. G. Layn-o. Four Great Fillies for Sale. As it 19 my intention to go East in 1904 to race my string of horses, I have decided to sell four standard bred fillies. Two by Rey Direct 2:10, a yearling and a two year old, dam by Anteeo 2:16}. Two by Chas Derby 2:20, both yearliDgs, one out of mare by Direct 2:05}, the other out of mare by Alexander Clay. All well" broken and show great speed for the amount of work they have had. The two year old is entered in the $i>000 Breeders Futurity for three year olds to be trotted in 1904. Can show quarter better thaD 40 seconds now. Can be seen at Pleasanton tra dress, H. C. Sanders, Pleasanton. 18 ©he gveebev atiix gtpxJtrismcm [December 26, 1993 H BREED XO THE WINNERS. | In selecting stallions to breed race winners from it is wise to select those that have been tried and have proven true. The staUions that won races in their day like George WUkes and Director are the ones that have founded race winning families and so it will continue to be. The superb horse whose photograph heads this page was one of the greatest race winners the country has produced, and he met the best of the free for all horses of his racing days. Searchlight, besides being the greatest race winning stallion that is standing for service in Cali'ornia, is also the fastest stallion whose services have ever been offered to California breeders. He is by Dark Night, one of the greatest sons of that wonderful sire, Alcyone 2:2,, and his dam is that great broodmare, Nora Mapes, aam of four in the standard list. His second and third dams are also in the great broodmare list and carry in their veins the moBt fashionable speed lines. • Searchlight is the fastest stallion by the records that ever stood for service in California and holds two world's championships. His record of 2:04} in a race is the race record for four-year-olds, and his mark of '•03i as a five-year-old has only been equalled by Audubon Boy. He is a horse of rare individuality and is pronounced one of the most perfect specimens of horseflesh ever foaled. Two minute apeed he can show at any time. He paced a trial in 2:02 in public at Indianapolis, pulling the heavy cart in which he is now daily exercised at Pleasanton, and the last quarter of that mile was paced in 29} seconds. He is a horse of great substance, great speed and great en- durance and a very high order of intelligence. Searchlight was bred up to July 1st to 80 of the best mares in California and was patronized by the most intelligent and progressive breeders in the State. It is believed that a very large per cent of the mares are in foal, in faot only two of them have thus far been reported as doubtful. All mares sent to Searchlight last season were returned in as good, and the majority of them in better, condition than when they were SEAKCHLIGHT 3:03 1-4 pina by Diablo 2 :09}, dam by Allandorf 2:09}; Mollis Markham, full sister to Ottinger 2:09}; Rubato, full sister to Agitato 2:09}; Deana, full sister to Lena N. 2:05}; Bee 2:24, dam of Monroe B. 2:15}; Miss Muffit by Gossiper 2:14}, dam by Woolsey, full brother to Sunol 2:08}; Jemsey, dam of Lady Waldstein 2:15 by the Grand Moor, and others. Searchlight has only six living foals older than weanlings, and everyone of them with limited training has shown from 2:20 to 2:00 speed. They are good gaited, good headed, have size, solid color and style, and, barring accidents, LECCO 3:09 3-4 received. Without an exception every owner waB pleased with their condition and the care that had been given them. It was Mr. Mills' intention to raise the price of Searchlight's service for 1904 but he has concluded to give the breeders of California one more chance to breed to that great horse for the low price of $75. In the accompanying picture of a few of Search- light's mares are, Bertha, dam of Don Derby 2:04}, Diablo 2:09}, etc.; Lida W. 2:18|, dam of Nutwood Wilkes 2:16}; Mano, dam of Mendocino 2:19}, sire of Monte Carlo 2:0"}, Idolito 2:09}, etc.; CriCri 2:20 by Direct 2:05}, dam Cricket 2:10; Amazon by Chas. Derby 2:20, dam Ramona (dam of W. Wood 2:07); Dixie, full sister to Amazon; Spry Ruth by Boodle 2:12}, dam by Electioneer; Edith 2:10 by Dexter Prince; Alsilki by ChaB. Derby 2:20, out of the dam of King Cadenza 2:15; Princess Dawn by Dawn 2:18J, dam Alto Dawn by Iran Alto 2:12}, dam Prin- ces i Dawn; Nazoma by McKinney 2:11}, dam Af.;azon by Chas. Derby 2:20; Geraldine 2:16} by Mt. V rnon 2:15, dam by Gen. McClellan; Lurline, full s,-,ter to Al Gregor2:ll and W- W. Foote (2) 2:15J; R ,3ada by McKinney 2:11}, dam by Secretary; Sally De-iter, dam of Nora McKiDney 2:12*, by Dexter Prince; Winnie Wilkes 2:171 by Rey Wilkes; Proser- will all get faBt records. Searchlight is a brown horse, 16 hands and weighs 1240 pounds. He is sound as the day he was foaled, is a good dispositioned horse and no stallion can outlook him. Lecco 2:09} is a trotter, was a game race horse and a fast one. He is a son of Bonnie Boy, the best pro- ducing son of Patchen Wilkes, sire of the great Joe Patchen2:01} thathasin turnsired another champion, Dan Patch 1:56}. If a breeder wants champion race blood combined with great speed and splendid indi- viduality he will find in Lecco a stallion to his liking. It was in 1899 that this young stallion went down the Grand Circuit, meeting the best horses of the year in his class, starting seven times and winning four first moneys, and two seconds. In the $10,000 Massachu- setts of that year, which was a seven-heat affair, he won second money, taking the fourth and fifth heats in 2:13} and 2:10} and being the closest kind of a second to the great Charley Herr 2:07 in the sixth and seventh. Such trotters as Bonnatella 2:10, Surpol 2:10, Fred Kohl 2:07} and ten others of the best trot- ters out that year finished behind Lecco in this im- portant event. The breeding of Lecco is worth considering, as he is an outcross for nearly every mare in California to- day. His dam, Lucy Homer, is also the dam of Authoress that reduced her record this year from 2:22} to 2:09} in a winning race. This makes Lecco the only stallion in California whose dam has pro- duced two 2:10 trotters. She is one of but a very few mares that has this distinction. She is by Homer, a speed producing son of Mambrino Patcben, the great sire of broodmares and the sire of the great Mam- brino King. The second dam of Lecco is also a pro- ducer, Dinnie 2:25, and she is by the producing stallion Rochester that is a son of Aberdeen, grandsire of Anzella 2.-06J. His next dam is a producing mare by Clark Chief, whose get are renowned for speed and great endurance. For four generations in the pedi- gree of Lecco there iB not a sire or dam but iB a pro ducer of standard speed, and they are all of the stout- est families besides. Lecco is a square trotter with perfect action, he has gre»t beauty and style and will sire fast, game and level headed trotters. Lecco never served a mare until 1903. He was bred to twelve and eleven of them are in foal. He is a coal black horse, 15.2} hands, weighs 1040, and is called the handsomest trotting stallion in California. He has a perfect disposition and is safe for a woman or a child to drive. For any further particulars as to either of these two great stallions a letter to Mr. Edward Mills at PleaB- anton will bring a prompt response, together with card containing complete tabulated pedigree of each. Some of the Noted'Mare= Bred to Searchlight This Year December 26, 19U3] %L\xe gveebev and gtpavt&man 19 i'ii'ii'i^ii'ii'ii'ii'ii'ii'ii^ii'ii'ii'ii'ii'ii'ii'- * THE MARE FROM YORKSHIRE thick; How She Won the St. Leger ^############### [A friend has furnished us with the following poem, which te has written out from memory. When a young man he heard the great elocutionist Ballou, recite it, and the thrill that it gave the young listener, led him to commit It to memory and he, being also a roader of no common ability, has in turn often thrilled others with its dramatic recital. He does not know the author's name, but in the old magazine in which he found it years ago, it was stated that the poem took the prize at Oxford University in England and was written by a student of one of its colleges. — Editor B. & S ] The sun is bright, the sky is clear. Above the crowded course; As the mighty moment draweth near, Whose issue shows the horse. The fairest of the land are here, To watch the struggle of the year, The dew of beauty and of mirth, Lie on the living Rowers of earth ; And blushing cheeks and kindling eye Lend brightness to the sun on high ; While every corner of the North. Mas poured her hardy yeomen forth. The dwellers by the glistening rills, That sound among the caverned hills: And stalwart husbandmen who hold The plow upon the eastern wold Are gathered thickly o'er the lea. Or streaming from far homes to see If Yorkshire keeps her old renown, Or if this dreaded Derby horse Can sweep in triumph o'er her course. Clear peals the bell, at that known sound, Like bees the people cluster 'round. On either side upstarting then. A close dark wall of breathing men. Far down as eye can stretch, is seen, Along yon vivid strip of green, Where keenly watched with countless eyes, Mid hopes and fears and prophysies, Now fast, now slow, now here, now there, With hearts of life and lungs of air; Snorting and prancing, sliding by, With arching neck and glancing eye. In every shape of style and grace, The horses gather for the race. Soothed for a moment all, they stand, Together like a sculptured band. Each quivering eyelid flutters quick; Each face is flushed, each heart beat And all around dim murmurs pass. Like low winds moaning on the grass. Again the thrilling signal sounds! And off at once, with one long bound Into the speed of thought they leap. Like proud ships rushing to the deep. A START — They're off, by heaven, Like a single horse, though twenty-seven ; And amid the flash of silks we skan The Yorkshire jacket in the van. Hurrah, for the bold bay mare! I'll pawn my soul her place is there Unheaded till the last ! For a thousand pounds she wins on past. Hurrah, for the matchless mare! A hundred yards have glided by. And they're settling to the race; More keen becomes each straining eye, More terrible the pace, rjnbroken o'er the gravel road, Like maddening waves the troop has flowed; But the speed begins to tell And Yorkshire sees, with eyes of fear. The Southern stealing from the rear. Ah, mark his action well! Behind he is, but what repose! How steadily and clean he goes ! What latent speed his limbs disclose ! What power in every stride he shows, They see and feel. From man to man The shivering thrill of terror ran; And every soul instinctive knew. It lay between these mighty two. The twenty-five that lie between, Are blotted with the stirring scene; And the wild cries that rang so loud, Sink, by degrees, throughout the crowd, To one deep humming, like the roar, Of seas along the the northern shore. ' In distance dwindling to the eye. Right opposite the stand they lie, And scarcely seem to stir. Nor are there wanting signs, which show, Defeat is busy as they go. Look how yon mass that rushed away. As full of spirit as the day. Is lengthening into single file ! Gay colors, momently less bright. Fade flickering on the gazer's sight. Till keenest eyes can scarcely trace. The homeward ripple of the race. Care sits upon each lip, each brow. "Who leads?" Who fails?" "How goes it now: Hi guy mckinney no. 37625. |y SttP A Wilkes Stallion Par Excellence. Wffli There is no stallion in California that carries as much of the champion race horse blood of George Wilkes, founder of the tribe of Wilkes, as Guy Mc- Kinney, whose grand proportions are hut poorly shown in the engraving on this page. His sire is McKinney, the greatest grandson of George Wilkes, his dam is by Guy Wilkes and his second dam by Onward, two of the greatest sons of the same great horse. Guy McKinney represents the very acme of breeding. Of his sire McKinney 2:11}, sire of more horses with race records of 2:15 or better than any sire of his age that ever lived, but little need be said, as he is known to every breeder in America as Anyone's greatest son, and when he was sold last year for 825,000 and taken from California to Indiana, the breeding interests of the Pacific Coast suffered a loss. The dam of Guy Mckinnty is Flossie Drais, a daughter of Guy Wilkes 2:15}, the stallion that once headed the San Mateo Stock Farm of the late Wm- Corbitt, and whose get went through the Grand Circuit and led the money winners for years. The second dam is Blanch Ward, dam of the mare China Maid that has a public trial of 2:05J, by the mighty Onward 2:25. The blood of Onward is as highly prized by intelligent breeders as any that is used in the pro* duction of horses that have size, gait and the ability to win money in dashes or when the heats are long drawn. He has sired no less than ten with records of 2:10 or better, and thiB year a large number were added to his new list of standard performers. Onward, it should be remembered was a son of Dolly, that same great mare that produced the mighty Director 2:17, sire of Direct 2:051, Directum 2:05} and founder of the greatest family of race winners of modern times The third dam of Guy McKinney is Blanch Patchen, the daughter of Mambrino Patchen, the greatest 0- broodmare sires. Mambrino Patchen was by Mam' brino Chief, founder of another great strain of trot- ting blood and was out of the Rodes mare by Gano that produced Lady Thorn 2:18$ one of the fleetest and gamest of the trotters of forty years ago. Mam- brino Patchen was also the sire of Mambrino King, Look to yon turn! Already there Gleams the pink and black of the fiery mare' While through that, which was a gap Creeps on that terrible white cap. His jockey moves on him. "Ah, see him come1 Rooms through the crowd like muffled drum Ihen, momently, like gusts, is heard- He&Tr™£i» "Hcs nfth!" "HE'S fourth!" 1 H1RD ! And on like a glancing meteor flame. The stride of the Derby winner came. During all this anxious time. (Sneer as it s_uits you at my rhyme,) The earnestness became sublime. For that needs must he a mighty minute. When a crowd has but one soul within it. Like some bright ship, with everv sail Obedient to the urging gale, Through the reeling field he flew; And near and yet more near he drew. Each leap seems longer than the last. There! There! The second horse is past. And the keen rider of the mare. With haggard looks of feverish care. Hangs forward in the speechless air, With steady stillness nursing in The remnant of her speed, to win. One other bound, one more — 'tis done, Right up to her the horse is run ; And head to head and stride for stride, Newmarket's hope and Yorkshire's pride. Like horses harnessed side by side, They're struggling for the goal. Ride gallant son of Eber, For the honor of the North, Strain every bursting sinew. Put out thine inmost soul ; And with knee and thigh and tightened rein, Lift in your mare by might and main ! One spirit flashes from each eye, One impulse lifts each heart-throb high. One short and panting silence broods O'er the wildly working multitudes; While on the struggling coursers press. So deep the eager silentness, That underneath their feet, the turf, Seems shaken like the ebbing surf, That tastes the rushing gale. The singing fall of the heavy whips, That tear the flesh away in strips, Strikes vividly, distinct and near But mark the awful rush, "There ! There ! He's beat! He's beat! By Heavens! The Mare!" * * * * With bird-like dash, she shot away, And, by half a head, she gained' the day. 'HE'S *%-•*, m~mim GCY McKINNEY one of the great horses of this decade, and a sire of even in 2:10 and the dam of that exchampion gelding The Abbot 2:03}. Guy McKinney's fourth dam was Lady Blanche, a great broodmare that produced Alcryon 2:15 (a sire of several 2:10 performers); Jay Wood, sire of many good race winners and was also the dam of Geo. Hooff 2:21}. Lady Blanche was by Houghton's Privateer 258, a producing sire, and her dam was Jenny Lind by Abdallah 15, reckoned by many as Hambletonian's greatest son for his opportunities. The next dam of Guy McKinney was the mare Lady Weiner by Saltram that sired Highland Maid 2:27, holder of the world's record of 2:27 as far back as 1853. From theaboveit will be seen that Guy McKinney's breeding is along the lines of great speed and race winning capabilities. In bis pedigree within five gen- erations are such sires as McKinney, Alcyone, Gov. Sprague, George Wilkes (3 times), Hambletonian 10 (4 times) and Onward. Tne great broodmares are Rose Sprague, Alma Mater (twice), Dolly Spanker (three times), Dolly and Lady Bunker. Such blood as this cannot help but reproduce itself and th. t Guy McKinney will be a successful sire is as certain as night follows day. Guy McKinney is a magnificently proportioned black horse, standing 16 hands and weighing about 1200 pounds. He is now at Pleasanton and will make the season of 1904 therein charge of Ben Chaboya, who is now giving him slow work with the idea of giving him a record later after the stud season is over. Those who have seen this horse at work on the track are charmed with his free open gait and lofty car- nage and predict a low mark for him at any time he is ready and the question is asked of him. Guy Mc- Kinney is owned by Mr. T. J. Drais of Farmington, Cal., who bred him and also bred his dam. The stal- lion will be seven years old next spring. His col's are not yet old enough to train, but they all sho-' speed and aremodelsof conformation and w:,: dispositions like their sire. 20 ©tt« gvee&ev anit ^p^vt&man [December 26, 1903 „f. •>■ ••»•- >»■.. >jfe -tiiii ■♦Lit i«ii«i i»ii'i i'ii'i i'ii'i i'i *£ PROBLEMS IN SPEED BREEDING • i': ?•> NBAL, M. D. £l£ Editor The Breeder and Sportsman: While highly appreciating the compliment you pay me in asking me to contribute something to the holiday number of your excellent journal, I fear that any efforts of mine to interest or instruct your readers will not prove a great success. However. I am a "poor hand" at "backing up." always preferring a flat failure to no effort at all. In selecting a subject I. have chosen one which all speed breeders have been "up against." and hence if I should make a signal failure. I feel that I shall have plenty of "company along the way." The incentives for success in harness- speed breeding are indeed many, and hence the labor of thought and action along the lines of this accomplishment should not be regarded as irksome, even though it really is. There are natural mathematicians, and natural logicians ; but in the main, mathematical and logical problems are solved only after the exercise of acquired knowledge, and incidentally acquired knowledge during the effort. Successful harness speed breeding is, likewise, the re- sult of mental evolution and the application of previous- ly acquired knowledge, either first or second-hand, and while an occasional "accident" may happen in harness speed breeding, i. e.. a successful race horse or a record breaker resulting when ieast expected, it is nevertheless true that results follow causes, and that success conies from making the right cross, whether or not the breeder knows at the time that he is actually doing so. That there is more to the speed breeding problem than the simple act of mating a trotting bred mare with a trotting stallion, or mating even a low record mare with a low record stallion, every one who has had any experience, or given the matter any thought and obser- vation well knows. All that glitters is not gold, and while the axiom, "For speed breed to speed" is a good one on general principles, it is not an unwavering law, for all breeders know that many breeding animals in the trotting horse line which have had no manifest speed themselves, have transmitted speed, even very extreme speed, and that others possessing very marked manifest speed have failed to transmit speed, even under such as have been considered most favorable conditions and opportunities. Ill so short an article as this must of necessity be, T cannot go very deep into the intricate problem of speed breeding, even were I competent to do so ; but my own experience and observation teach me that while blood lines and manifested speed are, beyond question, essen- tial fundamentals, in harness speed breeding, the real secret of success, after we have these things as a basis upon which to build, is individual selection and mating. In horse breeding "like produces like" with very many and very marked variations. In fact, the law of like producing like in a bibical sense means only that a cer- tain species will re produce this species, the building up of certain traits, qualities and characteristics in certain species being the results of certain lines of inbreeding and individual selection, the fundamental principle in line breeding and specific characteristic production and perfection being the condensation of a certain strain of blood. I take it for granted that practically all harness speed breeders of the present day recognize the reason- ableness of relying on so-called trotting blood in the production of harness speed, and this leads up to the point of individual selection and mating of trotting bred sires and dams. When harness bred speed breeding shall have been carried on for centuries, as has running horse breeding, there will still be failures often when animals of the choicest breeding are mated, just as now happens often in running horse breeding, unless the strictest attention is given to making proper individual selection. Horse, like humans, have temperamental characteristics, and with horses as with humans, males and females of the same temperament do not cross well in reproduction. In harness speed breeding then, trot- ting blood comes first, and individual mating second as elements of success. — and I am not sure but that this should be reversed. In mating stallions and mares of strong breeding, the innate and temperamental forces of the one are either augmented or neutralized by the innate and temperamental forces of the other, and the re sultant offspring is consequently often greater than either or equal to neither. Nearly all stallions and mares are either positive or negative in temperament and dis- position— aggressive or passive — and, in nature, mating "two of a kind," absolutely of a kind, means nothing as a product. One had as well try to get an electric cur- rent from the joining together of the negative poles of two batteries as to expect a race horse from the mating of a stallion and mare, each possessing the same pos- itive, aggressive temperamental characteristics, or the reverse, i. e., both negative, for life itself — vital force, is electricity. Very largely stallions and mares are like either pole of an electric battery — are either positive or negative— and it is a well known law in physics that either two positives or two negatives produce a negative —nothing. In undertaking to breed harness speed the first essential, of course, is to select stallions and mares of approved harness speed producing blood lines. The next essential element of success is a close analytical study of mental qualities and characteristics. If a "mare is bred right, is "snappy," nervous, "high strung," and has a tendency to be "flighty." she is a "good prospect" as a speed producer, provided she be mated with a well- bred, rather phlegmatic, courageous, level-headed, non- excitable "deaconish," "clockheaded." stallion, who dis- plays his real metal only when vigorously "shaken up." Sluggish, indifferently disposel mares, however well- bred, will produce speed only when bred to stallions of the dense texture, "high-keyed," dashing, alert, "breedy acting" sort— the "hot-blooded" kind. A study of in- dividual characteristics along these lines will compen- sate any speed breeder, and what is here said i- said more for the purpose of stimulating thought along these lines than with a view of imparting "valuable informa- tion." "Many men are of many minds," on the subject of harness speed breeding, as well as on subjects of re- ligion, politics, and planting corn, and hence opinions probably will always differ, more or less, as to the best combinations of blood as a harness speed producing element. Figures are wonderfully reliable things, even though it may not be absolutely true that they "never lie." Figures, trotting horse statistics, very plainly say that in the main every additional cross of Hambletonian blood in a trotting pedigree increases the chances for Hotting speed, and it clearly is more than a mere acci- dent that Dan Patch, 1 :56J4 ; Lou Dillion, i:s&'A; Major Del Mar, i :59^, and Cresceus, i :59^' all trace to Hambletonian io on both sides- most of them several times. Yet Hambletonian would not have proven the prince of all speed progenitors had he not come in contact with the other pole of the battery himself. He was a horse of very positive, yet phlegmatic temperamental qualities, and in American Star and Clay mares he encountered the opposite pole— somewhat figuratively speaking— and the greatest trotters and speed progenitors of that day and generation resulted. From this day down to the present time, stallions of distinctly marked character, sedate, mentally strong, not over excitable, "clock- headed." rather phlegmatic temperamental make-up, have proven the most uniform and successful speed sires.' George Wilkes, Electioneer. Onward. Red Wilkes, Mc- kuiney. Sidney. Brown Wilkes. Direct. Nutwood! etc.. all have, or had. this same temperamental make-up largely, while with scarcely an exception, great speed producing brood mares have, what we call in the human family, nervous temperaments, are quick, nervy snappy alert, and "oft like a flash." A number of stallions of the highly nervous temperament.— of which class Dr. Herr, son of Mambrino Patchen. was ideal,— have proven good sires, but only when they have been mated with the even tempered, sluggish kind of mares Joe Davis. 2:1734, was not Dr. Herr's fastest performer, but he was by all odds his greatest racehorse. His dam, Molly, by Mambrino Pilot. Jr.. was a good sized, slug- gish bay mare which one could hardly drive out of his way in the pasture, and one which a circus parade and a drove of elephants could not excite in the least She earned some good harness speed blood, and afforded Dr. Herr exactly the right temperamental out-cross. Personally I do not know the temperamental character- istics of Sidney Dillon, sire of Lou Dillon, nor of Lou Milton's dam; but I am sure that if some California horseman, say Joseph Cairn Simpson, or Mr. Sam Gam- ble, will make a study of the temperamental qualities of the two. they will be found opposite in this respect, and. my prediction is that Lou Milton is the "high-keyed" one of the pair, a nervous, high strung mare. Milton Medium should, on individual blood line ancestry, be a "sluggish" kind of a horse, and Lou Milton, on her paternal ancestry, might be the same : but her dam, Fly, was undoubtedly of the nervous high-tempered kind! and most likely imparted this same temperament to her daughter. But blood lines are not always a safe guide as to temperament. Cactus, by Cuyler '100. dam Rising Sun. by Gages Logan 127, carries a strong suspicion of sluggish, phlegmatic temperament in her breeding: but she was the extreme opposite, keyed to the highest notch, and nervous, flashy and spiteful to the highest degree. I was puzzled to find a stallion of good breeding and sufficient sedateness to which to breed her, but finally selected the "deaconish." clock-headed. Argot Wilkes, 2:1414. and the result was The Bishop, 2:06, a wonderfully good racehorse. I had stallions of my own, but none which I thought would prove the correct tem- peramental cross, though they were elegantly bred. Breeders cannot always afford to breed their own mares to their own stallions. For best results there should be a co-aptation of both blood lines, conformation, and temperamental make-up, the latter, in my opinion, being one of the greatest essentials. Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 15, 1903 An Unbeaten Three Year Old. The greatest money winner of the harness horses that raced in California in 1903 was the fast little three-year-old filly Tuna 2:161 by James Madison, dam Ituna by Steinway, second dam Nettie Ward by Echo, third dam Mills mare by Goldfinder, a son of Boston, and fourth dam a mare by Langford a son of Williamson's Belmont. Tuna is an own sister to Confienza that took a three-year-old record of 2:21 J io 19D2 and that has trotted a trial in 2:10 this year. Tuna is owned by Air. Da La Montanya of this city, and was bred at the Oak'wood Park Stock Farm where so many famous fast ones have 'firs't seen the light of day. Tuna's record is three s'tarts and three winning races as follows: Her maiden appearance was in the $600 stake for three-year-olds given at the Breeders meeting at Petaluma last August. There were four other staters — Little Branch by Nutwood Wilkes, Dupli- cate by McKinney,. D. E. Knight by Lynmont, and Owynes by Owyhee. The first heat went to Little Branch in 2:22J and then Tuna took the next three in straight order, in 2:24}, 2:261 and 2:245. This was on Thursday. The following Monday she started in the Occident Stake at the State Pair at Sacramento and met such good colts as Swift B. and The Jester, both sons of Stam B , besides several other good three-year-olds. Tuna took the first heat in 2:18J but in the second heat made a break just as the word was given and Swift B. won in 2:22. Tuna then won the third and fourth heatB in 2:231 and 2:18, the time of the last heat the fastest of the race and showing her to be a dead game trotter. First money in this race was $2512. One week later at the same meeting she started in the Stanford Stake, which she won in straight heats in 2:161, 2:211 and 2:20}. Swift B. pressed her hard in this race and drove her to a break in the second heat, but she came on and beat him out amid great applause frc 1 the large crowd present. .'his ended her campaign for this year. Tuna was brole and handled by Ben Chaboya, hut Henry Mr. James De La Montanya with Tuna 2:16 1-2 Sanders trained and drove her in all her races. Her record of 2:161 is the record for the Stanford Stake and a second below the time of Aristo and Eula Mac, who divide the speed honors of the Occident Stake with records of 2:171, Mr. Montanya has turned Tuna out on the Brent- wood Farm for two or three months, hut she will be taken up in February and enter Henry Sanders' string at Pleasanton, where she will be carefully pre- pared for the Grand Circuit, and will cross the mountains to meet the horses in her class during the campaign of 1904. That she will give a good account of herself is certain, as she is one of the nicest gaited, best dispositioned and most intelligent trotters ever bred in California. She will get a record within the charmed 2:10 circle as certain as no accident happens her. Tuna's winnings in the three races in which she started aggregated $4125, quite a neat sum to be won by one little filly in three starts. December 26. 1W03 1 ®Jte gveebev cmfc gftwdtemcm 21 || SIDNEY AND COUNT VALENSIN ||jj \(P The Man Who Developed Him wM H\V| BY PETER J. SH ELDS Cjffi I think a Christmas edition of your paper would be wholly incomplete without some record of the merits of the great California sire Sidney, 2:1934, and I think, too, that a reference to the distinguished man who de- veloped him and gave him his reputation would be timely as it is so well deserved. Count Valensin was a remarkable man, one of the many brilliant men who were attracted to California because of the romance of her early history, because of the field she presented for the moulding of genius into opportunity. And he did much to add to the development and the fame of Cali- fornia, and his early death was a loss to his state, an irreparable loss to the industry of breeding fast and finished horses. His habit was not deliberative, his judgments were intuitive. He had a genius for breeding and was a born horseman. His selection of Sidney was no accident, as is frequently the case with the lucky owners of great producing sires. He selected him be- cause of his bloodlines; he liked the Santa Claus and Volunteer blood in his veins. He liked the thorough- bred base of his pedigree, hot blood far enough re- moved to be tempered, close enough up to impart fire. He liked his form and gait, his character and disposi- tion. Best of all, with an eye which could see farther than those who lacked his genius, he liked him for that great something which be saw in him which told him he would found a family. When Sidney was four years old and his first colts were just beginning to drop, I asked him what he saw in him which made him so confident of his success. With his alert movement and quick but soft speech he said: "What do you see in the face of a great man which indicates his power, what in the face of a good woman which proves her quality? You cannot tell nor can I ; but you see it and know it, and so do I of Sidney." Valensin did not live long, hut long enough to prove his faith. Had he lived longer to promote Sidney's fortunes, his supremacy to day would be established, but unaided, he will impress upon his breed a large measure of his greatness. For Sidney is a great horse. I have seen scores of his colts broken and trained; T have seen stable after stable of his sons and daughters collected and just ready to go out upon record-breaking campaigns, when the loss of a trainer, want of money, the sickness of the owner and ulti- mately his death, dispersed them. T feel like claiming all excellence for Sidney, as I know of great num- bers of his foals which would have been in the 2:10 list or champions, had not unfortunate circumstances prevented. Lou Dillon is not the only superlatively great one in his family, nor am I prepared to say that she is the greatest. Mr. Millard Sanders, who trained many of his colts, will tell you of the numbers of his two-year-olds which could have beaten 2:10, of the number of his yearlings which could have beaten 2:20, and that his get could all trot into the 2:30 list. He sired speed with unequalled uniformity. His family was accused of a lack of stamina, a charge which is always made against horses of great natural speed. The Sid- neys had speed without training and consequently were generally started without adequate physical prepara- tion and showed it in their races as would any of the so-called "gamer" families which would not have gone so fast. When they were trained for strength and wind as others were for speed, they carried their greater flight as well as the best. If given a chance Sidney, through his sons and daughters, will found a great family. No man worthy of the name of breeder will neglect their extensive use. Much false education is be- ing disseminated about the superiority over all other families of the Wilkes and the Electioneer tribes. It is annually claimed that more of them each year take records than of any other family, and that consequently they having proved their fitness should survive. It is not my purpose here to institute comparison between the several standard families; they are all good, each has its special merit and it will be from the combination of all of their excellencies that the great horse of the future is to come. Very many more Wilkes and Elec- tioneer horses are annually bred and trained than of other leading families, and in proportion to numbers no more of them show either greater race quality or greater prepotency than such families. The craze for Wilkes and Electioneer blood to the exclusion of other which has been demonstrated to be good should be checked; it is faddish and will hamper breeding pro- gress. Think of such horses as Sidney, Director, Pilot Medium, Nutwood, Kremlin, Mambrino King and Stamboul, and the splendid accomplishments of their families, and then ask yourself if we shall neglect them. There is room in the breeding industry for all of these, together with the Wilkes and Electioneers, and we should all do all in our power to discourage a mere fashion which would even tend to exclude the general use of them all alike. It was fortunate that Sidney's peerless granddaughter should have called him anew to the favorable attention of the breeding world. If given proper opportunity he will found a great family. His sons will make great sires, his daughters the greatest of mothers. California should always praise him ; he has brought her many laurels. And in his sure and increas- ing greatness the memory of the man who selected and developed him will be perpetuated. Valensin, brilliant, polished, loyal and brave, may the snows of winter lie lightly upon your lonesome grave in Cleveland, and within your abode beyond the shadow may you find a Christmas greeting in the affection and gratitude of California horsemen. New Surrey, firstclass, with pole and shafts, canopy top, 1.J inch rubber tire, turn . under, elegantly trimmed. Original price $420, can be bought at Kenney Manufacturing Company, 531 Marketstreet, San Francisco, for $225. New lot of McMurray carts just arrived — 1904 models. J. W. Zibbell's Training Stable. J. W. Zibbell, who came to California from the East last winter, is temporarily located at 345 20th avenue near Point Lobos avenue, San Francisco. Mr. Zibbell has opened a public training stable and expects in con- nection with his business of training horses for the track and road, to buy and sell horses of all kinds. Among the horses he now has in training and will prepare for the racing season in 1904 are Lottie Smart 2:07£, Tom Smith 2:131, Lady Rowena 2:18, Nance O'Neil 2:23, Allesandro who won in Denver as a two- year-old and captured the track record at that place, McKinney Jr., a green trotter, a fast three-year-old pacer, a very promising four-year old and two very likely yearling trotters. It will be remembered -that Mr. Zibbell was very successful with his string through the Colorado cir- cuit last June and did very well after returning to the Coast with the above mentioned horses. Besides which he had Swift B., who won in Denver and was second in the Occident and Stanford Stakes at the State Fair. He also won the two-year-old trotting division of the Pacific Breeders Futurity Stakes, $6000, with the colt Almaden, giving him a mark of 2:221. Mr. Zibbell is an acquisition to the list of first class trainers on this Coast and no doubt will build up a big business. He has excellent facilities not only for training horses, giving them preliminary work on the speedway, etc., but is located so that he should do a good business in buying and selling track horses and high class roadsters. He is not only an excellent judge of horse flesh but bears the reputation of being a reliable man with whom to have dealings. As there will be a great many two and three year-old b prepared for the two divisions of the Breeders Futurity Stakes and the other colt stakes to take place at the State Fair and other places, he will make a specialty of training youngsters for these events. He has had great success with young horses and is exceptionally careful and efficient in handling ooltB As a veteran trainer and d river of ability he is well known to horsemen in all parts of the western country having for many years campaigned a number of good horses through Iowa, Dakota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Nebraska and Colorado. W. R. Zibbell, who is a son of J. W. Zibbell, also did very well this fall through the Oregon, Washing- ton and Idaho circuits, with Mr. J. A. Richardson's horsef, givingthe ereen four-year-old Getaway amark of 2:241, Monroe S. 2:13), the three-year-old trotter Swift B. 2:16}. The young man is well liked and it looks as though be was going to be as successful In his chosen profession as Ib bis father, having already proved himself to be a mechanic in the sulky in a number of hotly contested races. Mr. Zibbell, Sr.. is handling a number of horses for Prof. E. P. Heald, President of the P. C. T. H. B. A. and Mr. Heald speaks very highly of his ability as a trainer, as well as do all others whose horses have been in Mr. Zibbell's hands. Sober up on Jackpon's Nar-a Sods. 22 ©ft* gvee&ev anto ^povt&nxan [December 26, 1903 CALIFORNIA THOROUGHBREDS • AND TUKJR JtKE. DKRS BY RAi PH H. TuZER Til? ?(ff?n : [dalene Cot- ton by Jim Brown-Lizzie P; Ii n • by Ed Corrigan-The- lis; Keera by Nomad-Snowflake ; Miss Hooker by Joe Hooker-Napa Queen ; Noma by Nomad-Idaho ; Pet by Norfolk-Maggie Dale; Queen Aha by Alla-Cousin Peggy; Queen Peggy by Dr. Garnett-Queen Alta; Santa Flora by St. Carlo-Bud of Glennore; Sinfalto by St. Larlo-bmfire; Su-.fire by Kyrle Daly-Cousin Peggy; Stephanotis by Shannon-Lizzie Whips; Thetis hv Ten broeck-Zea; Turbulent by Ben Ali-Termagam ; Whirl- wind 2nd by El Rio Rev-Blizzard; Wrinkles bv Flam beau-Phoebe Anderson; Yerba Buena bv Suwarrow-Pet On the same place ar the Ruinart Stock Farm mares formerly in Marin county, as follows: False Queen by Falsetto-Queen Victoria; Franchise by Hindoo- Countess Gisela; Gladwyn by imp. Brutus-Gladys by Flood; Gladys by Flood-Regin ; Inrlammatrix by Bru- tus-Anola; May, R by Midlothian-Orinda and Miss Buckley by Brutus-Forma. I11 Monterey county there are a few breeders r >f thor- oughbreds. \oung Kingston (sire of Cap. Al) stood near Salinas for years, and Daisy D and Sam Mount were in the county. At Soledad Charles Rutherford lias Khincbeck, a mare by Young Kingston-Vallera and at Monterey, I believe, E. J. Molera of San Fran- cisco, owner of Rey Alfonso, keeps his mares near Sa- linas. They are Bud by Glenmore : Mercedes bv imp Young Prince; imp. Mirandola bv imp. Jolly 'Friar ' Namora by, imp. Sir Modred, and Nebita by imp Cy- rus, while Charles White of Monterey had the good stallion imp. Piccolo ; Experiment by Cyrus-Mozelle ; Lady Torso by Torso-May Dunbar; Lerana by Argyle- imp. La:lia; Marcella by Grinstead-imp. Mutiny "and Minetta by Duke of Montrose-Kitty Clover. There is no considerable breeding of thoroughbreds 111 Merced county, a gentleman named Potter, owning perhaps half a dozen mares, and there may be a few of the Little Alps and Alt.as scattered through the county though years ago Porter Ashe had Alta and a number of good mares at Merced. Fresno county has several stock farms, including those of M. F. Tarpey, Thomas Bros, and Lee A. Blas- lngame. Mr. Tarpey, who lives in Alameda, had Cicero on his Fresno place, called El Nida stud, the last I knew, and his mares were Alert by Jim Brown-Not Idle; Alhaia by imp. Islington-Not Idle; Bruja by Ed Cor- rigan-Not Idle; Chevy Chase by imp. Cheviot -Jennie Belshaw; Hileen by Wildidle-Bonanza by Lodi ; Josie G by Gano-Belinda and Querida by imp. Islington-Jen- nie Belshaw. The Owen Bros, owned Gold Cup, Lady Intruder and Serpolette. among others, and had the stallion Capt. Al and Royal Flush. Lee Blasingamc has the good horse Wernberg and the mares Fallen Princess by Falsetto-Princess Glenn; Flush Ban by Major Ban-Miss Flush ; Leap Year by Norfolk-imp. Lady Jane; Lou S by John A-Louisa D: Mew bv Ma- jor Ban-Scat: Miss Goslin by Gosling-Leap Year; Princess by imp. Cheviot-imp. Music and a young Wildidle and Cyrus mare that were good winners on the turf. Other Fresno county breeders are F. D. Wells of Perkins, with the mare Tyrena by Tyrant- Fabiola. and John Arnett of Conejo with Cantenac by Three Theers-Eufaula : Queen Daniels by Joe Daniels- Queen Emma : Ruth by Joe Daniels-Queen Emma ; Salt Grass Mag by imp. Mariner-Ruth, and he did own Queen Emma and bred Mainstay and other good ones. Oscar Duke of Conejo, Cal., brought a lot of mares down from Oregon and bred to Montana, a horse once owned by B. C. Holly. The mares are Birdie Butler by Dr. Lindsey. Jr.-Molly Small: Contrary Mary by Bank Roll-Moll Small: Molly Small by imp. Thunderstorm- Mattie; Rosannah Rowan by Mariner-Contrary Mary, and Tiny Lindsey by Dr. Lindsey-Mollie Small. In Tulare county, near Hanford, there must be sev- eral Islington mares and a few by imp. Mariner and Joe Daniels. Islington stood near Hanford for several years, and after the brother to Isinglass had made a great name for himself he was returned to England by the late Col. Hugh McCalmont, his owner. Charles Kerr has a firte stock farm near Bakersfield, Kern county, which he calls after his old home, An- trim. There he has bred many fine turf performers and has Herald, imp. Kismet, Cromwell and other stallions, and it was the home of the good sire Apache, imp. Reggie, imp. Calvados, imp. Piccolo. Lew Weir and Rio Bravo. The Antrim mares are Alcyone, Amanda, Appoline, Audacity, Belle Platte, Blondinette. Bonita R. Brook, Carrie D, Cinderella, Dorothy IV, Eileena, For- est Maid. Idaho, Jennie Dcane. Jennie K, Jennie Nevine Josie W, Juanita, Katrinka, Leonora, Lina. Madam Wheatlev, Maid of Stockdale. Maintop, Marie V. My Badge. Nomades. Ona. Play Toy. Resella, Rill. Rillito. Rosa Bella, Sallie Mae, Santa Rosa, Snowflake 2nd, Sunnymilc, Tyrona, Victoria, Virginia Dare, Virjean and Whynot. Many good horses come from Ventura county, and she used to send out some more than useful horses, such as John Treat, Odette and Dottic Dimple, but the last few years have not been productive ones, and the horses of John G. Hill and other breeders down that way are heard of no more. Wildidle. Shiloh and Sid used to be in this section of the country. T. W. Moore had a dozen or more marcs and the stalllion Surinam a few years ago near Santa Barbara, but I believe his stock has been scalteretl throughout the State. However, E. J. and A. W. Boeseke of Santa Barbara afterward owned Surinam, also Rin- fax and Caspar, and the mare Ban Lassie by King Ban, among others, and bred some very fair winners. At Capistrano, Cal.. M. A. Forster uses the stallion Dan M. Murphy and the mares Zingarella by Ed Cor- rigan-Minuet ; Gertrude P by imp. Plenty-Lornita and Tndita by Balboa-Lornita, while John A. Cole recently purchased twenty-two brood mares of E. J. Baldwin and will go into breeding on a large scale. At Exeter, Cal.. George W. Kirkman owns a few mares, among theni Myrtle 11. a recent winner, by Torso-Lady Leinster, ami at Camulos, Cal.. X- F. Del Valle has bred some useful racers by Hock Hocking, Jr. (one being Ignacio), out of Pichona. He also has Elza by Kyrle Daly-Eliza by Norfolk. l."s Angeles county i- second only t" - county as a breeding section, and E, J. Balwii Anita, in (he Sail Gabriel Valley, IS Dili noted stock farms in all the world. It was 24 ®*te gveeirex ani> &v&vt&tnan I December 2ti, 1B03 of the sons of Grinstead that first drew attention to California as a great State in which to breed thorough- breds that could win stakes, and as long as Grinstead lived the Santa Anita stud was at the top of the win- ners' tree. Emperor of Norfolk is now the premier stallion there, and besides there are Amigo. Santiago, Honduras and Vinctor. The Baldwin mares are as follow^- \lano. Altenango, Arapahoe, Ardiente, Argen- tina \ritta. Atalanta II. Belinda. Blazeaway, Blossom, Britannia II. Celoso. Chloe A. Clara D Clara Rose, Clara S, Cleopatra, Clodomira. Colomas, Cordola, Cu- ban Queen, Dollie L. El Kestro, Esperanza, Espirito Santo Fame. Florentinea. Florilla, Formosa. Gloritta, Herm'osa. Hook Blonde. Indianola, Josie Anderson, La Cienega. La Colorado, Lad.v Diamond, La Maroma, La Palada. La Plata, La Toluca. La Vienta. Leola Lime Leaf. Lizzie B, Los Angeles. Los Cenllos Magdalena. Alalate. Maricopa, Mariquita. Martina II, Messotint, Miss Ford, Muchacha. Ogarita. Orange Leaf. Orsada, Palo Blanco, Paola, Queen Lilly. Rose Bud, St. Cecilia, Santa Anita Belle, Santa Monica, Santa Sahda, Seven Up. Teodolina, Tiffanv and Violetta. \nother Southern California breeder is Atwood Sproul of Norwalk. Cal. • He used the English stallion Conveth and has the mares Brunora by Hyder Ali- 'Leona by Prolific; Clara Moore by J W Norton-! er- lulia: Cynthia by Milner-Ida Wood and Reina de Luna by Emperor of Norfolk-Cynthia. "Airs John Wolfskill of Los Angeles had a number of mares a few years ago, and the Australian stallion Plenty, and in all probability owns them still, and Otto Zahn of the same place had Centenella by Hock Hock- ing-Monica. and bred her to Sid. The late S. G Reed had at one time upward of twenty mares and the English stallions Martenhurst and Duncombe on his farm near Pasadena, but on his death the horses were "taken to Rancho del Paso, and prob- ably the Pasadena place has no equine tenants at this time. John Gries used to breed thoroughbreds in Los Angeles county on quite a scale once also. There are a few mares bv Hock Hocking. Wildidle and Gano scattered through Los Angeles and San Diego counties, of which there is no record in the American Stud Book, but I believe that in this article I have shown fairly well the breeding "operations of the Golden State as it stands to-day. Electioneer and Wilkes. The accompanying engraving is from a recent pic- ture of the stallion Prank S. Turner 2:28, Bon ot Val- lota. Vallota was by George Norval (son of Norval by Electioneer and Kitty Wilkes by George Wilkes), and his dam was Carlotta Wilkes by Charley Wilkes, a son of Bed Wilkes. The dam of Carlotta Wilkes was Aspasia by Alcantara, and the grandam by Clark A New Stock Farm. Fastest Records of the Year. Adjoining the pretty little town of Sebastapol, in Sonoma County, Mr. George W. Kingsbury, the well known and popular proprietor of the Lick House in San Francisco, has established a stock farm that is as yet but young, but is designed to he one of the most perfectly arranged of the smaller places devoted to the breeding of light harness horses. There is a picturesque half-mile track, in the infield of which IB a thrifty vineyard. There are barns, box stalls, pad- docks, etc., and the residence and other buildings are handsome and neatly kept. The pasture land is hilly and particularly well adapted to the raising of Btrong, thrifty horses with good feet and well Frank S. Turner 3:38 Chief. The dam of Frank Turner is Phallas Rival by Phallas 2:13|, son of Dictator, second dam a produc- ing mare by Onward, third dam another producing mare by Brignoli, and the fourth dam a producing mare by Pilot Jr. 12. Few pedigrees contain so many record holding and race winning families. Frank S. Turner has worked miles in 2:20 and quarters in 34 seconds. He is owned hy Superintendent Turner of the Santa Rosa Stock Farm. Where the Best Horses are Sold. The Occidental Horse Exchange is as well known to Eastern horsemen, as well to those on the Pacific Coast, as the Madison Square Garden in New York City. While not so large as the latter, nevartheless, it answers the purpose for which it was constructed, and that is the holding of auction sales of horses night or day. Fourteen large arc lights are on the premises. A large tan bark ring around three- quarters of which are 2000 seats placed for the ac- commodation of visitors. In the rear of the building are large yards in which over 40 boxes are constructed, and in the adjoining brick building are stalls for over 100 horses. The location is unsurpassed, it is only a few blocks from the Palace and Grand Hotels, on Third street, the principal thoroughfare south of Market street. It is very convenient to trains and boats, and special attention is paid to the receiving and shipping of live stock. When it is remembered that all of the leading stock farms transact all their buying and selling thorough this exchange and where every attention is paid to keeping and showing Btoc': to the very best advantage, winter and summer, it id a matter of pride with Mr. Wm. G.Layng, the auctioneer, to refer to every perBon with whom he ha' transacted business, and this includes scores of o\ jers of thoroughbred racehorses aB well as ownerB cf standard bred trotters, either large or small bre ders. Delia K. (*) by Silver Bow developed muscles and lungs. Among the horses owned at Kingsbury Heights as this farm is happily named, are Lynall2:16; Cbas. H , a five year old, and D. E. Knight, a three year old, both by Lynmont; Delia K., a very handsome two year old filly, by Silver Bow, dam Elma by El Benton, that can show a forty gait now and is entered in all the stakes in California for three year olds. There are also colts and fillies bj McKinney, Diablo and other well known sires and a few choice broodmareB. KingBbury Heights was purchased by Mr. Kingsbury for a country home where he could find relaxation from business aDd in- cidentally breed a few trotters and develop them. TROTTERS. Two year old — Grace Bond, b f, by The Bonds- man-Grace Boyd by Ashland Wilkes 2:17} Roy Miller 2:14} Three year old — Sadie Mac, b f, by Peter the Great, 4, 2:071-Fanella 2:13 by Arion, 4, 2:07f Alonzo McDonald 2:11} Four year old — Judge Green, b g, by Directum, 4, 2:05}, dam by Anteeo, Jr. 2:25}.. Ben Walker 2:10} Wainsct't, b c, by Alcy Wilkes 2:16ij-Sor- ceress by King Rene 2:30}. .. Fred Hyde 2:10} Five year old — Lou Dillon, ch m, by Sidney Dil- lon-Lou Milton by Milton Medium 2:25J Millard F. Sanders *1 58* Fastest mare — Lou Dillon, cb, 5, by Sidney Dil- lon-Lou Milton by Milton Medium 2:25J Millard F. Sanders*]. 58} Fastest gelding — Major Delmar, b, 6, by Delmar 2:16}-Expectation by Autograph 2:16.! Alta P. McDonald *1:59| Fastest stallion — Creseeus, cb, 9, by Robert Mc- Gregor 2:17J-Mabel by Mambrino Howard ." G. H. Keteham*l:59| Fastest new performei — Lou Dillon, ch m, 5, by Sidney Dillon-Lou Milton by Milton Medium 2:25} Millard F. Sanders *1 58} Fastest mile, half mile track — Cresceus, ch h, 8, by Robert McGregor 2:17}-Mabel by Mam- brino Howard Geo H. Ketcbam *2:08 PACERS. Two year old — Fata Morgana, br f, by Sphinx 2:20}-Vee See. p, 3, 2:25, by Fairy Gilt 2:30. *2:19J Three year old — Idiss Daphne Direct, bl f, by Direct, p, 2:05J-Miss Daphne bv Alcantara 2:23 ." Ben Walker 2:11} Four year old — King Direct, bl c, by Direct, p, 2:05A-Welcome Bunker by Mambrino King , E. F. (Jeers 2:09} Five year old — Hal Chaffin, br h, by Brown Hal, p, 2:12!-Bessie McEwen, by McEwen 2:18}.. . . ." E. F. Geers 2:05} Fastest mare — Dariel, b, 10, by Alcander 2:20$- Topsy by HolabirJ. 's Ethan Allan Alta P. McDonald *2:00} Fastest gelding — Prince Alert, b, 10, by Crown Prince-Till J. C Curryt*l:57 Fastest stallion— Dan Patch, br, 7, hy Joe Patchen, p, 2:01}-Zelica by Wilkesberry 2:30 M. E. McHenry *1:56} FaBtest New Performer — Tom Keene, ch g, by West Egbert 2:29}, dam by Kentucky Prince Geo. W. Sanders 2:04} Fastest mile, half mile trsck— Dan Patcb, br b, 7, by Joe Patchen, p, 2:01}— Zelica bv vVil- 'kesberry 2:30 M. E. McHenry 2:03} * Time records. t With wind shield. Have Produced Three in 2:15 List. Ten broodmares have produced three with records of 2:15 or better. They are as follows: Alaska 2:27} by Alcyone, dam Wenonah by Hamble- tonian 559 — Lady Geraldine 2:11} Willask 2:1 1 J Alkalone 2:14} Chestnut Belle by Red Wilkes, dam Mary by Gov. Sprague — Nobel 2:10} Dart more 2:11 J Chestnut King 2:12 Elhelwyn 2:23 by Harold, dam Kathleen by Pilot Jr.— Extasy .- 2:11} Impetuous 2:13 Ethel's Pride 2:13| Jeanne by Kentucky Prince, dam Suisun 2:18} by Electioneer — Miss Delia Fox 2:10} Bernalda 2:10| Cretonnes 2:13J Lemonade by Kentucky Prince Jr., dam Susie Mel- bourne by Melbourne Jr. — BeBsie Wilton 2:09} Petigru 2:101 Lady Wilton 2:11} Medio by Cooper Medium, dam Topsey by Mambrino King- Peter Stirling 2:1H Black Robert 2:13J Marble 2:14 Montrose by Sultan, dam San Mateo Maid by Ham- bletonlan 725 — Muta Wilkes 2:11 Mary Best 2:12} Fred S. Moody ■ 2:14 Nemesis 2:28 by Nutwood, dam Four Lines by Black- wood— Nemoline 2:11} The Astronomer 2:13} Axmere 2:13} Puella 2:29 by Postboy, dam Ella by Cripple — Annine 2:llf Corinne ". .2:13J Winifred M 2:14| Rena B. by Cyclone 2:23}, dam Loraine by Strath- more — Dentine 2:13} Bessie Owens 2:13} Rena Wise 2:15 Yukon 2:14 1-4. This handsome young stallion is a son of Bay Bird, he by Jay Bird. The dam of Yukon is by Algona, sire of Flying Jib and his grandam is a full sister to Beautiful Bells. Yukon is one of the best bred Horses Wanted. James Thompson of Pleasanton has an order to buy two horses. Good prices will be given for a trotter that can show around 2:15 and a pacer that can show 2:10. They must be sound, and good lookers. Anyone owning such a horse and desiring to sell should write Mr. Thompson giving full particulars. Address James Thompson, Pleasanton. * stallions in California. He proved himself a good race horse in 1902 when he won three straight races 00 the California circuit. He is owned by Mr. C. W. Welby of San Francisco and will make the season of 1904 at the Yukon stables as per advertisement in thiB issue. Red Wilkes is a most remarkable hotse. He iB a big] rugged, bay horse, fully 16 hands high, with bone and substance enough for a draft horse. He was bred by Crit Davis, Harrodsburg, Ky., and foaled in 1874, by George Wilkes 2:22, dam Queen Dido by Mambrino Chief 11, second dam by Red Jacket, third dam the Robert Patterson mare, said to be thoroughbred. Red Wilkes inherited his size and substance from his dam Queen Dido. She was a bay mare with black points, fully 16 hands high, foaled 1862. Red Jacket, sire of the second dam of Red Wilkes, was only 15 hands high, and was an inbred Morgan. His sire Comet was by Sherman Morgan, son of Justin Mor- gan. The dam of Comet was from a daughter of Old Justin Morgan, and the dam of Red Jacket was hy a son of Sherman Morgan. Red Wilkes will soon be thirty years old. A young manin Edison's work shopB has discovered that a pneumatic tube around the axle of a wheel in- stead of around the tire will obviate jar, and avoid wear, tear and punctureB. i T W® \* ■ ■■n^^^H o^h l^^mHHHHI ^W LOU DILLON AND HER OWNER, MR. C. K. G. BILLINGS. . id Doble vim K:: CALIFORNIA MONEY WINNING TROTTERS OF 1903. :: 450- 2. Monte Carlo, 2:07^ . winner of S7.550. 3. Judge Green. 2: "-. winner I - December 26, 1903., ®h£ gveebev atib grpxrrteman 2t Three Representative Trotters. Racing on the Grand Circuit from Detroit to Mem- phis was productive of more sensational trotting- this year than hai ever heen seen during any one season by those who go "down the line." There were 79 trotters that won more than $1000 on that circuit, headed by the gelding Billy Buch 2:07} whose win- nings amounted to the handsome little fortune of $33,400. There were eleven trotters of these 79 that won over $6000 each, and of these the three California horses pictured on the opposite page were among the first nine. Budd Doble's horse Kinney Lou 2:07| was the largest winner of the California horses that went East in 1903. He won $11,450. Kinney Lou started eleven times, was twice first, five times Becond, and three times third. After his first two or three starts he contracted catarrhal fever and was a sick horse during the rest of the year, but trotted some wonder- fully fast mileB nevertheless and now that he has fully recovered his health will be raced again next year, and Mr. Doble is confident he can reduce his record materially. Kinney Lou was sired by McKinney 2:11} and his dam is Mary Lou 2:17 by Tom Bentoi, second dam Brown Jenny by David Hill Jr., and third dam by Black Hawk 767. The grandam of Kinney Lou has produced three with records better than 2:18, one pacer and two trotters. Kinney Lou returned to California absolutely sound and after a limited season in the stud at San Jose will again go East to meet the horses in his class on the Grand Circuit. Monte Carlo 2:07} will not come back to California as Monroe Salisbury sold him for $20,000 to Mr. Brayton Ives of New Yorkduring the early part of this month. Moote Carlo won $7575 in purses duringthe year. He was one of the sensational horses of 1902, and was only beaten a short head by Major Delmar at Mem- phis in 2:05|. He closed the season with a record of 2:09}, which he reduced two seconds this season. He started thirteen times, winning four races, was twice second, three times third and twice fourth. Monte Carlo was bred by Mr. L. B. Daniels of Chico. He i9 by Mendocino 2:19}, dam Jane by Tilton Almont, grandam Katie Fisher by Norwood, son of Speedwell Hambletonian. Monte Carlo will not be raced on the Grand Circuit next year as his new owner intends using him as a Bpeedway and matinee horse. Dividing honors with Wainscot as the fastest four- year-old trotter of 1903, is the bay gelding Judge Green 2:10} that was campaigned in the string of James Butler of the East View Farm, New York. This gelding is one of the grandest trotters that ever represented California on the Grand Circuit. He was bred by Hon. W. E. Greene, Judge of the Superior Court of Alameda county, California, who sold a half interest in him when a yearling to Mr. J. W. Dingee, the well known capitalist of Oakland. He is by the great champion of his day, Directum 2:05}, his dam is byAnteeoJr. (son of Anteeoand Lady Signal), Becond dam Belle by Geo. M. Patchen Jr. 31, third dam Lady Primus by Primus 255, fourth dam Fanny McCourtie, a mare brought to this State from Michigan and said to be by Harry Clay 45. As a two-year-old he was given two months easy work. The first time he was jogged a mile out he turned the track in 2:59, and at the end of the two months' work showed a mile in 2:31. Nothing was done with him during the winter of that year and the next March, when a three-year- old, he was turned out and ran in a pasture with a number of horses until January, 1903, when he was leased to Mr. Salisbury, acting for Mr. Butler, for two years. Mr. Salisbury named him Judge Green, after his breeder, when entering him in the eventB for 1903 and speaking of the gelding the other day said: "I consider Judge Green the champion four-yerr-old of America, as he met and defeated all of the colts in his class at Brighton Beach and did it very easily. All things considered I think him the equal of his great sire, and if I had trained him in his three-year- old form I do not believe he could have been defeated this year." He won $7800 during the season of 1903, startingthirteen times. He won four races, waB three times second, four times third, twice fourth and never outside the money. He will be raced again on the Eastern track in 1904 with the East View Farm horses, and Mr. Salisbury says: "I would like to see the five-year-old that has any license to beat this fellow in any kind of a race. " A High Class Stallion. The late Senator Stanford was of the opinion that the Piedmont-Electioneer crosB would produce ex- treme speed and the horses bred that way at Palo Alto have demonstrated the truth of his theory. Out the pacer Quick, that took a record of 2:19} this year and is possessed of speed enough to lower this mark to 2:10. Four others of his get were worked a little this year. Mr. Arms of the Arms Car Company owns them. Two are bay geldings 15.3 hands and can trot in 2:20 now. The other two are fillies and both have shown quarters in 35 secondB. They are in the stable of Mr. J. H. Williams, who will stand Limonero at Agricultural Park, Lob Angeles, this year. Limonero is by Piedemont 2:17}, and his dam is Lulaneer, also the dam of Bion 2:19? by Electioneer, second dam the great mare Lula 2:15 by Norman 25. Limonero made his record at Lexington, Kentucky in 1894. It was in the $5000 purse for three-year-olds that brought together that year such trotting youngsters as Ex- pressive, Baron Dillon, Axinito, B. B. P. and others. Six heats were required to determine the winner. Expressive took the first heat in 2:15}, B. B. P. captured the next two in 2:14J and 2:14} with Limonero close up each time. The next three heats went to Limonero in 2:15J, 2:16J and 2:21 J. It was one of the most hotly contested three-year-old races ever trotted, and stamped the winner as a great colt. Limonero will make the season at Agricultural Park, Lob Angeles in 1904 at $25 the season, and $35 to in- sure a colt. He iB a stallion that has breeding, size style, conformation and soundness and is worthy of AmAljt ^^H^^k Wk. 1 I V ^m^^*** *" "A LIMONERO 2:15 3-4 of Electioneer mares Piedmont got Limonero 2:15|, one of the handsomeBt and fastest stallions ever bred at the famed farm of the tall pine, and from Piedmont mares, Electioneer sired that great stallion Mendocino 2:19£ (sire of Monte Carlo 2:07£) and race horses like Alta Vela 2:11J. Limonero, whose likeness is presented herewith, is a bay Btallion foaled in 1891, and as he was raced in his colthood, trotting to a record of 2:15^ as a three-year-old, his stud duties have been very limited. But one of his get has ever faced a starter, patronage by those who wish to breed the highest type of the American trotter. A farmer consigned a horse to a sale where George Bain was selling. The horBe waB led in the sale ring and George asked the man if the horse was city broke. "No, but he is country broke." A purchaser asked George what was meant when & horse was country broke. George replied, "He is guaranteed not to shy at the eun or the Rocky Mountains." BITA H. (p) 3:11 1-4 By McKinney 3:11 1-4, dam Smut (also dam of Brllllantlne (p.) 3:17 1:4) by Prompter. Owned by Byron Erbenbrecher, Los Angeles. ELECTRO McKINNEY By McKinney 3:11 1-4, dam EI Mae by Electricity 53-14, son of Electioneer Owned by Byron Erkenbrecher, Los Angeles. ©*te gveeitev ani* &pcxtsman [December 26, 1968 ROD, GUN AND KENNEL Conducted by J. X. De WITT. Pacific Coast All-Age. Twenty-one entries paid second forfeit last week in the Pacific Coast, All-Age Stake. Of these nomina- tions, thirteen are English Setters and eight are Pointers The class of the All-Age nominations will be appreciated by sportsmen, for with the exception of but a very few, all the rest of them have been placed, several dogs not once but often. The recent performances of Mr. W. W. \ an Arsdale' i Peach Blossom and the wins of Mr. J. W. Flynn's Senator P last year have placed Coast dogs in the ranks of the Eastern champions. A recounting .here of ! the records of the dog» below listed would take more space than is available at this time. „K ,= Reports from the field trial grounds at Bakersfield are favorable. Indications are that birds will be Plentiful, the trial grounds having been patrolled since last August, poachers being religiously excluded Cover conditions are also encouraging. The recent rains have been beneficial in more ways then one. A oomplete list of the All-Age entries follows: SETTEES. J. W. Considine's (Seattle) black, white and tan bitch Count's Clip (Ch. Lady's Count Gladstone- Jessie Rodfield), whelped September 26, 1901. Bred by Dr. J. A. Bown, Chariton, la. Same owner's black, white and tan bitch Count's Peg. Same breeding. Same owner's black, white and tan bitch Policy Girl (Dave Eirl-Top's Queen). Clinton E. Worden's (San Francisco) orange and GOSSIP FOR SPORTSMEN. Jos. E. Terry's KIlgarIf,^Winner of Coast Derby, 1903. white dog Jay M. (Col. R. -Spot's Girl), whelped March 29, 1901. Bred by Geo. E. Gray, Appleton, Minn. Same owner's black, white and tan dog Harry H. (Why Not-Sue), whelped February 17, 1901. Bred by P. Lorillard. New York. W. W. Van Arsdale's (San Francisco) white, black, tan and ticked dog McCloud Boy (Tony Boy-Sadie Hopkins), whelped December 25, 1900. Bred by Hugh Hopkins, Minturn, Cal. Same owner's white, black, tan and ticked dog Oakley's Pride (Oakley Hill-Gipsey QueeD) , whelDed June — , 1900. Bred by Chas. W. Tway, Irwin, Ohio. Same owner's white, black, tan and ticked dog De- troit Joe (Joe's Count-Queen of Diamonds), whelped March 10, 1901. Bred by Louis Hilsendegen, Detroit, Mich. Same owner's white, black, tan and ticked dog Cal- ifornia Bell Boy (Tony Boy-Lena Belle), whelped July — , 1900. Bred by P. Lorillard. J.E.Terry's (Sacramento) lemon and white bitch Lady (Ch. Count Gladstone-Peach Mark), whelped March 2, 1S99. Bred by W. W. Van A.-sdale. Same owner's black, white and tan dog Kilgarif (Orion-Mary Lou), whelped , 1901. Bred by owner. Dr. C. E. Wilson's (Elko, Nev.) black, white and tan dog Clipper W. (Marie's Sport-Isabella Maid), whelped. April 1, 1899. Bred by H. B. Ledbetter, Farmington, Mo. A. H. Nelson's (Tacoma) black, white and tan bitch Sport'B Destiny (Marie's Sport-Mark's Fleet) whelped July 16, 1899. Bred by H. B. Ledbetter, Farmington, Mo. POINTERS. J. W. Flynn's (San Francisco) lemon and white dog Senator P. (Cap B.-Queen P.), whelped June 6, 1897. Bred by B. F. Pinder. Same owner's lemon and white bitch Nellie Bang (Ch. Senator P.-Lady Belle), whelped July 10, 1901. Bred by owner. Clinton E. CVorden's liver and white bitch Pearl's Jingle (Young Jingo-Pearl's Dot II), whelped August 9, 1899. Bred by Geo. E. Gray, Appleton, Minn. Stockdale Kennels' (Bakersfield) liver and white dog Cuba. Jr. (Ch. Cuba of Kenwood-Florida), whelped March 13, 1900, Bred by owner. Same owner's black and white bitch Margarette (Cuba's Zep-Jingo's Bagpipe), whelped Nov. 1, 1901. Bred by owner. Same owner's black and white bitch Midget, same br .eding as last. Same owner's liver and white bitch Petronella (i'oung Jim-Florida), whelped July 29, 1899. Owner, b eeder. Same owner's black and tan dog Cuba's Zep (Ch. l iba of Kenwood-Jacquina), whelped January 5. If 59. Bred by owner. A good story of a well trained dog comes from Point Reyes. One afternoon recently a party of sportsmen after a day's quail 6hooting, were con- gregated about the big stove in the symposium at the Point Reyes hotel prior to taking the train for the city. Among the hunters was "Bill" Richards and with him his handsome English Setter dog Squire Dan. The usual run of sportsmen's gossip and badinage was in full blast, when at an opportune lull in the conversation, there was heard the sharp re- port madeby a cork popped from a bottle of Jackson's Napa Soda water by the gent behind the bar. This in itself was not of a special 'nterest to the hunters — but one of the party was on the alert and that was Dan, for he immediately dropped to shot and looked up inquiringly at his master. His action was imme- diately noticed by his master and others and Dan was the center of an increased circle of admirers. Devotees of striped bass angling, doubtless will be pleased to learn that a flag station has been estab- lished at the trestle over the head or San Antonio slough, about three miles from Burdell's station. The new station is also about ten minutes' walk from Schultz slough, another excellent fishing water. Trains going in either direction will stop on signal. Tickets for the new anglers' resort were placed on sale Friday last. This arrangement will enable any number of individual fishermen to reach the two sloughs that heretofore have been controlled by several gun clubs which have prohibited anglers from obtaining access to the navigable waters of the sloughs over their preserves. One reason for this Drohibition, however, it is stated, was the indifference to the clubmens' rights and property interests dis- played by numerous bank fishermen, whose actions tended to raise the ire of those upon whose lands they were at first allowed to fish by sufferance. Another item of interest to the rod and reel men is a successful shipment of fifty striped bass recently to Newport beach, Orange countv. The fish, ranging in size from one-quarter up to three pounds in weight, were caught by net near San Pablo by Deputy Fish Commissioners Manuel L. Cross and Jack Davis. They were placed in large tin cans and shipped at once on the cars. The deputies stayed with the fish throughout the trip. The cans were kept packed in ice and the salt water was frequently aerated. The fish were subsequently liberated in the Santa Ana river, hundreds of miles south of the point of capture and shipment was accomplished without the loss of a single fish. Before releasing the bass the water in the cans was gradually brought to the temperature of that of the new habitat, 61 degrees. The locality selected for the fish, the Santa Ana river and its sloughs, is almost identical with many favorite re- sorts of the bass in San Pablo bay. The net fishermen at Newport beach have at odd times caught a striped bass or two, fish, it is presumed, which made their way south from Monteroy bay. The Supervisors of Orange county will place a close season of at least three years on striped bass. By that time it is con- fidently expected that striped hafs will he plentiful in the southern coast waters. over five pounds dressed. Most of these birds are sent up from the Kern and Tulare irrigation districts, where ducks of many varieties have been more plenti- ful recently than for years past. Teal ducks have to a great extent left the marshes and ponds and are now to be found in the overflowed tule regions. These dainty little ducks have a fashion of getting into the open water behind the big stretches of tule, where they are safe from the gunner's molestation. Canvasback shooting for the main body of hunters who find Sunday their most available shooting day, was almost general last Sunday. All over the Suisun, Sonoma and Petaluma marshes, the east side marshes down to Alviso and as far south as Elkhorn slough the royal canvasback was plentiful. These birds are recent migrants from the storm-vexed northern feed- ing grounds. Ltccr liiiuung farty In aituuotiiio luuuly. Mr. Will J. Golcber, who has passed through a severe attack of illness, we announce, with pleasure, has now completely recovered his health and will shortly be able to meet his many friends at his place of business again. For nearly two weeKS past the duck hunters have had shooting innings that are very liable to be ended by the recent rain, for now it is believed by experi- enced sportsmen that the ducks will take flight to the South for good. Canvasback and mallard ducks have been plentiful, fat and in splendid condition, available both to the hunter who went forth after his birds or the citizen who prefers to get his ducks in the market, club or restaurant. Mallard ducks have been seen in the local markets that weighed Progressiveness in Sporting Goods. One of the largest establishments on the Pacific Coast devoted to every requirement in the line of goods used by sportsmen and anglers, the devotees of outdoor 6ports or indoor recreation is that of the H. E Skinner Company located at the southwest coiner of Market and Fourth streets in this city. The business was first established by Mr. E. T. Allen some twenty-five years ago. When Mr. Allen retired fiom active business about three years since, the present organization was formed with Mr Henry E. Skinner at its head. Mr. Skinner had for years been Mr. Allen's right hand man. Shortly after the new firm took charge of the business, a new location was selected and the present quarters at 801 Market street were fitted up on a scale comrr-ensurate with the firm's increasing volume of business. Mr. Skinner originally attached himself to thi6 particular business with the intention of making it his permanent vocation, and haB consequently de- voted many years to an intelligent study of the mani- fold details of handling successfully the merchandise requisite to fill in the complete invoices the firm is now stocked with. One reason why patronage will increase is not so much founded on personal liking of the dealer, as upon the application of a study and desire to give sportsmen goodsthat they want and whattheyneed — something up-to-date and always adapted to their particular wants and worth the money, this has been the keynote of the company's success. Tiburon Landing— A Resort of the Striped Bass Anglers. December 26, 1903] fKhe gveeiiev txtitf ^tpavtsman 29 A MOOSE HUNT M by rustic, awi] When last I journeyed cityward from my country home £ took my white English Setter dog Star with me. Everyone likes Star — because the dog Star likes every man, woman and child in the world. I have been fearful some exquisite, when my dog put his paws on his clothes, would kick or strike my beauti- ful white friend and get me into trouble. But no, Star just pokes hi* nose into some one's lap or rubs up alongside of somebody to attract attention. When the selected persoD feels the cold nose or the sug- gestive push, he or she may look surprised but never angry when is seen the fearless clear eyes aDd the clean cut figure and bright, shining white coat; then a gentle pat on the intelligent silky head and the dog has made another friend. It was thus on an Oakland boat one evening recently; my fourfooted friend sidled up to a spare, keen-eyed, alert-appearing individual, who was looking the incoming passengers over from where he sat. "Oh! Oh! you are a dog, are you? " he said, looking down at the intruder who had thrust his nose and head into his lap. "Want to be friends, do you? Weil, you needn't try hard, I'm a friend to a dog — I own three." Then I, Rustic, had my say — "You have three dogs! Any of them hunting dogs? " "Well, yes, not your kind," replied the stranger. "Not Pointers or Setters, bu*. just Alaska dogs." "So you are an Alaska miner? " ,( Yes I am. I have wintered there," was the re- sponse, "and I never knew what a dog was worth until I found and used him in th? North." "Your dogs up there, what were they?" "Newfoundlands and Shepherds, " replied my new made friend. "Why," I replied, "I thought that you used Huskies, the native dog." "So we do, so we do," he assented, "when we can't get any others. Why, my dear sir, Esquimaux dogs are veritable devils. I know of one case where a driver was devoured by them; they do not need a 'Call of the Wild' — they are wild. But when you want brains among men, get a white man - when you want brains among dogs, get a white man's dog. My Newfoundland dog Prince led my string of dogs. When I said 'Mush!' that's Esquimaux for 'on;' how he straightened out the pack, how he kept the trails and made the turnsl Why, he was a born leader of dogs." "Hold up Alaska," I said, "what about yonr hunt- ing dog?" "Why he is the one," he continued, "Prince is the dog. Once, towards evening, I was riding on my sled behind my team of dogs, when Prince suddenly swerved, hesitated, then stopped and brought the other dogs to a standstill. Then he commenced to wag his tail, straining in his harness and looking towards a point in the snow off to one side of the beaten trail. I looked intently over the suow but could discern not a thing, was just about to yell lMusb,' when I saw eight ptarmigan; game birds almost as white as the snow. It took but a moment to draw out my 'pump gun' from its case in the sled and in a few seconds more four birds dropped. It was not ten minutes after I had picked up the plump, fat birds that I made a camp. Hailing my companions I called out, 'Meat, boys; fresh meat!' For you know, canned goods and salt meat are food that we got very tired of." "Hardly enough to go round," one of my fellow prospectors remarked. "How did you find them?" "Old Prince,"' I said, pointing to the New found lard. "Pick those birds one of you fellows, Prince and I will go and get some more." "I unharnessed him, and then, no longer a horse but a dog, he and I went hunting." "I gradually made towards some timber, as I neared the woods, I saw the dog's tail commence to wag. The closer Prince got to the birds the livelier his tail swished from 3ide to side. Presently the dog broke into a run, the birds flushed and away they whirred." When my narrator got to this stage of his reminis- cence I thought my English Setter Star showed an expression of abject disgust. Pointed stanchly and steady to shot, is what he most surely would have done. "Well, you got no more birds then, Mr. Poole?" I asked. "Ye^, we did, Mr. Rustic; I chided Prince and moved on to the trees Again the monitor tail wagged a warning. The more the tail wagged the more I chided and restrained Prince. Presently I saw the ptarmigan huddled together on the limb of a tree. I fired and killed four more. I then went back to camp and the eight birds were stewed with ci ackers and evaporated potatoes." "2^0 wonder," I iocularly remarked, "your dog Prince was a good sled doe — when he went hunting he had a wag — on behind." "Anyway you toolc Prince he was a gamedog," Mr. Poole replied earnestly. • Did you see or kill any big game," I asked, "while you were up in Alaska? " "Ye*," replied Mr. Poole, "but we are at the mole now; I'll tell you a big story of big game when we are on board the train." We had to go into the smoking car to find a seat because we had a dog for company — a well behaved companion who did not drink, smoke nor chew. But corporations have no souls, it has been said; so we seated ourselves amidst the smoke to talk of the big the moose, but they would not hear of it. They game in Alaska. claimed I shot the game, staved by it and kept the 'You must know," my friend began, "that the wolves away, all for the common benefit after being They refused to take an left alone and unaided. ounce of meat as a gift but insisted on buying and paying for what they wanted. "So right there," said Mr. Poole; "hundreds of miles from anywhere I sold the three moose for $750. But I did not sell the dog which found me. My part- ner has him and two others awaiting my return in the spring to our claim, from which we hope to get rich." So ended the story. Mr. Poole patted Star on the head and said, "Good-bye, Rustic." The night had come. The train stopped and the journey ended at my station. _ ♦ An Old Established Firm. Nearly forty years ago Clabrough Brothers opened a gun, ammunition and sporting goods store in thiB city. They originally started the business in Mont- gomery Block, near Washington and Montgomery streets. The reputation of the firm gradually spread and their customers annually increased. The busi- ness is still conducted by the Clabrough, Golcher Company at 538 Market street. The Clabrough gun has been, and is now, a favorite with all sportsmen who desire a high class gun for field, marsh and trap shooting. A full and complete stock of everything desired by devotees of any sport or recreation can be found at the big store, 538 Market street. Among the Pointers and Setters shown on page 32 are some notable field trial performers. Going bacK for only two years we find — Peach Blossom (Ch. Count Gladstone lV.-Peach- mark) equal third, Pacific Coast All-Age 1902; first, Pacific Coast All-Age 1903; equal fourth, Illinois All- Age 1903, and winner of the Illinois Championship Stake 1903. Dr. Daniels (Plain Sam-Dollv Dee ill.) first, Pacific Coast All-Age 1902; second, Pacific Coast All-Age 1903, and fourth Independent Field Trial Club 1903. Cuba Jr. (Cuba of Kenwood-Florida) first, Pacific Coast Derby 1902; third Pacific Coast All-Age 1903. Harry H. (Why Not-Sue C.) second, Pacific North- west Derby 1902. Lady (Ch. Count Gladstone IV.-Peaehmark) third, Pacific Northwest All-Age 1902; first, Pacific Coast Members' Stake 1903. Northern Huntress (Ch. Joe Cummings-Mecca II.). equal third, Pacific Coast All-Age 1902; third, Pacific Coast Members' Stake 1903. Victoria Belle is owned in Victoria, B. C, and has a good record of bench winnings and has also proved Caribou and the moose are the big game of the North. The Caribou are twin brothers to the rein- deer. I saw some of the reindeer which Mr. Jackson brought over from Lapland. To the eye there is no difference between the two varieties, except one is tame and theotheris wild." "Now, for the hunt I am about to tell you of," said Mr. Poole, reflectively. "We were camped on a tributary of the Yukon, at a spot many miles to the north of Dawson, four of us in the party. We had been living on canned goods and bacon until we were all hungry for fresh meat; so the boys proposed a hunt for moose or Caribou. This was agreed to and each picked out the locality he desired to huht over. I struck out through the snow for a creek on which I knew some prospectors were located. I calculated, whether I killed any game or not, I would at any rate find out what the other prospectors had found, as we were all of us in the bleak inhospitable north in quest of gold. The magic yellow metal which buys health and happiness; shuts the doors of prisons to rogues; makes lawyers rich; opens up the salons of the polite, or the minds of the wise — all responsive to the directing potent touch of the magician's yellow wand." :'3o I trudged on through the snow, keeping my eyes open and muring on my situation in the land of the midnight sun When I reached the divide between the creeks. I stepped back behind a bush for a brief rest. Why I stopped where I did, underneath a snow covered bush, I know nct;unless it was habit to tread softly, to hide often and to listen many times when out hunting." "I looked out from my shelter before leaving it. Yes, there was something coming over the ridge; about to pass me some fifty paces away. It is a Cari- boo! it is too small for a moose, so I waited until the creature was opposite; then aimed my 30-30 at a vital spot back of its front leg, fired and down it went. It took but a moment to throw the empty shell out and put a loaded one into my gun. Ready to move I looked out again before Btirring and there! yes, there! behind the calf I had shot came the mother moose; her big mule head poking along over the snow, through which she plodded. I waited until she came upon the dead calt and threw up her head and snorted, then I sent a ball between her ribs, and away she lumbered over the snow, but not before I had sent another ball after her." "I am afraid I have lost you, Moosey dear, and we need meat and many camps about us." "Reloading my little 30-30, I looked out again from my snow covered screen, to my astonished vision there appeared a form looming up on the trail that caused me to exclaim, under my breath, 'What is that monster?' For there was a big bull moose fol- lowing the mother and son I had shot. Just before Mr. Bull could see the calf — perhaps his son, bang went mv gun again The great beast made a lunge forward, crunched through the snow following the cow moose and disappeared." "Istoodallin a tremble," said my narrator, Mr. Poole, with suppressed excitement. "What had I done? Killed or wounded three moose, enough meat for months. I alnne with my little 30-30. ' ' "After I had reloaded," be continued, " I waited a few momeats for another moose, which never came. L went to where the calf lay dead, it was fat and must have weighed 300 pounds. I bled the dead moose and hurried on tracking easily the cow and bull. First I came to the vnw dead, shot almost through the heart; the second shot had entered at the flank, gone through the body and out at the opposite shoulder. Hurrah! for the 30-30. One hundred and fifty feet beyond the cow. lay the bull, likewise dead- 'I threw down my gun and shouted. I picked it up, shot it off again and again. Not even an echo came from that vast stillness — a solitude so great that it oppresses the human heart. I trembled and broke into a profuse perspiration when I fully realized that I had killed two mighty moose ard one big calf, sin- gle handed and alone. No answering shot came tn rae, no halloo in answer to my signals. 'What shall I do?' was the question which presented itself tome strongly. ( It will not do to leave my game: night is too near and camp too far. When the shades of night come on all the timber wolves will be afoot — nor hoof nor hide of moose will be here in the morning. I must stay with thequarry.' So I took my hatcbet from my belt, cut branches from dead trees, built two fires, one between the calf and mother and one between the cow and hull mooge. I then laid in a store of dry wood alongside the fires and kept solitary vigil, trudging hungry and col J. to and fro between the two fires, keeping a'; bay the howling wolves, whose teeth snapped and pairs of green, hungry eyes glistened in tb<=» fire lierht- The night wore on to the coming- dav. The first I knew that help was nigh was when I felt a warm, moist nose against my hand as I was standing- on guard near the dead calf. I looked down to find my doe Prince, whining to be recognized. 'Good dog.' I said, 'bo you found your master when his men friends had deserted 1 im.' "'Hello! hello! hello!' came voices in quick succes- sion: 'what have you here?' "A Caribou. " said one. "No. a young- moose," said another. "Meat, by Jove! " said the third. "Ye<*. meat," I answered, "but no credit to you. Whv did you not hunt me up last nig*ht? " "Why. we expected you in camp; we knew you were not lost. We had no idea you had shot any- thing." "There,! look, there is another! she'll weieh 800 pounds," exclaimed another in surprised tones, we walked along the path I had tramped deep in the!1! The demand a: Skinner's keeps up for sportsmen's oui fits. annw between the parpftsAPB monition and gnus. A large aDd new stock of poods has been snow oetweentne carcasses. .J added to fill tbe demand for hunting suits, robber boot! and ' 'Gee whiz! here s the papa of all the Imoose trine, r hunters' footwear; canvas and roldfDg wooden decoys, gun ns^ look at those horns! he wore an armchair noon his i and a new design or leather-covered rtell boxes. Peters r head." excitedly shouted mv companion. -Hurrah. Wf %»»™lJ°3i$& tn^yoVueXr*: for Poole," chorused the bnvs, as they boi9ted meSshootlog- Send for a catalogue, II you haven't the time : Talof t on their shoulders. I offered to give my friends Hand try a mall order. Oak Grove Kennels' Ch. Ormskirk Emerald Jr. a dam of winners. Minnesota Joe (Ch. Alberta Joe-Ch. Susie Rush) is one of the best looking Pointers on the Coast to-day. Minnesota Jr., his handsome son, took second in the recent Independent Derby. Vina Belle (Ch. Aldon Swagger-Ch. Golden Jewell) has been among the winners every time she has been benched. Ch. Hanover Monarch (Ch. Ellwyn Astrologer-Ch. Old Hall Moon) has a string of bench show honors to his credit that were won in EnglaDd , back in East and recently in this city, where he made his first appear- ance at a Coast show. Le King ;Ch. Le Prince-Sylvia's Lola) had his career given in detail in our issue of December 12th. Rippowam Miss Tuffet (Imp. Rippowam Archer- Imp. Moreton Vestal is a promising young bitch that has won a number of prizes at northern shows. Cb. Ormskirk Emerald Jr. (Cb. Ormskirk Emerald -Imp. Queen's Bounty) has been practically an un- beaten dog since his puppy win of first several years ago. In the open competition he has generally taken the blue. Du Pont Calendars. I A communication from tbe E. I. Du Pont Company, Wilmington, Del., announces regretfully that the entire issue of Du Pont calendars for 1904 has been exhausted. There has been such an enormous de- mand for them that further applications must be refused, no matter how much money is enclosed for a ^calendar. Duck and Quail Outfits. 30 ®He greebev anit gtportemott [December 26, 1903 *####### f BEAR HUNTING WITH HOUNDS IN BKITISH COLOMBIA. KY A. BRYAN WILLIAMS. October was waning when, one bracing morning, just at dawn, I sallied forth from my bouse. After a brief and complacent survey of the daybreak land- scape—the murky, miBt wreathed river; the serrated ridges of tree tops silhouetted against the faintly illumined sky-line, and the more or less lofty and ex- tended landmarks o'ershadowing familiar tramping ground. I felt assured that a good day for a hunt was awakening. So, crossing over to my kennel, I opened the doors and let out the eager houndB; the pack well knowing that something to their liking was on the tapis. It was an off day for me, that is, I had not gennerally announced, as was customary with me, that I intended to hunt with my dogs. In consequence I was alone, my usual hunting companions and visitors were for the nonce absent. I had, however, the evening previous, told M., a neighbor and comrade of the chase, to be on the lookout for me, as it was possible I might be astir early upon the following morning, and if I did, I would go by his house and cross the river, from the island on which I was located, to the mainland in his canoe. A walk of a mile, brought me to M.'s house where I found him ready, and without delay we started for the river side, a little more than a half-mile away. Road there was none, nothing but a cow trail through heavy scrub brush, the trail leading through, at intervals, small open prairie-like patches. The path, such as it was, proved very muddy. We both kept our eyes open for signs of game, not that we particularly expected to find anything there, but still caution was in order, for we were aware that now and again an odd deer or wildcat harbored in the scrub and patches, and if we came across either, a kill was a foregone conclusion. We did not find any kind of sign, however, and I kept the hounds close in to heel. Soon after climbing over a huge1 cottonwood log that laid acrossour route, M. called my attention to the absence of Philosopher, one of my best hounds. Thinking the old dog was just behind we halted a few minutes, then I hallooed for him, but without avail. "There must be something about, " I remarked; "[ am sure I saw him on that big log we j ust crossed over. But we ought to have seen some tracks." "Most Drobably he struck an old 'coon track on the log," replied my companion. I was about to agree with him and drawing my horn to call in the hound, I noticed Judge, another of my best hunters, sniffing the air in a suspicious manner. "It is more than a 'coon," I said to M., "look at Judge, there must be a buck about somewheie and close too." "No," answered M., "I waB all through here yes- terday grouse hunting and saw nothing but 'coon tracks. We are only wasting time fooling around here, blow your horn and call Phil in, and let us get over to the mountain. I was only half convinced, and slowly raising the horn when "Ough-ah-ough!" resounded Philoso- ph er's deep note, from apparently a spot some three hundred yards away to our left. "By jove!" cried M., "that does not sound like a 'coon. It is possible a- deer may have come in here this morning." Then hearing the grand old hound speak again, with a "Hark to him, laddies' Hunt him up!" I sent the rest of the pack flying to their melodious throated leader. Anxiously we waited, for the quarry, whatever it might be, was not yet on foot, and to make for the deer runways would only be wasting time, if it should, after all, turn out to be some other sort of game than a buck. For ten minutes, about, we stood eagerly awaiting results, hearing an occasional note from Philosopher and some "babbling" by several of the youngest hounds. They were not yet trained to pick up scent, still they were too excited to abstain from talking. "Hark! Judge is whimpering," I cried, "now we shall soon know all about it." Than Philosopher spoke again and we heard Baby Tootles' plaintive voice shrilly proclaiming that she, too, could "own" the drag. Judge's music fell resonant upon our waiting ears next, then followed the unmistakable chorus in unison when fresh scent is struck and the whole pack iB away in full cry. For some minutes the chase went straightaway from us, and M, believing it was a deer, started for the canoe. Just then a deep, angry bay from Jndge, far different from his ordinary cry, told me that the quarry was not a deer after all, but better game by far. "Hold on," I yelled to M., "its a bear they are after. Listen to Judge! " Philosopher, too, changed his note. It seemed as if the bear, for my surmise was correct, had slackened his pace, maybe intending to fight off his fourfooted enemies at tbe start. If so, the varmint changed his tactics when he discovered that the pursuing pack were not ordinary curs, but hounds that knew their business and had the courage to close in mortal combat. Away the distant chase sped again, the deep bay of the veterans changed into the regular cry, we knew then that we had to put our best foot foremost, if we did not want dogs and bear to get away from us altogether. After them we went, tearing frantically through the scrub, over logs, into ponds and mire — we had neither time nor desire to pick our way— our clothes were torn and our faces and hands scratched by the wild rosebushes. For a half hour we worked along together and managed to keep the pack in hearing, though they had made but few turns and had hardly checked during the whole time. But the going was too heavy for M., whom I left, lying half way over a log and gasping for breath. Another quarter of a mile and then my bolt was also shot and the hounds paBsed out of hearing. I rested a few minutes to recover my wind and then made back for the river in the expectation that Bruin would crosB and strike for the mountains. In that event, I could locate the dogs on the other side. Finally reaching the river I did not hear the hounds as I had expected. There was no means of crossing the stream, save by swimming about 100 yards, this was not advisable unless tbe bear was at bay close by. I turned and slowly followed the river bank in- tending to get M.'s canoe. I was almost half way when I heard the hounds faintly; they were a long way off. They were still on the island and after listening intently a few minutes I made out that they were running hard in the direction and locality where they first found and if they kept on as they were going the chase should pass by or near M., where I had left him. I attempted to get through the thick brush but the effort was hopeless, so I decided to follow the river bank until I reached the trail, from that poiut I could turn up the trail and then cut in ahead. Off I started on the run. Nearer and nearer the chase approached and louder and louder waB the crying of the hounds, until I despaired of getting there on time. The going along the bank, luckily, was good and a welcome "check" gave me opportunitv to get to the middle of the trail before the chase got on the line again. through the line and got a small start. This manouver gave M. a chance, for all of the dogs daBhed to my side in avoiding the bear's rush. He fired a snap shot, but was too careful about the dogs, leading too far ahead he missed. Before M. could shoot again, the hounds closed in and ere Mr. Bear was half way across the clearing, Judge nipped him so badly that he half turned to strike. Philosopher then dashed in on the other side and drew blood. Again the bear made a dash for liberty, but it was futile, for at the further end of the prairie he found a fatal obstacle in an enormous log which blocked his path into cover again. For spent as he was, he could not jump and to get into the bush refuge again he had either to go over the big fallen tree or to scramble up the steep banks which were at each end of it. Both of us were now close up, eagerlr awaiting the chance for a safe shot, for in the mix-up we did not want to hit a hound. Knowing now the bear was ours we took no risks but stood by and watched the scrimmage. Time and again Bruin tried to scale the log or leg up the banks; but each time one, two, or three of the demon hounds seized hold of him and pulled him back. Repeated failure of these attempts to loose hie enemies made the shaggy, black gladiator mad with an im- potent rage and apparently abandoning all hope or desire for escape he turned on the dogs. First at one yelping pest, then at another loud-mouthed tor- menter he dashed, striking out with his claws as skill- fully as a boxer and gnashing his foam flecked teeth the while. The dogs dodged many a fatal blow and while he was devoting his deadly attention to one in front the rest of them were making it exceedingly warm and unpleasant in his rear and back to the log he would retreat. Judge and Philosopher, were aB usual, the chief aggressors. Tiger did his share of the work, Baby Tootles bad her mouth full of hair, even the youngest of the pack were taking a part in the combat, if only by making a good row of it. At laBt Bruin got too tired to do much more than defend himself. Judge, seeing a favorable opportu- The Shaggy. Black Gladiator I had just got my breathing apparatus in working order once more when M. emerged, panting, from the bush. He had not waited to see if he could get a shot as they went by, but had started back as soon as he heard the outfit returning. Just then the hounds picked up the scent again and were coming straight for us, making tbe woods ring with their cry, evidently pushing their game hard. Suddenly !ihey turned to one side and we raced down the trail to keep in front of them. Then, as they swung back again, back we also went. Up and down the trail we ran half a dozen times; the bear was making a number of turns for the purpose of throwing the dogs off. We kept our rifles ready in the expectancy of getting a shot at any moment. When the pack was within about 200 yards of the trail the music was changed from the cadence of the running chorus into an angry ensemble that told us that Bruin had turned to bay, dropping the gauntlet for the opening rounds of a fight to the finish. Into the bush I dashed, but before coming onto the scene of the holdup, once more bear and dogs were on the move, but they went slowly. I could tell from the baying of the dogs that they had the bear sur- rounded and that he would not go much further. They were all within twenty yards of me by this time, but in such a dense growth of rosebushes that, although I oould plainly see the buBhes swaying about in the commotion, I was unable to see hide or hair of Brer B'ar. I felt that it was too difficult to try for a shot there without running great chances of killing or wounding a hound. A few yards further back from where I stood was a small open space, some 200 yardB long and about fifty yards wide. Believing, to a certainty, that the "rough house" in the rosebushes would work over to and acroBS this prairie I made for it. M. burst through the brush on the opposite side just as I rerched clear going. Then Bruin ambled out from cover, taking a course between the two of us — the entrance of the three principal actors upon the (last) stage for the final act in thiB tragedy of the wildwood being almost simultaneous. The hounds were all around the varmint, keeping him busy and making it hazardous for us to risk a shot. Upon seeing us, he bolted, taking the hounds by surprise he broke nity, dashed in and took a hind-leg hold which he stayed with. The bear was having all he could attend to in keeping off the dogs in front. Philoso- pher, possibly not wishing to be outdone by his kennelmate, became reckless and made a mad attempt for an ear hold, he failed to land and was picked up and held under one arm; he gave one howl of mingled pain and rage and then squirmed around and took firm hold with his teeth in the bear's throat. "Shoot! shoot! " screamed M., "he will kill Philoso- pher." We both tried, but couldn't do so without hitting either Judge, who still hung on to the hind leg, or Philosopher, who was literally eatinginto his enemy's throat and did not appear to be getting much hurt in return. Brer B'ar had to uae his disengaged arm to fight the other dogs and consequently could not hurt either if the two hounds hanging on to him. Tiger was oext in order for a good hold and then, for the first nme the old bear bawled loudly. Evidently believing that his time had come, he ceased to fight the main bunch, and to make sure of one of his foes, he grappled Philosopher in both arms and sought to tear him with his jaws. Just then my opportunity came and with the rifle's muzzle almost touching the bear's back I pulled the trigger. Down with a thud he went, all in a heap. The dogs just swarmed over him and stretched him out: he was not dead, he wis too tough to give up so easily and struggled gamely to his feet. This, however, was the lasteffOTt, for he was dragged down again and after a few final struggles gave up, fighting to the laBt. Philosopher had never let go his hold on Ihe bear's throat and it was some time after the kill before I could persuade him to do so and let me examine his wounds, which while painful were none of them at all dangerous. The quarry weighed, I should judge, 350 pounds or over and was in fairly fat condition. The pelt was so badly mauled that we did not care to take it. It was still early in the day, for the final scrimmage did not last so extraordinarily long, but as so many of the dogs were wounded and required attention we decided not to hunt any more that day and turned our steps in the direction of M.'s house. PHIL B. BEKEART President Phil B. Bckeart Co, M. O. KEUDNER 01 Clabrough, Golcher & Co, W. W. Van Arsdale's Dr. Daniels. T. J. A. Tiedemann's Northern Huntress. Stockdale Kennels' Cuba's Zep. W. B. Coutts* Bang Go. Jos. E. Terry's Lady Clinton E. Worden's Harry H. W. W. Moore's \rina Belle." n*M**& \V. W. \*an Arsdale's Peach Blossom. T. P. McConnell's Victoria Belle. Beach Hill Kennels' Ch. Hanover Monarch. W. W. Wallace*; Le King, Glen Tana Kennels* Rippswam Miss Tufiet December '26, 1903] &he QveeXtzv rmft ^povisxxxaxx 33 Riverside Ranch. Near the city of Stockton, California, on the Rough and Ready Island which ia formed by the San Joaquin river and sloughs that are tributary to it, the Pierce Land and Stock Company, whose office is at 14 Turk street, San Francisco, has established a most perfectly ap-j pointed dairy farm. The Riverside herd of Holsteins contains the largest number of officially tested advanced registry cows oE any herd in the world. AmoDg the cows are De Natav Baker, that holds the is from 12 to 15 inches. A, cool breeze comes in from the sea coast on the west which tempers the warmest days, both summer and winter are inviting. San Benito county excels in three things — hay, poultry and fine horses. Hollister hay is of a superior quality owing to climatic conditions, absence of fogs, ex- treme heat or cold, and the peculiar adaptability of the soil to produce a sweet, sun-cured hay, that is free from foul weeds and undergrowth ; a hay that makes a strong, rich feed and that gives the best results and entire satisfaction. good water, sunshine, not too cold, and free from fogs— all these conditions exist and that industry is growing very rapidly. San Benito county is noted for its fine horses, both draft horses and fine blooded horses, but more particularly for fine dra t horses, the sale of which is a great source of revenue to the community. We give herewith a resume of shipments from San Benito county for twelve months past, which is very flattering and shows a very healthy, prosperous condition of things, and also shows that San Benito county, although small, is a very productive Riverside Ranch— Front View of Milking Barn world's two year old thirty-day officially tested record of 70 pounds and 10 ounces of butter; Juliania I>e Kol, holder of the world's two and a half year old thirty- day official record of 90 pounds of butter ; Manor De_ Kol. Belle 2d, holder of the world's three year old thirty-day official record of S3 pounds and 10 ounces of butter ; Romeo Aaggie Acme, whose seven year old record for seven days is 26 pounds and 11 ounces of butter. It is from such cows as these that the Riverside herd is being built up and is now the leading herd of America. It does not pay any more to keep poor cows, and the dairy man who wants to be up to date and to make the greatest profitable profit from his cows should select the best to be had. It is not a case of how cheap but how good. Visitors at the Riverside Ranch are welcome at any time. Read the won- derful record of the Riverside Herd on the inside of the laBt cover page in this The plant of the Lathrop Hay Co., Hollister, the shipping yard of which is shown herewith, is the largest plant in the United StateB covers 14 acres, wtth three large warehouses with a combined storage capacity of L3,500 tons. The ship pine: yard is equipped with hay derricks used for loading tbe hay, "as it comes in in the summer time, right into the cars. This does not include the hay county and a good field for the home Beeker or capitalist: Hay 31572 tons, fruit 4004 tons, butter 96 tons, cheese 380 tons, wine 400 tons, quicksilver 160 tons, bogs 460 tons, barley 5000 tons, flour 829S tons, poultry 5502 dozen, eggs 870525 dozen, horses 800 head, cattle 3200 head, 27 car loads green fruit shipped from San Juan valley. In addition to "other things that may be A Load of Hay. [Will Lampion'.] Gee, I seen a load of hay To-day Oa the street. Not baled hay, But the other way: The real smell-sweet Kind, piled high On a wagon passing by. Come from — no matter where; . It brought the good, clean air Or the fields and the days When Pap and the hands Cut the medder lands And I hauled haycocks with a male. Alter school. Jee-mimy Kate, Wasn't that great? And then after a bit Pap hauled loads of it To town; Great big loads piled high. My, But they looked big to me: And I can see 'Emyit, Every bit As plain as if it was yestiddy, And didn't he bring Us children everything When he oame back at night. All right? Say, "When I seen that load of hay Today, I jtst wondered if somewhere Outside ol this town There wasn't a lot of children Looking down The road watching for their Pap To come back. And say. That hay Got into my eyes some way. The smell of It. I guess, or — or— Dinged if I know what. I'm shore It never got Into my eyes before. Say,- - Did you ever ftel that way A Small but Fertile County. 8an Benito county is one of the smaller counties of the State, but what it lacks in area it makes up in fertility and produc- tiveness. Hollister, the county seat, has a population of 2500; is a prosperous up- to-date town, 95 miles south of San Francisco on the line of the Southern Pacific R. E , with three trains daily to and from San Francisco. Hollister is 25 miles east of Monterey bay and is 284 ft. above sea level, the average mean tem- perature based on public records is 58.9; the climate is as near perfect as can be found in California, which excels Jin climatic conditions. The average rainfall Riverside Ranch— Interior View of 3Iilking Barn stored ; the annual yield of hay in the county ammounts to from 32,000 to 35,000 tons. The Lathrop Hay Co. handle an average of 2000 tons a month the year around, and ship hay to many Eastern cities — for instance, New York City, Chicago, St, Louis, Cleveland, Lexington, Kentucky and other points. This county also excels in the raising of poultry and eggB. To be successful in this industry you must have cheap feed, said, San Benito county has the richest and the largest producing quicksilver mines in the world to-day — the New Idria minei. "We are learning that with improved breeds a better and quicker profit is pos- sible while by maintaining better sanitary conditions and feeding a variety of ma- terial the risks of disease are materially lessened. Next to a load of hay? No? Oh; You was born In the city? What a pity: Mature sows usually are not only more prolific, but have more vigorous pigs, so that when a sow has proved herself a good breeder and mother it is best to keep her as long ae she farrows profitable litters. Scene at the Lathrop Hay Co.'s Tarda at Hollliter-8SOO Tons In Bhrht 84 f&hs gxeebev atxii ^poxtstmxn [DECEMBEK 26, ]903 THE LAST OF THE PALO ALTO FARM HORSES FRED H. CHASE & CO., 1732 Market Street, SAN FRANCISCO Will sell THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 14, 1904, at 8 o'clock, the following consignment town the celebrated Palo Alto Stock Farm, absolutely the last of the horsSonafi great farm, all by great sires and from great mares: COLOR AVE SEX. POALED. SIRE. DAM. „„,,,_" MaF 20. 1903... Nutwood Wiltes 2:16ii.. Cressida 2:lMi by Palo Alto !&.?£» •.•.'.Mil IT 19ct.McKu.ney 2:11a A™na 2:19* by Palo Alto SiV?«i? ADrilS3 lSOJ..5Icrabsllsi::3 j Maiden 2:23 by Electioneer ZfLVlni ■•■••.inrillj. S03..McKlnney3:iiJl Elden 2 :»st byNephew Chestnut colt Bayfilly ft Bavfillv April .. 1903 . lay ally Mar. 31, 1903. . Ri£*irflliv April 23', 1903.. McKinney 2:11 Jf 1?:;: Ibrll 5.1901 Nutwood Wilkes 2:i6'i...Paleta 2:16 by Palo Alto -C atwood Wilkes 2:16';.. .Novelist ft27 by Norval .Nutwood Wilkes 2:16^. ..Liska 2:16:+ by Electioneer -™ McKinney 2:11^ Lucvneer 2:27 by Electioneer SSckSlv Marl !£ 1903 '.McKinney2:llK Aerolite by Palo Alto fill Mar 20 1S03 "" n-™rnnA WTiltoe ^-Iflu Arihntn hv Adv«rtispr ifJck coit.:.'.'.'."'.'.'.'.'Mar: 2d', 1903 Brown colt Mar 13.1903. Bay colt Mar «. j9»- S^jSjS FebT. la laOi.'Njtwood WilkVs2:16;V;."."Eipressive (3) 2:12',i"by Electioneer nllrn it Febv 14.1903 .Monbells 2:23Vj Manzanita (4) 2:16 by Electioneer Bm«£flliV Jan 36 1903. . .Mendocino 2:19!* Lnlu Wilkes by Geo. Wilkes R^Slt May fisoa.... Iran Alto 2:121, Aria (3) 2:16^ by Bernal Brow^coit '.'.'.'.Anfil l.I900..McEinney2:ir-4 Helena 2:11., by Electioneer Bav^are April 30 19» .Dexter Prince Lady Agnes by Electioneer Marion 1 %ii bm ' April 17 1883. .Piedmont £17* Lady Morgan by Hambletoman 10 SonomaV^ : . . .'.Mar 19,' 18S3. .Electioneer Sontag Mohawk by Mohawk Chief Horses will be at yard January 11th for Inspection. Send for Catalogues. FRED H. CHASE £ CO., 1732 Market St., S. F. "Vntwood Wilkes 2:16Vs...Adbnta by Advertiser McKinnev 2:liy Sweet Rose (1) 2:26vi by Electioneer Nazote2:2SLi Gertrude Russell 2:234 by Electioneer Mendocino 2: 1 92 | Mary Osborne (3) Sr^S;. by Azmoor Monbells 2:23^ Wildflower (2) 2:21 by Electioneer At the same time and at the same place there will also be sold the stallion Daedahon 2:11 by TJinblo 0-19U dam Grace dam of two in 2:15, three in 2:20 by Buccaneer. Daedalioms one of the most promising young sires in California, and is able to race and reduce his record. Consigned by Geo H' T°rf'cCloleneanteopartnershio. Mr. C. A. Durfee sends the following four by McEinney 2:1 1*: Johnny MctTpnile two year old -elding, dam Babe by Ferdinand 1815. son of Strathmore, second dam Fire- wood bt "FaTenFwilte! son If Geo. Wilkes, third dam by Blackwocd 74 and fourth dam by Wash- ington Denmark. This colt is a great prospect and is entered and paid up on in all the Hading three Tear old stakesin California. Twilight and Daisy B., full sisters five and four yearsold by McKlnney but of Stemwinder, dam of the great Directum 2:0oiiioc, well developed, and shows sh* is bred lo win. I will sell her damPACETA also. She is the Acme of Palo Breeding. Both dam and tiny musi be seen to be appreciated. I am oflerJng ihf-m (< r sale as I will not have the time to devote to them that they should have. Paceta was siint**u to Sidney Dillnn again May 20th. Address. T. P. S„ care of Breeder and Sportsman, "6 Geary St., San Francisco, Cal. PACER FOR SALE. ALFRED D. %12Mi BAY GELDING. 16 HANDS , by Longwortb, dam by Judge Saulisbury, with little training beat Welcome Mc in 1902 in 2:12^,2:1374,2:14, over a track five seconds slow Hind disposition and sound as a bell. A com- ing two minute pacer sure. Address MARSH THOMPSON', P. O- Bos 331. Ventura. Cal. McKINNEY FILLY FOR SALE First dam by Bay wood lS&77byNutwood;second dam by Geo. W. Patched Jr. 31; third dam by Pinto, son of Williamson's Belmont; fourth dam by Grey Eagle. Address T. A. OABBOLL, 184 W. Santa Clara St., San Jose, Cal. ROSE DALE STOCK FARM SANTA KOSA, CAL. Home of Daly 2:15, Washington Mc- Kinney and St. Whips 2:31, has for SALE some broodmares, yearlings, by Was-;Lr::r McK.nej. Goo- p ;-•:.-■■ 5 rorlS 1. and roadsters. WANTED RHODE ISLAND REDS i: any breeder In this State has thoroughbred olv okens of the above variety they will please 0 omunioate with the undersigned. LEWIS A. SAGE. SARATOGA, CAL. FOR SALE. Three Standard-Bred Trotting Stallions WILKES STOCK. One Seal Brown, 16 hands, fcaled May 2, 1898; first dam Fearless by Fallis 4781 [record 2:23); second dam Jean Perault by Signal 3327. One Golden Bay, 16.1 hands.foaled March 5, 1898; first dam Signal by Del Sor 1098 (record 2:24), dam of Guy Line 2-.29££; second dam Lady Sigi nal by Signal 3327. One Brown, whitepoiuts, 16.1 hands, foaled April, 1899: fnll brother to the bay. These colts are ail sired by Prince Airlee 2804a, son of Guy Wilkes 2S07 (record 2:15m). and bred by Wm. Corbitt, San Mateo, Cal. They are pure gaited and show wonderful speed for the little work they have done. For further particulars apply to P. H. McEYOY, Menlo Park, Cal FOR SALE. -yHE PACING GELDING, AL SANDY 2:26 -*- by Wayland W., dam Rapid Ann by Overland. Can pace three heats better than 2:20. Can brush very fast on the road. Also the black pacing geldine. DOC 2:28, one of the best roadsters in the city. Can lower his record several seconds. Both horses are excellent prospects to race. For prices and further particulars address S. WATSON, 235 Dnuglas street. San Francisco. FOR SALE. "DLACK TROTTING MARE, RECORD 2:18^: J-> standard b-ed; sound; nearly 16 hands high; weighs about 1100 pounds. Gentle and a high- class road mare Can be bought cheap. Tosee the mare and for particulars call or address Telephone: Pine 1786 J. W. ZIBBELL, 345 Twentieth Ave., San Francisco. TELEPHONE M UN 1£9 BLAKE, MOFFITT & TOWNE Dealers in — 55=57=59 and 61 First Street BET. MARKET AND MISSION San Francisco. Cal. W. F. Brsn-ELL, President. TelephoneRedli W. D. ScrRLOCK. Sec'y and Treas. S. W. Carpenter, Vice-President. BUSWELL COMPANY BOOKBINDERS 536 Clay Street SAN FRANCISCO Modern Machinery Devoted Exclusively to Blading Pamphlets and Periodicals Largest Pamphlet Binding and Mailing Plant on the Pacific Coast. W. L. DE CLOW CEDAB RAPIDS JACK FAKM IMPORXEH OF Percheron, Belgian and Oldenbnrg Coach ! Stallions Spanish and Majorca Jacks. My three importations of Percheron, Belgians and German Coachers and Catalan Spanish Jacks are at my farm at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. I have 1 among these horses the largest and finest Belgians that have ever been imported to America. Of Percherons, I have the best qualities that conlu be secured in France, being nearly all ton hordes. There is no disputing tne fact that my 2400-lb Belgians are the best in America. MyGeiman Coachers are all 1500-lb. Coachers with the best or Quality, bone and substance All are high acting and toppers of the highest order. You win loss money if yon buy elsewhere without seeing my stock. Stock is all fresh, no horses sold and taken back to be sold again to unsuspecting customers. You run no risk in buying from me. For this season I have the best line of Jacks ever put on sale in America. I have two year olds 165s hands high and built from the groiind up. I have three, four and five year olds of the same quality, size and substance and am making prices lower than ever before. My motto is, "Quality for a living price." It is my object to make my place '-the farmers supply of the Middle West'' and sell direct to farmers. If you want a company in your neighborhood, organize it yourself and come to my barn and buy a better horse for S150Q than other importers are trying to sell to you for twice the money. At the Live Stock Show in Chicago a well known horse breeder from Ohio said to me, "You have more quality and better horses than any other importer on the grounds. I am sur- prised at finding so many "brilliant'colts among your Percherons." Another man from Iowa said "I have never seen German Coachers with the size, bone quality and action or of such a nigh standard of excellence as yours There is nothing on the grounds that equal your Coachers" An other old time horse breeder from Peoria. I'l . said, "I have not seen so much quality in Perche- rons since 1888 as yon have in your bunch. I alwayslike the brilliants and think at the present time they are worth double of any other strain of the Percherons." and emphasized his statement by taking a 2100-1 b. three year old home with him. Each of my horses has four corners with a founda- tion under each corner, perfect types of the old time Normads. Twenty-one gold and silver medal winners. When buying, buy a medal win- ner. Come and see for yourself W L. DE CLOW, Cedar Rapids. Iowa. Vita Oil Used Between the Heats For all Lameness, soreness, deep-seated pain sprains and bruises Circulates ihe blood and creates speed. Use it. NEW MODEL All Druggists and Harness Dealers or Vita Oil Co., 1533 Buchanan St. San Francisco, Cal. J, A, McKerron and J, O'Kane, Agts WSR FENGi WEST COAST WIRE &IR0N WORKS THE BEST IN THE WORLD. O'BRIEN & SONS Cor. Golden Gate Ave. and Polk St. SAN FRANCISCO. CAL COMPRESSED PURE-SALT ~ BRICKS ~ FOR AXSL, STOCK HEALTHFUL- CONVENIENT- EC0N0mCAi Have the approval of large stock owners everywhere. Ask vour dealer, or send for free booklet to BELlxT SUBlf. SUPPLY CO. ^^ TALES OF THE TURF 718 Pages of Horse. Two Volumes of FACTS - FICTION - FUN Vol. L— FASIGS Contains £7 stories written by William B. Fasig, and a Memoir. 2li pages. Cloth. VoL 3— WET SUNDAYS, provides samples of racing from the Grand Circuit to the bushes, apeepatthe gallopers and quarter horses, and the horse trader. Illustrated by Whitney 4tM pages. Cloth. Price of each volume, S2 00, or the two in one order, 83. SO.all charges prepaid. Address Breeder and Sportsman, 36 Geary St , SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. WILSON'S AMERICAN TURF GUIDE READY JANUARY 15. A Record of the American Turf. Invaluable to horsemen, breeders, jockeys, trainers, and the turf public. Price 50c. prepaid Address WILSON PURLISBING CO. 183 Armltage Ave., Chicago High-Glass Engravings, Prompt Service, Reasonable Prices Pfcoue Main 1643. 506 Mission !*t., S. F , Cal CURED BY Absorbing Jr. A patient writes : He was thrown from his bi- cycle, wrenching bis knee. Within a few hours the pain was so bad he could not use the limb. He ap- plied ABSORBINE, JR. The next day he rode +2 miles without a sign of soreness. This unequalled Liniment costs only $ 1 .00 per bottle by mail. MANTPlflTWFTl BY W- F. YOUNC, P. D. F.f SPRINGFIELD, - . MASS. For sale by Mack&Co.. Langleri: Michaels Co., Redinsion & Co.. J. O'Kane, and J. A. McEerron, all of San Francisco. VETERINARY. DR. C. MASOERO VETERINARY SURGEON Graduate of Royal Veterinary College of Turin. Ikfirmaby A3D RESIDENCE— 811 Howard St.: between Fourth and Fifth Sts., San Francisco. Telephone: Main 457. Ira Barker Dalziel VETERINARY DENTIST Fancy Carriate.Saddle and Roai< Horses for Sale Office and stable: 605 Golden Gate ATenne, San Francisco, Cal. Telephone South 85L December 26, 1903] ®ite gveeitev emit g^wrrtsmtui 35 AS AS /♦\ AS (IS /»S /♦S «S tVS m # /<> & /♦\ /♦s m /»\ /♦> /»> $ $ /♦S as m iVs / /♦s $ & /ft /IS /♦s /ft /ft /ft /ft $ /ft /ft /ft /ft /ft /ft /ft /ft /ft /ft 'ft /ft /ft /ft /ft /ft ft The Accepted Standard veterinary Remedy We Guarantee ot^cau"^^^ produce more actual results than bonle of any liniment or spavin c ture evermade. ne tablespoonful am will a whole uremix- Always Reliable Sure in Results PREPARED exclusively by J. E. Gom= bault, ex-Veterinary Surgeon to the French Government Stud. Impossi- ble to produce any scar or blemish. The safest and best blister ever used. Takes the place of all liniments for mild or severe action. Removes all bunches or blemishes from horses or cattle. Asa HUHAN REMEDY for Rheumatism, Sprains, Sore Throat, etc., it is invaluable. Keeps it Constantly on Hand for Han and Beast. Main Prairie, Minn., Jan. 28, 1903. The Lawrence-Williams Co.. Cleveland. O.: I have used GOMBATJLT'S CAUSTIC BALSAM for spavins, curbs, ringbones, shoe boils, sprains and sore throat. It is fine for rheumatism, lumbago and stiffjoints, neuralgia and all pain. It is fine for man and beast. Keep it constantly on hand; can not get along without it.— WM. LOUDON. None genuine witliout the signature of The LsTtorence, Williams Co. Site Proprietor and Importers far the ' CLEVELAND 0 U. S. & CANADAS U/o Pnnvnninn that one tablespoonful we guarantee or caustic Ba^m nn produce more actual results than a whole bottle of any liniment or spavin cure mix- ture ever made. Caustic Balsam may have Imitators, has no Competitors. but A. Safe, Speedy and Positive Cure Supersedes all cautery or firing and cures Founder, Wind Puffs, Thrush, Diphtheria, Skin Diseases. Removes Bunches or Biemishes, Splints or Capped Hocks. SAFE FOR ANY ONE TO USE Strained Tendons, Ring Bone, Pink Eye, Sweeney, Bony Tumors, all Lameness from Spavin, Quarter Cracks, Scratches, Poll Evil, Parasites. Cured Bone Spavin. Odin, 111.. Sept. 20, 1902. The Lawrence-Williams Co., Cleveland. O.: Some time ago I wrote you asking- your special ad- vice on a bone spavin. I used your remedy with per- fect satisfaction in that case, and have been usiDg quite a good deal of it for other blemishes and affec- tions ever since.— FRANK H. SEIB. None genuine without the signature of The Laurence, Williams Co* Sole Proprietors and Impot ters for the I pi ryri inn n U. S. A. CANADAS f ^LL*LLA^. »• * BEN! THEREAT Price }1.50 per bottle. Sold by druggists, or SENT BY EXPRESS, CHARGES PAID, with full directions for use. Special information given free whenever requested. Sole Agents for the United States and Canada The Lawrence-Williams Co. We Guarantee that one tablespoonful of Caustic Balsam will produce more actual results than a whole hottle of any liniment or spavf n cure mix- ture ever rxi:ide. CLEVELAND, 0. TORONTO, CAN. We Guarantee that one tablespoonful of Caustic Ba'sam will . if any liniment or spavin OUl ■ I \!/ \\l % m s» s» $ \f/ vt/ $ $ w $ v»/ I «/ s» $ \»/ \l/ \»/ * \l/ $ \»/ i viz f 36 ©he gveebev cwtfc gpavtetnan [December 26, iao3 New Memphis Jockey Club. MONTGOMERY PARK, MEMPHIS, TENN. 10-Ten Stakes to Close January 2, 1904-10 For Spring Meeting, I904. and Tennessee Derby and Oaks for I905. STAKES FOR 1905. THE TENNESSEE DEBBY FOR 1905— Estimated Value 810.000. SOBSCBIBED TO BT G. C. BEJJXETT & CO. For fOalS of 1902 (two-year-olds of 1904). 85000 added. (Entrance free). For 1905. A sweepstakes for three -year-olds (foals of 1903). S150 each, 875 forfeit. or $15 if declared on or before May 2, 1904; 830 if declared on or before January 2, 1905. All declarations void unless accom- panied by the money. 85000 added, of which 81000 to second, 8500 to third, and fourth to save state. Weights — Colts, 122 lbs.; geld- ings, 119 lbs ; fillies, 117 lbs. One mile and one-eighth THE TENNESSEE OAKS FOB 1905— For fillies (foals of 1902). Estimated value S5000. $.2000 added. (Entrance free). For 1905. A sweepstakes for Allies, three-year-olds ifoals of 1902) 8100 eaoh, 840 forfeit, or 810 If declared on or before May 2, 1904; 820 if declared on or before January 2, 190a. All declarations void unless accompanied by the money. 82000 added, of which $400 to second. 8200 to third, and fourth to save stake. Weights, 117 lbs. One mil*. STAKES FOR 1904. THE GASTON HOTEL STAKES— Estimated value 52 3 0 0. Subscribed to by Gastos's Hotel For colts and geldings (foals of 1902). 81000 added. (810 entrance). For 1904. A sweepstakes for two-year-olds, colts and gelding;. 810 to accompany nomina- tion, and 850 additional to start. 81000 added, of which 8200 to second, and 8100 to third, fourth to save starting money. Toot furlongs. THE ABDELLE STAKES— For fillies (foals of 1902). Esti- mated value 52200. 81000 added. (SiO entrance). For 1904. A sweepstakes for two-year-old fillies. 810 to accompany nomina- tion, and 850 additional to start. $1000 added, of which 8300 to sec- ond 8100 to third, fourth to save starting money. Four f urlong-*, THE MEMPHIS STAKES— For two-year-olds (foals Of 1902). Estimated value 84000. 82000 added- (810 entrance). For 1904- A sweepstakes for two-year olds- $10 to accompany nomi- nation, and $50 additional to start. $2000 added, of which $250 to second and $150 to third, fourth to save starting money. 3 lbs. be- low the scale. Bbsalty— A winner of a race of the value of $1000 to the winner, 3 lbs. 'selling excepted), allowasces — Non-win- ners of two races of the value of 8300 each, or one of the value of 8500 (selling race, purse and stake excepted) allowed 5 lbs.: maid- ens 10 lbs. Five furlongs. THE HOTEL G ATOSO STAKE i— Esi imated value 82000, Subscribed to bt Hotel Gatoso. For foals of 1901 (three- year-olds of 1904). 81000 added. ($10 entrance). For 1904. A sweepstakes for three-vear-olds (foals of 1901) 810 to accompany nomination, $50 additional to start. The Club to add $1000, of which $200 to second, and $100 to third, the fourth to save starting money. A winner of a three-year-old stake race, when carrying their weight [colts 122, geldings 119, fillies 117], 3 lbs penalty; of two or more, 5 lbs. Allowances — Beaten non-winners in 1904 allowed 5 lbs ; if unplaced, 8 lbs.; others never having won a two or three-year-old stake race (selling stakes excepted), allowed 7 lbs.; if such have never won a race of the value of $400 to the win- ner (selling stakes and purse races excepted), allowed 13 lbs.; beaten maidens, 20 lbs. Allowances not cumulative. One mile. scale or this race. ~ Those entitled to bo allowance 12* Winner with weight up of one 3-year-old stake 125 Winner with weight up of two 3-year-old stakes. 137 Beaten non-winners placed in 1904 117 Beaten non-winners unplaced in 1904 114 Non-winnersof a 2 or 3-year-old stake (selling excepted) 115 Non-winners of a race of the value of $400 *' " 110 Beaten maidens 102 FOR THREE-YEAR-OLDS AND UPWARD THE MONTGOMERY HANDICAP— Estimated value 85500. Silver cup or plate to winner. Handicap. 83000 added. (Entrance free). For 1904. A handicap sweepstakes for three- year-olds and upward. 8a0 each, half forfeit, or $10 if declared. 83000 adde 1, of which $400 to second, and $25u to third, the fourth to save stake. In addition to the stake the winner will receive a valuable silver cup or plate, donated by the CInb. Weights to be announced before 9 a m., February 6th, and declarations to be made on or before February 20, 1904 All declarations void unless accompanied br the money. The winner of a race, after the 11? 117 I3S 120 l-.'-i I-.-.1 in 11-' 111 1(11 112 llii i a 1 S Hi 91 races of any value (selling purse race excepted), 5 lbs penalty; such penalty not to exceed scale weight if handicapped at less; those weighted at scale or more than scale weight by the handicapper will not be subject to a penalty. The scale to be Western Jockey Club Scale. This race to be run the opening day. One mile and one-sixteenth, THE PEABODY HOTEL HANDICAP— Estimated value 83000. Subscribed to by Peabodt: Hotel. Handicap. $1500 added and 8500 silver cop or plate. (Entrance free). For 1904. A handicap sweepstakes for three- year-olds and upward. 850 each. half forfeit, or $10 if declared on or before April 5th. All declara- tions void unless accompanied by the money. 81500 added, of which $250 to second, ana $150 to third, fourth to save stake. In addition COL R. B. SNOWDEN will add a silver cup or plate, to the value of 8500, to go to the winner. Weights to be announced two days before the race Winners of a race after the announcements of weights (selling race excepted), to carry 5 lbs. penally. One mile and one-eighth. THE TENNESSEE BREWING CO STAKES— Estimated value 83500. SUBSCRIBED TO BY TENNESSEE BREWING Co. Selling stakes. $1000 added. (Entrance $10). For 1904. A selling sweepstake for three-year-olds and upward. $10 to accompany nomination and $50 additional to start. $1000 added, of which $300 to second, and$i00 to third, fourth to save starting money. The winner to be sold at anction for $3j00 if for less; 3 lbs. allowed for each $500 to 83000; then 1 lb. for eaoh $100 less to |5u0. Starters and selling price to be named through the entry-box by the usual time of closing for this day's racing, and those so named are liable for starting fee. Seven furlongs. THE COTTON STEEPLECHASE STAKES— Steeplechase. Estimated valne 82500 $1500 added (Entrance free) For 1904. A ateepleohase handicap sweepstakes for three-year-olds and upward $50 each, half forfeit, or $10 tf declared on or before April 3d. All declarations void unless accompanied by the money. 81500 added, of which 8350 to second and $150 to third, the fourth to save stake. Weights to be announced two days before the race. Penalty— Winner of steeplechase (selling excepted), after weights are announced, 5 lbs. Four or more horses of entirely different interest to start, or the race may be declared off. Start- ers to be named through the entry-box at usual time of closing the day before the race, and those named are liable for starting fee About two miles. weights are announced, of the value of 8500 to the winner, or two SPECIAL NOTICE — . — No entry will be received for any of these stakes except upon this condition : That all disputes, claims and objections arising out of the racing, or with respect to the interpretations of the conditions of any race, shall be decided by a majority of the Executive Committee present, or those whom they may appoint, and their decisions upon all points shall be final. The Club also reserves the right to refuse the entries of any person, or the transfer of any entrv, and without notice. THIS RACE COURSE (MONTGOMERY PARK) is, without a doubt, one of the best in America to winter and train the thoroughbred, furnishing first-class and most comfortable quarters for both man and horse. On this track the majority of the good two-year-olds of the West each season are developed. Entry Blanks or any information on application will be promptly furnished by the Secretary. NEW MEMPHIS JOCKEY CLUB. Office, No. 2 Cotton Exchange Building-. Memphis, Tenn. S. R. MONTGOMERY, President. M. N. MACFARLAN, Secretary. £a . Larkins ®. Co. BUILDERS OF Fine Carriages Rubber Tires, Repairing and Painting Personal Attention given to All Work 651-653 Howard Street Tel. Main 1454 First National Bank OF SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. N. W. Cor. Bush and Sansome Sts. Safe Deposit Department SAFES, $5 A YEAR, TRUNKS STORED, $1 A MONTH, Absolute Security for Valuables. and SADDLES HARN HIGH-GLASS FINISH AND WORKMANSHIP AT MODERATE PRICES. THE BIG STOKE JEPSEN BROS CO ..no 1145-47 Market St. San Francisco Pedigrees Tabulated wnXT^t^S^ S PORTSHA.N, 36 Geary (treat, 8u Francisco, CaL DECEMBER 26, 1903] ®itc gveeirev a«Jr gtpjjrtsmcm PHIL B. BEKEART QQ 114 SECOND STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, GAL. Goods Sold to the Trade Only. PACIFIC COAST BRANCH SMITH & WES33N, Sprngfiald, Mass., Smith & Wesson Revolvers. H WERIEMAM. $a& York, N". Y., Henry Pieper Breech Loading Guns. MARUN FIRE ARMS CO., New Haven, Conn., Safety Repeating Rifles and Shot Guds. HUNTER ARMS CO., Fulton, N. Y., L. C. Smith Hammerless Shot Guns. A J REACH CO., Philadelphia, Peun., Basaball and Football Goods, Boxing Gloves and Punching Bags. MARKHAM AIR RIFLE CO., Plymouth, Mich., Chicago. King, Prince Single Shot, King & Prinje Repeating Air Rifles. JVER JOHNSON'S ARMS AND CYCLE WORKS, Fitchburg, Mas«., Automatic Revolvers and Breech Loading Guns. BRIDGEPORT CON IMPLEMENT CO., New York, N. Y., Gun Implements, Golf Goods and Bicycle Pedals. AMERICAN "E C." & "SCHULTZE" GUN POWDER CO., Ltd., New York, N. Y., "E. C," "Sehultze" and "Shot Gun Rifleite." FISK RUBBER GO., Chicopee Falls, Mass., Fisk Bicycle and Vehicle Tires. IDEAL MANUFACTURING CO., New Haven, Conn., Reloading Tools. I. C. COOK & BRO., Chicago, 111., Sportsmen's Canvas and Leather Goods. NEW'E.C." NEW "SCHULTZE" SHOTGUN RIFLEITE THE mum "E. C." ml "SCHULTZE" Hungrier Co., LU. Pacific Coast RapieaentatlYe. SMITH GUNS LONGEST STRAIGHT RUNS ^^ At S. F. Trap Shooting Association May 23—23—24—25 VAUGHN, - - 72 Straight! FEUDXKR, - 62 •* Also longest straight ran a od first monies at live birds All Kinds of Ammunition Catalog on. application to Hunter Arms Co., Fulton, N. Y. PHIL. B. BEKEART CO., San Francisco, Coast Representative RED BALL BRAND. Awarded Gold Meda At California Stats Fair 1892. Every horse owner who values hfs stock should constantly have a sap- ply of it on hand. It Improves and keeps stock in the pink of condition. Haabattan Food Co 1253 Folsom St., San Francisco Ask your grocers or dealers for it. Positively Cures Colic, Scouring and Indigestion. C. P. KERCELL. SPRATTS PATENT. ManiMttu-td by PHXL. E BEKEART CO., STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY Occident Stake of 1906 TROTTING STAKE FOR FOALS OF 1903"^ To bo Trotted at the California State Fair of 1906. Entriea to Close January 1, 1904. with. I.. R. SItLLEB, Acting: Secretary, at the offlae in Sacramento. ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ENTRANCE, of which $10 must ac- company nomination; $15 to be paid January 1, 1905, $25 to be paid January 1, 1906, and $50 thirty days before the race. The Occident Cup, of the value of $400, to be added by the Society. Mile heats, three in five, to harness. First colt to receive cup and six-tenths; second colt, three-tenths; and third colt one-tenth of the stakes. Five to enter, three'to start, otherwise N. T. A. Rules govern. Nominators are not held for full amount of entrance in case colt goes wrong; only forfeit payments made, which relieves you from further responsibility, and declares entry out. Note— This stake is growing in value each year. In 1900 it was worth $3230; in 1901, $2595: In 1902, $3295; in 1903, $3920. The stake for 1906 should receive a larger entry, and be very valaable. Every breeder should enter in it. A Special Stake will be opened for foals entered originally in this stake, and the Stanford Stake of 1906, that develop a paolng gait to be contested for in 1906. Remember the date of closing is January 1, 1904. L. R. MILLER, Acting Sec'y. B. F. RUSH, President. CAMPBELL'S EM0LLI0 IODOFORM GALL CURE For GALL BACKS and SHOULDERS, CRUPPER SORES and SADDLE GALLS there is none superior. The horse CAN BE WORKED AS USUAL. For BARBED WIRE CUTS, CALKS, SCRATCH- ES, BLOOD POISONED SORES and ABRASIONS OF THE SKIN it has no equal. It is very adhesive and easily applied to a watery as well as a dry sore. Its use will absolutely prevent BLOOD POISON- ING. In this respect there is no Gall * Cure offered which can justly even claim to be a competitor. We placed It on the market relying wholly on its merit for success, and notwithstanding the fact that comparatively little has been done in the way of advertising the salesof 1900 were 100 per cent great- er than the aggregate sales of Gall Cure preceding that year. This increase was entirely due to its MERITS, and from It we feel justified in saying that It is THE GALL CURE OF THE 20TH CENTURY. It is a quick and sure cure for those troublesome skin cracks under the fe ^ckvnichinjure and often lay up race horses. I All Trainers Should Hare It In Their Stables PRlCE;-3 OZ. BOX, 35c; 1 LB. BOX, 81.00. Read our "ad." on Campbell's Horse Foot Remedy in next Issue of this pap* r. JAS. B. CAMPBELL & CO., Mfrs.,412 W. Madison St., Chicago, III. Sold by a 11 Dealers In Harness and Turf Goods. If not In stock ask them to write any Jobber for (t DOG CAKES REMEDIES SOAP. NEWARK, N. J. Send for free oopy of "DOG CULTURE." ST. LOUIS, MO. Pacific Coait Branch— 1334 Valencia Street, San Francisco. Agents for "SANTTAS" Disinfectant. Twenty-First Annual Trials OF THE Pacific Coast Field Trials Club TO BE RUN AT CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS Advertisements under this head one cent per word per insertion. Cash to accompany order. COCKER SPANIELS. pLUMERIA VICTORIA— ABSOLUTELY THE ■*• best black Cocker bitch on the Coast must be sold. Make your offer to Mr. H. H. STANLEY atJ2o Geary street, San Francisco. Bakersfield (KERN COUNTY) Commencing Monday, Jan. 11, 1904 Judge, W. S. BELL, Pittsburg, Pa. Members' Stake Annual Derby All-Aged Stake Champion Stake Entries for All-Aged Stake close Dec 1 5,1903 W. W. VANAESDAI.E (San Francisco) President. ALBERT BETZ, Secretary, No. 301 Parrott Bldg , 8. F„ Cal. «S*For Entry Blanks and information address the Secretary. COIiLIBS. L?OR SALE— COCKER SPANIEL PUPPIES x by Ch. Hampton Goldle. Apply at iunotioa old county and Redwood roads, Fruitrale, Al imtdi IRISH AND SCOTCH TERRIERS. TRISH AND SCOTCH TERRIER PUPPIES -1- at $12 and $15. Sired by Champion Loyne Ruffian and Champion Fighting Mao. Mrs. BRADLEY-DYNE. Saturna P. O- B. C. COLLIES. pOLLIE PUPS FOR SALE-BY PRIZB ^ winning imported sires and dams, fit for bench, ranch or farm Both sexes. Prices accord- ing to quality. Correspondence solicited; all, let- ters cheerfully answered. THOS. S. GRIFFITH, Box 1907. Spokane, Wash. BREEDERS' DIRECTORY. HOLSTEINS— Winners of eyery 7 days' butter contest at State Fair 1898 1st & 2d for aged cows, t-yr., 3-yr. and 2-yr.-olds; 21 Jerseys and Durhams competing. 5th year my Hoist e ins have beaten Jerseys for butter. Stock for sale; also pigs. F. H. Burke, 30 Montgomery St.. S. F. JERSETS, HOLSTEIK8 AND DUBHAM8. Dairy Stock specially. Hogs, Poultry. Estab- lished 1876. William Ntles & Co.. Los Angeles, Cal. AIR SHIRES— Young Bulls, Cows and Heifers. Registered. From prize winning families. Brown & Brandon Petaluma Cal. J. W. Zibbell's Training Stables Corner Point Lobos Road and 20th Avenue* San Francisco. HORSES TRAINED FOR TRACK OR ROAD and satisfaction guaranteed. Terms reason- able. Horses bought and sold. 'Phone Pine 1786 PEDIGREES TABULATED And type written Ready lor framing. Write for prleea. Brhdsb awd SPOBT8MAJT, 80 Geary Street, San Francisco Cal. IMffiK BUSINESS COLLEGE 24 Post Street, San Francisco, Cal. The oldest, the largest, the most popular com- mercial school on the Pacific Coast. 20,000 gradu- ates; 30 teachers; 70 typewriters; over 300 student annually placed In positions. Send for catalogue. E. P. HEALD, President. First St. San Jose CHAMPION HANOVER MONARCH (A. K. C. S. B. 5998) by the great sire Ch* Ellwyn Astrologer from Ch. Old Hall Moon- Fee 815. Pictures and Pedigree upon applica- tion. High-class Puppies for sale. AT STPD AT STUD CUBA OF KENWOOD (Glenbeigh Jr.— Stella) SAM'S BOW (Plain Sam-Dolly Dee n) STOCKDALE KENNELS K. M. DODGE, Manager, Bakersfield, Kern Co., Boarding. Pointer Puppies and well-broke» Dogs for sale. £0COANUT OIL CAKE TBCE BEST FEED FOR STOCK, CHICKENS AND PIOS FOB SALE IN LOTS TO SUIT BY EL DORADO UNSEED OIL WORKS CO 208 California Street, San Francisco, Cal. ROSE HOTEL PLEASANTON. CAL. Enlarged, Rebuilt. Twenty-five New Room* Newly Furnished, Electric Lights, Running Water. Up to date. A. S. OLNKY & SON - - Proprietors Chronic Bronchitis and Catarrh of the Bladder Cored in 48 Hoars. SrvNty CAPSULES Superior to Copaiba. Cubebs or Injection MOUNTAIN QUAIL. WANTED-FOUR DOZEN LIVF. MOU '' QUAIL for breeding purpose Si per dozen delivered at your express Address D. B. JACOBS. 38 ©he fgvee&ev mtt» §portsmon TELEPHONE, South 640 [December 26, 1903 San Francisco, Cal *&>&■• ORSE BOOTS Loaded, irx O. F. W . 8m oKcless. Winning' Highest Average at All Shoots. IF YOU WANT THE BEST ASK FOR California Powder Works FACTORY LOADED SHELLS. 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